Wang Yan's confident defense made Zhang Yuejing smile.
The sound of this statement was beyond his expectation.
"Strengthen the wall and clear the wilderness? Use the strong men as beasts and use the strong women as slaves. In just two months, you have tortured more than 10,000 people to death. Is this your tactic of strengthening the wall and clearing the wilderness? If this is your tactic of strengthening the wall and clearing the field, then I Congratulations, you have indeed successfully implemented the tactic of strengthening the wall and clearing the field, it is very successful, and the success makes me speechless."
"…………"
Wang Yan was a little confused as to what Zhang Yuejing was talking about.
"What are you talking about? Why can't I understand?"
"Men were dragged into the city by you to be enslaved, doing the most tiring and fatal things, but not getting enough food. In more than two months, more than 7,000 people died. Women were dragged into the city for you to vent your abuse. Two More than 4,000 people died in one month, is this your way to clear the country?"
Zhang Yuejing said it quite clearly.
Wang Yan seemed to understand a little bit.
So he was furious.
"Are you complaining about those people? Why? What does this have to do with you? Besides, as a citizen of the Song Dynasty, it is natural to contribute to the army of the Song Dynasty to resist the invasion of foreign enemies!
Furthermore, if you hadn't been greedy and if you hadn't forced your way south to invade the Song Dynasty, how would these stupid men and women be today? Blame me? It’s your fault! This is all your fault! If you didn't come, nothing like this would happen! "
Can you still confuse right and wrong like this?
How can you still excuse yourself like this?
How can a person be so shameless?
Zhang Yuejing felt that he had fully seen the shamelessness of the Southern Song Dynasty bureaucrats and superiors.
What a master at throwing the blame. .
"If we didn't come, wouldn't there be such a thing? Is it possible that prostitutes and strong women are something that only happens today? Before we came, you had never done such a thing? Counting tens or hundreds of years ago, I Wasn't there such a thing when grandpa wasn't even born yet?!
No, it is precisely because you have brought this kind of thing to the point of outrage that we are here! We will go south! It was you who pushed the people to the point where they could no longer retreat, so we came!
Are you only allowed to exploit and oppress, but not the people to resist? You are only allowed to abuse them arbitrarily, and they can't even say a word "no"? It's really eye-opening for me that people can be so shameless. Wang Yan, I have never seen anyone as shameless as you! "
Zhang Yuejing's words left Wang Yan speechless, but Wang Yan still found it difficult to understand and did not think that he had made a mistake at all.
"Since ancient times, there are many people who have done this kind of thing, and there are many people who have done it more excessively than me. The common people have always been like this, and they will not become different just because there is one more me or one less me.
The winner is the king and the loser is the bandit. You can deal with me how you want. But don’t say such cat-crying-mouse words. It sounds disgusting. What, you kill a defeated general and you still have to get involved in something that is not necessary? Crime? "
"Unfounded?"
Zhang Yuejing laughed for a while and said: "Associating these three words with you is really the biggest insult to Yue Fei. Okay, you don't understand what I'm going to say anyway, so that's the end of it for you anyway.
But the Ming Dynasty will not stop moving forward, and I will not stop moving forward, and all of our comrades will not stop moving forward. It doesn’t matter if you are more or less, but it is very important to be without you from now on. "
Wang Yan was unhappy with Zhang Yuejing's repeated reference to "Southern Song Dynasty", but as a defeated general, he had no position to speak out against it.
If there is one more him and one less him, nothing will change in this era.
But I want to be without him from now on...
Hehehehe, is it possible?
Wang Yan remained silent and never said a word again.
On the sixth day of June in the fifth year of Hongwu, Xiangyang City, a fortified city in the world, was jointly attacked by the Ming Army and the Peasant Army. The Second Division of the Peasant Army led by Xu Tong participated in the battle in the west of Xiangyang City. Later, it entered the city. Although it was not the main force, it also made some achievements. .
There were more than 20,000 defenders in Xiangyang City. After a day and night of fighting, only more than 6,000 Song troops were alive to wait for the order to surrender.
The main reason was that all the strong men in Xiangyang City who could still wield swords fell down due to severe malnutrition, and the Ming army soldiers had no idea of continuing to kill the Song army after all the strong men fell down from exhaustion.
After capturing them, there will be a public trial to teach them how to behave. The Ming army has never been a bloodthirsty army.
