Chapter 34 Training Soldiers to Eliminate Sand Bandits, Kill All Fierce and Vicious
After arranging the official positions of military generals, choosing the address of the county seat, and notifying all the civil officials to come over for deliberations, Liu Bei was temporarily idle. Thinking of newlywed Yan'er with Cai Yan, but he couldn't accompany Cai Yan well, Liu Bei went home to accompany Cai Yan in a down-to-earth manner!
Liu Bei did not live in the Shanshan Imperial Palace, and at the same time did not agree to build the Duhu Mansion in Huni City, mainly because Liu Bei's ideal location of the Duhu Mansion was not Huni City, which was located in the southeast of the Western Regions, close to Yangguan, but it was inconvenient to govern the entire Western Regions.
Sweetly and sweetly flew with Cai Yan for three or four days, and the days were quite moist. Of course, Liu Bei is not tired of being with Cai Yan all day long, he still gets up early in the morning every day to practice martial arts, and then goes to the military camp to train with the Praetorian Guards.
The time is short and pleasant, the day is full and the night is hard. On this day, the main civil officials of the four cities of Shanguo County and Shanshan Country had already come to Hunicheng, and Liu Bei directly summoned these civil officials in the front hall of the mansion where he lived, of course, Jia Xu and Tian Feng were also impressively listed.
There were about 20 civil officials attending the meeting, most of whom were from the Western Regions, and because the army had been taken, to some extent Liu Bei was not afraid of these civil officials rebelling or not surrendering to him. As the saying goes, "Show talent rebels, and it won't work for three years." "But the necessary persuasion still needs to be done!
"Ladies and gentlemen, I am Liu Bei, the protector of the Western Regions of the Han Dynasty, and has now negotiated with the monarch of Shanshan State, Shanshan State was merged into the Great Han Dynasty, renamed Shanshan County, and the mountain country was merged into Shanshan County to become a county, and at the same time, three more counties were set up in the northeast, north and northwest of Hunicheng City, namely Loulan, Tulei, and Jinshan County, so Shanshan County has Shanguo, Loulan, Tulei, Jinshan, Yixun, Wuqiang, Luobu Seven Counties and Hunicheng, Hunicheng will be the county governance.
A few days ago, I have collected the armies of the various cities, and sent military generals to garrison the cities to guard against the enemy and maintain law and order. Therefore, now the entire Shanshan County needs seven county orders and one county guard, if you are willing to be loyal to me, these officials will also be elected among you, and once you become the officials of my Shanshan County, then it is also the official of my Han Dynasty, and you should be equal to my Han officials in terms of welfare and welfare. Of course, if you don't want to, don't force it! ”
After saying that, Liu Bei sat in his position drinking tea and waiting for everyone's statement, but at the time of tea, all the civil officials were willing to be loyal to Liu Bei, and at the same time called Liu Bei the lord!
After that, things were simple, Liu Bei appointed Tian Feng as the county guard of Shanshan County to be responsible for all government affairs in the county, and concurrently served as the lord of Huni City, and other official positions such as the county order and the county official were also selected from the officials brought by Liu Bei before (orphaned training) and the officials on the scene.
At the same time, let the county orders of the three counties of Loulan, Tulei and Jinshan summon labor servants to start establishing county towns in the three places, and one should be treated as a non-commissioned soldier of the army, three meals a day, and a salary. He also instructed Tang Shi, the county magistrate of Shanguo County, and Adili, the county magistrate of Tulei County, to produce a variety of poplar trees at the edge of the desert to prevent desertification of the desert. And it took a long time to explain to everyone what desertification is. Tian Feng was also responsible for all the affairs after that, and Liu Bei began to be the shopkeeper!
After more than a month, Liu Bei practiced martial arts every day and accompanied the soldiers to train, of course, this training Liu Bei not only followed, but also with Cai Yan, during which the May monthly report of Liaodong, Yizhou and Huiji counties was sent once, and everything was carried out in an orderly manner.
The leader of the caravan came to Liu Bei during the rigorous period, and the goods transported from Chang'an had basically been sold out in Shanshan County, and the people of Shanshan County bought some spices and other products in their hands, and presented the account book to Liu Bei for inspection. The goods purchased from Chang'an this time are almost 20 million yuan, and the net profit after the sale in Shanshan County is about 5 million yuan, according to the strict explanation, the profit is not high.
The main reason is that Shanshan County is closer to Liangzhou, and if it can continue to the west, the profit will be more objective. But now that the goods are gone, we are seriously preparing to place a part of the office in the president. specially handed over the profits to Liu Bei, resigned to Liu Bei, and at the same time applied to Liu Bei for a team of soldiers to protect the caravan!
In the end, Liu Bei left a profit of 5 million yuan, left 20 million principal to Rigor at the same time, and at the same time gave him a letter, asking Yumen Guan Huaxiong to send a team of 500 soldiers to protect him. Liu Bei believes that now that the Han Dynasty has not been in chaos, there should be no one in Liangzhou who has the idea of fighting 500 soldiers, and there are 2,000 men at the same time.
