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- Li Qiande fled on the city wall for a while, but was eventually chased and intercepted by elephants and had to jump off the city wall to escape. However, they escaped the attack of the elephants, but they could not escape the capture of the beam cavalry. The surrounding cavalry saw Li Qiande in golden armor diving and swarmed over him. Before Li Qiande sank into the water, dozens of scratching hooks flew to him. Just drag him out of the moat.
The centurion looked at Li Qiande and shouted: "Who are you?"
Li Qiande knew that he could not get through, but he did not want to lose his dignity. He raised his head and chest and said: "I am the leader of the Yue Li Dynasty."
When the centurion heard that he had captured the leader of the Yue Li Dynasty, he was overjoyed and said: "You continue to capture prisoners, and I will escort him to see the prince."
"good"
A group of cavalrymen cheered and ran to the moat, but they no longer used their hooks, but watched the Yue people struggling in the moat. Take it from those who swim to the shore, and let them struggle in the water if they can't swim. Occasionally, I saw a general wearing armor being dragged into the water by his armor, and then he was rescued with a scratching hook. After capturing the leader of the Yue Li Dynasty, they could no longer appreciate the reward for the soldiers. With money in their own pockets, they would rather watch the Yue people who brought disaster to Guangxi struggle in pain.
Chao Yong was watching hundreds of elephants wreaking havoc in the city from the high platform. When he heard the report from below that Li Qiande had been captured, he led everyone down from the high platform.
Li Qiandes was born upright, and after being an emperor for decades, he was quite majestic, but now he is like a drowned rat. The helmet was also taken off by the cavalry, revealing a head of gray hair, which seemed to be at the end of the road.
Li Qiande also looked at Chao Yong and felt regretful when he saw that Chao Yong was really only in his twenties. A young man conquered the Central Plains in one year. What better explanation could there be than a god descending to earth? If he had known that there was such a person in the Central Plains, and given him a hundred courages, he would not have dared to invade the Central Plains.
"Are you Li Qiande?"
Li Qiande looked at Chao Yong and asked. After hesitating for a moment, he bowed and said, "The king of a small country pays homage to the Prince of Liang."
Chao Yong said: "Since you know that you are the king of a small country, why did you invade the territory of my big country?"
Li Qiande bowed and said: "The guilty minister was confused and was deceived by Song ministers, so he did something wrong. Please forgive me for your sins. I am willing to be a minister to Daliang and pay tribute every year."
Although Li Qiande was defeated by the Song Dynasty in his early years, he did not become a minister. The main forces of the Song Dynasty were placed in Liao and Xixia, and they did not have the energy to deal with the Yue and Li Dynasties, so they left the Yue and Li Dynasties alone. Not only did the Yue and Li dynasties not profess their vassalage to the Song Dynasty, they also often sent troops to invade the cities that were vassalized by the Song dynasty. It's a pity that Champa surrendered to the Song Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty could not protect his vassal state. On the contrary, it was the Yue and Li Dynasties that invaded the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty asked Champa and Chenla to send troops to help. Both countries sent troops. In the end, the Song Dynasty and the Yueli Dynasty reached a peace agreement and withdrew their troops. Later, the Yue and Li Dynasties sent troops to retaliate against Champa and Zhenla, but the Song Dynasty ignored them.
But the situation is stronger than the people. Now the main force of the Yue Li Dynasty has been greatly damaged, and he has also been captured. If neither he nor these soldiers can return. Without the need for Daliang to send troops, Champa and Zhenla could be defeated, and the Yue Li Dynasty had no power to fight back, not to mention that the Niuhou barbarians in the country have always been unstable. He professed his vassal status to Daliang and paid annual tribute of ivory, rhinoceros horn, gold and silver. It's worth it in exchange for the chance to recuperate in Yue Li Dynasty.
