Heaven's Martial Fate

Chapter 215 Fields and refugees

In the seventh year of Daye, Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty issued an edict to attack Goguryeo, and a great campaign was launched across the country.

For a while, 300 million young and middle-aged people across the country were serving hard labor, and the official roads were full of horses and horses rushing to the front line of Youzhou, causing countless fields to be abandoned and the people wailing.

It is the autumn season, the sun hangs in the sky and is not blazing.

With a group of younger brothers, Wu Dong rode his horse and galloped through the area under the direct control of the Wagang Army.

This is a plain area with ditches and fertile fields, and the crops in the fields are growing gratifyingly.

A wave of joy in the harvest season suddenly rose from my heart.

"Gather the brothers as soon as possible to harvest the crops in the field and put them into storage!"

Slowly lowering the horse speed, Wu Dong pointed to the crop fields all over the sky, and ordered to his fellow villager and younger brother.

"Don't worry boss, brothers are already ready!"

The younger brother next to him had a happy face, looking at the endless fields, his eyes sparkled, as if this place was full of great treasures.

For ordinary people, this fertile field is indeed a great treasure.

With these fields, as long as they are cultivated well, they don't have to worry about going hungry in the future. This is the biggest advantage.

"The farm tools for harvesting crops are all complete, right?"

Wu Dong smiled lightly, feeling the good mood of the younger brothers, and he was also in a pretty good mood.

"The gap is not small, but the problem is not big!"

The confidant who followed closely beside him said indifferently, "It's all here like this, it's no big deal!"

"Be careful!"

Wu Dong reminded: "When harvesting, the surrounding vigilance cannot be relaxed. Those gangsters are not good birds!"

This piece of fertile land was naturally snatched from local tyrants.

It has to be said that the strength of the local powerful forces that have just come from the Southern and Northern Dynasties is really not blown out.

A manor controls a large area of ​​land and many tenants, or hidden households.

Not only do they have sufficient food reserves, but the tenants and hidden households under the control of the manor are also organized to conduct semi-military drills.

The manor itself also has a certain amount of armed forces, among them there are one or two third-rate martial artists.

In the initial attack, if Wu Dong hadn't taken the lead and directly shattered the gate of the manor with his powerful force, he would have taken down the powerful stronghold controlling this field in one fell swoop.

Otherwise, if you want to rely on the little brother to attack hard, you may suffer heavy losses.

It can be said that after experiencing this wave of battles to snatch the fields, Wu Dong deeply understood that the aristocratic families and local tycoons at this time were basically paramilitary organizations.

Any stronghold-style manor can mobilize more than a hundred young and strong armed forces, and they still have semi-military training, and their war potential is not weak at all.

If it is based on the thinking of war, who knows if the local tyrants who have been robbed of their fields will get hot-headed and directly play the scorched earth policy?
Adhering to the idea that if I can't get it, no one else can get it, it's really easy and simple to set a few fires at the critical moment.

After going through several lifetimes, Wu Dong doesn't say he has a thorough understanding of human nature, but he knows it well.

"Boss, don't worry about that!"

The confidant next to him sneered again and again, and said with disdain: "With the strength of our brothers, it is enough to save face if we don't trouble those guys!"

"If they take the initiative to attack regardless of life or death, then don't blame the brothers for being cruel!"

Wu Dong nodded slightly, he would not touch the common people and low-level traders lightly, but he didn't need to be polite to the local tycoons.

According to the information he investigated, among the local tyrants in the Wagang area, which family is not blood-stained and criminal?
Find out the old bottom, each one is a devil-like existence.

For these guys, there is really no need to be polite, there is no psychological burden in grabbing the fields.

Do you really think that the fields in the hands of the tyrants in these places were obtained by legitimate means?

"Don't be careless, with your martial arts skills, you have met a real master of the rivers and lakes, that is, the food delivery!"

Although satisfied in his heart, he still reminded: "If you encounter a hard idea, don't be brave, report it as soon as possible!"

In the world of high martial arts, the power of local tyrants is not only reflected in material reserves and personnel control, but also the guarantee of not weak personal force.

Of course, compared to those well-known masters of the rivers and lakes, naturally they are nothing.

But compared to ordinary people and generals, that is an insurmountable mountain and river.

The situation in the main world is much more exaggerated than here.

It's not that the world of Tang Shuanglong couldn't do it, but it was influenced by the public opinion dominated by the aristocratic family, coupled with the rise of martial arts schools in the chaotic world for hundreds of years, and the widespread spread of various martial arts did not form a state where warriors are respected.

Otherwise, the imperial court does not need to support so many troops, it only needs to have enough masters to suppress the whole place, and it can easily control the order of the whole world.

Speaking of which, after besieging the powerful manor strongholds in the local area, they also harvested several relatively simple martial arts cheats, including boxing skills, and pure military martial arts.

