Chapter Thirty-Nine: Killing the Hearts of the People

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After the mountainous area of Langzhong, Kang Peng's army entered the relatively flat Sichuan Basin, before Dong Zhuo's army attacked Yizhou, the life of the people of Yizhou was still quite good, most of the people could reach the level of abundant food and clothing, the degree of the large scholars was even no less than those nouveau riche in the three states of Yongji and Liang, the rich and fertile land and the warm and humid climate made Yizhou basically no difficulties in food production, and the rich and diverse items could almost make the Yizhou military and civilians self-sufficient, not only the world-famous Shu brocade, There is also well salt that was more expensive than gold in the mainland at that time, and the Panzhihua iron ore that had not been developed in that era, which was a good thing that Kang Peng had long coveted.

The deer was slaughtered, the musk Huaixiang was killed, and the wealthy Huaibi of Yizhou was targeted by two groups of hungry wolves, first Liu Yan dragged the relationship in the court to get the position of the Yizhou assassin, and took a helping person to drive away Jia Long, who won the hearts of the people and made immortal contributions to the Yizhou Rebellion, occupied this rich land, and was coerced by Liu Yan to embark on the road of splitting the Han Dynasty; Then Kang Peng adopted Jia Xu's strategy, not to mix with the war-torn Central Plains, and put the first goal of expansion on Yizhou, to take Yizhou first, which can influence the situation in the world, and not to give the enemy the opportunity to take advantage of Yizhou's development and growth. Kang Peng also learned the lesson of Cao Cao's failure to unify the world, before the battle of Chibi in history, Jia Xu also suggested that Cao Cao first take Yizhou and then attack Jiangnan, so that Liu Bei and Sun Quan can kill each other without pressure, Cao Cao's army sits and reaps the profits, but unfortunately Cao Cao was carried away by the victory over Yuan Shao, and insisted on going south, the old treacherous Jia Xu knew that Cao Cao dealt with Liu Bei and Sun Quan at the same time, so he pretended to be sick and hid in Huainan and refused to go again, and escaped the defeat of Chibi.

Kang Peng and Liu Yan fought in Yizhou dog bite dog, but they suffered the innocent people of Yizhou, because Liu Yan, who couldn't bite Kang Peng, held the idea that I can't get you Dong Zhuo doesn't want to get it, and burned the richest area of Yizhou into ruins.

Yizhou in the first month of the fourth year of the early Han Dynasty was extremely cold, the heavy snow that had stopped falling from time to time, out of the Langzhong Mountains is the city of Brazil, the city is naturally gone, only hundreds of thousands of victims are sleeping in the wild in the ice and snow, the consequences of the people in thin clothes sleeping in the wild in the cold winter can be imagined, Kang Peng, who came to inspect the victims with a team of personal soldiers, did not walk on the three-mile road, and has seen nearly 100 frozen corpses on the side of the road.

"Master Jun, it's okay, my child hasn't eaten for five days." A ragged woman with a few children slowly approached Kang Peng and his party, stretched out her black and dirty hand and begged: "Master Jun, please give me some food, the children of the slave family are dying of hunger, please." ”

Kang Peng looked intently, and saw that the woman had four children, the eldest was less than three feet, the yellow snot dragged up the elder, the big eyes were flickering with tears, the youngest child was still in the woman's arms, and he couldn't make a sound of crying, his young face was yellow and shriveled, and his eye sockets were deeply sunken, and the woman with yellow muscles and thin muscles saw that Kang Peng didn't speak, and she had already knelt down for Kang Peng, kowtowing more than once, "Master Jun, I beg you, the slave family is not hungry, just ask you to give my child some food." ”

Although it is not the first time to see this kind of scene, Kang Peng is still very uncomfortable in his heart, this woman may have a happy home, causing her current situation, and he has to take most of the credit. Kang Peng shook his head and said, "Give her something to eat and give her some rice soup for her child." Kang Peng added, "Give them some more clothes." ”

Kang Peng's personal soldiers quickly fetched food and clothes, the woman was so excited that she kowtowed like pounding garlic, not waiting for Kang Peng to help her up, but there were countless refugees around her, a pair of thin or shriveled hands stretched out in front of Kang Peng, pleading and crying endlessly, all begging Kang Peng to give alms food, old or young, the oldest was at least seventy or eighty years old, the youngest was only as tall as Kang Peng's thighs, in the blink of an eye, Kang Peng and his party were surrounded by several layers of Nuoda, and Kang Peng's personal soldiers brought food and clothes were distributed in an instant.

