In the next half month, Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, and Pang De's three troops were separated by more than a hundred miles and launched a frenzied attack. All the Xianbei tribes with clear directions or other Zahu tribes whose affiliations were unknown were wiped out by them.
Kill those who resist, capture those who surrender, and help with logistics. You can't do much on the march. If you die, you will die. If you can return to Zhuojun with them alive, you can continue to devote yourself to the great cause of building Youzhou. .
During this period, Zhang Fei and Pang De's cumulative gains totaled more than 20,000, killing many enemies and capturing many.
Even Liu Bei didn't care about the others.
In half a month, he continuously defeated three Xianbei tribes, some large and some small, with a total of more than 10,000 captured, more than 80,000 prisoners, and more than 400,000 horses and livestock. The scale was already very large.
So now it is no longer a question of whether the army has logistics, it is a question of not being able to finish four meals a day.
Before they finished eating here, they were being replenished over there. The soldiers ate meat and drank broth every day. Their faces were red and full of strength. They did not lose weight in the battle, but became stronger and stronger.
Many soldiers even got angry about it, and even missed those ordinary-looking pancakes. If it weren't for some of the surrendered Xianbei and Wuhuan people who accompanied them, they could dig up some wild vegetables for seasoning, and someone would have suffered. No more.
Moreover, because of the poor marching conditions and cold weather, many livestock died and the losses were quite large, which made Liu Bei feel a little distressed.
But there is no way, this is destined to be a war loss.
When the Northern Expedition on the Grassland was in progress at the end of February, the three armies communicated with each other and learned that they had achieved great results. If they continued to fight, they would probably reach their limits.
So Liu Bei gave up the idea of continuing to advance and announced the temporary suspension of the first stage of the Northern Expedition. The three armies met in the northern part of Youbeiping County and moved southward with huge war captures. They entered Youbeiping County on the first day of March and crossed over on the third day of March. After crossing the Great Wall, we headed towards Yuyang County.
On the seventh day of March, the exhausted army arrived in Yuyang County, Yuyang County, ending the Northern Expedition.
Although the scheduled Northern Expedition mission has not been completely completed, about one-third of the road has not been completed.
However, they have done a good job, even an unusually good one, and no one will blame them for not completing the final third of the way.
The one-month Northern Expedition of the three armies wiped out more than 40 grassland tribes, large and small, and captured more than 40,000 people in total. They brought back more than 300,000 men and women alive, more than 60,000 war horses, and the rest. The specific number of live cattle, sheep, horses and other livestock cannot be counted at the moment.
In fact, a large number of people and livestock died due to the harsh marching environment, but the specific number cannot be counted.
Coupled with the previous gains in Youzhou, it can be said that in this wave, the eastern Xianbei and Youzhou Wuhuan were basically wiped out, and even some tribes in the central Xianbei were affected——
Xianbei in the central part of the country was lucky. This wave of Liu Bei's army was really exhausted and could not continue the Northern Expedition, so some tribes were not affected and had a narrow escape.
When Liu Bei returned to Yuyang County, he fell asleep quickly because he was too tired. He fell asleep with all the soldiers who had returned from the Northern Expedition. He slept for a day and a night before waking up.
During his campaign, Northern Expedition, and sleep period, because Youzhou's original government command system was basically destroyed, and a large number of officials died and fled, the people in charge of affairs were the general's office and subordinate officials he brought from Luoyang. There are also hundreds of students transferred from Liangzhou Prefecture to the east.
Because they felt that Youzhou would be a very good training ground this time, they were brought to Youzhou by Liu Bei and joined as attachés of the General's Mansion to act as fire fighters.
Because many county governors were killed or missing, effective connection could not be achieved, and there were not many counties in Youzhou. Therefore, the General's Mansion directly erased the direct distinction between counties at this stage and established its headquarters in Yuyang County. , the General’s Office directly connected with every county that could be contacted to confirm the situation.
If the county magistrate is still in office and is still competent, then just take it and use it.
If the county magistrate is no longer in office due to various reasons, then the attaché of the general's palace will be dispatched to serve as the temporary acting county magistrate to take charge of the work and interface with the general's palace.
Of course, one person from the General's Office cannot support the administrative work of a state. Even if Youzhou has a small population, it is still not enough.
