Chapter 973 Wuzhen Kyushu
Niu Jianhu mobilized two thousand naval divisions, hundreds of boats large and small, transporting eight thousand elite soldiers all the way westward, and soon arrived in Xunzhou. Qin Lang didn't delay along the way, and didn't even go ashore, ignoring the greetings and hospitality from the officials along the way.
Entering Rongshui (Qianjiang) from Xunzhou, the whole army speeded up and rushed hundreds of miles into Rongzhou.
On a morning full of thick fog, Qin Cunxiao led a thousand strategic soldiers as the vanguard and launched a surprise attack on Rongzhou City. The magistrate's place.
It's just that it is now Rongzhou City, and it was renamed Rongshui County.
One thousand elite soldiers, together with three thousand elite servants from eight families including Feng Xian, Chen Yang, etc. As a result, Qin Cunxiao climbed to the top of the city by stepping on a bamboo ladder with a knife in his hand.
Qin Lang's first attack on Rongshui City was also because Rongshui Ximan daringly captured Rongshui City not long ago.
This can be said to have poked a hornet's nest.
Although Rongshui is said to be a very remote prefecture in Guangxi Province, it was newly established in recent years. It is not as good as a county in Guangzhou in terms of population, money and food, but no matter what, it is already a Zhengzhou officially established by the imperial court.
It is not a trivial matter for such a state and county seat to be captured by barbarians.
If the barbarians rebelled in the mountains, it would be a trivial matter to go down the mountain to rob villages and caravans, but if you dare to capture prefectures and counties, you are asking for your own death.
Originally, the Guizhou Governor’s Mansion was about to mobilize the Jingjiang army to encircle and suppress them. When they reported to Guangzhou, Qin Lang pressed the button first, so he should kill them on the way.
Because the Jingjiang army did not act, this made these barbarians even more arrogant. They really thought that they were already in trouble. The chief didn't know where he got the courage to start falsely establishing a reign name in the city, arrogating himself as king, and even becoming a great seal. The prime minister, marshal, and civil and military officials rose up.
All the young wives, concubines and daughters of officials and wealthy businessmen who had been robbed in the city were sealed up as their own seventy-two concubines in the Sangong and Six Courtyards, and the barbarians under them sealed the city and robbed them for three days.
After conquering the city of Zhouzhou, he became king, and then began to enjoy the stolen three palaces and six concubines, killing pigs and cattle, drinking and having fun all day long, without knowing what to do next.
The barbarians below are also the same, fighting for big houses in the city, women, money, and even food.
No one cares about the city defense or something.
No one said that they would recruit soldiers and build equipment, so they enjoyed themselves like this.
Qin Lang came all the way from Guangzhou, and they didn't react at all.
When Qin Cunxiao sneaked under the city under the dawn mist, then set up a bamboo ladder, held a horizontal knife in his mouth, and climbed up the city with both hands and feet, there was not a single barbarian on the city.
The barbarians all gathered in the city gate and slept soundly, with no one guarding them.
Qin Cunxiao jumped onto the top of the city wall and rushed towards the city gate tower along the city wall with a knife in his hand, one knife at a time, and in an instant, a barbarian who was still sleeping soundly was killed. Under the severe pain, the barbarian opened his blurred eyes that were still drunk , did not understand the situation at all.
Cunxiao drew his sword and swung it down again. The barbarian's head had been cut off, and his bones were rolling on the ground, his eyes still fascinated.
Other tooth soldiers arrived and slashed with their knives, and all the drunken guards in the city gate were hacked to death, bleeding all over the floor.
Bloody.
Qin Cunxiao flicked the blade expressionlessly, shaking off the blood on the blade, turned around and went down the road along the horse road.
In the city gate, there was another mess of knives, take it down.
Cun Xiao raised the gate bolt and took it down with one hand, and several tooth soldiers stepped forward to open the city gate.
The soldiers who had been ambushing at the gate of the city for a long time rushed in.
Almost at the same time, the other gates of Rongshui City were quickly taken down just like Cunxiao's.
The gate of the city was opened, and several soldiers and horses swarmed in.
Waiting until Cunxiao had reached the state Yamen, the barbarian's own soldiers came to stop him.
Cun Xiao had already changed to a war horse at this time, holding a Mo knife in his hand, waving it again and again, piercing his direction, those barbarians were cut in two.
The teeth soldiers behind shot with long bows and crossbows, nailing them to the ground.
The barbarian king arrived wearing a pair of shorts and carrying a knife. Before he could figure out the situation, Cun Xiao cut off his head with a knife.
The barbarian king died.
The barbarian country is destroyed!
It took less than half an hour before and after, and the entire Rongzhou City was taken back. Qin Lang personally sat outside the city and opened a large net, and not a single barbarian escaped.
After dawn, Tang Jun began to search for the fish that slipped through the house.
One after another, the barbarians were escorted outside the city gate, **** and kneeling on the ground.
The people who survived many catastrophes in the city were all weeping with joy. They didn't expect that there would be a time when they would see the sun again and see Master Wang again.
"How to deal with these savages?"
The **** smell in the city hadn't dissipated yet, and the rescued civilians surrounded the captives, each with fire in their eyes, wishing to devour these thieves alive.
I had a good time, but now I have to pay the price.
