Chapter 9 First Leader 1

Like Liu Zhenzhi's description, Juzhangcheng is too small. In other words, Juzhang City can't be called a city at all, but just a town surrounded by walls. The city is about 500 steps long and 200 steps wide. The city wall is extremely low. There are more than anti-burg and bandits, but the defense soldiers are useless.

What makes it difficult for me to understand is that the city used as a military barrier does not even have a female wall (Note 1). Whether it is with a knife or a crossbow, it is very inconvenient to defend. Fortunately, the thief soldiers don't often use bows and crossbows, so we don't have to worry about being attacked by thieves when we peep from the city.

All the defenders, plus the 20 people I brought, there are only more than 300 people in total. These 300 people need to protect not only this military place, but also thousands of residents in the city.

It's hard to imagine how these thousands of families were stuffed into this small city. After arriving at the sentence, I learned that the vast majority of the so-called thousands of households actually have "homes" and no "households". Because Juzhang is the only fortress near Yongdong. Disaster victims in several nearby counties have fled here to seek shelter. The lucky ones among them still have relatives and friends to help, but most of them can only find a temple or a eaves on the street to bend down.

Or, Juzhang City is not actually a town surrounded by walls, but a refugee camp that lacks guard.

Since joining the army, he has only been equipped with 300 people in this district for the first time to lead the army alone as a five-grade general. It's really like tears.

However, even Liu Jaozhi, a second-grade general and the marshal of several counties, currently has only thousands of troops led by Shangyu. In contrast, I feel much more comforted. After all, the current situation is not comparable to that of a few months ago. At that time, it took a lot of troops to easily defeat Sun En, and only lost some troops in Shanghai. Now, the road army has been lost, and the price of Liu prison's army's army to capture Huiji City is a great reduction of troops. In the case of not being able to transfer troops from Jingkou and Wu County, Liu Jaozhi could only use these thousands of troops.

In any case, Liulaozhi fulfilled his promise - let me lead alone. Although the number of people received is small, they eventually have the right to recruit soldiers.

Thinking about this great number of Jin, isn't it just like the Jian'an era at the end of the Han Dynasty? At that time, it was also because of the rampant yellow scarf and grass bandits, Wang Shi was powerless to fight against the thieves, so the court had to order the states and counties to recruit their own troops to defend the territory. As a result, those ambitious state herdsmen, assassins and eunuchs cultivate their own forces and dream of "reputing the Han, be Tu Gao" (Note 2) all day long.

After the yellow scarf thieves were paced, these state and county guards became warlords. The imperial court's military strength was insufficient, the power fell, people's noses were breathed, and people were slaughtered. The emperor's emperor was held hostage by all kinds of powerful people to order the princes.

Looking at today's government and national strength, it is better than the decline of Jian'an. The members of the imperial court ignored the dangers of the north and the west at night and ignored the imperial program; the common people survived to collect miscellaneous taxes, and cried every day, and no one felt sorry for them.

Fortunately, if we succeed in thieves, we can solve the momentary worries; if thieves fail, perhaps the court will also decentralized military power to the states and counties in order to protect themselves when they were helpless as Jian'an.

On the way from Huiji to Juzhang, I saw countless people suffering from exile.

In Jingkou, you can still see a plain image;

In Wu County, you can see loyal people far away from the battlefield practicing farming;

In Huiji, you can see a clear field, and the rice has turned into barren grass;

In the sentence, it is completely out that the land has fields, and the villages and towns are full of ruins.

I can't imagine that Sun En is so cruel, why do so many ignorant people abandon their families and follow him?

On the first night of Juzhang, I invited several veterans who had been stationed for a long time to the county government to have a long talk.

I wanted to know the situation of urban defense, but without talking a few words, I talked about Sun En's evil deeds.

I said very indignantly, "Sun En is indeed a cruel person. All the way, I saw a dilapidated elephant. The closer the sentence is, the more miserable it is. If these thieves really want to occupy a large area of the country in the future, where will the people of the Jin Dynasty go? Have you ever seen Sun En's violent soldiers for so long?

When the soldiers saw me asking them, they all bowed their heads and said no.

At this time, a veteran came in from outside the hall and looked at me for a long time and couldn't speak.

I smiled and comforted him, "You're late. But don't worry, I didn't invite you here to talk about something urgent. Sit down quickly."

The veteran still stood at the door and remained motionless for a long time before saying, "Those fields and broken houses were not destroyed by Sun En.

"Oh?" I am surprised. Since he is not a thief of Sun En, who will be so bold and take advantage of Sun En's chaos to disturb the people, "Who are those people?"

"It was destroyed by the army of the imperial court!"

"Ah?" I was even more surprised to hear this.

"What he said is true. It was indeed done by our army." A soldier sitting in the room looked up and said to me.

"Why is it like this? Destroy these so that Sun En can't stop in a sentence to stop them from attacking?

"Ah - no." When the sitting soldier saw me looking at him, he did not dare to go down, but continued to bow his head and pretend to be deaf and dumb.

"It is the army that takes advantage of the people's escape and enters the house to rob * property. After that, he was afraid that the violation of military discipline would be investigated, so he simply destroyed all the houses. He lied to the outside world that it was Sun En's work. The standing veteran did not hesitate to say this and finished it in one breath.

"Ah?" I was extremely surprised, "Are you afraid of violating military discipline? Just disturbing the people is already a felony! Since the house was destroyed for fear that people would find out that they did it, why destroy the farmland?

"The destruction of farmland is to clear the field."

"Kiyono? Qingye just cut off all the crops in the field and left them to the enemy. He has never heard of Qingye destroying the whole farmland. Which army is so reckless?" I can't help but be indignant.

"That's... Your army, General Liu's headquarters.

I was surprised to hear this! I was speechless for a long time.

"Is this all done by our army? So what did Sun En do in every sentence? I asked.

"The officers and soldiers are just robbing*, but Sun En is murderous."

I felt a little relieved to hear Sun En's violence*, but it was fleeting. The reason for this relief is only because it has been confirmed that the thieves are indeed the thugs we should kill, but this relief comes from the white bones of innocent people. How can I be relieved?

Although Liu Laozhi asked me to recruit some new recruits to the army, after visiting the city, I felt that recruitment was not an easy task. First, the strong men among the people have either been recruited by Xie Yan, or they have been seduced by Sun En and joined the thief army, leaving only some weak people; secondly, these people have suffered a lot and are worried about their lives when marching in the war. If they lose a man, they will mourn a family; thirdly, there is no military pay in the treasury, and the money needed to recruit soldiers. None. If you want to recruit soldiers, where do you start?