Chapter 568: Unreasonable

I ate a little something, provided by the Huazhou Northern Army, and also had the dry food I carried, and rested for an hour, all of which regained some strength.

During this period, the officers of Tielingwei also tried to ask the other party what kind of army it was, what its origins were, and the other party's complete advantage, and they did not slaughter in this place, indicating that the matter was still worth discussing.

The name "Huazhou" was completely unfamiliar to these Ming soldiers, and they were still asking each other if it was somewhere in the Guannei, but they couldn't inquire about anything more.

After all, the main body of the Ming Dynasty is also the Han people, and there is still an internal contradiction and the difference between life and death, but there is absolutely no hand left on the battle array, and after answering a few questions, the soldiers also began to get impatient, and began to drive the Ming army towards the way they came according to the officer's order.

At this time, the side wall defense was empty, not even any defense, more than 7,000 people who went out to make a fortune, leaving a few hundred old and weak to reach the sky, and the rest were looking forward to the property snatched back by the soldiers, followed by the military families who shared the profits, and everyone did not realize what danger there was when they went there.

The only thing to worry about is that someone reported the sin of so many soldiers leaving the side wall without permission to the general army of Liaozhen, and some businessmen have been agitating there, saying that you are waiting for the benefits, and you can make a fortune when you come back, and the valuable things over there are piled up, and you can live for a long time if you grab a little back.

It took a day and a night to go back and forth on the road, and on the morning of the second day of the soldiers' departure, many merchants stayed in their homes, and if anyone asked why, they said that they were full of spirits and waited for the evening to receive the goods. At the door of the house where some merchants lived, I didn't know what was so particular, and they also painted a few circles with white ash.

Tielingwei is actually the size of a small city, and in the middle of the night, this city also has to close the city gate according to the routine to prevent thieves from invading, but hundreds of old and weak people are scattered all over Tieling, and there are more than a dozen people guarding the city gate, and they don't realize any danger at all.

In the middle of the night, many people came out of the merchant's house, about a hundred, looking at the clothes of the merchant's men, and after these people went out, they whispered a few words to each other, and walked towards the city gate.

The gates were closed, and the soldiers who guarded the city were sleeping there, and these men did not open the gates with much effort, and those who guarded the gates were bound and strong.

There were also watchmen and patrols who came over to ask what was going on, but there were people wearing the uniforms of guarding the city who answered sleepily that the world was too peaceful, and there was nothing going on. The person who asked asked casually asked, and then went back to sleep by himself, and no one was worried, and no one felt that there would be any danger.

Even in Liaozhen, those who were wary of the displaced people outside the border and outside the border walls would not feel that there would be any danger at this time, and it was impossible for the battles of this era to violate the laws of agricultural production, just like those captured Ming army officers discussed with each other, how could these people come to do it at this time, and were they not afraid of delaying the farm and harvest?

In this agricultural society, the only time when there will be some surplus of grain is in autumn and winter, which is also the time when the horses are fat in autumn.

Similarly, the nomads attacked the Central Plains and the south at this time, firstly, the state of the horses could be guaranteed, and secondly, the looting of the customs was entered, and the grain and grass reserves used by the households in the pass for the winter could be turned into their provisions, and they could continue to attack the south by plundering.

But if war is waged at this time, the war will draw a large number of young and strong laborers, and the fields will mainly depend on these people for cultivation, and without the fields, they will be abandoned.

Moreover, wars generally do not end in a short period of time, if it lasts until the autumn harvest, I am afraid that even the autumn harvest will be delayed, so that the harvest of one year will be wasted, and the grain harvest of the next year will be directly delayed, and such damage is too great for the country.

Therefore, wars generally take place in autumn, and Liaozhen's combat readiness is only to guard against those small-scale conflicts in peacetime, and only in autumn and winter does Liaozhen enter a state of combat at any time.

In everyone's hearts, when the people of Liaozhen are farming, the people outside the border wall and the Great Wall are either farming or grazing, everyone is accumulating grain, grass and horses, who will have time to fight. It has been a hundred years since Liaozhen was set up as a military town, and even the women and children in it know about military affairs, and they all know that there is no war in spring, summer, early autumn, and no one would have thought that there would be an army, and it was launched at this time without any common sense.

