Chapter 474: Reform
After the battle, a sense of tiredness suddenly came to my heart, and after tying up those captives, except for those soldiers who were arranged to stand guard and guard the prisoners, the rest of the soldiers of the Mo army worked hard to support the completion of the task, and they didn't even set up a camp tent, and they didn't care that there were still corpses lying on the ground, they just lay on the ground and slew, and in less than a moment they were already snoring.
The next morning, the soldiers of the Mo army woke up and had breakfast, and these soldiers of the Mo army who had rested for the night were refreshed.
Although this war was a heavy casualty for the Mo army, they still earned it, there were 100,000 war horses captured on the battlefield alone, and the cattle and sheep of the Xiongnu army were also captured by Xie Chen and Huyan Lannuo, densely packed, there were millions of heads, these were the cattle and sheep that the Xiongnu tribes had collected with great difficulty, and now they are all owned by the Mo army.
In addition to the casualties of the Mo army, that is, the wear and tear of weapons, especially arrows, but after counting, nearly one million arrows, more than 300,000 were recovered intact, and the remaining nearly 700,000 arrows have been deformed and need to be forged again. So the loss of weapons is not big, mainly the casualties make Mo Chen's heart ache, you must know that what he lacks most now is people, and now most of the Chinese atomic people who were captured by the Huns on the Xiongnu steppe have returned to Pingyuan City, and it is really difficult to raise the troops.
However, with 300,000 arrows, Mo Chen's confidence was enough, and he ordered the aftermath to be dealt with, and Mo Chen took the personal guard battalion, the cavalry regiment, and the crossbowmen and the monkey's archers to chase the direction of the Xiongnu who fled.
The army is divided into several large armies, 10,000 horses per share, separated by ten miles each, led by Xie Chen, Huyan Lannuo, and a number of cavalry division-level generals, in addition to the 20,000 crossbowmen and 10,000 cavalry led by Mo Chen, the rest of the cavalry per share is equipped with 2,000 crossbowmen in case of accidents, of course, it is accompanied by the 50,000 troops of the Qin army and Ying Weilin.
Along the way, several large armies continued to find wounded and lone Hun cavalry, all of whom were beheaded without exception, and the current Mo army did not have time to see the prisoners.
A few days later, a Xiongnu tribe appeared in front of the Mo army, but this Xiongnu tribe could not attack the Mo army, but sent people out to ask to join the Mo army, become the subjects of the Mo army, for this kind of refuge tribe, the lack of population of Mo Chen very happily agreed, but according to Mo Chen's requirements, the adult male of the tribe must have a man in each family to join the army.
I don't know if Huyan Lannuo's deeds spread among the Xiongnu tribes, or if they were forced by the force of the Mo army, these requests, the Xiongnu tribe agreed very happily, and immediately transferred the young and strong to follow Mochen away.
Mo Chen formed a new regiment of the young men of these tribes, and could distribute equipment unique to the Mo army.
Along the way, I also encountered many Xiongnu tribes, but many of them were already empty, leaving only ruins all over the ground.
Of course, there are also some Xiongnu tribes who saw the arrival of the Mo army and launched a counterattack, for these Xiongnu tribes who dared to attack the Mo army, the Mo army unceremoniously crushed the past, and when they left, only traces of ruin were left.
The Xiongnu also mobilized a large army to intercept the Mo army, but it was difficult for the Xiongnu, who had suffered a great loss of vitality after the First World War, to recruit hundreds of thousands of horses in a short period of time, and each time it was tens of thousands of horses.
There are more enemies than the Mo army, and the Mo army is not afraid, not to mention that there are fewer than the Mo army, and there are still some old, weak, sick and disabled, and these forces are even more unable to stop the Mo army.
And the more than 200,000 troops who were still alive in the battle with the Mo army either fled with the tribal chiefs or were frightened by the Mo army at this time, even if they were forced to stay and intercept the Mo army, but their hearts had already fled to the outside of the world, and as soon as they came into contact with the Mo army, they fled as soon as possible.
Seeing that the general trend had gone, King Zuoxian of the Xiongnu hurriedly returned to the royal court, and fled to Donghu with his own tribe and the tribe loyal to him.
The Mo army plus Ying Weilin's Qin army, nearly 100,000 troops went all the way north, and by the time they came to the Xiongnu royal court, it had become a desolate place.
When the Mochen soldiers went to pursue and chased to the Donghu border, the Donghu border had already assembled a large army to garrison the border and the Mo army was far away, and the Xiongnu's Zuoxian King had already entered the Donghu border and was nowhere to be found.
The Mo army had just experienced a war, and it didn't want to fight with Donghu, so it could only stop pursuing, but Mo Chen directly planted a big banner of the Mo army in place, which was to tell the Donghu people that the current Xiongnu territory had returned to the Mo army.
Seeing that the Mo army did not get any closer and returned to their own territory, it seemed that they did not want to rush into conflict with the Mo army, so they silently retreated to the depths of their territory.
After Mo Chen left one or two divisions of men and horses to inspect the border, after guarding against the Donghu people, he returned to Pingyuan City with the army.
After returning to the plain city, Mo Chen ordered to clear the Xiongnu tribes on the Xiongnu steppe, those who did not surrender, and the order of killing without forgiveness, for a while, in addition to a small number of troops left behind, the remaining army was dispatched.
