Chapter 1006: Revenge (Part 1)
Pan Motang stood on the beach full of broken arms and limbs, lowering his head and silent for a long time.
Here, it is already like Shura hell.
In the end, Made not only attracted two thousand cavalry to attack him from both sides, but also entangled the thousands of infantry who were chasing him. Whether it was the cavalry of Lingnan or infantry, at that moment, he thought that the credit was at his fingertips, but he didn't know that they were greeted by the sickle of the god of death.
The opponent was completely stunned in the first round, and even made the Lingnan people who had first seen the power of long-range artillery attacks and flowering bullets lose their ability to think and act.
The second and third rounds were completed to the maximum extent.
Those who can escape will escape without a trace at the first time.
Those who did not escape became prisoners of the Northern Tang Navy.
When hundreds of Northern Tang navy sailors arrived at the beach in small boats, in addition to the dead and injured, there were also a large number of people in this area who were bombed and lost their souls, just like an idiot.
The soldiers lowered their heads and searched for the bodies of the soldiers who died in battle in the mess. Except for the group of people who died in battle in the rocks, it was difficult for those who died on the beach to find complete bodies. They had to search for missing bodies everywhere and try to put them into a complete body.
Wu Jun walked to Pan Motang, holding a black black head in his arms, his eyes flushed red.
"The general, only one head was found, and nothing else was found."
Pan Motang took out a handkerchief, poured some water from the kettle and wet the handkerchief, and then carefully wiped Ma De's head gently.
"Damn it, this damn, I'm still laughing when I die!" Pan Motang said suddenly.
Wu Jun lowered his head suddenly, and tears could no longer be held back, and it fell down.
Pan Motang's eyes were wet at this moment, and his voice suddenly became choked.
"This doggy life is enough. There are no less than three thousand people who were taken to cultivate and buried on this beach."
Wu Jun nodded vigorously: "It will only be more, not less."
Pan Motang suddenly sneered, took Ma De's head from Wu Jun, hugged him tightly, and said, "But I don't think it's enough."
He turned around and strode towards the boat.
The bodies of the soldiers who died in battle were piled together and poured with tinder oil. Hundreds of soldiers who came ashore stood in front of the pile of corpses, and the passionate battle song was sung.
As he sang, Wu Jun bent down and lit the pile of corpses with the torch in his hand.
The fire rose.
"For the ages, peace will be created!" Wu Jun shouted loudly.
"For the ages, peace will be created!" hundreds of soldiers shouted in unison.
On the warship in the distance, the military horn was loud, and all the soldiers on the ship were shouting in unison.
Before the fire, hundreds of captured Lingnan soldiers were tied up with their hands and knelt down in front of the fire. At this time, they had already returned to their souls, but were scared by the scene in front of them and trembled all over.
The blazing flames reflected Wu Jun's face red. Looking at these prisoners of war, his face looked particularly ferocious.
"Kill!" He suddenly drank.
The Tang soldiers behind the prisoners of war suddenly raised their swords and fell heavily. Hundreds of heads fell down instantly, blood splashed into the fire, but the flames in the fire rose up again in an instant.
One night passed in an instant.
The ashes of thousands of dead people were collected.
On the warship, there were originally prepared urns to collect soldiers who died in battle, but no one expected that so many would die at once. The ashes of a few people were put into the box, while others could only be wrapped in cloth. The names and other people didn't matter. Everyone's ashes were originally you and I were mixed with you, fighting side by side during life, and never leaving them after death.
When the sun rose slightly, Pan Motang, who had not slept all night, stood at the bow of the Fuyuan ship. The iron hook in his hand flashed with a faint blue light over the sunlight. He polished the iron hook that had been all night last night.
"Go to Guangzhou Port!" he ordered sternly.
Xiang Zhen stood at the height of his manor and watched the endless land extend from his feet to the end of Yeshi. These were all lands under his name, but from now on, these lands will be distributed to the soldiers who were recruited and their families one after another.
Wang You acted very quickly. The day after getting the money from him, he summoned a group of old subordinates who had returned from Eyue and went to various parts of Lingnan. Now, the first group of people who were close to him have returned.
As Xiang Zhen expected, the work of summoning troops went smoothly.
The panic created by the Northern Tang navy on the coast caused a large number of refugees, and all the people closer to the coast had begun to flee in large quantities. Now someone recruited and provided land for them to cultivate was a good thing for these people. Although the strong laborers at home had to become soldiers and work hard for the government, at this moment, for these people, the roads to choose were really limited.
