Li Gande escaped on the city wall for a while, but was finally chased and intercepted by elephants, and had to jump into the city to flee for his life. However, he escaped the attack of the elephant, but he could not escape the capture of the Liang cavalry, and the surrounding cavalry saw Li Gande in gold armor diving and swarmed him, and before Li Gande sank into the water, dozens of hooks flew to him and dragged him out of the moat.

The centurion looked at Li Qiande and shouted, "Who are you?" ”

Li Qiande knew that he couldn't get past it, and he didn't want to lose his bearing, so he raised his head and said, "I am the lord of the Yue Li Dynasty." ”

When the centurion heard that it was the lord of the Yue Li Dynasty who had been caught, he was overjoyed and said, "You continue to capture the prisoner, and I will take him to see the prince." ”

"Good"

The cavalry cheered and ran to the moat, but they no longer had to scratch their hooks, but watched the Yue people in the moat struggle. Those who swim to the shore take them, and those who can't swim let them struggle in the water. Occasionally, I saw a general in armor being dragged into the water by the armor before he was rescued with a hook. captured the lord of the Yue Li Dynasty, and they couldn't look down on the rewards of the small soldiers. With money in their pockets, they would rather watch the Yue people who plagued Guangxi struggle in agony.

Chao Yong was watching hundreds of elephants wreak havoc in the city on the high platform, and he heard the following report that Li Gande had been caught, so he led everyone down from the high platform.

Li Gandesheng is also upright, and the emperor for decades is quite majestic, but now he is like a chicken in soup. The helmet was also taken off by the cavalry, revealing gray hair, which felt a bit of a dead end.

Li Gande also looked at Chao Yong, and saw that Chao Yong was really only in his twenties, and he was also full of regret in his heart. It took a young man a year to sweep away the Central Plains, and what better explanation could there be than for the gods to descend to earth. I knew that there was such a character in the Central Plains, and if he was given a hundred dares, he would not dare to invade the Central Plains.

"You are Li Qiande?"

Li Gande looked at Chao Yong's question, hesitated for a moment, and said, "The king of a small country visits the prince of Daliang." ”

Chao Yong said: "Since you know that you are the king of a small country. Why do you invade the territory of our great country? ”

Li Gande said: "The criminal minister was confused, and he was bewitched by the Song minister, so he sat down and did the wrong thing, and asked the prince to forgive the sin, and the minister was willing to pay tribute to Daliang every year." ”

In the early years, although Li Qiande was defeated by the Song Dynasty, he did not claim to be a vassal, and the main forces of the Song Dynasty were placed in the Liao State and Western Xia, and he did not have the energy to deal with the Yue Li Dynasty, so he also resigned himself to the Yue Li Dynasty. The Yue Li Dynasty not only did not claim to be a vassal to the Song. He also often sent troops to invade the Zhancheng of the Song Dynasty. It's a pity that Zhancheng was a vassal to the Song Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty could not protect his subjects. On the contrary, the Yue Li Dynasty invaded the Song Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty asked Zhancheng and Zhenla to send troops to help, and both countries sent troops, and finally the Song Dynasty and the Yue Li Dynasty reached a peace agreement and withdrew their troops. Later, the Yue Li Dynasty sent troops to retaliate against Zhancheng and Zhenla, but the Song Dynasty didn't care.

However, the situation is stronger than people, and now the main force of the Yue Li Dynasty has been greatly damaged, and he has also been captured. If neither he nor any of these soldiers can return. There is no need for Daliang to send troops, and the Yue Li Dynasty, which can fight both Zhancheng and Zhenla, has no power to fight back, not to mention that the domestic Niu Roar Barbarian has been unstable. He was a vassal to the Great Liang and paid some ivory, rhino horn, gold and silver every year. In exchange for the opportunity to recuperate in the Yue Li Dynasty, it was worth it.

