Recruiting barbarian soldiers in Da Changhe Kingdom was Lu Yuan's idea after experiencing several brutal battles in the past few days.
Speaking of which, this is also an old routine.
Previously, when he was just starting out, when he put down the Seven Star Gate rebellion, he had ordered the rebels to send troops to attack the city.
At that time, it saved him a lot of troop losses. At the same time, by consuming these surrendered troops, it also solved a huge local security risk.
So when he later pacified the Miao people, Lu Yuan also made persistent efforts and carried forward this strategy.
According to incomplete statistics, during the pacification of the Miao people, more than 40,000 Miao people surrendered and sacrificed their lives to make great contributions to quelling the Five Poison Rebellion.
Later, during the Northern Expedition, the same thing happened again in Xichuan County.
Tens of thousands of Xiangyong volunteers from Xichuan County made vital contributions to Lu Yuan's surprise attack and the defeat of the Zhou and Qiang coalition forces from the rear.
All of the above, through the methods of recruiting servants, vassals, and surrendering troops, helped Lu Yuan save countless losses and brought huge gains.
"Since those barbarians have different blood, culture, beliefs, and customs from me, it will take more than ten or several decades to assimilate them or even achieve initial stability.
You can't solve the problem, but you can solve the person who caused the problem.
Just like how we treated the Miao people in Dongting County before, we might as well gather all the men of these Yi people and force them to fight to the death with their own tribesmen on the frontline battlefield.
Use cruel war to consume these barbarian men.
When all these adult men are dead, the only ones left will be the old, weak, women and children.
To seize these territories at the right time and establish a county, 30,000 county and county soldiers are needed to maintain stability.
When the time comes, they will all be packed up and assigned to these local troops. One person per household will be able to absorb more than 100,000 barbarians from 30,000 households.
At that time, if we recruit some domestic bachelors who have no family, no job, and no bullying, and use the temptation to go to the southwest region and divide the fields, women, and children, we should be able to solve the problem of tens of thousands of barbarian families.
All this added up, digesting three to four hundred thousand barbarians is no big problem.
With the current patriarchal society system, in one or two generations, these three to four hundred thousand Yi people and their descendants will become Chu people.
In addition to the more than 200,000 people gathered from the Su Kingdom, with these approximately 500,000 to 600,000 people, the territory of the newly developed county can basically be stabilized.
As for the remaining Yi people, there are only 200,000 to 300,000 people left at most. Under such a general trend, they simply cannot make trouble.
Directly arrange for local soldiers to clear up the area while continuously gathering the population, and then redistribute it to immigrants. After 20 or 30 years, this area will be stable. "
Kill their father and brothers, seize their wives and daughters, and occupy their land. The above three points are Lu Yuan's assimilation strategy for the southwestern Yi.
Although it seems cruel, it is actually more cruel.
But racial wars and civilized wars are so bloody and cruel.
The essence of racial fusion is to kill other people's husbands and fathers, then steal other people's wives and daughters, give birth to a new generation for yourself, and merge into the same race.
It has been like this since ancient times.
But it has to be said that this method is extremely effective.
For a specific example, just look at the Miao people in Dongting County.
After pacifying Nansan Prefecture and Wuling Prefecture, Lu Yuan successively allocated nearly 100,000 Miao wives and daughters to his meritorious soldiers and wifeless households, allowing them to bring these Miao people to settle down in the local areas. , compiled households and people.
As these 100,000 families gave birth to new children, they multiplied locally and accepted the cultural system belonging to the Dongyang people.
Now less than ten years have passed, and most of the original traces of the Miao people have been wiped away.
Even with the birth of their own children, those women and children who were originally exposed to the Miao culture and customs slowly began to change, trying to accept or take the initiative to transform themselves into Chu people, that is, Dongyang people.
foreseeable.
When these newborns grow up, multiply further, and have more interactions with the outside world, then their original shadows and traces of the Miao bloodline will completely disappear under the constant crossbreeding and transformation, and they will become the purest Chu. people.
It is the great success of this policy that now there are only a few pure Miao people left in Dongting, less than 100,000 people.
