Chapter 622: We Want Peacock River

At this time, Khotan already knew about the changes in Klya City and Yochang City, and many Tocharian nobles panicked, some of them surrendered, and some fought with the Han people, but more were ready to flee. Ten years ago, he unified the Uighur tribes, ambitious, heard that the Han people were coming, and sent a large army to garrison in the area of Datun City early. But I never dreamed that there would be a Han army to raid Yochang City, and the action was so fast, it only took one day to hit the city of Khotan.

Yeling King's real name is Ashina Society? Gu Shen is a descendant of the Turkic royal family Lulu Khan, so the King of Yeling also calls himself Tiele Khan. Although the Tocharians had limited combat effectiveness, the king of Yeling still attached great importance to the Tocharians, because if the Tocharians occupied Khotan and attacked the vicinity of Achikkul from time to time, the Han people naturally did not dare to attack the Uighurs in an overall situation, because by placing all the soldiers and horses in the Uighurs, the Tocharians could completely rush behind the Han people and cut off the grain and grass of the Han army. However, if the Tocharians were directly exterminated by the Han Chinese, the Uighurs would have to face attacks from the Han in both directions. It's really a head-to-head confrontation, and the Yeling King is not afraid of the Han army, and he can start a war from two directions at the same time, which is a bit overwhelming.

The Uighurs are not yellow-headed Uighurs, with a territory of 100 li covering more than 100 li, long and narrow from east to west, from west to east, and there are several cities such as Momancheng, Anxi City, Yanqi Town, Xizhou, Yidu and Yizhou. The eastern and western fronts are long, and these cities are very important. The main force of the Dingguo Army broke in from the south and could only pass through Datun City, such as the Puchanghai area. But the Han army active in Khotan is not easy to grasp. The soldiers went out of the city of Jochang. You can choose any of the three western cities of Moman City, Anxi City, and Yanqi Town to carry out the main attack, which is a troublesome matter. Of course, it is possible to send heavy troops to guard all three cities, but in that case, there will be many fewer soldiers and horses who can come up with the main force of the Dingguo Army.

Thinking about it, King Yeling felt that he still had to rescue Khotan, and if he watched Khotan collapse, it would be him who was unlucky in the end. On the eighth day of the third month, the Yeling King Ashina Society? Gu Shen sent Harile, the lord of the last barbarian city, to attack Yochang City. It was supposed to be as planned. Haril should wait until the soldiers and horses of Bujuoncha, the lord of Anxi, arrived, and then the two of them attacked the city of Yochang together. Maybe Haril underestimated the Dingguo Army too much, and always felt that the Dingguo Army was no different from those Western Xia soldiers, so Haril did not wait for Buqiongcha, and directly led his troops across the Cherchen River. On the eighth day of the first month of March, Haril's 5,000-strong army had just crossed the Cherchen River, and when it was not yet firmly established, Zheng Biao, who was ambushed on the south bank of the Cherchen River, launched a fierce attack. Haril's army did not respond enough, and the army was exhausted from the road, and the formation that had just been organized was cut in half by Zheng Biao at once.

Zheng Biao waits for work. Sneak attack on the Cherchen River, Haril did not expect. King Yeling didn't expect it, so he was not prepared, and the consequences could be imagined. In just half an hour, most of the Haril rebels had been driven into the river, and it was now early March, and although it was still a little cool in the northwest, the frozen river had already melted, and many Uighurs who did not know how to swim were swept away by the flood. Haril was not spared, and when he tried to climb the stone bridge, he was rushed up by two soldiers of the Dingguo Army and chopped off his head.

When the news came that the Khazhl army was defeated and killed on the Cherchen River, Bujuncha hurriedly ordered his soldiers and horses not to cross the Cherchen River lightly, and on the one hand, he hurriedly sent people to Xizhou to deliver the news. Zheng Biao's sudden attack not only caught Haril off guard, but more importantly, completely shocked the Uighurs, at least for now, Bujunicha and his soldiers and horses no longer dare to despise the Dingguo army.

On the bank of the Yulong Kashgar River, in Khotan, the city of Ayuan, the king of the Yue clan in that year, this is a beautiful city, with a round roof, red walls and white tiles, and everywhere reveals a kind of piety and solemnity of Middle Eastern people. When Pang He's nearly 10,000 troops besieged Khotan, the Tocharian nobles panicked and were afraid, and at this time, they knew that the Celestial Empire was still the Celestial Empire, and they may have been asleep for more than two hundred years, but when the soldiers pointed directly at the Western Regions, they were still unstoppable. In the court of Khotan, King Seth sat on the throne in a daze, and now the king of Khotan, who was only seventeen years old, was really in charge of the Tocharian nobles. Because he has no real power, Seth is indifferent to everything, and the Tocharian nobles fight like clowns, and some even catch people and scold them. In the palace of Nuoda, the splendid frescoes, but the people in the hall do not match this beautiful decoration.

