Chapter 504: Something Else
As soon as he heard the accent of the woman's voice, Lin Haotian immediately judged that she was from You Guo.
Without Lin Haotian to speak, the surrounding guards had already swarmed up and surrounded the girls.
Lin Haotian looked at her coldly, and found that she was very calm, and did not show the slightest flustery.
"The strength of the Jin Kingdom over the years has been obvious to all, I believe that General Lin must also be a Ming Lord, since he is a Ming Lord, why do you want to implicate the people in the war?" the girl looked directly into Lin Haotian's eyes and asked suspiciously.
"Do you think that I am arresting the people of Youguo to kill them?"
"Isn't it?"
"Hehe!" Lin Haotian smiled and said, "On the contrary, I'm protecting them!"
His words, on the contrary, made the knights present happy, the Jin army savagely invaded the town and arrested the people everywhere, with no intention of harming them, but to protect the people, it was simply a lie with their eyes open.
Although the girl didn't laugh, she didn't believe Lin Haotian's words. She shook her head admittedly and said, "I'm sorry, I don't understand what General Lin meant. ”
Lin Haotian said faintly: "Among the four-nation alliance, not all of them are as gentle as our army, and there are many people who kill innocents indiscriminately and use innocent heads as military merits. In order to prevent the corpses of the people of Canglin County from being scattered all over the field, our Jin army can only come up with this strategy to gather the local people to take care of them and prevent them from suffering from the pond fish. ”
His words are true or false, and no one can immediately judge whether they are true or false.
Some of what Lin Haotian said is true, and there are indeed innocent people who kill innocents indiscriminately in the Four-Nation Alliance. One of the most rampant is the New Red Alliance.
Previously, Lin Haotian had given them 10,000 You army prisoners, which seemed to provoke the murderous nature of the New Red Army, and they were not satisfied after killing all the prisoners. The eyes were on the people of You again, the villages and towns passed by the new Red Army were basically rivers of blood, headless corpses were piled up, and in order to destroy the evidence, the corpses of the people were either burned or buried in pits. The methods are cruel and despicable.
After listening to Lin Haotian's words, the girl was speechless for a long time.
As she pondered, screams rang in the distance. I saw a group of Jin soldiers dragging more than a dozen people out of their homes, and the Jin army was not empty in his hands, some were holding boxes, and some were carrying packages. Some people even moved all the furniture out of their houses.
I looked at it for a while. The girl turned her head and asked Lin Haotian with a sneer: "Is robbing the people's property also a means for General Lin to protect the people?"
Lin Haotian doesn't like women with sharp teeth and sharp mouths, and he has always been like this. He shrugged his shoulders and said indifferently: "Ben Shuai can only ensure that the people of You Country will not be harmed, and as for the damage to the family's property, it is not within the scope of Ben Shuai's guarantee." ”
His words were not good, but his outspokenness made the girl believe a little. She groaned for a moment. Raise your hand and untie the sword from your waist.
Seeing this, the surrounding Jin Army guards immediately became nervous. The people invariably raised their spears and looked at the girl as if they were facing a great enemy.
Surprisingly, instead of drawing her sword, the girl threw her sword to the ground, stretched out her hands forward, made a gesture of restraint, and said, "I am also a special person, please General Lin take me away too!"
Her words not only stunned the Jin Army guards, but even the other knights were also stunned, and the white-faced young man who was originally restrained by Shao Lin struggled to get up from the ground and exclaimed, "Huang Qi, are you crazy?"
The girl ignored him, raised her hands higher, and looked at Lin Haotian without blinking. The latter was also surprised by her move, blinked his eyes interestingly, looked at her for a moment, smiled casually, and said indifferently: "Okay, as you wish!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the Jin army guards stood up, carrying ropes, and made a gesture to step forward to tie up.
Lin Haotian waved his hand and said, "No need, just put her and the people of this town together." ”
Seeing that the girl didn't seem to be joking, all the knights were anxious, especially the knights of You Guo, who came forward together and asked nervously, "Miss Huangqi, why are you going with Jin Jun?"
The girl smiled faintly and said, "I just want to see if what General Lin said is true or false!"
