Chapter 177: Forcing Hami to Surrender
Seeing that the king of Hami was bowing his head and muttering, the Ming envoy did not urge him, because the messenger knew that such a simple account, this king of Hami should be able to calculate clearly, otherwise this king would be in vain, after a long time, he took his hand and persuaded lightly, saying: "Please King Hami think twice." β
"Hey." King Nahuri of Hami was so angry that he stomped his foot again, did he have any choice at this time? Since Zhu Ao wants to see him, then he will see him, anyway, he needs to help him fight back with him now, and he will definitely not do anything unfavorable to him, take a deep breath, and then exhale slowly, and said, "Okay, this king will go with you to see King Su." β
The Ming envoy smiled slightly, and made a gesture at King Hami, which was regarded as a reward for his decision, and said, "The king is wise." β
Subsequently, Nahuri, the king of Hami, handed over the defense of Hami to his son Timur, and then went out of the city with the envoy of the Ming Dynasty to meet Zhu Ao.
Nahuri, the king of Hami, rode a horse and walked to Zhu Ao with a proud expression, without any etiquette, and said for no reason: "What is the noble reason for the virtuous son-in-law to want this king to go out of the city?" "The old man's shelf is very full.
Zhu Ao almost fell off the horse when he heard this, this is where to go, the eight characters have not been drawn, this Hami king is with his relatives, sitting on the horse and coughing twice, said: "King Hami, Princess Shao'an is desperately defending the city in Turpan, this king is very concerned about her safety, please open the city and let us go, we will help you defeat the Uighurs." β
King Hami snorted coldly, with full arrogance in his eyes, glanced at Zhu Ao, pursed his lips, and said, "King Su, didn't you promise this king to make a detour to the north?" Why is it changing again now? β
Zhu Ao shook his head slightly, originally he didn't want to say it too badly, and it would be embarrassing to say it, but looking at the appearance of King Nahuli of Hami, if he didn't say it directly, he might think of himself as a fool, and said: "How much more food will it cost to detour north?" Do you hami out of this grain? Food is still second, the most important time, Turpan City has lasted so long, it can't last long, and if it is delayed for one more day, they will be very dangerous. Your daughter is in the city, too. β
Hami King Nahuli naturally knew this truth, but in his heart, his beloved daughter was really very light compared to his country, and he still snorted coldly, looking like the city was broken and my was my business, and said to Zhu Ao arrogantly: "How can the eldest husband be untrustworthy? β
Zhu Ao was completely enraged, the muscles on his face began to twitch, he could actually understand the mood of King Hami, no one was willing to hand over the fundamental land, but the problem was that he had to enter Hami City today, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable, no way, who would let you go to Turpan on your way? At the moment, he didn't care about the situation, and shouted at King Hami with a straight face: "King Hami, you should always know the phrase "soldiers move with profit" after fighting all your life. This king ran so far with more than 100,000 people, just to fight for Hami with the Uighurs, if you open the city today, this king will fight the Uighurs with you, and after success, you can be named the lord of Hami, so that you can be like the Mu family in Yunnan, and guard Hami for the king's world. If you don't open the city, the king will fight you with the Uighurs and divide up your Hami! β
This is the threat of Chiguoguo, King Hami has been threatened during this time, first Zhou Sheng, then the envoy of the Ming Dynasty, and now there is another Zhu Ao, so angry that his gray beard began to tremble, pointing at Zhu Ao and trembling: "You, you dare to threaten this king, and this king still marries his daughter to you." β
Zhu Ao snorted coldly, he was originally a person who was afraid of the heavens and the earth, and when he saw that this defeated general dared to scare him, he was so angry that he also changed color, and shouted: "You are less of a good person here!" You were going to marry Nazha to the Uighur Khan in the first place, and you knew that the two of us were in love, and you still did this, how did you make this king miss your love? This king doesn't have much time, you hurry up and give me a clear idea. β
King Hami King Hami was so angry that his face was red and white, and he couldn't speak for a while, but his heart was still clear, knowing that he couldn't get through today's pass, and he could only bleed once, and it was best not to offend King Su now, because he would be his person in the future, and it would be better to have a good relationship, after all, there was a layer of kinship there, he took a deep breath, calmed down some of his mood, and said with a pleasant expression: "You really let me be the lord of Hami City?" β
Zhu Ao saw that things had an eyebrow, and his heart was also happy, and he smiled slightly: "This king does what he says, after the king of Shazhou Aluge surrendered, this king promised not to kill him, so he didn't kill him, and now he is living well in Wuwei." "Zhu Ao's abacus is to coax people over first, and then say, this kind of thing of grabbing people's territory can't be rushed, and if you are in a hurry, you can only boil frogs in warm water and take your time. As for the promise of the Hami City Lord, he just said casually, how could the territory he had worked so hard to get still let you sit in charge? When the time comes, for the sake of your daughter and your initiative to dedicate the city, give you a better earl to let you spend your old age in peace.
