"ah!"

A shrill scream came from the city. Zhong Changqing looked down at the city gate and saw two women, one old and one young, running out of the alley in a hurry and fleeing to the city gate at their feet. Two soldiers were in the alley.

Chasing out, one of them lost patience and pulled the old woman from behind with a knife.

The old woman watched the tip of the knife stab out of her chest, gasped violently, and then slowly fell to her knees in the muddy rain, and her body pounced forward, and soon saw a bloody red leaking from the old woman;

The young woman no longer had the strength to escape and sat on the ground, hammering the sky and chopping the ground, making a shrill howl.

The soldiers wiped the blood from the knife cleaned the old woman's body, put the knife into the sheath, and then took off the bags from the old woman's body, and took a look. They saw that there were a lot of clothes in the bags.

The soft and soft thing was satisfied and retiring it, dragging it to the alley with another soldier, one left and one right, one screaming shrillly.

"These turtle grandsons told them not to kill people," Feng Shizhao cursed. "If you kill someone, you don't know how to drag the body away, and you also have to help them wipe their butts. It's so damn that there is no rule at all!"

"I'll just indulge in one day, and I'll be sealed tomorrow!" Meng Jie said with a frown, "However, there are still too many people in the city. Those useless people must be driven out, otherwise they will consume food in vain."

After the fall of Bianliang, the Chihu army first controlled the cities within the capital, and did not rush to advance to the surrounding Xu Zheng, Chen and Song states.

On the one hand, it was not expected that Bianliang would fall so easily. On the other hand, the Marshal's Mansion of the East and West of the Canyue Mountains still had more than 200,000 troops. Before the Chihu people completely grasped Bianliang, they also had no intention of rushing to go further.

To expand the military results, we even hope that the troops from both the east and west routes of the country can enter the Gyeonggi area to fight.

Zhao Tuan went south to Xiangyang and ordered officials and citizens in Zheng, Xu, Chen, Ying and other places to retreat south. At this time, Chihu people ordered to march to the outer areas of the capital. At that time, Yue Hailou had just received the order to transfer and led his troops to cross Henan from Cizhou to Bianliang.

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Zhang Fengxiang, the magistrate of Chenzhou, was a disciple of Wang Qiyong, the prime minister of the Great Chu State. He was lobbying by Wang Qiyong. In mid-March, he led the defenders to surrender and continued to defend Chenzhou. The territory of Chenzhou was generally calm.

However, after Yue Hailou led the main force to enter Chenzhou, the first thing he did was to plunder Chenzhou City for ten days.

Most of the generals and soldiers of Yuehailou were captured from Hedong, Hebei and Bianliang. No one thought that they would directly launch a large-scale butcher knife. At first, they would blackmail the property from house to house, leaving without any worry.

Although Chenzhou City is located in Yingshui, at the intersection of Langdang Canal, and the commercial port is prosperous, there are more than 12,000 residents in the city, and there are a total of 160,000 refugees in the refugee city, it can withstand the entry of Yuehailou.

How many extortions have been made in Chenzhou City?

On the first day, the soldiers all extorted money, and every household passed by. The next day, you can't stop and stop doing it, right?

When soldiers cannot extort money to satisfy their greed, they will naturally threaten them with swords and guns, and enter the house and rob.

After three or four rounds, the property that could be found in Chenzhou City was basically robbed, but the ten-day limit has not arrived, and no one will stop. Then he was severely punished and forced the household to hide.

property.

At this time, there were more and more murderous and sexual misconduct, and it became more and more intense. It soon became completely indulged and turned into a massacre of the city.

When Zhong Changqing arrived in Chenzhou at this time, it was the ninth day of the massacre of the city. The city had almost returned to peace, but this was not caused by Yue Hailou's compassion and ordering to restrain the military discipline.

In fact, the massacre is coming to an end, and the places that can be searched inside and outside have been turned over several times. In the wind and rain, blood from the streets has been washed into the ditches, and more than 100,000 corpses have been transported outside the city and thrown to Yingshui.

Just got it.

Zhong Changqing knew all this.

The people of Chihu made Li Ji the emperor of the Great Chu Kingdom. Yue Hailou incorporated nearly half of the surrendered troops in Bianliang, and their troops expanded to more than 60,000. However, the city of Bianliang was looted by Chihu's army, and there was no production in Jingzu and other places.

Recover, the food collected was enough to fill the stomachs with so many people.

I hope that a soldier can have combat effectiveness, and it is far from enough to just wrap the belly.

Zhengzhou was already ruined before, and Xuzhou was Hu Kai again. Yang Lin gave up voluntarily. Before withdrawing the troops, except for Xuzhou City and the government-civilian organizations within the county town retreated south, a fire even ignited the houses in the city.

Yue Hailou led his troops to Xuzhou, which was just a remnant city. Even if he wanted to have a great disaster, he would have difficulty gaining something. He could only attack nearby fort villages. On the one hand, he collected limited supplies and on the other hand, he treated them as military training.

Now tens of thousands of people are in full swing to enter Chenzhou. Yuehailou promises a large plunder, which can be said to be the "army pay". On the other hand, Yuehailou is also going to be newly incorporated into the newly recruited Bianliang surrendered army and completely reunited with the remnants of Yueyue.

Separation, separation, separation or wandering thoughts.

