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The king fled desperately, but Deng Youzhang chased him weakly.

There are too many enemies. Although they have all been defeated, they cannot be controlled by a few hundred people. They can only catch up and kill them, even if they kneel down on the ground, they don't dare to receive the surrendered soldiers, they just kill them and drive them away, so as not to block the narrow river valley passage.

The king probably had a good life, he was chubby and had a beer belly, and he was out of breath after running for a while.

Seeing the pursuers approaching, the prince didn't care much, left his father behind and ran faster.

A large number of rout soldiers swam across the river and fought on the other side of the river. Some tribes have feuds. After leaving the main battlefield, they take the opportunity to raid the hostile tribes, destroy their young and strong main forces, and then go back and annex them.

Although it belongs to the patriarchal society, it also has the concept of family. However, vendettas and annexations were commonplace. As long as the captured women and children were not enslaved, they would basically not think about revenge, but let the flow flow and integrate into the new tribe.

At this moment, there were at least a thousand people fighting on the other side of the river, fighting in a mess there.

On the main battlefield, although Damo shouted to help Thor kill the king, he attacked the tribes close to the king. As long as this tribe is eliminated, Damo's tribe can take the opportunity to expand and seize more fertile river valleys.

On both sides of the river, fighting was happening everywhere, and the Han soldiers became supporting roles instead.

"Don't kill, catch alive!"

The king was too tired to run, so he threw away his weapons and sat there waiting to die.

As for the prince, he had long been mixed into the rout, and now he did not know where he fled.

"Stop chasing, you won't be able to kill them all. Hurry up and receive the surrendered soldiers and prisoners," He Wenpeng said, "The most important thing is to capture the enemy's food and livestock!"

These indigenous marches are divided into tribes, and logistics are also in charge of each. Grain and livestock are everywhere, here and there, here and there. Deng Youzhang went to receive the prisoners first, and then asked the prisoners to be responsible for moving the food, and transported the scattered military food to one place for storage.

In this battle, more than 30 Han soldiers were injured, all of whom were stoned. One of them had a broken tibia.

And there are as many as six tribes who took the opportunity to defect.

Da Mo even led his clansmen to bow down: "Please let the messenger of Thunder God be our new king!"

Deng Youzhang didn't know the story of the enfeoffment of the Zhou family, but he already had similar thoughts at this time. These six tribes who voluntarily surrendered can be arranged in different places. When they lead troops to conquer the city, the territory of the six tribes will just defend the capital.

There were more than 3,000 natives who were blocked behind and had no time to escape. At this time, they were all taken prisoners, waiting anxiously for their release.

"I understand," Li Luosheng approached Deng Youzhang. "These more than 3,000 captives came from seven tribes. One of the tribes, who had a close relationship with the chieftain, turned against the natives and asked to kill them or reward them as slaves."

Deng Youzhang said: "Since the relationship with the king is close, let's kill them all. We are going to attack the city next, and take prisoners with impure thoughts. God knows if there will be a rebellion at a critical moment."

"Siege?" Li Luosheng asked in confusion.

Deng Youzhang said: "Taking advantage of the enemy's retreat, hurry to attack the city. The land there is fertile, and it is at the mouth of the sea. It will be more convenient for development, shipbuilding and navigation in the future. Two-thirds of the Han people, with two-thirds The aborigines migrated to the city to develop. The remaining one-third will stay here for the time being."

It is to lay down the city as the main base, and Leishen Village will be left as a sub-mine.

Bing is expensive and fast, and the troops will be dispatched the next day.

From the time they came to the island to the present, two Han people have died, both of whom died of malaria.

In this dispatch of troops, those with a broken calf were left behind, and there were more than 20 wounded. The rest of the Han people, together with their family members and two-thirds of the aborigines, packed their bags and rushed to the city together.

The six defected tribes, about 2,600 people, and more than 2,800 captives, all went out together.

Those captives have been promised. As long as the city can be conquered, not only will they be given freedom, but their tribe will also be treated kindly.

In this way, there will be six thousand troops!

