Chapter Seventy-Three: The Turkic Cooperation
"General, all the Turks have already gathered outside the camp!" Yang Yuanyan, who looked haggard but couldn't hide his joy, quickly galloped in front of Liu Yi and reported loudly.
Under the escort of all the guards, Liu Yi, who was standing on a high ground and checking the surrounding situation with a telescope, glanced at the subordinate general in front of him who was almost unrecognizable by the smoke smoke, and there was a hint of joy on his face, and after putting down the binoculars, he ordered Yang Yuanyan loudly, "Yang Yuanjun, order your subordinates to closely guard the Turks, and concentrate all the Turkic leaders, nobles and relatives of Ashina Funian on guard, and interrogate them strictly, and we must find out who we have captured this time!"
"Yes, General!" Yang Yuanyan responded loudly, and after saluting Liu Yi again, he led the guards around him to ride their horses away.
Liu Yi raised the binoculars again to check the situation in the Turkic tooth tent, and saw that his subordinates were still running back in the messy tooth tent of the Turks, searching for the hidden Turks and some scattered belongings, cleaning the battlefield, and counting the results of the battle, and he also breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
This long-distance battle, which lasted nearly ten days, has basically ended, all the Turks have surrendered, and under the call of Ashinavasi, all the Turks have been gathered, leaving the original area that has been burned and has been attacked back and forth by our men and horses, and has gathered in a place a little farther away.
These captives will be escorted back to Chang'an, waiting for the imperial court to deal with them, but who are among the captives, Liu Yi will not only listen to the report of Ashinavasi, who has already surrendered, but also interrogate others to get further confirmation.
According to the prior report, Ashina Funian's wives and concubines, most of the children are in the tent, if there is no accident, these people are also captured by our side, Liu Yi is ready to keep them alone after confirmation, if you encounter Ashina Funian, you can use this to intimidate Ashina Funian, let him throw a mouse bogey, and even let him surrender.
The main time of this war is spent on the way to attack, the battle to attack the Turks' tent began in the early morning and ended in the afternoon, that is to say, six or seven days of running, is to prepare for this final blow, fortunately, this final blow is almost perfect, the price paid by our army is very small, and the Turks are not many killed, most of them are captured, this is the best one of the several results expected by Liu Yi, forcing the Turks to surrender, this is the strategic requirement formulated by Pei Xingjian before the war, at least he Liu Yi did it, Ashina Fu Nian, whose family was captured, was not so comfortable jumping.
In this raid, in addition to the tens of thousands of people captured by our army, there are also a huge number of cattle, sheep, horses and other livestock, of course, as well as forage and other food, the specific number is still being counted, and there are also a lot of treasures in the tooth tent for Ashina Fu Nian to play.
The first two small battles along the way, coupled with the success of the final attack on the Turkic tent, Liu Yi's status in the hearts of the soldiers became higher and higher, no one dared to disobey the orders he gave him, and there was no looting of property in the army, which made Liu Yi feel satisfied.
For Liu Yi, the Turkic tooth tent was captured, and his mission in this campaign was basically over, this successful battle was enough for him to be promoted and rewarded, if there was anyone who made greater achievements than him, it could only be the one who captured Ashina Fu Nian or Ashdwin Fu.
Next, Liu Yi's task is to escort these leaders and Ashina Funian's relatives who were captured by the Turkic Yatent back to the place controlled by our army and hand them over to Pei Xingjian to deal with, which is not an easy thing to complete, the Turks have 30,000 or 40,000 people, and our army only has about 6,000 people.
The various forces in this place are intricate, there are many tribes scattered in the north, east and west of Yinshan, and it is impossible to march quickly with the captives, no one knows whether there will be men and horses from other tribes nearby, and no one knows whether these people and horses will attack our army, this is a problem that Liu Yi must take into account, and it is more troublesome to deal with these problems than to attack the enemy, Liu Yi now has a very strong hope that a large number of friendly troops can appear at this time to support him to bring these prisoners back.
Liu Yi also sent out many scouts to reconnoiter the situation within a radius of nearly 100 miles, and if there was any abnormality, he had to report it immediately.
After a continuous rush of marching, coupled with the final rush and killing, the army was very tired, and it was necessary to get rest, let the soldiers recover their strength, and at the same time replenish the lost war horses, and interrogate the prisoners, clean up, and complete the whole team before returning to the south of Yinshan, Liu Yi also issued a series of orders in the following time, and the generals under him were also busy according to Liu Yi's orders-
"I've seen General Liu of the Tang Dynasty!" Ashina Fusi, who was brought into Liu Yi's tent, respectfully saluted Liu Yi, who was sitting on the main seat.