As for books, there were also some books, all of which were brought to the camp by Wu Dong as a knowledge reserve for his eager brothers to read and copy.

"Boss, you think too highly of those local tyrants. If there is no help from the local gangs, how can their own military power withstand the torture of our brothers?"

The confidant younger brother beside him didn't think so, he laughed and said: "Whether it's the army's joint attack technique or the bow and crossbow salvo technique, those so-called third-rate masters in the world can't stand it!"

Wu Dong glanced at this guy, and didn't think there was anything wrong.

Since he joined Wagang, he has been strictly training his brothers, not only teaching simple boxing and kicking martial arts to strengthen the body, but also making great efforts in the art of combined strikes.

Knowing that the world of Tang Shuanglong is a world of high martial arts, and his personal martial arts are sometimes too exaggerated, naturally he will not have no ideas for countermeasures.

In the case of a second-rate or higher player, the usual method of attacking the army may not be effective.

Unless the number of people is directly consumed, or a strong bow and crossbow are used to surround and kill, it is difficult to keep people.

But against the third-rate martial artists and below, the army's joint attack technique is still very effective.

At this time, Wagang is pitifully scarce masters, but third-rate and low-rate masters can still be found.

Before, it wasn't because Wu Dong was too upright and his style of acting was different, which caused internal fights for a period of time.

How could Wu Dong pay attention to these third-rate or even low-level warriors, so he simply took the opportunity to let his brothers accumulate some joint attack experience.

This was also one of the main reasons why the other battalion leaders gave face when the leader Zhai Rang came forward to mediate.

When they fight, they rely on their own bravery to charge forward, thus mobilizing the younger brothers to rush forward with enthusiasm and besiege in disorder.

As a result, when fighting with Wu Dong's younger brother, he was repeatedly knocked down by the army's joint attack technique, which was very embarrassing and hurt morale.

There was also a supernatural Wu Dong who was smiling and eyeing him. As soon as Zhai Rang, the leader, came forward, they naturally borrowed face and went down the donkey.

In the battle to besiege the powerful manor in the local area, the brothers under his command also accumulated some experience in fighting martial artists from the rivers and lakes, so they appeared confident and arrogant.

"By the way, aren't there a lot of refugees who have joined recently?"

As soon as the subject changed, Wu Dong asked about the hottest things in Wagang recently.

Thanks to Sui Emperor Yang Guang, this guy is really a lunatic, he doesn't know what people's power is at all.

Every now and then, it’s about completing some major projects within a deadline. They simply don’t take the lives of ordinary people seriously. They recruit 300 million laborers in one go, and they have to bring their own dry food.

Wu Dong didn't even know what to say, such a move was simply trying to force ordinary people to a dead end.

One bad thing is the death of a large number of people through hard labor, and the tragic end of a large number of ordinary people's families going bankrupt.

Even in modern times, if you want to use a labor force of 300 million, you have to plan and prepare carefully, and you will not start until all the logistics are ready.

Even so, troubles continued during the period, and there were so many problems that all parties needed to deal with and coordinate in a timely manner, so that there would be no major problems.

But Yang Guang didn't care about it, and just ordered the recruitment of labor. As for how the labor went to the front line of Youzhou, and the coordination and management on the road, he didn't care.

As far as Wu Dong knows, Wagang is located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, and the official road is strewn with corpses twice, all of them are forced laborers who died halfway in a hurry.

The officials in charge of management didn't even have time to bury them. They had to bring their slaves to Youzhou at the appointed time, otherwise it would be a death sentence.

That is to say, the Kaihuang prosperity created by Yang Guang's father has accumulated enough, and this is also the preparation period for the conquest of Goguryeo, and the imperial family's wealth can still stand the toss.

Even so, many hard-working people who couldn't bear it escaped halfway and became refugees.

These refugees are naturally the source of troops to strengthen Wagang.

Not only the leader Zhai Rang opened his mouth to absorb, but the veterans in Wagang also kept recruiting refugees to expand their strength.

After all, they are all young and strong laborers who can escape smoothly, and all of them have good physical foundations, and they can do it with a little training.

Naturally, Wu Dong would not be polite, and absorbed some honest refugees.

He didn't care much about the physical condition of these refugees, as long as their conduct was not bad, it wouldn't be a big problem.

The current natural environment is quite good, and the vitality of the world of Tang Shuanglong is not bad, and there are materials everywhere in the wild that can be used to prepare health-enhancing medicinal diet.

With Wu Dong's medical skills, ordinary diseases can be easily caught. Even serious problems can be solved with a little time and effort.

The same is true, the fighting power of Wu Dong's troops has been maintained very well, even if a large amount of new blood has been added, it is the same, making other Wagang veterans envious, but they can't imitate and copy, and the depression in their hearts can be imagined. Know……

(End of this chapter)