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Chapter 895

"The Jianghuai River Network is scattered, and I am not accustomed to water wars."

Qin Qiong had never left the town alone. At most, he was only commanding a army of 25,000 troops and commanding thousands of cavalry and infantry. But when he thought of the rivers everywhere in the south of the Yangtze River, he felt that the tactical styles he had known in the past were no longer applicable.

This burly general of the horse army is at its peak now. He is young and strong and has not had many injuries. It is said that boxing is afraid of being strong at a young age. In fact, northern generals, especially since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, have generally been cavalry generals, and are generally powerful generals who can lead cavalry to charge.

This is almost all the changes brought about by the reform of weapons and tacticals since the Wei and Jin Dynasties. Before the Han Dynasty, generals would not charge, but were more commanded under the general flag. However, with the emergence of stirrups, especially horse armor, the Central Plains cavalry mainly appeared assault cavalry, and so the generals also mainly used the kind of cavalry that charged into the formation.

These cavalry generals who charge into battle will at their peak when they are in their thirties or forties, and later they will decline due to too many injuries.

In history, Qin Qiong, shortly after the founding of the country of Tang, almost withdrew from the stage because he was injured too many times and had too many injuries, so it was difficult to put on the battlefield. In his words, when he was young, he fought hundreds of times, and the blood sheds had several fights.

"The southerners are good at boats and the northerners are good at cavalry. This is true, but the north still has natural combat power over the south. You must know that the south lacks cavalry, especially heavy cavalry. Although their navy and infantry are also very powerful, they are naturally weak when facing heavy cavalry. When Hou Jing went south, he was only a remnant army. Later, he rebelled and only had a small number of cavalry, but it still destroyed the entire Southern Dynasty."

"Du Fuwei's defeat was actually just that he was careless and underestimated the enemy. This time the court made all the efforts of the Northern Expedition, and then transferred many soldiers to the front line of the Yellow River, which made Huainan empty and gave the thieves an opportunity to take advantage of it. Now that the Turks have surrendered, there are no need to worry about the military force. I will draw 24,000 troops to you, and then I will draw Su Dingfang as your deputy. In addition, when you arrive in Jianghuai, there are three generals Wang Xiongdan, Kan Ling and Ximen Junyi there, and in addition, Fu Gonghu is also connected to Jianghuai."

"Why don't Your Majesty let Fu Gonghu take over directly?" Qin Qiong asked.

Luo Cheng smiled, "This matter is a long story. Li Zitong rebelled and revealed that Du Fu and the others did have many problems in Jianghuai. It was not a big problem, but it really needed to be rectified. Besides, after this Northern Expedition, after defeating the Turks, although the battle in the north has not ended yet, it is time to start preparing to pacify Jiangnan. If you go to Jianghuai, you should be ready for the first time."

The most important thing to choose Qin Qiong, the cavalry general, is that Qin Qiong is the most loyal and trustworthy and steady in his work.

"Your Majesty, the Turks have already come down the mountain, and all the weapons are thrown at the foot of the mountain, and several small hills have been piled up." Yuchi Gong came over to report.

The emperor stood up and said to Qin Qiong, "Let's go and enjoy our victory first, let's talk about the others later."

Under Bai Deng Mountain.

Teams of Turkic people walked down the mountain dejectedly. They lined up at the foot of the mountain, untied the swords and guns in their hands, threw all the pieces of hanging on their bodies aside, axes, bones, hammers, sticks, knives, bow bags, quivers, cowhide ropes, bowstrings, fire sickles, etc.

After throwing away the weapons and fragments, the iron or leather armor on their bodies must be removed and thrown away.

At first, the Turks were very reluctant, but the Qin army opposite said they had to take off, so they had to take off again.

Some Turks were very annoyed, so they just took off cleanly and swayed naked.

Most people only have one inner clothing.

Fortunately, autumn is just coming, and the weather is cool.

“The scene is spectacular!”

When the emperor saw the scene, he couldn't help but smile.

A group of civil and military ministers from the Qin army came to watch this scene. For everyone, it was the most comfortable scene to work hard for several months.

"Your Majesty, we won. We defeated the Turks again and defeated Jie Li's ambition. Now, no one dares to fight against my Daqin."

"Jie Li also surrendered?"

"Jie Li ran away." Wei Wensheng, the Minister of War, told the emperor with some regret, "I have sent light cavalry to pursue and search."

Luo Cheng didn't care. So what if Jie Li ran away? Two hundred thousand people went south. Apart from the 50,000 people who went north to pursue Siye first, the remaining 150,000 were wiped out. Even if Jie Li could escape back to Mobei, what if the Turks could still pull up 100,000 and 200,000 people? They didn't dare to come south again. It can be said that Jie Li had lost all his wealth in this defeat.

"Shilarious Minister Wei."

Wei Zheng stepped forward, "What are your instructions?"

"Take a decree to Khan Yi, a Khan of the Tiel Khanate in the north of Mobei, and let him conquer the rebellion of the Turkic Turks according to the order! Tell him that every time a young and strong Turkic man and woman was captured to the Qin Dynasty, I would like to reward him with twenty pieces of silk, and the old and weak would like to reward him with ten pieces of silk. If he seized the Turkic cattle and horses, I would like to collect a good Turkic horse, twenty pieces of silk, and the inferior horses would like to collect a price of fifteen and ten pieces of silk, and the cattle would be charged at the price of ten, eight pieces of silk, and even dried meat, I would like to collect a price of ten pieces, eight pieces of silk."

"I will collect as many Turkic slaves as he can send, cattle and horses, and silk can also be exchanged for tea, wine, salt, cloth and other commercial goods."

Wei Zheng took a breath.

"Your Majesty, when you come, I'm afraid that the Turks will be destroyed."

"If you destroy it, what's the point?" The emperor said domineeringly. Since he dared to invade the south repeatedly, he had to be prepared to destroy the clan.

The Qin Dynasty took out some money and business goods to destroy the Turks. Luo Cheng thought it was worth it. What's more, the Turks' slaves and cattle and horses were also important resources that were valuable and could strengthen national strength.

The envoy Zhang Xutuo reminded the emperor.

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid that Tiel from Mobei will take the opportunity to become a big shot and unify Mobei."

The emperor shook his head, "No need to be afraid of this. If the Tielites want to completely replace the Turks and occupy Mobei, there will inevitably be a bloody battle. When they completely defeat the Turks, I believe that the Qin Dynasty has completely unified the Central Plains. Even if the Tielites occupy Mobei, then I will still not be afraid."

Wei Wensheng stepped forward.

"Your Majesty, I request to kill these 100,000 Turkic surrendered soldiers!"

Xiao Yu immediately stepped out of the line to object.

"Your Majesty, killing prisoners is not bad. Besides, since the Turks have surrendered, there is no need to kill them. I think it is better to place these Turks in the southern part of the desert and the northern part of the desert, thinking that they should guard the vassal states."

But the emperor just shook his head.
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