Chapter Forty-Seven: The Man Who Loves War
Pei Xingjian of Anxi took advantage of the fact that he had won a battle in vain, and took advantage of the fact that the corpses of the Tubo people at the foot of Kunlun Mountain could be intimidated, so he took those Hui kings and Turkic kings to visit the scene.
Coupled with the black pressure behind him, the Anxi Army pressed the formation, and it was easy to scald the hearts of these people with boiling water, and the hairs on the hearts of these people were clean.
After stabilizing the four towns of Anxi, as a Tang general with ideas, he naturally couldn't help but set his eyes on the neighbor's dining table.
Although the food on the neighbor's table was not good, Pei Xingjian still wanted to go to the table to taste it.
Pei Xingjian is not the only one who has this kind of thought, Xue Rengui, as an offensive general in the Tang Dynasty, after dealing with the internal affairs of the Beiting region, he also doesn't want the soldiers of the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate to stay in Beiting and consume grain and grass in vain.
In fact, the generals of the Tang Dynasty who defended the Western Regions belonged to the generals who regarded attack as defense.
This habit did not start with them, but after the Tang army entered the Western Regions during the Zhenguan period.
Why do the Turks here always rebel at the first opportunity? In many cases, it has a lot to do with the fact that the generals of the Tang Dynasty guarding the Western Regions are too aggressive.
Under the glorious divine power of the "Heavenly Khan", the Turks did not know what would happen if they offended the Heavenly Khan.
The reason why they rebelled was entirely because the generals of the Tang Dynasty demanded military merits excessively, and in Chang'an, there were more idle generals who were about to grow hair, and the old commanders needed a place to show their strength.
Back then, Jieli Khan oppressed the Tang Dynasty so much that he couldn't even breathe, and even Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, was twice under the threat of the Turks.
When the Tang Dynasty was weak, the Tang generals who died under the sword of the Turks, there were countless soldiers, and countless Tang people were plundered.
This led to the fact that after the Tang Dynasty destroyed the Turks, the extortion of the Turkic remnants was the most serious.
Yun Chu himself grew up in the Western Regions, how could he not know how miserable the life of the Turks was.
This is why those Turkic royal families, when they were in Chang'an, were loyal to the Tang Dynasty, and when they came to the Western Regions or outside the mouth, they immediately rebelled.
The main thing is that if you don't rebel, you can't do it, under the cruel exploitation of the Tang Army, if you don't rebel, you can only watch the clansmen die.
Even so, the ministers of the court still complained that the generals of the Western Regions or the Tang Dynasty outside the mouth were too merciful to the Turks......
Now, Pei Xingjian is the protector of Anxi, Xue Rengui is the protector of Beiting, and with these two famous generals of the Tang Dynasty, even if the Turkic tribes are very miserable, they dare not have the heart of rebellion.
The difference between rebelling now, or not rebelling, is whether to die now or later.
They choose to die later......
The Western Regions are huge, but there are many oases, and the herders need grassland for grazing and plenty of water for farming.
So, over the years, the Turks have run farther and farther, and the farthest Turkic tribes have crossed the river.
Yun Chu estimated that if the Tang Dynasty continued to torture the Turks in this way, they would most likely continue to move westward to avoid the cannibalistic beast of the Tang Dynasty.
If the Turks run out, then the only people who can pose a threat to Chang'an are the Tibetans.
When Li Zhi figured out what the air plague was, and then cultivated an army that could fight on the plateau, the catastrophe in Tibet was just around the corner.
Li Zhi would not allow the Tubo people to run down from the plateau condescendingly at every turn, and after harming the people of the Tang Dynasty, they would run back to the plateau, leaving the Tang army helpless.
Yun Chu even suspected that this time the Qinling Tomb crossed the Kunlun Mountain Conservance and came to the Western Regions, which may not be the result of Li Zhi's operation in Tubo.
For the time being, if the Tang people can't go up to the plateau, then lead the Tubo people down from the plateau, and in the Western Regions, it is also an option to meet the most elite army and the best generals of the Tang Dynasty.
In short, he will not let the Tubo people stay on the plateau calmly to accumulate strength, gradually sit on the throne, and finally threaten the Tang Dynasty.
The current Datang is very different from the Datang in his cognition.
Although the Tang Dynasty in the history books is also extremely brilliant at this moment, it is not as calm as the current Datang.
Since the destruction of Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla in World War I, Li Zhi's ambitions have been boundless.
This can be seen from the point of changing Luoyang to the divine capital.
The capital of God, the capital of God, the capital of the kingdom of God.
A city that has been built at a great expense for eight years in a row, and now, it can indeed be called the word god.
Yun Chu retracted his thoughts when he thought of this, and he was still fighting in front of him.
The city in front of you is not big, it can even be said to be very small, this rammed earth city is not more than two zhang high, and the surrounding is only five miles, the name is called, Jieshi City.
But this small city has been blocking Yunchu's army for two hours.
Before attacking this city, Yun Chu's army had already taken six cities without bloodshed.
It's a pity that after every city was taken, Yun Chu found out that these cities were terrible poor.
Only the city lord's mansion still has some food, and the rest of the people, like the people of the Buddha country, have also been affected by the white plague, and they are also hungry at present.
Fortunately, Yun Chu had no intention of taking over these cities at all, so he predatorily took all the food in these six cities and distributed them to the army and the hungry local people.
