Chapter 9 Jaw Thoughts II
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The founders of the Qarakhanid Dynasty were a group of Hui people who migrated westward, not the indigenous people of this area, but for the inhabitants of Talas, Lower Baersi, Kulan and other places, they were nomadic tribes from the northeast who moved south to occupy these towns that were integrated with agriculture and commerce.
After the occupation of the Uighurs, the daily taxes and oppression increased, but the attacks from the nomadic tribes became fewer. It's like a robber occupies a farm, and the robber becomes a landlord, and although the rent and tax are raised, the thief is eliminated before a new robber appears, so the jaw is not strict against the north.
The Tang army's uprising against the Hui had not yet spread widely under the rule of the Qarakhanid Dynasty, Yang Yi, the vanguard of the fourth battalion of the Tang army, drove to the vicinity of the ja Ersi, and a group of herdsmen outside the city saw the flashing aside, Yang Yi forced forward, they were not very panicked, but just bowed and saluted: "What does this Dikhkan command?" β
You must know that the Tang army has not yet had its own unified military uniform, what is what to wear, and many sergeants are wearing clothes seized from the Hui people, and even some people are originally Hui soldiers, at this time, the Yingyang battalion did not raise the flag, and the march in the group looked no different from the Hui tribal army.
As soon as Yang Yi heard this, he knew that the other party had misunderstood that he was a member of the Qarakhanid Dynasty, he had a flexible brain, and he was the best at improvising, so he planned at the moment, and said: "We are here to spread the will of Bogra Khan, and you come forward to show us the way." β
How much insight can this kind of border herdsman have to see through Yang Yi's lies? I had no choice but to comply.
Na Ba Ersi is not the first line of the border, the scale is comparable to the new Broken Leaf City, there are only three or four hundred native soldiers in the city, and they are mainly used not for offensive and defensive battles but for maintaining law and order, and if the alarm is raised, it must rely on the people in the city to defend together. In the past hundred years, there has never been a war here, although the Talas have changed hands several times, but as long as the Talas belongs to whom, this jaw will naturally change banners, so the war has never been fought here, and the attack from the desert in the north is unprecedented.
It was noon, the sun was scorching, many people were taking a nap, and the city gates were not closedβthere had been no news of the city in this area lately, so what were the gates closed in broad daylight?
When the defenders of the city saw a troop of horses coming from the northeast, the procession was very neat, and they did not seem to be hostile, and they thought that they had sent someone from Barasagon or Talas, and when they approached, they asked at the head of the city, "Where did they come from?" β
The herdsman who led the way said, "It was Bogra Khan who came to deliver the message." β
The defenders of the city are a little strange, the place of Shan Kara is poor and remote, and it is not in the main traffic points, but it is also the honor to enter the eyes of Bogra Khan? And sent an army? But it is still down to check the customs defense token.
Where does Yang Yi have any security tokens? Seeing that Tucheng had never been under martial law, he thought, "What's polite!" Then he led the men and rushed in, and the native soldiers of the city shouted, "What are you doing?" Do! "But where can you stop it? Yang Yi had already led his fifty warriors to rush in, and the spear was pressed against the neck of the leader of the city guard: "Put down your weapons and spare you from death!" β
That boss is a country official, how much vision can he have? Dumbfounded, because of the suddenness of the incident, he didn't understand what was going on, thinking that the city lord's greed for ink was discovered, and Bogra Khan sent someone to punish him? Frightened, he shouted: "Don't do my business!" Don't do my business! It was all done by Lais. Please see you, Bogra Khan! β
Laice is the Central Asian name for the governor of a town and its suburbs, meaning lord of the city.
Yang Yi didn't know what he was talking about, so he followed his words and said, "You really don't know?" β
"I really don't know, I really don't know!"
Yang Yi said: "Okay, then you take me to see him!" β
At this time, Guo Luo had also arrived and took over the city gate, although there were sixty native soldiers at the head of the city, but seeing that the other party was large in number, and it was "on the order of Bogra Khan", who would dare to resist?
Yang Yi shouted to Guo Luo: "Lord Holan, I'll go and take down the Lyce of the Chin Er Si first, you wait for Tugan Khan here!" β
Guo Luo laughed: "Okay! You go first. β
The soldiers who defended the earth were even more shocked when they heard this: "This person turned out to be the brave and invincible general Huo Lan? How can you be so young. And Tugan Khan actually came. They didn't dare to move, Guo Luo ordered them to hand over their weapons, and they obediently put down their swords and guns.
At the same time that Guo Luo disarmed the sixty native soldiers defending the city, Yang Yi had already pushed the leader of the city to find Lais, and there were residents on the streets of the city who saw it, and they went home to close the door, and some ventured out to inquire about what happened, Yang Yi said all the way: "Bogra Khan ordered Tugan Khan to come here and take over the city!" Investigate and deal with the case of Laice's embezzlement of ink in this city, and all the residents of the city will let me go home and sleep! β
He drank all the way, but the places where he heard his shouting were all hidden.
