Chapter 2577: The common people smile with sorrow, the waves of refugees, the turbulent waves
It seems that in a few days, the entire Huainan West Road will be under the hands of those thieves.
At that time, they have no choice but to fight, so they can only have two choices.
Otherwise, the thieves would fight each other, grab each other's territory, and have a lot of fun fighting within themselves.
Otherwise, they would expand their power outward.
Just when these thieves built weapons, armed the army, collected food and grass, and tried their best to expand their strength.
The people on Huainan West Road were killed in large numbers, and the living were also harmed by disasters! After the prefecture was occupied, the rebels entrenched in the prefecture were immediately divided into a team of hundreds of people by their generals and began to kill them towards the countryside.
They had only one task, which was to try to bring back the food as much as possible, and ignore the rest! So as long as these rebels found a village, they immediately rushed in and drove out the people of the village with swords and guns.
They snatched the food and put it on the carriage, and took out the property of each family and put it into their pockets.
After that, they lit all the houses in the village and burned them all.
Then it was time for these thieves to have a carnival. One by one, some people searched the people, snatched all their money, and then pulled out the beautiful women and women in the crowd.
After that, they broke up the homeless villagers and let them fend for themselves in the countryside.
Then the livestock were slaughtered, and the women were asked to cook for them, and they ate the same scattered.
After drinking and eating, they dragged the big girls and wives over and took turns to ruin them, and had a party all night!... In this way, these thieves have been extremely familiar with them, and many people have even become addicted to it and become violent and cruel, almost the same as beasts.
They used various tricks to harm the people and used all kinds of cruel means to make fun.
The people cried and angry, displaced, and quickly turned into wanderers scattered among the mountains.
When things got to this point, even their thief lord would not have allowed his minions to stop.
We can only let them have fun every day like today or tomorrow.
The silver in the pocket was getting more and more, the blood on the knife became heavier, and the number of rebels began to grow rapidly like snowballs.
At the same time, fewer and fewer people around them could rob and kill!... At this moment, these rebels received orders from Li Mian's envoy and sent them.
In the letter, Li Mian warned them very harshly, asking these generals not to forget their mission of raising an army.
Moreover, Li Mian said that if the court wants to invite them again, their crimes will be impunitive.
These people must do their best to do one more thing for him.
It was to drive all the refugees they could find towards Huainan East Road.
After that, Li Mian assured them that the court would send officials to come at the right time and recruit these bandits back again.
Of course, after this, the rebels will live a life of high-ranking officials, wealth and peace.
...In fact, by this time, the ambitions of those counterfeit leaders could no longer be curbed.
Many of them thought that since they are good at soldiers and food, why should they rush back and become the cowardly Song official?
They could completely cross the Yangtze River and rush to Jiangnan West Road and Jiangnan East Road.
They can continue to expand their power there madly and continue this happy and joyful life.
But at the same time, they also knew that things could not be done too well, after all, they had to leave a way out for themselves.
If they don’t do it well, the court will come to clean up.
Will they obey today's orders? Is it the premise that they can still be recruited and become officials of the Song Dynasty? So as long as they obey Li Mian's orders now, they will make a contribution.
Even if they burned, killed, looted, expanded their territory in the future, it would be nothing more than that! After thinking through this, these rebels immediately divided their respective areas and began to drive the refugees eastward.
Originally, these people were all in the mountains and wilderness, struggling to survive.
Fortunately, it is summer now, so you can find some leaves and wild vegetables to eat, so you won’t starve to death in a short period of time.
But if these people are bombarded out of the mountains and gradually form a scale of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands, where do you ask them to find wild vegetables?
Therefore, the rebels' actions to drive away refugees caused a large number of deaths in the people on Huainan West Road.
These poor people rack their brains to escape under the control of thieves every day, or find ways to survive at all costs.
So on this long road leading to the East, countless corpses were left along the way.
There was a large army of refugees of about 800,000 slowly approaching the border between the east and west Huainan routes! There were still many young and middle-aged people in this refugee army, as well as many elderly people and children.
Driven by the rebels, they bypassed Chaohu and Luzhou and walked eastward.
On May 18th, seventy miles east of Chuzhou City under Shen Mo.
These 800,000 refugees were like a large flood, crossing the border between the two routes and breaking into Huainan East Road like a flood peak on Qingliu Pass!… At the junction of Qingliu Pass, these rebel troops shouted to the people: "Go forward, don't be delayed! Go forward further and will be the territory of Tongzhou!"
"They have food and drinks, and they have whatever they want! As long as you rush over, you will have a way out!"
"If the people of Tongzhou refuse to help you, they will go up and fight and kill them, and snatch their food! They are all ordinary people, and you have more people than them, what's the scary thing about it?
In this world, if you don’t rob others, you will be robbed.
If you don’t kill, you are the one who was killed!”
"I'm just like that. I'm going to be recruited by killing people and setting fires. Whoever has a knife in my hand will be the king!"
"Don't be ruthless after the past. Whoever can steal a bite of food will survive... rush forward! Whoever stops you from living after passing the test will fight him!"
...These thieves were waving their swords and guns, galloping back and forth.
While driving the refugees forward, they repeated these words loudly.
Of course, these words were taught to them in the letter. Li Mian wanted to let these refugees enter Huainan East Road, and before Shen Mo's army could arrive, they could let the refugees quickly burn, kill, loot and loot among the local people, causing chaos.
Chapter completed!