More than 20,000 refugees who were bullied were drawn and killed ten or three, but this was just over 6,000 heads were about to land!

Cao Wenzhao said: "Director Hong, the refugees outside were all driven by the bandits. They did not voluntarily follow the bandits, but wanted to kill 30%. Are some of them too severely? After all, they are all the people of the Ming Dynasty. They were just robbed of all the food by the bandits, so they were forced to follow the bandits."

Hong Chengchou snorted coldly: "It is my mercy to draw ten and three times! Such thieves have been with thieves for more than a year, so who has no life at their hands? For such a long time, anyone who can survive will feed on human flesh! Killing a group of them will make them afraid, and they will never dare to follow thieves again!"

In fact, Hong Chengchou still didn't say something in his mind: the court lacked food and silver, and could not accommodate so many refugees at all. If they were all released, they would be forced to rebel again in a short time, or even rebel themselves. Only by using tough means can these refugees be shocked.

More than 20,000 surrendered refugees were kneeling outside Hequ City. These refugees were tied up. It was not the officers and soldiers who tied them up. After they surrendered, the officers and soldiers handed them a rope and let them tie each other. A group of officers and soldiers holding steel knives and spears stood around the refugees kneeling on the ground. Seeing a group of auxiliary soldiers digging a large pit outside the city, the refugees knew that the disaster was coming and looked panicked and frightened.

Seeing that the big hole was almost dug, Hong Chengchou, who was sitting on the city gate, took the token from the table and threw it on the ground: "The time is here, execution is executed!"

The officers and soldiers dragged out a group of people from the refugees, about a thousand people, and took them to the pit. The refugees who were pulled out cried and screamed loudly: "Don't kill me, we have surrendered, I don't want to die!"

But no matter how hard these refugees struggled and howled, they were useless. The swordsman and axe had already come forward. The refugees were trembling all over, many of them were wet, and almost everyone was crying loudly.

The officers and soldiers raised their swords and fell, more than a thousand heads rolled to the ground, and the bodies were thrown into a big pit.

Then the officers and soldiers pulled out the second batch of about 1,000 refugees from the crowd and took them to the pit. They took their swords and fell down again, chopped off a piece of human heads, and the bodies were thrown into the pit.

The officers and soldiers killed six groups of refugees, a total of more than 6,000 people were killed. The more than 6,000 refugee heads cut were placed with the 2,500 thieves, and more than 2,000 heads cut from the corpses in the city, with a total of more than 10,000 heads, which became the credit of Hong Chengchou and Cao Wenzhao.

The remaining more than 14,000 refugees were already scared to death as they watched the group of people being pulled out of their teams and beheaded. Most of them urinated their pants, and some of them simply fainted and fell to the ground unconscious.

Hong Chengchou's draw of ten or three kills was to let the officers and soldiers draw people casually. The refugees who fainted and fell to the ground were dragged to the pit by the officers and soldiers and chopped their heads with a knife.

After seeing six batches of companions killed and more than six thousand heads were cut off, the officers and soldiers stopped killing, and the living refugees breathed a deep breath.

The officers and soldiers came up and waved their swords to cut off the ropes on the remaining refugees. Then someone shouted to the refugees: "We, the governor of Hong, are kind and have a strong heart and cannot bear to kill more. You can go back alive! After returning, farm well! If you follow the thief again, you will be killed next time and will not forgive me!"

Although the refugees who survived by luck were loosened and allowed to go home, everyone was very confused. They didn't know what else to do after returning home. Everything in their home was gone, the house was burned by thieves, and the things at home had been stolen long ago. How many people were still alive when their families went back to farm? Shaanxi was drought, and the ground was dry and cracked. If the grain was planted, it would probably be unrealized. The government would come to urge taxes. After returning home, aren't you waiting to starve to death?

Li Guodong knew very well that before, Yang He used both suppression and appeasement and mainly used pacification to quell the civil unrest. Because the court was unable to appease the hungry people, Yang He's method was doomed to fail. Although Hong Chengchou used brutal suppression and bloody killing to eliminate a large number of thieves and temporarily solved the civil unrest, he still could not fundamentally solve the problem.

As long as the problem of insufficient food and money is not solved, a group of thieves will be killed, and a group of new thieves will emerge. Unless the Ming court can kill all the people suffering from disaster in the north.

The five thousand stones of grain that were originally sent to Hequ were also snatched back. Except for a bag of thieves, there was no less grain in the rest.

Li Guodong made a suggestion to Hong Chengchou: "Director Hong, 14,000 refugees were dismissed on the spot, but after they returned, they still had no food and the court had no silver and grain to help the victims. It would be better to let the U-Genocide take away a group of refugees, which can reduce the possibility of trouble for the refugees and let them survive."

Hong Chengchou disagreed with Li Guodong taking all the refugees outside the pass: "General Li, more than 14,000 hungry people should not be taken away. The northwest suffered natural disasters and bandits, and the land had been completely abandoned. If General Li took all the people away, who would cultivate the barren land?"

"But the northwest has a severe drought, how much harvest can the grain be produced after planting? I'm afraid the grain harvest of a year is not enough for Liao pay. The hungry people have no food to eat, and they will have to rebel again when they turn back."

"I will submit a report to the court to reduce taxes in the northwest."

Li Guodong knew that Emperor Chongzhen could not reduce taxes in the northwest. Even if he was willing to reduce taxes, the benefits of tax reduction and exemption could not be implemented in the hands of the people, and corrupt officials from all over the country could not reduce taxes in the people. If the court exempted taxes, they would take the opportunity to fill their pockets.

But these words must not be said to Hong Chengchou, and Li Guodong dares not say them now, such as increasing Jiangnan taxes and collecting commercial taxes.

In the end, Hong Chengchou agreed to let Li Guodong take away two thousand refugees, and the remaining 12,000 people were dismissed home.

After Wang Jiayin was killed, all the bandits in Hequ, Panguan, Yulin and other places were without leaders. Faced with the encirclement and suppression of officers and soldiers, they could not organize effective resistance, and were defeated by the officers and soldiers.

Huntianhou and the bandits from the lone wolf tribe could not withstand Hong Chengchou's pressure. The two, together with their powerful general Bai Guangen, led their troops across the Yellow River westward, crossed the northern Shaanxi area, and broke through to Qingyang.

After hearing Bai Guangen's name, Li Guodong recalled the memories of his previous life. This person later surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, but because of his disagreement with Sun Chuanting, Sun Chuanting and Gao Jie were defeated. Later, Bai Guangen surrendered to Li Zicheng and helped Li Zicheng surrender Ming general Chen Yongfu, and Sun Chuanting died in battle. The Qing army defeated Li Zicheng, and this person surrendered to the Qing army. It can be said that he was a slave of the three surnames.

However, in the Battle of Songjin, Yang Guozhu was killed, Wang Pu took the lead in escaping, and all four generals ran away, and even Wu Sangui ran away. Only Cao Bianjiao, Wang Tingchen and Bai Guangen were left to defend the battle. Bai Guangen could be regarded as the three generals who persisted until the food route was cut off before retreating.
Chapter completed!