Chapter 852 Li Court
The night is dark and the wind is high.
Qin Lang didn't want to sleep, climbed up the tallest watchtower in Gaoping Fort and watched, in the distance, there were sparks.
Several Tang armies joined forces in Gaoping, and tens of thousands of barbarians who surrendered also stayed here temporarily.
The campfire is lit like stars in the sky.
Without a group of retainers making noise, Qin Lang was able to calm down and think.
In fact, there is no right or wrong in many things in this world, it just depends on which angle you think about. Each has its own interests, as the saying goes, the **** determines the head.
Qin Lang has many identities, with countless titles, the son-in-law of the emperor, the teacher of the prince, the important minister of the emperor, the prime minister of the imperial court, the great official of the border, but he is also a meritorious nobleman, and he is a feudal vassal. The angles are also different.
Just like the emperor’s setting of the four borders of Yunnan and Guangxi this time, the essence is actually an act of taking advantage of the opportunity of the Juding invasion to break the balance of the old pattern on the four borders of Jiaogui and Guangxi, and take a strong move to seize control.
A series of actions such as demarcating boundaries, reforming land and returning to locals, reorganizing households and aligning people, sealing feudal vassals and setting up towns, stationing troops and sending officials, etc., are all due to this.
The breaking of the old pattern will inevitably lead to the birth of a new pattern, which will eventually return to balance.
It’s just a new balance, and it’s bound to be another situation.
If Qin Lang looked at this matter as the prime minister of the Tang Empire, there is no doubt that the emperor's actions in dealing with it were very fast, timely and appropriate, and even excellent. A power vacuum was created, and it was just the right time for Datang to enter strongly at this time, otherwise, it would not take three to five years, and new Nanbarbarian forces would eventually appear to fill it up, and it would be difficult to intervene at that time.
Of course, Qin Lang was still a feudal vassal in Wu'an Prefecture, Juding was defeated, and Zuoximan completely surrendered to Zianhu, which meant that Qin Lang's fief was no longer an enclave, and the situation around him was much safer. He wanted to face the imperial court's real control of Zhengzhou.
In the future, there will be no room for buffering, and there will be no room for expansion, both good and bad.
But if the water is muddy, it will undoubtedly be more conducive to development.
Generally speaking, when the imperial court set up four new Zhengzhous around Qinlang, Taiping Prefecture, Sizhou, Guangyuan, and Wu'e, and newly established the two clan vassal towns of Xin'an Prefecture Dudufu and Juding Prefecture Dudufu, The Qin family really has no strategic space left.
In addition to Jiaozhou in the southwest and the sea in the east, the Qin family has no room for further expansion, and has been restricted since then.
And the emperor also gave him a tweet to divide the fiefdom, and gave him four more shares of Wu'an Prefecture in advance to his four concubines, which was very precautionary.
Did the emperor do something wrong?
No.
In the eyes of outsiders, God's grace is mighty.
One reward and another reward, the grace is unmatched.
This is Yangmou.
The emperor would not doubt Qin Lang's loyalty, but the emperor planned ahead and made arrangements early to prevent this possibility, not just against Qin Lang, but against the descendants of the Qin family.
To the east is Li Boyi, king of Longxi County, the emperor's cousin, and to the west is Li Xiang, king of Dunhuang County, the emperor's eldest grandson. The two clans are sandwiched between the two clans, one on the left and the other on the right. In fact, the pattern that has been difficult to change for three hundred years has been finalized.
There is only a small flaw in this pattern, that is, Wu'an Prefecture is near the sea and has Taiping Port. There is the Baiteng River in the north and the Taiping River in the south. The two dragons go out to sea, and the dragon jumps into the sea. This leaves a chance for the Qin family in Wu'an Prefecture.
Actually, if Qin Lang thinks about these things now, he is also disloyal to the emperor, and those who are disloyal to the Tang Dynasty should not think about these things if they are courtiers.
After blowing the cool breeze in the middle of the night, when he returned to the fort, Anon was still waiting for him under the lamp.
"Sanlang, it's getting late, should you rest earlier?"
Qin Lang looked at the slightly tired Anon, the autumn was high and the sky was cool, Anong's fragrant shoulders were half exposed, and the candlelight was flickering, but it was a little more attractive. He suddenly became hot and strode forward, rude and brutal...
Anon let out a cry, followed by giggling laughter, and then short gasps...
At dawn, Qin Lang woke up early.
Opening his eyes, he saw the beauty curled up in his arms, sleeping soundly, with messy hair. He tilted his head and kissed her forehead lightly. He stood up lightly, turned around and covered her with a blanket, and Qin Lang walked out the door with his shoes. .
After some fierce venting last night, the whole person is more energetic.
"Morning Saburo, I thought you wouldn't be able to get up this morning."
Zhang Chao sat in front of the room with a spear in his arms, listless, with dark circles under his eyes, and didn't even bother to eat the steamed mutton cake brought by Ah Huang.
"Sanlang was really brave last night. Could it be that he regarded this Anong as that Anon? No one in the entire Gaoping Fort fell asleep last night. I guess even the brothers in the nearby barracks outside the fort listened. Pity those brothers. Ah, I'm out on an expedition, and I don't even have a mother by my side, but I still have to suffer this kind of torture, maybe I will scream, next time, Saburo, if you come again, can you make Anon grit his teeth and close his mouth and keep silent ?”
Qin Lang looked at the resentful Zhang Sanlang, laughed heartily, took a steamed mutton pancake from Ah Huang, and ate it. He was in good spirits and had a good appetite. The mutton buns just out of the steamer were really filling. The fat skin is tender and delicious.
