Chapter 1109: Edict of the Son of Heaven

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The county commander Fan Lubing said with some hesitation, "This time, we will also send militia to the grass?" In his opinion, the teacher Li Chao has formed an alliance with the Yi people, and he has to make a big grass, which has a bit of a taste of Yi to govern Yi. But more than 300 Shanyi went to crusade against the 44 Zhai Shanyi, and they were completely superior, so why let the Han militia go?

"This time, not only the militia will go, but also the merchant group." Li Chaodao.

The island of Ryuqiu now has many armed forces. Among them, there are the armed forces of the imperial court, which is subordinate to the Penghu County Inspectorate led by the Penghu County Ya, with a total of 120 inspectors. These inspections are not government soldiers, but they are also local armies, responsible for public security patrols, smuggling, thieves, thieves and other tasks.

The Penghu Military Government is also in preparation, and the military government will be established and the government soldiers will be selected. There will be two or three military offices on the island, with a scale of about 15 to 2,000 people. Even the Navy Division is preparing to set up two patrol fleets on Liuqiu Island and Penghu Port.

In addition to these officers and soldiers, there are currently the Li family's lord's escort on the island, with 300 people stationed in Penghu and 900 people stationed in Liuqiu Fort, with a total of 1,200 armed forces. These 1,200 men are considered to be the strongest force on the island at present, and they are of a standing nature.

In addition, all the bunkers on the island, there are militias. The young and strong militia of each tun are organized into militias, have weapons, and usually take time to train, and the militia of each tun is organized into the Liuqiu militia regiment.

In addition, the merchants and craftsmen in the shops and workshops in the city also had to take time to participate in training, and they were also organized to distinguish them from the ordinary militia, they were called merchant soldiers, and all merchant soldiers were organized into merchant regiments, or merchant regiments for short.

Throughout the island of Ryukyu, whether it is the city or the manors of the tunzhuang and the landlords, basically all the people are equipped with weapons, and all of them have to take time to train, and they even have to take turns on duty, responsible for patrols, etc.

The patrol of the militia is called the joint defense team, while the patrol of the merchant group is called the security team. One is in charge of the countryside and the other is in charge of the city.

Now the situation in Liuqiu is good, and no Shanyi dares to cause trouble, but Li Chao insists on this model of all people being soldiers, and he has always proposed that there are hundreds of thousands of Shanyi on the island, and they must be prepared for danger in times of peace, and let the immigrants be martial.

At his request, the merchants and men on the island carried knives on their waists, even if they were doing business. The peasants were ploughing the fields, carrying guns and knives.

Every morning, the drying field in Tunzhuang is full of exercise shouts.

"It's not enough to practice, you have to let them see and see, and actually fight. Even if it's just to watch and help, it's very useful. Anyone who has ever been a soldier knows that no matter how well a recruit is trained, if he has never seen blood on the battlefield, he is just a rookie after all. ”

Li Chao made these militia groups and business groups, not just a fitness club, it had a big effect. One day in the future, they will be able to summon them, they will be able to fight, and they will be able to win.

This is called hiding soldiers from the people.

If it's just practicing and not fighting, it's also an empty shelf.

"But it's not a small expense?" Fan Walk Ice Road.

The militia usually trains in their free time, while the joint defense team is on duty in rotation and does not waste much time. But if you want to go to the mountains to ask for it, it will take a lot of time, and it will also cost money to eat and drink.

"Don't worry, the Li family is responsible for these expenses."

This time, there was no need to send all the people to go, and each tun and village each drew some manpower, and the escort team, merchant group, patrol inspection, etc. also drew some manpower, and finally gathered a group of three battalions with a total of more than 1,000 people.

Li Chaofang covered all the expenses, including the rations and subsidies of this group.

The third day of the fifth month.

The city of Ryuqiu was lively again, and the leaders of the various departments of the alliance led the team as promised.

Everywhere there were tribesmen with bright bird feathers, dressed in colorful aprons and some wearing deerskin coats. Some were directly surrounded by a linen blanket, and many were even naked.

Most of them are barefoot.

Everyone carried antlers and spears, many with horizontal knives, and others with stone knives and bows on their backs.

Woo la la arrived, the scene was truly spectacular.

There were quite a few people from all the tribes, mainly young men and some young men, and this time no one brought women and children, this time they came to fight, not to trade.

Many of them even had mud paint painted on their faces.

There were more than 300 village communities, and finally more than 5,000 people were gathered.

But when Li Chao appeared with two thousand people, those Shanyi were quiet.

1,500 were militia groups, merchant groups, inspection and escort teams, and the other 500 were drawn by Li Chao from the 5,000 soldiers under his command. Especially these five hundred people, one by one, the armor is bright, the flag is fluttering, and the spears are like a forest.

Just the silk cloak of each soldier was enough for the Shanyi to envy.

Using silk for cloaks, steel for helmets, and precious iron for armor, the Tang people were too extravagant.

The forty-four divisions of the anti-Tang Alliance, both living on the plains and living in the mountains and forests, Li Chao had already collected their intelligence, and the route of the attack was also to sweep those tribes on the plains first. He didn't plan to attack in a split way, but with such seven or eight thousand people, he swept all the way to the target one by one.

