Chapter 320: It's not so easy to say that you won't fight

"Celestial! Help us! "It's still war, it's just heaven's punishment. But before those people came to their senses, the cadets of the Royal Military Academy began to direct the artillery to shoot extendedly, and the rest went without saying. There is only one way to go on the Western Turkic side, but this is not over, the power of horse-drawn artillery and various new weapons has not yet been brought into play, how can these people be allowed to go?

The 400,000-strong army, even if some are knocked out by artillery fire, there are still a large number of soldiers who can escape, and this time it is time to show the extension of artillery and other new weapons.

All sorts of new weapons were placed in three directions outside the city walls, waiting for the scattered soldiers to flee in all directions. These new weapons even included improvised machine guns, which had an effective firing range of more than 600 meters and a maximum firing distance of 1,500 meters.

So when the scattered Turkic soldiers rode back, the first thing they received was the bullets from the four machine guns placed in the direction of their rear. At first, they didn't pay much attention to the sound of the da, and all they wanted was to escape from the battlefield as soon as possible.

However, soon all the Turkic soldiers found that the soldiers in front of them were falling one by one, but they did not even see the bows or arrows or weapons, and in fear they immediately turned their horses and fled in the other direction.

In the other direction, it seemed to be quieter at first, and there was no danger, but when they had run a little further, there was a clattering sound in front of them, followed by a large number of soldiers falling. Except for those who didn't have time to rein in their horses and turn around, they were only sent to death, and the others immediately turned around and fled in another direction.

Then there was a clattering sound in the other direction, and then it fell again, and then all the Turkic soldiers were desperate to find themselves surrounded, but the other three sides did not see any Tang troops, and they still couldn't break through, and then the artillery on the city wall rang out again.

After doing this a few times, all the Turkic soldiers found themselves unsafe there, and were forced by guns and artillery to go there, because they did not yet understand the habits of artillery and guns, and there might be a glimmer of hope if they scattered and fled quickly.

It's just that they are now completely defeated, and there are more and more Turkic soldiers who fall to the ground, and finally some people can't help but raise their hands and lie on the ground to surrender, and one person takes the lead in those desperate Turkic soldiers who immediately collapsed, and no longer fled around on their horses, but simply lay on the ground and waited for surrender.

Soon they found that as long as the people lying on the ground were safe, more and more soldiers chose to lie on the ground and surrender. After seeing this through the telescope, the Don army on the city wall knew that the Turkic coalition army had completely collapsed, so it immediately sent troops to accept the surrender.

These surrendered soldiers are the best labor, and now the development of Datang everywhere still needs a large number of slaves, if they can kill a little less, then kill a little less, anyway, after becoming slaves, they don't know how much they can survive in the end.

This battle not only shocked the Hui and Tibetan warriors who came to the aid of the Tang Dynasty, but also the Turkic kings and Khans who commanded in the rear, who sent their wealth and hostages for the same purpose as before, and were willing to surrender to the Tang Dynasty. It's just that this time it was not Li Er who made a good battle plan, but Li Hao.

The order was given early, no truce, no annexation, only unconditional surrender. Therefore, the Western Front of the Tang Dynasty did not accept the proposal of the Turks at all, and at this time, it is not that you want to say that you will not fight if you don't fight, and it is not so easy to say that you will not fight a truce.

Datang still has two support soldiers useless, just use them to clear the remaining Turks, the captured wealth of Datang as long as the population, cattle and sheep and the rest of the return to Hui, that is, the population of cattle and sheep Datang will also use spirits to exchange tea and salt with Hui Hui.

As for the Tibetan warriors, it was different, they belonged to the sequence of the Tang army, so all the captures had to be handed over to the public, but when the army counted the captures, they would give them a part as a reward. Of course, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty have the same, and the treatment is better than that of Tubo.

The combat effectiveness of the two armies of Tubo and Hui was still very good at this time, so they chased and fought after the Western Turkic coalition army all the way, and only stopped chasing them until they were driven south of the Green Ridge. The Tang Army on the Western Front only left a small number of soldiers to follow behind to receive territory and supplies, and all the others turned around and headed for the northern front of the Tang Dynasty.

Compared with the northeast line and the western front, the northern line is the first line with the greatest pressure, and the Xue Yantuo Tiele tribe basically occupies the territory after the Eastern * Turks were broken, so the power is a powerful force in the surrounding areas of the Tang Dynasty.

Especially this time, in addition to the tribes that have always been opposed, this time it is rare that other tribes have united to set off a rebellion together, probably thinking that the Tang Dynasty without Li Er is really a soft persimmon that can be kneaded at any time in their hands, so the momentum is huge.

