The punishment of the three leaders of the Qarlu tribe was not small for the deterrence of the leaders of the tribes and barbarians in the Western Regions, but it was not too big, and some people who were not afraid of death were actually no different from what kind of punishment they received, but the next highlight was to make the leaders and barbarians of the barbarian tribes in Anxi and Beiting frightened. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

After executing the leaders of the three Gelulu tribes with the punishment of dividing the corpses of five horses, Zhao Ziliang ordered the captured Gelulu barbarians of more than 5,600 to be escorted to the bank of the Henglus River.

Zhao Ziliang rode on horseback and glanced at all the barbarian leaders and their barbarians on the bank, and then looked at the big food army on the other side of the river, and shouted: "The Qarluq people betray their masters for glory and die innocently!" Betrayers never end well, and the today of these Qarluq people is the tomorrow of those who secretly want to betray my Datang! Killing these people today is just to warn some people with different aspirations, the consequences they want to bear before they want to betray my Datang! ”

Anxi and the leaders of the barbarian tribes in Beiting and the barbarian soldiers were all frightened when they saw this incomparably bloody scene and listened to Zhao Ziliang's words.

That night, Xuanwu's sentinel team came to report that in the flat area of the upper reaches of the Henglus River, it was found that there were big food army scouts who wanted to cross the river to explore, there may be two purposes, the first is to explore the situation of the Tang army, and the second is to prepare for a sneak attack on the Tang army, after all, it is June, the river is rising very fast, the water level is very high, the general river section can not cross the river, only the river bed is flat, the river section with gentle water flow can cross the river, it seems that the big food army was attacked by the Tang army, but also wanted to use the sneak attack method to reverse the situation.

Faced with this situation, Zhao Ziliang thought for a long time and decided to give up the idea of luring the enemy deep and setting up an ambush again, after all, now the strength of the two sides has been transferred, the Tang army is strong and the Great Food Army is weak, and the Great Food Army in Henglus City is only more than 10,000 people, no more than 12,000 people at most, and there should be a considerable number of light infantry among these people. And the military force that Zhao Ziliang can use now is not counting the captured Sogdian servant army, the more than 11,000 cavalry he brought almost no losses, plus the soldiers and horses of the Western Turkic barbarians have not left, in addition to the main force of the Anxi army and the soldiers and horses of the Anxi barbarians, the total strength is close to 50,000 horses, so many troops, enough to besiege the entire Henglus City, so Zhao Ziliang decided to give up the trick of risk, and directly engage in a head-to-head battle with the Great Food Army, so he ordered to send additional scouts to patrol along the entire river bank day and night, Strictly guard the reconnaissance and cavalry detective posts of the Great Food Army, and do not give the Great Food Army a chance.

The next morning, when the Chinese army marched to the big tent, Zhao Ziliang sat on the main seat, and the school officials stood on the left and right sides, Zhao Ziliang looked at Bai Xiaode and asked: "General Bai, who are the soldiers and horses of the Sogdian countries captured by our army?" Is it possible that the commander of the army has been caught? ”

Bai Xiaode stood up and bowed with his fists and said: "General Qiyu, the people who led the Sogdian soldiers and horses are all the lords of the Zhaowu countries, none of them ran away, they were all captured by the last generals, and now they are locked up in the camp and guarded!" ”

Zhao Ziliang said: "Okay, after lunch, bring them to see me!" ”

"No!"

Zhao Ziliang said to the others: "Later, you will also meet these lords of the Zhaowu Kingdoms!" ”

Everyone said together: "No! ”

After Zhao Ziliang sent all the generals and officials to lunch, he left Zheng San alone to eat together, and talked about things while eating.

"Has our army's follow-up baggage troops arrived?"

Zheng San nibbled on the flatbread and said, "According to the itinerary, they should have already crossed the desert to the edge of the desert at this time, and they should be able to arrive before this evening!" ”

Zhao Ziliang nodded and said to Zheng San: "Okay, after the baggage troops arrive, you arrange for the craftsmen in the baggage troops to build siege equipment." In addition, you have to draw some craftsmen from the Anxi army and the barbarian armies, and let them build ships and build pontoon bridges from tomorrow morning, in addition to connecting the existing pontoon bridges to the other side, you must also double the pontoon bridge, so that the cavalry brigades and large siege equipment can pass! If there are not enough craftsmen, they can be sent to search for them from among the Sogdian captives, and they should be found."

Zheng San promised: "Okay, leave this matter to me, although the general can rest assured, the pontoon bridge can be built according to the general's requirements within two days!" ”

After Zheng San left, he quickly began to send people to look for craftsmen who could do carpentry among the Anxi army and barbarian soldiers and horses, and really let him find a number of craftsmen or craftsmen, the Anxi army has baggage troops and siege troops, and the baggage is naturally indispensable, but after the defeat of the Anxi army, the craftsmen lost a lot, and many people died in the chaos, Zheng San felt that these people were not enough, and he sent people to continue to look for carpenters among the Sogdian captives, but he did not expect that there were more carpenters in the Sogdian captives than in the Anxi army, It turned out that a considerable number of these Sogdian captives were forcibly recruited into the army.

