Chapter 616 Cracking the soil and enfeoffing
"Everyone!"
In the military tent, Qin Lang put down his chopsticks, sat upright, and interrupted the endless disputes of the generals with a serious voice.
Following his words, all the generals stopped arguing and looked at him together. Qin Lang's age was the youngest among all the generals, even Liu Rengui, Liu Shenli, and Wang Xiaojie were all slightly older than him.
However, the young Qin Lang is full of majesty in his actions and gestures. No one dares to despise this young man who has become a general and a prime minister.
Three visits to the Prime Minister, envoys to declare, two battles in Longyou, and this Western Expedition, made him extremely tall and majestic in the hearts of the generals.
The army has always been a place that only obeys the strong. Chai Shaocheng, Xue Wanche, Duan Zhixuan and other heroes now admire Qin Lang very much.
"What decision did Prime Minister Xuan make?" Duan Zhixuan asked.
Qin Lang smiled, "Everyone, sent out troops in late spring and fought for thousands of miles. In the blink of an eye, it has been several months and it will be autumn. Although the journey was difficult, the result is still gratifying. Now the old thief Fu Yun has been beheaded. Most of the Tuyuhun princes also surrendered, and their main force was completely defeated. It can be said that the bold words we uttered during the expedition have been fulfilled one by one, and we have done it. We captured Fu Yun, destroyed his main force, and destroyed his country!"
"Come on, let's raise our glasses and congratulate each other first. Great Tang and Longyou are all victorious! Your Majesty is all victorious!"
Qin Lang raised his cup, and all the generals also raised their cups.
"Hey!"
"Hey!"
After drinking a glass of wine, everyone's faces were full of excitement. No matter what, it was indeed as Qin Lang said, when they went out to fight, even if they were themselves, how many people really believed that they could win the battle and defeat the king of Yunjiang? Annihilating the force to destroy the country?
But they really did it, and it was the Longyou Army themselves.
It took them three months to prepare and then counterattack. The court was just watching during this process.
"Everyone, Qin was honored to cooperate with all the brave and famous generals to complete this earth-shattering feat. Qin Lang is deeply honored and thank you all. Come, let me toast you with this glass of wine, thank you all."
Qin Lang drank again.
The generals also raised their glasses together.
"As for how to proceed, whether to withdraw or fight, how to deal with the captives, whether to kill or release, I have also thought about it for a long time. Your Majesty is far away in Luoyang, and the crown prince is also in Chang'an. They are thousands of miles away. , There is no time to ask for instructions to report and wait for the order, Qin, as the commander, can only make a decision on the fly and act cheaply."
"What everyone said just now has its own reasons. Qin also knows that General Xue has resentment towards Tuyuhun, but it is impossible to kill hundreds of thousands of prisoners, and it is impossible to say that they will all be demoted as slaves and distributed to the soldiers. We will wait It is also necessary to consider the overall situation of the court and plan for the future."
"After thinking about it, I feel that Fu Yun, who rebelled against the Tang Dynasty, is dead, and all the tribes have surrendered. Considering the long-term, I plan to be a teacher."
Old Cheng stood up abruptly.
"Isn't it too early to be a class teacher now? If you don't die if you beat a snake, you will have endless troubles. It is time to pursue the victory."
Qin Lang smiled.
"General Cheng, please listen to me. The battle has reached this level, and it's almost over. The main force, the Tuyuhun tribes will retreat. Of course, I also plan to send a general to stay and lead an elite army to declare war on the tribes. Tang Guowei, express our army's decision."
Qin Lang asked Murong Shun, Murong Cheng, A Bao, Tuoba Sitou, Xifeng Cunyi, etc. to be invited in.
These few generals have always been excluded from the military discussions these days.
"General Murong Shun."
Murong Shun just sat down and quickly got up again, "What orders does Xuan Shuai have?"
"Tuyuhun has just arrived, and he is still a little unstable. I temporarily appoint you as the governor of Xihai Prefecture, and temporarily take charge of the tribes around the Xihai Lake."
