Chapter 561: Li Jing is not the most ruthless, only more ruthless!
(Four more to ask for a monthly pass!) )
A letter that can make Wang Jingwu, who has been a few festival envoys and even the most rebellious rebel, make such an angry reaction is definitely not just a kind of greeting written by Li Jing to him.
However, in fact, the content of this letter is not long, given that there is no friendship between the two, so the letter is written very concisely, just telling or saying that Li Jing informed Wang Jingwu of a few things.
The letter is a handwritten letter written by Li Jing, and Li Jing's thin gold font can be described as a very unique font, which is self-contained, beautiful and atmospheric. However, Wang Jingwu didn't have the heart to appreciate Li Jing's words, the words were very beautiful, but the content was very hurtful.
At the beginning of Li Jing's letter, he congratulated him on escaping the catastrophe and becoming a knight. Then tell him directly, in view of the previous friction between the Zhenguo Army and the Qingqi soldiers. Therefore, Li Jing planned to divide Ziqing Prefecture and rule it. Li Jing sent troops to garrison fifteen counties along the Jishui coast, plus Ye County on the coast of Laizhou. Of the 26 counties in the four prefectures of Ziqing, Li Jingde was in 16 counties, and the remaining 10 counties, including Yidu City, the city of Qingzhou Prefecture, and Zizhou City, the city of Zizhou, were handed over to Wang Jingwu, Xue Chong, and Li Shi.
After the division, the two sides were responsible for the deployment of troops and horses, civil affairs, taxes, money, and grain on their respective territories, and the well water did not interfere with the river water, and they did not violate each other. Li Jing made a special statement that he had swept away all the bandits and bandits in his territory, so now the 25,000 towns and national troops were stationed in the sixteen counties, three mountains and two rivers, and if there were thieves attacking his territory, then it must be the thieves in Wang Jingwu's ten counties who crossed the border to attack, and then he would send a large army into the ten counties to suppress the bandits.
If Li Jing's letter only said these things, then Wang Jingwu would not be so crazy and irritable as thunder.
Although it is said that this divides the land and governs. It is equivalent to dividing Ziqing Town into two towns. But he also knows his strength. Although there are more than 20,000 people, he still can't beat Li Jing. If Ziqing Town is divided into two, even if Li Jing divides the richest Jishui line, he still has at least ten counties of territory. For him, that's a good thing. After all, there is a real piece of land and the support of Tian Lingzi. If there is no invasion from Li Jing, he can develop with peace of mind, and it won't be long before he believes that he will have the strength to challenge Li Jing.
But things are not so simple, and Li Jing will not have such good intentions.
Later, Li Jing said lightly that there was a recent famine in Ziqing Town, and many people had no food to eat. Therefore, he moved many people who had no food to eat to Dengzhou and Liaodong to eat. In addition, by the way, there are many wealthy families who are willing to go. As for the number of people, Li Jing said that only 100,000 people from the ten counties were moved into Liao.
As soon as I saw this. Wang Jingwu's eyes immediately went dark just now, and he almost fainted. Although there are millions of people in Ziqing Town. However, in 26 counties, one county only has a population of 40,000 or 50,000, and 10 counties have a maximum of 500,000 people, and Li Jing has now moved 100,000 at once. This is not counting, the previous civil strife in Ziqing, many people fled, and those young and strong auxiliary soldiers pulled up by him and Huang Chao, so that the population of the ten counties is less than half. Moreover, these people that Li Jing moved away, plus those who he forcibly requisitioned at the beginning, are all young and strong. And Li Jing not only took away the young man, but also the rich family of the big family.
So what is left of him, what does it look like to have no population, just a territory? Should he be allowed to recruit the homeless who have nothing? Good will only lose!
It can be expected that Li Jing's blow can be described as a fatal blow, and Wang Jingwu has no joy now. Without the youth, there would be no food, not even a soldier.
Li Jing moved away half of the young and strong, and even the rich household registration also moved away, and those craftsmen naturally would not let go. Of course, the treasury of the prefectures and counties will never leave him behind, and in the ten counties, all the treasury is empty, and Li Jing directly took all these away as war preparation materials on the grounds of conquering Liao.
If it weren't for the lack of time, it is estimated that Li Jing would have moved away even the bricks and tiles.
At the end of the letter, Li Jing told Wang Jingwu that all of his 25,000 soldiers had been returned to him.
"This matter should be immediately appealed to the Duke of Jin, and let the imperial court sanction Li Jing." Wang Jingwu said hatefully.
"How can I appeal this matter, but what is the use of appealing? Li Jingke also has a lot of backers, even if this matter is reported, it can only be a war of words at the end, endless, and there will definitely be no result we want. Xue Chong drank a lot of wine, but his mind was still very clear. Li Jing's current momentum, as long as he doesn't rebel, will such a thing move him? Even if he moved, he really forced Li Jing to be anxious, and directly reversed, maybe they would be the first to suffer at that time.
"Let's go!" Wang Jingwu let out a long sigh.
Now the key is still the soldiers in hand, and he also knows that Xue Chong and the Li family have a bad relationship with him.
After Wang Jingwu hurriedly bathed and freshened up, he went to the military camp with Xue Li and the others, and his 20,000 men and horses had been imprisoned in this large camp.
