The battle was over, and before dark, the soldiers of the Western Qin army escorted the captives back one after another, and some of the Western Qin troops carried a large amount of booty. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

That night, Zhao Ziliang ordered the slaughter of cattle and sheep to hold a celebration banquet to reward the soldiers of the whole army. In the camp, the soldiers of the Western Qin Army gathered around the fire in groups of three or five roasting beef and mutton, simmering bone broth, eating food, drinking mare's milk and goat's milk, and did not have the fierce appearance when fighting during the day.

Wang Jin and Zang Xiyan sat on the left and right sides of Zhao Ziliang, and the other generals and officials of the Western Qin Army were sorted according to the size of their military ranks.

Zheng San stood up and reported to Zhao Ziliangyu: "King Qiyu, the results of today's battle have been counted, and 12,000 cattle, 18,000 sheep, 2,800 war horses, 30,000 Eastern Roman gold coins, 200,000 silver coins, 10 boxes of jewelry, 30,000 sets of leather armor, more than 25,000 simple spears, 6,000 scimitars, 15,000 simple bows, 300,000 arrows, and 300,000 catties of grain!" Habil, the king of the Khazar Khan, and a cadre of Khazar ministers and generals were beheaded by our army, and more than 9,000 Khazar troops were killed, and 12,000 Khazar troops and 320 beauties were captured! ”

Zhao Ziliang listened to Zheng San's thoughts, nodded constantly, and when he heard that there were still three hundred and twenty beauties in the end, he couldn't help laughing: "This Habil is really enough, he is over sixty, and he still brings so many beauties to the march and fight, can he afford it?" ”

The officials and generals laughed when they heard it: "Hahaha・・・・・・"

Zhao Ziliang said to Wang Jin and Zang Xiyan: "Lord Wang, General Zang, there are no good things here in this king, only trophies, presumably ordinary gold, silver and jewelry you can't look down on, since you have captured so many beauties this time, you will pick two of each of these beauties, right?" ”

Zang Xiyan couldn't help but joke: "I said Wang, you are also a little stingy, three hundred and twenty beauties, but you only let the two of us pick two!" ”

Zhao Ziliang also smiled: "Beauty, just be beautiful enough, don't you want so much to let them be idle?" Besides, if you take so much back, you're not afraid that your sister-in-law will make trouble at home every day? When people are old, they should pay more attention to maintenance, and don't make their bodies weak! ”

Everyone laughed again, and Zang Xiyan also laughed, unimpressed.

On the other hand, Zhao Ziliang ordered to send a number of small groups of men and horses and a number of officials to the Khazar Khanate to declare sovereignty to the Khazars and establish local administrative institutions, but there were not many accompanying officials in this campaign, in order to make up for the lack of officials, Zhao Ziliang sent an order to Henglus on the one hand, asking them to send officials, and on the other hand, recruited some obedient people from the Khazars to help manage the Khazars.

The Khazar Khan, King Habil, and his ministers and generals were almost all killed, the original power class of the entire Khazar Korea had collapsed, the army was finished, the Khazars had no possibility of turning the tables again, and the Khazars scattered in various parts of the steppe in the Khazar settlements could only accept the rule of the Western Qin in order to survive, otherwise they could only be slaughtered or migrate westward as soon as possible, but they were not as lucky as the Pechenegs.

The steppe area between the Volga River and the Ural River where the Pechenegs used to live is now empty, and the Pechenegs have migrated on a large scale, except for a very small few small tribes that remain in place, the huge steppe has become sparsely populated, Zhao Ziliang will certainly not let this area be vacant, nor will he give other barbarian tribes the opportunity to occupy this area, he immediately sent someone to send an order to Henglus, and a large number of people from the interior of Western Qin came to live, graze and farm.

The battle is over, but the matter is not over, the capital of the Khazar Khanate Samandar is still controlled by the Khazars, there are still more than 10,000 troops there, although Zhao Ziliang has ordered Zhao Hu to lead the army to cross the sea and land to attack Samandar, but he decided to lead the army south to Samandar, on the one hand, to completely crush the resistance of the Khazars, on the other hand, it is also to declare to the surrounding countries that the territory of the original Khazar Khanate is now all owned by the Western Qin, especially the Eastern Roman Empire and the Great Food State.

Wang Jin and Zang Xiyan finally came to the West, the opportunity was rare, and they were not in a hurry to return to Chang'an, they heard that Zhao Ziliang would lead the army south to Samandar in a few days, and they decided to stay more time and follow Zhao Ziliang to Samandar to see the capital of the Khazars.

Wounded soldiers need treatment and comfort; The need for the fallen soldiers to be buried for peace and comfort cannot be delayed or neglected; The loot needs to be sorted and counted; Captives need to be guarded on a rotating basis; The important military and political documents sent from Western Qin needed to be instructed and handled by Zhao Ziliang one by one, and Zhao Ziliang was also very busy.

On the morning of this day, Zhao Ziliang was processing official documents, and Xuan Shiyi, the deputy general of the Fourth Army Corps, who was in charge of guarding the prisoners, came to report: "Great King, among the captives we have captured are two people from the Eastern Roman Empire, one of them claims to be an envoy of the Eastern Roman Empire, and the other is the archbishop of Judaism in the Khazar region, and they are clamoring to see the king."

