Chapter 106: The Great Army Returns to the Dynasty
Lian Ming surrendered, and with his remaining 80,000 rebel troops, he returned to the Beichen Kingdom. When Wang Ping led an army of more than 100,000 to arrive, this counterinsurgency war was over.
Then Wang Ping and Da Zhuang scolded Luo Cheng fiercely. People who haven't been through this kind of thing can't imagine how they feel. Originally, Zhang Bao, who had just exterminated the Yellow Turban, was planning to lead an army of 180,000 to continue to exterminate Lian Ming.
In this way, everyone will not only complete the task of their boss perfectly, but also get a lot of credit. It's a pity that Luo Cheng's grandson is really a super bastard. The big guy has just arrived in Anping City, and this goods has actually packed up Lian Ming.
In one breath, everyone's beautiful fantasy was completely exploded, and even the general Wang Ping was now very black-faced. However, it is also said that in the entire process of counterinsurgency, General Wang Da took a few brothers and 200,000 infantry, and only destroyed two groups of rebels. However, looking at Luo Cheng, he took 20,000 cavalry by himself, and directly wiped out the two groups of rebels with ease.
In this war, all the limelight was taken up by Luo Cheng, and it is estimated that the credit has also increased greatly. It is impossible for a few people not to complain in their hearts, after all, Luo Chengzhan has more credit, and the big guy has less.
Looking at Luo Cheng and Lian Ming in front of him, Wang Ping said leisurely: "Luo Cheng, you kid has already advanced to two levels, so I don't know how to give this credit to my brother!" ”
"Hey, General! I didn't want to pick it up alone, but Brother Lian and I happened to meet on the road. Then, under my advice, Brother Lian surrendered to my Beichen Army! You really don't blame me! Luo Cheng said with a smile. The credit for his counterinsurgency this time is definitely not comparable to Wang Ping and a few others.
After that, after a few casual chats, a few people began to discuss the matter of returning to Donglin City. Now that the rebel forces in the entire Beichen Kingdom have been wiped out, it is not interesting for hundreds of thousands of troops to stay on this plain, so it is better to go home and rest for two days.
According to Wang Ping's meaning, he packed up his things at noon today, and then returned to Donglin City along the road of Kells City. It's just lunchtime, and if you leave after eating in a while, you will probably be able to have dinner when you arrive in Kells City. Afterwards, rest the night in Kells City. The next day, the hundreds of thousands of prisoners of Kells City were taken to Donglin City along the way, and it was expected that the army would be able to reach Donglin City before dark tomorrow.
After lunch on this day, Wang Ping ordered a large number of sergeants to start packing up their things and prepare for the return of the class. When the 200,000 big-headed soldiers heard this, they were so happy that they almost stripped naked and danced. After all, in the nearly ten days since the suppression of the rebels, hundreds of thousands of troops are either fighting or marching. Even an iron-clad man can't resist it.
After receiving the military order to go home, the soldiers looked very energetic when they packed up their things. After working, my legs were no longer sore, my waist was no longer painful, and it didn't take long for the 200,000 army to pack up all the things. Subsequently, under the leadership of General Wang Ping, 200,000 horses and more than 80,000 troops rolled up the yellow dust in the sky.
At five o'clock in the afternoon, it was just getting a little dark. Hundreds of people in the city of Kells began to cook delicious dinners in their own homes. Some of the little kids haven't come home yet, and they're still playing playfully on the street. There are also some old people, who get together to play chess and Go. In the originally bustling market, there were only a few vendors who were packing up their things and preparing to go home to serve the dinner cooked by their daughter-in-law.
In the barracks, training has also stopped. Many soldiers gathered together, eating and breaking the news about the various pokes they had seen today. The captives who were held together also had a better meal than before. White steamed buns, thick and fragrant rice porridge, and a bowl of bleached meat and vegetable soup. Such good food, after this group of captives came to the Beacon Fire Continent, it was the first time they had eaten it.
So, hundreds of thousands of captives chewed steamed buns with a little sweet silk, and then took a bite of the broth. The taste was so refreshing that I almost didn't bite my tongue off.
There is no doubt that all the soldiers in the Beichen Army will have boiled broth every night. Don't talk about luxury, because it's pork!
Xiao Chen originally planned to let the soldiers under his command have meat to eat every day, because the soldiers only eat rice and pasta every day, and their nutrition can't keep up with the consumption of training at all. In this case, it is good to eat meat without high nutritional value, and even the most elite soldiers must be discharged from the army after the age of thirty-five. The strength of these soldiers will gradually decrease due to the years of intense training, and by that time, maybe the strength will not be as strong as the young men who have newly enlisted in the army.
However, the retirement of veterans is always a time when the strength of a country's army is greatly reduced. A large number of veterans were discharged, and the army lost soldiers with rich combat experience. Just relying on some recruits who have little experience in the battle formation can't do it, there is no way, Xiao Chen has no choice but to supplement the nutrition of the soldiers.
