Chapter 1114: Expelling the people and burning the city
For a benevolent man like Murong Ke, it was undoubtedly an extremely difficult decision to make such an unconscionable thing as expelling the people and burning the city, but he had reasons to do so.
"Only by combining kindness and power, the people of Hetao will know what awe is, and then they will not dare to resist my rule, Yuan Meng."
Murong Ke glanced at the generals again and explained unhurriedly: "Capture the city, but don't cause too many killings. This is a favor;
Harvesting grain, expelling people, burning the city, but still not doing much killing, this is Buwei.
Drive the people out of the city, and then burn the city. As a result, the people have no place to live. Although the people will hate our army, they are more afraid of it.
The people who were expelled from the city could only seek refuge in other cities of the Jin army. The Jin army would definitely meet to accept and resettle them. This would not only consume the resources of the Jin army, but also spread this awe invisibly.
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After listening to Murong Ke's explanation, all the generals couldn't help but suddenly realized, and they were even more convinced of Murong Ke. This was simply an achievement.
Seeing that all the generals could understand, Murong Ke did not explain too much. In fact, his move had another purpose, which was to place people among the people, and then take the opportunity to let his own people sneak into the city, and cooperate inside and outside to defeat other people.
The city completely disrupted the entire Yinchuan County, taking this opportunity to break through the Jin army's blockade.
After Murong Ke took a deep breath, he said with a hint of unbearability: "Take care of all the problems within half a day, and then go north immediately after burning the city."
"Half a day?"
Murong Shao couldn't help but ask: "Father, we have to collect grain and grass, expel the people in the city, and carry all kinds of materials. Is half a day too short?"
"Half a day is enough."
A trace of solemnity flashed in Murong Ke's eyes, and he said solemnly: "Our army does not have any foundation in Hetao, but the Jin army's 100,000 elite troops have come from the east and north, so we don't have much time to waste on it.
this.
As for materials, just bring food, grass and arrows, and burn the rest with the city.
The Jin army is very wealthy, as long as we can capture the Hetao, everything owned by the Jin army will be ours, so there is no need to worry about this."
Since we want to pursue efficiency, we will inevitably ignore other things.
Under the violent plunder and expulsion of the Yuan army, the people throughout the city complained, but because of the force of the Yuan army, the people could only dare to be angry but dare not speak out.
Complying with the expulsion of the Yuan army, the people of the city gradually gathered outside the city, but what followed was a fire from the Yuan army, which burned down their homes in one fell swoop.
Almost all the people in the Hetao were refugees, wandering in troubled times with no fixed residence. It was not until they came to the Hetao that they settled down, and after several years of hard work, they built a new home.
Many people found it difficult to accept this, and rushed towards them like crazy to stop the fire-fighting. However, they were shot into pieces by Yuan army archers before they even got close.
The relatives' eyes were split with tears when they saw this, but there was nothing they could do to stop it. They could only wailed and hugged the bodies of their relatives and cursed the Yuan army as beasts.
For a time, everything inside and outside the city was reduced to Shura Hell!
Murong Ke rode his horse slowly along the way and saw countless pairs of eyes filled with hatred. In his heart, he was actually unwilling to do this, but the hostile relationship between the two parties forced him to do so.
"Perhaps I will never be able to resolve this hatred in my life, but after I completely occupy the Loop, I will try my best to make up for it."
As soon as he thought of this, Murong Ke's eyes became more determined, and then he drew out his sword and shouted: "Let's go."
The 70,000-strong army roared in and roared away, leaving behind only tens of thousands of mourning civilians and a city that was completely ignited with brilliant fire.
The fire did not go out for a long time, burning for five days and five nights, and finally only a piece of debris was left.
During this period, people continued to leave. After all, the dead had passed away, but the living still had to live on.
The Yuan army only left rations for the people for ten days. If they could not reach the next city within ten days, the only thing waiting for them would be starvation to death. Fortunately, the distance between the ten cities in Yinchuan was not too far.
, ten days is enough time to walk to the next city.
Within the next ten days, two more small cities were captured by Murong Ke, and then the people were expelled and the cities were burned. In this way, Yinchuan County gained nearly 100,000 refugees in a short period of time.
Yinchuan City, Prefect's Mansion.
After learning that Murong Ke burned three cities, Qu Yuan was so angry that he almost went crazy. He built Yinchuan bit by bit. He was full of affection for every plant and tree here, but Murong Ke not only destroyed the stability of the people
His life had also destroyed Yinchuan County to such an extent. How could Qu Yuan not be angry?
Qu Yuan kept roaring and cursing Murong Ke, but the anger in his heart did not diminish at all, so he took up his pen angrily and wrote poems to denounce Murong Ke's atrocities.
Qu Yuan was a well-known scholar in literary circles, and he was extremely famous both among the people and in the political circles. Once his poems and poems were spread, they caused a huge stir and became a stain that Murong Ke could not wash away in his lifetime.
"Instruct the generals in each city to make every effort to resettle the refugees at all costs, and at the same time, beware of enemy spies among the refugees." Qu Yuan ordered with a sad expression.
Since becoming an official, Qu Yuan's official career has been extremely smooth, and he has been a prefect along the way smoothly. But now his good luck seems to have run out, and he has not heard a single good news since he defeated Murong Ke.
The only thing that made Qu Yuan happy was that Murong Ke did not massacre the city. As long as the people are still there, the foundation of Yinchuan will be there, and the burned city can be rebuilt again. But at that time, he didn't know whether he was the governor of Yinchuan or not.
Already.
Qu Yuan looked to the east and murmured to himself: "Wang Jinglue, if you don't come again, I really won't be able to hold on anymore."
On the other side, Wang Meng and Xi Zhicai, who also came from the east, finally successfully joined forces halfway, but then they received news from Qu Yuan urging the army to advance.
"This Murong Ke did not take advantage of the situation and go north, but instead went around wreaking havoc in Yinchuan without killing the people indiscriminately?"
After learning the information about Yinchuan, Wang Meng couldn't help but frown, and asked Xi Zhicai beside him: "Military advisor, this Murong Ke is not simple. General Yang Ye has already entered the Ningxia Army. Do you think that is why he is so talented?"
Don’t you dare to head north rashly?
Or is it that from the very beginning, Murong Ke’s goal was not Zhenbeiguan, but Jinyang?”
Xi Zhicai's brows also frowned. Originally, he and Wang Meng were sure of Murong Ke's purpose. Now, although Murong Ke's actions were suspected of creating suspicion, neither of them dared to gamble because of this. After all,
The safety of Jinyang is far more important than Zhenbeiguan.
"Stabilize Yinchuan first, and then talk about other things." Xi Zhicai said in a deep voice.