After learning about the situation in Huaiyin City, Zhao Xun explained it and personally led the Qinweiying camp to rush towards Huaiyin City. Three days later, Zhao Xun passed the boundary of Quyang City and entered the counties around Huaiyin City.
Appeared at the place where these incidents occurred.
Jiushan County, the westernmost county, is closest to Quyang City. Xishan Town, a suburb town west of Jiushan County. When Zhao Xun arrived here, Yanzhou troops had already settled the funeral here.
From a distance, you can see a town that has been burned to the point of being broken. From a distance, it looks dark and a smell of burnt smell is coming to your nose.
Outside the ruined town, there are dilapidated shacks all over the roadside, and there are probably hundreds of shacks! These shacks are obviously just built, short and simple, with air leakage on all sides.
A team of soldiers from Yanzhou Army were cleaning up the ruins, moving the burning broken wood and bricks and stones outside the town, and clearing out the streets. Many town residents also worked together, while some women and children were watching.
He was stunned and cried in a daze with his burned home.
A cloud of sorrow is bleak.
Hearing the sound of horse hooves, everyone turned around. When they saw that their chief was coming, the soldiers of the Yanzhou army immediately gathered. The instinctive faces of the people showed fear, and the Yanzhou army soldiers told them that what they were coming.
Our Yanzhou Army General arrived.
"Which part of you are from? Why are you just so many people?" Zhao Xun turned over and dismounted, his face calmly and steady.
The officer said in a deep voice: "Report to the Grand Commander, his subordinates belong to the first capital, third battalions and five teams of the Left Guard Army. The reason why there is only one team of manpower is because the general has assigned counties and has insufficient manpower. Therefore, in this small town
That's how it is."
"So that's it!" Zhao Xun nodded slightly, understanding the problem. The six counties and counties are the most serious, and in addition, they must also be stationed in Huaiyin City.
"What is the situation in Huaiyin City and the surrounding six counties now?" Zhao Xun asked again.
The team leader replied: "The Qi army did things in the six counties and nearby towns, and committed all kinds of evil. The people in the six counties and counties and the young and strong people were driven to the city of Huaiyin and attacked the city and died.
Most of the remaining elderly, weak, women and children were killed or injured, and very few escaped. All the money, food and grass in the people's homes were abducted by the Qi army."
"General Wei Dong sent people to scatter the counties, settle the people, and collect the bodies. In addition, the people of the Xuzhou army rushed to the outside of Huaiyin City and asked us to launch Huaiyin City and give them."
"Give it to them? Don't even think about it!" Zhao Xun snorted coldly, then called the soldiers of the guard camp to order: "Immediately send an order to Feng Ziming from Xiangzhou Prefecture to mobilize the garrison troops in Yuzhou to come here.
In addition, let the recruit battalion recruit another 10,000 new recruits as local garrison troops."
"Han Meng, let the guard camp leave a part to help them and arrange them into Jiushan County. From now on, let them settle in the county. Now, all counties are vacant, just let them settle in the center.
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After looking at the people who are mostly old, weak, women and children, Zhao Xun felt bitter in his heart. At this time, he looked at their ragged and pitiful appearance, and couldn't help but feel a little pity in his heart, and then comforted the people.
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After learning that the Yanzhou Army's Grand Governor had transported food to help them, the people were even more grateful and knelt on the ground and kowtowed.
When we arrived in the town, the town had basically been burned to ruins, with broken walls everywhere, and there was no complete house. It seemed that it had to be rebuilt.
In the middle of the town, a blood-stained battlefield appeared from time to time. Within a radius of hundreds of meters, there were blood everywhere, broken human bodies, broken spears, feathers, and broken swords.
According to the people who escaped the disaster, this is the place where the Qi army massacred the local brave men. Here, these Qi troops have become robbers, just simply killing in and robbing property.
Not far away, Zhao Xun saw rows of corpses. Their corpses were packed by Yanzhou military envoys and the people, and they were already lined up, waiting for disposal. Fortunately, it is early spring now, and the time is short, so I am not afraid of rot.
plague.
But, after all, you have to settle down, right?
"Murrong Cheng, you are too cruel!" The towns near this county town have turned into ruins. What will the six counties look like? Every county town is full of tens of thousands of people, so how many will there be?