Chao Yong glanced at Li Qiande, who seemed to be humble, and snorted coldly: "Did Song Chen let you loot Guangxi?" You led your troops to burn, kill, and loot in Guangxi, and your crime is unforgivable. Someone, give me a report. ”

"Yes."

Li Qiande was so frightened that he fell to the ground. Kowtowed and said: "The prince spares his life, it is useful for me to keep it, I can let people send back all the Han people who have been taken captive to the country." ”

Shi Yong has already led people to pick up Li Qiande. Seeing that the prince didn't speak, he dragged Li Qiande down.

After a short time, he carried Li Gande's head to report.

The 36 barbarians were slashing at Shi Yong to kill Li Qiande, and when they saw that the emperors of the Yue Li Dynasty had been killed, they were even more frightened.

When Chao Yong arrived, he all lay on the ground, bowing to the ground and begging for mercy.

Chao Yong glanced coldly at the thirty-six barbarians, and said to Hua Rong: "All the Yue generals wearing armor will be killed, and the rest will all be marked with slave seals and sent to the rear." ”

When the people from the thirty-six mountains heard such a cold order from Prince Daliang, they were even more frightened and lay on the ground, not daring to raise their heads.

Chao Yong looked at the barbarians lying on the ground and shouted: "You are also a subject of the Central Plains, but you followed the Yue Li Dynasty to loot Guangxi and kill my people, what crime should you be guilty of?" ”

"The prince spares his life."

"The prince spares his life."

……

The thirty-six people immediately began to cry.

"The Yue Li Dynasty invaded my frontier, and I will lead my troops to wipe out the Yue Li Dynasty and reduce the Yue people to slaves."

When the people from the 36th Ridge heard that the Yue people had ended up like this, they wept bitterly and begged endlessly.

"But after all, you are my original people, and I can't help but give you a chance to mend your ways."

"Thank you for the grace of the prince, thank you for the grace of the prince."

"Thank you for the grace of the prince, thank you for the grace of the prince."

……

When the people of the 36th Ridge heard that there was still a way to live, they lay on the ground and kowtowed like pounding garlic to thank them.

All the generals were quietly listening to the prince's resignation of the thirty-six mountains, only Li Kui heard that Chao Yong seemed to be about to let go of the thirty-six mountains, and the people changed color, and opened his mouth to speak.

Chao Yong glanced at Li Kui and said, "But your sins cannot be easily forgiven, in half an hour, I will see three thousand six hundred heads, one hundred people each, including the lord of the mountain." The rest of the Yue Ding will follow me into the Yue Li Dynasty, capture one Yue strong man, or kill three Yue people, before they can atone for their sins. All the Han people and the looted property in the mountain must be sent back, and I will send someone to investigate, and if one Han is hidden, I will kill ten of your clansmen. You can also choose to fight, and once defeated, I will raze your cottage and leave you in slavery for eternity. Okay, you go back and discuss, and in half an hour, if I don't see three thousand six hundred heads, the battle will begin. ”

When some of the lords heard that their heads were to be included, they cried out.

Li Kui couldn't bear it anymore, and shouted: "Whoever doesn't leave again, eat me with an axe." ”

Chao Yong also signaled Shi Yong to drive people away.

And the people of the thirty-six hills wept and wept and went away.

Li Kui said: "What is the prince doing with these barbarians? All of them are as thin as monkeys, and one of my Liang soldiers can beat five of them. According to me, it's better to kill them all. ”

Chao Yong shook his head and said: "If we reduce the Yue people to slaves, we will definitely provoke the Yue people to resist desperately, and let them kill the Yue people, which can also reduce our casualties." Moreover, there are many snakes and insects in the southern jungle, and we have come all the way to take the official road, once we enter the Yue Li Dynasty. The more people are fewer, they have to flee into the jungle. If we let our soldiers chase after us, I am afraid that the casualties will be very large. These barbarians grew up in the mountains and forests, let them chase and kill the Yue people, and they deserved to die. ”

Li Heng praised: "The prince is wise, these barbarians have been shocked by the spaceships and fire and thunder of the big beams, and the families are all in the thirty-six mountains, they dare not escape if they want to, so they can only chase and kill the Yue people with all their strength to atone for their crimes." ”

The general situation in the city of Yongzhou has been decided, hundreds of elephants went crazy, and in less than half an hour, the city was flattened. There are only a few dozen elephants left on the city wall to patrol the city, and the Yue people who have not jumped the city have been trampled into meat sauce.

