Chapter 52: Consolidating Domination!

As long as you defeat the 30,000 rabble in front of you, pass through Maoyang Valley, occupy Ledong and Baishabu, and sweep away other small tribes, this war can be over! All the residents of Qiongzhou Island are all in the hands of Chen Xiang, and there are no unstable factors! It also symbolizes that Chen Xiang has the entire Song army in his own hands!

On the first day, the two sides set up camp without mentioning it, and the Li and Miao coalition forces tried to attack the stockade, but they were all shot back by the Song army with strong bows and crossbows. On the second day, Chen Xiang observed the direction of the wind and found that the wind was blowing from south to north, that is, from the direction of Li Changde's department to the direction of the 30,000 Li and Miao coalition army, and then to the direction of Tu Lidan. The reason why he divided his troops to place Li Changde and Tu Lidan in one direction was to prevent the wind from changing, he smiled faintly, and after ordering the herald to say something, he quietly waited for the signal.

In other words, Li Changde and Tu Lidan's talents are really good, not only lucky, but also their own talents and patterns, Tu Lidan is strong in martial arts, dares to kill and fight, and is a rare fierce general. Li Changde, on the other hand, planned and then moved, commanding the army as if he were using his own arms and fingers, and his command was extremely strong.

It didn't take long for the fire to come out from the direction of Li Changde's department in the upwind area, and then their troops began to approach the enemy's direction, but not too close, but with saltpeter hay and other objects that were easy to ignite the fire, the ultra-high humidity and rich plant moisture content made the smoke loud, shrouded in the top of the 30,000 Li Miao coalition troops, making them breathless, and they fled from their positions one after another, and became chaotic.

Before the battle began, they had already fallen into a disadvantage! Before, they thought that their 30,000 people had an advantage over the enemy's 10,000 people, but who would have thought that the other party just set a fire. I fell directly into the disadvantage!

They wanted to attack Li Changde's troops on their backs, but they were broken by Li Changde's troops with locust-like bows and arrows and falling rocks, and they had to pass through dangerous fires, so they couldn't seize the position at all! You can only endure the smoke and fire!

That's when it happened. The main forces of the enemy on the front are already approaching! Before the fight began, the 30,000 Li and Miao coalition troops had already fallen into absolute passivity! Coupled with the fact that they were originally a rabble, and there was no military discipline, many people from small tribes had already begun to flee! No one would die for someone else in such a situation!

Therefore, before the two sides began to contact and fight, the 30,000 Li and Miao coalition forces had already begun to collapse, and only the two divisions of Ledong and Baisha had nearly 8,000 people gritted their teeth and moved forward, colliding fiercely with the main force of 5,000 people led by Chen Xiang!

In this battle, Chen Xiang himself wore armor, brandished a long knife in his hand, and threw himself into the front-line battle! The guards around him were even more frantic to keep him safe. So that wherever he goes, his guards will fight as fiercely as if they are crazy!

Under the leadership of this peak, the soldiers of the Song army struggled forward, and no one retreated, as fierce as a tiger descending from the mountain! The Yuan army bullied their grievances. It's all sprinkled on these Li and Miao coalition forces! After less than ten minutes of entanglement on the battle line, the army of 8,000 people was defeated again and fled backwards, only to find that Li Changde's troops had driven down from the southern slopes full of flames, blocking their back road! The morale is already very low, and I don't know what to do in a panic!

As a last resort. They had to flee north with the wind, but they didn't expect that they had only run three or four miles wildly, and their physical strength and sharpness were consumed to the lowest point, and they ran into Tu Lidan, who was waiting for work! Killed again! The remaining remnants had to surrender!

In this battle, the Song army only killed more than 70 people, while the Li and Miao coalition forces lost more than 2,000 people because of fighting, burning, and falling to death!

Such a victory was for the Song army, which had always been chased by the enemy like killing dogs and pigs. What a brilliant victory! As soon as the battle ended, the soldiers cheered loudly, and under the leadership of the Praetorian Guard, the slogan was locked on the words of loyalty such as Long Live Your Majesty and Long Live the Emperor Song.

Tu Lidan escorted the captives back to Qiongzhou Mansion. The main force of Li Changde and Chen Xiang took advantage of the situation to occupy all the remaining Li and Miao tribes, and drove away all the men over the age of twelve, and left more than 100 soldiers in each tribe who had only been discharged from the army for a long time, equipped with three masters and two doctors who were scholars, and began the absolute rule of the Han people. In this way, the military camps that had retired before were finally settled, and they all obtained their own land, and they also controlled those foreign tribes with ill intentions.

