After the Silver Spear Right Battalion stood at attention by the salt pond, they shouted three times in unison: "Kill! Kill! Kill!"
The sound shook the whole country, and murderous intent surged into the sky.
Everyone here in Xianbei was shocked and suspicious. Many nobles subconsciously touched their hands to their waists, but they quickly let go.
After the right camp was in position, the six thousand soldiers from the middle camp lined up in five columns and ran quickly.
They were even more exaggerated. They stood directly opposite the three thousand guards and soldiers of the Dai Kingdom. There were only more than ten steps between the formations of the two sides. They could reach them with just a few steps, ready to fight at any time.
In the wilderness, there was still a large group of sergeants marching. They were Liu Ye's tens of thousands of Jie cavalry.
They divided into several groups and circled in the distance, throwing up large plumes of smoke and dust.
The leaders became even more uncomfortable. The strong men who followed them subconsciously looked at the place where the horses were stationed, as if they were thinking about how to take the leaders out and escape back to the tribe if they broke out.
Wang's face had no expression, as if all this had nothing to do with her.
After a while, another large group of knights came galloping from a distance, totaling two thousand people.
Everyone's silver helmet shines and they are majestic.
After they rushed to the edge of the salt pond, they immediately dismounted, took out their bucklers and sabers, and pushed away the followers who came with the Xianbei tribe's leaders without any courtesy at all.
The people in Xianbei were in an uproar and looked angrily at Shao's soldiers.
The soldiers didn't tolerate them at all and continued to push them.
The followers all turned their attention to their respective nobles. They did not dare to take action without receiving orders, but it was a pity that the nobles failed to give any response.
Jie Qi, who was in the distance, came slightly closer and stared at him eagerly.
The followers were frightened by their momentum. After a moment of stalemate, they half-pushed and half-stepped back dozens of steps.
After a set of silky little combos, the atmosphere in the field changed unconsciously, and it seemed a little different from the beginning.
Shao Xun stood watching from a distance. After seeing that everything was in order, he came to the edge of the salt pond accompanied by his own military governor Huang Zheng and others.
Wearing golden armor, his steps were steady and powerful, and his expression was leisurely and contented. When he walked among thousands of troops, he felt like he was strolling in a courtyard.
He quickly stopped, glanced around, and asked, "Since you see an orphan, why don't you worship me?"
When I asked this question, I put my hands behind my back and my voice was neither loud nor soft, as if I was asking "Have you eaten?", everything seemed very natural.
Wang looked at the man intently for a long time, then suddenly smiled, turned her head and said something.
The nobles looked at me and I looked at you, lamenting in their hearts, and all fell to the ground, shouting: "Greetings to the King of Liang in the Jin Dynasty."
Shao Xun did not let them get up. He walked up and down the grass with his military boots. Suddenly he stopped in front of someone and asked: "Bu Liugu clan?"
This man was about fifty years old. When he heard the question, he immediately raised his head, squeezed out a smile and said: "Exactly."
Shao Xun stood with his hands behind his back and said: "A few years ago, when Yu Lu went south to attack me, there was a young man from the Bu Liugu clan who spoke without restraint, and I pulled out his tongue."
As soon as these words came out, the old man's face changed slightly, and the faces of other people who could understand Jin dialect also didn't look good.
"For this battle, the Shanyu Protectorate requested your troops to recruit cattle, sheep, and horses. It seems that they were rejected?" Shao Xun asked again.
The old man was a little panicked when he heard this, and subconsciously looked at Mr. Wang.
Wang frowned slightly, she didn't expect the man to ask such tricky questions as soon as he came, which invalidated all the ideas she had prepared before.
"Your Majesty..." Wang was considering her words, and when she was about to say a few words for Bu Liugu, she was interrupted by Shao Xun.
"Yizhi, this is no different from rebellion, how should we deal with it?" he asked bluntly.
Wang was silent.
Bu Liugu's eyes flickered uncertainly.
The sergeants in the right battalion of Silver Spear were wearing their helmets and armor, and were looking at him eagerly.
The officers and soldiers of the Silver Spear Center Battalion stared intently at the Daiguo bodyguards on the opposite side.
Dairen looked at their equipment, their morale, their murderous intent, and then looked at themselves, and suddenly felt a little discouraged.
