Chapter 213: Assemble
After the Uighur defenders were retiring, the Lanzhou sergeants, led by the Bashan battalion, which had entered the city in advance, plundered the mansions of the Uighur dignitaries in Ganzhou, from the khan, to the prime minister, to the governor, to the general, and the dagan. After the Uighurs occupied Hexi, because the number was much smaller than the original settled Han Chinese, the only way to govern the large number of Han people in Hexi was to maintain the political characteristics of ruling the Han people with their own people, which was also the norm for nomads to enter the agricultural areas, and although the Uighur nobles and Han dwellings were not as distinct as the Khitan and Han people in Shangjing in Liao, they were also very easy to distinguish, and in less than a morning, they collected four or five thousand Uighur officials and dependents in the city, and in the afternoon carefully screened whether their husbands and sons were in the army of Jingqiong Khan, rat bogey, not easy to mess up.
In the camp of Nanmen Wengcheng, the Uighur women, children, old and young, were huddled together, all of them were as white as earth, trembling at the strong crossbows and fire oil arranged by the Lanzhou sergeant on their heads, and I have to say that the Lanzhou army was ruthless in this move. If anyone in the city really caused trouble, they poured fire oil down from the walls of the city and burned the five or six thousand Uighurs who were surrounded by these four walls. I have to say that the Lanzhou army is really as Wu Yingying said, and they don't care about this city at all.
Looking at the old high-spirited Uighur robes, Ze Ze drooped his head and stripped of his armor and weapons, like an eagle that has been plucked. "Lord Wu will keep his promise, right?" Mo Yan thought uneasily in his heart, he conveyed Wu Yingying's conditions to the general, and urged the general to lead the army to disarm and surrender, but the Lanzhou army still unceremoniously imprisoned him in the urn city. But at this moment, Mo Yansi was secretly grateful in his heart, if the Lanzhou army took him away alone, I am afraid that he would not be able to raise his head among the clansmen in his life. "Did I save these brothers, or did I hurt them?" Mo Yan looked at the large barrel of fire oil that the Lanzhou army had obviously piled up on the wall of the urn city in distress.
Elydai's expression was calm, and the dress with a white ground and green rattan pattern was elegant and neat. She is the daughter of Jingqiong Khan, after the army of Jingqiong Khan went out, the night fell into the city guard, Ali Dai went to the city under the cover of the guards to hide in the home of a confidant Uighur nobleman in the city, who knew that within a few days, the city of Ganzhou changed its owner again, this time the Falcon nobles and her family were escorted to the urn city by the Lanzhou army.
"Your Royal Highness Princess," the envoy woman, Agul, who had been Aridai's nurse, brought a bowl of water to her, and whispered with some concern, "You better hide it, those damn Han people are watching you!" Unlike other Uighur aristocratic women, Ali Dai deliberately dressed in tatters and smeared her face with dirty dust, she was as dazzling as a white lotus flower in a prisoner of war camp called Hanakoqun, and naturally attracted the attention of the Lanzhou sergeants who supervised the surrounding area of the city.
Eledie nodded and said in a low voice, "Mother Aguli, if they want to do something, no matter how we try to escape, there is no way to stop it. She paused, "These Han people are menacing, but they are very proud, in their eyes, we are just ordinary trophies, and they will only make the final distribution after the battle with my father." Her eyes became a little melancholy, "Such a proud army, like an army of eagles in the sky that disdain to peck at the dead, how can my father resist it by relying only on the patchwork army of the Uighurs with their own hearts?" Thinking of this, Alyselle couldn't help but hold her hand on the cloud-like bun, there was a sharp silver hairpin in the bun, and she didn't plan for the worst.
Outside the city of Weng, the Uighur officials and their families who were about to be escorted to the front of the two armies had been loaded into prisoner carts, which were full of jams on the street that ran from north to south. It was the beginning of summer, in order to prevent the spread of the epidemic, the corpses of the Uighurs who had followed the night to the death were piled up on the shelves and burned with firewood and grass, black smoke and stench were permeated, and the tears of the captives in front of them were smoked, accompanied by the strong strange smell of meat and burnt paste, a faint and deep fear surged into the hearts of the residents of Ganzhou. The Uighur nobles in the prisoner cart had no doubt that if necessary, these busy Han troops would directly burn down the city, as if they didn't care about anything, even if it destroyed the whole world, Buddha, how could a group of killing embryos be born between heaven and earth!