After seeing that there was no longer a single intact building in the city, the spaceship flew towards the barbarian camp of the Thirty-six Mountains.

When the barbarians saw the spaceship overhead, they quickly began to cut off their heads, and the lord didn't want to die and wanted to escape with his troops, but no one wanted to follow them to fight with the soldiers and horses of the Great Liang who were eyeing them outside.

Either voluntarily or forcedly, in less than half an hour, 3,600 heads were sent out of the camp. It includes the heads of the thirty-six mountain lords.

After Chao Yong asked people to inspect it, he sent thirty-six personal soldiers to serve as the new lord of the thirty-six mountains.

As for the 3,600 heads, Xu Guanzhong proposed to build a Jingguan outside the city of Yongzhou to deter the barbarians of all ethnic groups in Guangxi.

The enemies inside and outside Yongzhou were solved. Xu Guanzhong looked at the elephants at the head of the city and said, "If you want to rebuild Yongzhou, you must first solve these elephants." ”

Li Heng nodded and said: "Lingnan is already a disaster for wild elephants, and these war elephants of the Yue Li Dynasty don't have much fear of people. If they are allowed to flee into the wild, I am afraid that it will be more harmful to the people than wild elephants. ”

Chao Yong really didn't have the heart to protect these elephants, and elephants were scarce in later generations. Elephants and tigers were infested in this era, harassing people everywhere, with an elephant eating an acre of crops a day, and tigers attacking humans and livestock. The Song Dynasty also specially promulgated a reward for catching a tiger, and if a tiger was killed, the court would have a reward. You can't watch these beasts swarm and let the people starve to death.

"Then let's kill them all, and everyone will eat elephant meat tonight."

Chao Yong's decision was very simple, but it was not easy to hunt elephants, and in the end, the army called on the bed crossbows of the navy to advance step by step, and it was not until dark that all the elephants in the city were shot.

All the Vietnamese soldiers hiding in the city were also searched out.

More than 40,000 of the 70,000 Vietnamese soldiers were trampled by elephants and died, and very few of the surviving Vietnamese soldiers in the city were killed, and most of the Vietnamese soldiers on the city walls jumped into the moat.

However, Daliang only sent 15,000 Vietnamese slaves to the rear, and the soldiers still helped the wounded Vietnamese soldiers relieve their pain.

That night, the army lit piles of bonfires on the ruins of Yongzhou City, and the Huotou army used all the means they could think of to make all kinds of elephant meat.

Hundreds of elephants made hundreds of thousands of catties of elephant meat, and the barbarians outside the city were all distributed. The explosive power of the fire and thunder frightened the barbarians into bowing again, coupled with the myth of the prince descending to earth, many barbarians regarded the prince's personal soldiers as heavenly soldiers, and carefully served the new lord, and some people reported the old lord's henchmen for bad intentions, so that the thirty-six personal soldiers killed a group of people, and soon mastered the thirty-six soldiers.

The thirty-six pro-soldiers were all ordinary pro-soldiers, and the ten-captain and centurion were unwilling to be the lords of the mountain. These thirty-six people were also willing to be the masters of this mountain after Chao Yong said that soon the imperial court would move the people to Guangxi and let Guangxi develop.

The population of the Thirty-six Mountains is not small, and the large tribes even have tens of thousands of people. However, the pro-soldier team owner is still not interested, in their opinion, how many people below are also barbarians, they are a barbarian, not to mention comparing with the prince's personal soldiers, even compared with ordinary Liang soldiers, they feel ashamed.

