Chapter 60: The waning moon is like blood
The eighth year of Dazhi is destined to be a year full of blood and great changes on the grassland, in April, Jiegan Jiasi personally led an expedition of 50,000 troops to the city of Kedun, and the east and west Hui Hui had a tragic bloody battle, and the people of the Huang Dynasty were like a hungry wolf watching, taking advantage of the emptiness of the Han Ear Bali army, the army washed the grassland with blood, burned the Han Ear Bali, hundreds of thousands of Hui people were killed and taken captive, and the Hui herdsmen who fled to the Tang Dynasty were no less than 300,000, at the same time, Jiegan Jiasi broke the East Hui in the west of Kedun City, and the East Hui Khan Yao Luo Geling was killed in battle, and the remnants defected to the Tang Dynasty, Jiegan gas immediately got the news of Han Ear Bali, he jumped like thunder, immediately led the army to kill back, in the Xian'e River encountered the army of the Hui people, after a few days of fierce fighting, the Huang Gan people were finally defeated by the Hui elite, withdrew back to the Sword River, the Jiegan army also suffered heavy casualties, unable to attack the Hui people again, he collected the Hui herdsmen, and rebuilt the tooth tent in the small city of Harlem, at this time the Hui controlled the population has been less than 200,000, the prestige of the Jiegan Garth has been lost, Ba Tu Gu, Tongluo, Si Jie, Qi and other departments have their own thoughts, the death knell of the Hui perishing has sounded.
In less than a month after the grassland had just calmed down, in mid-September of the eighth year of Dazhi, the 200,000 troops of the Tang Dynasty attacked Mobei from Shuofang, Beiting, and Xiaye at the same time, and a long-planned desert battle officially kicked off.
South of Afushui, a tributary of the Sword River, a Tang cavalry of about 6,000 people rushed towards the place where the tooth tent of the Huangjia people was located like a black cloud rolled up from a flat bottom.
The army and horses rushed up a hill, only to see the sword river in the distance, a hundred cavalry team was galloping along the sword river, Shi Yang restrained the war horse, he recognized the leader from afar was Kurband, he had sent someone to inform the people of the Gansi in advance.
"Shi Yang, is that you?" Kurband rode up the hill. The honest face couldn't hide the excited smile, he pulled out an arrow and rushed towards Shi Yang.
"It's me!" Shi Yang also smiled and pulled out an arrow and galloped towards him, the two horses were staggered, the two arrows collided in the air, and a hearty laugh sounded on the hill.
"Is Datang really going to officially attack Huifu?"
"Exactly, I am on the orders of His Majesty the Emperor. I specially invited the people of the Quegasi to hunt Hui. Shi Yang and Kurband walked side by side, and as he walked, he asked, "I wonder what your Khan's attitude is?" ”
Kurband's face was a little heavy, and he remembered the roar of the khan before leaving, "I worked hard to destroy the Hui people, and their Tang Dynasty will come to pick up the cheap, if you don't give me Mobei, I will never give up this time." ”
Kurband sighed. Without speaking, Shi Yang saw that he seemed to be in a heavy mood, so he asked again: "Isn't your khan willing to send troops?" ”
"No, he will definitely send troops, and he will not let go of this opportunity, but he hopes that the Tang Emperor can let us take the place of Hui in Mobei."
After speaking, he stared at Shi Yang, "You say, do we people have this blessing?" ”
Shi Yang shook his head, "I don't know. However, I have a letter from His Majesty the Emperor to you Khandi, and perhaps there is an answer he wants to know. ”
"Alright, let's speed up." The two of them whipped their horses, and the speed of the horses increased, and they galloped away into the depths of the Sword River.
Two days later, thousands of Tang troops arrived at the location of the tooth tent of the Qiangsi people, which is the confluence of the Afushui and the Jianhe River, with rich land and fertile fields. Thousands of tents were densely packed on the west bank of the Sword River, and the Hughis people at this time were no longer the dilapidated people who were panicked like lost dogs in the past, their own population was only a few hundred thousand, but they already had almost the same number of Uighur slaves as their population, as well as a large amount of looted wealth, and the tents of each family were full of various items, brightly dressed, and their faces were full of smiles.
The huge round tent of Khan Sudaro was even more splendid, and the carpet tassels snatched from the palace of the Hui Dynasty covered the large tent, and boxes of gold jewels were piled up everywhere. The floor was covered with vessels made of pure gold. It was so crowded that there was almost no place to walk, and the whole tent was full of light. It was as if they had arrived in a cave where the treasure was hidden, and in the midst of these jewels lay lazily and beautifully dozens of beautiful women. Dressed in almost transparent saros, they were all snatched from the palace of the Hui king, and now all belong to Sudaro's private property.
