In this era, soldiers who serve as soldiers have no faith at all. Especially after entering an enemy country, even the official army may commit rape and robbery.
Especially for a city that cannot be conquered for a long time, resulting in heavy casualties for the attacking party. After the city is breached, in order to express anger and let the brothers under his command vent their emotions, the commander will often order that the sword should not be sealed for three days or even longer.
These three days will be hell on earth for everyone in the city.
If they just do some evil things after winning the war, then this kind of military thieves are not useless. The bigger problem is that when they fight, even if they are well-trained so-called elites, once the battle losses exceed 30%, their morale will plummet. , and may even cause uncontrollable collapse.
This is the old army.
In the past few years, Shen Yi was able to conquer Xuzhou in one fell swoop, relying on more than 20,000 troops to fight against the 100,000 Southern Army, and also attack the city and seize territory. This was largely because the Northern Qi army fled after fighting.
The Huai'an Army is different. Although it is not as flawless as the army in another world, Shen used high treatment, the best record as possible, and an extremely harsh punishment system to make the Huai'an Army so far. It already looks a lot like a new army.
But it's just an image.
Shen Yi is not an unprecedented figure. He has neither the means nor the ability, nor the environment, to recreate that kind of army by himself in this era.
Therefore, before the war, he would take the trouble to repeat military discipline and emphasize military discipline.
However, Shen Yi only said that he was not allowed to kill people or rob civilian women. In other words, if these Huai'an army soldiers got some trophies after they entered the city, Shen Yi would not care.
In this day and age, there is no way to deal with this kind of thing.
The three generals all stood up one after another, bowed their heads and saluted: "General, I obey!"
Mr. Shen looked at the three of them and continued: "After you have surrounded Yandu, tell me to send a message to the city. The city will surrender within ten days. As long as all the Qi troops in the city take the initiative to lay down their weapons, the Chen court will forget everything."
"After ten days, there will be no such preferential treatment."
The three of them bowed their heads and saluted again and said yes.
Then Su Ding and Lingsu, two of the three generals, said goodbye to Shen Yi one after another, returned to their headquarters, and commanded the army to begin the siege.
It is worth mentioning that before Su Ding left, he left his son Su Fang with Shen Yi to act as a bodyguard for Shen Yi.
The official statement was that he wanted him to practice and learn something with Shen Yi, but in fact, General Su just wanted his eldest son to become familiar with Shen Yi.
As long as he can get to know Shen Yi well, Su Fang's future in the rest of his life won't be too difficult.
In the next few days, the siege of Yandu went smoothly, because after the Huai'an army surrounded Yandu, all the Qi troops outside Yandu had withdrawn into the city.
The Huai'an army encircled the city in several directions, and on the third day, Yandu City was surrounded.
On the morning of the third day, Mr. Shen rarely got up early. He led a group of followers to escort him up a high slope and looked at the Yandu city tower with a telescope.
At this time, there were densely packed soldiers on the tower of Yandu City, and it seemed that the guards were very tight.
After watching for a long time, Mr. Shen waved to his new follower Su Fang and said with a smile: "Come here, little guy."
Su Fang stepped forward in twos and twos, his voice a little excited: "Master Marquis, please give me your orders."
Although Shen Yi, the son of General Su, is only ten years older than him, Mr. Shen became famous at a young age. He was only twenty years old when he defeated the Japanese pirates. Now, various deeds of Mr. Shen have been spread throughout the world. North and south of the Yangtze River.
Many people among the people already call Shen Yi "Prince Shen" in private.
Su Fang grew up in this environment. To him, Shen Yi was the most dazzling idol in his life.
In his heart, he admired Shen Yi very much.
At this moment, it was the first time that Mr. Shen asked him to do something, which made the young general tremble with excitement.
Shen Yi looked at Yan Du and ordered Su Fang: "Go back to the Central Army and have someone hang up my Shen flag."