However, Chao Yong felt that it was better to be a master than a soldier, so he threw this errand that he thought was good to the bitter soldier.

Everyone ate with their stomachs open, and they didn't finish all the elephant meat.

There were barbarians outside the city, and the soldiers did not drink, and of course there was not much alcohol in the army.

Chao Yong saw that Li Kui couldn't eat, so he took everyone into the big tent of the Chinese army to discuss things.

"The invasion of the Yue Li Dynasty has been wiped out, and the next thing is to wave the army south, sweep away the Yue Li Dynasty, and eliminate the future troubles forever, but there are still many barbarians in Guangxi to make trouble, I want General Sun Li to be the general army of Guangxi and stabilize the rear. I don't know what General Sun thinks? ”

There are many barbarians in various tribes in Guangxi, and the 36 Mountains are only barbarians in Yongzhou. After the Yue Li Dynasty and the 36 Mountains rebelled in Guangxi, many barbarians from other state capitals also took the opportunity to plunder.

For the Great Liang, the Yue Li Dynasty was just a small barbarian country, and the use of new soldiers was enough to wipe out the Yue Li Dynasty. In comparison, it is more difficult to exterminate all kinds of remnants of the domestic army, so Chao Yong went all the way south and sealed Luan Tingyu, Qin Ming, Hu Yanzhuo, and Shi Wengong as the general soldiers of Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong respectively. Let them exterminate the soldiers and horses that do not belong to them from all walks of life, and stabilize the rear, so that he can use troops on the front line.

Of the 50,000 veterans, only the Hua Rong Department remained, but the Hua Rong Department was a cavalry. The army had to use cavalry when it went south, so it could only send a new army to stabilize Guangxi. Among Sun Li, Zhang Qing, Huang Xin, Han Tao, and Peng Xi, only Sun Li is the oldest and has a steady use of troops, so Chao Yong is willing to let Sun Li guard Guangxi.

Sun Li stood up and arched his hand and said, "The last general will obey the order." ”

Chao Yong nodded and said: "Okay, the barbarians of other state capitals will also be dealt with according to the Thirty-six Mountains, and all the leaders who take the opportunity to make trouble will be executed." Then use brute soldiers against brute soldiers to reduce the casualties of our army. ”

Sun Li nodded and said, "Obey, the prince only needs to go south." In the end, the safety of the grain road will be guaranteed. ”

There are many barbarians in Guangxi, and Sun Li does not dare to guarantee how long it will take to sweep Guangxi.

Chao Yong nodded, asked Sun Li to sit down, and said with a smile: "The army will continue to move south tomorrow." Sweeping away the Yue Li Dynasty, how did everyone think they should march? ”

Li Heng was puzzled: "Most of the military rations have been scattered to the people of Guangxi, and we are short of food and grass, how can we send troops tomorrow?" ”

Chao Yong said with a smile: "Naturally, I want to get grain and grass from the Yue Li Dynasty. Because of the food to the enemy. ”

Li Heng shook his head and said, "I'm afraid that the Yue Li Dynasty doesn't have much food, and after we go south, the Yue Li Dynasty is likely to be strong and clear." Leaving us unable to get supplies. ”

Chao Yongqi said: "The Yue Li Dynasty is farther south, the weather is hotter, the rice should be able to be harvested three times a year, how can there not be much grain?" ”

Li Heng said with a smile: "If there is a lot of grain in the Yue Li Dynasty, they will also rob the people of food in Guangxi." In fact, there is not much food in Guangxi, otherwise so many people would not have starved to death. ”

Chao Yong was puzzled: "Guangxi and Guangdong can be harvested three times a year, why is it that Guangdong has a mountain of grain, but Guangxi has insufficient food?" ”

