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Text Chapter 1043 The Battle of the Grassland (End)

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    Tanshihuai's royal court was built at the foot of Tanhan Mountain and on the banks of Qiushui River.  This is a city of kings that took Tan Shihuai countless efforts to build.  Tan Shihuai spent a lot of energy to transport rare solid stones on the grassland from distant places, and used a lot of manpower and took ten years to build this city that represented the symbol of his rule over the grassland.  Although it is said to be a city, it is actually just a royal court protected by a solid wall.  The city is almost entirely filled with tents and there are no other buildings at all.  If nomadic people don't live in tents on the grassland, they are not nomadic people.  ¡®Hu~¡¯ Along with the huge whistling sound, another blazing fireball was thrown into the sky by the trebuchet.  The endless power cut through the sky and slammed into the tents in the city. The fire oil splashed out and instantly turned a large area around into a sea of ????fire.  Whether it was tents, animals or people, nothing within the coverage area could survive the raging flames.  At this moment, this city of kings, which represents Tan Shihuai¡¯s lifelong efforts, has turned into a hell of Shura.  Countless blazing flames burned wantonly in this city.  Devouring tents, devouring livestock, devouring people!  The thick black smoke produced by the huge flames almost completely enveloped the blue sky above the entire city.  Countless Xianbei people struggled desperately in the sea of ????fire and flames and smoke.  I just wish I could live a little longer.  In the huge and magnificent golden tent in the middle of the city.  Tan Shihuai, whose face was livid and his eyes were bloodshot, drank sip after sip of wine.  Looking at the wine jars scattered around him, you can tell that he has been drinking for a long time.  "Father! Father! What should we do? What should we do?!" He Lian, who had already lost his mind, scratched his hair vigorously, his tired face full of despair.  He kept walking back and forth in the golden tent, as if he would die if he stopped.  Tan Shihuai, who looked indifferent, threw away the wine bottle in his hand, bent down and picked up another jar of wine from the ground.  After slapping the mud seal off with a 'pop', he poured it into his mouth again.  "Father Khan." He Lian rushed to Tan Shihuai's side, pulled his thigh tightly, and shouted with fear, "call the tribes from all over the country to rescue the royal court! Didn't the people from the Murong tribe run out?  ? Send someone to come to the rescue! " "Huh ~" Tan Shihuai paused slightly, and a look of resentment flashed in his originally empty eyes.  Then he slowly closed his eyes and sighed.  "Where are the reinforcements?" Tan Shihuai shook his head and sighed, "Those cowards can't come back since they ran away. Everyone in the entire Xianbei tribe who is still loyal to us is in the royal court. Where else can we find them?  Reinforcements? "Since the Han army poured kerosene into the Qishui River and flowed along the moat into the royal court to light the fire.  The entire royal court fell into endless hell.  Those Han soldiers were extremely vicious.  Not only did they set fire in the water, but they also used trebuchets to shoot jars of kerosene into the royal court, further adding to the misfortune of the Xianbei people.  A large number of Xianbei people died.  Most of the people were not burned to death, they were smoked to death.  The royal court has completely collapsed.  Except for the area near the Golden Tent that is guarded by the Golden Sword Guards.  It¡¯s already finished elsewhere.  The Xianbei people fell into madness and violently destroyed everything they saw.  Until it destroys itself.  Tan Shihuai, who originally thought of using this rare solid city on the grassland to fight a war of attrition with the Han army, was completely desperate.  It wasn't until the city was burned down that he realized that if he wanted to fight a siege with the Han army from a civilized land, he was looking for death!  "Father Khan! Father Khan!" He Lian suddenly hugged Tan Shihuai's thigh tightly with a look of hope and shouted loudly, "Let's surrender, let's surrender! As long as we can live, we will do anything!!" "Silly  Child." Tan Shihuai raised his hand and patted He Lian's head with pity.  He shook his head slightly and said, "Father Khan has long sent people to the Han army to ask for surrender. But the heads of the envoys were put on trebuchets and thrown back. The Han army is going to drive us all away." "No!!!"  "The ferocious-looking He Lian stood up suddenly, shouting with a gloomy expression, "I don't want to die yet! I don't want to die yet!" Looking at He Lian who ran away like a madman, Tan Shihuai's eyes flashed.  There was a deep sadness in it.  Things have reached this point, and everything you do is meaningless.  They Xianbei people are just waiting to die now.  "Alas~" After sighing for a long time, Tan Shihuai leaned over to pick up a jar of wine again with trembling hands, and sat alone in the golden tent to drink in silence.  The invincible heroes of the past on the grasslands have given up everything now.  Including his life.  Three days later, with the arrival of a fierce heavy rain, this one-sided siege ended.  A large number of Han army sergeants were wearing single clothes.?Wearing masks, pouring large amounts of lime powder along the crispy city walls that had been burned by the raging fire.  At the same time, a large number of captured Xianbei herdsmen were driven to dig trenches outside the city wall.  Seal the entire royal court.  "Do you want to send someone in to take a look?" Guo Jia, who looked unhappy, came behind Gao Yang and asked softly.  People like Guo Jia don¡¯t care about the cruel battlefield.  But at this moment, the cruel scene of raging flames completely swallowing up the entire city made him tremble in his heart.  