Yangzhou City was lost in the unique tactics practiced by Han Jian, and from the early morning of the ninth day of October, a large number of deserters from the city gathered in the direction of the south of Yangzhou City, which is also the only way to Jinling City in the south of the Yangtze River.

By dawn, the road south of the city was blocked, and not only the officials and soldiers fled south, but even the people in the city joined the ranks of the refugees. Last night, the city was full of smoke, because the news channels were unobstructed enough, and many people close to the direction of the city wall thought that the city had been lit by the rebel army, and could no longer stay in the city, so they had to gather in the direction of the south of the city.

The road outside Yangzhou city to the riverside is also blocked, first there are deserters in the city, and then there are people out of the city, crying and shouting along the way, and even the rebel army also takes the opportunity to loot the people's things, until the sun rises, still do not see the soldiers and horses of the Wei Dynasty chasing them. It seems that the soldiers and horses of the Wei Dynasty are reorganizing in the city, and have forgotten to pursue the deserters.

But only those who went to the river bank, or some people with a heart, realized a problem, even if the defenders and soldiers in the city and the people escaped from the city and arrived at the ferry along the river in the south of the city, no boat would carry them across the river, and even the sailors of the Wei Dynasty had been displayed on the river bank and waited, and the newly developed artillery of the Wei Dynasty had not really played its role.

At this time, Han Jian had just entered Yangzhou City.

After two months of cold wind blowing outside the city, Han Jian could finally go to a place with tiles to cover his head and have a good rest.

That morning, there were many generals who came to report the matter, but Han Jian didn't see any of them, and someone would do the work of asking for rewards for meritorious service, and all Han Jian needed was to hand over the list of final meritorious rewards to him.

At this time, the order in the city is gradually being restored, because the fire last night was only outside the city, and it did not have a substantial impact on the people in the city. What they want is a reward, they don't look down on the little things that rob the people, even if there are wealthy families who may have treasures hidden in them, the soldiers of Jiangdu do not dare to disturb them casually, and delay their future or even their lives for this, in the eyes of these soldiers, it is a stupid thing that outweighs the loss.

Four years ago, when Jiangdu had just expanded abroad. At that time, the soldiers were afraid of death, and they were almost forced to drive donkeys to the shelves without actual combat and even little training, but that group of people, who are now at least lower-level officers, can divide dozens of hectares of fertile land at home, which is the glory obtained under the accumulation of great military exploits in the past few years. You know, a small Jiangdu. Occupy the entire territory of the Wei Dynasty, and now to double the territory, you can get more rewards, no one will want to go against the military order to do things, strict military discipline is not to use a strong deterrent to intimidate, but let the soldiers know from the bottom of their hearts that only soldiers who obey military orders can be outstanding from the soldiers. Become a general and go to the pinnacle of life.

After noon. Han Jian woke up, and when he came out of the backyard of the Taishou Mansion in Yangzhou, and arrived at the main hall of the Taishou Mansion, basically the generals of all the people who attacked the city had already arrived.

All the meritorious rewards still need Han Jian's approval and nodding.

Han Jian took the official document, and what he had to do was very simple. It is enough to announce the military exploits summarized below in public, and of course add some of his own meaning.

“…… Last night's siege, the west and east cities were relatively fast, and the north city was a little slower. Han Jian seemed to blame, but the conversation changed. I also know that Yangzhou City has set up the most defensive passes in the north of Yangzhou City in order to guard against our soldiers and horses, and it is reasonable to delay a little. I still want to commend you, and when you attack Jinling City, you will continue to work hard. ”

Han Jian said for a long time, and the last sentence was the most intimidating. With Han Jian's meaning, he captured Yangzhou City, and the next city to be fought is Jinling, which is the capital of the Southern Dynasty, a thousand-year-old capital, and in terms of scale and defense, it is obviously much higher than Yangzhou City. In the eyes of outsiders, it is also an unbreakable "stone town".

"Your Majesty, now that there are many chaotic troops outside the city, and the army is only contained from both sides, do you want to send troops to clear it?" The generals below are quite worried about the chaotic army in the south of Yangzhou City, trapped beasts are still fighting, once these defenders who have escaped from Yangzhou City find that there is no way out, they may burst out with high combat effectiveness, Han Jian's attitude of not asking is really not a good strategy.

