Chapter 154: No Man's Land (7)
Liu Pet led the team back and wanted to rest for a while. However, looking at the opposite wall, he didn't feel right. The flags on the top of the city were a little wrong compared to the number of people on them. There were also some prisoners of the Red Turban Army before, and after interrogation, it was reported that the Mongolian army in the city was more than 2,000 people. More than 2,000 people don't need forty or fifty flags anyway. The result of too many flags in the army is confusion of command.
"Send someone to take a look." Liu Pet said.
Immediately, someone rode away, and when they approached Texas, the investigators were quite cautious. Then he parked his horse under the wall, and he stood on his horse and looked over the wall. It didn't take long for this one to pull out the other party's flag and ride back. In front of Liu Pet, the investigators waved the flag in their hands and shouted excitedly: "General, the Mongols have run away!" ”
Half an hour later, the gates of Dezhou City were slowly opened, and the impatient Red Turban soldiers rushed into the city with shouts. Liu Zhong and the armor soldiers who followed him led the horses in formation, indifferently watching the movements of these people. Qin Mohuan's subordinates had already rushed in, Qin Mohuan wanted to rush in with his subordinates, but seeing Liu Pet standing outside the city with a breezy expression, Qin Mohuan restrained the horse and dismounted in front of Liu Pet.
"General Liu, why don't you go into the city?"
Asked this question unconfidently, Qin Mohuan asked tentatively again: "It's hard to say that's what General Liu said, you are a soldier, so you won't go in?" ”
In Liu Chong's ears, this is also true and wrong. The reason why he didn't enter the city was actually very simple, since the Mongol army retreated and ran away, it probably wouldn't leave anything for the Red Turban Army. Now if Liu Pet and them enter the city, even if they don't take anything, they will be considered by the Red Turban Army that they have taken the best loot. Rather than this, it is better to just stand outside the city. At least when the Red Turban Army was complaining, they would also think that the Song Army knew that there was no oil and water in the city, so they didn't go in.
can have such a judgment because Liu Pet is a soldier. However, making such a judgment has nothing to do with Liu Pet being a soldier, which is a case told in a management course. So Liu Pet smiled: "I am discussing with my brothers how to withdraw the army. ”
"Withdrawal?" Qin Mohuan was stunned, he had just conquered Texas in front of him, how could Liu Pet start to discuss the withdrawal of the army?
Liu Zhong nodded, "There are no things we want in this city. If there were, the Mongol army would not have gone so cleanly. "In the Battle of the Yellow River, Liu Pet participated in the siege of the city defended by the Mongols, whether it was Kaifeng, or Luoyang, or Huaxian County, where the Mongol army was the location of the Golden Horde, when the Song army invaded, the Mongol army needed to kill the corpses of the Mongol army, and the blood covered the ground.
In the cities abandoned by the Mongol army, the Song army actually did not intend to take anything except the well. However, in the end, the Song army found nothing.
While he was talking, someone in the city was already running out against the flow of people. I saw that the face of the person who came was ugly, and after arriving in front of Liu Chong, he stammered a little and said, "Liu ...... General Liu, you ...... Let's go to the city! ”
Liu Pet didn't talk nonsense, and said directly: "Lead the way ahead." ”
Qin Mohuan followed behind Liu Pet and walked towards the city. When I entered the city, I saw many people piling up on the street from a distance, and when Liu Pet and others walked in, they immediately got out of the way. Liu Chong's face was gloomy, and like the Battle of the Yellow River, when the Mongol army retreated, they slaughtered the inhabitants of the city in a relatively wide area of the city.
Men and women were tied up in rows with ropes and taken to the streets to be killed in rows and rows. Perhaps because he was afraid that the arson of the house would be noticed by the Red Turban Army outside the city, Liu Pet did not see the city burned to ashes this time.
"They...... Why did they kill these people? Qin Mohuan asked Liu Pet with a little stammer.
"They don't want anything to fall into our hands. Especially the population. Liu Pet replied coldly. is a familiar scene, which does not mean that Liu Pet can get used to such a scene.
When the Great Song Dynasty executed Song traitors and non-Han Chinese, they killed a lot of people. When Liu Pet saw it, he felt that the national law was strict, but he also felt very happy and excited. Eliminating the pests on the Great Song Dynasty and eliminating the scum among the Han people can only make everyone's life better.
Walk through the streets covered in the blood of the Mongol army, and step over the plains covered with thousands of Mongol corpses. Although Liu Pet felt the tragedy of the war, he also felt the pride of being a soldier. The Song army that was thrown into the battlefield also wanted to fight the enemy with their lives.
