Chapter 634: Entering Chang'an City
Zhang Li died, nearly thirty innocent people also died, and at a distance of tens of meters, no one could put them on their necks with knives, but their deaths were still straightforward, and they didn't have too much pain. In contrast, Zhang Li was much more miserable, without Lin Feng's order, Zhang Li was not greeted by any blade, and was finally captured alive by exhaustion, and Zhang Li wanted to commit suicide without success.
Zhang Li's fate was extremely tragic, which is why he didn't completely inquire about Lin Feng's details in advance, at the beginning, Zhang Li was taken back to the ** camp safe and sound, but Lin Feng did not hand over Zhang Li to anyone, including Uncle Li Huang, and Lin Feng only handed Zhang Li to Feng to kill.
That night, Zhang Li's hands and feet were chopped off, and the cut was broken, and in front of Zhang Li, who was almost crazy, it was boiled into a pot of meat porridge. Of course, Zhang Li, who was already inhumane, naturally did not refuse to come, and even ate the crushed bone slag in one meal, which really made Feng Shu and others, who were used to seeing bloody scenes, uncomfortable.
In the end, Zhang Li, who had his hands and feet cut off, was hung on the Mingde Gate at the south gate of Chang'an City the next day. At the same time, ** began to officially settle in Chang'an, Kyoto, and the steps to recover Kyoto were once again pushed forward, or only the last step was left.
One hundred and eight squares in Chang'an City, more than half of which were destroyed by the puppet Qi rebels, almost only some of the remaining squares on both sides of Suzaku Street and near the imperial city still survived, in the cold winter, the whole Chang'an City seemed particularly depressed and desolate, even if the families who survived the war did not dare to go to the street rashly, even if there was no surplus food at home, they had to endure hunger and cold.
Soon, the 1,000 Mo Sword Army was divided into four squads and stationed at the north and south ends of Suzaku Street and near the east and west cities. At the same time, the Changlance Cavalry Regiment assumed the task of patrolling and guarding the city, and the Feather Cavalry Regiment and the five thousand elites under the command of Li Jian began to clean up the remaining rebels and bandits in the streets and squares in the city, and more and more ** poured into Chang'an City, stationed near the imperial city and near the fangli that had become ruins.
After the discussion between Uncle Li and the generals, he began to send envoys to the surrounding areas, asking all localities to help with some baggage supplies as soon as possible, and to rebuild a new home on the ruins as soon as possible. However, this decision was soon aborted, because the surrounding area simply could not bear such a heavy burden, after all, Chang'an City was too big, and the loss was too serious, except for the fact that the Waiguo city wall was not damaged, standing on the city wall, the entire Chang'an City was really like a ruin, especially with the melting of the snow, it was a mess.
In the following days, the distribution of military rations, the maintenance of order in the city, and even the abandoned workshops were extremely reversed under the operation of this large-scale machine, and Chang'an City was also like early spring, showing a little bit of vitality.
First of all, the people in the city were no longer frightened and worried, and then began to take to the streets, and offered the things that could be taken out of their hands at home, as if they were paying protection money and gave them to **, but they were soon returned, not only that, but the food and baggage that were enough to support any family were distributed, and more and more people realized the importance of **, and they understood that the ** that entered Chang'an City in front of them was completely different from a few years ago.
Gradually, pedestrians can be seen on the streets during the day, although the complexion is still not very good, even if the streets are full of troops stationed or patrolling, but the people seem to have become accustomed to it, and they no longer have any worries about this commonplace.
Subsequently, with the complete opening of Chang'an City, the refugees and displaced people who were hiding in the nearby mountains and old forests also returned to the city tentatively, and some people who had lived in villages and towns outside the city also began to return to their homes one after another. When they were faced with the most serious problem of food and clothing and the possibility of repetition at any time, they sent food to the villages and homes, and every village and town was not abandoned, regardless of whether it was inhabited or not, and all the villages and towns that were looted and emptied had dozens of small units of hundreds of people stationed.
Lin Feng and Li Jian joined forces again, and the Feng family army and the Li family army each dispatched 10,000 elites to take turns to send troops, and began the half-month-long cleanup of the rebels in the area near Chang'an. Every morning, countless groups of hundreds of elite horsemen set out from several gates on the three walls of Chang'an City, and did not return to the city until dusk, until the rebellious soldiers and bandits in the nearby area of tens or hundreds of miles were cleared.
Slowly, with the dedication to maintaining the order of Chang'an City and devoting itself to the restoration of Chang'an City, a large number of people were moved into the city, and even the east and west cities that had been desolate for several months began to reopen shops and start business, although most of them are not very valuable things, but they are necessary for daily life, especially firewood, charcoal and other winter heating items.
In order to prevent the imperial city from being destroyed on a large scale in the war, Uncle Li Huang discussed with the generals for a long time but failed to formulate a suitable siege plan. Although everyone agreed that if they wanted to break the city as soon as possible, they should use ballistas to attack the city, but as a member of the imperial family, Uncle Li flatly denied it, but there was not much controversy among everyone, after all, the rebels in the imperial city could not hold out for long, and the signs of decline were becoming more and more serious.
The defeat of Zhang Li's army, while making Huang Chao feel very happy, also felt that the crisis was coming, the walls of the imperial city were still extremely strong, especially in the area of the imperial palace, and its solidity was not worse than the walls of Waiguo City, the only difference was that there was less obstruction of the moat.
The food in the imperial city is also decreasing, although Huang Chao has repeatedly ordered frugality, but Huang Chao has encountered one of the biggest problems encountered a few years ago, and it is also a major turning point for Huang Chao to turn from weak to strong back then.
Plague generally appears after natural disasters or large-scale man-made disasters, and after large-scale pollution of sanitation caused by improper contribution to the environment.
A few years ago, when Huang Chao attacked Guangzhou, hundreds of thousands of troops under his command had been ravaged by the plague for a long time in the humid and hot climate of Guangzhou. And now, the same situation has appeared again, although it is still only the beginning of the show, but Huang Chao has realized the seriousness of the matter, but this time, Huang Chao no longer has the ambition of a few years ago, and everything he has done and the strength he has now are not enough to support him to do such an earth-shattering cause back then.