Chapter 332: Sweeping Bharneo
In the face of the 500 Tang cavalry who followed the defeated army and slaughtered into the palace, although there were thousands of people, the Bori army could not stop it, and fled in all directions in a panic. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
Wei Chi Xunyu ordered several lieutenants to each bring a soldier and horse to chase and annihilate the fleeing Bori army, and he himself led more than 100 soldiers straight to the largest palace in the middle of the palace.
Along the way, some Bori troops tried to resist Wei Chi Xunyu's advance, but the enemy was strong and I was weak, and the mantis arm was used as a car, and in the blink of an eye, it became an ordinary corpse on the ground.
Killing the soldiers who were guarding the guards, Wei Chi Xunyu pushed open the gate of this palace with a brilliant appearance with both hands, and the moment it was opened, the dazzling gold, silver, pearl and jade jewels in the hall blinded the eyes of Yu Chi Xunyu and the soldiers behind him.
"This is the Golden Temple of the Kingdom of Borli?"
Yu Chi Xunyu muttered with a somewhat sluggish expression, as far as his eyes could see, the walls, pillars, and Buddha statues standing on both sides of the hall were all shining with the luster of gold, even if it was not made of pure gold, just crossing gold, the gold cost would not be a fraction.
The pure gold throne with silver pedals that is widely spread and stands out from the crowd in the golden palace, and the brilliance reflected by the gold, silver and various colored gems inlaid on it made Yu Chi Xunyu and the others who entered it fascinated.
Wei Chi followed Yu step onto the high platform of the throne, circled around the throne, and stroked it with one hand, the delicate and gentle technique was as gentle as caressing the skin of a virgin, for fear of piercing its obsessive face.
After a pause, Yu Chi Xunyu sat up, his hands on the pure gold armrests inlaid with a huge sapphire, and looked down on everything in the golden hall as majestically as a king.
More than 1,000 foot soldiers who killed three elephants rushed into the palace, wiped out the remnants of the Bori army in the palace one by one, and rushed to the harem of the palace.
Not to mention the two stupas made of pure gold in front of the Buddha hall, the soldiers of the Zhendong Army rushed into the Buddha hall and were shocked by a fifteen-foot-high solemn golden Buddha inside.
When the soldiers looked down from the Buddha statue, they saw the poor King of Bori kneeling in front of the Golden Buddha, his head on the ground, and he muttered something in his mouth.
Du Wei unceremoniously tied King Bori's hands behind his back, looked at King Bori's dead and depressed expression, and sneered, "The wealth of Bori now belongs to the Tang Dynasty, as far as you little barbarian king, maybe after your Royal Highness learns the news, he will give mercy to you and spare your life!" Escorted to General Wei Chi to wait for the fate. ”
"Whoa!"
The frustrated King Bori had not yet been escorted out of the temple, and the soldiers could not bear to rob the temple. The monks in the Buddhist hall politely pushed to the side, and unceremoniously slashed with a knife, and the gold and silver Buddha beads worn on their necks and hands were snatched away.
The gold and silver made of dharma, Buddha shrines, flowers, incense burners, candlesticks, endless lamps, water purification cups, fruit bowls and other small objects placed in the Buddha hall, the soldiers unceremoniously stuffed into their own armor *** The fifteen-foot high Shakyamuni Buddha was not spared, only to see that the soldiers who came in after saw that everything that could be snatched in the Buddha hall was robbed, so they set their eyes on the big golden Buddha, and unceremoniously waved their knives on the lotus seat of the Buddha statue, and some soldiers hit the walls and pillars of the gold. Holding the horizontal knife in both hands, he scraped off the gold one by one.
King Bori looked at everything that was happening in front of him, the naked atrocities of the Tang army, and the greedy countenance stimulated his grief-stricken heart. Wailing, "Why don't you manifest your spirit to protect your followers, Buddha?" Let these demons do whatever they want in your halls? ”
King Bori, who was dragged away by the soldiers, shed tears all the way and was escorted out of the Buddhist hall, and what he saw made him grief-stricken.
The soldiers of the Tang Army, who had killed all the Bori troops in the palace, could no longer bear the drive of greed in their hearts and robbed gold and silver treasures everywhere in the face of this magnificent palace. For the wives and concubines of the King of Bori in the palace, he took away the gold flowers and miscellaneous treasures and other ornaments from them without mercy. The hungry soldiers, ignoring their darker faces, dragged them into a palace and stripped them naked and pressed them down, leaving only the men's gasps and the women's screams.
The atrocities did not only take place in the splendid royal palace, but also the soldiers of the Zhendong Army, who had cleared the remnants of the enemy in the city, also looted in the city**, and the people who wanted to destroy were even setting fire to the Bori who had escaped from the houses.
The unfettered army has become a ferocious beast, and there is no mercy for the hundreds of years of the Bori kings, and the bloody battlefield has long since tempered their hearts like iron and stone.
The wanton atrocities of the Zhendong Army naturally had to be traced to Li Yu's head, and the concept that he formed an army to instill in the soldiers was that there was no mercy or mercy for the enemy, and whether it was a soldier or an ordinary person, anyone of the same clan could be killed or humiliated. Only by setting a record that makes the enemy frightened, and others can stop children from crying, and the four can fear me like a tiger.
