Chapter 162: Heavenly Damnation
The 30,000 troops took 15,000 prisoners, and more than 20,000 people, which added up to 40,000 men.
If you kill 40,000 troops during the war, this is understandable, but now you have to kill 40,000 prisoners, of which more than 20,000 are people. Xiong Jun's order made Zhuge Jian, Lu Guan, Hou Yunfei, and Princess Yunfei's complexion change, and King Ju's face became even more pale.
There have been many large and small battles in the history of Eastern Shenzhou, but there have been very few large-scale massacres of prisoners of war, and there have only been a dozen large-scale massacres of civilians in history. Every massacre will leave a notoriety in history and a stench for thousands of years.
King Ju is not well-known in Eastern Shenzhou, and he has some fame in Southern Chu, which is also not very good. But after slaughtering these tens of thousands of captives, his reputation will definitely be stinky after the news spreads, and he will become an existence at the same level as the executioner butcher.
Zhuge Jian Yunfei didn't say anything, looking at Xiong Jun's stunned style, who dared to speak out, Xiong Jun was afraid that he would send this errand to, so they naturally wouldn't ask for hardship.
King Ju hesitated for a while, and couldn't help but speak: "General, Dongshenzhou has always traditionally not killed prisoners of war, and there are still so many people here. Such a massacre, the heavens are not in harmony, and they will be punished by heaven, please think twice. ”
"Damnation?"
Xiong Jun said coldly: "If we don't kill them, we may fail this operation." When the time comes, it will be us who will die, is it important that they have tens of thousands of prisoners, or is it important that our more than 300,000 troops are important? This is a military order, we don't have so much time to waste, and you are limited to deal with it within half an hour, otherwise it will be dealt with by military law. National teacher, please press the formation here, if King Ju does not carry out the military order, you will do it. ”
After speaking, Xiong Jun rode his war horse towards the city, and when he saw that Zhuge Jian and the others did not follow, he said angrily: "What are you still doing in a daze? Stay here to watch the show? Let your army enter the city, configure the military rations, and we will set off soon!"
"Whoa!"
The generals hurriedly led the order to follow, Xiong Jun rode a high-headed horse, walked in front with his head held high, his face was expressionless, but his heart was extremely happy. A group of magnates of first-class vassal states and second-class vassal states were trained by him like a grandson, which felt so cool.
This city is indeed a grain and grass storage place, many places in the city are granaries, full of military rations, Xiong Jun and Li Yunyi inspected and found that the grain and grass here are enough for their more than 300,000 troops to eat for half a year.
After some investigation, Xiong Jun ordered according to Li Yunyi's previous instructions: "All the troops will bring enough grain and grass for half a month, and the rest of the grain and grass will be piled up together and burned." ”
"Burned ......"
A group of people gasped, and so much grain and grass burned like this, what a pity. However, they also knew that they could not take away the grain and grass, and if they left it, they could only give it to the enemy, and it was better to burn it than to leave it to the enemy.
In this operation, they probably understood that this was a dark Chen Cang, running all the way, destroying several granaries of the Eastern Qi army, and making the Eastern Qi army short of food for a short time. There are so many troops in Eastern Qi, once there is a shortage of food, it is not a trivial matter, not to mention the decline in morale, it is very likely to lead to a total rout.
The army took action, each equipped its own military rations, and Xiong Jun also asked the Shaking Mountain Battalion to find a lot of meat in the city and replenish some military rations for the blood wolf. The rest of the rations piled up together and burned in one go.
There are not only military rations in the city, but also a lot of military materials, such as arrows, weapons, armor, siege equipment, etc., all of which Xiong Jun ordered to be piled up and burned.
Outside, King Ju couldn't start to let his army slaughter, and those captives had no weapons, so they scurried up with ropes, and several rounds of bows and arrows went down, killing and wounding more than half of them. The remaining captives began to storm in frenzy, but unfortunately they were unarmed and were easily slaughtered piece by piece, and the snow stained the open space outside the West City red, and the corpses were piled up.
When the fire broke out inside the city, the slaughter outside was over. King Ju watched the whole time, his face was darker than his dead father, although the order was given by Xiong Jun, but most of the infamy was to be carried by him, because it was slaughtered by his army. When the time comes, Zhuge Jian, Lu Guanhou, Princess Yunfei and others will definitely shake the pot, and he is the only one who bears the blame......
Half an hour later, it was already dark.
Originally, according to the normal situation, the Tiger Roaring Army came out day and night, but Xiong Jun had no intention of ordering repairs. When the army was gathered, he ordered to run to the southeast, and as fast as he could.
The army did not rest, and it was no big problem to set off directly. The cavalry was trained in this area, and it was not uncommon for them to run for days and nights in a row. The old rule is that the blood wolf battalion opens the way, and the rest of the army follows all the way.
Before, they were marching at night, but now they are suddenly marching during the day, and the Tiger Roaring Army feels unaccustomed. However, during the day, the sight was good, and after running for two or three hours, some grandmasters and powerhouses discovered a problem.
There were constantly small birds around the army, and from time to time a bird approached, hovering and flying a few times and then flying away. And these birds are all close to Xiong Jun's side, which makes those grandmasters and strong people very curious, once or twice may be a coincidence, and there must be a problem if it is like this all the time.