Han Jian nodded slightly and said, "Then leave some boats by the river and let them cross the river." But don't have too many boats, there are dozens of boats, and the meaning is fine. ”

Among the dozens of boats that Han Jian said, there will inevitably be no big boats, and all kinds of small boats requisitioned from the private sector will be congested if they can carry ten people across the river at a time.

There are more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians in Yangzhou City, and there are 30,000 or 40,000 people who have escaped from the city, and they want to rely on these boats to cross the river, not to mention whether there will be people who will support the ferry back and carry the next batch after the boat crosses the river.

When the soldiers below heard Han Jian's words, they probably understood what they meant, Han Jian was using a strategy to attack the heart, just like encircling three and one in a siege war, not to let the trapped people feel that there was no way to ascend to heaven, to give them hope, let them fight for this hope, instead of taking up arms to resist. Let them run for their lives, not fight desperately for their lives.

With the issuance of Han Jian's military order, the news soon spread to the riverside, and a very complete intelligence transmission system was formed, whether it was a fast horse or a flying pigeon.

Soon, thirty or forty boats were left on the riverside, and the sailors displayed on the river also went upstream along the river, meaning to let these soldiers and civilians from the north of the river cross the river.

From the afternoon, the road from the south of Yangzhou to the Yangtze River began to be blocked by people, and the crowd was bustling, which was the desire to cross the river to the south, but there were also many smart people who withdrew to the city before the city gate was closed after leaving the city, and got a chance to breathe. As the soldiers and horses of the Northern Dynasty entered the city, the originally open gate of Yangzhou was closed, which was also to prevent the rebellious army outside the city or reinforcements from elsewhere from taking advantage of the chaos to seize the city.

The boats on the river began to cross the river continuously, and there were people on the north bank of the river who continued to fall into the water, and those with good water quality still wanted to swim across the river, but with their physical strength, they basically jumped into the river and were washed away by the water, and there were no bones left.

At sunset, there were only sporadic boats coming back on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and those who escaped were not interested in returning to the "frontal hell" of Jiangbei at all. But those who have crossed the river still have the courage to make money and want to make a lot of money from the channel of carrying people across the river. But the first thing they have to face is those unreasonable officers and soldiers with swords, these people talk about force rather than money, they don't have the courage to argue with the soldiers of the Northern Dynasties, and it is more than enough to bully a few ordinary people.

Until after it was completely dark. There are only a few hundred people from the north of the river to the south, and the rest of the people are in a state of panic, and some remnants of the army are ready to assemble to launch a breakthrough, wanting to go directly to the west, as long as they can break through, even if they fall into the grass in the future, it is better than dying on the river bank.

But at this time, a large number of fires appeared on the south bank of the river, and then these fires reached the surface of the river, and it turned out that a large number of ships were heading north from the south bank. This made the military and civilians in Jiangbei see hope at the same time. It's also very puzzling.

Zhu Tongjing used troop carriers to go down the river from Jiangling to attack Yangzhou City, that is to say, Zhu Tongjing's department had ships, but most of its ships were "borrowed" from the Northern Dynasties, and these ships were no different from ordinary civilian ships in terms of specifications. At most, it can be used to transport soldiers after a slight modification. Wait for Zhu Tongjing to capture Yangzhou. When he went to attack Jinling City again, he used all these boats, and after carrying the main force of his Chinese army across the river, these ships were put on hold, or dragged to the reeds to hide, or pulled ashore. Because Zhu Tongjing also knows. After he raised his troops to the south, Yangzhou City would definitely be obtained by the soldiers and horses of the Northern Dynasty, but he didn't expect Han Jian's patience to be so good, Han Jian sent troops from the beginning of August, and only spent his efforts to attack Yangzhou City in October.

When Zhu Tongjing learned that Jiangbei was in a mess. His decision was to let it go.

No matter how Han Jian cheats, as long as he doesn't accept the offer, then Han Jian has nothing to do. But then he found out that Han Jian seemed to want to make trouble in Jiangbei by letting the soldiers and horses who escaped from Yangzhou City make trouble, and transfer all his hatred to him.