After Zhang Yuejing ordered to accept prisoners, more than 6,000 Song troops who survived in the city laid down their weapons and chose to surrender. Then the attacking Ming army slowly withdrew from Xiangyang City. The troops who did not participate in the siege entered Xiangyang in order and began to clean the battlefield and restore order. .
Similarly, they found a larger number of strong men and women who had been tortured to death in Xiangyang City. The scale of the mass graves in Xiangyang City was also far larger than that of the mass graves in Fancheng.
On June 8th, according to the latest statistics, there were originally more than 26,000 strong men and more than 18,000 strong women in the city. Now there are about 17,000 strong men and about 17,000 surviving women. More than eleven thousand.
In about three months, more than 16,000 strong men and women in Xiangyang City were squeezed together and tortured to death.
There are more than 16,000 young men and women of childbearing age. They should be a country's precious population wealth and need the attention and protection of the government. However, in the hands of this group of heartless people, they are like Like the sword in his hand, it has become a consumable.
What happened in Fan City also happened in Xiangyang City, and what makes people feel even more uncomfortable is that because a group of strong men in Xiangyang City were incorporated into the Song Army earlier, these strong men also bullied the others. Strong men and strong women.
They are not accomplices, they are murderers.
Led by the strong men and women in the city, the soldiers of the Ming Army found undamaged houses and caves one after another. They found the strong men who were as skinny as firewood and dying, and the strong women whose bodies were covered with cuts and bruises.
They were rescued one by one, and Song Jun's crimes were made known to the world.
Of course, what happened in Fancheng happened again. Many women learned that the war was over, that they had been rescued by the Ming army and could go home. They couldn't think about it and chose to commit suicide.
Some hit the wall, some hanged themselves, and some picked up knives or daggers while others were not paying attention and committed suicide. The Ming army in the city was immediately in a panic and it was difficult to control such a large-scale riot.
Therefore, after the Ming army captured Fancheng, they did not immediately enjoy the fruits of victory and show off their respective martial arts. Instead, they dispatched a large number of manpower to guard those who wanted to commit suicide, and devoted all the medical resources of the entire army to rescue people.
The Ming army's field medical system was built by Su Yonglin, who invested a large amount of money at all costs. After years of training, it basically reached a ratio of one hundred and fifty military doctors to soldiers.
However, faced with the huge medical resource gap in the Second City of Xiangfan, military doctors still feel inadequate.
In this regard, Zhang Yuejing and Wen Anzhi expressed their firm stance.
If there are not enough military doctors and medical soldiers, and there are not enough medicinal materials, then they need to be mobilized from the rear. Every state and county in the entire Henan region must allocate part of its medical force to form an organization to go south to Xiangfan to rescue people.
Xiangyang and Fancheng have not restored their original residential and military functions for the time being. Instead, they have become large-scale hospitals.
The Ming army cut down trees in the surrounding areas, and added some military supplies they brought with them to build a large number of temporary wards in Xiangyang and Fancheng, and sent the dying men and women into the "wards" for care.
They were generally malnourished, and many of them had not eaten for days. The military doctors did not allow them to eat dry food and could only eat liquid food. So the entire Henan Corps and the Huotou Army of the Peasant Army set up large pots and began to cook porridge.
In order to increase nutrition, under the guidance of military doctors, the old firemen added some vegetables that are easy to digest, and also fished a large number of fish in the rivers, and added them together to cook fish and vegetable porridge, so that the sick and wounded of the Ming Army and the strong men could The women drink fish, meat and vegetable porridge together to replenish their nutrition and restore their vitality.
Although the Ming army tried its best to save the lives of these people, many people were still too weak and died within a few days.
Within five days, more than 1,300 strong men and women died from their injuries and illnesses.
There is really no way to save it.
On the one hand, the injury was too severe.
On the one hand, the body that has been abused is too weak.
Some people's bodies even suffered from extensive ulceration to the point where they desperately wanted to die...
Many military doctors are used to separation and death, but such a large-scale human hell is really unbearable.
Therefore, military doctors and medical soldiers also choose to cry secretly in the dead of night to relieve the huge pressure in their hearts.
This was the case in the Second City of Xiangfan. On the other side, with the coordination and help of the peasant army, some residents of the original Xiangfan area who had been left to die by the Song army also embarked on their way back home.
