Chapter 211: Pacifying Yongchang County
Even if 30,000 pigs are holding their heads and running around, they can't be caught in one day.
Therefore, although Li Su and Guan Yu relied on the Sky Monkey and the fire oil bottle to achieve an "epic victory" of 10,000 soldiers against 30,000 enemy troops and 200 war elephants, and their own side annihilated the enemy army with only a few hundred killed, the finishing work of this battle still lasted for several days.
Until the evening of the decisive day, the day was thin, and the vanguard of the Han army had taken advantage of the chaos to rush to the city of Qiyu County, and was wrapped in the defeated soldiers, relying on the first order of the three barbarian kings to enter the city, but the wailaoyi deserters who ran all over the mountains outside the city were still unable to catch.
The Han army, from the generals to the soldiers, is already extremely tired, and at this moment they can only grasp the big and let go of the small.
He didn't even have time to celebrate, but he gave each soldier a few catties of meat first, and opened the feast of the three armies, but he was not allowed to drink, and he was asked to stay vigilant and take turns to rest. After all, they are stationed in the enemy's old nest county, and there may be a small-scale resistance at any time.
The fact that they could not drink made many soldiers quite dissatisfied, but for the sake of the meat pipe, it still eased the mood of the conflict.
Today, at least more than 50 war elephants were killed directly, and the Huotou Army and the butchers captured in the county town worked together to clean up the battlefield, and at least 300,000 Han catties of good meat that could still be eaten, so it was enough to give each victorious soldier 30 Han catties, enough for a reward of three or five days.
Elephant meat is not very tasty, the fiber is very coarse, but it is not chewy and elastic, and it depends on the quantity and satiety. Only the muscles of the nose are very chewy and springy, and the chefs in the army specially cut a few clean noses and treated them, especially for Li Su and Guan Yu and other generals to enjoy.
After resting in the county town for a night and recuperating their strength, the Han army began to work on the ruined tribes. After all, the total population of Ailaoyi is more than 700,000, and the various ministries involved in the case add up to 500,000 people.
Considering that Yuyu County is only the base of the Zhurong clan, and the killed King Mulu and King Wugo are only guest soldiers, so it is only the Zhurong clan that can be subdued immediately, and the other two will have to spend at least ten days with the head and prisoners of war to deter and spread the message.
After all, the Zhurong clan members had seen yesterday's one-sided epic victory with their own eyes, and they had also witnessed and heard about the Han army's Molotov cocktails and Sky Piercing Monkey crossbow arrows and other artifacts, and their morale was of course very weak. It only took Li Su a day to make this tribe of more than 200,000 people choose to surrender directly.
The tribe also asked Li Su to be the representative of the imperial court to help them elect the patriarch, and Li Su said that whoever could take over the position of the patriarch who brought the cave lord was whoever could take over.
Of course, Li Su would not be polite, and deliberately screened the previous attitudes of those distant relatives in the Zhurong clan, and selected one who was not very good with the cave master, and whose blood relationship was worthy of five suits, and made him the new chief, and said that he would be awarded the position of the county order of Yuyu.
At the same time, Li Su will not be polite to the core die-hard family members of war criminals, and the liquidation of the liquidation, lest the descendants who have formed a grudge with Li Su and Guan Yu want to turn things around in the future.
Anyway, the big family must have intertwined interests, and they can always find villains who don't deal with those in power.
Li Suke didn't have time to think about who gave birth to Mrs. Zhurong, whether she would be affected by the butterfly effect and become a poor slave or even a poor slave who could not be born at all.
After all, Li Su has to focus on the long-term peace and stability of the border areas and the sincerity and sincerity of hundreds of thousands of people, and the progress of sinicization. is not a collection of famous generals and women, and his view of heroic history is also relatively indifferent.
Besides, the reason why Mrs. Zhurong became Mrs. Zhurong is also the result of nurture, any little girl in the clan with a good temperament and a good temperament has given that resource to cultivate, maybe she has the quality to grow into Mrs. Zhurong.
In short, the great cause is the most important, and the efficiency of Huairou is the most important, and this kind of barbarian woman has absolutely nothing to do with him personally. (Actually, I don't want to write this paragraph, because I don't have this character in the outline, but someone in the comment area keeps mentioning it, let's clarify)
At this point, in Li Su's view, Zhuge Liang's seven captures of Meng Shu written by Luo Ben were originally fabricated. But purely in terms of the level of fabrication, the Huairou mediation drama against Nanban is definitely the worst and most unreliable in Robben's whole book.
