Chapter 263: There is a Queen
"There is no baggage to tie up, our marching speed is much faster, and this mode of marching is indeed much more convenient than before."
Li Hao's army continued to advance westward according to the designated route, and the military supplies did not need to be transported by themselves, and the merchants here had a way to deliver the military rations to the designated places, which made the marching speed of the army increase a lot.
The lieutenant generals sent by Li Er knew Li Hao's previous achievements and had heard of this combat method, but now it was the first time they had seen Li Hao do this. This way opened their eyes greatly, of course, this is only in the case of victory, if it is a defeat, then the day will be sad.
Although Li Hao stopped in Lingui City for a while, he also cleaned up a few small tribes, set up a restaurant, and made a few special snacks. But when they arrived at the designated place, the other two armies were still on the march, and they were much slower than them.
One is because of the reason for raising grain and grass, and the other is because they enter Nanzhao's side from the other two directions, which is actually a much more difficult route than Li Hao's side, so their speed is also much slower.
"We don't have to wait for them, let's start cleaning up the barbarians here, so that the people here can focus all their attention on our side, so that it will be more convenient for the other two armies." After arriving, after a little rest, Li Hao let his army start to attack.
The other two routes are not very easy to follow, and it is not difficult to fight. Divert the attention of those barbarians to this side, so that you can reduce the pressure on the other two. If these barbarians are not in unison, it will be better, and it will be much easier to equalize.
However, this fight was a year, and Li Hao himself didn't expect that he would easily destroy the Tibetans and pacify the Shanyue people, but he almost planted a heel in the barbarians. Fortunately, he was well prepared, and when he saw that the strategy he had begun to formulate was not right, he immediately changed his approach.
The southwest has always been a difficult place to deal with, and it's not without reason. You must know that the Mongol army of later generations has conquered the whole world, and it has also suffered heavy losses in the southern part of the Central Plains. They have only suffered big losses in the southwest and southeast, and the hardness of this side can be imagined.
Li Hao's first battle was a tough battle, with an army of 20,000 losing nearly 2,000. Although this is not a big deal normally, it is the biggest loss in all the battles that Li Hao has handled.
Li Hao has always attached great importance to the lives of his subordinates, so he will plan some slave soldiers to fight. However, it didn't work after getting here, this was still the reason why Li Hao used the bomb, otherwise the consequences of the first battle would be worse.
The subsequent battles were not very smooth, and the combat effectiveness of the barbarians was much worse than that of people in other places, which roughly means that the so-called off-road barbarians were more destructive. Not only Li Hao's side, but the other two ways of fighting were not very smooth. Although Li Hao attacked early to contain a lot of attention, the other two lines were still difficult.
"General, please allow us to lead our troops to attack again." Several lieutenants under Li Hao realized at this time that what was in front of them was a hard bone, and it was not at the same level at all compared to the tribe on Lingui's side.
"No need, the lives of each and every one of our soldiers are precious, how can a large number of losses be made on such a small barbarian tribe. We changed the way we attacked, step by step. ”
This fight Li Hao became angry, and he was a little more annoyed with the people here, this was forcing himself to make a big move. Originally, because his woman was going to have a child, Li Hao didn't actually want to use drastic means, but now he can't use it.
In Li's few historical memories, there are two countries that have done a good job in the conquest of foreign races. This is not Li Hao's stinky feet, but a fact. One is the country of braids, which can make a few massacres and make people forget these things. It even made the Han people voluntarily call themselves slaves, and they also desperately suppressed their compatriots for the sake of their masters.
Then hundreds of years later, various literature, films, and television have been promoting the benefits of this alien race from time to time, indicating that this alien race has done a very good job in the enslavement of the Han people. As for what Manchu people are sinicized, this is just some people putting gold on their faces.
The other country is an island country, and perhaps many people are not convinced by this. But if you think about the situation in the three northeastern provinces, you can know it if you think about the situation in Wanwan. The enslavement of the island people has also done a very good job, and even decades later, there are still people who are willing to divide a country under the master of the island country.
Moreover, they also left a large number of species in the areas they ruled, and even let the women and descendants of these regions desperately preach their goodness, which is roughly the reason why some people in later generations always proclaimed that their own nation was an inferior nation and that other people's nations were good nations. He wasn't originally from this side, so naturally he wouldn't say that this side was good.
Li Hao originally didn't want to use the methods of these two countries here, he wanted to use them in places such as island countries or peninsulas and those alien races further north, or places further south of Lingnan Road. But now Li Hao must use it in advance, and he is ready to use Yuanmeng's means to deal with the people here.