"Your Majesty, why don't you punish some people, cattle and sheep?" Wang finally reacted. She walked to Shao Xun's side, raised her face, and said in a slightly angry and shy tone: "This time
During the war, Bu Liugu sent three thousand elite cavalry to guard against the thieves begging Yuan Chi together with General Duan Wenyang, which was a meritorious service. Although the crime cannot be escaped, it can be considered as a first offender and given a lighter sentence."
At the end of the sentence, he glanced at Bu Liugu and said, "How about punishing him with a thousand tents of men, three thousand horses, twenty thousand cattle, and one hundred thousand sheep?"
Shao Xun pondered for a long time.
The tribal nobles kneeling on the ground gestured with their eyes, and the atmosphere was a bit tense.
Wang looked at Shao Xun with determination, as if she knew what choice he would make.
Sure enough, Shao Xun quickly said: "It's okay, a small punishment but a big warning. I will remember this in the future."
Bu Liugu was a little unwilling. He looked around and saw that no one was interceding for him. He was filled with hatred, but he had to lower his head and said: "As ordered."
"If you violate the rules and regret it after you go back, then it won't be the punishment you have now." Shao Xun said.
After that, he came to another person and looked at him quietly.
This man's heart skipped a beat.
"Shouldn't people from the Da Mo Gan clan (also known as the Da Mo Yu clan) be in Tailuoshui? Coming here from such a distance is commendable for their loyalty." Shao Xun sneered.
When Da Mogan saw Shao Xun's smiling face, he suddenly became a little nervous and said calmly: "Yi Huai has no way, so I should abandon him."
"But how come I heard that when the Qiu Dun family was crossing the river in a hurry, your troops collected ships and provided cattle and sheep for them?" Shao Xun asked: "There are 11,000 people crossing the river and fleeing westward. You helped a lot, right?"
Da Mogan subconsciously wanted to get up, but was quickly held down by Shaw's soldiers.
"Your Majesty, don't listen to rumors. Someone must be slandering you." He called out to Qu.
"Mrs. Wang told me this," Shao Xun said.
Da Mogan looked at Wang subconsciously.
Wang lowered his head and said nothing, not knowing what he was thinking.
Damo Gan was desperate, and looked at Shao Xun again, saying: "Your Majesty, before the victory or defeat is decided, I am still Yi Huai's minister, why did I do anything wrong in helping him? Now that I have made a mistake, I have to change my past mistakes, why should I, Your Majesty
Pursuing and fighting fiercely? If we pursue them one by one, how many people here have not helped Yi Huai? They have even sent troops to fight for him."
As soon as these words came out, everyone was shocked and angry.
Shao Xun laughed and said: "You are still grabbing and biting randomly, do you want to trap the kings in injustice?"
Da Mogan's expression was uncertain. He didn't know whether to continue to beg for mercy or to simply incite others to rebel.
Shao Xun looked at him and said: "Don't worry, I won't kill you. But those people in your tribe who help the evildoers should be dealt with by now."
Da Mogan became pale when he heard this.
"I have mobilized Kelan's elite troops and Yi Congjing's cavalry to Tailuoshui." Shao Xun patted his face and walked away.
Then he looked at everyone.
All living beings have different appearances.
Some people looked down at the ground.
Someone looked directly at him without giving in.
Some people look straight ahead, feeling neither sadness nor joy.
"After three years of fighting, how can we survive?" Shao Xun suddenly asked.
Everyone was a little puzzled.
Of course the loss would be huge! Do you even need to ask?
Apart from anything else, the pasture has been trampled to a mess. The pasture will definitely not be prosperous this year. How to survive the winter is a problem.
There is no need to slaughter some livestock, and due to the continuous war, there are not many livestock in the first place, and life will be more difficult next year.
"Your Majesty wants to allocate military rations to help you and others, why don't you express your gratitude quickly?" Wang stepped forward and said loudly.
Everyone suddenly realized that, for the sake of the food, and even more for the sake of the silver spear soldiers arrayed beside them, they worshiped one after another: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for the reward."
Shao Xun glanced at Wang with interest.
Wang turned her head away, as if to express her dissatisfaction. But her eyes accidentally met with Liu Ye's not far away.
I don’t know when, this woman actually left the venue.
At this time, he was riding a horse with a bow on his arm, followed by a large group of jie cavalry, patrolling uncertainly.