Li Su can only accept critically and selectively, and must not have the inherent prejudice of "superstition to recruit historical celebrities and ignore non-historical celebrities"-
To give the simplest example, the original text of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is simply writing Zhuge Liang as mentally retarded when dealing with the plot "Ah Hui Lan Dong Dana was influenced by Zhuge Liang and arrested Meng Shu to Zhuge Liang, but Zhuge Liang put him back in order to convince Meng Shu, causing Meng Shu to kill Ah Hui Lan Dong Dana as soon as he went home".
Is there such a way to surrender and rebel? Those who are willing to belong are not enveloped, but they have to be encircled by the hard, but they will also kill the internal response? This is simply worse than selling Cao Wuxian...... Xiang Yu couldn't do what Zhuge Liang did, which was a big joke in the world.
On the 94 version of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms TV series, it is estimated that the original book is too mentally retarded, so it was adapted into "When Meng Shu was captured, I didn't know that Ah Hui Lan Dong Dana betrayed him", which also avoided explaining whether Ah Hui Lan Dong Dana was killed by Meng Shu, which can be regarded as preserving Zhuge Liang's IQ image.
It is estimated that Robben felt that those barbarians were originally made up name symbols, and they didn't need to be seen by people, and they were NPCs who just used them up.
Therefore, the Huairou strategy part of Romance, just take a look.
Li Su himself studied diplomacy in his previous life, and he has his own considerations on how to support puppets and cultivate pro-Han forces, and he is professional. At least in this regard, he is much more regular than Robben. The same opportunity hit him, and he had already killed the die-hards to support the opposition.
Under the guiding spirit of such a clear line of thinking and not believing in the original work, the pacification and rectification work around the county is progressing very smoothly.
Since then, the Zhurong clan has accepted the long-term conditions of "the children of the clan pick out talented people, report to the Taishou and the governor of Yu, and the Taishou and the governor decide who will take over the county order", and realized the transformation of the ruling model of the map from "self-hereditary" to "local candidates are recommended, and the superiors decide who will be the official".
And this also means that the Zhurong clan is willing to limit their sphere of influence to the scope of this one county, and only occupy the Erhai Basin to farm their own land. The part of the power that originally extended to the outside was abandoned, and it was obediently handed over to the other county officials appointed by Yongchang Taishou to govern.
After the Zhurong clan was rectified, the teams sent by Li Su to Bisu County and Wangtang County to surrender also achieved results, because the patriarch was killed and the main force was hit hard, these tribes were supported by Li Su to set up side branches that were far away from the original patriarch and a little festive, and reorganized the ruling model, and they all switched to the model of "the family produces candidates, and the court decides who will succeed them", and they were limited to the status of the county magistrate one by one.
The last King of Bonan County, Duosi, did not follow the other three barbarian kings at the beginning, but chose to hide and watch. Seeing that the three main barbarian kings had accepted the adaptation, he had no choice but to accept the adaptation without blood, and also gave up the right to "decide for himself which son will succeed him in the future", showing his respect for the imperial court.
In Li Su's view, this is a weakened copy of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's "Tui En Order", and it will not take a few generations to nominally "change the land and return to the stream".
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In addition to the political gains of the various ministries, the direct military gains of the Cangshan and Erhai Battles were also very large, although a large number of expensive gunpowder and oil weapons were consumed, and the military expenditure cost tens of millions of dollars, but the capture was also very valuable-
That's right, just one day of fighting, military spending reached tens of millions. Because now to make a fire oil tank, you have to produce fire oil from Beidi County, transport it in and sell it through Shu Road, and transfer it all the way to Nanzhong, a tank is worth hundreds of dollars, and throwing more than a dozen cans is a wide Shu brocade, and the total number of fire oil cans spent on that day's battle was close to 10,000.
Although the Sky Monkey crossbow arrows are cheaper than the oil can, counting the cost of the arrows, a set is more than two hundred yuan.
Counting the amount of ordinary crossbow arrows in Shanghai, all the ammunition money that Li Su spent in a battle was more than 30 million expenses, not counting the freight of finished products. Fortunately, it was a quick battle to end the battle, otherwise it would have dragged on for a long time, and the military consumption would really not be able to afford it.
After spending so much money, the main thing in terms of seizure was to obtain 2,000 pairs of basically intact and usable rattan armor, as well as more than 100 strong war elephants captured after the war, and a large number of poisoned arrows.
As for the brute's swords, guns and leather armor, the value is less.
Most of the spears were shoddy, and the guns were more similar to the "spear javelin" dual-purpose type, which was very sharp and sharp, but the durability was extremely low, and it broke after a few stabs.
The knife used by the rattan armor soldiers is also born from the Han knife, but it has not yet been shaped into a Burmese knife, which has a better assassination effect than the Han knife, the blade is slender and sharp, and has the advantages of a sword, but the same durability is very poor, easy to break, and can only be used as a consumable - this is also related to the training idea of Ailaoyi, their soldiers are also used as consumables, and only one or two kills with a knife is enough, and durability is not considered at all.
