Chapter 214: The Pain of the Liao Soldiers

On the vast grassland, the powerful cavalry army galloped forward and came to the front of the surrendered Liao army in an instant. The huge pressure made the Liao soldiers who had no war horses almost breathless.

Xiao Die, who had already taken several guards to the army, looked timidly at Hua Liehan surrounded by troops, hurriedly jumped off the horse, fell to the grassland, kowtowed to Luo Dacheng respectfully, and said, "The defeated general Xiao Die, pay homage to the great khan!"

Luo Dacheng stopped the horse and the army of thousands of cavalry behind him also stopped the pace of progress. Although the army of ten thousand people was moving forward, there was no noise. The stern momentum shocked Xiao Di even more and he lay on the grass and did not dare to raise his head.

Hearing the sound of horse hooves in his ears, Xiao Die looked up slightly, and saw a war horse walking towards him, gradually approaching ten steps ahead and stopped. Xiao Die hurriedly kowtowed again and said, "The defeated general Xiao Die leads more than 14,000 soldiers, beg for surrender to the Khan, and asks the Khan for permission!"

Luo Dacheng didn't say much, but raised his hand and said calmly: "Acceptance surrender!"

With a light wave, hundreds of cavalry rushed to the Liao army, shouted loudly, and ordered them to put down their weapons, follow the army of Hualie's troops to live in the camps to the west.

More than 10,000 cavalry gathered around, making the Liao soldiers feel suffocated. Under their invisible oppression, they had to put down their weapons and surrender to Hualie's tribe.

On the flat and vast grassland, in front of the strong camp, more than 14,000 Liao soldiers were lined up in an orderly manner, put down their weapons, lined up and walked forward dejectedly, following the guidance of the cavalry of Hualie, and headed towards the camp far away from the northwest.

Even if there were dissatisfied Liao soldiers, they would not dare to resist under the surveillance of countless cavalrymen in Hualie. The number of elite cavalry surrounded them was not less than that of them, but their combat effectiveness was much stronger. Now that they had left the protection of the camp, so many cavalry could destroy their queues with just one charge, and slaughter all the Liao soldiers on the spot.

Seeing so many Liao soldiers surrendering, Zhao Liangchen was in agitation and his face changed.

Forced more than 14,000 Liao soldiers to surrender on the spot, which has never happened in the history of the Song army fighting against the Liao Kingdom. Now the remote grassland tribes did it easily, and he couldn't help but be shocked.

Although he knew that Luo Dacheng was demonstrating to him and asked him to see the great power of the Hualie army and the great results, Zhao Liangchen had to admit that the military strength of the Hualie army was already surprisingly powerful.

In this way, it seems that the mission of my trip is not so easy to complete. Perhaps I should increase the promise to be able to reach an alliance.

However, in his own identity, it was not enough to make too much promise to give Hua Lie's tribe more annual monies, which made Zhao Liangchen sigh secretly, and his eyes became slightly sad.

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Among the towering mountains, Luoda established Magao Mountain, looking at the mines at the foot of the mountain, where there are a large number of slave workers diligently mining deposits, loading pieces of ore on carriages and transporting them out of the mountain.

This is the iron ore found by Han craftsmen in the southern area of ​​Xizhubu, in the Altai Mountains, and is now organizing mining.

Those slave workers were actually captured from small tribes nearby that refused to surrender. This is a very normal thing for the slaughter. If they do not surrender, they are enemies. If they are captured as slaves, it is a custom of mutual war between hostile tribes.

Beside Luo Dacheng, a large number of cavalry were loyally guarding him, and some Han craftsmen also followed him, looking respectful.

Luo Dacheng pondered for a while, looked up and asked, "The coal mine was found, has it been?"

An old Han man hurriedly bowed and said, "Yes, look for the location mentioned by the Khan, and finally found it. Those black stones can really burn fire, and they are all the same as the Khan said!"

"Is the iron ore in the coal mine enough? If you give you another 20,000 or 30,000 people, can you increase the output of both ores, and help me build an iron smelting farm and create a large number of steel tools?" Luo Dacheng stared at the old craftsman and asked slowly.

The old craftsman hurriedly bowed and said respectfully: "Don't worry, Dashan, although the villain is old, mining and iron smelting are still in progress. Meng Dashan values ​​it, and the villain must do his best to share the worries of Dashan!"

Luo Dacheng nodded and smiled, looking at the large area of ​​minerals in the mountains, he was slightly stunning.

