Chapter 444

Cheng Shijie found that the Southern Monkey People were actually very smart, in order to defend against the attack of the Tusi army, they made the area around Thang Long City into mud, and the heavy equipment of the Tusi army could not be transported, so in order to deal with the dense crossbow arrows of the Tusi army, as well as throwing incendiary bombs, they made a kind of earthen tank.

This kind of earthen tank is like the original ice boat in Liaodong, there are no wheels, and the sled is similar to a sled, and it is different from the ice boat in Liaodong, their power is placed in the middle, and the elephant pushes this thing forward, the whole carriage is covered with mud, and the shooting hole is covered with three layers of nitrate hard cowhide, and each earthen tank has more than ten or twenty archers or musketeers, shooting desperately at the Tusi army.

Feather arrows were like the wind, guns and bullets were like rain, and the camp of the Tusi army was full of feather arrows in the blink of an eye. Some large earthen tanks were even propelled by three or four elephants, on which dozens of archers or musketeers could be arranged, and on the walls of Thang Long City, as the artillery was destroyed one by one, they actually raised their bed crossbows.

With the sound of the sound, a piece of iron spears up to one meter and a half whistled out, hitting the wooden fence and flying sawdust, and there were constantly unlucky Musi soldiers who were hit by the high-speed flying iron spears, and were beaten out of more than ten meters away, or two or three in a string.

In particular, the timing chosen by the Southern Monkey was too good, they took advantage of the fact that the 144 six-loading rocket launchers of the Guards Brigade had been fired, although the rocket artillery was launched quickly, but the time to reload ammunition was even slower than that of the front-loading smoothbore artillery, and it would take at least fifteen minutes to complete the first round of rocket artillery firing and then carry out the second round of salvo.

But in the past fifteen minutes, under the cover of more than 100 earthen tanks, the Southern Monkey Army and the Tusi Army fought together in close combat, even if the rocket artillery of the Guards Brigade was ready, because the Southern Monkey Army and the Tusi Army were mixed together, they had no way to launch.

At this time, the Southern Monkey Army was also an elite, and it was completely a momentum of seeing death as home.

Cheng Shijie looked at Qin Liangyu and said, "Let your people stand down, we are more experienced in dealing with this kind of thing!" ”

"No need!"

Qin Liangyu shook his head and said: "There is no free lunch in this world, if we want to take the Red River Plain, there are some prices that must be paid!" ”

Qin Liangyu also heard that the Spanish Empire exchanged almost three Sichuan plains for more than 4,000 prisoners, if there is such a large area, let alone 4,000 people, even if it is 40,000, 400,000, 4 million people, Qin Liangyu will not, unless all their people die.

After getting the Red River Plain, many Tusi people, who have never eaten white rice in their lives, have not eaten big fish and meat, now they can lie on the rice pile to sleep, can eat three dry meals a day, for this meal, for these lands, they must rely on their own strength, all the southern monkey people are subdued, and they no longer dare to covet this land.

Qin Liangyu saw Cheng Shijie's artillery, and also knew that the Ming Royal Army had now been reborn, if Cheng Shijie's more than 20,000 officers and soldiers of the Guards Brigade were allowed to easily get rid of these southern monkeys, but the question was, Cheng Shijie would go back, he and the Ming army would definitely leave, once they left, the southern monkeys would come over again, what should they do?

In this case, Qin Liangyu could only fight a hard battle.

Cheng Shijie vaguely understood Qin Liangyu's insistence, and he said a little unbearably: "They are all the people of the Ming Dynasty, and I will feel distressed if I die, in fact, there is no need!" ”

Qin Liangyu shook his head and said very seriously: "It is very necessary, Your Majesty, do you think that we will lose?" ”

"It's not going to be a loss, but it's going to be very costly!"

Qin Liangyu smiled slightly: "Don't be impatient, don't be impatient, and look at the performance of the sons!" ”

At this moment, Qin Yiping, who was in charge of the front-line command, waved the flag, and a large group of Qiang and Plateau slingers appeared in the Tusi army, they were nomadic people, and when they were free-range, which sheep ran around, they warned them with stones, so in life, they practiced a good skill of throwing stones, although they did not say that they were 100 shots, at least 78 out of 10.

Of course, when grazing sheep, this kind of stone throwing will be very small, but now in the battle, this kind of stone throwing weighs half a catty, and the stone throwing rope is like a whirlwind, and in the swishing sound, the stone throwing rains like raindrops to the southern monkey infantry.

