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These villages were not all slaughtered by the Holy Alliance, and they would not be so stupid, Zheng Yuanche attacked Yangcheng, just because he fell in love with Yangcheng's rich human resources, how could he kill all the people like this, so who would he rule at that time?

Therefore, most of the obedient people were saved, and a large part of them were directly sent back to Blue Pigeon City, and some continued to engage in local agricultural production, providing food and income for the troops of the Holy Alliance, and at the same time acting as death squads during the battle, as for the massacre that Zhang Ruoming and others saw, the main reason was that the local people did not recognize the rule of the Holy Alliance, so there was that scene.

Of course, the cruelty of the Holy Alliance can also be seen, these villages, as long as they disagree, the troops of the Holy Alliance will treat them in the most cruel way, the beastly nature is so clear at this moment, this is also an indisputable fact, but many of the remaining villages were really frightened by this scene of killing chickens and monkeys, so many villages also chose to become Zheng Yuanche's subordinates, and there was no turmoil, and there were many of these villages.

But the absence of turmoil does not mean that these villages are not resentful, under the rule of Yangcheng, although there are all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, but after all, the population of Yangcheng is only more than 200,000, it is simply a society of acquaintances, which village elders do not know a few people with heads and faces in the city? It is precisely because in such a society, although oppression exists, but do not dare to go too far, after all, everyone looks up and does not look down, they have lived together for hundreds of years, and naturally have a set of tacit understanding, harvest more, harvest less when disaster comes, sometimes encounter natural disasters and man-made disasters, when there is no harvest, the city will also open the granary to relieve the local farmers, in general, although the village has to pay a lot of taxes to the city, but at the same time the city will also provide protection for the village, The relationship between the two sides is complementary.

In addition, Yangcheng adopts a completely traditional way of growth, so there may also be Skywalker in the farmer's family, when a person gets the Taoist chicken dog ascends to heaven, no one wants to mess with a Skywalker family, such a family is not many, although in Yangcheng, the nutrition of the villagers generally cannot keep up with the normal needs, and if you want to awaken the talent, you must replenish energy on a large scale, but after all, there are still some people who are geniuses and can awaken their talents, in the three-hundred-year history of Yangcheng, this situation is endless, and it is precisely because of this, The peasant tax officials also tended to know where the proportions were, and they were relatively peaceful with each other, and there were basically no large-scale peasant uprisings.

Of course, in the long history, such things must have happened, such as drought or floods for several years, resulting in several years of no harvest, at this time, not only in the countryside there is no grain, but also in the granary of the city is not a grain of rice, then at this time, the two sides will fight for the only remaining food, but after all, this situation is relatively rare.

As the original Jiangnan region, it has been the land of fish and rice since ancient times, although there are droughts and floods, but the scale is not large, and it is not particularly serious, so it has only happened a few times in more than 300 years, and it has not happened in recent decades, so for those city rulers in Yangcheng, the villagers do not have much ill feeling, and the Holy Alliance is different, they not only ask them to pay higher agricultural taxes, but also do not provide them with any protection, as long as they raise objections, they will either beat or scold, Or even a direct massacre.

Take away the things you like directly, set fire to kill all the people in a village directly, drag away the good-looking girls and guys directly, and kill the elders in the village without morality, this kind of evil behavior makes the people in the village hate those people of the Holy Alliance to the extreme, but unfortunately, they have no iron in their hands, and there were villages that tried to resist, but the final outcome was all the scene seen by Zhang Ruoming and others.

Scythes and axes can't defeat spears and cannons after all, not to mention that the enemy also has a large number of Skywalkers, so under fear, although they feel disgusted and disgusted with the people of the Holy Alliance, they dare not resist in the slightest, and Shu Han wants to take advantage of this, these people are not unwilling to resist, but they just lack the weapons and courage to resist, and they have such power in their own hands.

Of course, Shu Han was not kind enough to sacrifice the lives of the soldiers of Black Iron City for the liberation of the people of Yangcheng, at this moment, Black Iron City and the Holy Alliance are the chess players, and Yangcheng has become a chessboard, an area for them to perform with each other, and the people here have been secretly marked with chips, just waiting for the final winner to take these chips into their arms.

Shu Han's order to attack the village was carried out very smoothly, at this time, General Li was on his way to Zheng Yuanche's military camp, and there was no one to command these ordinary people scattered in various villages, Shu Han asked the soldiers to put on Yangcheng's clothes, pretending that the soldiers of Yangcheng rushed directly into these villages, and those soldiers of the Holy Alliance did not react at all, and were directly taken away by a wave.

There are also some villages that have been occupied for a relatively long time, so they have built fortresses, but these fortresses are not very strong, it is very difficult to break through from the outside, but it is much easier to break through from the inside, when Shu Han's subordinates wore Yangcheng's clothes and approached the village with the flag of Yangcheng, the people in the village saw the flag of their homeland, and immediately became excited, of course they didn't know, they thought that the homeland was still under siege, and they thought that Yangcheng had escaped, Defeated the Holy Alliance forces besieging them.

Therefore, he immediately returned to his home with great courage, and attacked these fortresses with long knives, axes and other various farm tools, the people of the Holy Alliance, there are only a dozen people in each village, and it is enough in normal times, after all, as long as the docile people still have a breath to live, they do not dare to rebel, but at this moment, in the face of the anger of the villagers, where can these dozen people support, and before they have time to fire a few shots, they are stoned to death by these farmers with hammers, hoes, axes and other various farm tools, By the time Shu Han's subordinates arrived, these Holy Alliance soldiers were no longer human.

