Ye Qingyun stared vigilantly at the hundreds of soldiers in front of him. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The soldiers were dressed in red robes and black armor, and they were covered in blood, as if they had just experienced a terrible war.

"Who are you?" Ye Qingyun asked.

A man who looked like a general at the head said: "My lord, we are the defenders of Yangzhou City, the King of Wei came and ordered us to slaughter the people in the city, missing all the grain, grass and houses, and leaving nothing for the Qi army, but this city is our parents and brothers, how can we do it, so I took my brothers and those children of the Hao clan to fight, but they are outnumbered, and we are powerless to stop them, the brothers have many dead and wounded, but they still let them kill a lot of people." ”

Ye Qingyun's brows relaxed, at least there were still some conscientious defenders in this Yangzhou garrison, but he would not easily believe the words of these people, he said: "Ben General can't believe what you say yet, wait for Ben General to confirm your identity and then consider your request." ”

The reason why these soldiers were able to walk in front of Ye Qingyun alive was because they had no weapons in their hands, and they came over with their hands raised, and now that Ye Qingyun said this, the Dengzhou soldiers immediately put these five hundred people into custody.

Occupying Yangzhou City, Ye Qingyun immediately organized the people in the city to put out the fire, and now the gunpowder in the city is monstrous, and there will be nothing left if it burns like this.

"Dudu, fortunately, His Highness is clever, otherwise we would have been one step late, and this Yangzhou City would really have become an empty city." A lieutenant said.

"His Royal Highness is very clear about the viciousness of the King of Wei, he has tried to kill His Highness by any means several times, how can he be willing to hand over a rich Yangzhou City to us for nothing, but even so, this Yangzhou City has suffered a lot of losses."

After a pause, he said, "You now immediately lead people to search the entire Yangzhou City and collect all the things that can be used, otherwise it will be difficult to replenish this time." ”

"Yes, Governor." When the lieutenant heard this, he took the order and left.

After the captain left, Ye Qingyun's face suddenly became gloomy, the most important thing in the march and war is supplies, this time they only brought three days of dry food from Tongzhou to Yangzhou, if there are not enough supplies in this city, the soldiers will be hungry.

Thinking of this, he immediately sent someone to deliver the news to Qingzhou.

Three days later, the news of Yangzhou arrived in Qingzhou, which immediately caused an uproar in the officialdom.

Fiji and Pang Yukun went to the palace to discuss the matter with Xiao Ming as soon as possible, and Niu Ben also rushed over.

"Your Highness, the King of Wei is really a madman, and the last general asks to personally lead troops to recruit the King of Wei, and he must be captured alive to thank the world." Niu Ben said angrily.

Pang Yukun said: "Your Highness, this matter may not be a good thing for us, this Yangzhou massacre will inevitably make the people of the King of Wei in Wei lose their hearts, now we should use this matter to disturb the hearts of the people in Wei and collect it for our use." ”

"What Pang Shoufu said makes sense, Your Highness, now we should publish this matter in the newspaper, and tell the world about King Wei's evil deeds, so that everyone can understand King Wei's atrocities." Fiji chimed in.

Niu Ben was dissatisfied when he heard this: "You scholars are greasy and crooked, why bother to be polite to King Wei, and directly attack Jinling City to destroy him, wouldn't it be happy!" ”

Xiao Ming frowned, this matter done by King Wei was just the so-called strong wall and scorched earth policy in later generations, and his only purpose was to let Xiao Ming get no supplies from Yangzhou City, so as to contain Xiao Ming's actions in Yangzhou.

After the contract was signed, Xiao Ming was a little worried, but they didn't expect that King Wei had adopted such a cruel approach after all, but King Wei's approach also completely made Xiao Ming break his long-standing way of looking at the world from a modern person's point of view.

Unlike modern civilization, the level of human civilization in this period was very low, in other words, basically just out of the jungle did not have much time, and the savage nature was undoubtedly revealed.

That's why the Age of Discovery was so bloody, and yes, there were so many massacres in war.

After experiencing this, Xiao Ming found that he was still too merciful, and if he wanted to defeat the barbarian enemy, he would have to be even more savage than them.

This world is a jungle, and the high priest clan gate lords will not believe the tears of the people, it doesn't matter how many people die for them, they are mainly able to maintain their rule.

After a deep sigh, Xiao Ming said: "Of course, it is necessary to publicize the atrocities of King Wei, but the most important issue now is the supply of Yangzhou City, what should you do?" ”

"A tooth for a tooth, slaughter the city!" At this time, Niu Ben suddenly said.

Pang Yukun heard the words and said, "Niu Dudu, what do you mean? Why are we slaughtering cities? Aren't the people of this city miserable enough? ”

"Pang Shoufu, what the last general is talking about is not the people, but the slaughter of all the wealthy families in Yangzhou and its nearby prefectures and counties, so that not only can these wealthy families take the opportunity to make trouble, but also can collect grain and grass materials."

Xiao Ming nodded slightly, what Niu Ben said was exactly what he wanted to say.

Now that the Dengzhou army has no supplies in Yangzhou City, and is facing unstable factors such as the Hao clan tribe, as long as this method is adopted, Yangzhou City can be stabilized as soon as possible.

In fact, many historical massacres of cities were also killed by local wealthy families, after all, when the wealthy families were in power, the food was in the hands of the wealthy families.

"Niu Dudu's method is not bad." Fiji said: "Your Highness, great benevolence is not benevolent, there must not be any woman's kindness at this time, and the way of extraordinary should be used in troubled times." ”

"Well, that's what the king meant." Xiao Ming said to the scout sent by Ye Qingyun: "You go back now and tell Ye Qingyun to exterminate all the wealthy clans in Yangzhou!" ”

"Yes, Your Highness." The scout answered and turned to leave.

After deciding on this matter, Xiao Ming continued: "This truce is just an expedient measure, and it is also to avoid the four feudal kings from joining forces, now our goal has been achieved, now you have to take advantage of this time to sort out the internal affairs, reserve grain and grass, recruit and train new soldiers, and after six months, this king will launch an attack on Wei from Huaizhou and Yangzhou at the same time, and destroy the king of Wei in one fell swoop!"

After that, Xiao Ming slammed the table hard, King Wei's despicability and shamelessness had completely angered him, and he would not give him another chance to continue.

"Yes, Your Highness." Pang Yukun and Fiji responded in unison.

Niu Ben also clenched his fists and nodded.

He also instructed the three of them to have some details of government affairs, and Xiao Ming asked the three of them to go back.

However, as Pang Yukun said, during this time, he wanted to take the opportunity to disturb the hearts of the people of Wei, so that he could respond to the call when attacking Weidi.

Therefore, he immediately sent someone to find Fan Zeng to draft the manuscript.