The most arrogant in history

Chapter 192 The past of Liu Da'er.

Sima Yu led the defeated army in a panic, set fire to his own camp, and continued to retreat towards the mountains and forests in the south.

Xue Ju and Huangfu Lin, each with a thousand light cavalry, pursued closely.

Qin Erwu attacked from the rear, but was a step too late. He only cut off the rear of Sima Yu's defeated army, beheaded 300 people, and captured more than 200 people.

Sima Yu still had more than 3,000 soldiers left. He abandoned his horses and armor and fled over the mountains.

Ye Kun ordered to stop the pursuit, rescue the wounded, clean up the battlefield and bury the bodies.

After the war, it was found that Xue Ju's troops suffered the greatest casualties, with more than 100 killed and more than 300 seriously injured.

Ye Kun's side was lucky because there was no close combat and only about ten people were wounded by arrows, two of whom were seriously injured.

Yao Caidie's female soldiers were all unharmed, but a few of them sprained their ankles.

Military doctors and nurses rescued the wounded on the spot, and Yao Caidie brought the female soldiers to help, playing a huge role.

Ye Kun led his troops to put out the fire in Sima Yu’s camp, and even rescued the granary, seizing more than 100,000 kilograms of grain.

The enemy troops on both the east and west fronts also completely withdrew, leaving behind a large village with some things in it.

Sima Yu's thousands of war horses were almost all lost, and the armor, weapons, and bows and arrows of tens of thousands of people were scattered all over the ground.

Ye Kun didn't think much of these broken weapons, but he could take them back to make farm tools and other iron tools.

Xue Ju was very excited and suggested:

"General Ye, Sima Yu's elite troops were exhausted in this battle. We can take advantage of the situation and head south to capture Sima Yu's territory in one fell swoop!"

Ye Kun had promised Xue Ju before that after he conquered Jiaozhou, he would make Xue Ju the prefect of Jiaozhou.

Ye Kun thought for a moment and said, "First, clean up the battlefield and rest the troops. Then, I will let General Qin Erwu stay and cooperate with you to pursue Sima Yu. But don't be greedy. After retaking Shiquanzhai, you can only advance 50 miles and stop when you see a good opportunity. As for taking Jiaozhou, you have to take your time and don't rush."

It is indeed possible to capture the northwestern part of Jiaozhou now, but the weather is too hot and it is not suitable to send troops.

Moreover, after taking it down, the management cost is too high.

When Zhuge Liang conquered the south, he used both kindness and force, and employed both suppression and appeasement. He used a policy of appeasement to influence the soldiers and civilians in the south and win their hearts and minds.

Ye Kun knew that he did not have the strength of Zhuge Liang at the moment.

Moreover, I don’t have the prestige and ability of Prime Minister Zhuge, so forget it and wait a little longer.

Xue Ju was a little unhappy, but he didn't dare to disobey, so he had to organize his soldiers and continue to clean up the battlefield.

The biggest gain from this battle was three hundred war horses. The rest of the horses died and could only be eaten for meat.

There were also a lot of miscellaneous armor, swords, guns, bows and arrows.

Ye Kun left the usable weapons, armor, and food to Xue Ju, Wu Xuan and others, and took the unusable scraps back with him.

Some things can be repaired and used to equip the militia.

Three days later, Ye Kun led the team back.

The others followed, escorting supplies and 700 prisoners.

Along the way, Yao Caidie was very excited and sang loudly with the female soldiers, her voice shaking the sky:

"The poems about the frontiers of war and iron cavalry express the true feelings; generation after generation of good sons and daughters sing and march to the frontier..."

Lu Erniu and Yao Caidie also came into contact and had a very pleasant chat.

Ye Kun took the opportunity to call Caidie and said with a smile:

"Cai Die, I think Lu Kaijiang is pretty good. I want to train him to be a great general in the future. This guy just can't read. You should teach him more when you have time."

Yao Caidie frowned: "What if he doesn't listen?"

"Then beat him until he obeys!"

"okay!"

Yao Caidie is very happy.

In order to publicize his victory, show off his military power, and stabilize people's hearts, Ye Kun also asked the soldiers to shout along the way: "Lord Ye has defeated Sima Yu, beheaded 8,000 enemy soldiers, and captured 5,000 alive!"

In Dongba County, people lined the streets to welcome them, cheered for the victory, and comforted the soldiers.

Ye Kun saw that the entire Dongba County had won the support of the people, and the passion and enthusiasm of the people were aroused.

A solid foundation will be of great benefit to future management.

Ye Kun can use the grassroots people and militia to fight against the gentry, disintegrate the gentry's power, and eliminate the middlemen!

