Chapter 790 Gaochang honeydew melon is fragrant and sweet
Chapter 790 Gaochang honeydew melon is fragrant and sweet
Author: Middle-aged paper tiger
Chapter 790 Gaochang honeydew melon is fragrant and sweet
If you want Yao Yuanfu to practice benevolence and righteousness and stabilize the place, even though he is relatively wise and courageous among the traditional warriors of the Central Plains, he may not be able to do this kind of thing very well.
But if you want to talk about how to subdue people's hearts with great terror, and how to defend a city with only a few hundred people, they are incompetent.
To put it bluntly, Yao Yuanfu and the hundreds of tooth soldiers he brought are not good people. Apart from not eating people, there are few other bad things that they have never done. He knows what to do.
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Therefore, under the worried eyes of Guo Guangcheng, Yao Yuanfu did not let his soldiers relax at all.
Starting from the south gate, they chased the White Wolf Army and killed them indiscriminately. And it was not a mindless killing, but a conscious drive, and they did not kill them all at once.
This has an advantage, that is, after the White Wolf Army's psychological defense line is defeated, they will instinctively run towards familiar places, and often even run to the place where their family members live in an attempt to hide.
This tactic of chasing and confiscating an opponent's home and killing the entire opponent's family at once has been figured out by the tooth soldiers during the two hundred years of war in the Central Plains.
Historically in the Central Plains, except for idiots like Qin Zongquan and Sun Ru, or in other words, after the population of the Central Plains has dropped to a terrible level, there are very few people who engage in massacres without fighting the war to destroy the country.
To capture a place, it is enough to kill all the soldiers and their families on the opposite side. The rest should be kept for the soldiers to farm and create wealth.
As a result, this completely crushing battle dragged on for a long time. Yao Yuanfu and others entered from the south gate and directly killed through the entire Suiye City, until even a strong man like Bai Zhuer felt a little hypoglycemic.
Only then did he stop.
But by this time, no one in the entire Suiye City dared to stand.
In this kind of foreign land, the people are much more knowledgeable than those in the Central Plains. They kneel down on both sides of the road with their families, trembling and waiting for the end to come, praying that the soldiers will show mercy after they are tired of killing.
Heart.
Of course, it was useless for them to run away. While Yao Yuanfu and Guo Guangcheng led people to kill everywhere, Chi Tian and Guo Tianfang had already organized all the coolies outside the city.
Most of these coolies were unwilling to work with Guo Guangyi, or they were dissatisfied with Guo Guangyi's rule.
Many of them were even herdsmen from the Guo family and the Gray Wolf tribe where Chi Tian belonged. They organized them and soon blocked the other three gates of Suiye City.
Guo Guangjie woke up long ago, but he did not dare to move. It was not until a strong man gnawing on a leg of lamb picked him up that Guo Guangjie, who had lost half his teeth, howled desperately, and then
Not even half satisfied.
Guo Guangcheng came over dragging a sledgehammer. He was so angry that he wanted to smash Guo Guangjie to death with the hammer.
Yao Yuanfu chuckled and stopped Guo Erlang. He nodded at Bai Zhuer, who immediately showed a cruel sneer on his face.
Guo Guangjie saw thick wooden sticks that had been sharpened. Above the wooden sticks, there was a shelf specially designed to hold people in place. There was also a big stone placed on top of the shelf.
Those Guo family members who were tortured during the construction of Zicheng were applying oil to the sharpened wooden stick.
Guo Guangjie suddenly felt a stinging pain in his anus, and he struggled in fear. As a result, the white pig grabbed his throat and lifted it up in the air like a big goose. Guo Guangjie was immediately left with a purple face and swaying around.
hands and feet.
Yao Yuanfu chuckled, and the surrounding tooth soldiers also burst into laughter.
When they were in the Central Plains, the military discipline of the Great Zhou Dynasty was a bit stricter, which made the Ya soldiers feel like they were home in the Western Regions thousands of miles away.
"Come here, please put some oil on the back door of this guy who doesn't know anything about the Heavenly Kingdom and is willing to abandon his ancestors and become a beard. It's like a certain family is showing great kindness!"
Yao Yuanfu deliberately looked pitiful, and the laughter became even louder.
Bai Zhuer also threw it away in disgust, and Guo Guangjie stared with frightened eyes, collapsed on the ground and excreted and peed.
Because he knew what it was, the sharpened wooden stick was still greased with oil just so that it could be inserted into his valley smoothly.
The shelf that can hold a person in place is to prevent him from being stabbed to death in one fell swoop.
The big stone on the shelf is to ensure that the shelf will slowly fall down a little bit every time.
