Chapter 395: Eventful Autumn and Fruitful Autumn—2
The difficulty of governing India is not too high, after all, it is a country that has been occupied by real colonies for many years, and if the ruler is not a foreigner, it is simply not like the history of India. But the current Indus Valley, as well as the core area further south, is still out of reach for Suning. The war of law and order in the Balochistan region had just ended, and Sindh broke out a more serious judgment, although it was said that the generals sent there were all summoners, and there was no big problem with the language communication with the locals, but it was undeniable that the agricultural reform given by Suning there deeply shook the major interests of the local landlords.
The peasants there soon reaped a huge harvest after obtaining good seeds, and the local landlords, seeing this great change, were immediately jealous and took various measures to extort from the peasants, such as blatantly violating the original agreement and increasing the weight of the grain harvest, which led to the constant revolt of the local peasants.
But the local farmers' will to resist is not strong, most of them think that after the rich fruits enter their masks, they will let themselves live a better life, but the local landlords have long known that if these farmers are allowed to live a happy life, then their apprentices will likely be bought in turn, because their savings are accumulating because of higher grain production, and the amount of local arable land is but generally unchanged, in this case, It was impossible for the landlords not to form a group to discuss countermeasures, and on the one hand, they raised the amount and commission of the peasants' ignorant rents, and on the other hand, they launched a rebellion against the Liangzhou side that brought about these changes.
In the beginning, the Liangzhou people quickly deterred this group of local landlords who had been enslaved for many years with their crazy military ability, not to mention, even the Europeans promised to bring them richer income, which made them agree to submit to the Han Dynasty at the beginning.
But now, they have discovered the many inconveniences brought to them by the Han Dynasty, so the idea of rebellion began to brew early, and because Suning has focused on the battlefield on the Eastern Front in the past two years, after all, the princes jointly crusaded against Dong Zhuo, this kind of thing, for him, is also a huge historical opportunity, and in fact, he also successfully took advantage of this opportunity to control the Guanzhong region and the merger of the state region, although the current control is not strong enough, there are still many clans in the brewing of various rebellions.
But it is undeniable that if Suning is given a few more years, he can get a lot of food from the audience, and on this basis, declare war on the United States to other places on the battlefield on the Western Front. This will be a huge challenge for him now.
Of course, what he can do now is mainly to consolidate the occupied area, for India in the south and the Anxi Empire in the west, he can only draw, the rebellion of the Anxi Empire has not been quelled so far, but the situation on Suning's side is not much better, so the two sides are very tacitly doing the same thing, that is, to suppress the internal rebellion.
It's just that Suning's choice is obviously much broader, because he still has a killer weapon, and if he holds it in his hand and doesn't hit it, few foreigners may know that the name of this person is said, but in Chinese history, his micro-name clan is enough to stop the child's night cry.
This person is Tu Baiqi, the Wu'an monarch of the Qin State.
Tu Baiqi, who once slaughtered 400,000 Zhao troops on the battlefield of Changping, has now become the envoy of the Perseus Festival and the governor of Sindh. He has 60,000 soldiers under his command, and Suning has put together a lot of soldiers for him, and is likely to be the main commander in the next conquest of India.
However, before launching the Zhengnan operation, he must wait for Suning to do all the logistical support for him, otherwise all the actions of the Qingji station will be severely punished by the base camp, of course, if he carries out any form of military operation in the Sindh area, Suning and others will not interfere in any form.
So when this rebellion arose, Suning just sweated deeply for the people in the Sindh area. He did not know how many local people would be killed in this revolt, but it was undeniable that the army armed by the landlords would be dealt a heavy blow.
Not long ago, Cao Cao sent people out of the city to interview Alaric, asking him to release the princes trapped in the city, but Alaric flatly refused, and claimed that he must be given a satisfactory reward before considering the withdrawal of the army.
However, Alaric's request was also resolutely rejected by the other party, because Luoyang City was not greatly damaged by the war at this time, and even stored a large amount of grain, which made the princes of all walks of life inside confident enough to hold out for a while.
So Alaric sent this battle report to Suning, asking Suning if he wanted to take tough measures to attack Luoyang City, Suning thought that if he didn't get this group of guys out, it was likely to affect the next melee process of the princes in the East, so he immediately replied to Alaric, allowing him to carry out any necessary military action against Luoyang City, but he must protect the ancient buildings and classics inside.
Alaric frowned, it is not allowed to harm those ancient buildings in the city, which means that it cannot use weapons of mass destruction, at least most of the hot weapons are excluded from the scope of use, as for those easily damaged clicks, it is even more necessary for him to take care of them carefully, so he immediately wrote a letter and threw it into Luoyang City with a trebuchet, the main content of this letter is to ask Cao Cao's people to protect the buildings and rules and regulations inside, otherwise Suning will launch a crazy counterattack, They were also ordered to surrender within three days, otherwise Alaric outside would launch a fierce attack, and if they found that the buildings and ancient texts had been destroyed after the city had been breached, they would kill all the princes inside.
Such a threat obviously made the princes of all walks of life furious, especially Yuan Shao, who directly picked up the torch and rushed to several nearby palaces, fortunately the other princes intercepted it quickly, otherwise he would very likely erase such an ancient building as the palace from the map.
But what happened three days later began to make the Führer rejoice that he had not been able to do such an impulsive thing, because Alaric ordered his soldiers to cut down the surrounding forests and build a dozen counterweight trebuchets.