And the ministers of the Tang Dynasty and Li Er are now basically convinced of Li Hao's non-ours and their different words, especially Li Er. Before, they were still immersed in the hat of that heavenly khan and were complacent, but now they are completely disappointed, it is really a group of wolves that cannot be raised, and it is better to completely eliminate them, so they have no other objections to the fate of Goguryeo on the northeast front.

The destruction of the remnants of Goguryeo allowed the Tang army on the eastern front to free up more forces to sweep away the Tatar tribes, Murwei and Khitan. Therefore, after joining up with the Southern Marine Corps, Xue Rengui handed over the task of suppressing bandits and liberating serfs on the Goryeo Peninsula to them and led his army to sweep other tribes in the northeast.

The battle plan of the imperial court was handed down to the front-line commander early, and the task of the eastern front was to take over the Goryeo Peninsula and seize all the northeast.

After withdrawing his troops from the Goguryeo Peninsula, Xue Rengui knew that he had to hurry up, and according to the imperial court's plan, he would end all military operations before the snow fell in the north in winter. This end does not mean that the armistice is over, but that all the objectives of the war will be accomplished to quell the war in the occupied territory.

In view of this, the war in the Northeast has become a bit cruel, basically encountering the tribes of the Tatar, and the tribes of Murowei and Khitan directly crippled their living forces first. Then the receiving troops came to count the harvest and catch the slaves, for this reason, Li Hao even organized the people from the cattle hunting team in the south to come to the northeast to catch the prisoners, and then the Tang government will subsidize them according to how much money each prisoner has.

The newly emancipated slaves of the Goryeo Peninsula also came to assist the Tang army in the occupation of these places. In fact, when they were discussing in the imperial court before, Lao Fang asked why Li Hao could accept the liberation of serfs in Goguryeo, and why he didn't liberate slaves in the places of the Jinya tribes, Murowei and Khitan?

"This is different, the population base and population structure are different." Li Hao smiled bitterly, now the high-level officials of the Tang Dynasty court are very fond of this activity of liberating serfs, but what they didn't think about is that the local tribes of the Yan Dynasty, Muwei and Khitan are basically not very large, and they don't have any serfs. The people of all tribes are basically on their horses for soldiers and dismounted for the people, how can they liberate the serfs?

In addition, Li Hao, the alien race in this place, is very vigilant, you must know that the external disasters of China in the later generations were killed by the alien race that came out here, so the alien Li Hao here didn't think about staying at all, if it wasn't for the face of the high-level of the Tang Dynasty, Li Hao estimated that he would directly give the order to slaughter.

After the battle on the eastern and western fronts, the armies on both sides began to cooperate with the Tang army on the northern front from both sides to encircle the Xue Yantuo Tiele tribe. At this time, the leader of the combined army of Xue Yantuo Tiele also seemed to find that the war on both sides was very unfavorable, and the rebel forces that had been huge in the past were still in a stalemate with the army of the Tang Dynasty, but they could not make any further progress.

After they discussed it, they wanted to make peace with the Tang Dynasty again, but it was too late, Li Hao wanted to eradicate all these alien races in the north of the Tang Dynasty a long time ago, and Li Er has been regretting that his tolerance of the Eastern Turks led to the current disaster.

This time, it was rare for the high-level leaders of the Tang Dynasty to unanimously believe that all the alien races in the north must be eradicated, and it was not so easy for the Xue Yantuo Tiele coalition army to stop fighting at this time. And Li Hao's slogan is "Do you know where Su Wu shepherds?" In the past, the places that went north to the sea were all Datang's, and no one could occupy them, and if this task was not completed, the battle plan on the northern front would be a failure. ”

In his heart, Datang's counterattack plan this year is that all the territories in these ranges from the East China Sea to the Green Ridge, from the South Sea to the Arctic Ocean, must belong to Datang, and after spending a few years to digest it, he can go west to India without worry. This is a big battle plan, and the time may be ten years or decades, but Li Hao will definitely push Datang to move forward according to this plan.

After the Tang side rejected the request of the Xue Yantuo Tiele United Army to negotiate an armistice, the counterattack on the northern front began, and only then did the leaders of the Xue Yantuo Tiele tribe understand why the battle on the eastern and western fronts ended so quickly. All their rebel troops were deceived by the Tang army, and the previous retreat of the Tang army was also pretended.

It's just that they thought wrong, the previous retreat of the Tang Army was not for show, but to shrink the front and preserve its strength, waiting for new weapons and front layout. If the army of the Tang Dynasty does not have the support of new weapons, it is estimated that no one will have the courage to start a war on three fronts at the same time.

Kill 1,000 enemies and lose 800 yourself, and the combined strength of the three fronts in the northeast and west is also a lot. Datang can't afford this consumption, although Datang's economic development has been very rapid in recent years, and the population has grown rapidly, but unnecessary losses should not be lost.