Great Zhou Empire: Kill Zhao Kuangyin at the beginning

Chapter 505: The Great Slave Tribe of the Great Friday (Special thanks to the book friend Wanfeng Fuguzhou for the two monthly tickets!)

Five days later, on May 15th, Chai Zongxun received the victory news of the expeditionary army at the temporary residence.

Zhang Ning and Cao Kefan ordered their soldiers to launch a frontal attack for only three days. They used the "Yansu Artillery" to destroy all the Jurchen castles that were resisting from the Jurchen Wanyan tribe and other groups, and the city defenses were breached.

Under the sharp shooting of the Great Zhou soldier "Kai Xi No. 33", the Jurchen warriors who were good at riding and shooting had no power to fight back. They were shot and killed one after another at a distance of less than 200 meters.

Compared with the elite cavalry of the Liao Dynasty who wore plate armor in the past, the Jurchens, who might be stronger, but only wore cloth and leather armor, were no match for the Zhou army.

The one-sided massacre lasted less than a day. The Jurchen warriors were all killed or wounded, and the tribes collapsed and fled, trying to hide in the vast dense forests of the North Sea.

Unexpectedly, the Zhou army had already ambushed troops from both armies on several escape routes in the northwest and north.

Under the shooting of muskets and bows of the Zhou army, which had the advantage of terrain, not a single Jurchen was able to escape.

The leader of the Wanyan tribe, Wanyan Wugunai, led 20,000 warriors of his tribe to attack the Zhou army's encirclement several times, but failed each time. Only then did he realize that the Great Zhou was able to destroy hundreds of countries, and the army's combat power had reached a level of strength that the Jurchens like himself could not even comprehend!
Wanyan Wugunai personally led the warriors to break through several times, but was eventually killed by the Zhou army's muskets, and his entire army was wiped out.

Zhang Ning and Cao Kefan led the 5th and 10th Corps of the Longxiang Army to annihilate more than 70,000 warriors from various resisting Jurchen tribes, and then slaughtered all 320,000 people from seven tribes including the Wanyan tribe.

For a time, the east and northeast of "Zheyuxun City" were filled with deafening cries of killing, blood was flowing, and corpses blocked the river, cutting off its flow for ten days.

The Jurchen tribes such as Hesheli who surrendered at the beginning were all detained by the Zhou army and handed over to the custody of the local provincial garrison. In the future, they would be distributed according to households to the Han families in Beiming as slaves.

Although Hesheliba and others saw that the Jurchens were prohibited from living together and were distributed as slaves to Han families according to households, it can be said that they had actually exterminated the entire race.

However, seeing the tragic scene of 320,000 people of the Wanyan tribe being slaughtered without a single one left alive, ten Jurchen tribal leaders including Hesheliba shouted in joy: at least after their people surrendered to the Great Zhou, none of them were slaughtered and their lives were saved.

After Chai Zongxun's imperial edict prohibiting the Shiwei people from living together in clans and allocating them as slaves to Han families was passed on to various prefectures and cities in Beiming, the local Longxiang garrisons immediately followed the order and conveyed the message to various Shiwei tribes.

Most of the Shiwei tribes were afraid of the great military power of the Zhou Dynasty that could conquer hundreds of countries, so they chose to surrender and live in humiliation; a small number of Shiwei tribes were unwilling to be exterminated, so they rose up in resistance.

However, under the attack of the Great Zhou army, the Shiwei people were unable to resist.

After the Longxiang troops stationed in various places put down the rebellion for more than half a year, more than 20 Shiwei tribes and more than 500,000 people in various places in Beiming were slaughtered, and the Shiwei was completely pacified.

After the Jurchen and Shiwei tribes were dispersed and distributed as slaves to the Han people, their ethnicity gradually disappeared. They were later called "Jurchen slaves" and "Shuiwei slaves" by the Zhou people, along with "Goryeo slaves", "Kunlun slaves" and "Xingxing slaves", and were collectively known as the five major slave races of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

It was not until more than 800 years later, during the reign of Emperor Xianzong of Zhou, when the Great Zhou Empire implemented a constitutional monarchy, that the slavery system was completely abolished and the people of these four major slave races were able to become citizens of the Great Zhou.