Mrs. Wang looked at her carefully and found that she was quite pretty, but her hostility towards her was a bit too great and was barely concealed.
She sighed secretly.
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In the dome, Shao Xun took off his golden armor, put it aside, and then sat down on the carpet.
Mrs. Wang dismissed the maid in the tent, then sat down in Shao Xun's arms with a straight face, and said aggrievedly: "Why do you have to shame me in front of others? I will have to take care of a person like Mogan who has both ends. Sooner or later."
"Don't do this." Shao Xun glanced at her coldly and said, "Be direct, I don't want to talk in circles with you. So far, we have only captured more than 4,000 soldiers and 30,000 women and children, which is really not enough.
"
Wang was suffocated and looked at Shao Xun. Seeing that he didn't mean to joke, she put away the disguise on her face.
She was silent for a while and then said softly: "The Northern Expedition the year before last year, you took away 60, 70,000 people and emptied the whole city. Isn't that enough?"
"After several years of fighting, various tribes suffered countless casualties. Some tribes saw that they were losing their lives after fighting back and forth, so they simply moved away."
"The Gaoche tribes in Mobei used to pay tribute from time to time in the past. Starting from last year, tribute has been cut off. Apparently they no longer take the Tuoba clan seriously."
"Even now that Shengle has been captured, there are less than 500,000 people in the country. Compared with the millions at the peak of the country, it is far from the same."
"Do you have to destroy the whole country before you are willing to do it? If there is turmoil in the country, how will Li Zhen and I survive?"
Speaking of this, the circles under my eyes were slightly red.
Shao Xun looked at her intently, knowing that this was half truth and half false, not entirely staged.
"Is it good for you that Tuoba was knocked to the ground?" Wang noticed Shao Xun's actions, shed two tears, threw herself into his arms, and choked: "It's been two years since you left, my dear.
I haven't come to see you since I was born, and I don't care about our mother and son. Not to mention, I show off my authority as soon as I come to Yanchi. How do you want those ministers to think of me?"
"Without the Tuoba family in the grassland, there will be others." Wang continued: "There are still descendants of Tuoba Pigu to the west of Beiyi Mountain. Do you think no one will vote for them? Once they are allowed to develop ambitions, they will be outrageous.
Is it really a good thing to move eastward and unify the grasslands?"
Shao Xun's face softened slightly.
Wang felt even more aggrieved and said: "Yesterday we were cleaning up the old people of Yihuai, and we got 10,000 brave men and their families, a total of more than 50,000 people, and established a separate branch."
"What is this department used for?" Shao Xun asked.
"You are indifferent to Li Zhen, but I, as a mother, cannot be like this." Mrs. Wang sniffed and said: "These more than 50,000 people are all members of Li Zhen, and they will be handed over to him when they grow up.
It is the foundation of his life. If you are worried, you can send some officials to help manage it, and I will also send people to take care of it."
Shao Xun nodded slightly and said, "I will consider this matter."
Mrs. Wang stretched out her hand, hugged Shao Xun's neck, buried her face in his chest, and said softly: "You are Li Zhen's father, and he is your child. Of course you have to take care of him. After you return to Pingcheng, you can take a closer look.
He. He is two years old. He looks a lot like you. If he were older, he might ask me where my grandpa is."
When Shao Xun was told this, his face finally stopped being tense and he said: "I was negligent, and I will give you two an explanation in the future."
"What explanation?" Wang said in a muffled voice.
Shao Xun turned her face, looked into her eyes, and said, "What if you two are taken to the Central Plains?"
Wang's heart was beating fast and her eyes were a little complicated.
"Speak the truth in front of me." Shao Xun said.
The tears that Wang had just stopped flowed again, and this time she was really sad.
"Can't you bear the feeling of having power?" Shao Xun asked.
Mrs. Wang turned away and said quietly after a long time: "More than three years ago, I brought Shi Yiqian to Pingyang. At that time, I had nothing. I was humiliated and laughed at, and my heart was filled with despair."
"You gave me a riding hat in the first month of the year. I can't tell you how happy I am. I still remember it and wear it all the time."
"Sometimes, I don't know why. The gems, pearls, silks and satins offered by others can't impress me at all, so they are given away casually. Only that riding hat..."
Shao Xun looked at her quietly and distinguished carefully.
When Wang said this, she meant it sincerely, without any show or falsehood.