King Hami thought about it and felt that there was some truth, although he still couldn't fully believe Zhu Ao, but he had no other way to go now, he could only take one step at a time, nodded heavily, and sighed: "Okay, this king promises you." Let's go into town. β
"Please lead the way, King Hami." Zhu Ao happily arched his hand and said, no matter what, the purpose of his trip has been achieved, Hami has been firmly controlled by himself, and the next thing is to defeat the Uighurs, relieve the siege of Turpan City, and rescue his beauty.
In this way, under the personal greeting of the king of Hami, Zhu Ao took 110,000 Suguo troops into Hami City proudly, in order to take into account the impact of the problem, Zhu Ao ordered to enter the city, Qiu did not commit any crimes, and the violators of the military law were engaged, so the military discipline of the Suguo army was strict, and there was no disturbance to the people, so that the people of Hami, who were originally very afraid, instantly reassured, and they began to work in peace, welcoming the king into the city, and the rear of the Suguo was instantly stabilized.
Zhu Ao left 10,000 elite guards in Hami, with 100,000 people and 20,000 Hami troops in the city, a total of 120,000 people to attack the Uighurs. If you don't make a new contribution on the battlefield, it will be difficult for this king to tear the soil for you, after all, this decree was formulated by this king, and this king cannot slap himself in the mouth in front of his ministers, otherwise the ministers will think that this king is bending the law for personal gain and deliberately favoring the father of the concubine. β
This is reasonable, although Zhu Ao is a king, he can be willful, but he can't be too willful, he can engage in cronyism, and his relatives can be named an earl or a marquis, then it's nothing to give him a marquis, all the ministers can understand, but if you have to give him a duke or even crack the soil, then it is really impossible to say, it will chill the hearts of the brothers, and no one will be willing to do it for you.
This is also the reason why Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang came down to the world to seal the heroes first, and then the relatives.
Hami Wang Na suddenly pondered for a while, and felt that what Zhu Ao said made sense, the key is that Zhu Ao stood on the righteousness, so that he could not refute it, now his little life is pinched in the hands of others, if he does not cooperate honestly, Zhu Ao's hair will fall off, and he can find a reason to him, which is enough for him to bear, so he can only bring all his belongings and follow Zhu Aoxi to meet the Uighurs.
After a day of battle, Turpan's city defenses collapsed even more, and it was evening, according to the time, it should be the last attack of the Uighurs, but their attack this time was extremely tenacious, and many people had already climbed to the top of the city, vowing to take Turpan before the sun set.
"Over there! Lift that ladder off for me, I can't let them come up again! A captain of the Hami army shouted at the top of his voice as he slashed at the Uighurs.
The Uighurs had already captured four battlements, and their army was climbing up the battlements, and if they had captured more of them, the city would not have been able to defend it.
A commander of the Hami army, armed with a sword in his right hand and a shield in his left, personally led a hundred Hami warriors to block the battlement, and the Uighurs had already climbed up more than 20 people, and they did not rush forward, but all of them gathered around the battlement to block the attack of the Hami army and give more friendly troops time to climb up.
βduangοΌβ With a loud bang, the commander of the Hami army slammed his shield into the shield of a Uighur soldier who was also holding a shield, knocking the Uighur soldier back two or three paces, and then slashing at a pikeman next to the Uighur shieldman with a swing of his sword.
The pikemen hurriedly raised their guns to block, but they did not expect that the strength of the Hami commander was too great, and the knife he used was a good knife, and he only heard a "click" and cut his wooden gun in two, and the knife did not weaken, and slashed at the Uighur pikeman's face at once, cutting his head in half.
The commander of the Hami army raised his broadsword and shouted: "Warriors! Kill me, this battlement must be guarded! Although the Hami army that came to support was relatively large, the space on the city wall was too narrow for so many people to spread out at once, so there were only about 20 people who could contact the Uighur soldiers, and the rest could only pretend to be in the back, and did not even dare to release arrows, for fear of accidentally injuring friendly troops.
Fortunately, their commander's martial skills opened a gap for them, and the soldiers of the Hami army followed the commander into the gap, vowing to tear the Uighur army's wound open to the point where it would endanger their lives.