And there is also a problem with the direction of the blood wolf battalion's advance, flickering left and right, and making a detour at once, but Xiong Jun did not hesitate, and kept letting the army follow the direction left by the blood wolf battalion.
In the afternoon, Zhuge Jian and the others determined that those birds definitely had something to do with Xiong Jun, and those birds had approached Xiong Jun at least a hundred times. How could an ordinary bird dare to approach when he saw so many people? Even if he did, it was impossible to always get close to Xiong Jun and them, right?
The army rested for an hour, then continued its run, seeing some corpses along the way, but never approaching any towns, not even villages.
Zhuge Jian and they are convinced of the blood wolf camp, although they keep changing directions, but they are so accurate to find the way of no one, so that the army can move forward without being discovered, the blood wolf camp is really strong.
After nightfall, this time Xiong Jun let the army rest in a dense forest, did not bury the pot to cook, all the army ate the prepared dry food, there is a small river next to the dense forest, so he directly gnawed the dry food on the river water, and slept against the big tree after gnawing.
This time it was just a break in the middle of the night, Xiong Jun ordered the whole army to go out and continue to hurry, still eating dry food and drinking water on the way, resting for an hour at noon, and the rest of the time was in a hurry. When Ben walked to the middle of the night, he found a dense forest to rest.
After dawn.
Xiong Jun ordered the army to assemble, he called Zhuge Jian and the others over, he put a map on the ground, looked at Li Yunyi and said: "Military division, you can tell everyone about the next battle deployment." ”
"War again?"
Li Yunyi took a stick and pointed to a point on the map and said: "We are here at the moment, sixty miles away from us, there is a city called Yingchun City, I think you should have some impressions of this city, right?"
Everyone bowed slightly, they all had an impression of this city, mainly because there was a celebrity here back then, a poet who was romantic through the ages, and the most famous words written were written about this city.
Li Yunyi continued: "What we are going to attack later is this city, this city has a lot of military food hoarding, there are 50,000 troops in the city, and there is only one grandmaster, this time the enemy may be alert, so we must be fast, the attack must be fierce, and we must capture the city within one or two hours." ”
Li Yunyi added: "This time it's the same, you can't let go of an enemy army, don't take prisoners, this time Lu Guanhou's troops will attack Ximen first, and the national teacher will send two grandmasters to help." When all the enemy troops were attracted to the West City, Zhuge Jian, Princess Yunfei, King Ju, and the Jingguo Huya Army stormed the east gate and the north gate together, and your great master cooperated in the siege. Chen Xuanhou and Ning Wuhou are on standby at the south gate, waiting for the enemy army to escape from the south gate and attack immediately. The Bloodwolf cavalry roamed the perimeter, hunting down the fleeing enemy. Ladies and gentlemen, do you have any objections?"
"No problem!"
Zhuge Jian and the others shook their heads, a city with an army of 50,000, an army of more than 300,000 here, mainly because there are so many grandmasters, no matter how you play, you can kill them.
The army rushed away, led by the blood wolf cavalry, followed by Lu Guanhou's subordinates, and the rest of the army lagged behind. An hour later, Lu Guanhou began to lead the team to attack the city, led by the three great grandmasters, opened the west gate at once, and then the army attacked it.
Lu Guanhou only had 70,000 troops, and the army in the city did not give up resistance, but mobilized all the troops to support Xicheng. Half an hour later, Zhuge Jian and they came with a large army, Feng Wuchen sent three grandmasters out, easily broke through the remaining three city gates, and hundreds of thousands of troops were killed, and the grandmaster inside was shocked and killed, and the rest of the things were easy to do.
An hour later, the corpses in Yingchun City were mountainous, more than 20,000 of the 50,000 troops were killed, and more than 20,000 escaped from the south gate, and then were killed by Chen Xuanhou and Ning Wuhou with cavalry over and over again, and were easily slaughtered.
There are also no people in this city, they are all people from the Eastern Qi Dynasty, and there are more than 30,000 people here. This time, Xiong Jun didn't need to give an order, and the slaughter began when the war began. In the end, more than 10,000 people were left to surrender, but they were all mercilessly killed.
After the whole city became empty, a group of generals went to the place where the military rations were stored, and they were a little dazed after turning around. Because the military rations here are many times larger than those in Liufeng City, enough for 300,000 troops for more than a year, this is one of the important granaries for storing military rations in Eastern Qi.
There are also all kinds of military equipment, piled up in countless warehouses, and Zhuge Jian can't wait to find thousands of carriages to transport these military equipment back to China.
"It's burning!"
Xiong Jun waved his hand very domineeringly, his heart was extremely cool, so many military grain and grass were all destroyed by his order, and this converted silver two is afraid that it can be piled up into a mountain. He is a small general, and he can do such a big thing, and it is worth it in this life.
This time there was a slight damage here, 3,000 soldiers were killed or wounded on the Lu side, and the rest also suffered more or less losses, but compared to the killing of tens of thousands of troops, this loss is negligible.
After the major granaries and military baggage were burned down, Xiong Jun waved his hand and said: "The whole army will go out of the city and continue to attack east!"