Chai Zongxun was overjoyed after reading the victory report. He immediately issued an order to commend the entire army and allow them to rest for three days.

On the evening of May 16, Chai Zongxun had dinner together with Concubine Yi Zhou Nuying and Concubine Shu Yelu He Gudian in the backyard of a temporary hall.

After chatting for a while, Yelu and Gudian laughed and said:
"Your Majesty, today I finally understand your Majesty's deep love for me. Compared to the Jurchen and Shiwei tribes, your Majesty is much more lenient and loving to my Khitan tribe!"

Chai Zongxun smiled and said:
"What my beloved concubine said is one aspect, and the fact that Liao Taizu Yelu Abaoji did not abolish the Han people's clothing under his rule is also one aspect.

The Jurchens and the Shiwei were both barbaric and backward peoples who only knew how to slaughter other peoples by force. They did not benefit human civilization at all, but only harmed it. I did not kill all of the two tribes because I was adhering to the idea that "God has the virtue of loving life." "

Zhou Nuying smiled and said:
"When the emperor is angry, millions of people will die." I have never thought that your majesty's anger would be so terrible. It seems that your majesty treats Duke Li well because of his good poetry and literary talent."

Chai Zongxun smiled and said:
"Of course.

Poetry, lyrics and prose are the literary condensation of civilization. A society with well-developed poetry will naturally have good institutions.

If a society is ruled by barbaric bandits, it will inevitably lead to social morality, chaos, and unscrupulous pursuit of profit. Collapse is inevitable! "

The three of them drank for more than two hours, and only returned to the bedroom to rest when they were tired.

Chai Zongxun suddenly got excited and asked the two girls to sleep with him. The two girls were surprised and happy, and quickly and shyly agreed.

……

After resting for a few days in "Zheyuxun City", Chai Zongxun handed over the repair matters to the local government, and on May 20th of the 38th year of Kaixi, he led the army to continue northward.

After resting and replenishing at several military settlements along the way, they arrived at the military settlement camp on the "Weifeng Peninsula" on July 1, more than a month later.

July is already midsummer, and the temperature in the North Sea has risen sharply. Although the Weifeng Peninsula is thousands of kilometers north of "Zheyuxun City", the temperature at this time has reached 17 or 18 degrees, which is quite cool and pleasant.

Wei Feng, the pacification envoy of Longxiong Guard, has now rushed back from the Mayan continent and has been waiting for the arrival of Emperor Chai Zongxun for several months.

After welcoming Chai Zongxun into the army camp and sitting down, Wei Feng reported to him in detail what he had learned about the Liao Kingdom and the Mayan continent.

After hearing this, Chai Zongxun laughed and said:

"Yelü Xian is quite a capable person. He successfully established a country in the Mayan continent and opened up a new world!

Xiao Chuo can be regarded as a female Yao and Shun. Her effective governance enabled the new Liao Kingdom to continue to grow and develop.

During this trip, did Lord Wei discover any new and powerful weapons from the Liao Kingdom?"

Wei Feng said:
“Your Majesty, I have led my Dragon Guards to infiltrate almost all the areas where the Liao people have stayed, but we have not found any powerful weapons. We only know that the Liao people have built hundreds of thousands of sets of plate armor and developed a new large wooden catapult.

However, although the attack range of this catapult can reach more than 800 meters, it is still far beyond the reach of our Great Zhou's "Yan Su Cannon".

Therefore, I did not mention it in my previous memorial. "

Chai Zongxun nodded slightly, feeling completely relieved, and said:

"The entire army will rest here for two days, then when the weather is calm, we will cross the sea by ship and conquer the Mayan continent!"

Wei Feng and nearly 10,000 other Longxiang Guards have been waiting here for the arrival of the emperor for several months. Naturally, they have not been doing nothing. They have already built hundreds of large sea-crossing ships. Although they may not be enough for long-distance voyages, they are more than enough to carry Chai Zongxun's army across the "Tiandu Strait", which is only a few dozen miles at its narrowest point.

(End of this chapter)