Chapter 534: Meeting with Shamoko
The military discipline of the barbarians is relatively loose, and there are no rules for their large camp formations, and they do not talk about formations, but they are scattered according to the tribe's affiliation, but they have a lot of local methods to arrange traps and defensive barriers, and if you only talk about the defense of the camp itself, it is even stronger.
However, such an arrangement was not very effective in actual combat, and the scattered battalions led to uncoordinated movements of soldiers and soldiers, and there were many flaws, and the comprehensive defense was weak.
The day after Zhou Yu said goodbye and left, Wang Xu arrived at the front camp with illness, and after a brief understanding of the current battle situation between the two armies, he sent Huang Xu to rush to the barbarian village with his own handwritten letter and shoot it with a bow and arrow.
Originally, because of the reason of hurrying, Wang Xu did not recover and was very uncomfortable, and invited him to meet the next day, but he didn't think that Shamoke was more anxious, Huang Xu had just returned to the camp to resume his life, and the barbarian's reply had been shot into the camp, and the soldiers picked it up and reported it, saying that Shamoke had already brought more than 100 horsemen over.
With a wry smile, Wang Xu could only drag his tired body and take the generals and dozens of horsemen out of the camp.
The two sides met in an open area, more than 100 meters away, Wang Xu was not wearing armor, only wearing a green coat, coughing constantly, looking at the rough Shamoke from afar.
The first impression is that it is strong, and it is also sitting on a war horse, its body is far superior to the guards behind it, because it is wearing simple animal skin light armor, from the exposed part, you can see the high bulging muscles, but maybe it is too young, although its appearance is rough, but there is a sense of immaturity.
However, the rough temperament on its body is very strong, and it feels like a fierce beast when standing on the battlefield.
"General Wang is here!" Shamoko broke the silence with a loud roar.
Wang Xu rode forward without hurrying, and said calmly: "General Ben is here!" ”
Shamoko looked at it for a moment. The evil qi on his body has obviously converged. The tone has also slowed down a lot. It's just with a strong resentment: "General Wang, our barbarian sons have always respected the general as a god, why did the general want to kill the king of our clan by despicable means?" Take away my clan's holy relics totem? ”
"Ahem...... Ahem! Wang Xu coughed a little, but still calmly raised his horsewhip, pointed at him and asked, "What evidence do you have to prove that this general has done this?" However, this general has always treated you kindly, helped you out of the hard life, ordered people to teach you techniques, and taught you books. I have given you riches, but you have gathered so many people to rebel, how sad is it for General Ben? ”
"I know the cause and effect, but does this general make you so distrustful? If so, why have you been treated like that all these years? You have not carefully verified, so you gathered the people to rebel like this, can you know how chilling the general is? ”
The barbarian side was suddenly silent, and everyone looked at Shamoko, if it was someone else. Then they would probably have been agitated and scolded. How can I finish it? But in the face of Wang Xu's personal questioning, they couldn't open their mouths.
Shamoke was also unwilling, gritted his teeth, and explained: "General, I don't want to believe it, but the facts are in front of me, and the events of that day are already clear to the generals, no matter what, they must wait for me to give an explanation today." ”
"Ahem...... Ahem! Wang Xu looked at each other coldly and said sharply: "Explain? Yes, I should give you an explanation, for this explanation, this general was hit by three arrows in his body and almost died, and now he is even injured to meet here. ”
As he spoke, he had already ordered: "Come on, bring out the evidence!" ”
As the words spoke, when there was silence on the barbarians' side, the accompanying soldiers had already carried many corpses to the two armies, and there were also living people with coarse cloths in their mouths, and there were also barbarian totems more than half a meter high.
