As Li Zhen's latest order was issued, the soldiers who looked worried just now turned into greedy robbers in the blink of an eye!
"Here!"
Listening to the tsunami-like echoes in his ears, and looking at Li Shi and others whose eyes were glowing green, Li Zhen's heart was full of mixed feelings for a while, and it was hard to describe what he was feeling.
Since arriving in Weizhou City, everything! It seems that everything has deviated from the track he expected!
Or it can be said that he may have been wrong from the beginning!
Do you want your group of illiterate refugees, domestic slaves, and even bandits and bandits to fight for your ideals?
In the whole world, he is probably the only one who has such an innocent fantasy!
Even the brainwashing that seemed to be effective before, now that I think about it, it was probably just because I followed him, Li Zhen! Only these people can have enough to eat and not be discriminated against!
That's why these people are willing to act obedient and obey his orders!
And once they discover that they already have the power to bully others, they can already rob others! When you want to live a better life.
What is the equality of all living beings and the world is one family? All the people in the world must go to hell! Since you can get everything you want through looting, who would be willing to face the loess and earn a few stones of food!
"The people can follow it, but they cannot know it! The saint is indeed a saint!"
This sentence from the Analects of Confucius suddenly came to mind, and a wry smile gradually appeared on Li Zhen's face.
Come to think of it, when Master Confucius said these words, he was probably so angry that these stupid people made his head smoke and his eyes burn, so he said these angry words out of hatred.
The army marches westward! Countless rebels headed towards Ningcheng excitedly.
I don’t know whether it’s because there is no burden of food and baggage this time, or because of the temptation of countless treasures ahead, but in short, Li Zhen’s army moved extremely smoothly this time!
At the same time, Ningcheng finally got the news that Weizhou City was destroyed and most of the city was burned to ashes!
I don’t know where this news first came from, but it only took the blink of an eye for it to spread throughout the city!
The people of Ningcheng, who were still rejoicing yesterday, thinking that the crisis was over, immediately felt as if a basin of ice had been poured on their heads after hearing the news! Everyone was dumbfounded!
Yes, not a basin of water! But a huge ice cube! It was thrown directly from the sky onto their heads, hitting them so hard that stars appeared in their eyes and their heads were dazed!
"Shouldn't the army withdraw due to lack of food? Why don't they act according to common sense?"
"I heard that their thieves said that we have food here, so they are coming to rob us!"
"Ah? Then they don't call themselves the Phoenix Army? Do they want the world to be one family and one family for the whole world? Why do they want to rob our food like bandits?"
"Hmph, only you can believe such lies! One family in the world? Then Weizhou City surrendered in front of us? How come it was robbed completely first and burned completely again? net?!"
"Well, wouldn't we be in danger too!"
"Hey... who says it's not the case! I hope the Marquis from Chang'an can help us get through this..."
Conversations like this can be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys of Ningcheng. The people who had just relaxed suddenly became nervous again!
It turns out that some of them were still dreaming that even if the rebels entered the city, they would be able to do nothing!
At this moment, he is completely awake! Everyone was so frightened that they couldn't help but grit their teeth!
Fortunately, there is a lesson learned from Weizhou City!
Otherwise, they will probably have to wait until the day when the steel knife comes, and they will know that the so-called Master of Justice is just an empty talk to deceive ghosts!
"Weizhou City!"
At the Ningcheng County Government Office, Xiao Han was looking at a piece of more detailed information in his hand with complicated eyes, and said nothing for a long time.
Things turned out to be the worst possible outcome for him! Even the tens of thousands of people in Weizhou City who suffered such a catastrophe innocently had no idea how long they would survive in the end.
"Xiao Han! The city defenses have been arranged."
Just when Xiao Han was staring at the information, the door was suddenly pushed open!
Immediately afterwards, Liu Hongji, who was wearing armor, strode in from the door. After seeing Xiao Han, he immediately said to him in a deep voice: "Now the enemy has no large siege equipment and no food and grass. So... In my opinion, if we only need to hold on for three days, the enemy will be defeated by then!"
"Survived three days?" Xiao Han raised his head and looked at Liu Hongji with cold eyes: "What about after three days?"
"After three days?" Liu Hongji was slightly stunned, as if he didn't expect Xiao Han to ask this question suddenly. He waited for a moment to react, then frowned and replied: "After three days, the enemy will definitely have no fighting spirit! As long as I lead the army, Come on, they are like chickens and dogs!"
When Xiao Han heard this, his face was still gloomy: "The problem is that when these people break up and flee, what can we do? When they run around, they will definitely become a disaster again!"
"Eh? What do you mean? Do you mean not to let them escape?" Hearing that Xiao Han seemed to have something to say, Liu Hongji lowered his head to ponder for a moment, then raised his head sharply, staring at him with eyes full of shock: "You, you What do you want to do?"
"Me?" Xiao Han ignored Liu Hongji's look like he was crazy, took a deep breath, stood up and said coldly: "I want to keep them all! To atone for the crimes they committed!"
Yes! Atonement!
At the beginning, in Xiao Han's heart, he still felt pity and even guilt for those rebels!
Because at that time, he thought that the reason why things came to this point was because of Xiao Lizi's indulgence, the government's inaction, and the persecution of wealthy families and countless large and small landowners!
It is precisely because of such various reasons that these people finally had no choice but to join the rebels!
However, after experiencing the destruction of Weizhou City and the burning, killing, looting and torture of all the people in the city, Xiao Han finally realized something!
Rebels are rebels!
No matter how innocent and pitiful these people were before! But when they pick up the sword and slaughter other innocent people! These people are no longer ordinary people of the Tang Dynasty! But his own enemy!
The real enemy!
If we were to deal with his own people, Xiao Han might be hesitant, thoughtful, or reluctant to take action!
When it comes to dealing with the enemy, Xiao Han will not have any hesitation!
After all, no matter how merciful you are to your enemies, they won't show any mercy when they attack you!