After these weapons are collected, it is still possible to temporarily replenish them as consumables.
So overall, the biggest gains are the war elephants that have regained control after calming down the fears.
The elephant slaves were not enough, so they asked the Zhurong clan to ask for someone directly, and soon gathered five hundred elephant slaves to control and serve these elephants, and Li Su left a spare tire, and would not let any group of elephant slaves absolutely control the elephants, so as not to cause chaos.
In addition, the seizure of materials is not only the military supplies on the battlefield, but also the takeover of the treasury of the defeated tribes after the war - it is always appropriate to pay some war reparations if you lose the war, right? Even if Li Su loves the people and does not loot civilian materials such as grain and cloth in the treasury, pure military supplies will definitely be looted in large quantities.
According to the "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms", Zhuge Liang's southern expedition also brought back a large amount of gold and silver, cinnabar, lacquer, and animal skins.
Li Su opened the warehouses of the defeated tribes in the three wars and found that there were more than 200,000 animal skins alone, which was almost a third of the animal skins that each tribesmen could share, and he didn't know how heavy these barbarian kings usually looted the people.
In order to win the hearts of the people, Li Su divided the skins of foxes, deer deer deer and wild boars and sheep, which accounted for the majority, into two parts, one part for the opposition who supported them to come to power, and the other part for the people.
Li Su only took 40,000 or 50,000 pieces of large hard leather, mainly cows, horses and bears, as well as two or three thousand pieces of rhino skins and elephant skins, four or five thousand crocodile skins, and even hundreds of tigers, which are estimated to be Bengali species-
Of course, these were all killed by the barbarians a long time ago, not by Li Su's people, Li Su still wanted to protect the rhinoceros in his heart, and the tigers were only allowed to fight back when they threatened humans, and the crocodiles were not afraid to kill them, just kill them casually. And he also had to admit that there were indeed many wild animals in the late Han Dynasty, especially in the tropical jungle of Ailao.
After looting all these precious hard skins, Li Su also officially ordered the scale of the hunt to limit the scale of rhinoceros, and exempted the two items of rhino skins and rhino horns from the future tribute of Ailaoyi. In addition, they were also told not to hunt and kill the beasts, and to publicize that the beasts were not as vicious as the legends and would not pose a threat to people. This time, he also saw a total of more than a dozen black and white animal skins in the treasury of King Mulu, and all of them were confiscated and asked not to be killed in the future.
In addition to leather, the treasury of the three major tribes also collected tens of thousands of liters of raw lacquer, thousands of liters of filled and sealed arrows to poison tree sap, hundreds of catties of gold, thousands of catties of silver, and five or six thousand cattle and horses as pack animals, which were transported away together.
As for the heavy things such as cinnabar and ore, because there are too many weights, Li Su didn't bother to count them. He even plans to set up iron-making workshops in Buwei County or Dianchi County in the future, and directly smelt iron ore and anthracite from Nanzhong into finished products and then transport them north through the Niulanjiang-Jinsha River, so as to save at least seventy or eighty percent of the transportation capacity consumption.
All of this looting is a justifiable punishment for those who resist.
After doing all this, Li Su took a hundred war elephants to open the way, as a guard of honor to show the power of the Han army, but also to deter the barbarians not to disagree, and then drove into the county of Yongchang County.
The new Yongchang County Guard Li Ji and Buwei County Ling Nang Xi and County Cheng Lu Kai respectfully led people out of the city to greet them, welcoming Wang Shi into the city and Yongchang returning to the rule of the imperial court.
"The capital supervised the four departments of the mourning prison, so that Yongchang Hanyi million returned to the imperial court, which is really for the benefit of one party. The Yongchang military and civilians have been blocked by the road since the early years of Emperor Ling, and it has been nearly 20 years, and they have been given by the governor of Taiping. Li called Shengde and toasted Li Su.
"I heard that the governor and General Guan used the miracles of heavenly soldiers to defeat hundreds of war elephants and 10,000 rattan armor soldiers, and the prosperity of the army is unprecedented." The rest of the county orders and many officials in the long history also touted it.
Li Su barely coped with these false courtesies, and stayed up until he entered the city and stayed in the Taishou Mansion, and then he breathed a sigh of relief and put down the shelf: "I won't live long, so I'll explain a few things, and the next half a year will depend on your own arrangements, and when I spend the winter this year, I will come again to supervise and accept - this place is too hot, and I can't stand it in March." ”
The three generations of the Li family were also a little embarrassed, and took out the herbal tea and sweet soup of shallots and rue (a kind of honeysuckle) and wolf sauce to invite Li Su to cool off, while saying that the governor had any farming arrangements.