Chapter 197: Four Hundred Thousand Slaves

On June 19, 426 of the Great Jin Dynasty, almost a month had passed since the cavalry battle outside Chengyin City, and the more than 10,000 Hu cavalry captured in that cavalry battle, in addition to the nobles and officers who were killed, the remaining about 11,000 Hu cavalry were forcibly incorporated into thirteen cavalry battalions by Liu Ji, and the scale of the cavalry under his command was restored to more than 80,000. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Of course, those nobles and officers who were killed died directly at the hands of these 11,000 captured Hu cavalry, which was regarded as their surrender, and the letter of allegiance must also be signed and handprinted.

However, there were no two sons of Wuheng Heng Khan Shuerha among the nobles who were killed, and Shuerha had learned that the two sons were not killed in battle, but were captured alive by the Jin army in Chengyin County, so after returning to the Wuheng tribe with the troops, he quickly sent someone to communicate with Liu Ji, hoping to redeem the eldest son Turai and the fourth son Timur.

Shuerha's eldest son Tulai is the first heir of the next Wuheng Heng Khan, and Shuerha's fourth son is the first warrior of the Wuheng tribe, these two sons Shuerha are absolutely reluctant, not to mention that they are Shuerha's own sons!

The tiger poison does not eat children, and Shuerha is never willing to watch his two sons die at the hands of the Jin, so he would rather pay a huge price and redeem Turai and Timur from Liu Ji.

Liu Ji didn't want to fight with the Wuheng tribe now, so he didn't kill Tulai and Timur, and Liu Ji also agreed to Shuerha's desire to redeem these two sons, but because of the redemption conditions, the two sides have not reached an agreement, so that Tulai and Timur are still in the cell in the Chengyincheng County Yanei.

Liu Ji's redemption conditions for Wuheng Heng Khan Shuerha this time are definitely a lion's mouth, not only requiring Shuerha to hand over 200,000 Jin slaves to Liu Ji, but also giving Liu Ji 500,000 taels of gold.

There were only these two, but none of them could be easily done.

The total number of Jin slaves in the entire Wuheng tribe is less than 200,000, and 500,000 taels of gold is equal to 10 million taels of silver.

After many negotiations, the Wuheng representatives sent by Shuerha and the commander of the infantry battalion under Liu Ji, Le Yi, finally negotiated the terms for the redemption of Turai and Timur on 19 June.

The Wuheng royal court will hand over 200,000 Jin slaves and 200,000 Hu slaves to the Chengyin army, and also need to compensate Liu Ji for the war compensation of 200,000 taels of gold, and the Jin slaves and Hu slaves must be mainly young and strong men and women, and the old and young can also have a part, but not more than two percent.

Let the Wuheng tribe hand over 200,000 Jin slaves and 200,000 Hu slaves at once, Shuerha almost had to collect all the slaves of the Wuheng tribes, of course, the war slaves who have joined the armies of the various Wuheng tribes cannot be handed over to Liu Ji as slaves.

Even so, it was difficult for Shuerha to make up enough for 200,000 Jin slaves, so he could only buy some Jin slaves from other tribes in the grassland, and the 200,000 Hu slaves relied on the various tribes of the Wuheng tribe to make up for it.

The reason why 200,000 Hu slaves were added later was because Le Yi asked for 300,000 taels of gold, and on the prairie, 200,000 Hu slaves were worth less than one-third of 300,000 taels of gold.

However, Liu Ji believes that 200,000 Hu slaves are much more useful than 300,000 taels of gold, and the young and strong men in these 200,000 Hu slaves can easily be transformed into soldiers under their command.

At the same time, the Wuheng royal court will also recognize that the grassland north of Xishankou belongs to Liu Ji, and no tribe of the Wuheng tribe will enter this grassland.

These conditions for the redemption of Tulai and Timur were approved by the Uheng Heng Khan Shulha, otherwise the representatives of the Wuheng tribe would not dare to agree.

Now that the two sides have reached a consensus on the terms of redemption, Liu Ji is waiting for the Wuheng people to deliver the population and gold to him.

If you don't see a rabbit and don't scatter an eagle, and if you don't give Liu Ji the population and gold, he won't let people go.

As for the grassland north of Xishankou, Liu Ji has already sent people to occupy it, and has placed nearly 200,000 Hu people, old and young women and children, as well as a large number of livestock, after all, Longchang County is not suitable for large-scale grazing, and Liu Ji can only transfer a large number of people and livestock back to the grassland north of Xishankou.

Fortunately, Liu Ji had just defeated the coalition of 520,000 grassland Hu people in Chengyin City, and the fierce reputation was flourishing in the prairie, and the ordinary Hu tribes did not dare to provoke Liu Ji, and the population and livestock on the grassland north of Xishan Pass should not be attacked for the time being.

On June 29, in just 10 days, 200,000 Jin slaves, 200,000 Hu slaves, and 200,000 taels of gold were all transported to the grasslands north of Xishankou and handed over to the cavalry troops under Liu Ji's command.

Liu Ji did not cheat, and after receiving the population and gold, he happily returned Turai and Timur to the Wuheng people.

Among the 200,000 Jin slaves and 200,000 Hu slaves, there are basically young men and women, the old and the young add up to less than 60,000, and most of them are children.

Among the 400,000 slaves, there were more than 250,000 young men and only a little more than 90,000 women.

These 250,000 young and strong men are even more important to Liu Ji than 1 million taels of gold, and if Liu Ji is willing, he can even integrate all these 250,000 young and strong men into his own army.

After a major battle with the allied forces of the Hu people of the sixteen tribes in the grassland, there were less than 15,000 infantry left under Liu Ji's command, and after the cavalry collected more than 10,000 Hu prisoners of war, there were only more than 80,000.

In the end, Liu Ji did not integrate all the more than 250,000 young and strong men among the slaves into the combat army, but only selected about 150,000 of them and assigned them to cavalry units or infantry units, and the remaining 100,000 young and strong men were all organized into auxiliary soldiers.

It turned out that the number of auxiliary soldiers under Liu Ji was also more than 10,000, so that the auxiliary soldiers under Liu Ji exceeded 110,000.

In the future, the role of the 110,000 auxiliary soldiers under Liu Ji's command is mainly to farm and graze, and these tasks cannot be done by the old and weak women and children, so Liu Ji made these 110,000 auxiliary soldiers.

However, auxiliaries also have to undergo a certain amount of military training, and once the war is tense, the auxiliaries may also be pulled into the battlefield.