Moreover, the conditions given by Xiang Zhen are indeed very attractive.
When serving in a soldier, you can get exempted from taxes and farming. Whether you are a fraud or not, it is always countless times better than the conditions for landlords and gentry to recruit people.
It’s not that no one recruits these refugees and becomes tenants, which is another choice for them. However, if they have to farm for the gentry and landlords, they have to bear all kinds of taxes and labor service by themselves. In this way, they will be afraid that they will not even have enough food for a year. If a bad luck encounters a bad year, they will be burdened with heavy debts. At that time, it is not uncommon to become a slave and sell their children.
In contrast, the conditions given by Xiang Zhen are like a great gospel.
However, the conditions for recruiting people in Xiang Zhen are also extremely harsh.
Among every ten families in exile, at most one or two can meet all the requirements of Xiangzhen.
The selected people followed the officials happily to Xiangzhen Manor. The unselected people continued their wandering journey sadly and miserably. Their final way out was still the things in the hands of those landlords, gentry and wealthy families.
Because when they really couldn't survive, they had nothing else to sell except for themselves.
Xiang Zhen was in a good mood today because the first group of people had entered his manor. Now these people are logging wood, mowing grass, and building simple thatched cottages next to the land they were allocated to them.
Wang You and the others did not disappoint his hopes. The first batch of more than a thousand men who came in were all powerful and honest and obedient. Only such people were suitable to be trained as qualified soldiers.
These more than a thousand families can fill this manor, but it doesn’t matter. As the eldest son of Xiang, he was the second-person in Lingnan for a long time. Although he is in a downturn, he still has a lot of property under his name. He has five or six manors like this. Although he is less than his goal, the lean camel is bigger than a horse, and there are always some people who are willing to rely on. Wang You’s Wang family, although reluctant, because Wang You’s tied it too tightly, he could only grit his teeth and take out some land and property to support Xiang Zhen.
Of course, this does not prevent them from hugging Xiang Yu and Xiang Jun's thighs, who are now in power.
But now, I still grit my teeth and support Xiang Zhen. One is the stakeholders who have long been inseparable from Xiang Zhen, and the other is the small families who wanted to curry favor with but could not.
Xiang Zhen is willing to refuse these speculators and cold-burning players. He now needs money, land, and a lot of investment in the early stage. He generously made promises to these people, and he is also ready to repay these people after they regain power, and of course, he will also punish some people heavily.
Some people come up, and some people will inevitably go down.
This is an unchanging iron rule.
A fast horse ran up the hillside quickly. Looking at the person coming, Xiang Zhen frowned and found that it was Wang You.
I'm afraid it's not good news.
"General, news came from Lu Feng." Wang turned over and dismounted and rushed to Xiang Zhen.
"Didn't succeed?" Xiang Zhen asked.
"It's a success." Wang You's face looked ugly. "But the price was too high. More than a thousand officers and soldiers of the Northern Tang Navy who came ashore were wiped out, but we lost nearly two thousand cavalry and nearly two thousand government soldiers. I heard that almost every family in Lufeng County was mourning, and there were also sorrows in Guangzhou."
"How could this happen?" Xiang Zhen shouted. "How could more than a thousand navy officers and soldiers cause such a huge loss?"
"They were lured to the range of warship cannons by these Northern Tang naval officers and soldiers, and then the Northern Tang naval army carried out cover shooting, regardless of the enemy's coverage shooting." Wang said again.
"Silly!" Xiang Zhen was furious: "Your post-war report and I clearly reminded them of the power of the enemy's guns. Why were they not guarding at all?"
Wang smiled again and said, "They thought we were making excuses for failure. But that's fine, everyone understands what happened to us in the Battle of Eyue?"
Xiang Zhen was extremely angry. Although they would suffer less defeat in this way, the two thousand cavalry lost this time were the real elite of Xiang's family!
While the two were speechless, a muffled thunder suddenly came from the horizon.
The two of them looked up suddenly.
Especially Wang You, he is too familiar with this sound.
"Architecture, artillery of Northern Tang." He shouted.
"Guangzhou Port!" Xiang Zhen suddenly turned his head and looked towards Guangzhou Port.
The Northern Tang Navy actually began to shell Guangzhou Port in an open manner.
Chapter completed!