Of course, more importantly, besides Yang Lin, Xu Huai's use of troops is even more unpredictable. Yue Hailou does not expect to destroy the decay and tear the defensive line deployed along the south bank of Rushui in a short period of time.

Then Yuehailou had to consider the huge amount of supplies needed to be garrisoned by tens of thousands of troops along the Yingshui River for a long time.

This cannot be solved by 30,000 to 50,000 stones of grain and grass.

More than 60,000 soldiers, more than 20,000 livestock, including war horses, had to drive a large number of hard labor to build camps and forts, and even 100,000 stones of food and grass per month could not be defeated.

Bianliang was destroyed, and Li Ji, Wang Qiyong and others wanted to maintain the operation of the so-called "King of Chu" and tried their best to plunder Bian and the counties within the capital.

Yuehailou does not expect to obtain supplies from Bianliang, and the grain and fodder that Hedong can collect must be supplied to Zhengzhou, Puzhou attacked Hulao and Pinglu 100,000 troops; the grain and fodder that Hebei can collect must be supported by Pingyan army.

Moving forward - Although the Chihu Cavalry is tenacious and tenacious, it can last for a month or even two or three months if necessary, and rely on a small amount of dry food to suck horse milk and corresponding dairy products to maintain it, under normal circumstances, it still needs normal

Food and grass supply.

Yue Hailou was awarded the title of Xuzhou, Chenzhou, and the governor of Yingzhou. His troops could only collect food and grass on the spot.

The Chihu people invaded the south twice. Before withdrawing their troops last year, they deliberately destroyed the Bian River, Tongji Canal and Langdang Canal and other waterways, resulting in the inability to transport grain from the southeast to Bianliang, and eventually lost Bianliang and fell without fighting.

On the one hand, affected by the war, agricultural production in Xuzhou, Chenzhou and Yingzhou was damaged. On the other hand, when grain was not transported in Bianliang last year, in order to ensure the grain used by the government and the capital garrison, iron coins were minted.

A large-scale purchase of grain and fodder from surrounding prefectures and counties further aggravated the grain shortage in Xuzhou, Chenzhou and Yingzhou.

How could Yuehailou tolerate that there were still 160,000 or 70,000 mouths in Chenzhou City at this time, and it was not suitable for farming, but it devoured the food in the surrounding areas like a bottomless pit?

Yuehailou led troops to plunder, just to slaughter the city.

In the past two years, he followed the Chihu people to fight south and north, and he knew very well that the army would plunder. As long as it was not stopped in time, it would be destined to evolve into a massacre of the city.

The only way to massacre the city is to directly reduce unnecessary food consumption in Chenzhou and other places; in addition, if Chenzhou is in a grain shortage, every household in the city has stored food, otherwise they would have fled to the famine long ago.

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The soldiers plundered, intended to be wealthy, or wanton and robbed women. Yue Hailou ordered the city's grain to be collected as a commission, and nearly 300,000 stones of grain were collected from Chenzhou City in just a few days.

This is what makes Yue Hailou feel a little relieved, and there is no need to worry that more than 60,000 troops will be out of food in the short term.

Of course, slaughtering alone cannot better help launch an attack on the Rushui coast.

Three hundred thousand stones of grain and grass are only enough to maintain the cost of more than 60,000 troops for three or four months.

If they use long-term confrontation as a plan, they will need to be able to collect food and fodder from the local area continuously, rather than fishing in a dry pond at one time.

This time, Yuehailou summoned the generals to Chenzhou City to discuss the matters. In addition to deploying the defense lines between the Yingshui River and exploring the defensive weaknesses of the Canyue on both sides of the Rushui River, it also needs to clarify local governance matters.

After the sword is sealed, military discipline needs to be rectified.

In addition to taking those stubborn Daxian forts and continuing to seize food and fodder, they can only plunder the areas south of the Yingshui River. It is strictly forbidden to enslave soldiers and loot the villages and towns in Xuzhou and Chenzhou north of the Yingshui River.

A series of measures to safeguard the people must be implemented to restore farming production on the north bank of the Yingshui River as quickly as possible.

Of course, these things have nothing to do with Zhong Changqing. Yue Hailou summoned Zhong Changqing in hopes that Zhong Changqing will lead his troops to Yingzhou.

The Ying River originates from Songshan Mountain, flows from northwest to southeast, and finally flows into the Huai River in Yingshang County, Yingzhou.

Yingzhou, located in the lower reaches of Yingshui, is located in the southeast of Zhao Guan's troops entrenched in Shouchun, and the southwest of Guangzhou, which is responsible for the defense of Liu Xian's troops of Xuanwei Army. Yingzhou Shinai Xuzhou, Chenzhou, Yingzhou

The protrusions of the three places.

"I have asked the second prince to promote you to the deputy marching officer of Wanhu and to be the general manager of Yingzhou's troops," Yue Hailou said, "and Yingzhou's southern Jiaoguangshou two states will surely become a place for four battles.

, You don’t need to consider the matter of people’s livelihood and farming for the time being.”

Feng Shizhao looked at Zhong Changqing enviously. He did not envy Zhong Changqing for being the chief manager of Yingzhou, but Zhong Changqing did not need to consider people's livelihood when he went to Yingzhou. In fact, he could continue to act recklessly, unlike Xuzhou and Chenzhou.
Chapter completed!