He just wants to use this mighty momentum to give a thunderous blow to those who oppose it, and also to give a deterrent to the tribes in the alliance.

When they marched for half a day and reached the first stockade, the people in the village did not even expect the Tang people to attack suddenly.

Many men are still hunting outside, some are farming outside the village, women are making hides, and children are playing.

An army of seven or eight thousand people is simply boundless for this village of less than a thousand people.

Li Chao didn't need any tactics, he took his 2,000 Tang troops to sit in the Chinese army, and then let the more than 5,000 people from each village dispatch. The adults are responsible for surrounding the village, and then having the teenagers fight into the village, let them go to battle, go headhunting, observe their traditions, prove their bravery with the heads of their enemies, and complete their rites of passage.

"Savage, cruel!" Fan Lubing, dressed in a green robe, rode on a horse, and couldn't help but shake his head and sigh as he looked at the half-grown sons of Shanyi who were screaming and rushing towards the panicked village.

"This is the law of the jungle, the weak are strong, and the fittest survive. Although our Central Plains respected Confucianism from the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty was a dynasty full of enterprising and pioneering spirit. Until his death, the Han Dynasty died by force, and there was no one around the barbarians who dared to offend the strong man. Confucian scholarship is not weak, but it is a pity that for a long time I thought that it was misunderstood by the sage quotations. Nowadays, I also respect Confucianism in the Tang Dynasty, but it is not a Confucianism that has been misunderstood, but a Confucianism with an enterprising heart in the Han Dynasty. ”

"Be prepared for danger in times of peace, and forget about war." It's a lesson.

There was no suspense in the battle, and although all the children who entered it were teenagers, the children of Shanyi were not the children of the Han Chinese. These people learned hunting and trained their fighting skills when they were young, and they regarded headhunting as glory, and they roared and shouted one by one, and they were full of excitement.

The battle ended quickly.

Many Shanyi teenagers were covered in blood, but they came out with their heads on their faces full of excitement.

There are also some teenagers who have fallen in the village, but their father and their people are very calm, for them, death, is not a terrible thing, dying in battle, will make their souls enter the spirit world, will enter the heaven through the rainbow bridge.

This is a hurdle that teenagers have to go through.

Through them, they became men, they became warriors, they could get tattoos and they could take wives. If they don't, they are not qualified enough to be men, they have to continue to sharpen, and if they die in battle, they will return to heaven and then be reincarnated.

"It's a nice land."

"It's a thousand-person village."

Li Chao and Ke Shan were chatting about the land and mountains of this village.

"The spoils of war in this stockade belong to the various ministries, and we pay for the land and the prisoners here." Li Chao asked people to say to the leaders.

The leaders discussed with each other for a while, and finally came up with a price.

Li Chao didn't bargain and agreed directly.

"Actually, we can fight it ourselves, and we don't have to give money to these people."

"Yes, but it's not in vain." Li Chao said with a smile. "Let our merchant and militia go in and clean up the battlefield, bring them here, and you will see blood."

A fast horse arrived.

The knight rolled his saddle and fell off his horse, and ran over.

"King Yue, Han Jing is coming, please go back to receive the decree."

Leaving Keshan to lead the team and continue to fight with the alliance against the rest of the tribes, Li Chao returned to Liuqiu.

The emperor's envoy waited there, "King Yue receives the decree." ”

Lingnan chieftain rebellion!

Ning Changzhen and Feng Xuan of Gaozhen in Qinzhou, as well as Tan Dian of Huazhou and Ning Daomin of Yuezhou united with the leaders of various streams in South Vietnam to rebel. Gaozhou Thorn Shi Feng An, Nanfuzhou Thorn Shi Chen Longshu and other Hao chiefs have unclear attitudes.

Li Shimin issued an order for Li Chao to immediately lead his troops south to Lingnan and go to quell the chaos and pacify the place.

After receiving the will, Li Chao was also a little surprised.

Ning Changzhen and Feng Xuan are both Lingnan chieftains, the Ning and Feng families are still relatives, Ning Daoming is also a member of the Ning family, and Tan Dian also relied on the Ning family back then. These people raised troops at this time, which was a bit surprising.

After all, they just descended to the Don a few years ago.

After Zhang Zhongjian and the others retreated, they said to Li Chao, "This is an opportunity." In the land of Lingnan, the Baiyue slang fang and the Han people were combined with each other, and they were attacked from generation to generation, and the imperial court could not control them at all, so they could only be restrained. These chieftains also rebelled infrequently, but in the end, the central government often could only send people to pacify, and the big things were small. ”

"This Lingnan rebellion, Wen Yuan can just take the opportunity to meddle in Lingnan."

Lingnan Baiyue natives, the imperial court has always been able to restrain and pacify, there is Feng, Ning, Chen and other powerful people's territory, this time Ninggao several chieftains rebelled, Li Chao does have a chance to deal with these families.

"Feng Ning and Chen have been divided for a hundred years, and their power is not small, such as the Feng family, Feng Xuan and Feng An's brothers are all thorns, their sons are also thorns, their in-laws are thorns, and they are also supported by the big and small streams, they are deep-rooted and powerful, and it is not easy to uproot them."

"It's a rare opportunity, and it would be a shame not to try it." Zhang Zhongjian said with a smile.

"Well, then try it."