Xue Rengui fought the last battle of his life when he was old and weak, just taking off his hat, he was frightened by the Turks dismounting, kneeling and fleeing, taking advantage of the situation to pursue, defeating the Turks, killing tens of thousands of Turkic troops, capturing 30,000 people, capturing more than 30,000 camels, horses, cattle and sheep, and achieving a great victory in Yunzhou, setting a record of taking off their hats and retreating from thousands of enemies in ancient and modern times.
Why? Let the Turks who cut their faces with knives and bled when mourning the dead, often shed blood and tears to show their grief, and also used the custom of prostitution on the occasion of exhortation and farewell, and the Turks, who were even more ferocious than the Mongols who came later, were so afraid of Xue Rengui that they did not dare to fight with him?
It is all because when Xue Rengui Longshuo set the Tianshan Mountain with three arrows in the first year, he killed 100,000 Beihu, and the north and south of the desert were shocked.
Siyi is afraid of the strong but not the benevolent, only if you are more ferocious and savage than him, he will be afraid of you from the bottom of his heart and dare not act rashly. Treating them with benevolence and righteousness, the ridiculousness and stupidity of the people of the Tang Dynasty often made Li Yu sigh for it.
At night, the fire in the capital of Bori was particularly abrupt in the night sky, and the soldiers of the Zhendong Army after the looting moved into the palace. To offer the king of Yan, the treasures distributed to the South China Sea Fleet have already been packed one after another, and tomorrow the South China Sea Fleet will sail through the Brunei Bay in the future into the big river (Brunei River) south of the city to dock and return to Andong.
More than 8,000 people were beheaded in today's battle, and as for how many soldiers they were, the generals and colonels of the Zhendong Army all knew it. I found a translator to check the archives in the palace of King Bori, and learned that the population of this capital was more than 10,000, and in addition to the reinforcements transferred by King Bori from all over the country, the population of this city was reduced by half of the population of the Zhendong Army in one day.
Wei Chi Xunyu didn't care about what his subordinates did in the city, it was a good thing for him that the population of Bori was small, and he didn't have to worry too much about the resistance of the Bori people in the future, and it was convenient to reduce the remaining Bori people to slaves and cultivate the land distributed to the soldiers of the whole army.
At noon on the second day, Xue Yao commanded the South China Sea Fleet to dock at the river south of the city, looking at the boxes of captured treasures, as well as the silver and gold throne of the King of Bori dedicated to King Yan, and sighed that the little Bori Kingdom was so rich.
As for the great golden Buddha of Shakyamuni found in the palace, it was dismembered into small gold nuggets of three or five taels by order of Wei Chi Xunyu, half of which was distributed to all the officers and soldiers of the army, and the other half of one-third belonged to the South China Sea Fleet, and the rest was presented to King Yan together with the throne and other hundred treasures seized from the palace and Buddhist temples in the city. The captured King Bori was also handed over to Xue Yao to escort back to Andong and handed over to King Yan for disposal.
Xue Yao bid farewell to Lieutenant Chi Xunyu, and commanded the fleet to officially return north to Andong with King Bori and many treasures.
As a conqueror, Wei Chi Xunyu renamed the capital of Bori as Binkai City, which means the triumph of the seashore, and formally established the Bo Ni Governor's Mansion named by Li Yu before his expedition, and set up Bozhou, which served as the governor and concurrently served as the assassin history, and governed the vast area of the west and north of Borneo.
After ten days of rest, the Zhendong Army left 1,000 soldiers and horses to defend Binkai City, and Wei Chi followed Yu's troops to march north and south in two ways to conquer the unconquered areas of the Bori Kingdom and other small tribal countries.
Over the course of two months, the vast coast between Hamkai City and Sandakan, which was occupied by the great pirate Woo Yeong, was completed in the north, and a fort was built in each of the two places known as Kienningou and Sabah along the way. In the name of the governor of the Boni Prefecture under the Tang Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, it was sent to Yang Wuyang to officially turn into the official government established by the Tang Dynasty in Sandakan, and renamed Sandakan as Xianna County, and Yang Wuyang served as the county commander, and the land in the county was allocated to the Chinese.
In the south, they attacked the area of Yamaguchiyang in the southwest of Borneo in later generations, and along the way, they built a small fort in Bintulu, Sibu, Sarawak, and Yamaguchiyang with civil engineering as materials, and guarded the place controlled by 200 soldiers. The local natives were driven to build flat roads connecting the cities to facilitate the movement of troops.
Although the garrison of each fort is small, considering that the local natives are not large and the combat effectiveness is extremely weak, they are not worried about the possibility of being broken by the natives.
Considering that in the Nanyang conquest operation, the vast area needed to be built to control the place, and in the case of a small number of soldiers and generals, only a small fortress with strong defense could be defended with a small number of troops, so he arranged engineers and technicians who understood the construction of the fortress in the three armies of the Southern Expedition to guide.
Just like the later Tsarist Russia invaded Heilongjiang to build the city of Yaxa, the defenders were only hundreds, and the Qing army could not overcome tens of thousands, and it was forced to surrender by relying on a long siege, which shows the defensive power of the fortress.