The small round shields of the Southern Monkey infantry were obviously not able to provide them with adequate protection, and many of them were hit by the high-speed flying stones, and fell screaming.

These slings weigh half a catty, and they are very sharp, within a hundred meters, if you don't die, you have to be crippled, even if you are wearing iron armor, it is useless, such a blunt blow is not armor can block, in the face of these slingers, the only thing the southern monkey infantry can do is to pray that the slings do not hit themselves.

The archers of the southern monkey saw that these slingers were very ugly, and they focused their attention on the slingers, however, before they could shoot their arrows, they saw the sound of horns in the Tusi army.

Whether it was a slinger or an archer who heard the trumpet, even a pikeman who fought in close combat fought and retreated, quickly leaving the battle, which made the Southern Monkey army feel inexplicable.

In fact, in the battle during this time, the Southern Monkey army suffered a lot of losses, they actually just launched a counterattack as a dead soldier, but they didn't expect to win so easily.

"Boom Boom Boom Boom ......"

A sound like thunder came faintly from a distance, and Cheng Shijie found that the moat of Thang Long City had dropped a full foot or two, and it was almost about to bottom out.

"Water attack?"

"Not bad!"

Qin Liangyu said with a smile: "This is still a hint from the Southern Monkey People to the old body, they led the river water around the city wall, creating a large area of muddy ......"

As he spoke, a rudimentary dam was detonated by explosives, and in an instant, the long-accumulated river roared and poured down, and the water level of the Red River skyrocketed! Under Thang Long City, twenty or thirty ships loaded with sand and gravel sat at the bottom of the river at the same time, quickly forming a lift.

Seeing this scene, the Southern Monkey army secretly screamed that it was not good, and before they could react, the Tusi army threw incendiary bombs the size of basketballs containing granules of gunpowder and oil into the river, and these incendiary bombs and improvised time bombs floated on the surface of the river, carried by the river, and crashed into Thang Long City.

Explosions on the river were heard one after another, and the fires were rushing, and the Annan warships hit by time bombs or incendiary bombs were either blown apart or set on fire, and the Annam sailors were all turned into burning men, wailing and rolling into the foaming torrent......

The ferocious flood slammed into Thang Long City, and the walls of Thang Long City were unharmed under the bombardment of rocket artillery, but now the city wall was swept across by the flood, forming a gap of about 100 paces.

A large amount of flood water poured into Thang Long City.

The Tusi army rode rafts, boats, and even sheepskin rafts, screaming and rushing towards Thang Long City, where the unwilling Southern Monkey Army and the Tusi army fought fiercely.

"Congratulations, you have taken Thang Long City!"

Qin Liangyu said: "Thanks to the king's command!" ”

"This is your military exploits, it belongs to you, others can't take it away, and what this king hates the most will be rewarded and punished unfairly!"

Qin Liangyu said: "I want to ask the king for a favor!" ”

"Oh, please?"

"It's the future of Lin'an!"

Cheng Shijie smiled faintly and said, "Hasn't Lin'an's future been decided?" Do you think the level of the Lin'an Executive Committee is too low? This king can upgrade you to the Lin'an Management Committee, and then the official order will be issued! ”

Qin Liangyu shook his head and said: "No, whether it's the executive committee or the management committee, in fact, it's not important, the important thing is that we don't want to be hereditary, no longer hold the official position of Tusi, and Lin'an will also change the land and return to the stream!" ”

Cheng Shijie was a little puzzled: "Why do you have such an idea?" ”

Qin Liangyu said: "Wanli twenty-three years, the old body married to the stone pillar, became the stone pillar Xuanfu envoy's wife, counted, the old body has lived in the stone pillar for more than 40 years, but the stone pillar has been poor for more than 40 years, every spring, in the small river of the stone pillar, you can see drowned babies everywhere, these babies are not born sick, but because they can't afford to raise, they can only drown, the old body is a mother, see this scene, very sad! ”

Cheng Shijie also knows that in ancient times, it was not that there was no contraception, but this method was very backward and would cause serious gynecological diseases, so it is normal for young couples to have two children in three years, and they can give birth to one a year if they are in good health.

The child born had no food to feed and had to drown in agony.

Qin Liangyu continued: "But since the stone pillar was changed to the soil and returned to the stream, Shizhu County was established, and in just over half a year, it has changed greatly, schools have been established, hospitals have been established, roads have been repaired, everyone has clothes to wear, and everyone has food to eat. ”

The main reason why Shizhu can develop in a short period of time is because Cheng Shijie wants to carry out a pilot, so at the first time, after Qin Liangyu decided to abolish Shizhu Tusi, he selected a group of advantageous grassroots workers in Liaodong to establish a large-scale aquaculture industry in Shizhu.