According to the convention, the food in the rear is abandoned, and the supply on the front line cannot keep up, and the soldiers will also be resentful because there is no one to serve the fields at home, and their families are hungry, and there will be no reserve of food, there will be famine, large-scale chaos, and instability in the rear, not to mention the conquest war in front.

However, Huazhou belongs to the existence that is completely beyond their prediction, first, Huazhou relies on the cultivation of homesteaders and serfs, and the labor efficiency is very high, second, the fertile black soil outside the customs is already a rare high-yield grain field after several years of tending, and third, Huazhou's amazing financial resources to purchase grain everywhere to supplement it, as long as the sea transportation is still in the hands of Huazhou, then there will be a large amount of grain supply through Vladivostok, through the Tumen River constantly replenished the past.

And unlike the idea of cold weapon warfare that simply competes for the number of people, Huazhou takes more of the route of elite soldiers, because the introduction of firearms can make fewer people have greater killing, so that there is no need for too many soldiers, and when there are fewer soldiers, the supplies needed are much less, at least the demand for food is like this.

Moreover, because of the preferential treatment of military families, the fields of soldiers, the civil officials and agricultural officials of the town guards must regularly coordinate and arrange people to cultivate them, which is actually the burden of forced labor required by the democracy of Huazhou, and of course it is not too heavy, because in the northern capital of Huazhou, these things are made by slaves.

As for weapons and equipment, those are all things that Huazhou has to consider in the trade and handicraft industry of this era, and Huazhou's accumulated financial resources are already sufficient. At present, a large part of the trade of Huazhou's merchant fleet is already saltpeter, leather and medicinal herbs, which are all materials prepared for the war.

These things are not understood by the officers and soldiers of Liaozhen, who have been bored with their heads to cultivate land and do not know what is going on in the world, and they also do not understand that the merchants in Huazhou, except for the Sanjiang Commercial Bank, are strictly forbidden to go out of the border wall to do business, and the displaced people in the border area have not taken the land route for a long time, and they all go to sea in Dengzhou and enter Vladivostok. The trade of horses and daily necessities in the steppes was carried out by specially designated caravans.

Whether it is the grassland, Beifu (outside the Guan), Huazhou, Yizhou, the people in these places can only enter and not leave, if they leave without authorization, they can only cut off their heads.

Such a huge project, and there are many inconveniences, but Huazhou has always been strict and strict without hesitation, just to keep the news of Huazhou secret.

In fact, they did it, and they did it very well, plus the East Party was in power, and the intelligence system of the Ming Dynasty was almost collapsed, everyone had an extremely vague concept of Huazhou, and the border guards of the Ming Dynasty were even more so.

The remaining residents of the main city of Tieling were awakened by the sound of horses' hooves in the middle of the night, and most of them went out in surprise, hoping to see their men return with their belongings.

But those who went out saw completely strange troops, dressed in armor that they had never seen before, with spears and guns in their hands, riding tall horses, walking silently and solemnly through the streets, followed by soldiers in square formations, marching in orderly steps.

In the middle of the procession, several loud voices stood on the cart and shouted the orders of the army:

"After the sun sets, no pedestrians, cars and horses are allowed on the street, otherwise they will be killed. Ten households are classified as one Jia, one household is guilty, all Jia is guilty, and everything else is as usual, Huazhou military discipline is strict, and there is no invasion, burning, and killing......"

Many people just stood at the door of the house in a daze, unbelievably watching the strange army drive into the city under the light of the torches, the Ming Dynasty is almost two hundred years old, Liaozhen is the first time to encounter such a scene, and the other party looks at the appearance and clothing, although it is different from the Ming Dynasty, but it is the Han family system.

At night, the torches were shining, and many people felt that they were not in a dream, and they were quiet for a long time before someone reacted, their relatives should not be able to come back, a woman's low sobs came out, and there were gradually sad voices in other places, but everyone was suppressing their voices, these military families knew that they were a little careless, but they would be killed immediately, and there was no human mercy to talk about in the war of the army.

The commander of Tielingwei was standing on his roof, looking at the soldiers surrounded outside, his expression was sluggish, he didn't know what to do at this time, thinking that he was obviously here to make a fortune, why did he do such a thing? Being caught and imprisoned, escaping and falling into the guard is a capital crime, there is no choice, the commander took out the sword at his waist, handed it to the soldiers on the side, and said in a trembling voice:

"Cut me, I can't do it myself."

The commander of Tielingwei made a martyrdom and killed himself, and Tielingwei fell......