Chapter 350
Any kind of creature, even a self-proclaimed leader, has always been fearful and rarely virtuous in its nature. This is the instinct of the creature, and it is understandable.
Afraid of strength and not daring to resist, but snort disdainfully, even requite kindness with enmity, is commonplace.
Especially in the last days of the dynasty, people are like Beasts, without the constraints of order.
The thieves are such a group of things that have brought their bestiality to the extreme.
When they were coercing commoners, killing commoners, treating commoners as a mustard, and destroying everything, they never put themselves in their shoes and thought about how they would feel if they were themselves.
Instead, they will hate.
Why do you commoners want to live and work in peace and contentment, and I want to be a thief?
Dissatisfied!
I'm a thief, so don't worry about it.
This is the beast in human nature. In the final analysis, human beings are also an animal, but they are more intelligent than animals. But animal nature has always been buried in the depths of instinct. In peace, there are orderly constraints. And when there is chaos, it erupts.
Why do you say that the troubled times use heavy codes?
Here's why.
The more troubled the world is, the more ruthless it is. Otherwise, how can it be able to restrain the people who have the bestiality outbreak?
Zhao Yu beat Ma Shouying into meat paste in front of 20,000 or 30,000 thieves captives, nothing more.
Since Shouzhou is down, Huoqiu is next. According to the original plan, at this time, the other four armies were about to be in place. He has no time to waste time in Shouzhou.
To go to Huoqiu, most of the soldiers and horses must be taken away, leaving only a thousand. And there are 20,000 to 30,000 prisoners here. out of proportion. Once there is a change, I am afraid that it will not be suppressed.
The fear must be deepened in the hearts of these captives.
Before Zhao Yu ran across the city of Shouzhou, killing dozens of people with a single cone, and returning to the old camp of 3,000 people, he almost killed 60-70% by himself, but the time it takes half an incense stick to burn it.
This is scary enough.
But Zhao Yu still felt unsafe.
Imperial Court is accustomed to Zhaoan, so thieves are lucky. If you follow Ma Shouying's idea and recruit him, not only is it not a good thing, but it is a huge hidden danger.
This kind of compromise will make the captives think about it.
Thinking that the Imperial Court is weak - surrender if you can't beat it anyway, rebel when you see the opportunity, and surrender if you can't beat it, how wonderful it is?
Zhao Yu directly interrupted this fluke.
First, they killed Lao Huihui, Ma Shouying, and then, without saying a word, directly dragged a hundred people out of the prisoners below, with their hands and swords falling, and their heads falling to the ground.
It's not enough to kill Lao Huihui. These thieves are not necessarily grateful to Lao Huihui. Maybe Lao Huihui will become a meat paste. Many people are still happy.
They must know the pain!
One hundred heads are not many, but killing them without saying a word is really terrifying.
Zhao Yu spoke up, causing the prisoners to testify against each other and find out who was the leader. With ten breaths as the limit, if there is no one to testify, then a hundred more people will be pulled out and the killing will continue.
So scrambling.
As long as it is the leader of a thief who leads more than 100 people, before time it takes to burn a stick of incense, all of them will be proven, and then they will be dragged out and killed.
In just two moments, this group of prisoners was truly scattered.
Only that point will be left behind, in the pool of blood, hundreds of heads.
At this point, Zhao Yu was relieved.
Just to the guide, that is, the man who controlled Shouzhou City from then on, he nodded slightly, walked down the stage, and left Shouzhou City.
Outside the city, about 9,000 soldiers and horses have been waiting for a long time.
In this attack on Shouzhou, the loss of troops and horses was minimal. The main reason is that Zhao Yu broke through the door with one blow, and defeated the old camp of rogues with one person, making the rogues in the city in chaos and unable to form a battle strength, which is so easy.
The real casualties were less than 100.
Speaking of which, such an easy battle almost exists in legends.
After this battle, the soldiers became more convinced of Zhao Yu. There is no doubt about this. Victory lifted the spirits of the soldiers. And the benefits of victory, such as capture, made the soldiers smile.
Those like rogues are the best at looting, and almost every rogue has money on them. After taking Shouzhou and defeating Lao Huihui, the amount of silver taels seized alone exceeded eight 100,000 taels!
In addition to valuable items such as gold beads and jewelry, as well as provisions, etc., the value of spills of war is definitely more than 140,000 taels.
This is Yang He's preliminary statistics.
provisions stay in Shouzhou directly, not at all. Three 100,000 taels of silver were left with Shouzhou, and all the jewelry was handed over to Najuren. The remaining 500,000 taels of silver, according to Zhao Yu's promise in the Mountain and Sea Trial, will go to the soldiers.
However, there are 10,000 people. On average, each person has fifty silver tael. This kind of harvest is simply ecstatic.
Let's not say anything else, just at this moment, the regular soldiers in the Great Ming Army can only get one or two taels of food for a month. Fifty silver tael, that's at least two years of military pay!
You have to pay in full.
Actually, among these soldiers, those who have seen fifty silver taels at one time are definitely a minority. And it has to be an officer.
Zhao Yu made good on his promise, even wasting some time to distribute silver taels outside the city. The intention is to show the soldiers that Zhao Yu's words are his words.
So morale was high.
Victory, and silver, are the source of morale.