Chao Yong glanced at the seemingly humble Li Qiande and snorted coldly: "Did Song Chen ask you to plunder Guangxi? You led your troops to burn, kill and loot in Guangxi. Your crime is unpardonable. Come and behead me." "
"yes."
Li Qiande was so frightened that he fell to the ground. He kowtowed and said, "Prince, please spare your life. Keeping me is still useful. I can have people bring back all the Han people who have been kidnapped into the country."
Shi Yong had already led someone to pick up Li Qiande. Seeing that the prince didn't say anything, he dragged Li Qiande down.
Not long after, he returned carrying Li Qiande¡¯s head.
The barbarians of Thirty-Six Cave were bumping into Shi Yong to kill Li Qiande. When they saw that the emperors of the Yue and Li Dynasties had been killed, they were so frightened that they were covered in chaff.
When Chao Yong arrived, they all lay down on the ground, prostrated themselves and begged for mercy.
Chao Yong glanced at the thirty-sixdong barbarians coldly, and said to Hua Rong: "Kill all the Yue generals wearing armor, and mark the rest with slave marks and send them to the rear."
When the people from Thirty-Six Cave heard Prince Daliang¡¯s cruel order, they were so frightened that they lay on the ground and didn¡¯t dare to raise their heads.
Chao Yong looked at the barbarians lying on the ground and shouted: "You are also subjects of the Central Plains, but you followed the Yue and Li Dynasties to plunder Guangxi and kill my people. What crime should you do?"
"Prince, spare your life."
"Prince, please forgive me."
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The people who came to Thirty-Six Cave immediately started crying.
"If the Yue and Li Dynasties invade our borders, I will lead my troops to wipe out the Yue and Li Dynasties and demote the Yue people into slaves."
When the people from Thirty-six Cave heard that the Yue people had ended up like this, they were even more worried.?Wept bitterly and begged endlessly.
"But after all, you are my subjects of the Central Plains, and I have to give you a chance to change your ways."
"Thank you, the prince, for your grace. Thank you, the prince, for your grace."
"Thank you, the prince, for your grace. Thank you, the prince, for your grace."
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When the people in Thirty-six Cave heard that there was still a way to survive, they lay on the ground and kowtowed to express their gratitude.
All the generals were quietly listening to the prince's speech at Thirty-Six Cave. Only Li Kui suddenly changed his color when he heard that Chao Yong seemed to be letting the man down at Sanliu Cave, and he opened his mouth to speak.
Chao Yong glanced at Li Kui and said: "But your sins cannot be easily forgiven. In half an hour, I will see 3,600 heads, one hundred people per cave, including the cave owner. The rest of the cave Ding must follow me into the Yue Dynasty and capture a strong Yue man or kill three Yue people in order to atone for his sins. All the Han people in the cave and the looted property must be sent back. I will send people to investigate. If there is no secret. If you hide a Han, I will kill ten of your clansmen. You can also choose to fight. Once defeated, I will raze your stronghold and make you slaves forever. Okay, you can go back and discuss it. After half an hour, I will. If we don¡¯t see the 3,600 heads, the battle will begin.¡±
Some cave owners began to plead again when they heard that their heads would be included.
Li Kui could no longer bear it any longer and shouted: "Whoever doesn't leave will be punished by me."
Chao Yong also signaled Shi Yong to drive people away.
The people in Thirty-Six Cave left crying.
Li Kui said: "Why do the prince keep these barbarians? They are all as skinny as monkeys. I, a Liang soldier, can kill five of them. According to me, it is better to kill them all."
Chao Yong shook his head and said: "If we demote the Yue people into slaves, we will definitely inspire the Yue people to fight to the death and let them kill the Yue people, which will also reduce our casualties. Moreover, there are many snakes and insects in the southern jungle. We are going all the way. They all came via official roads. Once they entered the Yue Dynasty, the Yue people would have to flee into the jungle. If our soldiers were to chase them, we would probably suffer heavy casualties. These barbarians grew up in the mountains and forests. Let them chase them. If you kill more people, they deserve to die."
