A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 776
Master Li once gave Wu Huaiyu a top-quality sea blue.

It is the most ferocious hunting bird. Every seabird is not only extremely difficult to capture, but also even harder to tame. Li Keshi is a bird thief. He not only gave Huaiyu a top-quality seabird, but also talked about seabirds. How to tame Dongqing.

Boil the eagle.

This is a very long and hard work that requires patience, and the competition is the will.

Wu Huaiyu now treats Gong Tong's more than 600 captives as eagles. He is not in a hurry to ask them to surrender, nor does he plan to simply execute them or sell them.

Although he is still in the conquest stage, he must consider the future governance issues.

Killing all the barbarians is unrealistic.

Therefore, the best way is to rule the barbarians with barbarians, to get rid of a group of barbarian leaders who rebelled against the imperial court, and to support a new group of barbarian upstarts who are loyal to the court. It is best for these upstarts to be the leaders of traditional barbarian tribes. , elders who are highly respected,

It is impossible to randomly capture a few barbarians, carve an official seal on them, and confer an official position on them, so that they can rule the barbarians for the imperial court. They must rely on the original barbarian social organization system.

Whether it's Huang Qian or Gong Xing, Wu Huaiyu must kill them.
But their sons Huang Cheng and Gong Tong can be fought for. If they can understand current affairs and cooperate, Wu Huaiyu would not mind supporting them as a new generation of governors of the barbaric Jizhou Prefecture. Of course, what he needs more is Deeper cooperation.

Under the setting sun, on Funan Mountain,

Fresh buffalo meat slices are marinated and then grilled on the charcoal stove. It is also good to grill some pork belly, chicken legs and wings, grill some corn, potato slices, leeks, etc.

"Today when the prisoners of war went to dig a hole to bury the beasts, some tried to escape, but they were all captured. According to the rules, they had their right big toes cut off, then they were hung up and whipped twenty times, and their faces were tattooed. .”

"Today, there are still more than 30 prisoners of war who have taken the initiative to request surrender. Now they are temporarily arranged as guard guards in the prisoner of war camp,"

"These barbarian guards are very ruthless in dealing with their former compatriots, much harsher than our auxiliary guards."

"That Gong Tong has been whipped five times by the guards."

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Huaiyu and the camp officers had a barbecue under the sunset, not only to relax, but also to report and summarize today's situation.

Today we are still generally clearing the perimeter, and the engineering troops are preparing siege equipment.

Although there are firearms from the Shenji Camp, it is not difficult to attack a city like Longzhai by force. However, there are still many defenders in Longzhai City. At this time, a strong attack will inevitably cause many casualties. Although Huaiyu wants to carry out a large-scale attack, Momentum, but not willing to suffer too many casualties here.

Hou San, Chen Xing, Zhao Xin, Xu Siye, and the general managers of the front, rear, left, and right armies were all Huaiyu’s oldest brothers. They all started their careers in Longyou. They were all originally recruited by Huaiyu’s tribe. .

Hou San has rich combat experience and is a subordinate of Lao Wu. He was loyal to the Wu family and worked as a refugee and horse thief in the late Sui Dynasty. Although he is quite old now, he is getting older and stronger. He has the most experience in military wars.

Chen Xing is Runniang's brother. He used to be the purchasing manager of Li Jing's family. He was very good at accounting and was a bit greedy for petty gains. But now he has become a fifth-grade military general. Zhao Xin was the first store manager hired by Huaiyu. He also had a Identity is the elder brother of Fatty Wu Junya, a stay-at-home wife.

Xu Siye was from the same village as Huaiyu's hometown of Longqiao in Sanyuan, and he was also a descendant of the Yuan Cong Rebels.

These four people are definitely direct brothers who are loyal to Huaiyu, so Huaiyu has been sparing no effort to promote them over the years.
And the rewards they received were also high. When they came to Lingnan, the four of them were basically at the sixth level, and now they have entered the fifth level.

There is also Gao Ning, the cousin of Gao Twelve who is pregnant with his concubine.

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"I think the morale of Longzhai has been completely depleted. Now they only dare to retreat into the stronghold. This is actually a good thing for us. We can superficially build large-scale siege equipment, and then secretly dig tunnels.
Shenji Camp's tunnel blasting and siege method is very good. We can definitely use it. The terrain here is also relatively easy to dig. We can dig tunnels quietly at night, build a blasting room under the walled city, and transport the gunpowder below. When the time comes, there will be a loud bang, and the walled city will be destroyed."

For the small cage village, the only hope now is the city wall.

If a few holes were blasted out of the walled city, there would really be no resistance.

Although gunpowder seems to be quite backward now,

However, quantitative changes can lead to qualitative changes, and digging tunnels and blasting is still a very effective method. The only disadvantage is that it consumes more gunpowder.

Of course, if you encounter the kind of extremely experienced city defenders, digging tunnels is not without resistance. The opponent can bury urns to listen to the sound, and even find out that they can dig back, then flood or even set fire to the tunnels. The soldiers were burned to death.

Of course, there is a big difference between blasting and traditional digging tunnels into the city. Blasting is relatively easier to succeed and more difficult to counterattack.

Huaiyu took some rough paper and wet it, then wrapped the eggs and simmered them in the charcoal fire.
"Longzhai is actually nothing more than meat on the lips now,"

Huaiyu thought for a while, "I don't think we are in a hurry to take down Longzhai. We should besiege the city for reinforcements, make the momentum bigger, and mobilize more barbarians in the upper reaches of Zuo River."

