Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Now these bandits are the meat and potatoes in Chen Ying's eyes.

However, Chen Ying didn't take his position seriously, but murmured: "The general is busy with military affairs, and I don't have time to take care of him. The matter of suppressing bandits..."

When Li Ruiting heard this, it was like falling into an ice cellar.He lost more than [-] shi of tax and grain. Although this amount of grain was not much, it cost his life. This Li Ruiting was not from a noble family, so he could rely on the help of his family to fill the hole with [-] shi of grain. Banditry is serious under the rule, and even if you lose taxes and food, you can easily take off his black hat.

It was over half a hundred years ago that he got into the position of Qipinzheng County, and then this kind of thing happened again.This was simply killing him. Looking back on the ups and downs of the first half of his life, he worked hard and worked hard to get to this position. Once he was dismissed from office, he would be back before liberation.The more Li Ruiting thought about it, the more aggrieved and depressed he became, his eyes flowed out again.

"Hey... County Magistrate Li, what's wrong with you, why are you still crying?" Chen Ying said dumbfounded: "This general didn't say that he couldn't help your county to suppress bandits. If things don’t go well, things won’t work, if you do what I say, then this general will help you suppress the bandits.”

Li Ruiting was overjoyed when he heard the words, and according to what Chen Ying said, he hurriedly reported to Chang'an.

In Li Ruiting's urgent report, the bandits in Pu County didn't know which muscle was wrong, and they actually attacked General Chen's supply fleet. General Chen had no choice but to fight back.

In fact, the purpose of Chen Ying's suppression of bandits is very simple, that is, to get people.

He needs a group of bloody and brave people to defend the Western Regions for him. 5 horses seem to be a lot. If it is scattered on more than 300 million square kilometers of land in the Western Regions, it is estimated to be similar to spreading pepper noodles.There is absolutely no human habitation in Baili.

At the same time, Chen Ying can also train the army, and Chen Ying still has a shady army in his hands, which is behind the Wei army.

The money and food expenditure of this army is all through Chen Ying's private accounts.This army does not exist on the books, and even the generals at all levels in the army are all appointed as deputies.For example, Liu Tong, now his honorary officer is the fourth-rank Qingche Duwei, and the Wusan officer is General Xuanwei, who is actually the commander of the Wei army.The Xunxiang is the honored officer Shangqi Duwei, the Wusan officer is General Mingwei, and the official position is the deputy commander of the Beiwei Army.

Backing the Wei army is not very useful now, and Chen Ying has not forgotten Tubo.In the future, he needs to have a good fight with Tubo, especially Lu Dongzan and Lun Qinling, who are known as Tubo gods of war. If Chen Ying doesn't beat them out of shit, he will be sorry for his time travel.To fight against Tubo, the general Datang army would use it at all, and troops that could not adapt to altitude sickness and fight in the mountains would send food as much as possible.

Xue Rengui's defeat in history was due to the fact that the Tang army could not adapt to altitude sickness (Old Cheng had been to Xinjiang, and he did not get out of bed for half a month due to altitude sickness). In the army that was not adapted to altitude sickness, [-]% of its combat effectiveness, even half of it, could not be used. It is strange not to lose a battle.Only by making up for the shortcoming of fighting in the plateau and mountains can Datang be considered invincible.

In fact, during the Tang Dynasty, it was not the Turkic people, the Tuyuhun people, or the Goguryeo people who suffered the most, but Tubo.Of course, the Goguryeo mountainous area also had a great impact on the Tang Dynasty. An army that can adapt to fighting in the plateau and mountainous areas can definitely punch Tubo and kick Goguryeo with ease.

For this reason, Chen Ying placed high hopes on Beiwei's army.However, Beiwei's army is still far behind Chen Ying's goal.Chen Ying always believed that good soldiers are not made by training, but by fighting. The Beiwei army can use these bandits to practice their hands first.

