Chapter 51: The Hungry
In the entire Western Regions Province, there were Tang troops everywhere.
Seeing that the Tang army was constantly sweeping across the Western Regions, those who wanted to resist at first also gave up the idea of setting off a rebellion.
In fact, before the Tang army led by Tang Zhangwei cleaned up the Uighur khans in various places, the cruel oppression of those khans seemed to be endured by the locals.
The nephew of the Heroic Khan, Gloyehu, was one such mean and unkind man.
Those local people live a life that is not as good as animals, and they are submissive.
Until Tang Zhangwei's arrival, these people felt that they were still individuals.
Tang Jun under Tang Zhangwei spoke politely and bought things and gave money.
Those camels, sheep, etc., as long as they were requisitioned, a roll of silk from the Tang Dynasty or a large number of copper coins, silver money was always indispensable.
The local people in the Western Regions Province seemed to feel that they were in a dream.
The Buddhas from all over the place, and the priests of the Moon Sect were all entrusted with important tasks by Tang Zhangwei.
Tang Zhangwei truly trusted them, and he delegated administrative power to these religious leaders in various places.
The Tang Dynasty in the homeland of the Gaochang Kingdom was firmly established, and the third of the land of the Black Khan Dynasty also flourished day by day under the governance of Wei Zhuang.
100,000 Tang troops began to surround the Yingyi Khan, and when the clever and confused Yingyi Khan found that he was surrounded on the northern slope of the Tianshan Mountains, he immediately regretted his mistake.
In the opinion of Yingyi Khan, he should not focus his main energy on dealing with a partial division of the Tang army.
The number of corps in the Western Regions under Bai Cunxiao has reached 20,000, and Tang Zhangwei's total strength in the Western Regions has exceeded 200,000.
The snowy plateau has become the stable rear of the Tang Dynasty, and the refugees in the Central Plains have become a construction force for Tang Zhangwei.
In all the areas occupied by Tang Zhangwei, roads and other infrastructure projects were built by this group of hard-working refugees in the Central Plains.
Tang Zhangwei rode a camel, ate the fried noodles prepared for him by Wei Wan'er, and said, "It's so fragrant!" ”
Wei Wan'er said: "The general is too frugal. ”
Tang Zhangwei said: "This is not bad, if everyone in Datang can eat a bite of fried noodles at any time, then the world will be peaceful." ”
Bai Cunxiao said: "General, when are we going to attack?" ”
Tang Zhangwei looked at the surrounded Hexi Uighurs, and saw that they were riding war horses and were still actively arranging defenses, and he said: "The time has not yet come!" Deliver our military orders, order all armies, prepare crossbow arrows, and when the Yingyi Khan breaks through, they will be fired immediately. ”
Bai Cunxiao and Wei Youji immediately asked the troops to prepare the bed crossbow and hand crossbow, compared with the bow and arrow, the crossbow arrow is more sighting devices, and the launch of crossbow arrows is far simpler than the bow and arrow.
Tang Zhangwei popularized this device in large numbers in the troops, and in his opinion, this simple long-range weapon was the best way to defeat the enemy.
Although the bow and arrow shoot relatively far, the training is too complicated and cumbersome, on the contrary, the crossbow arrow only needs three days of training to get the soldiers started, and this weapon is naturally relied on by Tang Zhangwei.
The Yingyi Khan gathered together the 40,000 cavalry that had arrived from his ruling area, and he said to the cavalrymen: "Do you like to watch these Tang troops show off their might in front of you and do whatever they want? ”
The cavalrymen said, "No! ”
Yingyi Khan said: "Now we are trapped on the northern slope of the Tianshan Mountains, if the Tang army launches an attack, everyone will definitely be annihilated, it is better for us to take advantage of this time to launch a surprise attack on the Tang army, maybe this can also be put to death and survive." ”
Many of the cavalry under the command of Yingyi Khan had red eyes, hoping to fight the Tang army, some of whom had already been on the northern slope for some time, and some of whom had just arrived.
However, these people all believed that their strength was much stronger than that of the Tang army.
In fact, in Tang Zhangwei's troops, almost everyone can write.
This is a breakthrough move by Tang Zhangwei, he asked Confucian students to run literacy classes in the army, which is a thing that Tang Zhangwei has always insisted on.
The soldiers of the Tang Army who knew how to read and write were able to understand all kinds of subtexts and various military orders.
In this way, Tang Jun's writing ability was greatly improved, and they were also good at using various technical weapons, such as fierce fire oil tanks.
Tang Zhangwei has built many such weapons, and they are portable and improved versions.
If a Tang army encounters a Tibetan or Western Regions cavalry, it may not necessarily win, but five Tang troops can definitely deal with eight or nine enemy troops.
Yingyi Khan did not know that he was facing such an army, so he ordered 40,000 cavalry, divided into forty squads, to attack the Tang army's position together.
With Tang Zhangwei's order, more than 500 bed crossbows shot crossbow arrows together. These crossbow arrows were coated with more poison, and of the more than a thousand people who charged in the first batch, less than five hundred people were left to rush to the front of her Tang army.
Before the cavalry of the Western Regions under the command of these Yingyi Khans could wake up, Bai Cunxiao commanded his subordinates to launch with bows and arrows and fierce fire oil tanks.
The remaining 500 men also dismounted, and they either died under the arrows of the Tang army or were burned to death.
Yingyi Khan burst into tears, but he still commanded his accomplices to launch an attack on the positions of the Don army.
The Tang army gathered together, and Tang Zhangwei ordered Bai Cunxiao's 20,000 Western Regions Army to launch a counter-charge against the cavalry of Yingyi Khan, and the Tang army was in a formation of 4,000 people.
The troops of the two sides were staggered, and countless war horses were fighting each other.
Due to the denser formation of the Tang army, after all the slashing with each other, the black armor of the Tang army engulfed the variegated Yingyi Khan troops.
The Heroic Khan immediately ordered the remaining troops to keep filling in, and the troops on both sides marched forward bravely.
Tang Zhangwei ordered the 20,000 Tubo Corps and 10,000 Xiangxiong troops under the jurisdiction of the Tang Army to also attack the troops of Yingyi Khan from behind.
The troops of the Yingyi Khan did not turn their horses' heads and fought with the Tang army.
Groups of cavalry, wielding sabers and not wanting to chop, turned the northern slope of the Tianshan Mountain into a Shura field in the world.
Tang Zhangwei ordered Zhangxiong's mastiff regiment to join the battlefield, and the 10,000 mastiffs collected from the snowy plateau roared in unison and pounced on the troops of Yingyi Khan.
Under the command of the mastiffs, the brave cavalry of the Yingyi Khan fought back in fear.
Those fierce mastiffs scratched and bit huge blood holes in the stomachs of the horses of the cavalry of the Heroic Khan, and these horses galloped wildly on the battlefield, disrupting the war deployment of the Heroic Khan.
Tang Zhangwei stared at the battlefield, he saw that Yingyi Khan's troops were in chaos, he smiled and said: "It's time, go!" ”
Three hundred plate cavalry stood up, and 30,000 elite Tang cavalry followed closely behind.
Three hundred plate armored cavalry, serving as the pioneer, launched a fierce attack on the remaining more than 10,000 formed cavalry under the command of Yingyi Khan.