The Era of Generals

Chapter 261   Two birds with one stone

Xifeng City seemed to be a cauldron that exploded, boiling and exploding in this night that was destined not to be peaceful.

Women's cries, men's entreaties, and soldiers shouting and chasing them away angrily, erupted one after another in the entire Xifeng City.

What Chen Ze asked Xu Qing to do was to drive all the people in Xifeng City out of the city!

To put it simply, what Chen Ze wants to do is clear the city!

In Xifeng City, he will no longer allow anyone other than his soldiers to stay.

Whether it is the common people in the city, or Xifeng soldiers who have surrendered and become prisoners.

All of them, none left!

This was the only choice Chen Ze could make out of his inability to imagine.

He didn't have the energy to stop the possible riots in the city right now, and he didn't want to suffer a fatal attack when the battle started.

He has no way to clean up the enemy troops outside the city now, so what he can do now is to plan ahead and nip any possible threats in the city in the bud.

Even though Xifeng City is small, it has a permanent population of 400,000 to 500,000. It is not impossible to completely expel such a large number of people overnight, but it is necessary to use some extraordinary measures.

This is Xifeng City.

To Chen Ze and others, it was just a city that had just been conquered, and at most it was a credit that could be added to their own merits.

But for the people living in Xifeng City, this is their home, their roots, and the homeland they have depended on for generations.

There are countless ties between them here, and it is also where their wealth and life are. How can they just take two clothes and leave?

There are too many people who don't want to leave, and even want to stay in their homeland even at the expense of conflicting with Chen Ze's soldiers.

But this was not allowed by Chen Ze. He would never allow anyone to do anything that would endanger him while he was defending the city. Therefore, the city must be emptied!

This conflict arose, which was also the reason why Xu Qing hesitated.

He knew that once Chen Ze's order was issued, a bloody massacre would inevitably await him.

These Xifeng people cannot be subdued until a certain number has been killed, and this certain number will never be a small number.

So, after he started to carry out Chen Ze's order and clashed with at least four waves of soldiers and civilians, Xu Qing, who couldn't stand it, returned to the City Lord's Mansion, and he asked Chen Ze to let him possess the general.

The reason for doing this is not that Xu Qing is incapable of suppressing these conflicts. After all, most of these people are just civilians, and they are not armed with swords, guns, axes and shields, but only carrying poles, kitchen knives or even brooms. There is a gap in strength between them and the fully armed army It's huge, and there's no way to hit it.

But because he was a civilian, the more Xu Qing suppressed and killed more people, the greater the psychological burden.

Finally after the fourth wave, he couldn't take it anymore and returned to the City Lord's Mansion, asking Chen Ze to possess the general for him.

Although the general star Xu Qing is still Xu Qing, but the courage and determination to go forward can help him harden his heart and concentrate on completing the tasks assigned by Chen Ze, without the benevolence of a woman .

Even Xu Qing, who had always admired Chen Ze and was willing to serve Chen Ze, couldn't face his heart. It is conceivable that this expulsion plan was cruel.

But what can Chen Ze do?

This was the best solution he could think of.

Deporting these civilians has two advantages.

One is naturally no longer afraid of the enemy.

The second is to stop the enemy, or delay time.

These people are all from Xifeng City, and to put it more seriously, they are people from Fengqi Province. Once their homeland is lost, where will they go subconsciously?

Naturally, it was the other three cities that also belonged to Fengqi Province.

Xifeng City is the most remote of the four border cities. The only destination for the homeless people who were expelled by him is to seek refuge in the other three cities, maybe there are their relatives there. must.

Therefore, these people will form a huge crowd, going upstream in the opposite direction, colliding with the enemy army who led their troops to rescue Xifeng City.

There are four to five million people in Xifeng City!

When these two encounter each other, it will inevitably block the narrow marching road, and will also hinder the enemy's original siege plan.

As for the other party taking these civilians back into one place and integrating them with the original army to form a huge army of 800,000?

If the commander-in-chief of the other side had a good brain, he might do this.

Those who escaped from Xifeng City were just panicked and helpless civilians. They had never received military training, and they just lost their homes in panic. How could it be possible to say that if you become a soldier, you will become a soldier? ?

If you really want to command such an army to attack the city, in addition to getting in the way, perhaps the only role left is to give away the head.

If these civilians dared to attack Xifeng City in turn, Chen Ze would wish for them to do so. Using these people to keep the regular army out would at least reduce the difficulty of defending the city by 30%.

Not only that, but the commander-in-chief of the other side could not ignore the escape of these 400,000 to 500,000 people, they had to be properly resettled, if they were left alone, or even forced to drive them away, it was very likely that a mutiny would be triggered!

The four border cities are linked together, and these civilians are also closely related to the soldiers in the four cities. When their relatives are displaced and their own commander is indifferent, what will those soldiers think?

For the sake of stability, the opposing coach dare not ignore it.

But if you want to manage it, you have to pay a huge amount of resources, clothing, horses, vehicles, and military rations that have arrived in a hurry, and at least half of these materials are allocated to civilians.

Then how do they attack the city?

We can only wait until the next batch of supplies arrives and we have sufficient resources before we dare to approach the city.

In this way, wouldn't it buy enough time for Chen Ze?

What he lacks now is time. With 100,000 people trying to defend the attack of 400,000 troops, even with the help of two legendary generals, Chen Ze still thinks that it is too reluctant. Even if he wants to win, he can only win miserably!

Miserable victory is defeat!

Right now, Chen Ze is still in the developmental stage, and every ounce of his strength has been earned with great difficulty. Of course, he doesn't want to waste it just because of Yan Haomiao's conspiracy.

Therefore, he needs to delay until the troops of his own Qingyang Empire arrive. Only then can he be relieved of the danger of the besieged city.

With General Luo rushing back to Tel City, Chen Ze believed that as soon as the reinforcements arrived, he would definitely be called to Xifeng City. This is why he asked General Luo not to go with him, but to return to Tel City to wait for the reinforcements one of the reasons

And it was also at that time that it was time for him to counterattack Yan Haomiao, the old fox!