After all, she is not an ordinary woman, and when something big happens, she immediately understands what she should do. After collecting all the Anxi secret agents in Yizhou, Mi Xue took the Anxi athletes to set off again, but instead of going to the direction of Qiuzi, they went directly to Tingzhou in the northwest direction.

First of all, she had to determine the battle situation of the Han Navy, and then disperse into the territory of Hui with her secret agents, which was the first thing she wanted to do at the moment. The road in the middle of the river is far away from the green mountains, and it will be several months before the general returns, but since the attack on Huifu is a foregone conclusion, everything needs to be prepared in advance.

The Eastern and Western Turks took Jinshan as the dividing line, Tingzhou was originally in the southwest of Jinshan, and the Hui inherited the territory of the Eastern/Turkic Khanate.

The general has always needed an excuse to open up the way back to the Tang Dynasty, but now the Hui people are giving the general this opportunity.

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In addition to the three Han settlements of Yizhou, Xizhou and Tingzhou, there are more than ten prefectures, which are controlled by various tribes of the Western Turks. Most of these prefecture capitals are located on the grassland at the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, and the Tang army responsible for suppressing these tribes is mainly the Han Navy stationed in Tingzhou.

The number of the Beiting army was originally set at 20,000, but later Ma Lan was ordered by the Son of Heaven to control the west of the quicksand and had the right to expand the army on his own, and now the number of the Beiting army has expanded to 50,000, and the Han Navy alone has 20,000 horses.

Relying on the abundant financial resources plundered by Ma Ling and the Anxi army, and through the mutual market with the Hui tribe and the Western Turkic tribe, the Beiting army has increased a large number of war horses in the past two years, and has completely become a horse infantry, and its mobility ability has been greatly enhanced. After the incident in Puzhi County, Du Huaiguang of the Han Navy reacted quickly, commanding 10,000 troops to rush to Puzhi County, and sending 5,000 cavalry from the Western Turkic tribes to help in the battle, leaving another 10,000 soldiers in the county seat of Jinman in Tingzhou Prefecture.

Pu County is located at the edge of the basin at the eastern foot of Tianshan Mountain, and is named after the Pu Sea. Pu Lake is a huge mountain lake at the eastern end of Tianshan Mountain, with a length and width of dozens of miles. The surrounding mountains are undulating, and the water and grass on the lakeside are abundant, which is a rare treasure in the west of the moraine.

The seat of governance in Pu County is on the edge of the Pu Sea, and it is a city within a radius of several miles. Due to the prosperity of the silk horse market in recent years, the market has become increasingly prosperous, and businessmen of all ethnic groups have poured into it, among which there are dozens of Han merchants.

The Hui are powerful, and the tribes under their jurisdiction often cross the Jinshan for nomadism. Occasionally, they would plunder the small Western Turkic tribes that were attached to the Tang Dynasty, which was a common thing. Since the fourth year of Tianbao, the Hui people have invaded Pu County for nearly ten years, and then they have all left Pu County a year ago due to the increasingly powerful soldiers of the Tang Dynasty. And this time, the Hui people made a comeback, not only harming those small tribes, but also attacking Pu County for the first time, killing all the Han officials and Han merchants in the city.

With such a major event, Du Huaiguang, who is responsible for defending the land, naturally cannot sit idly by.

Du Huaiguang led a large army into the territory of Puzhi, and the scouts found that there were thousands of Hui people in Puzhi City. There are also many Uighur tribes outside the city, and there are continuous tents around the entire Pu Sea, and I don't know how many enemies there are.

On the way to the army, you can already see many Uighur rangers, and when they see the Tang scouts, they will attack. Now the scouts of the Beiting Army are also equipped with a large number of single-bow crossbows and long-range riding crossbows, so the Uighur rangers can't take advantage of anything at all.

The original small tribes have been driven away, and it is the Uighurs who occupy their pastures. It was close to October, and it was freezing everywhere, and a large number of Hui people entered Pu County, apparently wanting to live in this place for a long time.

Du Huaiguang is a veteran of Beiting. has a violent personality and a pungent fight, which is the most appetizing for Ma Lan, so Ma Lan appointed him as the envoy of the Han Sea. For the small-scale Uighur tribes encountered along the way, Du Huaiguang's approach was completely modeled after Ma Lan's western expedition to eat food. Since it is a hostile force, it should leave no one behind. The Han Navy approached the Pu Sea all the way, and the people were rolling everywhere they passed, and the small tribes they encountered were all slaughtered, not even a single woman or child was spared, and the sheep and horses could take away. Kill directly that can't be taken away.

This has never happened before in the war between the Tang Dynasty and the Turkic tribes. The Tang Dynasty is the Heavenly Khan, and the Tang Army is the army of kings, and they have never done such a bloody thing in the past. Even if it was an infighting between Turkic tribes, the tribe with the deepest hatred only killed men who were taller than the wheel, and did not kill all the people of a tribe.

The Han Navy was extremely happy to kill, but the Turkic cavalry who followed the Han Navy on the expedition were terrified. It's been a long time since I've been on an expedition with the Han Navy, and the Han Navy has become such an army, and the commander has become such a ruthless guy.

Frightened is frightened, but since Du Huaiguang has rewarded them with a large number of sheep and horses, they naturally have nothing to say, and honestly follow behind the Han Navy, ready to fight a good fight.

