Chapter 431: Returning to Shun
Ma Chao's words made the leaders of the alien army feel cold, but many people were unconvinced, thinking that Ma Chao was too alarmist and arrogant. The 300,000-strong New Han Army actually dared to speak wildly, saying that he could kill his own army of 400,000 or 500,000 at one time? What's more, there is also the coalition army of the Xiliang princes beside them, with the 300,000 military horses of the New Han Army, how can they do it?
When even the leader of the alien race retorted dissatisfiedly, "Hmph! In that case, why did your New Han Dynasty come to our tribal barracks? To convince us to submit to your new Han dynasty? Now that we have helped your New Han army defeat the coalition army of the Xiliang princes, making my tribe's army a lone army, you dare to speak so loudly, if it was earlier, why didn't you say so? β
"Haha...... It's really a short-sighted person. Hopefully, your two kings are not what you think. Ma Chao looked at Darijitai and Cherifeng and said, "Two kings, what do you say?" β
"Well, this ......" The two kings were a little unsure of how to answer for a moment.
"What General Ma Chao said is not a lie." Jia Xu took over the topic at this time and said: "I am not satisfied with you saying that our Xinhan Army has long been prepared with both hands. Our army of about 300,000 will leave about 100,000 infantry troops to defend the city of Baohan. You have also seen this, if it is not clear, you can enter our position, go into the city to see for yourself, under our arrangement, are you sure to break through the city of Baohan? In addition, 200,000 cavalry troops will be sent to assemble in a hidden place outside the city. I can launch a surprise attack on you at any time. With the combat power of our New Han Army, we can definitely destroy it in one fell swoop by engaging cavalry of your same strength. Well, it's extinguished. Not defeated. Today, have you seen the 100,000 cavalry led by Guo Yan? It didn't take long. So let my army be destroyed, right? A large number of its military horses were captured. Of course, this just shows that my Xinhan army is more effective than you or the military horses of the Xiliang princes. I can't say that I can defeat you completely. β
Jia Xu touched his mustache and said: "I said that I can destroy you, among them, the most important thing is that it is impossible for you to break through my Baohan City in a short period of time, so how much will your army of hundreds of thousands and nearly a million people consume here?" Have you done the math yourselves? Your current bread and grass. How long can it last? What will you do when you run out of food? β
"There are really many ways to defeat you. At its simplest, our 200,000 cavalry can be interspersed on this plain at any time, and can also quickly go around to other places. When the time comes, we will steal your food, and we will put you in a completely passive situation. Perhaps, you can say. You can in turn hunt down and kill our 200,000 cavalry of the Han Army. For this, I can only say hehe. As for the ranger, you should be said to be the ancestor of the ranger tactics, and you should be more aware of the difficulties of dealing with the ranger. How many cavalry are you going to send against my 200,000 rangers? The whole army was dispatched or was it correspondingly dispatched 200,000 horses? Otherwise, now, dispatch your strongest 200,000 elite horsemen. Have a battle with our 200,000 New Han Army cavalry and see who is worried and who is inferior? Life and death have their own destiny? β
"Once your cavalry has suffered any losses. The number of troops will be smaller and smaller, what else will you use to fight our New Han Army? Jia Xu smiled and said to the kings of Di and Qiang: "What's more." Your tribesmen, and the west of the Yellow River, right? My cavalry can go straight for more than 100 or 200 miles, and destroy your people first. What will happen to you then? Baohan City has not been captured for a day, do you dare to go deep into Longxi in the east and south of Xiliang? You know, my new Han army, can also be from Chang'an, a steady stream of troops, when the time comes, will your tribe, like the Huns back then, be annihilated by our clan? β
"Or, will you say, isn't there an army of hundreds of thousands of Xiliang princes? You joined forces with them to send troops, but you still can't capture Baohan City? Yes, you can indeed besiege Baohan City together, but so what? I don't want to say that you can't break it, just say, can we hold it for a month? People dare to say that as long as you hold on for a month, you will fall into a food crisis, and when the time comes, you will collapse without a fight. What's more, my 200,000 cavalry army only needs to operate a little, and a trip to the direction of Jincheng is enough to disintegrate the offensive of the coalition army of the Xiliang princes, if they can destroy their granaries by the way, do they still have the heart to besiege Baohan City? As soon as they retreat, what will happen to your Xiliang tribe army? Don't say, just by you, you can use cavalry to destroy my Baohan City, right? β
Jia Xu was talking alone, but he said that the leader of the alien race in the Xiliang alien army tent was chilling.
For thousands of years, the Han people have always hated these alien races, but they have nothing to do, why is this? It is because they are rangers, they come and go with their war horses, only they repent of plundering the Han people, and there will be no possibility that the Han people will plunder them in turn. However, now there is a cavalry army of 200,000 New Han Army, which is in Xiliang, which is troublesome, if this cavalry of the New Han Army adopts their usual tactics, and uses their own way to attack their current tribal gathering place, it will undoubtedly be a deep blow to them.
