webnovel Chapter 258
Chapter 258
Chapter 258: Enter Yunzhou and Capture Jin Wushu to dig coal!.
“Down, down!”
After Ye Liping learned that he was abandoned by the Prime Minister of State, he was immediately deflated, plus he had recognized the reality that the Zhou army was invincible, so he immediately shouted, threw the weapon, turned over and dismounted, and looked like he had completely given up resistance.
And the 1,000 iron harriers and 2,000 pouring troops around him saw Ye Liping, the general of Western Xia, all descended, and glanced at the Great Zhou Tianbing soldiers who surrounded them, and immediately threw down their weapons one after another, and even called for surrender.
Although Western Xia became a country in its own right, like the Jin State, the main source of troops was a tribal system.
The Li clan of the Western Xia royal family, that is, the Dangxiang Tuoba clan, and the Wuzang clan, Yeli clan, etc., a total of eight major clans, constitute the eight clans of the party, that is, the main body of Western Xia.
Among them, the Li family of the Tuoba clan is the emperor, and the Yeli clan and the Wuzang clan are the generals or prime ministers.
The major tribes have enough control over the sons and daughters of their own tribes, and every time Western Xia fought against the Great Song or Liao Kingdoms in the past, the emperor gave the order, and then the eight major tribes ordered the troops.
Therefore, although Ye Liping is not the main commander at noon in Western Xia, but only a general, he still has some authority in the Western Xia Army.
At least for Ding Zhuang of his own clan, he has enough say and control.
The reason why these thousand iron harriers and two thousand pouring army followed Ye Liping was because they were all core children of the Ye Liping clan.
And at this moment, with Ye Liping’s surrender, the warriors of the three thousand Yeli tribes around him also surrendered one after another.
“The one who knows the time is Junjie, and General Yeli made a wise choice.”
Seeing Ye Liping’s surrender, he smiled coldly, then waved his hand and ordered Ye Liping to collect the weapons they had dropped, and at the same time put these 3,000 soldiers under guard.
Ye Liping’s surrender saved the time for Zheikeqiu to lead his army to strangle Ye Liping’s troops, so that Zhekeqiu could free his hand and continue to pursue without Zang.
In this regard, it is natural to see it happen.
In this era when the labor of the population is still very valuable, three thousand prisoners is far greater than the value of beheading three thousand!
At this time, the main vanguard of the Western Army such as Seed Master Dao also chased after them on their horses, and they begged for these prisoners to be handed over directly, and then continued to lead their iron horses to chase after them!
This posture is clearly to take advantage of the victory to pursue and destroy Xixia in a battle!
And at this time, far away in the northwest, they had not yet had time to receive the news that the two armies of Chai Hao, the son of Tian, had won a great victory and defeated the Jin army.
In this case, they dared to chase the tail of the Western Xia army and drove straight in, making a gesture to destroy Western Xia, which was enough to show the morale of the Great Zhou army!
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At the moment, outside the Great Wall of the North.
After many days of repair and preparation, Chai Hao led the main force of the Great Zhou to march out of the Great Wall and made a gesture of continuing the northern march. And the first stop of the Northern Expedition is Yunzhou!
Yunzhou is the Yunzhou in the sixteen states of Yanyun. Youzhou is in the east, while Yunzhou is in the west.
The connection between these two states is the northern barrier of the Central Plains since ancient times.
Youzhou had long been recovered by Chai Hao, while Yunzhou was not recovered in the hands of Jin Guo due to geographical reasons. Now, the Jin State army is defeated, and the time has come for the Great Zhou to take the initiative to attack and recover Yunzhou!
“Go!”
“Northern march to the desert, directly pound the yellow dragon!”
Chai Hao waved the Azure Dragon Sun Spear in his hand and ordered towards the 100,000-strong army under his command. That’s right, an army of 100,000.
In the battle that day, more than 200,000 Jin Guo’s soldiers were annihilated and captured, and Jin Wushu’s troops in Yunzhou were only 100,000. Therefore, Chai Hao did not let the entire army around him be exhausted, but left 20,000 horses in Hedong to watch over and imprison the prisoners of the Jin Kingdom.
As for what work did the captives do? Of course, coal digging!
The land of Hedong was a coal powerhouse in later generations, containing countless coals. There are many coal and ore veins, which are simply open-pit ones!
This is an extremely useful energy source, and it is an indispensable resource for promoting industrialization, how can Chai Hao not use it?
Therefore, using the prisoners of the Jin Army to dig coal is a way to punish the crimes of those prisoners of the Jin Army and benefit the whole of the Great Zhou.
After all, Hedong’s rich coal veins were enough to support the development of steam engines and industrialization, and to enable the people of Dazhou under Chai Hao to obtain cheap and convenient heating energy.
From now on, people will no longer need to chop firewood or buy firewood that is not cheap to keep warm for the winter. In this way, it can also protect the green waters and mountains of this era and leave a good environment for future generations. Otherwise, the Yellow River and the high slopes of the loess are lessons from the past.
Before the Tang Dynasty, the Yellow River was not called the Yellow River, but the Great River. At that time, the big river, the water was still clear.
The Loess Plateau was also rich and lush at that time.
Later, the Tang Empire set its capital at Guanzhong and created several prosperous eras.
Emperor Taizong of Tang Li Shimin, Emperor Gaozong of Tang Li Zhi, Emperor Wu Zetian, and Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Li Longji were all emperors with good faces.
The overhaul of Taiji Palace and Daming Palace, the expansion of Chang’an City, and the construction of the eastern capital Luoyang have consumed a lot of ancient trees and forests on the Loess Plateau.
In addition, at the height of the Tang Dynasty, Chang’an came to the dynasty, and the population was more than one million all year round. The houses and fuel of these million people depend on the Guanzhong Plateau, which is close to Chang’an. Therefore, the Guanzhong Plateau was cut down and became a bare loess plateau. Without trees, the soil is desertified and soil erosion.
The big river was mixed with sediment in Guanzhong and became the Yellow River.
After the fall of the Tang, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms and even the Great Song, and even the Ming and Qing dynasties after the Song Dynasty in the original history, did not choose the dynasty of Guanzhong Dingdu.
A very important reason is that there are no ancient forests in Guanzhong and there is a lack of wood to build palaces and capital houses. This is all because the Tang people do not have the concept of protecting the environment.
But the Tang people do not have the concept of protecting the environment, but Chai Hao must have it.
As the son of the Great Zhou Tianzi, the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility, no matter what happens to future generations, his generation also has to plan for future generations! Of course, in addition to protecting forests and using coal, Chai Hao must first continue the Northern Expedition.
The first is to destroy the Jin Kingdom and avenge the shame of the people of the Central Plains.
The second is to capture more prisoners of the Jin Kingdom to atone for their sins by digging coal with their lives! Therefore, Chai Hao’s gaze looked at Yunzhou not far away.
In Yunzhou City, there are Jin Wushu and 100,000 defeated soldiers of the Jin Kingdom. That’s a whole 100,000 strong laborers!