Steel Dynasty - Chapter 577

[Chapter 577 Coping]

Ye Qingyun stared at the hundreds of soldiers in front of him warily.

These soldiers were wearing red gowns with black armor outside. Their bodies were covered in blood, as if they had just experienced a tragic war.

“Who are you?” Ye Qingyun asked.

A man who looked like a general at the head said: “Sir, we are the defenders of Yangzhou City. The King of Wei came and ordered us to massacre the people in the city and lose all the food, grass and houses, leaving nothing for the Qi army. Just This city is full of our parents and brothers, how can we do it, so I took my brothers and fought with the children of the wealthy family, but they were outnumbered and we were unable to stop them. There were many casualties among the brothers, but Let them kill a lot of people.”

Ye Qingyun’s brows widened. At least there are some conscientious people in the Yangzhou garrison, but he will not believe these people easily. He said: “I can’t believe you yet. If you say so, I will consider your request after I confirm your identity. “

The reason why these soldiers were able to come to Ye Qingyun alive was because they had no weapons in their hands and came with their hands raised. Now Ye Qingyun said this. , Dengzhou soldiers immediately took these five hundred people into custody.

After occupying Yangzhou City, Ye Qingyun immediately organized the people in the city to put out the fire. Now the gunpowder in the city is soaring, and if it continues to burn like this, there will be nothing left.

“Captain, thank you for your highness’s ingenious plan, otherwise if we were one step too late, Yangzhou City would really be an empty city,” said a school captain.

“Your Highness is fully aware of the viciousness of King Wei. He has tried every means to kill His Highness several times. How could he be willing to hand over a prosperous Yangzhou city to us for nothing? But even so, this Yangzhou city has suffered great losses. “

After a pause, he said: “You should immediately lead people to search the entire Yangzhou city and collect all the things that can be used. Otherwise, the supplies this time will be difficult.”

“Yes, Commander,” the captain said. Gone by fate.

After the captain left, Ye Qingyun’s face suddenly darkened. The most important thing for marching and fighting was supplies. This time they rushed from Tongzhou to Yangzhou with only three days of dry food. If there were not enough supplies in the city, the soldiers would But I’m going to be hungry.

Thinking of this, he immediately sent someone to deliver the news to Qingzhou.

Three days later, news from Yangzhou arrived in Qingzhou, causing an uproar among officials.

Feiji and Pang Yukun immediately arrived at the palace to discuss the matter with Xiao Ming, and Niu Ben followed closely.

“Your Highness, the King of Wei is really a crazed man. I will personally lead troops to conquer the King of Wei. I must capture him alive to thank the world.” Niu Ben said angrily.

Pang Yukun said: “Your Highness, this matter may not be a good thing for us. This Yangzhou massacre will definitely make the King of Wei lose the hearts of the people in Wei. Now we should use this matter to disturb the hearts of the people in Wei and accept it as ours.”

“Pang Shoufu is right, Your Highness, now we should publish this in the newspapers and tell the world about King Wei’s evil deeds, so that everyone can understand King Wei’s atrocities.” Fiji agreed

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Niu Ben heard this and said dissatisfied: “You scholars are just greasy and crooked. Why should you be polite to the King of Wei? Wouldn’t it be nice to directly attack Jinling City and destroy him!”

Xiao Ming frowned. What the King of Wei did was just for future generations. The so-called “fortify the walls and clear the country” and “scorch the earth” policy, his only purpose is to prevent Xiao Ming from getting any supplies from Yangzhou City, thereby limiting Xiao Ming’s actions in Yangzhou.

After the contract was signed, Xiao Ming was a little worried, but they didn’t expect that King Wei would adopt such a cruel and inhumane approach. However, King Wei’s actions completely made Xiao Ming break his long-standing attitude. From a modern point of view, The way of this world.

Different from modern civilization, the level of human civilization in this period was very low. In other words, they basically just walked out of the jungle and did not have much time, and their barbaric nature was undoubtedly revealed in them.

It is precisely because of this that the Age of Discovery was so bloody, and yes, there were so many massacres in the war.

After experiencing this incident, Xiao Ming found that he was still too kind. If he wanted to defeat the barbaric enemies, he had to be more barbaric than them.

This world is a jungle, and the aloof nobles will not believe the tears of the common people. To them, it does not matter how many people die. They can mainly maintain their rule.

After pondering for a while, Xiao Ming said: “Of course it is necessary to publicize King Wei’s atrocities, but the most important issue now is the supply problem of Yangzhou City. What do you think we should do?”

“Tit for tooth, massacre the city!” At this time, Niu Ben said suddenly.

Hearing this, Pang Yukun said: “Captain Niu, what do you mean by this? Why are we slaughtering the city? Aren’t the people in this city miserable enough?”

“Pang Shoufu, I am not talking about the people, but Yangzhou and its surrounding prefectures and counties. All the wealthy families will be slaughtered. This will not only prevent these wealthy families from taking the opportunity to cause chaos, but also collect food and supplies.”

Xiao Ming nodded slightly, and what Niu Ben said was exactly what he wanted to say.

Now that the Dengzhou Army has no supplies in Yangzhou City, and is faced with unstable factors such as powerful tribes, only by adopting this method can Yangzhou City be stabilized as soon as possible.

In fact, many of the massacres in history also killed local wealthy families. After all, when the wealthy families were in power, the food was in the hands of the wealthy families.

“Captain Niu’s method is not bad.” Fiji said: “Your Highness, you are extremely benevolent. You must not show any kindness to women at this time. In troubled times, you should use extraordinary methods.”

“Well, this is really what I mean.” Xiao Ming said to the scout sent by Ye Qingyun: “Go back immediately and tell Ye Qingyun to wipe out all the wealthy families in Yangzhou!”

“Yes, Your Highness.” The scout responded and turned around to leave.

After settling the matter, Xiao Ming continued: “This truce is just a temporary measure, and it is also to prevent the four vassal kings from collaborating. Now that our goal has been achieved, you must take advantage of this period to sort out internal affairs, reserve food and grass, and recruit Train new soldiers. In six months, I will launch an attack on Wei from Huaizhou and Yangzhou at the same time, and destroy the King of Wei in one fell swoop!”

After saying that, Xiao Ming slammed the table. King Wei’s despicableness had completely angered him, and he would not give him another chance to continue.

“Yes, Your Highness.” Pang Yukun and Fiji responded at the same time.

Niu Ben also clasped his fists and nodded in agreement.

After instructing the three of them on some government affairs details, Xiao Ming asked the three of them to go back separately.

However, as Pang Yukun said, during this period, he wanted to take the opportunity to disturb the people of Wei so that he could respond to everything when he attacked Wei.

Therefore, he immediately sent someone to find Fan Zeng to draft the manuscript.

(End of chapter)