Chapter 1114: Driving the people to burn the city

For a benevolent person like Murong Ke, it was undoubtedly an extremely difficult decision to make such a conscientious thing as driving the people and burning the city, but he had to do so.

"Only by combining grace and power will the people of Hetao know what it means to be in awe, so that they will not dare to resist the rule of my Yuanmeng."

Murong Ke glanced at the generals again, and explained unhurriedly: "Capture the city, but don't kill much, this is a grace;

Collecting grain, expelling, burning cities, but still not doing much killing, this is Buwei.

Driving the people out of the city, and then burning the city, so that when the people have no place to live, they will hate our army, but they will also be afraid.

And these people who were expelled from the city could only go to the cities of other Jin armies, and the Jin army would definitely accept and settle them in person, which would not only consume the resources of the Jin army, but also invisibly spread this awe. ”

After listening to Murong Ke's explanation, all the generals couldn't help but suddenly realize, and they were more convinced of Murong Ke, which was simply a few in one fell swoop.

Seeing that all the generals could understand, Murong Ke didn't explain too much, in fact, he had another intention in this move, that is, to plant people among the people, and then take the opportunity to let his people mix into the city, and the inside and outside should be combined to break through other cities, and completely disrupt the entire Yinchuan County, so as to take the opportunity to break through the blockade of the Jin army.

After Murong Ke took a deep breath, he said with a little unbearable: "Within half a day, deal with all the problems, and then go north immediately after burning the city." ”

"Half a day?"

Murong Shao couldn't help but ask: "Father, I have to collect grain and grass, expel the people of the whole 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 in a deep voice: "Our army does not have any foundation in Hetao, but the 100,000 elites of the Jin army have come from the east and north, so there is not much time for us to spend here."

In terms of material, only bring grain, grass and arrows, and burn the surplus with the city.

The Jin army is very rich, as long as it can take the Hetao, everything in the Jin army will be ours at that time, so there is no need to worry about this thing. ”

If we want to pursue efficiency, we will inevitably ignore others.

Under the violent plundering and expulsion of the Yuan army, the people of the whole city complained, but they were deterred by the force of the Yuan army, and the people could only dare to be angry but did not dare to speak.

Obeying 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 their homes in one fell swoop.

The people of the Hetao are almost all homeless, and they have no fixed place to live in the troubled times, until they come to the Hetao to settle down, and after several years of hardship, they have built a new home.

Many people couldn't accept this, and rushed madly to stop the firefighting, but before they could get close, they were shot into a sieve by the archers of the Yuan army.

The relatives were stunned when they saw this, but they had nothing to stop it, so they could only wail and hold the corpses of their relatives and scold Yuan Jun for being a brute.

For a while, both inside and outside the city were reduced to Shura hell at the same time!

Murong Ke rode his horse all the way slowly, and saw countless eyes that were as deep as the sea, he was actually unwilling to do this in his heart, but the hostile relationship between the two sides forced him to do this.

"Maybe I won't be able to resolve this hatred in my life, but after I completely occupy the Hetao, I will try my best to make up for it."

As soon as he thought of this, Murong Ke's eyes became more and more determined, and he immediately pulled out his long sword and shouted: "Let's go." ”

The 70,000-strong army roared and roared away, leaving behind only tens of thousands of mourning people and a splendid city of fire that was completely ignited.

The fire continued to burn for five days and five nights, and finally only a piece of wreckage remained.

During this period, people continued to leave, after all, the dead are gone, but the living still have to live.

The Yuan army only left ten days' rations for the people, and if they couldn't get to the next city within ten days, the only thing waiting for them was to starve to death, but fortunately, the distance between the ten cities in Yinchuan was not too far, and ten days was enough to go to the next city.

In the next ten days, two more small cities were breached by Murong Ke, and then the people were expelled and the cities were burned, so Yinchuan County had nearly 100,000 more displaced people in a short period of time.

Yinchuan City, Taishou Mansion.

After learning that Murong Ke burned down the three cities, Qu Yuan was so angry that he was about to go crazy, Yinchuan was built by him little by little, and he was full of feelings for every grass and tree here, but Murong Ke not only destroyed the stable life of the people, but also destroyed Yinchuan County to such a point, which made Qu Yuan how not to be angry.

Qu Yuan kept roaring and cursing Murong Ke, but the anger in his heart did not decrease in the slightest, so he angrily picked up his pen and reprimanded Murong Ke's atrocities by writing poems.

Qu was originally a literati who was famous on the literary list, and he had a high reputation in both the civil and political circles, but after his poems and essays were spread, they immediately set off a thousand waves, and they also became a stain that Murong Ke could not wash away for a lifetime.

"Order the city guards to do their best to resettle the refugees at all costs, and at the same time guard against enemy spies among the refugees." Qu Yuan ordered with a sad face.

Since his debut, Qu Yuan's career has been extremely smooth, and he has become a Taishou all the way, but now his good luck seems to have run out, and he has not heard a good news after breaking Murong Ke.

The only thing that makes Qu Yuan happy is that Murong Ke did not slaughter the city, and as long as the people are still there, the foundation of Yinchuan is there, and the burned city can be rebuilt again, but at that time, I don't know if he was still Yinchuan too guarded.

Qu Yuan looked to the east and muttered to himself: "Wang Jingluo, if you don't come again, I really won't be able to hold on." ”

On the other side, Wang Meng and Xi Zhicai, who also came from the east, finally succeeded in meeting halfway, but then received the news that Qu Yuan urged the army.

"This Murong Ke didn't take advantage of the situation to go north, but wreaked havoc everywhere in Yinchuan, but didn't kill the people indiscriminately?"

After learning the information about Yinchuan, Wang Meng's brows couldn't help frowning, and he asked Xi Zhicai beside him: "Military advisor, this Murong Ke is not simple, General Yang Ye has already entered the Ningxia Army, do you say that he didn't dare to go north rashly because of this?"

Or is it that from the very beginning, Murong Ke's goal was not Zhenbei Pass, but Jinyang? ”

Xi Zhicai's brows also furrowed, originally he and Wang Meng had determined Murong Ke's purpose, but now although Murong Ke's actions were suspected of being suspicious, neither of them dared to gamble because of this, after all, the safety of Jinyang was far more important than Zhenbei Pass.

"Stabilize Yinchuan first, and then talk about other things." Xi Zhicai said in a deep voice.