Hundreds of thousands of Zhending locals were driven out of the city. Together with old women and children, they were miserable and could not see where they would lead tomorrow.
This is actually a microcosm of the rough rule of the Jin Kingdom.
Living in the Jin Kingdom was indeed slightly easier than living in the Southern Song Dynasty, which was oppressed at all levels, because its rule was rough.
But also because its rule was rough, when it wanted to exploit, it often exploited people completely and completely, unlike the Southern Song Dynasty, which sometimes focused on sustainable exploitation.
The space in Zhending City was vacated, but many Jurchens still came over to seek shelter. They asked to enter Zhending City, and there were still more people in the city.
After reading the report on the supplies stored in the city, Zhending Prefect thought for a moment and then ordered again, asking the Jurchens to expel all non-Jurchens slaves counted in their household registrations.
Only the Jurchens and official figures were kept in the city, and no other people were left.
This aroused dissatisfaction among some Jurchens.
When calculating the household registration of Jurchens, there is usually a distinction between Jurchens and slaves. The two are combined into one household, so a household can be calculated as almost ten people, and among them, less than 50% are Jurchens, and most of them are Still a slave.
There are a small number of Jurchens among these slaves, most of whom are Han and Khitan people. They are free people from Song and Liao who lost their personal freedom during the war and their descendants.
Now they too are being driven away.
But they were indeed the private property of the Jurchens, so a large number of Jurchens also protested to the Zhending Prefecture.
Zhendingfu Yin was very angry and felt that these guys did not consider himself at all, so he decided to teach them a lesson and ordered the army to drive away these unscrupulous guys with sticks.
So the Jin soldiers lined up and brandished sticks and beat the Jurchens who came to make trouble to their heads. The average Jurchens were inferior to the army in terms of force and equipment. Faced with the deliberate attack by the army, they could only suffer a disastrous defeat. Return to this road.
Fortunately, not many people died, only more than ten people died due to accidents, most of them were injured and were beaten away.
It's much better than killing him directly before.
Under the compulsory requirements of force, those non-Jurchen slaves were also forced to leave Zhending County, crying and fleeing to the surrounding villages or hiding places, hoping to survive the coming war.
As a result, the population in Zhending City was finally under control, there was room for activities, and loyalty was very reliable. Basically, there would be no such thing as internal cooperation and external cooperation.
Zhendingfu Yin then relaxed a little and began to arrange the defense of the city.
Su Yonglin kept sending people north to investigate the reality of Zhending County, and found out that groups of Han people, Khitans, etc. were driven out of the city.
Weeping and mourning, they crossed the Hutuo River and supported each other towards the south, hoping to join the Liberation Army.
Su Yonglin arranged for the army to go north to pick up these people, and brought them to the Luancheng area for resettlement. Then some famous people among these people formed a group to see Su Yonglin and cried to him.
"So, your houses and property have been taken away, and the Jin people don't care about your life and death at all, leaving you to fend for yourself?"
Su Yonglin looked at the group of crying elders and felt helpless, and said, "Why don't you resist? Your number should be no less than the Jurchens in the city. If you have the courage to resist, this may not be the case."
"The golden soldiers were fierce, armed with sharp blades, spears, and crossbows, and they killed us wantonly. Before we were expelled, hundreds of people were killed. We were really powerless to resist, and our force was out of reach!"
An old man with a white beard knelt in front of Su Yonglin and cried bitterly: "Lao Chen's son was killed, his daughter-in-law was snatched away, his young grandson and granddaughter were trampled to death, and in the whole family, only Lao Chen was left alive. He has no one left." The thought of living.
Now, all I ask is that the general can give me a knife so that I can follow the army back to the truth. Even if I can only kill a gold thief, it will be regarded as my revenge for my family. In this way, even if I die immediately, I will still have the face to see him. Family! "
After saying that, the old man with the white beard cried even harder.
The people around him cried together, and the officers and soldiers of the Shengjie Army around him felt uncomfortable after hearing what the white-bearded old man said.
