Chapter 57: Bloody
This year's Chinese New Year's Eve seems to be filled with dazzling blood.
On February 3, the second year of the Great Cause, the total number of aliens captured into the Great Sui exceeded one million.
But the speed inevitably decreases.
After all, although the aliens almost never encountered such a thing, they were not fools, and after the news spread, countless tribes moved and fled farther away.
The Northern Legion led by Han Baohu and the Western Legion led by Song Que also slowed down.
Start closing the distance to deal with the enemy that might be coming.
As they expected, the powerful forces in the north and the west had already begun preparations more than 20 days ago.
After all, with such a large-scale plundering population, even if the grassland is relatively vast and sparsely populated, and the transmission of information is slower, they also have strong people, and it is not too slow to get the news.
To the north, it's DTZ.
In the West, it is Tuyuhun.
It was in these two alien forces that the two legions plundered.
Among them, the Northern Army has taken back the area around Shuofang.
It has to be said that Shenzhou has been in turmoil for thousands of years, and the development of alien races has received the greatest support, and various alien forces have tightly surrounded the Great Sui.
From Gosun-ryo, Silla, and Baekje in the northeast to Lim-eup, Jinla, and Funan in the southwest, there are countless of them.
It is only because of the strength and abnormality of the Great Sui that these forces have been repaired to a greater or lesser extent, coupled with their own discord and fighting, so they have the name of Yang Jiansheng Khan.
Among the two major forces at this time, Tuyuhun has a lot of territory, but its strength is almost vulnerable compared to the Great Sui, but Song Que, who commands an army of 300,000, is not careless.
And the DTZ in the north has also been repaired by the Great Sui several times over the years, and even at this time it was still subordinated to the Great Sui.
The strength should not be underestimated, it is still on the grassland, so Han Baohu does not dare to be careless.
Of course, there is no fear.
For hundreds of years, they have been able to stand up, that is, to kill aliens, to flee, and to bow down.
Coming to this grassland, some people may be a little unbearable to plunder the population like this, but for the war with the aliens, at least among the high-level generals, there is no one who is not excited.
That's all about merit and honor.
DTZ Qimin Khan has already sent a message to question Han Baohu, they DTZ are subservient to the Great Sui, how can this be?
But Han Baohu naturally disdained it and did what he had to do.
In fact, before sending troops, the ministers also discussed whether to send troops to DTZ and Tuyuhun.
After all, these two forces were both subservient to the Great Sui at this time.
But Emperor Zishou still decided on the spot to send troops to these two places.
There is no big reason, the only thing there is is to be more people by the way.
And there are many forces around them that nominally submit to them, although the Qimin Khan is still supported by the Great Sui, and even this title is given by the Great Sui.
Anyway, they all have to be experienced, one by one, no one can escape, so why care about the front and back?
After the failure of the Qimin Khan's questioning, he was angry, but he couldn't help it, although he was a little bottomless in his heart, he still took more than 600,000 strong men and went to the northern army.
Tuyuhun is here, and the speed is faster.
February 13, the second year of the Great Cause.
Tuyuhun poured the strength of the whole country into an army of 400,000 old, weak, sick and disabled, and launched a decisive battle with Song Que's 300,000 army.
However, it is a pity that in the face of the strength of Song Que's army, Tuyuhun was almost vulnerable, and under the first battle, the whole army collapsed.
More than 50,000 people were killed and wounded, and the rest were all captured, which was the reason why Song Que deliberately kept his hands and wanted to get more prisoners.
After the first battle, Tuyuhun no longer had any resistance force, and Song Que and others personally pressed more than 300,000 prisoners and tens of thousands of plundered to return to Dasui.
The rest of the Tuyuhun people were left to the ordinary army of the Great Sui to plunder.
Tuyuhun had already plundered more than 200,000 people in advance, and under the First World War, about 400,000 were captured, and the remaining population was at most about 780,000, and most of them were women, children, and the elderly.
At this point, this country, which had married the princesses of several dynasties in Shenzhou, including the Great Sui, perished.
