Chapter 242: The Situation of Friend and Foe
When the first city was attacked, it was met with strong resistance from the people of the city, and the defenders of the city were all the people of the city.
After the city was broken, the Jin army poured in from the four gates of the east, west, south and north together, and launched a frenzied massacre of the people in the city.
In this killing, from dawn to dark, and from dark to dawn, more than 200,000 people in the city were killed, and few people survived.
After the killing, it was a crazy looting, and the Jin army at this time was like a red-eyed bandit, robbing what they saw, carrying all the valuable things in the city, and when they left, a fire burned the city and the corpses of the people.
The barbarism and cruelty of the march played a deterrent role to a certain extent, and the next four cities attacked had little resistance, and the Jin army was almost bloodless and took the four cities lightly.
If the Jin army still has some restraint in Jiangdong County, thinking that it is its own land, it is completely ignored in Jiangxi County, and the military discipline of the Jin army is relatively loose, especially the Fourth Army, burning, killing and looting, doing everything, and in a few days, it is the Fourth Army that has gained the most and captured the most loot.
Since the last time Gu Liangyun was defeated in Wangjiang, Lin Haotian had taken over the Fourth Army and used it as his own guard.
When Chu Lianyu submitted the trophy account to Lin Haotian, Lin Haotian also laughed, Lian Zan The Fourth Army was worthy of being his own close army, and he worked very the battlefield.
Ding Feng, Bi Wu, and Dou Bo secretly smiled bitterly, the first, second, and third legions only robbed the property of officials or big families, while the fourth legion robbed what they saw, and didn't care whether the other party was a common person or a noble, and it was precisely because of the lawlessness of the fourth legion that the reputation of the Jin army was extremely bad, making the wooden people afraid like tigers and leopards. They all moved west to take refuge.
Ding Feng and the other three had already complained about what the Fourth Legion had done, and they had also talked to Gu Liangyun about it, but Gu Liangyun was called the commander of the Fourth Legion, but in fact he was just a decoration, and the actual control of the Fourth Legion had always been in Lin Haotian's hands.
His answer to the three of them was very simple and helpless: "Your Excellency is conniving." What can I do?"
Hearing Gu Liangyun say this, Ding Feng, Bi Wu, and Dou Bo were speechless.
This time, hearing that Lin Haotian did not blame the Fourth Legion's actions, but also praised them, and the three of them felt that it was not a good taste.
After some deliberation by everyone, it was finally decided that Dou Bo would come forward to dissuade Lin Haotian.
Dou Bo took a deep breath, took a step forward, and said to Lin Haotian: "My lord, our army occupies eight cities and three counties, and has controlled the entire territory of Jiangxi County. However, the people of Jiangxi have seriously moved westward, and many cities and towns have rarely been inhabited. ”
When Lin Haotian heard this, his eyes turned around, and he said: "Anyone who moves west will be beheaded if he is caught." ”
Dou Bo nodded, shook his head again, and said, "My lord, I'm afraid this is a palliative rather than a cure." ”
Lin Haotian was stunned. "What do you mean?"
Dou Bo said: "The reason why the wooden people moved west in large numbers is not because they are unwilling to accept the control of my big gold. It is not uncommon for our army to have lax discipline, and the officers and men are lawless outside, stealing money privately, killing innocent people indiscriminately, and committing adultery with women, which is not uncommon, resulting in the misery of the people of Jiangxi. Sooner or later, the people of Jiangxi will run out, even if we join forces with the Red Kingdom to destroy the wood, and finally get the Mubei counties, I am afraid that it will only be an empty county, and the wooden people will all flee to the Red Country......"
The more Lin Haotian listened, the more ugly his face became. Before Dou Bo could finish speaking, he slapped the table and shouted in a deep voice: "Enough! He stood up, looked at Dou Bo, and then at Ding Feng, Bi Wu, and Gu Liangyun, and said coldly: "You are the commander of the four armies, and the military discipline is lax, so you naturally can't escape the blame, and what kind of shame do you have to say these things in front of me?"
Ding Feng, Bi Wu, and Gu Liangyun grinned secretly, lowered their heads, and did not dare to face Lin Haotian's fierce gaze.
Dou Bo's face was calm, and his expression did not change at all, but in fact, he was already secretly snickering in his heart.
He arched his hand and said: "What the lord said is extremely true, the military discipline is lax, and the last general will indeed be unable to escape the blame, because of this, the last general swears to the lord, and if there is a person who violates military discipline, no matter how high his military rank is, how hard the background is, the last general will be severely punished, I don't know what the adult wants?"
