Chapter 724: Re-Becoming Overlord (Subscription Requested)

After hearing the report from the lookout, Shu Da immediately ran to the side of the ship and tried his best to look far away. Sure enough, he saw a continental edge appearing on the horizon in the distance, so he immediately shouted orders.

"Stop the ship, stop the ship, retract the sails and drop the anchor, stop the ship where it is."

The sailors on the deck were all stunned and looked at him puzzled. The captain of the Fu Bo also hurried over and asked.

"Commander Shu, why stop the ship now? If we continue to sail with full sails, we will definitely reach our destination before noon."

"You know nothing, why go so fast? We are going to fight, not here to travel. Now is not the best time. In order to avoid exposing the target in advance, I order you to stop the ship now and continue to move forward at dusk." Shu Da scolded the captain, and the captain had no choice but to order the sailors to stop the ship.

Since the Han tribe did not have a professional navy before, the captain of the Fubo was selected from the captains of the previous three-masted transport ships. He was good at sailing, but he knew nothing about military warfare.

As a county governor of the Han tribe, Shu Da had participated in the battle against the cannibals and led the early professional army of the Han tribe. He knew a little more about military warfare, but he was still a layman when it came to long-distance sailing.

However, since Luo Chong appointed him as the commander of the Fubo Guard, he naturally could not have failed to consider this point. Therefore, although the Fubo was the flagship of the fleet, it still had an independent captain. As the commander-in-chief of the entire fleet, Shu Da could command all the captains of the fleet.

However, in order to rush the raid, the fleet only had one flagship.

On the other hand, the bigwigs in Kaiyuan City sent the victory report back to Hanyang City. It took four days to wait back and forth. After four days, they finally received Luo Chong's reply, and then immediately began to reorganize the surrendered soldiers and distribute the various materials seized according to the orders above. At the same time, they also sent out scouts to scout the current position of the Maodun coalition.

Su Ritu was also called to Kaiyuan City to discuss the distribution of spoils. He did not dare to have any meaning for the arrangements on the Han tribe. So far, he has really seen the hidden strength of the Han tribe. It is not an existence that he can provoke now. In the face of such absolute force, any conspiracy is nonsense.

Su Ritu also lost hundreds of casualties in this battle, but he had no share of prisoners of war. The resources such as population can only belong to the Han tribe, but the Han tribe also promised to give more white salt as compensation.

After clearing the spoils, Ying Rui made a new invitation to Su Ri Tu according to Luo Chong's reply, asking him to continue hunting down Mao Dun with the Han tribe. He would still have a share of the good things he got, and he would never suffer any loss.

Su Ri Tu thought for a while, and agreed to send only 3,000 troops on the grounds that the tribe still needed to graze, and the rest of the troops would escort the spoils directly back to the tribe.

Ying Rui and others were not surprised by this result. This time, the action of hunting down Mao Dun must be prepared for a long-term war. After all, the grassland is so large that it takes a lot of time to go back and forth, not to mention the pursuit.

Fortunately, the Han tribe had many warriors. For this operation, the Tiger Guards had 2,000 soldiers, and 8,000 herdsmen who surrendered to the Han could be included. Together with the reorganized surrendered soldiers, there were at least 20,000 people. Counting the 3,000 of Su Ritu, the total army of 20,000 to 30,000 was enough to crush Maodun's remnant army.

After discussing the action plan, Kaiyuan County began the intensive work of identifying and reforming prisoners of war.

There was no need to reform the more than 1,000 prisoners of war from the Xin tribe. They were all sent to Dongxin County to dig coal by ship. Among the other surrendered soldiers, after people identified and reported each other, some of the high-level leaders of Maodun's forces, the high-level leaders of the Snow Wolf Tribe, and some leaders and their confidants of other small and medium-sized tribes were selected. These people were all beaten into slaves and used. Later, they would be sent to various construction sites in the Han tribe by ship for labor reform.

After screening, only 20,000 ordinary herdsmen from various tribes in the middle and lower levels were left. These people had no interests or hatred with the Han tribe, and they were ordinary people who could be reformed with confidence.

After the Han tribe explained to them with reason and emotion, these people finally realized who their real enemy was, who brought them to die, and how the Han tribe benefited the herdsmen on the grassland.

In addition, they had nothing now. Because they went out to fight, their wives, children and livestock were left in the original camp. Now Maodun abandoned them and occupied their wives, children and livestock. If they wanted to get them back, they had to work with the Han army to kill Maodun.

These surrendered herdsmen were quite willing to do so. On the one hand, they really missed their wives, children and their own property. On the other hand, they had such a powerful army of the Han tribe with them, and the mysterious weapon that was as powerful as a punishment from heaven. They were not afraid of Maodun at all, and they were full of confidence in the action of taking back their wives, children and livestock.

Whether they set up their own business in the future or join the Han tribe, wives, children and livestock are indispensable. This is the practical difficulty in front of them. They have to fight for it, otherwise they can't live.

And on the grassland lake in the south, after a four-day long journey, Maodun finally fled back to their spring and summer grazing land with the remaining army. After counting the number of people, the original 60,000 coalition forces were less than 8,000 people, which was a heavy loss. The loss of cattle, sheep and horses was astronomical.

However, Maodun, who fled back to his hometown, still did not dare to relax his vigilance. He was not a fool, otherwise he would not have been able to incite such a large force. So he knew very well that the Han tribe would definitely take advantage of his weakness and the low morale of his defeat. He would definitely lead the army to encircle and suppress him.

And his grazing land was here. Even if the Han tribe did not follow him all the way, they would get the location of his base camp from the captured surrendered soldiers. This place could no longer stay, and he had to move to other pastures as soon as possible.

Fortunately, many tribes fell into the hands of the Han tribe this time, and he could use the grazing lands of those tribes at will. With the 8,000 warriors in his hands, plus the people left behind in the base camp, he could at least gather another 10,000 troops. With these 10,000 troops, as long as he could eat up all the wives, children and livestock left behind by those small and medium-sized tribes, it wouldn't take long for Maodun to be the overlord of the southern grassland.

But what he didn't know was that the huge ship on the lake with 120 cannons had been eyeing him a long time ago.

(End of this chapter)