Chapter 51: Child's Play
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When Li Jinhua and his party entered Qingyang City for the first time, the scene in front of them surprised all the people, except for the sergeants who came and went and the sound of orders, the whole Qingyang City was a dead silence, as if it was coming to a dead city ghost mound, the houses on both sides of the road, behind the creaking window lattices hung by the spring breeze, a pair of eyes that revealed hunger and fear flashed faintly, It's like a wolf watching its prey. To read the latest chapters, please lock the biquge.info of Aishang Novels
Zhao Shi glanced at this qiē, and words like the scourge of war flashed in his mind, the Middle East theater of poverty and scattered, and life was in danger, the Vietnamese villages hidden in the deep mountains and wild forests, living like savages, and ...... Scenes that seemed familiar, but felt a little unfamiliar kept flashing through his mind, but he never thought that in his lifetime, such a scene would appear on the land of China.
As the team marched, the conversation of the previous few people also came to his ears, and Li Jinhua's voice was a little hoarse and trembling, "How long has this situation lasted?" ”
Then came Li Renquan's characteristic somewhat sharp voice, "It's been a long time, after the heavy snowfall, many people froze to death, and then we went into the city because the people grabbed food, and I heard that some people fled out of the city when the snow melted."
When I entered the city, I killed a lot of hungry and crazy people, counting, this winter, more than 100,000 people in Qingyang, it would be good to be able to leave half of them, you didn't see it, the tragic things that happened this winter can make people sit in nightmares, some people have no food, so they secretly eat human flesh, at the beginning I also ordered to kill a few, and then I looked, those soldiers in the border village have already begun to do this, where can we manage it?
There is also a great shortage of food in our army, but everyone got some out of those black-hearted big families, and they were hungry and full for a day, and from time to time they boiled some gruel for the people, otherwise, there would be no half of the living people in this Qingyang City except for the soldiers, alas, miserable......"
A helpless sigh came out, with a faint aftertaste, which made people feel depressed, "Hey, what is a natural disaster**?" This is a natural disaster**, look at this place, it almost became a ghost in one winter, but now it's not much worse, food and grass are no longer available, hehe, don't talk about these people, even we, have to starve to death here, let's be honest, we are planning to spend a few more days, if the reinforcements are not there, we will lead the troops to retreat to Pingliang, I hope that the army will not disperse halfway, such a miracle, such a tragic event, it is really unprecedented in the country. ”
At this time, Zhang Derang also interjected, "Hehe, guess what, we copied almost 8,000 stone of grain from the Li family in Qingyang, how do you say that these people's hearts are long, almost the whole city is hungry, and they are safe at home?" It's a pity that he didn't catch Li Jizu's bastard lieutenant, I heard that he ran away with Li Jizu's wife and children the night before, to say that Li Jizu did not collude with Xixia, what is his heart? This man has ill intentions, and he really deserves to die. ”
Zhao Shi heard this, but he smiled in his heart, these generals began to accuse people, these words may not be for Li Jinhua, who is guilty? The Qingyang Commander is naturally one, and the prefect of Qingyang Mansion can't run, and it seems that there is a transfer envoy who can't get out of it, and the guilt of these soldiers seems to be secondary, as for Li Jizu, he is a little unlucky, colluding with Western Xia, it seems that he wants to exterminate the clan, right? But there is really no evidence, he was selected in the first place, but it was just because he killed the chicken to show the monkey that he must kill the strongest one, and everything else is just an excuse, but Li Jizu himself first let his wife and children take away from someone else's handle, and it seems that his guess is really good.
The next half a month or so was very quiet, the grain and grass were distributed, and then someone was sent to report to the general to the camp, restrain the army, and relieve the people, Li Jinhua really regarded Zhao Shi as a confidant, and sent him out to deal with big and small affairs, Zhao Shi had never done these trivial things except for a sergeant's skills, and it was inevitable to be in a hurry and stumble, but he had a cold temperament, was meticulous in doing things, and learned things quickly, although he was young, he could calm the scene, and there were a few generals above who spoke, But none of the people below dared to deliberately deceive him.