Even these 100,000 people, along with the huge changes in the outside world, continued to intermarry with the Chu people, gradually changing their culture and traces, and began to transform towards the Chu people.
That's it, you still can't say anything?
Didn’t you see that the Miao people’s supreme religious leader, the saints of the Five Poison Sect, all intermarried with the King of Chu, and even gave birth to two children?
The higher-ups are like this, so the lower-levels will naturally imitate them.
Regarding this scene, many conservatives among the Miao people were extremely anxious.
But every time they found Lan Zhaoyun and wanted the leader to respond and contain him, the other party chose to stay silent and gave no instructions or responses.
At this time, in this situation, no response is the greatest support.
Leader Lan, did he acquiesce to this change in the clan?
All right.
In fact, as Lan Cai'er gave birth to two sons one after another, especially after the news came back recently that her eldest son Lu He will receive innate training and is expected to break through innateness before the age of twenty.
Lan Zhaoyun knew that his original plan had basically succeeded.
The Miao people, the Five Poison Sect, or the Lan clan, will surely occupy an unshakable position in the Chu country with the grandson of the future successor of the Chu country.
After Lu Yuan's death and Lu He's accession to the throne, it would be just around the corner for these maternal clan forces, such as today's general Zhou Qing, Cui and Sun, to become the top clansmen who control and shape the future direction of the Chu Kingdom.
At that time, the Lan family and the Five Poison Sect will live together with the Chu Kingdom for generations, just like the Linhai family, enjoying prosperity and wealth together.
Even if there is a chance, it is not impossible for them to imitate the Linhai family's election system and become the king of Chu.
With such a vast future in front of him, and a foreseeable future, Lan Zhaoyun would be foolish to give up the benefits he was about to gain, and run to fight against the real leader of the Chu Kingdom, the terrifying one who no one can afford to fight against. King Shenwu.
Not to mention.
With the current population of less than 100,000 Miao people, facing the millions of Chu people, under this general trend and under constant pressure, if they want to resist this continuous assimilation, can they really do it? Are you there?
Even if Lu Yuan dies now and Lu He comes to power, Lan Zhaoyun doubts whether this situation can be reversed.
There is a high probability that it is impossible.
So finally.
Since you can't resist, you might as well accept it.
If you can't resist assimilation, you can't resist it.
Anyway, as long as his Lan clan is still there, and the core Miao clan is still there, even if there are only a few hundred or thousands of people left, as long as they are here, the Miao people will not die.
As for the tribesmen at the bottom, who are ignorant and of low blood, they will be gone if they are gone.
The will of the Miao people will be inherited by these noble bloodlines.
One day, the descendants of our ancestors will become the rulers of Chu and the kings of Chu.
At that time, it will be the time for the Miao people to restore the world.
Well, the above are basically the thoughts that Lan Zhaoyun and others had in mind to comfort themselves after lying down.
how to say?
The idea is very good, very beautiful and very imaginative.
As for whether it can be realized in the future?
Lu Yuan felt that it was better to wait until they could survive him to death.
If you can't survive it, then just carry your fantasies with you and bury them in the mound with the corpse, becoming a part of the dust in the world.
But all in all, regardless of Lan Zhaoyun, regardless of the Five Poison Sect, regardless of the high-level Miao clan, what are they thinking in their hearts?
But now, under the influence of Lu Yuan's three strategies, the Miao people in the entire Dongting area are being rapidly assimilated. This is a fact that cannot be ignored.
The Miao people, who originally numbered in the millions, were assimilated through wars and wars, and now during the Chu Kingdom, there are only less than 100,000 people left.
The scale has been reduced by nine-tenths, which shows the efficiency and power of these three strategies.
Not just Hmong people.
Even the 60,000 to 70,000 Qiang people left by Li Xiong in Xichuan County have disappeared without a trace due to assimilation in recent years, and have basically completely disappeared from the stage of history.
From then on, the word Qiang will probably only be mentioned when people like Li Xiong are mentioned.
The specific race is indeed impossible to appear again.
The above two highly successful examples both illustrate the effectiveness of Lu Yuan's strategy, which has been proven to have great feasibility and success rate.
