The Imperial Age with the Resurgence of Han Style

Chapter 6 Aftermath
On the vast and vast Gobi Desert, there are countless lying corpses, scattered discarded weapons and flags, captives with desolate expressions, and many Persian refugees wailing softly.Groups of heavily armed Qi officers and soldiers took a break and had lunch in batches. Then, under the leadership of officers, they began to clean up the entire battlefield.

"Hey, this guy must be an officer!" Corporal Xu Kuiyuan looked excited as he retrieved a large handful of gold and silver coins from an Omani corpse.He simply put the musket on the ground, freed his hands, turned the Omani corpse over, and continued to grope for him.

Li Yanliang, the lieutenant (Second Lieutenant), glanced at him with a look of envy in his eyes. However, due to his status as an officer and his inner reserve and pride, he could not search the corpses of enemy soldiers without any scruples. property.

Regarding various seizures on the battlefield, the Qi army generally acquiesced that soldiers could keep part of the "trophies" privately, thinking that this was a reward for soldiers who fought bravely.However, there are many ways to deal with the large amounts of captured enemy weapons and equipment, cattle, horses and livestock and other trophies.The first is that weapons with certain front-end and practicality will be sent to the local military industry department for testing and research to provide reference for one's own equipment improvement and subsequent operations.

Some will be directly sealed and destroyed or donated to other countries. A regional hegemon with strong industrial strength like Qi will naturally look down on the backward weapons held by the Omanis.Most of those old matchlocks, flintlock guns, and numerous swords and spears and other weapons will be sealed or destroyed.Of course, they may also be collected in museums or sold. For example, the exhibits in some local war memorials are basically enemy items captured in many wars.

From time to time, a muffled groan or a low voice of pleading could be heard throughout the battlefield, but soon fell into silence.This is the Qi army soldiers giving the injured and dying Omani a touch-up to completely relieve the pain he has suffered.

On this desolate and hot island, people who have suffered various fatal injuries will simply not be able to survive.As long as the Qi army withdraws from this place, countless poisonous insects, snakes and ants will emerge from the ground in a short while, and then eat their flesh and blood alive.

Of course, not all injured Omanis will be "kindly" relieved of their pain. Several important generals and officials in the Omani army were treated by several military doctors equipped in the Qi army, in order to extract some comparisons from them. Key military and political intelligence.

Several piles of raging fires were lit on the battlefield that had been "cleaned". Qi officers and soldiers drove hundreds of young Persians to pile the bodies of the Omanis in one place, then gathered dry wood and burned them all.

The people of Qi wanted to occupy this key island, so they naturally did not allow too many rotting corpses to cause unnecessary plagues, especially in this hot climate.

As for the first people under the island's rule, they were the surviving thousands of Persian refugees.As common people of the Safavid dynasty, when faced with the Omani invasion, they were unable to receive protection from the dynasty's army. Instead, they were wantonly killed and abused by the enemy. In the end, it was the Qi people who rescued them. The number of surviving people has been Less than [-]% of what they had before the war, they must be very disappointed with the Safavid dynasty.

"what is this?"

A Persian fawningly handed a pearl necklace to Li Yanliang. Seeing that there were traces of blood on it, he hesitated and did not reach out to take it.

The Persian "told" the Qi officer in front of him that the pearl necklace was found from a dead Omani. It may have been omitted during the "cleaning" process by the soldiers, and it was They found it when they were collecting the body.In order to get some food for his young brother, he wanted to use this pearl necklace to please Li Yanliang.

Although at the end of the battle, the officers and soldiers of the [-]rd Mixed Battalion distributed the leftover food to them, the poor Persian refugees, they had barely eaten a whole meal under the control of the Omanis for several days.Therefore, after eating a little field lunch given by the people of Qi to pad my stomach, I felt even more hungry.

Li Yanliang looked at the Persian's pleading eyes and the timid, thin and dry boy in the distance. His heart softened, and he took out a piece of dried meat and a small piece of sugar cube from his bag and handed them over. .

The Persian showed an expression of joy and thrust the pearl necklace into Li Yanliang's arms. At the same time, he quickly took the dried meat and sugar cubes over, then turned and ran towards the young man over there.

"It can be seen that this is a valuable necklace. If it were sold in China, it should be worth more than 100 yuan."

Li Yanliang held the necklace in his right hand and was admiring it curiously in the afternoon sunshine. A few comments came from behind Leng Buding. He immediately held it in his hand and turned to look.

"Sir." Li Yanliang saw that it was battalion commander Yan Shaowu who was inspecting the battlefield with several guards and staff. He quickly stood at attention and saluted, "Sir, this necklace was given to me by the Persian refugee who took a humble position. I just..."

"No need to explain!" Yan Shaowu waved his hand and said with a smile: "Since it is a trophy, just keep it. When you return to your homeland, you can use it as a gift to the woman of your choice." "Reporting to the officer, I have not yet returned to my humble position. ...Not yet..." Li Yanliang had a slightly shy expression on his face.

