Chapter 142: Turning into elbows and armpits
With the recovery of Jingyuan City, the Far East Campaign can be said to have achieved a decisive victory. The Flying Tiger Legion began to clear out the remnants of the defeated troops of Dongrong as planned, rescue the people of Dayan, and pacify the place. The three main cavalry armies of the Flying Tiger Legion attacked from all sides to recover the occupied towns. The entire campaign lasted two months from the preliminary preparations to the conquest of Jingyuan, mobilized 150,000 combat troops, annihilated nearly 100,000 Dongrong troops, and captured countless victories.
The detailed military report of the entire campaign and the report of the victory have been sent to Fengtian, and Niu Tianci has sent the Huya Army out to explore the location of the old camp in Dongrong. Luo Hongliang has already organized the people and began to rebuild Jingyuan City, after the people of Dayan on the north bank of the Meilin Chu River suffered this catastrophe, the population dropped sharply, it can be said that the family is ruined, destitute, and urgently needs the help of the Far Eastern Governor's Office. Niu Tianci handed over these matters to Ouyang Xiu and Luo Hongliang to deal with, and he ******** formulated a detailed plan by himself, intending to take this great opportunity to eliminate the Far Eastern disaster of the Rong Department in one fell swoop.
With the gradual advance of the Flying Tiger Legion, an encirclement was formed along the line of Hongjila Mountain. The tribes that followed the rebellion of the Rong tribe in the encirclement were all severely attacked, and after Niu Tianci ordered the public to cut down more than a dozen rebel leaders, the remaining leaders were all imprisoned in prisoner of war camps and worked with the Rong prisoners of war to work for the reconstruction of the Far East.
Niu Tianci's move was also out of helplessness, the situation in the Far East was complicated, and the thunderbolt means were also indispensable while pulling over and dividing. Niu Tianci wants to let all the tribes see that all the tribes that support and contribute to Dayan will be rewarded richly, and this reward makes those wavering tribes red-eyed. For those tribes who rebelled with the Rong tribe, they must be suppressed by cruel means, so that those wavering tribes will be frightened and afraid to rebel again.
Niu Tianci's policy of carrots and sticks has achieved very good results, and many wavering tribes have taken the initiative to take refuge and provide a lot of information about the old camp of the Rong tribe. Since you want to take refuge in Dayan, this name is indispensable. After the heaven-sent killing order was issued, the Far Eastern tribes flocked to Hongjila Mountain like sharks smelling blood, and an iron wall seemed to have been built outside Hongjila Mountain in the Far Eastern Section, trapping the remnants of Dongrong in Hongjila Mountain.
Ouyang Xiu called this an iron wall encirclement, Niu Tianci said that this is a cage policy, in short, no matter what it is called, its purpose is to cut off the foundation of the development and growth of the Rong Department, cut off the bloodline of material supply, and let the Rong Department be trapped in the Hongji La Mountain, and finally win without a fight.
This is what Tianci said to the whole army and the people of the Far East, and in private Tianci still has his own thoughts. When he was discussing the future strategic ideas with everyone, Ouyang Xiu raised the question of whether to quickly solve the Rong Department or whether it should be slowly figured out. After a careful and thorough analysis of the Far Eastern form, the situation of the Great Yan Dynasty, and the people's situation, Niu Tianci put forward the strategic guidelines that the Flying Tiger Legion should follow in the future in combination with his own ideas and the layout that had already begun. That is, under the pretext of exterminating the Rong Ministry, he quickly developed and strengthened himself in order to cope with the changing situation of the imperial court. Slowly weaken the strength of the Rong Army, firmly grasp the initiative in the war, and strive to win without a fight.
Niu Tianci said to his subordinates: "If we are compared to cats, then Rongbu is a mouse." It is true that cats and mice are natural enemies, but cats and mice also have a coexisting relationship. Once the cat catches the mouse, what will happen to the cat? The so-called birds hide all the bows, and the rabbits and dead dogs cook this truth. What we need to do now is to use this rat in Rongbu, and we can't turn this rat into a tiger, and we can't kill this rat completely. For the time being, the existence of a certain dangerous Rong unit is beneficial to us. The soldiers can act according to the established plan, which is like a hunt, even if you have the ability to catch all the nets, but there will inevitably be fish that slip through the net, which is also a very good excuse to deal with the accountability of the imperial court. ”
"At present, the strength of the Flying Tiger Legion seems to be a lot, but after being scattered all over the Far East, it seems to be overstretched, so whether it is an iron arm or a cage, the whole army must confine the Rong Department to Hongjila Mountain, and gradually compress its living space, which is like tying the hands and feet of the Rong Army, so that they can't move, and can only shrink in the Hongjila Mountain, waiting for us to eat them in one bite."
"This is a game between a cat and a mouse, and it is also a game of life and death, and it is also related to whether the Flying Tiger Legion can become the first legion of Dayan. Therefore, the commander hopes that everyone will cooperate closely and meticulously implement the established guidelines formulated by the commander to the end. Success or failure is in this move, and between the thought of survival and death, you must be cautious. ”
After the civil and military officials of the Far Eastern Governorate unified their thinking, they carried out various tasks in accordance with Niu Tianci's plan and deployment.
Deep in the Hongjila Mountains, in a Rongbu tribe of only a few hundred people belonging to the Green Wolf Tribe, several tribes are driving more than a dozen wooden towers to build wooden houses. Most of those wooden towers were the people of Heishui and Dayan, all of them were yellow and thin, and their clothes did not cover their bodies. But they had to keep their heads down, because if they paused a little, the whip with the sound of the wind would come over. If you dare to resist, you will be slashed with a bright scimitar.
