Cheng Xiaolian did not wait and see in Ruzhou, now Ruzhou has become a key part of this war, if he can operate well, he can decide the direction of the war, if the operation is not good, at most it will cause some trouble to Rabu, Nanyang Mansion is still the key to the duel between the two armies.

Yang Youcai walked into Cheng Xiaolian's house: "General, our spies found out the news today, and Rabu's side has begun to desperately attack the city. ”

Chen Chengan thought for a while: "It's probably because the matter in Henan is too big, he can't hold it back, and he wants to break the boat." ”

Cheng Xiaolian nodded: "It makes sense, we should also do something, now Henan Mansion and Kaifeng Mansion are his soldiers, should we destroy the small one first or directly attack the big one." ”

Yang Youcai pouted: "General, we have a total of more than a thousand people now, whether it is Chang Xihu and Zhao Qilei or Rabu, we are all hitting stones with eggs, I think it is safer to do things on grain and grass." ”

Cheng Xiaolian glanced at him: "Then dare to ask Commander Yang, is there a way to poison so many grains and grass at the same time, and also make so many people lose their combat effectiveness?" But whenever the army buries the pot to cook, someone must eat it first, which is why from ancient times to the present, there is basically no army that has been poisoned alive, we don't have such a clever poison, even if there is, the amount is not enough. If a fire burns these grains and grasses, they will still pull them out from the people of Henan again, and then we will be the culprits of starving to death of the people of Henan. ”

"But everyone will put this account on Rab's head, and besides, the general didn't say that if we want to stir up a relationship between them, we have to make them have a grudge, and now this is the best opportunity."

Cheng Xiaolian shook his head: "Even if it takes more effort, if you can die less, you will die less, we Han people have died enough in the past few decades." ”

Chen Chengan immediately agreed: "The general is right, we are doing this kind of thing now from the immediate point of view, but in the long run, it is really a loss-making deal, once this matter spreads, the people of Henan will not only say that we are detached from morality, I am afraid that people in the world will also think that our methods are a little too ruthless." ”

He read the books of the sages, and naturally refused to do such things that let a large number of people starve to death, which was against the way of heaven and humanity, and this kind of thing did not help the cause of the king in the slightest, and there was no impermeable wall in this world, whether it was Wu Sangui or the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the future, whether it was Wu Sangui or the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty raided Henan and burned the grain, grass and stones, causing the people of Henan to starve all over the field, and it was difficult to defend themselves after all.

Yang Youcai didn't know much about this kind of reputation, but since the other two said so, he could only pinch his nose and admit it: "But we can't leave so much grain and grass to the Manchu Qing Dynasty." ”

Cheng Xiaolian laughed: "Smuggle it into the mountains, no matter whether we win or lose this battle, these grains and grass must be returned to the people of Henan, the war is our business, it is not easy for those people to live, let's just think it is to leave a false name, maybe when it will help us a lot." ”

Yang Youcai began to arrange to transport grain to the mountains, but this matter could not be known to too many people, so it was their own people who did it, if they let the Manchu Qing know and secretly transported the grain and grass away, I was afraid that Yang Youcai would cry.

Now this grain cannot be given to the people, and in the next few days, Rabu will run out of food, and after these few days, the general trend has been decided to send food again.

And Cheng Xiaolian secretly took hundreds of people to Henan Mansion, the prefect of Henan Mansion had already entered the mountain with the government soldiers, and those Manchu soldiers didn't think about anything else at all, and directly used knives against Henan Mansion, in their opinion, since Henan Mansion rebelled and killed Gu Jiale, then this Henan Mansion is probably not a good person, and would rather kill by mistake than let it go.

In the eyes of these Manchu generals, the people were like grass mustard, and they were better to the people in other dynasties, and they might be appreciated by the big people, but there was no such possibility in this dynasty, and the Manchus still retained the idea that they came to plunder wealth for a long time at the beginning of the customs, and naturally did not take human life to heart.

The prefect of Henan Province had sent a letter to those people long before they fled, telling them that if there was nothing important in the city, they should go back to the countryside and hide for a few days, after all, the Manchu army might be at risk when they came. But many people still have business to do, this is the family's job, where can they say that they will not do it, and besides, they have not participated in the rebellion with a clear conscience, and who will trouble them.

But Chang Xihu's meaning is very clear, this time not only to slaughter the culprit, but also to establish authority, so as not to have any chaos in the future, this is also the tradition of the Manchu army, in addition to the Mongols, they like to slaughter the city, the city in the south of the Yangtze River is almost slaughtered next to each other, a Jiangyin city, hard to defend eighty-one days, after the city is broken, wanton killing, and finally only fifty-three people are left is a typical example.

I have to say that this method is actually still somewhat useful, all the people with integrity are slaughtered, and the court will have no trouble, so the servility of the Manchu officials is the strongest.

Therefore, in Chang Xihu's view, killing some people can deter these two-hearted thieves, killing a thousand people and killing 2,000 people until they can deter them.

But he didn't understand one thing, the reason why the Manchu Qing Dynasty dared to massacre in the south was because of the general trend, and the sporadic resistance was of no use at all, and it would not affect the overall situation. Now that he is slaughtering everywhere today, why don't the people dare to resist?

Immediately, Xie Liuyan, a wealthy gentleman of Henan Prefecture, raised a banner to rebel, and then Henan Mansion began to respond, these people basically did not participate in the rebellion, but seeing the Manchu Qing Dynasty killing innocent people unscrupulously, it was in response to that sentence, death is also death, death is also death, and death is the death of the country?

For a while, Henan Mansion was full of wolf smoke, which caught Chang Xihu off guard, he didn't expect that these obedient people would really dare to rebel, to say that his five thousand people killed all these rebels in Henan Mansion It would be unrealistic at all, and even if he could kill all the people, would the court be able to spare him? So far, Henan Mansion is still under the rule of the imperial court, and he slaughtered the people of a mansion, and the imperial court will definitely take him.

Chang Xihu began to contact the gentry in the city on the one hand, so that they could calm the war, and on the other hand, he began to arrange manpower to kill all the anti-people who had no villages, and killed these people because these people had no backstage, and there was room for relief, and in addition, it was also to give those gentry a little pressure, I Chang Xihu dared to kill, if you are obedient, we are all good, if you really want to rebel, there is no grass wherever the army goes!

It's just that when he sent 500 people to prepare to slaughter the village, Cheng Xiaolian also arrived with his men and horses.

(End of chapter)