Daming iron-blooded Chief Assistant

Chapter 164 Rakshasa Ghost

Since he took control of Jiayuguan, Zhang Zongxian ordered the customs to be closed and trade routes banned, and all tribute envoys from the Western Regions were detained.

Their tribute was confiscated, and the envoy sent it to repair the railway, and then reported to the imperial court that there was a civil strife in the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, and no one had paid tribute.

The Turpan Khanate, which controls Hamiwei, saw that none of the envoys who sent tribute came back, so they don't know what happened?Thinking that there was another rebellion in Ningxia Wei, they stopped paying tribute.

In mid-June, three cavalry brigades and two infantry brigades arrived in Jiayuguan and began to conduct adaptive training in Jiayuguan. At the same time, a logistics warehouse was established in Jiayuguan, where a large amount of materials will be stored to support the recovery of Hamiwei.

After Liangchen led his troops to Jiayuguan, he did not rush to attack. Instead, after the troops had rested and adapted to training, they began to attack everywhere to wipe out the remaining forces of the Tartars between Jiayuguan and Dunhuang.

Li Zicheng, who had been promoted to battalion commander, led a cavalry battalion to escort the newly captured Tartars to Jiayuguan.

Since he was recruited by Zhang Zongxian as an inner disciple, he has experienced more than half a year of college life. Thinking of making contributions, he joined the cavalry and became a deputy platoon leader while riding the large-scale expansion of the army.

Then it caught up with the battle to regain Dongshengwei, and now he is the battalion commander of a cavalry battalion.

Li Zicheng saw that the escort team was a bit slow, so he called the company commander in charge of the escort.

After the company commander came over, he saluted Li Zicheng.

"The company commander Zhang Xianzhong came to report, please give instructions."

The young jujube seller who bid farewell to his father that day was Zhang Xianzhong, but he followed the school disciples all the way to Qingshui camp, and then returned to the academy. The disciples who led the team saw that he was so sincere, so they guided him to take the exam.

It's just that his performance is relatively low. Although he entered the school at about the same time as Li Zicheng, he also joined the cavalry after half a year of college life.Now a company commander.

"What's going on? Why are you so slow? You can't go back to the camp after dark, and the whole camp has to sleep in the open."

Zhang Xianzhong has always been very dissatisfied with Li Zicheng. They are about the same age and entered the school at about the same time, but he was an inner disciple as soon as he entered the school, so he was promoted quickly, and he didn't feel that he was inferior to him.

However, the first rank of officials crushed people to death, especially in the army. Zhang Xianzhong's dissatisfaction could only be buried in his heart.

"Report to the battalion commander, there are many children this time, so I can't walk fast."

After listening to Li Zicheng cursing, he said:

"We should leave these tartars there to fend for themselves. The higher-ups don't know what to think. These children can't work, so we insist on taking them all back."

Zhang Xianzhong did not hesitate to let these children slow down the marching speed, no one wanted to sleep in the wild, how comfortable it was in the camp.He suggested:
"Would you like the battalion commander?"

As he spoke, he made a gesture of wiping his neck.

Li Zicheng naturally understood what he meant. It wasn't that he pitied these children, but that he didn't want to disobey the military order and affect his promotion. He also thought that one day he would become Zhang Zongxian's personal disciple.

Therefore, the stain of illegal orders is not allowed to exist.

"What are you thinking about? Do you want to be locked up by the Gendarmerie Section? Let the brothers work hard, take the children who can't walk on horseback, speed up, and return to the camp before dark."

Yes, Battalion Commander.

Liangchen stood on the tower of Jiayuguan, watching the groups of captive Tartars being escorted back to the camp, thinking about what the master said to him before departure:
"No matter how many Tartars a good minister dies, he must build the railway to Hamiwei within three years. You must remember that kindness to the enemy is cruelty to yourself.

Those Tartars are not worthy of pity. They only destroy civilization for their own selfish desires. They are not worthy of living in this world. The land under the sun belongs only to us Han people.

For thousands of years, the Tartars on the grasslands always entered the hinterland of the Han family to burn, kill and loot when the Central Plains dynasty was in decline. Now we, the legislators, want to solve this problem once and for all.

That is to completely occupy the grassland, and use all the land that can be cultivated to cultivate the land, and continue to graze the land that cannot be cultivated. There is no more industrious nation than us in the world, and these lands under the sun should belong to us.

It is only the first step for a good minister to take over the Western Regions. Those Rakshasa ghosts have already extended their tentacles to us. They are the truly terrifying opponents. Their arrogance, cruelty, selfishness, and their own civilization are fundamentally different from ours.

They burned, killed and looted everywhere in the name of religion. They are more hateful than the Tartars. We must stop them from threatening the hinterland of the Han family. The future battlefield will be in the Western Regions. "

Although he didn't think how powerful the Rakshasa ghosts were, Master had never missed them, so he naturally didn't dare to neglect them, thinking that he would meet these Rakshasa ghosts and see how powerful they are?
Zhang Zongxian also explained to him that if he wanted the Tartars to work well, they had to be given hope, not simply persecuted. That's why when a tribe was captured, the children of the tribe would also be brought back.

The captives brought back will undergo a medical examination first, and after confirming that there are no infectious diseases, they will be divided into groups, men and women will be separated, and the children will follow the women. The men will be responsible for building the railway, and the women will be responsible for farming with their children.

After completing the monthly construction tasks, their families will be allowed to reunite, and those who over-fulfill the tasks will be rewarded with silver, and those who have performed outstandingly for three years will also be released from the status of captives, allowing their families to reunite, and they will work on the railway in the future. You can still get paid for your work.

Every ten men are in a group, and there is one propaganda team leader. All punishments are to sit consecutively. Those who fail to complete the road construction task of the day will not have dinner. Those who fail to complete the task for three consecutive days will be disposed of as waste.

Those who dared to escape would be executed by the whole group, including their family members.

Liang Chen let the cavalry take turns to attack the Tartar tribes, and at the same time supervised the captives to build the roadbed. Not only in Jiayuguan, but also the cavalry of the other five brigades relied on the five guards of Xining Guard, Liangzhou Guard, Yongchang Guard, Gansu Zhongwei, and Suzhou Guard.

They are also sweeping up the surrounding Tartar tribes. The Western Front Command specially set rewards for this purpose. Every Tartar captured will be rewarded with an acre of land, which greatly mobilized the enthusiasm of the troops. A cavalry brigade even went deep into the plateau and reached the Tongtian River.

With the repeated sweeps of the various cavalry brigades, there was no trace of the Tartars within [-] miles of the guard post, and the captive target was completed. After the five brigade commanders notified the Western Front Command, they began to coordinate operations.

The five cavalry brigades plan to establish military depots along the way, cooperate with each other to complete the targets, divide the team into three, one stays at the military depot along the way, and the other two, one goes deep into the hinterland of the plateau, and the other marches to Gannan Pansong and other places .

As a result, the originally sparsely populated plateau area quickly became inaccessible, and with a steady stream of captives, the speed of railway construction was guaranteed.

(End of this chapter)