Murong Shun was a little surprised, and was in a daze.
"Why, don't you want to?"
"Yes, willing to work for Datang."
Qin Lang nodded in satisfaction, very good. Next, he appointed Murong Cheng as the Governor of Heyuan Mansion, commanding the area from Dafeiling to Jishishan.
Yifu Abao was appointed by Qin Lang as the governor of Qiemo Mansion, and he was in charge of the western part of Tuyuhun.
Actually, Tuyuhun was divided into three parts. The eastern region was led by the Murong Shun brothers, and the north and south were divided.
This arrangement was actually very ulterior motives. Zunwang Murongcheng originally ruled the Qiemo region in the west of Tuyuhun, etc. Abao’s territory was in the northeast of Tuyuhun, and the south was originally the territory of King Tianzhu.
But now Qin Lang asked Abao to go to Qiemo, and asked King Zun to come to the southeast to unify the tribes of the former Tianzhu King.
Of course, Qin Lang couldn't completely trust them.
So a deputy was assigned to each of the three. Liu Rengui was the general manager of Xikaidao, Wang Xiaojie was the general manager of Qiemo Road, and Liu Shenli was the general manager of Heyuan Road.
The three of them all advocated the continued use of troops, and they were also the young faction who performed extremely well in this battle. Qin Lang then used these three to supervise the three of them.
The official positions he gave to the three were not the positions of Chief History or Sima of the Dudu Mansion, but a separate marching road, giving them the position of marching chief, which is parallel to Murong Shun and the others, and they are not under each other.
The Xihai Governor's Mansion was stationed in Fuqi City, the Heyuan Governor's Mansion was in Wuhai City, and the Qiemo Governor's Mansion was in Qiemo City.
Qin Langba gave the three of Liu Rengui the Dangxiang Qiang and Miscellaneous Qiang soldiers, and one person gave 3,000 soldiers, but did not send troops to Tuyuhun.
Qin Lang made a simple division of the 150,000 soldiers who surrendered here in Yematan. Qin Lang dispatched 50,000 troops to bring them back to Longyou. The state went to the Tang Dynasty to herd horses, garrison fields, camp cities, and guard borders.
It was agreed that the period would be three years. After three years, they would return to their hometown in batches, and Murong Shun and others would send another 50,000 people to replace them.
The remaining 100,000 captives were distributed to Murong Shun and the other three, and moved with them to the Sandudu Mansion. Qin Lang's purpose was to redisrupt the division of Tuyuhun's original tribal fiefdoms, mess up the original relationship, let Tuyuhun enter a new period of turmoil, and make them temporarily unable to go out.
The Tuyuhun army that had been attached before, Qin Lang also re-divided them to Murong Shun and Murong Shun. Murong Shun focused on taking care of them, and assigned more, and also occupied the Qinghai Lake area near the core area of Datang.
Although Abao performed well after being attached to him, Qin Lang has always been wary of him, thinking that this guy can bend, rise and fight, so he is not a good guy, so he sent him to Qiemo.
Qiemo has actually entered the Western Regions, between the Qaidam Desert and the Tarim Desert. It is far away from Fuqi City in the desert, and has to pass through many uninhabited areas, but it is very close to Dunhuang, Yanqi, Gaochang, Yiwu, etc.
In Tuyuhun's disastrous defeat this time, Qin Lang had to guard against Western Turks, Gaochang, etc. coming to **** Qiemo, Shanshan and other places, so Abao, who was more capable of fighting, was allowed to lead the old army of the original king Murongcheng. Keep this place, and don't let them get together and separate.
As for King Murong Cheng, he was originally the son-in-law of King Tianzhu, but he killed King Tianzhu in the end, and Qin Lang also deliberately sent him to the territory of Tianzhu Department, just to let them check and balance each other.