As soon as he entered the camp, Wang Jingwu saw many of his henchmen.
Zhang Chan, Lu Hong, Wang Yanwen and other generals were there, but these generals were all squatting at the gate of the camp without majesty, sighing and sighing. Even, all the generals wore only a tattered garment, as if they had just been ripped off the beggar's body.
Seeing Wang Jingwu coming, the generals hurriedly stood up and shouted in unison. There was a look of decadence in his words, like a defeated rooster.
"General!" Zhang Chan shouted, and tears flowed uncontrollably.
Wang Jingwu looked at the general under him in surprise, when he followed him, when the whole army was killed by Li Jing in Zihe, he didn't see Zhang Chan have such a mournful appearance. At the moment, although they have been scraped by Li Jing, the young and strong population has been reduced by countless people, and the treasury is empty of money and food, but at least they survived, and they also got half of the territory of Ziqing Town, so it is right to be happy.
"What happened?" Wang Jingwu asked worriedly, "The brothers in the camp are still there, is there a small number of them?" ”
He couldn't help but think of Li Jingxin's words at the end, 25,000 people will be returned to you a lot. He felt that there was something wrong with this sentence, how could Li Jing be so kind? Even if he is afraid of Tian Lingzi, he will definitely not return all the soldiers and horses to himself, and he will definitely take some away.
But even if half of it was left, Wang Jingwu also admitted it.
Lu Hong, like his father who had just died, replied with a sad face: "General, twenty-five thousand is a lot." ”
Wang Jingwu breathed a sigh of relief, it would be good if there were no fewer soldiers. But looking at their appearance, maybe the armor equipment has already fallen into Li Jing's hands.
"Is the ordnance gone?"
Lu Hong nodded as expected, "None of them are gone, not even a small knife for cutting meat." The people of the Zhenguo Army were so ruthless that not only did they not leave any ordnance behind, but before leaving, they stripped all the officers of their clothes, leaving only a pair of pants. ”
His mother was too much, Wang Jingwu clenched his fists tightly with hatred. Li Jing, you wait, I remember everything today.
Xue Chong on the side asked curiously: "Why did Li Jing only pick up the officers' clothes, but not the soldiers'?" ”
The muscles on Zhang Chan's face twitched a few times, and he gritted his teeth and said, "No, not a single soldier's clothes have been picked." ”
"Oh, it seems that Li Jing is not too much, and he finally saves a little face." Xue Chong took a sip of wine and smacked his lips and laughed at himself.
However, before his words fell, Zhang Chan already said hatefully: "Li Jing didn't pick up the clothes of the soldiers, but he did it even more ruthlessly, he directly took away 25,000 brothers, except for officers above the battalion level!" Of the 25,000 brothers, there are now less than 200 officers above the battalion level left. ”
"What! Li Jing took all the 25,000 brothers away, didn't he just say that there were 25,000 people in the camp? Wang Jingwu screamed loudly, like a cat that had been stepped on and its tail was blown up.
Those officers all lowered their heads, and after a long time, Wang Yanwen said loudly, "Li Jing did take away more than 20,000 soldiers and horses, and now there are indeed 25,000 people in the camp." However, those people are no longer the same people. It's all a bunch of disabled and old, dying old men. ”
"What the hell is going on?" Wang Jingwu roared loudly. He rushed into the camp and saw only a pile of people lying on the ground in the east and a pile in the west, almost waiting to die. Some of these people are disabled, either blind or deaf, or even missing arms and legs. The rest, mostly the gray-haired old men, almost all had one breath left, almost lying here waiting for death. There are also a lot, some hungry people who have become like bamboo poles, this kind of person Wang Jingwu has seen a lot. This kind of person is almost hopeless, and even if there is food, he can't recuperate.
Moreover, there were many old women in this camp.
"Li Jing took away all our soldiers, and then left us with this group of hungry people, and he also picked up the hungry people of young and strong men and women, and even those children and teenagers were all taken away, and all that was left was a group of hopeless guys who could only wait for death." Xue Chong couldn't help but be shocked, holding a wine gourd in his hand, but his heart was extremely cold.
Li Jing is too ruthless, so ruthless that it is beyond everyone's imagination.
On the surface, ten counties were left for them, but the young and strong people of the ten counties were taken away, the rich families of the big clans were taken away, and the craftsmen were taken away. The money and grain from the government treasury were also taken away, and even the livestock were taken away.
Now, Li Jing has taken away all the 25,000 Qingqi soldiers they rely on the most, leaving more than 200 middle and high-ranking officers, and more than 20,000 hungry people who are already waiting for death.
There was no money, no food, no horses, no weapons and armor, and not even soldiers.
Guarding the empty ten counties, how can they sustain themselves?
Of all their soldiers and horses, there were only more than 200 Qingqi officers under Wang Jingwu and 500 families from each of Xue Chongli's lineage, and together they were only 1,200 people. Not to mention Li Jing's Zhenguo army, just the 5,000 prison guards of Zhang Wanrong in Qingzhou City were enough to destroy them at any time.
Wang Jingwu held his head in both hands and squatted on the ground, dazed and helpless, like an abandoned orphan! (To be continued......)