Chapter 1116: Drive out the people and burn the city
Chapter 1116: Driving the people and burning the city
Chapter 1114: Drive out the people and burn the city
For a benevolent man like Murong Ke, it was undoubtedly an extremely difficult decision to make such an unconscionable thing as expelling the people and burning the city, but he had reasons to do so.
“Only with kindness and power, the people of Hetao will know what awe is, and then they will not dare to resist the rule of Yuan Meng.”
Murong Ke glanced at the generals again and explained unhurriedly: "Capture the city, but don't cause too many killings. This is a favor;
Harvesting grain, driving out people, burning cities, but still not doing much killing, this is Buwei.
Drive the people out of the city, and then burn the city. In this way, after the people have no place to live, although they will hate our army, they are more afraid of it.
The people who were expelled from the city could only seek refuge in other Jin army cities. The Jin army would definitely meet to accept and resettle them. This would not only consume the Jin army's resources, but also spread this awe invisibly. . "
After listening to Murong Ke's explanation, all the generals couldn't help but suddenly realized, and they were even more convinced of Murong Ke. This was simply a win-win situation.
Seeing that all the generals could understand, Murong Ke stopped explaining too much. In fact, his move had another purpose, which was to place people among the people, and then take the opportunity to let his own people sneak into the city, and cooperate inside and outside to defeat other people. The city completely disrupted the entire Yinchuan County, taking the opportunity to break through the Jin army's blockade.
Murong Ke took a deep breath and said with a hint of unbearability: "Take care of all the problems within half a day, and then go north immediately after burning the city."
“Half a day?”
Murong Shao couldn't help but ask: "Father, we have to collect grain and grass, expel the people in the city, and carry all kinds of materials. Is half a day too short?"
“Half a day is enough.”
A trace of solemnity flashed in Murong Ke's eyes, and he said solemnly: "Our army has no foundation in Hetao, but the Jin army's 100,000 elites have already come from the east and north, so we don't have much time to spend on it. this.
In terms of materials, just bring grain, grass and arrows, and the rest will be burned together with the city.
The Jin army is very wealthy. As long as we can capture the Hetao, everything owned by the Jin army will be ours, so there is no need to worry about this. "
Since we want to pursue efficiency, we must ignore other things.
Under the violent plunder and expulsion of the Yuan army, the people in the city were full of complaints, but because of the force of the Yuan army, the people could only dare to be angry but dare not speak out.
Following the expulsion of the Yuan army, the people of the city gradually gathered outside the city, but what followed was a fire from the Yuan army, which burned down their homes in one fell swoop.
The people in Hetao are almost all refugees, wandering in troubled times with no fixed residence. It was not until they came to Hetao that they settled down, and after several years of hard work, they built a new home.
Many people found it difficult to accept this, and rushed towards them like crazy to stop the fire-fighting. However, they were shot into pieces by Yuan army archers before they even got close.
Relatives were furious when they saw this, but there was nothing they could do to stop it. They could only wailing and holding the bodies of their relatives and scolding the Yuan army as beasts.
For a time, both the inside and outside of the city were reduced to Shura Hell!
Murong Ke rode his horse slowly along the way and saw countless pairs of eyes filled with hatred. In his heart, he was actually unwilling to do this, but the hostile relationship between the two sides forced him to do so. “Perhaps I will never be able to resolve this hatred in my lifetime, but after I completely occupy the Loop, I will try my best to make up for it.”
At this thought, Murong Ke's eyes became more determined, and then he drew out his sword and shouted: "Let's go."
70,000 troops roared in and roared away, leaving behind only tens of thousands of mourning civilians and a city that was completely ignited with brilliant fire.
The fire did not go out for a long time, burning for five days and five nights, and finally only a piece of wreckage was left.
During this period, people continued to leave. After all, the dead have passed away, but the living still have to live on.
The Yuan army only left rations for the people for ten days. If they could not reach the next city within ten days, the only thing waiting for them would be starvation to death. Fortunately, the distance between the ten cities in Yinchuan was not too far. , ten days is enough time to walk to the next city.
Within the next ten days, two more small cities were captured by Murong Ke, and then the people were expelled and the cities were burned. In this way, Yinchuan County gained nearly 100,000 refugees in a short period of time.
Yinchuan City, Prefect’s Mansion.
After learning that Murong Ke burned three cities, Qu Yuan was so angry that he almost went crazy. He built Yinchuan bit by bit. He was full of affection for every plant and tree here, but Murong Ke not only destroyed the stability of the people His life had also destroyed Yinchuan County to this extent, which made Qu Yuan not angry.
Qu Yuan kept roaring and cursing Murong Ke, but the anger in his heart did not diminish at all, so he took up his pen angrily and wrote poems to denounce Murong Ke's atrocities.
Qu Yuan was a well-known scholar in literary circles, and he was very famous both among the people and in the political circles. When his poems were spread, they caused a huge stir and became a stain that Murong Ke could not wash away in his lifetime.
“Instruct the generals in each city to make every effort to resettle the refugees at all costs, and at the same time, beware of enemy spies among the refugees.” Qu Yuan ordered with a sad expression.
Since becoming an official, Qu Yuan's official career has been extremely smooth, and he has become a prefect smoothly all the way, but now his good luck seems to have run out, and he has not heard a single good news since he defeated Murong Ke.
The only thing that made Qu Yuan happy was that Murong Ke did not massacre the city. As long as the people are still there, the foundation of Yinchuan will be there, and the burned city can be rebuilt again. But at that time, he didn't know whether he was the governor of Yinchuan or not. .
Qu Yuan looked to the east and murmured to himself: "Wang Jinglue, if you don't come again, I really won't be able to hold on anymore."
On the other side, Wang Meng and Xi Zhicai, who also came from the east, finally successfully joined forces halfway, but then they received news from Qu Yuan urging the army to advance.
“This Murong Ke did not take advantage of the situation to go north, but instead wreaked havoc everywhere in Yinchuan, but did not kill the people indiscriminately?”
After learning the information about Yinchuan, Wang Meng couldn't help but frown, and asked Xi Zhicai beside him: "Military advisor, this Murong Ke is not simple. General Yang Ye has already entered the Ningxia Army. Do you think that is why he is so talented?" Don't you dare to head north rashly?
Or is it that from the beginning, Murong Ke’s goal was not Zhenbeiguan, but Jinyang? "
Xi Zhicai's brows also frowned. He and Wang Meng were both sure of Murong Ke's purpose. Now, although Murong Ke's actions were suspected of raising suspicion, neither of them dared to gamble because of this. The safety of Jinyang is far more important than Zhenbeiguan.
"Stabilize Yinchuan first, and then talk about other things." Xi Zhicai said in a deep voice.
(End of this chapter)