Chapter Ninety-Five: Burning, Killing and Looting

"Kafa Yaka, why do you say you want to lead the troops yourself? Just leave it to us. A Turkic cavalryman asked his leader and said that he was talking about Kafa Yaka, which was the Turkic word for chief.

"Humph! That Li Liang thought he was clever and wanted to beat me with the news of the destruction of one of our own armies. Even came up with the name of the bullshit Khan King to suppress me, what Khan King? If it weren't for the Great Khan's personal order to support him, how would he have the ability to sit as the king of the Western Regions today? These Han Chinese are extremely treacherous, and they are extremely good at hurting people with hidden arrows in various ways in the officialdom. You see, taking this incident as an example, the order for our Turkic cavalry to divide a small force to delay Li Wenyuan's advance was given by him Li Liang himself; The number of troops sent that time was also set by him Li Liang himself. It's good now, the responsibility for the defeat is all ours. What does it mean to give full play to our advantages and wipe out Li Wenyuan's army in the wild? Fart! Aren't you trying to take this opportunity to weaken the forces in our hands? Want to weaken the power in our hands? Li Rail is an ungrateful person. It was through the Great Khan's gift that he now has the power and status he has now. But now his wings are stiff, and he has gone through his most difficult time. He is going to try to get rid of the control of the Great Khan, and if I don't personally lead the troops to the expedition this time, I am afraid that sooner or later I will die in Dunhuang County. Compared with dying at that time, it is better to die on the battlefield. The leader of the Turkic cavalry said hatefully.

"Then the card is a tooth card, do we really follow Li Liang's order like this?" When the Turkic cavalry heard the leader's words, he said unwillingly.

"No matter how wolf ambition Li Liang is, he is always the king of the Khan who was personally canonized by our Great Khan. We still have to listen to his commands, but it is all right. Let me tell you, there is a saying among the Han people that they have a good saying, called those who are not of my race, and their hearts will be different. No matter what orders Li Liang gives him, our enemies are always the Han Chinese, not the Turks. Now the territory east of Guazhou is Li Wenyuan's, and I have also carefully learned about Li Wenyuan's troops on this westward expedition, which has a cavalry brigade of 15,000 people. There are more people than us, Li Liang said let's wait for the opportunity to eliminate them, but let's not touch that mold. Since we finally crossed the Great Wall and arrived at the territory of the Han people south of the Great Wall, we might as well follow the example of our ancestors and tell these Han people in the way of our Turks. In this Western Regions, who is the king? When the Turkic leader heard his subordinates ask him, he squinted his eyes and replied with a smile.

"Khafa, what do you mean?" The Turkic cavalry heard the answer of his leader. He also asked with a sense of understanding.

"Yes. Every time you encounter a village, all the males are killed. Women and livestock were rewarded as trophies to the warriors who participated in the battle. After camping in a village, they set fire to it when they left. The grain that could be removed from the warehouse was carried with them, and those that could not be moved were burned together. The unripe grain in the field will be ruined, and we will leave an indelible nightmare for those Han people this time. Let those Huns also see, even the Han people, who they did not dare to go south to herd horses at the beginning, will tremble under the iron hooves of our Turks. So that they can know how incompetent they really are. The more the Turkic cavalry leader spoke, the smile on his face became stronger, and it seemed that under his command, the Han people in the entire Western Regions fell into fear of him.

Listening to his leader say his thoughts without scruples, the Turkic cavalryman's heart was also hot. In the eyes of the Turks, foreign troops were not sent for power. Just for the sake of plundering, plundering grain, plundering cattle and sheep, plundering cloth, plundering precious booty that they could not produce, and at the same time naturally plundering the daughters of the enemy. In their hearts, the enemy they defeated, then all the enemy's property is their own, after all, they can even take the enemy's life, let alone some things outside the body?

When these people were in Li Rail's territory, they were restrained by Li Rail. I haven't tasted a woman for a long time, and this time I was put into Li Wenyuan's territory by Li Rail, and I faced enemies. Since he is facing an enemy, he naturally no longer has so many scruples in his heart. For a long time, the desire that had been suppressed on Li Rail's territory burst out one after another at this time.

Under the command of the leader of the Turkic cavalry, their first stop was Liujiazhuang in the northeast of Guazhou. Only a small part of the infantry sent by Li Wenyuan was stationed here. And in order to maximize the capacity of the musket corps, there were no musketeers in these garrison local armies, but only traditional infantry to defend.

Liujiazhuang originally did not have any fortifications, but after Li Wenyuan's army came, they cut down the woods around it, built a circle of wooden walls, set up guard towers, and guarded horses. The news of the Turkic cavalry's attack came early, and the gate of Liujiazhuang was also closed, and all the young and strong people climbed the wooden wall to assist the officers and soldiers in defense.

Originally, according to Zhang Juntai's assumption, the Turks came to plunder and harass. When encountering a strong city, it will definitely retreat on its own, so in these places where the troops are insufficient, they all adopt the method of clearing the wilderness with strong walls. However, the purpose of the Turks this time was to burn and plunder, and the newly built curtain wall in Liujiazhuang was not very reliable because of the rush of time. Covered by the arrows of some of the Turkic cavalry, the rest of the cavalry rode close to the wooden wall and attached the rope to the wooden wall. After tying up the battlements of the wooden wall, he pulled in the direction he came. Pulled by hundreds of sturdy horses, a section of the wooden wall could no longer support it and collapsed. Along with the defenders who were standing on it and couldn't dodge, they fell into the gap.

Seeing that the wooden wall of the Zhuangzi in front of him had collapsed into a gap, the Turks took this opportunity to rush in and kill the village. On the orders of their chief, the Turks cut down people when they saw them. That is, in half a day, the officers and soldiers defending the city in Liujiazhuang and the young men who assisted in defending the city, plus some old, weak, sick and disabled men were all slaughtered. The corpses were lying all over the streets, on the walls, among the houses.

The Turks drove the remaining women of the village together like cattle and sheep in captivity. They were locked in a makeshift house, and some of the cattle, horses, sheep and other livestock in the village were slaughtered to reward the soldiers. Hundreds of jars of wine were even found in the cellar of a wealthy family. After the Turks who had died in battle were burned on the spot, it was time to celebrate the victory. The Turks roasted their beef, mutton and horse meat on a fire, and they sat on the floor around the barbecue, drank wine, and sang their own folk songs to celebrate this victory.

In the next moment, these well-fed Turks went to the house where the women in their clothes were kept, and chose the women they liked from among them like animals. Without saying anything, he dragged him into his tent, and for a moment, the triumphant laughter of the Turks and the mournful cries of the women echoed in the sky of Liujiazhuang.

(End of chapter)