"If he is a fool, if you follow Jin Jun, it will be a dead end. ”
"Now that we are especially human, is there still a way to live?" asked the girl dejectedly. Instead of waiting to die, it is better to fight to the death. She silently added in her heart.
The knights of You Guo were silent, no one could speak, and watched the girl follow Jin Jun away.
The white-faced young man was unwilling and wanted to catch up, but Shao Lin took a step across to stop him.
The white-faced young man glared at him angrily and said loudly, "You Jin people will also take me away!"
"If you want to die, I don't mind fulfilling you!" As he spoke, Shao Lin had already pulled out the scimitar in his hand, and the black black blade emitted a strange glow under the reflection of the sunlight.
Even if he didn't touch the scimitar, the white-faced young man could still feel the cold air coming from the knife, and he shivered and subconsciously took two steps back.
Shao Lin snorted coldly, looked around at the knights inside and outside the teahouse with a scimitar, and said, "Wait for you to leave this town as soon as possible, if you violate the order, you will be killed!"
Under the coercion of the demon warriors, those non-special knights chose to leave one after another, and none of the special knights left, imitating the girl, handing over their weapons, and offering to go with Jin Jun.
When they were like this, Shao Lin was no longer polite, and ordered all these chivalrous guests to be taken to the town and imprisoned with the people of You Guo.
In the entire Luofang Town, nearly 20,000 people were all concentrated in the center of the town by the Jin army. Then Jin Jun counted the characters slightly, and felt that they were roughly correct, and then escorted the people of the town back to the Jin army's camp.
When they came, the Jin army was lightly armed, and when they returned to the camp, they all returned with a full load. The cattle in the town were all used by the Jin army to pull carts, and in addition to goods and food, the carts were also loaded with many large things, furniture, porcelain, and even pots and pans.
Lin Haotian didn't know what the soldiers could do if they grabbed these things, but he didn't order a ban. For these little things, the soldiers are happy.
After returning to the barracks, Lin Haotian did not give special care to these You Guo knights who took the initiative to surrender. Like the common people, they were all sent to the newly built camp.
Now this camp is like a huge concentration camp, and there are hundreds of thousands of people in Youguo who are imprisoned on the ground, and the situation inside is also chaotic.
Since the soldiers of the Jin army were only responsible for guarding and not participating in the management, there was no order in the camp. Coupled with limited resources, many people can fight just to grab a tent.
The Jin army brought back more people than expected, and the camps they had built earlier soon could not accommodate more and more people from Youguo. The Jin army could only expand it. At the same time, the tactics of the Jin army also had a great effect on Juan, who was locked in the city.
The Jin army kept attacking the villages and towns around Juan, and although most of the people were captured, it was impossible to capture them all. Inevitably, there will be fish that slip through the net. The people who had escaped fled fled to Juan to deliver the news of the attack.
As soon as they heard that their home was attacked by the Jin army, the whole family, parents, wives and children were captured by the Jin army.
The head of the county, Guan Tai, personally came forward. He asked the soldiers to calm down, and also explained to everyone the purpose of the Jin army. It was in order to lure them out of the city that their families were captured, and now we should focus on the overall situation, and we must not lose big because of small things.
Now that he says this, it will only make the soldiers of You Jun, who are suffering at home, feel that he is standing and talking without backache, and the feeling is that your family has not been robbed, if it were you, would you still be able to say these words?
When Guan Tai was there, people didn't dare to say anything, and at night, a large number of defenders began to quietly go out of the city, intending to sneak attack the camp where the people were held at night and rescue their families.
But the Jin army has long been wary of this hand, all the You army who came to save people, is to come one, to be captured, to come, to be captured, often in one night, the defenders in Juan City are short of two or three thousand people, and the Jin army has two or three thousand more prisoners.
Juan's defenders totaled only more than 50,000 people, where could they withstand the escape of two or three thousand soldiers every night, and went to the camp of the Jin army to throw themselves into the net.
The high-pressure policy could not solve the practical problems of the soldiers below, and the phenomenon of the defenders fleeing from the city was still serious, and the situation in Juan City began to become precarious, and there was a tendency to fall into self-defeat.
Guan Tai was at a loss for this, he was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, and on the other side, the Jin army was not easy, and it was not the small group of You troops who came to rob the camp that made Lin Haotian feel troubled, but the huge number of You people.