Mo Chen even let the Xiongnu tribes who had taken refuge participate in the battle, and for a while, the Xiongnu steppe was full of war.
The Xiongnu tribes saw that their Zuoxian kings fled to the Donghu people, and they also fled, just to be in a hurry, many Xiongnu tribes did not have so much time to take away the wealth they had accumulated, leaving a lot of cattle, sheep, horses, gold, silver and jewelry, many of which were snatched from the people of the Central Plains, of course Mochen would not be polite, all the orders were collected, but at this time the Xiongnu tribes can be described as ten rooms and nine empty, and as soon as the Mo army was found, most of them turned around and ran, half a year later, the entire Xiongnu grassland was under the control of Mo Chen, Countless cattle, sheep, horses entered the cyst, but the population was not much.
Mo Chen also selected a group of soldiers in the Xiongnu tribe, and selected a group of young and strong people from the Central Plains who were rescued to enter the army, but even the previous 200,000 horses could not be gathered, as for the tens of thousands of captured Hun cavalry, Mo Chen did not pull into the army, but those people went to open up the wasteland, and those who performed well could also regain their freedom and become the subjects of the territory of the Mo army, which made these already disheartened Hun captives see the dawn and work harder.
And Mo Chen also held a large-scale reward, a large number of meritorious soldiers were promoted, or rewarded, and the soldiers who died in battle were carried into the back mountain and buried in the hero cemetery, so that they would always be with Pingyuan City, and those with families would get a pension.
Soon after the battle, Li Si, the prime minister of Qin, came to Pingyuan City, and the purpose of this was precisely the countless cattle and horses captured by the Mo army.
Ying Weilin is the princess of Qin, and she brought troops to help her, it can be said that Mo Jun has a sense of identity with Qin State, and Mo Chen is also very happy with Li Si's request, using 200,000 war horses, 50,000 cattle and Qin State in exchange for 3 million quintals of grain, as well as a large amount of bronze, and cloth, as well as silver, gold, medicinal materials, etc., of course, the most important thing is that Mo Chen also came to Qin's full 100,000 slaves.
For these requirements, the rest of Li Si has no problem, after all, it is hard to find a horse now, and now this price is already very cost-effective, as for slaves, Li Si also agreed after thinking about it, no need to ask to know that the Mo army wants slaves to fill the population, but this Li Si is not worried, what is the use of just 100,000 slaves, there are no 100,000 people in that city and county of Qin, and compared to the 100,000 war horses and 50,000 cattle, it is nothing at all.
In fact, Mo Chen's purchase of these war horses is really not expensive at this time, if it weren't for Ying Weilin's relationship and Qin Guo's help to him, he wouldn't have sold so many war horses to others so easily, you must know that if others are strong, it means that they are threatened, even if they buy it, it can't be so cheap, take Zhao Guo as an example, Zhao Guo wants to buy it, but he is not willing to sell it! However, Mo Chen has another requirement, that is, what he wants will be delivered to the horses.
Although Li Si wanted to ask for the war horse first and then send something over, Mo Chen no longer let go, and Li Si could only agree.
When Li Si proposed to buy the armaments of the Mo army, Mo Chen refused without hesitation, those are his roots, and he will never bury them.
Li Si didn't mention Mo Chen's refusal so simply, and it seemed that he only asked tentatively, and he didn't have the heart to buy it.
Li Si got the desired result, and in order to buy a war horse as soon as possible, Li Si left with the centaurs on the same day.
In just one month, Li Si came to Pingyuan City again, exchanged things with Mo Chen, and rushed back to Qin again.
After Mo Chen received a large amount of grain, grass and urgently needed goods and 50,000 slaves, those slaves were filled into the army by him, and promised to cancel the slave status of these people and treat them the same as the soldiers of the Mo army.
With people, money and food, Mochen carried out a major reform, the civil government managed the people, and various departments came into being.
Mo Chen also issued several orders as the leader of the Mo army, first, restore the monetary system in the territory, no longer implement the common ownership system, and use gold, silver and copper as currency, after all, although the population is not much now, there are nearly 200,000 in the army, and 500,000 in the population, although there is enough grain and grass now, but so many people, everyone eats a big pot of rice, this is obviously not a long-term solution.
The second is that the military land is cultivated and the civilian land is divided in the prescribed lots, and the civilian land is cultivated by the people of the territory, and the military land is cultivated by the captives. These are, of course, limited to the land near Plains City. As for those far away from the plain city, they can be cleared by the people themselves, no need to distribute, only need to go to the specified place to report and register after the wasteland, and the newly cultivated fields will not be taxed in the first year.
It's just that the grassland waterways are different, and for this reason, Mo Chen also started to artificially drain the river outside the Plains City, and the entire Plains City was very busy.
The third order surprised the entire Plains City, that is, intermarriage, let the Huns and the Central Plains intermarry each other, of course, this is not mandatory, but it is stipulated that two people who have a good impression should intermarry together, and the rest of them cannot be hindered.
And when many Xiongnu tribes were wiped out by the Mo army, those women were not killed, but stayed, and these women were arranged to marry those soldiers who were injured and could not continue to fight, although these women who had long lost their support were a little frightened at first, but after living together, they found that those veterans were very good to them, and the rest of the Mo army did not discriminate against them, so they lived in peace.