The people turned into unjust souls?
"Tell the whole army to advance at full speed!" Zhao Xun ordered in a deep voice. Now, he was still needed to go to Huaiyin City to deal with the problems with the Xuzhou army.
When passing through Jiushan County, Zhao Xun saw Jiushan County, which was turned into an empty city by the Qi army. Fortunately, the ruins of the city were not completely burned. However, the huge city had almost become an empty city, which really made people feel
After explaining to the lieutenant here, Zhao Xun rode his horse towards Huaiyin City.
After half a day, Zhao Xun finally arrived in Huaiyin City and saw this important city in the southeast of Huaiyin Prefecture.
Huaiyin City is seven meters high, six miles long, and more than three miles wide. The city is high and thick, and it is indeed an important place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. However, now, the area within a radius of Huaiyin City has become bumpy and scattered cars everywhere.
The small and small pits that came out, and the walls of Huaiyin City became a little broken and the color became black. This was exaggerated by human blood. Thousands of soldiers and soldiers of Yanzhou and some people were busy around here,
The ruins in the city are removed from the transportation.
When I entered Huaiyin City, I saw that the city was pitch black and most of the buildings were burned to black ashes.
"I have met the Grand Governor under the flag!" Wei Dong, who had just entered the city gate, came over to receive the news.
"Okay, thank you for your hard work! Let's talk about it in and out." Zhao Xun said in a deep voice.
The county government office, the old county government office and the garrison general's office were burned to ashes by the Qi army. The current county government office was just temporarily selected from the intact houses in the city.
"How many people are there in the city? How many soldiers are there?" As soon as he entered the county government office, Zhao Xun asked in a deep voice.
"The people here have all escaped from the disaster and gathered in the surrounding towns, with a total of about 13,000. If you wait a little longer, you can gather more people from the surrounding towns. As for the soldiers,
When he was ordered, he only brought eight thousand soldiers, three thousand of which were allocated to the surrounding six counties to deal with the aftermath. Five thousand were left here just in case." Wei Dong replied in a deep voice.
Zhao Xun nodded, very satisfied with Wei Dong's arrangement, "Yes, you'll leave five thousand soldiers in the new loss. This is also because the Xuzhou army did not directly attack the city. I don't believe that these Xuzhou army will send people to ultimatums with weak
Let us leave immediately. By the way, where is the Xuzhou army stationed now?"
"The Xuzhou Army has mobilized 10,000 new recruits this time and is now stationed in Suiling Prefecture a hundred miles away in the east. However, they have sent people to scold us several times for the situation of our occupation of Huaiyin Prefecture."
"Never mind, I have sent someone to let Yuzhou draw personnel. Now the Xuzhou army is busy with the war in Yangzhou and has no time to take care of the here. They are not caring about Huaiyin Prefecture now, but are worried that we will attack the rest of Xuzhou from the flanks. Don't forget
, If we cross over, we will divide Xuzhou into two." Zhao Xun said in a low voice.
"Therefore, it is true that you show a tough attitude, so that they dare not take any action here easily. Next time the Xuzhou army comes back, I will tell them that this is taken from the Qi army and has nothing to do with them. Yanzhou army
He is an ally with the Xuzhou army, but he cannot seize spoils from his allies."
A few days later, the logistics team transporting food arrived at Huaiyin City. With the arrival of grain and the arrival of tens of thousands of logistics teams, the aftermath of Huaiyin City accelerated a lot. After some persuasion, the people in Huaiyin City and the surrounding six counties were
, the city began to gather in the county.
"Lord, as you expected, this time the Xuzhou army came again to scold us for occupying their Huaiyin Palace and asked us to leave. After his subordinates angrily scolded him, their attitude became much weaker. Not only did they not force us to leave
Instead, we have to lead our army to pursue Murong Cheng's troops who went south to Guangling." Wei Dong said with a smile on his face.
Zhao Xun gently tapped the table of the general's mansion with his fingers and said slowly: "Tell the other party that our army is now busy with the aftermath of the Huaiyin City, and its troops are insufficient, and its food, grass and supplies are insufficient, so he has no time to go south.
However, we can rebuke the Qi army’s actions in Huaiyin Prefecture.”
