Chastity Layman

  Chapter 347 Ice Skull Platform

   Afternoon.

  The wind stops and the snow stops.

  Teams of Turkic captives were being whipped by the Zhenwu Army. Ice cubes were brought up from the nearby river, and the cut ice bricks were transported to the East Surrendered City to heighten and strengthen the city wall.

  Qin Lang enjoyed looking at the expanding ice city.

  The original walled city is now an inner city.

  Thousands of captives and nearly 10,000 soldiers and civilians took ice-cut bricks to expand the outer city.

  Build a layer of bricks, pour water once, and the ice bricks will be firmly connected.

   This reminded Qin Lang of the Harbin Ice and Snow Festival every year. Every year, many people use ice to build many beautiful ice sculpture buildings.

   "This city of ice and snow can be built for at least three months."

The special climate in the north allows ice to build a city. Qin Lang estimated that, in fact, based on this year's weather, the ice city can be preserved for four to five months, which means that the ice city fortress can bear the needs of this fight against the Turks. .

   "When the ice city is built, take those Turkic male prisoners and cut off their thumbs."

   "In this case, the price will be lower then."

   "It doesn't matter if it's cheap, we have to let them understand what the price is, and we have to prevent these people from becoming our enemies in the future after they escape."

After cutting off the thumbs of both feet, the consequences are quite serious. Although cutting off the toes is much better than cutting off the feet, it is also a kind of restriction of freedom. After losing the thumbs of both feet, it is not conducive to marching. , running and so on.

  Of course, there are also many people who cut off their thumbs. This is much more serious. Losing both thumbs means that they can’t hold a knife or gun. What they lose is combat effectiveness, but they also lose a lot of labor.

  The merchants had already been evacuated by Qin Lang to Shengzhou City on the south bank of the Yellow River, and he also stationed several thousand troops in Shengzhou City.

   Another village was built on the opposite bank of the Jin River where the Surrendered City was located, forming a situation where the three cities faced each other across the river.

   "Has the first-level inventory and registration been completed?"

   "It's all registered." The reporter reported.

"Now that the registration has been completed, those heads are useless. There is no need to pickle them, just dispose of them on the spot. Just ten miles outside the surrendered city, pile up the corpses, pour water on each layer, and build an ice skull for them. tower!"

  Skull Terrace, also known as Jingguan.

   This is a terrifying building built by the victors to show off their martial arts with the view of the enemy's corpse sealed in soil.

   And it is not easy to dig the ground here because of the freezing weather, Qin Lang plans to build an ice skull directly like building an ice fortress.

   Isn’t Jieli coming, so let’s consider it a gift for him.

  I think back then, after Yang Guang failed to conquer Goguryeo, the Goguryeo people used the bones of the fallen soldiers of the Sui Dynasty to pile up a Jingguan in Liaodong, and used the bones of tens of thousands of soldiers from the Central Plains.

  More than 3,000 corpses, enough to pile up a skeleton platform.

  For the victims who died in battle, Qin Lang asked them to make body bags out of horse leather, and sent them back to Fengzhou, where they were collected in coffins and sent back to their hometowns.

  He also asked people to erect an earthen platform on the battlefield, erected a stone inscription to commemorate it, and wrote the inscription himself.

  The inscription on the memorial to the Battle of the Eastern Surrender.

Described in detail the time, place, cause, and result of the battle, bearing in mind the achievements of the commander Cheng Chumo, and also wrote the list of martyrs who died in battle, and also wrote A Fuluo and other beheaded people on it .

   Eight thousand soldiers will be divided into three cities. Although the Yellow River and Jinshui are separated, the glacier has long since become smooth.

After Cheng Chumo defeated the Afu Luo tribe, he seized a lot of cattle and sheep. This is also a characteristic of the Turkic people who like to fight with their families. If they win, they will of course rob people and rob cattle and sheep. Lose.

   The tens of thousands of camels, horses, cattle and sheep that were seized were all slaughtered by Qin Lang's direct order. Anyway, in winter, after the slaughter, they will be buried in snow, and they will become frozen meat without fear of spoilage.

  Qin Lang has no shortage of beef and mutton now, but the cow dung for cooking meat is relatively scarce, so he has to save it.

Fortunately, after this battle, all the Zahu people in the vicinity came over again. A Fuluo had previously besieged the Dongshou surrendered city to no avail. He also sent people to the nearby Zahu tribes to order them to send troops to help attack the city. They were also asked to provide cattle and sheep, hay, and dry dung.

  Because the conditions mentioned were too harsh and threatening, these miscellaneous beards were very dissatisfied.

  After Yuchi Baoqi arrived, he contacted all over the place. At that time, many miscellaneous troops made a fool of themselves and fell to the Tang army. In the counterattack, they also waved their flags and shouted and charged.

   Fighting the dog in the water is very hard work.

   But after A Fuluo was beheaded and his troops were defeated, Cheng Chumo and the others stopped chasing them, but these miscellaneous tribes began to besiege them.

   for several days in a row.

  Every day, knights of the Zahu tribe took the Turkic heads they had beheaded and ran to Dongshoujiang City to greet the honorable Duke Yi.

  They offered the heads of the Turkic people, and some of the captured Turkic tribes captives were offered to Qin Lang, and some of the captured cattle and sheep were given to Duke Yi.

  They heard that Tang Jun lacked dry dung for cooking, so they specially sent a lot of dried cow dung, which solved a problem for Qin Lang.

