Chapter 305: Wang Shi, the army of the Son of Heaven
Ask for a commuter pass!
In order to speed up the march and rush to Dengzhou as soon as possible, Shi Dayong left Qi Sanbao's baggage battalion to lead those women and children to follow behind the team, and left 800 infantry troops to protect him. He led the wolf cavalry, the pro-soldier battalion, the left battalion of the infantry and the rest of the right battalion of the infantry army to the east.
All the gold and silver seized since the southward movement are in the baggage battalion, and the baggage battalion officer Qi Sanbao and the battalion soldiers are all rebels who surrendered to Shahe, so Dayong can't help but be vigilant - if Qi Sanbao sees the money and sweeps away these gold and silver goods, the Jinzhou army will lose a lot.
You can't have the heart to hurt others, and you can't have the heart to defend people. For Qi Sanbao and his subordinates, Da Yong did not trust them in his heart. The loyalty of these young men who had been thieves to Shi Dayong was much less than that of those who participated in the fierce battle of the petty officials.
Since the reorganization of Shahe, Qi Sanbao's baggage battalion has not changed much, nor has it participated in a single battle, and their mission is only to escort the baggage. When Pingdu was reorganized, it was only the old and weak people in the Sichuan army who were stuffed in it, and it can be said that the image of the baggage battalion in the entire Jinzhou army was more of a soy sauce, and the cohesion of the people's hearts was insufficient, and the loyalty was even more insufficient. What shocked them to this day is actually the indestructible force of the Jinzhou army, or the butcher's knife.
Now that Dayong has decided to lead a large group of soldiers to Dengzhou first, it is unknown whether Qi Sanbao, who has no restraint and shock, will obey orders as before.
Don't be afraid of 10,000, just in case. Dayong didn't dare to take a little risk, the soldiers were in Dengzhou, and it was good to have a little more troops, but if all the belongings earned by the sons were buried because of this, Dayong would never dare to think about it.
After thinking about it for a long time, Shi Dayong decided to leave 800 people from the right camp of the infantry army. These 800 infantry troops have 70 Jinzhou veterans as the backbone, and they are led by Li Gu, the officer of the pro-guard battalion - this is an old brother from Songshan who can not be trusted.
In addition to monitoring Qi Sanbao and protecting the property of the Jinzhou army, Li Gu's other task was to protect the women and children from being harmed by the baggage battalion after the main force left. The remaining 900 or so captives were divided into two halves, half of which marched east with the main force to Dengzhou, and half remained behind.
Man is a sword, I am a fish.
The bare-handed and fearless captives had already been violently assaulted by the Jinzhou army. Xing frightened his soul, and no one dared to escape, or resist, but silently followed the team like a docile sheep.
Fortunately, the captives selected for slaughter tomorrow and the day after tomorrow had been selected, and they were tied together with long ropes, and it was not the Jinzhou army who were responsible for escorting them, but their companions.
The prisoners who served as escorts for the "grain and grass" behaved extremely hard, and the whipping and scolding of their companions were no less than those of the Jinzhou soldiers, and even more so. At first glance, those who don't know the way of the road think that these captives are also Jinzhou Army.
The reason why these captives who act as "accomplices" work so hard is that if one of them escapes, one of them will have to be substituted and become the big meat in the pot of tomorrow. In addition, the Jinzhou army also promised them that the difficulties were temporary, and that they were now advancing eastward, and that they would be able to replenish grain and grass along the way, and that they would be able to avoid being killed.
If you run away from one, you may be killed, and you will honestly obey your orders, maybe you won't have to eat people in two days, and there is hope and luck in your heart, and it is natural that the captives will work hard for the Jinzhou army to deal with their companions.
They also ate the meat of their companions, and now it's too late to spit it out. Saying a thousand things and ten thousand, I still hope that the officers and soldiers will have a smooth journey and can get food supplies, so that their little lives may really be saved.
If you run away, who can guarantee that you will be able to escape? Needless to say, if they can fight and have the courage to resist, how can these officers and soldiers enter Pingdu City.
If you want to blame, you can only blame yourself for being too dead. It is the wisest choice to be down-to-earth and obedient, and to be optimistic about these people who are going to die.
Will it really be replenished with grain and grass after two days? What if you still get nothing?
Shi Dayong himself doesn't know the Dao, he only knows the Dao, he just said casually, God knows if there is food waiting for him in front of the Dao.
A big pie was drawn on a blank piece of paper!
This is like a big cake in mid-air, very illusory, you can't see it, you can only think about it, but those desperate prisoners are convinced of this, they really think that the officers and soldiers will definitely be able to get food and grass supplies on the way east. There were so many people, but none of them remembered what they had done to this land of Denglai.
Perhaps, people in desperate situations sometimes really need a little psychological comfort.
After the order to the prisoners was issued, Dayong saw with his own eyes before leaving that those prisoners who were not provoked to be slaughtered showed an unbelievable side, they frantically beat those companions to be slaughtered, and when they turned around, they were as timid as rats, so they wanted to be livestock for the Jinzhou army for a lifetime. The look of flattering Lu, Dayong looked very disgusted.
In later generations, there is a strange psychological disorder, called Stockholm syndrome, also known as the hostage complex, which refers to a complex in which the kidnapped hostage has a certain emotion for the kidnapper, and even helps the kidnapper in turn.
Now it seems that those captives have this Stockgol Devil syndrome, they are the hostages, and the Jinzhou Army is the kidnappers, the kidnappers wielding butcher knives!
The food saved by slaughtering the captives a day earlier was enough for the women and children to eat for a while, and the smell of meat wafting from the barracks last night must have been smelled by the women and children, but there was no sound in the tents where they were, and no children clamored for their mothers to eat meat.
To be born in troubled times, you must have the consciousness of troubled times. What the officers and soldiers were cooking, those women may have already known, but they did not feel afraid of the Jinzhou army, they were glad that it was not themselves who were killed.
If it weren't for these officers and soldiers, they would have died long ago, either being crushed to death or starving to death. Now, they can barely fill their stomachs, and they don't have to worry about their livelihoods tomorrow.
What is there to hope for if you can survive? What else is there to complain about?
When the sun had just risen the next day and food was delivered to the camp, the women and children were sincerely grateful to the Jinzhou army and the general surnamed Shi, the Jinzhou army, who gave them not human flesh, but bread.
Looking at the officers and soldiers with strange faces and even some shame, the women's noses were a little sour.
What kind of army is it that would rather do the work of beasts than leave precious food for useless women and children?
Wang Shi, the army of the Son of Heaven!