Of course, for the sake of safety, Qin Lang assigned many of the captive Tianzhu troops to A Bao and Murong Shun, assigned Fu Yun's original troops in Qinghai to Qiemo and Heyuan, and assigned Qiemo to Heyuan. At the end of the year, many tribes moved to Qinghai Lake and Dafeichuan.
Completely mess them up, make a mess, let them take a long time to straighten out, to recover.
Regarding Qin Lang's arrangement.
Chai Shao and others were surprised, but after careful consideration, everyone felt that it seemed to be not bad.
No matter what, the Tang army will always withdraw, and it is impossible for Tuyuhun to let it go. Murong Shun and others belong to the leader, and in the end they are naturally more suitable ruling agents.
In doing so, in fact, Tuyuhun was divided into three, and it was completely disrupted and dispersed. Murong Shun and the other three were only inspectors, and there was no distinction between the big and the small, so no one could command the other.
Although Murong Shun and Murong Cheng are brothers, their relationship has always been at odds. Ah Bao was originally a powerful prince in Tuyuhun, so naturally he would not listen to these two brothers now.
Qin Lang took away 50,000 of the most elite captives, which was also a plan to draw salary from the bottom of the pot.
In all aspects, it is still a good strategy.
"What about the captured livestock, cattle, horses, etc.?" Lao Cheng didn't want to spit out the fat that was in his mouth.
Qin Lang chuckled.
"The captives can be assigned to the Third Dudu Mansion according to the disposal plan, but the armor and weapons seized on the battlefield, cattle and horses, fodder, etc., naturally there is no reason to return them."
As soon as these words came out, Murong Shun and others all changed their colors slightly, but in the end, no one said anything.
This time Tuyuhun was mobilized almost across the country. In the end, hundreds of thousands of horses participated in the war. Five or six million horses were defeated, and millions of livestock were seized. In fact, these hundreds of thousands of horses belonged to them.
Now Qin Lang said, people will take fifty thousand of them back to Longyou, and all the captured equipment, livestock fodder, etc. will also be taken away, leaving hundreds of thousands of naked people with almost nothing left. Although there were still some clansmen who stayed behind and some cattle, horses and tents among the various ministries participating in the war, Qin Lang's move robbed them of their Tuyuhun.
In a tribe, most of the livestock were taken away, and in the future they could only barely survive. They had to rely on hunting, digging wild vegetables, and growing highland barley to subsidize their livelihood. Without the weapons and equipment accumulated for generations, how would they fight in the future?
But facing Qin Lang, they didn't even dare to say a word of rebuttal.
Qin Lang sent all the captives back anyway. If Xue Shashen was like that, he would have killed them all or sold them all as slaves.
That is the disaster.
Murong Shun and the others are the governors selected by Qin Lang, and they also have to worry about being abandoned after disobeying Qin Lang.
"The last thing, when the teacher is in class, I hope that the leaders of the chiefs who belong to the Tuyuhun tribes can choose young children, preferably from the direct line, and return to Longyou with me."
This is asking for a proton. Qin Lang said that these Tuyuhun disciples would serve as servant knights in the frontier army of Nine Towns in Longyou, and they would also select those who performed well and send them to Chang'an to guard the emperor and nobles.
"Of course, as the vassals of the Tang Dynasty, from now on, you must be loyal to the Tang Dynasty. Your Majesty the loyal ministers, you must remember to pay tribute every year. I will make a list for you again for the specific tribute and quantity. Just pay the tribute according to the amount."
Finally, Qin Lang praised Tuoba Sitou and Xifeng Cunyi, the two young representatives of Dangxiang Qiang, and then sternly beat a few words, especially declaring the boundary between Dangxiang and Tuyuhun, and strictly ordered the two ethnic groups to separate themselves. Guard the border, and must not cross the border to **** pastures and pastures.
"Dangxiang and Tuyuhun are all subordinates of our Datang Dynasty. They are not allowed to cross the border, and they are not allowed to attack and plunder each other. If they violate it, they will disrespect Datang and bear the consequences!"
(end of this chapter)