Chapter 69 Miscellaneous Matters

Li Zhen said: "Eh, okay, I blame you, anyway, you hurry up and urge them to complete it as soon as possible, by the way, how many big pits are under construction now?" ”

"With the addition of these three, there are a total of twelve large pits under construction, and each pit has three hundred people taking turns to work, but those nine are not as fast as these three."

"Anyway, you can do it, change people or not change jobs, you must dig out the big pit for me as soon as possible, preferably within three days." If the speed is fast, Xue Rengui and they should be able to come back in three days at most, so they must dig the big pit before tomorrow, after all, it is better to wait for people than to wait for people.

"Yes, my subordinates will do it." Li Ergou responded, and suddenly remembered one more thing: "By the way, Your Highness, didn't you say that you were going to set up a banquet for the soldiers who returned from victory tonight?" We're all ready, when do you see when you're going to go? ”

"Now that you're ready, let's go now." Li Zhen smiled: "It's been a long time since there's been a banquet, but if there are only more than 200 people, it's still not very lively." Let's just do this, we haven't had time to celebrate the victory last night, so let's give the order, just say that I will hold a banquet tonight to entertain all the meritorious soldiers, except for those who have a task, the rest of them have enough wine and meat. ”

These words were heard by the vicinity of Huo Chulou, and he hurriedly came over and persuaded: "Your Highness, the chief manager has not yet returned victoriously, so let's set up a banquet privately, isn't this appropriate?" ”

Li Zhen said indifferently: "It's okay, today is a small celebration, let's celebrate again when the time comes, if there is a problem, just push it to me." ”

"Since His Royal Highness has an order, his subordinates will naturally obey it, but don't want this wine, after all, it's on the front line now, and eating some meat is in the past, but drinking is a bit too much, I'm afraid that those pursuing brothers will be uncomfortable." Besides, we still have tens of thousands of prisoners guarded, and if they take the opportunity to riot, the consequences will ......."

When Li Zhen heard this, she felt that it made sense, and couldn't help nodding and said: "What you said makes sense, in this case, you don't want the wine, tell the brothers, just say that this wine is what I Li Zhen owes them, and I will definitely make up for it in the future." ”

"Yes, the subordinates will go to convey the meaning of His Highness."

"By the way, Ning Gu, where is our convoy?" Seeing off Huo Chulou and Ah Lai, Li Zhen asked another person dressed as a soldier, this person was sent to Li Zhen when Wu Liu came last time, and he was known as unforgettable and invincible. Li Zhen saw that he was a talent, so he stayed by his side and became a clerk, but this person is relatively boring, if you don't take the initiative to ask him, he will never say a word to you.

When Ning Gu heard this, he replied in a sullen voice: "Your Highness, our convoy has already set off for a day, and it will arrive in four or five days (the reason why the convoy only takes five or six days, while the army takes more than ten days, is mainly because this march is mainly a sneak attack, and the emphasis is on concealment and suddenness rather than speed, so the 10,000-strong army goes out day and night, and on the way, we must also pay attention to bypassing the Turkic sentinels, the speed is naturally very slow, if you march at full speed, you can reach the Yinshan Tent at most in two or three days at the speed of the army). ”

"It's going to take so many days, can you go a little faster?" Li Zhen was a little dissatisfied.

Ning Gu still said in a muffled voice: "This is also something that can't be helped, although we have won the battle, but the grassland horse bandits will raid the convoy from time to time, which has caused a lot of interference to the movement of the convoy, and we must beware of the rout, it will definitely not be fast." ”

"Numb, these routs and horse bandits are so hateful, I can't wait to mention the army to wipe them all out." Li Zhen hated it, but he also knew that this was pure wishful thinking, the grassland was vast, and the defeated soldiers and horse bandits were in groups, it was too easy to hide, and it was simply impossible to suppress them.

"It's just that if you don't suppress it, these routs are a little too troublesome, is there a way to kill them in one fell swoop? ......" Li Zhen fell into distress.

Exterminating the rout was not Li Zhen's temporary idea, it had actually been in his mind for some time. After the extermination of the Turks, the steppe was destined to be included in the rule of the Tang Dynasty, and it urgently needed a period of stable development to appease the people, but there were unstable factors such as the rout of the army from time to time to stir up, how could the steppe be stable?

