Chapter 1204: Refugee Tide

The next day, that is, on November 11, the merchant army that received the order took the lead in expelling the Qin people in Fenghao City, whether it was the mansion of the squire or the common people's residence, there were heavily armed merchant soldiers knocking on the door one by one, ordering these Qin people to leave Fenghao. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

During this period, it was inevitable that there would be clashes between the Qin people and the Wei army.

For example, in front of Ran Teng, a thousand-person general, there were two or three young men from Qin who strongly resisted, and even later copied tools such as grass forks and firewood knives, and tried to hack to death the Wei soldiers who pushed them out of the city.

Of course, the ending was that the two or three irascible Qin guys were killed on the spot by the Wei soldiers.

This is an iron rule once issued by His Royal Highness Su Wang: when a civilian of an enemy country attempts to attack with a weapon, it is regarded as a voluntary abandonment of civilian status, and he can be killed as appropriate; Otherwise, indiscriminate killing is not allowed.

Because of this, the Wei army showed no mercy to civilians who were armed with threatening tools and made obvious hostile actions.

The death of those three or two Qin Min guys made the Qin people on the nearby streets look angry, and they showed hateful eyes one by one, and even some strong guys even waited for an opportunity to sneak attack the Wei soldiers.

But when the Wei soldiers on the street did not hesitate to raise their weapons and kill a few unruly thorns, the anger of the Qin people was once again suppressed by the Wei army.

I have to say that this made Ran Teng, the general of the thousand people, a little surprised, he originally thought that the resistance of the Qin people would be more intense.

In fact, if it were replaced by other Wei troops, the Qin people would never be so "docile", because they were the Shang Shui Army, the Shang Shui Wei Division that had destroyed 200,000 Qin troops in Sanchuan County the year before last, so all the Qin people who heard about the details of this Wei army did not dare to be too presumptuous.

Of course, this is also because the Shang Shui Army has not forced these Qin people to a dead end for the time being, if they really order the slaughter of the Qin people in the city according to Sima An's words, I believe that these Qin people in the city will make a near-death blow even in the face of the suppression of the Shang Shui Army when they are alive and dead.

"Silence me!"

After the killing, a thousand people looked around at Qin Min who was still hiding in the street or in his house, and said loudly: "Why do you blame our army? If you want to blame it, blame you Qin people for sending troops to invade the territory of my Great Wei twice! …… Since you Qin people can invade the territory of my Great Wei, why can't our Wei army capture the cities of your Qin State?! …… Hum! Thank you for the kindness of His Royal Highness King Su, which is what you call "Wei Gongzi Run", if it weren't for His Royal Highness to stop him, General Sima An would have ordered the slaughter of the city and killed all of you! ”

Hearing this, the nearby Qin people panicked, after all, if the Wei army really decided to slaughter the city, they would have little power to resist, after all, they were just some civilians, how could they compare to the well-equipped and experienced Wei army.

And when they heard that they had a chance to live, these Qin people were really relieved.

It is no wonder that although the Qin people are fierce, this does not mean that the Qin people are stupid, knowing that there is no chance of victory, how can these civilians gather to attack the Wei army, so that the Wei army has an excuse to slaughter them?

Seeing this, thousands of people pointed Ran Teng in the direction of the city gate, and shouted in a deep voice: "Now, let me leave the city honestly, and I am not allowed to carry any packages!" ”

Hearing that they were not allowed to carry any packages, the nearby Qin people were in an uproar again, after all, it meant that they had to abandon their belongings and food when they left the city.

Immediately, a Qin man shouted angrily: "It's cold and snowy outside the city, you don't allow us to carry rations, this is clearly telling us to die!" ”

Hearing this, there was a crossbowman of the Shangshui Army beside Ran Teng, and he immediately aimed the crossbow in his hand at the Qin man, and the Qin people in that area of the bluff changed color, and they dared not speak in anger.

And at this time, Ran Teng reached out and pressed the crossbow in the hand of the soldier under his command, glanced at those angry and frightened Qin people with indifferent eyes, and said in a deep voice for a long time: "Permission to bring a handful of grain." After that, he quickly added: "This is the last mercy, don't get an inch!" ”

Hearing this, Qin Min's expression on the side softened slightly when he looked at Ran Teng.

In fact, they didn't expect that these fierce Wei soldiers in front of them would really give in to them.

Due to the retreat of the Wei army, the anger in the hearts of the nearby Qin people was slightly reduced.

In fact, there is not much grain in a handful, but this concession allows the Qin people to finally confirm that the Wei army in front of them is not trying to kill them all by playing this trick.

In this case, the vast majority of Qin people chose to honestly leave the city with their wives and children.

Although it is a pity that nothing can be taken away from the family, in fact, the common people of the Qin State are generally poor, and to be honest, there is really nothing valuable at home.

It was the squires and wealthy families who were really reluctant to give up their family property, but under the coercion of the Wei army, those well-dressed Qin nobles also had to abandon their family wealth and leave among the commoners.

The merchant soldiers in the city were responsible for driving the Qin people from house to house, and the merchant soldiers guarding the city gate were responsible for inspecting the belongings carried by the Qin people.

