Chapter 753 750 [The end of the evolution of the island owner]
Chapter 753 750 [The end of the evolution history of the island owner]
The king was desperate to escape, but Deng Youzhang was unable to pursue him.
There are too many enemies. Although they have all been routed, they cannot be controlled by a few hundred people. They can only kill them when they catch up. Even if they kneel on the ground, they do not dare to accept the surrender. They can only kill them and drive them away to avoid fear.
Blocking the narrow river valley passage.
The king must have lived a good life as a child. He was chubby and had a beer belly. He was exhausted and out of breath after running for a while.
Seeing the pursuers approaching, the prince didn't care much, dropped his father and ran faster.
A large number of defeated troops swam across the river and started fighting on the other side of the river. Some tribes had feuds. After leaving the main battlefield, they took the opportunity to raid the enemy tribes and eliminate their young and strong main force, so that they could annex them when they returned.
Although this is a patriarchal society, there is also the concept of family. However, vendettas and annexations are common. As long as the captured women and children are not reduced to slaves, they will basically not think about revenge, but will integrate into the new tribe naturally.
At this moment, there were at least a thousand people fighting in a chaotic mess on the other side of the river.
On the main battlefield, although Dahmer shouted to help Thor kill the king, he actually attacked the tribe that was close to the king. As long as this tribe was destroyed, Dahmer's tribe could take the opportunity to expand and seize more fertile river valleys.
On both sides of the river, fighting was going on everywhere, and the Han soldiers became supporting characters.
"Don't kill, capture them alive!"
The king was too tired to run, so he simply threw away his weapons and sat there waiting to die.
As for the prince, he had already blended into the broken army and now he had no idea where he had fled.
"Stop chasing, we can't kill them all. Hurry and collect the surrendered troops and prisoners," He Wenpeng said, "The most important thing is to capture the enemy's food and livestock!"
These native marchers were divided into tribal units, and their logistics were in charge of their own affairs. Food and livestock were scattered everywhere, in piles in the east and piles in the west. Deng Youzhang first went to receive the prisoners, and then asked the prisoners to be responsible for moving the grains scattered everywhere.
The military rations were transported to one place and stacked.
In this battle, more than 30 Han soldiers were injured, all of whom were hit by stones. One of them had his tibia broken.
As for the tribes that took the opportunity to defect, there were as many as six tribes.
Damo even led his tribe to kneel down and pray: "Please invite the messenger of the God of Thunder to be our new king!"
Deng Youzhang didn't know the story of the enfeoffment of the Zhou Dynasty, but he already had similar ideas at this time. The six tribes that took the initiative to submit could be arranged in different places. When he leads his troops to conquer the city, the six tribes' territories will be able to defend the capital.
There were more than 3,000 natives who were blocked in the back and had no time to escape. At this time, they were all taken prisoner and waited anxiously for their release.
"I understand," Li Luosheng found Deng Youzhang, "these more than 3,000 captives come from seven tribes. One of the tribes has a close relationship with the chief. The natives turned against them and requested that they be killed or rewarded as slaves."
Deng Youzhang said: "Since we are close to the king, let's kill them all. We will attack the city next and take prisoners with impure thoughts. Who knows if they will rebel at the critical moment."
"Siege the city?" Li Luosheng asked doubtfully.
Deng Youzhang said: "While the enemy troops are defeated, hurry up and attack the city. The land there is fertile and it is at the mouth of the sea. In the future, it will be more convenient for development and shipbuilding and navigation. Two-thirds of the Han people will bring two-thirds of them with them."
The indigenous people migrated to the city to develop. The remaining one-third stayed here temporarily."
That is to lay down the city as the main base, and leave Leishen Village as a sub-mine.
Soldiers are expensive and quick, and they can be dispatched the next day.
Since arriving on the island, two Han people have died, both of whom were unable to withstand malaria.
This time we sent out troops, those with broken legs and more than twenty injured were left behind. The rest of the Han people, together with their families, and two-thirds of the natives packed their bedrolls and fought towards the city.
The six tribes that came over, about 2,600 people, and more than 2,800 prisoners, all took them with them to the expedition.