Because there were too many scholars who fled with the army, this master was quite easy to distribute, although it was too dangerous to stay in Li Miao's tribe, but he was still a teacher, and he was much better than those who had no place to work, so they had to cultivate the land and fish.

In just one month, the Li Miao tribe, which was originally Su Wanghai's heart, was wiped out in one fell swoop by Chen Xiang led a force of 11,000 people, and even the male prime-aged laborers were captured and returned with more than 80,000 people, which seriously damaged the Li Miao people.

Chen Xiang, who returned to Qiongzhou Mansion, immediately held a grand triumphal ceremony, and sacrificed all the dozens of enemy tribal leaders to the ancestors, and finally brought the exhilarating effect of this victory to the hearts of those civil officials and ordinary people who did not participate in the war, so that the entire remnants of the Song Dynasty court were excited!

Chen Xiang even rewarded the meritorious soldiers at the triumphal ceremony, and killed those soldiers who violated military discipline or fled in public, which aroused a burst of applause!

Then, Chen Xiang took advantage of the situation to promote sergeants and officers from the ordinary army to the Praetorian Guard, promoted the soldiers and officers of the Praetorian Guard to serve in the ordinary army, and reorganized the entire ordinary army into one army, called the Tiger Army, straightened out the establishment and officer subordination, and finally took all the troops into his own hands!

As a result of this battle, Chen Xiang has completely established his unique leadership position on the entire Qiongzhou Island!

Taking advantage of this victory, Chen Xiang established a new education system with the help of a large number of scholars and veterans.

Each village has set up a private school, equipped with two masters, one scholar and one martial arts, to learn literature in the morning and martial arts in the afternoon, and to work in agriculture when they are busy with school in their spare time. In the liberal arts, loyalty to the monarch and patriotism are also taught to children as an important educational content. Establish a school in each township, equipped with more than three scholars, more than three martial masters, with a craftsman master, an agricultural and animal husbandry master, respectively, by skilled craftsmen and experienced old farmers, and another teacher, Wenfuzi must be a talent or above, and the martial master also needs to have one or two skilled kung fu, or have made military achievements.

In the township middle school, if you pass or above the four courses of literature, martial arts, industry and agriculture, you can go to the county school to study, and the arithmetic in the original liberal arts in the county school has directly evolved into an independent discipline, business. In addition, Wuke also divided another door, the formation strategy.

After graduating from the county school, you can participate in the imperial examination, all of the six subjects are passed, and one of them is excellent, you can become a show talent, if all six are excellent, you are an all-rounder, it is a very high honor. Those who are admitted to Xiucai can go to the countryside to work as officials. If you still want to study, you can continue to study in the university hall of the state capital.

In the Qiongzhou Prefecture, Chen Xiang established two university halls, one for the political and economic university hall and the other for the military strategy university hall, in which the civil and military officials in the imperial court were taught to teach practical skills and further consolidate the way of loyalty to the monarch and patriotism.

In the university hall, you don't need to study the other five subjects, and specialize in one, and the second-level juren in the imperial examination system will be taken after graduating from the university hall, and after the examination, they will be called juren. It is divided into six sections in total.

After passing the examination, you can go to the county government level to serve and become an official who can be put on the stage.

Of course, if you still want to learn again, you can also, then choose a certain big man or a general in the army as a mentor, be an assistant to watch the government or join the army, and take the last exam after three years of miscellaneous work, and the winner is the Jinshi of the Six Subjects, and you can be an official in the court.

This school system and the traditional imperial examination system are used at the same time, but the proportion of talents in the school system is increased year by year, and the proportion of scholars in the traditional imperial examination system is reduced, and the traditional imperial examination system is abolished ten years later, leaving only the school system.

After Chen Xiang pacified the Li and Miao tribes, this system was also established, and Chen Xiang spent another three months to build the shelves of the University Hall of Political Economy and the University Hall of Military Strategy, and supervised the completion of the construction of county schools in several nearby large counties.

After this war, except for the Li Miao tribe who brought the troops to vote before, the other Li Miao tribes were all degraded as slaves. The Song army took all the men over the age of 12 and under the age of 50 alone, taking away a total of 80,000 people, and set up a merit system, stipulating that only after making meritorious service could one person be redeemed from slavery, and if he committed a crime, the whole family would be beheaded.

Under such a high-pressure policy and the strict monitoring of the army, the Li and Miao slaves after the defeat began the construction of the entire Qiongzhou Island with extremely high labor efficiency, the most basic is to connect the whole island with a "highway" suitable for war horses and carriages.

Under such an exemplary effect, the Li Miao slaves rebelled much less, but most of them learned skills more actively than the Han children.