Since Mingzhou transported the Hebei-born Xia Guo's surrendered army, it would take at most seven or eight days to reach Puxian County. Chen Ying's time is tight and the task is heavy.

For this reason, Chen Ying issued an order to the Beiwei army: "End the banditry in the Luliang Mountains within three months!"

Both Liu Tong and Xun Xiang are ambitious people. They both want to seal their wives and sons and make contributions. How could they be restrained by a group of bandits?

Although suppressing bandits is also considered military merit, this military merit is far worse than fighting Turks.In order to get out as soon as possible, the back Wei army is also more ruthless.

First of all, the Beiwei Army first sent out cavalry to deliver leaflets to every mountain with bandit activities.At the same time, some enlightened gentry who had contacts with the bandits were mobilized to go up the mountain to publicize the current policy to the bandits, and asked the bandits to lay down their weapons and surrender to the Beiwei army within three days of receiving the leaflets.Then they will be sentenced according to the seriousness of the circumstances. If the circumstances are less serious, they will go home to farm, and if the circumstances are more serious, they will be sent to labor camps.

Due to the appropriate policy, coupled with Chen Ying's illustrious military exploits in sweeping the Central Plains and annihilating nearly [-] Zheng troops and tens of thousands of Xia troops, a large number of bandits chose to surrender to the Beiwei army.After registering their identity and household registration, they were going to go home to farm. However, these bandits never thought that Chen Ying had no intention of fulfilling the agreement at all. These bandits counted as one, and the whole family packed them up and boarded the water transport ship going north.

For this reason, without Chen Ying firing a single arrow, the number of bandits in Pu County was reduced by half, and there were not a single one left in many cottages.But not all the bandits cooperated in this way. Many bandits knew that they had sinned a lot, refused to surrender, and even attacked everywhere, trying to resist to the end.

Now Chen Ying is angry, mother wants to open a dyeing workshop just to give you some sunshine, but there is no door.

The Xiaoqi Army, Modao Army, and Shesheng Army were all dispatched, and blockades were established on every mountain road to block all the passages for the bandits to go down the mountain.At the same time, the people in the mountain villages were mobilized to move out.

This backcountry is really not a good place to live, it is better to get out of the mountains and go outside, the outside world is very exciting!Chen Ying proposed that one person can get one hundred acres of fertile land, and a family of five people can get one cattle and five sheep.People who have been poor all their lives in the mountains still have great trust in the government. Naturally, they wish for the opportunity to move to the Huahua World outside the mountains. As a result, many villages in Puxian area are empty, and they can't even find a person.

Not only Pu County, but also all the villages near Qu County and Linfen were swept away by Chen Ying.

Anyway, in Chen Ying's eyes, this is like beating rabbits with grass, and the most important thing he lacks is people.

Aren't you both bandits and people?Now I will confiscate the guns and move the population to other places, let's see how you make trouble!

Chapter 53 A Weak Country Without Diplomacy (Second Update)

Chapter 53 A Weak Country Without Diplomacy (Second Update)

The bandits saw that this situation was wrong. They were able to escape the encirclement and suppression by the Sui and Tang officials several times, not because of their ability to fight, but because of their mass base.

Yes, mass base.In fact, the bandits in the Luliang mountain area have formed a dense network of relationships. Some are inquiring about information, some are in charge of tipping off the news, some are in charge of ambush and robbery, and some are in charge of selling stolen goods.Regardless of 21, Chen Ying first removed all the villagers from remote mountain villages in the Luliang Mountains without screening or interrogating them.

In this way, half of the bandits in the Luliang Mountains were destroyed before fighting. They lost their keen sense of smell and their natural cover.

What's even more shameless is that the Beiwei army didn't fight the bandits openly at all, instead of pretending to be a big fat sheep with a lot of property to attract bandits to rob. When the bandits happily surrounded the fat sheep, the Beiwei army At the beginning, the fangs were exposed, and the bandits were routed by a flurry of arrows, and then rushed up, like a tiger like a herd of sheep, chopping the bandits to pieces.

