Chapter Ninety-Nine: Sacrifice
Li Wenyuan held the wolf flag and ran back and forth in front of the two armies, constantly repeating the news of the death of the leader of the Turkic cavalry, coupled with the Turkic dialect he learned from Udrus, which made the Turkic cavalry who were in the chaos and were frightened by muskets even more panicked. The cavalry resisting Li Wenyuan became even more powerless, and was soon divided into more than a dozen regiments by Li Wenyuan's cavalry, which was difficult to reinforce each other. After Li Wenyuan's side surrounded and divided the Turkic cavalry, in addition to the cavalry in the innermost part that directly faced the Turkic cavalry, the cavalry on the periphery began to reload their handcuffs and shoot at the Turkic cavalry in the encirclement who refused to surrender.
Soon, the Turkic cavalry saw that there was no hope of breaking through, and they constantly had the kind of weapons that made loud noises against their side, and the army dismounted and surrendered one after another. In this battle, nearly 4,000 Turkic cavalry were captured, and a large number of Turkic military horses, grain and grass supplies were captured. The war horses of these cavalry were not the folk horses of the Turkic herdsmen who were wiped out by the phalanx before, but the war horses of the elite troops guarding the royal court, which could completely alleviate the urgent need for war horses when Li Wenyuan's army expanded its army in the future.
"Chief, what about these captive Turks?" A quartermaster on the side stepped forward and asked.
"Escort them back to the front line in Guazhou, and let Qian Wentong disperse them in Zhangye Wuwei County..." Before Li Wenyuan could finish speaking, Uderu stepped forward and whispered a few words to Li Wenyuan, and after Li Wenyuan listened, the joy of victory disappeared, and was replaced by a gloomy eyes that were about to kill.
Li Wenyuan followed Udrus to the front of a natural cave in the canyon, and saw that the entrance of the cave had been sealed with gravel, and some people had knocked it open, and it was the soldier who found it that pried it open, and he saw that there were traces of artificial blocking, and thought it was a place where the Turkic cavalry hid treasures, so he stepped forward to pry the hole that was blocked, and saw that there were several female corpses inside, and thought it was the wife of the Turkic leader, so he hurriedly reported it to Udlu, and after Udrus looked at it, Thinking of the fact that there were a few villages that were missing the female dependents of a few families, he was shocked in his heart, and he didn't dare to make a decision on his own, so he hurriedly reported it to Li Wenyuan.
Li Wenyuan stepped forward, picked up the remaining rubble with his bare hands, covered his robe over the bodies of these female corpses, and went to look through some small objects on the side. Sure enough, there were three wooden plaques inside, which were the identity cards under Li Wenyuan's rule, and the places of residence on the wooden plaques were indeed the missing female relatives in those villages.
Li Wenyuan gritted his teeth so creaky that he squeezed out a voice from between his teeth and said: "All the corpses of the Turks, cut off the heads for me, pile them up at the northwest exit to build a Jingguan, and pile up the corpses at the southeast exit to build a Jingguan, and they will never be demolished." As for the captured Turks, divide them into teams and take them to the slaughtered villages, and pay for them with blood. ”
"Chief, you said before that you would disperse these Turks under your rule, and now we will kill most of the Turkic cavalry, or let these people be slave coolies such as official slaves and spend the rest of their lives to atone for their sins?" Seeing that Li Wenyuan had murderous intentions, Uderu, who was also a Turk, couldn't bear to kill prisoners of war, so he stepped forward to comfort Li Wenyuan.
Li Wenyuan turned his head to look at Udr with some blood-red eyes, and said word by word: "It is only right to kill people to pay for their lives." ”
Seeing that Li Wenyuan had made up his mind, Wudelu also shook his head and stopped talking.
After collecting the corpses of his comrades who died in battle, and commanding the Turkic captives to build the corpses of the Turkic cavalry into a Jingguan, Li Wenyuan's cavalry unit burned the tents of the Turkic cavalry and other materials that were inconvenient to take away. Li Wenyuan led another army to take the prisoners, divided them into several teams, and went to the villages that had been destroyed by the Turkic cavalry.
Li Wenyuan personally put on a white robe and held a mourning ceremony for the people who died in the village on a high platform temporarily piled up on the ruins of the village.
"Folks, you have suffered, it is my Li Wenyuan's inconsiderate thinking that caused you to suffer this great disaster. It's me Li Wenyuan, I'm sorry. I swear here today that one day I will avenge you by killing all the Turks. When Li Wenyuan said this, he was already in tears, and his body trembled slightly.
"However, those are all afterthoughts, I brought the team of Turks who burned and looted today to soothe the souls of the villagers, folks, open your eyes and take a good look at this group of barbarians who are inferior to beasts."
When Li Wenyuan said this, he walked down quickly from the high platform, walked to the phalanx of Turkic captives who were kneeling on the ground with sacks on their heads, and casually pulled up a Turkic prisoner and brought it to the stone platform on the high platform. Then he ripped off the sack on the captive's head, kicked it on the captive's knee socket, and made the captive kneel beside the stone platform, and was pressed by Li Wenyuan on the stone platform, and then Li Wenyuan pressed the prisoner who was constantly struggling with one leg, picked up the short blade on the side and opened his arms to the sky and shouted:
"Folks, look ahead, these are the fate of the Turks who are harassing you!"
Then Li Wenyuan grabbed the braid of the Turkic prisoner of war behind him, so that he could only raise his head slightly, looking at the plain white flag in front of him, which was densely filled with the names of the people in the village.
At this time, he suddenly felt a chill around his neck, but it was Li Wenyuan who put the short dagger against his neck. At this time, Li Wenyuan looked around at the soldiers wearing linen and filial piety in the audience, and when the soldiers saw Li Wenyuan looking at their side, they slammed the weapons in their hands on the ground, and said in a dull voice: "Kill." ”
"The folks have returned to their souls." As he spoke, Li Wenyuan cut the throat of the Turks with a short dagger.
A large amount of air poured directly into the trachea, and the Turkic captive only felt that his hands and feet were weak and cold, and it seemed that all the temperature and strength flowed out along the place where the air poured in, and his struggle was held down by Li Wenyuan, because of the passage of strength, he wanted to lower his head but was pulled by Li Wenyuan fiercely, and his braid was unable to move. In the end, in desperation, all the struggles turned into feeble gurgling sounds, floating out of the throat and scattered in the air filled with the smell of blood.
Suddenly, there was a thunderclap and a heavy rain poured down, washing away the blood that had accumulated on the stone slabs. Kicking the lifeless corpse from the high platform, Li Wenyuan pulled up another Turkic prisoner of war.
This was the case in the villages where the Turkic prisoners of war were ravaged and the useless corpses were burned to prevent the plague from occurring. But at this time, this matter was deliberately publicized by Li Wenyuan, especially the propaganda on Li Liang's side was the hardest.
(End of chapter)