There are tens of thousands of people in that city!  "Okay." Gao Yang slowly lowered his eyelids and whispered, "The army will leave early tomorrow morning. It is estimated that no one will dare to come to this place for at least several decades." Guo Jia opened his mouth and was about to say something.  , a huge roar suddenly came from the distance.  Looking up, a large section of the city wall completely collapsed due to thermal expansion and contraction due to heavy rain after being scorched by the flames.  Looking from the gap, the palace is a hellish scene!  The Han army left, leaving only ruins of the royal court of the Xianbei people telling of its past glory.  After defeating the main force of the Xianbei people, Gao Yang did not choose to withdraw his troops and return to Han.  Instead, they divided their troops in various places on a large scale and appointed Zhao Yun, Zhang Liao, Huang Zhong, Lu Bu, Tai Shi Ci, Ma Chao, Gongsun Zan and others to lead the troops to attack everywhere.  Clean up all the herdsmen tribes that can be seen on the grassland.  Burn their tents.  Seize their livestock and kidnap them to do hard labor!  The whole grassland is in flames of war!  The remaining tribes on the grassland resisted and prayed for surrender.  But it was all in vain.  Gao Yang did not accept surrender and did not care about resistance.  He just wanted to clear the grassland.  It is just a preliminary preparation work for a large number of Han residents to move in.  The huge Han army galloped across the vast grasslands.  Arrive in the north at Dingling, which is extremely cold.  Marching westward, he joined forces with Cao Cao in the Western Regions.  In the east, they defeated the Murong tribe of Xianbei survivors and took advantage of the situation to attack Goguryeo and drove all these savages into the white mountains and black waters.  As for the three Koreas on the Korean Peninsula, they also took advantage of the situation.  This process was very long. Even when Gao Yang led his army on the Western Expedition, there were still a large number of soldiers and horses still sweeping back and forth on the grassland.  Time and time again, herdsmen who had escaped the war were arrested and sent to various construction sites to work as laborers.  The grassland is too big.  There are too many tribes living on this huge grassland.  There are even so many that none of the Shanyu Khans at all levels are aware of them.  The hundreds of thousands of Han troops were indeed very large.  But if it is spread on the grassland, it will be too sparse and will have no effect at all.  Faced with this situation, Gao Yang could only control the grassland through gradual encroachment.  Starting from the border of Han Dynasty, a village made of reinforced concrete was built every thirty miles.  There is a huge bunker outside the village, and fifty soldiers are stationed to protect the village.  The grassland is embraced in a dense chessboard-like manner.  These soldiers are on a rotation system, and they can be rotated back to Han after being stationed for three years.  Of course, they can also choose to stay and get up to a hundred acres of pasture, as well as a three-year tax exemption.  The policy given by Gao Yang is based on head count. Everyone can have a share of 100 acres of grassland!  The more people in your family, the bigger the pasture you will get!  Gao Yang has no intention of letting the immigrants transform all pastures into cultivated land.  The grasslands are so barren that farming here is simply uneconomical unless chemical fertilizers are used on a large scale.  Gao Yang's idea is simple: let the immigrants graze.  Who said Han people can only cultivate land?  Herding is not a difficult technical task, and both cattle, sheep and horses are valuable resources, and their value far exceeds the products of cultivated land.  For the industrious, brave and wise Chinese nation, herding is not a difficult matter at all.  In order to attract a large number of immigrants to the grassland that was desolate in the eyes of the Chinese people, Gao Yang gave very attractive conditions.  A large number of livestock were captured during the conquest of the grassland. Can't all of these animals be used for meat?  Except for the transportation south to Han Dynasty, Gao Yang used all the rest as a means to attract immigrants.  As long as they are willing to come, every household can receive cattle, sheep and horses on a per capita basis.  These are given free of charge, but they must be registered, and if sold, they can only be sold to the government.  Private transactions are strictly prohibited!  After defeating the powerful enemies on the grassland, a large number of profiteers who were doing private business with the nomads on the grassland were all arrested.  There was no such thing as a trial at all. These people were all sent directly to various construction sites and enjoyed the same treatment as the prisoners.  They have been deprived of their rights as Han people.  The villages dotted across the prairie are all connected to each other by wide and solid concrete avenues.  These roads are the basis for ruling the grassland. Each road is composed of countless grasslands.??Constructed from the lives of the captives.  Gao Yang deliberately left a large army on the grassland, which was led by Gongsun Zan.  The job of this powerful cavalry group is simple. It launches a large-scale cleaning campaign on the grassland every year.  Arrest herdsmen and confiscate their livestock.  No matter which tribe he belongs to, as long as he is not a Han citizen, he will be treated as prey!  With the passage of time, as long as the number of Han people continues to increase, in a few generations the entire grassland will be completely included in the embrace of China.  And this time, no one can separate them!  (To be continued.)
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