Chapter 626: Outer rats but inner wolves
The goshawk roared into the air, looking down on the earth with sharp eyes.
Ware's eyes turned white, and he used the eagle's vision to probe the four directions, and after a moment he withdrew the spell.
"Your Majesty, there is a small city twenty miles away, and the city is in chaos at the moment, I am afraid that it has been plagued by bandits and soldiers."
Li Nan is not for the people, not for the country, this time he led 30,000 elites to go thousands of miles to aid the Song Dynasty, for the sake of those Song people, so even if there is a shortage of food, he does not want to attack the state capital and plunder the good people.
At this moment, when he heard that there were bandits doing evil in the city, he could not only raise grain and grass from these wicked people, but also eliminate harm for the people, which was a matter of killing two birds with one stone, and Li Nan immediately led 5,000 cavalry straight to the city.
Although the soldiers and horses are now short of food and grass, and they are exhausted, but the cavalry is the cavalry, and in less than half an hour, Li Nan and others rushed to the front of this small city.
Li Nan stood in front of the city gate and looked up, only to see three big characters written on the city wall: "Linyi County".
There were a few rolling wooden stones thrown outside the not high city wall, and the corpses of dozens of Song soldiers fell in front of the city gate, and they should have been killed by the rolling wooden stones thrown down on Cheng's head.
After seeing these corpses, Li Nan had some numbers in his heart, it seemed that the people who were in trouble in the city were not bandits and bandits, but the routs of the Song State who had fled from elsewhere.
Elican pushed the gates open, and the crowd rode into the city, where they could see the bodies of unclothed women lying on the side of the street, some parts in a mess.
Seeing those Song soldiers who were still tossing around on women, Li Nan coldly spit out a word: "Kill!" ”
Eligon, who was born as a Roman gladiator, was also familiar with military books in the army over the years, and after receiving Li Nan's order, he sent 3,000 cavalry into the city to kill the defeated soldiers everywhere, and the remaining 2,000 cavalry were divided into four to block the four gates of Linyi County.
Even if these defeated troops of the Song State confronted the elite of the empire, they were not opponents, let alone this situation?
More than an hour later, three thousand iron horsemen traveled all over this small county town, in addition to those who were raping ** women were killed on the spot, but also caught hundreds of soldiers who were rummaging through the boxes and cabinets in the people's homes to find property and the scoundrels in the city.
Li Nan did not kill with his own hands, but ordered his soldiers to find some clothes to cover the bodies of the dead women.
The defeated soldiers and ruffians of the Song Kingdom, who knelt on the ground, faced the majestic and mighty imperial cavalry dressed in silver armor and armed with spears all around, they did not even dare to rise up at the slightest sign of resistance, and they all trembled and were silent.
No matter what era it is, as long as the enemy army enters the city, it must be these innocent women who will suffer first. The treatment of women in war has naturally become a moral yardstick for measuring war.
Not to mention the underdeveloped education system in ancient times, or the barbaric alien invasion, even in the Second World War in later generations, the Allied soldiers who were on the side of justice behaved like animals.
During World War II, the attitude of German soldiers towards women in enemy countries was much higher than that of some Allied troops because of the strong presence of racist consciousness in Germany.
The military discipline of the French army in Germany was notorious. With the strong air fire support of the American army, the French occupied Baden-Württemberg in Germany. To celebrate the victory, the soldiers starved in search of their prey in the ruins, and there was little chance that the German women who would be found by the French would survive. The youngest victim was only 14 years old, and the oldest was 74 years old.
For more than three years, the Soviet Red Army fought against Berlin by Prussia and Nazi Germany, and an estimated 2 million women were raped, some of them in gang. In Berlin alone, 130,000 women were killed, of whom 10,000 committed suicide.
Although Li Nan is extremely lustful, he can't tolerate this kind of behavior.
Since the establishment of the Chinese Empire, any soldier who dares to insult a woman during the war must be sentenced to death, and in peacetime, rape of ** women is also a felony, ranging from entering a labor camp to open mountains and building roads for decades, or directly executed.
After half a ring, Li Nan covered the last woman with clothes, and the soldiers who followed him carried the body onto the carriage that he had found, and transported it to the outside of the city for burial.
Li Nan slowly walked up to the routs and ruffians who were kneeling on the ground, and asked expressionlessly, "Where did you come from?" ”
The many routs were silent, their eyes all looking at a man in armor, while the ruffians cried out sadly: "General, you have been wronged! We are all good citizens! ”
Li Nan didn't even look at these ruffians who took advantage of the fire to rob, and directly ordered: "Cut down these self-proclaimed good people." ”
Every soldier who followed Li Nan to the Song Kingdom this time was a person who had been in battle for a long time and had seen blood.
As soon as Li Nan's words fell, the soldiers pulled out their long knives at their waists without saying a word, and then kicked them heavily in the back.
While these ruffians were crying out in pain, the Imperial soldiers swung their long knives vigorously and accurately slashed their necks, and in the rush of blood, their heads were cut off one by one.
Seeing the frightened-looking heads rolling in front of them, there was a strong smell of blood in their noses, and those Song soldiers who were kneeling in place were immediately frightened and trembled, and many of them were incontinent, and there was an unpleasant smell in the field.
After dealing with these ruffians who took advantage of the fire to rob, Li Nan looked at the person who was looking forward to the many routs, and asked coldly, "What is your name?" Where did it come from? ”
The leader of the rout, who was kneeling on the ground, originally planned to fool Li Nan under the pretext, but when he saw the other party's ruthless killing methods, those luck psychology suddenly disappeared.
This man replied humbly: "The last general is Li Kan, the soldiers and horses of Hebei Road, who was originally stationed in Cizhou. After the invasion of the Jin soldiers, the last general led more than 2,000 soldiers and civilians to resist hard, but could not match the Jin army, so they retreated here. ”
"Huh." Li Nan sneered: "Since you are a general of the Song Kingdom, why do you want to lead the rout army to burn, kill, and plunder in this Linyi County?" ”
Lieberthal explained: "The general is also the one who leads the troops, and he should know that after the defeat of the army, the morale is low and loose, and although the last general has the heart of control, he is really powerless!" ”
If it were an ordinary person, he would really believe this person's words, but Li Nan didn't believe the nonsense he said, because this guy named Li Kan was also a little famous in later generations, of course, notoriety.
"Three Dynasties and Northern Alliances, Volume 36" describes: The peace agreement has been decided, the Jin people sent 17 horsemen to report to their country, through Cizhou, Li Kan as a military officer, and undertook the purpose of covering up the killing, but led 2,000 forbidden army militia to attack it. Encountering the Seventeen Cavalry, Jin Ren said: "There is no need to use troops to talk about peace in the city, I was sent to the country by the prince Langjun." "Kan doesn't believe it, want to fight with it, the seventeen horsemen are divided into three, with seven horsemen in front, each divided into five horsemen for the left and right wings, and a little closer to the front seven horsemen galloped forward, the officers and soldiers are few, the left and right wings are covered, and gallop and shoot, the officers and soldiers rush to chaos and kill a few half.
The Jin envoy team passed through Cizhou, and the other party did not want to quarrel with the Song army, but Li Kan took the initiative to attack with more than 2,000 people, but was defeated by only 17 Jin messengers, and nearly half of them were killed and wounded.
Such a thing is rare even in the history of China for thousands of years, so Li Nan only saw it at the beginning, but he still remembered it vividly.
Although Li Nan knew about this, the others present did not know that in order to make these shameless and incompetent guts beasts suffer more, Miranda, a torture expert who had not made a move for a long time, walked towards Li Kan and the others with a smile......