Chapter 1588: Driving out refugees

Time was urgent, and Chang Sunze could not stay here for too long. After leaving behind a batch of supplies and 5,000 soldiers, Chang Sunze immediately passed in the direction of Su Dingfang. There were about 500 people separated by As for 500 miles, if the road is built, this 500 miles is not a problem, but it is all in the Gobi Desert, which makes it more difficult to walk.

Everyone has basically experienced walking in such a place for a long time. When the sun is hottest during the day, find a place to squat down and rest. Use it for walking at night and early morning, and spend half of your time resting every day. If If you work too long, your body will not have enough water to replenish it.

With the addition of these 5,000 men, Cheng Chuliang stopped staying here and commanded the entire army to immediately kill a certain city in the southwest.

Jalalabad.

This is the city closest to Cheng Chuliang. In fact, there are cities further north, but those cities can no longer be called cities. When the Arab Empire retreated, they had already taken away the things in the city. The local people with the ability They all retreated with the army, and those who were unable to do so could only remain where they were and become refugees.

Under the city wall of Jalal-Abad, there are refugees from the north. They spent their last effort and finally arrived in Jalal-Abad. They thought that the Arab Empire would provide them with disaster relief, but who knew that the wait would be endless. Under the scorching sun, several city gates have been closed. If you don't have enough money to enter the city, then you can just wait outside the city.

At the beginning, there were only a few hundred people, and then the number increased to more than a thousand every day. Now after these days, there are already ten or twenty thousand refugees outside the city. The rulers have tried to open the city gates several times. , but the people below also told him, if you open the city gate, these tens of thousands of refugees will quickly flow in. Do we have enough food stored?

The city lord Ajalud looked at the refugees below, feeling very sad in his heart. He also wanted to save these people, but the problem was that his personal abilities were limited. The city itself was not big, and there was not much food stored. If there are only one or two thousand people, if we mobilize the wealthy households in the city, we might be able to weather the storm together.

But now there are dozens of times more people coming out, and there are still many people coming every day. If you dare to open the city gate, not only will you not be able to save the refugees under the city wall, but you may also cause disaster in the city.

When a person is extremely hungry, the law is a piece of waste paper to him. When he cannot survive, even if you are his relative, you may become food in his mouth. These things used to be It's not that it hasn't happened before, so the city lord doesn't dare to open the city gate now. He even feels guilty for his previous thoughts. That kind of approach is to not take the people in the city to heart.

"Lord City Lord, the city wall in the northeast has been repaired. Our people have filled the gaps inside, but the refugees outside are still digging. If they are not suppressed, the city wall will have to be repaired tomorrow morning. Over time, our city wall may not be able to hold up. Once the Tang army comes, what will the people in the city do if there is no city wall? "

An official said that the most important thing in the city now is that the refugees outside are trying hard to tear down the city wall. Their city walls are not masonry structures, but are all made of adobe. They look pretty good, but If you have tools, you can tear open the city wall at any time.

There is no way for the refugees to come in through the city gate now, so these people found a relatively low place and took advantage of the night to tear off the city wall. Last night, a piece of the city wall suddenly collapsed. If the soldiers hadn't found it tighter, If so, these people might really run in through that gap. Even so, they killed more than fifty people last night to scare those refugees.

"They are all a group of hard-working people. They all had a good life originally. But when this bastard Suheguman retreated, he took away all their remaining supplies and wanted to give them to the Tang Dynasty. It created problems, but now that the Tang army has retreated, these problems have all fallen on us."

Ajalud said with some sadness that he also came from a poor family, but he had better luck. Through various reasons, he finally embarked on the road of becoming an official.

After so many years, he finally got over it. Just when he was about to be promoted, he didn't expect that something like this happened. The governor-general's office above also issued an order, telling them that they must defend the city, no matter it was the Tang army. Neither refugees nor refugees can be allowed to pass through this city.

According to the idea of ​​the city lord, it is normal not to let the Tang army pass. Even if there is no order from above, they know what to do. They will definitely fight until the last moment to stop the Tang army from moving south.

But what about these refugees? What's wrong with them? These people were once our partners, and they also contributed to this country in the north. Now because you robbed their property, they became refugees. They managed to escape to this city, but you actually If they are not allowed to go south through here, isn't this forcing them to death?

"Your Excellency is right, but we have a problem here. We must let the soldiers drive those people away. If no action is taken, someone will tear down the city wall tonight. We have to let these people leave the city wall. They dare not do it during the day, but they can do anything at night. Once they enter the city, their fighting power is even more terrible than that of demons."

The official next to him had experienced a famine. At that time, the refugees didn't care about anything. As long as they could fill their stomachs, they didn't care whether it was a government warehouse or a civilian warehouse. As long as they were found, they would immediately move everything out. If you didn't stop them, they wouldn't do anything to you. Anyone who dared to stop them would only die. There was no reason to talk to hungry people.

The Lord of the City still couldn't make up his mind. The so-called driving them away must be shooting arrows from the city wall, or pouring boiling oil from below, so that these people could not stay under the city wall. However, doing so would inevitably result in a large number of casualties, but if they didn't do so, what would the people in the city do? (End of this chapter)