Chen Ying looked at the young and strong men led by Zhao Boying, Guo Rui, Xu Caifu, Dong An, Ren Bi, and Feng Kelan. Most of these young and strong men were ragged and hungry, and said in his heart: "The elders and brothers of Shuozhou are among the barbarians but do not forget China. Such loyalty and steadfast is truly a reflection of history. This general manager promises you that he will ask for credit for you to the Emperor Chang'an."

Luo Shixin, Liang Zan and other generals hurriedly stepped forward to support everyone. Zhao Boying, Guo Rui, Xu Caifu, Dong An, Ren Bi, Feng Kelan and others were flattered Ran thought to himself: "They are not fierce at all, but they are very angry. But Shibi Khan actually died at their hands."

The more humble the Tang army acted, the more awe the elders of Shuozhou were.

Chen Ying led Lingzhou soldiers and nearly 20,000 civilians to show off their power at Yanmen Pass, and then withdrew their troops and returned to the camp.

Chen Ying held a banquet in the central army's tent to entertain the elders and core backbones of the family, with a total of about a hundred people.

Chen Ying seized a lot of materials when occupying Shuozhou. Especially the treasury of Shuozhou City, the grain alone was as high as more than 50,000 stones, of which more than one-third were Chen grain for many years, and had already begun to change mold. As for the Turkic tribes swept along the way, millions of cattle and sheep were seized.

Chen Ying was not a stingy person at first, but now seeing these miserable young and strong people, his heart was inexplicably moved.

Anyway, Chen Ying was not stingy with the generous gifts of others. Apart from the elders and core backbones of the tribe who entered the big tent to attend banquets, Chen Ying was not stingy with ordinary young and strong people. Sheep were killed, peeled, and cut off with big swords. The large chunks of mutton were about one pound per pound, and they were washed but not washed. They were thrown into a large army pot, poured water and salt, but started cooking on high heat.

In this era, eating meat is a very luxurious thing. Many people may not be able to eat a little meat a year.

As for the big tent, it was a different look. The roasted whole lamb was full of fragrance. Before the banquet started, a sound of swallowing saliva came from the big tent.

Zhao Boying, with gray hair and beard, smiled embarrassedly and said, "I have not seen any meat and fish for more than a year, so the general laughs!"

"The emperor was not afraid of starving soldiers to death." Chen Ying smiled and said, "You all surrender to our general manager and welcome the Tang Dynasty's King's Army. This loyalty alone is enough to be respected. You don't have to be polite. Everyone has a share. There is still more than 50,000 stones of grain in Shuozhou City. There are 20,000 young and strong people. One person counts one. Try his best to carry it. How much can he carry it?

Hearing this, the big tent suddenly became silent.

Zhao Boying and Xu Caifu were both talented people. They looked at each other and had a clear mirror in their hearts. They thought that Chen Ying was buying their young and strong with food. It seemed that Chen Ying was going to chew on Yanmen Pass. These young and strong people were not sure how many of them were going to die at Yanmen Pass. At this moment, a young man with a pale face and a tuberculosis-like ghost whispered: "The price offered by General Chen is not low. At this time, a bucket of grain can be exchanged for a yellow-flowered daughter, and a stone of grain can be bought by a young and strong man. We don't lose money."

Everyone whispered and the villain talked.

In fact, they really wronged Chen Ying. Chen Ying actually had no intention of attacking Yanmen Pass at all, but just looked at them pitiful. Who would have thought that they had misunderstood? Everyone talked about it for less than a quarter of an hour, and Zhao Boying took the lead and stood up to Chen Ying and said, "Thank you, General Chen!"

Chen Ying underestimated these skinny men, with more than 50,000 stones of grain. Chen Ying thought that it would be great to carry one stone on one person. The adults could not walk far away with a weight of 120 kilograms. However, what surprised Chen Ying very much was that Shuozhou City was emptied overnight. All 50,000 stones of grain were transported away by these young and strong people.

Chen Ying did not take it seriously. If Zhang Huaiwei or Asunasmo could break through the outer three passes and attack the Taiyuan Basin, Chen Ying could also grab ten times of the grain.

Early the morning, nearly 20,000 young and strong men came to the camp of the Lingzhou Army with a decisive look on their faces. When these people came, they carried a lot of wood. Although Fan Junzhang cut down all the trees more than ten miles outside Yanmen Pass, there were more than tens of millions of trees near Yanmen Mountain. The ones that Fan Junzhang cut down were not even a drop in a tank.

These young and strong people used people to carry carriages to transport more than 2,000 pieces of wood to Yanmen Pass in just half a day. Seeing this scene, Liu Wuzhou did not dare to be careless at all. He sent cavalry to attack tentatively, but as soon as he left the city, he was eaten by Luo Shixin and the lancers of the Sixth Zhe Chong Mansion of Dingyuan Army.

More than two thousand people did not hold on for even a quarter of an hour in front of the Dingyuan Army, which scared Liu Wuzhou almost crazy.

Although his two thousand cavalry is not as good as the elite of the Turks, even if the Turks want to eat his two thousand cavalry, they may not be able to do it in a short time.

The combat effectiveness of the Tang army is so scary.

Seeing this scene, the children of Shuozhou strengthened their confidence in surrendering to the Tang Dynasty.

When Zhao Boying saw this scene, his heart was filled with hope of survival. Since the Tang army was so strong, if this battle continues, there are probably many children in Shuozhou who will survive.