Li Gong praised: "The prince is wise, these barbarians have been frightened by Daliang's spaceship and fire thunder, and the children are all in Thirty-Six Cave. They dare not escape even if they want to. They can only hunt down the Yue people with all their strength to atone for their sins."
The situation in Yongzhou City was decided. Hundreds of elephants went crazy and trampled the city to the ground in less than half an hour. There were only dozens of elephants left on the city wall patrolling the city. All the Yue people who did not jump from the city were gone. Has been trampled to pulp.
The spaceship saw that there was no intact building in the city. Then he flew to the barbarian camp of Thirty-Six Cave.
After the barbarians saw the spaceship above their heads, they quickly began to cut off their own heads. The owner of the cave did not want to die and wanted to lead his troops to escape, but no one was willing to follow them to fight against the large beams of soldiers and horses who were watching eagerly outside.
Either voluntarily or by force, 3,600 heads were sent out of the camp in less than half an hour. Including the heads of thirty-six cave masters.
After Chao Yong had people inspect it, he sent thirty-six soldiers to serve as the new owners of Thirty-Six Cave.
As for the 3,600 heads, Xu Guanzhong proposed to build a Jingguan outside Yongzhou City to deter the barbarians of all ethnic groups in Guangxi.
The enemies inside and outside Yongzhou have been eliminated. Xu Guanzhong looked at the elephants at the top of the city and said, "To rebuild Yongzhou, we must first deal with these elephants."
Li Gong nodded and said: "Wild elephants have caused disasters since Lingnan, and these war elephants from the Li Dynasty don't have much fear of people. If they were allowed to escape into the wild, they would probably be more harmful to the people than wild elephants."
Chao Yong really has no intention of protecting these elephants. Elephants were rare in later generations, but elephants and tigers in this era were rampant, disturbing people everywhere. An elephant could eat an acre of crops in a day, while tigers attacked humans and livestock. The Song Dynasty also specially issued a reward for hunting tigers. If a tiger is killed, the court will reward it. You can't just watch these beasts swarm and let the people starve to death.
¡°Then let¡¯s kill them all, and everyone will eat elephant meat tonight.¡±
Chao Yong¡¯s decision was easy, but hunting elephants was not easy. In the end, the army used the navy¡¯s crossbows to advance step by step, and it was not until dark that all the elephants in the city were shot.
All the Vietnamese soldiers hiding in the city were also hunted out.
Seventy thousand Vietnamese soldiers were trampled by elephants and more than 40,000 died. Very few Vietnamese soldiers survived in the city, and most of the Vietnamese soldiers on the city wall jumped into the moat.
"However, Daliang only sent 15,000 Vietnamese slaves to the rear, and the soldiers still helped relieve the pain of the injured Vietnamese soldiers.
That night, the army lit piles of bonfires on the ruins of Yongzhou City. The Huotou Army used all the methods they could think of to cook all kinds of elephant meat.
Hundreds of big catsHundreds of thousands of kilograms of elephant meat were produced, and some were distributed to the barbarian soldiers outside the city. After the thirty-six soldiers arrived, they showed the barbarian soldiers a close-up display of fire and thunder. The explosive power of the fire and thunder scared the barbarian soldiers and they kowtowed again. Coupled with the myth of the prince's god descending to earth, many barbarian soldiers regarded the prince's personal soldiers as heavenly soldiers. They carefully served the new cave master, and some people reported on the old cave master. His confidants had evil intentions, so he asked thirty-six soldiers to kill another group of people, and soon took control of the thirty-six soldiers and horses.
The thirty-six soldiers are all ordinary soldiers, and neither the captain of ten nor the captain of centurion is willing to be the master of this cave. These thirty-six people only willingly became the owners of this cave after Chao Yong said that the imperial court would soon move people to Guangxi to allow Guangxi to develop.