Soon when Zhang Mai and Tang Renxiao arrived, Yang Yi had already sent someone to report: "Team Yang is taking control of Laice's mansion!" When we broke down the door, the guy was still taking a nap, and he didn't know what was going on, and he shouted, 'I'm not guilty!' I'm not guilty! Why are you doing this to me? ββ
Zhang Mai laughed: "He probably thought that we were really from Talas!" β
At this time, Yang Dingbang and An Shoujing also came, followed by another horse flying over, presenting a token: "This is from the Nalaiis Mansion, and I heard his butler say that it is a token to mobilize the native soldiers in the camp in the west of the city." β
Zhang Mai took the token, handed it to Guo Luo, and ordered him to take over the barracks. Let An Shoujing patrol the city and pacify the residents. Yang Dingbang was ordered to seize the other city gates, and to patrol the outside of the city, not only to monitor the local soldiers and herdsmen who fled to the city of Talas Kulan to report the news, but also to reinforce everywhere at any time.
Yang Dingbang is also a person who is old in the field, and he arranged military affairs in an orderly manner, and it didn't take long for the whole city to be controlled.
Then Guo Luo sent someone to report that the barracks had been controlled, all the native soldiers had surrendered their weapons, and there were less than 200 people in the barracks.
Seeing that the overall situation had been decided, Zhang Mai sighed and said: "We were so trembling before, we thought that we would have to fight a fierce siege battle, and we were even worried that we didn't rush the car, the catapult, and the city wall, but I didn't expect things to be so easy." β
Liu An smiled slightly and said: "Fighting is like this, sometimes it is unbelievably light, but sometimes it is unexpectedly difficult, it all depends on the conditions. β
Zhang Mai said: "The situation has been decided, let's go and see the city lord." β
He walked towards the city lord's mansion with Liu An one after another, looking disappointed all the way, he finally understood what Yang Dingbang meant by "no oil and water".
This is the junction between the irrigated area of the Talas River and the desert area, where the inhabitants make a living by sedentary animal husbandry, farming, and at the same time doing some small business, or doing some transit and transportation work for the merchants of Kulan City and the garrison of Talas, and the income for a living is only subsistence, the clothes worn are tattered and mottled, and most of the houses they live in are also dilapidated and narrow, the doors can only allow people to enter and exit, and the houses are a few steps square. It's like a poor township in a remote area in Zhang Mai's memory, but with an earthen city wall. In addition, the strategic location of this place is not very important, and the losses caused by the Tang army's occupation of this city to the Qarakhanid Dynasty are also like being bitten by mosquitoes.
Seeing that this place is poor, Zhang Mai's excitement when he first entered the city dissipated the ** of the ten, thinking that after this news came out, all parts of the Qarakhanid Dynasty would be vigilant, and it would be difficult to receive such a surprise attack in the future.
This problem only surfaced for a while, and he immediately forcibly swept it away - now the Tang army has been forced to the edge of the cliff, and can only fight a bloody way in a desperate situation! It's normal to encounter any kind of difficulties.
When he arrived at Nalais's mansion, which was actually just a larger house, he was no longer interested in personally interrogating the city lord, and Yang Yi reported to him the results of the interrogation: "There is not much grain stored in the city, only enough for a few hundred local soldiers to eat for a month, and if you want to collect it, you have to go house to house, but there are more than five hundred horses, more than one hundred and fifty camels, and two or three thousand sheep in a few pastures in the south of the city. β
This is good news, and if you can take away the horses and sheep before the reinforcements arrive, it can be regarded as a small replenishment of strategic materials. However, this harvest is still much less than Tang Jun's expectations. As for the armament information of the city of Talas, the lord of the city seemed to be completely ignorant, not pretending to be ignorant.
"In addition, there seem to be more than 700 slaves in the workshops in the city, pastures and pastures outside the city."
"Slaves?" Zhang Mai is most worried about this matter: "Is it Tang Min?" β
"It doesn't seem to be."
Zhang Mai sighed, and sent Xiaoshi to inform Guo Luo, asking him to free those slaves, "Let Guo Luo select those who are physically strong, and release the others." Stay in the city for now, and then give them freedom when we leave. β
He walked around Laice's mansion and said to Yang Yi: "I walked all the way just now, and I saw that in addition to this Laice's mansion, there are three or four big houses in the city, and one of them is particularly large, I am afraid that there will be no three or four entrances, seven or eight facades. β
If it is in the Central Plains region, a house of this size is the level of a middle-to-low wealthy businessman, but in this Xiaba'er Si area, "I think this person is also the richest man here." You leave a few men to guard the mansion, and the rest go and block the front and back doors of the big houses. β
Yang Yi smiled: "Brother Mai, do you want to squeeze oil and water from here?" Otherwise, I'll take people and rush in and scrape from house to house. β
"No, we are civilized people, salute first and then soldiers, if you can get money with courtesy, you don't need soldiers." Zhang Mai smiled: "You send someone to send them an invitation, and I will invite them to dinner tonight." Invitation, there is a stroke of the pen of Lao Liu Sima. β
Liu An also smiled: "What name should this invitation be written?" β
Zhang Mai couldn't make up his mind at this time whether to use Tang Jun's name publicly, so he thought about it and said, "Let's use the name of the city lord on the lamp." β
Liu An carried pen and ink with him, but he couldn't find paper, you must know that the Chinese papermaking technology has only been transmitted to this area for a hundred years, and it has not yet been popularized on a large scale, and the price of paper is not cheap, and not every household can use it. This Jaw Si Laice is illiterate, so there is no such thing in the house, Liu An sighed: "My skin is left on the secondary mount, and there is paper in it." β
He was about to get it, Zhang Mai stopped him and said: "Forget it, let's still be too Sven, what kind of invitation to write, just call a few soldiers who can speak Hu to invite, even if you know the heavenly script, I am afraid that the rich people who think about it may not recognize it." β
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