970 The Beginning of the Collapse (Part II)
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Du He originally came here with Li Chengqian's reward for rewarding the Anxi border army, and was going to give some comfort to the Anxi border army who had been fighting on the front line for a long time, and even had a letter from their long-awaited family members, but he didn't expect that when he arrived at the barracks, he heard a news that shocked him - more than a thousand Persian refugees wanted to escape across the border, but they were blocked, and General Zhao Yanshou went to rescue with less than 300 soldiers and horses, and the battle has been fought so far.
Du He immediately issued an order, and the army quickly went to the local area with him, and he had to bring a certain number of artillery pieces as the strongest deterrent weapon, and then Du He led the army desperately to the Persian blockade on the Polish-Tang border, which was also a relatively coincidental coincidence.
The rumbling sound and huge power of the artillery made the Persians all stunned, the Persian general was stunned and trembled, he knew the power of the artillery too well, he even knew that Persia and Rome were secretly studying artillery, hoping to study the same huge power as the Tang artillery, but they never succeeded, and they couldn't even make a cannon tube, obviously, this technology they can't master at present.
This exacerbated their fear and worry about artillery, they were afraid, they were afraid that the artillery would be too powerful, that they would be killed by the artillery, not to mention the terrible name that they had passed on by their mouth, even though they could not understand Chinese. But they understand, they understand the meaning of those two words, but as soon as those two words are spoken, or one of those two words, it is enough, in the entire Tang Army. There is only one person who deserves those two words.
Du Shuai!
Du He followed behind more than 1,000 soldiers and horses, or hurried over, the army has not yet felt, there are only five artillery, fifteen horses pulled over together, just to ensure speed, I didn't expect to really catch up.
The end of the matter was obvious, Duhe had a cold face, drew his horsewhip and whipped the Persian general severely. Just like when Suning smoked Wei Wuji, he pumped it hard, beating the Persians to pieces, and then a burst of artillery destroyed the Persian military camp and took away more than 600 Persian escapees who were still alive.
Tragically, of the more than 1,600 Persian refugees who fled to the east, only more than 600 survived, and more than 1,000 died. Old people, children. Women and men were killed and wounded innumerably, and more than 170 of the 300 soldiers of the Tang Dynasty were killed in battle, and only 121 people survived. The bodies of Persian refugees and soldiers killed in the Tang Dynasty were brought back by Du He's army and buried on the land of the Tang Dynasty.
The Persian fugitives, who had previously managed to escape back, heard the news and searched for their loved ones, and felt pain and grief for the death of their loved ones and compatriots, at the same time. All the Persians are thanking the Tang army for their protection, saying that they will never betray the Tang Dynasty from now on, and will definitely go to the sword mountain and the sea of fire for the Tang Dynasty.
At this point, everything is a foregone conclusion, what the Tang Dynasty needs, has been obtained, the Persian soldiers killed their compatriots, but it was the black-eyed and black-haired Tang soldiers who protected them, such news spread quietly on the Polish-Tang border, at the same time, the Persian border guards were cleaned up by the Tang Army, and now the pass is unguarded, and the people living on the Polish-Tang border are almost moving in groups, rushing towards the pass.
History, in the next three days, more than 17,000 people crossed the pass into the territory of the Tang Dynasty, looking for their relatives, in the land of the Tang Dynasty, as the Tang people live and work in peace and contentment, three days later, the Persian army re-blocked the pass, re-started the lock of the border pass, but no longer dare to shoot the Persian eastward fugitives who crossed the border.
At the same time, the government of the Persian Empire made solemn representations to the Tang government, hoping that the Tang Dynasty would give an explanation for the incident three days ago, the death of more than 500 Persian soldiers, the wounding of more than 1,000 people, and the fact that the Tang army used artillery to destroy the barracks so that more than 10,000 people left Persia and went to the Tang Dynasty within three days, the Persian government needs an explanation from the Tang Dynasty, otherwise it is not ruled out that force is the solution.
Li Chengqian responded quickly, the specific situation has not yet been investigated, how can he arbitrarily put all the responsibility on Datang? You want to fight, don't you? Do you think Datang is afraid of you? Do you want to fight, you say, do you want to fight, you want to fight, we come, we come! Fuck it!
The Persian side suddenly softened, and timidly said that the lives of more than 500 people, and more than 10,000 people, can't just be silent without a result, right? Li Chengqian still agreed with this, so with a wave of his hand, he sent Shangshu of the vertical and horizontal departments and the Marquis Suning of the Chuan Kingdom as the general representative of the Tang Dynasty to the Botang border in the Western Regions to negotiate this incident.
Suning was really lying down and was also hit by an arrow.
But Li Chengqian's request is very pertinent, your vertical and horizontal department is my Datang's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and has always managed the Tang Dynasty's embassies in many countries and a qiē on foreign affairs, with rich management experience, Du Ruhui and Du Aiqing were Shangshu in the past, so it should be Du Aiqing who manages this matter, but now you are Shangshu, you don't care who cares? In this way, it was happily decided that Suning, as the plenipotentiary representative of Datang negotiations, would carry out this negotiation, as long as the scope was not too extensive, it would be handled by itself and there was no need to report.
Suning really wanted to put up a middle finger at Li Chengqian to express the depression in his heart, returned home, announced that he was going to go on a long trip, and he was afraid that he would not be able to come back in three or four months, and several women began to cry, make trouble and hang themselves, especially Wu Zhao, who had just entered the stage of glue with Suning, and did not let go of Suning while holding Suning, staring at Suning with big watery eyes, I want to go with you one by one, Ling'er Lan'er and Yuehua were very unhappy, and they began to fight for Suning's arms and arms when they went up......
