Chapter 320: Unwilling to be Lowered
The days on horseback are always in a hurry. The army marched all the way west, entered the eastern branch of the Sayan Mountains, and swept forward along the southern foot of the Sayan Mountains, and the grass of the wasteland gradually became lush, and finally it was full of green.
Relying on the terrifying lethality of the Yuan Rong crossbow, the battle is like a hike, extremely easy and freehand. Michelle walked in front with the Anxi agents, still providing information to the army without interruption, and every time the army struck, it would not return empty-handed.
Ever since she had met her once in the Hui Ya Tent, Michelle hadn't appeared in front of Ma Lan again. Although she was not far ahead, she no longer personally reported information to Ma Lu.
It's been a long time since I've seen that proud Xinghu woman, and Ma Lan doesn't care about it. This time, he was accompanied by Kang Xiaoyu on the Northern Expedition, and that beautiful figure was full of joy at a glance, and he never felt tired.
Half a month after entering the Sayan Mountains, relying on the information provided by the secret agents, Ma Lu led the army to successfully encircle the Hunbu among the nine divisions of Tiele.
After a big battle, it was still bloodless, and this strong part of Mobei was swept away by the Anxi athletes, and the fifty or sixty thousand tribesmen were lost, and they could no longer appear on the grassland.
For the current Anxi New Army, let alone the Mobei Grassland, there is no enough enemy on the entire Eurasian continent to confront the Anxi New Army. The power of 10,000 yuan crossbow and 10,000 arrows can not be resisted by any army. As long as you can find the enemy, you can win the battle.
Along with Hunbu, who fled from the Hui Ya tent to the north, were the Dubo tribes, and the area around the Sayan Mountains was their homeland. Hun Bu fled here to gather together, while the people of the Dubo tribe returned directly to their respective homes. After Ma Lan led the army into the Sayan Mountains. The people killed along the way were actually Dubo people. Now it's almost time to leave the Eastern Branch Sayan Mountains. Although I didn't meet a large number of Dubo people. In fact, the Dubo people have been almost killed.
Among the various tribes of Tiele, there are also the Qibi tribes, but the Qibi tribes have long moved to the Hexi area, and there are a small number of nomadic herders in the Yingsa River near Yanqi, and the entire Qibi tribe has long been submitted to the Tang Dynasty, this tribe is already a people in the region, and the Geshu tribe and other Western Turkic tribes living on the east side of the Green Ridge are extremely loyal to the Tang Dynasty. Even Ma Lu could not have regarded such a tribe as the object of conquest.
Further north, there are the Guligan people, who live in the north of the North Sea, and there are only a few thousand soldiers to fight, and this tribe is not ready to conquer, after all, the population is too small and too far away.
After defeating the Hunbu, it took some time to continue westward to sweep away all the Dubo people he encountered, and then Ma Lan turned south with his army to deal with the few fleeing Hui clans one by one.
Of the nine major clans in the Hui headquarters, four were killed by Ma Lu before. There are five more left. These clans all turned their backs on the Yao Luo Ge clan on the way to escape, and now they have all fled to the area of the Xian'e River in the south of the Sayan Mountains in the north of Yanran Mountain.
Anthy agents have long since figured out where they are hiding. Before, Ma Lu wanted to recover the soldiers and horses of the Su headquarters, so he ignored them for the time being, and now it is time to solve it.
As for the two Tiele tribes who fled to the northwest of Yanran Mountain, the Sijie tribe and the Baximi tribe, according to the information sent back by Mi Xue, they were fighting with the Huangjiasi tribe who had been ordered to move south at the southern foot of the greedy mountain.
As the so-called Yidi attacks each other, big injuries and small annihilations, which is beneficial to the country, Ma Lu will naturally not intervene at this time, and will always wait for them to finish fighting, and then solve them together.
For the Jiankun Governor's Mansion, the so-called descendants of Li Ling's descendants Duwei Miao, Ma Ling did not have a good impression. If it is not expected, the more than 100,000 people in Dingkou should be able to kill the Sijie tribe and the Ba Ximi tribe this time, but they will definitely lose a lot, and at that time, it will be a good time for the Tang army to make a move.
There are too many people in the Qiangsi people, and if he is allowed to be in Mobei, he will be the only strong force in Mobei, and this situation is intolerable to Ma Lu. The dead alien race is the best alien race, although the people on the grassland want to become the people of the Tang Dynasty, but that is after the completion of this sweep. The large tribe of more than 10,000 people in Dingkou is not allowed to appear in the south and north of the desert from then on.
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When Ma Lan led the army to the Xian'e River, on the grassland in early summer, a Tang army was slowly approaching Beihai.
The 50,000 elite Tang troops led by Li Jing, the deputy envoy of Pinglu Jiedu of the Tang Dynasty, together with the 30,000 Muwei cavalry who assisted in the battle, wreaked havoc on the hometown of the Baye Ancient Tribe and the Tongluo tribe for several months, cleaning up the large and small Turkic tribes east of Duleshui one by one.
Li Jing was known for his ruthlessness when he was in eastern Liaoxi and Liaoxi, and almost wiped out the Khitans and Baitouxi by purchasing skulls, and he was also ruthless when he arrived on the Mobei grassland, and his actions were the same as Ma Lu's.
Among the various Tang armies, Li Jing's troops were actually the first to enter the Hui Khanate, much earlier than Ma Lu.
In fact, according to the will of the Son of Heaven, Li Jing needed to wait for the news of the Anxi Army to send troops before he could send troops, and he should be the last Tang Army to attack, but Li Jing did not wait for the news of the Anxi Army at all, and was the first to attack Mobei in early spring.
