Chapter 35 Scraping the Sand Bandits and Obtaining Materials Movable Type Printing and Printing Commentary
Four days later, Liao Hua took a thousand cavalry and Liu Bei to gather at the second sand bandit gathering, Liao Hua basically did not encounter any twists and turns along the way, and handed over the prisoners, women and children and materials to Tian Feng, and then explained how to deal with the prisoners, and then rushed to Liu Bei non-stop!
At this time, Liu Bei had already obtained detailed information about this sand bandit, which had 5,000 combatants and 3,000 non-combatants, women and children. And there is only one leader of this sand bandit named Robert, a blonde and blue-eyed Westerner, it is said that he came to trade in the Western Regions with his father before, encountered robbers and lost all his goods, and became a sand bandit with his father, and Robt has three generals: Arthur, Li Li and Batur.
Arthur is Robert's squire, and learned martial arts with Robert since he was a child, although Robert and Arthur have different martial arts styles from the Han Dynasty, they are quite practical and can be regarded as excellent martial arts, Li Li and Batur are like other bandits, and they are robbed caravans who defect to Robt's buddies or guards in a desperate situation.
The sand bandits led by Robert basically do not rob caravans, but only occasionally break some small cities in the Western Regions, but they do not kill evil, which is considered to be the more benevolent among the sand bandits, so all the sand bandits are very loyal to Robert!
Hearing this information, Liu Bei planned to subdue this sand bandit.
There are three main considerations: First, the leaders of the bandits, Robert and Arthur, should be familiar with Western languages, and now Liu Bei has many Western strategies such as Western medicine and experts who are familiar with both Western languages and Chinese languages. Secondly, these sand bandits are not evil people, and they can improve the combat effectiveness of Shanshan County a lot when they are subdued! In the end, if Robert and the others were really killed, it is estimated that this group of sand bandits would not follow him.
Therefore, the only thing Liu Bei thought of to expand his strength was to subdue this group of sand bandits.
And Jia Xu's advice is that if you want to subdue the sand bandits, there will be no results by envoys, military generals or promises, this group of sand bandits has existed in the desert for so many years, and they will definitely not be easily moved if they live so nourishingly. Only war can force them to surrender.
Zhang Ren also proposed to capture the four generals of the sand bandits through a military competition, but this proposal was vetoed by Liu Bei, and the sand bandits would not deliver them to the door one by one as long as they were not stupid.
In the end, it is still necessary to defeat 5,000 sand bandits in a dignified manner to have the possibility of conquering this group of sand bandits, but before the army confrontation, it is still possible to capture one or two people through one or two competitions, so that the opponent will have a flaw in the decisive battle!
So, an hour later, Liu Bei led more than 6,000 cavalry to divide into two phalanxes and stay at the gate of the sand bandit camp! After that, he sent an envoy into the camp to write a war book! When he received Liu Bei's battle letter, Robert led 5,000 sand bandits to divide into four phalanxes and set up a position in front of Liu Bei's army.
"Leader Robut is invited to come and talk!" Liao Hua came out of the army and shouted to the other side!
"I'm Robert, I don't know what the Western Regions are doing to protect my camp? We shouldn't have crossed paths before, right? Robert also replied directly.
"Leader Robert, I have admired the name for a long time, and since I was protected by the Holy Emperor of the Western Regions, I am afraid that I will not be able to govern the Western Regions well, and I heard that the sand bandits in the Western Regions are rampant, and then there are caravans that are often robbed, but Bei also knows that the leader of Robert has almost never robbed the caravan, but Bei does not allow the existence of sand bandits under his rule. Bei should also ensure that all the people under the command of Robert's leader will not be oppressed or discriminated against, and can freely choose to join the army or leave the army! I hope the chief will consider it. Liu Bei said earnestly.
"Liu Daduhu, thank you for your kindness, Robert is used to coming to my own line, I don't like to be restrained, and I promise that I will not infringe on the county of Liu Dadu's protection, and I hope that Liu Dadu will forgive me, of course, if Liu Dadu is to protect the station, I Robert will accompany me!" Robert is neither humble nor arrogant!
"Well, we've done it." After saying that, Liu Bei retreated into the formation, and Lu Bu rode out of the formation and began to invite the opponent's camp to fight.
"I am Lu Bu Lu Fengxian, who will fight with me?"
After a while, a Han general walked out of the opponent's camp: "Don't be that the general is rampant, I am Chen Li Li." After speaking, he shot at Lu Bu, and the two fought for only twenty rounds, and Li Li was captured alive.
After capturing Li Li alive, Lu Bu was not happy, so he shouted again: "Who else? Who else dares to fight with me Lu Fengxian. With that unbeatable expression, Liu Bei wanted to go up and beat Lu Bu.
