Chapter 560: Slaughter the City
The city of Cavins is not large, the circumference is only twelve miles, the height of the wall is less than two zhang, and when you get closer, you can see that the city wall is actually only more than one and a half zhang.
After the coalition forces entered the city through several gaps, they learned that the nearby villagers had rushed into Govinns due to the raids of the coalition forces in the previous stream. The small city of Parvins, together with the fifteen miles around the city, was squeezed into nearly 100,000 people, while the defenders had only a few hundred auxiliaries and a temporary patchwork of more than 2,000 people.
The coalition army entered the city very quickly, and the city walls were blown up, and the vanguard rate under the ambush under the river bank was the first to enter the city, and the defenders broke up in astonishment. At dawn, the east gate was wide open, and nearly 10,000 allied soldiers entered the city through gaps in various places.
The city was broken, Bai Liyan immediately put away the binoculars and said to Jiang Jie:
"Jiang Jie!"
"What do you command?"
"The sky is already dark, and after four quarters of the hour, the ships are ordered to drive the new subjects to the city wall to watch the slaughter."
"This!" Jiang Jie was shocked when he heard the news.
"Do as you are told!"
"Subordinates obey!"
The people of the Central Plains have been exploited and oppressed for a long time, and the fear left by the undefeated deification and long-term repression of the Jinxuedi people is deeply seared in the hearts of every Central Plains people, making them neither dare nor be able to resist.
The massacre of the city was not only a deterrent to the Jinxuedi people, but also a means of "education" to release the long-suppressed anger and hatred of the Central Plains people. Let them understand that the Jinxuedi people are flesh and blood people, there is no natural enslavement and oppression, and they can also take up arms to kill their enemies.
After less than half an hour, the coalition army successfully controlled the four gates, and nearly 30,000 coalition sailors entered the city. The massacre began, and the streets were filled with blood and carnage.
As soon as the hour passed, the boats drove the men of the Central Plains to land and enter the city one after another, and the old soldiers drove them to the surrounding city walls to watch the slaughter of the city.
Baili Yan walked in the streets and alleys under the guard of the guards, stepping on corpses and blood, and the exotic atmosphere in the blood was so bleak.
Most of the buildings of the Jinxuedi people are brick and stone flat-roofed structures, and the houses are not very large, and the wealthy class are mostly two-story or even three-storey, and they also have their own small courtyards.
In the modern concept of description, they are all single-family villa-level high-end villa communities, even in front of the entrance and exit gates, there are more than one person high, with stone pillars carved spherical lampstand, the lampstand can still be seen erected white candles, is a luxury that can be waited.
The city politics of the Jin Xuedi people are extremely magnificent, even if it is a small county town, it is even worthy of the majesty of the Guangxin Mansion.
The two-zhang high marble pillars stand on both sides of the courtyard, the religious emblem of gold thread is hung on the lintel, and the flags of the Jinxuedi people are also inserted on both sides of the wall. Some of the remnants of the retreat to the Zhizhi continued to hide in the corner of the Zhizhi and resisted stubbornly, Sikong Nan led the corps to surround it, and with the strong stone wall, the coalition forces were stunned for half an hour and failed to break through.
"General, you're here." Sikong South Rite Road.
"How's it going?"
"After the enemy lowered the iron barrage of the office, it was difficult for our army to penetrate from the outside, and many brothers were wounded by crossbow shots, and now they can only surround it, and are preparing to blow it up with gunpowder."
Bai Liyan glanced at the gate of the governance office, which was different from the large wooden door with double open vermilion lacquer color in the Central Plains, and the gate of the Jin Xuedi people's governance office was actually a grid-shaped iron grille:
"Be careful when you bomb, beware of attacking it and burying your own people!"
"The last general obeys!"
The masonry building is not as good as the wooden mortise and tenon structure, its structure is unstable, the seismic resistance is very poor, and there is no steel bar, the masonry itself is load-bearing, and it is easy to collapse on a large scale under severe vibration.
