Turbulent Times Chapter 1246: Soldiers in troubled times are like bandits
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And once the troops from the imperial court threatened Li Yangcang before he took down Luoyang, Yang Su would definitely send a large number of generals to maintain the morale and morale of the rebels. It is very likely that Su will personally bring the main force to deal with Wang Junlin.
"Okay, since everyone has no opinions, now I will start assigning combat tasks, everyone listen carefully."
As he spoke, Wang Junlin's expression became serious. He walked back to the commander's seat, raised the command arrows, and sent them out one by one. Everyone stepped forward one by one, kneeling on one knee to accept the military orders.
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In the early morning of the next day, the army continued to march at a neither fast nor slow speed. Wang Junlin was not afraid that Yang Su would get the news, so he mobilized the army to Liyang City in advance, because his goal was not Liyang City in the first place, but to use the The purpose of this strategy is to attract Yang Su's main force to fight in the field and annihilate them.
When the army passed through Tangyin County, Wang Junlin found that the wide area from Anyang to Yongji Canal was basically deserted except for a few isolated fortresses and Tangyin City whose four gates were blocked with stones. There are no more people.
"Since Yang Su announced the emperor's ten crimes to the world in Hongnong County and raised the so-called "righteous flag", all the bandits, bandits, horse thieves, and rogues hiding in the deep mountains and wild ridges in Henan and the Central Plains have all come down. These people imitated Yang Su, and played high-sounding slogans, most of them under the banner of 'resolving the world's urgent needs', but what they did was looting everywhere and forcing good people into robbers In less than a month, their respective teams have expanded dozens of times. Among them, the largest one, such as Han Xiangguobu, has more than 100,000 people. Even those with a smaller scale have thousands of people. Come on." Shen Guoer rode by Wang Junlin's side and reported in time.
"As long as Yang Su's rebels are eliminated, these thieves are not worth mentioning." Wang Junlin really didn't take these rebels to heart.
"Bastard Yang Su, I've never seen such a waste of things!" Xiong Kuohai started cursing again. Even if the others didn't say anything, they still looked indignant. The closer they got to Luoyang, the capital of the Central Plains, the scenery and appearance of the places they passed were no longer human. Before they were in Huainan and the canal
What you see on both sides is that the wheat is ripe and no one is harvesting it. The scene can only make people feel desolate, but the counties in the Central Plains and Henan can only be described as horrible.
There are farmlands trampled into wasteland and burned houses everywhere. Some tiles and brick walls are still blue and black, as if the fire has just been extinguished by rain. Some adobes have already been crisped by the wind and rain, and fluffy new green has grown from the breaks.
At this time, a fast horse from the Military Intelligence Office came galloping, and Shen Guoer led people to meet him first. Su sent Li Mi to persuade Han Xiangguo, the most powerful rebel in the Henan counties, and now Han Xiangguo has led more than 100,000 bandits to join Yang Su. Weapons, armor, ordnance, bows and arrows, ordered Han Xiangguo to lead his men to attack the cities and counties in Henan. Now Han Xiangguo has captured Yangwu, Yuanwu, Fengqiu and other places, and is now taking Xiangcheng under Yang Su's order. Near Xiangcheng Bandits, bandits, and bandits responded one after another, burning countless villages. And Runan is only a hundred miles away from Xiangcheng. Although Yang Xiangguo's soldiers and horses carried the banner of "walking for the sky", everywhere they passed, all the villages and towns turned into A piece of scorched earth."
Maybe because he came from later generations, Wang Junlin can be said to be the person who cares most about the life and death of the people among the rich and powerful in the world today.
So, upon hearing this, Wang Junlin's expression turned icy cold, and he gritted his teeth and said, "This Han Xiangguo should be damned, he's not far away from me right now, don't let me run into him, or I'll kill him." Cut into pieces by thousands of knives to deter the world's thieves, so that they will not slaughter the people at will."
These rebels, who claimed to want to "relieve the people's upside down", killed their own compatriots, no more softly than the Turkic people who killed the people of the Great Sui Dynasty. If the reason for their killing was to seize supplies, the crime could be forgiven. But in fact, the food in the Liyang warehouse was enough for the rebel army to feed for several years, and the looting of the surrounding villages by the rebel army may be purely for venting!
"Are soldiers in troubled times like bandits?" At this moment, Wang Junlin deeply understood the meaning of this sentence often said by the ancients.
In fact, ever since the Yangtze River entered the Grand Canal and went north, the air has been filled with thick or light evil.
Stinks. Wang Junlin was very aware of the source of this smell, which was caused by enough corpses being exposed in broad daylight without being submerged.
In fact, along the way, this smell made Wang Junlin's murderous intent rise again and again, and it also made him understand better what it was like in the original history when tens of millions of people died in the troubled times at the end of the Sui Dynasty.
Obviously, in the eyes of Yang Su and the officials from the powerful families who took refuge in him, those common people are probably as cheap as ants.
It's just that they don't know that if the ants are all dead, the next thing to starve to death is the ant king, ant queen and ant soldiers. The same ant nest suffered a disaster, and none of the group could escape.
Perhaps it was because of the painful lesson at the end of the Sui Dynasty that Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, truly regarded the people as water, the emperor and the court as the boat of the son of heaven, and even more so that "water can carry a boat" , can also overturn the boat" as a motto to remind myself and the court officials.
In fact, it was just like this. In the early Tang Dynasty, the status of the common people was unprecedentedly improved. Of course, in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, with the corruption of the imperial court, the vicious cycle of a large number of land annexations began again, and eventually the same mistakes were repeated.
These thoughts flashed through Wang Junlin's mind one by one, making his murderous intent even worse: "Yang Su deserves to die, and so do the officials from the powerful family who have taken refuge in him." The younger generation had some scruples, but now Wang Junlin no longer had any scruples, and only wanted to kill all these people.
"It's just that killing people can't fundamentally solve the problem, or just killing people." Wang Junlin finally forcibly suppressed the killing intent in his heart, and began to think about ways to solve the problem fundamentally.
"Xiong Kuo Hai, do you feel wronged by letting you be my personal commander?" Wang Junlin was riding on the horse, and suddenly turned his head and said to Xiong Kuo Hai, who was as long as a bear.
Xiong Kuohai was stunned for a moment, and quickly said: "My lord, I heard about his deeds a long time ago. In fact, I have always admired my lord very much, so I feel very honored to be the commander of my own soldiers." Xiong Kuohai When Kuo Hai said this, his expression was firm, and there was sincerity on his purple-black face. Wang Junlin could feel that Xiong Kuo Hai was not lying.
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