The population of Thirty-Sixudong is not small, with large tribes even having tens of thousands of people. However, the Lords of the Guards Cave are still not interested. In their view, many of the people below are also barbarians. They would feel embarrassed to be the Lords of the Barbarian Cave, not to mention compared with the Prince's Guards, but even with ordinary Daliang soldiers. .
However, Chao Yong felt that being a cave owner was better than being a soldier, so he gave what he thought was a good job to the soldiers with a sad face.
Everyone ate with open stomachs, but not all the elephant meat was finished.
There were barbarians outside the city. The soldiers did not drink. Of course, there was not much alcohol in the army.
Chao Yong saw that Li Kui couldn't eat anymore, so he led everyone into the Chinese army's tent to discuss matters.
"All the invading troops of the Yue and Li Dynasties have been wiped out. The next step is to send troops south to wipe out the Yue and Li Dynasties and eliminate future troubles forever. However, there are still many barbarians in Guangxi who are causing trouble. I prefer General Sun Li to be the commander-in-chief of Guangxi. Stabilize the rear. "I wonder what General Sun wants?"
There are many barbarians from various tribes in Guangxi, and Sanliudong is only a barbarian from Yongzhou. After the Yue Li Dynasty and Sanliudong rebelled against Guangxi, many barbarians from other prefectures also took the opportunity to plunder.
To Daliang, the Yue and Li Dynasties were just a small barbarian country, and even recruits could wipe out the Yue and Li Dynasties. Comparatively, it was more difficult to wipe out the various remnants of defeated troops in the country, so Chao Yong went all the way south and made Luan Tingyu, Qin Ming, Hu Yanzhuo, and Shi Gong the generals of Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong respectively. Let them destroy the soldiers and horses who do not surrender. Only by stabilizing the rear area can he use troops on the front line.
Of the 50,000 veterans, only Hua Rong's troops are left, but Hua Rong's troops are cavalry. The army cannot use cavalry when it goes south, so it can only send a new army to stabilize Guangxi. Among Sun Li, Zhang Qing, Huang Xin, Han Tao, and Peng Qi, only Sun Li is the oldest. The troops were also prudent, so Chao Yong decided to let Sun Li guard Guangxi.
Sun Li stood up, cupped his hands and said, "I will obey your orders."
Chao Yong nodded and said: "Okay, the barbarians in other state capitals will also be dealt with in the same way as Thirty-Six Cave. Anyone who takes the opportunity to cause trouble will be executed by the leader. Then use barbarians to deal with the barbarians to reduce the casualties of our army."
Sun Li nodded and said: "As ordered, the prince will just go south. The general will ensure the safety of the food route."
There are many barbarians in Guangxi, and Sun Li cannot guarantee how long it will take to wipe out Guangxi.
Chao Yong nodded, asked Sun Li to sit down, and said with a smile: "The army will continue to march south tomorrow. After wiping out the Yue and Li Dynasties, how do you think we should march?"
Li Gong wondered: "Most of the military rations have been distributed to the people of Guangxi. We don't have enough food and grass. How can we send troops tomorrow?"
Chao Yong smiled and said: "Of course we want to obtain food and grass from the Yue and Li Dynasties. Because the food is from the enemy."
Li Gong shook his head and said: "I'm afraid the Yue and Li Dynasties don't have much food, and after we go south, the Yue and Li Dynasties are likely to fortify the walls and clear the country, making it impossible for us to obtain supplies."
Chao Yong wondered: "The Yue Dynasty is further south and the weather is hotter. Rice should be harvested three times a year. How come there is not much food?"
Li Gong smiled and said: "If the Yue and Li Dynasties had a lot of food, they would rob people's food in Guangxi. In fact, there is not much food in Guangxi, otherwise there would not be so many people starving to death."
Chao Yong wondered: "Both Guangxi and Guangdong can have three crops a year. Why is there a mountain of food in Guangdong but not enough in Guangxi?"
