Chapter 850 Loser

Chapter 850 Loser

Chapter 850 Loser

After breaking into the city, we searched for three days and found nothing much to say.

The camps on both sides of the muddy water were filled with all kinds of valuables - well, most of them were alive, not only seized in the city, but also collected from outside the city in recent days.

The captives were escorted by the Yellow-Headed Army to the wild to cut fodder, load it onto trucks and send it back to feed livestock.

But it is already mid-to-late July after all. If it is later, the grass will stop growing, and it will be impossible to feed so many livestock gathered in one place.

Therefore, starting from July 18th, some of the dismissed soldiers began to escort the prisoners, driving cattle, sheep, horses, camels and the most valuable horses southward.

The first group of people sent away included: several seriously understaffed units of the First Battalion of the Yellow Head Army, totaling more than 3,400 people, escorting 12,000 men, women, young and old, as well as 30,000 cattle, 160,000 sheep, and more than 7,000 horses and camels.

They took the Yanmen, Xinxing, Jinyang and Shangdang route.

Three days later, the cavalry official Yin Xi would send 1,500 cavalrymen to Pingcheng, escorting the second batch of more than 13,000 prisoners and 200,000 cattle, horses, and camels back.

They couldn't possibly take the previous route again, fearing that all the grass along the way had been eaten up - not really, but grazing land would certainly not be so easy to find.

These people would go south from Ningwu Pass and pass through the Fen River Valley to Loufan County, where a new animal husbandry station called "Loufan Station" was established to temporarily foster these livestock to survive the coming winter.

On the 24th, the men from Chen County who were escorting food and fodder back would be arranged to escort 15,000 prisoners southward.

The number of livestock in this batch was not large, only less than 100,000. After all, the ones that could be captured in the distance had been almost all captured, and there were not many livestock captured from the people in Pingcheng.

They would enter the country from Lan Valley, then head south to Xihe, pass through Pingyang and Hedong, and temporarily settle in Hongnong. The land there is vast and sparsely populated, with many pastures and forests, and they would fertilize the crops and then deal with them separately.

If we count the more than 30,000 horses that were about to be sent to Bianliang, the gains from this battle were still quite considerable - of course, compared with the huge expenditure, they pale in comparison.

Tuoba Heli was taken outside the city and detained in a separate tent.

He didn't cry or make a fuss, and he didn't talk much.

Give him food and water and he will eat.

If he doesn't give it to me, he won't ask for it either.

There wasn't much frustration on his face, as if everything had nothing to do with him.

This was the scene Shao Xun saw when he arrived.

His arrival made Tuoba Heli look up and look carefully for a long time.

"What? Are you planning to seek revenge on me after you die?" Shao Xun asked.

Tuoba Heli shuddered at first, obviously afraid of death, but he didn't know what he thought of, and suddenly he felt relieved, as if death was not so scary to him.

Wang came in with Shi Yijian.

The expression on Tuoba Heli's face finally changed. He stared at Wang blankly and said something confusing: "It wasn't my idea. I——"

After saying that, he lowered his head again.

Wang and Shao Xun were both smart people and immediately understood the meaning of this sentence.

Wang's eyes reddened as she recalled the longest day in her 19 years of life.

Shi Yijian was a little confused. He was still young and didn't quite understand what was being said.

"What an honest child! How come he was born in the Tuoba family?" Shao Xun sneered, "If one day you take power, the tribes will not listen to you and will either die of anger or fear."

Tuoba Heli still kept his head down, not saying a word, just like a student being scolded by his teacher.

Shao Xun looked at him, then glanced at Shi Yijian inconspicuously, as if thinking about something.

Wang's attention was always on Shao Xun. She soon noticed his little action and her heart skipped a beat.

She suppressed her inner panic and thought carefully.

The King of Liang was wise and brave, but he had a big flaw: he liked to show off in front of women. After drinking two liang of wine, he talked to her about how to analyze the situation, and Wang listened to him.

Combined with what Wang Chang had found out about King Liang's life, Wang analyzed her own advantages: First, she had a strong appeal among the Wuhuan people; second, King Liang liked to humiliate the wives and daughters of the losers, as if he would not have achieved complete victory without doing so, and she was a woman and quite beautiful.

What are her weaknesses?
First, Shi Yijian was still a child, and she was a woman, so she might not be able to convince the tribesmen. The King of Liang needed a puppet, but he did not need a useless puppet that would cause the tribesmen to keep breaking up.
2. Related to some of her advantages, that is actually a disadvantage. King Liang is not short of women, but he lacks the wives and daughters of defeated warriors with status. He might want to take her into his room, enjoy her for a long time, and savor his life's achievements, because she is the proof of his achievements and is still alive.

Where are the opportunities amidst advantages and disadvantages?

Where does the threat come from?
Wang stood there, thinking and weighing the options over and over again.

But as I thought about it, I felt very tired.

For some reason, she couldn't control the emotions surging in her heart, and looked at Shao Xun with some sadness and even resentment.

Prince Liang once brought her a rare surprise and touched her...

"The remaining members of the Tuoba tribe have fled westward and taken refuge with Yihuai." Shao Xun said, "The Shihai clan also surrendered at Dongmugen Mountain. Tell me, where did Hena go?" Among the ten Tuoba tribes, Pu, Daxi, Baba, and Shihai took refuge with Wang mother and son, and the other five tribes and half of the Tuoba tribe took refuge with Yihuai.

