On the east bank of the Zaqu River, Liu Chengzong is marching.
Master Basang's offensive was very effective. Within a month, he swept through the old land of Nangqian and defeated all the nobles who surrendered to King Baili.
Liu Chengzong listened to the report from the frontline Tangqi on horseback and smiled with satisfaction.
Basang's army is temporarily in charge of Dai Daozi, the leader of Tangqi. His command is divided into sixteen hundred-man teams, with a total strength of nearly 3,000.
After deployment, each hundred-man team consists of fifteen Han troops, fifty Mongolian soldiers, and one hundred Fan soldiers, which has an absolute advantage over the temporary conscription of small nobles from various places.
The real advantage lies not in the Mongolian soldiers, nor in the Han soldiers whose main occupation is learning the Western language, but in the lion army's Tangqi who wander outside.
Let them attack the local area with more and less like wildfire, burning every inch of Nangqian's land and pushing the battle line to the bank of Gaiqu River.
The slave who lost his master took his master's weapon and transformed into a new soldier, ready to fight in the next battle.
The Gama monk who followed the march was about to cry. He finally understood why when Liu Chengzong agreed to send troops to assist, he asked for craftsmen, children and women to be remunerated... After the war, he gained countless lands, but all of them were war.
The end of the battle.
Monk Ga Ma calculated in the army that if the war continued like this, he would not be able to have children even if he wanted to, and not only him, but the entire Nangqian would have to work hard to have children.
There is no doubt that from Ga Ma's perspective, Liu Chengzong is making his rule more difficult.
Everywhere, there are nobles, manors, and serfs, forming a complete slavery system. But now that the nobles and manors are gone, something must replace them.
This was Liu Chengzong's intention, but it was difficult to explain to Ga Ma.
Compared with how to govern Nangqian, Liu Chengzong cared more about the Baili Army who defended Qamdo on the east and west front lines.
He is used to seeing the nobles here acting as they please, and he doesn't have time to establish a good relationship with each noble and make them obey him.
Therefore, using Basan's slave army to bulldoze all the nobles directly, even if it leaves a mess, the benefits outweigh the disadvantages for him.
The remaining slaves only need to maintain a small amount of living supplies, and it is difficult for Ga Ma to starve to death. He can ask for nothing here in a short period of time, and only has one request... to build roads.
From Qinghai Lake to Nangqian, we repaired the official road in the early Ming Dynasty, built a dirt road that is convenient for walking, and established our own post station.
The generals of the Lion Army laughed maniacally when they first heard the news.
They started by demolishing inns and express delivery stores, and now they are repairing inns again.
The Ming Dynasty had post stations in the Qinghai-Tibet area, but the main route of the post stations was from Sichuan to Longdawei, Longdawei to Leiwuqi, and Leiwuqi to Tibet. Most of this route is still there, but it has no influence on Liu Shizi.
Meaning.
In his heart, he has a system to replace the aristocratic manor, and he needs his own inn.
With roads and inns, messages can be transmitted quickly, and then the Lion Army soldiers are used to set up county offices, and Basang's slave soldiers form villages.
In this way, his soldiers can gain experience in establishing grassroots political power and governing local areas.
In the worst case, it will be proven that this set of things does not work on this land, and the soldiers will also gain some experience in governing the place, and there is no harm in changing back to the feudal manor system.
This is more important than governing the place itself. This group of people can ensure to the maximum extent that they can attack the Ming Dynasty again in the future and the land they have laid down can be directly governed.
The purpose of skipping the nobility in Qinghai is to skip the gentry in Ming Dynasty.
The core things are the same. They all use the army as a backing, learn to directly mobilize the people, prevent nobles from rebelling, collect taxes, and govern the local area.
When Nangqian's hometown surrendered to King Baili, the nobles were cleared away, and only women, children and disabled people who could not fight were left in the area. For Liu Chengzong, the rear was stable.
However, the front line on the Gaiqu River bank is not stable.
Outside the cave near the river, Basang's slave soldiers kept whispering to each other. Dai Daozi led several Tangqi to stop outside and lined up everyone to go in. After a while, he came out again with a frown on his face, spitting out filthy breath and gritting his teeth. In the cave, a soldier from the Xifan camp was brutally killed, with a stone cap still left beside him.
It was obviously not done by people in Nangqian territory. They had seen a lot of stone hats used as eye-gouging punishments in noble manors.
