Chapter 142: Stabilizing Gaochang
After sending away Lu Boya, Li Wenyuan found the night owl's people and asked them to copy a copy of the parchment scroll and the ancient scroll and send it to the night owl headquarters in Dunhuang County, and handed it to Qiu Niang to analyze how much information could be used on it. Li Wenyuan himself still has some things to do, this is the first expansion of the Western Regions Army, and he still needs to personally deal with the pacification of the place, at this time, he is still facing the Gaochang Kingdom, which is only inhabited by Han people in the Western Regions, and it is still in the category of being relatively easy to be appeased, and if the land is taken from the Turks in the future, he will face more problems.
The political workers of the Western Regions Army had already followed the footsteps of the Western Regions Army to stay in the various county capitals of Gaochang State that had been conquered, organize the local people to resume production, and repair the houses, canals and various city defense facilities damaged by the war. The Hu people who did not obey the management had already died in the war injuries of various county governments under the arrangement of the Western Regions Army, intentionally or unintentionally, and those who remained were those who obeyed steadfastly.
Those who were willing to accept Li Wenyuan's rule were quickly registered with the political workers who came with the army, received their unique identity plates from the Western Regions, and also received this year's subsistence allowance. Although Gaochang is located in the Western Regions, the land is fertile, and the water conservancy facilities repaired by several kings, with the intensive cultivation of the land by the Han people, make Gaochang's domestic warehouse full, so that Li Wenyuan's pressure on grain is much less, and even after the people's subsistence grain is distributed, there are still a lot of rich people who are used as military rations.
Li Wenyuan personally visited the four counties and eighteen counties under the Gaochang State, and personally presided over the change of the original Gaochang City, the capital of the Gaochang State, to Gaochang County, and set up county guards. Choosing a good day and auspicious day, Li Wenyuan personally presided over the ceremony of canonizing Koji Boya in the former Gaochang Palace's dormitory, and under the witness of heaven, earth, sun and moon, Li Wenyuan officially canonized Koji Boya as the Duke of Gaochang State, and the title was shared by all male heirs of the Koji family, regardless of the concubine, and then canonized Koji Boya's wife as the Lady of the Decree.
In the four counties of Gaochang, a series of policies promoted by Li Wenyuan in the Western Regions have been promoted, although the political workers who have come are all newcomers who have been involved in officialdom for the first time, but in recent years, the implementation of these policies in the Western Regions has been almost perfect, and all kinds of situations have precedents to refer to, and the results can be referred to. So even if these political workers are novices, they are all self-denying and self-conscious in the implementation process, and there are no scandals, only a few people have not resisted the temptation, and they have been bought by money, and they have all been dealt with according to the law under the evidence of the night owl.
Li Wenyuan's stabilization work in the four counties of Gaochang was in full swing, and the advance of the Turkic army finally rushed to the border of the four counties of Gaochang under the harassment of the naturalized army. But at this time, it was no longer the exhausted Han army that was facing the Turkic advance, but the Western Regions army, which had already conquered the four counties of Gaochang and was well defended.
After a fruitless attack, the Turkic forwards could only make a long tour of the perimeter of the heavily defended Western Regions Army, and then could only retreat in a huff. At this time, Mueller's naturalized army finally completed the task, returned to Gaochang County with thousands of remnants, and met Li Wenyuan to give orders.
"Are you a Rouran, a neighbor of Muller?" Li Wenyuan looked at the person in front of him and said.
"Governor Qiqi, I'm Mueller." Mueller said with his head bowed.
"Juntai has told me everything about you, you are willing to do this kind of insulting thing, you are really a righteous person. You can rest assured that you will be rewarded accordingly afterwards. Li Wenyuan whispered in Mueller's ear.
Under the planning of Zhang Juntai, with the cooperation of Lu Linmule, the naturalized army attacked a total of nearly 40,000 people, and finally returned to the camp of only 4,000 people, although under their attack and harassment of the Turkic vanguard suffered heavy losses, but under the cautious response of the remnants of the Turkic forward, the results that can be harvested are getting smaller and smaller, on the contrary, the losses are getting bigger and bigger, and even once under the design of the Turkic forward, it was surrounded by the Turks, and was almost annihilated on the grassland, fortunately one of Zhang Juntai's subordinates led the supplementary soldiers of the naturalized army to arrive, It took a bloody way to rescue Muller, who was seriously wounded.
The veterans who had been with Mueller in this battle lost seventy-seven eighty-eight, and the naturalized army temporarily led the troops to rescue the naturalized army in the encirclement due to Mueller's wounds, and Zhang Juntai's subordinate led the army that attacked the Turks. Because of the rescue of those of the Naturalized Army, the subordinate established prestige in the hearts of the soldiers of the Naturalized Army, and even believed in the bold plan of the subordinate to attack the Turkic camp at night.
On the day of the operation, the Naturalized Army launched an attack on the Turkic camp at night, and the troops in several ways launched a surprise attack, and the Turks did not react for a while, and the troops of several routes all broke into the camp smoothly, and several troops even raided near the camp of the Khan, but then the officers who reacted quickly organized the elite army of the royal court to surround them in the camp, and finally were suppressed in a corner of the camp. Thanks to the fact that the officer brought a few explosive bags in order to expand the results of the attack on the camp, he blew up a few breaches in the camp wall and rushed out, losing more than half of the number of people in this battle, and the morale also fell directly to the bottom.
This is actually what Zhang Juntai wanted to achieve, so on the surface, he blamed the officer for underestimating the enemy, which led to this defeat, but in fact, he rewarded the officer with a reward behind his back. At this time, Muller returned from injury in time and once again commanded the naturalized army after the replenishment.
I have to say that Muller is a very suitable general to dominate the Hu people, and the naturalized army, whose morale has been greatly hit, soon returned to the battlefield with morale boosted again under Muller's training. This time, in order to ensure the victory of the war, Zhang Juntai no longer ordered the naturalized army to carry out the task of attrition, but instead threw himself into the task of attacking and disturbing the speed of the Turkic forward, because at that time, Gaochang City had already been broken, and it was at the critical moment when the two armies were fighting for Gaochang City, and there could not be any hidden dangers to interfere with the war here, so it was necessary to slow down the advance speed of the Turks.
Mueller, who received this order, finally felt that the burden on his shoulders had been removed, so he finally showed his ability to lead the army to fight, leading the naturalized army to break through the defense of the Turkic forward, and the Turkic forward, which had been attacked and some of the frightened birds, marched more cautiously, and the speed dropped to a very slow point, advancing cautiously step by step, for fear that a reckless person would fall into the ambush of the Han people.
(End of chapter)