Chen Ying looked at Zhao Boying and said, "Mr. Zhao, the three counties of Shuozhou have recovered, but they have obtained less than 3,000 people. Where have the other people been hiding?"

Zhao Boying said: "Since ancient times, the Dingkou period has calculated that in some prefectures and counties, officials deliberately reduced their household registration in order to deceive political achievements, and in some prefectures and counties, officials deliberately reduced their household registration in order to impose taxes. In this way, the Ministry of Revenue will summarize it again. The ministers in the court will modify and add or delete the emperor's likes and dislikes at that time and the needs of the current situation. The final number obtained is recorded in history, that is, the person who reports to the king on the same day. This number can only be used as the king and the king to participate in the supervision, and cannot be the original number."

Chen Ying was a little breathless when he heard this, but when he thought about the practices of the census in later generations, he was relieved that he was still like this one thousand years later. How could he be demanding on the Ran people who were far behind in statistical technology?

But Zhao Boying continued: "Generally speaking, if a politically lenient person will become more prominent, the household registration will become more prominent, and if a politically lenient person will become more severe, the household registration will become less prominent. Why? If a politically lenient person is open and upright, he can be protected by the law, have a business guarantee, and have a share in his studies. There are many benefits. Therefore, the household registration will become more prominent; if a politically lenient person is more severe, the law will not protect the people. The journey of studying and entering the officialdom is not smooth. Those who are registered will receive all the records, and there are many disadvantages, so the household registration will be hidden."

Taking Shuozhou as an example, under the rule of Liu Wuzhou, Shuozhou had three counties and one prefectures, with a total of more than 3,970 households and an area of ​​more than 16,400 people. In the 18th year of Kaihuang in the Sui Dynasty, Mayi County had 8,365 households and a population of 59,137 people.

In fact, in addition to the hidden population of tax evasion, the war disasters suffered are also the main reason for the population decline. The Turks regarded Shuozhou as their own vegetable garden and picked it whenever they wanted. Therefore, in order to make a living, the people had to abandon the official fields and hide in the mountains and forests.

Chen Ying thought about it and realized that in history, from the Five Barbarians invading China, to the Mongolian's destruction of the Song Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty's entry into the pass, every time the land of China was sinking, it was accompanied by bloody massacre. The Chinese nation has always survived, but in fact it mainly relied on the hidden population to breed offspring. When the Turks were rampant on the land of Shuozhou,

They all hid in the deep mountains and forests, and when they saw the Tang army restored Shuozhou, they appeared timidly. In fact, even if Zhao Boying didn't say it, Chen Ying could guess that the more than 70,000 people they appeared were not the entire population of the hidden population, and there were probably a large number of people hiding.

The people of China are actually versatile workers. They can pick up hoes and they can farm, pick up weapons, fight, and pick up tools, and they are craftsmen. Without Chen Ying's order, these young and strong men spontaneously began to use wood to build siege equipment. Some people are building simple siege ladders, filling trenches, charging goose cars, rushing cars that hit the city gates, nest chariots that suppress the city walls of crossbowmen, and heavy weapons of siege siege siege siege, and siege heavy weapons and catapults. They also began to assemble them one by one under the Yanmen Pass city wall, and over time, more and more of these equipment.

As early as the Warring States Period, the Yue Kingdom had used 12-pound stones that could throw 12-pound stones to 200 steps away from the fishing for primitive "artillery" weapons. Later, Cao Cao also used stone tying machines to attack Yuan Shao's camp in the "Guandu Battle" and were the stone tying machines that made a loud noise during firing. The stone tying machines used human power to pull the tips connected to the crossbar at a place far away from the stone tying tools (the gun tips are mounted on a wooden frame, one end is tied to the leather case that accommodates the stone bullets with ropes, and the other end is tied with many ropes for human pulling). The stone bullets are thrown out, divided into single tips and multiple tips. The most are thirteen tips, and at most five hundred people are required to cast them.

At this time, the trencher made by the children of Shuozhou was a five-fingered trencher. This kind of trencher requires two people to pull it, forty or fifty people, and can throw more than fifty kilograms of stone bullets weighing more than fifty steps away, or throw twelve kilograms of stone bullets weighing more than one hundred and twenty steps away. Such trencher is actually not very powerful.

Even though Chen Ying was not specifically researched in the history of anti-military military resistance, he knew that the principles and manufacturing methods of these trenchers were too backward, and the efficiency conversion rate of the drag-trenchers was too low. If a counterweight trencher was used, even if it could not be smashed into Yanmen Guanzhong, it could at least increase the casualties of Liu Wuzhou's army.

The stone-capping machine is a very powerful weapon, but its deterrence is greater than its practical significance. During the Mongolian War to destroy the Song Dynasty, the Mongolian army entered Xiangyang and adopted Hui Hui cannons. In fact, the breaking of Xiangyang City was not the result of Hui Hui cannons, but the Southern Song Dynasty defender Lu Wenhuan did not guarantee the surrender of the Yuan Dynasty in his later years, which led to the fall of Xiangyang. Diaoyu City, which also used Hui Hui cannons to attack the city, struggled to defend Diaoyu City for more than 30 years until the defeat of Yashan and the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty. The Diaoyu City guard Wang Li led the soldiers and civilians of Diaoyu City to surrender to the Yuan army when he received the Yuan army's guarantee that the city would not be massacred.
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