A seventeen-year-old woman, who is in danger day and night, and whose mood is ups and downs, will cling to every life-saving straw, and every touch will be infinitely magnified.
Even though she has tasted the sweet taste of power now and has changed a bit, the emotion she felt at that moment more than three years ago is still real and will last forever.
After saying this, Wang fell into silence and was speechless for a long time.
"Why didn't you say anything?" Shao Xun asked.
As if receiving some encouragement, Wang suddenly looked directly into Shao Xun's eyes and asked, "Am I worthy of you now?"
Shao Xun was stunned and didn't know how to answer.
Wang laughed at himself, with mixed emotions in his eyes. He seemed to be disappointed, seemed to be lucky, seemed to be angry, and seemed to be a little relieved.
"I am Hu Nu, I know." Wang sighed quietly.
All her inner emotions were exposed in front of Shao Xun, without any cover-up or trace of performance.
She knew very well that in front of such a shrewd person as Shao Xun, covering up and performing would only be self-defeating. It would only make him disgusted and make him wary, and it was meaningless.
He's not the kind of man who can't be fooled by coaxing, he can tell the difference between hypocrisy and hypocrisy.
Instead of doing that, it's better to speak your mind freely.
If you want him to believe it, you must first deceive yourself.
"You have a crowd of 500,000 people, but even if you have one clan per household, you still have 100,000 cavalry." Shao Xun said helplessly: "It's more cavalry than mine. I should ask myself if I am worthy of you Yin Ling."
"You are a cowardless person," Wang said as if she was angry.
Shao Xun was speechless and could only change the subject and said: "Since you have prepared troops for my son, have you divided the pasture?"
Mrs. Wang rolled her eyes at him, hugged his waist tightly, and murmured: "He is your son, and I am your woman. With a man by your side, why bother?"
When Shao Xun heard this, he felt a little touched. After pondering for a moment, he said: "The Yanchi area is very good. You might as well give it to my son as pasture land. I am planning to build a county in the northwest of Mayi——"
Mrs. Wang hummed and said, "I listen to you."
"I heard that you built Liangcheng..." Shao Xun said: "There is already Liangchang County in the clouds. To avoid repeating it, let's just call it 'Liangcheng', which means cool and cool. Liangcheng is a county, which governs Shanwu and Wo.
Yang, Liangcheng, and Wucheng form four counties to govern Liangcheng. Please properly comfort the people of these four counties. From now on, the three counties of Shannan will become Mayi, Yunzhong, and Liangcheng. As for Daijun, I need it.
Claim it back.”
When Mrs. Wang heard this, she said angrily: "Are you afraid that I will live too comfortably?"
"Don't worry, you can move Daijun's soldiers and civilians away." Shao Xun said: "Kang the newly acquired land in the west, you can also set up Dingxiang and Wuyuan counties. I heard that Shile fought with the tribes in Shuofangjun's hometown for three years.
Both sides are exhausted, so you may take advantage of the weakness to attack and build another county. There are a lot of silks in our country, so you can share them and reward the leaders of the tribes, which will make them happy."
Wang didn't answer.
"How?" Shao Xun shook her and asked.
"That woman is Shi Le's wife, right? She has a tall nose and deep eyes, but her eyes are still amber, so you can still talk about it," said Wang.
Shao Xun was so frustrated by the woman's brain circuit that he could only say: "That's it."
After saying that, he couldn't help but raise his voice, slapped the woman's buttocks hard, and said angrily: "You are being praised by everyone, aren't you? You are so stupid that you don't know it!"
"You must also know that those ministers are at both ends of the spectrum, and the hearts of the people are fluctuating. When something really happens, how many of them are willing to fight for you? If you want to really drive these people, you can only rely on rules, and on the grassland
It’s exactly the most unruly place.”
"If I leave, do you dare to say that there will be no rebellion in the country? There are some things that I am too lazy to say more about."
"After the punishment here, you need to stabilize the situation first. I will attack the Xiongnu later. The Xianbei cavalry will be a big help to me. I will need to mobilize 70,000 to 80,000 cavalry to attack from north to south. Henan is too big.
, I can’t care about that many, I must take out some land with rich water and grass to reward the meritorious ministers. There will be no shortage of officials, titles, gold and silk. You can tell based on this. I believe the ministers are not fools and can see the meaning.
benefit."
Chapter completed!