Daming, originally wanted to destroy it, but the system came

Chapter 263 These men of the Qiqige tribe

This time, Zhu Chu's troops suffered heavy losses. Not only did the Ming army suffer more than 1000 casualties, the grassland female soldiers were also severely damaged. 2 people died, and a total of [-] people died.

Today, his Ming army still has 4000 troops, and there are only 5000 grassland female soldiers left.

However, with Zhu Chu's mobilization, morale increased instead of decreasing. What is even more rare is that the loyalty of the entire army to him has also increased a lot.

Until this time, both the Ming army and these female prairie soldiers had reached the point of following Zhu Chu to the death, because they were not afraid of life and death before.

Next, Zhu Chu asked people to clean the battlefield, and also asked people to bury the Ming army and the female soldiers alone nearby.

"Brothers and sisters, you rest here for a while. I will let you go home later," Zhu Zhen promised. Not only would he send the female soldiers back to their respective tribes to be buried in peace, but he would also The corpses of the Ming army brought out were returned to their hometowns.

After all, people in the Central Plains pay attention to returning fallen leaves to their roots.

As for Tengger Lige's troops, more than 3 people died. Even Tengger Lige himself was beheaded by Peng Yue, which also meant that his tribe was about to "change its dynasty."

At the same time, this also increased Zhu Zhen's force value by [-].

Although Zhu Zhen was not happy, wars broke out one after another after he entered the grassland, and now his force value has reached a total of 26.

Force points and tax resources are currencies used by two completely different systems. Resources can be used to purchase various items from various malls, while force points are used to improve Zhu Chu's personal force.

It's just that as the attributes get higher and higher, the force value that needs to be consumed also increases. Now Zhu Chu can no longer bear to use it to increase attributes.

Anyway, his current attributes are enough, so he has been saving his force points and is not in a hurry to waste it. Instead, he plans to wait until his cultivation reaches the Qi refining stage, and then purchase the cultivation techniques for the foundation building stage.

Back to the aftermath.

After calming his men, Zhu Zhen was told that in addition to killing 3 enemy troops this time, in addition to more than 1000 enemy troops who escaped in the chaos, a total of [-] enemy troops were captured.

Tengger Lige led a total of [-] troops, preparing to destroy Zhu Chu's Ming army, and even conquered the Qiqige and Alutai tribes in one fell swoop.

Who would have expected that he would be destroyed here by Zhu Chu's strategy and the bravery of Zhu Chu's army.

Even among the captured war horses, excluding those whose legs were broken and those who were accidentally injured and killed during the chaos, there were more than 4 horses. These were all good horses.

Just here, there are still many ownerless horses that ran away in the chaos, otherwise there would be more.

If these horses alone were sent to the Central Plains, they would be an astronomical amount of wealth.

In fact, cattle and horses are now more expensive than people.

But Zhu Chu didn't care about extraneous things like money. What he was thinking about now was how many cavalry troops could be raised if these horses were sent to Yunnan.

In ancient wars, especially encounters in the wild, cavalry was still the main force.

Before that, we must first deal with the prisoners in front of us.

"They deserve to be killed," Min Minte took the opportunity to finally come to Zhu Ming, her cold tone revealing undisguised hatred and hostility.

Now they no longer regard Zhu Chu and this Ming army as outsiders, but regard other Mongolian grassland people as enemies.

The reason is simple, His Highness is protecting them, but these prairie men are robbing them.

What's more, so many people died in this battle. It can be said that old grievances have not been resolved and new hatreds have been added.

Although it was the Yahada tribe that originally attacked their tribe, Min Minte knew that they all worked for Gui Lichi, so they could naturally be confused.

Sooner or later, this account will have to be settled with Gui Lichi, because Min Minte believes that His Highness was sent by Changshengtian to save them, and will surely unify the grassland in the future and become the master of the grassland far beyond everyone else.

