At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Zhao Yun felt that the matter was very serious. Although he realized that it was definitely not directly caused by Zhang Fei, it definitely had something to do with Zhang Fei's disorder.

If Zhang Fei continues to mess around like this, everyone doesn't need to fight, just wait for Zhang Fei to toss Kang Juguo to death.

He didn't expect Zhang Fei's destructive power to be so strong, nor did he think that Kang Juguo was such a waste that he couldn't bear Wei Jun's ruin at all.

The situation was urgent, and Zhao Yun couldn't continue to hesitate. He immediately held a military meeting, ordered Guan Yu to lead an army to capture Suxie City, and ordered Cao Xiu to lead an army to capture Muni City. Take all the city.

If you don't rush over here, let alone the meat, you won't even have a few sips of soup.

Zhao Yun's judgment was correct.

Due to Zhang Fei's large-scale sabotage actions, he attacked and destroyed the living settlements of the Kangju people locally, robbed their property and livestock, and caused a large number of Kangju people to be displaced. .

King Kang Ju was thinking about it, but he didn't expect that his military deployment would be messed up under such circumstances.

His arrangement is to rely on the city to hold back the main force of the Wei army, fight offensive and defensive battles with the Wei army, limit the maneuverability of the Wei army, and then order the major tribes in the nomadic state to gather cavalry to harass the Wei army outside, attack the supply line of the Wei army, and reduce the strategic sustainability of the Wei army. .

This kind of internal and external cooperation, flexible combat, while consuming the vigor of the Wei army, while attacking their logistics supply line, so that both sides will be able to wear down the heavy Wei army sooner or later.

But now the army has suffered a crushing defeat, refugees are everywhere, and the strategic plan has completely failed.

The city could not be defended, and the nomadic stronghold was completely destroyed.

Urban residents were displaced, and nomadic residents lost their cattle, sheep and horses, and lost the possibility of living.

These people will do anything to survive.

For example, attacking the city, asking the city to open the door to let them in, and if they don't open the door, they will climb and attack. Facing his own people, King Kang Ju can't order to attack them, he can only let them enter, which will lead to the complete collapse of the city defense and the loss of supplies. of extreme shortage.

The law and order in the city has declined sharply, and there are a lot of people making trouble.

However, Kang Juwang himself was helpless about such a thing, he didn't know what to do better.

The situation has become so rotten, how many troops did Wei Jun dispatch to do it?

Can an army of this size be able to fight against it?

King Kang Ju fell into confusion.

From the end of May to the middle of June, the cities in Kangju fell one after another, and the small-scale settlements were completely destroyed.

A large number of refugees could not survive, and there were not a few who were forced to surrender to the Wei army for a bite of food.

The main force of the Wei army won such a large-scale victory without fighting a few battles.

But many of them are not happy.

Especially the leading generals, they just felt aggrieved and vowed never to cooperate with Zhang Fei again.

Zhang Fei's crazy dog ​​tactics made Kang Ju completely helpless to resist, and the mere [-] cavalry directly caused Kang Ju's national subjugation.

When the main force of the Wei army continued to capture the city and gathered the defeated soldiers and refugees, the situation gradually became clearer.

It is now clear to all that the war has been won and that all that remains is a mop-up operation.

But this feeling is very uncomfortable, like punching a cotton pile, that is uncomfortable.

Zhang Fei accomplished almost all the strategic goals by himself, and defeated Kangju.

Zhao Yun even suspected that without his main force, Zhang Fei would be able to destroy Kang Juguo just by relying on the [-] vanguard troops—in this way.

But this is a battle of annihilation, a battle to destroy the country.

Originally, what everyone thought about this battle was that the whole army would work together, and everyone would share the battle merits equally.

In this era of fewer and fewer wars, how difficult it is to fight such a battle of annihilation.

As a result, you, Zhang Fei, did all the things that everyone could do, and everyone stared at me, not knowing what to do next.

You are really good, Zhang Yide.

Chapter 1469 One thousand three hundred and seventy nine Kangju war ended like this

When the time came to the end of June in the first year of Xingyuan, all the five cities of Kangju fell, and the princes and nobles of Kangju who were captured were unknown.

But King Kang Ju and his important ministers have not been caught yet.

According to the confessions of those who were captured, King Kang Ju left the city a few days earlier and ran to the vast prairie in the northwest.

King Kang Ju was frightened and felt that this battle could not be fought at all.