The aristocratic families and wealthy people were still a stubborn cancer in the south of the Great Ding Kingdom. During the Three Kingdoms period, whether it was Jingzhou, Eastern Wu, or Yizhou later controlled by Liu Bei, they were all restrained by the local aristocratic families and wealthy people.

For example, in Jingzhou, as soon as Liu Biao died, the two major aristocratic families, the Cai family and the Kuai family, immediately took control of the government of Jingzhou and surrendered to Cao Cao.

For example, after Liu Bei entered Chengdu, he married a widow; because the widow's surname was Wu and her family was from the Yizhou aristocracy, Liu Bei couldn't afford to offend her, so he held his nose and married her, and finally made Wu the queen.

According to calculations, Wu must have been in her early thirties at that time. Could she be more fragrant than Sun Shangxiang?

It was just because Liu Dal had no choice but to get in the car after being kidnapped by the officials in Shu.

Ye Kun’s target is also Yizhou, so he conducts a pilot project in Dongba County to let his tentacles penetrate into the grassroots level in order to counter the gentry!

The pilot project in Dongba County was successful, and after conquering Yizhou, this model can be quickly promoted.

This time, we took the female soldiers to fight and made them happy, which was a plan for the future. These female soldiers had been to the battlefield and had strong psychological qualities. They would be the backbone of the grassroots in the future.

After returning to Dongba County, Ye Kun rewarded all the female soldiers who went on the expedition, giving each of them a ring-handled sword, a piece of silk cloth, five strings of copper coins, and lifetime tax exemption.

These female soldiers were also organized to visit militia companies in various towns and villages to give speeches and cooperate with art troupes to boost everyone's morale.

The high-intensity motivation has fully mobilized the enthusiasm of the grassroots.

In the arsenal, several bronze cannons have been made and are waiting to be tested.

Ye Kun built a firearms testing site and took military generals, relevant craftsmen, Lao He and others to participate in the artillery test activities.

For safety reasons, the first generation of cannons were made bulky.

Moreover, Ye Kun not only made the red cannon, but also the falconet cannon.

The body of the falconet cannon is divided into two parts. The front is a barrel, and the rear recoil is loaded with gunpowder and then combined with the barrel as one.

Installing gunpowder from the rear is fast and easy to operate, and can suppress the enemy's fast-charging light cavalry.

The red cannons are all front barrels, which first release gunpowder and then cannonballs. Although they are powerful, they are slow and lack mobility. On large-scale battlefields, they cannot suppress cavalry.

Firearms were very advanced in the Ming Dynasty. As early as when Zhu Yuanzhang fought against Chen Youliang, firearms were used in large quantities.

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, more than 2,000 red-coated cannons have been cast, as well as the Fire Dragon Emerging from Water, the River Dragon, the Ship-bottom Cannon, the Divine Fire Flying Crow, the Three-eyed Fire Gun, and so on.

In the end, because of their superstition about high-power and long-range firearms, they gave up the research and manufacture of light firearms, and finally lost to the Qing cavalry.

What’s funny is that the Qing Empire also developed in the same way. It gave up the research on light artillery shells and tried hard to make red cannons. The largest cannon weighed 7,000 kilograms. In the end, it was defeated by the Western powers.

In the first experiment, Ye Kun made stone cannonballs and hollow cannonballs made of bronze.

The hollow shells are filled with mud and river sand to increase the weight.

In theory, lead bullets are the best, but there is not so much lead material to waste.

After the cannon was set up, Ye Kun used sacks filled with sand to press down the base to prevent it from exploding. Even if it exploded, it would not be very powerful.

In addition, sandbags have a shock-absorbing effect, which is beneficial for the maintenance of the gun barrel.

Apply pine resin to the joint between the base and the barrel to strengthen the seal, and then use ropes to twist the two parts of the cannon together.

The fuse was very long. Ye Kun lit it and ran away, hiding behind the sandbag trench.

boom--!

There was a loud noise and the ground shook.

Smoke rose and stone shells flew out, drawing a perfect parabola in the sky.

If it can go off and the shells can be fired, it can be considered a preliminary success.

Of course, there is no problem with black powder activating cannonballs. Ye Kun used to play with firecrackers, and that little thing could send a small iron basin into the sky.

As for whether or not you can hit the intended target, that depends on metaphysics.

This type of smoothbore cannon has no accuracy at all. It can only ensure that the shells fly forward and will not turn around and hit itself.

The people participating in the experiment were all startled and then began to stare blankly.

Because everyone only heard a loud bang but didn't see its specific power, so they didn't know what this thing was used for.