The gunpowder was quickly transported to the scene, and the coalition forces piled two large barrels of gunpowder under the corners of the walls on both sides of the iron fence with wooden shields, and the fuse was stretched for 50 steps.
With an explosion, the flames burst into the sky, and the entire stone wall within a radius of more than ten meters of the iron fence was shattered, and the marble pillars were shattered into stones, and the second floor was crushed on the first floor, and the heart-rending screams were endless.
Sikong Nan wanted to attack the office, but was blocked by Baili Yan:
"At the moment, our army is not short of time, so we will continue to surround it first, let people pour alcohol and oil into it, and set fire to them, so as not to kill their own people in vain."
"The general is wise!"
The coalition forces have enough time to attack and occupy Govins, and their own people can die one by one, and there is no need to launch a strong attack for time and take more people's lives.
The massacre lasted a whole day, and by dusk in the afternoon the scouts had arrived, and the chasing Jinshedi were still fifty miles away from Pagens.
At night, Bailiyan placed the Chinese army in a watchtower at the head of the south gate, and the torches in the hands of the Jin Xuedi cavalry on the other side of the small river in the north of the city were clear at a glance, but I don't know how they felt when they were slaughtered at this moment, and whether they also felt the pain of the Central Plains people after being slaughtered and raped.
When he was young, Jiang Jie led two Xianjun veterans to the watchtower with a heavy wooden box half a meter square and a foot and a half deep, and the smile on his face was reminiscent of the diamond he had discovered.
"Lord Qiqi, our army has plundered countless gold and silver in this battle, this is the gem obtained from each battalion, please take a look!"
Jiang Jie ordered the old man to put the wooden box on the ground and lifted the wooden lid, and it could be seen that all kinds of jewelry were dazzling, but the word "gem" still had to be considered. A chest full of jewels, in addition to diamonds and colored gemstones, there are many amber, pearls, agate, jade, and even crystals and garnets.
After looking at the gem, Bailiyan asked:
"How much grain, grass, gold and silver will be harvested?"
"The subordinates were about to talk about this time, according to the interrogation of the new attached army, after the Jin Xuedi people poisoned the grain depot in the village, more rations in the village were transferred to the nearby small town, and recently it was the autumn harvest, all in the city of Cavins, and the grain and grass obtained from the official warehouse were nearly 400,000 stones. This is not counting the grain stored in the homes of the wealthy, the city and the people in the city, and it is conservatively estimated that this part of the grain and grass must be at least more than 300,000 stones, or even more. ”
"The Central Plains has been plagued by war for many years, and the people have been starving and cold, but they have enough food and clothing, and they are really shameless!"
In addition, General Sikong found a vault in the administrative office, and seized more than 5,000 gold coins and more than 70,000 silver coins. By the time he was subordinated, more than 28,000 gold coins and nearly 200,000 silver coins had been plundered in the city.
And this is still a small city in the remote part of the periphery, and the richness of its hinterland is afraid that it is far above Guangxin and Chenling. The old soldiers of each battalion are privately preaching, saying that if they are killed all the way to Posong City, they can go back to beg the girls. ”
Jiang Jie laughed as he spoke, but Bai Liyan shook his head:
"Where is it so easy, the more than 800,000 barbarian troops behind him are not furnished, if it is really easy for our army to kill home, the countries of the Central Plains will already wave their troops south, where will it be our turn to get our army."
"What my lord said is that this battle is easy, and the battalions are a little dizzy."
"That's a good point. Tell me to pass on the message, whether it is the coalition army or the new annexed army, remember to the general, the barbarian army is too great to underestimate the enemy, and those who dare to slack off the enemy today will be fined 20 military sticks, and those who are serious will be beheaded. ”
"Yes!" Jiang Jie responded, and then changed his words: "By the way, my lord, a total of 239 adulterers have been captured in each battalion, and they are waiting to be released. ”
Hearing the news that two hundred and thirty-nine people had committed adultery, Baili Yan was taken aback, this rate was quite high.