His people have collapsed, and the army will collapse sooner or later. The supplies and food are very scarce, and the battle cannot be fought at all. There is no hope of continuing to resist, so he led the people away.

Zhao Yun quickly sent Li Dian to chase him, thinking that this might be a good opportunity to gain meritorious service.

As a result, Li Dian did not catch up with King Kang Ju, but met Zhang Fei's vanguard army who brought the captured King Kang Ju triumphantly, and was carried back by Zhang Fei.

When seeing Zhang Fei bringing the captives over with his toes high and high, everyone's mood was complicated.

Then they listened to Zhang Fei's loud voice showing off over there.

He showed off how he fought a guerrilla for a month, how he shot a shot and moved at a high speed in another place, beat the Kangju people into a daze, how he used the tactics against the Xianbei people to the extreme, how he showed that the hero's sword is not old of the state.

Zhang Fei destroyed all of King Kangju's deployment with one person and one army, and turned into Rufeng and invaded Ruhuo, which directly caused Kangju's collapse.

After confirming this point, including Zhao Yun, everyone's heart is more complicated.

In this battle, it was Zhang Fei who was out of form by himself and knocked Kangju people into a daze. The rest of the main force of the Wei army was just wiping Zhang Fei's ass, arresting people and livestock, occupying the city and capturing them. Kang Juguo's military and political officials.

Although it can be counted as a meritorious service, but...how is this so ridiculous?

Zhang Fei brought back more than 5000 heads, which he said were their military achievements, and a large number of captives, which he said were King Kang Ju and his relatives, dedicated to General Zhao, and General Zhao accepted them with a smile.

Zhao Yun's expression was very strange.

But there is no doubt that the royal family of Kangju was wiped out by Zhang Fei, up to King Kangju himself, his sons, daughters, wives and concubines, and relatives were all wiped out by Zhang Fei.

During the interrogation, King Kang Ju said that he couldn't figure out why he fled all the way to the northwest but plunged into Zhang Fei's arms.

Zhao Yun asked Zhang Fei if he had any preparations in advance.

Zhang Fei said no. To avoid being encircled by Kang Ju's army, he shot and changed places. As a result, when he changed to that place, he caught King Kang Ju who was running away.

At that time, I didn't think it was King Kang Ju, but I thought it was the army of some important military and political officials, so he rushed over and killed his guards, and captured all of them.

Then I asked clearly, and learned that this is King Kangju, who escaped, saying that Kangju was over, they had no choice but to run for their lives, and asked the general of Shangguo not to hurt them, at least give them a way to survive.

Zhang Fei thought it was Zhao Yun and the others who showed their might and wiped out the main force of Kangju, so he picked up the leak and took advantage of it.

And this luck?

Is this even possible?

Zhao Yun was not quite sure how he should explain to Zhang Fei how the battle was fought.

He didn't know how to tell Zhang Fei that he had defeated Kang Juguo with his violent beating.

Maybe Wei Jun is too strong...

Zhao Yun was very depressed, the generals of the army were very depressed, and those juniors who came to increase their knowledge were also very depressed.

They wanted to see the bloody battles of their predecessors, and they themselves also bathed in blood, but they couldn't do it, they ate a stomach full of ashes, and wiped their asses everywhere.

Now my stomach is full of anger——anger against Zhang Fei.

But there is no way, the war is basically over.

The field battle was not completed, and the main force of the Wei army fought a few siege battles, which were easily completed. The longest one took less than two days before the city fell. Basically, military and political officials and ordinary people joined forces caught.

Because of Zhang Fei's actions to destroy the nomadic settlements, all the herdsmen in Kangju gathered in the city. When Wei Jun came, he happened to make dumplings, and none of them ran away.

A few days ago, the siege battle was supposed to be the largest. Judging from the posture, it should be the lair of King Kang Ju. They thought it was going to be a tough battle, but the people in the city suddenly found that King Kang Ju had escaped.

The army collapsed, morale was gone, and the entire [-] soldiers were in chaos without a fight, and there was no fight at all.

Wei Jun rushed into the city easily, captured them all as prisoners, and made dumplings for the more than [-] residents and refugees in the city.

Kang Ju lost his country in the political sense, but also in the practical sense. From the king to the common people at the bottom, very few escaped.

This battle can only be said to have been fought too easily and too quickly.

Wei Jun didn't kill a few people at all.

Calculating back and forth, the Wei army's 500 troops killed more than 1000 people and injured more than [-] people.

However, more than 2 people in the Kangju country were wiped out, and their entire country was captured, with tens of thousands of people captured.