In fact, as long as these things that Qin Min carried out of the city were not too outrageous, the Shangshui soldiers stationed here would not stop them.

For example, a woman with a baby girl in her arms and two small children behind her slipped at the gate of the city, and a rice bag hidden in her arms fell.

At that time, she was so frightened that her face was like earth, she held the baby girl in her arms, let the other three children close to her, and cried with tears to the Wei soldiers at the city gate: "Please don't ...... I have four children......"

Garrisoned at the West City Gate was Xiang Li, a thousand-strong general of the Shangshui Army, and he saw this scene with his own eyes.

However, even though the woman had secretly hidden more than the standard food, Xiang Li, after glancing at the four children, only waved his hand, signaling the woman to pick up the rice bag and leave quickly.

This made the nearby Qin Min feel a little surprised after seeing it.

In fact, similar things are happening at all the gates of Fengho one after another.

Although the standard set by the officers of the merchant and naval forces in the city was that they were only allowed to carry one handful of grain, in fact, many Qin people were either wearing sheepskin jackets or wrapped in bedding when they left the city, and the Wei army also turned a blind eye to this.

This made many Qin people change their views of this Wei army: this fierce Wei army still seems to be a little humane.

Although this change was not enough to offset the hatred of these Qin people towards the Wei army, it at least reduced the antagonism between each other and reduced the unnecessary sacrifices.

Nearly a day later, thousands of Qin families in Feng Ho were expelled from the city, and the vacant houses in the city became the residence of the Wei soldiers.

Near dusk, Sima An, the general of the Dangshan Army, led thousands of Dangshan cavalry and Kajiao cavalry, with more than 200 sleigh carts full of grain, and left Fenghao.

Along the way, Sima An's cavalry encountered the Qin people, who were migrating to Xianyang.

At first, the Qin people were terrified, mistakenly believing that the Wei people had rebelled and tricked them out of the city, and tried to kill them in the freezing wilderness.

But it turned out that the cavalry led by Sima An ignored those Qin people at all and headed towards the west on their own.

In addition to Feng Hao, the Wei army also followed the orders of Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su, and expelled the Qin people in the city, which allowed the Wei army to get a lot of food and shelter for the winter.

It's just that I pity those expelled Qin people.

Fortunately, the four counties of Xiaqi, Lintong, Gaoling, and Fenghao were not far from Xianyang, and the Wei army was quite humane enough to allow these Qin people to carry some cold bedding and a small bag of food, so that the Qin people did not have too many casualties on the way to Xianyang in the snow.

On November 13, Feng Hao's Qin Min was the first to arrive at the city of Xianyang.

After seeing the tide of refugees outside the city, the Qin soldiers guarding the city were shocked and hurriedly reported to the king of Qin, who was so shocked that the king of Qin immediately came to the south gate with Zuo Shu Changwei martingale to take a look.

Because they did not receive an order from the Qin king, the Qin soldiers guarding the city did not dare to let these refugees enter the city, so those refugees gathered under the city, or waited for the city gate to open to let them in, or begged the Qin soldiers on the city wall.

I have to say that when he saw the hungry and cold situation of those refugees in the city, the king of Qin turned pale, clenched his fists, and scolded angrily: "Ji Runxiao'er, dare to expel my Great Qin people from my Great Qin land?!" ”

On the side, Zuo Shu Changwei looked at the refugees under the city, and then looked at the refugees who came one after another in the distance, and sighed slightly in his heart.

『…… It is worthy of Wei Gongzirun, who grew up in the Central Plains and was deeply involved in the cultural strategy of the Central Plains, and his strategy of chasing away the people made my Xianyang in a dilemma......

Wei Ying really admired it.

I remember that before, he was still a little worried that Qin Wangyun's refusal to make peace with the Wei army and mobilize the whole country to fight the Wei army would anger that Wei Gongzi Run, so that he would sacrifice a butcher's knife to the common people of Qin.

Who would have thought that Wei Gongzirun's methods were even more clever, and he came up with such a conspiracy to make them fall into passivity.

At this time, Qin Wangyun was angrily scolding a Xianyang nobleman who seemed to want to prevent him from opening the city gate to put in refugees: "...... The people under the city are all my Great Qin! As the king of Great Qin, how can he sit back and watch the people under his rule starve and cold? Open the gates! ”

After some scolding, the Xianyang nobles in the city tower didn't dare to say any more, after all, everyone could see that Qin Wangyun was angry at the moment.

"Boom—"

The gates of Xianyang slowly opened, and tens of thousands of refugees poured into the city.

Seeing this, the anger in Qin Wang's heart decreased slightly, but the sorrow on the face of Wei Yan beside him became stronger and stronger.

Obviously, Wei Ying knew very well that this group of refugees seeking refuge in Xianyang was by no means the last group, since that Wei Gongzirun planned to use the refugee tide to consume Xianyang's grain, so that Xianyang did not even have military rations for the expedition, then, there would definitely be a steady stream of refugees driven here by the Wei army.

At this time, Wei Ying had not yet learned about Zhao Hongrun's strategy of 'killing Qin without killing', otherwise he would have understood that in fact, Qin Wei was the first to compete between the two sides, and the winner might have been decided.