Chapter 41: If God Helps
After breaking the city, Liang Shanjun stayed under the city of Xingqing Mansion for another six days, and only then did he roughly loot half of the wealth of Xingqing Mansion.
At the same time, half of the Western Thief prisoners of war in the city, as well as all the young and strong people in Xicheng District, and even teenagers over the age of twelve, were also strung with ropes, locked up in batches, and waited to be escorted back to the Hetao area and Liangshanbo.
As for the few old, weak, sick and disabled, they naturally stayed where they were and left to fend for themselves, and besides, isn't there still a Western Army?
For the Liangshan Army, the task of the Liangshan Army in this battle to destroy the summer has been completed, and the rest will be handed over to the Western Army.
Although Tong Guan and others also have a lot of opinions about Liang Shanjun's approach - the battle is not over yet, so what is the matter if they leave at this time.
But no matter how many opinions you have, you can only scold a few words in your mouth, after all, the so-called friendly army of the Liangshan Army, Lin Chong, the giant deer festival envoy of the Great Song Dynasty, is actually not under the control of the imperial court at all.
Not to mention Tong Guan, even Emperor Zhao Ji can't control every soldier of the Liangshan Army.
Moreover, the reason for the withdrawal of the Liangshan Army is also justified - we are here to help, Brother Richard's 200,000 main force was annihilated by us, Xingqing Mansion was also defeated by us, the backbone of the Dangxiang Army has been broken, and the remaining military divisions of other state capitals are just chickens and dogs, I believe that the Western Army must have no problem.
Of course, Lin Chong's true thoughts are also clear in his heart, and he knows it tacitly.
It is nothing more than wanting to use the remnants of the Western Thieves and Western Thieves to continue to firmly drag the Western Army here, and it is impossible to quickly free up their hands to support the imperial court and protect the Beijing Division.
The Liangshan army, on the other hand, could continue to maintain enough pressure on Bianjing City to force the imperial court not to dare to act rashly......
Speaking of which, this is not something that is difficult to understand, but it can be said to be Chiguoguo's conspiracy.
It's just that in front of the absolute military strength of the Liangshan Army, Tong Guan and the imperial court can only watch.
At least for the time being.
That's the most infuriating part!
In the early morning of the seventh day, the darkest period before dawn, the entire Liangshan military camp was silent.
The Liangshan army marched long distances to this northwest place, and then fought continuously, and even did such crazy things as a rapid march of more than 300 miles in a day and night, even the work of looting the spoils of war in the past few days was not easy.
At this time, even if it was iron, they all felt extremely tired, and they were relaxed after the big victory, so they all slept soundly.
There was a snoring sound everywhere, and even the guards on duty wrapped their bodies tightly, shrunk into a ball, and slept soundly with their spears in their arms.
In the corner of the camp, the western thief captives who were tied into a string of ropes and the young men in the city were also sleeping soundly at this time.
Many of them had already accepted their fate at this time, and many of them were even slightly happy in their hearts.
Although the Great Xia Kingdom was destroyed, fortunately, they saved their lives, and the Liangshan army would not kill them.
And compared to the feud of the Western Army, the Liangshan Army is still good, not only does it not kill people indiscriminately, does not rape silver women, and even hardly beats people, let alone abuses prisoners.
Not only that, Liang Shanjun also allowed them to keep some of their property, such as their clothes; And let them manage themselves, and they can barely eat enough.
Most importantly, when they get to where they want to go, they are allowed to reunite with their families!
This is already rare for captives and slaves, you must know that in the past, they have never been so warm to Han Chinese slaves who have been taken captive.
In addition, they also found that the Liangshan army, which defeated and captured them, had extremely good military discipline, and what were the three major disciplines and eight points of attention, not mistreating prisoners, and so on.
That Lin Junzhu is not a brutal person, except for repeatedly saying that the western thief has been doing evil for a hundred years, every party member is guilty, and the party sergeant is even more unforgivable, and ordered to cut off the thumb of every party sergeant, the others can be called quite benevolent.
This is a truly benevolent and civilized army, not a barbaric army like the steppe, which does not treat prisoners of war and the enemy people as human beings at all, and takes pleasure in killing people......
Moreover, according to the Liangshan sergeant who was in charge of them, they should go to the Wushuhai City (Black Mountain Weifu Military Division) in the Hetao area to build the city and participate in the reclamation, or be sent to Liangshan to work on the construction site.
It is said that the Liangshan army would immigrate from the eastern part of the Song Kingdom to the city of Wuthorn Sea, whether it was in Liangshanbo or in the city of Wuthorn Sea, they would eat, live and work together with the workers of the Song State.
The only difference was that the workers of the Song Kingdom were paid every month and did not need to be guarded; Not only did they have to be guarded at all times, but their wages were only one-tenth of that of the Song people, which lasted for thirty years.
Of course, if you do a good job or make a contribution, the time of these 30 years cannot be reduced.
Most of the party members even thought that this result was very good, after all, the people of Liangshanjun could have killed them, raped their wives and daughters, and abused them like pigs and dogs......
But they didn't do it, isn't that great mercy?
Some people accept their fate, and naturally there are also slaves who are not willing to be slaves of the Liangshan Army from now on, even if this slave is treated relatively well, they still yearn for freedom and are eager to be able to return to the country.
Even if they couldn't, even if they fled to the Tibetan region or the Xizhou Uighurs (present-day Turpan region) with the Dangxiang tribesmen, it would be better to send people under the fence to be mercenaries than to be slaves for the Liangshan army that destroyed them.
Now is undoubtedly their last and best chance to escape.
In the corner where no one was looking, the curtain of a tent was quietly lifted, and a pair of eyes looked around vigilantly, and then someone sneaked out, followed by a second, then a third, and a fourth......
Relying on feeding the horses in the camp for a few days and familiarizing themselves with the terrain, these ten people found out of the camp without danger all the way, and even stole twelve war horses full of dry food outside the camp.
A squad that was supposed to patrol was hiding around a campfire somewhere, drinking, eating meat and eating cowhides, and then they stole the horses without them knowing.
Thinking of the thrills and dangers along the way, and the fact that they picked up a short knife and hid it secretly without being discovered yesterday, these people couldn't help but say in their hearts that God helped me, and good luck couldn't stop it.
It seems that God doesn't want us to be enslaved either! The restoration of the Great Xia Kingdom is expected!
But the most important thing right now is to quickly flee to Xiliang Mansion and tell the defenders there about what happened here......
The ten men thought so, and then sneaked all the way out into the wilderness, and it was only by this time that their good luck finally ran out, and they were discovered by another group of Liangshan military sentinels, and then fled all the way.
On the other side, Lin Chong, who had just gotten up, received the news that someone had escaped, and he nodded indifferently: "Okay, the matter here is complete, and our soldiers will go home in two ways......"