Chapter Ninety-Three: Lower Yangzhou

In the city of Yangzhou, the sound of crying, the sound of artillery fire, and the sound of the raging fire are mixed together. It was the sound of the battlefield.

Even though Zhang Xuan intended to restrain himself. But when there is a real fight, it will also hurt the innocent, and the soldiers will also use murder weapons, so there is no mistake.

After Cao Zongyu tried it, Zhang Xuan started to attack from the place with the least buildings outside Yangzhou, that is, the northwest foot, and even so, burned a vacant land outside Yangzhou as a passage for the army to attack.

The city walls of Yangzhou are also in disrepair.

After all, as a city wall wrapped in layers of buildings, how many people pay attention to it, plus the people who defend above the city head, they have no experience, but after a day or two, they opened a corner of the city wall, stuffed a few coffins, and blasted the city wall out of a hole with a roar. Large patches of earthen walls were toppled to the ground, creating a gentle slope.

"Kill." The Nanyang battalion rushed in first. The sound of fierce shouting and killing came from the city of Yangzhou.

"The big picture is decided." Zhang Xuan said: "Just wait for General Cao's good news." ”

At this time, even if Shi Kefa has three heads and six arms, he can't save the situation.

However, after attacking Yangzhou City, Zhang Xuan was a little surprised.

After all, in many places in Henan, the city wall fell, and few people could hold on, but in Yangzhou City, even if the city wall was breached, the war still did not end, and it lasted for a whole afternoon.

Zhang Xuan entered the city from the north gate.

At this moment, the prosperous city of Yangzhou is like a dead city.

It's not that there is no one, but everyone is hiding in their homes. Don't dare to show your head, on the street, there are only corpses.

Zhang Xuan has seen a lot of such scenes, but he suddenly stopped on the horse. Because he saw a corpse in the corner. I don't think so.

Zhang Xuan turned over and dismounted, came to the corner of the street, and picked up a straw mat with a sheathed long knife, but saw a woman lying on the ground in disheveled, the clothes on her thighs were taken off, and her hands seemed to want to grasp something, hooking them tightly.

"What's going on?" Zhang Xuan said with a finger of the sheathed long knife.

It's not that Zhang Xuan can't see a woman die.

He has seen a lot of life and death, not to mention a mere female corpse, even if dozens of corpses are placed in front of him, he doesn't blink his eyes, without him, he has seen a lot, but this woman died in the wrong way.

It is obvious that he was humiliated to death, and it seems that he is not doing things alone.

Zhang Xuan can be very strict with military discipline, but the specifications are not too high, if it is just to take the sheep by the hand, take something from the people. Zhang Xuan turned a blind eye. As long as you don't kill, everything is fine

Say. Of course, it can't be too obvious, as long as it makes trouble, Zhang Xuan finds one and disposes of one. As for no one making trouble, Zhang Xuan can treat it as if it didn't happen.

It's not that Zhang Xuan doesn't want to be stricter. It's that it's impossible to be too demanding.

First, there is the problem of the quality of soldiers, many people were born as robbers before, so it is not realistic for him to immediately change his mind. Second, it is also a matter of treatment, even now Zhang Xuan has no military salary in the army. Although after winning each battle, the spoils obtained by Zhang Xuan would be distributed to the people below. But these things are distributed to everyone, and they are also very meager, it is not that Zhang Xuan is corrupt, but that Zhang Xuan wants to put a large amount of materials into the training of the army.

Weapons, food, training, clothing, all that doesn't cost money.

The people in the upper class can see the great future, after all, there is the name of the founding hero, and they are naturally willing to contribute, but the people below do not have that vision, in their opinion, the brothers follow you, holding their heads and working hard, and then you will get benefits, but because of trivial things, you will fight and kill. People's hearts are uneven.

Therefore, Zhang Xuan's military law scale can only obey reality.

But there is one thing that Zhang Xuanqian has instructed, that is, it is never allowed to kill people, and it is not allowed to commit adultery or abuse women. These two shall cause death to the offender.

And when Zhang Xuan saw this scene today, how could he not be angry.