So at this time, when facing the Yi people who are similar to the Qiang and Miao people, it is natural to apply it directly and apply it with slight changes.
"So this first step, to reduce the number of men, is up to you."
Lu Yuan's eyes were deep and he looked at the direction in which Li Xiong left. He was no longer there.
It is not that simple and easy to get half a county or even a county's territory from his hands.
If we don’t make enough contributions and reflect enough value, how can we match this thousand-mile territory.
Helping him recruit soldiers is Li Xiong's task to show his value.
Lu Yuan himself could not recruit those barbarians. They would not obey the orders of a foreigner and go to fight with his fellow tribesmen who shared the same belief.
Right now, only Li Xiong can help him do this.
After all, the other party has almost taken control of the Wuman Kingdom's court, infiltrated the Nongdong Kingdom, and achieved considerable success.
With the names of these two countries, the connections of these two countries, and the systems of these two countries, it is possible to continuously recruit enough soldiers and horses from the local barbarian tribes.
Then he was sent to the front line to shine for the country of Chu and contribute his own strength.
Lu Yuan believed that the other party would not let him down.
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After Li Xiong left, he quickly followed the order under the temptation of the big cake. The fifteen thousand barbarian soldiers under his control were deployed outside the city and accepted Lu Yuan's command.
And Lu Yuan was too lazy to care about this. The Yi soldiers who were destined to be used as consumables did not change their organization much, so he directly asked Li Xiong to appoint the original generals and leaders to attack Dachang and the military camp in the south of the city.
He only sent 10,000 forbidden troops to serve as a supervisory team at the back, responsible for monitoring and assessing the rebellion of the barbarians.
In this regard, many people in the Forbidden Army said that it was an old skill.
They were like this at the beginning, suppressing the local rebels, Miao people, surrender soldiers, and rural warriors, and charging for themselves in the front.
Come again at this time, and you will be familiar with the road.
So under the oppression of 10,000 forbidden troops, under the threat of the lives of their wives and children in the city, and driven by their own superiors, these 15,000 barbarians had no choice but to bite the bullet, with red eyes, and embark on the cruel journey of flesh and blood. Mill, joined in the attack and defense of the camp.
Because they were all barbarians, Lu Yuan would certainly not be as reluctant to let the imperial army attack as hard as possible to minimize casualties like before.
For him who originally wanted to consume these barbarian men, now that he had the opportunity, he naturally consumed them vigorously.
Groups of Yi soldiers were sent to the battlefield in this way, and then were quickly maimed and consumed. Some who escaped were also executed as deserters by the fierce war supervisors.
Under this cruel consumption, in just half a month, only more than 3,000 of the 15,000 Yi people were left.
However, Lu Yuan didn't care at all.
Because news had been sent back from Li Xiong, as the various recruiting teams were sent to the countryside, various small countries and tribes under the rule of the Wuman Kingdom quickly recruited a new batch of manpower.
There are about 10,000 barbarian soldiers who will be sent over in about ten days.
However, after all this trouble, many tribes and even barbarians from small countries chose to flee to the mountains and forests in order to avoid military service and stay away from this terrible war.
In response to this, Li Xiong also formed several suppression teams, led by local barbarians. The masters he gathered were responsible for going to the mountains to eliminate the refugees.
According to Li Xiong, he was very confident that even if these refugees fled into the mountains, they could be taught and sent to the battlefield again.
In another month, after the refugees have been sorted out and those tribes and small countries have been squeezed, a new batch of 10,000 barbarian soldiers will continue to be sent.
However, after these two blood draws, the Yi people in the old territory of Wuman Kingdom should be unable to squeeze out troops.
According to Li Xiong's plan, after completing these two conscriptions, he planned to send a working group to Nongdongguo and continue from here.
This original ally of the Wuman Kingdom quickly defected to the Dachohe Kingdom after its previous defeat, and its energy was relatively strong.
If you squeeze it hard, you should be able to recruit 30,000 soldiers.
In this way, Wuman and Nongdong combined, just completed Lu Yuan's small goal of recruiting 50,000 troops.
