Chapter 563 Three days of slaughtering the city
When the five-star fortress was darkened, Liang Jianfang came to his study.
"Good news, the eight thousand Qiang people have surrendered." Liang Jianfang was very happy, and with the surrender of the eight thousand Qiang people, they won a complete victory.
"Tuoba Sitou is still useful." Qin Lang smiled, this surrender was within his expectation. After defeating Tuoba Chici, he had already sent people to seal off the valley to deal with the Qiang people.
Before Tuoba Chici fled, he sent someone to order the Qiang people to withdraw. When they returned, the dust had settled here.
Facing Qin Lang and Master Qin Qiong plus a military force of more than 30,000 people, the 8,000 Qiang people were in despair. Tuoba Sitou was ordered to go to persuade him to surrender, and he also took the arrow of Tuoba Chici's order.
No one would be stupid enough to resist at this time.
What's more, Qin Lang also offered them a good surrender condition to ensure their safety.
The Qiang people were ordered to divide their troops to go deep, and they wanted to find an opportunity to attack and plunder the counties of Diezhou. Who knew that although the main force of Diezhou was taken away by Xi Junmai, the Zhenxi Army still had some troops left. , coupled with Xiangyong and Fan Bing near the city, they retreated to occupy various castles, fortified the walls and cleared the fields, so that the Qiang people had no chance, just like a dog biting a hedgehog, with nowhere to bite.
Wandering east and west, in fact, there is nothing to gain. Even if Tuoba Chici didn't come to deliver the order, they were actually ready to withdraw a long time ago. They didn't dare to go too deep, for fear of being surrounded, they kept wandering around, and when they received the order Just back, the result is still too late.
Now Qin Lang has more than 16,000 Qiang people who have surrendered to the army, both young and old.
"How does Sanlang plan to deal with these Qiang people?" Liang Jianfang asked because Qin Qiong had mopped up Dangxiang Hequ before and recruited more than 300,000 people, but the result was that they were still resettled on the spot. In fact, they appointed the leaders after they surrendered. Temporary official position, and then took away some noble children, and took away a batch of property and livestock.
Liang Jianfang and other Zhenxi Army soldiers, especially the former Minzhou soldiers, could not accept such a treatment. They had no control over the people Qin Qiong recruited to surrender, but they did not want to let go of the more than 16,000 surrendered Qiang under the Five-Star Fortress so easily.
"If you just let it go like this, wouldn't it be letting the tiger go back to the mountain? The Qiang people are capricious, and the blood of the brothers cannot be shed in vain!"
Qin Lang put down a report in his hand, "Then what do you and your brothers want to do with them? Are they all killed?"
"Kill them all, including that Tuoba Chici, as well as those two shameless villains Tuoba Sitou and Xigan." Liang Jianfang said viciously.
Qin Lang shook his head. He told Liang Jianfang that during the previous battle, the brothers took the opportunity to kill thousands of Qiang people. But now it's different, those are captives.
There were more than 16,000 captives, and it was impossible to kill them without saying a word.
The imperial court will not allow it, nor will his grandfather Qin Qiong.
"Can you just let them go like this? After a few years, or ten or twenty years later, will they or their descendants make a comeback?"
"Of course I won't do that. I don't intend to release any of these 16,000 Qiang people back, but I won't kill them either." Qin Lang said his plan. People are split up, not according to the original tribe, but completely disrupted according to the family unit.
"Then what?"
"One out of ten households will be selected, and one household will be selected from every ten households to join the Zhenxi Army and be responsible for farming and building cities and roads." One out of ten households will be selected, and about 500 households will be drawn. These people are the Xiangjun in the Zhenxi Army. Not responsible for fighting, but responsible for labor such as farming and building cities.
Another ten households will be selected, and another five hundred tents will be selected, which will be allocated to pastures and pastures, specially for horses and sheep herding for the Xijun in Diezhou Town.
Two out of ten, and another 30% of the rest, moved to Lingnan to settle down.
The remaining 50% will be resettled in Diezhou, divided into eight counties, half-cultivated and half-grassed, and the households will be allocated to all people, and land will be allocated for them to cultivate wasteland, herd cattle and horses, and then pay taxes according to the court tax law .
Those who were drawn into the Zhenxi Army were changed to military households, but in fact they were equivalent to servants of the army, better than slaves, and those who were drawn to the government's horse herding were almost in this status.
Those Qiang people who are classified as private households for farming will not let them live together in the whole village. Instead, each village will place one or two households to completely disperse them, making it difficult for them to gather and make chaos.
Qin Lang recruited these people, but none of them would let go.
"Can the court agree?"
Qin Lang snorted, "Since the imperial court appointed me to be the governor of this Diezhou, don't I even have such a little power? Don't worry too much, just let it go."
If it wasn't for Diezhou's sparse population, Qin Lang would not have worked so hard to find a way to move them all to Lingnan, so they would make trouble.
