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Chapter 105 How to repay virtue

This civil servant talked freely, but all the generals in the military tent all looked a little strange. This is not the first time that this happened. The Ming Dynasty literati led troops and read too much literati, and they wanted to show that they were different from military generals. They always like to talk about benevolence, righteousness and morality. There are many novels and scripts of the Ming Dynasty, such as relying on benevolence and righteousness to convince people's hearts, and the enemy's feelings were filled with righteousness and self-publicity. The scholars took these things seriously after fighting wars.

The generals rolled around in life and death all day long, and naturally understood that this kind of thing was nonsense, but the civil and nobles and martial arts were inferior, so they would not say anything else.

However, this sour son talked about this in front of Wang Tong today. Let’s see how Lord Wang dealt with it. Wang Tong’s face was also a bit strange. Before the scholar finished speaking, Wang Tong asked:

"After the Donglu entered Liao Town, he swept through the villages, and the male plundered was used as slaves, and the female family sold to other Tartars as slaves. Do you know this?"

After the war broke through the enemy, the Eastern Expedition Army also rescued many Han people who were captured by the Tartars. Not to mention the separation of flesh and blood, everyone's situation was extremely miserable. It is said that they treated the captured Han people as livestock, and even worse than the livestock. Seeing this, everyone in the army was filled with righteous indignation, and some people wrote articles to scold them in Shenyang, so naturally everyone knew about it.

After asking this, the civil servant was stunned for a moment and had to hold his fists and answer:

"The officials know"

"I heard that the chief of the captain had also read the Three Kingdoms, and I think he knew some truths. Why didn't he exercise kindness and righteousness to the Ming army and the civilians, so that the Ming army and the civilians would come to surrender with gratitude?"

Hearing Wang Tong's question, the civil servant's face was pale, but he didn't know how to answer. Wang Tong continued:

"The one you said, although I read a little, I understand that this is the meaning of repaying grievances with kindness. However, I still remember the following sentence, called 'How to repay kindness'. Those Tartars slaughtered my people in the Ming Dynasty so much, and they were full of blood debts. Look at the old and weak, you know that the Tartar soldiers are all their relatives, they are all their support, and the property that stains the flesh and blood of the Ming people is also given to them. The deep hatred of this sea of ​​blood has revealed your kindness and righteousness? How do you read the book? Confused!!"

Wang Tong's last few words raised his voice, and the civil servant's face turned red. He was a noble civil servant who was scolded by a rude man. He thought of leaving at that time, but he was a person with a foundation in the capital. He knew who could offend, but who could not show any character.

In front of Wang Tong, no literary character or style can be seen. This man is like a giant in the capital. If he offended him, he should not think about taking out any literary nobles and martial arts or nobles. If he offended him, no civil servants and scholars in the world dare to share the same hatred with you.

He wanted to admit this, and he felt breathless, but the civil servant also understood that Wang Tong was really going to be ruthless. Not only was he nothing, but the person behind him was uprooted by Wang Tong.

After Wang Tong scolded this, the generals in the commander's tent exchanged glances with each other, and they couldn't help but gloating. The civil servant hesitated for a long time, and finally gave a big gift to apologize and said:

"The student has lost his words, please atone for the sins!"

"How are you writing!?"

Wang Tong ignored this person's apology, but asked this question directly. The civil servant was stunned. He was able to be a lieutenant in the six ministries, so it was the right way to get on the imperial examination. The imperial examination went smoothly, and a good handwriting was indispensable. Although he didn't know why Wang Tong asked this, he was willing to turn to the topic from the embarrassment just now, and he hurriedly bowed and said:

"Reporting to the commander, the word "Secretary" is quite eye-catching."

"Take paper and pen, I said you should write it. The characters should be big and regular script!"

Wang Tong ignored the other party's habitual modesty and said directly, everyone in the commander's tent was confused, thinking that the military discussion had not spoken much. After the commander scolded the civil servant, why did he still have to write? Now the Jurchens are obviously playing the tactic of not fighting with your army and then harassing them in small ways.

Everyone understands this tactic. The army is always harassed and fighting in the enemy territory. The soldiers will inevitably be impatient and their morale will decline. If there is any trouble with the food and supplies, I am afraid that such small problems will turn into big disasters, but there is no good way to deal with it now.

The pen, ink, paper and inkstone were always in hand. The civil servant's expression was much normal. He was about to stop. He picked up the brush and waited for Wang Tong to speak. Wang Tong pondered for a while and said:

"Write two characters, one is 'Changing villages and villages', and the other is 'Burning all, killing them all, grab them all'!"

