Chapter 298: The fortress blocks the way There is no labor to help you work, and some officials don't want their people to die - after all, this is related to their performance evaluation, if a place dies a large number of people during the labor period, even if you can complete the task perfectly, then the boss will not give you a very good evaluation, let alone the promotion of the job title, whether you can keep your current position is not certain.
At this time, a large number of labor forces that are not afraid of death are needed to replenish them, and among all the free labor forces, slaves should be the least valuable - so a large number of slaves are sent to various construction sites, and when the people die, someone will report to the officials, but no one will say anything when they die.
This is why the job of guarding prisoners is so popular, because many slaves are converted from prisoners of war.
And although the prisoners of war did not have much credit, they had oil and water.
Especially a large number of captives, such as the current one, are hundreds of thousands of captives at one time, and the statistical care of these captives is up to them.
If you deduct one or two thousand at will, who can know, one or two thousand captives are inconspicuous in an army of 400,000, but even if it is calculated according to one effort of ten yuan, it is 20,000 yuan-even if these 20,000 yuan are divided equally among the brothers below, it is enough for each person to get a consistent amount, which is equivalent to their salary for several months.
And you don't have to be nervous about withholding and selling prisoners for smuggling, because this is tacitly tolerated in the army - guarding prisoners of war is hard work, and if you don't allow people to scavenge a little oil and water, it will be really excessive.
Of course, you can't go too far, you can't be too greedy, 400,000 captives are greedy for half of it, then you really want to die, and no one will say anything if you kill you.
But it's impossible for ordinary people to do such stupid things.
"Then so be it, Duhe, you stay and hand over to General Li, and we will lead people to move on."
Capturing the flag and beheading the commander, forcing the army in the barracks to surrender is only half of Li Zhen's goal, but he plans to leave all the Zhenla army here, after all, although it is a 400,000 army, but in fact, there are only a hundred thousand in the barracks, and the rest are either killed in the chaos, or they are lost in the vast mountains at night, or they take advantage of the chaos to escape - most of them are new recruits.
"Yes."
Du He nodded in response, turned his head and began to handle the handover with Li Yuanzhang.
"Let's go too."
"Yes."
The crowd agreed.
"This time, we must leave all the Zhenla army behind, and we must not let one go."
"Yes."
It is basically impossible for the 400,000 army to stay, but it is as easy as digging for something here in Li Zhen's place - you must know that this is a mountainous area.
So where did he get his confidence?
In fact, the reason why Li Zhen has such self-confidence is because when he carefully studied the maps and intelligence of this area, he found that the terrain of this generation is very interesting - although this area is full of mountains, there are not many connections with the outside world, only five, and one of them is a waterway.
So this road is actually impassable.
That is to say, there are only four roads leading to the border of Zhenla, and two of these four roads are small roads, uneven, rugged and difficult to walk, not to mention, there are many cliffs along the way, and if you are not careful, you will fall off the cliff and break your bones - such a road is very dangerous even during the day, let alone at night?
Li Zhen only sent a few dozen people to guard these two roads - he was too much.
As for the remaining two main roads, the situation is much better, and the walking army should not be a problem.
But one of the main roads needs to cross the river, the river is turbulent, and there is only a huge bridge to communicate the two banks, which means that as long as this bridge is blown up, the function of this road will be half wasted, and this road is to the north of Chenla, Bafa Valman should not take this, so there is basically no need to worry - of course, there may be a lot of routs passing here, so just in case, Li Zhen also arranged a thousand people here to guard.
There was only the last one, the road that the Chenla army had taken, and it was not only the best of all, but also led directly to Angkor Thom, the kingdom of Chenla, and it would have been the best choice if Bafa Walman and the routs had chosen the path they had chosen first.
In fact, it was the only narrow part of the road at this time, where tens of thousands of Jinla soldiers had gathered, and in front of these people was a fortress made of a mixture of cement and stone by the young army, cutting off the entire road.
At this time, the side of the fortress facing the battlefield was already crowded with a large number of corpses, all of which were routed by Zhenla, and there were also some artillery pits, obviously they had been attacked several times before, but the cannons of the young army made them suffer a lot, and sometimes they were bombarded by the cannons before they even rushed to the front of the fortress.
What's even worse is that after such a long time of adjustment, there is no panic on the faces of the routs, replaced by a blank - they themselves don't know what they have been through, let alone why they are here, they only know that they have experienced a big chaos, and then they lose their minds, and they will appear here when they come to their senses.
Some people recalled what they had done before, and suddenly covered their faces and cried loudly, because they found that they had actually killed their robes, and they were even more horrified to find that their own brothers had been killed by themselves, and some people were out of control at that time......
Emotions are contagious, and some people's crying and wailing can't help but lead most people's crying and wailing, and some even shame to pull out a knife and commit suicide.
"My lord, that's the case."
On a small plateau not far from this narrow place, Zhu Yunrang was reporting the situation to Bafa Valman, and after introducing the information, Zhu Yunrang persuaded again: "King, the target on this road is too obvious, Li Zhen's army is likely to track it down, let's choose another road." ” Bafa Valman categorically vetoed, saying: "No, maybe what you said has a point, but the remaining roads are really not suitable."
There are all dangers, and the Tang army only needs to seal and hold there in advance, and we can only sit and wait for death......
I can't gamble, and I don't have the money to gamble.
There is only this way, if our strength is strong enough, we may be able to break through this line of defense, as long as we rush through here, then we will leap with the sea, and the sky will be high and the birds will fly. ” "What does the king mean......"
A trace of horror flashed in Zhu Yun's eyes, if it was really what he thought, then a lot of people would have to die, maybe these soldiers would die here......