Hundreds of thousands of people have to eat and drink Lazar every day, which is no longer an easy thing to solve, and the fatal thing is that especially people, regardless of men, women, old and children, are fierce and aggressive, hundreds of thousands of people get together, and conflicts occur from time to time.
It's better if the Jin army doesn't stop it, but once it does, it will immediately lead the conflict to itself.
Because Lin Haotian had a strict order, his own soldiers were not allowed to harm the people of Youguo, so the soldiers of the two armies did not dare to deal with heavy hands, and in the end it could only become a situation of passive beating.
The people of You also seem to gradually feel that the Jin Army has no intention of harming them, and they are becoming more and more emboldened, and their demands are becoming more and more, and many scholars and literati among the detained people have also jointly signed a letter asking to meet Lin Haotian, the commander of the Jin Army.
At the beginning, Lin Haotian only thought of arresting the people of You Guo to force Juan to surrender, but he didn't expect to cause so much trouble, looking at the letter sent by the soldiers below, Lin Haotian scoffed at this.
However, Peng Qian and Bi Wen came to persuade Lin Haotian that it was best to meet with these literati of You Guo, listen to what they wanted, and if they could meet them, they would try to satisfy them, the public opinion of the literati was very powerful, and if they could please the literati, it would be equivalent to grabbing the hearts of the people of You State, and it would also be conducive to moving the people of You Country to Jin.
After listening to their persuasion, Lin Haotian secretly said that it was reasonable! One of the reasons why You Wang Nie Xing aroused disgust in his own country was that he indiscriminately killed the literati who wrote books in the first place, which caused the people to complain and deviate from morality.
Eventually, he accepted the request of the scholars of the Kingdom of You, and held a banquet in his tent to entertain the scholars.
There are more than 100 people who have written books. It is impossible for all of them to come, they elected a few as representatives, which surprised Lin Haotian. The female knight of You Guo that he met in Luofang Town was also among them.
No matter what he thought in his heart, Lin Haotian was still very polite to these people on the surface, and after everyone saw the ceremony, he smiled and invited everyone to take a seat.
"During this period of time, I have really wronged you, but this is also a helpless move!" Lin Haotian looked around at everyone. He sighed lightly and said, "You should also know that Shikoku is not one. The commander can only control the Jin army of his own country, and the Jin army can treat the people of You with courtesy, but the central armies of other countries may not be able to do it, which is why the commander invited the people of You to gather here. ”
You don't need to ask. Lin Haotian took the initiative to explain why the Jin army wanted to arrest hundreds of thousands of people.
These representatives of the literati really didn't expect Lin Haotian to be so polite to them. Not only is it courteous, but it also sets up a banquet and hospitality, without the barbaric posture of the invaders.
Lin Haotian's performance made these literati of You Guo a little overwhelmed. One of the elderly scholars named Hong Hao arched his hand and asked, "General Lin, is there any indiscriminate killing of innocents in the Six-Nation Alliance?"
He didn't answer directly, but looked at the chivalrous girl and asked, "This girl, do you all know each other?"
All the scholars nodded. Since the girl was imprisoned in the camp, many disputes between the people have been resolved. is very popular with everyone, and it is precisely because of this that she is one of the representatives who met Lin Haotian.
Seeing that they all nodded, Lin Haotian said with a smile: "Since you all know her, then you must know whether she is a special person or a chivalrous person, and if there is any indiscriminate killing of innocents in the Four Nations Alliance, just ask her." ”
Lin Haotian kicked the question to the girl, after all, they are all special people, and her words are more convincing than Lin Haotian.
Seeing that everyone was looking at her, she nodded slightly and said in a low voice, "This is indeed the case." ”
Sure enough, hearing her say this, everyone believed it for seven or eight points.
