Chapter 21: Aftermath
Until entering the Turkic camp, many low-level generals and most soldiers in the Tang Army were still confused. How is this battle fought? Why were the Turks suddenly defeated?
As for this night raid, the later history books are also vague. However, it is narrated in the wild history:
Jieli Khan's troops forced Chang'an, and Jingde was anxious to return to the army, and risked a strong attack on the Turkic camp in the Valley of Winds. It was night, the sky rained thunder, the Turkic horses were frightened, they were in chaos, and Jingde broke the camp.
Look, there is nothing to do with Zhao Yunze here, and the credit belongs to Lei Gong.
At this moment, Zhao Yunze obviously didn't care about how to describe tonight's battle in the history books, and he was proudly reporting to Wei Chigong.
"Report to the general manager, the Liangshan commando team successfully completed the task. Not a single member of the team was killed, and one Turkic general was captured. ”
"Hahaha, Zhao boy, you guys are doing so beautifully! This chief will ask Your Majesty for your credit! Wei Chigong laughed and said, he was in a good mood at the moment.
"By the way, who is this guy?" When he had laughed enough, Wei Chigong remembered to ask the captive's name.
"I haven't had time to interrogate yet." Zhao Yunze replied.
"I don't need you to interrogate, I'm Ashdewumer!" The captive replied angrily.
When Zhao Yunze heard the captive's name reported, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. It can be regarded as catching this one, so that history has not yet forked.
"Yo, you kid is very slippery!" Wei Chigong was stunned for a moment and said, "It turns out that you are the nonsense." ”
"Again, I'm Ashdewumer." Asdewumer was obviously dissatisfied with Wei Chigong's private name change.
Wei Chi Gong was furious, and raised his leg to sip on the small stomach of Ashdewumer. "Dog *day*, Lao Tzu will call you "nonsense", you have a temper to bite me! ”
Asdewumo sobbed and hunched over, his face looking angry and painful, and it looked like constipation. The nickname given to him by Wei Chigong is at this time, and he can't come out, so he can't just fumble around. As for where to explore, you can make up for it yourself.
"I ask you, what about the stubborn man?" Wei Chigong finished his frenzy and continued to interrogate Ashdewumer.
Asdewumer was kicked by a slurp, but now he was honest. He replied, "I have already gone to Chang'an to join the Khan. ”
"Went to Chang'an? This kid slipped away fast. But it doesn't matter, Lao Tzu is about to return to Chang'an, and he will be arrested and accompanied by you at that time. Yu Chigong said nonchalantly, "Lao Tzu also promised a reward of three dog hairs, which can't be wasted." ”
As soon as he heard Wei Chigong talk about the reward of the three dog hairs, Tang Jun who was present laughed heartily.
Zhao Yunze stepped forward and said to Wei Chigong: "Chief Administrator, since Zhi Zhi Sili has gone to Chang'an, then Jieli's army must have arrived, let's return to the army as soon as possible." ”
Wei Chigong nodded and said, "You must go back to the army, but you can't just go back." The Jieli army is claimed to be 200,000, and we only have less than 10,000 horses, and it is not enough to even stuff people's teeth when we go. ”
"What do you mean by ......?" Zhao Yunze asked puzzled.
Wei Chi Gong said: "Let's wait until dawn, anyway, it is impossible for Jieli to attack the city at night, and it will not be an hour or two for us to return to the army." ”
Zhao Yunze immediately understood that Wei Chi Gongding had other arrangements, and he didn't say anything more.
Although there was still some time before dawn, the Tang army did not have time to rest, and cleaning the battlefield and collecting and treating the wounded Turkic soldiers was also a very tedious and time-consuming task.
In this battle, the Tang army's biggest gain was to get tens of thousands of war horses. Although the number of war horses of the Turks is far greater than this number, some of them can not be found, some are bombed indiscriminately by the "Liangshan Commando", and many of them are dead or disabled and cannot be used.
These dead and wounded horses were all buried in the belly of the Tang army in the end.
Because the Liangshan Commando retained its structure intact, Wei Chigong did not disband it and directly assigned it to Zhao Yunze.
Zhao Yunze was suddenly extremely happy, he finally had his own direct subordinate soldiers and horses, and the days when he was the commander of the light pole were troublesome.
The captured Asid Wumo slurped, and Wei Chigong was also handed over to the Liangshan commando team for custody. said that since they arrested the people, then simply take responsibility for it to the end.
Zhao Yunze has always been very curious about Ashide Wumersi, after all, in the record of the "Weishui Alliance" in the history books, Ashide Wumersi is the only three Turkic people whose names have been recorded together with Jieli Khan and Zhiwei Sili.
"Old man, I don't know ...... something"
"My surname is Asted, not 'A'." As soon as Zhao Yunze spoke, he was interrupted by Ashdewumer.
"Oh, I see, old man."
"Please call me Asste or General Asster."
"Yes, old man."
Ashide Wumo surped, and finally gave in to Zhao Yunze, who "couldn't understand people's words". "What do you have to ask me?"
"Hehe, old man, that's right, when you are a prisoner, you must have the consciousness of being a prisoner, and you must answer questions to be a good prisoner."
Zhao Yunze took a bite of several "captives", and sprinkled a few handfuls of salt on the bloody liver of Ashdewumer.
"Old man, why didn't you run away when your camp was in chaos?" Zhao Yunze asked the question in his heart.
The muscles on his face twitched a few times, and he sighed and said, "Run? Where am I going? Not far to the south is Chang'an, Jieli is there, I have lost two battles in a row, Jieli can spare me? ”
"Even if Jieli will hold you responsible, but didn't he go to Chang'an because he dared to hand over his soldiers and horses to you, which means that he trusts you very much, won't he intercede for you?"
Losing his strength and leaving the men and horses of his headquarters to block the Tang army and handing it over to the commander of Ashid Wumer, this question also made Zhao Yunze extremely curious. It is said that the various tribes of the Turkic people have a fear of each other, and the tribal leaders, even if they are brothers, will never trust each other completely. Why did he trust Asdewumer so much?
Do they have a "basic relationship"?
Looking at Asdewumer's sturdy body again, and thinking of the thin noodle-like dry body of the obsessive Sili, Zhao Yunze had already made up the answer to who attacked and who suffered.
"Hmph, stubbornly losing your mind and trusting me? If he had really trusted me, he wouldn't have left his henchmen behind. On the surface, I am the commander of the battalion, but who listens to me except for my thousands of headquarters men. Asdewumo sipped like a wronged little daughter-in-law, spitting bitterness at Zhao Yunze.
Oh, so there's no foundation.
Zhao Yunze patted Ashide Wusmo's shoulder, and comforted him as if it were true or false: "Old Ah, the way you are now, even if you are let go back to the grassland, sooner or later you will be swallowed up by others." Simply, follow us Datang. Our Majesty Lao Li has a broad mind and will definitely reuse you. ”
Ashide Wumo said noncommittally: "When you have repelled Jieli, come and persuade me to surrender." ”
Zhao Yunze smiled slightly, and said firmly: "Don't worry, Jieli will definitely return in vain this time!" ”