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"Let them go and hunt down the Yue people,"
"They deserved to die."
Li Gong praised, "King Liang is wise."
"These barbarians have been intimidated by the Great Liang's airships and fire-based weapons,"
"My family is all in the Thirty-Six Caves,"
"They wanted to escape, but they didn't dare to."
"The only way to atone for our sins is to hunt down the Yue people with all our might."
The situation in Yongzhou City is now largely settled.
Hundreds of elephants went berserk.
In less than half an hour, they had razed the city to the ground.
Only a few dozen elephants remained patrolling the city walls.
Those Yue people who didn't jump over the wall have been trampled into mincemeat.
After the spaceship saw that there wasn't a single intact building left in the city...
Then it flew towards the barbarian camp of the Thirty-Six Caves.
After the barbarians saw the spaceship overhead,
He quickly began cutting off his own head.
Some cave lords did not want to die.
He wanted to lead his troops to escape.
But no one was willing to follow them in fighting against the Liang army that was eyeing them covetously.
Whether voluntary or forced,
In less than half an hour,
Three thousand six hundred heads were sent out of the camp.
It included the heads of the lords of the thirty-six caves.
After Zhao Yuan had it inspected,
He then appointed thirty-six of his personal guards to serve as the new chieftains of the thirty-six villages.
Chapter 1812 Elephant Troops
As for the three thousand six hundred heads...
Xu Guanzhong then proposed building a mound of skulls outside Yongzhou city.
To intimidate the various ethnic groups and barbarians in Guangxi.
The enemies both inside and outside Yongzhou have been dealt with.
Xu Guanzhong looked at the elephants on the city wall.
"We must rebuild Yongzhou,"
"We need to deal with these elephants first."
Li Gong nodded and said, "Lingnan has always been plagued by wild elephants."
"These war elephants of the Vietnamese Ly Dynasty don't seem to have much fear of people,"
"If we let them escape into the wilderness,"
"It will probably be more harmful to the people than wild elephants."
Zhao Yuan really had no intention of protecting these elephants.
Elephants became rare in later generations.
Elephants and tigers are rampant in this era.
They harass and harm the people everywhere.
An elephant can eat the crops of an acre of land in a day.
Tigers, on the other hand, attack humans and livestock.
The Song Dynasty even issued a special reward for capturing tigers.
Kill a tiger,
The imperial court would bestow rewards upon them.
We cannot allow these ferocious beasts to roam in packs.
Let the people starve to death.
"Then kill them all."
"Tonight we're having elephant meat."
Zhao Yuan made this decision very easily.
However, hunting elephants is not easy.
Finally, the main force deployed its naval crossbows to advance step by step.
They didn't kill all the elephants in the city until it got dark.
All the Vietnamese soldiers hiding in the city were also captured.
Of the 70,000 Vietnamese soldiers, more than 40,000 were trampled to death by elephants.
Few Vietnamese soldiers survived in the city.
Most of the Vietnamese soldiers on the city wall jumped into the moat.
However, the Great Liang only sent 15,000 Yue slaves to the rear.
The soldiers still helped relieve the pain of the wounded Vietnamese soldiers.
That night, the army lit bonfires on the ruins of Yongzhou City.
The cooks used every method they could think of.
They are making all kinds of elephant meat.
Hundreds of elephants yielded hundreds of thousands of kilograms of elephant meat.
The barbarian soldiers outside the city all received some.
After the thirty-six personal guards took office
They then gave the barbarian soldiers a close-up demonstration of the fire and thunder.
The explosive power of the fire bombs terrified the barbarian soldiers, who then prostrated themselves in worship once more.
In addition to the myth of King Liang descending from heaven,
Many barbarian soldiers mistook the Liang King's personal guards for heavenly soldiers.
They carefully served the new chieftain.
Some even accused the former chieftain's confidant of harboring treacherous intentions.
He then ordered his thirty-six personal guards to kill another group of people.
They quickly gained control of the troops in the thirty-six villages.
The thirty-six guards were all ordinary guards.
Neither the sergeant nor the centurion wanted to become the chieftain of this village.
These thirty-six people were also mentioned by Zhao Yuan, who said that the imperial court would soon relocate people to Guangxi.
After Guangxi develops,
Only then did he willingly become the chief of this village.
The population of the Thirty-Six Caves is not small.
Large tribes can even have tens of thousands of people.
However, the chieftain of the personal guard was still not interested.
from their perspective,
How many people below are also barbarians?
They became barbarian chieftains.
Let alone comparing them to the personal guards of the Prince of Liang.
Compared to ordinary Liang soldiers,
They all felt ashamed.
However, Zhao Yuan felt that being a chieftain was better than being a soldier.
So he gave this job, which he considered a good one, to his personal guard who had a long face.
Everyone eat as much as they want.
They didn't even finish eating all the elephant meat.
There are barbarian soldiers outside the city.
The soldiers did not drink alcohol.
Of course, there wasn't much alcohol in the army either.
Zhao Yuan saw that even Li Kui couldn't eat anymore.
Only then did he lead everyone into the central command tent to discuss matters.
"The invading forces of the Vietnamese Ly Dynasty have been completely wiped out,"
"Next, we will march south,"
"We have wiped out the Viet Ly Dynasty and eliminated future troubles,"
"However, there are still many barbarians causing trouble in Guangxi,"
"I prefer General Sun Li to be the General of Guangxi to stabilize the rear."
"What is General Sun's opinion?"
There are many tribes and people of various ethnicities in Guangxi.
The Thirty-Six Caves were merely inhabited by barbarians in the Yongzhou area.
After the Ly Dynasty of Vietnam and the Thirty-Six Caves rebelled in Guangxi,
Many barbarians in other prefectures also took the opportunity to plunder.
For the Liang Dynasty, the Viet Ly Dynasty was...
They were just small, barbarian countries.
New recruits alone would have been enough to wipe out the Viet Ly Dynasty.
In comparison,
It's still more difficult to wipe out the various remnants of the defeated army within the country.
Therefore, Zhao Yuan marched south.
Luan Tingyu, Qin Ming, Huyan Zhuo, and Shi Wengong,
They were respectively appointed as generals in Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong.
Let them quell the various disloyal forces and stabilize the rear.
That way, he can better command troops on the front lines.
Of the 50,000 veterans, only Hua Rong's unit remained.
However, Hua Rong's troops were cavalry.