Killing was just a means of the Great Song Dynasty, so Liu Chong was able to accept such a reason and endure an uncomfortable situation.
The Mongols, however, were different, and killing was their goal. If killing wasn't the goal, there was no reason for them to do that. They were like locusts, flying in droms, eating everything they could eat. Wherever the locusts go, they bring nothing but death or death.
Just as Liu Zhong was about to turn around and leave this unpleasant place, he heard someone shouting happily: "General Liu, there are still living people here." ”
Hearing that there were still living people in this pile of dead people, the soldiers of the Red Turban Army immediately stepped forward to help happily, and sure enough, a person was pulled out of the pile of dead people. The man's face was covered in dried blood, and he looked as if he had crawled out of hell. Seeing that he was trembling all over, and his hands and feet were still spasming, Liu Pet stepped forward and said softly: "This brother, you have suffered. ”
When the man heard this, his body trembled. I don't know if it was because he was moved by Liu Pet, or if he had been trembling irregularly, he suddenly trembled at this time. After a while, he asked in a hoarse voice, "You ......, why didn't you attack the city the day before yesterday?" ”
"The day before yesterday?" Liu Pet was stunned, the day before yesterday, he had just arrived near Texas with his troops, and it was not until yesterday that he began to add return artillery for siege. As far as Liu Pet's siege methods are concerned, such a speed is already the earth-shattering efficiency of the Red Turban Army.
"The day before yesterday. The Mongols started killing people the day before yesterday, why didn't you attack the city the day before yesterday? The man's parched lips spat out a hoarse, dry voice.
"Are you confused?" Qin Mohuan next to him asked loudly. He couldn't understand what was going on the day before yesterday.
Liu Pet pulled out the person standing in front of him with a dark face, and walked to the pile of corpses to take a closer look. After looking at several dead bodies, he used his fingers to pick up the blood-soaked ground, only to feel that the tentacles were extremely tough.
After reading it, Liu Pet got up and asked, "There should be more than this." Who knows where else it is"
Immediately, someone answered: "General, I'll take you there." ”
Qin Mohuan hurriedly followed Liu Pet, looking at Liu Pet's gloomy face as if he could drip water, Qin Mohuan asked as he walked, "General Liu, what is going on?" ”
Liu Pet didn't answer, until he went to the location of the second massacre, and after a careful inspection, he replied: "Sure enough, the massacre started the day before yesterday." ”
Qin Mohuan couldn't help but shudder. He had seen Liu Pet for a few days, and this was the first time he heard Liu Pet's voice, which was full of strong feelings such as hatred, hatred, and murderous intent. Although Qin Mohuan is not Liu Chong's enemy, Liu Chong's emotions at this time are not aimed at Qin Mohuan. But at this time, Qin Mohuan still felt fear.
In order to understand the fear in Xingxing, Qin Mohuan couldn't help but ask, "General Liu, what the hell is going on?" He felt that maybe when Liu Pet answered these serious military questions, he could restore the previous Liu Pet.
Liu Pet turned his head to look at Qin Mohuan, his face was hideous, and his voice was annoyed: "I thought that there were so many Mongolian soldiers in this city because of the rumors that someone had leaked, so the Mongolian army came to Texas to defend Texas." Looking at it now, I was wrong. The Mongols sent so many men to slaughter the city, but we just happened to bump into it! ”
After saying that, he slammed his hateful fist on the earthen wall next to him. The sturdy rammed earth wall was smashed by a metal glove.
After being silent for a while in the flying dust, Qin Mohuan suddenly realized, and he asked in surprise: "It's hard to see that these Mongolian troops are not here to defend the city, but to slaughter the city?" ”
"Exactly!" Liu Pet said viciously.
Such a repositioning made Qin Mohuan at a loss for a while, and his heart was full of confusion. After Qin Mohuan accepted this subversive positioning in his heart, he suddenly looked up to the sky and roared, "These God-killing Mongols!" ”
However, the world is materialistic, and the emotions based on the flesh, no matter how intense and real, have no effect on the Mongols. At this time, Captain Tieli Balsi, who had completed the slaughter of the city, returned north with the Mongol army, and in the past few days, his mood was finally relaxed. The sudden appearance of the Red Turbans startled Captain Tielibals, but he soon figured out that the purpose of the gang was to attack the city, not to save people. Since this is the case, the Mongolian army accompanied the Red Turban Army to practice, wanting to annihilate this Han thief army.