As Kurband said, Sudaro was extremely dissatisfied with the dispatch of troops from the Tang Dynasty, and he pointed to the south more than once and scolded, believing that the ruin of the Hui was the credit of their Hus, while the Tang Dynasty was picking the fruits of their victory, and he would never tolerate this happening.
In the past two years, a series of victories and the acquisition of great wealth have spoiled Sudaro, his ambition is inflated, and he is bent on replacing the Hui as the king of Mobei, of course, he thinks that he has this condition, the Qarluq people in the west and the Khitan people in the east were originally his competitors, but they have perished, and in addition to the Hui in the entire Mobei, the only powerful people left are the Hui people, if it weren't for them, who else could replace the Hui people? Su Daluo completely forgot that his own nation only had 200,000 people, but when the Hui were strong, there were more than 2 million people, how could he replace the Hui to dominate the desert north.
Although Su Daluo was furious for the Tang Dynasty to send troops, he also knew in his heart that Huang Jiasi was far from being comparable to the powerful Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty had already sent troops, so he could only look at the eyes of the Tang Dynasty, please the Tang Dynasty, and try to get an extra piece of meat from the bowl of the Tang Dynasty.
At dusk, Shi Yang led two hundred cavalry to follow Kurband to the camp of the Hujas, and Sudaro personally greeted him, and there was no dissatisfaction in his hearty laughter, "I haven't seen him for a few years, and General Shi seems to be more burly and majestic." ”
Shi Yang turned over and dismounted, and smiled at him: "The Khan is the same, and he has the air of a grassland overlord." ”
"General Shi really can talk, but I like to listen." Su Daluo laughed, took Shi Yang's arm and walked quickly into his big tent, and when he entered the big tent, the smug look on his face was difficult to hide, he squinted his eyes slightly at Shi Yang, trying to see the look of shock or envy on his face, but he was disappointed, Shi Yang seemed indifferent to the big tent full of gold treasures, as if he didn't see it at all. At this time, dozens of beautiful women saw that a young distinguished guest was coming, and they stepped forward to salute one after another, Su Daluo rolled his eyes, pointed to these extremely charming women and said generously to Shi Yang: "How is it, do you like it?" I'll give you three of them, and General Shi will choose them at will. ”
Shi Yang glanced at them, still unmoved. He took out Zhang Huan's handwritten letter from his arms, straightened his waist and said, "Khan, let's talk about business!" ”
When Su Daluo saw the letter in Shi Yang's hand, his face slowly became solemn, and then he waved his hand, "You all go to the back tent." ”
The women entered the inner tent through the small door in the back, and Sudaro asked Shi Yang to sit down. Only then did he take the letter from the Tang Emperor to him and read it carefully, the letter made it very clear, asking the Huangjia people to send troops to destroy the Hui with the Tang army, if the Huangjia people worked hard, as a reward, the Tang Dynasty could give the vast land north of Wudejian Mountain (now Hangai Mountain), west of Xiaohai (now Lake Baikal), and east of Jinshan (now Altai Mountain) to the Huangjia people, and it was also clearly stated in the letter that the Tang Dynasty would appropriately relax the reward range according to the degree of hard work of the Huangjia people in the destruction of the Huiguo.
Sudaro read the letter. Bow your head and don't say a word, if you reward according to the Tang Emperor's letter, the people of the Tang Dynasty can get half of the land back, which is far from his ambitions, and he also understands that the Tang Dynasty will not let them go west to Yibohai, nor will they cross the Wudejian Mountain, then the appropriate relaxation of the Tang Dynasty refers to the land east of Xiaohai, in fact, the rivers and grasslands east of Xiaohai are horizontal, and there is the essence of Mobei.
"Alright! I, the Legnes, will pour out my troops. Cooperate with the Tang army to destroy the Hui Hui, and I will send troops tomorrow. "Sudaro finally made up his mind that he would get the vast steppes east of Xiaohai no matter what.
In October of the eighth year of Dazhi, Shuofang Jiedu made Li Shuangyu lead 70,000 Shuofang troops and Li Guozhen, the governor of Beiting who led 60,000 Beiting troops, to join forces on the banks of the Hunyi River, at the same time, Wang Siyu, the deputy marshal of the Western Regions and the deputy marshal of the expedition to the north, also led 70,000 broken leaf troops to advance to the hinterland of the Hui, defeated the main force of the Huifu army in Harlem City, and captured more than 100,000 Hui
The drums beat like thunder, shouting to kill and shake the sky. The ten-mile-long grassland was littered with the corpses of the Hui army. Blood stained the earth red, and the fierce cavalry of the Devils was like an avalanche. Surrounded the Uighur legions and attacked again and again. The disparity in strength was huge, and the tired Hui army could not resist the ferocious attack of the Hughis cavalry, and the Jiegangas ordered a breakthrough, and under a desperate assault, two thousand cavalry escorted the Jiegangas, and finally broke out of the encirclement of the Huggas, and fled to the northwest.