It's not too outrageous. When the Spanish colonists attacked the Aztec Empire, there were one or two hundred Spaniards and tens of thousands of indigenous coalition troops to fight.

Along the way to the south, I encountered a tribe on the way, and the accompanying indigenous servant army suddenly had more than 300 people crying loudly.

But it was a disbanded army. Since they had no food, they could only rob the tribes they encountered along the way. Of course those who were robbed would resist, so war broke out, and more than 300 weeping servants came from this looted tribe.

Li Luosheng took the opportunity to say to the natives: "The misery encountered here is all because the king was too cruel and insisted on launching wrong wars regardless of the ideas of the tribes. Although the king was captured, the prince was still alive. Only by killing the prince, you Only by revenge can we avoid this kind of thing from happening again in the future!"

When the natives heard it, it was indeed the truth.

They were living in Ansheng, but the king insisted on gathering troops to fight, and asked them to bring their own food. It's good now, all the food belongs to Thunder God's Department, and everyone will be hungry in the future.

The more the natives thought about it, the angrier they became. They don't resent the Han people, they only resent the king who started the war.

Continuing to march south, I encountered several tribes, almost all of which were looted by the rout, and the surviving tribesmen stared blankly at the passing army. In one of the tribes, the soldiers had returned, and there seemed to be fighting, and there were corpses everywhere outside the village.

The soldiers of this tribe were also taken by Deng Youzhang. Anyway, there were complaints and revenge.

After marching for nearly a month, they finally approached the city.

This is the seat of the Ministry of Boyna, also known as "Boyna Town".

In this alluvial plain, the water network is extremely complex.

There is a big river rushing forward, and when it is about to enter the sea, it splits into a main stream and four tributaries. There is also a small river in the north and south, which flows into these water networks and enters the sea.

Between the water network, there is a fertile alluvial zone.

Not only is the grain output higher, but the arable area is countless times that of Leishen Village.

In addition to commoners, there are also many slaves who have farmed for nobles for generations.

The city of Boyna is located at the confluence of the main stream of the great river and the small northern river. Not only is it surrounded by water on three sides, but also in the direction of the sea, there are also abruptly raised mountains, which extend all the way to the sea.

Easy to defend but difficult to attack!

Soldiers from various tribes either fought with the Han or fled back to their own territory.

Prince Haru lacks enough troops, so he can only temporarily recruit civilians as soldiers. This also felt unsafe, so they recruited slave soldiers. Slaves were not allowed to enter the city, so the prince took the initiative to lead his army out of the city to fight.

In Prince Haru's mind, the Thunder God Department can summon the sky thunder, and it doesn't matter whether the city is defended or not.

Deng Youzhang observed through the binoculars for a while, and found that half of the enemy's troops looked like slaves, with rags covering their crotches all over their bodies.

Calling Damo, Deng Youzhang handed out the binoculars and asked, "Are those slaves?"

Damo held the telescope respectfully, and after figuring out how to use it, he could see enemies far away very clearly. He was shocked by the mysterious magic weapon of Thor, and did not dare to touch it too much. He returned the telescope to Deng Youzhang and said, "Those are slaves. The king has slaves, the royal family has slaves, and the nobles also have slaves. The number of slaves here is higher than that of the royal family, nobles and The civilians add up to more."

The number of slaves is actually more than that of nobles and commoners combined... Aren't you afraid of rebellion by slaves?

Deng Youzhang called the leaders of the various tribes and said to them: "Go and tell the warriors of the various tribes, let them shout together, 'Thunder God frees the slaves'!"

In fact, there was no need to play this trick at all, those slave soldiers had no fighting spirit in the first place.

Even though the slaves were dragged into battle, the prince did not give them enough to eat. This has become a mindset. Slaves don't need to be full, they will be obedient when they are half-starved and half-full.

How much fighting power can a group of slaves who are hungry, naked, and armed with simple weapons have?

In comparison, the nobles and civilians here have the determination to fight to the death even in the face of the terrifying Thor troops. In their minds, once defeated, they would become slaves.

"Fire a cannon to cheer."

"boom!"