Those captives have been promised that as long as the city can be captured, not only will they be given their freedom, but their tribes will also be treated well.
In this way, there will be an army of 6,000!
It’s not too outrageous. When the Spanish colonists attacked the Aztec Empire, there were only one or two hundred Spaniards leading tens of thousands of indigenous coalition forces to fight.
Traveling south all the way, I met a tribe and an army of native servants accompanying me. Suddenly, more than 300 people burst into tears.
But it was a defeated rebel army. Since they had no rations, they could only rob the tribes they encountered along the way. Of course, those who were robbed would resist, so a war broke out. The more than 300 weeping servants came from this tribe that was looted.
Li Luosheng took the opportunity to say to the natives: "The tragedy that is happening here is all because the king is too cruel and insists on launching the wrong war regardless of the thoughts of the tribes. Although the king was captured, the prince is still alive. The only way to kill the prince is for you.
Only in this way can we take revenge and avoid this kind of thing from happening again in the future!"
When the natives heard this, they realized that this was indeed the case.
They were originally living in Ansheng, but the king insisted on gathering troops to fight and asked them to bring their own food. Fortunately, now, all the food belongs to the Thunder God Department, and they will all be hungry in the future.
The more the natives thought about it, the angrier they became. They did not resent the Han people, but only resented the king who started the war.
Continuing to march south, they encountered several tribes, almost all of which were looted by the defeated troops. The surviving tribesmen looked blankly at the passing army. In one of the tribes, the soldiers had returned, and it seemed that a battle had broken out. There were corpses everywhere outside the village.
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The soldiers of this tribe were also taken by Deng Youzhang. Anyway, they had complaints and revenge.
After nearly a month of marching, we finally approached the city.
This is the residence of the Boyna tribe, also known as "Boina City".
This alluvial plain has an extremely complex water network.
There is a big river rushing forward, and when it is about to enter the sea, it splits into a main stream and four tributaries. There are also small rivers in the north and south, each of which merges into these water networks and enters the sea.
Between the water network, there are fertile alluvial zones.
Not only is the grain output higher, but the arable area is countless times that of Leishen Village.
In addition to civilians, there were also many slaves who farmed for the nobles for generations.
The city of Boyna is located at the intersection of the main stream of a large river and a small river in the north. Not only is it surrounded by water on three sides, but also in the direction of the sea, there are also abruptly raised mountains that extend to the seaside.
Easy to defend but hard to attack!
Soldiers from various tribes either fought with the Han people or fled back to their own territory.
Prince Haru lacked sufficient troops, so he could only temporarily recruit civilians as soldiers. This was not safe, so he recruited slave soldiers. Slaves were not allowed to enter the city, so the prince took the initiative to lead his army out of the city to fight.
In Prince Haru's opinion, the God of Thunder can summon thunder to defend the city or not.
Deng Youzhang observed through a telescope for a while and found that half of the enemy's troops looked like slaves, with only a piece of rag covering their bodies.
Calling Damo over, Deng Youzhang handed over the telescope and asked, "Are those slaves?"
Damo respectfully held the telescope, and after figuring out how to use it, he could see enemies far away with great clarity. He was shocked by the mysterious magic weapon of the God of Thunder, and did not dare to touch it too much. He returned the telescope to Deng Youzhang and said: "Those
They are slaves. The king has slaves, the royal family has slaves, and the nobles also have slaves. The number of slaves here is more than the royal family, nobles and common people combined."
The number of slaves is actually more than that of nobles and commoners combined... Aren't you afraid of slave rebellion?
Deng Youzhang called the leaders of each tribe and said to them: "Go and tell the warriors of each tribe and let them shout together, 'Thunder God frees the slaves'!"
In fact, there is no need to play this trick at all, those slave soldiers have no fighting spirit in the first place.
Even though the slaves were dragged to the battlefield, the prince did not let them have enough to eat. This has become a stereotype. Slaves do not need to be fully fed and will only be obedient when they are half-starved and half-full.
How much fighting power can a group of hungry slaves without clothes and armed with simple weapons have?
In comparison, the nobles and civilians here have the determination to fight to the death even in the face of the terrifying Thunder God troops. In their imagination, once defeated, they will become slaves.
