Chapter 458: Gone Bad
It was over, two days faster than the expected five days, and the total number of 260,000 troops engaged in three days and nights of attack on the 200,000 or so Baiyue who were completely surrounded. Although there were repeated battles during this period, the battle situation was not so stable, but under the continuous attack of three days and nights, Baiyue accepted more than 10,000 people to surrender, and the rest were all killed.
Will accept the surrender of more than 10,000 Baiyue is Kuaitong's strong request, what people can not be untrustworthy, as a prince must keep his promises, in the battle has killed a lot of Baiyue people who surrendered to Chengcheng, there should always be some remnants to show credit, really to kill all of them in the future to find an opportunity to find an opportunity.
The battle was very chaotic, and the effective coordination of the various troops was basically absent before Lu Zhe intervened.
On the first day of the attack, Lu Zhe did not control the troops at all, not because he was so arrogant that he felt that he didn't need to control it, but because his excitement was disturbed quite badly by Kuaitong, and because the offensive on the first day was like that whether he commanded it or not.
To tell the truth, with more than 400,000 people fighting, the range of the field is about twenty miles, unless Lu Zhe can have a bird's-eye view of the entire battlefield from a high altitude, otherwise the range of five or six miles as far as the eye can see, how can he know the movements of each army well.
After the first day of fighting, it is time to figure out the structure and deployment of the Baiyue Walled City, this era is a little necessary to command, but the deployment of troops has also been readjusted, and there are still not many places to intervene in how to attack the fortifications.
The Baiyue people in despair are two extremes, they are desperate for their lives, the difference is that one is desperate resistance, and the other is desperately slaughtering their fellow clans to invite merit in order to survive.
In the face of the red-eyed Sergeant Lu Zhe's hard work, the Baiyue people, who were unable to withstand the civil strife, were doomed to a fiasco, and the difference was just how much trouble they caused to Lu Zhe's army.
After three days and nights of fighting, Lu Zhejun, who had a rotation system, was fine, and the Baiyue people, who were besieged on three sides and could not stop, were actually exhausted the next day, and then Lu Zhejun's slaughter of the besieged one-sided.
After determining the translation of Song, Kaimingsen was cut off the head. Su Wuzhu was captured alive, and a character that surprised Lu Zhe was also discovered, that is, Ren Huan, who disappeared after the Battle of Yiling!
Ren Huan, the former deputy general of the Southern Xinjiang Army, cut off the road back to the north after the outbreak of the great uprising at the end of the Qin Dynasty in history, ordered 500,000 southern Xinjiang troops not to return to help, and even made Zhao Tuo establish himself as the king of Nanyue, but he has been mixed in the Baiyue ethnic group since he disappeared?
Lu Zhe didn't want to ask Ren Huan what role he played in the invasion of Baiyue, so when Ren Huan hadn't said a word when he was detained, he immediately ordered it to be dragged down and chopped into meat sauce.
The translator called Song and Kaimingsen to die, and Su Wuzhu was captured. At this point, the dust has really settled, Lu Zhe doesn't want to talk too much about the details of the 10,000 begging prisoners of war, more than 200,000 Baiyue people have been killed, and it is not a big deal to leave more than 10,000 people to decorate the façade. What he wanted to do most now was to hurry back to Nanling, not only to determine the quality of the iron weapon and whether it could be mass-produced, but also because someone from the Qin State finally came.
The people who came from the Qin State were Feng Zheng and Dong Peng.
If Lu Zhe is not mistaken, Feng Zai seems to be the son of Feng Quji, and Feng Quji was the right prime minister of Qin, and Feng Zai himself was also the imperial historian of Qin. The Feng family can be regarded as a prominent family in Great Qin. The ancestors of his family held prominent official positions in the Qin State, and they can be regarded as old Qin people in Feng Zheng's generation, but they don't seem to be very trusted by the First Emperor?
Dong Peng's Lu Zhe also has a little impression, it seems that he was born in Northern Xinjiang. I vaguely remember that Zhao Gao said that Dong Fei was his person, but if I remember correctly, his person seemed to be a captain or a military marquis in Northern Xinjiang when Lu Zhe went south, and he could become a partial general in just over a year, and he was qualified to go south on behalf of Great Qin. It can be said that the speed of climbing in official positions is very fast.
This time, Xianyang sent Feng Zheng as the main and Dong Peng as the auxiliary to Nanling, it was not the same thing as an envoy, after all, Lu Zhe was still a courtier of the Great Qin in theory, how could there be such a funny thing as the emperor sending someone to envoy his own courtier. They came in the name of rewarding Zhao Wan. As for what it means to reward Zhao Wan, Lu Zhe is actually a little dazed.
"Although you didn't rebel, who can really be loyal to Daqin from top to bottom of Xianyang? If Qin Guo could free up his hands, he should have sent troops to destroy us a long time ago. Kuai Tong laughed all the time, tore off the wine gourd on his waist and poured a few sips, and continued: "If you are not a minister, your majesty has no possibility of being angry, because no matter what you do in the south that is beneficial to the Qin State, it is impossible to be rewarded. ”
Lu Zhe didn't expect Qin Guo to reward anything, in fact, not only him, but everyone under his command didn't want Qin Guo to say anything. After all, the people under Lu Zhe's command were either from the Six Kingdoms or were rebels from the Qin State, and they were destined to be unable to sincerely serve the Qin State, if it weren't for Lu Zhe's pressure, they would have attacked Qin Land a long time ago.