In addition to this kind of gadgets, there are also many bone magic tools and strange and cruel gadgets. Every time the manor is captured, a few bags of collected stuff will be displayed to the slaves, and then burned or smashed, destroying them all.
Although Liu Chengzong said that these things should be preserved and displayed for future generations to see in the future to prove the existence of these cruel punishments and prevent the nobles who used such punishments from coming back.
But for Dai Daozi, they captured more than 20 noble manors, and only two nobles escaped early. Zhuangzi found less things.
In other manors, dozens of such torture instruments and by-products of punishment can be found in each of them, and in some more cases, two to three hundred can be found.
Dai Daozi has guarded the border in Ningxia for many years, slept with dead people on his pillow, and tried to assassinate clan members. He always thought that he had nothing to fear.
But seeing these things for the first time still made his hair stand on end.
He was not afraid of the things themselves. He took a human head bowl inlaid with gems in his hand and looked at it carefully. It was beautifully made and treated very cleanly.
But the evil hidden behind these things, and the cold touch made his strong heart tremble.
He knew that Wang Mang's head was probably like this, but that would not bring him any empathy. Wang Mang's matter would probably have to be felt by his generalissimo.
Dai Daozi only thinks of his daughter when he looks at these things.
His daughter was killed by Lieutenant Feng Guo of the Qing Dynasty a few years ago. The lieutenant died of illness before he could take revenge, which became the biggest regret in his life.
Dai Daozi didn't dare to think about it when he saw this, so except for some special items that were sent to Nangqian, he ordered everything else to be burned.
He even sent someone to send a sealed letter to Liu Chengzong, suggesting that cremation and burial should be implemented here. The most distinguished people here can be cremated and buried in pagodas. Everyone should have such treatment.
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Not long after, the body placed outside the cave was recognized as belonging to the 900th Regiment under Basang's command. In the soldier's roster, he was once a slave in the Danba territory.
Dai Daozi looked across the Gaiqu River with a bad expression: "It seems that someone wants to come back."
Due to language barriers, the Tangqi knew very little about the land on the other side. They only knew that the land on the other side was called Su Mang. The nobles who ruled there also used land as their surname, and it was not the traditional territory of King Nangqian.
After questioning all the slave soldiers who once belonged to the Danba territory, someone said that Master Danba was on the other side.
A few days ago, Mr. Su Mang's Lang Sheng crossed the river and brought the news, but no one knew how the dead Spanish soldiers were taken away.
Dai Daozi was so angry that he scolded the fifteen Han soldiers from the ninth team over and over again.
They did nothing all day long. They only fired guns from a distance, and they hardly even had to participate in the battle. They just learned the Spanish language. The work was very easy, but they couldn't even look down on their soldiers!
However, Liu Chengzong's earlier order did not allow them to cross the river to attack, so they only strengthened their defenses and did not attack the other side.
As Dai Daozi shifted his attention to the other side, he found that the other side was not only fortifying but also gradually increasing its troops.
In the early morning, squads of infantrymen walked lazily along the river beach. From time to time, cavalrymen in armor appeared individually on the mountains. Sometimes, you could even see the cold breath coming from their breaths.
At night, his Tangqi ventured across the river. Standing on the mountain, he could see that the other side of the mountain was covered in black and red, illuminated by fire, and there were densely packed tents in the blur.
And there are more and more military flags on the other side.
Ordinary nobles do not use military flags. They have only seen Ngawang Daiben's military flag in Nangsuo Qianmo Palace. At this time, the military flag appeared on the other side. For Dai Daozi, it was most likely that King Baili's army was coming. p>
He first sent someone to inform Liu Chengzong of the news, and then sent someone to inform Su Mang and order him to hand over the murderer who crossed the river.
He needs to determine whether the murderer came from the other side.
On the other hand, Dai Daozi prepares to gather troops for the upcoming conflict.
He has a lot of troops.
One hundred Tangqi, 240 Han troops, 800 Mongolian soldiers and more than 1,500 Western soldiers.
But the purpose of establishing this mixed Han-Mongolian-Tibetan battalion was not to fight a regular war. The recruitment standards for those Spanish soldiers were very low. They did not need to be strong, they did not need to be able to use weapons, and they even... only had one hand or one eye. In this
People with disabilities are not considered disabled in mixed camps.
There are nearly three thousand people, but Dai Daozi can only count them as one thousand people.
"General, they said they didn't kill our slaves."
Dai Daozi frowned and said, "What did they say?"
The translator Xifan repeated it again, and it was still the same answer.
