Chapter XVI: The Massacre

Xiao Jingxuan arranged the vigilance, and went to rest with everyone, although the enemy tribe is not big, but his side is also a recruit after all, and the training time is too short.

When the time came, Xiao Jingxuan led the troops towards the destination. All the soldiers were masked, and their horses were wrapped in their hooves.

The army made its way to the vicinity of the tribe without any problems. Xiao Jingxuan began to set up, with one hundred people in each of the south, east, and west. To prevent anyone from escaping, another hundred men were left in formation. He rushed towards the tribe in front of him with about six hundred men.

Although the enemy is a small tribe, there are still people who are keeping watch.

When they saw the enemy attack, the guards panicked, in fact, this place is very barren, there are generally no horse thieves to patronize, plus it is far away from other tribes, so it is very safe.

Unexpectedly, when the clansmen were asleep, someone would raid.

The guards began to shout and beat the drums of war.

But it's too late. Xiao Jingxuan and everyone have already begun to kill towards the camp.

Everywhere they passed, there was not a single one left, and the battle lasted for a long time. It wasn't until dawn that the battle ended.

It was not because the enemy was strong, but only thirty or fifty men could fight, and most of them surrendered.

After settling the battle, in the face of the captives, Xiao Jingxuan let one person who had never seen blood see blood.

I saw someone vomiting because of the murder. Xiao Jingxuan smiled. Laughed.

He shouted to all the cavalrymen: "Brothers, when our butcher's knife cuts at innocent old and weak women and children, we are actually inferior to pigs and dogs, and war is a man's business, and it has nothing to do with them."

But, brothers, they provide the barbarian butchers with soldiers, rations, and news.

The reason why our counties in Longzhou are empty is that they are also accomplices.

Now we are going behind enemy lines, for what is it, for us to be strong, so that the next time the enemy attacks, we will not be powerless to see our own villagers killed.

For the sake of our family, I don't mind being an executioner, butcher. If any of you can't stand it, you can, go to the auxiliaries, or leave the army. ”

After finishing speaking, Xiao Jingxuan gathered the officers and began to discuss. First of all, there are war horses, although they are not captured much, but they are barely let all the cavalry replace the inferior horses under their command.

Xiao Jingxuan pointed to a place on the map and said: "Here, put the seizure here, Li Xiaoyun, you take a hundred horsemen, send the supplies here, and then leave twenty people to guard, and then send someone to inform Fengzhou, let Wei Ming send someone to transport the materials, and finally come here to meet me."

The rest of the people followed me to do a few votes and set off. ”

Xiao Jingxuan took the rest of the people and began to loot again. Xiao Jingxuan's principle is not to stay, and after plundering seven or eight tribes, Xiao Jingxuan knew that he had to stop.

Now, Fengzhou's strength is still too weak, and if it falls into a heavy siege, I am afraid that more than 1,000 people will have to stay here. After Xiao Jingxuan returned to the meeting place with everyone, he returned to Fengzhou with heavy baggage auxiliaries.

As soon as Xiao Jingxuan left, the Kru Taibu sent a large number of guerrillas to start scouting around.

The political system of the barbarians was not the same as that of the Great Wei and other countries. Instead, it consisted of the Hutu Khan Department and the Six Great Kings Department.

The grasslands near Toyosu were under the jurisdiction of the Klutai royal department. Nine tribes have now been exterminated. Inevitably, it alarmed the Klutai royal department.

But it's too late. While the rangers of the Klutai royal tribe were searching the grasslands. Xiao Jingxuan has returned to Fengzhou with everyone.

After everyone returned to Fengzhou City, Xiao Jingxuan asked Wei Ming to count the supplies.

After the inventory. Everyone was very happy, in addition to snatching nearly 3,000 war horses, there were more than 5,000 cattle and sheep, and countless kinds of furs.

In addition, a lot of gold, silver, soft, weapons and equipment were plundered.

Of course, the armament is a bit rudimentary. Originally, Xiao Jingxuan didn't want it, but the barbarians lacked iron, and taking more weapons was also a weakening of their entire race.

However, it was precisely this kind of behavior that made the Klutai royal department not suspect the head of Da Wei.

Because Great Wei's weapons and equipment are far stronger than those of the barbarians.

At this time, the city of Toyosu was already a little bit old, at least the outer city wall was already a little Zou Xing.

Although there are no buildings in the city yet. However, it is also level, because the ruins have been cleaned up and repaired.

For the convenience of defending the city, Xiao Jingxuan set up four military camps in the southeast, northwest and northwest, stationed the four rates of foot soldiers, and the cavalry was also stationed outside the southern city.

Now there are some civilians in the city, these are the survivors of the great war, most of them are young and strong.

Wei Ming arranged them into the team to build the city, and the women and children arranged for them to sew and mend and other work.

Originally, these people worked, and Wei Ming only planned to give food to eat, but now, Xiao Jingxuan has gained a lot from this trip, so he has denied Wei Ming's petty behavior.

Wages were given to all the people, including the helpers. At the same time, Xiao Jingxuan also began to ask some people who were willing to settle down in the city of Fengzhou to build residences in specific places.

