The crossing starts from the Datang Shuanglong

Chapter 135 Sui Army Prisoners
One sulfur two nitrate three charcoal.

Even though Chu Tianxiu's chemistry knowledge has been almost returned to the chemistry teacher, and he can't remember the production process of the explosive yellow gunpowder, but the best black gunpowder with two parts of sulfur, three parts of charcoal, and fourteen parts of saltpeter Matching, he still knows.

In this era, saltpeter and sulfur are both medicinal materials. With the channel of Qianmeng, it is not difficult to buy even in bulk. It is not difficult to stock up a few thousand catties or tens of thousands of catties.

Not to mention that there are many volcanic islands near Yizhou. Digging up sulfur is as easy as eating and drinking water. When Chu Tianxiu ordered people to camp in Yizhou, Hudouzhou, and Yongdong, they paid great attention to hygiene. , almost the first step is to let them build toilets, collect there, and make saltpeter, and the burning of charcoal is even simpler, just burning wood.

Black gunpowder is not difficult, even if it is impossible to create a perfectly proportioned black powder due to the lack of purification process, but the power is enough for the time being.

Such a good thing, Chu Tianxiu will naturally not let it go.He doesn't care whether the appearance of this thing will bring a fatal blow to today's Jianghu warriors.

These days, Chu Tianxiu did not use black gunpowder on a large scale, just because his former enemies were all Jianghu people, neither good nor worth using, so he only used them on a small scale in Yizhou. Just blasted stones.

A good knife should be used wisely.

The hole card of black powder, just like the whale hunters under Chu Tianxiu, is used at the most critical time, so it is very appropriate to use it to bomb the gate of Goguryeo today.

Now that the mouth is down, the coast of the Weishui River has become a place where Chu Tianxiu's army can run wild. After Chu Tianxiu transported the city, including people and supplies, he transported them to the city by sea. A temporary base on the Goto Islands.

Almost half of Goguryeo's naval forces were wiped out, and the sea route can be said to be unimpeded, so Li Jing ordered Gao Zhandao to send [-] troops to Changkou City from the Wudao Islands, and divided the soldiers into dozens of teams to rob as much as they wanted. When plundering the villages and towns along the Weishui River, by the way, all the ships dispatched by Xing Chutianxiu several times went to the coast of Changkou to receive population supplies there.

In just a few days, Pyongyang King City received urgent documents. After learning that Changkou had been breached, three cities along the Weishui River, Qiu Yi, Changyuan, and Nemihu, were captured by the "Sui Army".

Gao Yuan, the contemporary king of Goguryeo, is over [-] years old, and he mainly acts on the safe side. Therefore, he is worried that the purpose of this "Sui army" is to follow the example of Lai Huer back then, and intends to go to Pyongyang, the royal city of Goguryeo.

Therefore, at the beginning, he did not send troops to reinforce these small cities. Instead, he summoned troops from all directions to gather in Pyongyang. "Take a sea boat and go away, only looking at the ocean and sighing.

That’s not to say, after attacking the Wei River, he seemed to feel that the trip was not complete, so Chu Tianxiu ordered the fleet to go north and forcibly captured Beisha City. After a lot of looting nearby, I just went back satisfied.

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Even though this expedition can't be said to be a big profit, it can still be called a medium significance.

After several rounds of looting in the coastal cities, not only did they obtain a large amount of supplies and goods, but they also brought back at least [-] people from Goguryeo, and most of them were young women. A few are Goguryeo soldiers and youths.

With such a large population, it may be more difficult for others to handle, but Chu Tianxiu's situation lacks everything, except land.

After these populations were carefully screened, they were divided into three parts, one half was sent back to the Central Plains, and resettled in Yizhou, Yongdong, and Hudouzhou, and one fifth was sent to Liuqiu and handed over to Shan Mei. The immortals are disposed of, and the others are placed on the large and small islands near Dongying.

The captives of Goguryeo are easy to deal with, but there are still some people with a population of about [-], which cannot be simply and rudely regarded as spoils of war.

Because these people are not Goguryeo people, but Sui people.

The existence of these people can actually be said to be a disgrace to the Central Plains. They were all Sui soldiers who fled, captured, and were left in Liaodong when Emperor Sui Yang conquered Goguryeo three times.

"Enlisted in the army at the end of the Sui Dynasty, but did not live in Goryeo. Goryeo's wife was a wandering girl, and lived in a wrong place with Goryeo."

Goguryeo and the Great Sui are old enemies, and these Sui soldiers are all captives. Naturally, they will not be polite when they clean up, so they are almost all demoted to slaves, and Goguryeo's daughters (younv) are their wives. To give birth to an heir, to restore the population of Goguryeo——

Note that this is not a gift, but the deepest shame.

Goguryeo is currently a half-slave and half-feudal system, and the so-called slaves are actually the kind of female slaves who have no personal rights and can be married to everyone. History books call it:
"Vulgar and promiscuous, don't feel ashamed. There are wandering women, and the husband is impermanent."

Goguryeo assigned these slave girls to the Sui army captives, not for their happiness, but not only wanted them to be slaves, but also wanted their children and grandchildren to be slaves.

Chu Tianxiu went north to attack Liaodong at the end, largely because he met such Sui army slaves when he was plundering the banks of the Weishui River, and he knew that most of the Sui army prisoners suffered in the Liaodong area. It was just unnecessary.

Although these prisoners of the Sui army were pleasantly surprised, they were considered to have won the grand prize. Even though most of them were extremely weak, sallow and emaciated, and obviously suffered a lot of abuse, their foundations were not bad. If they were properly raised for a while, they might recover They are the true colors of the elite Sui army.

It's a pity that Goguryeo's strength in Liaodong is too strong, and the number of troops must be more than 20. Chu Tianxiu was able to attack a city of Beisha, relying on the advantages of sea transportation and the power of black powder, and was able to surprise it. Take it in one fell swoop.

If he went deep into the inland without knowing the interest, he would face the encirclement and suppression of Goguryeo's 20 troops on three sides.

Otherwise, Chu Tianxiu really wants to make a big fuss in the Liaodong area.

The soldiers of the Sui army who were captured by Goguryeo were almost all the most elite part of the Sui army, which is really too enticing.

To put it bluntly, if he can go well and rescue all the captives who were left in Goguryeo when Emperor Sui Yang conquered Goguryeo three times, then these captured Sui soldiers and horses alone may be able to piece together ten Wan was grateful to him, and the army who vowed to repay him to the death came out.

If he had such an army, then looking around the world, who else could Chu Tianxiu be afraid of?Even if he fought Li Er face to face, he was not afraid at all.

In this matter, Chu Tianxiu was very greedy, but he had to think about it in the long run, otherwise he would not be able to eat fish, but would make his whole body fishy, ​​which would be terrible.

(End of this chapter)