Dai Daozi yelled: "Damn it, the people I sent didn't say whether the people who died were slaves or not!"
It was done by people on the other side, and most likely, it was done by the Danba nobles who ran over. Otherwise, it would be difficult to take away a large living person by force without the Han army paying attention.
Only the past master can deceive the slave.
The soldiers scattered in each manor were gathered into the Danba territory, and the Han soldiers led Basang's Xifan battalion to begin fortification. They set up camps outside the manors, dug trenches, and deployed defensive offensives to defend against their counterattack.
Later, a hundred Tangqi were gathered by Dai Daozi. Looking at those familiar faces, he couldn't help but smile.
His Tang soldiers are all heroes who are good at observing the battlefield in the most dangerous places. Even if the enemy's army is approaching, even one of his Tang soldiers will dare to stand a mile away.
But today, he may want to use them as the main cavalry.
Dai Daozi handed over the task of guarding the camp to 240 Han soldiers from Basang's army. He led Tangqi in a circle around Danba, crossed the river from the western mountain pass, and entered Su Mang's territory. He wanted to explore it carefully.
Let’s find out how many troops Su Mang has assembled.
On the endless hillside, Dai Daozi saw the smoke and dust bounced by the horse's hooves as far as he could see. The smoke and dust rose into the sky, all towards the valley near the river bank, and the sky was filled with white.
Then they saw the herd, far away, and it looked dark.
This further confirms Dai Daozi's conjecture that such a scale cannot be gathered in a Su Mang territory. It is probably King Baili who is dispatching troops here.
He wanted to capture a prisoner for torture, but he couldn't understand the language. There was a Xifan interpreter in the Danba territory, but there was only one, and he was a must-have person to control the army.
This made Dai Daozi so angry that his teeth itched.
He is tired of fighting here and many tactics are useless.
Their last resort was to get closer and count the military flags.
King Baili's army organization is different from Nangqian or most other places.
In Nangqian, one Daiben was in charge of 250 soldiers, but in Baili, one Daiben was in charge of 700 to 900 soldiers.
Each Daiben has three Rubens under his jurisdiction, and each Ruben has a military flag of the same color as his own helmet.
Therefore, counting the number of military flags of a certain color can roughly estimate the number of Baili troops gathered in Su Mang's territory.
But before Dai Daozi could get close enough to count the military flags, he heard his subordinates telling him to hurry up the mountain.
On the mountain, he saw someone crossing the river from the Danba Territory on the other side, riding towards the valley where the troops were gathering in the Sumang Territory.
Dai Daozi punched a tree trunk hard on the mountain. It was a woman.
The nobles in Sumang territory used women as spies. Their army could care about men, but they did not consider those honest and amiable women to be spies.
Not long after, the troops that were raising dust in the distance were still far away from the valley of Su Mang's territory. In the valley, there were people holding high flags and pulling out military formations.
Dai Daozi and others got closer and saw clearly that the mandala was set up outside the valley. It seemed that someone was doing it. There was no need to count the military flags now.
More than two thousand people formed three orderly military formations outside the valley. A large number of cavalry wearing iron helmets were arranged in the rear and on both wings. In addition to the tiger heroes they had seen in Nangqian, there were also many people with helmets with thorns on them.
Wearing bird feathers.
Dai Daozi didn't know what the organization was. He only knew that both infantry and cavalry had soldiers with bird feathers on their helmets. Their equipment seemed to be better than that of ordinary soldiers.
The sounds of shin horns and trombones come and go.
Immediately afterwards, the army marched to the other side in several formations with the military flag as the forerunner and the sound of drums as the signal. The cavalry moved back and forth in the formation to inform the news and the whole team. They moved very quickly.
This is indeed an army, and it is not a ragtag group of people recruited temporarily by nobles.
Dai Daozi carefully observed the enemy's formation, and after a while he realized what was happening. He clapped his thigh and said, "They are going to attack Danba!"
However, he didn't worry too much. The enemy's troops gathered were smaller than he thought. Although more troops seemed to be gathering here, the news had already spread, and the commander-in-chief would surely send troops to support him.
Looking at the well-equipped and proud Xifan cavalry, the hairs on Dai Daozi's body stood up. He waved his hand and ordered his men to rest for a while and follow the enemy's advancing route across the river. The battlefield would be their camp at Danba Manor. Night is coming, nine hundred years have passed.
The descendants of the Tang and Tubo cavalry galloped together on the battlefield.