"Brother, don't worry, this kind of thing usually takes four or five days to completely tie you to it.
And in order for my brother to enjoy himself, a certain family will feed him honey and milk every day to maintain his strength. Otherwise, he won’t be able to cry out, which would be boring.”
An inhuman smile appeared on Yao Yuanfu's face, and then he said to Luo (Li) Yechuan: "A certain family once heard from Zhao Siwan that the highest level of this thing can make the wooden tip come out of the mouth, but the victim has not yet completely
Even after death, the eyes can still move.
Keep a good watch on me, if someone dies within four days, you will be punished for your serious crime of disobeying orders just now!"
In fact, Luo Yechuan did not make any big mistake, but Yao Yuanfu needed to strengthen his authority at this moment before a bigger storm came, so Luo Yechuan unfortunately ran into the head of the fire.
As for what the bigger storm is, is there any need to say?
After Yao Yuanfu captured Suiye City, Guo Guangyi would definitely counterattack violently in order to avoid complete defeat.
Yao Yuanfu had already seen what this traitor was trying to do. Guo Guangyi wanted to turn Suiye City into an iron felt while the walls were strong and the wilderness was clear. He himself led his elite into an iron hammer and came over the mountains and ridges, exhausted.
The unbearable imperial army was directly hammered to death at the foot of Suiye City.
But now the broken leaves have been recovered by him in a surprise attack. If Guo Guangyi doesn't take back the broken leaves before the snow melts in spring, his death will come.
Once you know the opponent's tricks, it's easy to find a way to deal with them, but they're also cruel.
Yao Yuanfu found Guo Guangcheng and said seriously: "We have brought two thousand people, but Guo Guangyi can mobilize at least another 40,000 people, which is twenty times more than us.
Manager Tiger will not be able to leave until at least mid-April, and it will be at least mid-May before we reach Broken Leaf. During these three and a half months, we can only rely on ourselves."
A look of pain appeared on Guo Guangcheng's face. Although many people in Suiye City failed to hold on, they were all once Guo Guangcheng's closest friends, and could even be said to be clan members.
Yao Yuanfu glanced at Guo Guangcheng sympathetically and said, "Guo Erlang, you really shouldn't have come to Broken Leaf. Why are you asking for pain?"
Guo Guangcheng slowly shook his head, "Yakong, ever since Guo Xingong led the soldiers of the four towns to guard the Western Region, my Guo family has been inseparable from Anxi, Broken Ye, and the river. Can we leave 20,000 people?"
There were originally about 140,000 people in Suiye and its surroundings. Guo Guangyi moved away 100,000 people and then added 5,000 confidants.
If we exclude the thousands of people scattered throughout Suiye and those who were beaten into hard labor, then there are still about 30,000 people in Suiye City.
Yao Yuanfu only brought 2,000 people. If we want to guard against the 30,000 people inside who may or may not have ulterior motives, and resist the siege of 30,000 to 40,000 people outside for three and a half months, it is absolutely impossible.
, so we must not be able to keep so many people in the city.
But it is impossible to drive these people out of the city, because they will definitely be used as cannon fodder by Guo Guangyi to attack the city.
So there was only one option left, which was to dig a hole and bury it.
Now Guo Guangyi must kill all the 5,000 men, women, old and children stationed in Suiye City, so there are still 25,000 people left.
Among them, three to four thousand people are the family members of those who were beaten as hard laborers. Of course, they must be preserved, so the fate of 21,000 or 2,000 people is still undecided.
Guo Guangcheng asked if 20,000 people could be left behind. In other words, he wanted to ask if he could kill only 5,000 people and retain 17,000 residents and 3,000 hard laborers.
But Yao Yuanfu shook his head. There was no difference between killing only five thousand people and not killing them at all. He said coldly: "The maximum number of people left is twelve to three thousand, of which three thousand women and four thousand men are left."
The three thousand women left here can do laundry and cooking, and can also relieve the anxiety of the soldiers guarding the city. If Hu Guang's army cannot arrive in mid-May and the food is exhausted, it will be even more...
Four thousand men plus three thousand hard laborers, plus the two thousand people who followed, there were nine thousand people who could defend the city.
Suiye City happened to have been renovated by Guo Guangyi. If Zicheng was not repaired, we would not use it and just defend Luo City. Anyway, if we defend both cities, we would not have enough manpower.
Guo Guangcheng sighed, he believed that Yao Yuanfu was not deliberately trying to make things difficult for him, but had made accurate calculations.
They, old soldiers, are extremely proficient at playing this set of things, and there won't be many mistakes or discrepancies.
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In the fourth year of Shaoming Dynasty, on February 11th, Yao Yuanfu and Guo Guangcheng led two thousand warriors to cross the Bodal Ridge, raided and recovered Suiye City.