This tribe originally had a hundred and ten wooden towers, but now only a dozen remain, and the others were either crushed to death or had their heads cut off in the process of resistance. The remaining dozen or so people chose to give in in to the whip and scimitar in the hands of their masters, chose to endure humiliation and steal their lives, and chose to give up their dignity to live.
While resting, a member of the green wolf tribe splashed a pot of leftover meat and bones on the grass in front of the dozen or so wooden towers.
"Eat, you lowly wooden towers, the leader is in a good mood today, and will reward you with meat to eat. Eat quickly, and when you are done eating, go to work, and if anyone dares to be lazy, I will discount his backbone. ”
One by one, the wooden towers pounced on the bones, quickly stuffing them into their mouths and pouting hard, carefully gnawing on the last shreds of flesh left on the bones. The members of the green wolf tribe pointed to the wooden tower that grabbed food, and laughed backwards and forwards, and some of them held bones in their hands to tease the wooden tower that did not grab food, like they were teasing a group of stray dogs.
Whoosh, poof, poof. The young wolf subordinates, who were still elated just now, were now with their eyes wide open, covering their throats with their hands and falling to the ground one by one. The wooden towers huddled together in fright.
I saw dozens of strange people covered in weeds and colorful faces rushing out of the woods with strong crossbows, and the two people in front suddenly stopped and knelt on one knee, and then several strange people picked up a frightened wooden tower in one hand and retreated to the woods.
"Brother Qin, what should I do next?"
"Xiao Zhong, the old rule is that you are left and I am right, see who kills more, go."
Dozens of people divided into two teams and groped towards the tent of the Blue Wolf Department. After a sound of killing, all the young men of the small tribe lay on the ground, and the remaining women and children were driven together in a circle. Qin Suo and Niu Zhong converged and looked at the women and children and bared their teeth.
"Brother Qin, there are so many women and children, what's going on."
"What else can I do, I order you to bring them all back, and I will continue to search."
"Don't bring this, this time it's time for me to search for you to bring someone."
"I'm older than you and a commander, you have to listen to me. Go quickly, and take the cattle and sheep with you. ”
Niu Zhong muttered and grumbled, and ordered the women and children to go with him, and the women and children cried and cried and followed Niu Zhong. A little boy happened to fall in front of Niu Zhong, Niu Zhong picked up the child casually and was about to speak, but he didn't expect a Rongbu woman to rush over like crazy and bite Niu Zhong's wrist. Niu Zhong screamed in pain and let go, and the child fell to the ground. The boy scrambled to his feet, drew a small dagger, and screamed and pounced on Niu Zhong. Niu Zhong reacted quickly, pulled the trigger with a strong crossbow in his hand, and sneered a crossbow arrow nailed to the child's head, at this time a long knife stabbed into the woman's back, the woman collapsed to the ground with a thud, and Niu Zhong's wrist had been bitten to the point of blood.
The women and children fled in all directions, but with the sound of crossbow arrows, they were all shot to the ground.
"Why are you so careless, take the medicine quickly, fortunately it didn't hurt the bones."
"Why are these people in Rongbu like wolves, and I don't want to do anything to that kid."
"This is the case with the Rong Department, our brothers have copied more than a dozen tribes, you see how they treat our people. Therefore, you must not be merciful to the enemy. ”
"But he's still a kid."
"What about the salt-coated swallow children who were hung from wooden poles? They are also children, but how does the Rong Department treat them? He did heavy work while he was alive, and he was made into cured meat when he died. The Rong Department didn't treat our people in Dayan as people, you still pity them, do you have any brains. No wonder Commander Zhao only let our brothers do this job, it's all because you're not ruthless enough. Otherwise, we would have been sent to dig out the wolf's den a long time ago. Remember, no matter how young the child of Rongbu is, he is still a wolf, and if you don't kill him, he will eat you in the future. Remember? ”
"Brother Qin, I remember, let's continue, this time I will not be soft."
"That's right. The commander said: Only when we trample the enemy under our feet and make them tremble when they see us, can you show the slightest mercy. Showing mercy to the enemy on the battlefield is the most brain-dead act. If you were killed by the enemy because you had mercy on him, I would not be sad for you, and I would surely engrave two words on your tombstone, silly fork. Do you want to be a silly fork? ”
Niu Zhong shook his head again and again, Qin Suo patted Niu Zhong's head with satisfaction, and then waved his hand, and the team quickly disappeared into the dense forest.
This kind of situation is played out every day in Hongjila Mountain, and the soldiers of the Flying Tiger Army are quite polite, and the soldiers of the various departments who assist the Flying Tiger Army are even more ruthless than the Flying Tiger Army. This is also the result of the excessive hegemony of the Rong tribe in the Far East, the various tribes are now revenge and revenge, and the scattered small tribes of the Rong tribe have been destroyed, the young and strong have been killed or captured, and the women and children have been treated as slaves by the various tribes. The Rong Division, which had just announced the restoration of the Dongrong Nation, once again fell into a desperate situation.
The camp of the Flying Tiger Legion outside the city of Zhenyuan. Gao Zan was jumping off his horse and running quickly to the tent.
"Cow wait, cow wait. The big thing is not good, and the people rebel. (To be continued.) )