Chapter Eighty-Eight: The First Colonization
May 10.
Pan Chongche led more than 10,000 soldiers of the Black Flag Army in the First Army to assemble in Zhenzhou.
Bai Likang led the cavalry and infantry of the special warfare army to assemble in Shixi Prefecture.
In Zhenzhou Port, one Hezhou load, 12 merchant ships and dozens of medium-sized civilian ships were assembled.
As a result, the first colonial war of the Chu State broke out.
At this time, more than 200,000 refugees had been sent to Longzhou, Siming, Shixi, and Siling Prefecture through the official roads after entering the Chu State, and the materials transported by the official warehouses of the three official roads had exceeded one million catties per day, and the number of refugees transported exceeded 50,000. It was only at this time that the three official roads showed the necessity of their existence.
Wu Dynasty, originally the territory of the Southern Han Dynasty, called Jiaozhou, set up Jiaozhou Jiedu envoy, Jin Tianfu two years (937) Jiaozhou Jiedu made Yang Tingyi Jiaozhou Ya General Jiao Gongxian killed, the second year, Yang Tingyi's subordinate Wu Quan from Aizhou raised troops to attack Jiao Gongxian, Gongxian then asked for help from the Southern Han Dynasty. Before the arrival of the Southern Han army, Wu Quan had already killed Jiao Gongxian and first occupied Jiaozhou and established himself as the envoy of Jiedu. In the third year, the Southern Han reinforcements were defeated by Wu Quan at the Baiteng River, and Liu Hongcao, the king of the Southern Han Dynasty, was killed in battle. After that, Wu Quan was called the king, and the capital was Guluo, which was called the Wu Dynasty.
May 11.
The two armies attacked one after another.
Two days later, more than 10,000 Black Flag troops led by Pan Chongche successfully landed in Hue, and after a little repair, quickly attacked north.
On the fourth day, the cavalry of the Baili Kang Department quickly defeated the 10,000 Wu Dynasty troops who came to meet them after hearing the news, and after joining the infantry, the troops approached the city of Luocheng.
Baili Wuji overestimated the military strength and combat effectiveness of the Wu Dynasty. The combat effectiveness of the Black Flag Army was also underestimated.
Maybe the Black Flag Army will not be able to govern the Wu Dynasty, but in terms of combat effectiveness alone, all the armies in the Central Plains are already out of reach. Not to mention a small Wu Dynasty.
After the soldiers came to the city.
On the fifth day, he did not wait for Bailikang to lead his troops to attack the city.
Wu Quan easily surrendered the city. Because he knew that as long as he surrendered, the suzerainty in the east would issue an edict to confer on him the official title of Jiedu envoy, and the Wu Dynasty was still his, and it was a big deal not to be the king, as long as the army withdrew, it was up to him to say that he would not be the king. This has been the case since the Sui and Tang dynasties.
But what Wu Quan didn't expect was that it was the Chu State that came to attack this time, and the King of Chu Baili Wuji naturally understood the intentions of these small border countries.
And Belikang has undoubtedly expanded this understanding infinitely.
Without waiting for Pan Chongche to attack from Hue to the north, Bailikang had already successfully entered Luocheng.
The first thing he did when he entered the city was to ask Wu Quan to summon all the officials of the Wu Dynasty, and to order the recall of all the county officials of the Wu Dynasty, saying that they were going to give a lecture.
Four days later, when Pan Chongche led his troops to join Bailikang in Luocheng.
All the officials of the Wu Dynasty also arrived, gathered together, a total of six hundred and thirty-seven people.
Bailikang immediately ordered the Black Flag Army to make a move, but Pan Chongche couldn't stop it for a while, but he didn't want to stop it.
As a result, the blood flowed in the palace of the king of Luocheng.
Baili Kang especially did not think it was enough, so he ordered the Black Flag Army to close the city gates, and quickly searched for the Wu Quan clan and the official clan in Luocheng, and all the men who had reached the age of twelve were all killed.
On this day, according to the Black Flag Army, more than 3,000 people were killed.
Day 10.
After the clean-up, Bai Likang discussed with Pan Chongche, and Bai Likang led the special combat army to continue the southern expedition to occupy the city. Pan Chongche quickly divided his troops to control the counties of the Wu Dynasty. At the same time, Tanzhou was summoned and colonized Jiaozhou.