"Cut off the big toes of both feet, and engrave tattoos on the face, and demote them to slaves."
"If any common people can point out whose hands are stained with the blood of human life, they will be chopped off directly."
Qin Lang slowly spoke about the treatment of these people, cold and ruthless.
On that day, more than 800 barbarians were killed during the siege or after the city was broken, and another 5,000 were demoted to slavery, had two toes cut off, and the words "crime slave" were tattooed on their faces.
Qin Lang left a member of the army as a temporary governor to help restore the city defense of Rongzhou, help the people rebuild their homes, and then move on.
He sent Qingqi, carrying the head of the barbarian leader, to persuade him to surrender.
In one day, seventeen Xidong man villages surrendered without a fight.
Encountered eight villages resisting behind closed doors.
Qin Lang directly summoned those barbarian villages that surrendered to send troops, and gathered tens of thousands of barbarians to attack.
Feng Zhidai and others led the family Ding Jianjun behind.
In front is the dangerous barbarian stronghold, but behind it is the supervising army with a knife in their hands and a fierce look on their faces.
The barbarians could only bite the bullet and charge. Fortunately, Qin Lang didn't intend to kill with a knife. They charged in front, and the officers and soldiers covered them with bows and crossbows in the back, and even set up ballistas and light catapults to assist.
No barbarian village can withstand such an attack.
Within ten days, eight villages were broken.
After breaking through the stockade, Qin Lang treated the barbarians in Rongzhou city in the same way. The leader and his direct descendants were directly killed, and the rest were demoted to slaves. Everything in the stockade was removed and then burned. history.
Afterwards, the barbarians in other parts of Rongzhou followed suit one after another, and took the initiative to send people to take the initiative to bring cattle and wine to the army to give condolences, and even sent their nephews to the army as hostages, so they dared not resist again.
Qin Lang didn't despise the barbarian's behavior, anyway, it has always been like this, bullying the strong and fearing the weak, and always confused about the situation, he dared to charge when he saw a small profit, and retreated when he was beaten.
Qin Lang simply issued a summons order to all the barbarians in Rongzhou City, asking all the village leaders to come to see them.
And set out a few conditions.
First, all the barbarian villages should work together to help the Jinglue Mansion build an official road station in Rongzhou, and dredge the Rongxi waterway.
Secondly, the barbarian villages should help rebuild Rongzhou City, Wuyang Sanjiang and other four counties.
Thirdly, each barbarian village should send talented people to serve in prefectures, counties and townships to assist the government in governing Rongzhou. All barbarian villages will send young and strong men to join the regiment training camp established by Rongzhou and the security regiments of each county, and they will be uniformly dispatched by the prefecture and county.
"Fourth, since Wude, you haven't paid taxes, money or food, and you haven't served in the military. Originally, everything owed must be paid in full. It's just that the truth is lenient, and the past will not be pursued. But From now on, all Xidong Manzhais in Rongzhou will start to measure the fields and check the households. All the Dingkou will be registered in the household registration, and all the fields and forests will also be recorded in the government archives. wait."
"This year's two taxes, I still give you a license to exempt them, but starting from next year, the two taxes will be officially paid, the land tax is paid according to the number of acres of land, and the household tax is paid according to the household. In addition, the free warehouse grain and the community warehouse grain are used for famine and disaster relief. Yes, so it must be paid according to the law per field per household.”
Finally, Qin Lang also made a request, that is, to take away some chiefs to serve in the army, and to recruit a group of their children as servants in the tent.
Facing these requests from Qin Lang, the barbarians looked at each other in blank dismay. In fact, they were a little surprised. It was easier than expected.
"Of course, there is one thing I didn't mention, but you should take the initiative to do it, that is, those who have Han people who are slaves in the barbaric villages of Xidong should be returned to the government immediately and unconditionally, including their spouses and children."
"This, is it okay?"
Qin Lang glanced over.
All the barbarian chiefs, big and small, knelt on the ground, bowed down, and agreed.
Although the Duke of Wei was young and soft-spoken, no one dared to disobey him. In Lingnan, many barbarians now only know Duke Wei, but not Emperor Tang.
Duke Wei committed suicide to this wild place, how dare they say no.
Don’t ask them to hand over the slaves of the Han family, even if they hand over their own wives and daughters, they dare not say a word.
The fate of those breached villages is a lesson from the past.
Although there are also some large barbarian villages, the places where they live are very dangerous, and some even build their villages on cliffs completely, and they have to climb up and down through rattan ladders.
As long as the rattan ladder is withdrawn, one man will guard the gate, and ten thousand men will not open it. Even food can be cultivated on the mountain, and there is a stream of water, so it is not a problem to keep it for a year or so.
But the savages are not stupid, if they really want to do this, then they will be in prison. When many villages surrendered, they continued to fight to the end, but there was no good result.
You can’t just stay on the cliff all the time. There are water and fields on the mountain, but there is no salt, and there are so many things you need for life, you have to trade with other villages, or even with the Han people.
That's not a long-term solution at all.
Under the circumstances that Qin Lang's offer was not bad, these barbarians breathed a sigh of relief, as long as there was room left, it would be a dead end after all.
Many people began to regret it, why did they go the other way back then?
Some guys even thought hard there, why did they rebel in the first place? Why can't I remember?
(end of this chapter)