So they also found all the officials and clerks they could find, brought them into the management system of the General's Mansion, temporarily assigned them some responsibilities, and asked them to start working immediately without any doubts.
During Liu Bei's expedition to Liaodong and the Northern Expedition to the Grasslands for more than two months, the General's Office under his command temporarily supported Youzhou's administrative work and post-war cleanup work in this way, and it did a pretty good job.
Changshi Manchong, with the deepest qualifications and the oldest age, took on the main logistics work and the distribution and resettlement of war seizures.
Zhang Hong, Zhang Zhao, Chen Qun, Zhong Yao, Mao Jie, Wang Shang, Qin Mi, Zhao Wei and other officials of the general's palace were busy with these matters.
Many of them were sent to serve as temporary acting magistrates in counties without magistrates to handle affairs. While handling local county affairs, they also had to return to the headquarters to report news. Running back and forth was really exhausting.
The latest news comes every hour of every day. Every latest news must be summarized, changes must be made at any time, and then handed over to Manchong for comprehensive sorting.
After Man Chong finished handling the matter, he sent the news back to the Luoyang court to let the officials in the court and the young emperor know what the results of Liu Bei's war were.
Coupled with the very heavy logistics and seizure and resettlement work, their administrative quality is very good if they don't drive people crazy from exhaustion.
Mao Jie, who worked the hardest and was the most energetic, set a work record of not sleeping a wink for three days and two nights. The price was that after the most difficult set of work was completed, he passed out directly and didn't wake up until a day and a night later.
Of course, as the actual person in charge of the General's Mansion at this stage, Man Chong is also very conscientious and conscientious. He gets up earlier than chickens and goes to bed later than ghosts. He can rest for more than two hours a day at most before getting up and continue working. He has very dark circles under his eyes. It's almost on top.
They worked so hard day and night, and finally, when Liu Bei was desperately trying to conquer, they didn't lose the chain and didn't let the backyard catch fire.
They took good control of the prisoners of war and carried out work such as sending the rescued people back to their hometowns according to their places of origin, which was the first step towards local reconstruction.
Of course, they were a little worried about the huge number of prisoners of war of all races.
There are so many people with so many mouths to eat. Even if they are only given a simple meal a day these days, it is still a huge food expenditure. It can be managed at the moment, but over time, this food may not be available. .
If Liu Bei didn't have any more appropriate arrangements, it would be better to kill them all.
However, Man Chong did mention Liu Bei's approach to dealing with the 300,000 Xianbei prisoners of war in Liangzhou.
"I heard that in Liangzhou back then, the general's approach was to marry all women of childbearing age to Liangzhou people and include them in their household registrations, which added hundreds of thousands of people to Liangzhou. I think this time, the general also did the same The same idea is to add hundreds of thousands of people to Youzhou."
Chen Qun thought for a while and asked doubtfully: "What about the part that is not a woman of childbearing age?"
Manchong looked at Chen Qun.
"All those with special skills are selected, such as those who can herd, raise livestock, make special foods, and those who can make some grassland specialties. These people are selected, appointed according to their skills, and included in the household registration.
The rest were all used as hard labor, building roads, cities, water conservancy projects, bridges, wherever they could be used, and they were also used to transport logistics to the Liangzhou army later. Liangzhou People are deeply grateful for the kindness of the general, which saved them a lot of trouble. "
"Oh, that's right. That's a good idea."
Chen Qun nodded and said: "Youzhou has indeed suffered heavy losses after this catastrophe. If production is not restored as soon as possible and reconstruction is stepped up, many people will probably die."
"Speaking of which, the chaos in Youzhou is indeed very serious. I am very worried that there will be negative remarks against the general in the court this time. Didn't the people from the Jinwen School give instructions to attack the general before?"
Zhong Yao, who had been immersed in writing an official document, suddenly raised his head and looked at Man Chong: "Man Changshi, you said that if someone wants to be unfavorable to the general on this matter and proposes to punish the general, other people in the court will What do you think?"
"view?"
Manchong sneered without raising his head: "When they see hundreds of thousands of prisoners of war, millions of livestock, and a peaceful border, I want to see what else they think!
They want to punish the general, but they also want to ask me whether the Northern Expedition army will agree! Do they think they still have the final say in the world now? Gongsun Zan, on the other hand, should definitely die. "
(End of chapter)