After lunch, the generals and officials came to the Chinese army's big tent again, and Bai Xiaode soon personally led his men and horses to escort the lords of the Zhaowu countries.

Zhao Ziliang didn't speak, just looked at the eight lords, the panic and anxiety in the hearts of the lords of the Zhaowu countries were all on their faces, although there were many people in the big tent, but the atmosphere was too depressing.

Zhao Ziliang did not speak out to express his dissatisfaction with the impoliteness of these lords, but it does not mean that there are no Tang Army generals on both sides who can tolerate these betrayal The lords of the Zhaowu countries stood like this, Bai Xiaode shouted: "You wind blows the wall grass that falls on both sides, do you still have the face to stand in front of the general?" I'm going to cut you down one by one now! With that, he pulled out his horizontal knife.

These actions frightened the lords of the Zhaowu countries on the spot, and they knelt on the ground one after another, shouting in a sad voice: "The general spares his life, spare his life!" ”

Zhao Ziliang raised his hand, and Bai Xiaode, who was about to cut people, put away the horizontal knife in time, glared at these lords, and with a cold snort, inserted the horizontal knife into the scabbard and retreated to the side.

Zhao Ziliang stared at the lords of the country and asked: "Lords of the country, you are so disappointed in me, I think we had a lot of friendship back then, but you regard the friendship between us as too worthless, and your loyalty to the Tang Dynasty is too low, you say, what should General Ben do with you now?" ”

Kang Guozhu cried and said: "General Zhao, we are helpless, when the Great Food Army came over, my country did not send troops to resist, but our national strength is weak, the soldiers and horses are not strong, and we are not the opponent of the Great Food Army at all, except for surrendering, we have no other way!" ”

"Oh? According to what you say, it is understandable that you will take refuge in the Great Food Country? Zhao Ziliang said and glanced at the other lords, saw the lord of Huo Xun country, and said: "If Kang Guo and the others had to surrender because they couldn't fight after fighting, but General Ben heard that Huo Xunguo took the initiative to take refuge in the big cannibal, you can't say that you were also forced to helpless, right?" ”

The face of the lord of the Huoxun country changed drastically, and he hurriedly said: "General, my Huoxun country borders the big food country, the population is small, the products are not rich, and the national strength is weak, if you don't take refuge in the big cannibal, the big cannibal backhand can extinguish my fire search country, and Xiao Wang is indeed helpless!" ”

Zhao Ziliang sneered: "You all have the right words, and they all make sense, but the general alone has no reason." Okay, don't say that General Ben doesn't give you a chance to live, now there is a chance, if you do a good job, you can live, if you don't do a good job, General Ben will order you all to be killed to fill the moat under the city of Henglus! Two days later, our army decided to attack Henglus City, and the army of Huoxun took the lead, the first to attack the city, and the Lord of Huoxun Country, are you willing? ”

"This" big head attack is definitely a fatal errand, and it is no wonder that the Lord of the Fire Seeking Country hesitated.

Zhao Ziliang no longer gave him a chance, and immediately slapped the table and said angrily: "It seems that you are going to be loyal to the big cannibal." Okay, this general will fulfill you, come here, escort the lord of the fire search country out and behead it! In addition, send someone to execute all the captured soldiers and horses of the Fire Xun Country, and not a single one will be left! ”

"Yes!" Bai Xiaode immediately stood up and waved his hand to the two soldiers, the lord of the Huoxun country was dragged out in the frightened cry for mercy, and the terrible screams kept coming from outside, but soon it stopped abruptly, a Tang soldier carried the head of the bloody Huoxun lord and walked in to give orders, and the other lords of the Zhaowu countries were all shocked and frightened when they saw this head.

Zhao Ziliang looked at the head, waved his hand and asked the soldiers to propose to feed the dogs, and then looked at the Anguo Lord, and asked: "The Lord, this general asked the Anguo soldiers and horses to attack Henglus City in two days, are you willing?" What the? You don't want to? Someone came, dragged him out and cut him down, and killed all the captured Anguo prisoners as well! ”

Zhao Ziliang was talking to himself at all, the lord of the country didn't even say a word, he was dragged out of the big tent by the soldiers and cut off his head, and after the head of the lord of the country was also brought in and the order was given, the rest of the lords were paralyzed with fright.

Zhao Ziliang beheaded the two lords in a row, although it was in the tone of discussion, in fact, they were not allowed to consider it at all, once they wanted to consider it, it showed that their position was not firm now, it was useless to keep this kind of person, but it was still troublesome, so they simply killed it, and the remaining lords finally understood, and the lord of Kang was prostrate on the ground and shouted miserably: "General, my department is willing to take the lead in attacking Henglus City!" ”

Other countries said: "Your Excellency General, our department is also willing to take the lead, the big cannibals burn and kill and plunder in our country, do all kinds of evil, our country and the big cannibals are as deep as the sea, not the same sky, I can't wait to eat the flesh of the big cannibals, drink their blood, we didn't dare to do it before because the big cannibals were too strong, but now with the backing of His Excellency the General and the Tang Army, we can take revenge on the big cannibals!" ”

Zhao Ziliang showed a smile on his face: "Okay, General Ben will wait and see your performance, as for which country's soldiers and horses will take the lead, General Ben will carefully consider it and inform you separately!" (To be continued.) )