It seems that the latter has the upper hand, but in fact it is not. Because a large number of Wuhuan people in the eastern and central regions firmly stand on the side of the Wang family. This number is so large that it is enough to offset the disadvantage and even surpass it.

The core issue now is to win the support of neutral tribes that are not involved in the power struggle.

In terms of numbers, they are more than the ten Tuoba tribes combined. If they are not wooed, they will simply run to the other side, or not help either side, not leaving in name but actually leaving the Tuoba alliance.

This is what Shao Xun didn't want to see.

"He was not caught?" He Li was a little surprised and relieved when he heard Shao Xun's question.

"He ran away. Do you know where he went?"

He Li didn't want to answer at first, but when he met Shao Xun's eyes, his heart skipped a beat and he said, "There are several tribes near the Yuwen tribe. Hena must have gone there."

"Oh? Those tribes are so submissive?" Shao Xun asked curiously.

He Li nodded.

"Your Majesty, please send troops to pursue him immediately." Wang said anxiously.

Shao Xun nodded slightly but did not give any order.

Wang suddenly realized that her guess was confirmed. This man was even more evil than she had imagined.

"Tuoba Yiyi is a great hero after all." Shao Xun added, "He Li, I have ordered your mother to be buried in Fangshan with the ceremony of a queen. As a son, you should not be absent. After the funeral, follow me back to Pingyang."

Tuoba Heli looked at Shao Xun blankly and stood up suddenly.

Shao's personal soldiers drew their swords and put them to He Li's neck for the second time that day.

He Li was completely unaware and just bowed deeply without saying anything.

Shao Xun sighed. Although he was cowardly, he was still a filial son, which made him feel somewhat favorable towards him.

This poor guy, why should we make things difficult for him?

Thinking of this, he turned and left the tent.

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On July 18th, there were cries of grief south of Pingcheng.

The old, the weak, women and children sat on the carts, and the men walked, leaving their hometown where they had lived for twenty years - no, for the Wuhuan people, Jin people and some Xiongnu people here, it might be more than that, but they had all been reduced to slaves and sent to Bianliang.

This is the fate of losers, there is no fairness at all.

Even among the people of the Tuoba Dai Kingdom, there was no fairness between them. If you were lucky, you could still stay in Xingbei, but if you were unlucky, you would become a government slave. Who could you turn to for justice?

The soldiers of the Jin army were overjoyed, especially those who were ordered to escort the prisoners and cattle and sheep back home. They were overjoyed.

The civil and military officials and nobles from various tribes under the Wang family had complicated expressions, and the feeling of grief for the loss of a rabbit was particularly strong.

Borrowing troops to restore the country, is it so easy to borrow these troops?
Some elderly people who experienced the Yiyi and Yilu eras were filled with emotion.

In the past, when Liu Kun asked for troops many times to defeat the Huns and rescue the captured people of Jin, sometimes they would return and sometimes not.

The people of Jin at that time also looked at Jinyang from afar, reluctant to leave and shedding tears - a black humor. Among the Jin people who were snatched back by Yilu, many were taken back by the Jin army as Xianbei people, because they could not prove their identity with just words. This truly confirmed the words in the later "Bind the Barbarians" "Your suffering is not much, but mine is."

"Your Majesty, after the people were relocated, Pingcheng was left empty, but I don't know how to establish a country?" Wang looked at the people heading south worriedly. She wanted to plead for mercy, but she didn't dare to. In the end, she could only say something cautiously.

"Aren't there civilians in Dongmugen Mountain?" Shao Xun said as a matter of course.

To be fair, Shao Xun did not abduct all the people around Pingcheng. He still left some people to the Wang family, mainly those with strong nomadic attributes.

A careful calculation shows that to date, there are already 170,000 to 180,000 people in Xingbei and Dongmugen Mountain who nominally belong to the Wang family. In Dai County, Guangning and the grasslands slightly to the north, there are now 50,000 to 60,000 people living there because of the civil war. Shao Xun was too embarrassed to annex the people who fled to Changshan and Zhongshan, and returned them all.

All in all, there are actually more than 200,000 people, which is estimated to be more than Tuoba Yihuai, who controls six of the ten Tuoba surnames.

If she had the ability to continue recruiting, perhaps she could get more people.

"Dongmugen Mountain..." As Wang kept reciting it, she had a bad feeling in her heart.

"Don't worry, it's not what you think. I haven't thought about it yet." Shao Xun smiled and said, "I want to divide the land north of Xing into two counties, Mayi and Yunzhong. The former governs Mayi, and the latter governs Pingcheng. As for the status of these two counties, I have an idea."

"What does the king think?" Wang asked immediately.

"No hurry." Shao Xun waved his hand and said, "After the war is over, we must first send envoys to comfort the people everywhere, otherwise the war will be in vain. You should prepare first, and it will take half a month. On the first day of August, all the lords, nobles, generals and other chieftains from Xingbei, Daijun and Guangning will gather here. Over in Dongmugen Mountain, let each tribe send their sons and nephews to come, and be careful of the Helan family. After everyone arrives, you can let everyone pay congratulations and first determine the status of the monarch and the ministers."

Wang was uneasy and only responded softly.

(End of this chapter)