Yao Yuanfu then tortured Guo Guangyi's brother Guo Guangjie, his trusted general Aqsa and more than 2,000 soldiers, and tortured him by sitting on a wooden donkey.
Among them, Guo Guangjie wailed for three days before he died. It is said that even his internal organs were pushed out of his mouth.
On February 14th, Yao Yuanfu carried out three attacks and one kill in Suiye City, killing more than 14,000 people in one go. He dug more than a dozen deep pits to bury people. This also won Yao Yuanfu a lot of honors.
The title of Medicine Yama.
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Hu Guang had just come out of the palace of the King of Jin in Shule City. He scratched his head a little irritably.
What do you think of Li Congde, the emperor's cousin and the crown prince of the Jin Dynasty? He really has two skills in governing the local area, stabilizing the people, restoring production, and building water conservancy.
But when he recited the Buddha's name, he made it a bit silly. He kept talking about killing less and increasing evil, and not using the people's power too much.
When he was asked to pull tens of thousands of men to cross the Zhenzhu River with the army, they all looked pitiful and miserable.
Because Li Congde believed that it would be extremely difficult to cross the Tianshan Mountains and the Zhenzhu River in mid-March. This was not asking him to recruit 40,000 people to help transport grain and grass. He was asking these 40,000 people to die. It would be better to wait until the weather changed at the end of April.
Go again when it's warm.
I heard that this Prince Wang has been studying Buddhism in Dunhuang for a long time. Which eminent monk taught him this?
Such a freak.
It's just that Hu Guang didn't know that in history, this prince, the fifth king after the restoration of Khotan, occupied Shule twice during his reign. He died in Central Asia and West Asia with one hundred thousand divine warriors.
There are many plans, and they are all beautiful battles in which the few defeat the many.
I think the expansion of the Tianfang Sect at that time must have been very intense, otherwise people like Li Congde would not have been forced to go on several personal expeditions.
"How long does it take for the king to reach Shule?" Hu Guang suddenly stopped and asked Guo Guangsheng beside him.
Guo Guangsheng quickly took out the small notebook in his hand, and after reading it, he suddenly had a wry smile on his face.
"The report arrived five days ago. The king and the eldest princess have just arrived in Gaochang. The eldest princess heard that the flavor of Gaochang honeydew melons is unparalleled in the world. It seems that she intends to wait until mid-May to eat fresh honeydew melons before setting off back to Shule."
Hu Guang closed his eyes in pain. Does this fucking Jin Kingdom's palace belong to you two father and son? There is going to be a war soon, can you not be so casual!
The distance between Gaochang and Shule is nearly three thousand miles, and it would take two months to walk fifty miles in one day.
By the time he returned after eating honeydew melon in mid-May, it would already be mid-July, and Yao Yuanfu and Guo Guangcheng would have been beaten to death long ago.
And obviously you can take the south road in spring and quickly cross the desert back, but you have to take the north road and enjoy the mountains and rivers all the way.
Hu Guang is so anxious! Although he is the general manager of Zhengxi, he only has military power and no civil power.
His greatest power was the edict that allowed him to recruit 20,000 troops in Beiting, Anxi. The rest of the food, grass, and supplies for the common people had to be supplied by Anxi and Beiting.
While Anxi Province is said to be a province, in fact its administration is still dominated by the Palace of the King of the Kingdom of Jin.
After all, this has been the family property of Yuchi's family for thousands of years. Now it is good to dedicate Kenna land to the imperial court. How can we really replace the original Khotan Jin Kingdom with provincial yamen.
Hu Guang was very anxious. Although he had confidence in Yao Yuanfu and Guo Guangcheng, he was not only afraid of the worst, but he had to go as early as possible. If he waited until Li Shengtian and his wife came back, the yellow flowers would be cold.
Even if Li Congde thought it was the end of April, Hu Guang didn't think it was feasible.
However, Guo Guangsheng on the side came to his senses and blinked twice, "The king used to be a well-known wise king in Anxi. At this critical autumn, he should not be unaware of the importance.
When I was in the Central Plains, I once heard a privy envoy say that His Highness the King did not want to return to Anxi and wanted to live in the Central Plains with the eldest princess Cao of Wei State, but the Emperor did not agree.
Could it be that the king still wants to return to the Central Plains and deliberately ignores things?"
It has to be said that Guo Guangsheng is not good at leading troops in battles, but his ability in logistics, analysis and planning is quite good. He guessed Li Shengtian's thoughts quite well.
The king of Yuchi's family in Khotan seems to have some problems with the Tang Dynasty.