"Whoever does not do so will be abolished, and since there is a word in the first place, and those who do not respect the order will be punished by military law, and all adulterers will be punished in the city at noon tomorrow, and each of them will be punished with thirty military sticks."
"My lord, why don't you be tortured tonight, but wait until noon tomorrow."
"Hehe......" Bai Liyan smiled faintly, with an unfathomable expression: "The autumn cold is pressing now, this has just done that, if this is tortured immediately, they will not be wasted for the rest of their lives." Rest for the night tonight, and tomorrow at noon, the yang energy is in full swing, and the punishment is justified. Remember, let them eat and drink enough tonight, lest they survive tomorrow. ”
"Oh......"
Extraordinary measures should be taken in extraordinary times, the composition of the coalition forces is complex, the navy army is composed of forty percent of the new people, the people's morale is unstable, and the quality is uneven; it is not realistic to restrain a modern army and a group of illiterate villagers and wild men, and it is not conducive to control it if the control is too strict.
Of course, excessively lax military discipline also brings about vicious incidents such as disobedience to discipline and self-discipline, and even inflated ambition and self-reliance, and it is necessary to appropriately suppress it. Thirty boards will not be fatal, but it is enough to make you half dead, and you will not be able to turn over any big waves.
So at noon the next day, each battalion sent "tigers and wolves" to the square to observe the criminal law, and at the same time, the new subjects also watched the punishment, and they also gave them a warning.
The municipal construction of the Jinxuedi people can be called luxurious, a small county town, but also built a huge square with an area of more than 10,000 square meters, the ground is all high-quality stone paving, there is a pool in the center, and the functional facilities are not inferior to the capital of the Xianguo city.
The cavalry of the Kincherdes attempted to force their way through the night, but were repulsed by the allied forces with powder boats, and were forced to make a detour to the west, and the vanguard reached thirty miles west of Pagens on the afternoon of the third day.
After the coalition army slaughtered the city in one day, all the corpses were thrown into the river, and all the Jinxuedi people in the city were expelled from Patins, and all the men and women of the new subjects moved into the city.
Three days after the destruction of the city of Chapters, the news reached the Mooney base camp, and learned that the people of the Central Plains had been robbed and the city of Chapters was slaughtered, and he almost wanted to vomit blood in anger:
"These butchers, the moon god will curse them!"
"Your Excellency, at the slightest order, our warriors can attack Dranky from the mountain pass and the east bank of the West River at any time to wash away the shame of Parvins!" Norrengar Road.
"No, it's not Deranki's problem now, the northerners took us by surprise and robbed the people of the Central Plains, in the long run, their people will fight more and more, and our surface front is too long, they have dared to attack our towns, this is our current dilemma."
"Then why don't we move the Central Plains people east of the outskirts of Posong Province, as well as our people, to the hinterland, so that they have to travel farther, take a longer time, and it will be easier to stop them in the hinterland of Posong Province."
"Do you think I don't want to, there are hundreds of thousands of us in the eastern periphery of Posong Province, four or five hundred thousand people from the Central Plains, and more than one million and two million people have all been relocated, and the taxes lost in a year, as well as the necessary resettlement land and silver coins, will be millions, and the officials and lords of Posong Province will not bear this loss.
Moreover, it is our logistics, which is heavily dependent on the manpower east of Po Song Province, once the population is moved, not only will it be a financial loss, but our supply lines will also be lengthened, and the cost of supply will increase significantly, and at the same time, they will be able to cut off land and water unscrupulously, forcing our supplies to be diverted, or even robbed by them. ”
"Then what to do now, we can't watch them burn the flames of war on our land!"
"It's okay if the fighting drags on until October, come with me to Padance now."