choke element

Chapter 300

At the beginning of November last year, the red coat army captured the cities of Mizhou.

Yilagu and Nie, the governor of Mizhou, died in battle. The veteran Zou Gu, who had served as the governor of the Dinghai and Taining armies, rallied his clan to resist.Zou Guhe's family was burned, and even a small half of Zhucheng was also burned.

However, the more troubled times are, the more tenacious the resilience of the people becomes.For a while, the roads in the city were full of pedestrians, and there were many shops along the street, which looked the same as before.

The burned ruins have also been reinhabited.Most of those people were refugees involved in the war. They pieced together the wood that had not been completely burned, and built them into crooked shacks, and lived in them. Crowds gathered at the gate of the barracks to beg.

Guo Yaoer, the governor of Mizhou appointed by Yang Aner, walked slowly along the street. Seeing that many of these people were starving, their bodies were skinny, and their eyes looked like will-o'-the-wisps.

The people suffered under the rule of Da Jin, but under the rule of Marshal Yang, there seems to be no big difference.A refugee is still a refugee, and a soldier is still a soldier.

Guo Yaoer couldn't help but smiled wryly twice.

The refugees are just wandering and begging for work. Guo Yaoer sends people everywhere to suppress them every day to ensure that these refugees will not cause trouble.But soldiers and bandits are the big problem!
Most of the unburned squares and cities in Zhucheng County have now become military camps.The size of Yang An'er's army is growing day by day. According to rumors among the people, some say 20, some say 30, and some say 50.

Based on this, Yang An'er has the ambition to expand the territory.

Yang An'er's control area is the Song Kingdom to the south, which is a big country that can be compared with the Great Jin. Even though the Song people are known as weak, they cannot be easily provoked.To the east is the jurisdiction of the Dinghai Jiedushi, where there are fierce tigers, and they cannot be easily provoked.

To the north is Damingfu Road and Hebei East Road. However, these two places were swept by the Mongolian army repeatedly, leaving nothing for hundreds of miles, which is no longer a human phenomenon.It is not difficult to capture some land, but what can be obtained from this desolate and broken land?

In this way, the only direction of development is Nanjing Road controlled by King Sui Wanyan Shouxu, which is really a prosperous and prosperous place.

For a while, soldiers and horses from all over Shandong were dispatched one after another, and they went to Jeju and Xuzhou one after another, claiming to have assembled an army of 30.The Jin army on Nanjing Road, with Wanyan Heda as the capital in the east, also gathered heavy troops on the front lines of Caozhou, Shanzhou, Guidefu, and Suzhou to confront Yang An'er's troops.

However, although it is important to expand the territory, we must not forget the basis.Mizhou is adjacent to Laizhou, which is controlled by Dinghai, so a large army is still stationed. Guo Yaoer, a veteran general under Yang An'er's command, was ordered to lead the army to prevent the evil tiger from coming out.

But whether the so-called big army will work or not, Guo Yaoer is not quite sure.

He is all-in-one, and his name is a bit inaccurate.He can't control these soldiers and horses, and since Marshal Yang raised his troops, these soldiers and horses have become less and less like soldiers, and more like bandits.

In front of Guo Yaoer, a group of soldiers roared away in groups, and all the common people and traders along the street fled.

A child selling steamed cakes at the corner of the street walked a step slower, and a soldier picked up the bamboo basket in front of him.

The soldier lifted the coarse cloth covering the bamboo basket, looked at the cakes inside, picked up some cakes with a smile, distributed them to his companions, and put some more in his arms, then threw the empty bamboo basket back to the children , turn around and leave.

Recently, the price of grain in Mizhou has risen sharply, and a bucket of rice noodles can be sold for more than 700 yuan.The steamed cakes this little boy bought were of course not made of pure rice and pure noodles. They were mixed with a lot of wild fruits, miscellaneous grains and even vegetable leaves, and they were dark in color.

It was originally coarse food sold to the poor to feed their hunger, and the army had its own food and fodder supply, so I don't know why the soldier took a fancy to this steamed cake.

The child watched the bamboo basket roll towards him, pursed his mouth, and his eyes were red.Enduring his fear, he took a few steps forward, grabbed the soldier's cuff, and begged, "General, two coins! One steamed cake is only sold for two copper coins!"

The soldier ignored it completely and strode forward.

The child had short legs and couldn't keep up with the pace of the soldiers, so he fell to the ground after following a few steps.He squeezed the soldier's cuffs hard again, and with a "hiss", the sleeve of the military uniform was torn a big hole.

The child trembled with fright and sat down on the ground.The soldier looked at his sleeve in astonishment, and heard the ridicule of his comrades, he couldn't help being angry.With a flying kick, he kicked the child so that he rolled over and over again.