Li Heng said: "The climate in Lingnan is hot and suitable for agricultural production, but the sale of grain to Jiangnan is still a matter of the past 20 years. In the past, Lingnan people relied on the sky for food, and they scattered some seeds in the fields casually, and they didn't care about it, and they didn't go to the field to harvest until the harvest season. They often have to find rice in the grass, and many times the harvest is not enough for them to eat, but there are many fruits and animals in Lingnan, and they are not afraid of starvation. It wasn't until Su Shi was relegated to Lingnan and saw the farming method of the Lingnan people that he began to teach the Lingnan people intensive farming, and also introduced many agricultural tools. In addition, in recent years, Fujian people have continued to migrate south, and Guangdong's grain has begun to harvest and be sold abroad. But the people here in Guangxi are still the kind of people who scatter some seeds and wait for the harvest, and naturally there is no surplus food. ”

Sun Li served as the commander-in-chief of Guangxi, and he was also concerned about Guangxi's affairs, and said: "You mean that because Lingnan can eat a lot, Lingnan people are also lazy and unwilling to cultivate intensively?" ”

Li Heng nodded and said, "That's true, many barbarians scatter some seeds casually, and most of the time they feed on fruits and beasts in the mountains and forests. In his spare time, he sings and dances, and rarely goes to work. ”

Li Kui said: "Then when we came, why were there so many starving people? ”

Li Heng said: "Those people are old and weak, they are no longer able to go to the mountains and forests to hunt and pick fruits, although the mountains and forests in Guangxi are rich in products, but there are also many wild beasts, not the old and weak can enter." Moreover, most of the people who starved to death were people in the city, and there were still very few people in the villages who starved to death. ”

Li Kui shouted: "This god is too blind, my brother is busy working in the field every day in Jingdong, and he often makes disasters and famines." These barbarians don't do anything, they have something to eat. ”

Chao Yong naturally knew that this was something that could not be changed, but he was more concerned about the affairs of the Yue Li Dynasty, and said: "The Yue Li Dynasty is also farming like this? ”

Li Heng nodded and said, "It's not much, although Li Qiande encourages the people to learn the farming methods of my Han people." But the Yue people are not active, they scatter a few handfuls of seeds, and they can grow in two or three months, although the yield is not as good as that of my Han people, but it is enough for them to eat, who is willing to go to the field to suffer. They don't live on food alone, but they also have all kinds of fruits, but our army is mostly northerners, and I am afraid that they will not be able to feed on those fruits. ”

Chao Yong nodded and said: "It's okay to eat some fruit, if you let the soldiers take fruit as a meal, I'm afraid they will all be unaccustomed to the soil." ”

Li Kui said angrily: "These Yue people are too lazy, and we can't find food even if we want to go south." ”

Many people think that Lingnan can be harvested three times a year, and it must be food everywhere. But they didn't expect that these barbarians would not put so much effort into growing food, nor did they want to work in the fields, and the crops in many fields were not as tall as the grass, so how could there be grain everywhere.

If this grain could be exchanged for money, maybe they would also actively grow grain, but the consumption of land is too great, and the maritime merchants prefer to sell dozens or hundreds of times more spices, ivory and so on, and no one wants to sell grain at all. Moreover, the grain in the south of the Yangtze River is enough to supply the world, and if Lingnan is rich in grain, it will only make the price of grain in the world plummet, and no one will want to farm at that time. Moreover, Lingnan has high freight, and it is congenitally unable to compete with Jiangnan grain.

If it weren't for the rapid population growth in the north in the peaceful hundred years of the Song Dynasty, a large amount of grain from the south of the Yangtze River would have been shipped to the north, and there would be no market for the grain in Guangdong.

Chao Yong also thought about getting some grain from the Yue Li Dynasty and transporting it back to the Central Plains to solve the grain problem that was tight this year because of the drought locust, but he didn't expect that it was a completely unreliable idea, and even the grain and grass of his own army needed to be solved by himself. (To be continued......)