Either take advantage of the dark night and high winds to sneak into the bandit's camp, beat them with sap, pour sweat medicine, or set a trap, and then rush in and have a fat beating, tie them up, load them on a boat, and take them to the Western Regions to farm.All kinds of schemes and methods emerged one after another, and this set of continuous combination punches stunned the bandits in the Luliang mountain area.

All the bandits want to see without tears, who is the bandit?

I have been cheated several times in a row, and found that every time the looting was pretended by the Beiwei army, not to mention not taking advantage, but suffered heavy losses.Because the Beiwei army is all on a pair of iron feet, they move extremely fast. Tomorrow, they will still be basking in the sun at Qingfengling, Daning. At night, they will go to Heifengzhai, Xixian County, more than 100 miles away, and uproot Heifengzhai. rise.

The speed of the Beiwei army is not fast. Three or two strongholds will be pulled out today, and another three or five will be destroyed tomorrow. Although there are not one thousand bandit strongholds in Luliang Mountain, there will be eight hundred. Unable to complete the task assigned by Chen Ying.

However, the bandits panicked. They knew the situation was serious, and if they let the Beiwei army go on like this, they would all be finished.They joined forces and launched repeated attacks on the Beiwei army stationed in Qingfengling, Daning. Qingfengling was originally the largest bandit den in Daning County. It was led by the bandit leader Liu Aqi who followed Li Shanfei. It is about four hundred steps long and about five hundred steps long, but it is built with strips of stone and filled with glutinous rice juice. Let alone poorly equipped bandits, even well-equipped officers and soldiers came to attack the city. The fortress of the city will also collapse a few big teeth.

The effect of the offensive is very obvious: they successfully reduced the bandits in the Luliang Mountains by half.As for their broken bows and arrows, they can't even pierce the armor of the back Wei army, let alone a strong fortress.What's even worse is that once the battle is stalemate, on the slope of Qingfeng Ridge, the Beiwei army will immediately drop dozens of hundreds of stone balls. It hurts when you touch it, as long as the stone ball rolls down the hillside, there will be a bloody storm in the bandit formation, smashing the bandits to the ground... Not to mention this gang of mobs, even the Turkic elite, facing the defense of the Weiwei army The offensive can only be watched and sighed, as far as it goes.

After suffering a few losses, the bandits have also learned to be good, and they will never take the initiative to attack the Beiwei army.It's a pity that the food doesn't have long legs, and they won't take the initiative to run up the mountain to find them, so in order to eat, they must take the initiative to attack the Beiwei army, otherwise they will starve to death.They couldn't attack life and death, and Beiwei was still elusive, destroying two or three cottages today, and destroying a few more the day after tomorrow... The bandits are almost driven crazy by this way of fighting, just want to cry: "Master, we Admit it, don't fight, okay?"

However, Bei Weijun said that absolutely not.

Before completing General Chen's order and dispatching 10 people to defend the border, the bandit suppression must not stop.

The bandits in Luliang Mountain saw that this was not the way to go, they couldn't fight and fight, and they couldn't run.

Regardless of the bandits in Puxian, Daning, and Xixian's Luliang Mountains, they seem to have disappeared.To eliminate the bandits who have been entrenched here for more than ten years, or even tens of hundreds of years, these local officials can usually celebrate with each other, but they soon realized that something was wrong.

Take Pu County as an example. Pu County was originally a county with a population of tens of thousands of households. However, as the bandits were wiped out, the population dropped sharply by [-]%, and now it is less than [-] households. The bandits, the key is the good people in the remote mountainous area, and they were also fooled by Chen Ying.

Using his personal credit as a guarantee, Chen Ying promised the people that he would move to Lingzhou and share [-] acres of land, a family of five would share a cow, and a house.For the poor and white people, the temptation is too great. The key is that in the past three years, Hedong has been fighting almost every year, but ordinary people have been tossed so hard that they have had enough.

