Chapter 590 Return with a Full Load
According to the plan originally formulated by Sun Shaozong, after taking Wuerzhai and establishing his authority, the government troops should withdraw from the mountainous area in time, join forces with Xu Shouye's large force, and then wait for an opportunity to find the next target.
However, a piece of information that Ba Ke accidentally provided made Sun Shaozong change his mind temporarily.
According to Ba Ke, the chief of Waleng Village, Yahama, had just sent someone to order a batch of Tongjiu. Normally, Ba Ke should lead a team to deliver the wine within one or two days.
After learning the news, Sun Shaozong acted decisively and ordered Lu Jianxing to lead a group of troops, carrying the baggage and the rescued Han women, and march slowly behind.
Sun Shaozong and Shen Lian led the main force to advance quickly with light equipment. They arrived at Waleng Village at nightfall and pretended to be a team delivering wine to trick the village gate into opening.
After this, there was naturally another bloody massacre!
However, the strength of Waleng Village is much stronger than that of Wuer Village.
In addition, the canyon is vast, and although the government troops defeated the main force of Waleng Village in one fell swoop last night, they failed to completely eliminate its vitality.
Therefore, after the initial chaos, the remaining forces of Waleng Village were reunited under the call of the leader Yahamer.
After daybreak, Yahamer realized that the number of government troops was not large, and they even tried to regain control of the village gate.
It was for this reason that the government troops did not rush to retreat - if they retreated at this time, they would definitely be pursued by the Waleng Village, and even if they could successfully escape, they would probably suffer a lot of losses.
What's more, among the Waleng Village's troops, there are actually cavalrymen, which are rare among the mountain people!
Although the Yunnan horses are short and not known for their strength, they are still a threat that cannot be ignored to the government troops.
In view of this, Sun Shaozong decided to take advantage of the terrain of the canyon to first thwart the enemy's counterattack, leaving the barbarians of Waleng Village powerless and courageous to pursue the government troops.
Facts have once again proved that in a battle of this scale involving only a thousand people, Sun Shaozong is definitely a bug-level existence.
Although he couldn't really defeat a thousand men at once, and could at most kill two or three hundred people, he would probably be exhausted - but these days, how many armies could withstand a loss of 20% to 30% in a battle without being defeated?
Especially since these losses were caused by one person!
What's more, Sun Shaozong was not only brave in martial arts, but also well aware of the principle of shooting the horse first and capturing the leader first.
Therefore, the counterattack of Waleng Village lasted only two quarters of an hour and was completely declared a failure because the chieftain Yahama was captured alive by Sun Shaozong on the battlefield.
After capturing Yahamer, Sun Shaozong was no longer in a hurry to leave.
The captured prisoners were sent ahead to ask for the Han women who had been looted. Then, in the name of Yahama, they ordered the people of Waleng Village to hand over all the mules and horses for use by the government troops.
It was a coincidence that just as the mules and horses gathered in front of the village gate, the barbarians from Wuer Village happened to come.
After finding out that those who came were all old, weak and sick, Sun Shaozong was too lazy to go out personally. After instructing Shen Lian to deal with it, he continued to interrogate Yahamer, intending to get more information and inside stories of the Wuxi Barbarians from him.
Just at this moment, Ba Ke suddenly came over with a happy look on his face, carefully holding a wooden box in his hand. The design looked somewhat familiar.
"grown ups!"
Ba Ke said happily, "Just now, Balbei from Waleng Village sent an official seal, which is said to be the seal of the magistrate of Xuanfeng County."
A few months ago, when the Wuxi barbarians rebelled, they captured the provincial capital and two county towns, Xuanfeng County being one of them.
He Qingzhi, the magistrate of Xuanfeng County, summoned local militia to defend the city and fought to the death. Unfortunately, he was defeated and killed. He was posthumously awarded the title of "Xuanfeng County Master" by the court.
Now that he can get his official seal back, it can be considered a pleasant surprise.
Just as Sun Shaozong signaled Wang Zhen to keep the seal, a loud shouting and cursing came from outside the village gate.