The newly climbed soldiers of the Uighur army immediately formed a formation to plug the gap, and the shields and swords of both sides were intertwined with each other, composing the music of war.
The Uighur army near the city wall was a good fighter, killing two Hami soldiers in quick succession who tried to break through him, but the Hami army was so sure of the battlement that a third soldier immediately pounced. The Uighur soldier did not care about the numbness in his arm caused by the long fight, and immediately swung his sword and slashed it, and with a flick of the Hami army's spear, he pulled his broadsword away, and then stabbed the eagle army back to the face of the eagle army.
The soldiers of the Uighur army were also more experienced in battle, and as soon as their heads were tilted, they dodged over, and then swung their knives to cut the left hand of the Hami army holding the gun.
Seeing that he was distracted, the Uighur soldiers kicked him in the lower abdomen, kicking the Hami soldiers in the head, and then flew forward and stabbed him in the chest.
The Hami army was bleeding from his chest, and he knew that he would not survive without calling a doctor, but his vitality was very tenacious, and he did not lie on the ground and wait for death because of this, but drew the dagger hidden in his waist and plunged it into his shoulder while the Uighur soldiers were victorious and the enemy was not noticed.
The Uighur soldiers screamed in pain, and the strength in their hands was loosened, and the soldiers of the Hami army, not knowing where the strength came from, suddenly got up, picked up the Uighur soldiers, and jumped to the bottom of the city, and both of them fell to pieces.
Under the leadership of the commander of the Hami army, the soldiers of the Hami army fought valiantly and finally killed all the Uighur soldiers guarding in front of the battlement.
"Quick! Shovel guns and overturn their ladders for Lao Tzu. The commander of the Hami army shouted at the top of his voice. It was evident that he was in a hurry, for there were quite a few Uighurs descending the ladder, and if they had climbed up, the battlements that he had worked so hard to regain with his brothers would surely be snatched away again.
When a soldier of the Hami army heard this, he immediately stretched out his shovel gun, and as soon as he showed his head, a Uighur soldier put a rope around his neck, and then pulled down, pulling the entire Hami army off guard.
The Uighur soldier took the opportunity to climb the ladder with great speed, his head just over the city walls, but he could hear "duang!" With a bang, the commander of the Hami army smashed his head with his shield. The Uighur soldier didn't say a word, and fell straight down.
The commander of the Hami army hurriedly picked up the shovel gun, overturned the ladder at once, and temporarily solved this hidden danger, but before he was happy, the arrow flew out of nowhere and shot straight into his throat, the commander of the Hami army used his last strength, turned his head and glanced at the Turpan City that he had been desperately guarding for the past few days, and the corners of his mouth suddenly hung a smile for some reason, and then fell straight down the city.
Although her strength is not as good as that of men, she can compete with the Uighur army with the protection of weapons and armor, and her martial arts are mainly light and agile, and she has already killed three Uighur soldiers with her body and moves, and her uniform has long been stained red with blood.
A Uighur centurion saw that there were many people around him to protect her, and he assumed that she was a high-ranking official, and in line with the principle of shooting men before horses, he slashed at her with a knife.
The knife was so fierce that Dilinazar did not dare to touch him, so she dodged sideways, and the guards behind her immediately rushed over, and one of them attacked and caught the centurion of the Uighur army.
Although the Uighur centurion was good at martial arts, but Dilinazha's guards were not dry, under their attack, the Uighur centurion began to be clumsy, and when he was still wondering why these inconspicuous-looking guards had such a high level of martial arts, Dilinaza saw the right time and sealed his throat with a sword, which resulted in his life.
Bour, who was supervising the battle under the city, suddenly saw that the momentum of the siege troops was beaten back, and he was very anxious, according to many years of war experience, Su Wang Danfan has a little military common sense, and it is time to send troops, maybe it has already passed Hami, and is rushing to Turpan, once Su Guo intervenes, it will not be so easy for them to win the war.
Sure enough, as Bol expected, a scout-like knight came to him quickly, bowed on his horse, and said, "General Qiqi, eight hundred miles of urgent report, Su King Zhu Ao has arrived in Hami City." β
Bol suddenly felt that the chrysanthemum was tight, and the nerves of the whole person were tensed, what should come would always come, the time was about the same as he expected, and he raised his eyes to look at the two sides of the fierce battle on the city of Turpan, seeing that today's attack was about to blow up again, after the successful sneak attack that night, the morale of the Hami army rose greatly, and the morale of the Uighur army fell.