Especially in Qingyang City, a lot of people died in this winter, Zhao Shi proposed to several generals on the grounds that the early spring was coming, the weather was getting hotter, and it was easy to cause epidemics, and the bodies of the dead were found from all over the city, and those who had relatives at home let them take the corpses to the mountains to bury them, and those who did not gathered together to burn them outside the city, and the management in the military camp was also strengthened, and the soldiers who guarded the grain were sent to patrol the city in groups of three or five, and they punished some soldiers of various armies who went out to make trouble. Order in the city slowly restored.
Several generals saw that he was capable and thoughtful, and they intended to buy Li Jinhua, so they simply threw the matter of settling these soldiers to the grain protection army, and his small team became the uncrowned king of Qingyang City for a while.
Everything is complicated, more than half a month down, Zhao Shi is also exhausted, especially when distributing grain, several generals are thinking hard to write a self-defense excerpt, the matter of distributing grain naturally fell on his head, these soldiers were hungry for a winter, seeing the grain eyes are green, hate to move all the grain to their own camp, these people have a hot temper, a word of disagreement is a big fight, the most painful thing for Zhao Shi is that hundreds of people in the place where the grain is divided, there are people and horses of all armies, There is a tendency to gather more and more, Zhao Shi was annoyed, and ordered the grain guard to bring a long wooden stick, and went down with a stick, knocking over dozens of people, only to disperse these guys who seemed to be hungry enough, and were very energetic, and finally on the school military field in Qingyang City, dozens of guys who didn't have time to run away and were immediately held were lined up, and the board crackled down, and the voice of crying dad and calling mother was miserable and panicked, but the effect was good, and the guys who received the food were a lot of rules.
In the past half a month, the big thing is that people from Yanbian Town have sent a message, the Western Xia army has retreated, and there is nothing to do at the border, which finally makes several generals breathe a sigh of relief, which is also a major event related to themselves, if Yan'an is lost because of the Qingyang Rebellion, none of them will be better......
But so many days have passed, the reinforcements are still nowhere to be seen, according to their estimates, even if the reinforcements are crawling over, how should they arrive, these people have experienced the Qingyang incident, but also like a frightened bird, the heart is lifted again, in a few days, sent out five waves of messengers, waiting for a few uncertain generals are scratching their hearts and livers.
At the head of the twentieth day, the news finally came to the camp of the general, but what stunned them was that the army did not leave Pingliang City at all, and on the third day when the messenger of Qingyang arrived at the camp, all the reinforcements from all walks of life returned to the station, such a farce made them can't believe their ears, no matter how it sounds, it seems like child's play.
The messenger from the camp was also vague, and was anxious to be asked by everyone, but he moved His Royal Highness the prince out, saying that the prince had come out of Pingliang and was rushing over day and night, and asked the prince if there was anything, so that these people looked at each other, Qingyang was fine, if you didn't hurry up and send the grain and grass, what was the use of the prince coming? Did you come here to dispose of them? The three generals were frightened under their white faces and blue lips.
In the end, Li Renquan privately gave the messenger a lot of benefits, this mouth is hairless, the eunuch from the prince's mansion whispered a few words, the general Zhe committed public anger in Pingliang, was escorted to Beijing by the emperor, and changed the general, before the new general took office, the messenger of Qingyang arrived, Qingyang was already fine, the messenger of Yanbian Town also arrived in Pingliang at the same time, and the Western Xia army also withdrew, what are the reinforcements of Pingliang still doing? Don't you think there is enough food in Qingyang City?
Only then did several generals let go of their worries and began to prepare to welcome the prince's guard of honor, and it was a lot of chaos, and when His Royal Highness the Prince, who had been idle in Pingliang for a month, came to Qingyang, it was already the middle of April in the twenty-seventh year of Zhengde.
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