Martu, the ruler of Khotan, shook his beard, and his radish thick fingers pointed at a red-faced man, "Yaka, look at the good things you have done, I have already told you, don't deal with the Celestial Empire with the people of the Ashina Society, you just don't listen, now it's okay, the Celestial Empire has sent troops to surround our capital, and everyone's lives are in danger, what do you say?" ”

This Yaka is the uncle of King Seth, and as the general of the Green Tiger, he actually controls all the forces of Khotan, of course, the entire Khotanese army is less than 8,000 people. Yaka has a straightforward temperament and is a bit arrogant, so when the King of Yeling promised him some benefits and asked him to help deal with the Han Chinese, Yaka immediately agreed. At the beginning, not many people refused Yaka, but now that the Dingguo army is besieging the city, those who remain neutral have begun to stand up and accuse Yaka, and the most prestigious one is the ruling lord Martu.

"Shut up, Martu, you villain, when Ben Jiang started to ask you, why didn't you refuse, didn't you want to wait for Ben to defeat the Han people, so that he could get a piece of the pie? Now it's okay, the Han people are besieging the city, but you have deducted all the basins on Lao Tzu's head" Yaka is not easy to mess with, it's really urgent, everyone is dead, no one should think about it.

Being told that he was breaking his heart, Martu was also a little unable to get off the stage, glared at his eyes and said angrily, "Okay, don't be clever here, Yaka, you caused the matter, you just said what to do?" ”

Martu's words really knocked Yaka down, and now that Yaka is a general and is in charge of the nation's troops, it is said that he should make up his mind about this matter. The original intention was to fight, but I didn't know how to fight, Khotanese City was built on the basis of the Yue King Ayuan City. As we all know, the Nayue clan has no quarrel with the world. Just know how to make money. Therefore, the king's cultivation is not very strong. At the beginning, the so-called city wall was a red wall, which could only shelter from the wind and rain, although the city wall had been renovated over the years, it still could not be relied on to resist the siege army.

Just when Martu and Yaka and the others were hesitating and didn't know what to do, they listened to a sentence from the high platform, "It's better to ask the people of the Heavenly Dynasty to be filial piety, benevolence and righteousness." Let's go down! ”

Bang, the whole hall fell silent, in fact, many Tocharian nobles thought so, but they didn't dare to say it because of their faces. Now, listening to King Seth's proposal, for the first time, all the Tocharian nobles actually saluted King Seth respectfully, "The king is wise, and the ministers obey orders." ”

Who has taken Set in his eyes before, but this time he is so respectful, these Tocharian nobles are not good people. Anyway, the idea of surrender was proposed by your king, and the people are to blame. It is not to blame on the nobles. Yaka's hatred, but now that the wood is in the boat, there is no hope even if you want to refuse.

On the ninth day of the third month of the fifth year of Xuanhe, the king of Khotan, Seth, led the civil and military ministers to surrender the city, Pang He was not a good type, and immediately received the seal of the king of Khotan, and trapped Yakan with his own soldiers, and seized the talisman. For example, the first thing in Khotanese City is to control all the troops in the city, and then discuss the next matter with the nobles of Khotan, in fact, it is not a discussion, that is, Pang He said, and the others listened.

"Chang'an Jingshi University Hall is in full swing, and its status is still above Taixue, and my Royal Highness said that there is a shortage of smart and clever students in the University Hall. I heard that your children are smart, please send them to Chang'an to accept my Song Xinxue! ”

Pang He's move is too ruthless, why accept the new learning of the Great Song Dynasty, this clearly wants to take these children of Tocharian nobles as hostages. Khotan is located in the Western Regions, far away from Chang'an, at least for a short time, the Dingguo army cannot garrison troops here, so Pang He thought of this method. The Dingguo army will not be stationed in Khotan, and the Tocharian nobles will choose who they want in their hearts, but well, if it makes His Royal Highness the King of Qin unhappy, they will slaughter the hostages first. There was a dead silence in the palace, and a pale color appeared on the faces of all the Tocharian nobles, they could only do what Pang He said, not do what the huge general wanted, they didn't have to go to Chang'an, they had to die now.

On the tenth day of the first month of March, the Khotanese king Seth and the Tocharian nobles and women's football team had more than 200 people, and went to the city of Yochang one after another, only to bring these noble children back to Chang'an after Zhao Yougong's army went north.

