: Grain robbery

Teams of Baekje prisoners came out of the Goguryeo and Silla camp tents and walked towards Beishui. Some prisoners had guessed their fate and began to struggle. However, there was a slight change. The soldiers holding weapons behind them slashed them directly with the back of the knife, forcing them to move forward.

As soon as they arrived at the edge of the Beishui River, all the prisoners were ordered to kneel down to the river. All the prisoners knew their destiny and struggled desperately, but they were tied up all over and hungry for more than a day and were weak all over. How could they break free? It was useless except for delaying a little time. They had to wait for Silla behind them, and the soldiers of the two countries of Goguryeo raised their butcher knives.

"kill!"

The snow-white sword light passed by, and the captain's head fell directly into the water. The executioner behind only kicked it with his feet, and the killed headless corpse was also buried in the water. As the river water floated down, the entire river water was red. Because there were too many prisoners, the execution of Silla and Goguryeo soldiers became weak in their hands, and finally they could not hold the knife, so they had to directly drive the tightly tied Baekje prisoners into the river and drowned alive.

After the execution, the bodies of the Baekje people even occupied more than half of the entire river, so that the Sui army had to be careful in the next few days, otherwise the channel would be blocked by the corpses. It was not until a few days later that most of the corpses were washed into the sea and the river was cleared.

"Report, General, Goguryeo and Silla are executing prisoners."

"Execute the prisoners." Yu Zhongwen didn't care. Anyway, these were all from Baekje. He saw Heichi Xinfu's face turned pale and comforted him: "Heichi General, Silla, Goguryeo is so cruel, so please let the general mourn him."

The corners of Heichi Xinfu's mouth moved. He wanted Yu Zhongwen to send troops to rescue him, but he knew that this was unlikely, so he had to whisper: "Thank you, General, I am incompetent, I have implicated them..."

"Okay, good news." Li Hun laughed.

Everyone in the tent looked at Li Hun in surprise. Duke Shen had always been calm. How could he scream for the murder of Baekje prisoners in front of Heichi Xinfu? Isn’t this obviously a face that beat Heichi Xinfu? Even if Heichi Xinfu is just a down-and-out general of the defeated army in other countries, at least his face must be left to others.

Looking at the eyes of everyone looking at him and looking at the Black-Tyed Xinfu who was so angry that he almost trembled, Li Hun realized that he had lost his composure and quickly put away his laughter: "Everyone, I laughed just now not because of the execution of Baekje prisoners, but because of something that our army might win quickly. General Black-Tyed, don't misunderstand."

"I dare not, the general is so polite."

"I wonder what Duke Shen thought of how to make our army win?" Yu Zhongwen asked.

"General, generals, think about it, why did Silla and Goguryeo massacre prisoners on such a large scale?" Li Hun asked confidently.

What caused the coalition forces to kill prisoners? Everyone was stunned. The Central Plains always regarded killing prisoners as unknown, but in war, they were inevitably killed frequently. Bai Qi had a pit of 400,000 Zhao troops, and the Five Barbarians invaded China. The Hu people regarded the Han people as two-legged sheep. Not only did they kill prisoners, but even the people under their rule also raised their swords to kill the Han people, almost exterminated the Han people in the north. Fortunately, Ran Min fought back and issued the order to kill Hu. Millions of Hu people died in revenge by the Han people. However, since the founding of the Great Sui Kingdom, there has been basically no large-scale killing of prisoners. Even the Eastern Turkic Khans built canals in the south of the Yangtze River.

Is it necessary to kill prisoners? It is necessary to say that it is necessary, and it is not necessary. The Sui Dynasty did not kill prisoners because it required a lot of manpower to repair canals. But without canals, does it require manpower? It requires manpower to open up land, mining, building cities, roads, etc. Silla and Goguryeo also require manpower, and everyone's eyes lit up. They thought of this possibility unless the coalition forces lacked military rations.

"Okay, very good, but this matter has not been confirmed."

Yu Zhongwen originally planned to invade the coalition forces of the two countries day and night with the advantage of the cavalry. Finally, after dragging down the coalition forces, it also launched a strong attack. It also meant to attack the coalition's food route. However, the Goguryeo army had been stationed on the south bank for several months. I think there would be no shortage of food, so I did not pay much attention to the food route in Goguryeo. Since I thought that the Goguryeo people were short of food, of course, it was changed to the food route in the first place.

"General, it is not difficult to prove this matter. You can attack the Goguryeo Grain Road once." Xue Shixiong suggested.

Yu Zhongwen nodded and decided on this matter.

To attack Goguryeo's grain road, the army had to bypass the coalition camp. After Goguryeo and Silla formed an alliance, the two sides' joint camps for twenty miles were basically blocked, and the Sui army could not just circumvent the coalition behind the coalition on the plains to attack Goguryeo's grain road. However, the Sui army had mastered the waterway, and if they wanted to attack Goguryeo's grain road, they did not necessarily need to pass by land.