Su Yonglin sighed.
"Why do the Jin people treat you as human beings? They usually treat you kindly, but once they are in danger, the ones pushed to death are Han people and Khitan people, never Jurchens. So, why do you need to sacrifice your life for Jurchens?
The Liberation Army saw through this, so they gave up all illusions about the Jin Kingdom and decided to rise up to resist, overthrow the Jin Kingdom, and take back our home. That was all. What other ideas did they have? Those who joined the Liberation Army were also poor people.
Either the land, property, or wife and family were taken away by the Jin Kingdom, so everyone, join the Liberation Army. The Liberation Army will take you back to fight back and take back everything you have lost! "
Su Yonglin held the old man's hand: "I swear in the name of Su Yonglin, General of the Hussars of the Liberation Army, that I will take back what belongs to you, and make those hateful lackeys of the Jin Kingdom pay the price! Blood debt must be repaid with blood!"
Su Yonglin's statement inspired the people present, and they all expressed their willingness to fight with the Liberation Army.
So with their persuasion and organization, Su Yonglin successfully incorporated this large number of Zhending refugees who hated the Kingdom of Jin to the core.
After that, Su Yonglin placed them in abandoned villages around Luancheng County, provided them with food, allowed them to live in these places temporarily and had a place to stay, and selected more than 3,000 able-bodied men from them to join the Victory Army.
In addition, there were many craftsmen among these people, who were selected by Su Yonglin and sent to Dongping Mansion.
There were also some people who were literate, able to write and count, and engaged in economic work, who were selected by Su Yonglin and assigned to work in the Food and Rating Department and the Security Department, as a contribution to the victory of the victory army.
Then Su Yonglin began to plan an attack on Zhending.
Based on the intelligence brought by these refugees, Su Yonglin learned that there were about 10,000 Jurchen soldiers in Zhending Mansion, as well as a reserve force composed of a larger number of Jurchen households, ready to go into battle at any time.
Because of the ethnic policy of the Liberation Army, the governor of Zhending distrusted the Han and Khitan-dominated signatories and was worried that they would cooperate with the Liberation Army inside and outside, so he disarmed them all and drove them away from Zhending very early.
Therefore, all defenses in Zhending County were the responsibility of the Jurchens themselves, and there was almost no possibility of persuading them to surrender.
Su Yonglin felt a little unhappy.
It has to be said that although the method of using ethnic groups to distinguish enemies and classify all Jurchens as enemies can unite other people and expel Jurchens as quickly as possible, once a situation like Zhending County occurs, the siege will also change. Relatively difficult.
The Jurchens knew that the Liberation Army would never let them go, they would resist desperately, and they would never surrender, which would inevitably increase the cost of siege.
In fact, Su Yonglin has always disliked attacking cities.
The cities previously captured were either a surprise attack, a combination of inside and outside cooperation, or a voluntary surrender, or the number of defenders was too small and could be captured in an hour or two. There were very few fortified cities with extremely large number of defenders.
There is no doubt that Zhending City is a standard fortified city. There are still many defenders, making it extremely difficult to attack.
This is the negative product of the Liberation Army’s political correctness.
If there are advantages, there must be disadvantages.
But the good thing is that the number of Jurchens is indeed not that large, even compared to the Khitans who have perished, let alone the larger Han people.
Therefore, as an absolute minority, the Liberation Army's policy can be implemented smoothly, and the backlash will be relatively small.
But there are times when this trick fails.
For example, if the opponent's ethnic group has too many people and the wildfire cannot be burned out and the spring breeze blows again, other plans must be adopted, otherwise it will cause a great division.
Nationalism is only a temporary measure and cannot be used as a panacea, otherwise it will definitely backfire on itself.
Su Yonglin thought deeply about his long-standing policy arrangements and felt that he was very correct in not promoting nationalism in the Shengjie Army.
If it were implemented, he could imagine that one day he would be kidnapped by the surging national sentiments of the army.
Therefore, such behavior has not happened in the past, does not happen now, and will not happen in the future.
