Chapter 23 Recovering Yanmen
When the enemy soldiers fled to their camp, they were not their comrades-in-arms, but Li You led the soldiers to intercept them. This made the enemy soldiers even more panicked. They were not interested in fighting, but Li You did not want to let them go.
In a short while, the army led by Lu Ning and Zhang Liao also arrived. The enemy soldiers who had not yet escaped were hopeless and had to choose to surrender. The Xianbei Tartar cavalry who could escape were only a few hundred cavalry.
The battle was over. After cleaning the battlefield, the Lu Ning army killed more than 1,200 Xianbei cavalry and captured more than 2,500 people. Still hundreds of enemy soldiers fled.
The Lu Ning army suffered more than 500 casualties, of which more than 200 were seriously injured or killed. Generally speaking, the Lu Ning army was still a complete victory this time. Although hundreds of enemy troops escaped, it was irrelevant to the Lu Ning army. There are only a little more than 1,000 troops in the entire Yinguan City, which will not have much impact on the Lu Ning army's next attack on Yinguan City.
During the rest, Lu Ning said to Li You: "Don't regret it, are your enemy's camp being subject to tenacious resistance?"
Li Youze smiled and said, "Lord, they only left a few hundred soldiers in the entire enemy camp. They all went to chase Zhang Chuang. When I led my brothers into the camp, the enemy soldiers did not expect that our army would attack their camp under such circumstances. They would not have thought that they would be attacked by sneak attacks, so we caught the enemy soldiers off guard. We only paid the price of more than twenty soldiers and took their camp and completely solved the enemy."
Two days later, Lu Ning led his army to the outside of Yinguan City. When Zhang Liao led his soldiers to attack the city, he found that it was an empty city and all the Xianbei cavalry fled.
After Lu Ning and his friends entered the city, they realized that they were the hundreds of defeated soldiers who had escaped. They said that all the troops were annihilated by Lu Ning's army. When the enemy generals in charge of defending the city heard that Lu Ning's army had five or six thousand cavalry, they immediately chose to escape.
After the Lu Ning army entered the city, they rescued more than a thousand people from the Lu Ning Han. They were all captured by the Xianbei army and became slaves of the Xianbei people, especially the more than 500 women, who completely became dolls and objects of Xianbei soldiers. When they saw the Lu Ning army, they were in tears.
Lu Ning asked someone to place them all and reassure them that there would never be any iron cavalry of the Tartars to bully them in the future.
Then Lu Ning immediately asked Li You to lead 1,500 flying bear soldiers to pounce directly at Yanmen Pass, without letting them stay for a moment. Lu Ning didn't want the defenders of Yanmen Pass to have any time to prepare for defense, and Lu Ning and others also wanted to catch Zhiren off guard again.
When Li You arrived at Yanmen Pass, the Xianbei cavalry at the pass also withdrew.
After receiving Li You's report, Lu Ning immediately arranged for craftsmen and some prisoners to repair Yanmen Pass, heightened and thickened the city walls of Yanmen Pass, and added defensive fortifications to strengthen defense capabilities.
At the same time, if Zhang Liao led his army to attack other cities in Yanmen County, the entire territory of Yanmen County must be recovered as quickly as possible, so that the Lu Ning army can have a little defensive depth.
After Zhang Liao went to war, Lu Ning gave Zhang Chuang an unexpected order, asking him to bring fifty soldiers to the appearance of ordinary people, go to Hanoi County to find Sima Lang and Sima Boda, and look for an opportunity to kidnap Sima Lang to the yin hall.
Lu Ning told Zhang Chuang to respect Sima Lang along the way, be polite, never move hard, and also ensure Sima Lang's safety. Xiao Zhang Chuang was frowning.
Lu Ning thought to himself that although Sima Lang is not old now, he is a famous scholar after all. If he goes to invite him, he will definitely not be able to invite him. Who would be willing to help him, a person who is nameless, without background, without foundation, and without money, can only take extraordinary measures and get the people over first, otherwise he will have someone to deal with internal affairs.
More than ten days later, all refugees and soldiers stationed in the base camp were safely transferred to Yinguan City. Lu Ning asked the group of literati found among the refugees to resettle refugees and remeasure the land. Each household allocated twenty acres (measured in later generations) of land, but it was not allowed to be barren. Among them, 15 acres of grain crops must be planted, and the other five acres can be planted with cotton and other economic crops. The taxes for each household are calculated at fifteen acres, and 10% per acre, and there is no tax or fee for the others. If there is a barren situation, the barren land will be confiscated and confiscated, and 50 taels of gold will be fined per acre. The land belongs to the farmers, but farmers are not allowed to buy and sell land. For example, if the land area of the former Bingzhou farmers exceeds twenty acres, the excess tax is 80% per acre.
For industry and commerce? Lu Ning has also offered more preferential policies. All the taxes of all industries and commerce carried out in Lu Ning and their jurisdiction only charge 10% of the transaction volume, and there are no taxes or fees in the others.
As for the mining industry, no private person is allowed to mine at will. He must obtain the consent of the government before mining at a designated location. After Lu Ning told the little literati about these messy things, he asked them to publish the documents and publish the list as soon as possible, and asked them to resettle refugees as quickly as possible.
Among the two or 30,000 refugees, Lu Ning also collected 32 blacksmiths. Lu Ning organized them and set up a weapon manufacturing factory, each of which gave them a certain shareholding. They were allowed to process and build various sabers, spears, swords, armors, shields, arrows, etc. based on the design and drawing of Lu Ning.
The first thing Lu Ning asked them to build was indeed not weapons, armor and other equipment, but a set of distillation equipment for brewing wine. Lu Ning must quickly produce a small amount of good wine to bribe corrupt officials in the court and eunuchs around the emperor, and strive to solve their political status in Yanmen County, otherwise everything would be in vain.
During this period, Lu Ning also selected dozens of carpenters with good skills to form a team and set up a furniture factory, and each carpenter gave them some shares.
In addition, paper mills, ceramic factories, brick factories, and cement factories. As for cement factories and steel factories, we will only wait until talents and financial resources are available before we build them.
Through this period of observation, Lu Ning found two scholars with relatively good work skills from the group of young literati, namely Chen Fang, Chen Yuanda, Mai Zi, and Mai Changsui. They were both from Jizhou and were scholars from the destitute family.
Chen Fang is more flexible, good at diplomacy and good at eloquence; Mai Zi doesn't talk much, is good at practical work, and has certain internal affairs skills.
Lu Ning promoted the two of them to assist Lu Ning in handling some daily affairs, which also made the two of them feel flattered. They immediately swore to Lu Ning that they were loyal to Lu Ning for life, which made Lu Ning feel a little warm.
Chapter completed!