"Haha..." Yan Shaowu laughed, "In that case, take it back and give it to your sisters."

"The humble job is to be an only son..."

"Oh?" Yan Shaowu suddenly looked surprised. You must know that in Qi State, whether it is the mainland or overseas territories, which family does not have three or five children, and there are even many families with eight or nine children.

I still remember that the census statistics conducted a few years ago showed that the average number of children born to an average family in Qi seemed to be 4.6.Although large-scale immigration has long since stopped, Qi's annual population growth rate is still as high as 25‰-30‰.As of the 16th year of Taiping (1720), the population of Daqi's mainland and overseas territories had reached more than 800 million (excluding the indigenous population), more than double that of 30 years ago.

Daqi has been a country for more than 80 years. It can be said that the country is peaceful and the people are safe, life is prosperous, and there are no external or internal worries. It can be called a prosperous era.In this environment, the phenomenon of an only child like Li Yanliang is extremely rare in China.

"My father died early, and my mother did not remarry, so..." Li Yanliang explained in a low voice.

"Well, then give this necklace to your mother to appease her for raising her." Yan Shaowu gently patted Li Yanliang's shoulder, and then led the people towards the temporary camp, "In the past few months, you have been He performed well on the battlefield and is a good young officer!"

"Thank you for the compliment, sir!" Li Yanliang was suddenly excited when he heard Yan Shaowu's praise. He respectfully saluted a military salute in the direction of the battalion commander's departure.

The third mixed battalion rested for the night in a nearby valley. When the sky dimmed the next day, they took many captures and drove the Omani captives toward Qishm Fort.
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October 10, Bandar Abbas Port.

"I heard that Mahmoud was strongly blocked by the Persians in Kerman. Now it has been three months of siege and it is impossible to capture it." Luo Zhihao, Qi's consul in Bandar Abbas Port, stood on the three floors holding a cup of tea. On the balcony of the building, looking at the towering True God Temple in the distance, he said with a rather worried tone: "During this period, Isfahan and even the provinces of Persia have not sent reinforcements to rescue them, and have just sat back and watched the Gilzai people besiege the conquerors. Manchester City.

"Yes, Kerman City is still stubbornly resisting the siege of the Gilzai people." Kuang Housheng, commander of the Persian Fleet, General Guangwei (Rear Admiral) said: "However, I don't think the Persians can last long. Although Governor Kerman Before Mahmoud led the troops to attack, he reinforced the defense of the entire city, purchased seven or eight artillery pieces from our Persian trading company in Qi, and retrained more than [-] troops. It should be possible to The Gilzai people blocked the outside of the city. However, before the war, this city hosted more than [-] refugees. If there was not enough food supply, this would be a huge security risk. I don’t understand such a large dynasty. , you can’t even send a support army?”

"Ever since the death of the former Grand Vizier Fateh Ali Khan, the entire Isfahan court has been filled with all kinds of absurd phenomena. Different factions are in cahoots, fighting with each other, and attacking each other. Once anyone proposes, he can Any plan to mitigate the many threats to the empire will arouse common hostility and attacks from other factions, making it impossible for their Shah to issue any effective decrees. This Safavid dynasty has already suffered from long-standing shortcomings and is looking like a doomsday scene."

"Then shall we continue to support the Safavid dynasty, or shall we find another powerful alternative in Persia?"

"Prince Abbas Mirza, the brother of the current Shah, is a good backup candidate. Although he is now 51 years old, he still retains great ambitions. Precisely because of this, he is also jealous of the Shah of the Empire. He was placed under house arrest in a remote palace. A few days ago, he sent someone to seek help from our Qi minister in Isfahan, hoping that with our help, he could leave Isfahan and seek political asylum in the Mughal Empire." Luo Zhihao said leisurely: "It is said that before his death, Suleiman I intended to pass the Shah's position to Prince Abbas, thinking that he could restore the glory of the empire. But unfortunately, the dying Shah was supervised by the harem The eunuchs took complete control, vetoed his will, and instead installed the more controlled Sultan Hussein as the new Shah of the Empire."

"So, we have all seen that since the Shah succeeded to the throne, the Safavid dynasty has declined rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye. Although, in the face of this decline in Persia, our Qi State has penetrated it more deeply, They almost control this huge empire economically, and also have a huge influence on them politically and militarily. But we still hope that this empire will not collapse so soon, otherwise, the benefits that we have only gained after decades of operation will be very great. There could be significant losses."

"What can our military do?" Kuang Housheng immediately understood the elegant meaning and put down the pipe in his mouth.

"Ambassador Zhang sent an order from Isfahan, hoping that your military would send a powerful force to safely bring Prince Abbas out of Isfahan in case of emergency." Luo Zhihao solemnly said He said: "In addition, the legation and the Persian trading company also have a batch of extremely valuable materials that need you to escort to Bushehr Port and then transfer them back to the mainland."

(End of this chapter)