Chapter 707: Chasing the Poor
At this moment, his heart is like falling into the abyss, I'm afraid ...... The royal city has been lost.
"Great Minister, the enemy's offensive is too fierce, and the brothers can't withstand it!"
Jiegan was hateful and anxious, but the situation in front of him was urgent, he was helpless, so he had to turn his attention back to the front of him, a group of Tang cavalry, cutting his team into pieces, and what was even more terrifying was that the Tang army began to implement the encirclement strategy, seeing that the encirclement was about to be closed.
Jiegangas shouted, "Break through! Break out to the west! ”
He was about to evacuate, but how could the Tang army let them break through easily, Jiegan Jiasi had just rushed to the southwest corner, and a Tang cavalry was killed like a sharp arrow, this was the two thousand cavalry led by Pei Xin, the elite of the elite, and won the first place in the cavalry competition for five consecutive years, and was praised as a dragoon by Guo Song.
The cavalry lightning killed, and released arrows in the rush, and the arrows were like a storm, instantly shooting more than 200 enemy cavalry who had broken through, and pressing back the breakthrough army of Jiegangas.
"Breakout! Kill it! ”
Jiegan Garth shouted loudly, Pei Xin's eyes locked on Jiegangas, although he didn't know what official position this person was, but he wore a golden helmet, which meant that his weight was not light.
Pei Xin quietly took out his bow and arrows, bent down to urge the horse to the side, he suddenly straightened up, and when he opened his bow, an arrow was shot, and this arrow shot extremely suddenly, and the guards around Jiegangas did not notice it, 'Poof! An arrow pierced the neck of Jagangas.
Gingangas let out a muffled scream, clutched his neck and dismounted.
The soldiers were in a mess and rushed to rescue the boss, but the boss was angry more than he was in, and he was about to die.
The pro-soldiers were full of grief and indignation, and they screamed and broke through, and finally they broke through a gap, and more than 20 pro-soldiers broke out.
Pei Xin was furious and led the soldiers to rush forward, killing more than a dozen people in a row, but he still watched the soldiers rescue their main general.
The soldiers were still about to chase, but Pei Xin stopped them, and he could see clearly that his arrow had broken the throat of the other party, and the other party was no longer good.
The cavalry of the Tang Army blocked the last gap, and the more than 8,000 cavalry fought, the fewer and fewer they became, and finally a few hundred people were killed under the random arrow fire of the Tang Army, and the 8,000 former troops who were surrounded were all annihilated.
Guo Song issued an order to chase and kill, and the cavalry of the Tang Army comprehensively pursued and killed the fleeing cavalry, chased more than 200 miles in one go, and killed more than 10,000 people, and then Guo Song ordered to stop the pursuit.
In this sneak attack, 21,000 of the 50,000 Hui troops were killed, and about 2,900 escaped, each fleeing back to the tribe.
In the end, he could not save himself, and took his last breath in the process of fleeing.
This time means that the whole army of the Hui professional soldiers is wiped out, to compete with the Tang army, can only continue to recruit herdsmen, this is obviously unrealistic, the Hui people after this war collapsed, its strength from the overlord of the grassland to the ordinary tribe, the Hui controlled by the Tongluo Division, the Qibi Division, the Dubo Department and the Baye Ancient Department have become independent, the land of the royal court was divided, and the sphere of influence of the Hui tribe has been sharply reduced.
Twenty years later, the newly re-emerged Hui tribe was defeated by the Huanggas tribe, and the Hui tribe was completely divided.
After Guo Song defeated the cavalry of Jiegangas, he once again waved his army to the north, and the army pointed to the rich city.
At this time, nearly 1,000 Hui nobles and hundreds of thousands of old and weak women and children of the Yao Luo Ge tribe gathered near Fugui City, and there were only 5,000 troops left around them.
For ten days in a row, the Hui nobles spent their time in anxiety, looking forward to the good news and the fact that Jiegan Gars could lead the army to defeat the Tang army, which was their last hope.
But as the Tang army's horn sounded in the distance that morning, the hopes of the Hui nobles were completely shattered.
The Hui nobles were in a panic, and Gu Lulu personally led 5,000 cavalry of the Guards to meet the Tang army, covering the Hui nobles and the Khan to flee eastward, and hundreds of thousands of old and weak women and children could no longer take care of them, so they had to be left to fend for themselves.
Five thousand cavalry crossed the Exian Water from the shallow, and galloped on the grassland under the leadership of Xiangguo Guclumsy, and ran less than thirty miles, when a towering stone monument appeared in front of them, which was the monument of the Turkic Viga Khan, to commemorate the great achievements of the Turkic warriors after the creation.
