Chapter 9 Angry slaughter of soldiers
For Xing Tianjun, before accepting Zhao'an, he brazenly vowed to go north in Weihui Mansion. Both Zhangde Mansion and Daming Mansion were shocked, and they immediately sent people to warn the capital.
At the same time, the states and counties along the way quickly closed the city gates, sent troops to the city to make a posture of death, and were ready to fight with Xing Tianjun at any time.
However, the vanguard of the Xingtian Army didn't look at them at all. The cavalry with Situ Liang as the vanguard galloped to the city and loudly declared to the defenders of the city that they did not go north this time to attack the city, but from them to the north to fight against the Jiannu army, and told them not to interfere. The march of Xing Tianjun is not allowed to send people to monitor Xing Tianjun and ask them to provide food and salary support for Xing Tianjun, so that they will never invade the place!
The officials in the city had the courage to lie on the wall and ask Situ Liang. The court did not agree to allow the Xing Tianjun to go north to fight against the tarts. Why did the Xing Tianjun did not listen to the imperial edict and act without authorization? Situ Liang replied with a sneer, saying that they had been ordered by Marshal Xiao to go north to fight against the turrets. As Han people, since it is now the court and If the government can't protect the people, then their Xing Tianjun will do this for the government. If the officers and soldiers can stop the construction slaves from entering the bandits, how can they need to send troops?
The result was that the officials lay on the wall and stared at each other. However, they also saw that Xing Tianjun did not seem to come to attack the city this time. They felt a little at ease. They did not dare to do it to provide food and salary support for Xing Tianjun's requirements, but they still did not dare to send it according to the requirements of Xing Tianjun. They didn't take the surveillance of the Xing Tianjun's actions at night, which annoyed the Xing Tianjun and attracted the revenge of the Xing Tianjun. At present, in their view, more is better than less. Although the court issued a decree to strictly prevent the Xing Tianjun from going north, how dare they to do such a thing with their military strength? Xing Tianjun lived a safe and stable. In the realm, they will also burn incense. If they still send troops to intercept the Xing Tianjun, not to mention that they can't beat the Xing Tianjun, the people in the city will immediately rebel.
The people along the way don't care what to do as officials. The people outside the city have long heard that Xing Tianjun is a benevolent and righteous division and will never harm the people, so they learned that Xing Tianjun really sent troops north to fight against slaves, so many people spontaneously rushed to the side of the road to pass through their place. They shouted and cheered, and even took out their little grain to make cakes, and a few eggs, ran to the roadside and gave them to Xing Tianjun.
This situation is absolutely rare in this era. There are many messy teams in today's world, and one is worse than another. Generally speaking, as long as the people hear that they have soldiers here, they will run away. Even the officers and soldiers don't think that someone will come to welcome them, but For Xing Tianjun, who has long been famous, the situation is very different. The people welcome them and send them away. Xing Tianjun also repays the people with no crime.
In fact, the local governments have not demonized the Xingtian Army, publicized the brutality of the Xingtian Army everywhere, and encouraged the people to resist the Xingtian Army with them. However, the Criminal Army also has also made a lot of secret propaganda on the style of the Xingtian Army, and the slogan previously put forward by Xiao Tianjian to suppress the soldiers and relieve the people. However, it is even more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so the people in various places north of the Yellow River have long known about the Xing Tianjun, which is also the reason why a large number of people will come to help them when Luo Li led his troops to attack Huaiqing Mansion and Weihui Mansion.
As for the gentry in the Zhuangbao along the way, they were scared to death one by one. When they learned that the Xing Tianjun army had arrived at their Zhuangbao, they hurriedly sent people to slaughter pigs and sheep, took out some grain, silver and wine pulp, sent out the Zhuangzi, and put them on the side of the road for Xing Tianjun. These gentry are afraid of Xing Tianjun's death, not to mention gathering to stop Xing Tianjun. If Xing Tianjun doesn't beat them, they will burn high incense.
Therefore, after the Xingtian army went north, it basically did not encounter any trouble. It was only in the territory of Guangping Mansion north of Changde Prefecture, it encountered an army of hundreds of officers and soldiers. These hundreds of officers and soldiers were not soldiers in Guangping Mansion at all, but an officer army defeated by the Jiannu army in Baoding Mansion, and the army led the generals. With this group of defeated soldiers, they ran all the way to the territory of Guangping Prefecture. When they met them in the cavalry camp of the Xingtian Army, the defeated soldiers were crazily plundering the local people. Although they did not dare to fight with the Jiannu army, for the refugees who fled to the south, they killed fiercely and wantonly. They took away all their softness, livestock, food, and even robbed women to humiliate them. What they did was no less than Jiannu, and even more ferocious than Jiannu.
The officials of Guangping Mansion did not dare to let them enter the city, nor did they provide them with food and salaries, which made them more crazy. They burned, killed and looted everywhere in Guangping Mansion, but the government ignored them at all.
