At dusk, the news of the city's victory over the combined forces of the Ghaznavid princes reached the Iron Cliff.

The Xia army consumed the strength of the Ghaznavid coalition army with a large infantry formation, and when the Ghaznavid king threw in the last reserve, the 10,000 Xia cavalry in ambush launched a surprise charge. However, the Xia cavalry was too powerful in Khorasan, and as soon as 10,000 elite cavalry appeared on the flank of the battlefield, the Ghaznavid army scattered and fled, and the final battle turned into a massacre and pursuit rather than a battle of annihilation. Regrettably, Douala, the king of Ghaznavid, quickly abandoned his army and fled from the battlefield, and the cavalry of the Flowerhat and other armies pursued Douala, and at the same time sent envoys to recruit the princes from all over the country. In the short term, the Ghaznavid princes could no longer threaten the Xia army's rear.

The starry sky twinkles in the sky, and the night air is extremely cold. As soon as he got the news of the victory, Zhang Shanfu rode a fat and strong horse and led a few marching horses to the camp of Xu Wenhu, the general of Anxi. Along the way, you can see groups of Baiyi refugees gathered around the fire to roast the fire. These Baiyi people are in rags, in the short two or three years since the fall of the Baiyi Dynasty, the Roma Turks and Xia armies have repeatedly tugged in this area, and every time the army crosses, they will be plundered, and now many people are dressed like rags they have picked up, and women are standing on the side of the road with children, stretching out their hands, and begging from the passing cavalry with pitiful eyes.

As General Zhang's cavalry passed, all the homeless beggars were driven thirty feet away from the road.

The homeless people could only watch from a distance as the mighty Xia cavalry slowly galloped past the mighty general.

Zhang Shanfu looked at these homeless people, his eyes narrowed into a thin slit, revealing a trace of cold light.

The officer of the marching division who followed behind shrunk his neck, which was a sign that the general's mood was getting better or worse, only to see Zhang Shanfu slow down his war horse and stare at those Baiyi refugees, these people looked extremely pitiful, one by one skinny and bone-like, and their eyes were deeply sunken into their cheeks, as if they were two bottomless holes, and some were swollen, and almost all of them had sores and erosions on their exposed skin, just like ghosts in hell.

A few passing sergeants kindly threw them half a bag of marching cakes, and dozens of people even tore up because of it.

Seeing that the scene was chaotic, in the end, the sergeant took the back of the knife to subdue a few strong men, and a few sergeants carried cloth bags, distributed the cakes one by one to the hands of the old and weak women and children, and then pulled out their knives and stood aside, guarding them to eat the cakes. Not far from the road, there was another group of homeless people, and a few strong Bai Yi men were fighting for a piece of dried meat with maggots, and for dozens of people next to them, they swallowed saliva one by one, and their eyes shot greedy light, but they didn't dare to go to the middle to make a move.

Zhang Shanfu Lema stared at the scene, his eyes narrowing even more. The group of homeless people was too close to the road, and the Tiger Wing guards stepped forward to disperse them, and when they saw the cavalry coming, they immediately dispersed, and a man with a sore face in the middle failed to grab the jerky, and stared at Zhang Shanfu viciously as he ran, it was like a wounded and fleeing beast.

Zhang Shanfu's eyes showed a hint of confusion, and his brows furrowed even deeper as he watched the man turn around and run away.

"The big war is coming, why hasn't this battlefield been cleaned up yet?" He asked the staff officer behind him in a deep voice.

"These are the people who have only recently been driven out of the vicinity of Khan City." The marching commander Shi Pu Rensi said in a deep voice: "Originally, I had made a plan to see them migrate to the south bank of the Amu Darya River, but recently, the burden of the baggage division has been too heavy, so these people have been stranded here. ”

While reporting to Zhang Shanfu, he pointed to the people of Baiyi, who were obviously short of food and clothing.

When the Xia Kingdom seized Hezhong a hundred years ago, the Turks were driven across the Amu Darya River and moved westward, forming deep ties with the local tribes of Baiyi along the way. Originally, within the territory of the Baiyi Dynasty, many Turkic tribes and Baiyi people also followed the same teachings. Therefore, when the general of the Xia State Zhou Li attacked the Roma Turks, the Baiyi people along the way rebelled, especially after Zhou Li's army defeated the Reshahai, he turned to the Roma Turks, not only to provide supplies for the Rom Turkic army pursuing the Xia army, but also to fight with the Turks. Almost overnight, Xia Guoxin lost more than half of the territory occupied.

The Protectorate hated betrayal, so this time, the Xia State was pouring its country west to conquer the Turks, and the Marching Division intended to create a vast and uninhabited land in the warring area. The Xia kingdom's ability to supply baggage far exceeded that of the Romani Turks, so the Xia army was able to pass long distances through such desolate areas where supplies were scarce, while it was difficult for the Romani Turk armies to cross such areas to attack the Xia hinterland. The marching division had already moved the border people inward, and sent cavalry into the Turkic territory, and even penetrated to the west of its old capital, the city of Khan, and used all kinds of methods to intimidate the local people to flee westward, in order to create supply difficulties for the Turkic army and isolate the Turkic towns on the front line. In order to punish the betrayal of the people of Baiyi, the Protectorate also did not want to repeat the old things, and ordered that wherever the Xia army re-occupied, the tribal villages that had helped the Roma Turks attack the Xia army would have their right hands cut off by adult men, and all women and children would be sold into slavery as punishment.

