Chastity Layman

Under the Lion Rock.

The big black cow was wet all over, stepping on the rain-soaked mud, frowning.

Failed.

Desperate efforts to fight, still failed.

It rained non-stop, and more than 20,000 mountain people were drowned. What is more worrying than the rain is what will they do after they fail to attack Yanguan?

There was no movement in the direction of Yanguan.

But there are already many leaders of the villages who have requested to withdraw to the mountains, and those people in Zhongyuan are too fierce.

But the big black cow didn't agree.

Withdraw now, where can we withdraw?

They raised troops to get the court to withdraw the naturalization order, but now they have achieved nothing, such a retreat, I am afraid that it will lead to crazy revenge from the court.

But if you don't withdraw, what can you do?

No one is willing to attack that strict pass anymore, although they have easily won the strict pass before, but it is different now, that pass is a group of raptors crossing the river.

The wind blows.

With a bloody smell.

Withdrawing from Yanguan, they left behind more than a thousand corpses and retreated ten miles, but there were still many wounded. Many of the seriously injured were already dying.

The rain made their injuries worse.

There is a lack of medical treatment and medicine, and it is difficult to treat them in time.

The confident big black bull is gone, and now he is deeply blaming himself for leading the mountain people down the mountain, and then inflicting huge casualties on everyone.

"There are a few small villages to run away." His brother buffalo came over and said.

Hei Niu was in great pain, but he still gritted his teeth and said, "If we run at this time, we will be defeated. We will become a mess, and we will be slaughtered by the officers and soldiers. We must stick together. Take someone to stop them. If they insist on running, kill a few of them. Put heads on the roadside."

He didn't want to kill his own people, but there was nothing he could do now.

Once they are allowed to flee, it may cause the entire camp to disperse the mountain people. Once dispersed, it will be difficult to gather again.

What awaits them is nothing but catastrophe.

"Brother, we shouldn't trust that Cao."

The black cow was silent, and the buffalo sighed and turned around and walked into the rain to intercept those who were about to leave.

It kept raining.

"Big boss!"

A mountain man came running out of the rain.

"Someone is coming from Yanguan."

"How much!" The big black cow stretched out his hand and raised the big axe, and asked immediately.

"There are only a few people who are our captured brothers. They said that Qin Lang asked them to bring a letter to the chief, saying that they wanted to recruit security!"

Hei Niu froze for a moment.

The ax raised in his hand was put down again.

"Where are they? Bring them here!"

"Call the leaders of the villages to discuss matters."

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"What did they say?"

afternoon.

Finally the rain stopped, the sky cleared, and a rainbow streaked across the sun.

Qin Lang sat on the Guan Tower and asked.

Feng Shan who sent some captives outside the barbarian camp in the morning reported, "Return to the lord, long after the captives returned to the barbarian camp with the letter, the barbarian sent me a letter, saying to bring it to the lord. The barbarian said he couldn't believe it." What the lord said, he also said, if what the lord said is true, then please go to the barbarian camp for a while."

"What happened to the barbarian camp?" Qin Lang asked.

"After the captives brought the letter back, there was a riot in the barbarian camp for a while, but it subsided quickly. A row of barbarian heads hung out in front of the camp, and then there was no movement."

Qin Lang could imagine roughly what happened, and he had to say that the barbarian leader who was able to maintain his military morale under such circumstances must also be a guy with a lot of prestige and decisive means.

"My lord, those barbarians are too presumptuous. My lord is kind enough to persuade me to surrender, but they dare to mention such unreasonable thoughts. They must have evil intentions and want to take the opportunity to murder my lord."

"What are you afraid of? It's just a group of barbarians. Thinking back when His Majesty dared to ride the Linwei Bridge nine times, facing hundreds of thousands of Turkic iron cavalry, I was one of the nine riders back then. Now facing a mere group of barbarians, should I still be afraid?"

Shanman is in chaos, he really deserves to die. But the problem is that Qin Lang has no intention of staying here for a long time, and he is even more unwilling to force these mountain savages to flee back to the five hundred miles of mountains, and then fight guerrilla attacks with the court.

Don't look at the Yanguan battle, Qin Lang won easily, that's because the barbarians were stupid.

But if the barbarians no longer gather like this, attacking cities and knocking on customs, they break up into pieces and rush back to the deep mountains and old forests to fight guerrillas, then it will be very difficult for the government and army to exterminate them.

So fighting hard is not the real way to solve the problem.

Besides, he had already expected that the barbarians were just being used by others, so he dealt with this group of people and beat them, and now he can calm them down.

This has always been the imperial court's strategy to control barbarism.

"Did they admit that they rebelled?"

"They said that the imperial court wanted to naturalize them forcibly, or even move them down the mountain, or even immigrate to the northern frontier, so they couldn't resist. They said it was not a rebellion, but just wanted to fight."

Qin Lang smiled.

"These savages are honest. At this time, they also know how to speak softly. But since they are willing to say this, there is indeed something to talk about, and it is not hopeless."

Feng Shan, who lowered his head, felt that Qin Lang was really daring.

He is from Lingnan, he followed Feng's family before, and naturally he has seen all kinds of riots by barbarians. It is difficult for barbarians to explain the truth. Therefore, before the Feng family dealt with those barbarians who made trouble, they would beat and kill them until they finally gave in.

