Chapter 150 Come for Peace (4k)
When King Gaoche announced his surrender, Su Ze finally felt relieved.
Looking around, the soldiers' faces were filled with joy of victory, but Su Ze knew very well that he had only won by a small margin.
The cavalry's circling formation was almost unable to be maintained. In the final analysis, it was because these cavalrymen had not had enough training time. Although many of them drew their bows and shot arrows, they did not use them carefully. The reason why they were able to cause such heavy casualties was purely because they took advantage of the Gaoche people's poor equipment and they were in a panic when they fled.
If the enemy had been more organized and not been so panicked when fleeing, it might have been Su Ze's central army that would have been dispersed.
In addition, due to insufficient troops, the army left a gap on the west side, causing many Gaoche people to escape through the gap. However, it was this gap that achieved the situation of "surrounding three sides and missing one side" in the art of war, which made the Gaoche people lose the motivation to fight to the death. After the army collapsed, they quickly chose to surrender.
Of course, the biggest factor in winning this battle was his deliberate planning. Su Ze took advantage of the right time and place to complete a perfect ambush.
Taking inventory of the casualties in this battle, our side's casualties were also frighteningly low. The main losses on the central army's side were due to insufficient training, the cavalry's riding skills were not sophisticated enough, or teammates were accidentally injured due to nervousness before the battle.
On the armored cavalry squad's side, the [Reckless Armored Cavalry] squad lost three top-quality horses because of their excessive charge, and one armored cavalryman accidentally fell off his horse and was seriously injured.
[Calm Armored Cavalry] This team was led by Su Jing without any casualties. Su Ze could only sigh that the orange followers were indeed orange followers. The system store would be refreshed soon. He only hoped that after this store refresh, he could get more orange followers.
There was also an accidental factor that enabled the Gaoche people to surrender so quickly.
Yu Jin, Gao Huan and five others fought back on the other side of the river. It was not known whether Hou Jing was lucky or had good eyesight, but he actually spotted the figure of the Gaoche King among a group of Gaoche cavalry.
At this time, the Gaoche army was in chaos, but the Gaoche king was still protected by his personal guards. However, he was killed by Hou Jing. The Gaoche king's horse was frightened and he fell off the horse and was captured by Hou Jing.
The King of Gaoche was captured and soon announced his surrender. Su Ze finally ended the battle before his own army collapsed and achieved this glorious victory!
Only after the [strictly enforcing the law military judge] reported the battle results to Su Ze did Su Ze immediately lead his personal guards to accept prisoners, reorganize the troops, and deal with the spoils!
Win!
Yu Jin looked at the river valley under the setting sun, and a feeling of unreality arose in his heart.
Su Ze actually defeated the Gaoche people with a smaller force.
When Hou Jing escorted the King of Gaoche to Su Ze's flag, the King of Gaoche raised his head and said, "Winning by deception, is this what the Wei Dynasty is? After I die, the Gaoche will never go to Luoyang again!"
King Gaoche spoke Chinese very well, so Su Ze did not get angry. Instead, he walked over with a smile, took out a knife and said, "King Gaoche, do you recognize this knife?"
King Gaoche took a look at it and saw that it was a gorgeous sword, and it also looked like a precious sword made in the style of the grassland.
Su Ze said: "This is the precious sword given to me by the King of Rourou."
The King of Gaoche was completely disheartened. It seemed that the Wei Dynasty was determined to support the Rouran people.
King Gaoche pretended to let Su Ze kill him at will. Su Ze took out a knife and cut the ropes that bound King Gaoche.
King Gaoche opened his eyes and saw Su Ze bowing and saying, "We, the Great Wei, are not here to defeat any party, but to mediate the grassland dispute!"
Now you can't deal with the King of Gaoche anymore? You defeated my army and said you came for peace?
Isn't this treating people as fools?
The Gaoche King blushed, and Su Ze continued, "Rouran and Gaoche are both vassals of the Wei Dynasty. You keep fighting, and as the suzerain, it is our duty to mediate."
The King of Gaoche could not say anything to refute. The power of mediating disputes among vassal states had been a part of the power of the powerful dynasty in the Central Plains since the Han Empire. Even in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, envoys were still used to deal with the disputes in the Western Regions. However, the Northern Wei Dynasty itself started out as a nomadic nation and rarely used this power.
The King of Gaoche asked, "You have defeated my army, how do you mediate?"
Su Ze said: "You, the Rouran and the Gaoche, have been fighting endlessly. To put it bluntly, you still lack a place to sit down and solve the problem. I defeated the king's army so that both sides can sit down and talk quietly to resolve the past hatred."
