Prosperous Tang Dynasty

Chapter 339 Receiving Refugees
The situation in Hebei and Hedong was rotten. Cai Xide, Shi Siming, Cui Qianyou, Niu Tingjie and other anti-army fighters fought continuously with Guo Ziyi, Li Guangbi, Yan Zhenqing and other Tang troops.

Some populous towns changed hands several times.

Under the chaos of war, ordinary people have no possibility of survival, because there is no peaceful environment, and they cannot do any farming. Even if they grow food, they will only be robbed by the rebels. Even their lives are threatened by rebels, and their wives and daughters are also the same. Facing the threat of rioting soldiers.

If the people want to continue to survive, they have to flee to other places where there is no war.

Originally all the way to the south, crossing the Yellow River and fleeing to the Jianghuai River, Jiangnan and other wars will not be affected, and the economically prosperous place is the best choice.

However, as Anlu Mountain confiscated all the ships on the Yellow River, it was very difficult for the refugees to cross the Yellow River. Even if the Yellow River was frozen in winter and the Yellow River was frozen, the vast area on the south bank of the Yellow River was also occupied by the rebels, and wars were frequent. , They want to go through those war-torn areas to reach Jianghuai smoothly, and Jiangnan is not easy.

After Li Fei captured Pinglu Road and opened the road from Hebei to Andong, Andong undoubtedly became the nearest war-free place for Hebei refugees who wanted to escape the war.

Li Fei's record of repeated battles and victories, and the more legendary capture of more than [-] counties in the five prefectures of Pinglu Road in just a few days, made the people who wanted to escape the war willing to believe that under the protection of Li Fei, even if they were against the army Attacking Anton again will inevitably lead to defeat.

As a result, some refugees who escaped from the war tentatively came to the Pinglu area.

In December of the first year of Zhide in the Tang Dynasty, the weather was very cold.

Due to the continuous war in Hebei for a year and a half, the farming has been devastated, coupled with the looting of the anti-military forces, the people basically have no food, and the mountains are blocked by heavy snow in winter, and everything does not grow, and it is difficult to find food. of.

At the beginning, many weaker people were starved to death and froze to death.

Under such circumstances, these people in Hebei actually don't care at all whether the Anton Protectorate's Mansion is really as good as they heard, and can feed them. They only need to have a thought that they can look forward to, It will be numb all the way.

After all, they had nothing, and they might starve to death, freeze to death, or be killed by rebels at any time. Even if Anton wasn't as good as the rumors said, they were willing to take a gamble.

In order to attract the common people, Li Fei ordered Zhang Shuo to bring 200 Modao troops to the south from Pingzhou City to capture Lutai County, more than [-] miles east of Youzhou City, which is where the later Tianjin is located, and transported a large amount of food, grass and clothing to the Lutai County.

In addition, Li Fei personally led [-] Anton Iron Cavalry, and after more than a year, his troops came to Youzhou City for the second time, which aroused the tension of Fan Yang Jiedu envoy Niu Tingjie who was stationed in Youzhou City.

Niu Tingjie still can't understand how Li Fei miraculously captured more than [-] counties in the five prefectures of Pinglu in just a few days.Even if all of Pinglu's soldiers and horses were led by Lu Zhihai to attack Anton, after all there were still some second-line garrison soldiers. The city gates and walls were not so easy to overcome. At that time, Li Fei had only [-] Anton cavalry. , didn't have any siege equipment, but easily broke through the city gate and entered the city.

At this time, Niu Tingjie, even though he had gathered more than 6 rebels under his command, did not dare to go out of the city to fight against Li Fei's [-] Anton cavalry.

"Fire arrows!"

"Shhhhh-"

The god arm crossbow shot a rain of arrows and covered the city tower of Youzhou. More than 30 rebel soldiers were shot and killed, causing chaos on the city wall.

After only shooting a round of arrow rain, Li Fei didn't give the order to actually attack Youzhou City, and even retreated soon.

