307.Chapter 307
After Yelu Hongliang was shot under the horse last time, the people thought that Yelu Hongliang was killed on the spot, but who knew that Yelu Hongliang was not dead at all, and Yelu Hongliang, who was walking on the street last time, was alive and well in the world. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Yelu Hongliang had long been worried about the rebellion of those blacksmiths or workers, and before they rebelled, Yelu Hongliang had already found a substitute, and every time Yelu Hongliang hid among the soldiers, it was always the person who replaced him.
Those blacksmiths were taken to the street by Yelu Hongliang to show the public, and Yelu Hongliang sentenced these blacksmiths to death in the name of treason, but Yelu Hongliang thought again, they are dead, who will make bows and arrows?
So Yelu Hongliang only killed two blacksmiths to blackmail the other people, which meant to tell the people that there was no good end for rebelling against him.
After more than ten days of snowstorms in a row, most of the people's food has been exhausted, many people can only boil snow water every day to satisfy their hunger, in this bad weather, even the bark has nowhere to pick, the whole Shangjing City has been poor people's livelihood.
Yelu Hongliang's military rations were also very small, and firewood was their scarce material, and the snow had covered the entire back, and Yelu Hongliang himself didn't know what to do.
It just so happened that at this time, those county towns and villages in the northernmost part had also resisted to the limit, and various fields began to send people to borrow grain from Shangjing, Yelu Hongliang himself had no food for the winter, how could he have spare time to take care of those individuals, and all the people who came were driven away by Yelu Hongliang.
Yelu Hongliang didn't think about those who came to ask for food at all, those people were forced to come by the local monarch, all of them signed life and death certificates, if they returned empty-handed, not only would they die, but even their families would be affected.
In the end, under the joint efforts of those people, everyone prepared to launch an attack on Shangjing together, and they wanted to take Shangjing at the time of this snowstorm.
Because the snowstorm was very heavy, the project planned by Yelu Hongliang was suspended, and the soldiers defending the city were even more responsible in protecting themselves, in the bad weather, where there were still loyal people, everyone was running for their own and their families' lives, and everyone wanted to live comfortably in the cold winter.
Those rebels first swept the villages around Shangjing, but almost a grain of rice was swept away, not even dry firewood was seen, and every household had reached the stage where they could not eat, and even some families began to freeze to death.
The temperature in the north was much colder than in the rest of the country, and with the raging snowstorms, few people survived, and those who had been running around for days had already begun to fall, and not many could survive the sudden cold temperatures.
Xiaoxiao has been aware of the bad weather outside in the prison, because there is no food in the army, Xiaoxiao's daily food supply has also been interrupted, and now Xiaoxiao has not eaten for two days, but can drink some hot water every day.
Xiaoxiao knew that things were developing in a bad direction, and at this time, Xiaoxiao had no way to deal with the cold ravages of the world, and all Xiaoxiao could do was to try to make the people stronger.
Some people who could not survive began to commit suicide, and some mothers strangled their children to death with their own hands in order to save their children from hunger and cold.
The method of suicide in order to avoid suffering has spread, the number of imitators is increasing every day, and even some soldiers have begun to imitate this extreme behavior, even if Yelu Hongliang wants to stop it, he can't stop it, because everyone's thinking and will are beyond his control, and Yelu Hongliang, who has collapsed several times, has no choice but to let the entire Shangjing City be shrouded in a suicidal grievance.
In the final stage of the continuous snowstorm, not only food has become a luxury, fire has become one of the luxuries of the people, when the firewood burns out, some upset people set their houses on fire before they die, so they let themselves be burned in their own fire, their thinking is that even if they die, they must die in the warmth, not to be a frozen ghost, this method has also spread, which has caused many people to self-immolate and die.
Some families deliberately gather the whole family together, and then everyone sets the house on fire together, and the family dies laughing in the fire, and they are all smiling the moment before they die, because the burning of the fire has freed them from the cold, and it is obviously a luxury to be burned in the fire compared to the biting cold.
In the end, the entire capital city became a ruin, more than half of the houses were burned by the people, the living people were already very scarce, a capital city was destroyed in this way, and the soldiers had become a plate of scattered sand, and more than half of the soldiers who froze to death.
There are no beggars on the streets of Shangjing, because no one has food to eat, and some families have no fire even if they want to self-immolate, and those who survive do not die because of this.
Yelu Hongliang counted the number of soldiers, only about a thousand people, but it was okay, a thousand people were good to feed, Yelu Hongliang thought about what to do next, this Shangjing City may become a dead city, and the previous project will go with it, and even the place where there is no firewood and gruel will be abandoned.
Yelu Hongliang took the soldiers to dispose of the corpses involved, counted the people who did not die, and as long as the people who could work, Yelu Hongliang counted them all in the army, and finally Yelu Hongliang decided to take these people to Goryeo to survive.
Yelu Hongliang only found out that Xiaoxiao was missing when he was leaving, but at this time, Yelu Hongliang couldn't take care of Xiaoxiao, if he didn't see it, he wouldn't see it, and Yelu Hongliang didn't pay too much attention to it.
When the blizzard became a little smaller, Yelu Hongliang took these soldiers and people to embark on a journey to Goryeo, and he could think of going to Goryeo, Yelu Hongliang was also because he had a communication with Goryeo before, Yelu Hongliang has always been one of Goryeo's undercover agents, when Yelu Hongliang was young, he was already bought by Goryeo, and Yelu Hongliang has been doing secret agent work for Goryeo for many years, but because Shangjing is too poor, there is nothing worth crusading against in Liao, so there has never been a war, Yelu Hongliang also did not come in handy for Goryeo.
This time to go to Goryeo to survive, the soldiers and the people have no opinion, people in adversity, as long as they can live is the supreme strategy, no one to give Yelu Hongliang advice, Yelu Hongliang took them because he didn't want to show his uselessness in front of the Goryeo people, and those soldiers and people went with Yelu Hongliang in order to live.