Unfortunately, they met the Xing Tianjun in the north. After discovering the defeated soldiers, Situ Liang immediately sent someone to report to Xiao Tianjian who followed him. After hearing this, Xiao Tianjian immediately ordered to kill the defeated soldiers. After Situ Liang took the order, he led two cavalry battalions to surround the group of officers and soldiers.
Only then did the general realize that the major events were not good. Looking at the flag, he knew that this was the soldiers and horses of the Xing Tianjun. He did not dare to fight, so he quickly asked what the Xing Tianjun was going to do. After knowing the identity of the Xing Tianjun and their purpose, the officer actually shamelessly said that they were officers and soldiers. Since they were officers and soldiers, It should not be the enemy of Xing Tianjun, and he also asked Situ Liang why he led his troops to surround them.
Situ Liang was too lazy to tell him more. He waved his sword out of his sheath. Even if nearly 3,000 cavalry killed him, 3,000 elite cavalry fought against hundreds of defeated soldiers. Naturally, there was no suspense in this battle. It only took Situ Liang half an hour to encircle and annihilate all the defeated soldiers, killed more than half on the spot, and the rest were captured alive. Not a single officer or soldier was released.
This was also a small test of the cow knife for the Xing Tianjun's northern expedition. Xiao Tianjian then arrived. After asking what these defeated soldiers had done in this area, he immediately ordered all the remaining prisoners to be buried alive, and erected a big wooden sign on their graves with a few big words. Those who harm the country and the people should be warned!"
At this time, when the earthquake was very big, the refugees all rushed to congratulate each other and knelt down to thank the Xing Tianjun. However, after hearing about this, the governor of Guangping actually sent shameless people to stop Xing Tianjun to negotiate and ask why the Xing Tianjun wanted to slaughter the officers and soldiers. Xiao Tianjian immediately asked them why they didn't care about the defeat, but let it. The defeated soldiers wantonly looted and massacred the refugees. Since their government did not care about it, their Xing Tianjun took care of them, and immediately beat the official sent by the Guangping magistrate out of the army, rushed back to Guangping's mansion, and then led the troops to walk outside Guangping's mansion city.
After the officials of Guangping Mansion lay on the wall and looked at the prestige of Xing Tianjun, even if they were so scared that their faces were pale, they were shocked. How dare they find Xing Tianjun to argue? So he quickly sent someone to report the matter to the court, but he put the shit basin on the head of the Xing Tianjun, saying that the Xing Tianjun brazenly slaughtered the officers and soldiers.
For this point, Xiao Tianjian doesn't care what the official says. Anyway, this matter is fair and in the hearts of the people. The local people and refugees can see it clearly. The government does this, which makes the people more chill. One day when he comes here again, he doesn't believe that the people will not help him.
And on the way to escape from the refugees to the south, because there were too many people, the government in various places held the mentality of sweeping the snow in front of the door. They ignored these refugees and let them struggle to kill themselves in the wild. Seeing this situation, Xiao Tianjian ordered a small number of soldiers and horses to collect these refugees and give them to him. A small amount of food for them to survive, so that these soldiers can organize the refugees and escort them all the way to the jurisdiction of the Xingtian Army.
After years of military disasters in Henan, the population has already withered, and the land controlled by Xing Tianjun is getting larger and larger. Although they try their best to restore agricultural production, a large amount of land is still in a state of abandonment due to the shortage of people. Therefore, in order to restore production under the jurisdiction of Xing Tianjun as soon as possible It is necessary to introduce more people, and this time, the slaves and the enslaves forced many people of Beizhili to flee to the south. It happened that Xiao Tianjian took this opportunity to introduce these refugees, which the government did not like, to Henan for resettlement. Although some people will return to their hometowns in the future, for the Xing Tianjun will be north again in the future. These people will definitely be grateful to Xing Tianjun for taking care of them.
So the originally disorderly refugees began to be organized. The people of Xing Tianjun selected some of them to protect other refugees from the south. A large number of refugees began to continue to go south and poured into the jurisdiction of Xing Tianjun.
The weather in the twelfth lunar month is very cold. Many refugees only carry very little belongings when they flee their homes. Along the way, they are often robbed by bandits and officers and soldiers. Many people's thick clothes are stolen. The more they go north, the more refugees there are. Many refugees can't find food. He died on the side of the road because of freezing and starving. After passing Guangping Mansion, the number of refugees began to decrease. Even the local people fled their homes earlier because they heard that the charts were about to kill them. Many villages were already empty, and there were no people within dozens of miles.
After leaving Guangping Mansion and entering the territory of Zhending Mansion, the situation became more serious. It was not easy for the scouts to find a guide. Sometimes it took half a day to find a living person, and even found that some villages had been burned down by the war, and a large number of old and weak villagers had been slaughtered.
So under Xiao Tianjian's order, Xing Tianjun stopped, and the generals gathered to Xiao Tian's fitness and waited for Xiao Tianjian's deployment.
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