However, the combat effectiveness of the Red Turban Army was not weak, so Captain Tieli Balsi made the Red Turban Army think that the purpose of the Mongol Army was to defend Texas. While the Red Turbans held on to their return artillery, the Mongols slaughtered the last of the city's men and then calmly retreated.
Ahead of the village that had been predicted for a long time. Captain Tieli Balth immediately sent someone to greet the soldiers in the village outside the village. Not long after, several middle-aged people came out surrounded by an elderly man, and when they saw the Mongolian captain, they immediately knelt down and saluted.
Looking condescendingly at the people kneeling on the ground, Captain Tieli Barth asked, "Would you like to go to live in Dadu?" ”
“…… Willing. The voices of several people almost fell into the realm of wailing.
"Tomorrow morning, you will come to the entrance of the village." Captain Tieli Barsi still looked at the families of those soldiers condescendingly.
"Yes."
"By the way, there are a few wells in your village."
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Early the next morning, the Mongols went to the village well to fetch water for cooking. When it came to the third pole of the day, I hadn't seen the agreed family of the soldiers coming. Tieli Ba'er Si waved his hand and said, "Light a stick of incense." ”
Like most of the daily necessities in the capital now, the incense of wormwood that was lit was also produced in the Song Kingdom. No matter what kind of object it is, Song Guo can make it extremely cheap. No matter how cheap these objects are, the quality is not inferior to Dayuan. Therefore, as long as there is a way, the Mongols will try their best to get the products of the Song Kingdom. Just like this mugwort fragrance, which is packed in a bamboo tube, when lit, in addition to the unique pungent taste of wormwood, there is also a sweet aroma. All the wormwood produced north of the Yellow River does not have this sweet taste.
Smelling this smell, Captain Tieli Baersi's mood improved, and his mind felt much more ethereal. Seeing that a stick of incense was about to be lit, Captain Tieli Barth stood up. Just as he was about to give the order, he saw a large group of people carrying many things appear on the road in the village.
The first few people ran over and knelt down for the captain, and then said, "I'm already here." ”
Captain Tielibal did not answer, but ordered the Mongol troops around him: "Kill all but these people." ”
The Mongols were ordered to go. The infantry guarded the various intersections of the village, and the cavalry first rushed in along the road of the village, and when they came to the outside of the ranks of the soldiers of this prefecture, they drew their scimitars and cut down anyone they saw.
Several villagers were killed because they let out a miserable cry, and the villagers turned around and fled home. The Mongol infantry followed, using torches to set fire to the roof made of wood and thatch. The villagers were still patient at first, but in the end, they couldn't help it, so they could only escape from the house with smoke and fire.
The cavalry condescended to shoot them with their bows and arrows. Some of the villagers, who had barely managed to escape from the bows and arrows, tried to escape the village and were killed by the Mongol infantry guarding the crossing.
For the Mongols, this was just their most common technique, and everything was very skillful.
The relatives of those government soldiers never expected that the Mongol army would suddenly massacre the village, and a few of them couldn't help but step forward to reason with Captain Tieli Balsi. The lieutenant lightly drew his Mongolian knife and slashed the one in front of him with one sword. Seeing the captain's move, the Mongolian guards raised their swords and fell down, and several others were also killed on the spot.
"String them together." Captain Tieli Balth commanded.
Immediately, a Mongolian infantry army divided the relatives of this group of government soldiers into two teams, men and women, and tied these people around the waist with white and brown ropes obtained by the Song State, and strung them into two columns. Since the white and brown rope was sold to Mongolia, it was immediately popular. White and brown rope, durable. It will not rot after being blistered, and it will not become brittle when dried after soaking in water. These benefits made the white-brown rope a special rigging for the Mongols. The Han people are not even allowed to have such a thing.
A few more people were hacked to death, and the relatives of the soldiers finally obeyed the order honestly. Tirebalth told them to redistribute their luggage.
By this time, more than half of the entire village was already on fire. The Mongol army lassoed some of the thin-looking dead with ropes, dragged their bodies to the identified wells, and threw them into the wells. Hundreds of people in the village were killed, and the corpses that were originally thrown into the well still stirred up some water. Soon after, all that could be heard was the sound of bodies colliding, or bodies hitting the wall of the well.
The village was destroyed with the utmost efficiency, and the Mongols retreated, ignoring the possibility that some of them had slipped through the net. Escorting those who were allowed to live, the Mongol army advanced towards the next village.