After Wang Tong finished speaking, the civil servant was stunned for a moment. The first character was a little more particular. The second character was really vulgar and too straightforward. Is there any other style? However, after being scolded, he did not dare to say anything randomly. After writing it, he sent the character to Wang Tong's desk and then stepped down.

Wang Tong looked at the two straight words, nodded, took out the seal and stamped it. Wang Tong spoke very loudly. The generals in the tent could hear clearly, but everyone understood a little, and their expressions became cautious. Wang Tong stood up from behind the desk and said in a stern voice:

"From today, if you go to various places to clean up, you will be a team of 500 cavalry. No villages or villages shall be kept. All the property and fine livestock will be carried to the camp near the camp, and 10,000 people will be sent back to Liao Town. If anyone does not follow, they will be judged as thieves and will be killed without mercy!"

Judging from Wang Tong's tone, this was already a military order. The generals did not dare to neglect them. They all bowed their fists and agreed. Wang Tong turned to Li Rubai and said:

"General Li Shen, you can lead people to Baima Village once, just follow the three-light strategy. If you don't keep the dog, you will also teach the Tartars who dare to act recklessly!"

Li Rubai also agreed loudly, and Wang Tong turned around and said to the civil servant:

"You must have understood the meaning of these two words. Do you understand if you take these two words to the army and preach this policy?"

The civil servant trembled and quickly took the order.

From the border wall to Hetuala, and even on both sides of the route of the army's advance in the future, no villages shall be retained. All the villagers must gather and live in designated places and obey the arrangements of the army.

If you dare to violate it or even collude with a small group of Jurchen soldiers, then all the people will be killed, the village will be burned, and all the property and supplies will be plundered.

Wang Tong said his meaning very directly and clearly. He didn't dare to hide anything when he was preaching. In addition, the two large characters stamped by Wang Tong, the soldiers of each army knew it.

It seems to be a matter of course to go deep into the enemy territory and burn, kill, loot the enemy people, but in fact there are many restrictions. Many civil servants and military generals who lead troops will use this to restrain their subordinates and eliminate dissidents. Moreover, Wang Tong was strict in governing the army, and everyone was very restrained and restrained.

Wang Tong's two strategies of "club and village merger" and "three lights" completely eliminated their concerns and asked them to let go.

The Huwei Army, which has always been disciplined, also participated this time. All armies admired the combat power of the Huwei Army. However, they were very confident in the matter of burning, killing and clearing, and believed that the Huwei Army might not be able to understand it.

Unexpectedly, after the Huwei Army took action, they sighed that they were not as good as the other. Compared with the two, their three lights were just blowing through a gust of wind, blowing off some floating soil, killing some people and looting some property, or setting fire to set fire. However, the Huwei Army did this, that is, uprooting and scraping three feet of the ground, all the property that can be exchanged for money can be found, and all the hidden population can be found, and the houses and courtyards in the village will definitely be burned clean.

They cannot help but admire this incident. The strong will always be strong. It is certainly true that this Tiger Power Army can reach this level today.

After this incident in Baima Village, most of the people ran into the mountains, and a small number of elderly and weak people were left behind. After being tortured, the elderly and weak people asked about the people hiding in the mountains. Then the people who stayed in the village were killed. The entire village was also set on fire and burned clean.

The people in the village would not hide in the mountains, and they would not hide in places that were too difficult to reach. They still had luck. The army would leave quickly if they could not find them. However, they were wrong. The soldiers of Liao Town found them. After a brief battle, they captured the people from Baima Village and took them down the mountain.

Seeing the corpse placed in front of the village and seeing the village turned into ruins, the villagers of Baima Village all collapsed, and then the revenge of the cavalry in Liao Town.

After the cavalry in Liao Town left, people from other villages came here to see the scenery. They only saw the ruins of the village and the messy corpses. It was the season of spring. The wild beasts in the mountains were short of food. The bodies were bitten to pieces and looked extremely miserable, like hell.

Any village that colluded with a small group of Jianzhou Jurchen troops to attack the Ming army was destroyed, all residents were massacred, and their bodies were just standing in front of the village to warn others.

The only villages that were spared were all given the hiding places of the small troops nearby. Their killings were spared, but they could only be taken to the camp to circle and wait for disposal.

The officers and soldiers of various army were enjoying it, but some civil servants and officials who followed the army couldn't stand it. With the lesson of the general tent, no one dared to say anything about benevolence, righteousness and morality in person. However, some people wrote to Shenyang or took notes at home, which simply meant that here "is like a beast" and "hell on earth".
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