This side must continue to fight like this, it is so hard to fight now, otherwise after many years, Li Hao would not want to let this side grow stronger, and then come out to fight in Jiannan Dao again. So Li Hao has to find a way to completely conquer this side, and he can't let this war last too long.
In August of the fourteenth year of Zhenguan, Hou Jun set Ke Gaochang, and Tang placed it in Xizhou. In September, the imperial court moved the capital of Anxi to Jiaohe City, and placed Tingzhou in Khan Futu City to take charge of Tubo and the entire western front.
However, the war in the south was only half fought, and it was far from the original strategic plan. If it weren't for Li Hao's reasons, the southern side didn't cost the imperial court any grain and grass, and the Tang Dynasty would not have been able to fight on two fronts at the same time.
It's a pity that Hou Junji is generally a little envious of Li Hao's wealth, and maybe he feels very suitable for Li Hao's methods. This guy learned from Li Hao to kill the king of Gaochang like he did against Tubo, and then wiped out all the wealth of the Gaochang royal court.
It's just that the worst thing this guy did was that he mishandled the loot, stuffed a lot of it into his pocket, and let Li Er know. Li Er was a little unhappy with this matter, and Hou Junji made a lot of credit in a row, and his power became bigger and bigger, which made Li Er not feel at ease.
So Hou Junji was unlucky, was cut from his official position, and went home to stay. This is not much different from history, but the Anxi Imperial Protectorate, which was originally established at this time, was established in advance. Li Hao and Hou Junji don't have much to do with each other, so he can't care about these things.
However, there are also a lot of things in him, and several women around Li Hao have given birth! Wu Shun gave birth to a boy, and Ruyan was also a boy. Wanwan and Qingxuan gave birth to girls, two boys and two girls, which is undoubtedly the best result for Li Hao.
I didn't expect that after I came to Datang, I would have a future so soon. It's a pity that he is now in the military, and the war here has not been completed, so he can't go back to Guangzhou Mansion to see his children. I can only look at it in the family book, and then give all the names to several children.
At this time, there was no mobile phone to call, and there was no Internet to watch videos and photos, so what his children looked like, Li Hao could only read the text in the family letter and then associate it, which made Li Hao more and more unhappy with the barbarians here.
If it weren't for the war here that slowed down his pace, he would have returned to Lingnan to accompany his women and children at this time. Therefore, Li Hao's methods have become more and more tough, and in all the places where he has been defeated, Li Hao has almost used the same methods as Yuanmeng in later generations to deal with the barbarians here, which is slightly more ruthless than dealing with Tubo.
Later, when the Yuanmeng rulers conquered the barbarians there, they suffered heavier losses than Li Hao, and they lost more than 100,000 troops after they came here. At that time, in order to completely exterminate the country and tribe here, several means were adopted:
The first is political oppression, turning the barbarians into inferior nations and enslaving them in large numbers. Some were taken outside the gates; Some are resold as goods; Some were given to each other as property. In this way, the number of barbarians has dropped sharply, and they can no longer raise their combat effectiveness.
Li Hao is also like this now, all the barbarian warriors who came down from every battle have been caught and repaired the road, and the prime of each tribe has not fallen. The cement road from here to Linyi is waiting for these people to repair it.
And the fate of these people is also better than that of the captives that Li caught before, and they are not well fed and lived. Combined with the heat and rainforest over there, it's impossible to say how much will be left in the end.
Yuan and Mongolia also carried out military repression on this side. The rebels were suppressed with heavy troops, and those leaders who were unable to do so were willing to pay the Assassins to "shoot them with spears". In the past 30 years, many uprisings of the barbarians have been brutally suppressed, and each suppression is a massacre, and the eastern Yunnan Plateau is another bloody disaster.
But for Li Hao, it is not needed at all. Where he passed, there was no longer a strong force, only old and weak women and children. All the things that were weighed as weapons were confiscated as trophies and sold.
If the people here want to rebel, they can only rebel with wooden sticks, hoes or kitchen knives, but they still have to have enough manpower. Not only have the big tribes here been sold out, but the original population has also been scattered and arranged.
However, Li Hao will never forget the method of cultural encirclement and suppression. Destroying the country will destroy history, destroying their history, destroying their civilization, for the barbarians here, it is an important move, they can only learn everything from the Tang people.
Dismember its great tribes and abolish their language. Here, all the tribes conquered by Li Hao were chopped into eighteen pieces, and they became N more tribes, and they couldn't find any shadow of the big tribes. All the names of clans, people, and places have been replaced with Chinese.