Some even had their flesh torn off, and several villagers had blood on their mouths and tears in their eyes, obviously, during this period of time, the suffering suffered by these people was unimaginable, their relatives, or themselves, no one knew what these people had experienced during this bleak day, but this was definitely not something that ordinary people could experience. Hanlian literature

Under Shu Han's order, the people of these villages were all arranged to retreat backwards and take refuge in the forest, originally Shu Han also planned to recruit some young men to perform some chores for himself to reduce the pressure on the logistics troops, but those young strong laborers have already been captured by the Holy Alliance, as a charging death squad, and the only thing left in the village is a group of old men, the old lady and some children under the age of thirteen and women.

Later, a cavalryman recorded in his diary: "Before this, I could not believe that a dozen soldiers with strict military training, under the premise of holding muskets, were torn to pieces in front of a group of old and weak women and children, and their corpses were almost unrecognizable, such a scene that I had never seen before in my life." ".

Because this itself is a plan to attract the Holy Alliance, so these villages, Shu Han does not intend to defend them at all, so he immediately let people evacuate, there are some old people who are difficult to leave their homeland and do not want to leave, at this time, the Black Iron City side obviously does not want to persuade anymore, so simply take people away directly, at this time, after everyone has suffered from the Holy Alliance, some young people know that if the Holy Alliance comes back, there will be no good fruit for them to eat, so although there is some fear of entering the forest, after all, it is the territory of animals, Humanity is in danger of it, but they are still scared of being caught by the Holy Alliance.

So one by one, the soldiers who followed the Black Iron City persuaded them to leave, and there were some experienced people among them, it can be seen that these people wearing Yangcheng clothes are not Yangcheng people at all, and the reason for judging is very simple, the words spoken by these people are different from the words spoken by Yangcheng in many cases, and even the words themselves.

Jiangsu and Zhejiang are mountainous, after the popularization of Mandarin, natural communication is no longer a problem, but more than 300 years of estrangement, coupled with the severance of civilization between each other, has led to the language began to appear in a state of returning to the countryside, although Yangcheng and Black Iron City are not far away, a sentence can be understood in general, but in many tones, there will indeed be a certain difference, some old people can understand as long as they listen to a few words, and the same is true for young children.

At this time, the people of Black Iron City did not pretend, and immediately explained their intentions, and said: "We are here this time to rescue Yangcheng, if you don't believe it, you can continue to stay here, if you want, just follow us, we promise, you can eat enough, you can also live in a safe environment, you choose what to do." ”

The people of Black Iron City themselves also know that this matter can be hidden from the Holy Alliance, but they can't hide it from the locals, they really know their own language too well, so they don't intend to hide it from them, for these people, seeing them being slaughtered, to be honest, the hearts of all Skywalkers do have unbearable hearts, but they are not some bodhisattvas who save suffering, if they really don't want to go, it is none of their business, in their eyes, the interests of Black Iron City are crucial, I don't have time to reason with these people in Yangcheng and grind time.

In the end, many old people chose to stay, they didn't know the strength of Black Iron City, and they were afraid that they would never be able to come back, which was a terrible thing for them to be older than death, so they chose to stay, while some people thought that their health was not good, if they went directly to the forest, I am afraid that it would not take long to die, and when the time came, they would still die in a foreign land, and they were more willing to die in their own land.

In the end, four old people chose to stay, because the Holy Alliance had already experienced a massacre before, and most of the old people had already died, and the rest were these four, and among the young children and women, there were also those who were willing to stay, they wanted to protect the land, not leave here to become a deserter.

But he was scolded by an old man on crutches and said: "Our old bones have no way to live, we want to guard this land in the end, what do you stay and do, wait for death!" You are still young and the future is long, so you have to live! If you want to avenge your parents and brothers alive, let me go! Whoever stays is not from our village! ”

Under the loud scolding of the old man, many children cried, they were born and raised in Si, but now they are going to leave this land they are familiar with, they are reluctant, and then think that their parents are now uncertain about their life and death, and they are even more like mourners, but in the end, they all listened to the persuasion of the elders, and agreed to follow the people of the Black Iron City to leave, and the side of the Black Iron City also immediately took action, and began to relocate the population of the entire village, and the captain planned to attack the next village.

Now that the Holy Alliance has not yet reacted, it is natural to seize the time to take away more of the population, on the one hand, to increase the strength of their own side, and on the other hand, it is natural to let the Holy Alliance notice them, and before leaving, looking at the children and women who have gone away, the leader Liu Ran opened his mouth and said to his subordinates: "You go back and get rid of the four old people." His face was full of solemnity, while the officers on the side were full of astonishment.

He didn't expect his commander to give such an order, he stammered a little and said, "Sir, this, those four old men, why do we do this?" He didn't know what to say for a while, to be honest, he admired the four old men, especially when he persuaded the young people to leave, at that moment, the officer thought of his parents, who had also treated him so kindly, and at this time Liu Ran actually ordered them to be executed, which made the officer unacceptable for a while.

Liu Ran looked at him and said, "What do you know? They already know that we are not from Yangcheng, so what if someone from the Holy Alliance comes and they tell them? Don't look at me with such eyes, I tell you, Shu Han's plan is very important, it will determine our negotiating position with the Holy Alliance, if the plan is successful, it will be able to weaken the power of the Holy Alliance in one fell swoop, and the key is that the enemy is in the light, I am in the dark, if you let the enemy until we are not people from Yangcheng at all, but people from another city-state, the plan may fail, officer, you are a person from Black Iron City, at this moment, it is your duty as a soldier to focus on the interests of Black Iron City, and immediately carry out the order, I don't want to say it a second time! ”