The remaining local people had only two choices, one was to leave their homeland and flee to the sphere of influence of the Roma Turks, and the other was to surrender to Hezhong and also leave their homeland and migrate eastward to be resettled by the Baggage Division. If neither of them is willing, they will be regarded as enemies of the Xia State, the villages will be razed and burned, and men, women, and children will be sold into slavery in northern Xinjiang.

Under the threat of retaliation from the Xia army, a large number of people fled westward, and only a few tribal villages descended to the east.

The Xia army allowed them to carry only a small amount of rations, and the rest of the grain was levied as military rations, and livestock, especially horses, swords, bows and other weapons were confiscated. For those who migrated eastward, the baggage division would provide a minimum ration along the way. The situation in front of Zhang Shanfu is because of the heavy burden of the army's supply, and the baggage division does not care about providing rations for these displaced people. At the same time, the scene of starvation deepened the fear of the people, causing more and more people to flee westward. Hundreds of thousands of hungry people flocked to the Turkic territory, and instead of being a source of supply for the Turks, they consumed a limited amount of food and grass.

"The traitors are afraid of power but not virtuous," nodded another marching officer, "and deserve this retribution." ”

"Yes," Sima Liu Qianshan said hatefully, "If General Zhou hadn't saved a thought and left these mongrels behind, we wouldn't have lost so many brothers." "The Battle of Reshahai was a rare defeat since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and dozens of staff officers sent by the marching division alone were killed, including several robes that Liu Qianshan had worked with for a long time.

"However," Sima Zhuli shook his head, "these people are also thinking about me, and the situation is too miserable for the pond fish." ”

"My heart is toward me? I'm afraid it may not be. I think they're just afraid of my might! ”

"To fight is to kill people, how can there be a woman's kindness?" Changshi Huangfu Ping said, "If you don't kill them all, give them a path of self-rehabilitation, it's already compassionate." According to the law of suing and sitting, one person is rebellious, the whole family is rebellious, one day is rebellious, and life is rebellious! Hum! He pressed his hand on the hilt of his sword and looked coldly at these Baiyi people, who had experienced the betrayal of the Baiyi inhabitants last time, and most of the soldiers took them for the wrong enemy, and any mercy for the enemy was cruelty to himself and the people. On the other hand, the more this is the case, the more the people of Baiyi dare not believe that the Xia army will be surrendered, even if it is temporarily surrendered, it is only because they are afraid.

"There are clouds in the art of war, and plundering is like fire. However, since these people chose to move eastward, they believed in our dynasty. ”

The officers of the marching division were silent for a while, Zhang Shanfu was silent for a long time, and then spoke, he beckoned, and asked Sima Zhuli, who was in charge of the marching order, to come to him, and ordered: "After going back, sort out the numbers of military quarters everywhere, if it is not necessary to rush to the front, tell the baggage division to press it first, and the vacated cart will mobilize the baggage rations as soon as possible, and send these Baiyi people away from the battlefield, this is so close to the front line, in case the Turkic cavalry goes deep into the surprise attack, and something happens again, it will be a big deal." ”

Zhang Shanfu's orders were slow but forceful, and his prestige in the marching division was extremely high, and when the order was given, not only Zhu Li bowed his head and obeyed the order, but the officers around him listened attentively, and no one objected. Everyone looked at the group of displaced people with complicated eyes. There are many anointed places on the south bank of the Amu Darya River, the Xia army has just won the battle, severely damaged the Ghaznavid princes, and cleared out a large area of "open land". Although they are rootless duckweeds over there, as long as they survive this winter, after the spring of next year, they can raise a few livestock and cultivate some fields at will, and they can rebuild their homes.

"Admiral Ende," said Juli, after receiving the order, "these people will not forget it for generations to come." ”

Several officers of the marching division also nodded in approval, and some people secretly said: "The ghost sends the gods, and when the general saw the miserable scene of these homeless, he suddenly showed great mercy, and actually allowed the general of the baggage division to postpone the need and free up the cart to help these homeless people speed up the evacuation, which is also considered a blessing for these people." "A person who holds great power, a single thought, can often make tens of millions of heads fall to the ground, and tens of millions of people live, nothing more than this.

"I am a national planner, how can I use my personal favor as a market?" Zhang Shanfu shook his head lightly and said lightly, "Don't forget, those military orders that displaced them were all issued by the generals one by one." Do you think they should be grateful or thankful for Ben? He looked at the hardly human-looking outcasts, and his eyes shone with a light that seemed to be pity, like mockery.

At this time, the road in front of him had been cleared, Zhang Shanfu gently lifted the reins, and said in a deep voice: "Let's go." ”

The officers of the marching division urged the horses to run again, and soon passed this short stretch of the road where the homeless people gathered.