"Go and get it again, in addition to what the army should get from the book, and bring all the things in the big tent." Kang Peng said sharply, there are many two princesses in Kang Peng's big tent, Cai Wenji, Fu Yu, Xiu'er and a few little girls, as well as Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao, and the Chang'an food and clothes made for him brought to him are things that Kang Peng can use without going through military affairs.

Kang Peng carefully looked at the victims gathered around, and saw that almost all of them were old and weak women and children, and looked around at the surrounding wilderness, doubting in his heart, so he asked Lu Sudao, who was traveling with him: "Zijing, where are the young and strong men here?" Also, the prime minister sent Zilong to bring a large amount of military rations to relief first, why don't you see the porridge shack? ”

Lu Su was also a little inexplicable, and replied: "Back to Taishi, most of the young and strong men here have been recruited to repair and widen the plank road, so men are relatively rare, but the villain in the porridge shed does not know, only that General Zilong has rushed to Xichong to collect the young and strong victims." ”

"Master Jun, are you asking about the porridge shed set up by the White Horse General?" A white-haired old man heard Kang Peng and Lu Su's conversation, and interjected: "When that white horse general was in Brazil, we could eat two Taishi heads a day. ”

Kang Peng smiled bitterly, the steamed buns he invented before Zhuge Liang have now become his own heads. Kang Peng asked, "Old man, what about now?" Didn't they send it? ”

The old man said indignantly: "Five days ago, after the white horse general went to Xichong, the military master here changed his sex, and the first master did not send any money, so he could only sell it with money, and the last bit of money we snatched out of the fire was all looted by them, or the young girl went to accompany them, in order to get a little food." ”

"What?" Kang Peng was furious and said angrily: "Old man, where are they? Take me to meet them. ”

Lu Su saw that Kang Peng was angry, and knew that another bloody storm was coming, so he gave Kang Peng's personal army captain a look, and Kang Peng's personal soldier captain understood, first sent someone back to move the troops, and took some food for the old man, so he went with the old man to find Dong Zhuojun's forward team.

As soon as Kang Peng arrived at the periphery, he found that there were thousands of yellow-skinned victims outside the camp, and the smell of steamed grain wafted from the camp. Seeing this, Kang Peng's pro-soldiers grabbed the guns and knives to separate the road and make way for Kang Peng.

As soon as he arrived at the camp gate, Kang Peng heard the lewd laughter of the man in the camp and the delicate screams of the girl, and the sentry in front of the camp saw that it was Kang Peng, and he was so frightened that he ran to Kang Peng and knelt down, Kang Peng didn't look at them, and said sharply: "Open the gate of the village, I want to see the real picture, who has such a beautiful fortune?" ”

The gate of the village opened quickly, Kang Pengxin stepped into the camp, the people of Yizhou around saw this, all exchanged heads and ears, guessing Kang Peng's identity, at this time, the soldiers sent by Lu Su to mobilize had also arrived, Lu Bu and Pang De personally led five thousand iron cavalry to arrive, and Kang Peng camped together.

In the big tent, dozens of young Yizhou girls were disheveled and crying, but more than a dozen middle-level officers of Dong Zhuojun were laughing obscenely, and there were one or two girls in their arms, and in front of them, there were mountains of wine, meat and food. Kang Peng walked into the big tent with a blue face, under the light in the tent, Kang Peng's fat face muscles were distorted, the copper bell eyes were like goose eggs, the toad's lips were chewing non-stop, and the inch-long beard was angry.

"Mom!" The first to scream was not those delicate girls, but the highest-ranking general of Dong Zhuojun's officer in the tent - one of Zhao Yun's lieutenants, the rest of the generals in the tent Dong Zhuojun looked up, they were so frightened that they almost crawled to Kang Peng and knelt down, while Zhao Yun's lieutenant general was motionless, Lu Bu rushed up to mention him, but saw that he was spitting blue and yellow sticky foam, and he was already scared to death.