"I want to kill him too, but there is someone I owe him. Forget it, I still owe him his mouth." Zhu Chu turned around and glared at Peng Yue.

Peng Yue felt aggrieved. He never imagined that His Highness planned to annihilate these people.

Peng Yue didn't know before that the enemy army had already killed 3 people and only less than 2 people were left. He could really annihilate them all in one fell swoop.

It's just that as the war continues, we will continue to increase the number of casualties.

But now, Zhu Zhen had a toothache when he saw the more than 1 and nearly [-] prisoners.

Keep it?Why should we raise them?These men can eat better than women, but they don't dare to believe it, so they have to send people to watch.

The question is, who to send to watch?Let female soldiers watch it?With the same amount, women will still suffer a lot.

But his Ming army only had 4000 troops, and they couldn't even keep an eye on one person.

"Why don't I let them go back?" Zhu Zhen suddenly had a sudden idea and led people to the prisoners and said loudly: "Although you have attacked me, I have a heart for God and a good life. So I plan to let you go."

As soon as these words came out, both the enemy and us felt puzzled. Your Highness is too kind, right?Why is Your Highness so kind?
"But," Zhu Ming changed the subject and said: "But your horses are already our trophies, including your weapons. It's good that I didn't take away your clothes. I can let you go As for you, I don’t care where you are going. At the same time, I will continue to move forward. Your tribe must be conquered by me. If you dare to go back, I will kill you when I see you. You love Go wherever you go. Get out."

As a result, no one moved, just looking at Zhu Zhen.

Zhu Zhen frowned, are these people so smart?

Even Qi Qige couldn't stand it anymore and said to Zhu Zhen: "Your Highness, it's freezing and snowy on the grassland now. If you don't give them horses and don't allow them to return to the tribe, I'm afraid they won't be able to survive the whole night and will be frozen." Die outside.”

Zhu Ming snorted: "So what? Do you want me to raise them?"

It turned out that Zhu Zhen was very sinister. He seemed to let these people go, but in fact he didn't want to be known as a prisoner-killer. He wanted them to fend for themselves and freeze them alive outside.

The grassland in winter is different from spring, summer and autumn, and it can really freeze people to death.

The snow that fell last time has not yet cleared up. If it snows again, you won’t even see the grass anymore.

Can this live?
So the prisoners didn't speak, they just looked at Zhu Ming silently.

In fact, they know the rules on the grassland better than others. Now that they have been defeated, they are still men. If you ask themselves, they will not let these men go back, let alone leave adult men, they will only leave them for themselves. Hidden dangers, leaving potential enemies behind.

They themselves would not allow themselves to live, let alone others?

But if they had not surrendered, they would be dead by now.

Everyone's eyes couldn't help but show a look of despair, and their eyes lost their luster.

Suddenly, someone among the prisoners exclaimed: "Sister? Sister, why are you here?"

A man squeezed out from the crowd and, blocked by the Ming army, shouted to a female soldier of his Qige tribe: "Sister, it's me, sister."

The female soldier was shocked and turned her head to look, opened her mouth, but then turned away with a look of reluctance.

It turned out that they were siblings, but how could the female soldier dare to plead for mercy when she thought of those sisters who died tragically and those Ming soldiers?
Although they are siblings, they have become enemies now. Even she wishes her brother would die. Why didn't he die on the battlefield?Why did we only recognize each other now?How would she face other people?
It happens that his brother is among the enemy's army, and his hands may be stained with the blood of his own people?

Thinking of this, the female soldier couldn't help crying and didn't dare to recognize each other.But this was just the beginning. Later, countless people spoke up and recognized many family members among the female soldiers.

"Arna? Is it Arna? Damn it, I'm your man," one man was even the husband of a female soldier.

"You still dare to recognize me? Ava, when you stinky men escaped, you had already given up on us and left us to fend for ourselves. Now you still dare to recognize me? I can't wait to shoot you to death," Alna scolded angrily. road.