"My lord, if the enemy comes to attack, do we need to burn down the city?" asked Chase, who was ordered to lead 500 soldiers to stay in Ganzhou, who was very dissatisfied with the fact that he could not catch up with the decisive battle with the Uighur army, but he could only hold back his emotions and complete the important task assigned to him by Wu Yingying.
"No, sooner or later, this city will be ours, and it will be useless to destroy it, but it will provoke the rebellion of the residents of Hexi. Wu Yingying replied softly, looking expressionlessly at the Uighur nobles in several prisoner carts who had fainted because they had stood for too long, and the Lanzhou sergeant poured cold water into the prisoner cart beside him.
"What about the captives in the urn city?" Chase asked again, he was extremely opposed to threatening the lives of more than 5,000 captives in the urn city with fire oil, it was too cruel and hurtful to the heavens and the peace, even Zhuge Kongming, didn't he lose his life because he burned the rattan armor soldiers? Chase subconsciously avoided thinking, is there a difference between burning to death and other ways of death? There are only two hundred Lanzhou soldiers around the urn city, even if they are shot, they will shoot for a while.
"If the Uighur tribes outside Ganzhou gather to attack the city and you have to abandon the city, then let them go, and if they themselves try to take the city, you must make a decision. Wu Yingying looked at Chase, who still had a hint of scholarly spirit, and advised, "If you judge that the enemy army is strong, and it is difficult for our army to hold the city, you must not fall in love with the battle, we can take back Ganzhou City at any time, and the lives of the sergeants are more precious than anything else." If you were to defend the city, I wouldn't have left you here. What he meant was that if he occupied Hexi, he would have to digest a large piece of land with nearly one million households, and the number of Lanzhou sergeants was too small, and everyone was a precious seed. Chase has been following Wu's side for many years, and can best understand his intentions, and immediately nodded yes.
The two were discussing, and the Lanzhou army, which had rested all night, had been assembled. Hexi is the place where Hu and Han attacked and killed for a hundred years, the people in the city of Ganzhou, accustomed to seeing the city head change the king's flag, and did not have the impulse to meet the king's division, in the face of the chaos of the streets, most people chose to close the door, the timid hid in the cellar, and the bold were lying behind the window crack to look at the situation.
The Lanzhou army also completely ignored the existence of the common people and did not bother to talk to them. The unanimous consensus of the whole army was to concentrate on annihilating the Uighur field army and then return to clean up the state capital. In addition to sealing the gold and silver stored by the Ganzhou government and replenishing a large number of grain, baggage and horses, the whole army of Lanzhou had nothing else to ask for in the city of Ganzhou. There is no slogan of freezing to death and not demolishing houses, in Lanzhou, the sergeants were fully supported and cared for by the military system, and the distribution of the spoils and households after the war was extremely fair, so they naturally disdained to do those things that were crowing and dogs and thieves. The war is imminent, and it is more important to bring more food and water than gold and silver, to rest in time, and to save your life more than anything else.
The White Feather Battalion was the vanguard and slowly marched through the west gate to Suzhou, and the military reported that there were only 1,000 Uighur soldiers in the city of Suzhou, and there was basically no resistance in front of the Lanzhou army with complete equipment. Tanma had not yet found any trace of the Uighur army returning to the division in the west of Suzhou, and if Jingqiong Khan retreated to Suzhou, it would be a bit troublesome, and it would have become a siege war, and the Lanzhou army could take advantage of the lengthy war gap to complete the digestion and takeover of the Zhang army in Hexi.
Behind the White Feather Camp were more than 400 prisoner carts escorting the prisoners, behind the convoy was the head of the infantry camp, the cavalry was guarding on both sides, and Wu Yingying led the Ya Army to march last. The army wandered to the west, gradually leaving the city of Ganzhou far behind, the trade route they took was the road that the caravans of the east and west were accustomed to taking since the Western Han Dynasty, at this time there was no devastating destruction of the Silk Road by Genghis Khan's army to the west, along the way, there are villages where there is a water source, green willows and weeping poplars are shady, but many villages inhabited by the Han people were burned and killed by the Uighur rebels not long ago, a ruin and broken wall, Jin blamed so hated that he scolded: "I should have known that Ganzhou should have been captured and chopped up for meat!"