With so many people, Song Que and others only returned to the territory of the Great Sui in March of the second year of the Great Cause, and then so many prisoners were sent in batches to various places where the Grand Canal was started.
Song Que and the others did not rest, and continued to attack the vassal country next to Tuyuhun, which was a foreign country much smaller than Tuyuhun, which was more relaxed.
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February 21, 2nd year of the Great Cause.
The Northern Army led by Han Baohu and the 600,000 army led by Qimin Khan met in the grassland.
The clouds of the great war covered the sky.
On 23 February, the great battle was coming, and the sound of fighting shook the sky.
The power of the army assembled by the six armies of the Great Sui is monstrous.
The DTZ army was defeated and retreated.
There are also people in the DTZ who can gather the strength of a large army, but compared to the larger Sui and other heroes, it is a little far behind.
Even the Turkic martial artist Bi Xuan, who was known as the Jianghu people, could only block the attack of the first section of Xinwenli.
These alien races can only do their best when Shenzhou is in chaos, and once Shenzhou is at its peak, they are all just lessons learned.
Especially when the Shenzhou people broke out.
This was the case 10,000 years ago when the Warring States were numerous, the era before the thousand-year turmoil in Shenzhou, and the same is true of the current Great Sui.
The battle lasted for four days in a row, and DTZ also lost and retreated for four days in a row.
Finally, only about 400,000 DTZs could not bear it anymore and collapsed completely.
Although Han Baohu and others failed to capture Qimin Khan and Nabi Xuan, they also captured more than 300,000 Turkic troops.
It was precisely because of this that the Qimin Khan escaped.
But even if he escaped, it was nothing, DTZ lost nearly 600,000 strong men, and there was not much threat left.
And they will also have to rest for a day or two, and the 700,000-strong army has also lost 50,000 or 60,000 men after this battle.
At the same time, escorting these more than 300,000 Turkic army captives back to the Great Sui is also not a simple matter.
Immediately, the army was divided into two, four armies stayed behind to continue to capture the Turks, and two cooperated with the ordinary Great Sui army to escort these people back to the Great Sui.
Within the territory of the Great Sui.
In just four months, about three million foreigners have become part of the contribution of the Grand Canal, and the construction of the Grand Canal has accelerated dramatically.
Especially in March, after those two battles, the captives of Tuyuhun and DTZ arrived one after another.
The Grand Canal has opened up more than 30 places where construction began at the same time, and there are about 2 million people of different races, about 1 million men, about 1.2 million women, more than 400,000 old people, and more than 300,000 children under the age of 12.
At the same time, with the passage of the aliens back to the Great Sui after those two wars, the speed of transporting the aliens back to the Great Sui became faster again.
However, although the speed is fast, the consumption is faster.
Every day in more than 30 places, more than 2,000 people die, mostly old people and some children who are too young, and there are many men and women.
There was no way, they were transported back to Dasui, they couldn't eat enough, men worked nine hours a day, women and the elderly worked for eight hours, and children worked for six hours, all of which were the most dangerous places.
This is still the reason why many people have cultivation in their bodies and their foundations are there.
Similarly, because of the harshness, in March, there were already several riots, and a number of more were killed.
Of course, almost no one cares about these cruelty and harshness, the overseers don't care, the repressive army doesn't care, the people in the Ministry of Industry and the Daomen don't care, and the high-ranking officials don't care.
Because they are Great Sui people, and because of more than a thousand years of turmoil, the people of Shenzhou have long been accustomed to killing the darkness, and it is not us who suffers anyway.
As for Emperor Zishou, what he thought was that the speed was still too slow, and more aliens were needed.
Three million aliens are too few compared to the vast Grand Canal project.
In April, Song Que and others, who had already taken the vassal state, sent back more than 500,000 aliens one after another. Han Baohu and others, who were rampant in DTZ, also sent back more than 500,000 people one after another.
There are more follow-up people, and there are more places where the Grand Canal is jointly started.
In the same way, more people are dying!
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