Knowing that his strength is far inferior to that of Li Fei's Anton Cavalry, and because he could not get Li Fei's goal, Niu Tingjie did not dare to go out of the city to pursue him. An opportunity to take advantage of.

After Li Fei left from Youzhou City with [-] Anton cavalry, he did not return to Pingzhou City, but continued southward to the edge of Zhangshui.

Lost Pingzhou City, Lutai County was also captured by Li Fei, Niu Tingjie of Youzhou defended Youzhou City and did not dare to leave, the vast North China Plain was under the feet of Li Fei's Anton Iron Cavalry, and because of the main force of the rebel army at this time, most of them Transferred to Hedong and Guo Ziyi, Li Guangbi fought fiercely, and he couldn't spare enough troops to fight against Li Fei's [-] Andong cavalry. As long as Li Fei wanted to, he could kill several important towns in Hebei at any time, such as Cangzhou, Bazhou, Zhuozhou, Under the city of Dingzhou.

Also ignorant of Li Fei's purpose, the rebels in Hebei provinces panicked and closed the city gates, fearing that Li Fei would suddenly approach the city with An Dong cavalry.

Soon, Niu Tingjie of Youzhou and the rebels from other states finally figured out Li Fei's purpose.

Li Fei's [-] Andong cavalry came to protect Hebei refugees who fled north to Pinglu Andong. There are more than ten main official roads from Youzhou City and Lutai County to the south. There are shadows of Anton cavalry. The rebels in the prefectures and counties will not come out to make trouble, and Anton's cavalry will never attack the city.

Without the strength to fight against Li Fei's [-] Anton cavalry, the rebels in Zhuzhou and counties naturally did not dare to go out of the city to make trouble.

In Youzhou City.

Niu Tingjie frowned, and his face was a little gloomy. Li Fei was so blatantly picking up the fleeing Hebei people and plundering Hebei's population, which made Niu Tingjie feel ashamed, but he had no choice but to dispatch at least one army from Luoyang or Hedong. The main force of 10 people came, otherwise it would be impossible to fight against Li Fei's [-] Anton cavalry.

Instead of provoking Li Fei for the sake of some common people, it is better to turn a blind eye and close one eye, and wait for the main forces in Hedong to defeat Guo Ziyi, Li Guangbi and other Tang troops, and then send troops back to Hebei to fight against Li Fei.

While Niu Tingjie in Youzhou City and other Hebei counties and counties turned a blind eye to the rebels, Li Fei escorted the refugees from Hebei to Lutai County very smoothly.

In Lutai County, the Anton Army distributed warm clothes and meals to the people who came.Let them recover some strength, then continue northward to Pingzhou, and finally pass through the Shanhaiguan Pass under construction to reach the territory of Andong.

After the fleeing Hebei people came to Lutai County, they did have enough food and warm clothes. They no longer doubted that after regaining their strength, they lined up a long queue from Lutai County and continued northward to Pingzhou and Shanhaiguan.

Looking at the long dragon and the numb people walking forward, Li Fei suddenly felt very shameless.

Relying on the persecution of the war, these people who belonged to Hebei for generations had to leave their hometowns and migrate to Andong Protectorate to increase the population of Andong Protectorate.

Soon, Li Fei shook his head again, dispelling the random thoughts in his mind.

Although he does have his own selfishness in this regard, it is indeed a bit shameless.But in history, after the Anshi Rebellion, the population of Datang decreased by nearly 2000 million, most of them came from Hebei, Hedong, Luoyang and other places, and most of them were starved to death.

Without him, Li Fei, in this December alone, excluding Hedong and other places, tens of millions of people in the counties and counties of Hebei would starve to death, including many of the people who are migrating to Andong. .

At least Li Fei can guarantee that after they migrated to Anton, they would indeed have enough to eat and a peaceful life. It would be better to leave their hometown or something than to suffer from hunger and be starved to death.

Li Fei found an excuse for himself, and became firm again.
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(End of this chapter)