Chapter 7: The Death of Yonghong

As mentioned last time, Guan Suo caught E Huan in the fight, and Liu Hou entertained him well and let him go. After E Huan went back, he talked to Gao Ding about Liu Hou's kindness, and Gao Ding was also greatly admired.

At this time, Yonghong sent someone over to ask why E Huan could come back, and E Huan replied truthfully, saying: "The prince is righteous, he said that I am a hero and can't bear to harm me, so he let me come back." ”

Yonghong was shocked when he heard this, and said: "This is Liu Chan's discordant plan, if he wants to drive a wedge between our two armies, we must not fall for his tricks." ”

Gao Ding and E Huan were skeptical when they heard this, and they were hesitating in their hearts, when a sergeant came to report, and the Shu army was drowning outside the city. This time, Yonghong personally led 30,000 horses out of the city to meet the enemy.

The 30,000 patchwork of miscellaneous troops was not enough for Liu Hou to see, he put 5,000 musketeers on the front battlefield, and ordered Zhao Yun and Guan Suo to lead 2,000 cold weapons troops to go around the back road of Yonghong.

As soon as the battle began, after a few rounds of firing by the musketeers, Yonghong's motley army collapsed, and Zhao Yun and Guan Suo took the opportunity to copy the back roads of Yonghong's army from both sides, preventing them from escaping back to the city. And so the one-sided slaughter took place again.

Liu Hou felt very bored looking at such a battle, these little miscellaneous fish were at least a few orders of magnitude different from the Su zhì of the Cao Army and the Eastern Wu Army, and the fight was very boring. So he ordered the sergeants to shout in unison: "Disarm or kill!" ”

The Shu army shouted three times in unison, and the effect was surprisingly good. Surrounded by 10,000 people, more than 20,000 Yonghong troops knelt on the ground, raised their weapons high with both hands, and waited for the Shu army to be absorbed.

In the end, only Yonghong was left with 500 personal soldiers to rush left and right in the crowd, trying to break out of the encirclement and escape back to the city. Gao Ding was in the city and watched the battle outside the city, anxious like an ant in a hot pot, and he couldn't make up his mind when he wanted to go down to rescue several times. In the end, he finally made up his mind and was about to lead his troops out of the city to rescue him, when he suddenly saw two behemoths rising from the enemy position.

It was a hot air balloon, a huge and friendless hot air balloon painted with a big "Liu" character and a five-clawed golden dragon, which looked so hideous and terrifying in the eyes of Gao Ding. Gao Ding was stunned, and Gao Ding's entire army was also stunned.

Liu Hou brought a lot of good things from the research institute this time, and he brought 10 hot air balloons, which was indeed scary.

Yonghong was also stunned, he involuntarily stopped his horse, looked up at the monster that was seven or eight feet tall, and muttered to himself: "This, what kind of monster is this?" How can you still fly ......?

Yonghong was in a daze, so that Zhao Yun didn't know when he arrived in front of him, and was swept off the horse by Zhao Yun's shot, and the Shu soldiers behind him swarmed up and tied Yonghong with hemp rope like a zongzi. At this time, his own soldiers reacted, and when they saw that the commander was captured, they had to kneel down and surrender.

The final trouble was solved, and the two cold weapon troops of Zhao Yun and Guan Suo drove into the Yonghong army, first seized the ordnance on their bodies, and then tied them all up with straw ropes. Liu Hou, Guan Xing, Zhang Bao and others still led the musketeers to surround and guard them in three directions.

After talking about the underground, and then talking about the sky, the two hot air balloons in the sky slowly floated above the city, and the pilot stopped stepping on the power propeller, stopped the hot air balloon at the head of the city, and lowered the altitude slightly. Not a single person in the city dared to shoot this monster with a bow or crossbow. Not only did no one dare to offend it, but many ignorant soldiers and ordinary people knelt on the ground and worshipped, not knowing what kind of gods they regarded as hot air balloons.

Then one of the balloons dropped a small parachute with a reel hanging from the parachute. The whole city watched as the scroll fluttered down on the city, and a small soldier picked up the scroll and sent it to Gao Ding's hand.

As expected, this is a letter of persuasion written by Liu Hou to Gao Ding. first said a bunch of good things, it is nothing more than a loyal person of Gao Dingben, today is just a moment of not listening to the coaxing of the villain, so he will follow Yonghong Xingjun to rebel. As long as he is lost, the court will no longer hold him accountable for his faults, and will treat him well.

