Chapter 203: Withdrawal of Troops
Li Guo still wrote a review in the end, if he didn't write that these people couldn't get up on their knees, Li Guo couldn't help it, it seems that sometimes soft knives are much more powerful than hard knives. *.
Li Guo had no choice but to pick up the pen, write hundreds of words freely, and read it out loud. The content of the review is nothing more than never being reckless in the future, and never going to the front to kill the enemy in person.
Although this situation was a bit embarrassing, Li Guo was grateful for everyone's loyalty, but he was not angry.
After Li Guo finished reading the review, everyone stood up one after another and confessed to Li Guo again and again.
Sun Dengke opened his mouth even wider, and praised again and again, "Our tiger master can change his mistakes when he knows his mistakes, it is really a saint who came into the world, and there are no two people in the world!" ”
Li Guo scolded with a smile: "Get out of the way!" You shouted the happiest just now, don't you want to go back to farming? I'm ready! ”
Sun Dengke's head shook like a rattle, and he said repeatedly, "I didn't say it." "I turned my face and didn't admit it.
After this farce, Liu Tichun and others began to report the damage in South Taiyuan. The walls around the North Gate and the nearby dwellings were the most severely damaged, as it was the place where the fighting was most intense.
Because Li Guo's troops had sufficient firepower and strong formation, they only killed hundreds of people when they entered the city, and because the morale of the Houli soldiers in the city collapsed, it had evolved into a one-sided massacre, and the Houli soldiers were killed as many as forty or fifty thousand.
Fortunately, the residents of the city were so frightened that they hid in their homes after the army attacked the city, and not many died.
Zhao Youbin has already sent people to post notices everywhere. First, all the remaining soldiers must come and surrender before sunset tomorrow, otherwise they will be killed if they are found. Second. It's Anmin. It's just that ordinary people don't have to worry, the battle is over, and the tiger master has the virtue of a good life. Not ready to kill anymore. Families continue to live as usual.
Of course, at the beginning, the people didn't know who the tiger master was. But it doesn't matter, Sun Dengke has a way, and he will know it when the small meeting of the conference is held in the future.
Moreover, Li Guo saw that people in this era were very superstitious. It once occurred to me whether it was possible to use the power of religion to conquer the world. Of course, a religion has limitations. Is it possible to rub all religions together?
Li Guo told Sun Dengke about this, Sun Dengke has always taken it to heart, and this time he captured Nantaiyuan City, which is a big city. There are two or three hundred thousand inhabitants. Sun Dengke decided to take out the sect he founded for Li Guo and try it out and practice his hands.
The name of the sect founded by Sun Dengke is very strange and awkward, it is called 'Confucian Amitabha Buddha Taoism Natural Allah God White Tiger Great God Sect'!
After Li Guo heard this name, he frowned, "What a mess!" ”
"No mess!" Sun Dengke explained, "Confucianism is Confucianism, Amitabha Buddha is Buddhism, and Taoism is naturally Taoism." ”
Li Guo shook his head and didn't care. As long as it's good for you, love is what to call it.
But for now. Sun Dengke helped Zhao Youbin start to sort out the household registration and compile the book, which is very important. Because how many people are in the city, how many men, women, and children there are, and what they do, we must understand it clearly, and after figuring it out, it will be easy to manage.
Fortunately, with the assistance of Ruan Zhengming, the original envoy of the Mo Dynasty, he helped find the household registration in the household registration department, which saved a lot of work, and the next thing to do is just check.
Li Guo saw that Ruan Zhengming was doing things quite safely, so he called him, "This South Taiyuan City includes the entire surrounding administration, I want you to manage it, I don't know if you want to, I don't know if you can manage it?" ”
South Taiyuan is one of the few big cities in that area, of course Ruan Zhengming is willing to take care of it, Ruan Zhengming quickly knelt down for Li Guo and nodded again and again.
