Chapter 426: Taking captives and driving away the people
Yu Lin smiled calmly. I have been fighting with Bolkin in secret for more than a year. I also have some feelings for this person. This person is very cruel. Judging from the strategy of cutting off a strong man's wrist this time, he is worthy of being a hero of his generation! According to my estimation, he would like us to kill these old, weak, women and children! Yes, the tribe in front of us is almost at the outermost edge of the grassland. They didn't even spare the young men on the outermost edge, let alone the tribes in the grasslands. Based on my guess, coupled with the analysis of intelligence, I can almost conclude! After Bolkin massacred the Tutula tribe in a rage, the remaining tribes of the Grassland Alliance, when the Black Underworld strategist and the masters around him suddenly disappeared, both mentally and physically, they were all Unable to resist Bolkin. At this time, Bolkin must have adopted thunderous means to unify the Grassland Alliance! "
"He is now seriously injured in the grassland. It is the perfect time for the Central Plains to send troops. He is to strike first and with decisive force, he requires the entire grassland to submit to him. It is conceivable that some large tribes near the center of the grassland can barely survive. Although there is some strength, the young and strong people of the small and medium-sized tribes in the periphery must be like the tribe in front of us, and they were all drained out in a short time!"
"These young men have become Bolkin's personal force, greatly strengthening the military strength of the Tharol tribe. Even I have to say that Bolkin's skills are indeed beautiful!"
"As a result, the Tarol tribe, which was originally severely weakened, will definitely grow in power, even far exceeding its strength more than four years ago. This is taking advantage of the situation to suppress others! After Bolkin obtained the position of Golden Khan, the first thing he did was Using thunderous means to gather military strength, even if other tribes wanted to oppose it, they did not have the courage. But as soon as they hesitated, the strength of the Tarol tribe doubled several times. Now that they regret it, they can only knock out their teeth and swallow them alive!"
"However, there is a huge flaw in Bolkin's approach, that is, his method is too radical! In this way, although the military power of the Tharol tribe has been greatly enhanced, the young men who were summoned will They are all resentful. Because they are not stupid, Bolkin should have given up on their families and brought their families to death!"
"But this time we are here. Our Central Plains army raised bloody butcher knives against these old, weak, women and children who had no power to resist, and killed them all."
"Then" Yu Lin looked at everyone and said, if you were Sirius, how would you make use of this incident? "
After Yu Lin¡¯s detailed analysis, many people immediately understood.
No, Bolkin¡¯s plan was really a beautiful one!
?????????????????????????????????? It was obviously him who forcibly recruited the young men of each tribe to strengthen his power, and abandoned the remaining old, weak, women and children. However, once the Central Plains army raises its butcher knife, then this shit basin will be easily detained on the bodies of the Central Plains strong men.
When the time comes, Bolkin will use clever words, distort the facts, and loudly declare to the soldiers who were forcibly recruited that it was the Central Plains people who killed your relatives, and the Central Plains people will kill us all! You and the people of the Central Plains are at odds with each other
With Bolkin¡¯s cunning, he will definitely use this incident to transfer the anger and hatred of the vast majority of the soldiers he forcibly recruited from him to the Central Plains army.
In this way, not only was he able to eliminate internal instability factors in one fell swoop, he was also able to inspire the blood and hatred of the soldiers to fight to the death with the Central Plains army. He was also able to legitimately abandon those old, weak, women and children who were unable to fight. It could be said that he killed three birds with one stone. have to!
Although it is impossible for the Central Plains army to escape without bloodshed this time, if these prisoners are killed, the next war will be even more difficult!
As a commander-in-chief and leading an army alone, Habayashi Sumaichi must anticipate before the war begins what the strategic purpose of this war is and how to end this war. Here, my military advisor clearly tells you that the ultimate goal of this war is to kill Sirius Bolkin and destroy the Sirius inheritance in the Aquoda Mile Mountain! As for exterminating the entire grassland, this is not our primary purpose! At best, it¡¯s just a side mission! Because after this battle, there will be no more soldiers on the grassland. Even if we don't kill these prisoners, I estimate that in the three years after the war, the number of people in the entire grassland will be reduced to one-tenth of what it was five years ago. Not even there! As a result, the grassland people will not be able to recover for at least three hundred years in the future! And in the past three hundred years, facing the weakest grassland in history, we have thousands of ways to assimilate them and conquer them! "
Yu Lin¡¯s voice became louder! After three hundred years, there will no longer be a distinction between the Central Plains and the grassland on the Star Continent. This is our real goal and final strategic goal! However, this is not a war today.It can be done! Therefore, you all must remember not to be greedy for temporary happiness and lose the big for the small, thus affecting the true mission of this battle! "
"Yes!" All the generals in the camp, including Lieyang and others, stood up. Everyone respectfully gave Yu Lin a military salute and obeyed the military advisor's orders! "
Lei Xiang nodded. Yu Lin is worthy of being called Yu Lin. His analysis is interlocking and reasonable. He also has a long-term vision and has seen the situation after the war. Such a talent deserves the name of a wise man!