Then he threatened again, saying that if he was obsessed with it again, he would use thunderbolts to blast the city into powder, etc. It's basically the same rhetoric that Liu Hou said to E Huan yesterday, but it's just written down.

Gao Ding held the letter of persuasion and fought fiercely in his heart. He also saw the power of the Shu army just now, just a cup of tea defeated Yonghong's 30,000 soldiers and horses, and he also experienced the power of the Shu army yesterday, knowing that such a force was something he couldn't cope with at all.

Originally, I still had the idea of guarding the city, but when I looked up at the flying artifact that appeared on my head, my heart was half cold, the Shu army has this thing, what is the point of the city wall? Just as he was thinking about it, he saw a flying monster throw down a few black iron balls and explode on one of the city walls, and suddenly all the soldiers on this section of the city wall fell in a pool of blood.

Gao Ding's eyes were about to split, and he remembered that there was a postscript at the back of the persuasion letter: "Please make a decision as soon as possible, and every time you pass a cup of tea, you will attack the city wall with a thunderbolt." ”

"That's it, that's it, the Shu army has so many sharp artifacts, and it is impossible for human power to defeat them. From this point of view, it is only a matter of time before this prince unifies the world. With such a character, you won't insult yourself. Maybe follow him to fight the world, and in the future, he can mix up the dragon's skills. It's more promising than following a group of brutes here. ”

After thinking about it, Gao Ding hurriedly ordered his subordinates to raise the white flag, open the city gate, and personally go out of the city to welcome Liu Hou into the city with his hands tied.

Liu Hou didn't dare to enter the city rashly like this. He asked his subordinates to speed up the liquidation of Yonghong's troops, and then let Guan Suo and Zhao Yun lead the cold weapon troops into the city to disarm first. He also raised all ten hot air balloons and let them patrol over the city, which could serve as a warning and further exert psychological pressure on the surrendering troops, so that they would not dare to mess around.

In order to prevent the hot air balloons from being blown away by the wind, Liu Hou ordered them to be tied with a rope and tied to a horse or carriage, which then pulled them around the city. With 10 hot air balloons, you can basically see the entire city and the range of 5 miles outside the city.

Liu Hou reorganized the team, and this time about 70,000 soldiers were captured, plus the more than 20,000 barbarians captured before, the total number of prisoners was close to 100,000. The prisoners are ten times that of their own soldiers, and if it is a prisoner of the enemy country, Liu Hou will die of a headache, but these are the original soldiers of the Shu State, which is much easier.

These soldiers were originally troops under his father's rule, but they obeyed the orders of the superior and followed the rebellion, and it was not difficult to subdue them at all. Liu Hou used Yonghong as the chicken for the monkey again, and according to the previous method, he tied him and several of his diehards to a wooden stake, and blew it up with explosives.

As a result, all those who surrendered, from generals to soldiers, became the frightened monkey and completely quieted down. In this way, Liu Hou can finally use these soldiers with confidence.

Liu Hou chose one out of ten, selected the most elite 10,000 from these 100,000 people, and incorporated them into his team. He always adhered to the elite route, so the selection of soldiers was very strict, first of all, they could run, and they could run ten miles within the specified time to pass the first round of selection.

Then there were various tests of physical fitness, discipline, martial arts, etc., and finally 90% of them were eliminated before these 10,000 people were carefully selected. It is conceivable how elite this force is, and it can be said that it will not fall behind if it is taken out to compete with any elite troops of the other two countries.

However, these elites are not enough for Liu Hou, they are just qualified to enter the Hong Army, they still have a long way to go if they want to become qualified soldiers of the Hong Army, there is no hurry now, Zhao Yun will train them well in the future.

Of the remaining 70,000 people, Liu Hou incorporated 40,000 people into the baggage team, plus the 20,000 he brought, the total number of baggage teams was 60,000. The ratio of baggage teams to combat units has reached an astonishing 3:1, which shows how big the logistics and transportation of this operation are.

In the end, the remaining 30,000 are almost all old and weak soldiers, what should I do? It's easy to do, return them to Gao Ding's leadership, and order him to get rid of Zhu Bao. Gao Ding complained bitterly, Zhu Bao was the same as his original self, there were 50,000 or 60,000 people, and he only had 30,000 old and weak soldiers, how to fight?