Li Gong said: "The climate in Lingnan is hot and suitable for agricultural production, but the sale of food to the south of the Yangtze River has only happened in the past twenty years. In the past, people in Lingnan relied on the sky for food, and just scattered some seeds in the fields without asking. When the harvest season came, They often had to look for rice in the grass, and the harvest was often not enough for them to eat. However, there were many fruits and animals in Lingnan, and they were not afraid of starvation until Su Shi was demoted to Lingnan and saw the Lingnan people farming like this. Only then did people start to teach the Lingnan people how to cultivate intensively, and also introduced many agricultural tools. In addition, in recent years, people from Fujian continued to migrate south, and Guangdong began to have abundant grain harvests and sell them abroad. However, the people in Guangxi still scattered some seeds casually. , waiting for the harvest, naturally there is no surplus food.¡±
Sun Li was appointed as the commander-in-chief of Guangxi, and he was also more concerned about the affairs of Guangxi. He said: "You mean because of Ling?They can eat a lot, so Lingnan people are also lazy and unwilling to farm intensively? "
Li Gong nodded and said: "That's true. Many barbarians scatter some seeds casually, and most of the time they feed on fruits and wild beasts in the mountains and forests. In their spare time, they sing and dance, and rarely work."
Li Kui said: "Then when we came, why were there so many people starving to death?"
Li Gong said: "Those people are all old and weak. They can no longer afford to hunt and pick fruits in the mountains and forests. Although the mountains and forests of Guangxi are rich in products, there are also many wild animals, which are not accessible to the old and the weak. Moreover, most of the people who starve to death are in the city. There are still very few people in the village who starve to death.¡±
Li Kui shouted: "This God is so blind. My brother works in the fields every day in Jingdong, and often suffers from famine and starvation. These barbarians have nothing to eat without doing anything."
Chao Yong naturally knew that this was something that could not be changed, but he was more concerned about the affairs of the Yue Li Dynasty and asked: "Is the Yue Li Dynasty farming like this?"
Li Gong nodded and said: "It's not much different. Although Li Qiande encouraged the people to learn the farming methods of the Han people, the Yue people were not active. They scattered a few seeds casually and they could grow in two or three months. Although the yield was not as good as the farming methods of the Han people. Yes, but it¡¯s enough for them to eat. No one wants to go to the fields to suffer. They don¡¯t live solely on food, but there are also various fruits, but most of our troops are from the north, so I¡¯m afraid they won¡¯t be able to feed on those fruits.¡±
Chao Yong nodded and said: "It's okay to eat some fruits. If the soldiers are allowed to eat fruits, I'm afraid they will be acclimatized."
Li Kui said angrily: "These Yue people are so lazy that we can't even find food even if we go south."
Many people think that Lingnan can produce three crops a year, so there must be food everywhere. But they didn't expect that these barbarians would not put in so much effort to grow food, nor would they work in the fields. In many fields, the crops had not grown high, so how could there be food everywhere?
If these grains could be converted into money, maybe they would also actively grow grains, but the land route would be too costly, and sea merchants would prefer to sell dozens or hundreds of times more spices, ivory, etc., and no one would be willing to do so. Selling food. Moreover, the food in Jiangnan is enough to supply the world. If Lingnan is rich in food, the price of food in the world will plummet, and no one will be willing to farm. Moreover, Lingnan¡¯s freight is high, so it cannot compete with Jiangnan¡¯s grain.
"If it weren't for the rapid growth of the population in the north during the century of peace in the Song Dynasty, and a large amount of grain from Jiangnan was shipped to the north, there would be no market for Guangdong's grain.
Chao Yong also thought about getting some grain from Yue Li Dynasty and transporting it back to the Central Plains to solve the food problem that was tight this year due to drought locusts. Unexpectedly, it was a completely unreliable idea. He even needed to solve the food problem for his own army. - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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