"I have a suggestion. We should hold regular conferences on the grasslands in the future to solve the problems between the two tribes."
General Assembly?
King Gaoche was stunned for a moment. In fact, there has always been a tradition of military tribal democracy on the grassland. Of course, this tradition has nothing to do with advancement. The emergence of this system was just a helpless compromise between the loose organizational form of the grassland tribes and the backward administrative capabilities.
Even for the grassland empires of later generations, it was not easy to achieve dictatorship on the grassland. They had to absorb the Han people's bureaucratic system and management talents to become an empire. The current Rouran and Gaoche are more than a little bit away from being an empire.
In other words, the grasslands of this era were relatively weak. In the later Turkic, Uighur, Liao, Jin, and Mongolian eras, Su Ze's military force was not enough to dominate the grasslands. You must know that the Jin cavalry often had hundreds of thousands of troops, and Su Ze's few thousand people could not even defeat a Meng'an.
There is a reason why the Rouran is called the weakest grassland civilization. The Gaoche, who could not even defeat the Rouran, were naturally even weaker.
So even though King Gaoche looks like he would rather die than surrender, Su Ze understands that he is just pretending and will surrender soon.
When King Gaoche heard that problems could be solved by holding a meeting, he still felt that it was too idealistic. If problems could be solved by holding a meeting, then what was the point of Rouran and Gaoche fighting for so many years?
Su Ze said: "Your Majesty, please listen to me and let me finish my proposal. This conference is not just about resolving disputes between tribes."
"The Rouran and Gaoche tribes were considered brothers, with the older one as the elder Khan and the younger one as the younger Khan. The two Khans still managed their own tribes. However, the elder Khan held a grassland meeting every year to jointly decide on major issues of the two tribes."
"The most important issues are conquest, sacrifice, pasture distribution and succession to the Khanate."
"In the future, issues such as succession to the Khanate will also require the approval of the entire assembly."
Hearing this, King Gaoche’s heart was moved.
The succession of Khanship was a big problem between the Rouran and the Gaoche.
The Rouran had not had a normal handover of the Khanate for fifty years, and the same was true for the Gaoche. Every time the Khanate was handed over, it would cause a bloody civil war. The Gaoche suffered losses several times because they were severely weakened in the war of succession to the Khanate and were taken advantage of by outsiders.
If this grassland assembly is really established and it is clearly stated that the transfer of the Khan throne requires unanimous approval, then the Khan recognized by the assembly will have irrefutable legitimacy. Once someone rebels, it would be tantamount to becoming an enemy of the entire grassland.
On the grassland, in addition to Rouran and Gaoche, there were some other tribes.
In the past, these small tribes swayed between the two major tribes and often gained profits from the two major tribes.
If the Rouran and Gaoche stopped fighting, they could naturally negotiate the issue of pasture distribution through a conference. In the future, the tribes that were close to him would be able to obtain better pastures, while the tribes that angered him would only be able to obtain the most remote pastures. This would even strengthen his power as the King of Gaoche.
Hearing this, the King of Gaoche had forgotten the unhappiness of Su Ze defeating him on the battlefield. If this grassland assembly system could really be established, he, the King of Gaoche, would also benefit from it, and could even surpass his father and grandfather and gain greater power. However, the King of Gaoche still had a concern, and he said, "Anagui is older than me, should I call him his brother?"
Su Ze said softly: "Your Majesty, please follow me to the Rouran royal court. I promise that Your Majesty will be the first Brother Khan."
At this time, a prompt indicating that the task was completed popped up on Su Ze's system.
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The hands of Yujiulu Brahmin were covered in blood. He looked at the corpse of the Rurun King Anagui beside him, and it seemed as if all the soul in his body had been sucked out.
Madam Feng rushed into the room, hugged Yujiulu Brahmin from behind, touched his hair and said, "It's okay, it's okay."
A few days ago, after Li Chong assigned the Rouran royal cavalry captured by Su Ze to Anagui, he has been trying to win over this group of cavalry.
This made Yujiulu Brahmin, who was recuperating from illness, extremely frightened. This cavalry was his capital. If it was won over by Anagui, he would really become useless after returning to the grassland.
The grassland is the place where waste is least needed.
The strong sense of crisis made the idea in Yujiulu Brahmin's heart even stronger, and the anxiety that Madam Feng had instilled in his ears these days also made him finally make a decision.
Invite Anagui to a banquet and take the opportunity to get rid of him!
