Chapter 31: Extermination
Your Highness, four hundred and nineteen thieves have been killed, seventeen of our men have been killed in battle, and the wounded are being healed. "The Qiang Dazhai was taken down like this, and at this time Wei Qiu had already made an inspection and was reporting.
is worthy of the origin of family learning, knowing that this is not the time to fight for merit, he counted the casualties first, and then came to report that he was better than Zhang Muzhi in this point.
"Pass the order to go, those who lay down their arms and surrender will not be killed, and the rest of those who still resist will be killed." Yang Yi's expression remained unchanged and he gave an order.
"No matter how stubborn you are, you will not be forgiven! Those who surrender will survive! At this time, Wei Qiu ordered a group of people, sent orders everywhere, and ordered people to start maintaining order, some privateers and property were counted, but the rest of the order should be controlled.
As the main points were controlled, those who dared to go out were basically dead, and they began to break down the doors one by one, and these people in the family, all of them showed fear, put down their self-defense weapons, knelt down and begged for mercy, and then they were driven out of the house, and arrived in the square of the village, this battle, from the beginning to the end, took only an hour.
Seeing this, Yang Yi breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Clean up the battlefield, order the prisoners to move all the corpses together, the corpses of the thieves are ready to be burned, our warriors have reined, they want to go back with us, order the military judges, immediately count the results of the battle, and supervise the property!" ”
Wei Qiu immediately responded at this time, took a step forward to respond to the order, and ordered people to start counting.
Yang Yi frowned and began to patrol the road, and when he arrived at the location of a prisoner, suddenly, a strong figure among several captives pounced.
But in the blink of an eye, the light of the knife started, Yang Yi didn't have to do it himself, several guards pulled out the knife together, and slashed it, and the Qiang man was suddenly divided by the knife, fell backwards, and fell to the ground with a bang.
"Your Highness, the warehouse in this village that I have checked is there, and I will take you to their warehouse to have a look." Zhang Muzhi was also trying to behave at this time, not caring about Wei Qiu's performance, he was still smiling, stepped forward and saluted.
"You lead the way!" Yang Yi nodded, this victory also brought a smile on his face, the battle just now was not tragic, the time was only an hour, it was still midnight at this time, this was the real battle in the era of cold weapons.
The savages who swear to fight to the death are not absent in this era, but obviously this Qiang village is not, Yang Yi, who is in a good mood, thought so, and then took people to the cottage warehouse.
As soon as the door opened, he saw that there were a lot of things piled up in these warehouses, and after checking it, there were at least thousands of quintals of grain and rice alone, looking at the bags of rice, Yang Yi of course knew that the origin of this batch of rice and grain was not all grown by these Qiang people themselves.
Yang Yi didn't care about the origin of these rice grains, and ordered: "These are the spoils of war, count them one by one!" ”
"Your Highness, look!" He led Yang Yi into another warehouse, which was full of gold, silver, copper and iron.
Yang Yi looked at it a little, and the money seemed to be a lot, but it was only enough for a while, so he ordered the silver and grain to be counted.
"My lord, there are 1,900 taels of gold, 30,000 taels of silver, 5,000 catties of copper, about 20,000 catties of iron, and about 5,000 quintals of grain."
"Hey, so much!" Yang Yi was taken aback, this may be all the inventory of several Qiang villages, this village was built by the Zhang family back then, the most solid and vast, the terrain is good, maybe other villages also store their goods here.
Yang Yi said again: "Calculate the merits of killing the enemy, and wait until you go back to reward the merits!" ”
After a pause, he said: "Order people to guard the key roads everywhere to prevent the rest of the Qiang people from stealing the camp, and tomorrow we will destroy the rest of the Qiang people's villages." ”
"Yes!" Naturally, someone responded loudly.
Suddenly, everyone in the cottage cried, the fire was everywhere, and the soldiers were as fierce as tigers and wolves, driving all the Qiang people out of their homes, and if they disobeyed, they were beheaded on the spot.
According to rough estimates, there were more than 3,000 captives alone, and the number of Qiang men killed at this time was already nearly 1,000.
The generals simply squinted and rested for a while, and now that the Qiang Dazhai has been uprooted, what remains is a small problem, but it can't be ignored, so Yang Yi stayed awake all night.
Wei Qiu also went back and forth to maintain order, and Zhang Muzhi was the same at this time, the two of them each had cronies, each with their own division of labor, there were still many positions at this time, and there was no conflict of interest between the two, and everyone's goals were still the same.