What military advisor Lei Xiangdao said is very reasonable, and I also agree with the military advisor. But please let the military advisor know how to deal with this group of prisoners! "
Yu Lin smiled impolitely, stepped forward, and said to everyone, I think you all should, why do the grassland people always invade our Central Plains land after accumulating enough strength? "
"Because they are greedy!" A general from the Dali Kingdom stood up and said through gritted teeth. In the eyes of the prairie people, the Central Plains is just a big piece of fat! They grassland people don't know how to farm or forge, but our Central Plains is rich in products and resources, so every time they regain their strength, they invade the Central Plains, with the purpose of plundering us! "
"No," Yu Lin smiled approvingly and motioned to the general to sit down and let the prairie people invade us because they want to plunder us, because we have a lot to plunder. Over the past ten thousand years, there have been very few military operations in the Central Plains that have actively invaded the grasslands, because the grasslands are very poor, the area is huge, and it is very dangerous. The armies have traveled long distances and consumed astronomical amounts of food and grass, but the profits have been very few. There is no comparability at all. This has resulted in a situation where the grassland people have been attacking us, but we are unwilling to attack them. "
"But, I can only say that this kind of thinking is a big deal!" Yu Lin suddenly changed the subject and said, "Who said that grassland people don't have wealth?" ! Do you know what the meaning of wealth is? ! Simply gold and silver jewelry? Pigs, horses, cattle and sheep? ! snort! This military advisor tells you! Anything of value is wealth! Where is Xue Gang? ! "
Finally, a middle-aged man stood up and shouted loudly, Military Advisor, Xue Gang is here! "
This person is none other than Lei Xiang¡¯s acquaintance, Xue Gang, the third elder of the Xue family in Dali National Day City!
Today, the Xue family has become the top wealthy family in the country. Xue Gang and others were also taken care of by Lei Xiang before and passed on to them some intermediate cultivation methods. Although these cultivation methods are not suitable for people of Lei Xiang's level. Yan, is completely despised, but compared to the Xue family's ancestral combat skills, it is much higher!
With the help of these cultivation methods, coupled with the assistance of star mine equipment and huge financial resources, the strength of the Xue family elders has also been greatly improved.
Although these elders are still young, their room for improvement is limited, and they will not be able to break through the Star Lord level threshold in their lifetime.
However, many people reach the Star Lord level, but it is not a big problem.
Xue Gang is now a fourth-level star king. After learning that Marshal Lei Xianglei of the Xue family is going to personally lead his troops, how can the Xue family fall behind others? In the end, Xue Gang led a group of young elites from the Xue family and joined the army after strict selection. And Lei Xiang didn't take special care of them. Today, Xue Gang is just an ordinary school captain.
Although Yu Lin and Xue Gang were old acquaintances, they did not show any kindness in the military camp.
Yu Lin said with a business-like expression, Captain Xue Gang, I heard that your family has considerable financial resources in Dali Kingdom and controls several mines, right? "Don't skip words.
Xue Gang didn¡¯t understand what Yu Lin meant, so he answered loudly: ¡°Yes!¡± "
Yu Lin nodded and said, Elder Xue Gang, can you tell us, what is the cost and benefit of a formal miner you hired compared with the slaves in the mine? "
Hearing what Yu Lin said, many people came to their senses. Xue Gang was both rough and fine. Naturally, Yu Lin meant this and loudly reported back to the military advisor! To hire a miner in the mine, you have to pay him three to forty taels of silver every month, and the formal miners only work a little more than four hours a day, and they have four days of vacation every month. In addition, official miners also receive bonuses at the end of the year, and there is also a special amount of silver. If a miner gets sick or is injured at work, there will be a subsidy! "
"As for the mining slaves, they are basically slaves from the grassland. There is no need to have sympathy for these people! These mining slaves have to work for more than eight hours a day with no salary at all. It is enough to give them some food every day. As for the ones on vacation, that¡¯s not the case at all! If it¡¯s dead, it¡¯s dead! Just find a place and throw the body away, that¡¯s enough!¡±
??????No need for any sympathy at all! I think our country, Dali, is located on the northwest border. Countless people have died at the hands of foreigners in the past four thousand years. These barbarians who work in the mines are all war criminals with heinous crimes! Most of them were captured when they invaded our Dali country. Almost everyone has the blood of the Central Plains people on their hands! There is no sympathy for these people! At least, they work in my Xue family's mines, and they can still have a half-full meal. In other places, hey these people, no, they will not be treated as human beings at all! "
Yu Lin chuckled. Colonel Xue Gang didn't need to be so excited. Everyone here hates these barbarians very much. According to Colonel Xue Gang, the cost of using mining slaves to mine is much lower than hiring laborers? "
"Well, that's natural. However, these barbarian slaves are very vicious, and they want to escape if they have the opportunity. They will occasionally launch riots, so we have to hire some mercenary groups to watch them. However, even if they are deducted from the mercenary groups It saves a lot of money than hiring a regular miner!¡±
Yu Lin nodded, Colonel Xue Gang, please sit down. "Seeing Xue Gang clasping his fists and returning to the farthest back position, Yu Lin laughed at everyone. You should understand now, right? There are many words for "no net"
"No one here is stupid, even if there are a few rough guys, if you still can't understand what is being said, then you can just hit the wall!"
