Chapter 190: Miners Proliferate
Although the Dali cavalry did not suffer much damage, they were blocked in front and back, as if they were in an ambush, and almost everyone panicked.
"What about the general? What about the generals? ”
In case of emergency, everyone wants to find the general, so that they can have the backbone.
But after shouting for a while, no one responded......
Won't you bury it under the rocks...... The faces of the cavalrymen were hard to look at.
After the explosion, Zhao Rui and the others went and returned, and Sheliwei was surprised to find that the place where everyone was squatting just now was beyond recognition, and some of the huge rocks had disappeared before, and the ground was full of potholes, which was caused by a strong explosion.
Zhao Rui, what kind of ** does he look like, why is he so powerful?
Since the time of the Northern Song Dynasty, ** has been widely used in war, but because of the formula and process problems, it is just a huge firecracker, to say that it is still scary, but the lethality is too weak.
Zhao Rui and the others walked to their original position, and the uneven feeling under their feet made Sariwei a little frightened, especially after he saw all the Dali cavalry trapped in the canyon, he was even more surprised.
"Great, lord, you have trapped so many Dali troops, give me bows and arrows, and watch me shoot them to death one by one!"
Caught off guard, a soldier's bow and arrow was taken away by Sariwei, and Sariwei's face was full of hatred, and he was about to shoot his bow and arrows.
"No, no......"
Zhao Rui hurriedly pressed the bow and arrow and said, "I can't kill them, I still have to keep them to dig coal!" ”
His bow and arrows were suppressed, and Sariwei was stunned for a while, and then said in shock: "Could it be ...... Did you want to capture them from the beginning? ”
This prince of the Song Dynasty is terrifying!
Frightened, Sariwei forgot to even say such honorifics as "prince".
"Of course, or they would have died!"
Zhao Rui waved his hand, and the soldier next to him lowered the soft ladder made of rope from the mouth of the valley.
This time, Zhao Rui no longer took a bow and arrow, but took an M16 in his hand, and said in a deep voice: "Listen, everyone, you are now captives, those who want to live can put down their weapons and climb up, and they will be sent by me in the future, and whoever refuses to surrender can now stand on my left hand!" ”
Although the Dali army was panicked, they were still hesitating, because the number of people on Zhao Rui's side was too small, so small that they didn't feel any danger at all!
At this time, the general of the Dali Army was dug out of the rubble, and he was not dead, and at his insistence, two personal soldiers helped him to stand below Zhao Rui's left hand.
Although the general was injured, he still gritted his teeth and said to everyone: "Don't listen to his threats, what can he do to us?" If they come down......"
Before the general finished speaking, Zhao Rui above had already pulled the trigger.
"Tutu...... Sudden ......"
A shuttle of bullets went down, and the general and his personal soldiers were beaten into a hornet's nest, blood flowed all over the ground, and the general's head was also pierced, flowing red and white, it was simply miserable!
This...... Is this the power of the musket?
Many people were so frightened that they couldn't stand steadily, and if there were muskets, the Song army didn't have to come down at all, and shooting from above would kill all the people of their troops on the spot.
Sariwei and his two men were also stunned, the effect of the shot was so breathtaking, it could hit so far away, and the power was too great.
No wonder the Dali army is 20,000 and the Yuan army is 40,000 wiped out, if there is such a sharp weapon as a musket, it is really impossible to die a lot!
They also understood at the same time that the legends of Zhao Rui and their musketeers turned out to be true!
The Dali army below was completely frightened, and the sound of a sword falling to the ground seemed to be the prelude to surrender, and there was a clanging sound.
There were already many people waiting in line on the soft ladder below, and Zhao Rui didn't dare to show up on the left hand side.
At this time, Zhao Rui arranged for Aruna and Xiaoyi to go back and transfer troops to escort so many prisoners.
Zhao Rui looked at the Dali soldiers who climbed up one by one, and he was in a very comfortable mood, and there were 10,000 more miners who only needed to take care of food, which was really good!
When the battle was over, Sheliwei and his subordinates muttered a few words in a low voice, and pounced directly in front of Zhao Rui. Zhao Rui looked at each other in surprise, thinking that if he had something to say, the ancients knelt down at every turn, which was really troublesome.
In fact, Zhao Rui still underestimated how much shock he caused to Sariwei, Sariwei thought that there were more than a thousand people on Zhao Rui's side who had muskets, what kind of combat power was this!
Even if tens of thousands of people come, they will only be slaughtered by them!
"Lord Wang! We underestimated you, and I confessed my mistake to you! ”
Seriwei's posture was very low, and Zhao Rui hurriedly asked him to get up and speak, but the three of them still couldn't bend over.
"Lord Wang, we beg you, please help our righteous army defeat the Yuan army and the official government!"
Sariwei now began to babble about how difficult the people were, Zhao Rui also heard him know that the current Dali country belongs to a semi-slave and semi-feudal society, some people have simply become the tools of Mongolian nobles and officials, not good food and clothing, hard work all day long, the most hated is to be killed by them at will, and the innocent daughters of the people's families are also plundered and ruined by them at will, it is simply not as good as beasts!