Zhu Ming saw the commotion in his eyes, and then turned to ask Qiqi: "It seems that most of these people are men who ran away from your tribe?"

Qi Qige nodded awkwardly.

No wonder she told Zhu Xi's plan just now, it turned out to be like this.

Guilichi had transferred these people to Tengger Lige before, so Tengger Lige had an army of [-] people. In fact, he only had [-] of his own people.

Moreover, these people had just surrendered to Tengger Lige, and it was difficult for the latter to trust them immediately.

So these people are indeed the men who escaped from the Qiqige tribe.

"But please rest assured, Your Highness, no matter how you deal with them, we will not have any objections. Even if you really want to execute them, we will witness their end with our own eyes," Qiqige said.

Zhu Ming looked at Qiqi Ge, but he didn't think so. Didn't he just plan to let these people fend for themselves? Then what did you just say?

At this time, everyone was looking at Zhu Zhen, waiting for him to finally issue the order to deal with these people. Life or death was all in his mind.

"Your Highness," Xu Miaojin was moved in her heart and whispered: "If these are really people from the Qiqige tribe, we cannot kill them all. After all, they are the family members of those women. And many female soldiers have paid their lives, so we must consider them idea.”

If anyone dares to speak out now, it is only Xu Miaojin.

Zhu Ming sighed. In fact, he was worried about this, so he fell into a dilemma of indecision.

The main reason is that the relationship between these people and the Qiqige tribe is too unclear. If we really want to kill them all, what will the people of the Qiqige tribe think?
I have sacrificed my life for you, and the war is over, and these men have surrendered and submitted, but you still want to kill them?Kill them all?

After calming down, Zhu Xi finally spoke and said: "You rotten people, you actually abandoned your family and ran away? Can you be a man? Can you be a son? Can you be a father? Can you be a husband?"

Zhu Chu's words made many women in the Qiqige tribe show resentful expressions, remembering that they were abandoned people.

Especially some people's wives, when they think about the fact that some of the men came back to the tribe specially and took their young and beautiful wives away, while they themselves were left to fend for themselves because they were old and lustful.

They were really itching their teeth with hatred.

If it weren't for His Highness's kindness and righteousness, wouldn't they be killed and harmed?

"The most abominable thing is that I asked your family to call you back, but you would rather seek refuge with others and bring enemies back to harm your family than return. I think you are simply seeking death and seeking your own death. ," Zhu Zhen shouted loudly.

He did ask Qiqige and the others to find a way to contact these men.

But no one is willing to come back. I wonder if they haven’t been contacted?Or are they determined not to come back?

"It's not our fault," someone suddenly shouted boldly: "Do we want to leave our homes? Don't we want our wives and children? We also want our wives and children to be on the bed. But we were originally With Natula’s recruitment, we had to launch a war against the Arutai tribe.”

"And that day, many of us were stained with the blood of men from the Arutai tribe, and many of us fell in love with women from the Arutai tribe. Prince Daming, you said you would liquidate us, how could we dare? Come back."

It was okay not to say this, but when he said this, Zhu Zhen shouted angrily: "You still dare to complain? You killed others, don't you want to pay with blood? You also raped others against the will of women, how can you still be justified? That's it. Now, in front of your families, I also say, the murderer shall pay with his life. What you are killing is my king’s people, including your family members.”

"If I forgive you today, then if your family is insulted tomorrow, can I let it go? So whoever killed someone that day, please stand up for me. All I can promise is that I will not be involved without reason. Even if you sit down, you must kill someone to pay for your life. This is a matter of law and justice, and I will never give you mercy."

The group of prisoners panicked for a while. They didn't expect Zhu Zhen to be so stubborn. He was in this situation and wanted to kill people?
But some people said: "Report to the Ming Dynasty, those people knew that you would never forgive them, so they have escaped. Yes, the more than 1000 people who escaped are the ones who went on a killing spree among the Arutai tribe. You interrupted us before we could restrain ourselves and do all kinds of evil. That’s why we dare to stay at your disposal."

