Winning Hearts Comes First

After a great battle, Yecheng fell with ease.

Jiang Hao immediately ordered the army into the city to inventory supplies, arrange lodging, confiscate the townspeople's grain and livestock, then directly drive out several thousand Shache people.

Drive them where?

Naturally, to Shache City.

With several thousand more mouths to feed, Shache City would only become more chaotic and bear an even heavier burden.

There were often those who massacred entire cities in ancient wars. Jiang Hao did not slaughter the common people and merely drove them away; that was already the greatest mercy. Thus, none of those Shache people cursed Jiang Hao. Instead, they only said that the Han commander was truly kindhearted.

Damn,

So happiness really did come from comparison.

Yecheng was only thirty li from Shache's royal capital. Cavalry needed just half an hour to cover that distance. It could be said that Jiang Hao had already planted his flag in the Shache people's throat—a particularly thick and long flagpole at that.

The Shache people certainly would not feel good about it.

Yecheng had originally stored some military rations and supplies. The Western Regions allied army had also plundered the Shache people's grain, livestock, cattle, and sheep. Those provisions were enough to feed Jiang Hao's army for two or three months.

At this moment, Yecheng had become Jiang Hao's forward base for attacking Shache.

A few days later, intelligence arrived from Shache City. Princess Dilina Zha presented it to Jiang Hao. "This is information sent back by the spy network."

Jiang Hao had driven the Shache people from Yecheng not merely to seize food and increase the burden on Shache City. There was an even more important reason: it allowed a large number of spies to blend into the refugees and enter Shache City, where they could learn