Especially in the Tang Dynasty, after Dangxiang was attached, the imperial court moved some of them to Longyou. Later, Tubo invaded Longyou, and the Tang Dynasty continued to move them to Hetao, northern Shaanxi and other places. As a result, in the late Tang Dynasty, Dangxiang Jiedushi took the opportunity to grow stronger, and finally separated the regime. At the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty, Li Yuanzun, the descendant of the Jiedushi, established the Xixia Kingdom, which was separated for hundreds of years.
The root lies in the fact that the Qiang people own the territory, maintain the tribe, and the Qiang people have autonomy.
If in Diezhou, according to some practices of the previous imperial court, the land was divided among the attached Qiang people, or even divided into counties for them to self-govern, then the result would be that once the imperial court’s control was weakened, these people would eventually leave, or even Also take away the land.
This kind of mistake, Qin Lang can't make it.
Although his current method is very harsh on the surrendered Qiang people, Qin Lang believes that this is the power of the winner, and if he does not do it now, he will only regret it in the future.
Even if the court refuses, he will kill first and play later, and in the future, he will fight according to reason.
Liang Jianfang chuckled, "Compared to letting the tiger go back to the mountain, this method makes me feel much more comfortable. I believe the brothers will support your decision, Saburo."
"I just received the news from Xi Junmai from Minzhou that Taozhou was still lost. After Jiuqie Luosheng fled back to Taozhou, Tuoba Chici's son led troops to kill him, and Tuyuhun Khan Fuyun also sent They sent troops to reinforce him, and for a long time Luosheng defended Taozhou for ten days, before the city was broken and surrendered."
"After the Qiang broke Taozhou, they massacred the city for three days. Half of the 5,000 households in Taozhou died by swords, and half became slaves. Their money and livestock were robbed, and the houses in the city were burned. After the Qiang captured Taozhou, they went to attack again. Minzhou, fortunately Xi Junmai, Gao Kan and Gao Zhensheng arrived in time to protect Minzhou from being lost, and now Dangxiang and Tuyuhun have more than 30,000 troops and are still besieging Minzhou."
Hearing the news, Liang Jianfang clenched his fists angrily, "Bastard, they dare to massacre the city!"
"Those barbarians have nothing to dare." Qin Lang was very calm on the contrary, he had long lost his reason when the battle got to this point, and the party members also suffered heavy losses this year, so this time the revenge was extremely vicious.
If you want to blame, it's all Li Daoyan and Jiuqie Luosheng, two incompetent guys, they have to be blamed for this.
"Then what are you waiting for, send troops quickly." Liang Jianfang said anxiously.
"Of course we have to send troops. I just got the news. The Qiang people besieged the city before and cut off the news."
The new news in front of Qin Lang now gave him a clearer understanding of the entire battle situation. Generally speaking, the war started by Li Daoyan put Datang in an extremely unfavorable situation as soon as the market opened. There is a whole legion, more than 20,000 horses.
The front line of Taohe River was empty and defenseless.
Fortunately, in the next progress, Datang recovered a little bit. Although Taozhou was lost in the end, Minzhou was held.
He restrained Tuoba Chici here, and gave Qin Qiong the opportunity to turn against the general, sweeping the party and recruiting all the ministries.
Now Tuoba Chici was also defeated and surrendered, and 30,000 people were wiped out. The entire party and various tribes, there are only about 20,000 Qiang people left in the Taomin area.
Tuyuhun also sent troops, but this was as expected. Although Fu Yun's old bandit sent out four routes and sent 100,000 troops, except for breaking Taozhou with the Qiang people, the other three routes have not achieved much results. , are besieging the border states, but have not yet broken through.
Now Qin Lang and Qin Qiong have 20,000 soldiers. If the Qiang people drop troops, etc., they can pull another 10,000 to 20,000 horses. They are very strong and have no worries.
"I am going to lead the army across the Xiqing Mountains and down the Tao River."
Qin Lang took out the map, this move was to cut off the retreat of Taomin's Dangxiang and Tuyuhun army first, and march along their attack route.
Go their way and leave them no way.
"If you take this road to march, then you have to bypass Xiqing Mountain, which is no closer than going east to Dangzhou and then north to Minzhou. And this road is not easy to walk, especially without supplies. We have so many soldiers and horses. If we kill It will be very troublesome if the supplies run out, and if Tuyuhun attacks from behind, we may be surrounded instead." Liang Jianfang said bluntly.
"We have at least 30,000 troops, such a strong army, who are we afraid of?"
"But what if the enemy retreats into Taozhou and defends against the city? I have been to Taozhou City before. As for letting the Qiang people break in ten days."
"No matter how strong the city is, don't worry about it. I have a sharp weapon to break the city. I planned to use it to break the city, but it didn't work. I can take it with the army to break the city of Taozhou."
"If this is the case, it is indeed worth a try." Liang Jianfang said excitedly, "I ask to open the way for Pioneer."
"In the fortress, brothers from the West Army of Wuqian Town and the Dudu Mansion of Minzhou were selected to play the forward. I personally acted as the forward, and Qin Situ brought the Chinese Army Brigade over."
"It's fine." Liang Jianfang didn't catch the vanguard, but he was very happy that he didn't have to stay behind. "When to set off?"
"Prepare for the day tomorrow and leave early the day after tomorrow!"
(end of this chapter)