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The weather was cold, the iron horses galloped, the army was getting closer and closer to the Pu Sea, and all the Hui people they saw were killed.

More than a dozen miles away from the Pu Sea, in a small valley, a Uighur tribe of several hundred tents has just migrated here, preparing to spend the cold winter in this warm valley.

The original shepherds here have been killed by them, and all the sheep and horses have fallen into their hands. Half of these warm tents were made up of the original shepherds, who were not strong enough to easily possess what they had.

The strong get everything, and the weak lose everything, this is the rule of the steppe tribes.

It's cold, there's not much to do, and there's no better entertainment than hugging the enemy's wife and daughter. There were many shepherds in the valley, but now that the men have died, their wives and daughters have become their playthings, and every strong Uighur warrior has one or two.

On this cold day, there is nothing more interesting than riding on top of their soft bodies and looking at their hateful gaze.

There was the sound of horses' hooves at the mouth of the valley, and I don't know how many people there were. The shepherds in the depths of the valley didn't care, it should have been the army stationed in the Pu Sea patrolling here.

But there is no need at all, these guys west of Jinshan are too weak in battle, and they are also worthy of being called Turks!

They only know that they occupy a treasure land with abundant water and grass, and they can breed more sheep and horses next year, but they don't know who the original owner of this piece of land is. Anyway, for the Hui people, what they get is their own.

The sound of horses' hooves was getting closer and closer, and it was clear that they had entered the valley. Sensing that something was wrong, the Hui warriors rushed out of their tents one by one, found their horses and jumped on them.

Rushing down the valley were not their kindred, but a group of brightly armored cavalry. They had always only fought on the grasslands, and they had never seen such an army in iron armor.

However, it was clear that the comer was not good, and the Hui warriors took up their weapons and rushed forward with shouts.

Before the ironclad cavalry arrived, dense crossbow arrows rained down, and suddenly the Hui people fell to the ground, and few could still sit on their horses.

Then the ironclad cavalry rushed over and smashed it like a giant hammer at the sparse Hui warriors. The ironclad cavalry that rushed over looked endless, and the cavalry was like a tide, and the Hui warriors were caught in it, and they immediately disappeared without a trace.

Inside the tent, a large number of figures ran out. Some scurried around in panic, others knelt in front of the tent and did not dare to move, and even some women stood at the door of the tent, crying tears of excitement as they watched these brightly armored cavalrymen.

The ironclad cavalry rushed into the open area, brandishing their swords and guns to kill anyone they saw, and torches were lit and thrown into the tents, and the fire burned violently.

Du Huaiguang, the envoy of the Han Navy, stood in the valley and looked at the killing battlefield in front of him with a calm expression.

"General, is it too much to kill people like this?" Marching Sima Li Qiyun said softly, "Look at those women, they are obviously captured and plundered by the Hui people, and they are all killed without distinction, which will inevitably hurt the peace of the heavens." We are the king's master, these people are the subjects of the Tang Dynasty, and they are looking forward to us to save them from the suffering of hanging, but now they are dying in our hands, aren't they wronged! ”

Du Huaiguang smiled faintly and said, "If Sima has a crush on a barbarian woman, I can spare her life." ”

Li Qiyun grinned and said with a wry smile: "Why did the general say this, how could his subordinates be such people." It's just that the general acts like this, and I'm afraid that I won't be able to explain to Ma Xiang in the future. ”

Du Huanguang smiled and said, "What's not to explain, Ma Xiang has been waiting for this opportunity for a long time." Brother, next year, I will wait for the whole army to enter the Huifu, I don't know how many people I will kill along the way, like you are so soft-hearted, but I can't help it. ”

"Will the whole army be killed in Hui next year?" Li Qiyun was shocked, "This is Ma Xiang's plan?" ”

Du Huaiguang smiled and nodded: "When Ma Xiang returned to Anxi after paying homage to the prime minister, I went to Yizhou to meet Ma Xiang, and when he appointed me as my Han naval envoy, he asked me to prepare here early to deal with the conflict with the Hui people. Ma Xiang also personally wrote four words to me, and to this day, I no longer hide my secrets, so I will let you take a look. ”

Saying that, Du Huaiguang took out an iron box from his arms, took out a piece of Chengxintang paper from it, and handed it to Li Qiyun.

Li Qiyun opened the folded paper and saw four big characters written on it.

"Cutting the grass and eradicating the roots?"

"Yes, it's just cutting the grass and eradicating the roots, leaving no one behind!" Du Huaiguang smiled and nodded, "With today's situation, we need to go to the beach of Pu, how can we have time to carefully screen which is a Hui woman and which is a Pu native." Even if we could pick out some, would we be able to march with them? In order to avoid leaking military aircraft, this is the easiest way. ”

"When you enter the Hui next year, you will eat the enemy when you are in the enemy country, and before you beat the enemy down, it is these four words, cut the grass and eradicate the roots!"

"Ma told me from time to time that if there is no war with the Hui, it will impress these Turkic tribes in a war, make them have nightmares when they think of the Tang army, and make them dare not rebel for decades. Rather teach people to be afraid, don't teach people to bully, and those who stand in front of the Tang Dynasty Iron Cavalry will cut down the grass and eradicate the roots, so that these grassland barbarians can have a long memory. (To be continued.) )