Chapter 100: Reception (I)
These Turks were obviously relieved, after all, for them, it was a war before, and they had nothing to say if they died on the battlefield, but now, if they were killed by Huo Gang afterwards, then they would definitely be very uncomfortable.
Although most of the Turks are actually comforting themselves, there is always comfort.
"Hello General Huo." At this time, in the crowd, a strange man walked out of the crowd.
Unlike the Turks, this person is obviously Han Chinese, and his Chinese is also very standard.
"Who are you?" Huo Gang narrowed his eyes.
"I am the envoy of Yiwu Kingdom, my name is Tian Hai, and I ask General Huo a question mark." The man's attitude was very respectful.
However, Huo Gang raised his eyebrows slightly, he knew what it meant for the other party to stand up, the Turks threw themselves into, to be precise, it was the main power of the Western Turks in this area that surrendered, but it did not include their Yiwu country, although they paid tribute to the Western Turks, but they were an independent country.
"Did you surrender to me on behalf of the Igo country?" Huo Gang didn't even think about it, and directly picked out the words.
After taking Ashiye, Huo Gang's next step is Yiwu Kingdom, Yiwu is located between Gaochang Kingdom and Datang Yumen Pass, between Suoyang City, which is the only way to pass through the northern section of the Silk Road, which is also the location of Hami in later generations.
If Huo Gang remembers correctly, there are many open-pit coal mines on the south side of Hami, and these coal mines will play a very important role in the development of Huo Gang's future, and not only coal mines, the iron ore resources of Xinjiang in later generations are extremely rich, and there are also iron mines near Hami.
Taking the Yiwu country means that Huo Gang will master the most important strategic force, and take the location where the Yiwu country is now with the Luo Ministry, that is, near Lop Nur in the later generations, then the two northern and southern routes of the Silk Road to the Western Regions will all be within Huo Gang's control.
And even if the Western Turkic royal court received the news and wanted to advance eastward, it would not be able to avoid Huo Gang's most important strategic point.
"Uh...... General Huo, we should ...... At the invitation of Ashye, my king sent a hundred of us, and we did not participate in the direct battle, and I have no right to make any decisions on behalf of Iwu. Tian Hai hurriedly spoke, his posture was very low, the things that Huo Gang did were no longer a secret in the Western Regions.
To be precise, Ashye had told them about these things, but they didn't take them to heart! Nonsense, if you don't talk about such a powerful country as the Western Turks, let's just say that Ashye can easily draw tens of thousands of cavalry in his hands and deal with more than a thousand people, isn't this still easy to capture?
But who knew that the final result would be like this, seven thousand cavalry against one thousand opponents, not to mention more than half of the casualties, and even Ashye was killed in direct battle, who would have thought of such an ending? If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, they wouldn't have believed the news at all.
The Turks next to Tian Hai looked at him with a look of disdain, these cowards, dare not admit it.
But Tian Hai simply ignored their contempt, nonsense, contempt would not kill him, but if he said the wrong thing, it would cost him his life.
Huo Gang showed a smile on his face, and said lightly: "If that's the case, then you need to go back and pass on this news to your king, but it only takes one person to pass the news." ”
Huo Gang's tone was very calm, but the content of his words made Tian Hai's body freeze there directly.
Only one person is needed to deliver the message, which means that there is no need for the rest to exist.
"Listen, everyone, you should know where the people of Igo are, and bring me all their people." Huo Gang said directly and loudly.
"Yes!" The tribal leaders of the several Turkic people who came out of the surroundings before agreed directly without hesitation, and several of them turned around and gave orders in Turkic with a cruel smile.
Soon, the surrounding Turks directly brought these soldiers sent by the Yiwu country.
The faces of these Igo soldiers were full of horror, and they didn't know why things had suddenly turned out like this.
Seeing this scene in front of him, Huo Gang had to admit that these Turkic people were used to being attached to the strong, and their adaptability to this attachment was indeed very strong. To be precise, almost all nomads are like this, as long as you are strong enough, they will not have the heart to rebel.
But if you have a problem, then don't expect their loyalty too much.
It's not that there are no loyal Turkic people, but there are too few such people, and the steppe is particular about the jungle.
In fact, if you have studied history, you will find that if you talk about other regions of the world, let alone China and these nomadic peoples around China, you will find that when there is a strong country in the Central Plains, the surrounding nomads will inevitably have a strong state or regime.
When the state of the Central Plains collapsed, the state of these nomads almost certainly collapsed.
This was almost the case from the Huns of the Han Dynasty, the Turks of the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Mongols of the Song Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty, and the Mongols and Manchus after the Ming Dynasty.
The reason is very simple, these nomads are also very fierce in infighting, when the Central Plains are strong, they have a common enemy, and under pressure, they will unite together, and when the Central Plains is weak, they do not have a common strong enemy, and it is difficult for them to rule each other.
Because it is difficult for these tribes to decisively control each other, because these tribes are not like the Central Plains, they all have a fixed territory, and if they fail, these tribes can migrate directly.
If you think about the current Turks, it is hard for you to imagine that the biggest enemy of the Western Turks now is not actually the Tang Dynasty, but the Eastern Turks.
Or they both think that each other is their biggest enemy, because they all think that although Datang is powerful, Datang has no way to invade their grassland, but their enemies are not the same.
A total of 100 soldiers of the Iwu Kingdom were all present, and only a few were slightly wounded, and at the moment they were all crushed by the surrounding Turks.
Huo Gang took out a white flag from the bag next to Hongyun's back, this is still the one written by Wu Ping at the beginning, and Huo Gang hasn't used it up yet.
Throwing this thing to Tian Hai at the front, Huo Gang said coldly: "You can take it back to report the news." As for them...... Vultures. ”
"General." The vultures next to him hurriedly spoke.
"Kill!" Huo Gang's face did not fluctuate, and a word came out of his mouth directly.
"Yes!" Wu Tu gritted his teeth, what Huo Gang meant to him was obviously that he wouldn't do it himself, and now that they have all surrendered, it means that they are also Huo Gang's people.
"Kill!" The vultures turned their heads viciously and spoke.
"Poof!" The sound of steel knives entering the flesh sounded instantly.