Yesterday, I selected 6,000 prisoners of war and asked them to search the surrounding villages and towns. I have to take out all the things that can keep out the cold. Now we have finally found this place, and everyone can get one. If you don’t get one, you can only blame yourself for not being proactive enough.
Jin Shangzhi found two sets of clothes and put them on. He had been to the north with his master before, so he knew how cold it was there. The temperature was completely different from here. If he didn't have enough clothes, he would probably be frozen to death there. If he did a good job, the Tang Dynasty would reward him, but in the end he was frozen to death because he didn't prepare enough clothes. That would be a real loss.
The others also put on their clothes, and some held them in their hands. They knew that this was the only time clothes would be distributed. The journey from here to the north was still long, and it would probably take more than ten days. These clothes were their only things to keep warm, and they had to be kept well.
"Set off."
Following the order of a young general, the fence in front was opened and the two teams began to advance side by side. Just like when they were captured, their right arms were tied together. Ten people formed a team and five teams formed a group.
According to Li Xiang's order, they would stop to rest after advancing for two hours, let them drink some water and go to the toilet, and then continue to advance. Every day when they advanced thirty miles, they would stop to rest. If no one else rested and you stopped to rest yourself, according to Li Xiang's order, this person's right hand would be cut off and then kicked out of the queue.
In this situation, if you cut off your right hand and kick out of the queue, you will be doomed to death. With such a big wound, the bleeding will definitely not be stopped, and you will die before you can stay on the roadside for long.
At the same time, another group of people were released from the prisoner-of-war camp, and Tang Dynasty soldiers drove them away, forcing them to run south.
These people are the elderly and children in the team, and they are very young children. As long as they can work on the farm, Li Xiang will never let them go, but if they can't work, we will never keep you here for free, so we will push you to the south.
Aren't you from Goguryeo? Then you should go to the territory controlled by Goguryeo and share in whatever grain they have.
This is exactly the same as the policy formulated before. Release these old people and children and let them drag down Goguryeo. Many of them have status, and the Goguryeo officials cannot watch them starve to death, so they have to take out some of them from the limited reserves. These people are not a small number. More than 10,000 people were released the first time, and there will be a second and third time, until Goguryeo is brought down.
Of course, Goguryeo could block them from entering the border, but this would only lead to internal conflict. They were all from Goguryeo, and some of their relatives and friends were in the south. Why wouldn't they be allowed in? If they were left to starve to death on the border, there would probably be even more internal strife within Goguryeo. Regardless of the outcome, Li Xiang was waiting to see Goguryeo's joke by letting these people out.
"The general is heartbroken?"
Li Xiang stood on a high place and watched all this. General Li Jing frowned. Could it be that he felt sorry for these Goguryeo people?
"Your Highness, have you forgotten? I've also killed people along the way, so how could I possibly be ruthless? I just think this pace is a bit too slow. Why not just let them all go in a flash?"
After hearing this, Li Xiang had several black lines on his forehead. He thought that the general had started to eat vegetarian food and chant Buddhist scriptures as he got older. Unexpectedly, it was not the case at all. He thought our strategy was too slow.
"It's better to release them piecemeal. If we release tens of thousands of people at once, Goguryeo will definitely block the border and won't allow them to pass. The first time, they saw that these 10,000 people weren't many, so they just let them in. But we still have 10,000 people behind us. You can't just let the front in and not the back in. If you don't do it right, it will be a huge contradiction."
Li Xiang said with a smile, and General Li Jing next to him also gave a thumbs up, "You are born with brains, and you have taken everything into account. Goguryeo is really lucky to have an opponent like you."
In the past, when they fought, they only achieved military victory, but when Li Xiang fought, military victory was only a part of it, as if military victory was secondary and policy was the main focus.
If General Li Jing had not seen it with his own eyes, he would never have dared to believe what he saw. But now he saw everything with his own eyes. He finally believed that strategy was much more important than pure force, and it could destroy everything, including the will of the people in the occupied country, which was the most difficult to destroy.
For example, the Xiongnu today. General Li Jing has already led his troops to conquer them. But now tribes of all sizes have appeared on the Xiongnu grasslands. On the surface, they have a good relationship with the Tang Dynasty, but in fact, these people are not convinced in their hearts. However, they have not clearly stated that they will rebel against the court and cannot send troops again.
In the final analysis, this attack was not thorough enough. After winning, they retreated, which left hidden dangers for themselves. Only Li Xiang's attack method is the most thorough. After occupying a place, we must understand it thoroughly and turn it into a dependency of the Tang Dynasty.
Only in this way can the Tang Dynasty continue to absorb blood and prosper.
Just as the two were talking, the sound of horse hooves came from afar. It must be the messenger coming.
"I think these two countries are unreliable. These Koreans are all the same."
Li Xiang opened the letter and read it. Sure enough, Silla and Baekje refused Li Xiang's order. They said that they should rule the world with benevolence and could not watch the people of Goguryeo starve to death...
"stick?"
General Li Jing said this in a strange tone. Li Xiang finally understood what he had said. The people of the Tang Dynasty didn't know what Korea was. Only people in the 21st century knew. Whether it was South Korea or North Korea, it seemed they were not worthy of our trust. Only iron and blood could make them obey our orders...