Liu Yi stood up from his position and paced two steps before asking, "Ashina Fusi head, I will hear that all the family members of Ashina Funian Ye Hu are at this time, is it true?" ”
Ashina Fusi replied in fluent Chinese: "The general, including the family members of Ashina Fu Nian Ye Hu, as well as the families of other leaders of the clan, have all been captured by the general in the tent, and I ask the general to treat them leniently and not embarrass them..."
"Ashina Fusi head, I will hear that you have always opposed Ashina Fu Nianye to rebel against my Tang Dynasty, but is there such a thing?" Liu Yi asked again, there was no obstacle in language, and it was really easy to communicate.
"Yes, general, the little one has been persuading Ye Hu to obey the orders of the Tang Emperor, and he can't follow Ashdwin Fu Yehu to rebel against the Tang Dynasty, but Ye Hu is bent on going his own way..."
"No need!" Liu Yi said lightly, "Presumably, the tens of thousands of people led by Ashina Fu Nian have been annihilated by my other armies, and he may also become a prisoner of my Tang army..."
Hearing Liu Yi say this, with such a confident look, and a faintly revealing murderous aura, Ashina was terrified, and suddenly knelt down, trembling and pleading: "General... Please also let go of the small ones... Spare these clansmen, most of them are old people, women and children, if the general wants to punish, they all blame the villain, when the general attacked the camp, the villain originally wanted to open the camp and surrender, but he was afraid that these clansmen in the clan who needed protection would be harmed, so..."
Liu Yi didn't reply, paced in front of Ashina Fusi, stood for a while, and then shouted: "Ashina Fusi head, get up and speak..."
"Yes, General!" Ashina Fu Si Ling stood up and glanced at the other generals in Liu Yi's tent a few times, still very frightened in his heart.
"Ashina Fusi head man has thought of wearing a crime and making meritorious service!" Liu Yi said in a very light tone.
Ashina Fusi was stunned, he didn't understand what Liu Yi meant, he just rejected his request to persuade Ashina Funian, and now he said that he would be given the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, so that he didn't know what Liu Yi was referring to, and asked suspiciously: "I don't know what the general means, the general has any orders, and the villain doesn't dare to disobey..."
"Well, I hope to get the cooperation of the head of Ashina Fusi, manage these captured Turkic people, and follow my army south to the Shan Yu Duhufu, I wonder if the head is willing?" Liu Yi said expressionlessly.
"The villain is willing!" Ashina Fusi finally understood what Liu Yi meant, and most of his hanging heart was released.
Liu Yi's expression remained the same, he looked at Ashina Fusi and said: "Ben will not want to see any changes in these captured Turks, if Ashina Fusi can make these Turks strictly abide by the orders of Ben General and follow our army south, then Ben can promise that he will not take any drastic measures against the Turks, but..."
"General, the villain dares to guarantee that all the people of his clan will obey the general's orders, go south together, and accept the punishment they deserve!" Ashinavasi had a happy look on his face, and hurriedly assured that although Liu Yi said it in a very cold tone, it still made Ashinavus breathe a sigh of relief, what he was most afraid of was the massacre of the Tang army's revenge, Xue Rengui, Zheng Rentai and other figures who made the Turkic tribes tremble back then, had a large-scale pit killing of prisoners, and Ashinavasi was also afraid of Liu Yi, who led a small army, in order to facilitate the control of the situation, he also adopted such a strategy.
"Since the head of Ashina Fusi is willing to assist the general in managing affairs, then the general will order you to cooperate with General Yang Yuanyan to manage all the captured Turkic people, if there is a Turkic captive resistance, escape, or other behavior that does not respect the general's orders, Hugh blames the general for not being merciful!" Liu Yi said in a very cold voice.
Ashina Fusi sweated profusely and promised: "General, definitely!"
"Then you can go with General Yang!" Liu Yi glanced at Yang Yuanyan, who was waiting in the tent, "General Yang, that is, the head of Ashina Fusi will work with you to manage these prisoners, if there is any abnormal move, there will be no mercy!"
"Yes, General!" Yang Yuanyan replied.
"Thank you General for your leniency!" Ashina Fusi wiped his sweat, bowed deeply, and followed Yang Yuanyan out of the tent.
Liu Yi watched Ashina Fusi go out of the tent with Yang Yuanyan, and then he showed a smile and breathed a sigh of relief, with the Turkic leader, especially Ashina Fusi, who is not bad in appeal among the Turks, to assist in managing the captives, then things will be much easier. Using the means of sitting together to intimidate the Turks, coupled with the cooperation of Ashina Fusi, the Turks should be honest, of course, the two thousand men and horses led by Yang Yuanyan are still closely monitoring these Turkic captives!
These captives were safely escorted to Pei Xingjian, and Liu Yi's task in this battle was successfully completed...
(To be continued)