When it comes to meat, the most nutritious first choice is beef! However, in a blink of an eye, Xiao Chen filtered the beef. The current population of Nima, Donglin County and Annan County is only a few million or a few million, and the number of households is only 370,000. In this way, the number of cattle owned is only more than 300,000, which is only one cow per household.
And these cattle are important livestock needed by the people of the whole country for farming, and whoever dares to kill cattle will be guilty of breaking the law and will be imprisoned. Although Xiao Chen is the king, Xiao Chen still doesn't dare to do such a thing as killing cattle. Killing cattle by yourself is completely breaking the foundation of Beichen Kingdom. In ancient times, the foundation of a country, population was not the most important, but food was the most important foundation.
Even if you have a large population, but there is no food, it is strange that those mud legs don't make you! But as long as you have food in your hands, the population will soon increase. Therefore, Xiao Chen could only dispel the idea of eating cows by himself. Besides, those 300,000 cows are enough for what? He has an army of nearly 500,000 under his hands, which is not enough to eat for three months.
After the beef is excluded, it is lamb. However, it seems that there are not as many sheep in Beichen as there are cattle, so it is directly excluded. In the end, the only choice was pork. In fact, pork is also a very good type of meat, which is very rich in protein.
The most important thing is that in Beichen Kingdom, almost 80% of the families will raise a few pigs. First, pigs are not picky eaters, they eat them whole. Moreover, the growth cycle of pigs is very fast, a newborn piglet, fed for three or four months, more than 100 catties is a small meaning. In addition, the common people who are not wealthy in their families can raise a few pigs, make some chaff and water every day, and after a few months, they will be able to pull the pigs out and sell them for money. During the Chinese New Year, it is also a pleasure to slaughter one and take it to a full mouth.
When Xiao Chen went to inquire about the price of pigs, the data reported by the guards made Xiao Chen's jaw drop on the spot. It's so cheap! Nima, it's so cheap!
A fat pig of 300 catties is only 1,000 yuan, 800 yuan for 200 catties, and 500 yuan for 100 catties. Looking at the price of cattle, an old cow is 15,000 yuan, a strong cow is 20,000 yuan, and a new cow is 10,000 yuan. The price of sheep is cheaper than that of cattle, but it is still around 3,000 to 5,000.
Look at how clever Ben's decision was. So, Xiao Chen gave an order. The imperial court purchased domestic pigs throughout the country and recruited 3,000 pig feeders at the same time. At the same time, the price of pigs was raised a little, 800 yuan for 100 catties, 1,000 yuan for 200 catties, and 1,200 yuan for 300 catties. Raising prices and buying a huge number of pigs is to arouse the interest of domestic people in raising pigs. If the price is high, it will naturally make money, no!
Subsequently, Xiao Chen thought about it, it was not good to just replenish pork. After all, even if you make pork delicious, but you have been eating pork for months. When you see pork, you are lucky if you don't spit it out!
Fish! Marine fish! It has become another goal of Xiao Chen. The geographical advantage of facing the sea on three sides is unfavorable, and it is really a big loss.
As a result, fish and meat also became a military supply.
Just as the big guy was eating, there was a sound of drums on the city gate. Tens of thousands of big-headed soldiers had no choice but to put down the delicious food in their hands, stood up and got into their tents. Then, within a while, more than 20,000 soldiers were already dressed neatly. After that, the two co-presidents used rock-paper-scissors to determine the job of guarding the prisoners.
One of the co-presidents came to the city wall after winning and took a look, Huo! I saw a large piece of red paint in the distance, like a red dragon. Countless armies lined up in long columns, and countless banners fluttered in the wind, adding dragon fins to the red dragon.
If it weren't for the fact that the soldiers of this army were all wearing the red armor of their own soldiers, maybe this Lord Xiezong would have been scared down directly! However, the only person who can lead the nearly 200,000 Beichen army now is Wang Ping, the general of the dynasty.
As a small lieutenant, he is naturally nothing in front of the general. So, in a hurry, the co-president ran to the gate of the city, stood still, and waited for the arrival of the army.
Wang Ping did not let the army enter Kells City, after all, with the area of Kells City, it was still more troublesome to plug 200,000 troops. In the end, only a few important people such as General Wang Da and Hussar General Luo Cheng entered Kells City, as well as their personal guards. The rest of the men and horses were all camped outside the city.
After a night of joy, the next morning, Wang Ping and others got up early. Then, he began to dispatch troops and horses everywhere, and the 80,000 troops and 140,000 prisoners had to be sorted out well, which was quite troublesome.
At about six o'clock in the morning, several people got up. But it wasn't until eight o'clock that all the prisoners and surrenders were arranged. The captives were all tied together one by one with ropes, and the surrender was merely confiscated of weapons and armor. After all, the surrender of the army is voluntarily surrendered, so it must be treated a little favorably!
After all the captives were taken care of, the army of 220,000 set out again. The 220,000 Beichen army, plus 220,000 surrenders and prisoners, a huge army of 400,000 people appeared on the vast land.
Countless people lined up in a neat line, pulling a full distance of more than ten miles, and the long queue was no longer enough to describe these. Because, it seems that the long dragon has also become a small dragon in front of this team.
