"Use these two captured Xihous to subdue their tribes and then attack Hexi?"
Zhao Tuo nodded slightly.
The Qin State has always had the tradition of subduing the Hu people and Rongdi.
In Qin’s administrative system, below the county level, “there were barbarians who called themselves Taoists.”
Dao is an administrative unit at the same level as the county. It is located in places dominated by barbarians and dispatches officials to rule. For example, the "Yi Dao" where Li You fought before was a gathering area for barbarians.
When the Qin army went out to fight, the barbarians in the Dao would be recruited to serve like ordinary Qi people. Many of the cavalry under Zhao Tuo were recruited from the border troops.
Chen Ping suggested subduing the two Yuezhi and letting them turn into sharp swords in the hands of the Qin army. This was actually a routine operation. This approach was indeed much better than killing all the Yuezhi prisoners.
After thinking for a while, Zhao Tuo said, "Keep the captured prisoners for now. Mr. Li can speak the Yuezhi language, but you can go and see if these two Xihous are willing to serve us and become our Qin army's eagle dogs."
"Don't worry, General. I think they will definitely be willing. After all, the Marquis of Ji just licked the General's shoes. With his appearance, there's no way he wouldn't."
Li Shiqi smiled and followed the order.
Chen Ping pursed his lips, feeling unhappy in his heart. He felt that he had come up with an idea, but was assigned to Li Shiqi to execute it. It felt like he had been plucked from the peach.
But he had to accept it, after all, Li Shiqi understood the Yuezhi language.
Chen Ping could only secretly make up his mind to learn some foreign languages as soon as possible.
Zhao Tuo glanced at his counselor and knew what Chen Ping was thinking. He smiled and comforted him and said, "Chen Sheng has many suggestions for this battle. I will be rewarded later for my merits, and promotion and rewards will be indispensable."
Chen Ping was overjoyed when he heard this, and his unhappiness disappeared.
He traveled thousands of miles from Wei to Xianyang to defect to Zhao Tuo. In addition to the other party's high regard for recruitment, naturally he wanted to be promoted and worshiped as an official.
Next, Zhao Tuo did not send troops to chase the fleeing Yuezhi people. He only sent some sentries to patrol, and then gathered his troops to count the gains of this battle.
Qin Shang's first contribution.
Soldiers at the bottom can be crowned one level by beheading one person. This is an important reason why the Qin army fought bravely and swallowed up the six kingdoms. Therefore, it is very important to record the achievements after the war and award them with titles, and it is also what everyone looks forward to.
matter.
The sun was setting in the west, and the dim sunlight shrouded the grassland. Headless corpses were thrown together randomly, and the blood dyed the grass below scarlet.
The missing heads of these corpses appeared in another open space, and were carried and placed in order.
"Ten, eleven, twelve...brother, we have twelve heads this time!"
Xi Juan shouted happily and turned to look at Wang Ling and Wang Sui who were resting behind them.
The three of them were conscripted rangers from Peixian County, and they were in the same Shiwu. Wang Ling used some tricks to become Shiwu.
In this battle, facing the barbarian attack, they fought bravely on the front line in order to save their lives. In the fierce battle, several people died in the whole battle, and most of the others were injured. Wang Ling's shoulder was even hit by a bullet falling from the sky.
The arrow hit him, and his younger brother Wang Sui was bandaging him.
Because they were on the front line of the battle, when the heads were divided after the war, they were naturally taken care of by the military law officials and allotted twelve heads.
Wang Ling made some calculations in his mind and his face turned slightly red.
"Young Master Nai is going to be a senior citizen. You two can also get the title of Duke."
Hearing Wang Ling's words, Xi Juan and Wang Sui looked at each other, quite excited.
Qin had ruled Chu for several years, so they naturally knew the benefits of Qin's title.
Although most of the cultivated land in the Chu region is in the hands of powerful local clans, they may not necessarily get full land and houses after being crowned, or the land they are allocated is remote uncultivated wasteland, but they can still get some benefits.
Even rangers like them who don't like farming will not dislike the few fields and houses under their own names.
Compared with land, the greater benefit is that with their title, they are qualified to be officials.
This is a way to climb up. If they can become a pavilion chief in Sishui County, it will be a blessing.