There are too many women, and it's really not a good thing, especially since he doesn't have the system and means for Li Ermajesty to manage women, Li Ruihan plays tricks from time to time, and throws Suning to the four concubines. Regardless of it, Suning could only look up at the sky at a forty-five degree angle, expressing his apologies for his old waist and kidney organs, and at night he worked hard to try to appease their feelings.
But then again, Suning personally planned the strategy of the Tang Dynasty to pass through Central Asia, but until now. Several years have passed, Central Asia has been very well run, but Suning has not been to once, this time, maybe it is also an opportunity to do homework for Datang's next Central Asia strategy, and when the plan is implemented, there is no need to be blind and understand nothing.
From Lao Sun, I got a lot of Liuwei Dihuang pills. After a good nourishment, seven days later, Suning helped his waist to board the carriage specially prepared for him, and embarked on the road to the west with the four major guards and the Su Fu warriors and the accompanying officials and a thousand Xuanjia soldiers, ready to learn from the experience, and then do planning, do creativity, and end this long-time project.
The land of the Western Regions during the Tang Dynasty. It is too different from the current Tarim Basin, not to mention the Hexi Corridor. Let's just say that the oasis that has been connected all the way is enough to reflect the abundance of the Western Regions at that time, otherwise, where would there be the appearance of the thirty-six countries of the Western Regions? People generally choose a place with sufficient water sources and fertile soil to settle and develop, and if a country can be developed, it will prove that the land is fertile and the water source is sufficient, so the current Western Regions. Definitely not comparable to modern desolation.
All the way past, all the way to sigh, the last time I went to the plateau, it was not the Hexi Corridor, but now the road is the ancient battlefield where Meng Tian broke the Huns by 500,000, and it is also the ancient battlefield where Wei Qinghuo went to the disease and broke the Huns. Here, there used to be the sound of the Han family's iron horse, and now, there is still the figure of the Han family's iron horse, but things are not people, and they have changed the world.
But the vitality seen along the way, the merchant caravans seen coming and going, and the lively scene of the city settlement, everyone is fighting hard to build their homes, this vigorous and upward era, is it really the legendary evil feudalism? If this is also called sinful feudalism, then Suning would rather be a sinful feudalism builder, although this is not feudalism, this is centralized power.
Suning didn't go alone, he also brought a lot of entourage officials, the army, and a large number of items to reward the army, Datang has made great progress in the livestock breeding industry over the years, so that ordinary people eat meat is no longer a luxury dream, there are many people who can afford to eat meat once a day, how bad it is, a meal of meat is also okay, as long as you are willing to work, you will definitely find a place to work, and earn some money to eat meat when the farm is slack.
Among the livestock raised, the most is pigs, followed by chickens, ducks and geese, and then cattle, sheep and horses, it is said that when the Tang Dynasty was founded, it once wanted to build a cow government like the construction of a horse government, but the difference between cattle and horses is still very large, so the cattle government has never been successful, in desperation, during the Wude years, the imperial court ordered a ban on slaughtering cattle without permission, and must report to the government, and only after obtaining permission can cattle be slaughtered, but with more and more edible livestock species, this ban has become useless.
No one will slaughter a cow because there is no meat to eat, because there is a lot of meat that can be eaten, especially in Chang'an City, who still lacks a bite of meat to eat? I don't know how many people are raising pigs, a raise is hundreds of thousands, the reproductive ability of pigs is still strong, a litter of seven or eight piglets is still few, more than a dozen is not rare, so the reproductive ability is so strong, dozens of pigs operate well, every few years is hundreds of thousands of large pig farms.
After the popularization of stir-frying, with the popularization of pork processing technology, the delicacy of pork is known to more and more people, and eating pork has become a very wonderful thing.
Mutton, chicken, duck, goose, this kind of meat are counted as the second choice, the highest and easiest choice is definitely pork, the price is cheap, it tastes particularly delicious, and the oil and water are sufficient, the refining lard industry produced by the fat meat on the pig is also quietly rising, the leader is still the Wei Xianju of the Su family, the food fried with lard is particularly sweet to eat, and it is very anti-hunger, the market for lard is particularly broad, and it is also very popular to sell.
Therefore, Suning chose to bring gifts to the soldiers of the Western Regions, is these pigs, it is said that although the military camps in the Anxi Prefecture have pork to provide, but the number is not much, no one in the Western Regions has not yet raised pigs, Suning plans to bring these pigs to the barracks, hand them over to the Huotou Army, give them the technology of raising pigs, let them raise pigs, raise them for a few years, and the soldiers and people in the Western Regions can eat pork, of course, sheep also brought a lot, sheep is also a good choice, such as mutton skewers or something.
Of course, Suning still has a very important place to go, that is, the city where the Persian escapees from the east lived, the city they called the holy city, where there are now more than 40,000 Persians, and some other places of various nationalities doing business, there are also Han people, there are also Turks, and the Tubo people, I don't know how they all lived there, for these Persian people who fled east, Suning intends to stay a lot of use.
The Persian government died on its own, the Sassanid Dynasty is almost over, the crossing of more than 1,000 people is just the beginning, and the immigration time of more than 10,000 people is just a opening song. (My novel "Zhenguan Raiders" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lottery gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner "Add Friends", search for the official account "ddxiaoshuo" and follow, hurry up! (To be continued......)