Chapter 430: Turning Point 3

readx; Now with Saimaga as a foreign aid, it is a matter of time before Tubo and Zhangxiong fall out, but as long as one day Tubo and Zhangxiong are still allied, then Datang will not be able to relax for a day. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info Especially in Minzhou City, the Tubo and Zhangxiong coalition forces outside the city have been cleaned up by Wei Hong, and other war zones will definitely increase troops here in the near future, and they will definitely not give Minzhou City a chance to breathe, so that Minzhou City can be used as a transit point to provide reinforcements to other war zones. The battle of Minzhou City is over, but the small-scale battle will not stop, as long as there is a battle, we must go all out. Digging trenches and building walls became necessary.

If it is placed in the future generations, Wei Hong's actions will definitely be criticized by the world, and scolding Wei Hong for having nothing to speak of! After all, since he captured those captives, Wei Hong didn't treat them as human beings, and when he woke up, he had to go to work, and the time spent working accounted for two-thirds of the day. In fact, in his heart, Wei Hong didn't want to treat these captives as cattle, but who made Minzhou City's defense weak and the defenders too few. Those captives can have today, and if they want to complain, they will complain that they used to be too much of a threat to Minzhou City, this is the so-called one report and one report.

Wei Hong's approach was praised by Li Dejian and Cheng Chuhao. Cheng Chumo, this kid is an idle master, he can't fight, so he goes to the outside of the city to supervise the work and personally take care of those prisoners, if any one is slow, it is directly a whip, look at his mean appearance, sometimes Wei Hong can't stand it. tried to stop it several times, but Li Dejian said: "If we are caught by Tubo, the end will not be much better than them!" These captives don't expect them to go to war, but they can't go back to the mountains at will, and they stay in the city and keep them for nothing, which is better than waste use. ”

As soon as this trench was dug, it was dug for ten days, and 3,000 prisoners rushed to work day and night. In the end, the city of Minzhou was surrounded by a trench three meters deep. It is not enough to have trenches alone, and he wants to store water in them, but unfortunately the amount of work is too large, so Wei Hong asked for the surname to put wooden thorns in the trenches. I didn't know if it could have the desired effect, but as a result, a captive accidentally fell into it, and was directly pierced into a sieve, and died with a whimper. All the soldiers were frightened, and this trench alone could block thousands of troops.

In the end, the trenches were no longer dug to dig, so Wei Hong asked all the captives to strengthen the city walls, and fill the gaps where there were gaps. A few days later, the desolate city wall was also repaired and renewed. The captives, tired of mules, thought that this time it should be all right, right? Wei Hong pointed to a forest outside the city, waved his hand, and ordered the captives to go and cut wood. At first, they didn't explain, but they just asked them to transport the best timber back to Minzhou City in batches, and there was really no place to put it in the city. Wei Hong divided the captives into two parts, one part of which was supervised by the defenders and made arrows. The other part of the defenders used wood to repair all the facilities related to the city defense, especially the front gate and the rear gate. This time, it took more than ten days, and in the end, only 2,000 prisoners were left of the original 3,000 captives to continue to work. The remaining 1,000 captives either fell ill from overwork and could no longer work, or they waited for an opportunity to escape and were captured by the defenders and beheaded.

For those soldiers who have become sick from hard work, Wei Hong is still quite worthy of them, every two meals become three meals, and there are special doctors to take medicine and treat them for the sick, in short, all the sick prisoners will change from a miserable labor life to a delicious life of recuperation. The other captives looked at it, good fellow, can you improve your life if you are sick? Then I'll pretend to be sick too, and as a result, I fell into a big uproar. For the soldiers who pretended to be sick, Wei Hong was not without a way to deal with it, and sent doctors to check the pulse one by one, and those who were sick were stayed, and those who were not sick were rewarded with a whip and continued to work.

After a month of hard work, Minzhou City was built like a strong fortress by these 3,000 captives, and it is probably the most impregnable city in the entire Longyou Road. Several other war-torn state cities around them, knowing that Minzhou City was not war-fighting, but built the city as strong as a fortress, and they all worked hard to send the wounds on their own territory to Minzhou City for treatment. What's more, Minzhou City is regarded as a temporary intelligence transit station, but whenever there is any military information that needs to be conveyed, they will first go to Minzhou City to rest, change horses, and then set off.

Originally, Tubo and Zhangxiong planned to send an additional five to seven thousand soldiers and horses to Minzhou City to fight, but when they learned that Minzhou City was impregnable, they dispelled the idea of knowing each other. Anyway, Minzhou City can't be captured, so it's better to keep the soldiers and horses and attack other state cities. In the end, even the 3,000 enemy troops outside the city who started to fight also withdrew, and Minzhou City became a city that no one cared about.

Originally, Wei Hong also planned that there would be another war in Minzhou City, so he used the prisoners as cannon fodder and pushed them to the front line. It's good now, Minzhou City is completely safe, and it's useless for the captives to stay in the city. Just when Wei Hong was worried about what to do with these captives, Cheng Chumo proposed: "Why don't we kill them all?" These people, wearing armor, are an army. Now the enemy army does not dare to invade Minzhou City, if there is a slight mistake, these prisoners will rebel from the inside, but it will put Minzhou City in danger. ”

As soon as he heard this, Wei Hong waved his hand again and again: "My lord, you can rest quickly." You can't do such a thing! Moreover, these captives have made a lot of efforts during this time, and if they are killed, they will not be able to get rid of the suspicion of unloading the mill and killing the donkey, and the rabbit and the dog cooking. I'm Datang, I can't afford this kind of infamy! ”

"What then? Some time ago, whether it was digging trenches or repairing city walls, there was something to do. Now that you have nothing to do, you can't feed them for nothing, right? Besides, the generals were kept in prison, and if they came into contact with the captives, they would be in harm's way. Even if you don't kill the prisoners, you should kill those generals first, right? Cut off the possibility of their rebellion! Cheng Chumo said unwillingly. Cheng Chumo's surname is very obvious, he is simple and straightforward, if he is useful, he will stay, and if he is useless, he will be removed. This is not to say that Cheng Chumo is a person who cares too much about gains and losses, but the simple idea is a little too simplistic.

Cheng Chumo's method is not advisable, even if it is useless to kill those generals. After all, the saying 'the back waves of the Yangtze River pushing the front waves' is not fabricated out of thin air, killing a general, thousands of generals stand up. It's okay to feed those generals like this now, Minzhou City is not short of those mouths to eat. And once they are killed, they will surely stir up a thousand waves with one stone, and make the captives angry. When the time comes, if you don't do it, you have to do it. (To be continued.) )