20,000 cavalry, 60,000 sword and shield soldiers, 70,000 Changge soldiers, and 70,000 archers constitute the most powerful conquest army in Beichen at present. The 140,000 captives and the 80,000 surrenders all show how sharp the blade of the Beichen Kingdom is.
When I arrived at Donglin City, the sky was still clear. All this is thanks to those big-headed soldiers, as soon as they heard that they were going home, these big-headed soldiers, one by one, were more than good. Not to mention the fast running, even those captives and surrendered troops were sped up by them. It was precisely because of this that the original plan was to return to Donglin City almost at night. But now, it seems that it is only three or four o'clock in the afternoon.
Ten miles outside Donglin City, you can see the majestic Donglin City. While the land area is expanding, there are more and more people living in Donglin City, and the local tyrants are also drilling into Donglin City in a honeycomb. As a result, Donglin City, which had been renovated once, once again seemed too small.
Now, Donglin City has once again expanded its urban area! The circumference is eighty miles, the city wall is eighteen meters high, the bottom wall base is twelve meters wide, and the top wall is eight meters wide! Such a majestic city is enough to accommodate nearly a million people. If 100,000 soldiers and horses were deployed in this city, Wang Ping himself would be able to guarantee that he would not be defeated in front of the enemy's million-strong army!
Right! Just don't lose! No matter how long you fight, Wang Ping has the confidence to hold the city. No way, who let the city store a lot of all kinds of materials. The entire population of Beichen Kingdom is now about one hundred and seventy thousand, and the population settled in Donglin City is already three hundred and ninety-thousand!
This is a very frightening number, the capital alone accounts for nearly forty percent of the population of the whole country, and the rest of the city is almost as if there are no people. However, even so, there were still too many empty places in Donglin City.
After all, a population of 400,000 is too little to be thrown into a city that can accommodate at least one million people. It only occupies two-fifths of the place, even including the residences of the officials, the royal palace. There are still three-fifths of these places in the entire Donglin City, and there is no one in the whole city, only countless houses have been built, but there is no population.
For this situation, Xiao Chen was also very speechless. If I knew this, I wouldn't have let Xun Yu dig the underground reserve warehouse before. It's a waste to have so many empty houses that no one lives in, and not to put something.
But there's nothing to put in now!
All the ordnance, grain, grass and other materials are now filled with 321 underground warehouses. It is even more impossible for people, if everyone in the country is stuffed into Donglin City, it may be possible to fill Donglin City. But what about the rest of the city, is it possible to do it?
There was no way, Xiao Chen had no choice but to wave his hand and use it all as a pig farm. So, countless fat pigs lived in such a good mansion for the first time. It is also the only pig in the pig group that has lived in a mansion!
Xun Yu didn't say anything about such an arrangement. Anyway, there is no one to live in those houses after they are built, and it is a waste to be empty, and there is nothing to raise pigs. Besides, even if some people move in the future, wouldn't it be okay to let those slaves clean up again?
In this way, Donglin City became the only capital city in the entire Beacon Fire Continent with a resident like pigs.
Wang Ping and the others came to the gate of the city, Xiao Chen sat on his luxury chariot, with a crown on his head, wearing a red royal robe, and several red dragons embroidered on it, lifelike. With Xiao Chen on his waist, he came to this world with the first iron sword in the picture. The exquisite scabbard made of birch wood is carved with three animals: dragon, tiger and phoenix, which looks extremely domineering!
However, only a few people know what kind of clothes are inside the domineering scabbard.
That iron sword has long been rusted by his own king, and the king doesn't use a good iron sword every day, but he has to wash it twice a day with a brush dipped in water. You say it's not clean, it's nothing, it's okay to find trouble? I don't know that iron is easy to rust when it meets water!
I still remember that time, the boss of my own family drove the expedition in person, carrying this gorgeous scabbard in his hand, standing on top of the chariot. shouted: "Brothers~ Kill!" Then he drew his so-called sword, and there was a burst of laughter around him! Because the so-called sword has long been covered with yellow and clear rust. At that time, the expression of the king of his own family, not to mention how rich!
Ahem, now is not the time to think about that.
looked at his own king standing at the front, holding a beautiful woman in his left and right hands, behind him were dozens of officials in the court, and behind him were countless people.
When Wang Ping and the others came to him, they dismounted in unison and saluted: "The last general will see my king, long live my king, long live, long live!" ”
"Haha, all the generals, let's all be safe!" Xiao Chen smiled and squinted his eyes and said: "Several generals, who have fought for days and days, have put down hundreds of thousands of rebels, and they have contributed a lot!" Walk! Go back to the palace, and the king will reward them one by one! ”
"King Xiewu!" After that, 20,000 specially selected elite soldiers followed Xiao Chen, Wang Ping and others into Donglin City. The rest of the men, continue to camp outside!
Alas~ You unlucky children, you don't know how to say it earlier when you come back. The originally empty houses in the city just moved in yesterday with 110,000 pigs. If you had informed the king earlier, you wouldn't have slept in the tent now!