Hearing Li Xiang's words, the other two laughed. This guy is really not worthy of being on the stage. When reporting to His Highness, doesn't he know how to pick out the key points? His Highness doesn't have so much time to listen to your nonsense here.
According to Kato Jiro's introduction, Li Xiang knew that Ito Taro had less than 10,000 men left, and Fukuda Yasukawa had slightly more men, so he had at least 30,000 men on his side. However, how many civilians were among them? Perhaps only they themselves knew.
Although the two men had called for everyone to become soldiers, their actions were too slow. Kato Jiro and his men attacked very quickly, and before they could convert all the civilians into soldiers, their city had already been lost.
There are actually several cities in their territories, but unfortunately the others are all in the coastal areas, and they dare not go there at all. If they bring their families to the coastal cities at this time, the warships of the Tang Dynasty Navy will definitely go directly to them and bombard these cities. Will they still be alive?
So these people chose to run to a small hill far away from the sea. They believed that from this high ground, they would be able to occupy a geographical advantage even if the Tang army wanted to attack.
Of course, the idea is very good, but there are many practical difficulties. When they occupied the small hill, they suddenly found that the Fuso army surrounded them and cut off their route to the mountain. There was no food or drink on the mountain. How long can you hold on?
So during these few days, people kept running down the mountain. According to Suzuki Nakatasu's previous idea, we didn't need to launch an attack at all. We just needed to continue to surround them, and then these people would surrender soon. After all, they didn't bring much with them. In the end, we even saw people on the mountain killing each other. If we continued to attack, it would be very likely that they would divert the conflict. What if the army of the underdog wins?
"Suzuki's method is very good. I will follow your method for the time being. However, I don't like these two places. All the people are enslaved."
Li Xiang approved Suzuki's method, which made the old guy very proud. If you two want to compete with me, you have to see if you have the ability in your brains. Looking at the way you two look, at most you can lead troops into battle, but you don't have the ability to use your brains to fight.
"Your Highness, there are a total of 120,000 civilians in these two areas, and some have escaped. If we were to enslave them all, how would we accommodate them?"
Suzuki thought of a very important issue. If he wanted to transport all these tens of thousands of people to Goguryeo, it would not be a simple task. Now the Tang army could only transport 3,000 people a day. If he wanted to transport these tens of thousands of people, the Tang team had to keep moving.
"For the time being, let them cultivate the land locally and at least support themselves first. It's impossible to transport them all over at once, so we just have to do it slowly."
Although Goguryeo needs to work hard, its current transportation capacity is limited. Although it can transport 3,000 people every day, it is impossible to maintain such high-intensity operations every day. In the long run, not only will the ship not be able to be maintained, but the people will not be able to be maintained either. If there is a slight problem at sea, everyone on the ship will not survive, which will also be a loss for Li Xiang.
Li Xiang's words determined the life and death of more than 100,000 people. Since it was enough for them to survive in the local area, these Fuso people knew what to do. They were only given the lowest standards to maintain, but at the same time they still had to work.
Now Li Xiang has instilled an idea into these Fuso generals, that is, you must calculate the cost at all times, calculate the cost of your war, and calculate the cost of our Tang Dynasty coming here. Only when all these costs are calculated clearly, you can be an excellent general.
After arranging these things, the armies of Suzuki Tadayoshi and Kato Jiro continued to besiege the two men. As for the army of Okawa Gensaburo, they had to capture people in the surrounding areas. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had already made it very clear that all the people in these two places would be enslaved.
Then you will have to become slaves that very day. We will never compromise on the orders of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and we will not let you have even a single day of freedom.
In the next few days, the two places were almost filled with cries. No matter who you did, as long as you were a living person, once you were discovered by Ohkawa Gensaburo's army, you would be immediately taken to a nearby resettlement point and have a big word "slave" carved on your face.
Although many people wanted to run into the deep mountains and forests, Ohkawa Genzaburo's army did not stop them. They knew better than you how many dangers there were in the mountains. If you could survive in the mountains, the chances would be extremely slim.
As for those useless old men, Okawa Gensaburo's army drove them towards Fukuda Yasukawa. Aren't they going there to get people? Then just go up there. After all, your relatives are there in the mountains too.
There are not many supplies on the mountain. Once you get there, if you can't find your relatives, those young people will kill you with their own hands. But if you find your relatives, they will share some of their food with you, and then you both will die in the end. Young people without strength are almost the same as old people, and they cannot survive in that environment.
Looking at the Fusang in front of him, Li Xiang nodded beside him. Although the rivers and mountains here are not beautiful, they will serve as stepping stones for our future progress.
"Do you think we're a bit cruel?"
Su Dingfang was the only one left by Li Xiang's side.
"It is indeed a bit cruel, but Your Highness once said that if Chang'an City were to fall, their lives might be worse than those of these people before us. So I remember it very clearly. In order to prevent us from living like this, we have no choice but to let them live like this."
Su Dingfang always kept this sentence in his heart: Instead of making ourselves cry, it is better to let others cry.
"After dealing with these smaller rivals around us, we still have two powerful rivals in this world. One is the Tianzhu Kingdom on the other side of the mountain, and the other is the extremely powerful Arab Empire."