He did not look back at Su Fang, his eyes still fell on Yandu, and he narrowed his eyes slightly: "I heard that Emperor Zhaowu is still in Yandu, so I raised my flag to say hello to this old friend."
Su Fang quickly lowered his head and said excitedly: "I'll go to my humble position right away!"
After saying that, the young man turned around, jumped up and down, and ran away after a few ups and downs.
When Shen Yi looked back, Su Fang had already run far away, and he could only see a vague figure from behind.
Master Shen turned his head and looked at Jiang Sheng who was following him, and laughed dumbly: "Young man, you are so lively."
Jiang Sheng also smiled and said, "This major general looks better than the last major general."
Mr. Shen put down the telescope and looked at Jiang Sheng.
"You've only been in contact for a few days and you've already made a conclusion?"
Lord Shen said suspiciously: "Isn't it possible that your boy has taken advantage of Su Ding?"
Jiang Sheng shook his head quickly and said with a wry smile: "Following the young master for so many years, traveling here and there, meeting so many people and things, I have somewhat developed my eyesight."
Jiang Sheng raised his head and looked in the direction Su Fang was leaving, and continued: "Although this young general is working as a bodyguard for the young master, whenever he has free time in the past few days, he will go to Mr. Li Zhun's place."
"I want to see the detailed battle reports of the Huai'an Army in the past few years."
"Moreover, he is also very interested in the map in the Chinese military tent."
Jiang Sheng paused and added: "He inquired privately and asked the young master if he had written any military books. He wanted to take a look."
Having said this, Jiang Sheng said: "This young general probably wants to take the young master as his disciple."
Mr. Shen laughed dumbly: "Listening to what you said, his behavior is very much like a spy."
"Um."
Jiang Sheng also laughed and said: "If he is not General Su's son, we would have sent people to capture him long ago."
Shen Yi picked up the telescope again and looked at Yandu, then put it down and handed it to Jiang Sheng. He said "hey" and said: "You also asked me if I have any military books. After so many years of fighting, I am even the commander of the navy." I haven’t fully understood it yet.”
Jiang Sheng smiled and said: "Young Master's achievements are far better than those of Duke Dingguo back then. When Young Master becomes free in the future and writes a book on the Art of War, he will definitely be sought after by the world."
Shen Yi curled his lips and did not comment.
On the other side, in the large tent of the Chinese army, the major general of the left route army was holding a flagpole several feet long in his hand, trying hard to erect a commander's flag.
After finally setting it up, the major general raised his head and looked at the sinking flag fluttering in the wind, and suddenly his eyes lit up.
"This is what the military books say, when the two armies are fighting, the focus is on the heart..."
He looked up at the big flag and murmured to himself: "Uncle calmly started to attack Yandu."
"He is truly a god..."
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In the imperial city of Yandu, someone soon spread the news of the hoisting of the Shen flag to the ears of Emperor Zhaowu.
After Emperor Zhaowu heard the news, his expression was calm. He looked at the Han general kneeling in front of him. After being silent for a while, he suddenly smiled: "Shen Qi himself has arrived in Yandu, are you afraid of General Zhong?"
This Han general, who was called General Zhong by Emperor Zhaowu, bowed his head respectfully, kowtowed to the emperor and said: "Go back to the emperor, I am not afraid."
"The general is here, and within a short period of time, the thieves will not be able to threaten the Emperor's holy body."
"only…"
General Zhong gritted his teeth and said: "It's just that some time ago, many Daqi soldiers went outside the pass. This news has now spread throughout the army, causing rumors to spread and spread."
Emperor Zhaowu raised his eyebrows: "General Zhong went to tell them on my behalf that Master Wang has other errands going north, and I am still with them in Yandu. What are they afraid of?"
General Zhong lowered his head, said yes, and then bowed and left.
After General Zhong left, Emperor Zhaowu silently looked at the document he handed over. Then he looked faintly at the word Shen Yi on the document.
"We have been friends for a long time."
Emperor Zhaowu looked up at the beams of the side hall and suddenly smiled nervously.