Yang Yi looked at the records of the Qiang people, the more he looked at it, the more shocking it became, the Qiang people also had a connection with each other, the Qiang people here and the Qiang people in Hanzhong and even the Qiang people in Yongliang Land had contacts, and in these letters, there were also some big rebellious plans, which were shocking.
Yang Yi looked at their own data, there were already more than 2,000 households, about 15,000 people, of which the young and strong were the number of three thousand, that is, 5,000 people, and now in this big village, there are almost 2,000 young and strong, half of them are dead, and the remaining women have to be careful.
It is not that women are weak and that they are not threatened, but that in previous battles, some women took up arms.
Now that there are more than 2,000 people on our side, at least 500 people must be left to maintain order, so it is necessary to encircle and suppress several times the enemy with a number of 1,000 and 5.
Now, the two sides have become mortal enemies, and if these people are released into the mountains and forests, they may become confidants.
"Let Zhang Muzhi come over."
After a while, Zhang Muzhi hurried over, Yang Yi groaned for a while, and asked, "Are you familiar with these additional Han villages?" ”
Zhang Muzhi thought for a while before he said: "Your Highness, in the past, when my family was here, there were some in-laws relationship, but it has been ten years, and this relationship is far away, but it is still an acquaintance. ”
"I look at the He clan and the Chen clan around here, give you a task, you clean up now, bring some cronies, some Han girls belong to these families, you go to these families overnight, fast horses, and they will not be held accountable for the crime of collaborating with the enemy, but now Lone wants to clear these Qiang villages, let them get out of a few families, and tomorrow cooperate with Lone to clear the remaining Qiang villages, you know what to say!"
When Zhang Muzhi heard this, he didn't feel embarrassed, he had done similar things before, but they were all of the same clan, the Zhang clan was big, and these families were all small clans, so it was easier to threaten.
"Your Highness, rest assured, I'll go now, these thieves have betrayed the country, Your Highness has given them the opportunity to wash away their crimes, and it is their ancestors who have accumulated virtue."
Yang Yi thought for a while, and then said: "Wait, you go, you can say it, there will be a military lord here, if it is meritorious, below the captain, it will be rewarded according to merit, and the head of each family can be a civilian, and it is possible for it to be less than two hundred stones." ”
It will be revised in a moment
"Your Highness, four hundred and nineteen thieves have been killed, seventeen of our men have been killed in battle, and the wounded are being treated." The Qiang Dazhai was taken down like this, and at this time Wei Qiu had already made a tour and was reporting.
is worthy of the origin of family learning, knowing that this is not the time to fight for merit, he counted the casualties first, and then came to report that he was better than Zhang Muzhi in this point.
"Pass the order to go, those who lay down their arms and surrender will not be killed, and the rest of those who still resist will be killed." Yang Yi's expression remained unchanged and he gave an order.
"No matter how stubborn you are, you will not be forgiven! Those who surrender will survive! At this time, Wei Qiu ordered a group of people, sent orders everywhere, and ordered people to start maintaining order, some privateers and property were counted, but the rest of the order should be controlled.
As the main points were controlled, those who dared to go out were basically dead, and they began to break down the doors one by one, and these people in the family, all of them showed fear, put down their self-defense weapons, knelt down and begged for mercy, and then they were driven out of the house, and arrived in the square of the village, this battle, from the beginning to the end, took only an hour.
Seeing this, Yang Yi breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Clean up the battlefield, order the prisoners to move all the corpses together, the corpses of the thieves are ready to be burned, our warriors have reined, they want to go back with us, order the military judges, immediately count the results of the battle, and supervise the property!" ”
Wei Qiu immediately responded at this time, took a step forward to respond to the order, and ordered people to start counting.
Yang Yi frowned and began to patrol the road, and when he arrived at the location of a prisoner, suddenly, a strong figure among several captives pounced.
But in the blink of an eye, the light of the knife started, Yang Yi didn't have to do it himself, several guards pulled out the knife together, and slashed it, and the Qiang man was suddenly divided by the knife, fell backwards, and fell to the ground with a bang.
"Your Highness, the warehouse in this village that I have checked is there, and I will take you to their warehouse to have a look." Zhang Muzhi was also trying to behave at this time, not caring about Wei Qiu's performance, he was still smiling, stepped forward and saluted.
"You lead the way!" Yang Yi nodded, this victory also brought a smile on his face, the battle just now was not tragic, the time was only an hour, it was still midnight at this time, this was the real battle in the era of cold weapons.