So, after more than two months of continuous rectification, South Taiyuan City finally returned to normal, and a white tiger flag was raised at the head of the city, marking that South Taiyuan City was Li Guo's territory.
Li Guo's purging of the troops was not to continue the offensive, but to return to Guangxi, because there was no need to fight, because the court was subdued.
The Zheng lord of the Houli Dynasty now regrets it, if he had agreed to Li Guo's request and given him one million taels of silver, it would have been over, but now it is good, Zheng Miao's elite troops have been wiped out, and Zheng Miao's whereabouts are unknown. Seeing that Li Guo was about to send troops south, the remaining Houli soldiers couldn't defeat Li Guo.
Therefore, Lord Zheng hurriedly sent people to sue for peace, willing to pay a million taels of silver every year. Although one million taels of silver is not a small amount, it will cause a great burden on the finances of the Later Dynasty, but at least it will not be destroyed.
Li Guo readily agreed to Lord Zheng's request.
Although this is a bit anticlimactic, it is also a helpless move. It's not that Li Guo doesn't want to fight, but if he continues to fight like this, the battle line is getting longer and longer, and Li Guo's tens of thousands of people are nothing at all. If we continue to fight, we may run out of troops.
Therefore, Li Guo can only borrow the slope to get off the donkey and withdraw the troops! However, when Li Guo's strength increases in the future, he will still come back. Therefore, Li Guo still occupied South Taiyuan as one of his bases.
The heroic and warlike Zhu Huan was left in South Taiyuan by Li Guo. Li Guo left Zhu Huan with more than 2,000 elite soldiers, 10,000 soldiers of the Mo Dynasty detachment and 20 war elephants, responsible for the defense of the entire Southern Taiyuan Province, including Nantaiyuan. It is impossible for these people to invade, but it should not be a big problem to protect themselves.
Five hundred generals were left behind by Ruan Zhengming, and Li Guo kept his promise, making these people become petty officials such as township chiefs, security chiefs, and lieutenant chiefs, and ordered them to be hereditary. Although the official is small, he has a fixed income every month and can extend his children and grandchildren, so these generals are grateful to Li Guo.
In this way, the civil official of the entire South Taiyuan Province is Ruan Zhengming, and the military general is Zhu Huan. Administratively, because those loyal generals are grassroots officials, the entire province of Nan Taiyuan has always been very peaceful.
So, Li Guo began to return to Guangxi.
When passing by Gaoping, Mo Zhengkuan of the Mo Dynasty saw Li Guo collect his troops, and he was in a hurry.
"General Li, didn't you say that you would continue to fight south? How did you collect the troops? Mo Zhengkuan asked.
Li Guo was also a little embarrassed to break his promise, so he said to Mo Zhengkuan, "It's not that I won't fight, you see that I established a base in Nantaiyuan, just to attack the south in the future, and now I only go back because I have something important!" You know that the Houli Dynasty gave us a million taels of silver, but in fact, they have a request, and they want us to destroy you! ”
"Huh?!" Mo Zhengkuan was taken aback.
Li Guo hurriedly patted Mo Zhengkuan's shoulder cordially, "At that time, I was asked to veto, I told them that Mo Zhengkuan is my friend, not only can I not beat him, but I also have to protect him!" ”
Mo Zhengkuan relieved his heart at this time, and then asked, "What about the annual salary of 500,000 taels?" ”
"We're friends, what money are we talking about?" Li Guo smiled and said, "It's just that you want to protect your children and grandchildren from sitting in your place safely, or give me two pieces of silver as much as you want, so that when the time comes, you will have something to do here, and the soldiers are not willing to come to give you their lives!" ”
Mo Zhengkuan thought about it, gritted his teeth, and said, "Okay, then I will give you 200,000 taels of silver every year!" ”
"Okay!" Li Guo immediately promised, "It's okay for you to do this, you can spend all your time drinking, and we will help you take care of safety!" There was a little less silver, but I didn't care, who called us friends! ”
Li Guole smiled, like a big bad wolf! (To be continued......)