The lack of iron on the grassland was originally a constraint on outward expansion and development. If you always rely on trade to supplement the steel you need, not only the cost is high, but it is also easy to get stuck in the business roads and roads by Song and Liao countries, and cannot transport enough steel to provide combat consumption.

Now, since there are iron ore and coal mines, and the two deposits are not far apart, an iron smelting field can be built on a flat place outside the mountain and a large amount of steel will be continuously refined for use by the Hualie army.

However, this place is a little far from the Hualie headquarters camp, and it is separated by a large grassland and rugged mountains. The journey to transport iron tools to the north may be a bit troublesome.

It seems that we must step up our control over the entire Xizhubu and invade the Altai Mountains to the south, destroy or subdue all small tribes in this area. We must completely control the large grasslands of Xizhubu and the entire Altai Mountains in our own hands!

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The camps on the grassland were surrounded by wooden fences, but the ones living inside were not the slogans, but the captured Liao soldiers.

These days, the Liao soldiers could only eat half hungry and half full, so as not to have nothing to do when they are full, suddenly hurt people, or have the intention to escape.

But even if they really did this, they would not be able to escape from the grassland. First of all, there was no horse and all weapons were confiscated. After a strict body search, everyone didn't even have a knife at their hands, let alone resisting the powerful cavalry of Hualie.

Even if they were lucky enough to steal one or two horses and flee eastward, they would not go far on the grassland. They would encounter the cavalry explorers of Hualie's troops spread all over the grassland. They would blow the horns and summon all the cavalry within a radius of dozens of miles. More than a dozen cavalrymen were besieging the one or two fleeing Liao soldiers, so they would naturally not lose. The half-starved Liao soldiers had no other way out except to surrender.

When the Liao soldiers were captured, they would naturally be beheaded in public or torture them, which made those Liao soldiers who wanted to escape frightened and completely dispelled the idea of ​​escaping.

These days, they were not idle. They were questioned one by one by a group of Liao soldiers who had selected to recognize words, and they all told their original address, family situation and professional expertise, and recorded them carefully.

All the recorded information was sent to the top. After being handled by the staff of the Hualie Ministry, the Liao soldiers were separated and each carried out different disposals.

Like those Liao soldiers who had some money at home, they were transferred to the camp where the Liao generals lived. Although they were still closely guarded, they already had hope of going home. As long as the family received the letter of help from them and took out a lot of money to redeem themselves, they had hope of being redeemed and would no longer have to live the painful life of prisoners and slaves.

Those Liao soldiers with specialties will also be treated better. The most important thing is the blacksmiths. They are all arranged to smaller camps and can get good food and drink treatment. They will be allowed to pass on their skills to some teenagers who come to learn and do not hide their own personal information.

The end of hiding privately and not teaching them real skills is very miserable. Sometimes, Han blacksmiths come to check. If they find that they are teaching something obviously wrong, these Liao soldiers will be hung up and whipped cruelly, and then sent away, and will not appear on the grassland again.

The Han blacksmiths would also compete with them to see if these Khitans had a better solution. Although some of the Liao soldiers who could make irons deliberately hide their true abilities, they also developed many useful skills, which greatly enhanced the technical advantages of the Hualie tribe in iron smelting and weapon manufacturing.

The Liao soldiers who could write were also treated well, because in the Hualie tribe, there were too few people who could write Khitan characters. Although these people were captured from the enemy country and needed close monitoring, they were also used to manage the surrendered Liao soldiers, and some of them were sent to assist in the contact with the Khitan.

The remaining Liao soldiers who had no special skills or could only grazing and killing people were regarded as strong slaves and were sent to the iron ore and coal mines in the Altai Mountains in the southern part of Xizubu, to carry out arduous mining and mining work.

If you are lucky, you can also build an iron smelting site outside the mountain and help the members of the Hualie ministry to carry out iron smelting and weapons manufacturing. However, if you find any slack work and sabotage, you will be sent to the most dangerous coal mine immediately. A large amount of coal will be sent every day, and no one will care about it.

For the rebellious Liao soldiers, the Hualie troops' method was to suppress them cruelly and bloodyly, and they used the most cruel method to kill them in front of other Liao soldiers to deter these cruel Liao soldiers.

The obedient Liao soldiers can get food and survive in iron and coal mines with difficulty, and silently enjoy the happiness of survival.

The Liao generals were in a slightly better situation, but they were locked up and waited for their family to pay for redemption. If there were no relatives to redeem them, they would have to be locked up all the time and help the members of the Hualie tribe do some miscellaneous work, and their lives were very depressed.
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