Chapter 712: More than a hundred residents in the city
Murong Lan opened her eyes wide and said in surprise: "Go to Pengcheng? Are you not mistaken? Didn't they escape from Pengcheng? We also saw it along the way. It was uninhabited for thousands of miles and there were stragglers everywhere. These few
How can the child go back? Besides, didn’t Liu Zhong’s parents ask him to join his relatives in Qingzhou?”
Liu Yu shook his head: "The Central Plains will only become more chaotic now. The land of Huaibei was in chaos after the Battle of Feishui. Moreover, when your eldest brother led his army south to the Central Plains a while ago, Ding Ling people were looting everywhere, but now they have gone to Hebei.
There is no large group of rebel troops. Moreover, the Northern Expedition of the Jin Dynasty will be launched soon. Troops will have been mobilized to Pengcheng and Huaibei area to occupy the advancing base first. By the time Yanzhi and his group are about to return to Pengcheng, they can let
Liu Zhong and the others went to seek refuge."
Murong Lan asked in surprise: "To Yanzhi? Isn't he dead yet?"
Liu Yu smiled slightly: "Why, didn't you see that at my auction, in order to buy Yanzhi, I even contradicted Xie Yan face to face?"
Murong Lan laughed: "I was away for something at the time and came here later. I only saw the ending. So, if Yanzhi and the others can return to their hometown, it means that the Jin Dynasty wants to enter the north of the country. Let these people go first
Go back and let them build a fort to defend themselves and test the situation in the north. When the time is right, send the vanguard troops to garrison with food and grass to prepare for the arrival of the army."
Liu Yu nodded: "Yes, and what I didn't expect was that even the Diao family had the idea of Pengcheng. Do you remember when we came to Pengcheng? We had already started to build a high platform. I don't know what we want to do.
What, if we hadn't been in such a hurry, I would have really wanted to see what new tricks the Diao brothers had come up with."
Murong Lan curled up her lips and said, "Liu Yu, you have some potential, okay? Now you are still paying attention to the Diao brothers as rivals. Don't you always say you want to do great things? Now you are already a famous hero in the Jin Dynasty, Diao
My brothers are just middle- and lower-class families and governors, so there is no need to take them seriously."
Liu Yu sighed: "But the more middle- and lower-class families tend to hold the position of prefectural governor, the people of the Jin Dynasty directly face their parents and officials. Maybe it's because Jingkou has always been an important town, and those who came here before
Most of the governors are children of high-ranking families. For example, the previous governor Xi was from the Xi family of Gaoping, and before that, Huan Chong personally guarded it. Brother Diao Kui is the first time I have encountered such corrupt officials who exploit the people. In the past few years,
After many exchanges with my brothers in the army, I realized that this kind of talent is a common phenomenon everywhere. If the Jin Dynasty wants to calm people's hearts and go all out in the Northern Expedition, it must stop these corrupt officials from causing harm to the people, so that they can work together as one."
Murong Lan laughed: "Then it depends on whether you can perform meritorious service. Get back the jade seal as soon as possible. Only by getting back the jade seal and the Jin Dynasty's Northern Expedition can the meritorious soldiers become officials at the state and county level. Liu Yu,
I still have a question, why do you have to bury these corpses? When we fight, we rarely bury the enemy's corpses. At most, we just bury our own corpses, or burn them to ashes, and take the ashes back home.
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Liu Yu said seriously: "Rotting corpses can transmit epidemics. After wars, there are often big epidemics, and people who have the epidemic will run around and spread the plague. It is a terrible thing. If there are all the diseases within hundreds of miles,
If there is a plague, the people will die or disperse, and the army will not be able to enter. I think exposing these heads and corpses in the wilderness is probably a poisonous trick thought up by your elder brother to make the epidemic spread in the Central Plains.
To prevent the Jin and Qin armies from posing a threat to him."
Murong Lan's expression became solemn: "I can't say much about this matter, but when my eldest brother ordered this to be done, he just said that it would be a way to frighten those who dared to confront Dayan. But after what you said,
Maybe, maybe he really means what you said."
While the two were talking, there was a sound of footsteps in the city. Brother Wang Rui and Liu Zhong came over with forty or fifty sallow-looking people. They were staggering and walking with difficulty. They looked like
I'm hungry and haven't eaten for several days.
Liu Yu frowned and walked towards the visitor. Wang Rui pointed at an old man in his fifties with gray beard and said: "Mr. Abbas, this is Wu Fangzheng in the city. All the officials have fled, and the people are gone."
Many of them also fled away, leaving only some of their old men who could not run away."
Liu Yu nodded, looked at Wu Fangzheng, and said: "Old man, we are traveling businessmen. We passed by here and were surprised. Is there really no one in a big city like Xingyang?"
Wu Fangzheng shook his head and sighed: "Everyone who could escape has run away, leaving only us old, weak, sick and disabled, who have nowhere to go and can only stay and wait to die. Fortunately, the descendants of the Wang family have returned, otherwise,
I'm afraid we are really going to die here."
Murong Lan frowned: "Since there is no food in the city and you know that you are waiting to die, why don't you escape? Fu Jian is known as a benevolent man. It should be better for you to join his army in Luoyang than to wait to die here.
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Wu Fangzheng sighed: "My hero, I'm afraid you don't know something. All the officers and soldiers in the Central Plains have gone to Luoyang. The area of several hundred miles is filled with bandits, stragglers, and those abominable Ding Ling people.
, it’s not like we didn’t escape to Luoyang, there were more than 300 people. We encountered horse bandits on the way, and only a dozen of them ran back. Even their young and strong descendants couldn’t go. What can we old men do? We can only wait.
Dead."
Liu Yu's eyes flashed coldly: "These damn Ding Ling dog thieves, I should have known better than to let them go on the battlefield, but now they have become a big problem!"
Wang Rui looked at Liu Yu and said curiously: "Mr. Abbas, have you fought with the Ding Ling people? Aren't we all sergeants of the Qin State?"
Liu Yu immediately realized that he had made a mistake and laughed: "What I'm talking about is that before, when we were doing business, Ding Ling and Zhai Bin robbed us. At that time, our caravan taught them a lesson, and Zhai Bin was in front of us."
He cried bitterly and said that he would never dare to rob or kill again, so we let him go. Unexpectedly, raising tigers made him a problem, and now he is harming the people. Not to mention this, everyone, please help us.
With one hand, they took down these heads from the city wall and buried them in the ditch together with the corpses. The weather was getting hotter and the corpses were not buried in the ground, which would easily lead to a great epidemic. If the disease really happened, there would be no cure.
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Wu Fangzheng's eyes lit up and he nodded quickly: "I've heard about your abilities. You are indeed experts. God asked you to save us poor people. Old guys, what are we waiting for?