"Oh?" Zhu Ming snorted noncommittally.

With more than a thousand people escaping, this kind of thing is naturally impossible to prove. Unless those people are allowed to come back for a confrontation, it is not up to the people in front of them to decide.

"Prince Daming, we people just want to live. We know that we were once Natula's subordinates, and it is difficult to gain your trust. We were afraid that you would kill them all, so we ran away at that time."

"But that ghost Lichi is simply not a master. When we went to seek refuge with him, he not only didn't care whether we lived or died, but because he was angry that we lost to you, he killed many people in a rage and even sent us to Tenge. Erlig tribe, let us be their slaves."

"Instead of doing this, we might as well surrender to you. At least we can go home."

"Besides, the Arutai tribe has surrendered to you. You can go to that tribe and ask. If anyone among us deserves punishment, you can deal with it as you like."

Some of the prisoners cried out sadly, and his last words made Zhu Chu feel moved in his heart.

Yes, although it is impossible to find the escaped person and come back to confront him, who is the so-called 'prisoner'?

But don't forget that Tumu's tribe is not dead, and they can still find people to correct them.

So Zhu Zhen was really moved. There were [-] people, and they were all adult men. The youngest ones included a few boys of fifteen or sixteen, but most of them were strong men.

If he could conquer nearly 2 people to form an army, it would be a considerable force for him.

So Zhu Ming finally made a decision and said: "You can avoid the death penalty, but you cannot escape the living crime. You have betrayed your family. If this king is ruthless, don't you think about what will happen to your family? Now you are being punished again. We conquered them, so I decided to ask you to be slaves to your women and family members. You can no longer try to be arrogant, everyone must be their slaves for three years."

In fact, this was a helpless move. Since he couldn't kill him, he couldn't trust them easily, and he couldn't let his Ming army help guard him. In the end, he could only let the prairie women stare at their men.

Moreover, Zhu Zhen gave a time limit of three years. Once the three-year period is up, they can regain their freedom, which will not make people despair.

In this way, women can keep an eye on them and use them at will, and at the same time, it is considered a small punishment.

So although Zhu Chu suffered huge losses this time, he still managed to conquer [-] grassland men.

Now under his command, there are mainly one hundred Guards special forces led by Wang Fu who are "fighting in the field". In front of him are fourteen thousand Ming army soldiers, fifteen thousand grassland female soldiers, and these ten thousand Nine thousand strong men.

Zhu Chu was not stingy either. He even let them find their own horses from among the [-] war horses, or choose their favorite horses, and even returned their weapons to them.

"Next, I will not only subdue Tengger Lige's tribe, but also further attack until I break Gui Lichi's tent. If you want to atone for your sins, please serve me well. Naturally, I will not Thank you for waiting," Zhu Zhen said, and asked people to clean up the camp, and at the same time dispose of the dead or seriously injured horses, prepare to have a good meal to replenish their strength, and then continue to move forward to Tengger Lige's tribe.

At the same time, the more than 1000 men who escaped did not even dare to return to Tenggerlige's tribe. They no longer cared about the young and beautiful wives they had brought out from the tribe, but fled in all directions.

They didn't even dare to escape together, but scattered, each going in a different direction.

Some fled to other tribes nearby, while others went to Guilichi's tent.

When Gui Lichi heard the news that even Tengger Lige's [-]-strong army had been defeated by the Ming army this time, and almost the entire army was destroyed, he felt bad.

"Trash, trash, you are all trash, don't you want me to drive and conquer it myself?"

Gui Lichi was furious and shouted: "Inform all the tribes and have Badalkin and Yadalali prepare. I want to go to meet the Ming army in person. Is it possible that they have three heads and six arms?"

(End of this chapter)