The day finally dawned, the gray mist shrouded the withered grassland, it was late autumn at this time, the blades of grass were covered with hoarfrost, the cold air hit people, on the east bank of the Yang River, an exhausted army came from afar, they were the remnants of the Hui army that had escaped from the pursuit of the Ugas, only 1,200 people remained, almost half of them were wounded, this was the last Hui army.
The soldiers came to the river, dismounted and drank water, many people were so tired that they fell asleep on the ground directly with their clothes, Jiegan Gas sat on a big rock, he looked into the distance with dull eyes, the originally powerful Hui actually disintegrated in a few years of internal strife, all of this stemmed from the blockade of the Tang Dynasty to them, but the root cause was that they betrayed the Tang Dynasty, just like a big tree that left the land, gradually declining, at this moment, he didn't know where he should go? Da Shi has abandoned him, the people of the Gang have a deep hatred for him, and the Tang Dynasty has officially declared war on him, he is like a desperate lost dog, but he does not want to accept the fate of death.
"God, show me the way!" Jiegangas cried out to the heavens in agony, and the heavens seemed to answer him, and there was a slight rumbling of thunder, and Jiegangas was stunned, and all the Hui soldiers who were drinking water by the river were stunned, and he remained stunned, listening to the direction of this muffled thunder.
Suddenly, a Hui soldier pointed to the north and trembled, he was so frightened that he couldn't even say a word, the Hui soldiers saw it at this moment, an overwhelming Tang army appeared three miles away, the sound of hooves was like thunder, murderous, the Hui soldiers called out in horror, turned over on their horses, and didn't even care about their companions who were still sleeping on the ground, Jiegan Garth reacted the fastest, he rode on his horse and desperately fled westward, but the Tang army was as fast as flying, and caught up with the fleeing enemy in a moment.
On the grassland, the surging 5,000 ironclad cavalry of the Tang Army were like a stream of unbridled iron, they were rushing, promoting, crushing everything, and rushing forward. The sharp halberd pierced the enemy's chest, the cold sword slashed the enemy's neck, the sword clashed with the sword, the knife clattered human bones, the human moan, and the terrible gurgling of the dying before breathing, one after another on the grassland. The last of the Uighur army collapsed in an instant, and fled aimlessly.
Shi Yang brandished a halberd and picked a centurion off his horse, and in the face of the centurion's terrified wailing on the ground, he ruthlessly pierced his chest with the halberd, and Shi Yang immediately chopped off the head and hung it on his saddle. At this time, he suddenly found that more than a dozen Uighur soldiers were fleeing south in the circle of a general wearing a golden helmet, and he immediately chased after him.
Shi Yang's war horse comes from the big food, the horse is like a flying dragon, like a cloud driving the fog, and in an instant he chased the enemy thirty steps away, he hung the halberd, drew a crossbow and loaded the arrow, the arrow flew by like a meteor, and an arrow was as fast as an arrow. The arrows were not in vain, and more than a dozen Hui Hui were shot to death in a moment, at this time only the generals wearing golden helmets were left, Shi Yang suddenly stopped the war horse, loaded an armor-piercing arrow engraved with his name, and aimed at the back of the enemy general's neck, he smiled coldly, and the arrow shot out like lightning, and it reached the back of the enemy general's neck in an instant.
At this time, Jiegan Garth had been frightened by the pursuit of the Tang Army's divine arrows. He suddenly heard the sound of the other party's horses' hooves disappearing, and couldn't help but look back, but saw a cold arrow appear in front of him, the cold light on the arrow was like the last grinning of death, Jiegan Gasi only felt a sharp pain in his eyebrows, and the arrow pierced through his brain, nailing the last Khan of Hui to death on the vast grassland.
On October 18, the eighth year of the reign of Dazhi, with the death of Jiegangas, it marked the final demise of the Hui, a nomadic people who had dominated the grassland for more than 100 years.
In late November, when the first light snow falls on the grassland. Zhang Huan, escorted by 20,000 Yulin troops, arrived at Harlem City at the foot of Wudejian Mountain. There were 40,000 cavalry and 70,000 Broken Leaf troops stationed around Harlem City, but there was no trace of the Shuofang Army and the Beiting Army. I don't know where they are now.