It is the use of biological feed, the straw of various agricultural operations, and forage, after fermentation, and then feed pigs, cattle, sheep, with the development of the breeding industry, a canning factory has been established, and the pork and mutton can be made into canned food, which can be exported to overseas along the river.

In addition to canning factories and breeding plants, there are also tea farms, especially the processing of black tea, which can be said to be simple and rude. In this way, the economy of Shizhu County has been invigorated in a short period of time.

There are some things that Qin Liangyu can see very clearly, for example, now, in the Red River Plain, every household has allocated fields according to the size of their war exploits, ranging from three or four hundred mu to one or two thousand mu, and now they can naturally live a life without worrying about eating and drinking.

His son Ma Xianglin died early because of his father, Qin Liangyu married his son Zhang Fengyi, gave birth to three sons to him, three concubines gave birth to six concubines, and now Qin Liangyu has nine grandchildren, of which the eldest grandson Ma Wannian has become a family, although he is over seventeen years old, he is already the father of four children.

Sons beget sons, grandchildren beget sons, and there is no end to children and grandchildren.

I'm afraid that it won't take many years for Lin'an to become as poor as a stone pillar again, although they are very hardworking and very brave, but they really won't run like the Han people, in fact, no one Cheng Shijie will manage the territory.

Cheng Shijie asked, "Is this what you mean, or do they mean?" ”

"Is there a difference?"

"Absolutely!"

Cheng Shijie smiled faintly: "Whether it is your Qin clan or the Ma clan, this king can grant permission, and the Ming Dynasty is now in twenty-four provinces, and he can settle down with you!" ”

"What if we all mean it?"

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "This thing is naturally the best, of course, this king is the best when he speaks, if you don't want to be hereditary toast in Lin'an, this king will not treat you badly!" ”

In fact, Cheng Shijie has thought that if the Ming Dynasty changes the land and returns to the stream, I am afraid that Yunnan will not be able to keep it, if Annan can complete the reform and return to the stream, even if the national territory of the Ming Dynasty is complete, at least in terms of maritime strategy, it occupies an absolute advantage.

The Strait of Malacca is blocked, and no one can enter.

Of course, Cheng Shijie's appetite is not limited to a small place like Annan.

Cheng Shijie said: "This matter will be discussed later!" ”

Qin Liangyu nodded and said, "The minister understands!" ”

Thang Long City was finally taken down, although after three days of street fighting, Cheng Shijie followed Qin Liangyu into Thang Long City, Thang Long City has become a ruin, he looked at the messy stacks of corpses piled on the street, watching the remnants of the Annam people being grabbed by the Tusi soldiers like chickens and cut off their heads, silent.

As a traditional power in Southeast Asia, Annam is the largest city in Indochina Peninsula with a population of at least 200,000 and 70,000 soldiers before the war.

However, in just three days, the city was turned into a dead city, and all of them were reduced to ghosts, and the beautiful women might have survived and become prostitutes, and if they were lucky, they could become the wives of some soldiers, but their children, husbands, and parents-in-law were not so lucky, and they were all killed.

The conquest of Annam by the Tusi army was not to plunder their wealth, not to enslave them, but to seize their land and let this land change its owner!

Every soldier was following the policy of "keeping the land but not the people", and the vast majority of them would be killed, and only a small percentage would survive and be sold into slavery. Looking at the blood flowing all over the street,

Cheng Shijie's eyelids jumped, although he formulated a strategy of keeping land and not people, but he had not seen the implementation of this strategy with his own eyes.

Of course, Cheng Shijie knows that this is aggression, and he also knows that this is a war for living space, and there is no room for mercy, and it is also a crime in the present and a thousand years of merit.

Once a general is successful, there are still thousands of dead bones, let alone a nation wants to rise?

Qin Liangyu seemed to see Cheng Shijie's unhappiness, and persuaded helplessly: "Your Majesty, unless you abolish the system of rewarding land for military merits, of course, abolishing this system will not solve the problem, this is their tradition, and I can't do anything!" ”

Cheng Shijie sighed and said: "I know that if you want to gain a foothold in the hostile land of Annam, you must do this, otherwise you will definitely repeat the mistake of the Ming army being driven out of Annam......"

"There's no way, we're crazy if we want a piece of our own land! We came to Annam, not to plunder wealth and population, but purely to change the owner of this land! ”

(End of chapter)