After Li Shengtian arrived in the Central Plains, he saw thousands of miles of beautiful rivers and mountains in his dream, ate delicacies from the mountains and seas, wore Shu brocade and Suzhou embroidery, socialized with literati, and sang poems with great joy.
Especially after he heard that Brother Li Jing had donated soil, he felt itchy in his heart.
Because in the Southern Tang Dynasty, Li Jing, Li Jingsui brothers, Han Xizai, Xu Xuan, and Xu Xuan's younger brother Xu Kai were all world-famous poets and literary masters with real talent and learning, and they had the style of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. How could Li Shengtian, who loved literature, give it up?
Walk.
Not to mention, Li Shengtian's eldest sister, the Empress Dowager Ciyou, is also in Tokyo. After this farewell, the two siblings don't know if they will ever see each other again.
The same goes for Cao Yuanxin. She has unparalleled prestige in the Central Plains, because she can be a concubine who has great favors for Emperor Shaoming, a cousin, or the empress's aunt. The Cao family's brothers and nephews are also in the Central Plains.
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During more than a year in the Central Plains, she became obsessed with polo, mahjong, etc. She enjoyed playing in Khotan so much that she never thought about it. If she left the Central Plains and returned to Khotan, looking around, there would be no one with the same status as her.
No.
If you really like playing polo and mahjong, it will be very, very painful to not have a teammate or opponent who can really play seriously with you.
What's more important is that this couple, who can be said to have tried their best to support Zhang Xiang with the most important thing in his life, know what Zhang Xiang is.
Li Shengtian believed that if he continued to help Zhang Erlang manage Anxi well, he would never be able to return to the Central Plains again in his life, and would definitely be thrown to Samarkand to become a foreign king.
Uh! Is it a good thing or a bad thing to go to a good place like Samarkand and become the king?
For most people, it is no exaggeration to say that this score is the end of their struggle, but for Li Shengtian and his wife, it is no different from exile.
Of course, due to their status, they certainly cannot openly oppose Zhang Zhang's policy of Xia Jun and Yi Min, but they can use non-violence and non-cooperation!
So the two males and females hit it off and started to show off! Before they even left Liangzhou, the couple were already lying flat on their backs.
Hu Guang is also a smart man. After listening to Guo Guangsheng's analysis, he blinked twice and came to his senses.
Indeed, the couple, the King of Jin and the eldest princess of Wei, are just showing off in a negative way.
Moreover, there are advantages to their opening up the show. First, the inheritance of the Jin Kingdom will not disappear. There are still Prince Li Congde and Yanqi Marquis Li Congyu waiting there.
Second, you can return to the Central Plains as soon as possible to enjoy yourself.
As soon as they started to quarrel, Li Congde, the prince's son who was in charge of state affairs in Shule, also began to be timid.
Because if Li Shengtian were to take action, Li Congde would still be able to do everything and hold all the power in the Western Regions.
What has become of this? I don’t want this mere glory (referring to Li Shengtian and his wife returning to the Central Plains to be happy), but I also want the real benefits of my life (referring to Li Congde representing the Li family in Khotan and continuing to hold power in Anxi.)
That would definitely be disgusted by the saint!
Good guy, it turns out that Prince Wang is not pedantic, it is precisely because he understands so well that he quickly put aside the relationship and deliberately ignored the matter.
No wonder Li Congde never left his father's words when talking to him just now. It turned out that he was reminding Hu Guang, but Hu Guang didn't notice.
"Huh!" General Hu, General Manager Hu breathed a long sigh of relief. Political matters don't matter how difficult it is, but whether he can find the key point. As long as he can find the key point, it will be easy to handle.
Now in Anxi, the provincial government has not started to operate at all. It is only the highest political institution in name. The one who actually operates these thousands of miles of land is the palace of the Jin Kingdom.
Hu Guang looked at Guo Guangsheng and said: "In this case, a certain family can only submit a letter to the King of the Jin Kingdom, requesting to temporarily take over the military and political power of the Jin Kingdom and become the chief historian of the Jin Kingdom's hegemony.
This matter is of great importance, I'm afraid Da Lang will have to go there personally."
Guo Guangsheng immediately crossed his arms and said, "Don't worry, manager, I will choose a good horse and set off immediately. Within twenty days, I will definitely invite the King of Jin to come with his instructions."
Hu Guang patted Guo Guangsheng's shoulder heavily. He said that it was almost 5,400 to 5,000 miles back and forth. If he came back within twenty days, he would have to travel at least 2,780 miles in one day. This was a life-and-death trade!
But what can Guo Guangsheng do? His younger brother and a group of clan members are still breaking leaves, so they can't risk their lives to do it.