What worries them even more is that the cavalry combat power of the New Han Army seems to be more impactful and stronger than that of their tribal cavalry. It is unlikely that they want to destroy the capital. So, what advantages do they have?
In particular, their so-called hundreds of thousands of alien cavalry are just some guerrillas scattered bravely, and they are not worth mentioning at all, how can they confront the cavalry of the New Han Army head-on?
"Then, General Ma Chao, what are you going to do now?" Dariji said with an ugly face.
"If it is according to my personal wishes, in fact, I am willing that our previous agreement will be nullified, and there will be no relationship between us again. Since then, we have been friend or foe! I believe that one day, your Xiliang tribes will sooner or later be wiped out by our New Han Dynasty, just like the Huns of the past. For I have doubts about the humanity of your tribesmen, and I feel that you are really no different from ordinary ferocious, uninhuman aliens. Bloodthirsty and easy to kill, wolves are untamable. We are the New Han Dynasty. Is it because you have nothing to do, and you want to send food and money to your tribe? And try to do it. Worried about the future survival and future development of your tribe? In order to make your tribesmen integrate with our Han people and coexist peacefully? Do you also want to consider preserving the identity of your nation and passing on the cultural essence of our Han people to you? After doing all this, your tribe became stronger, and in the end, you were able to bite us Han people again? For the sake of our Han people? You say. Now, what do we think of you? How do I get along with you again? Ma Chao was a little angry.
"Well, General Ma Chao, we don't deny what you said, but this can't sink a boatload of people with one shot, right? Our tribe has always lived in the wild land, the people. Every day we have to survive in a dangerous environment, so our tribesmen will inevitably have a little more murderous temperament. But these ...... And that's not because of our tribe. The reason why there has not been any civilized education at all? So ......"
Darijitai, who has studied the culture of the Han people to some extent, knows that the culture of the Han people is broad and profound. TongguΓ² learned about the culture of the Han people, which opened his eyes. It is far more than the average person in their tribe. It also allowed him to see his own tribe. If you still live as before, then sooner or later you will die out in the desert. Perhaps, many years later, no one in this world can remember to know that there was once such a tribe that lived among the Han Dynasty. Nothing will be left.
Therefore, he also understood a truth, a truth of civilization inheritance. His tribe must accept the civilization of the Han people, accept the indoctrination, and obtain civilization, so that they can be like the Han people in the middle of China, and the civilization will continue to be inherited for thousands of years.
"Ahem...... What General Ma Chao said may be too heavy. Jia Xu coughed twice more and said, "Otherwise, this incident will be revealed." After all, the Di and Qiang tribes, they have just returned to our New Han Dynasty, this matter, in order not to let the Xiliang princes know the news, it has not been completely made public, many tribal soldiers, they still don't know the details. Now, the coalition army of the Xiliang princes has been defeated, and hundreds of thousands of troops, except for a cavalry army of 100,000 people, are afraid that the rest will die and those who are captured will be captured. He sent us to send troops to recover all parts of Xiliang one by one. Therefore, two great kings, you can openly submit to the affairs of our new Han Dynasty, and then, our new Han Dynasty, will send people to fully govern your tribe and arrange the future development affairs of your tribe. Of course, your tribal army must also be taken over by our New Han Army immediately, reorganized, and officially formed into our New Han Army. As for the affairs of the army, it will be handled by General Ma Chao, how about it? β
Jia Xu's words silenced all the leaders of the alien tribes in the military tent, and the leaders of many alien tribes were also breathing a lot faster.
After all, it was a decisive moment that decided all their tribes. Originally, they didn't expect it to come so soon. But now being questioned by Ma Chao is equivalent to letting them express their position in advance.
Among them, many people also know very well that once they express their position, it means that from now on, they can only truly submit to the New Han Dynasty. The fate of their tribe should be completely in the hands of the New Han Dynasty. Jia Xu talked to them about a lot of detailed things. Therefore, they knew very well that from the moment they officially declared their submission to the New Han Dynasty, they were going to hand over all the power in their hands and embrace their tribal people. When the New Han Dynasty set up an official government in their place, they were no longer the leaders of the tribe. At most, he can only be regarded as a member of the official government of the New Han Dynasty, and can only be regarded as a relatively famous patriarch in the clan. It is no longer possible to call on the tribes to assemble into an army, and it is no longer possible to raise troops at will.
However, in their hearts, if they really think about the future of their tribe, they will feel that it is their best choice to sincerely submit to the New Han Dynasty from now on. Otherwise, their tribe would still be struggling and even having difficulty surviving.
In fact, most of the tribal leaders are worried about one problem, that is, the strength of the New Han Army that they have seen today. I was thinking about whether their tribal army would have a chance of winning if it really fought with the New Han army.
They thought of the fierceness of the crossbow of the New Han Army, the majesty of the New Han Army's cavalry when they charged, and the cavalry formation, but they did not have the alien cavalry with scattered military discipline. They thought about it, if they were allowed to face the New Han Army head-on, would they be the enemy of the New Han Army? Of course. Also, let them see it. Those of the New Han Army are much better than their weapons and equipment, these. It's not something they can have. In the face of such a ferocious and powerful New Han Army, is it still possible for them to compete with the New Han Army?