Hong Hao rolled his eyes and said to Lin Haotian: "It turns out that General Lin has no ill will towards us and others, but out of kindness, in this case, General Lin should take more care of us." ”
Lin Haotian nodded and said, "What Mr. Hong Hao said is reasonable, but the time is in a hurry, and there are inconsiderate places, I hope Mr. will be more considerate." ”
Hong Hao didn't feel that there was anything wrong with Lin Haotian's attitude now, and his face also showed a reasonable expression, and his voice became a lot louder, and he said: "General Lin, there are some things that I really have to say in the next place! The camp set up by your army is too small and crowded, resulting in constant friction, and in addition, there are very few tents, and many people have no place to escape the heat during the day and no place to sleep at night. In addition, there are too few meals delivered every day, and each person can only get half a bowl of gruel for each meal, and if this continues, sooner or later someone will starve to death. Also, medicine is scarce in the camp, and so many people live together, it is inevitable that they will get sick, but without medicine, don't you have to watch the sick die......?
This Hong Hao was not polite at all, and counted the camps built by the Jin army from head to toe.
Lin Haotian listened carefully, his face was full of concern, and he nodded in agreement from time to time, but in his heart, he had already greeted Hong Hao's ancestors for eight generations.
Fuck you! Did I arrest you so that you could come on vacation? You have to eat well, you have to sleep well, and you have to have good conditions, so that the 200,000 troops of the Jin Kingdom will serve you and provide for you.
I've seen a rigid poor scholar, but I've never seen such a shameless person who doesn't know the situation!
There was silence in the camp, leaving only Hong Hao with his mouth open and closed, talking endlessly.
In the end, even the girl named Huang Qi couldn't listen to it anymore, coughed lightly, interrupted Hong Hao's words, and said, "Increase the tent and diet!"
"What?" Hong Hao looked at her suspiciously.
The girl simply looked at Lin Haotian, and Zhengse said, "As long as General Lin can increase the tent and diet first." After speaking, she glanced at Hong Hao and shook her head secretly, you are now making that series of demands to Lin Haotian, I am afraid that even the conditions of the Jin Army are not so high, how can they be satisfied in the end? It is not enough to pick the most practical and important thing, so that it is possible to win the greatest benefit.
Tents and food, this is also what the Jin army lacks the most at present! Lin Haotian knocked on his forehead, pondered for a long time, leaned over to Chu Lianyu's side, and asked in a low voice, "How many tents and grain and grass are there in our army?"
Chu Lianyu also replied in a low voice: "It's not much." ”
"Didn't you let the New Red Army bring grain, grass and supplies over?"
"It's only been a few days, and it's estimated that we'll have to wait at least three or four days for it to arrive. ”
"I'm afraid it's not okay to wait so long, you and I should take out the remaining tents in the army first, and the daily rations in the army will also need to be reduced. Lin Haotian suggested.
Chu Lianyu now really wants to touch Lin Haotian's forehead to see if he is having a fever, in order to meet the requirements of Youren, he actually wants to reduce the rations of his own soldiers, how can there be such a reason?
"Why did your lord suddenly treat the people of You Country so kindly?" Chu Lianyu wondered.
"It's very simple, if you want to pull away the people of You Country in the future, you have to win the hearts of the people first, and if you want those You soldiers who are enemies of us to turn over, you have to let their families stand on our side first!" Lin Haotian narrowed his eyes and whispered in her ear.
No wonder Lin Haotian suddenly became so kind-hearted, it turned out that he had other calculations and other plans. After Chu Lianyu understood in his heart, he stopped arguing with him, nodded and responded: "Everything is up to the adults!"
"Okay!" Lin Haotian responded, then turned around and said to the girl: "The tent and the diet, this handsome will try his best to improve, are there any other requirements?"
Unexpectedly, Lin Haotian agreed so happily, the girl was stunned for a moment, then shook her head, and said with a little hesitation: "Not for the time being." ”
Lin Haotian smiled and said to Hong Hao: "Mr. Hong Hao's request is also known to Ben Shuai, but due to the conditions, Ben Shuai cannot agree to it all at once, but he will try his best to make everyone live comfortably." ”
Hong Hao sighed secretly, looked at each other with the other literati representatives, and then everyone bowed deeply and said in unison: "Thank you General Lin!" In their hearts, Lin Haotian's generosity and easy-going behavior at this time was in stark contrast to the indiscriminate killing of innocents by You Wang Nie Xing.
Even the commander of the Jin army who invaded You can treat the literati of You Country well, and he can listen to the advice, why can't the monarch of his country do it?
This is simply ironic! (To be continued......