Anagui wanted to win over the cavalry of the Rouran royal tent, and since he was invited by the "seriously ill" Brahmin Yujiulü, he naturally had to go.
The news that Anagui received, that Yujiulhu Brahman was seriously ill and about to die, made this grassland warlord relax his vigilance. He thought that Yujiulhu Brahman was looking for him to entrust his affairs after his death.
Anagui has made up his mind that, in view of the "great gift" that Yujilu Brahmin has given him, he will take good care of Yujilu Brahmin's family after returning to the grassland to succeed Khan.
What happens next will be repeated countless times in this troubled times.
"The sound of an axe and the shadow of a candle", "The incident of the drunken edict", and even Kang Mazi performed a "wrestling" for Oboi.
After killing Anagui, Yujiulhu Brahmin became panicked. His original strategy was not working. After killing Anagui, he found out that he was still in Li Chong's army. What should he do now?
Li Chong would definitely not support himself as Khan!
Madam Feng held Yujiulu Brahmin's face and said, "Come with me to see the princess. The princess will definitely have a solution."
"Yes, Princess! No! It's Khatun!"
It was as if Yujiulu Brahmin had grabbed a life-saving straw. Led by Madam Feng, he came to Princess Shouyang's tent and knelt opposite Princess Shouyang through the gauze curtain.
To Yujiulü Brahmin's surprise, Princess Shouyang did not have much emotional ups and downs about the news of King Rouran's death.
She was neither happy nor sad about the death of the King of Rurun.
She just accepted it all calmly, and then said, "You killed my husband, and you still want me to forgive you?"
Yujiulu Brahmin knelt on the ground with his whole body prostrated. Princess Shouyang said, "The moment the emperor's edict was issued, I was already the Khan of Rouran."
"Khatun, spare my life!"
"Originally, I should have killed you and buried you with the Khan, but I already have the Khan's child."
"what?"
Have a child?
Yujiulu Brahmin suddenly remembered the rumors about the princess and Su Ze. Could this be their bastard?
I haven't seen you and Anaguido close before?
But now is not the time to doubt. Yujiulu Brahmin understands that if he wants to survive, he can only rely on this princess.
Princess Shouyang stood up and said, "I will plead with the general, but you and your army must be loyal to Ben Khatun and Ben Khatun's children in the future."
Yujiulu Brahmin immediately swore allegiance, but he hesitated and said, "But when we return to the royal court, the other tribes may not surrender, right?"
Princess Shouyang said firmly: "This is not something you need to worry about. When we get to the royal court, they will naturally support this Khatun!"
Yujiulu Brahmin could only retreat with trepidation. At this time, he also realized that he was too impulsive.
In any case, a regicide will be despised by others, especially if he does the dirty work himself.
When Yujiulhu Brahmin returned to the tent, he found that several of his close associates who were present at the time had been controlled by Princess Shouyang, and several unfamiliar Han soldiers appeared around him.
Yujiulü Brahmin had some vague guesses in his mind, but he couldn't think so much at this time. He was a man who almost died, and now he could only live one day at a time. He had long lost the ambition to fight for the position of Rouran Khan.
And Yujiulhu Brahmin also saw a flaw in Princess Shouyang's plan.
If she fails to give birth to a boy, there will be another chance.
Moreover, Yujiulü Brahmin could not imagine how a princess who married into the Wei Dynasty and had no roots on the grassland could secure the position of Kehadun.
The Rouran Qohotuns who served as regents as the Khan's mothers all came from powerful Rouran families and relied on the power of their family's in-laws to control the grasslands.
Even if Princess Shouyang controls herself, it would be difficult for other grassland tribes to accept her, right?
Yujiulü Brahmin was puzzled. No matter how good Su Ze was at fighting, he couldn't kill all the people on the grassland. He wanted Princess Shouyang to be regent, but to Yujiulü Brahmin, who was familiar with grassland politics, this seemed like an almost impossible fantasy.
After sending away the Brahmin Yujiulu, Princess Shouyang, who had forced herself to maintain her dignity, took Madam Feng's hand and asked, "Am I pretending to be good enough?"
Madam Feng stroked Princess Shouyang's hair and said, "Really? The princess's aura frightened the servants."
"But can it really be done?"
Madam Feng said, "Of course it can be done. The Lord has made so many plans just for Your Highness and the baby in your belly."
"Your Highness, ruling the world requires not only military force, but also political tactics, and more importantly, the system."
I’m in good shape today, so I’ll post it first. If I finish writing it in the evening, I’ll pay it back today.
(End of this chapter)