Lin Haotian didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in Dou Bo's gourd, listening to his righteous words, he snorted coldly and muttered, "It should have been like this a long time ago!"
Dou Bo bowed his hand and shouted loudly: "Lord Shengming!" As he spoke, he looked back at Ling Wuya, one of the generals, and said, "General Ling!"
Ling Wuya was stunned, he didn't know what Dou Bo suddenly asked him to do, he owed slightly, and arched his hand: "General Dou?"
"General Ling has already heard what the Lord meant, right? If there are any more violators of military discipline, I hope that General Ling can cooperate to deal with them and uphold military discipline and military law. ”
Ling Wuya was not too willing to 'take a job' for himself, he looked up at Lin Haotian, and seeing that he didn't make any statement, Ling Wuya sighed secretly and said helplessly: "This is natural, Wuya will definitely assist the rank general." ”
Dou Bo smiled and said, "Okay! With the assistance of General Ling, the matter of strict military discipline will be twice the result with half the effort." ”
Ling Wuya smiled bitterly and said, "General Dou is polite. ”
Lin Haotian didn't want to waste more time on such trivial matters, he looked at Ling Wuya and asked, "How is the current battle situation on the Red Army's side?"
Ling Wuya's face was straight, and he told Lin Haotian in detail.
Seeing the battle report of the battle of Wangjiang that Lin Haotian transmitted, Red King Shi Huai was not happy, but he was not sad, but he just felt disapproving.
400,000 against 200,000, it was natural to win, but he paid 150,000 casualties, which was a bit too much, and he couldn't understand how the Jin army fought this battle.
Just attacking the Jiangxi camp of a wooden country, the wooden army suffered such heavy losses, and Shi Huai did not report much hope for Lin Haotian's side, but fortunately, the wooden country is now empty of troops, and there is a Jin army to contain it, Shi Huai took this opportunity to send his own 100,000 cavalry and 200,000 infantry soldiers to divide into two ways, march together, and attack the territory of Mu country.
There are not many troops in the west of the wood country, and the attack of the red country is too sudden, and the speed is too fast, so that the local troops in various parts of the wood country are caught off guard, and often before they are gathered in one place, they are broken by the iron cavalry of the red country as if falling from the sky.
The plundering of the Red Army is no worse than that of the Jin Army, and it is also what to rob, Shi Huai has already released his words when he declared war on Mu Guo, and he wants to fight a 'White Jade Palace' in this battle.
The White Jade Palace is a palace built by the Yan Kingdom, in order to build this palace, the Yan Kingdom bulldozed half of a high mountain, used half of the mountain as the foundation, and built the palace and pavilion in mid-air, spending countless amounts of gold and silver, and consuming hundreds of thousands of manpower, which took up to 20 years.
Shi Huai's intention was to regain enough wealth to build a Lingyun Palace in this war, so as to show that his Red Kingdom was on a par with the Yan Kingdom.
Perhaps because of the close relationship between the people of Chimu, the Red Army was still relatively polite to the wooden people, did not kill innocents indiscriminately, and did not implicate the war in ordinary wooden people.
However, for the 'benevolent government' of the wood country, the wood people are not grateful at all, and their hatred for the red country has not weakened in the slightest.
The Jin army invaded the Mu country, and the Mu people were afraid and hated, but after all, the relationship between the two countries was originally bad, and the Mu army had also invaded the Jin country, and now that the Jin country has come back, the Mu people have nothing to complain about. But the invasion of the Red Kingdom is different, Mu Chi has always maintained a friendly alliance, and the Red Country is undoubtedly treacherous in doing so, so the Mu people hate the Red Country more than the Jin State.
After the Red Kingdom had defeated the two counties at lightning speed, the Mu Kingdom finally came to its senses, and the local armies in various places gradually gathered and concentrated, and hoarded 80,000 heavy troops in Shanyang City and Shishui City in Jiashang County, putting on a posture of fighting to the death with the Red Army.
The two cities, like two gate gods, blocked the way of the Red Army to the north.
The Red Army immediately launched a strong attack on the two cities, the defenders of Mucheng fought bloodily, and would rather die than retreat, the people in the city hated the same enemy, and also threw themselves into the ranks of defending the city, under such stubborn resistance, the attack of the Red Army was blocked, and they attacked for two days in a row, and failed to take the two cities of Shanyang and Shishui, which is the current situation of the Red Army. (To be continued......)