What Lieyang Pingxi's military advisor means is that he can send people to suppress these prairie barbarians back to the Central Plains and sell them into the mines as slaves? So as to maximize their value? This is also wealth! "
"Not only in the mines, but also in many places in the Central Plains, construction requires people." Yu Lin smiled and said that these barbarians also have value, and their value is their labor force. In the Central Plains, there are many places that need labor. Building cities and building roads requires people. Moreover, Lei Shuai once said that many places in the northwest of the Central Plains have become deserts. To prevent the desert from continuing to spread, we must vigorously dig waterways and plant trees and vegetation, and these all require manpower! "
"And these barbarian slaves are generally in better health than the people in the Central Plains. As long as we treat them a little better, for example, like Captain Xue Gang said just now, we can make them seven to eight percent full at every meal. Hey, I understand the character of these barbarian slaves. Some of them may be ambitious, but most ordinary people with average strength do not have such ambitions. Move them to the Central Plains, and they will have a hot meal as long as they work. , this kind of living environment is much better than them starving on the grassland, or even eating the corpses of the same kind when they are so hungry! Moreover, after collecting their weapons and putting shackles on them, they only need one servant The people of the Corps can keep tens of thousands of barbarians in check and prevent them from resisting! In this way, they can create huge wealth for us in the Central Plains, what do you think?"
Everyone reacted and applauded!
After all, Shui Yinglan was soft-hearted and didn't want to watch the army kill innocent people, but the positions of both sides were here, and they were almost fighting to the death. Now that she heard Yu Lin's method of accomplishing many things, she was even more amazed, saying that this place is far away from the west The border of Qin State is only 800 miles away. Even if there are 200,000 slaves, they only need an army of two to three thousand people to escort them. The reserve army can even be stationed out of the border to be responsible for receiving prisoners. In this way, it is It will not affect combat effectiveness. As for the rations, there is no need to feed them too much, just make sure they don't starve to death. In this way, there is no need to kill too much, and it can also seek benefits for the Central Plains. This strategy of the military advisor, I admire! "
Everyone agreed one after another.
But some people have questioned whether the strategy of the military advisor is good, but there should be no better way to deal with the current situation. However, this strategy cannot last long, because as our army continues to deepen, these foreigners on the periphery of the grassland can still send troops to escort them, but if they go too deep, the distance will be more than thousands of miles away? It would be unrealistic to escort foreigners under such circumstances. "
With this said, everyone thinks it makes sense.
Yu Lin¡¯s expression did not change, and he still had a smile on his face. How could this military advisor not have thought of this? Countermeasures have already been thought out. "
Yu Lin walked to the huge map in the middle of the tent and said that escorting these captured foreigners back to the Central Plains was just one of the methods, and it was an early stage method. In the later stage, as we were getting further and further away from the Central Plains, this trick naturally didn't work. However, there is another trick! "
Speaking of this map, I have to give credit to one person.
Geographical Star Zhang Huan!
?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????: He is proficient in the secret technique of the Sky Eye and can observe the terrain and topography dozens or even hundreds of miles away. He is an excellent draftsman!
???????????????????????????????????????????????by Shenxing.But among them, there are quite a few people with a variety of skills, such as chickens, dogs, and thieves, and many of their special skills are quite useful!
Zhang Huan is one of them. His strength is not strong, but he is only in the middle stage of the Star Lord level. He is also several dozen years old. He has long passed the best period of cultivation. It can be said that it is difficult to reach a higher level of achievements in his lifetime. .
