Chapter 1323 - Governance While Fighting
After these wounded soldiers were dealt with, a group of Datang soldiers soon came in, but this time these soldiers came in to select people, and these prisoners had been divided into different teams according to their numbers before they came in.
And the batch of Tang soldiers who came in began to select prisoners again, but they did not choose anything else, but selected some prisoners who could cook, and when they were selected, soon, bags of grain were transported to the prisoner camp.
Then these Tang soldiers began to organize them to build stoves for themselves, and let these soldiers take them to the surrounding woods to cut wood and so on.
And when they had their first meal in the captive camp, Datang silenced them again.
Because their first meal was actually a steamed bun with white noodles, and everyone who watched the stew swallowed their saliva wildly, and there was meat in it?! It's not a lot of meat, but it's also meat!
This...... Is this a meal for the captives?
But soon they understood the meals...... It wasn't for the captives to eat, or rather, the Tang Dynasty didn't distinguish between the captives and their own soldiers at all.
Because the Datang soldiers who supervised them also ate with them, and in the process of eating, many prisoners learned from the mouths of those who could cook and pulled out to help that the soldiers in other Datang barracks ate the same as them.
Because these captives went to help, washing vegetables, cutting vegetables, chopping wood, etc., all the ingredients were the same.
It's hard to keep them silent about these meals...... Even they couldn't eat it in the normal state of Goguryeo, let alone that they were now captives.
Did Datang take them prisoners?
Yes, they had to work, but the work was not too heavy, and their wounded were treated, and not just once.
All the wounded were treated according to different injuries, and some of them even had their medication changed twice a day.
And what surprised them was that many of the wounded who they thought were very seriously injured and could barely survive actually survived, and their injuries quickly stabilized with the treatment of these soldiers in Datang.
This scene touched the hearts of many captives.
Because it is nothing to help the wounded, but it is the most rare thing to treat the wounded as a person.
They don't understand any big truths, but they know what sincerity is.
It's like there were a few people near the city walls who had their legs and arms broken off because of the explosion.
An injury like this is basically a death sentence in Goguryeo, even their commanders won't care about it, at most they can bandage the wound and then throw it there to fend for themselves.
But after the Tang people carried them back, several of the doctors they called military doctors first anesthetized them, then sawed off the legs and arms that were only partially flesh and skin together, stopped the bleeding, and treated the wounds.
At least now, it seems that these people have obviously stabilized, and their faces are much more rosy.
According to the medics, if they were able to survive five days, they would have survived.
Although these captives did not know how to heal, they also knew that the tattered arms and legs would die faster if they were left behind. Because in the army, such injuries are often seen.
Don't say that it is rotten like this, many times, some of them are just an ordinary knife wound, and in the end they can festering and die.
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Li Shiji is not ready to attack quickly, or rather...... Because the speed at which they took the city was too fast, even if it dragged on for more than ten days, it was equivalent to a fast attack, so naturally they were not in a hurry.
It is not difficult to attack Goguryeo, but it is rare how to stabilize and steadily win Goguryeo.
After determining that Goguryeo had little ability to resist, Li Shiji began to think about the subsequent ruling plan.
According to His Royal Highness King Qin's approach, enemies can be transformed, and assassins can become spies, so aren't these ordinary people much easier to deal with? Since this is the case, Li Shiji naturally wants to pursue perfection.
In the past few years that he has served as the supreme official in Youzhou, what he has learned the most is the way to deal with these things, or the method of learning His Highness to win the hearts of the people, and passing on His Highness's policies, benevolence, and thoughts to these ordinary people of Goguryeo.
Li Shiji did not forget that Liu Zhao said that in the border area close to the Tang Dynasty and Goguryeo, a considerable number of the people are actually oriented towards the Tang Dynasty.
Therefore, he decided to deal with the things in the rear and operate while fighting. In this way, even if they can't fight for a year, they Datang can even treat this place as their own territory!
As for how to operate, to be honest, although Li Shiji has learned a lot, he has a general mastery, and he is still good at leading troops to fight.
However, a sentence that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Li Chengqian said to him before they attacked Liaodong City suddenly woke up Li Shiji.
Li Chengqian's original words were, "How to govern these Goguryeo people?" It's very simple, you just treat them as ordinary people of the Tang Dynasty. ”
Just such a sentence made Li Shiji suddenly realize that there are some things that don't need to be done very deliberately, as long as they are treated equally. He is not proficient in His Highness's way of governing the people, and he is not as good as His Royal Highness King Qin in some details.
But how are some of His Royal Highness King Qin's policies implemented in Youzhou and other places, as the supreme governor, he has all served his purpose, so why not just follow the cat and the tiger now?
With this realization, Li Shiji instantly put many actions through.
For example, in the current Liaodong City, Cheng Huailiang, who is currently stationed in Liaodong City, received an order of two words: maintain stability!
Unlike the prisoners, although the forty or fifty thousand people in Liaodong City were also panicked in their hearts, they still had some expectations in their hearts, because no matter what kind of imperial court they were, they would generally not kill the people after they basically attacked a certain place.
Of course, the slaughter of the city is another way, but there are few such things in history, and the Tang Dynasty ...... I don't think it's going to slaughter the city, it's a big deal to loot some of the property, or let them hand over some of the food.
In addition, as long as they don't provoke the Tang army, they shouldn't kill anyone.
However, what the people of Liaodong City did not expect was that after they had spent a day of anxiety, at dawn the next day, some people were ready to leave the house tentatively to inquire about the news, after all, they did not hear any movement in the city last night, no fire, no crying, no screaming.
This proves that the Tang army did not do anything to the people in the city, and the next day, some bold people wanted to go out to hear the news.
Because Datang's attitude towards them is closely related to their life and death.
After these people left their homes, they quickly noticed that groups of Datang soldiers were gathering people from area by area with some people who were originally in charge of law and order in the city.
It was under such circumstances that Ma Fan was summoned to the intersection of an alley in front of his house.