Just the people of Yangzhou City have this heart, and they are not afraid, but they are afraid that other places will see the situation of Yangzhou City, and if they encounter the siege or siege of the city, they will simply surrender, they will form a kind of whether I am dead or alive Anyway, the people of the court will not care, they will only be busy with infighting, how can they care about the life and death of ordinary soldiers like me or ordinary people?

Even if he was hard-headed, Zhu Tongjing had to show his "love for the people like a son", and had to pull out the warships that had been prepared to be destroyed and could not be recaptured for the Northern Dynasty again, from those horns, and went north to transport people after being launched.

At this time, Zhu Tongjing actually wanted to see the warships of the Northern Dynasty come back, and if he bombarded these troop transport ships, or without firing cannons, Zhu Tongjing would let his subordinates scuttle the ships, as long as they looked the same as those sunk by the Northern Dynasties. Because what Zhu Tongjing wants is not these shrimp soldiers and crab generals in Jiangbei and a group of refugees who can only be moths after crossing the river, but to win the hearts of the people.

But when Han Jian arranged all this, he had already considered everything.

In Han Jian's opinion, don't you Zhu Tongjing want to win the hearts of the people, showing that you have to save even the remnants of the defeated army and refugees? Then I'll give you the opportunity to behave like this, you take your few remaining troop carriers and transport them slowly, don't worry, wait for you to transport them, you can't settle these people properly, see if they are grateful to you, or if they want to rebel!

Zhu Tongjing originally did not have many troop transport ships left, and he began to transport people that night, first the soldiers and then the people, because of the scramble, there were still many people who fell into the water and died, even so, there were not a few back and forth in one night. By the tenth day of the first month, there were still 20,000 or 30,000 people waiting to cross the river in Jiangbei, and many people who went out of the city were in a hurry, and they didn't even bring much dry food with them.

Some of the people who were originally leaning behind simply did not go to the riverside, but to the south of Yangzhou City.

The moat is basically covered with debris, and there are ladders to pass through, and many people return to the city wall after leaving the city wall, anyway, people will drop food on the city wall from time to time, although it is not much, but it can basically keep the people in the first place from starving to death.

In the back, there were more and more people who crossed the moat north to the south of Yangzhou City, and they not only looked at the city wall, hoping to get the food thrown down from the city wall, but also hoped that the people in the city would be merciful and open the city gate to let them go back. Because in the back, many people who did not leave the city, when it was time to eat, they would go to the city wall to help the soldiers cook, and even throw food down together, these people ate the same as the soldiers, it was not ordinary dry food, but there was meat food, only those soldiers ate too much meat food and could not eat dry food, they would be thrown down, and occasionally there would be meat and food thrown down, all for the people under the city to fight.

A city wall, up and down is completely heaven and earth, with heaven above and hell below.

Finally, at noon on the tenth day of the first lunar month, the city gate of Yangzhou City in the south of the city was slowly opened, and then even the water gate was opened, and the people flocked in after learning the news. Because the rebel army outside the city is waiting by the river to cross the river, only ordinary people are really left on this side of the city wall, Han Jian is also relieved to put these people into the city, anyway, they are originally people around Yangzhou City, they also have their own places to live in the city, they will not come out to make trouble, at most they will distribute some materials to let the people live a settlement.

However, the propaganda significance of this incident is much greater than that Zhu Tongjing sent a few boats to carry people across the river in a decent manner.

The city gate was only opened for less than half an hour, and then it was re-closed, and the people who came back after hearing the news did not have a chance to enter the city, because many soldiers of the rebellious army found that the road to the south was not easy to walk, and they had already taken off their military uniforms and mixed with the ordinary people and wanted to return to the city, anyway, it was a chaos, no one knew anyone, and no one knew that they were not civilians but soldiers.

But when they returned to the city wall, they learned that the city gate was closed, and this group of people could only stay under the city wall, watching the group of people who had entered the city before helping to make a fire and cooking on the city wall, eating good things one by one and showing off their power below.

Baixin's comparison psychology is very heavy, and the people who were able to enter the city under the city wall before felt that the happiest thing in the world was to be able to eat enough on the city wall and watch the refugees below starving. In the face of war, let alone having enough to eat, it is difficult to even have food to eat without starving to death.

But the soldiers of the Northern Dynasty were still very generous, they did not make a show to deceive the gods and ghosts, but really distributed the materials to the people. (To be continued.) )