Bor suddenly felt that after so many days of attack, the Hami army in the city had almost reached the limit, and it was estimated that the city would be able to break through after a few days of continuous attack, but the problem was that he did not dare to guarantee that it could be conquered within a few days, and the army of Su would come at any time, if the city of Turpan had not been conquered by then, then when the army of Su Guo arrived, it would be in a very dangerous situation to join forces with the defenders in the city.
Although Borhu was known as a brave general, he did not dare to gamble with the survival of the 150,000-strong army, which was the national fortune of the Uighurs, and the burden on his shoulders forced him to be cautious, take a way to seek stability, take a deep breath, and said, "Collect the troops." β
The Uighurs withdrew again, which meant that the Hami army held the city for another day. At this time, the Hami army at the head of the city was all numb in their arms and weak, as if they had gone to work in the black coal kiln in Shanxi for a few days.
In order to prevent Zhu Hao from joining forces with the defenders of Turpan in the city, Borhu did not sit idle after withdrawing his troops, but ordered all his soldiers to dig a huge deep ditch on the periphery of the camp and surround the 150,000 Uighur army. This tactic is called a trap village in ancient Chinese military terminology, first, it can block reinforcements from outside, and second, it can prevent soldiers inside the city from breaking through.
In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, Zeng Guoquan, a fierce general of the Hunan army, liked to use this tactic very much, and the water around the city of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom could not be drained, and the reinforcements outside could not enter, and the defenders inside could not get out, so he won the nickname of Zeng Iron Bucket.
Because the Uighurs were busy digging ditches in the past few days, the attack on the Hami army was slowed down, so the Hami army in Turpan was able to rest and repair, and the city was repaired for another three days.
Three days later, the Uighur garrison was completed, and there was such a project in the way, and they felt very safe inside, not afraid of sudden reinforcements hitting the flank, so they began to attack the Hami army in Turpan with all their might.
This attack was even more violent, and many battlements on the city wall of Turpan were lost, and what was more serious was that after so many days of excavation by the Uighur army, a section of the city wall in the western city of Turpan was dug down, and a hole about one zhang long appeared.
Seeing this, Chilu Han, who was in charge of commanding the Uighur army in Xicheng, was greatly excited, and the opportunity to make a meritorious contribution had come, as long as he was the first to attack the city of Turpan, Nabol and none of them could say anything, and commanded the fierce Uighur army, which poured into this gap like a tide.
"Kill! Warriors! The weak Hami army could not do it anymore, so they took out the bravery of the Uighur soldiers, rushed in, and killed them all! "Trihuhan pushed his headquarters forward, shouting as he directed the Uighur army to attack the city.
One of the Uighur commanders personally led the charge, and without dodging the rain of arrows from the Hami army at the head of the city, he poured into the gap in the city of Turpan with hundreds of brave men.
"Quick! Shield Array! Block them and plug this gap! "The commander of the Hami Army, who is in charge of the city defense in this area, felt that the situation was serious, and personally brought people to plug this gap. This gap is like a huge hole suddenly appearing in a big ship, and if it is not plugged in time and allowed by the enemy army, it will definitely sink the ship.
"Boom!" With a bang, dozens of Hami soldiers with shields in their hands clubbed their shields on the ground, blocking them in front of the gap, and waited for them.
"Warriors! Rush over! The weak Hami sheep will not be able to defeat the Uighur wolves! The commander of the Uighur army, who was in charge of the charge, shouted with his broadsword at his broadsword. Immediately the first one rushed forward, turned sideways and used the shield on his left arm "duang!" With a thud, it crashed into the shield array of the Hami army.
The Uighurs behind him followed suit, placing their shields across their left arms, and then ramming the shield array of the Hami army fiercely, at this time they could only hit hard, one was going to rush in, the other was going to die to prevent the other from rushing in, no matter what kind of conspiracy you used, the place would not be able to change its position.
Not to be outdone, the Hami and Uighur shieldmen slammed into each other, and then they both drew their swords and slashed at each other, and the pikemen behind were not to be outdone, hiding behind the shieldmen, sticking their spears out of the gaps, and constantly stabbing each other, stabbing whoever was killed.
"Warriors! Go harder! The Hami army is dying! The Uighur commander in charge of the charge shouted slogans to motivate his men to forge ahead, and the two sides fought together, and whoever made it to the end would be able to defeat their opponents.
Seeing that victory was in sight, the Uighur soldiers rushed forward one by one as if they had been beaten with blood, and as more and more Uighurs poured in, the Hami army's defensive line began to waver, and was even in danger of collapsing.