As for honor, not yet. It takes a long time to count the military exploits of the whole army. As the war is not over yet, we can only hold down the troops first, and then we will discuss the merits and rewards after the five battalions of Gezuo have been wiped out.
Then the army opened up and headed straight for Huoqiu.
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Huang Degong is saving face. In other words, people with a little status have no shame.
Zhao Yu stepped on Huang Degong's face in front of so many people in broad daylight. This kind of humiliation, let alone Huang Degong as a martial artist, can be tolerated no matter how much he is afraid. Can't stand it.
So he wants revenge.
As for the general situation in the world, the Imperial Court is safe, what is that?
But what made Huang Degong feel aggrieved was that when he was about to deal with Zhao Yu, he found that the military camp outside Huaiyuan was empty.
But Huang Degong is not a person who is good at giving up. Of course, the personal honor and disgrace and interests cannot be given up absolutely. As for the rest, let's talk.
So they sent people to track the trail of Zhao Yu's army, and then tried to give Zhao Yu a knife.
When people are angry and angry, they are often irrational.
Huang Degong never thought that even if he stabbed Zhao Yu in the back, could he ever kill Zhao Yu? If you can't kill it, what are the consequences?
Huang Degong is known as Huang Chuang'er. He is an impulsive and impulsive person. He will not think so far.
Especially the next thing made him think God helped him.
Imperial court elder sent someone to come!
I thought it was a guilt. After all, being a thief had a guilty conscience. Or think that he was ordered to cooperate with Zhao Yu to suppress the thieves.
Unexpectedly, the imperial court elder actually let him drag Zhao Yu back.
It even hinted that he would kill Zhao Yu if he had the chance.
How could Huang Degong not be happy?
At the moment, I promised to offer a sum of silver taels and send the people away, so I was very excited, called around, and sent a large number of nights to follow the trail of Zhao Yu's army.
With the support of the Imperial court, what is there to be afraid of?
Seeing the Golden Crow fall, Huang Degong became impatient. Finally, a scout returned.
"Zhao Yu went to Shouzhou in the first battle, killed the old man and returned to Ma Shouying, taking nearly 30,000 prisoners."
Huang Degong was stunned.
So fast? !
Impossible!
When he went to Zhao Yu's camp, he secretly observed it. Although Zhao Yu had many soldiers, there were 50,000. Can not carry heavy siege equipment. Neither catapults nor cannons were seen.
Although Shouzhou doesn't say that it is a strong city in the world, the city wall is two ten feet high, especially after it falls under the control of thieves, it has been heightened and strengthened.
How to capture the city without heavy equipment?
And in such a short time? !
Huang Degong naturally did not know that Zhao Yu attacked the city not with weapons, but with an iron cone in his hand. As for not carrying heavy siege equipment, the reason is very simple - dragging down the speed of the march.
The siege of Kaifeng is critical, and the thieves are gathering a little, all in the Huanghuai area. If you don't take this opportunity to catch the thieves all at once, and wait until the thieves are scattered, it will be a big trouble.
Besides, Crown Prince went to Kaifeng in person, which made Zhao Yu uneasy. In Crown Prince's hands, there are not a large number of elite soldiers available. The rest of the local troops are all mobs that are not conspicuous. They are not much different from that rogue. In case of an accident, Crown Prince is put at risk. This is Zhao Yu unwilling to see. Ge Zuo and Xian thieves must be dealt with as soon as possible, so as to outflank the north and hit Kaifeng.
So, Zhao Yu's army is light and simple. It should be heavy equipment, all have never been carried.
If you change it to someone else, you won't be able to carry it, because siege is a big trouble after all.
And without heavy equipment, the cannons and heavy weapons of the upper class thieves will be at a disadvantage.
But Zhao Yu doesn't worry about that.
Siege, there are iron cones.
Zhao Yu also has his own way to deal with the thief's heavy weapon - very simple. Only one person and one ride, the killer will enter, directly destroy the thief's heavy weapon, and then the army will cover and kill, why worry about it?
That's why Huang Degong was puzzled.
Although Zhao Yu treated him like a chicken, he never thought that Zhao Yu could destroy the city with one person.
Huang Degong's face darkened immediately when he heard the letter.
I feel annoyed again.
If I had known that Zhao Yu attacked Shouzhou, he fell on the ground secretly, and took advantage of his unpreparedness to attack from behind.
Actually, Huang Degong is incomparable in addition to fighting against the wind, but also has no wisdom. Zhao Yu led his army to Fengyang, and if he was a little more sensitive general, he could roughly guess Zhao Yu's goal.
But he didn't turn around.
The fifth battalion of Nagie Zuo is located in Fengyang.
At this time, Huang Degong finally turned his head, and quickly asked: "Where is Zhao Yu now? Where is Huoqiu?"
Said: "Back to Sir Commander, Zhao Yu will only stay The rest of the army should have gone to Huoqiu."
"When?"
"After noon."
When Huang Degong heard this, he stood up and paced around anxiously. After a while, he could only sigh: "It's really maddening me!"
Duan Duan was helpless.
Fengyang to Shouzhou, there are hundreds or so miles. And from Shouzhou to Huoqiu, also hundred or so miles. It was dusk now, and if a large army were to chase after him, the soldiers and horses under his command would have to travel for three or four days in a two-hundred-mile area.
when the time comes the day lilies are cold!