Chapter 683 The emperor guards the gate of the country, and the king dies
The drama of burning Ning'an County soon came to an end.
Logically speaking, the number of guerrillas occupying the city walls of Ning'an County is actually not that large.
Due to the haste of the incident, Su Xiaonuan was unable to recruit too many people, so there were only more than a thousand guerrillas lurking in Ning'an County.
In addition, including Su Xiaonuan, there are a total of 20 Lin family members with firearms. This small force, facing the Liu family's private army of nearly 200,000, will not form a big force under normal circumstances.
It's just a threat.
Even if the twenty members of the Lin family, headed by Su Xiaonuan, each have an assault rifle, the number of bullets is still limited.
Even if the Lin family were all sharpshooters and were efficient enough to ensure that every bullet would take away the life of a Liu soldier, twenty Lin family members would still not be able to kill many.
If these Liu family's private troops can muster the courage, gather strength, and maintain a certain degree of discipline and order, then they will almost 100% be able to rush out of Ning'an County.
But... these people did not choose to fight hard. Instead, after hearing the sound of gunshots, all resistance was instantly defeated.
The reason why such a result occurred is that, firstly, the vigor of these Liu family's private troops was completely exhausted during the siege of Heyang.
Faced with the firearms in the hands of the Lin family, these Liu family's private troops had no other way to deal with them other than to kill them at their provocation.
Therefore, during the siege of Heyang, these Liu family's private troops had already developed an almost natural consciousness, that is, when the gunshots sounded, they had no other option but to escape.
The second reason is that after retreating from Heyang, these Liu family's private troops fled all the way and have basically not had much rest until now, so they have already reached the limit of their physical fitness.
If it were not for the support of the power to plunder Ning'an County, these Liu family's private troops would probably have collapsed on the ground before arriving in Ning'an County.
As a result, before their motivation to arrive here could be realized, fire engulfed the entire Ning'an County.
When these private soldiers of the Liu family found out that they had been ambushed, they immediately let out a sigh of relief and naturally no longer had the courage to resist.
As for the third reason, after fires broke out all over Ning'an County and quickly spread throughout the county, a large number of Liu's private troops were directly swallowed up by the fire.
The miserable scene continued to destroy the almost completely reduced will of the remaining private armies.
The combination of the three makes these Liu's private armies who are still alive actually look like zombies.
Ning'an County was burned to the ground, and all Liu's private troops who surrendered threw away their weapons, and then gathered outside Ning'an County under the supervision of guerrillas.
After counting, Su Xiaonuan quickly got the accurate number.
"More than 123,400 people surrendered, and the rest should have died in the fire in Ning'an County. To be honest, there are many more people who surrendered than I thought."
Standing on the low adobe wall of Xingning County, Su Xiaonuan looked at the dark mass of soldiers outside the city, and said to Tieniu next to her with a wry smile.
The fire in Xingning County is still burning.
In Su Xiaonuan's view, if Liu's nearly 200,000 defeated troops could be destroyed in one go, the price of a county town was absolutely acceptable.
Even if such an approach means that all the people in the county will be displaced.
But as he said before, war is never a gentle family affair, war... will kill people.
Not only soldiers will die, but also civilians.
The damned must die, and the innocent must die as well.
In the face of war, there is never any so-called reason or morality.
If the country is destroyed, the family will be destroyed, and if the country is destroyed, the species will be exterminated. These are all natural things.
Ever since he killed the more than 10,000-strong baggage team, Su Xiaonuan has become more and more clear-eyed.
So even though Jiang Fan had told them several times that he would do no harm to the common people and that the family members would be plunged into the vast sea of common war, Su Xiaonuan still had his own judgment and ideas.
"These Liu family's private troops seem to have lost their courage. I'm afraid they have no intention of resisting anymore. Even if there are millions of people gathered here, let alone hundreds of thousands, it will be useless."
Tieniu said.
"I have arranged for the tens of thousands of people in Ning'an County to be sent to Heyang City. Now that Ning'an County has been completely burned, there is no possibility of reconstruction in a short time, and we have to arrange for their survival after all. I heard that the young master plans to expand the river.
Yangcheng’s thinking, it might not be a bad thing for these people to move to Heyang.”
Su Xiaonuan said.
"There will definitely be some initial discomfort. Heyang is now very different from all other cities in the Zhou Dynasty. It will take some time for the people of Ning'an County to integrate into it. But you are right.
Wrong, this is definitely not a bad thing for them."
Tieniu smiled: "The young master said that it is instinct for people to go to higher places. No matter how difficult it is to leave the homeland, if they can take root in Heyang, it will be an opportunity for them after all. I think, even if we are in the future
If we conquer Handong County and really seize the whole world, the young master will also make Heyang his capital, and it is impossible to move south to Jinling."
"Oh? Why? The young master told you about this?"
Su Xiaonuan asked curiously.
"I mentioned it during a private chat, and the young master said at that time that if he really wanted to establish a country and a capital, he would definitely stay in Heyang. Firstly, because it is close to the grassland, and secondly, because he is lazy. Living in Heyang
I’m used to it, and I’m really too lazy to move all the way to the south.”
Tieniu said with a smile.
Su Xiaonuan was stunned for a moment, then said: "The reason of 'lazy' is really in line with the young master's character. With the young master's temper, if it didn't involve our Lin family's affairs, he would probably not bother to pay attention to anything. Just like
How many people would be crazy about becoming an emperor, but the young master doesn't care at all, and instead tries to push the eldest daughter to become the female emperor. It's really... it makes people speechless."
"It's not so much about matters involving our Lin family, but it's about matters involving the eldest and second young ladies, right? Hey, they say it's hard for a hero to be a beauty, and a person as powerful as the young master can't escape this rule."
Tieniu chuckled.
"I can understand the reason for being lazy, but why is it so close to the grassland?"
Su Xiaonuan did not answer Tieniu's words, but asked her own doubts.
"Well, when I asked the young master at that time, the young master said that the emperor guards the country and the king dies in the country, so Heyang is the gateway to the north. As the capital, it can play a role in suppressing the national destiny."
Tieniu scratched his head and said.
"The emperor guards the gate of the country...the king dies in the country?"
Su Xiaonuan murmured and repeated it, but her eyes became brighter and brighter. She turned and looked at the surrendered hundreds of thousands of Liu's private troops again. In her mind, there seemed to be thousands of stars.