The arrival of His Majesty the Tang Emperor was like a grand festival on the grassland, with the two armies slaughtering cattle and sheep. A bonfire was lit to the sky, a sumptuous feast was set up, and the whole whole sheep roasted to golden brown was placed, and the soldiers were allowed to drink barrels of mare's milk wine and sheep wine to their heart's content, celebrating the decades-old shame of the Tang Dynasty once washed away by snow.
Looking down from the sky, more than ten miles of grassland is lit with large and small bonfires, the Tang Army and the cavalry of the Gang Gang gathered together, the noise resounded through the world, next to the main tent, Zhang Huan sat by the huge bonfire, excitedly watching the two Warriors of the Gang performing wrestling in the open space, kept shouting and cheering for them, the blazing fire reflected his face.
On his left and right sat Wang Siyu, the commander of the Broken Leaf Army, and Su Daluo, the Khan of the Broken Leaf Army, Su Daluo picked up a bowl of sheep wine and drank it all, and said to Zhang Huan with emotion: "Your Majesty, the minister never thought that General Shi would be Your Majesty's righteous son. ”
Wang Siyu next to him also smiled: "This kid is very lucky, not only was Jiegan Garth killed by him, but the great chief of Qarlulu back then, Athran, also died under his arrows. ”
"It's really just his luck." Zhang Huan smiled slightly, ordered someone to call Shi Yang, and said to him: "If I don't reward you, I'm afraid that the army will not accept it, but if you are given an official and a knight, you are too young, and I am afraid that you can't afford it, you tell me, what should I do?" ”
Shi Yang knelt down on one knee and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, don't reward the ministers, please reward the five thousand brothers of the ministers." ”
Zhang Huan nodded and agreed to him, "Okay! I will give you 50,000 pieces of money and 5,000 horses of silk for your army, and you will give them to your brothers. ”
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness!" After saying that, Shi Yang stood up and was about to say goodbye, but Su Daluo next to him rolled his eyes, and suddenly laughed loudly: "Your Majesty doesn't reward you, I'll reward you, someone!" ”
Immediately two guards came up, and Sudaro commanded them: "Go and bring the sword that I got from the palace of the king." ”
The guards quickly picked up a sword, and Su Daluo pointed to the sword and said to Zhang Huan: "Your Majesty, this is obtained by Weichen from the palace of the Hui Dynasty, the iron is sharpened like clay and extremely sharp, and the minister is willing to reward it to the general."
Speaking of this, Su Daluo suddenly said in his words: "The minister has always thought that meritorious service should be rewarded, this is the way of the main general, Your Majesty thinks what the minister said is right?" ”
Zhang Huan understood what he meant, he smiled indifferently, and said to Shi Yang: "The Khan is right, meritorious service should be rewarded, you can accept this sword!" ”
Shi Yang bowed, took the sword and strode away, Zhang Huan looked at his back, and smiled at Sudaro: "I promised you, as long as you serve me, I will never treat you lightly, I officially promise you that the territory of the Quegasians can extend eastward to Kedun City." ”
Su Daluo was overjoyed, in this way, most of the land in Hui belonged to him, he quickly knelt down, and said in a loud voice: "The minister Su Daluo is willing to serve His Majesty loyally, and he is willing to be a vassal country of the Tang Dynasty for generations." ”
Zhang Huan looked at him and smiled without saying a word, only inadvertently, a trace of cold chill quickly flashed in his eyes.
The night was deep, the snow had stopped, the night sky became clear, Zhang Huan stood at the head of Harlem City with his hands behind his back, staring at the camp of the Broken Leaves three miles away, and the camp of the Broken Leaf Army was set up in the south at the other end, the bonfire had been extinguished, and the drunken soldiers of the Hundred Warriors had fallen asleep, and they would leave Harlem City early tomorrow morning and return to the Sword River to realize their dream of dominating the grasslands, perhaps Sudaro was dreaming this dream at this time. At this time, Wang Siyu quietly came to Zhang Huan's side and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, the time has come, please leave quickly." ”
"No," Zhang Huan flatly refused, "I have to see the action start with my own eyes before leaving." ”
"Alright then!" Wang Siyu waved his hand back helplessly and ordered: "Send a signal." ”
As soon as the words fell, a rocket rose into the sky, across the heavy night sky, the red light was clearly visible in dozens of miles, as the rocket slowly fell, a few miles away on both sides of the camp suddenly appeared overwhelming cavalry, there were more than 100,000 people, they were like a turbulent sea, the sound of horses' hooves almost turned the earthquake over, not waiting for the people of the Mulberry to react, more than 100,000 Tang troops were like the wind and snow, and slaughtered into the camp that stretched for several miles, and the shouts of killing completely drowned out the screams of the people before they died.
"Now you can go." Zhang Huan slowly turned away from the city, and above his head, a waning moon hung eerily above the black curtain-like canopy like blood.
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