'The people in this village are so tough, I finally chewed off this bone! '
The fire quickly engulfed Xuanguang, a small town on the lower reaches of the Ming River. In this battle, more than 8,400 South Vietnamese died, most of them ordinary people. Bodies were piled on the streets, and no one was cleaning up. Liang Chuan planned to stay. Let the South Vietnamese take care of it!
Their population is smaller than Baosheng, but they are even harder to chew than Baosheng.
Liang Chuan judged that the news of Baosheng's destruction had spread in South Vietnam. Everyone in South Vietnam knew that there was a group of bandits looting everywhere in the country, so more or less local towns began to form militia groups and began night patrols and other defenses. Means, also increase the level of self-defense!
And now there are not only bandits in the country, but also Nong Zhigao's threat to them. The whole country has become tense.
South Vietnam was different from the Song Dynasty in the north.
The plains in eastern South Vietnam are already different from the plateau mountains in the northwest. This is a miasmatic place in the eyes of the world. The population is quite dense, and there is often not a village within dozens of miles. Thick and tenacious weeds squeeze out almost every last drop of nutrients from the soil year after year. If you plant seeds, you can harvest food at will, and you don't even need to artificially increase the fertility of the land!
Most of South Vietnam's population is concentrated in the middle and lower reaches of these major rivers. There are dense rivers here, and the terrain is very similar to the two rivers in the Song Dynasty. However, the temperature here is higher, which is more suitable for the growth of crops, and the yield of crops here is also higher!
The people who settle here are often quite independent in character. Most of them are people who moved from the Central Plains in the early years. A large part of them are descendants of the Qin people who were brought over by Zhao Tuo, the king of Nanyue, to conquer the south. As the south continues to expand, Development has also brought in a large number of Hakka people. They are not afraid of taking risks and have the courage to fight against dangerous conditions. The fact that they can survive here for thousands of years proves that they are very capable.
Most of the cities in South Vietnam have no walls! Just like in the southern part of the Central Plains, tall cities are rarely built. Most of the gathering places are paddy fields. This kind of geology is very soft. If you want to build a city, you must fill in the lakes and rivers, which is very difficult!
South Vietnam is still in a very primitive tribal state, and most of its cities and towns rely on natural dangers, making them easy to defend but difficult to attack. There are also a large part of the towns that are still agricultural-oriented and require a lot of water and land. Such places do not have the conditions to build high walls for defense like the cities in the Central Plains War.
They do not have as strong financial and material resources as the Central Plains and cannot support such huge consumption.
But everyone is already feeling the pressure.
Although they still used sneak attacks, Liang Chuan and others still suffered a big blow!
The Nong people's indiscriminate attacks now have a very simple purpose, which is to eliminate the effective forces in South Vietnam!
When Liang Chuan launched his attack, he also chose it at night, when the rooster was about to sing dawn. That was when the human body was most tired and needed sleep the most, and it was also when a city was at its weakest.
However, when Liang Chuan launched his attack, he still attracted the attention of the residents of the town. They fired arrows, beat the gongs, and called out all the residents in the town!
The bows and arrows of the monks are like sickles. They first harvest a round of life. After the power of resistance disappears, they then go into the village with their knives to eliminate other living forces!
However, the Nong people also knew that these South Vietnamese were not dead, but hiding to avoid the rain of arrows.
The Nong people rushed into the city, first setting fire to force the people out of the house, and then the Nong people who were covering them shot them one by one. They cooperated very well. Compared to wild beasts, the South Vietnamese are like monkeys, they are more flexible!
Because most of the houses in the city were thatched huts, raging fires soon ignited. In a head-on confrontation, few South Vietnamese were opponents of the Nong people. The Nong people came for killing, and they had steel swords on their bodies. There are knives and armors. These hardware alone are enough to crush the South Vietnamese who only have some simple props among the killers!
This time, all the Nong people acted very quickly. They were no longer those who were blind to money. On the contrary, they had already taken enough money. Now they just wanted to survive. Unless the belongings in the South Vietnamese people's homes were very conspicuous property, they were hidden. They are too lazy to look for it anymore.
Even so, they still grabbed a lot of money!
The Nong people were like a swarm of locusts. They gnawed away every town they passed through, leaving nothing behind for the South Vietnamese.
Many South Vietnamese fled out of the city, but Liang Chuan did not pursue them and allowed them to scatter in all directions.
There is no end to the people to be killed, and there is no end to the money. Don't pursue the enemy if you are poor. If you do, you will be betrayed.
Nong Zhigao has gone south. He and Nong Zhigao are now going south, north, east and west, one in the open and the other in the dark. They cooperate with each other to contain the rear of the South Vietnamese. Liang Chuan strives for a better combat environment for Nong Zhigao!
