"King Khan, in front of you is the forward force of the Turks, about 10,000 people." The men's report woke up Müller, who was pondering on his horse.

When Mueller heard this, his body shook, suppressed the smoke in his heart about the descendants of these tribes whose ancestors had assisted the Turks in hunting down the Rouran people in the steppe, and made a rough appearance and shouted at the marching army: "Hurry up, get ready to fight, if anyone dares to retreat in a while, don't blame me for turning my face and not recognizing people." ”

"Don't worry, Great Khan, you can just wait for the news of our victory when you fight with the Turks." A bearded man who was sent said.

In order to ensure that he could suppress the many Hu people under his command, Li Wenyuan canonized Lü Lin Mule as the Dingtu Khan with a written order, and ruled the Hu people who did not want to be under the king. At the same time, a notice was posted in Gaochang to recruit the Hu people who were unwilling to be bound by the laws of the Western Regions to form a naturalized army, and at the same time promised them that after defeating the Turks, they would be divided into land according to their military exploits.

"If you don't want to die, you want a piece of the war? Something wrong with your mind? Tell them that it's okay to build a country on their own, but they have to exchange it for military merit. After being given full authority by Li Wenyuan to handle the affairs of the Western Front before the war, Zhang Juntai said to the Hu people in front of him without hesitation.

In this way, Zhang Juntai formed an army of 20,000 Hu people, all of which were led by Mueller, the leader of the Rouran people who had lived incognito for nearly a hundred years and was suppressed by the Turks. Mueller looked at the troops around him who were preparing for battle, and the words that Zhang Juntai said when he met him sounded in his mind: "These Hu people have a deep blood feud with your clan, and have a fundamental conflict of interest with me, we can completely reach an alliance in this regard, you can use these soldiers to your heart's content, and it is best to stay on the battlefield, in other words, we can accept your defeat, but we can't accept the defeat of your naturalized army." ”

After listening to Zhang Juntai's words, even in the Western Regions in the middle of summer, Muller couldn't help but fight a cold war. You must know that at this time, there are hundreds of thousands of Turks entrenched in the Western Regions, and there are nearly one million people who are attached to the Turks.

From Zhang Juntai's words, Muller faintly sensed Li Wenyuan's intention to launch this war, which was different from the slightly punitive wars of the Central Plains Dynasty against the nomadic regime in the past, and the war launched by Li Wenyuan this time was to seize the land, cattle and sheep. And in order to stabilize the territory as quickly as possible, there is even a strategy to consume the unstable population through war. Thinking of this, Muller only felt that for a while, it seemed that with the fall of a sharp blade, the entire grassland was dyed blood red, and he seemed to have smelled the smell of blood filling his nose.

But for Zhang Juntai, he promised to give the same treatment to the Rouran and Han Chinese after the war, as a reward for Muller. Thinking of the withering tribesmen and the increasingly difficult living conditions, Muller agreed without hesitation, and at this time he also followed the naturalized army of the hasty army.

Touching the snorting war horse sent by Zhang Juntai under his crotch, Mueller's eyes began to look intently in the direction from which the Turks came. Slowly, a few people with bearded hats slowly appeared in the field of vision, and faintly saw the banner of the steppe people.

Mueller drew his saber and held it up in front of his eyes. This saber was an item paid tribute by the Northern Zhou Emperor when the Rouran regime was still alive, and it was forged by the best craftsmen in the Central Plains at that time with star iron, which was extremely hard and extremely sharp after long-term use.

When the Turkic army on the opposite side seemed to have discovered the naturalized army in front of him, Mueller waved his saber: "Warriors, charge!" ”

The 20,000 cavalry rushed straight and undisguised towards the 10,000 Turkic subordinate troops who hurriedly lined up in a formation. Although these people did not have the same rigorous training as Li Wenyuan's army, and were able to use sophisticated formations to kill the enemy efficiently, these people were born to grow on horseback, and the Saiwaihu people have always been fierce by nature and natural warriors.

The two armies were quickly strangled together, and Muller and his own soldiers roamed the edge of the warband, both to urge his men to fight and to escape as soon as the war was unfavorable. The estimated survival time of each soldier on the battlefield in the era of cold weapons is less than a minute, but with the extension of the time of a battle, the survival time of a soldier can be gradually extended a lot, of course, rigorous training can be effectively extended, but now it is obvious that this problem does not exist.

On the battlefield, the men and horses of the two sides were entangled, and people kept falling off their horses, and blood and severed limbs were constantly flying into the air, and then falling on the body of another unrelated person. An hour and a half later, the last of the Turkic cavalry was shot through the heart by Müller's arrow and fell from his horse, marking the total destruction of the vanguard.

In this battle, although these 10,000 Turkic subordinate troops were completely annihilated, Müller's naturalized army also suffered nearly 4,000 dead and countless wounded. Although in Li Wenyuan's eyes, the battle loss ratio of this battle is unacceptable, but at this time, this battle loss ratio can be rewarded, and if this battle loss ratio can be played with the same number of people, it will be a great victory.

After directing the rest of the men to clean up the battlefield, burn the bodies of the dead, and dig pits for the ashes to bury them, Mueller returned to Zhang Juntai's barracks with his army to replenish his manpower. The soldiers who came back to supplement the naturalized army were not only the Hu people in the occupied areas, but also the Tuyuhun people who had always been suppressed in the Western Regions.

Since Tuyuhun was defeated by Yang Guang and seized the territory, a large number of Han Chinese moved to Xihai County and Heyuan County. In order to ensure the stability under his rule, the Tuyuhun people have been in a state of being suppressed by the government for many years, although many policies used to suppress the Tuyuhun people have been canceled under Li Wenyuan's rule, there are still many people who actively encourage the Tuyuhun people to be independent with the idea of being the head of the chicken and not the tail of the phoenix. At this time, after knowing Zhang Juntai's policy of exchanging military merits for land, several Tuyuhun independent forces stood up and recruited a large number of Tuyuhun people to sign up for the naturalization army.

After repeatedly affirming the difference between dying on the battlefield and not enjoying the treatment of the Western Regions Army under Li Wenyuan, these Tuyuhun people who were eager to restore the country still chose to join the Naturalization Army. Therefore, as the second batch of supplementary soldiers, these people also went to the Gaochang front line with the logistics and transportation troops at this time, waiting to be replenished into the naturalized army that had just been in a big battle.

In line with the principle that meritorious service must be rewarded and the guilty must be punished, Zhang Juntai took out a large amount of materials to reward the soldiers of the naturalized army. The Hu people who were rewarded were very happy, competing for wine and meat, and laughing indulgently.

Not far away, Zhang Juntai also set up a table of not sumptuous banquets for Mueller, and said: "Our Western Regions Army has rules, and it has always been to put an end to luxury and waste, so let's make a living." ”

(End of chapter)