Chapter 1246 Troubled times soldiers are like bandits
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Once there were troops from the imperial court that threatened Liyangcang before he captured Luoyang, in order to maintain the morale and morale of the rebels, Yang Su would definitely send a general with heavy troops. Even because he was facing Wang Junlin, Yang Su was likely to
He will personally bring the main army to deal with Wang Junlin.
"Okay, since everyone has no objections, I will now start assigning combat tasks. Everyone, listen up."
As he spoke, Wang Junlin's expression became solemn. He walked back to the commander's seat, raised his command arrows, and sent them out one by one. Everyone stepped forward one by one, knelt down on one knee and received the military order.
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Early the next morning, the army continued to march at a neither fast nor slow pace. Wang Junlin was not afraid that Yang Su would get the news and mobilized the army to Liyang City in advance, because his goal was not Liyang City in the first place, but a similar siege method.
The purpose of the strategy of hitting reinforcements is to lure Yang Su's main force to fight in the field and annihilate it.
When the army passed through Tangyin County, Wang Junlin discovered that the wide area between Anyang and Yongji Canal was basically deserted except for a few lonely forts and Tangyin City, whose four gates were blocked with stones.
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"Since Yang Su announced the emperor's ten major crimes to the world in Hongnong County and raised the so-called "righteous flag", bandits, bandits, horse thieves, and rogues hiding in the mountains and wild ridges in Henan and Central Plains counties all came down from the mountains and hid in the mountains.
After leaving the valley, these people imitated Yang Su and made high-sounding slogans. Most of them were under the banner of "relieving the world's urgent needs", but what they were doing was looting everywhere and turning good people into thieves.
In less than a month, their respective teams have expanded dozens of times. Among them, the largest ones, such as the Korean Prime Minister's Ministry, have reached more than 100,000 people. Even the smaller ones have thousands of troops."
Shen Guoer rode on Wang Junlin's side and reported in time.
"As long as Yang Su's rebels are eliminated, these traitors are not worth mentioning." Wang Junlin indeed did not take these rebels to heart.
"Yang Su is so stupid, I have never seen such a waste of things!" Xiong Kuohai started to curse again. Even if the others didn't say anything, they looked indignant. The closer they got to Luoyang, the capital of the Central Plains, the landscape of the place they passed had indeed changed.
Unlike the human world, what they had seen in Huainan and on both sides of the canal before was that the wheat was ripe and no one was harvesting it. The scene could only make people feel desolate, but now the counties in Henan in the Central Plains can only be described as miserable.
Farmland was trampled into wasteland everywhere, and houses were burned everywhere. Some tiles and brick walls were still green and black, as if the fire had just been extinguished by rain. Some adobes had been softened by wind and rain, and the fractures were cracked.
The new and fluffy green is growing.
At this time, a horse from the Military Intelligence Agency came galloping towards him. Shen Guoer led his people to greet them first. Not long after, Shen Guoer rode over and reported to Wang Junlin: "Your Majesty, I just got the news. Yang Su sent Li Mi
Convinced Han Xiangguo, the most powerful rebel in the counties of Henan, and now Han Xiangguo led more than 100,000 bandits to join Yang Su. Yang Su made Han Xiangguo a general and sent people to send Han Xiangguo a lot of weapons and armor.
Ordnance, bows and arrows, and ordered Han Xiangguo to lead his people to attack the counties and cities in Henan. Now Han Xiangguo has captured Yangwu, Yuanwu, Fengqiu and other places, and is currently capturing Xiangcheng under Yang Su's order. Bandits near Xiangcheng,
Bandits and bandits responded one after another, burning countless villages. And Runan was only a hundred miles away from Xiangcheng. Although Yang Xiangguo's soldiers and horses were under the banner of "walking for heaven", all the villages and towns they passed were turned into scorched earth.
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Perhaps because he comes from later generations, Wang Junlin can be said to be the person who cares most about the life and death of the people among the powerful people in the world. This has nothing to do with whether he is a kind person, but only has to do with the "three views" and ideas.
Therefore, when he heard this, Wang Junlin's face suddenly turned cold, and he gritted his teeth and said: "This Han Xiangguo deserves to die. He is not far from me at this time. Don't let me run into him, otherwise I will kill him thousands of times."
Cut it to frighten the thieves in the world and stop them from slaughtering the people at will."
These rebels who claimed to "liberate the people" killed their own compatriots no more softly than the Turks who killed the people of the Sui Dynasty. If the reason for their killing was to seize supplies, this crime can be forgiven. But in fact, Li Yang
The food in the warehouse was enough to feed the rebels for several years. Perhaps the rebels looted the surrounding villages just to vent their anger!
"Are soldiers in troubled times like bandits?" At this moment, Wang Junlin deeply understood the meaning of this sentence often said by the ancients.
In fact, ever since the Yangtze River entered the Grand Canal and headed north, the air has been filled with a strong or light stench. Wang Junlin knew the source of this smell very well. It was caused by enough corpses being exposed to broad daylight without being submerged.
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In fact, along the way, this smell made Wang Junlin's murderous intention rise to the sky again and again, and it also made him understand better what it was like in the original history, during the chaos of the late Sui Dynasty, when tens of millions of people died.
Obviously, in the eyes of Yang Su and the officials from wealthy families who took refuge in him, those common people were probably as worthless as ants.
It’s just that they don’t know that if all the ants die, the king, queen and soldiers will starve to death next. If the same ant nest is hit by a disaster, no one can escape.
Perhaps it was because of the painful lessons learned in the late Sui Dynasty that Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, truly regarded the people as water and the emperor and the court as the emperor's boat.
Capsize the boat" as a motto to remind myself and the officials of the court.
In fact, just like this, the status of ordinary people increased unprecedentedly in the early Tang Dynasty. Of course, in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, with the corruption of the imperial court, the vicious cycle of large-scale land annexation began again, and eventually the same mistakes were repeated.
These thoughts flashed through Wang Junlin's mind one by one, making the murderous intention in his heart even more intense: "Yang Su deserves to die, and so do the officials from aristocratic families who took refuge in him." Before, he had some intention of killing the children of this aristocratic family.
scruples, now Wang Junlin no longer has any scruples and just wants to kill all these people.
"It's just that killing people alone cannot fundamentally solve the problem, or we can't just kill people." Wang Junlin finally suppressed the murderous intention in his heart and began to think about ways to fundamentally solve the problem.
"Xiong Kuohai, do you feel wronged by asking you to serve as my personal commander?" Wang Junlin was riding on his horse and suddenly turned to Xiong Kuohai, who was as long as a bear and said.
Xiong Kuohai was stunned for a moment and said quickly: "Your Majesty, I have heard about your deeds for a long time. In fact, I have always admired your Majesty very much, so I feel very honored to be able to serve as your personal commander." Xiong Kuohai said.
When he said this, his expression was firm and his purple-black face was sincere. Wang Junlin could feel that Xiong Kuohai was not lying.
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