This resulted in the breaching of a city, and his army would be fed for a day at most, and then he would have to keep running for the next meal.
The resistance of Jieshi City is very fierce, which is very interesting, in the Western Regions, under normal circumstances, if there is not enough in the city for people to risk their lives to defend, they will surrender.
Now, the resistance of Jieshi City is so fierce, it means that there must be something in the city that is worthy of these people's desperate protection.
Yun Chu looked at those people who were climbing towards the city like ants, and his heart was slightly uncomfortable.
Coercing the homeless and then letting them take the lead in attacking the city doesn't seem to be what a regular general should do.
Gently but decisively, he ordered the people of the Western Regions of the six cities to launch an attack on Jieshi City.
The only thing that is a little more civilized than the brutal generals recorded in the history books is that all the people in charge of the siege were men, no women or children.
Looking at a homeless man who had just climbed to the top of the city and was stabbed down with a spear, Yun Chu couldn't help but look at the gentle general who was concentrating on checking the battle situation.
With a gentle expression of concentration, he had no mercy for the displaced people who died under the city, and felt that Yun Chu was looking at him, so he said coldly: "There are still feathered arrows and stones falling from the city, and the enemy army is not tired. ”
Yun Chu shook his head and said: "There is no need, too much protection of the Tang army will make them forget how to fight, and in the end, these people will also become beasts."
Order Liang Ying to lead people to attack, let's take this city as soon as possible, and it's good to have a full meal. ”
Gently puzzled: "Isn't it wrong for me to command the army to fight like this?" ”
Yun Chu rode his horse and walked towards the edge of the city, and said to Wen Wen: "The glory of the soldiers must be kept, we are not a rabble. ”
Said gently: "That's not what the war book says. ”
Yun Chu laughed and said, "Do you remember how Master Monkey dealt with those twelve horse thieves?
Why did he kill those people?
Just because those people can no longer be called human beings, there is no way to eliminate the beastly nature in their hearts, so they have to kill them, otherwise, the Buddha Kingdom will never become a Buddha Kingdom, and will become a Demon Kingdom. ”
Liang Ying saw that he waved the black flag gently, so he stuck the horizontal knife on the strap on his back, and when the archers behind him began to rain arrows on the city, he shook the climbing hook to hook the city head, and pulled the rope to climb towards the city head like an ape.
At the same time, Xiao Yuhua and the old thieves of Datang also threw out the hooks and locks in their hands and began to climb.
The two-zhang high city wall, for people like Liang Ying, only need to hold the rope and climb three or five times to hook to the top of the city wall, which is just a matter of moments.
Just when Liang Ying and Xiao Yuhua climbed to the top of the city almost bloodless and began to expand the results of the battle, the gate of Jieshi City suddenly opened, and one hundred and ten cavalrymen dressed in bright silver iron armor and shining spired helmets rushed out of Jieshi City, trampling on the corpses of the homeless, and rushed out of the oblique spurs, trying to escape from Jieshi City.
Seeing that these people were invincible in the crowd of homeless people, the gentle retinue blew the horn, and when the homeless people heard the sound of the horn, they immediately dispersed, bypassed those cavalry, and drilled into the Jieshi City.
It was the only order they wanted to hear, and as soon as the trumpet sounded, they could retreat.
The outcasts dodged away, but the cavalry did not take the opportunity to escape, but regrouped the originally scattered team, and the first knight with a red helmet on his head looked vigilantly at the group of black-armored cavalry standing on the wasteland.
Yun Chu smiled and waved his hand, and the two hundred black-armored cavalry urged the war horses to rush towards the one hundred and ten iron-armored cavalry with bumpy steps.
The horses of the black-armored cavalry became faster and faster, and when the two armies were only a hundred paces apart, the black-armored cavalry put down their armor, and the horse lance and spear in their hands were sandwiched under the ribs, and they crashed into those iron-armored cavalry in a sharp arrow formation.
At the same time, twenty more rangers rushed out of the group of black-armored cavalry, holding strong bows in their hands, spreading out on the left and right, avoiding the charging black-armored cavalry, loosening the reins, controlling the horses with their legs, and drawing their bows with both hands to shoot at the group of iron-armored knights, intending to open a gap for the black-armored knights who launched the charge.
Gently looking at the cavalrymen who had fallen off their horses by the strong bow through the iron armor, he said to Yun Chu: "Why don't you use thunder fire bullets? Yun Chu shook his head and said, "Let's take a look first." ”
As he spoke, the two cavalry collided together, because there was no cavalry lance, and the cavalrymen in strange iron armor suffered very much, and the black cavalry lance pierced their armor and could not enter for a moment, and the long horse lance was pushed into a curved bow, and when the strength of the two horses continued to increase, the horse lance stabbed into the enemy's body and pierced through the back.
As for those spears, after being put on the body of the ironclad knight, because they had no toughness, with the blessing of the strength of the two war horses, the black-armored cavalry could not hold the spears, so they took off their hands one after another, and faced the scimitar of the ironclad cavalry with horizontal swords.
After the battle between the scimitar and the horizontal knife, it was not cut off by the horizontal knife, and the appearance of this scene made Yun Chu's eyes gradually narrow, he was now very sure that this cavalry was not the cavalry of the Western Regions, and the quality of their weapons was not so good.