The first emperor of the Song Dynasty

Chapter 331 Murder and Arson

In the military state, the flames of war are still spreading.

In the afternoon, Hao Jingcheng stood by the road at the entrance of the village and watched the doctor rushing to bandage a child who had lost his right hand and fainted from crying several times. The village had been burned down, and the crowd was crying.

The convoy from Langya Ridge is still going in to rescue the things that can still be used in the village.

"Calculate the dead and the dead, tell the brothers in front not to go too far, and set up a defensive camp. Give the children some candy..." Hao Jingcheng whispered, although he felt that the rebels would not stay behind for a sneak attack , but Hao Jingcheng was a lot more careful at this time.

The rescue was basically done step by step. In the past ten days, the looting pattern of Li Lei and others was basically the same. The number and number of murders these people killed while fleeing has increased.Without the lair, the people in Langyaling followed all the way, and the officers and soldiers intercepted them head-on, and the anxiety in people's hearts accumulated.

Although Li Lei and the others tightened military discipline, it was only internally. When they plundered villages, they had already started killing people easily, and there were even more incidents of women and girls being raped.

In the village in front of me, when Hao Jingcheng and others arrived, a woman threw herself into the well. After being rescued, she still wanted to commit suicide.

Sometimes I was questioned why the officers and soldiers couldn't kill all the rebels and make them run around like this.For these, people will also be arranged in the crowd to preach.

"Do you think they can really let you go if you don't mess with them? Do you know what a rebellion looks like? Once it rises, the room will be empty, and he will let everyone have nothing before they follow them! Our Langya Ridge is where they started The first step is the same as yours! If they take our Langya Ridge, it will be you sooner or later, that is, this area of ​​Shandong. Do you know how many people we died? This is a blood debt! Only the rebels can come pay!"

Compared with the government, Langyaling has no obligation to help these people, but it is easy to unify the direction of hatred.

But even though he is usually ruthless and never blinks when he kills, when Hao Jingcheng sees many things in front of him, he will inevitably feel compassion.

In troubled times, human life is really worthless. Sometimes when he sees those dead or injured and disabled children, or women crying for death after being insulted, he will also hope that the whole thing will end sooner.

However, military strategy is not what he is good at after all.

Over the past few days, he has been able to unify the general situation one by one. More than twenty villages and villages are responsible for rescue and arranging ways out, and then point their grievances at the rebels, and at the same time put pressure on the government and the military in the opposite direction. , and further affected the intentions of many green forest bandits and cottages in Junzhou and other places, and has laid the best foundation for the more than 3000 people who trapped the rebels to death.

But public opinion and the general trend are the same thing. In the end, there will inevitably be a fierce battle.

Those bandits and copycats will definitely have a bad impression on the rebels, but at most they will let them know, and they will absolutely refuse to make a move.

On the other hand, after the rebel war, the local government troops sent out two teams of 5000 each. They knew that this battle must be fought, but they still had some ideas of preserving their strength. This was also because Hao Jingcheng The reason for doing the general trend too well.

If things continue like this, the more than 3000 people at Li Lei's side will collapse psychologically one day sooner or later, because all of their burning and killing were done for others, and everyone around them shouted and beat them. It cannot be dissipated for many years.

Only when they truly realize the futility of the hard work of fleeing, the spirits of these people will break down.Otherwise, even if there are more than [-] people against the [-] elite rebels, if they need to be surrounded and smashed to death, they will definitely suffer huge resistance and losses.

As for the Wu Ruiying stationed here, most of the cottages and villages here are somewhat disobedient and full of troublesome people.

The rebels ran all the way, burning the villages of these people all the way, and there was Langya Ridge behind to clean up the mess, so that the government would not protest too much. It was a happy ending.

Therefore, even if Hao Jingcheng asked about the fighter in the past, Zhang Rui and others who were in charge of leading the army this time were of course very affectionate to him, but when it comes to the fighter, naturally it is better to wait for a while.

In fact, even if Hao Jingcheng strictly demanded to start the war soon, it is estimated that Zhang Rui and others would be stunned for a long time, and would not understand why such a smart person as him would have such an unwise idea.

On the other hand, compassion in his heart is one thing, Hao Jingcheng will never allow these 3000 people to have the possibility of living again.Break their defenses outside the battlefield, kill some on the battlefield, even if it is part of the final forced landing as a military exploit, they must be dragged into the capital or somewhere to be executed for treason.

Otherwise, it will really become "to be an official, kill and set fire and be recruited".

Based on his recent relationship with the surrounding states and counties, the public opinion he has mastered, and the credit for taking down the rebels in two months, it is not difficult to push things to this point.

Outside the frontal battlefield, the local officers and soldiers have set up various checkpoints, and the search for the rebel fugitives in the surrounding area has been reported one after another. If they escape alone, they will either be caught or captured by other villages. , The green forest forces sold out with the attitude of pushing the wall down, and they also gained gains every day.

But following it, there were also some repercussions among the green forest, especially the part about the "inner demon", which was beginning to be seen at this time.

"In the Shandong area, nearby, I heard that there has been a lot of trouble recently. I heard that there are a few big men in the green forest who are talking about the rebels' war. They calculated too much, threatened brothers to kill each other, and there is no morality in the world. Yes, I have also heard that someone is going to kill you to save the green forest!" The information about this was brought by Li Hu from the Li Family Village who was in charge of the liaison between the two parties.

Speaking of the green forests in the Shandong area, Langya Lingben is one of them. Hao Jingcheng is quite interested in these news, and excitedly asks people to write down the things, which is a hobby for sneaking in.

"It's just a few small shrimps, don't worry about it!" Hao Jingcheng said indifferently.

Li Hu curled his lips, agreeing with what Hao Jingcheng said, and said: "Besides, because of the rebel incident, some places have already become violent, and the government in the Triangle Land is out of control, and some people are hiding rebels." Soldiers, fighting with the people around them almost turned into a fight between several small cottages."

After a pause, he continued: "Because of the spread of the rebels, I heard that there are some well-known murderers in Lulin, Shandong. I heard that they all made some moves. They summoned the Lulin people in private, maybe they wanted to Get rid of Mister."

Hao Jingcheng frowned, but he didn't expect that the inner demon would have such a profound impact.

(End of this chapter)