56, Captive Puzzle
Because of the deterrence of gunpowder, Zhang Hu's army was like a noodle man, allowing others to rub it flat and knead round.
And the army of Wanshan did not know that the role of the explosive package was limited. I thought I had an invincible artifact, and I was full of energy, as if I was not afraid of the king of heaven.
Later there were too many captives and not enough ropes. Then he untied the belt of the enemy and tied it to his hands.
The enemy soldiers without belts were tied to the ground with their hands tied, and as long as they put on their pants together, they would fall off, and no one dared to get up at all.
The people standing on the wall looked down and laughed loudly, laughing heartily, sweeping away the haze of the previous days.
Tang Yan saw that everyone was laughing, and he also laughed a few times.
But soon, she couldn't laugh anymore.
The deterrent power of gunpowder is beyond the imagination of ordinary people.
Guo Jiang actually chased more than 20,000 horses directly to the opponent's camp and captured 180,000 people.
180,000 prisoners, more than the total number of Wanshan army, what should be done?
This hot potato is not easy to take!
Si Muyu, a bad old man, is very bad, give Tang Yan an idea, the big guy will dig a pit with some effort, and directly bury the prisoner alive.
Tang Yan also knew that Si Muyu's trick was reliable in this era and in the current situation.
Wanshan simply can't afford to accept 180,000 people, and once these people enter the city, it is simply too easy to want to fight back.
The key is that these people are not like the government soldiers, the family is all in the city, and if they win, they will be their own.
These soldiers of the imperial court, whose relatives are all outside the city, cannot be sincerely obedient. As long as the family is outside the city for a day, they can't extinguish the heart of resistance.
It seems that burying alive is the best option.
But although Tang Yanxing also wanted to harden his heart and look at this war, he really couldn't do the thing of burying 180,000 people alive!
She is not an ancient person, and she cannot ignore life.
You can kill as many enemies as you want in a war, but burying a prisoner alive definitely doesn't!
Tang Yan has his own moral bottom line.
It is even more impossible to let these people go, let them rest and recuperate, and then kill their own people.
Tang Yan felt that he had encountered the biggest challenge he had ever crossed, which was much greater than the challenge of being tied to a pillar by Liu Yanan and burning to death.
Si Muyu saw that Tang Yan didn't move for a long time, and thought that the other party was reluctant to waste so many young people.
He opened his mouth to make an idea.
"If you don't leave 20,000 people behind, tie your hands and feet to make strong labor."
It's not enough to bury 160,000 people alive!
It's terrible!
Tang Yan kept bursting in his heart, anxiously thinking of a way.
She asked Si Muyu tentatively.
"Strategist, if I lock up all these people and keep them for later use, will it work?"
Although it is a bit inhumane to lock up, it is better than killing the other person.
Si Muyu, the old fox, suddenly understood Tang Yan's true thoughts.
He was a little puzzled, when the war had just begun, wasn't it quite painful for the lord to give the order? Why is it that the woman is now kind?
He didn't understand the moral bottom line of a modern person, and shook his head firmly.
"180,000 is not a small number, where do we come from to hold these people? Besides, the amount of grain and grass consumed is not a small amount, and our army cannot afford such consumption now. ”
When it comes to grain and grass, Tang Yan has confidence.
Whenever someone uses Taobao to buy and sell grain, Tang Yan will charge a certain percentage of the grain as freight. Over time, Tang Yan's current account has a huge amount of food.
Because the grain is stored as a shipping fee, it can be kept in the account. Tang Yan used Taobao as a warehouse and did not extract these grains.
She roughly calculated that the food stored in the account would not be a problem for 180,000 people to feed for 10 years.
Although he wasted these grains in vain, Tang Yan was also a little distressed.
But if there is no better way, she would rather raise these people than bury them alive.
I really can't get past that level in my heart!
However, it is better to think of other ways to convince the military advisors without wasting food in vain.
"What if we put chains around these people's hands and let them work for us."
Si Muyu laughed happily: "Lord, don't mention food consumption, just say where did we get so much pig iron to waste on iron chains." ”
Yes, there are so many pig irons, which are directly made into heavy armor, and the strongest class of troops on the ancient battlefield - heavy infantry, how fragrant.
The current situation is that the consumption of food is actually bearable. But there is no suitable place to lock people up, bring chains, and there is not so much pig iron.
There is no way to keep the captives under control for long.
But 180,000 people will not be able to be released into the city without restraint.
Tang Yan stroked his hair vigorously and frowned.
It's so hard, it's so hard!
Iron chains don't need to be thought about, even if you can find an iron mine now, it's too late to mine and produce.
The only hope is to find a suitable place to lock people up.
But that's 180,000 people, not 180,000 goods.
They need to eat, drink, and lazar, and they need spiritual entertainment, and they need to guard against rebellion.
How is it possible to do these three things......
Wait a minute!
Tang Yan's mind had a flash of inspiration.
She thought of a good place!
It is Tang Yan who has crossed over, the most familiar place, and it is also the Wanshan where she has lived for several years!
Of course, it is not the main mountain and the second mountain of Wanshan, but the plain sandwiched between the two mountains and usually used for cultivated land.
It is a vast area, and it is not a problem to live more than 100,000 people.
Moreover, Wanshan is surrounded by rivers on all sides, unless there are amphibians like the Fan brothers, who enter the water as if they have returned to their hometown, others have no boats, and there is basically no way to enter and exit Wanshan.
In the same way, there is no way to leave Wanshan without a ship.
When the time comes, the captives are simply placed on the plain between the two hills, and they are allowed to work in the fields. Unless they attack two nearby mountains and build ships with local materials and trees, they will definitely not be able to leave the outer mountains.
So just put up a guard checkpoint on the two hills and arrange gunpowder. Throwing a few rows of explosives on the plain condescendingly can deter people and make them work obediently, and it will be easy to talk about later.
Just do it, after Tang Yan and Si Muyu discussed the details, they began to act.
First, find the roster of the army and pick out the officers, big and small.
Without officers, there was no one to organize soldiers to resist in a short time.
Then pick out the soldiers whose hometown is in the six cities of Liuzhou, and these people can be scattered and join the Wanshan army.
As for the rest of the soldiers, there were 150,000 left, all tied hand and foot with ropes, and transported by boat to the Ten Thousand Mountains.
First, explosives packets were thrown from a height to calm people down. I'm assigning work to everyone.
Although there is a lot of land in Wanshan, it is distributed to 150,000 people, and each person can cultivate less than one acre of land.
Therefore, some people are responsible for cultivating the land, and some people are responsible for continuing to open up the land.
But it's not a day job, there will be a steward who will talk to the captives in advance. Regardless of whether it is cultivated or cultivated, wages are paid every month according to the number of work.