Now, although the supplies are almost up, the strength of Fengzhou is still too weak. Xiao Jingxuan repaired another book and gave it to the governor of Longzhou, his uncle. It is hoped that the forces of Toyosu can be increased.

A thousand cavalry, too few, even some medium-sized tribes of the barbarians did not dare to move. And the number of small tribes is too small.

In the following days, Xiao Jingxuan will be even busier, first of all, the training of the army. Not only cavalry, but also infantry training must be on the agenda, after all, next year, the barbarians will inevitably invade again.

The second is the construction of Toyosu Castle. The pace of construction is too slow now, and we must find a way, otherwise it will be difficult to form an effective defense when the barbarians arrive.

The third is the reorganization of the armed forces. The number of auxiliaries still has to be increased. So many war horses must be put to good use.

The inferior horses used by the cavalry before had long been used by Xiao Jingxuan on the auxiliaries.

The effect is still good, and the uncle of the auxiliary soldier has greatly improved.

Xiao Jingxuan planned to increase the number of auxiliaries, and then divide the auxiliaries into two, one to continue to serve as an auxiliary, and the other to serve as a cavalry. If there were two thousand cavalry in hand, Xiao Jingxuan could do a lot of things.

Soon, Xiao Yan replied. When Xiao Jingxuan saw that it was a reply, his heart was full of disappointment, because if his uncle agreed, he would send an official letter instead of replying.

However, when Xiao Jingxuan read the letter, he was not completely disappointed. Because the uncle only replied with one sentence.

"Everything is subject to judgment."

Hey, it seems that the Xiao family has indeed declined.

Nowadays, although the Great Wei is strong, the monarchy is sidelined, and there are four major lords in the court, and there are many military leaders in the border passes.

If it weren't for the fact that there were still many people loyal to the emperor in the army of the Twelve Guards, I am afraid that the chaos would have started long ago.

Although the Xiao family is the head of the Liangzhou army, since Xiao Jingxuan's grandfather Xiao Qi entered the court, he has been loyal to the first emperor. Nor will he become a representative of the nobles.

However, I heard that a lot of things happened in the first year of Jian'an, first Xiao Chengen, who was born in a Jiangmen family, was abolished in martial arts and became a waste man who couldn't lift his shoulders and couldn't pick his hands. Then came the death of the old man.

The entire Xiao family ushered in a decline, although in the end, his father still inherited the title, but the governor of Liangzhou never let the Xiao family serve as the governor again.

Among them, the most important is the Liangzhou Iron Cavalry of Megatron, which has been reduced from the 200,000 army in its heyday to the present, with only 50,000 left.

When the magnates and imperial courts in other places thought that they were snakes, Xiao Yan didn't even dare to add a little more soldiers.

However, it is worth rejoicing that the soldiers who delivered the message said that the imperial court had brought 50,000 captives to Longzhou.

Don't think too much about it, it's not the barbarians, but the enemy troops and civilians who were captured in the big battle between the south and the Chu State.

This is just too good, Xiao Jingxuan ordered someone to select fifty good horses from the war horses captured by the barbarians to send them to his uncle.

Then attach a letter of your own. There is only one requirement, and that is to ask for people. I hope that my uncle can support some people and build Toyosu Castle in advance.

Do you want to know how much it costs to build a new city? Even with the appropriation of the imperial court, it is very difficult.

The rarest thing about fortification is the material. The stone is good enough to be taken locally, but the glutinous rice used for bonding is expensive.

Moreover, the people also need food, clothing, shelter and transportation. If you are increasing your manpower, then you still have to continue to plunder.

But this time you have to be cautious, otherwise it will be easy to be surrounded and suppressed.

Xiao Jingxuan selected another 2,000 people from the infantry to fill the cavalry, and selected a few people who performed better in the last raid to serve as the main general.

As for the foot soldiers, Xiao Jingxuan asked Wei Ming, who was an auxiliary, to send people to various places to recruit 2,000 people to serve as auxiliaries, and told Wei Ming to strengthen training.

In the next few days, Xiao Jingxuan began to train the newly selected cavalry.

Of course, step-by-step training is definitely not good, and Xiao Jingxuan doesn't plan to train these people now. As long as you know how to ride a horse.

As for the rest, the battlefield is talking.

While training, Xiao Jingxuan began to send out sentinel horses in all directions. I hope to be able to find out what is going on in the surrounding tribes.

After figuring out the situation of the tribe, Xiao Jingxuan disappeared in Fengzhou City with a thousand cavalry and two thousand infantry on horseback.

This time, Xiao Jingxuan's destination was the Zari Royal Department, which was adjacent to the Klutai Royal Tribe.

The Zari royal department is close to Yinchuan County. Yinchuan was also the county that suffered the most in this war. Therefore, the awareness of the barbarians will not be too high.

Although the manpower has increased. However, Xiao Jingxuan did not point the finger at the medium-sized tribe at the beginning, and still practiced with the small tribe.

After all, he still has two thousand recruits in his hands.

In the previous raids, Xiao Jingxuan arranged for the recruits to attack, and the veterans were on guard all around.

This will also allow the recruits to see blood.

After plundering four more small tribes, Xiao Jingxuan saw that the troops were almost trained, and basically everyone had seen blood. Then he began to kill the medium-sized tribe that he had explored before.