So the other party's Arthur didn't control it, and he didn't report to Lu Bu without reporting to his family, this Arthur's martial arts were indeed much better than Li Li's, but he didn't resist forty rounds, and he was also captured alive by Lu Bu.
Liu Bei saw that Lu Bu captured the two alive, so he hurriedly commanded the army to attack Robert's headquarters, because the two generals were captured alive, the morale of Robert's army was low, and the lack of command on the right was suddenly disrupted, and Liu Beijun was scattered when he rushed away, Liu Bei's army had almost no casualties, but the other party was scattered. There were not many dead and wounded, and indeed more than 2,000 were taken prisoner.
Robert and Batur retreated to the camp with the remaining 2,000 cavalry.
After that, everything was simple, considering that the remaining more than 2,000 sand bandits could not resist Liu Bei, and two of their generals were captured, and the day after they were besieged by Liu Bei, Robert and Batur led the crowd to surrender Liu Bei!
Liu Bei reorganized the army again, selected 3,000 elites from the 5,000 sand bandits, and after 2,000 were dispersed, they were incorporated into the Hundred Battles Army and the Black Flag Army, and the remaining 1,000 were scattered and incorporated into the pro-guard team. And Liu Bei left his personal guards to stay in Robert's camp, and after cleaning up, he pulled out the camp and led the people in Robert's camp to return to Shanshan City. And Liu Bei himself led 4,000 battle troops, 4,000 Black Flag troops, and Robert, Batur, Arthur and Li Li to continue to exterminate the third sand bandit!
At Robt Camp, he did not capture much money, but he did seize some supplies, and it seems that like the scouts, Robert did not raid very often.
Three days later, Liu Bei and his entourage of 8,000 troops arrived at the last sand bandit camp on the trip, and the scouts reported that there were about 10,000 sand bandits and more than 4,000 non-combatants in this sand bandit camp!
The big leader in the camp is a Han Chinese, the second leader is a Huns, the third leader and the fourth leader are all from the Western Regions, the sand bandit does all kinds of evil, the sand bandit is located in the center of the eastern part of the desert, it is easier to hide, and none of the surrounding countries in the Western Regions has the absolute strength to exterminate this sand bandit, and this sand bandit also knows that it cannot capture the countries of the Western Regions with tens of thousands of people, so they all loot the caravan for the purpose!
Among them, the second leader is the worst, and the second leader has always wanted to replace the position of the big boss, so the whole person is also quite unstable within the bandits! Among them, the big boss led 4,000 troops, the second leader led 3,000 troops, the third leader led 2,000 troops, and the fourth leader led 1,000 troops.
After Liu Bei and Jia Xu knew the information, Liu Bei asked Jia Xu, and after Jia Xu thought about it, he decided to make a divisive plan.
Then there are three main steps for how to carry out the divisive plan: First, increase the power of the second master, that is, send absolutely loyal troops into the sand village and put them under the command of the second master, of course, they cannot go in a batch, and they should take refuge in the sand village in half a month with an echelon of about 500. Second, the second master was bewitched to start a war with the big boss, and at the critical moment, he fell to the big boss to kill the second master, and third, when the sand bandits started the war, Liu Bei led the army to attack the sand village. In this way, you can win the sand village at the lowest cost!
Hearing Jia Xu's suggestion, Liu Bei felt that the plan was more vicious, so he convened the generals to discuss the matter.
After that, Liu Bei asked Lu Bu to lead 600 henchmen, Mu Zepal to lead 400 henchmen, Zhang Ren to lead 700 henchmen, and Tuoheti to lead 400 henchmen to defect to the second master of Shazhai in batches, and then agreed on a time to fight the second master and the big boss in a civil war.
On the day of the civil war, when the big boss and the second boss were fighting during the civil war, Lu Bu and others, who originally belonged to the camp of the second master, did not move, and at the same time, Liu Bei led his troops to attack the sand village outside the village.
Naturally, there was no suspense in this battle, the second boss was stabbed to death by Zhang Ren on the spot, the big boss was cut off by Lu Bu, and the third boss and the fourth boss were all captured!
After the war, at the cost of 500 cavalry, 7,000 cavalry were captured, and five warehouses and one grain and grass warehouse were found in the bandits' house, and the grain and grass materials were not counted.
Each of the four masters of the camp has a private warehouse, which contains a large amount of gold and silver treasures! There are 50,000 gold coins alone, more than 20 million Han coins, and countless treasures such as glass and so on.
After packing up the materials and treasures, Liu Bei led the army to return to Shanshan County with the captives. The wealth obtained can be regarded as Tian Feng's timely rain, Tian Feng has been worrying about money during this period of time due to military spending, persuading farmers, building cities, etc.!