It sounded as if Shen Lian had an argument with his officers.
Could it be because of competing for credit?
The 300 people who entered the mountain this time originally belonged to different camps, and it was not surprising that they had a conflict over merit.
Sun Shaozong naturally couldn't sit idly by and watch, so he ordered, "Wang Zhen, go out and ask, find out what's going on."
Wang Zhen followed the order and left the village. Not long after, he brought back a captain and a half-naked barbarian woman.
"grown ups!"
Wang Zhen stepped forward and reported: "This man's name is Yin Cheng. He just robbed a barbarian girl outside. He stripped her naked and pretended to be a Han Chinese who was captured. However, Captain Shen saw through his mistake on the spot, and that's when the argument started."
Upon hearing this, Sun Shaozong turned his gaze to Yin Cheng.
Yin Cheng trembled and knelt down involuntarily, saying with his head on the ground: "Please allow me to report this to you, sir! I ran into this woman twice in a row, and I thought it was fate given by God, so I was confused for a while."
It turned out that after this guy rushed out with Shen Lian, he saw Fatuna who was stunned on the spot at a glance.
He was drooling over this barbarian girl yesterday, but was stopped by Shen Lian and had to give up halfway.
Now that he has caught me red-handed again, how could I let him go?
That's why the farce just happened.
At this moment, he first used God as a banner, and then said indignantly: "Besides, you have also seen how the barbarians bully our Han women. Why can't we touch the barbarian women?!"
This is, of course, sophistry.
However, it is somewhat unrealistic to expect the government troops of that time to strictly control their lower bodies like the People's Liberation Army of later generations.
It would have been fine if the war was fierce and dangerous before, but now the most powerful Waleng Village among the Tongxi barbarians has become the fat meat on the chopping board. Within a radius of 100 miles, there is no force that can pose a threat to the government army.
As the saying goes, when you are well fed and warmed, you will desire money. In this situation, if I refute verbally and forbid my officers and soldiers to "fight back", although they may not dare to disobey orders openly, they will probably still feel unhappy in their hearts.
This time, the purpose of going south was to fight a large force with a small force, so the morale of the army was naturally the top priority...
Of course, even with these concerns, Yin Cheng’s behavior is absolutely intolerable.
Thinking of this, Sun Shaozong kicked Yin Cheng hard, knocking her to the ground, and shouted, "It's fine if you just robbed a barbarian girl, but you stripped her naked and lied that she was my Han sister. What's your intention? Do you want her to be humiliated by you in the name of Han?!"
Yin Cheng never thought that Sun Shaozong would attack him on this point. He was dumbfounded at the time and didn't know how to refute.
"You are in danger now, so I will spare you for now. I will settle the score with you after we get down the mountain!"
Sun Shaozong said, and then gave a decisive order: "Bake, you must immediately send a message to the people of Waleng Village and ask them to immediately hand over 30 young and beautiful women, otherwise the decision of the government troops to withdraw from Waleng Village will be cancelled!"
"I obey your orders!"
When Ba Ke took the order without hesitation, Sun Shaozong pointed at Fatuna and said, "Put this woman and the other women from Waleng Village into the miscellaneous service camp to take care of the injured soldiers!"
It is said that they will be assigned to the menial service camp, but if it is just to take care of the injured soldiers, why should they choose those who are young and beautiful?
Therefore, the officers and soldiers around him all understood what he meant and were extremely excited, except Yin Cheng, who looked as if he had lost both his wife and his soldiers.
By now, everyone in Waleng Village has been frightened by the government troops. Even their own leader doesn't dare to rescue them, so how dare they defy the intimidation of the government troops?
In just half an hour, thirty barbarian women were brought before the government troops.
In order to satisfy the government troops, they even gave them thirty sets of gold and silver jewelry as a gift, dressing up the women like peacocks spreading their tails.
noon.
After having a hearty meal in Waleng Village, Sun Shaozong gave an order and the government troops drove groups of mules, horses and women out of the village in a bustling crowd.