On the same day, the main force of the Dingguo army marched north in the east and west, Xiao Yue led the left army to the north side of Altun Mountain, and arrived at Ruoqiang on the west side of Datun City one day later, Lin Chong and Gao Chong led their troops to bypass the foot of the right side of Altun Mountain and approach Datun City.

Datun City, arguably the only fortified city in southern Uighurs, can be broken through it for hundreds of miles, and can reach the southern part of Xizhou through the Kuruktag Mountains. Due to the importance of the city, the Uighurs built the city into a military fortress over the years in order to defend against the Uighurs. Zhao Yougong did not plan to storm Datun City, the city of Datun City has thick walls, and it is estimated that it will not be pleased, and Zhao Yougong will not do it lightly if he hurts the enemy by one thousand and loses eight hundred.

The army marched to the east side of Datun City and stopped, Zhao Yougong was waiting, March 12, Xiao Yue raided the Peacock River in the north of Ruoqiang with cavalry, leading the Ruoqiang defenders out of the city for a decisive battle, this battle, the cavalry of the Dingguo Army raised the Peacock River, 2,000 cavalry defeated 5,000 Uighurs, Xiao Yue also took advantage of the situation to capture Ruoqiang. At the same time, Pang He and Zheng Biao led the army eastward and joined forces with Xiao Yue. After taking Ruoqiang, Xiao Yue and others were not in a hurry to go north or east to help besiege Datun City. To everyone's surprise, just outside Ruoqiang City, the Dingguo Army began a search campaign, searching not for people, but for boats, like rafts and bamboo rafts, as long as they could float in the water, they were all robbed.

At first, I really couldn't figure out the intentions of the Dingguo Army, but gradually, the Yeling King somewhat understood, this is another raft robbery, and a bamboo raft, this is to cross the river? Ruoqiang near the only north of the Peacock River, in the past, the Peacock River is a beautiful place, here was the most revered mother river of the Yueshi country, in the vast desert, there is this unique scenery, intoxicating.

Where does the Peacock River lead? Ruoqiang, Korla, from Korla to the north, is Yanqi Town. When he knew where the Peacock River led, the Yeling King suddenly panicked, maybe because the countries of the Western Regions had never had an example of a naval battle, so he never felt that there was any fuss about the Peacock River leading to Yanqi Town, but now he had to be afraid. If the Dingguo Army really killed Yanqi Town along the Peacock River, what is the point of 30,000 troops stationed in Datun City, and is it given that the National Army is guarding the home? King Yeling still doesn't know much about the navy, the Peacock River is not a big river like the Yangtze River, the water flow is gentle, the water level is not deep, and the river channel is not wide, relying on the Peacock River to transport troops, and the ships have to be transported for seven or eight days when the ships are sufficient, not to mention that the ships are not sufficient. However, the King of Yeling didn't think about it so much, or he couldn't think about it so much, since he was born, he had gone through dozens of battles, all of which were on foot and horse, and he had never seen a big battle by the river. In a panic, the Yeling King made a decision that he would regret for the rest of his life, and it was this decision that disrupted all his original deployments and sent the Uighurs into the fractured abyss.

On March 14 of the fifth year of Xuanhe, King Yeling transferred the army of Xicheng and Yanqi Town to the south, and he also rushed to Korla from Xizhou, and strictly defended it in the north of the Peacock River, and at the same time strictly ordered the general Qi Ge stationed in Datun City to repel the Han army in the east within ten days, in order to advance westward, drive the Han people out of Ruoqiang, and keep the Peacock River. King Yeling would never have dreamed that as soon as this military order was issued, the news would reach Zhao Yougong's ears.

Zhao Yougong didn't expect his sudden idea, he just gave it a try, but he didn't expect it to be a success. In Datun City, General Qige stroked the wine glass in his hand, his brows tightly locked, according to his meaning, he must not leave the city. I had heard the Uighurs fleeing from the south say that the cavalry of the Han army was sharp, especially the chain horses were three points more powerful than the Great Liao Tiefutu, and although most of the Uighur warriors were skilled in bows and horses, and there were many war horses, Qige was still reluctant to go out of the city to fight. Stick to Datun City, the Han people have no choice, and going out of the city is to give the Han people a chance to win the decisive battle. As for the Peacock River, Qi Ge doesn't want to take care of it, except for Datun City, Xizhou can gather at least 40,000 troops, if so many people can't hold Korla, then just jump into the Peacock River and drown. However, Ziggy had no choice, and the Nightling King's orders could not be disobeyed. (To be continued......) R1292