Chapter 102 Help with the move? No, it's a robbery
"Quick, hurry!" Hou Meide kept urging. At this time, he was standing at the west gate of Shuye City, which had already opened and was stationed by Dashi soldiers; many Dashi people lined up to pass through the city gate and entered Shuye City.
"Tell the soldiers not to think about robbing first, seize the city walls on all sides and occupy the military camps and government locations. If I find that any soldier dares to act without authorization, he will definitely be sentenced to death." Houmeide instructed again.
"Yes." Naser, the general who led the troops, agreed and walked into the Thunder Leaf City.
It was already the 19th day of August, and it was more than an hour before dawn; the soldiers of the Great Food had basically seized the Thunder Ye City.
"It's the Lord's blessing. It happened that there was a tunnel in the Shuye City that could reach the inner and outer city of the city, and it happened to be known by the generals, so that the city could be captured without any casualties." A soldier whispered while passing through the city gate.
There is such a tunnel that connects the inside and outside the city, which is why Hou Meide marched at night and must arrive outside the Suiye City as soon as possible.
As early as three years ago, when Jebo Silin and Datang had a peace talks, although he did not have the idea of seizing Anxi from the Tang Dynasty at that time, he also actively installed spies in the Dashi caravan heading to the east to explore the information of the Anxi Protectorate.
Although the Tang Dynasty was also wary of the cannibals, they still heard a lot of valuable information, including this tunnel.
The history of this tunnel is no longer verified. It was dug up by the rulers who ruled the Saiye area a long time ago. However, after repeated wars, the entrances and exits of the tunnel were blocked by a thick layer of soil, and the passages also collapsed.
Decades ago, the Tang Dynasty expanded the Anxi city and re-included the entrance of the tunnel into the city. The land was bought by a Lite merchant to build a warehouse and discovered the tunnel. Later, by chance, the tunnel was discovered by the Dashi merchant who had business dealings with the Lite merchant.
At first, the Dashi merchants didn't care much; but after the caravans from the West brought the news that "the Governor's Office was about to send troops to fight the Qin people", they immediately realized the value of this tunnel and sent the news back.
At this time, Houmede and Saleh had already captured the new city, and Houmede was leading troops to the United States City. After hearing the news, he immediately seized the United States City as fast as possible, and then only a small number of soldiers were left to garrison. More than 30,000 other soldiers rushed outside the city of Saiye as fast as possible. After arriving in the middle of the night, in order to confuse the Tang army, he set up a camp and secretly sent people to enter the city through the tunnel.
Nearly a thousand soldiers who entered the city gathered, and the yard could no longer be installed, they rushed out of the yard and rushed to the south city gate. When they saw a sudden appearance of the big cannibal in the city, the Tang soldiers guarding the city were completely dissatisfied and were defeated by the small big cannibal and lost the city gate.
After opening the city gate, 15,000 soldiers stationed outside immediately entered the city and rushed everywhere. The Tang army was already depressed, and now even the soldiers were not as good as those of the big cannibals. Those who were beaten were even thrown away their armor, and many people kneeled down to surrender; a few who did not surrender were also eliminated in the encirclement of the big cannibals.
"Report to the general that the city walls on all sides have been controlled, and the military camps and government locations in the city have been controlled." After a while, Nasser sent a soldier back to report to Houmede.
"Okay!" Houmeide said happily: "This city is really taken away by us."
"Where are the officials of Qinnastein in Shuye City?" he asked again.
"The town general Tang Feng escaped before we seized the east wall; the soldiers stationed outside the wall were unable to stop or kill him."
"But other officials, generals were either beaten to death or captured. We carefully checked the list and liberated the Chinese merchants who were detained in the city and asked them to identify them, and they confirmed that they were all themselves." The person who sent the letter said again.
"Okay. Don't decide how to treat these officials and generals without authorization. First, detain them in the government's location. I will go to interrogate and persuade them to surrender." Houmeide ordered.
"Yes, general." The man agreed.
He reported a few more things, and Houmede ordered one by one. Soon, the man said, "General, General Nasser has one last thing to do. Please order you: How should you treat the residents in the city?"
"What did Nasser think?" Houmede did not answer immediately, but asked back.
"Report to the general, General Nasser's opinion is to force the residents out of the city as they did in America and New City, and all those who dare to resist in the city were killed and then moved them back." The man said.
Houmeid immediately understood what Nasser meant. Nasser did not want to move all the residents out of the city, he wanted to rob them reasonably!
Who doesn’t know that the city of Sailye is rich? As the midpoint of the trade route, too much wealth has been deposited here. Now, Nasser wants to take away the accumulated wealth.
Houmede wanted to reject Nasser's idea. He knew that the residents in the city would not be happy that their wealth was taken away by the cannibals, which was not conducive to reducing the disgust of the Han people and seeking support from other nations.
But he raised his head and glanced at the generals and soldiers around him. Seeing that they were all greedy, they couldn't wait to enter the city to rob. Houmeid looked further away, and within the range where his eyes could see clearly, he found that almost everyone's eyes were leaping with the desire to enter the city to rob!
‘I cannot confront the will of all the generals and soldiers.’ Houmede thought silently, pondered for a while, raised his head and shouted, “Allow you to help the residents of the city move out of the city temporarily.”
"Thank you, General!" the man couldn't help but bend down and salute.
"But remember that there can be no conflict between your own troops. Divide each army a zone, and soldiers from other areas are not allowed to cross the border."
"The captured officials' homes should not assist in moving out of the city for the time being."
"Also, we should treat the Qin people and other ethnic groups differently, and be better for other ethnic groups." Hou Meide ordered again.
The man repeatedly agreed, but Houmede could tell from his expression that he did not listen. He was wondering whether to say it again, but the man had turned around and ran into the city again.
"General, if you do this, General Saleh will be very dissatisfied when he arrives, and the governor will criticize you." A staff member came over behind him and whispered in his ear.
"If you are dissatisfied, you are dissatisfied." When Saleh was dissatisfied, a sense of pleasure suddenly emerged in Houmede's heart, but it was fleeting. "You also saw the expressions of the generals and soldiers just now. If I don't satisfy them, they will not be satisfied, and it will seriously reduce the combat effectiveness of the army."
"And I may not be able to control it. Although Nasser sent someone to ask for instructions, the robbery of the residents in the city should have happened before asking for instructions. Even if I reject his opinion, can I stop it? I don't think so."
"And the massive amount of wealth accumulated in this city should be handed over to us. Since they are unwilling to hand over, they can only get it in this way."
Chapter completed!