"Father, why are you here too?"
Just as everyone was walking forward with curses, who would have thought that the officer who was so majestic just now got off his horse. In the distance, there was a group of people coming in from other places, and among them was his father.
"Finally, I saw you. I told them my eldest son was in the army, but they didn't believe me at all. It almost broke my old bones. You must avenge your younger brother. They were the ones who killed him."
When the old man saw his eldest son, he immediately rushed over. Two people in the family had died. Because their family was considered wealthy in the local area, and his son held a position in the army, their family treated everyone, whether they were bandits or government officials, with courtesy. Who knew that a group of people would suddenly come today, kick open the door and start arresting people, regardless of whether they were servants or masters, as long as they could walk, they were taken away.
This officer's younger brother was usually arrogant and domineering. Furthermore, his older brother held a high position in the army. He thought, "You guys don't even know what kind of place this is, you actually want to arrest your old man and make him a soldier." So the younger brother came out with a knife. Who would let the arresting soldiers spare him? He was hacked to death...
In addition to his younger brother, the officer's concubine was also dragged into the next room and raped. In the end, the concubine couldn't bear it and committed suicide by jumping into a well.
After listening to my father's description, the officer was terrified. The common people he captured were secretly happy. It turned out that your family had encountered such a thing. You just killed more than a dozen people in our village. The retribution came so quickly. Your family is similar to the people in our village.
"Take them down for me."
The officer's veins were about to burst. Seeing his father's leg limp, how could he bear it? The death of his brother, coupled with the tragic scene at home, made the officer draw his sword. The surrounding soldiers also rushed forward and surrounded the other team.
"Do you dare to disobey the Prime Minister's order? The Prime Minister's order is very clear. All people, regardless of gender, age or status, must be arrested..."
A voice came from another direction. The man came riding a horse. He was of the same rank as the leading officer. At the moment, his armor was a little out of place. The armor was in good condition, but there was a purple handkerchief hanging next to the armor. It belonged to the concubine.
"I kill you……"
The two gangs quickly engaged in a fight. When the local people saw this, they quickly ran to the side. If they were lucky, they might be able to escape with their lives.
The original purpose was to conscript young men, but who knew that because they were conscripted to a general's house, thousands of people started fighting here. At the beginning, there were only dozens of people, but later soldiers from both sides continued to join in, and later blood was seen, and they could no longer control themselves.
The two sides fought back and forth, and many soldiers were killed before they even saw the Tang army. The surrounding civilians were not much better off. They were already blood-thirsty, and would rush forward with their swords as long as they saw a living person in front of them.
The war expanded rapidly, and hundreds of soldiers from both sides joined the battle. Later, the battle became bigger and bigger. Because this was an intersection, more and more troops and young men came from other places, and they didn't know why they were involved in the battle.
When Gai Yuansu Wen learned about what happened here, thousands of people had already been killed or injured.
Gai Yuansu Wen came with his three thousand armored soldiers and quelled the war here as quickly as possible. This guy asked the remaining soldiers to take the wounded back to the barracks. He did not criticize either side. He believed that both sides had their reasons. One side wanted to complete its mission, and the other side wanted to protect its family. So he might as well just play the game.
Gai Yuansu Wen had led troops before, but later he served as prime minister in the capital. He didn't have a deep understanding of some things in the army. Blood has already been seen. If you don't take final measures, a riot will soon break out. They are all young men, and their brothers who are full of vigor and vitality will be killed one by one. Do you think they can bear this?
So that night, a large-scale riot broke out in the Goguryeo military camp. At the beginning, it was only the two armies that had fought each other. They staged a full-scale fight in the camp, with body parts and blood scattered everywhere. It quickly spread in the camp. When Gai Yuansuwen led his 3,000 people to suppress the riot, he found that he could no longer suppress it.
The officers around Gai Yuansu Wen immediately covered his retreat. There were more and more troops in the east. There were more than 20,000 people in this military camp, and it was now in complete chaos. If the Prime Minister continued to stay here, and was accidentally involved in these people, their swords would not recognize you as the Prime Minister.
So the only option was to withdraw from the military camp, then mobilize troops from nearby to surround the camp, and then go in to deal with these matters after the fighting was over.
After this turmoil, the Goguryeo army lost more than 10,000 people and thousands were injured. Now they are short of medical care and medicine. They can only place these people in the fighting camp and let them wait for death while smelling the blood. There is no other way.
As a last resort, Gai Yuansu Wen had to modify his order so that the families of military officers would no longer be arrested.
But after this order was issued, many soldiers were reluctant. Are the families of officers the only ones considered family members? Are our families not considered family members? They also realized that the higher-ups weren't so ruthless. As long as we tried to cause trouble, they would always compromise because they needed us to guard the Taedong River.
So except for the perfect arrest operation on the first day, very few people were brought back every day afterwards. When these soldiers went out, they would first send a letter to their families, asking them to hide in the mountains.
There are always some relatives and friends in the family, so there is no way to block the news. If a group of people come and go, the whole village may be wiped out.
So when the Goguryeo army arrived, they had no choice but to burn the village. However, when they left, they had already taken away everything they could from home, so they could live in the mountains for a while...