But just as he passed by this stone monument as high as ten zhang, a series of explosions suddenly occurred in the cavalry group, this is the road after all, the Tang army buried at least three explosion points around this, and a Tang soldier hiding in the stone chamber ignited the explosion point in the west.
The sound of the explosion was like thunder, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and thousands of cavalry were blown up to the ground, which was unbearable to see, and a large number of quenched iron nails burst out in the explosion, hundreds of people were killed on the spot, and nearly 3,000 people were shot by iron nails.
The Hui army was in chaos, at this time, a loud horn sounded all around, 20,000 Tang troops killed from all directions, cutting off all the retreats of the Hui army, Xiang Guo was hit by a few quenched iron nails, at this time, he felt the poison attack in the body, the leg lost consciousness, he couldn't sit still on the horse, fell off the horse, not only him, the soldiers who were shot by the poison nail began to have a poisonous attack, and wailed.
Gu Clumsy was completely desperate, at this moment he was in despair, Gu Clumsy slowly pulled out the sword at his waist, put it on his neck, gritted his teeth and wiped his heart ruthlessly, and killed himself.
The 20,000 Tang army killed the last stubborn resistance of more than 1,000 cavalry, and the army didn't care about cleaning up the corpses, so they immediately turned north and killed the camp of Fuguicheng........
There was no war anymore, and 150,000 old and weak women and children became prisoners of war of the Tang army, and more than 20 million cattle and sheep and hundreds of thousands of war horses they took also fell into the hands of the Tang army.
Fuguicheng was another warehouse of the Hui army, where the Tang army seized a large amount of supplies, mainly pig iron and copper ingots, and was also a center of Hui artisans, where more than 3,000 Han Chinese and Hui craftsmen smelted iron and forged weapons.
At night, several Tang soldiers rushed over, and the commander of the first brigade came to the big tent and said to Guo Song's personal soldiers: "We are sent by General Yao, and we have urgent matters to see Your Highness!" ”
They were all Yao Jin's personal soldiers, and immediately a soldier entered the tent to report to Guo Song, Guo Song walked out of the big tent and asked, "General Yao, what's the urgency?" ”
The brigade commander stepped forward and knelt down on one knee and saluted, and said in a low voice: "The new Khan of Hui and more than a thousand Hui nobles were intercepted by General Yao, and General Yao asked for instructions, what should I do with them?" ”
Guo Song pondered for a moment and asked, "How many men and how many women?" ”
"Most of them are women, accounting for about seventy percent, there are about 300 men, almost all of them are elderly, and there are only twenty or thirty young people under the age of 30 at most."
Guo Song nodded and said, "Only one of the men under the age of thirty will be left with the new Khan, and the rest will all be executed, and then General Yao will send someone to send these nobles to Princess Ye." ”
"Ignorance, understood!"
The brigade commander saluted, turned over and rode away with his men.
The main force of the Hui has been destroyed, and the Tang army can certainly sweep the Quartet and completely destroy the Hui Hui, but this is not the best policy, which will only allow the stronger tribes such as the servants to rise rapidly.
Maintaining the balance of power among the various tribes in the grassland is the king's way, as for Sijie, Guo Song doesn't want to do [fo] involved, and when they are almost killed internally, they will naturally calm down.
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There are several big mountains in the northwest of the Huifu Wangcheng three hundred miles away, called Chishan, the whole mountain is brownish-red, this is actually a mountain rich in iron ore and copper ore.
At first, it was developed by the Turks, and after the Uighurs took over, it became a source of iron ore and copper ore for the Uighurs.
After the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, a large number of northern Han people fled to the grasslands to escape the military disaster, and they brought a large number of advanced forging technologies to the Hui, and the main force of mining and smelting gradually became Han Chinese.
After the end of the Anshi Rebellion, the Han people began to return to their hometowns in large numbers, and the Han people in the north were no longer willing to work for the Hui, so the Hui changed their strategy, from the initial recruitment to plunder, and in more than ten years, hundreds of thousands of Han men and women were plundered into the Hui as slaves, and the harsh climate of the grassland made many people die early.
At present, there are less than 20,000 young and strong Han men in Hui, except for some who are responsible for logging and grazing, most of the rest are concentrated in mining and smelting in Chishan, and there are 2,000 Hui soldiers who guard them.
At noon, an army of 10,000 people came from the south, and the Hui soldiers were having lunch in the barracks, and the 10,000 Tang troops quickly surrounded them, and the cavalry slaughtered the barracks and slaughtered the Hui soldiers without mercy.......
At this time, when the more than 13,000 Han miners in the mine heard that the Tang army was coming, the miners all over the mountains were boiling, and cheers rang out all around, they threw away their tools, raised their hands high, and jumped and jumped into the distance.