Without waiting for the shocked Shamoke to speak, Wang Xu had already answered again: "You can see the appearance of these corpses yourself, check for yourself where they come from, the living are also here, just ask what you want, and the totem is also placed here." What should be said, explained, and done, General Ben has done it, and it can be regarded as benevolent and righteous, and now it is you who give General Ben an explanation. ”
Shamoke also has doubts in his heart, otherwise how could he be so restrained, he has heard a lot of rumors recently, and now that Wang Xu is putting these out, he can understand it at a glance.
For there were a few of these people whom he did know, the same people who had attacked and killed them in the first place.
Wang Xu's voice sounded again: "There is Zhang Zhujian next to him, and there are identity explanations and portraits of these people on it, if you don't believe it, you can send someone to Yizhou to verify it." Ordinary people can't find out, but Zhao Yun and others should know lightly! ”
Shamoko did not speak for a long time, but suddenly turned over and dismounted, stepped forward and picked up the roster, and then crushed one of the captives to the ground, and asked angrily: "Write, whose order are you?" Write, give you a good time, if you don't write, then I'll cut off your toes now, and chop it into fine meat with a knife! ”
Of course, this person Shamoke knew, and after being tortured by the spy, it was confirmed that this person was one of the participants in the original ambush.
The man laughed miserably, he had long been tortured by the spy to the point that he was not human, he just wanted to die quickly, and his hands trembled and he wrote on the land: "Yizhou! In order to provoke the rebellion of the barbarian king, the person in charge was Zhao Wei, and the corpse was beside him. ”
Witnessing this qiē, Shamoke "pedaled" and retreated several large steps, he understood that it didn't matter whether he sent someone to confirm it or not, and the shape had developed to the point where it was now, it really couldn't be fake, and it couldn't be fake, so he suddenly roared with grief and indignation: "Ah......hhhhhhh
With a flash of the sword, the man's head had been cut off alive, and blood splashed all over him, but he didn't dare to raise his head.
Wang Xu looked at it calmly, and only after a long time did he shout: "Shamoke, do you know how many people you killed in vain on your impulse?" No matter what nationality it is, they are all the people of Jingzhou and the people of this general, but now you may give me an explanation, give them an explanation? ”
Guo Jia shouted from the rear at the right time: "Shamoke, you and the other rebels, do you think that Jingzhou is powerless to pacify?" It was the lord who loved Li'er and others, intending to resolve the conflict, so he personally pursued the traitor, and almost died because of it, and now he also came with serious injuries. ”
"As early as back then, he was even more ungrateful to override public opinion, regardless of the opposition of the imperial court, and resolutely sought a place for the survival of your and other ethnic groups, giving you wealth and prosperity, but you repaid the lord like this, and were you ungrateful?"
This rebuke made Shamoke speechless, stood stunned for a long time, suddenly threw away his weapon, knelt on the ground and wept: "The general has given glory to my clan. Our people also love generals. Honorable as the Lord. This time it has nothing to do with the people, it's all my fault, after going to Yizhou to verify, Shamoke is willing to sacrifice his head to atone for his sins! I beg the Holy Lord to forgive my people, and I am willing to fight for the Holy Lord in the north and south to repay the kindness of the Holy Lord! ”
With his words, more than 100 barbarian warriors over there dismounted. They all knelt on the ground and shouted: "I beg the Holy Lord to forgive my clan, and I am willing to fight for the Holy Lord in the north and south to repay the kindness of the Holy Lord!" ”
"I beg the Holy Lord to forgive my clan, and I am willing to fight for the Holy Lord in the north and south to repay the kindness of the Holy Lord!"
"I beg the Holy Lord to forgive my clan, and I am willing to fight for the Holy Lord in the north and south to repay the kindness of the Holy Lord!"
The successive chanting was deafening, Wang Xu stood quietly on horseback, his eyes slowly swept over the barbarian warriors kneeling on the ground, and waved his hand for a long time: "Get up!" General Ben doesn't want to be in the same room. There is a saying that I said in the early years, you are also the people of Jingzhou. The same people under my rule. ”
"This time, I can forgive you once, but if you do it again, it will inevitably abandon you forever, and you will no longer be sheltered, and you will return to your barren mountains to fend for yourself, and return to the days of oppression by the Han Dynasty in the past!"