   These miscellaneous Hu tribes were not uncommonly oppressed by Xieli in the past. This time when the Tang army came to the east, they also immediately rebelled. All of a sudden, he felt aggrieved, and even grabbed a huge amount of spoils.

   These miscellaneous people are black and black, Cheng Chumo and others defeated the main force such as Afuluo, and then they swarmed up and swallowed all the remaining troops of Afuluo and others.

   It's very proud and happy to eat a round belly one by one.

   Fortunately, they knew that this was a complete betrayal of Jieli Khan, so they also knew that they could only hug Datang's thick legs tightly in the future, so they all knew to take out another share of the stolen spoils and donate to Datang.

   The tribes of Afuluo only lost about 6,000 on the battlefield, but they were bitten and killed by hyena-like mobs, and took tens of thousands of prisoners.

  Actually, not all of the tribes that were attacked participated in A Fuluo's attack, but at this time the miscellaneous beards didn't care, as long as they had the strength to fight, they would pounce on them and take a bite.

  On the other hand, the miscellaneous Hu tribes who made a fortune were too smart to stay in their pastures. They all dragged their families and children, drove livestock and pulled carts to the surrendered city.

   At one time, there were hundreds of Hu tribes, large and small, with more than 10,000 people.

  Qin Lang asked them to camp near the three cities, and invited the leaders of the tribes to enter the city.

  These Hu chiefs gave Qin Lang the impression of being barbaric.

   Not only are they savage in dress, but they also speak savagely and act even more savagely.

  But facing Qin Lang, who had eight thousand soldiers in his hand, three cities, and a big victory just now, these guys were extremely respectful.

  Many leaders even kowtowed and knelt down when they met directly, and shamelessly called Lord Qin Lang openly.

In this regard, they are no different from Yu Sheshe. In other words, Yu Sheshe has tens of thousands of people, but he still calls Qin Qiong's father, so they are small leaders of more than a hundred people, or hundreds of people. , naturally there is no psychological pressure, and it is an honor to even hug Qin Lang's thigh and become a foster son.

  Qin Lang certainly couldn't accept it.

   There are more than a hundred, and some guys have lost all their teeth and are older than his deceased grandfather.

  Furthermore, Li Shimin would not be happy if more than a hundred miscellaneous Hu chiefs were adopted as adopted sons and passed back to Chang'an.

   "Come, give wine to all righteous men!"

  In the big tent, a group of miscellaneous beard leaders happily kneeled to receive the wine offered by Qin Lang, took out their own horn cups to fill up the wine, and drank it all in one gulp.

   Regarding these miscellaneous Husbands, Qin Lang certainly heard what Cheng Chumo said that these people had previously sent their children as followers, but they scattered and ran away when they encountered the enemy.

  But Qin Lang didn't pursue it.

   These people are just like this, bullying the weak and fearing the strong, and following the strong, there is no loyalty at all.

  As long as Datang is strong, as long as he Qin Lang can become strong in this place, then they will kneel down. In other words, if Qin Lang couldn't handle Xieli here, as soon as he retreated, these people might turn around and pay homage to Xieli again.

  It's just a bunch of fools.

   But since I vote now, I should give some sweetness.

"I am the consolation envoy sent by His Majesty the Emperor to Hetao. Now I have ordered you to form the local cavalry with the young and strong. There are fifty people under my command. This envoy will give you the head of the cavalry team. There are hundreds of cavalry under my command. This envoy Then I was awarded the commander of the cavalry brigade, and with two hundred cavalry under my command, I was awarded the title of captain of the cavalry regiment."

  A group of miscellaneous Hu leaders, so they reported the people there very enthusiastically.

  Qin Lang didn't care what they were falsely reporting or what, some guys were all down to one hundred fifty or sixty people, but in the end he had to report that he had two hundred elite riders.

  Qin Lang smiled and awarded him the title of Captain of the Tutuan on the spot.

  Others reported to one group one after another, and those who reported two hundred to that one, Qin Lang would not refuse anyone who came.

   If you only look at the numbers, these guys reported 50,000 horses, but the total number of people outside the city is less than 20,000.

  In the end, more than a hundred people, each of whom was awarded a Tutuan school lieutenant.

   Organized more than a hundred native cavalry, all of which belonged to Qin Lang's Dudu Mansion.

  Qin Lang said that he would play the emperor at the meeting and give them official robes with bronze seals, which made all these guys smile.

  Each person was rewarded with some tea and wine, so these people were officially naturalized and cast in the Tang Dynasty.

  At the banquet, Qin Lang made a deal with them by the way. Qin Lang spent money to buy the Turkic heads they chopped off and the Turkic captives they robbed.

  Of course, it’s useless for these people to ask for money, so they agreed to exchange the salt, tea, sugar, wine, cloth, pots, bowls, needles and threads they needed.

   It is useless for these guys to ask for heads, and the captives can only be slaves. Of course, they are very happy to exchange them for good products from the Central Plains.

   So the transaction was successfully concluded.

   After Qin Lang bought these, he confessed to joining the army, counted all these heads and prisoners as Fengzhou frontier army, and then asked the imperial court for credit.

   "Is this a false report of military merit?" Li Daliang hesitated.

"Why is it a false report? Are these heads fake and those prisoners fake? These miscellaneous beards were originally under our command and assisted in the war. Now they don't take these heads and prisoners, just exchange them Our things are equivalent to paying rewards to them in advance. Is it wrong for these military achievements to be counted on the heads of my Fengzhou army soldiers?"

   Leading troops to fight, not only must be able to command to win the battle, but also to seek some benefits for the subordinates.

  (end of this chapter)