There is only one Huichuan country left, which is a surprise beyond the quota.
Li Xiong would not stop for the sake of his throne and half of his territory before draining out the last bit of blood from the barbarians.
With such an efficient recruitment manager, Lu Yuan naturally no longer had any scruples about the consumption of barbarian soldiers on the front line.
The remaining three thousand people didn't even have two days' rest before they were driven back to the battlefield.
Lu Yuan will not stop this war until the last barbarian's blood is shed.
"mean!"
At Dachanghe Junyingzhai, Li Chuan looked at the distance, another round of attacks launched towards him, and slapped his hand hard on the wall. The angry force caused the hard wood to crack and splash. Debris flew around.
But Li Chuan suddenly didn't realize this, but still said with red eyes and gritted teeth: "Those Chu people are afraid of death, but they drive our people to attack the city and let us kill each other. They are really despicable!"
The suppressed anger in his heart seemed uncontrollable, making the great general of the Great Chowa Kingdom want to rush out immediately, fight with the Chu people, and have an upright decisive battle.
But he didn't dare.
In the past few days of fighting, the Chu people's successive victories and their own side's constant defeats all proved the terrifying and powerful strength of the opponent.
After several years of war and the consumption of a large number of elite soldiers, the side of Daochanghe Country has really been seriously damaged and has fallen into extreme weakness.
Not only was the quality of the soldiers extremely poor, but even the various ordnance and equipment were far inferior to the strength of the Chu people's armored troops.
On the frontal battlefield, with the same number, or even two or three times the number, Da Changhe's army could not defeat the Chu army.
Could it be that relying on the camps that had been urgently reinforced in the past few days and relying on desperate defense, even if the Chu State on the opposite side only had 50,000 or 60,000 people, Li Chuan did not have much confidence in his heart that he could defeat the opponent.
And this series of defeats made the general know clearly that the current Dachowa Kingdom was no longer the rival of the rising Chu Kingdom in the east.
Although our country has been established for thousands of years, facing the Chu State that was only a few years old, the two countries are no longer on the same level.
'Damn it, is this the strength of Dongyang people?
Even if it has just experienced war, even if it is just a new country, as long as it integrates internally and launches aggression externally, it will be so powerful and terrifying.
Did the Yue, Miao, Qiang, Man and other tribes that were wiped out back then face such a terrifying enemy?
Facing this kind of enemy, can our Chili tribe really resist? '
Li Chuan had these pessimistic thoughts in his heart, but he couldn't show them on his face.
He is the commander-in-chief of the army and the only hope for the country today.
If he loses confidence, the people below will feel even more desperate.
And in this state, if we continue to face the enemy, there will really be no hope for Ojowakuni.
With this will, Li Chuan suppressed the fear and pessimism in his heart, suppressed the anger in front of him, and turned around and asked: "How is the situation now in Nongdong and Huichuan?"
The Chu army in front of them was not the only troops on the other side.
In addition to Shicheng, the Chu people also sent 20,000 troops to attack in Huichuan and Nongdong.
So after receiving the news, Li Chuan knew that the situation was not good, and immediately mobilized troops and horses. From the Shicheng camp, each of them dispatched 30,000 troops and sent rescuers from the two countries.
After these 60,000 people were sent out, there were only 120,000 people left in the camp.
But among these 120,000 people, after these days of brutal attack and defense, more than 10,000 people were lost.
What makes Li Chuan even more angry is that the warriors who died these days were caused by his own race. There were not even two Chu people actually killed.
It was originally supposed to be a war between the Chili tribe and the Chu people, but in the end it returned to its original origins, a bloody civil war within the Chili tribe.
What made him even more frightened was that as the war continued, there were only a little over 100,000 fighting men left in the entire camp.
I remember how high-spirited I was with more than 200,000 troops when I besieged Shicheng.
But in just two months, the original 200,000 troops were cut by more than half, leaving only a mere 100,000 troops.
In this case, he naturally wanted to know eagerly the situation on the other two fronts.
Wouldn't it be as difficult over there as it is here?
Li Chuan's heart felt cold.