The savages who swear to fight to the death are not absent in this era, but obviously this Qiang village is not, Yang Yi, who is in a good mood, thought so, and then took people to the cottage warehouse.
As soon as the door opened, he saw that there were a lot of things piled up in these warehouses, and after checking it, there were at least thousands of quintals of grain and rice alone, looking at the bags of rice, Yang Yi of course knew that the origin of this batch of rice and grain was not all grown by these Qiang people themselves.
Yang Yi didn't care about the origin of these rice grains, and ordered: "These are the spoils of war, count them one by one!" ”
"Your Highness, look!" He led Yang Yi into another warehouse, which was full of gold, silver, copper and iron.
Yang Yi looked at it a little, and the money seemed to be a lot, but it was only enough for a while, so he ordered the silver and grain to be counted.
"My lord, there are 1,900 taels of gold, 30,000 taels of silver, 5,000 catties of copper, about 20,000 catties of iron, and about 5,000 quintals of grain."
"Hey, so much!" Yang Yi was taken aback, this may be all the inventory of several Qiang villages, this village was built by the Zhang family back then, the most solid and vast, the terrain is good, maybe other villages also store their goods here.
Yang Yi said again: "Calculate the merits of killing the enemy, and wait until you go back to reward the merits!" ”
After a pause, he said: "Order people to guard the key roads everywhere to prevent the rest of the Qiang people from stealing the camp, and tomorrow we will destroy the rest of the Qiang people's villages." ”
"Yes!" Naturally, someone responded loudly.
Suddenly, everyone in the cottage cried, the fire was everywhere, and the soldiers were as fierce as tigers and wolves, driving all the Qiang people out of their homes, and if they disobeyed, they were beheaded on the spot.
According to rough estimates, there were more than 3,000 captives alone, and the number of Qiang men killed at this time was already nearly 1,000.
The generals simply squinted and rested for a while, and now that the Qiang Dazhai has been uprooted, what remains is a small problem, but it can't be ignored, so Yang Yi stayed awake all night.
Wei Qiu also went back and forth to maintain order, and Zhang Muzhi was the same at this time, the two of them each had cronies, each with their own division of labor, there were still many positions at this time, and there was no conflict of interest between the two, and everyone's goals were still the same.
Yang Yi looked at the records of the Qiang people, the more he looked at it, the more shocking it became, the Qiang people also had a connection with each other, the Qiang people here and the Qiang people in Hanzhong and even the Qiang people in Yongliang Land had contacts, and in these letters, there were also some big rebellious plans, which were shocking.
Yang Yi looked at their own data, there were already more than 2,000 households, about 15,000 people, of which the young and strong were the number of three thousand, that is, 5,000 people, and now in this big village, there are almost 2,000 young and strong, half of them are dead, and the remaining women have to be careful.
It is not that women are weak and that they are not threatened, but that in previous battles, some women took up arms.
Now that there are more than 2,000 people on our side, at least 500 people must be left to maintain order, so it is necessary to encircle and suppress several times the enemy with a number of 1,000 and 5.
Now, the two sides have become mortal enemies, and if these people are released into the mountains and forests, they may become confidants.
"Let Zhang Muzhi come over."
After a while, Zhang Muzhi hurried over, Yang Yi groaned for a while, and asked, "Are you familiar with these additional Han villages?" ”
Zhang Muzhi thought for a while before he said: "Your Highness, in the past, when my family was here, there were some in-laws relationship, but it has been ten years, and this relationship is far away, but it is still an acquaintance. ”
"I look at the He clan and the Chen clan around here, give you a task, you clean up now, bring some cronies, some Han girls belong to these families, you go to these families overnight, fast horses, and they will not be held accountable for the crime of collaborating with the enemy, but now Lone wants to clear these Qiang villages, let them get out of a few families, and tomorrow cooperate with Lone to clear the remaining Qiang villages, you know what to say!"
When Zhang Muzhi heard this, he didn't feel embarrassed, he had done similar things before, but they were all of the same clan, the Zhang clan was big, and these families were all small clans, so it was easier to threaten.
"Your Highness, rest assured, I'll go now, these thieves have betrayed the country, Your Highness has given them the opportunity to wash away their crimes, and it is their ancestors who have accumulated virtue."
Yang Yi thought for a while, and then said: "Wait, you go, you can say it, there will be a military lord here, if it is meritorious, below the captain, it will be rewarded according to merit, and the head of each family can be a civilian, and it is possible for it to be less than two hundred stones." ”
"Your Highness's kindness, the last general will definitely live up to expectations." Zhang Muzhi took the order and left.