"Oh?" Zhao Ziliang thought for a while and instructed Xuan Shiyi: "First starve these two people and all the Khazar captives for three days, and only give water to drink every day, not food!" ”

"Yes!"

Immediately after that, Wang Can came in and reported: "Great King, the Magyars living in the northwest of the former Khazar Khanate are unwilling to submit to us and are unwilling to be ruled by us, and they feel that they cannot defeat us, so they have begun to migrate to the west one after another."

Zhao Ziliang stopped his brush and asked, "Are you talking about the Magyars?" ”

"Yes, it's the Magyars, they are vassals of the Khazar Khanate, subject to the Khazar Khanate, with a population of only a hundred thousand people!"

Zhao Ziliang thought for a moment and said: "It's okay, if they want to move west, let them move west, just let them go to the scourge of the western countries, since they have moved away, we can also accept the vacant territory!" Tell the soldiers over there not to stop them from moving west! ”

"No!"

After a few more days, Dugu Jun reported in the account: "Great King, the Mordovans in the northwest have sent an envoy to ask for a meeting with the Great King, saying that they are willing to submit to the Great King and Western Qin, and pay tribute to the Great King every year, I wonder if the Great King has received their envoy?" ”

When Zhao Ziliang heard this, he asked: "The territory of the Mordovans is not small, and it is not close to here, and our soldiers have not yet pointed to that side, so there is no threat to them, why would they send people to pay tribute to this king?" ”

Dugu Jun said: "Great King, the Mordovans have been subject to the Khazar Khanate like the Magyars before, but their autonomy is greater and the degree of autonomy is higher, the northwest direction is colder, and the Khazar Khanate is beyond their reach, and large-scale mobilization of troops is also a waste of manpower and material resources, so they can only be autonomous, as long as they send tribute every year, they will not be left alone."

"Okay, you can arrange for this king to meet the messenger of the Mordovans tomorrow!"

"Yes, King!"

The Mordovans came in large numbers, more than a hundred people, and they rode on horseback, two horses each, carrying precious skins, horns, bones, and precious stones.

The leading Mordovan wore a pointed fur hat, and his body was dirty, and the beard and hair on his face almost covered his entire face, and his beard was not tied, and he was in a mess like a wilted artemisia grass, and he was the only one who was dressed more neatly, and the other Mordovans were more scruffier than this one, and before they could get closer, there was an extremely unpleasant smell in their faces.

Sure enough, it was a barbarian, and he didn't know how to clean up and dress up, and he was sloppy than calling Huazi, and the generals and officials of the Western Qin Army in the tent couldn't help but cover their nostrils one by one.

Seeing that everyone in the tent was wearing shining armor, gorgeously dressed, and the tiara and jewelry were all exquisite, the Mordovan envoy seemed to feel a little ashamed of himself from the heart, and seemed a little restrained, he stroked his chest and bent down deeply and said in a language that Zhao Ziliang and others did not understand: "The Mordovan envoy Babra salutes to His Royal Highness the great King of Western Qin!" ”

Maybe he hadn't seen anything in the world, or maybe he didn't have a writing or culture, and he couldn't speak any gorgeous language, the Mordovia envoy just greeted Zhao Ziliang in simple sentences.

Zhao Ziliang listened to a Khazar translator and asked, "Babula, what did you Mordovans send you for?" ”

"Respect the invincible king, in the past, the cavalry of the Khazars was invincible, and the tribes in the northern steppes, forests and swamps were all beaten to the ground, but now the king's army has eliminated the Khazars, it can be seen that the warriors of Western Qin are more brave and good at fighting than the Khazars, and the strength of Western Qin is also stronger, our Mordovans have a small population, and their strength is weak, and they are unable to resist the king's troops, so they take the initiative to come to the king and ask the king for permission and acceptance! Let us Mordovans follow in your footsteps and move forward! We need your protection from other murderous tribes! ”

"You Mordovans are so smart!" Zhao Ziliang was noncommittal and asked, "What gift did you bring to this king this time?" ”

Babula hurriedly said: "There are two hundred rare animal skins, one hundred pairs of animal horns, twenty pairs of animal bones, and this!" ”

With that, Babula took a dirty animal skin bag from the hand of one of his attendants, and he opened it, revealing six fist-sized, yellow, shiny stones.

Zhao Ziliang was startled, beckoned, and a guard next to him stepped forward and took a stone and handed it to Zhao Ziliang, Zhao Ziliang took it and looked at it, and checked it again, this thing turned out to be gold ore! The faces of the other generals and officials in the account who knew the goods changed, if it was really gold ore and rich in reserves, Xiqin would be developed.

Zhao Ziliang asked quietly: "Do you have a lot of this thing?" ”

"It's not a lot, you have to dig it in the mountains to dig it, and we like it when we look at it, and every family digs some and puts it at home to look beautiful," said Babra.

Everyone was speechless for a while, daring to say that the Mordovans didn't know that this thing was gold ore at all, but they just thought it was shiny and beautiful before digging some and putting it at home, which also showed that the Mordovans may not have any smelting technology at all, otherwise they would not even know gold ore.