The main task of sending troops this time is to capture Huang Jiadong and capture and kill Huang Gan, the puppet king of China and Vietnam. This first shot must be fired.

So he doesn't mind the temporary gains and losses of one city or one village.

In order to complete the mission of quickly attacking Huangjiadong, the key is for Xi Jun to buy their troops.
"We can directly capture the cage village and then go straight to the next battlefield. Can we achieve the same result?" Zhao Xin asked. This former tooth dealer is now fatter and stronger, and even lacks the cunning and shrewdness in his eyes. And a little more fierce and decisive. Besieging the city and calling for reinforcements,

This is a very classic tactic. Wu Huaiyu thinks this battlefield is quite good. The Tang army occupies a favorable terrain, surrounds the cage village that is no longer a threat, lures the enemy to come for reinforcements, blocks the enemy outside the city, and even gathers to annihilate them. It is better than defeating them here. It would be better to move to the city, then rush to the next battlefield and face another stronghold.

Here they can lure the ferocious elites from Dazhai upstream out of their caves and lure them to this battlefield to annihilate them.

sunset.

The prisoners of war finally heard the whistle to end their work and dragged their heavy steps back to the prisoner of war camp.

A group of guardsmen were holding whips and shouting loudly. Yesterday, these people were still soldiers in the cage village, but today they have all surrendered to the Tang army and escaped from their status as prisoners of war.

Following the guards' instructions, they used whips to order the prisoners to wash their hands and feet, and then lined up to make porridge. Their dinner was a bowl of porridge with some pickles.

Gong Tong also only got a bowl of brown rice porridge with some pickles. Even though he was the eldest son of the governor of Longzhou, he was treated the same.

Compared with their poor food, the guards' treatment was much better. Although they were not regular soldiers, but just auxiliary soldiers in the camp, they were temporarily recruited from various states, but they not only ate dry rice, but also cooked vegetables. There is stew, which at least contains oil, salt, even egg drop, and even some meaty bones.

Those prisoners of war who took refuge in the past and are now guards and retinues are all treated the same.

A bowl of gruel was consumed in a few mouthfuls. Many prisoners of war were still hungry and could only look at the food served by the guards over there and swallow their saliva while smelling the aroma.

Gong Tong sat there, his eyes dull and absent-minded for a while.

The ugly slave came over and quietly handed him a rice ball. The ugly slave was originally his soldier, but now he also joined the Tang Dynasty. Gong Tong looked at the rice ball, hesitated for a while and finally took it, and ate it in a few bites.

At this time, many prisoners of war who were still hungry finally couldn't help but stand up and asked the guards to surrender to the imperial court.

"Master, please surrender." The ugly slave couldn't help but persuade him as he looked at his embarrassed appearance and those people who kept standing up and begging the guards to surrender.

Gong Tong looked at those who wanted to surrender. It had only been one day, and they couldn't bear it anymore.

The methods of the Tang people were indeed very good. They did not kill, sell, beat or scold the prisoners of war, but the two choices were completely different. On this day, hundreds of people were to be surrendered.

How long can these more than 600 people hold on? I'm afraid they will all surrender in a few days.

Although Chou Nu was his confidant, Gong Tong had no intention of blaming him at this time. Although Chou Nu defected to the Tang Dynasty and became a guard of the Tang people, he at least remembered to give him a rice ball.

"Do you think we will really lose this time?" Gong Tong said in confusion.

The ugly slave stood there with his whip in hand. He thought for a while and then nodded, "No one in our Longzhai area has been able to defeat us in this hundred-mile radius before, but this time we are really no match for the Tang army."

"Master Dong, I heard that as long as Master Dong does whatever you want and works for them, Wu Xiangguo is willing to let you be the governor of Longzhou and still lead our Dongding in Longzhou."

Gong Tong didn't say anything. He didn't trust the Tang people. Although he had a good impression of Wu Huaiyu, he didn't trust him either.

After Huang Cheng was captured and surrendered, he was indeed still the governor of Sitong Prefecture, but after the war, would the Tang people still keep their word?

Furthermore, if he surrenders and the Tang people make him the governor of Longzhou, what will his father do?
The Tang Dynasty asked him to lead his men to attack the cage village, what should he do?
Before dark,
About a hundred people chose to surrender to the Tang Army, and their surrender was accepted. However, the guard camp could no longer afford so many guards and retinues, so these people were assigned to the next door and were temporarily designated as the Xingying Xie Congjun Youzhen Front Camp.

More than 100 people were immediately given a full meal.
This made the hundreds of people still in the prisoner of war camp shaken again.

Gong Tong has been sitting silently,

Until it gets dark and the break is over, the guard blows the whistle to let them assemble and start the night class.

A military scribe wearing a futou and a round-neck shirt was responsible for giving lectures to them. It was still what Huaiyu had said before, starting with the creation of humans by Pangu and Nuwa, and then the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.

Gong Tong and the other more than 500 prisoners of war sat cross-legged as required.

He had expected this to be a boring night.

But the next moment, Chou Nu walked up to him and said, "Liu Shenjun needs an interpreter. I will translate for everyone."

He got up and followed him to the soldier.

The soldier smiled at him, asked him to translate well, and said he would reward him with two sweet potatoes after class.

(End of this chapter)