With a kick, the soldiers walked away, but the child couldn't get up anymore.He spat blood out of his mouth, and murmured to himself: "Delicious steamed cakes only cost two dollars."

Guo Yaoer stepped forward quickly, reaching out his hand to help the child.Halfway through, he turned to touch the child twice, and immediately knew that the child's ribs had been kicked and broken.A broken bone had lodged in his lung, causing severe bleeding and he would not live.

Guo Yaoer put down the child who was still muttering, and got up slowly.

In this world, there is no difference between a dead person and a dead dog. He is a warrior who has experienced many battles, and he would not take a human life seriously.It's not that he hasn't killed a child with his own hands, but he vaguely feels that there must be something wrong.

Marshal Yang rebelled that day because the Dajin court was cruel and cruel and harmed the people.But these days, as far as Guo Yaoer has seen, many generals under Marshal Yang indulged his soldiers and even plundered everywhere... How are they different from the Jin Army?
To the common people, the Jurchens are of course like wolves and tigers, sucking their bones and sucking their marrow; are the tens of thousands of people under Marshal Yang's command the master of the king?

How can there be a master Wang who kills people for a basket of steamed cakes in the world?

When Guo Yaoer followed Marshal Yang in the army, he reminded the generals to pay attention to military discipline.But those who really responded to him seemed to be only Liu Erzu, Peng Yibin and a few others.

Most of the big men under Marshal Yang's command were busy expanding their army and expanding their territory after they raised their troops; while Liu Erzu's men, the group of poor people in Mount Tai, were busy scraping land to make money once they gained power.Everyone said, if you don't benefit the soldiers, who will serve as soldiers?

As a result, Shandong is becoming more and more chaotic, and more and more strong men are joining the army. Once the army snowballs, the confidence of the generals under Marshal Yang will become more and more confident... Looking at it this way, it seems that the generals' statements are still very serious. Make sense?

But Guo Yaoer still felt that something was wrong.

It's not just this group of people who are wrong.Even some veteran generals under Marshal Yang, such as Zhan Hui, Wang Min, etc., seem to have changed their minds, thinking about the size of the army, the territory they control, and even their own official positions. Guo Yaoer almost doesn't know them up.

It wasn't just the military that was amiss.

Since the beginning of spring, there have been more and more refugees from various places.The scouts sent by Guo Yaoer reported that Dinghai seems to be continuously recruiting refugees and then arranging settlements. Everything is in order, but Mizhou has not done anything.In other words, in the vast area under the jurisdiction of Marshal Yang, no one managed government affairs.

After Marshal Yang raised his army, he used Jinshi Dong You as his arm in government affairs, but Dong You seemed to only focus on the seals, edicts, and ceremonies of the Marshal's mansion, and his eyes seemed to be unable to see the chaotic situation underneath.

There must be something wrong, there must be!

But every time Guo Yaoer thinks of this, his thoughts go to a dead end.He didn't know what to do, how to resolve the disgusting situation in front of him.After all, he is just a veteran, and he knows very little outside of fighting on the battlefield.

"That soldier is a subordinate of Jiqi."

Guo Yaoer got up and walked out of the crowd, and said to his servant: "Send someone to find Jiqi, and say that this guy killed people in front of me, and he didn't take Guo Yaoer seriously. I want his life."

When Marshal Yang attacked Binzhou last year, Jiqi and Jixian made great efforts and suffered heavy casualties. They were later transferred to the rear to guard.

But the second general never got rid of his habit of banditry. In the past few months, he almost never restrained the soldiers, but deliberately indulged them in order to win people's hearts.

The two of them are Wanhu in name, but in fact they belong to Guobaier, but they are not affiliated with each other.As a result, inside and outside Mizhou, it became like this.

Guo Yaoer found a reason to let Jiqi chop off the head of a subordinate soldier, but he could only vent his dissatisfaction, and it did not improve the situation at all.

This made Guo Yaoer even more angry.He quickened his pace, wanting to go back to his family's barracks, but saw a subordinate walking slowly with a group of people across the street.

Among the group, there was a young gentleman, a tall, thin and dark scholar, and a middle-aged man with gray hair... This man only had half of his left palm left, and it was hung on his arm with a leather sash. A silver hook.

Guo Yaoer looked at the iron hook, then at the way the middle-aged man walked and spoke.An extremely familiar feeling made Guo Yaoer immediately confirm that he was a warrior who was born and died and had experienced many battles.

Guo Yaoer pointed at that person and asked the left and right: "Who is that?"

The left and right people looked at each other, and said cautiously: "Du Tong, you forgot? That group of people is the maritime merchant who came to meet Du Tong today. We came out of the camp to meet them?"

(End of this chapter)