Yangzhou system has always liked to manufacture all kinds of advanced weapons, counterweight trebuchet, does not need to improve the existing trebuchet much, can make his throwing ability greatly improved, such a large amount of advanced technology can be harvested without spending a lot of effort, of course, they will be the first to apply to the battlefield, so as early as the New Cup War, they have used such weapons. So even Alaric, a man who lived in the fourth century AD, had a basic understanding of this thing, not to mention that many of his subordinates were veterans of Liangzhou, and they had a high level of attainment in the manufacture of these trebuchets.
So Yuan Shao's most beautiful dozen trebuchets, row upon row of hundreds in the south of Luoyang City, one after another threw large stones of different sizes at the Luoyang City Wall, and every time the sound of stones hitting the city wall made Yuan Shao feel like the sky was falling apart. Even the originally strong city wall had begun to crumble, and according to the reaction of the soldiers, there were already multiple cracks in the wall, and a small half of them were able to stuff the whole person into it, so they no longer dared to stand on the city wall, because the feeling of constant vibration from under their feet was too uneasy for them.
This group of soldiers was relatively lucky, if it weren't for Suning's fear of injuring the ancient books and ancient buildings inside, Araric's trebuchet would definitely not only smash the middle and lower parts of the city wall.
He even complained to the soldiers who made the library machine that the accuracy of this thing was too poor, and if it was a siege weapon made in Liangzhou, it was likely to narrow the hit range to within plus or minus 5 meters.
Then his soldiers went and told them that as a group of guys galloping on the grassland, doing woodwork was not their specialty in the first place, and that it was already up to the heavens to be able to make this thing come very quickly, and the implication was that you would have to invite us to drink, and you would dare to be here to talk nonsense, believe it or not, I would wait until the lord complained to you.
Alaric, who was quite helpless about this, could only let the soldiers keep complaining to him, after all, they did their best, and the current battle situation was also very favorable to him, so he didn't bother to worry too much about the soldiers, but there was one thing that still caught his attention, because the walls of Luoyang City seemed to be too strong, so that the efficiency of a dozen trebuchets could not cause enough damage in a short time, so he ordered this group of soldiers to cut down some more trees, Assemble dozens more trebuchets out.
So Yuan Shao, who climbed to the top of the city the next day, saw that the original rows of trebuchets outside the city had now become dense, 40-level counterweight trebuchets, firing at the city wall violently, but it was a pity that the cannonballs they fired were all big guys who survived the Paleolithic Age.
However, ridicule is ridicule, the combat effect is still there, under the repeated attacks, the southern wall of Luoyang City has collapsed on a large scale, Yuan Shao and others are ready to directly connect with the Alaric army, but Alaric did not let his subordinates directly rush in, they actually used these trebuchets to break a city wall, and launched a crazy attack again.
This time, the soldiers in Luoyang simply refused to climb the city wall, they had already learned the fear that was shaking under their feet. After learning this, Cao Cao had no choice but to give up the last trace of resistance, because he knew that Alaric did not really want to attack the city, but was ready to attack the heart.
But after he sighed, Yuan Shao's younger brother Yuan Shu finally couldn't help but say, "I've had enough. I feel that those words may fly in at any time, smash in front of us, or even kill us directly, if this situation continues, I think it is impossible for all the soldiers in the city, and even all the princes, to hold on, so we should surrender. ”
Liu Bei, on the other hand, disagreed, insisting on refusing to surrender and inviting Cao Cao to face Araric's army, believing that their deep friendship with Suning would be enough for Alaric to let them live.
Perhaps Cao Cao could also use his old friendship with Suning in exchange for Alaric letting go of all the princes in Luoyang, as long as they promised Alaric not to damage the city's buildings and all the regulations.
Liu Bei's proposal made the princes a little surprised, they didn't expect Cao Cao to have such a big face in Suning, but only Cao Cao knew that there was no longer the kind of friendship between him and Suning that he had many years ago, but looking at the princes from all walks of life, he could only grit his teeth and try desperately.
So he simply took himself as an envoy and went to Araric's barracks, and he said that the princes had agreed to accede to Alaric's request, and that in the past few days they had not destroyed the buildings in Luoyang City or any of the ancient books of the statutes, which made Alaric very happy, and was willing to agree to the terms of their peace talks, even if the other party had not said anything at this time.
Cao Cao didn't expect this guy to be so refreshing, even to the point of being a little reckless.
He didn't want to think about it, if he said such things in front, wouldn't the opponent open his mouth widely?
So Cao Cao said neatly: "I ask you to let go of all the princes in Luoyang City, and give me a thousand complete sets of Liangzhou standard equipment." ”
Alaric slapped the table and said: "I promise you this request, the princes of all walks of life inside can get out of the house now, but they must leave the grain and grass to Lao Tzu, and I can't give you another thousand sets of weapons and equipment, but you can take 400 sets, I wish you a victory in the melee of the princes of the Kanto region!" ”
At this time, Cao Cao suddenly realized that Alaric had already received Suning's intentions, and wanted to release them out of Yangcheng, and then return to the Kanto region to start a melee, so that Suning would have enough time to develop its Guanzhong region and merge the state regions, and when they finally divided the victory and defeat in the Kanto states, Suning's sphere of influence west of Tongguan may have developed into a strong and stable regime.
It turned out that all this was in Suning's plan, it turned out that Suning had already prepared for the benefit of the fisherman, it turned out that Suning's deployment had been precise to this day, and it turned out that he was still so powerless in front of Suning!