The most arrogant in history

Chapter 108: Establish authority through battle.

Ye Kun smiled bitterly and shook his head: "If I kill them, it would be as easy as chopping melons and vegetables, but I just can't bear it."

Wang Bao shouted, "Master Ye, if we can't kill the enemy and establish our authority, it will surely encourage the chaos in the army and eventually it will be out of control."

Ye Kun knew that what Wang Bao said made sense. He sighed and waved his hand, saying, "Shoot the armored man in front!"

"Shoot the arrows and kill!"

Wang Bao gave an order.

Suddenly, arrows rained down from the top of the city wall, shooting towards the front row of the chaotic army.

The catapult also attacked at the same time, sending out pebbles as big as fists.

The untrained and unequipped rebels encountered Ye Kun's elite troops and were immediately defeated with a river of blood.

Most of the hundreds of armored men in front were almost wiped out, and the rest immediately fled in a panic.

Ye Kun made up his mind and waved his hand to order: "Chase and kill them, and rob them of their food, cattle and sheep!"

Tan Bamao, Wang Bao, Jiang Laowu and others each led their cavalry to charge out.

The rebel army abandoned their food, cattle and sheep and other livestock and fled for their lives.

Attacks were launched simultaneously from the west, north and east of the city, and the first siege of the rebels was defeated in just one morning.

A large number of weapons, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks, dry food, and silver and money were also seized.

Outside the four gates, there were thousands of corpses.

Ye Kun was sad but helpless. He organized the people in the city to dig deep trenches outside the city, bury the bodies, sprinkle quicklime, and pile up the soil to prevent the outbreak of plague.

There were still some wounded soldiers. Ye Kun stopped chasing them and instead comforted them with kind words, asking them to return home immediately and not waste their lives in vain.

After dark, Ye Kun returned to the city to check the situation.

Passing by the wedding room on North Street, Ye Kun took a look at Miss Yuejuan.

Miss Yuejuan also took in more than 20 orphans, all of whom were girls aged four to five to ten years old.

During war, these little girls are the most likely to die. Even on the way to escape, they will be ruthlessly abandoned by their parents and families.

If they are stranded outside, they will be harmed and even treated as two-legged sheep.

Miss Yuejuan was also compassionate and tried her best to take in a group of orphan girls.

Unexpectedly, County Magistrate Liu and his wife were also here.

Seeing Ye Kun, County Magistrate Liu was overjoyed and said with a smile:

"In today's battle, my dear son-in-law annihilated thousands of enemies and seized a large amount of supplies. The confidence of the soldiers and civilians in the city was greatly boosted, and I am relieved. Tonight, I brought wine and food to celebrate your victory!"

Ye Kun burst into tears and shook his head:

"This kind of killing is not a military achievement, it is a sin. I wanted to protect the country and the people, and benefit the people. But today, in this battle, I killed thousands of people. This is a heinous crime. How can I achieve anything?"

County Magistrate Liu glared: "They rebelled, shouldn't they be killed?"

"Master Liu, have you ever thought about who forced them to rebel? If they have food to eat, are they willing to risk being beheaded to rebel?"

"This……"

"The court is corrupt, the officials are greedy, the gentry are rampant, and they are exploiting the people, making their lives miserable. That's why they rebelled!"

Ye Kun shook his head and turned away.

"Kunlang."

Miss Yuejuan chased after him and took Ye Kun's hand: "Kunlang, you should eat something. The safety of the whole city and the lives of tens of thousands of people depend on you. You must take care of yourself."

Ye Kun patted Yue Juan on the shoulder:

"I'm not hungry. Leave the food for those little orphans. Just make sure they are well fed. Don't waste a single grain of rice."

Yuejuan nodded and whispered, "These past two days, I also ate some wild vegetables to save food..."

"Ms. Yuejuan, thank you. I will repay you in the future."

Ye Kun hugged Yuejuan and went to check the cafeteria and the refugee camp.

In the big cafeteria, Jiang Yourong, her elder sister-in-law and second sister, as well as Dai Xi, Ma Jiaojiao, Qiao Yun and others, wore coarse linen clothes, made fire, cooked porridge and served the public.

Due to the siege of the city by the rebel army, spinning production has stopped and the salt refining industry has also stopped.

Everybody is fine, and they are all busy comforting the people.

The refugees and common people, knowing that Jiang Yourong was the wife of the county lieutenant, were very grateful and respectful, and kept thanking her.