Ah Huang said in a very wimpy way, "Unexpectedly, Mrs. Anong is usually a serious lady, and the voice when she pleaded guilty and begged for mercy is really charming. Oh, there is no one in my room that can compare, even if there is Thirty percent, I can double my bravery, come to Changbanpo seven in and seven out!"
Zhang Chao yawned.
"Lao Huang, take it easy, you old boy, you think you are still young, you old man who has lost all his front teeth, and you still think about this all day long, so you are not afraid of getting caught right away?"
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At the early morning meeting in Gaoping Fort, all the participants were a little listless, with dark circles under their eyes, and they really didn't sleep well.
When he saw Qin Lang, he was full of resentment.
Everyone is away on an expedition, and all of them have become monks. Qin Lang is lucky. If there is a beautiful woman like Anon who comes to condolences, you can secretly close the door and make out. Everyone here knows.
It's a dry day, so don't you mean to make everyone sad.
"Chu Mo, what's wrong with your nose, why are you stuffing two **** of cotton?"
Cheng Chu gave Qin Lang a silent look, "Nosebleed."
Niu Jianhu over there is more direct, "I said Sanlang, you can't know that a hungry man is hungry if you are full. If you want me to say, let's divide the prisoners under this castle directly, or just pick some young and strong women. Do you also comfort the brothers?"
Qin Lang pretended not to hear.
Cough twice.
"A simple meeting, the battle has been fought so far, and the results are good." Qin Lang started, and all the generals put away their smiling faces and became serious one by one.
Qin Lang is usually very talkative, but when he is serious, he is also ruthless.
The result was not only good, it was brilliant.
The nine tribes of Juding united to restore the country and invaded. Two groups of soldiers and horses totaled 100,000 soldiers and horses entered Zuoxi River. At one time, it was overwhelming.
But after all, he still failed to overturn the game of Wei Guogong Qin Sanlang.
Qin Lang kills two birds with one stone. At the beginning, he borrowed a sentence to savagely drive away tigers and eat wolves. He sat on the mountain and watched the tigers fight.
The barbarians were forced to join forces with the Juding barbarians stupidly, but on the contrary, Qin Lang could let go and clean up together more happily.
Juding was defeated, and Ximan was defeated.
Now Juding is defeated and fled back, but he has to face the desperate situation that his old nest is seized by Li Daliang, homeless, and there are constant pursuers behind him.
Of course, the Zuoxi barbarian king led his troops to surrender, committed suicide and apologized, which was even more exciting.
Now, the entire territory of Zuoxixi has been recovered, and after this battle, the forces of the Zuoxixi tribe have been subdued and subdued, completely hurting their vitality and mobilizing their muscles and bones.
Next, whether the imperial court set up Zhengzhou, sent out officials, or set up households to equalize the people, the amount of land is definitely allowed to be squeezed, and there is no longer any resistance.
"Take advantage of his illness and kill him. We can't let Juding run wild. This time we completely wiped them out, captured all these bold barbarians, and sold them into slavery."
Cheng Chumo raised his head, touched his nose, and said in a buzzing voice, "Catch that bold Nong Sanniang back and strip her naked for public display."
Niu Jianhu shouted, "Strip her naked and whip her!"
"Lingchi broken scrape!" Yuchi Baolin shouted.
A dozen or so eyes cast contemptuous glances. I heard that Nong Sanniang is also a fierce and beautiful woman, how could she be so ruthless and cruel.
Judingman is now like Mrs. Nong San, who has no power to resist. At this time, of course, a group of people will rush forward and ravage them to their heart's content.
Zuoxi Jiangman, because of Qin Lang's insistence, everyone no longer thought about how to squeeze these people. Now everyone is interested in Judingman. Those are barbarians who dare to build a country and become kings. There is no pressure to grab them. , and there are credits for robbing more and more ruthlessly, of course you can't be polite.
Everyone can't wait to continue marching.
are all vying to play forward.
Qin Lang also took out a battle plan. He planned to divide his troops into three groups to pursue the Judingman, go deep into the barbarian land, join forces with Li Daliang in Jiaozhou, and launch a devastating encirclement and suppression of the entire Judingman. Leave room.
North Road marched along Youxi River, followed its upstream tributaries Leli River, Tuoniang River, Xiyang River, and Boai River to the bank of Nanpan River.
The Central Route Army started from Gaoping and fought along the lines of Jingxi, Ande, and Funing.
The South Route Army encircled and suppressed along the Jinjiang line.
Qin Lang wrote down a few names on several traffic nodes on the South Line, Xuanguang, Hejiang, Maguan, Wenshan, and finally entered Mengzi, Kaiyuan, and Jianshui in eastern Yunnan.
On the three marching routes, Qin Lang wrote down more than a dozen names, all of which were set as prefectures and counties, which were also the strategic nodes for the encirclement and suppression of Juding Man. The encirclement and suppression base that can be attacked, retreated and defended can be connected with dots at the same time to penetrate three lines, so that there is no need to worry about logistics and supplies.
At the same time, send people to write about the state capitals in southern Guizhou, eastern Yunnan and other places, as well as the chieftains of the Juting barbarians, and ask them to send troops to cooperate. There is no guarantee that the Juding barbarians will have nowhere to escape and be encircled and wiped out.
There are not many soldiers and elites.
Send 12,000 troops to each route, including 4,000 elite soldiers, 8,000 township warriors, and another 12,000 Xidong Manding to transport food, grass and supplies, and watch the camps and capture prisoners.
"The mountains are high and the roads are far away, the roads are difficult to navigate, and the depths are barren, so even though 12,000 Xidong mandarins were sent to the Third Route Army to deliver supplies and so on, they couldn't transport much. We had to find ways to support the war and supply supplies on the spot. After dispatching troops, don't rush around like headless chickens, first knock down the traffic nodes that have been set up one by one, and after capturing them, quickly build a fortress..."
(end of this chapter)