As Sariwei spoke, the two behind him also felt the same way, thinking of the people in the heat of the water, and suddenly couldn't cry.
Zhao Rui listened to what they said so miserably, and he was sympathetic in his heart, but he was such a small person, and it would be difficult to say if he encountered any special circumstances after going deep into the hinterland, maybe he would be surrounded by a large army and the whole army would be annihilated!
"That's it......"
Zhao Rui finally compromised.
When the three of them heard Zhao Rui's words, they all looked up at him with surprise.
"I will not take the initiative to send troops to attack, but I will give a shelter to the oppressed people, just around my coal mine here, it is nothing for them to settle here, anyway, I am a matter of one sentence on the side of the Jiaozhi officials, and they can also dig coal for me, and I have food and wages here, which is better than yours."
turned out to be such a result, the three of them looked at each other, and they all looked regretful with unconcealed regret.
But now they don't dare to underestimate Zhao Rui anymore, although the prince of the Song Dynasty in front of him is young, he seems to be in control of everything he says and does, and he is not a person that the three of them can fool at all.
In fact, with the protection of muskets, it can also become a base for the rebels.
Maybe that's the best outcome......
After the three of them got up, they still thanked Zhao Rui repeatedly, saying that they would soon move the suffering people and the rebels here.
After the people left, Zhao Rui thought about it, but still felt that the garrison of 3,000 people was too small, so he commanded Arjuna to let her return to Dabao City and bring another 3,000 people to be led by her.
Arjuna didn't intervene in the two battles, she was already a little depressed, and she wished she had a chance to relax, so she happily went back to lead the troops, and Zhao Rui also had to admire her unique personality of not loving red makeup and loving arms.
Then Zhao Rui ordered people to collect the swords of the Dali army, and left some of the better materials behind, and the rest were not transported to Yongping Village, but were directly sent to the blacksmith shop in Baole Prefecture, so that the blacksmiths of Jiaozhi could be made into hoes.
This kept the blacksmith shop in Cochin busy, and I don't know how many apprentices it received, which provided some employment opportunities for Polo Le Prefecture.
Because considering that the Dali army must have the possibility of intrusion in the future, Zhao Rui left those few left, and now there are more miners, dig directly with a hoe!
The large amount of silver taels brought by Zhao Rui also played a role, not only recruiting a large number of young people in Baole Prefecture, but also recruiting many people from Taiyuan Prefecture and other states and counties.
Zhao Rui's employment treatment is no different from what he said when he was recruited, Jiaozhi people have food and money, and they all feel that Zhao Rui, the prince of the Song Dynasty, is good, and he is better than those Jiaozhi officials who oppress the people on weekdays, I don't know how many times better.
At the same time, several nearby Jiaozhi cities have also gradually developed, and Zhao Rui is like a large-scale labor-intensive industry in modern times, which is continuing to create wealth.
Zhao Rui didn't feel the feeling of making wedding dresses for others at all, because Zhao Rui had long regarded these cities as his sphere of influence, but it was just inconvenient to accept them for the time being.
Coal trucks were sent to Yongping Village one by one, and several states and counties along the road heard that they were digging coal to make money, and they brought countless Jiaozhi people to Zhao Rui's car.
More than 40,000 people soon gathered here, but Zhao Rui still had no intention of stopping, and the coal yard area was filled with the sound of clanging digging all day long.
Thinking that the iron ore should also be vigorously excavated at this time, Zhao Rui wrote a letter to arrange for Zhang Zhennan to do it, but the population is now a problem, and the territory is mainly engaged in agriculture, and there are still few full-time mining people.
At present, the Yuan army in the south is no longer intruding, and there is no replacement of displaced people in a short period of time, which is really difficult to solve......
Just when Zhao Rui was worried about the iron ore manpower, Sheliwei finally moved, and the first batch brought more than 4,000 suffering people to Zhao Rui, as well as more than 20,000 righteous soldiers.
Zhao Rui thought that these Dali people just fled from home, why not let them go to Wanya Prefecture to participate in iron ore mining? Zhao Rui then made a speech, asking these Dali people to move to Wanya Prefecture to live, and promised to provide their families with housing and land, and some of the able-bodied people could live in the mines and work, and have wages for their meals.
Zhao Rui was still unfamiliar with these Dali people, and he didn't have much trust, so only a few hundred people were willing to go to Wanya Prefecture, so Zhao Rui arranged for someone to send them over.
The rest of the people don't trust, Zhao Rui thought about it, it's also human nature, for them, sending houses and fields is too shocking, so it's good to let them dig coal here first.
Because Zhao Rui understood their long journey, more than 3,000 people in Dali left behind did not work that day, and when it was time to eat, some people kept crying loudly.
Eat with clean sand bowls, they cry.
White rice is eaten casually, and they cry.
Occasionally, a piece of pork came out of the dish, and they were crying.
The cries of the three thousand people were sad and desolate, and those who heard it were sad, Zhao Rui even thought that it was not a dead person, so he hurried over to inquire about the details.
But when Zhao Rui passed, he watched them crying and picking up food in their mouths, was there anything wrong?
Could it be that the cook played extraordinarily and cried deliciously?