The great hero of the Silk Road, starting from a farm farmer

It was nearly dusk, and the battlefield was filled with gunpowder smoke, filled with the painful cries of soldiers, the whine of war horses, and the constant sound of gunfire.

In winter, the Longshan Pass Road is all yellow, and even more desolate at dusk. At this time, Chi Zheli was in a worse mood than the environment. He seemed to be blocked by the fog of war and could not see clearly the road ahead.

The expected anti-outflanking did not materialize. The rear army was blocked by Yungu Army's cavalry of less than two thousand soldiers and horses. The attack route was blocked. The flanking troops deployed in the front had lost contact with the main army and were probably divided and surrounded by Yungu Army.

what to do? The current battle situation is likely to be that the enemy's cavalry acts as a blocking team to block the main force of our own, with their donkey team supporting in the middle, and the infantry that follows finally harvests the heads.

This is no longer a question of counter-encirclement or not. The top priority is to get the entire army out of trouble. In less than a day, more than [-] soldiers may have died on the battlefield, and another [-] troops and horses will be destroyed soon.

After the first battle, not only did he lose all the dividends he gained from the Battle of Yinzhou, he might also lose nearly half of his troops. This was a shocking defeat! How to explain to the Khan?
  Forget it, if you lose, you lose. If you persist, the losses will only be greater.

"Use the sounding arrow to pass the order. The troops and horses of the headquarters who have fallen into the enemy's formation will each find a way to break out. The main force will withdraw to Guyuan!" The loss is inevitable. Stopping the loss in time is the most correct choice. Chizheli no longer hesitates and quickly orders the main force to withdraw north. Get out of the battlefield!

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"The fighting last night hasn't stopped yet. The main force of the enemy army has left the battlefield. Don't pursue the defeated army that has fled in all directions. It seems that there is no hope of surrender for the hundreds of soldiers who are surrounding you. Don't let the surrounding soldiers continue. We fought hard and sent artillery troops over to level it to avoid additional casualties. The war here will be left to my third uncle. I will go to Jingzhou City to take care of the placement of the prisoners!" The battle lasted a day and a night. The situation had become clear. After Song Yingkui arranged a few words for his third uncle, he prepared to lead his soldiers to leave the front line.

It has to be said that the combat effectiveness of the Mi-Mongolian army is very extraordinary. This battle caused hundreds of casualties to the Yungu Army. The main force they lost was servant cannon fodder, and the casualties of their own troops were probably less than [-].

Fortunately, at the end of the battle, about five hundred Mi Meng soldiers were surrounded. These guys were like wild beasts, refusing to surrender despite their strength, and retreated to a hillside forest to resist with the help of the favorable terrain. Facing the trapped beast, Song Yingkui decided to use brute force. Don't you have a strong will to fight? Phalanx bombardment can always break your iron will, right?

When they returned to Jingzhou City, it was almost noon. After a quick lunch, Song Yingkui called the officer responsible for placing the prisoners to understand the situation.

"Only [-] Mi Meng soldiers were captured and surrendered? The rest were all Xiang people? This battle was really breathtaking." When he learned that there were only [-] Mi Meng soldiers among the thousands of prisoners, Song Yingkui I couldn't help but complain.

The loss of the enemy's core combat strength is completely unworthy of a hearty victory. If four to five thousand Mimeng people can be annihilated in this battle, the entire Yungu area will be much safer. It's a pity that the battle was in full swing, but the result was unsatisfactory. The Mongolian army they were facing now still had the strength to fight again.

"Send Liang Huonv to Jingzhou and ask them to cooperate in stabilizing these Xiang Jun prisoners first." Jingzhou is too far away from the core area of ​​Yungu, and currently there are no personnel to escort the captives to the core area of ​​Yungu. For the time being, They can only temporarily relocate nearby, which is the time to use Liang Huonv.

For the current Yungu Army, the most serious crisis is not that there is a strong Mongol army outside, but that there are more than [-] Beixiang people in these half-baked territories recently occupied. Among the Beixiang people, there are about [-] survivors from the Central Plains. These people are not a problem. But there are still more than [-] serious Xiang people, and more than [-] of them are still Xiang soldiers. This is a huge security risk.

A single oversight and these dogs could cause catastrophe. To be honest, Song Yingkui even had the idea of ​​imitating others and killing all these hidden dangers.

This idea passed by in a flash and was not executable. Now we must seize the main contradiction, unite all forces that can be united, and create an atmosphere of common resistance to contempt.

Ideas and concepts are easy to generate, but what about actual implementation? This bunch of Xiang people are quite an eyesore when placed there.

"Preach to the people in the administrative department and ask them to count and identify the Central Plains survivors and Xiang people from the refugees in Beixiang as soon as possible, and make a detailed register. And among the Xiang people, those with military backgrounds should be registered separately. Among the more than [-] people, there are only more than [-] troops, and there must be something untrue in this." At present, the militia brigade set up in Huizhou to accommodate the remaining soldiers of the Northern Expedition only accepts more than [-] remaining soldiers. There must be many remaining Beixiang soldiers among the refugees, and they must be found.

While waiting for Liang Huonv to come over, Song Yingkui thought over and over again and roughly figured out a way to resettle Xiang Ren. For Xiang refugees, two methods of centralized and dispersed resettlement are adopted.

About [-] Xiang people were sent to Huangshui, Hezhou, and Taozhou, the three areas where they were in contact with the feudal lords, for centralized resettlement, so that Xiang and feudal lords could restrain each other.

The remaining people were mainly dispersed among immigrants from the Central Plains and settled in established areas. Among them, the Xiang nobles were placed in Taoyang and Wazhou cities, making them city dwellers and separating them from their tribesmen.

The Xiang Army captured in this battle, plus the Xiang Army previously captured and surrendered, as well as the Xiang Army that was subsequently screened out, are estimated to number [-] (of which the Xiang Army's regular soldiers should be no more than [-], and the rest are signed troops, civilian brave, and Tribal armed forces, as well as servant soldiers who were forcibly converted from civilians to soldiers by the Mimeng.)
  After screening these people, first form a separate Civil Guard Brigade of about [-] people. A group of grassroots training officers were assigned to it, together with Xiang Jun's remnant generals to form a management team, and they were stationed outside the Ningxi Guard City, where the army cultivated farmland, half soldiers and half civilians, and assisted in the defense of the Western Fan.

Then, among the remaining people, two thousand people were selected and recruited into the Yungu Army's combat order and dispersed to enhance the military strength.

The rest of the people were divided into three groups. Those who refused to obey the discipline were organized into miners and allowed to mine. The good ones were released to the people. There are also some villages, which are organized into villages based on [-] people, and are scattered and deployed in the Minzhou mountainous area to act as a check between the mountain people and the half-vassals.

To sum up, the overall resettlement method is to combine dispersion and concentration, to combine leniency and severity, to provide both means and ways out, and strive to complete the assimilation of Xiang people in the shortest possible time. The tribe and group of Xiang people will become history.

There are wars to be fought, places to be digested, and tribal assimilation and integration to be carried out. Recently, it has been really chaotic, and it can make people's heads full. The reason why the challenge is great is that there are too few core forces in Yungu. The people in Qinzhou cannot be considered the core. In less than a year, the territory and population have expanded too fast.

(End of this chapter)