This battle loss ratio made Zhao Yun himself a little bit dumbfounded.

In the end, it can only be attributed to Zhang Fei's beatings that broke the morale of the army and the people of Kang Juguo. They couldn't resist the Wei army wholeheartedly, and nothing but panic was panic.

Once panicked, the combat effectiveness will naturally be gone. The dragons have no leader, and there is a mess. It is not incomprehensible to fight such a bad battle.

Guan Yu blew his beard and stared angrily, and the brothers he hadn't seen for a long time didn't give him a good face, which made Zhang Fei baffled.

But Zhang Fei felt that he had been unpopular for a long time, so he didn't take it seriously, and he boasted how fierce and effective his new tactics were.

Zhao Yun is helpless, the military war is basically over, and the next thing is political work.

The remediation work is also very simple, and it is completely destroyed.

Only the tool people who can't read, write and can only speak and produce are left, and the upper-level people who have cultural knowledge and conspiracy are all killed.

The upper echelons of Kangju were beheaded by Zhao Yun's order, and all of them were wiped out, leaving only a small number of nobles, such as the royal family of Kangju, to go back and offer captives.

Everything with written records was destroyed, all distinctive sacrificial supplies were destroyed, all buildings were leveled, and the land was turned back to a barren state.

All the seized items were only normal daily necessities, and all those with the characteristics of Kangju were also burned, fundamentally erasing the history of the existence of Kangju.

Just like the countries in the Western Regions, they completely lost the hope of inheritance and restoration of the country, as if they never existed.

Then escort the captives back to the Zhenxi Protectorate, hand them over to Cao Ang, and let Cao Ang distribute them. By the way, they can moisten the Beiting Protectorate and Annan Protectorate, and add a wave of labor to them.

Cao Ang, Zhuge Liang, and Sima Yi have all complained more than once about the lack of labor force, making it difficult to build and repair local defenses. Now it’s all right, tens of 10 people will be arrested for you, and you can do whatever you want.

Anyway, you take good care of the three major guard houses, and you look after the west gate of the empire, that's fine.

As for whether to occupy Kang's former residence, everyone's opinion at the pre-war meeting and after the war was that it should not be occupied.

First, the supply line of the empire has been stretched very long, there is no need to continue to grow, it is meaningless.

Secondly, the old land of Dawan itself is a basin. As long as the steep terrain on the west side of the basin is well controlled and the basin is closed, the west gate of the empire will be closed.

The former place of Kangju, Yimapingchuan, is especially suitable for cavalry raids. The cavalry of the Wei army came day and night, so there was no need to occupy it.

Even if it is occupied, I don't know how to defend it. For better defense, a large number of troops may be needed, which will increase the strategic pressure on the Wei army.

Raze, destroy, show the bravery of the Wei army, and take everyone away, that's all.

What Guo Peng said is very good, and it has always been regarded as a standard by the military circles of the Wei army.

If there are people who lose their land, all people and land will be saved, and if they are saved, they will be lost.

People are the most important productivity.

Leaving a no-man's land with destroyed infrastructure, other people want to occupy it, they have to build from scratch, they have to invest costs, and they have to emigrate and relocate the population to live.

The Wei people don't want to invest in this part of the cost, and whoever likes to invest will invest.

And more importantly, whether this wave of investment can wait for results is also a very serious question.

The payback period for building a settlement is too long, to the point where most people dare not even set foot in it.

Even the landlord Lao Cai is not very willing to open up wasteland for tasks such as the landlord, thinking that it is too much of a waste of time.

All they want is fertile soil that has been cultivated.

After the battle was over, the Wei army rectified and began to return eastward to the Zhenxi Dufu Mansion with a large number of captured population and spoils, leaving behind a mess and a pile of bones.

In order to deter disobedient ministers, Zhang Fei also advocated the construction of a Jingguan, which was approved by Zhao Yun.

Wei Jun left cleanly and thoroughly, leaving behind only a terrifying Beijing Temple where children could stop crying at night.

This Jingguan stands right there, withstood the wind, sun, and rain, and it will not fall down. After a long time, it can still have a shocking effect, proclaiming the great martial arts of the Wei army to the world.

When Wei Jun left, he took away the vitality that belonged to human beings in this land.

This place has become a paradise for beasts, and any human forces who want to reoccupy this place will have to spend a lot of effort.

This can also be regarded as a hidden thunder left by the Wei Empire to the latecomers——

What I can't get, you can't get.