But if you don't go, you have to go, you have to surrender yourself, and it is the right thing to deal with Zhu Bao, and the thieves have to surrender when they join the gang. The principle in the army is the same, and Zhu Bao is his own name. If you can do it well, you will be able to gain the trust of the prince in the future, if you can't do it well, hum, wait.

Fortunately, Liu Hou told him that no matter what means he used, he could persuade him to surrender, lure him to surrender or even design a capture, in short, as long as he could achieve the goal, Liu Hou would not ask in the process.

And Liu Hou, his eyes were already on Shi Xie. From Gao Ding's mouth, he knew that the person who opposed Yonghong in Eastern Wu was Shi Xie.

Shixie is a native of Guangxin (now Wuzhou, Guangxi). He was appointed as a guard of Jiaozhi, and was later added to the post of Suinan Zhonglang General by the Han Dynasty, General Anyuan, and Fenglongdu Pavilion Marquis. In the sixteenth year of Jian'an (211 AD), he was attached to Sun Quan and was crowned as General Zuo by Sun Quan. This time, he lured Yonghong to meritorious, and was moved by Sun Quan to be the general of Wei, and entered the Marquis of Long.

Dare to hit the idea of your own turf? Liu Hou will definitely let him return ten times over. Whether it is Sun Quan, the decision-maker, or Shixie, the executor, Liu Hou will definitely not let them go, besides, Liu Hou has coveted Jiaozhou for a long time.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Jiaozhou included parts of present-day northern and central Vietnam, Guangxi, and Guangdong, China, and was seated in Panyu (present-day Guangzhou, China). The state of Wu divided Jiaozhou, or Lingnan, into Guangzhou and Jiaozhou, and the territory of Jiaozhou was reduced to include the northern and central parts of present-day Vietnam, the Leizhou Peninsula in Guangdong, and the southern part of Guangxi, and was governed in Longbian (present-day Bac Ninh, Vietnam).

At this time, Jiaozhou and Guangzhou were both remote and desolate places, where hundreds of Vietnamese barbarians lived, and they were also one of the places where the offenders were degraded. But Liu Hou knew how developed the Lingnan economy was in later generations.

Although there are special historical conditions for the creation of the Lingnan Economic Circle in later generations, it is undeniable that it is also closely related to the geographical location of Lingnan. Ancient Lingnan also has its advantages.

The water network of Lingnan is vertical and horizontal, the climate is hot and rainy, the sun is sufficient, the plants are luxuriant, the four seasons are evergreen, the flowers are vibrant, and all kinds of fruits are endless all year round. Of course, in addition to plant resources, animal resources are also abundant, and the elephants are currently the most attractive to Liu Hou. Not for the ivory, but for the elephant soldiers. If you have an elephant army, you will definitely be like a tiger.

Not to mention anything else, many places in the north are not suitable for growing rice, but the climate and land in Lingnan can basically be grown. And unlike the north, where one crop is planted once a year, in Lingnan it can be harvested twice or even three times a year. As long as it is well developed and utilized, the Lingnan region will become another granary of Shu.

Not only rice, but also fish farming, fruit planting, mulberry planting, and silkworm breeding in Lingnan are all very suitable, and the land of fish and rice in later generations did not come out of thin air.

On this point, Lingnan cannot let go, not to mention, if you can control Lingnan, it is equivalent to inserting a nail in the back of Dongwu, which will definitely make it difficult for Dongwu to sleep. Moreover, this nail is estimated to be more uncomfortable for Dongwu than Jingzhou.

There are five ridges in the north of Lingnan: Yuecheng Ridge, Du Pang Ridge, Mengzhu Ridge, Qitian Ridge, and Da Yu Ridge. These five mountain ranges are natural barriers, separating Lingnan from the Central Plains, with only five narrow passages in between. As long as a small number of soldiers and horses are sent to guard these five passages, Wu will inevitably have to pay a heavy price if he wants to attack it.

Liu Hou wanted to occupy Lingnan a long time ago, hold the passage of Nanling, and then he could carry out large-scale development in Lingnan and quietly accumulate his own strength. As long as you manage it well for ten years, this foundation will not be worse than Hanzhong, but unfortunately there are not many people with this vision.