On that day, Yu Zhongwen selected five thousand soldiers and asked Deputy General Zhang Shou to lead the team to quietly set off from the rear camp and board the big ship. Taking advantage of the darkness, he went up against the current. The water of the Beishui River was gentle and the water was clean. There was no need to worry about the reefs. At night, the boat could not see clearly and was not inconvenient to encounter the river bank. However, during the day, the coalition forces had just dealt with the prisoners. The big ship occasionally collided with the bodies, making a sound of slapping, which made the people on the boat feel cold. Twenty thousand corpses were discarded in a day in the river.

After finally reaching the upper reaches, there was no sound of corpses hitting the boat. Everyone felt that they had returned to normal. At the same time, they felt that the ship speed had also increased. After traveling about twenty miles, the ship leaned against the south bank, five thousand soldiers went down one after another, and marched overnight. It was more than thirty miles away from the coalition camp before they were ambushed in the dense forest.

The 90,000 army consumed more than 1,500 stones of grain every day, and the horse materials added up to nearly 2,000 stones of grain. However, no matter how Goguryeo plundered it in the rear, the grain that could be transported to the military camp every day had just reached about 1,000 stones. The number of people transported for this thousand stone was only a few hundred. At the end of the afternoon every day, a transport team of hundreds of people would pass through the dense forest where the Sui army was ambushed and transported the grain to the Goguryeo camp.

This was the same day. The Sui army was waiting in the dense forest and was drowsy until the end of the day when they heard the sound of mules and the sound of a cart turning axle. Knowing that the Goguryeo grain transport team was about to come, everyone immediately cheered up and prepared to face a tough battle.

Because I had never encountered the Sui army robbing grain, the Silla coalition now blocked the front road again, and the grain transport team seemed extremely relaxed. The grain transport team of hundreds of people stepped into the Sui army's ambush circle without any alertness.

"Kill!" The Sui army with thousands of people stood up from the dense forest and ran towards the poor Goguryeo grain transport team. In a blink of an eye, they surrounded the transport team of hundreds of people. Seeing that there were suddenly thousands of Sui cavalry around, the poor Goguryeo was frightened. Most of them immediately jumped out of the grain transport truck and surrendered. A few wanted to push their swords to resist, but looked at the Sui army, which was more than twenty times their surroundings, and their hands holding the swords could not help but tremble. After the Sui army shot several people with crossbow arrows, the people holding the swords quickly dropped their weapons and surrendered.

"Use a cavalry to kill a chicken." This sentence emerged in the hearts of all the Sui cavalrymen.

After rushing the Goguryeo who transported the grain to the side, a Sui army stabbed the sack on the trunk on the truck with a spear, and the grain flowed out. However, it was some miscellaneous grains, mostly black beans and millet, with only a small amount of flour and rice. In addition to the grain, dozens of cars were weapons and armor. These weapons and armor were of a very poor quality than those used by the Sui army, and it was obviously also rushing to work in the rear.

"Report to the general, a total of 311 Goguryeo people were captured, nineteen people were killed, and one hundred and sixty cars of grain was seized, and thirty-two cars of weapons and armor were seized."

"So little?" Zhang Shou frowned. Such a little food is undoubtedly not enough for the army to eat in one day. He said to the personal soldier: "Ask them, how many grain teams are there every day?"

After a while, the personal soldiers got the answer and came to Zhang Shou: "Go back to the general, there is only one food team every day."

Zhang Shou nodded, looked Su Ran, and said, "Get away."

The cavalry monitored and ordered the Goguryeo people to drive the grain carts to the river. The large ships, along with the captives and the grain carts, and the weapons were quickly transported away, and the Sui army found a place to lurk again, and the Goguryeo grain transport team seemed to disappear.

That night, the Goguryeo military camp waited left and right but no grain transport team arrived. When it was reported to Yuan Taizuo, it was already midnight. Yuan Taizuo had no choice but to send a scout the next day to inquire, but found nothing. In the afternoon, the Sui army appeared in another place and robbed the Goguryeo grain transport team, but this time it did not go silent. When the grain was robbed, it was discovered by the Goguryeo scout. Although Zhang Shou immediately sent troops to chase him, he still escaped a Goguryeo scout.

"What, the military rations were robbed." Yuan Taizuo's eyes turned black when he heard the scout's report and almost fell to the ground. Several personal soldiers hurriedly supported Yuan Taizuo's body: "Mr. Mo Lizhi, please take care of your health."

"Hurry, order the troops and set off immediately." Yuan Taizuo calmed down and issued an order. At this time, the sky was almost dark, and several generals had to try their best to persuade him. Finally, they gave up Yuan Taizuo's idea of ​​sending troops overnight.
Chapter completed!