When leaving Xuanguang, more than a hundred people were injured on Liangchuan's side, but none died. This ratio is extremely serious. If they attack two more towns, their battle losses will account for most of them. For the Nong people, their combat power will be seriously damaged.
They desperately need medicine and food.
He discovered a serious problem. When fighting, almost everyone would only put money in bamboo baskets, and no one would put food in them!
After several battles, Wu Yong's food supply has begun to run out!
The rations are distributed to everyone. Everyone, including Liang Chuan, has the same quota. The more you grab, the more you can eat. If you don't grab and wait for your own ration to be finished, you can only stand and watch! Wu Yong calculated that everyone could only eat for three more days. The Nong people had robbed more money than they could spend in a lifetime, but the food was only enough for them to eat for a few days. .
The main cadres, including Liangchuan Lao Mazi, began to worry about medicinal materials and food!
As a last resort, Liang Chuan decisively adjusted his strategy. He asked Lao Mazi to take the elderly among the Nong people to transport the money back, while he took Nong Lenon, Nong Yao and others to the next town!
There is a small town to the east of Xuanguang called Wuding. It is said that the descendants of the Han people who migrated south from Wuzhong hundreds of years ago still use many Wuzhong customs.
Liang Chuan sent Nong Lie to investigate. There were more than 10,000 people in this place, but there were no officers and soldiers and no Xiangyong had been formed.
Because there hasn’t been any war in these hundreds of years! Bandits rarely roam in places like Wuding, because these are all plains, and bandits have nowhere to escape. They are not crazy people like Liang Chuan who can run more than a hundred miles a day. After fighting, they hide in the mountains in the northwest. No one It can be done!
'Cut off twenty heads, put them in a basket, and then capture twenty more! Liang Chuan ordered Nong Lie.
Nong Lie was stunned. It’s not easy to arrest people now! There were originally several thousand people in Xuanguang City, but when the fight broke out, they all fled, and the few who opposed them were cut to pieces. .
It can be said that it is harder to live than to kill them now!
'Most of the people have run away, it's hard to catch them! '
'Then let's count how many people are captured, there must be enough heads! '
There is no psychological burden for the Nong people to kill people, but for them to cut off twenty heads, the guilt is very heavy! Twenty heads were put into a bamboo basket, which made people retching. .
This matter was not difficult at first, but Nong Lie took people back to Xuanguang and struggled for a long time to get the amount Liang Chuan wanted. No one understood why Liang Chuan did this. .
Only three people were caught, and all three of them were injured in the legs. They couldn't run fast enough so they were caught by Nong Ren!
Liang Chuan looked at the three people tied behind their backs on the ground and said to them: "You three follow us to Wuding, deliver the heads to the officials in Wuding, and then tell them what happened in Xuanguang. I will give them one day." , let them prepare 90,000 kilograms of grain. If there is no grain, they can exchange it for meat. One kilogram of meat can be exchanged for three kilograms of grain! One pound of wine for two pounds of food! I prepare another thousand kilograms of medicinal materials for treating trauma. If one kilogram is missing, I will kill one person until they kill all Wu Ding's people! '
As soon as Liang Chuan said his words, everyone was shocked. He actually revealed the news to the South Vietnamese first, so he was not afraid that the South Vietnamese would be ready to fight them to the death!
Liang Chuan's eyes seemed to be able to see everyone's inner thoughts clearly, and he said to these people: "Tell them, if they don't cooperate or find someone to support me, I will not destroy Wu Ding today, and I will definitely do it in the future." Yes, if they are not afraid of death, they can give it a try! '
'If they fulfill my request, I guarantee that nothing will happen to their Wu Ding people. I will do what I say! '
The three South Vietnamese looked at Liang Chuan who was covered in blood. They were too scared to look directly at him. They could only tremble on the ground. Liang Chuan said to Nong Lie: "Take a hundred people to follow them. You There is no need to go into the city, just give the three of them a chance and see if they cherish it! '
Nong Lie and his men set off immediately. The three South Vietnamese were so frightened that their eyes were blank. They carried the heads on their backs like zombies and headed towards Wuding in the east!
'Brother Di, why are you so sure that these South Vietnamese will hand over the food and medicinal materials obediently! 'Nong Yao was a little surprised. It was impossible for anyone to be so obedient.
'If we go directly, they will definitely not believe it, but when they see the heads of their compatriots, they will know that we are serious, and then they will consider the consequences of handing over food and resisting. We may still be able to live after paying for food, at least for a few more days, but resistance will definitely not yield good results. Even if their government officials want to fight with us, those ordinary people will not be able to fight. They just need to pay a little food. What’s the point of surviving? All important! '
Liang Chuan smiled and said, "Let me tell you, don't think we won't give them if we don't want them. Just say you want to beat them, and they will even take the initiative to give them to you!" '
Nong Yao looked unbelieving. If it were them, they wouldn't be able to have their food taken away so easily even if they risked their lives!
Some people died, but not completely...