¡°However, when Moon God took people to the grassland before, he specifically named Zhang Huan¡¯s name.
Because, if Zhang Huan can produce a complete and detailed grassland map, it will be so important to the Central Plains!
During the year and a half that Zhang Huan came to the grassland, he was never idle for a moment. He combined the maps of various tribes and supplementary information to finally come up with a rough topographic map of the grassland. On this topographic map, The territories and death places of many tribes on the grassland are marked.
Yu Lin drew a line in the north of the map. This line is the boundary. This place is more than three thousand miles away from the Central Plains. Going deeper, no matter which direction you look at, the journey will be very harsh, full of dangers, and the distance is It's too far. If you want to escort the prisoners again, there will be many difficulties and losses along the way. "
Everyone nodded when they saw the place marked by Yu Lin.
Because this line was not drawn by Yu Lin, but had already been drawn by the General Staff Headquarters when formulating the battle plan.
The north of this line appears bright blood red on the map of the General Staff Headquarters!
The meaning is obvious. After crossing this line, the danger that the Central Plains army will encounter will increase several times!
Because, to the north of this curved red line, there are several well-known death places.
As far as the route of the Northwest Army is concerned, based on the march route of the Northwest Army, after crossing this red line, the next step is the endless Dead Sea Desert. This Dead Sea Desert is a place of despair in the true sense. It is surrounded by dangers. Not only are there powerful star beasts and star spirits, but the climate is extremely harsh. Even prairie people rarely dare to enter this place. At most, it is only used as a trial place for some warriors.
With Lei Xiang¡¯s saint-level strength, it is not difficult to cross the Dead Sea Desert, but it is very dangerous for an army of 200,000 to cross here.
Coincidentally, other armies had to pass through some particularly dangerous terrain after passing the red line.
So this line was named the natural defense line on the grassland by the Central Plains General Staff!
Yu Lin pointed at the map and continued: After our army crossed this natural defense line, it entered the Dead Sea desert. According to the information obtained on the grassland, if you want to cross the Dead Sea desert to reach the other end, you need to walk at least more than five thousand miles. The more than five thousand miles of road are very difficult to walk, and there is no possibility of a large alien tribe in it. After passing through the Dead Sea Desert, we have truly arrived at the core of the grassland. At this time, it is impossible for us to send troops to escort the next captured prisoners back to the Central Plains. Moreover, this military advisor can conclude that at the other end of the Dead Sea desert, there is definitely an army of grasslands waiting for us. When the time comes, what will greet us will be a real war! "
Speaking of this, Yu Lin sneered. When the war comes, can we still control those prisoners? "Don't skip words.
Everyone was horrified, Yu Lin paused and said, of course, we do not rule out that after we have passed through the Dead Sea desert, we will encounter such a situation of abandoned tribes. Moreover, we came all the way just to win the war! So we really need to consider the issue of prisoners. The opinion of my military advisor is that if we capture such abandoned prisoners after crossing the Dead Sea Desert, then we can completely adopt a new strategy - expel the people! "
¡°Driving out the people?¡±
Everyone is familiar with this word.
Because this is the trick that the prairie people used best when they invaded the Central Plains!
The strength of the grassland people lies in their cavalry, they come and go like the wind, and their shooting skills are excellent. There are many more types of star beasts on the grassland than in the Central Plains. In particular, the grassland people are good at taming animals, so some powerful star beasts are They were domesticated as domestic animals, and their speed was no less than that of the black beasts in the Central Plains.
Therefore, in daily battles, the Central Plains cavalry is often not the opponent of the grassland archers.
However, the grassland people also have weaknesses. They are not good at attacking cities, especially some large cities in the Central Plains. The walls are more than ten feet high and extremely strong. Unless a star king level or above can fly in, ordinary attacks are impossible to break through. Of the city gate.
So the prairie people came up with a way.
They captured all the people from the villages and scattered Central Plains people near the city and gathered them together. Before attacking the city, they drove these people forward first, while the cavalry followed behind.!
In this way, the generals guarding the city were in a dilemma. If they opened the city gate, the alien cavalry behind them would rush in like the wind.
But don¡¯t open the city gate
We can only watch the people below being shot to death!
And the impact on morale will be huge!
Yu Lin glanced at Lei Xiang and said loudly, "It's to drive the people away!" This is called repaying the other person with his own way! After crossing this line, we will no longer be able to escort prisoners back to the Central Plains in large numbers, so we might as well do the opposite! Drive these old, weak, women and children towards where Sirius is! "
Chapter 426: Taking captives and driving away the people
Chapter 426: Taking captives and driving the people away is,