In the horrified eyes of the villagers, the battalion commander of the Tang Army waved his hands irritably. The desperate atmosphere suddenly made several children who had gathered around the Tang Army soldiers for candy yesterday cry.
Before the woman, who thought these people were dead, could shout out, the company commander of the Tang Army ordered the men squatting on the ground with their heads in their hands to get out.
The atmosphere has been heightened to this point, and the sadness suddenly gets stuck in the throat, unable to go up or down. It makes people feel uncomfortable but can't stop crying and laughing.
"Go home quickly! Be honest! Don't break the law!" Tang Guo's company commander picked up the badly worn Mauser 98K rifle from the ground and handed it to the soldiers around him: "We have confiscated the weapon!"
It was not until the afternoon that the villagers, who were sure that Tang Jun was not acting, finally realized that their suffering seemed... to be over.
The people of Qin will never come back again. They were beaten away by the Tang army! The matches they could occasionally use in the past were made and sold by these Tang people. These people were rich and... generous!
Soon more Tang troops passed by, and soon there appeared a young man who was willing to ask questions about everything.
He brought grain and seeds: the young man made an agreement with the local farmers that he would provide food rations for the next year, but the village must cultivate the grain he brought according to his requirements.
Although everyone was very nervous, when they actually received the food, everyone felt relieved: in the past, the harvest fields could only produce so much food, but now someone gave them the full amount or even more than the amount in advance, so they can grow whatever they want.
What?
Soon, the local villagers discovered that the young man who came was really different. As soon as he came, he asked all the villagers to learn literacy in the evening and distributed books to the children. He was like a teacher, and he had endless tasks to finish every day.
work.
The arrival of the Tang Army is really different. After their army passes by, everything will follow as long as logistical supplies are ensured.
For example, books and paper, food, grain and oil, and even villagers soon discovered that jobs began to appear.
The engineering soldiers of the Tang Empire would hire local people to do some manual labor: they would repair bridges and pave roads, build some houses, and even start to build toilets in the villages.
At first, the villagers thought that the other party was recruiting laborers in disguise, but after receiving the wages and the distributed rice, noodles and canned instant noodles, they immediately realized... this is a job, a good job!
As a result, the women began to get busy, selling some local snacks to the passing Tang troops. The men also began to get busy. Some of them plowed the land and grew food, and some began to wander around the military camp, looking for some money-making jobs.
People are always smart, they adapt to this kind of life, and pray that this kind of life can continue.
For these people, one month may not be much, but for the Tang army, one month is enough for them to occupy many places.
The Tang army was not in a hurry to penetrate the entire Shushan defense line, because the defense lines in those mountains were relatively strong, and there was no need for the Tang army to take risks.
So they moved westward along the Shushan defense line and advanced for more than 100 kilometers before temporarily stopping.
The Qin State was almost cut off from the middle by the attacking Tang Army. With great difficulty, Qin Army General Ying Xu managed to stabilize his position and allowed the Tang Army to suspend the attack.
But he knew that the Tang army stopped largely because the logistics supplies could not keep up, and had little to do with the limited blockade carried out by his troops.
Taking advantage of this short period of time, the Qin army strengthened its defense line and mobilized tens of thousands of troops from here and there to establish a new line of defense.
Then Sun Guang had to accept the reality again: the Qin army deployed along the coast originally needed to be strengthened, but now it was impossible for reinforcements to arrive.
Not only were reinforcements unable to arrive, Sun Guang even had to send troops north to reinforce Yingxu. One hundred thousand troops with relatively strong combat effectiveness left the coastal defense line they had built and began to rush northward.
This is all the main force that Sun Guangneng has brought out. Now the defense in the coastal areas is simply useless, and those second-line troops have no way to stop any attack by the Tang army.
Under such circumstances, the Tang army was not in a hurry to attack. Tang Mo's order to Luo Xiao was: attack slowly and step by step!
Therefore, after the offensive was suspended, Luo Xiao focused on stabilizing the rear, rectifying public security, and resuming production.
The Tang State sent thousands of cadres to the newly occupied areas to stabilize the people's livelihood there, organized the restoration of production, and launched a round of infrastructure construction.
On the one hand, this can stabilize people's hearts and give the Tang army no worries at the rear. On the other hand, it can also provide better infrastructure to rely on for subsequent supply transportation.
The paralyzed local economy began to recover due to the policies of the Tang Dynasty, and the living standards of the local people also improved with the arrival of the Tang army.
Although the Tang army suffered considerable "losses" due to the transportation of "non-combat supplies" and "lost equipment and food" and the advancement speed also slowed down, they seemed to have gained more.
According to the Tang Army's own statistics, after entering Shu, the Tang Army's transportation and supplies were less and less disrupted, and the people of Shu began to welcome the arrival of the Tang Army.
Many places have begun to cooperate with the use of Tang identity certificates, and some indigenous people in Shu have even begun to identify themselves as Tang people. The overall public security is improving, and management costs are rapidly decreasing.
Conquering an area is not a problem for the Tang Army. How to manage, absorb and digest these occupied areas is what the Tang State considers to be a tricky area.
However, relying solely on the support of his colleagues, the Tang State became more and more like an angel in the eyes of the local people: whether it was the previous rulers of the Shu State or the later occupiers of the Qin State, they seemed to be cruel, and the impression given by the Tang State was exactly the same.
on the contrary.
The Tang army that entered Shu was gradually welcomed, and the people of Shu got along well with the Tang army. TV stations in the Tang Empire rushed to report that the people of Shu were eating pots of wine to welcome the king.
And this is not a lie. The local people did regard the arrival of the Tang army as a kind of liberation. The Tang army helped them drive away the landlords, eliminate the bureaucrats, gentry and nobles who oppressed them, and turned them into masters.
And they also began to actively repay the Tang Dynasty: they proved with practical actions that they were not a group of unruly people. They abided by the law and resumed production, so that the Tang army had no worries.
On the other hand, in the area occupied by the Qin State, due to the approaching Tang army, the vegetation and trees were all deserted. The Qin State had to squeeze the aboriginal people of Shu to support the Qin State's increasingly tight frontline combat needs.