The Feng family developed from generation to generation, and set up prefectures and counties. In fact, they took the land from the barbarians through war after war.

Therefore, the Feng family has always been an iron-blooded hardliner, never negotiating conditions with barbarians.

And now the new lord, when he has such an advantage, is willing to talk to the barbarian about recruiting, and is even willing to go to the barbarian camp to meet him, which surprised him.

This man is not a weak person. Hearing about the rebellion of the barbarians, he led his troops to chase and kill them without hesitation. He has already killed nearly 2,000 barbarians and captured more than 2,000. Such a decisive lord, Now he offered to recruit security, which really surprised him.

"Forcing naturalization, moving people down the mountain, and even immigrating to the north, it seems that there is no wind without waves, and this is the root cause of the barbarians' chaos this time." Qin Lang tapped the stone case lightly, and Li Zhigang was called into the court It is impossible for Guizhou to do such a thing right now.

The imperial court did not have such an order, so there is something strange about it.

This further confirmed his speculation that the mountain man was instigated.

Shanman doesn’t want to be naturalized, to go down the mountain, to pay taxes and serve in the military, and even more unwilling to immigrate to northern Xinjiang. This is normal and a reasonable appeal. It would not be so stupid to be so strong-minded, and it must be done slowly in stages.

It can only be said that someone is deliberately fanning the flames, which also cuts to the heart of the fear of the mountain barbarians.

"The envoy can tell them that those are nothing."

"My lord, the barbarians are always bullying and fearing the hard. If the lord compromises like this, I'm afraid they will think that the lord is easy to bully." Feng Shan reminded.

"Am I really a bully, don't the savages know about it these days?"

"If there is a mess, you have to clean it up. Blindly yelling and killing is not the solution." Qin Lang pointed to the south. His focus this time was on Fu Jiangnan and Lingnan, and he even wanted to manage his own fief, so Not much time is wasted here.

The longer the delay, the worse it will be.

Now Shanman is only being coaxed into the front line, the real perpetrators are still behind the scenes, if they get entangled here, I'm afraid there will be more troubles.

It can only be cut quickly.

As a Xuan Fu envoy, Qin Lang has great authority, he tours the south of the sky, and has the title of prime minister, so Qin Lang has the power to do things cheaply, can be rewarded or punished, and he doesn't need to ask the court for everything.

Feng Shan went to the barbarian camp again. This time he entered the camp and saw Da Hei Niu and others in person. In front of them, he read Qin Lang's meaning.

Forced naturalization, relocation of barbarians down the mountain, immigration to northern Xinjiang, etc. are just rumors.

"The commander-in-chief reads that you are ignorant and have been instigated and deceived by others. He did not intend to do evil, so he is willing to give you a chance."

Da Hei Niu and others were extremely surprised when they heard that Qin Lang was willing to come to meet them in person, and pardoned their crimes, gave comfort and even rewards.

After a moment of silence, the barbarians cheered.

I thought that this catastrophe was imminent, that there would be a catastrophe of extinction, or even a catastrophe for the family, but who would have expected that the Duke of Wei would actually be willing to recruit them.

The terrified barbarians in the camp were also very happy when they heard the news.

After waiting for about half an hour, Qin Lang really came with someone.

In order to avoid misunderstandings by the barbarians, Qin Lang only brought out five hundred relatives.

And two miles away, he asked them to rein in their horses, and he only brought Qin Yong and other eight riders to the outside of the barbarian camp.

Standing in front of the camp, Da Hei Niu, who had been very nervous all this time, heaved a sigh of relief.

So he called the leaders of more than one hundred villages to come out of the camp to meet him.

The two sides stopped a hundred paces away from the camp.

Qin Lang did not enter the barbarian camp.

Although he is willing to recruit the barbarians, it doesn't mean that he will trust the barbarians, and he will not venture into the barbarian camp. If there is really a stupid guy among the barbarians, and a group of barbarians with swords and axes will rush forward with an order, then Qin Lang will be wronged. up.

Don't take the risk.

Such a distance can still guarantee safety.

Feng Shan stepped forward and asked Hei Niu to bring only some leaders of the Manzhai who could talk to him to talk to Duke Wei.

The big black cow looked at the more than a hundred people behind him, young and old.

"Brother, take them back, don't scare Wei Guogong." The big black cow said to his brother buffalo.

The buffalo hesitated for a while, and finally retreated to the front of the camp with more than a hundred people.

Da Hei Niu also led eight people and walked to Qin Lang's horse.

Qin Lang got off his horse and stepped forward.

"Master!" Xian Hai reminded him to be careful.

"It's okay, barbarians are not all stupid."

Qin Lang wore a purple robe with a jade belt and a sword hanging from his waist, looking majestic and majestic.

The eight generals behind him were all in shiny bright armor, fully armed, and the black lacquered horse was eight feet long, full of murderous aura.

Standing there, the eight iron towers are full of deterrence.

The big black cow originally wanted to make a move, but when he approached, he was unknowingly overwhelmed by the majesty of the court, and couldn't help but knelt down at Qin Lang's feet.

The eight chiefs of the Manzhai who were fairly strong behind them also knelt down on the ground.

Who dares to be arrogant?