You must know that they were defeated by the Tang Dynasty, how could they obey the rule of the Tang Dynasty? Not only will they not obey, but I am afraid they will also make trouble, such as playing the role of a horse thief to rob a convoy or rebel, although it will not make Datang hurt, but it will definitely make people annoying. Besides, the number of defeated troops is extremely large (although I don't know the specific military strength of Jieli, but even if there are more than 100,000 killed and captured, but in the dark night at that time, how can more than half of them escape), if there is really trouble, even Datang's will be overwhelmed.

However, there are only so many ways to deal with the rout, and either the effect is very slow, or the consumption is too great.

First of all, the heavy interest collection service, but the heavy interest collection service is too costly, and then Datang will enter the stage of large-scale construction, the money is not enough, where is the spare money for people to subdue the horse thief? What's more, there are countless horse bandits on the grassland, and it is too unrealistic to buy them.

The second is to send a large army to encircle and suppress, which is also unrealistic, because the defeated soldiers are familiar with the environment and have a mass base, just like the later guerrillas - can anyone tell me how to deal with the guerrillas?

If the guerrillas want to completely solve the problem of the guerrillas, as long as the local government does a better job than the guerrillas, improves the living conditions of the local civilians and provides them with food and clothing, at least they must feel that the occupation forces are better than the previous government, and cut off the soil for the guerrillas to breed, the guerrillas will naturally collapse.

But this is the prairie, the prairie where the mountains run dead horses, the defeated army can't survive in one place, so naturally they can run to another place, do you still expect the entire prairie to be a good official? Impossible.

What's more, the Tang Dynasty is playing the role of an occupier at this time, it is not easy to win the hearts of the people, if you want the Turks to truly return, you need to carefully govern for at least five to ten years, this still refers to the situation that the local officials are all good officials, if there are a few more bastards, it will take even longer, is it possible to let them suffer for such a long time?

In addition, there is the centralized management of villages and households, where people from large areas of occupied areas are concentrated in small areas to live and be supervised, and the occupying forces provide small batches and batches of supplies for a period of time, so as to meet the standard of fixed personnel and quotas, and at the same time empty the available resources in the no-man's land as much as possible, so as to cut off the way for the guerrillas to obtain subsistence resources from the local people.

This method can destroy the rout in a short time, but do you still want the people's hearts? Take care of the Turks like captives, and it's strange that people can convince you? Besides, this is very resource-consuming, and Datang doesn't have so many resources for them.

"Your Highness doesn't need to blame yourself, the rout of the army has been the most difficult problem to solve since ancient times, and it doesn't hurt to think of a solution for a while. The subordinates just beat a few yellow sheep, I heard that the taste is good, do you want to have some? Li Ergou happened to come back, knowing Li Zhen's difficulties, he couldn't help but comfort, as for Ning Gu, if you don't talk to him, if you want him to take the initiative to ignore you, it's impossible.

"It makes sense, the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge, why should I bother with these idle things? Li Jing is the coach, what do I have to worry about him? Li Zhen was attracted by the aroma of roasted yellow antelope (the taste of Inner Mongolia yellow sheep is good, Xiao San was fortunate to eat it once, but it seems that there are not many now), and took it and gnawed it: "Well, yes, although it is different from what I have eaten before, it has a different flavor, give me another piece." ”

"Your Highness, mutton is hot, you are too young, eating too much is not good for your health." Li Ergou saw that Li Zhen was eating without moderation, so he hurriedly persuaded him.

Li Zhen is still very persuasive, provided that you are really good for him, and when she heard this, she threw away the sheep bones and sighed: "When will I grow up?" This little arm and leg can't go to the battlefield, and can't eat delicious food, it's really annoying (the dog-legged Zhao Bensan appeared: Your Highness, don't worry, after this volume, the small one will be 'biu', and the time will be pushed back by more than ten years, and you can grow up directly. Li Zhen: What a nonsense, you are 'biu' in the past, but Lao Tzu is growing day by day. Also, who are you kid? How do you mess in? Zhao Bensan smiled: The villain Zhao Bensan. Li Zhen was furious: Good boy, it turned out to be your Zhao family, who took away the world of my old Li family. Zhao Ben is anxious: It's none of our old Zhao family's business, it was Zhu Wen's kid who did it. Li Zhen continued to be angry: In the end, it wasn't your old Zhao family who picked up the cheap? Hugh has to quibble, three thousand guards, drag this traitor down OOXX a hundred times, a hundred times. Zhao Bensan was frightened: Don't, spare your life...... Yes...... Oh...... One library ...... Soldier...... ）。 ”

"......" Li Ergou began to perform Silence is Golden - he really couldn't take it.

"Forget it, let's have a banquet." After thinking for a while, Li Zhen regained her spirits.

