Chapter Ninety-Five: Are You Deserters?
When he first entered Henan, he gave Su Dao only one word, poor. There were rammed houses everywhere, and thin people stood in the dark, secretly probing the appearance of the 99th Army. The war seemed to be far away from them, they only knew that there was a fight in the east, but they didn't have any worries, in their consciousness, maybe the devil would have to come from the east, at least ten days and half a month.
It's just that when they saw the Ninety-Nine Army, their hearts suddenly tightened, and they went home to pack some clothes, dry food and money, and planned to go out and flee.
The battle in the east is hot, and it stands to reason that the troops should go from the west to the east, but now that such a large army suddenly appears from the east to the west, it will inevitably make the people mistakenly think that the war in the east has failed, so this is the current scene.
The people don't go to see if this army is depressed and has no fighting spirit, they don't have time to pay attention to so much, and they don't understand these things, subconsciously tell them, don't care so much, just leave home and run for your life. Of course, there are also a small number of people who refuse to leave their homes and flee, and how can they bear the fact that their hometown, where they have lived for so many years, will suddenly flee into the wilderness?
Soon, Su Dao also discovered this strange situation, the troops were walking in front, and countless people would follow behind, some of them were dressed in single clothes and carrying a backpack alone; Some were pushing a wheelbarrow, with a few quilts and some clothes on each side, and children or the elderly were sitting on them.
"Fellow, what are you doing here?" Su Dao, with the rank of captain, walked on the side of the street and stopped a man pushing a small cart, pulling an old man and a young man, followed by a woman and asked.
"What else can you do, run for your life, you soldiers have run away, and we ordinary people don't want to be slaves of the country, what else can we do if we don't run for our lives?" The man replied angrily, he hated these soldiers, and he didn't fight well, so he had to displace ordinary people.
And in a month or two, it will be time to harvest the wheat, and at this time, if you run away from home, what will happen to the harvest in the fields? And I don't know how many people will starve to death if they escape, but what can be done if they don't flee for their lives? When I am my obedient people? This is something they have never thought about, even if they starve to death, he does not want to be his obedient citizen.
Speaking of which, he has the arrogance of co-existence with the country, but in fact, he really doesn't want to stay at home and wait for the slaughter of himself, the matter of Nanjing has long spread throughout the country, and seeing that the army is about to arrive in Henan, don't you run for your life and wait to be slaughtered and killed? How many people are there in Nanjing? Compared with Henan, it is too far behind, in fact, these people are also worried that the matter in Nanjing will fall on their heads again, so they fled with their families.
"Fellow, although the army is about to fight, but now we have not failed on the front line, a few days ago, our troops also wiped out the strength of nearly a division of the army in the battlefields of Linyi and Zaozhuang, and the army will not be able to fight in half a month." Su Dao felt a loss in his heart, but he didn't want to say anything.
What the people said is the truth, the army can't bear it, and they, the people, naturally have to flee for their lives, and now the Chinese army is generally unable to defeat the army, what else can he do? Don't you tell these people that they don't need to be afraid, they can't be defeated? Moreover, Jiang Guangtou was about to blow up the Yellow River at the mouth of the garden, and ordinary people would be killed and injured countless times.
Although Su Dao didn't want to displace the people, he seemed a little powerless in this situation, even if the 99th Army resisted this attack? Could it be that if you defeat the Yue army once, the next war will end? Obviously, this is impossible, so Su Dao can only tell these ordinary people as much as possible that the army will not be able to fight within ten days and a half months, and at the same time, he hopes that his words can play a role, so that they don't have to rush so desperately.
"Hmph, no truth, I can't beat me in half a month, what are you running? Are we ordinary people so easy to fool? Saying that, the man's face was full of anger, and the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, he planted several acres of wheat at home, and this year's harvest should be not bad.
"Bastard, official, you have a lot, don't be angry, my son had a serious illness a few years ago, and he has a bit of a problem with his brain, so he is a little angry when he speaks, don't worry about him." Hearing the man's words, the old woman sitting on the wheelbarrow had a big change in her face and scolded angrily.
"Don't worry, old man, our troops only fight me, and I want to tell this big brother that our troops are not fleeing, we are going north to resist, this is the normal movement of the troops, and there are still hundreds of thousands of troops in front of me to fight against him." Su Dao smiled bitterly and shook his head in reply.
In these years, the people were so afraid of being soldiers, whether there was a problem with the man Su Dao could see at a glance, before saying something that might offend Su Dao, the old mother directly reprimanded the man, and apologized to Su Dao again and again, isn't it just to let Su Dao get angry with the man? Presumably, those troops before did not do these immoral things, right?
Then Su Dao ordered someone to take some dry food, stuffed it to the old woman, and then no longer paid attention to them, who has whose way, and now Su Dao is not against the people leaving here, even if the army attacks Henan next, there is no large-scale slaughter and killing of the people, then the next Huayuankou embankment will bring them unexpected disasters, and leaving, may be the best choice.
The troops are recruiting while walking, 100,000 troops are lined up, and it takes a lot of time to pass through a county town.
During this period, there were also people who had bad thoughts, and after taking the settling-in fee, they disappeared, and after the conscription officer searched for the registered address, he found that it was a fake address at all. They are also very helpless about this situation, and can only regard it as a secret loss for themselves. Now that time is pressing, it is impossible to find out that person here, so we can only be more strict in the next conscription.
In the eyes of the people, the army is not only a bad impression, although the army is very bad, but it is also a place where they can fill their stomachs, many young people who do not have enough to eat, after learning that there are troops in the conscription, are still obliged to sign up for the army, only a small part of them steal the settlement money and escape, most of them are still relatively well-behaved.
After the Ninety-ninth Army left Lanfeng, the number of recruits in the army increased by more than 10,000, plus the more than 10,000 recruits who were supplied in Heze before, the Ninety-ninth Army has reached 110,000 at the moment, and Lanfeng does not have a recruit camp set up by Jiang Guangtou, so Su Dao has not been able to get Jiang Guangtou's recruit supply here, but Su Dao heard that there is a very large recruit camp in Kaifeng.
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