"Pull it out and whip the corpse, chop it up and feed it to the dogs!" Kang Peng was so angry that he was trying to subdue the hearts of the people of Yizhou, but these bastards were pulling back behind their backs and eating the people of Yizhou. Kang Peng viciously glanced at the Dong Zhuojun officers who were kneeling in front of him, and said, "Pull it down and cut it down, and use military justice." ”

"Master spare your life! The master spares his life! The officers were so frightened that they were incontinent and shouted: "Master, the villains deserve to die, but please spare our dog's life for the sake of the villains who are usually born and die for you." ”

"Don't forgive!" Kang Peng had the intention to use the heads of these unlucky people to deter the whole army, win the hearts of the people of Yizhou for himself and warn Dong Zhuojun and others, gritted his teeth and said: "Disobedience and dereliction of duty, causing the victims to die of hunger and cold, should be beheaded!" Adulterous people's daughters, two should be beheaded! Deduct the life-saving food of the victims, loot the people's wealth, and behead three times! With these three slashes, even if it is the henchman of the original phase and the righteous son of his siblings, he will not be spared! ”

In a moment, more than a dozen bloody human heads hung in front of Dong Zhuojun's camp, and the disaster relief food and clothes withheld in the camp were also distributed. Kang Peng also ordered Zhao Yunguan to be demoted by one level and punished for his dereliction of duty as a sign of his example.

"Taishi, you are too heavy on General Zilong, right?" Lu Su persuaded Kang Peng: "The matter has been investigated, General Zilong did not know, and when he was in Brazil, he also completed the task of relieving refugees and organizing migrant workers, and punishing him again will only hurt General Zilong's heart." ”

Kang Peng shook his head and said: "No, he doesn't know how to use people, and his subordinates are not strict, this is already a light punishment, how can he be released again?" Kang Peng said sharply again: "Pass the order, there will be people who dare to do the same thing in the future, no matter who it is, from the heavy punishment!" ”

Lu Su smiled bitterly, and wanted to persuade again, but Jia Xu smiled and said, "Zijing, do you dare to bet with me?" Whoever loses will take out half a year's Yulu to help the refugees, I bet that if Zilong learns that the Taishi only demotes him by one level, he will definitely write to ask the Taishi to demote him by three levels. ”

Lu Su thought about it, rolled his eyes and said: "My family property in Huainan has been seized by Yuan Shu, and I rely on Yulu to support my family, this kind of gambling that must be lost, don't gamble!" ”

As Kang Peng, Jia Xu and others expected, the news spread, and Zhao Yun, an honest man who was easy to bully, heard that it was his own fault, and immediately wrote to ask Kang Peng to demote him to three levels. And Dong Zhuojun's generals distributed in various places quietly and strictly restrained their subordinates, not allowing their subordinates to repeat the mistakes of the past, and Li Dao, who was far away in Guanghan, was even more frightened to put nearly a thousand girls in the camp home overnight, and only dared to sleep alone with the Longyan witch every night. However, the people of Yizhou let go of their hearts when they mentioned their throats, and their resistance to Dong Zhuojun was also dissipated a lot, which saved Dong Zhuojun a lot of trouble.

The news spread farther and farther, until it reached the isolated Third Army of Yizhou in the middle of the river, and Li Yan and Li Hui's position was even more swaying, just when Zhang Ren arrived with Jia Long's suicide note, Li Yan and Li Hui cried and wept, and then took 60,000 Yizhou troops to surrender to the third army of Dong Zhuojun, which was slightly inferior in strength. At this point, the three main corps of the Yizhou Army were all wiped out, and nearly half of them were attributed to Dong Zhuojun, which expanded the scale of Dong Zhuo's army to a real 400,000 people, and also replenished the shortage of transportation manpower. The supply route from Wuzhangyuan to Jiangyou through Wenshan was fully opened, which greatly reduced the transportation pressure of Meridian Valley and Chencang Road.