"Yes, Your Highness, please come down with your subordinates."

Qing, when Li Zhen woke up again, it was already noon the next day.

"Hasn't the Grand Master come back yet? What about Xue Rengui and them? After washing, Li Zhen asked casually.

Li Ergou was about to answer, when suddenly a pawn sent a message: "Lord Qi Changshi, the scout has a message, the chief manager pursued the enemy army yesterday, beheaded a total of 3,000 levels, captured tens of thousands, and is rushing back to the camp, it is expected to return to the camp in the afternoon, General Huo, how does Lord Changshi greet him?" ”

"You tell General Huo, just follow the previous rules, but the scale should be larger." How does Li Zhen know how to greet her? I can only make a sloppy eye, let Huo Chulou come as before, and think that this time is a rare big victory after all, different from the past, it is still very appropriate to make the scale bigger.

"Yes." The pawn received the order and turned to leave.

"Your Highness, look, isn't there news?" Li Ergou spread his hands and smiled.

"I'm not worried about the boss, I'm worried about Xue Rengui." Li Zhen said: "It's been a day and two nights, why hasn't there been any news coming back?" I'm really anxious. ”

"This is also something that can't be helped, General Xue's mission to intercept and kill Jieli has a mission goal, unlike the general manager, no matter what the final result is, as long as the whole army is not wiped out, it is not considered a loss, and the nature of the two is different." Li Ergou comforted: "Your Highness, don't worry, don't you want to think about it, can you run?" Under the crotch is a thousand-mile chasing horse, and he is familiar with the grassland environment, if he sincerely wants to run, it is really not easy to catch him. ”

"Report!" As soon as Ah Lai's test fell, another small colonel rushed into Li Zhen's tent with a command flag on his back: "Report to Your Highness, General Xue has a report." ”

As he spoke, he presented a sealed envelope, looking at the clothes of this little school, it was the person who was pro-guard, and it should be Xue Rengui who sent someone to summon him.

"Look? Isn't this coming? Li Ergou took the envelope and asked the colonel to go down to rest, while he himself checked that the fire paint was in good condition, and found no organ poison, so he took out the letter paper and handed it to Li Zhen.

“...... Okay, hahaha, Jieli, Jieli, this time I see that you really have to fold it in my hand, hahaha......" After reading Xue Rengui's recital, Li Zhen laughed loudly.

"Your Highness, what does the letter say?" Li Ergou saw Li Zhen smiling so happily, and couldn't help but ask curiously, in fact, he broke the rules with this question, because he was only Li Zhen's personal guard, and he was not suspended in the army, so he was logically not qualified to see it, but now after all, there were no outsiders present, so he asked.

"Oh, Rengui said that he had found Jieli's traces and bit his tail, but Jieli still had more than 10,000 elites around him. He didn't dare to act rashly, so he could only follow slowly, but he told me not to worry, because the number of people around Jieli was gradually decreasing. Judging from the information provided by the tongue he caught, Jieli's prestige seemed to have been hit, and the supplies were not sufficient, so as long as he was given a period of time, seven days at most, he could guarantee that Jieli would be captured alive. Li Zhen handed the letter to Li Ergou, this is not a secret, there is nothing that cannot be seen, and Li Ergou is his own personal guard, not an outsider, this attribute is not a secret, it doesn't hurt to let him see it. And most importantly, Li Ergou is actually illiterate......

"Look at it, I'll just say, it's going to be fine." Li Ergou didn't read the letter paper at all (in fact, he didn't know much about words), and said proudly when he heard this: "Your subordinates didn't guess wrong, Your Highness, you are just purely blind to worry, with the ability of General Xue and General Fang, there is nothing in the world that they can't do." ”

"Okay, knowing that your eyes are like torches, don't blow them for them, be too careful." Li Zhen can't see it, isn't it just right once? As for being so sassy? Haven't done anything they can't do? Xue Rengui has the defeat of Dafeichuan, and Fang Yiai has rebelled, if he rebels, will there be any matter of my old Li family?

"Yes, Your Highness, what do we dare to do next?"

"By the way, has the pit been dug yet?" Li Zhen suddenly remembered what was going on and couldn't help asking.

"It's already dug up, do you want to go and see it?"

"Let's go, come back just in time to meet the Chief." After swallowing the last bite of breakfast, Li Zhen led Ah Lai and took the lead out of the big tent, and Li Ergou and Wang Jin (Lin San was not there, so he was not mentioned during this time) led the guards to follow.