Moreover, the title can be used to reduce the sentence when they commit a crime, which is equivalent to an extra layer of protection.
"The Qin people are good at this. As long as you perform meritorious service, you can be promoted to a noble title, and if you have a noble title, you can become an official. It's not like in the Chu State. Although we had military merit titles, we couldn't get them."
The three of them muttered.
The State of Chu also had a military merit title system similar to that of Qin. Its titles ranged from state official, lieutenant, Shangjian, Qidafu...all the way to king, marquis and so on.
However, Chu State did not rule the country by law, and the degree of implementation of military merit was far less than that of Qin State.
In addition, the treatment and transparency of titles in Chu State are not as good as those in Qin State. Most of the people who can obtain titles are nobles and children of wealthy families. It is even more difficult for ordinary people to climb up.
Now that Wang Ling and several others can obtain the title of Qin, their mentality has changed a little involuntarily.
"I heard that the general Zhao Tuo started from a small soldier, and in the battle to conquer Yan, he rose from the rank of public servant to become the chief of the concubine today. If we work hard, maybe we can also climb to a high position in the Qin State.
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The three of them looked eager.
The story of General Zhao Tuo has spread all over the world and has almost become the spokesperson of Qin's military merit system.
Zhao Tuo's experience is the best advertisement for the military merit system.
At this moment, Wang Ling and others naturally thought of Zhao Tuo.
The three rangers who once complained about the harsh laws of Qin in Peixian County and had a bad feeling about the Qin system gradually changed their mentality after they integrated into the Qin army and were about to receive titles for their meritorious service.
They have also become vested interests in the military merit system.
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"General, our army successfully trapped and killed Shuangmi Yuezhi. We killed more than 10,000 people and captured more than 5,000 people. We captured one Xihou from Shuangmi tribe, one person from Wanchang, and more than ten nobles from Qianzhang and below. Only about five people were captured.
Thousands of people escaped before our army could complete the encirclement."
"Our army's food team relied on the Wugang chariot formation and caused a large number of casualties to the Yuezhi people who came to attack. Including the casualties of the follow-up cavalry, our army annihilated about 7,000 Yuezhi people of the Guishang tribe and captured 3,000 people. They shot and killed them.
There are about 2,000 Yuezhi people in the Xiumi tribe. Because the Xiumi Marquis retreated in time, no prisoners of the Xiumi tribe were captured."
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Zhao Tuo stood on a hill and looked at the Qin army's camp where they were making pots of rice and roasting horse meat under the setting sun.
Beside him is Xiao He, the chief historian who reports to him the military situation.
Zhao Tuo's brows knitted together tightly.
In grassland warfare, it is indeed easy to defeat but difficult to annihilate.
Because the Shuangmi tribe was lured into a trap, the Qin army wiped out half of its troops and captured 5,000 of its soldiers, which was considered a complete defeat. The 5,000 people who ran away could not survive without Shuangmi Xihou and the others.
Under the command of a noble man, it can be almost ignored in the subsequent battle.
However, the Kushan and Xiumi tribes still maintained strong combat power.
The two groups combined had 70,000 cavalry, and the total number of annihilated and captured soldiers was only about 12,000, which meant that they still had nearly 60,000 troops.
Nearly 60,000 cavalrymen are by no means a number that can be ignored on the grasslands.
Even though Guishan Xihou was captured by the Qin army, Xiumi Xihou was still there, and Guishuang Xihou's son Lajiagu also ran away.
If they are given a certain amount of time to gather the remaining troops and make a comeback, they will still pose a great threat to the Qin army.
"It's better to chase the poor bandits bravely!"
A cold light flashed in Zhao Tuo's eyes.
The war is not over yet, he must seize this favorable opportunity.
Zhao Tuo turned around and said to Xiao He, "Give me the order, let the knights in the army eat and drink enough tonight, and wait until early tomorrow morning to carry enough wheat cakes and water bags to go on the road, and take the Marquis of Guishan to follow the moon."
Let’s go away!”
"The old, weak, women, children, and grazing cattle and horses of their tribe are all in the Helan Mountain area. They will definitely return to Helan to regroup."
"I want to catch them off guard and let my Great Qin cavalry break through the Helan Mountain gap!"
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