Li Rui was dumbfounded. The population dropped by [-]%, and he, a county magistrate, couldn't afford to walk around.So more than [-] county magistrates from more than [-] counties in the Luliang mountainous area of ​​​​Hedong, as well as Mingzhou, Xiangzhou, Weizhou, and even Beizhou in Hebei wrote a letter to Li Yuan to impeach Chen Ying.

However, all these impeachment memorials have been thrown into the sea, and there is no response at all.

Li Yuan is also well aware of the ups and downs that Chen Ying caused in Hedong and Hebei.Of course, the most important thing is that Chen Ying's memorial moved Li Yuan's heart. Chen Ying wrote in the memorial to Li Yuan: "As long as you give him [-] people, he will spend [-] people in the Western Regions in the coming year, making the Western Regions a great Tang dynasty." The granary. Cooked in the Western Regions, the world is full."

Li Yuan had his own calculations. Hebei Qingzhuang and Hedong Qingzhuang were swept away, which could just weaken the strength of Hedong and Hebei's aristocratic clans, which killed two birds with one stone.Even if Dou Jiande's followers want to rebel again, they don't have the capital to rebel. Do they have to rely on the old, weak, sick and disabled?

It is inappropriate to say that the movement made by Chen Ying in the Luliang Mountains had no effect. At least when Ashina Suni, the leader of the "Falcon Eye", got the news, he still did not change his cleverness. Ashina Dubi wrote: "Dear Khan, your most loyal servant Ashina Suni has reported to you that according to reliable information, Chen Ying is currently suppressing bandits in Hedong and Hebei, and he is upholding justice. It coincides with your servant's previous speculation. There is a saying in the Han people, that is, to fight against the outside world, you must first secure the inside. Chen Ying's move must be for the future confrontation with the Great Turkic Khanate and to clear the rear. Some of these bandits are Dou Jiande and " They are the old department of "Ding Yang Khan", they and Li Tang are immortal, once the Khan needs them, they can raise troops at any time to support the Khan. This is the most unstable factor for Li Tang. However, it is a pity that these could have become the Great Turkic Nei Ying's soldiers and horses were all lost due to the mistakes of the servants. Chen Ying went to Hedong, and the servants suggested that Khan move his tent north..."

Ashina Duobi got the secret letter and thought about it for a long time.Still brought the secret letter to Princess Yicheng's tooth tent.Ashina Sunis handed the secret letter to Princess Yicheng, and then sighed with his hands behind his back: "It seems that old man Li Yuan is married to Ben Khan!"

"There are more than [-] soldiers and horses in the area, and they dare to go north. It's really brave!" Princess Yicheng read the secret letter and said with a cold smile: "My Khan, aren't you afraid of him?"

Hearing this, Jie Lihe Khan jumped up like a rabbit stepping on its tail, and roared fiercely, "What is a hero without a little bit of courage and courage in a horse leather shroud? How could I, Ashina Dobi?" Afraid of him, a yellow-mouthed child?"

If Ashina Doubi's legs didn't tremble, and his hands didn't tremble, Princess Yicheng really believed Ashina Doubi's words, but Ashina Doubi's performance betrayed his heart.

Princess Yicheng looked at Ashina Dubi, feeling very regretful in her heart, Ashina Dubi must not be so worthless as the son of Qimin Khan?

If he had known the result earlier, he would never have supported him to ascend the position of Khan.

Seeing the sarcasm on Princess Yicheng's face, Ashina Dobi said embarrassingly: "But Dun doesn't know something. Ben Khan is not afraid of Chen Ying. It's just that when two tigers fight, there must be an injury. Once Ben Khan If I suffer heavy losses in the duel with Chen, I will take advantage of Ye Huhan in vain, I can't take that as an excuse, otherwise I will shame millions of Turkic people!"

Princess Yicheng sneered and said, "Khan, what are you going to do?"