His starting place was the Governor's Mansion of Murowei, which was close to Mobei, and as soon as the army set off, he set foot on the land of the Baye Ancient Tribe. Seeing that Li Jing was powerful, the ancient tribe of Baye did not dare to fight with him at all, and the whole clan fled to the Huiya tent, and most of the old and weak failed to escape, and were all killed by the Pinglu soldiers and horses and the Murowei cavalry.
The mighty army marched north from Tongluo's hometown, and the small tribes along the way were all in ruins. The bitter hatred of the Turks by the Murwei people goes without saying, most of the Pinglu cavalry under Li Jing are the sons of Liangjing who have volunteered to serve in the army in the past two years, and the continuous victories in the Bohai Sea in Liaodong and Liaoxi have made these teenagers extremely proud, and they are eager to make meritorious contributions to the grassland, and they are more ruthless than the other. The Turks put up desperate resistance in the face of a desperate situation, but Li Jing's army was outnumbered, and this resistance was ultimately futile.
Of course, Li Jing's department did not have the weapons and equipment of the Anxi New Army, and the newly recruited Liangjing disciples only relied on courage to fight, their qualifications were uneven, and their training was not enough, so it was impossible to be almost without loss like Ma Lan, and by the time the army arrived in Beihai, the loss of Liangjing children had already exceeded 5,000 people.
The Murowei cavalry who helped in the battle were all fierce, but they did not suffer many losses, and they lost more than 2,000 people.
Under the guidance of the Turkic guides, Li Jing led his army westward along the shore of Beihai Lake and found the mouth of the lake where the Suoling water flowed into Beihai. Under the high mountains by the lake, looking at the huge eight characters on the cliff, Li Jing was silent for a long time.
"Those who follow me prosper, and those who oppose me die!" It is worthy of being a horse phase, it is really extraordinary! A general pointed to the big letters on the cliff wall and laughed loudly.
A chill flickered in Li Jing's eyes, and he said coldly: "Arrogance! ”
"What?" The general was slightly stunned.
Li Jing ignored him and galloped towards the mountain with a group of personal soldiers.
A general of the Pinglu army followed Li Jing up the mountain and went to the bottom of the cliff of Leshi. Looking at the dense small characters under the big characters, people know that Ma Xiang has succeeded.
"Since crossing Jinshan, 270,000 people have been killed! In the end, it is Ma Xiang, he is really ruthless, and his reputation is well deserved! ”
"Such a number dares to be engraved on the monument of Ji Gong, and Ma Xiang dares to do this, how can others have this guts?"
"yes. Others did this, and I don't know how many people in the court were impeached. That is, our Ma Xiang, after Li Weigong, another Tang military god dares to act like this. ”
The generals of Pinglu had a lot of discussions, and they were all extremely sighed. It is calculated that Ma Xiang is the envoy of the Pinglu Festival, and he is their superior, and now that Ma Xiang has won the merit of destroying the country, they are naturally honored.
Li Jing listened to everyone's discussions, his face became more and more gloomy, and he looked back at Du Yu and asked He Guinian, "Old He, how many barbarians have we killed along the way?" ”
He Guinian said respectfully: "Counting the people killed by the Murwei people, there are more than 70,000 in total. General, we haven't encountered any big tribes, those big tribes have run away, and basically all those who can be killed have been killed. ”
"Is there more than 70,000...... Li Jing nodded, pointed to a large empty cliff next to him, and said in a deep voice, "Smooth out this place, let's also come to Le Shi Jigong, and write that I, Li Jing, entered Mobei and killed 100,000 barbarians!" ”
"Le Shi Jigong?" He Guinian was stunned for a moment, and said respectfully, "General, Ma Xiang has already succeeded, and Le Shi Ji has made great contributions, and we are Ma Xiang's subordinates, how can we still make Shi Ji Gong?" ”
The generals of Pinglu are also a little puzzled, but Li Jing has always been domineering, they are no better than He Guinian, a literati, so naturally they dare not say more.
"If you want to do it, you can do it, what a rambling thing!" Li Jing snorted and said in a deep voice, "Ma Xiang is not afraid of impeachment, thinking that I, Li Jing, am the descendant of Prince Zhang Huai, how can I be afraid of impeachment by those who are dead and vegetarian?" The kings and I traveled thousands of miles, killing these many barbarians, and not extorting the stone here, and after a hundred years, everyone knows the merits of Ma Xiang, who knows the merits of us? ”
When the generals heard this, they were all a little moved. He Guinian frowned and hesitated: "General, this is not appropriate after all......
"Hugh said a lot, it's decided!" Li Jing said coldly, "Lao He, if you don't want to do this, you don't want to do it!" ”
He Guinian smiled bitterly and nodded: "The general insists on this, and his subordinates obey their orders." It's just that we are waiting to kill more than 70,000 barbarians, but the general wants to engrave 100,000 kills, so I'm afraid it's not good! ”
"100,000 is 100,000, when I can't kill it? Let's go to Changxingfang to find some craftsmen to start, consider the inscriptions carefully, and engrave everyone's credit. Li Jing waved his hand.
He Guinian took the order and left, and soon after the craftsmen in the army went up the mountain and began to polish the rock wall next to the stone wall of Ma Lule Shi Jigong. Li Jing took the Pinglu generals away from the cliff and returned to the tent at the bottom of the mountain.
"You have made a lot of contributions on the road, but He Guinian said that we don't kill enough 100,000, and it is not suitable to engrave 100,000 on the monument, tonight, everyone will work hard, and make up for this 100,000!" Li Jing looked at everyone, and a bloodthirsty light appeared in his eyes. (To be continued......)