Shamoke, who was kneeling on the ground, raised his head, stared at Wang Xu with blurred teary eyes, and shouted: "My clan is willing to serve the Holy Lord forever!" ”
The warriors who followed then bowed down: "Serve the Lord forever!" ”
Wang Xu waved his hand, didn't say anything more, turned his horse's head and said: "Shamoke, quickly verify, I hope Jingnan will quickly stabilize and stop killing each other." ”
"Obey!" Shamoko had room to crawl again.
The barbarian warriors did not slowly get up until Wang Xu's figure disappeared from view, and returned to the camp one by one with their heads down.
Wang Xu's meeting with Shamoke was very easy, and the quelling of the barbarian rebellion was already a foregone conclusion, but the high-level Wenchen generals in Jingzhou did not have any joy, because the loss was very large, not to mention that it hurt the muscles and bones, but it was painful enough.
This is because except for a few people, most people don't know that Wang Xuqi's poison has not been solved, otherwise they don't know what it will become.
Dian Wei and the others who knew about it had been sternly instructed not to tell anyone anything about the strange poison that had not yet been solved, so even Guo Jia thought that Zhang Zhongjing and Hua Tuo had rejuvenated and solved the poison.
Since the Jingnan barbarians have been basically pacified, Hua Tuo and Zhang Zhongjing continue to urge Wang Xu to return to Xiangyang, his current body is still very weak, and he needs a long time to recuperate, especially the poison in his body, and it will take several courses of treatment to completely suppress it.
In the face of two persistent famous doctors, Wang Xu had no choice but to go back as he said.
Liu Min's side, because he found out the spies, he finally had an excuse to spare his life, Wang Xu just punished him for dereliction of duty, sentenced him to 20 military sticks, and removed him from his post, and restricted him from leaving his place of residence for five years, which was regarded as a distribution, but allowed him to return to his hometown Lingling Xiangxiang to settle down.
This is already a very light punishment, after all, his negligence indirectly induced a barbarian rebellion, causing great losses, and the whole Jingzhou is staring at it. Liu Min is not a fool, of course he understands that this is Wang Xu's intention to protect him, so he calmly accepted the twenty military sticks and returned to his hometown.
However, the guilt of his concubine Zhang was reported by Jiang Wan in person, asking for mercy.
Wang Xu learned from the letter that the cause and effect were also embarrassed, he had a different opinion on the concubine, and finally promised not to be executed, and sent her to serve as a conscription, and for life as the general's mansion Tuntian, and according to the custom, she was allowed to find a husband in the tuntian to marry and give birth, and her children were like ordinary people.
These people who were assigned to conscription, except that they could not leave the development of the land during the service period, had to work for the general's palace, and were only paid rations to individuals every month, and they were no different from ordinary people, and they could marry the local people who were willing to do so, or they could also be fellow servicemen.
If both of them are in forced labor, then they will receive a child's rations for each additional work they do, and the child will grow up to be treated as a common man.
The main purpose of this practice is to enrich the population, the past forced labor system is too harsh, in this war era, the maintenance of the population is the top priority, he does not want to reproduce the late Three Kingdoms thousands of miles of uninhabited scene.
And the loss of freedom, with no way forward, is already a severe enough punishment to serve as a deterrent, like a lifelong servitude, unless his children make great contributions in the future, such as sufficient military merits, etc., otherwise they will live like this for the rest of their lives......
After quickly dealing with this qiē, Wang Xu finally set off to return to Xiangyang to heal in the continuous chatter of Zhang Zhongjing and Hua Tuo!
ps: The New Year is approaching, there are more and more broken things, my head is a mess, I can't code a word when I came back last night, how long have I been stunned, I need time to adjust, and I will be more today! Strive for three more tomorrow! (To be continued......)