Leading the army into Xuzhou to attack Murong Cheng? I wouldn't be so stupid. Zhao Xun knew very well that most of the Xuzhou army is starting to advance towards Yangzhou and seize the foundation of Yangzhou. If he goes south to Xuzhou, he will become Li Chi's use
The tools to delay Murong Cheng. In the end, he fought hard with Murong Cheng, but his Xuzhou army made great profits in the rear.
The people of Xuzhou Army already knew that the Yanzhou Army was in Huaiyin City, but so what? They dare not fight against the Yanzhou Army at this time, otherwise the enemies they would face would be the Yanzhou Army and the Qi Army.
The appearance of the Yanzhou Army in Huaiyin City means that the Yanzhou Army occupied Huaiyin Prefecture? The envoy of the Xuzhou Army was very helpless and reasoned. The other party ignored it and attacked it forcibly. If one side dared not, it might be possible to resist.
But the other party. After all, there are only some garrison troops and new troops around Huaiyin Mansion.
As Zhao Xun expected, King Murong Cheng of Qi has now learned that the Xuzhou army had captured half of Yangzhou. It is also because of this that he made up his mind to kill the people around Huaiyin City. He wanted to vent,
If you want the Xuzhou army to vent, you must let the Xuzhou army know that the Qi army is not active either.
After Murong Cheng defeated Huaiyin City, he directly led his army south to Guangling Prefecture. Wherever he went, anyone who blocked the city would be slaughtered. Five days after Zhao Xun entered Huaiyin City, he received news that the Qi army massacred the people of Guangling Prefecture again. In this regard, he received news that the Qi army had massacred the people of Guangling Prefecture.
Zhao Xun could do nothing. After all, this was the Qi army's action in Xuzhou. Of course, Zhao Xun also hoped that Li Chi could fight to the death with Murong Cheng.
"Master, killing like this will surely destroy the reputation of Master. At that time, everyone in the world will be tired of it." Seeing that Murong Cheng asked the soldiers who attacked the city to massacre the people and let them do it, Zhang Tu hurriedly persuaded him.
For him, the massacre of Huaiyin City can be regarded as a shock to the Xuzhou army. But if the massacre continues like this, it will inevitably lead to endless troubles.
Murong Cheng was almost crazy at this moment, and he ignored Zhang Tu and others' persuasion, "Famousness? What's the use of fame? Now, Yangzhou has been occupied by that bastard Li Chi. What's this king now?
I can't worry about it anymore. I just let them know that I am not very hot. Look, no one dares to stop us even after three cities?" As he said that, Murong Cheng looked hatred.
Zhang Tu said tremblingly: "Master, even if this can shock the enemy, it can make the enemy full of hatred and unite as one. The former master could order other princes to conquer Situ Lei, and even the Zhao army did not object to the master.
.Why is this? In addition to the crime of Situ Lei's lord killing the king, more importantly, the Lord is the prince of the Great Yan Kingdom, and is the most suitable person to inherit the position of emperor. But now the Lord is like this, and the people in the world are
How do you view it? Then, the prince's qualification to inherit the throne... but no one agrees. Then, there will be no problem with the princes in the world in conquering the throne. Then, it will be no problem with Situ Lei establishing a new king.
, the princes followed suit, and the lord had no advantage."
Murong Cheng was slightly stunned and said coldly: "Even so, now we can't even keep our foundation, so why not talk about anything else? Yangzhou was attacked by Xuzhou army, and Yuzhou was also captured by Yanzhou army. Jingzhou was
If the rebel Tang Xian attacked, if you do not turn back quickly, not only will you be in a long and hopeless way, but even the land of the whole country will be difficult to protect."
"Damn, Yanzhou army should die, Tang army should die, Xuzhou army should die even more! Only when the killing makes them afraid and fearful will they know how powerful our Qi army is."
Zhang Tu advised again: "But Lord, we have already slaughtered three cities, and the deterrence caused is enough. Since there is no strong resistance here, why not loot their food and make them refugees and go to the Xuzhou army.
What about increasing the burden? It is much more effective than our massacre."
Zhong Yan and others also tried hard to dissuade Murong Cheng from suspending the city massacre.
Although Murong Cheng deeply hated the Xuzhou army, it was not unreasonable. The several massacres also washed away Murong Cheng's anger. In the end, he stopped the massacre and plundered food, allowing them to harm the Xuzhou army.