On the thirteenth day, the first batch of 100,000 of the 450,000 refugees assembled in Longzhou, Siming, Shixi, and Siling Prefectures were sent to Jiaozhou, where they were resettled in the three counties that had already been cleaned, with ready-made houses, current land, and ready-made grain under the leadership of more than 10,000 soldiers of Pan Chongche's Black Flag Army. Although with a strong smell of blood.......
On the twentieth day, the second batch of 200,000 people was sent to Jiaozhou. At this time, Bailikang had quickly occupied the city, repeating the scene of Luocheng, which was more thorough.
At this time, the state of Chu had received more than 900,000 refugees. But the speed of the crowd began to slow down.
Colonization, this word that doesn't seem to be unusual, from head to toe, but it is flowing with blood, for Baili Wuji, but there is no choice, the people of the Wu Dynasty and the people of Chu can only choose one of the two, and Baili Wuji naturally chose the people of Chu.
On the thirtieth day, the last batch of 290,000 refugees were sent to Champa for resettlement.
All the refugees immediately began to plant Champa rice, hoping to harvest it in the autumn and no longer go hungry.
The refugees knew in their hearts that they could survive the natural disaster, thanks to the kindness of the king of Chu, the refugees remembered it, and jointly collected the local bronze casting, and erected a bronze statue for Baili Wuji in Luocheng and Linyi City, and inscribed in its statue "In the eighth year of Jin Tianfu, the locust disaster came, and the people who suffered were innumerable, and the king of Chu was merciful, and attacked Jiaozhou to save millions of Li people." ”
This sudden wave of refugees has finally been resolved.
Among them, 600,000 refugees were resettled in Jiaozhou, and 490,000 refugees were resettled in Champang.
In the last period of time, the state of Chu still took in nearly 100,000 refugees one after another, not including the refugees who were secretly bought as slaves by the powerful of the state of Chu.
These 100,000 refugees were resettled in various mines and workshops in the territory of Chu State.
For this reason, the state of Chu spent more than 60 million catties of grain in the official warehouses of various prefectures in this more than a month, transported more than 30 million catties of grain to Jiaozhou and Zhancheng, mobilized tens of thousands of black flag troops to maintain public order and patrol, more than 20,000 soldiers to participate in the battle, and mobilized dozens of sailors and ships, making it difficult to calculate the ordnance, grain and grass.
And the only gain is to resolve this natural and man-made disaster.
End of June.
The king of Chu has an edict of no taboo.
The original Wu Dynasty and the Zhancheng jurisdiction were called Jiaozhou, and Jiaozhou County was set up, and Luocheng was renamed Fenghan, set up as a place of governance, and incorporated into the territory of Chu State.
Ren Pan Chongche was appointed as the pacification envoy of Jiaozhou County, responsible for the defense of the whole territory.
Liu Zhaoyu, one of the eighteen scholars of the former Chu Tiance Mansion, was appointed as the county commander and was responsible for government affairs.
Since then, the territory of Chu has expanded again, occupying the first place in the power of various countries.
In this battle, the powerful mobilization ability of the Chu State and the rapid attack power of the Black Flag Army made the sound of various forces like cicadas. Various powerful forces successively sent envoys to Tanzhou, wanting to make friends with the Chu State, even the Jin and Khitan were no exception.
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By the end of September, the ravaging locust plague had finally begun to subside. In fact, it doesn't matter if it is calmed, just because all the damned are dead, all the who should flee have fled, and the place where the disaster has gone has long been in ruins.
Sang Weihan of the Jin Kingdom repeatedly asked Emperor Shi Chonggui to apologize to the Khitan Dao in humble language, but was often stopped by Jing Yanguang. Shi Chonggui because Jing Yanguang had the merit of supporting him to succeed to the throne, so his favor was higher than that of his ministers; Jing Yanguang was also in charge of the palace guards, so the ministers of the court did not dare to argue with him.
Liu Zhiyuan, the envoy of Hedong Jiedu, knew that Jing Yanguang was bound to rebel, but he was afraid that Jing Yanguang was in power, so he didn't dare to say anything, but he recruited more soldiers and asked to set up more than ten armies such as Xingjie and Wujie to guard against the Khitan.