In particular, now that the coalition of the Western Liang princes has been destroyed. If they don't submit to the New Han Dynasty now, then how long can they rely on their hundreds of thousands of cavalry troops to deal with the New Han Army? In the end, was it really like the Huns, the overlord of the desert, and was finally wiped out by the New Han army?
These alien tribal leaders, no matter how barbaric. No matter how unclear the reason, however, they can also figure it out, and now it seems that they really have no choice.
After a long time, Darijitai and Cheriphon glanced at each other, each took a deep breath, and tacitly made a decision.
They unanimously took off the feathered crest hat they wore on their heads. After looking at it carefully, he was a little reluctant to put it on the table.
The two of them smiled knowingly, walked out from behind the main case, and sorted out their clothes separately. walked in front of Jia Xu, and then knelt down without hesitation, bowed and said: "The leaders of the Di (Qiang) tribe, Darijitai and Chelifeng." He was willing to lead Di and Qiang to submit to the New Han Dynasty and obey the orders of the New Han Dynasty. I will never rebel against the Han again, if I go against that. You will teach me the Di and Qiang tribes, and they will be punished by heaven! Please Lord Sikong of the New Han Dynasty, Mr. Jia Xu accept us and others to return to the court sincerely, and report to the imperial court. β
The rest of the ministry leaders, even if there are still people who have not been able to make up their minds and have not yet figured it out. However, the two kings have already abandoned their crowns and returned to the New Han Dynasty, where do they dare to hesitate anymore? Hurriedly stood up, walked behind the two kings, knelt down to Jia Xu in unison, and declared his return to the New Han Dynasty.
Seeing this, Jia Xu was overjoyed, glanced at Ma Chao, gave him a look, and then stepped forward quickly and helped the two kings up.
"Haha, two kings, there is no need to make such a big gift, as you wish, from now on, we Di, Qiang, and Han are one family, and your tribesmen, in the future, will also be the people of my new Han Dynasty and a member of our Chinese nation. After our Di, Qiang, and Han dynasties, we share honor and disgrace, life and death depend on each other, I am rich and you have it, I am poor and you are cheap. I hope that in the future, we can work together for common development, and strive for the revitalization of the Han Dynasty and the revitalization of China! β
"Thank you, Lord Sikong. After us, we will be a family, regardless of each other, we will be released, and from then on, we will obey the orders of the New Han Dynasty. β
"Good, good! Well, from today onwards, you will be officially returned to the New Han Dynasty, after the Xiliang is completely recovered, after the affairs of the Xiliang are dealt with, all of you Xiliang clan leaders will follow Jia into Beijing, go to meet the Queen Mother, Taifu, I believe that our lord Taifu Liu Yi will not treat you badly. Jia Xu said.
"Okay, then, let me and others work together to recover the entire territory of Xiliang."
Now that they have sworn to return to the New Han Dynasty, the tribal leaders have also let go, and they have no longer thought about it. After all, these aliens are not completely without any merit, they are very serious about their oaths and will do what they say. Jia Xu also understands this.
Next, the two kings of Di and Qiang, together with Jia Xu, Ma Chao, and Wen Chou, led a group of tribal leaders to the square in their camp and announced their decision in public. Then, he immediately handed over the military power of their tribe to Ma Chao, and let Ma Chao start to reorganize their tribal army.
And according to what Jia Xu told them before, and how to help these foreign tribes through this difficult winter. Jia Xu believes that since their tribes have come out of their hidden tribal settlements and gathered here, it is not appropriate for them to disperse when it is about to snow and enter the cold winter. For the time being, let them come to Baohan City first and camp outside the city, if their tribe still has people, if their supplies are enough for them to stay in the tribe for the winter, then forget it, if the supplies are not sufficient, you can now send people to send supplies back to their tribe, or bring their tribesmen.
Jia Xu planned to take advantage of this winter to communicate with these aliens and let them know more about the policies of the New Han Dynasty. Then, in the spring of the following year, when the snow and ice melt and their tribes want to return to their tribal settlements, they can send people to their places to set up government offices and make arrangements for their future development.
In Xiliang, although the climate and environment are harsh, it is not completely impossible to plant, as long as the investigation is clear, then they can organize their aliens to engage in some planting work, such as some melons and fruits. Those who really don't want to engage in planting can continue to live a life of herding as they usually do. However, it will not be their aimless grazing, nor will it be their random grazing, it will be planned and regular grazing. In addition, they will also be protected by the New Han Army to ensure their property. In particular, the cattle and sheep herded by their clan will be organized by the government to organize some merchants to reasonably exchange with them the living materials they need, so as to ensure that they will not be subjected to heavy exploitation as before, and to ensure that they can get the value they deserve.
These works have already been used for reference, and it is not too difficult to promote them.
Jia Xu believes that these alien races, after knowing that they have surrendered to the New Han Dynasty, their lives and survival are guaranteed, so they will soon sincerely accept the culture of the Han Dynasty and slowly be Sinicized and educated. (To be continued......)