.Of course, wherever they go, local governments and defenders are still cleared.
At this moment, Li Chi was shocked and angry, so shocked that Huaiyin City was massacred by the Qi army. Moreover, the 150,000 Qi army had already reached Guangling Prefecture, and it was possible to enter Jiangdu Prefecture or return to Yangzhou at any time.
In the northwest territory, he was angry that the defenders of Guangling Prefecture could not resist the crazy Qi army. He was angry that Huaiyin Prefecture, a key area in southwest Xuzhou, was occupied by the Yanzhou army. But he was powerless to do anything about this and dared not to deal with it.
The Yanzhou Army took action.
"Let the people from Juling Mansion retreat and stay there embarrassingly! Let them rush to the eastern part of Guangling Mansion immediately to prevent the Qi army from entering Jiangdu Mansion." After thinking about it, Li Chizhihao gave up his actions against the Yanzhou army and focused on targeting Qi
military.
"Grandmaster, if the army is transferred to the eastern part of Guangling Prefecture, wouldn't it be that the Qi army would go south? In this way, Yangzhou?" Li Fangzong, the counselor of military affairs, asked in confusion.
Li Chi said in a muffled voice: "I thought the Qi army would fight against the Yanzhou army in Yuzhou. Who would have thought that Murong Cheng would give up the land of Yuzhou and strive to conquer the dangerous three cities of Huaiyin Prefecture and go south. Now most of our army
They are all in Yangzhou, and there are very few people left in the southern part of Xuzhou. Jiangdu Prefecture is the connection between our army in the north and south, and it is also the place where the food and grass are stored on the front line. If there is a problem with Jiangdu Prefecture, we will be divided into two with the front line.
Let the front-line army be surrounded by enemy forces and have no way to retreat. If the Qi army retreats to Yangzhou, we can at least compete with one of the south."
"In this way, wouldn't it be impossible to easily occupy Yangzhou and even expand southward?"
Li Chi said annoyedly: "It's not because the Yanzhou army does not cooperate. If they can join the Huaiyin Prefecture army and trap the Qi army there in Huaiyin Prefecture. Yangzhou and even Jiaozhou in the southwest will be ours.
The meal on the plate is hateful, it is hateful, the Yanzhou army sat down and watched the Qi army head south, and instead occupied our Huaiyin Prefecture."
In fact, Li Chi also knew in his heart that it was not impossible to work together with the Yanzhou army to capture the Qi army. If he cooperated well and the Qi army was exhausted from ammunition and food, he might encircle and annihilate it. However, Li Chi didn't want to let it go.
He suffered too much loss in Huaiyin Prefecture, which caused an accident in Yangzhou. Therefore, he wanted the Qi army to fight against the other party. However, the Yanzhou army was not a fool, so he naturally ignored it. As a result, the Yanzhou army occupied Huaiyin Prefecture, but he
He fell into the anger of the Qi army and did not dare to take action easily.
Huaiyin City has now become a construction base and is busy everywhere. As time goes by, the city has gradually gained some popularity, and many people are helping the Yanzhou soldiers remove garbage and waste from the city and rest the buildings in the city.
The black ruins in the city are also decreasing little by little.
"There are still too few people, there is no popularity!" Zhao Xun couldn't help but say in the general's mansion.
Feng Zi, who had just arrived in Huaiyin City, smiled and said, "Master, it is already rare to let Li Chi give in and leave the Huaiyin Mansion alone. The population is too small, so we can move part of it from Yuzhou. Just let it go
The integration of the people of Yuzhou and here reduces hostility towards us."
"In addition, after the Qi army killed us, we had countless land in Huaiyin City and the surrounding six counties. In this way, a large number of people could be arranged to move in. So many lands cannot be left deserted. If we use these
For temptation, I think the land can attract many people. The only thing I need is to build new houses. However, these are not difficult for those people. Moreover, we also seized a lot of money in Yuzhou last time.
, it’s not that I can’t afford it.”
Wei Dong nodded and said, "Sisters can do it. There are also tenants from the big clans in Huaipu City and Quyang City. They will definitely not be able to move them here. In addition, we can also place some orders for merchants to let them go.
Transporting some supplies needed by the army here will soon make the place lively."