Hundreds of little girls were also taken in to the cafeteria, helping with work and eating porridge for free.

The refugee camp is divided into two sections, male and female, so everyone can squeeze in.

After defeating the rebel army for the first time, Ye Kun led the cavalry to clear out the rebel army within ten miles outside the city, and protected the refugees as they left the city to pick wild vegetables, dig yams and taro, and chop firewood for use.

Taro is a traditional grain of China, but not the later sweet potato.

Taro, sweet potato and sweet potato are actually different plants.

The skin of taro is rough and grayish white. It is edible, but it is coarse and difficult to swallow.

It tastes best when mixed with lard and honey.

At this time, it is not long after the autumn harvest, and some remaining taro can still be found in the fields.

But Ye Kun didn't expect that there were too many rebel troops and they came too quickly.

Three days later, Huang Tiandao's rebel army from Xichuan broke through Cigu County and swarmed in from the direction of Cigu County. They assembled 20,000 troops and surrounded Pingye County!

Moreover, this group of rebel troops has strong combat effectiveness, high morale, and their equipment is similar to that of the local armed forces of the Da Ding Kingdom.

The city of Cigu County had been breached. The county magistrate Huang Sizhong, with 300 remnants of his army, some wealthy people, their own gold, silver, jewelry and a batch of grain, rushed into the city of Pingye County to ask for help.

The hundreds of troops that Ye Kun sent to Cigu County were also defeated and retreated to Pingye County.

However, Ye Qingyang of Yejiawu was said to have killed thousands of enemies and was still holding on.

When Huang Sizhong entered the city, Ye Kun checked the property of this dog official, which included 700 taels of gold, 3,000 taels of silver, and some jewels and silk.

At this time, Ye Kun of course wanted to take advantage of the rich, so he extorted half of Huang Sizhong's property to use as military expenses.

Huang Sizhong wanted to stay alive, so he was angry but dared not speak out.

And those wealthy people all obediently gave their tributes.

Ye Kun now has tens of thousands of taels of silver in his hands, but he has nowhere to spend it.

Huang Tiandao's uprising caused chaos throughout the country, trade routes were cut off, and people couldn't buy anything even if they had money.

Ye Kun’s current territory is Pingye County and Xipingshan Camp.

There were also some rebellious troops on the 30-mile highway from the county seat to Xiping Mountain, but on a small scale.

Xiping Mountain is easy to defend but difficult to attack, and it firmly controls the transportation bottleneck. With Yan Liuhai and Guan Yong, the village chief of Guanjia Village, in charge, there is sufficient food, and wild vegetables can be dug on the mountain, so Ye Kun is very relieved.

On the third day after Huang Sizhong and others arrived, the rebel army outside the city launched several attacks.

Ye Kun was not polite either. He fired arrows and catapults at will.

After a day of fighting, outside the four gates, blood flowed like a river and corpses piled up like mountains.

However, the Huang Tiandao army behind them came in an endless stream from all directions and was constantly replenished. Their strength did not decrease but instead increased.

After four or five days of stalemate, 30,000 troops of Huang Tiandao gathered in the south of the city, with flags flying all over the sky!

It is said that a great general emerged in the chaos, he was Qu Shuai of Dongba County, and he successively conquered nine counties of Dongba County and was invincible!

The people in the city were somewhat agitated, fearing that they would be massacred after the city was captured.

While trying to appease the people, Ye Kun also strengthened martial law control and strictly enforced curfew.

Magistrate Liu and his wife could no longer bear it and were on the verge of mental collapse, so they came to Ye Kun to discuss the matter overnight.

County Magistrate Liu tried to please Ye Kun and said humbly:

"My dear son-in-law, let's evacuate. The people in the city will soon be unable to suppress the rebellion and will surrender the city to the enemy. By then, we will die without a burial place."

Madam Liu also said, "My dear son-in-law, the troops in your hands can ensure the safe evacuation of our family and take refuge with my uncle, the governor of Jingzhou. Don't worry, you are full of talents, and my uncle will make use of you."

Ye Kun shook his head: "Breaking out now would be like committing suicide."

County Magistrate Liu stamped his feet in anger:

"Jingzhou has an army of 200,000 men, and we are not afraid of these bandits. I have a thousand taels of gold, ten thousand taels of silver, and countless jewels and cloth. If you can fight your way out, I'll give you half of them!"