During the regular meeting between Liu Bei and Tian Feng and others, Tian Feng also complained to Liu Bei that at the same time, three cities were established, and more than 10,000 soldiers were added, and the money brought out from Yizhou was almost exhausted at first, and the five million money earned by the caravan was considered to have solved the urgent need. And Liu Bei also handed over the caravan to Tian Feng to manage, so far Tian Feng was in charge of the school camp, the caravan and Shanshan County, which can be said to be the first person under Liu Bei!
In 180 AD, at the end of June of the third year of Emperor Guanghe of the Han Dynasty, the lieutenant generals had already reorganized and trained the soldiers, and a number of generals came to ask Liu Bei for battle! Liu Bei complied with his request and granted the request of these generals and asked them to go to suppress the bandits.
Liu Bei served as the commander, Jia Xu served as the military division of the army, and Liao Hua led a battalion of personal guards to protect Liu Bei and Jia Xu. The main target of this trip was the three sand bandit teams in the desert west of Shanshan County and north of the end. These three bandits were of different sizes, with only more than 3,000 small bandits and more than 1,000 women and children, totaling about 5,000 people. There were seven or eight thousand sand bandits, three or four thousand women and children, and more than 10,000 people.
On this trip, Lu Bu's Hundred Battles Army and Zhang Ren's Black Cavalry Army totaled 5,000 people, and the rest of the Guards, Long Xiang Army, and Leopard Tao Army continued to stay in Hunicheng to defend the safety of Shanshan County, so as not to let the sand bandits or other armies take their lair.
The group packed their rations and traveled deep into the desert in just two days, following the map left by the scouts to a smaller group of sand bandits. When I arrived outside the sand bandit camp, there was a long-lasting squatting place here.
"My lord, there are about 3,500 sand bandits in this village, two of them are led by you, and there are more than 1,000 women and children in the camp, basically there are no old and weak. And the lord came by coincidence, the second master of the camp came out with more than 1,000 sand bandits for an hour, and the humble post has sent someone to investigate, but there is still no reply so far, and it is estimated that the second master of the camp is far away. When the scout finished speaking, he stopped talking and stepped aside.
"Lord, we are lucky, there are only 2,000 sand bandits in the camp, let the last general lead a hundred battle troops to kill it and exterminate this group of sand bandits for you." Hearing the scout's words, Lu Bu hurriedly stepped forward to ask for battle.
"Wenhe, what do you think?" Liu Bei nodded slightly, and then asked Jia Xu with a side face!
"My lord, it is indeed a great joy, if what the scout said is true, there should indeed be only two thousand sand bandits in the camp. We can strike a thunderbolt and directly destroy this wave of sand bandits, and then occupy the camp to ambush the more than 1,000 sand bandits of the second leader, but Xu suggested that the Hundred Battles Army and the Black Flag Army attack together, and the lion and the rabbit also use all their strength. Jia Xu just thought about it slightly, and then gave his own suggestion.
"Okay, according to the advice of the military, Feng Xian led the Hundred Battles Army to attack from the left side, Zhang Renshuai's Black Flag Army attacked from the right side, and Liao Hua led the personal guards to surround the camp and not let go of a sand bandit!" After arranging the generals, Liu Bei immediately led his troops to set off and rushed straight to the camp.
Under the absolute numerical superiority of the soldiers and the attack of several fierce generals such as Lu Bu and Zhang Ren, the Hundred Battle Army and the Black Flag Army only paid the price of one hundred casualties to kill the sand bandits, and surrounded the remaining sand bandits.
After that, he captured 1,500 sand bandits and more than 1,000 women and children, and at the same time seized 10,000 gold coins, 7 million coins, 2,000 horses, and no food and grass supplies. Really made a small fortune.
After this battle, Jia Xu commanded everyone to tie up and imprison the sand bandits, and arranged for the soldiers to restore the camp and wait for the second leader to return to the nest. It wasn't until the evening that a scout came to report that the second leader had ambushed a caravan of 1,000 men on the northern route of the Silk Road within two hundred miles of Yanqi, and had brought back the prisoners of supplies, and it was still an hour away from the camp!
At this point, Liu Bei arranged for Lu Bu and Zhang Ren to prepare well, and strive not to let go of a sand bandit!
An hour later, the second leader arrived as scheduled, and the battle lasted only half a pillar of incense, and the sand bandits led by the second leader were killed by 400 people, and the rest were all captured, and at the same time the men and women of the caravan were rescued, but the leader of the caravan had been killed by the second leader. At the same time, all the materials of the entire caravan were obtained by Liu Bei! After settling the rest of the caravan and tying up the bandits, they began to rest.
Early the next morning, Liu Bei asked Lu Bu and Zhang Ren to go to the sand bandits to investigate the situation, and all the heinous criminals were executed, and those who were guilty of minor crimes were brought back to Shanshan County to serve three years of hard labor.
After the cleanup, more than 300 of the 2,600 or so captured sand bandits were beheaded, and about 800 of the remaining 2,300 people needed to serve labor, and the remaining 1,500 people were selected to be 1,100 strong and strong people who were temporarily incorporated into the Hundred Battle Army and the Black Flag Army, and then reorganized when they returned to Shanshan County! After that, Liu Bei arranged for Liao Hua to lead a thousand cavalry to send the prisoners, women and children, and captured materials back to Shanshan County, and agreed to gather at the second sand bandit gathering place four days later!