"The name of Majesty's reward for Mrs. is quite good, you wait and see, the reward given by Majesty to Mrs. will definitely not be less." Kuaitong began to laugh a little incomprehensibly: "You should actually deal with the Baiyue head who won more than 400,000 in the south and send a convoy to Xianyang." ”
What do you mean? There are more than 400,000 heads, and if they are pickled, the amount of lime or salt consumed is not small, and it takes at least three months in the process.
"You think, hasn't Your Majesty always wanted to destroy Baiyue? Now that most of the population of Baiyue has been annihilated in Changsha County, and the only obstacle to our capture of Lingnan is Guiyue, which has no damage, it can be expected that if we act quickly and will be able to capture Lingnan within a year at the latest, then we might as well 'assume' that it has been captured, and send the heads of more than 400,000 Baiyue people to Xianyang together with the battle report of the capture of Lingnan, what do you guess will be their reaction? Kuaitong was laughing, and he was laughing very weirdly.
Why did Lu Zhe suddenly feel that Kuaitong's smiling face was too hateful to laugh at? What the First Emperor's reaction would be, Lu Zhe didn't know, but the reaction of the courtiers of the Qin State would definitely be extremely intense.
Under the evidence of more than 400,000 Baiyue people's heads pickled, no one in the Qin State will doubt whether Lu Zhe really captured Lingnan, after all, the entire Baiyue clan has a population of more than 1.2 million, and 70,000 were killed by Lu Zhe in Nanjun in the early days, so killing 400,000 more than 400,000 is equivalent to killing half of Baiyue's more than 1.2 million.
No one would believe that an ethnic group has lost almost half of its population, and no one will believe that it will not be difficult to capture the territory of a collapsed ethnic group, so what reason is there to doubt whether Lu Zhe has captured Lingnan or not.
One year ...... Or in a year and a half, a rebel general who has not received any resources and help from the Qin State has completed in a year and a half what the Qin State court is expected to take at least five years, and it will cost countless materials, and he doesn't know if it can be done in five years, what will be their expression?
Kuai Tongxue, who let go of the burden in his heart, is broken, and he does this completely to disgust people, making those people feel that losing Lu Zhe is the biggest loss, and it doesn't matter what he will do after realizing Lu Zhe's importance.
"......" Lu Zhe didn't know how to comment on a military advisor who was gradually becoming a drunkard and becoming more and more out of tune, and he didn't really want to stop Kuaitong's spoof.
To be honest, Lu Zhe actually wanted to see how Qin would react when he learned that he was going to capture most of the south, and he could predict that when Qin thought that he had occupied most of the territory in the south, he would not choose to send troops to attack, but would do everything possible to win him over.
It doesn't matter to Lu Zhe whether the Qin State is co-opted or not, the composition of Lu Zhe's power is too complicated, a huge force that is hostile to the Qin State at least seventy percent of its members, don't look at the current Lu Zhe has a strong control over this force, this control is based on Lu Zhe's self-reliance, what they want is for Lu Zhe to become the master of one side, so that they can have glory and wealth, not belong to the Qin State.
As long as Lu Zhe showed the tendency to return to the Qin State, either this huge force would fall apart, or he would die on the dagger he had secretly stabbed. There is absolutely no escaping this fate.
"Ji Bu's side has also started to act," Lu Zhe's mood was still more complicated, "If you follow the line, you will be able to hit the seashore within three months." ”
Only 30,000 of the troops under Ji Bu were reorganized, and about 20,000 of the remaining 40,000 were originally belonging to Huan Chu, and the other 20,000 were garrisons left in Fanyang in the early stage. They were ordered to attack south from Lujiang County, presumably in the area of what would later be Fujian, which now belonged to the Minyue habitat.
There should be about 70,000 Minyue people brought to Changsha County from the Minyue area, and for the Minyue who only have about 200,000 Minyue, they are basically able to fight, and the people who remain in the habitat are basically the old, weak, sick and disabled, and the danger that Ji Bu will face when he uses 70,000 troops to capture an area where there are only the old, weak, sick and disabled is not from the resistance of the Minyue people, but from the continuity of logistics and supplies, and the other is whether the Chu State has the courage to make a difference.
In the pre-plan, the result of the discussion was that the state of Chu did not dare to stimulate Lü Zhe at this stage, and would watch Ji Bu lead the army to attack the Minyue region, and now Lü Zhe personally led more than 200,000 troops to annihilate more than 500,000 Baiyue in Changsha.
"Why don't you kill the Monkey?" Kuaitong really doesn't understand.
"Isn't there a lot?" Lu Zhe thinks that if Su Wuzhu dies on the battlefield, he will die, and if he doesn't die, he actually doesn't have the idea of killing, if he remembers correctly, Su Wuzhu is a relatively contributor to China among the Baiyue ethnic groups: "Ji Bu attacked Minyue ......" still needs to give a reason, "Su Wuzhu has a bit of a role." ”
Kuaitong didn't believe it, but he didn't want to ask more, he had done too many outrageous things in the past few days, and he really might be cut by Lu Zhe if he didn't know what to do. (To be continued......)