What made Zhang Xuan even more angry was that he understood too well that there was only one person who could reach his eyes, so the people below would dare to do ten, this was a main road, the road that Zhang Xuan had to pass through, these people would not even cover it, and they would not cover it very much, if they were in the alleys, what kind of situation would occur, Zhang Xuan didn't dare to think about it.

He never dared to overestimate the human nature in war, whether it is the enemy or his own side, because war is an act that destroys human nature.

"Let Cao Zongyu come and see me." Seeing that no one dared to answer, Zhang Xuan said sharply: "I'll wait for him here, Qin Meng." ”

"The end will be." Qin Meng said immediately.

"I order you to inspect all parts of Yangzhou City, and behead anyone who robs the people's property, kills my people, beheads, and those who abuse women."

"Yes." Qin Meng said.

Qin Meng immediately put his soldiers in a team of 100 people and began to patrol around. He Hutou dispersed Zhang Xuan's personal guards to guard and protected Zhang Xuan in the middle.

"Brother-in-law." After a while, Zhang Xuan's entourage dispersed, and He Hutou saw that there was no one around Zhang Xuan. said: "When my father was there, he said, when it is appropriate, let the people below go to the fire to lead the troops, Yangzhou is so big, I am dazzled." There are some things that should not be pursued too much. ”

Zhang Xuan glanced at He Hutou, and didn't know what to say for a while.

Yes, the method He Hutou said is very practical. Daming is used by many people. Even the big plaintext

While angrily denouncing the bad discipline of the officers and soldiers, the ministers felt that only the army with poor military discipline had combat effectiveness.

And the general, who was born as a thief, also regarded it as a wise saying.

What to do if morale is not high? Grab a handful. What if the people below don't obey the discipline, let them grab a handful.

Even He Hutou had this thought, let alone other generals, and for a while, Zhang Xuan once again felt that he was out of place with the whole world.

"If you just want to be a thief, that's fine." Zhang Xuan said: "But I don't want to be a thief. ”

"But isn't that the case with all the officers and soldiers?" He Hutou said.

"So the officers and soldiers can't fight." Zhang Xuan said.

"What about the Eastern? Dongyu has gone even further than us, and it is simply inhumane, so can Dongyu fight? He Hutou looked at Zhang Xuan and asked a question.

Zhang Xuan didn't know how to answer for a while.

Is there a relationship between justice and combat effectiveness? For He Hutou and more pragmatists, if justice does not bring combat effectiveness, they would rather be unjust, kindness cannot bring combat effectiveness, they would rather not be kind, abide by military discipline and not commit the slightest offense, if it can bring combat effectiveness, they are naturally willing to do so. But if the opposite is true, then it is inevitable that there will be resistance in the army.

Zhang Xuan couldn't speak.

"General Cao has arrived." A soldier came to Zhang Xuan and said.

Zhang Xuan saw Cao Zongyu coming over from a distance and put this question aside.

Cao Zongyu dismounted from a distance, walked over, came to Zhang Xuan's side, and when he saw the woman's body, he fell to his knees with a thud and said, "The last general is not strict, please punish the general." ”

"It's no wonder that you, the good and the bad in the Xuzhou army are uneven. I know that, too. Zhang Xuancai would not punish his right-hand man, but his tone was solemn and said: "It's just that this matter is indispensable, Qin Meng has already gone to inspect the whole city, you can put down the rest of the things, and put the Xuzhou army in order for me, the looters, the punishment, the murderer, the death, the obscene and the abuser, also die." ”

"Yes." Cao Zongyu said.

Zhang Xuan saw the anger on Cao Zongyu's face, it didn't look like a fake, and he secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, if even Cao Zongyu didn't understand it, Zhang Xuan would have to compromise one or two ways to clean up military discipline, fortunately, Cao Zongyu is not the kind of person who is short-sighted.

However, this incident also reminded Zhang Xuan that the treatment in the army was going to be increased.

Money may not be able to sell combat effectiveness, but it can't even be given military salaries, and there is no combat effectiveness at all, Zhang Xuan was short of money before, so he naturally didn't dare to mention this stubble, but now that he has gone down to Yangzhou, he thinks of the salt merchants in Yangzhou. Zhang Xuan's eyes were full of gold, in their eyes, where these people were people, they were all money bags who could act.

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