"Fire a cannon to cheer up."
"boom!"
One cannonball was fired and only a few enemies were killed, but the enemy troops were already frightened. Our natives, on the other hand, had their morale boosted and thought that they were being protected by the God of Thunder.
The indigenous servant army rushed out in chaos, and their formation was so chaotic that there was no formation at all. They still remembered Deng Youzhang's order, and ran while shouting: "Thunder God frees the slaves, Thunder God frees the slaves!"
Unfortunately, the shouting was too chaotic, not orderly at all, and the noise made it difficult to hear clearly.
The slave soldiers couldn't hear what was being shouted on the other side, and they were afraid of the power of artillery. They neither dared to switch sides, nor did they want to fight for the nobles. When they were about to engage in battle, they threw away their weapons and ran away.
The entire battlefield was in complete chaos, and Deng Youzhang completely lost control.
There were nearly 6,000 indigenous soldiers from each group. When they reached half the distance, the slave soldiers on the opposite side collapsed. Prince Haru only had more than 2,000 soldiers left.
Eight thousand natives fought like this, while the Han people watched the whole process.
After fighting for more than ten minutes, Prince Haru's army began to collapse. The indigenous warriors took advantage of the situation to pursue and kill them, and they continued to kill them all the way to the city.
Chasing, chasing, killing, it turns into plundering the city.
It was obvious that there was not enough loot in the city, so many tribes went out of the city and took boats docked by the river to rob the villages between the water nets.
Deng Youzhang was so anxious that he flew into a rage: "Let them stop quickly and stop robbing and killing!"
It's useless and can't be contained at all.
After a full day of looting, the leaders of various ministries gathered one after another. They took the initiative to hand over a portion of the people and food they grabbed as trophies as tribute to Deng Youzhang, and kept the rest to take away.
The king's wife, daughter-in-law and daughter, the native leaders did not dare to keep them secretly, so they sent all of them to Deng Youzhang.
Fearing that the various ministries would rebel, Deng Youzhang could not punish him. After all, this belonged to the local tradition, they were outsiders, and their rules were "nonsense".
After occupying the city, Deng Youzhang began to organize it.
This guy doesn't dare to call himself king or emperor, at least not yet. He still serves as governor, and all the other Han people have been granted official positions, and he has given the Han people a lot of land.
The Han people who stayed in Leishen Village were given a lot of extra food because the land was relatively barren. After Leishen Village developed for a few more years and the indigenous people fully mastered farming techniques, the Han people there migrated to the city.
Every Han was a big landowner, and captured slaves and civilians were assigned to Han landlords as tenants - except for craftsmen, who still lived in the city as free citizens.
Even a few Persian slaves were assigned land and became small landowners because they came here with the Han people.
The first indigenous people who followed the Han people divided their fields and became homesteaders.
All the Han people have become vested interests and landlords. Who still remembers the land system of the new Datong Dynasty?
Of course, if slaves are no longer kept and slaves become tenants, this can be regarded as a kind of social progress.
If natural evolution occurs, the disintegration of the slavery system requires the development of agricultural technology and agricultural tools. In a typical slave society, due to backward agriculture, homesteaders can only plant a small amount of land, and slave collective work is the most suitable for productivity.
The Han people brought more advanced agricultural technology. Although there were no iron farm tools, the production conditions for homesteaders were already available.
The leaders of the six tribes that surrendered first were all appointed as county magistrates, each responsible for a large area. They paid tribute of grain every year according to the specific situation, which was actually equivalent to enfeoffing the princes in the pre-Qin era. The number of Han people was too small, and the knowledge and culture here was too backward.
It is not enough to support a more advanced bureaucracy.
Several other tribes followed the war, and the leader was appointed as the mayor of the town, and the area he ruled was relatively smaller.
County magistrates and town chiefs must send their sons to learn Chinese, Chinese characters, and farming techniques. If they have unmarried daughters, at least one must be sent here to marry a Han.
It is a complete hodgepodge of various social systems.
Although he only actually controlled one city and one village, Deng Youzhang's nominal territory accounted for about one-fifteenth of the island of Madagascar. Well, it was not very big, equivalent to the area of Taiwan Island.