When a shell was fired, only a few enemies were killed, but the enemy troops were already terrified. As for our natives, their morale was greatly boosted, thinking that they were blessed by Thor.

The native servants rushed out in a mess, and the formation was so chaotic that there was no formation at all. They still remembered Deng Youzhang's order, and ran while shouting: "Thunder God frees the slaves, Thunder God frees the slaves!"

It's a pity that the shouting was too chaotic, not neat at all, and it was too noisy to hear clearly.

The slave soldiers couldn't hear what they were shouting, and they were afraid of the power of the artillery. They neither dared to defect, nor did they want to fight against the nobles. When they were about to fight, they threw away their weapons and fled.

The entire battlefield was in total chaos, and Deng Youzhang completely lost control.

There were nearly 6,000 native soldiers from each department, and when they rushed halfway, the slave soldiers on the opposite side collapsed, leaving Prince Haru with only more than 2,000 soldiers.

Eight thousand aborigines fought like this, and the Han people watched the whole process.

After more than ten minutes of fighting, Prince Haru's army began to collapse. The native warriors from various ministries took advantage of the situation to pursue and kill them, and they continued to kill them all the way to the city.

Chasing and chasing, killing and killing, it becomes a looting of the city.

There was obviously not enough looting in the city, and many tribes went out of the city to sit on small boats docked by the river, but robbed the villages between the water nets.

Deng Youzhang was so anxious that he jumped into a rage: "Let them stop quickly, don't loot and kill randomly!"

There is no use for birds, and it cannot be contained at all.

After fighting for a full day, the leaders of various ministries gathered one after another. They took the initiative to hand over a portion of the population and food they had grabbed as trophies to Deng Youzhang, and kept the rest to take away.

The king's wife, daughter-in-law and daughter, the indigenous leaders did not dare to keep them privately, and sent all of them to Deng Youzhang.

Fearing that the ministries would rebel, Deng Youzhang couldn't punish him. After all, this belongs to the local tradition, they are the outsiders, and their rules are the "nonsense".

After occupying the city, Deng Youzhang began to establish a system.

This guy dare not call himself king or emperor, at least not yet. He still served as the governor, and all the other Han people were appointed officials, and he gave a lot of land to the Han people.

The Han people who stayed in Leishen Village were given a lot of extra food due to the relatively poor land. After Leishen Village develops for a few more years, the aborigines have fully mastered farming techniques, and the Han people there will migrate to the city.

Every Han, a big landlord, was a captive slave and a commoner, assigned to the Han landlord as a tenant—except artisans, who still lived in the cities as freemen.

Even a few Persian slaves, who came here with the Han people, were allocated land as small landlords.

The earliest aborigines who followed the Han people divided their fields and became self-cultivated farmers.

All the Han people have become vested interests, and all have become landlords. Who remembers the land system of the Datong New Dynasty?

Of course, slaves are no longer raised, and slaves become tenants, which can be regarded as a kind of social progress.

If natural evolution, the disintegration of slavery requires the development of agricultural technology and agricultural tools. In a typical slave society, due to the backwardness of agriculture, owner farmers can only plant a small amount of land, and the collective labor of slaves is the most suitable for productivity.

The Han people brought more advanced agricultural technology. Although there were no iron farm implements, the production conditions for self-cultivating farmers were already available.

The leaders of the six tribes who surrendered first were all appointed as magistrates, each responsible for a large area, and according to the specific situation, they paid tribute to food every year, which was actually equivalent to enfeoffing princes in the pre-Qin era. The number of Han people is too small, and the knowledge and culture here is too backward to support a more advanced bureaucratic system.

Several other tribes followed the war, and the leader was appointed as the mayor of the town, and the ruling area was relatively small.

The county magistrate and the mayor must send their sons here to learn Chinese, Chinese characters and farming techniques. If there are unmarried daughters, at least one must be sent over to marry the Han people.

It is a hodgepodge of various social systems.

Although he only actually controls one city and one village, Deng Youzhang's nominal territory accounts for about one-fifteenth of Madagascar. Well, it's not very big, about the size of an island of Taiwan.