Chapter 1112 Headache
The common people were no match for these officers and soldiers and were quickly plundered of all their possessions.
There were also some smart people who got the news, packed up their belongings at home and hid in the mountains to avoid disaster - they would die anyway, the only difference was being killed by their own kind or being eaten by wild beasts.
When the officers and soldiers couldn't find anything in the villages of those who had hidden in the mountains, they simply burned the villages down, so that some confused people actually blamed Shengze.
Sheng Ze and others were unaware of all this, because the Hubei Northern Army had already prepared to attack Linzhou.
At the end of spring in the third year of Yufeng, at Shengze's command, the Hubei North Army rushed out like a tiger and captured Linzhou at an extremely fast speed.
Immediately afterwards, the four states of Jinzhou, Luzhou, Qizhou and Rongzhou were also quickly captured.
To be precise, when attacking these provincial capitals, except for sporadic resistance in Linzhou, the rest of the provinces almost surrendered directly.
The captives will not be left to eat idle meals. Several state capitals have a large number of tasks that require manpower, and they really cannot do without these people.
Of course, the treatment of prisoners is definitely not comparable to that of normal people.
But the reaction of the people of Linzhou to the Hubei Northern Army was puzzling.
Ling Yun rode his horse through the streets of Linzhou City with a gloomy face. When he saw Sheng Ze at the Linzhou government office, he finally couldn't help it.
"Master, I don't understand why the people of Linzhou are like this. We come here, and although we can't ask them to welcome us, they can't spit at us either."
Whenever Ling Yun thought about how he was the first one to rush into the city, but was spit on by the brave people who came out to watch the Hubei Northern Army enter the city, he would be so angry that his teeth would itch.
Before this, he always thought that they were heroes who rescued the people, but the people of Linzhou almost made him doubt his original intention.
Zheng Shicheng was also in Shengze at this moment. After hearing Ling Yun's words, he sighed and said, "This is what I want to report today."
He shared his findings and added a brief update on the current situation of the people in Linzhou. "I've had people investigate, and the vast majority of people in Linzhou have no food left at home. Furthermore, the death rates of the elderly and children have skyrocketed in the past seven days. This is all because the Qin family army has plundered all the people's food and property."
"What's wrong with these people? It's obviously the Qin family soldiers who want them to die, and those orders were not given by the master. How can they be so confused about right and wrong?" Ling Yun almost exploded.
But after knowing the reason, he was not angry at the people, but at the Qin family soldiers who surrendered and fled. They just waited for him, and he would go to the prisoner camp and vent his anger on the people!
Zheng Shicheng was also very troubled. The people were ignorant. They had just arrived and the supplies they planned to distribute had not arrived yet. Now, even if they talked their mouths off, no one would believe that they had no ill will towards the people.
Sheng Ze pondered for a moment, then looked up and said to Ling Yun, "Go and call Third Brother Shen."
"Yes." Ling Yun suppressed his emotions and left.
After a while, Shen Shan arrived in front of Sheng Ze.
"Third brother, how much military rations do we have now?" Sheng Ze asked.
Shen Shan blurted out without thinking: "The military rations accompanying the army are always maintained at 100,000 dan, and another 200,000 dan will be delivered in three days."
Now he is temporarily in charge of the management and mobilization of military rations, so he is naturally very clear about these things.
But he was talking about the total amount, that is, the amount of coarse grains, fine grains and meat combined.
Sheng Ze nodded and looked at Zheng Shicheng again, "How many sets of cotton clothes have been collected from the army before?"
The Hubei Northern Army is now wearing cotton-padded clothes that have been infused with thermal insulation, and the old ones are waiting to be recycled.
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