Chapter 586: The Battle of Broken Leaves (Part II)
At this time, most of the Qarluqs were asleep, and he sat in his big tent, cutting a piece of wood with a dagger, and he vented all his anger on the wood, and the humiliation that the Khan gave him was unbearable, and he certainly knew that the Khan was extremely dissatisfied with him in his heart, because he proposed to attack the North Court.
However, he just made a suggestion and really made a decision, and it was the Khan himself, how could he blame himself completely.
"Ahh
There was a faint scream in the distance, and he was stunned, he stood up and strode out of the tent, and he saw that in the bright moonlight, countless black shadows appeared in the distance.
"Oops!"
The assassin Mo Zuo turned around and ran back to the big tent, quickly put on the iron armor, and lifted the spear, at this time, the sound of horses' hooves on the periphery suddenly sounded, and the Tang army was killed.
Assassin Mo Zuo rushed out of the tent again, turned over on his horse, and his own soldiers also ran out of the tent, and Assassin Mo Zuo shouted: "Follow me to save the Khan!" ”
The assassin Mo Zuo ran all the way with dozens of soldiers and shouted: "The enemy is coming, wake up!" ”
Most of the Qarluq soldiers were too drunk to wake up, and the few who woke up stood there smirking at him.
At this time, the sound of horses' hooves accompanied by screams sounded everywhere in the camp, and the Tang cavalry pierced the enemy's chest with a spear, regardless of life or death, and continued to kill, and the black and oppressive Tang cavalry overwhelmingly slaughtered into the camp.
Knowing that the general situation was gone, he turned around and fled, and at this time he couldn't care about the Khan, and led more than a dozen of his men to try to rush out before the Tang army encircled and closed.
Guo Song appeared in front of him, and Fang Tian drew a halberd and blocked the way.
Mo Zuo roared, galloped his horse, and stabbed at Guo Song, Guo Song pulled the horse away, the two horses were staggered, Fang Tian's halberd slashed backwards with his backhand, a cold light flashed, Fang Tian's halberd was like having eyes, and it slashed at the back of the opponent's neck, 'Click! With a bang, the head of the assassin Mozuo flew up, blood spurted out of the neck cavity, the war horse galloped a few steps, and the headless corpse pounced! 'Fall off the horse.
Guo Song waved Fang Tian's halberd and shouted: "Kill them all, don't accept surrender!" ”
Guo Song once again issued an order to kill, and to deal with these extremely aggressive nomads, physical extermination was the best means.
The cavalry of the Tang army galloped and killed in the camp, and many Qarluq soldiers woke up and tried to resist, but they were unable to do anything, and most of them were cut off by the Tang army.
Amit's big tent was set on fire by the Tang army, and his own soldiers rushed to the rescue, but he was surrounded by hundreds of Tang troops and all of them died, and Amit was never able to wake up from his drunkenness and die in the fire.
As the day dawned, the war ended, and after a night of killing, more than 20,000 Qarluq soldiers were all killed by the Tang soldiers, and the Tang soldiers found different amounts of gold and silver coins from the soldiers, and could not find other trophies, so they piled up the corpses, burned them with fire oil, and buried them deeply.
Guo Song immediately ordered that more than 500,000 gold and silver coins captured be distributed to the soldiers, at this time, Li Bing brought a prisoner of war, this person was the only prisoner of war left, he was a Han scholar, specially for Amit Khan to act as an interpreter, he desperately knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, shouting that he was a Han slave forced by the Qarluqs, and finally Li Bing spared his life.
"What's your name?" Guo Song asked.
"The villain's name is Li Zhong, a Han man with broken leaves, and he is the cousin of the great poet Li Bai."
Guo Song smiled dumbly, he had to get involved with Li Bai, it was estimated that this person had something to do with the authentic Taibai Restaurant in the city.
"Let me ask you, now that we have annihilated more than 20,000 troops, what is the current state of Qarluq?"
This is Guo Song's main concern, he does not know the current situation of Ge Lulu, and he cannot decide on his next move.
The man hurriedly said: "Now the assassination department is basically over, there are still some remnants of the stepping strength department, and the soldiers who fled back yesterday are basically stepping on the strength department." ”
"Where is the strength part?" Guo Song asked again.
"Mainly in the north, they are the main force in the fight against the Hui."
"And what about the Po Gang Division?"
"They fled to Bahan."
Guo Song nodded, and then ordered the army to return to Shattered Leaf City.......
Guo Song then sent people to the Taqiang Department and the Po Lu Department to deliver the message, and he decided to use the same means as the Shatuo Department to attack some of them and win over some of them to prevent the Hui people from invading the Broken Leaves area again.
Half a month later, the chiefs of the Po Gong Department and the Ta Strength Department gathered in Broken Leaf City, and Guo Song reached a four-point agreement with them.
1. The Tang army used the method of redemption to allow the two tribes to exchange the women, children and elderly people of the assassination department in sheepskins.
Second, the Tang army handed over the pastures of the Assassination Department to the Po Gong Ministry, on the condition that 300,000 tax sheep per Chinese New Year's Eve were given to the Po Gong Ministry, and this tax amount was only half of the amount handed over by the Po Bu Department to the Thorn Ministry, while the Ta Li Department handed over 150,000 tax sheep to the Tang Army every year.
3. The Tang Army promised to assist the two tribes in resisting the westward invasion of the Hui tribe.
Fourth, the noble children of the two tribes will be sent to Broken Leaf City to study, and Guo Song promised that the great chieftains of the two tribes could be canonized by the Tang Dynasty, which meant that Gelulu no longer existed.
After the three parties reached an agreement, the Qarlu tribe was disbanded and split into the Polu tribe and the Ta power department, and the Tang army obtained all the wealth of the assassination department, while the Polu tribe and the Ta power department obtained the population and land of the assassination department, a result that made all three parties happy.
The Tang army also procured 15,000 camels from Pakhana, Shiguo, and Tocharo to transport captured supplies.
At the beginning of May, Guo Song officially appointed Luo Daxiao as the first governor of Broken Leaves, and led an army of 5,000 to guard the Broken Leaf Military Town, which covers a large area, including Broken Leaf City and General Pei Luo City, Ye Zhi City, He Hunting City and Frozen City and other four defense military cities, at the same time, Guo Song appointed Sima Zhao Wei as the governor of Broken Leaf Governor's Mansion, in charge of government affairs and commerce.
In mid-May, the Tang army returned to Beiting from the Yili Valley with a caravan of 25,000 camels laden with various booty.
The battle of Broken Leaf City was the first time that gunpowder weapons showed their might, which really shocked the Western Regions Zhuhu, its significance is not only a military deterrent, but also a political catalyst, so that the Western Regions Zhuhu began to re-recognize the strength of the Tang Army, and even the Hui were afraid of the Tang Army's gunpowder weapons, and did not dare to invade the North Court lightly.
The strong military strength has gradually brought the Western Regions towards tranquility, which is not to be mentioned later.
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At the end of June, the Tang army, which had been on an expedition to the Western Regions for five months, returned to Zhangye.
According to the deployment of Guo and Song Dynasty, young and strong men went to Lanzhou and the Hehuang Valley to plant wheat, while women, children and the elderly moved to Zhangye to accept the care of the Zhangye government.
Of course, the women were not without nothing to do, they were gathered together to sew military uniforms and make leather boots.
The army carried camels and a large amount of supplies to Cangcheng to unload the goods, while Guo Song, accompanied by Changshi Pan Liao, inspected the camp of the displaced people.
When Guo Song saw that Pan Liao had become dark and thin, he asked with a smile, "It's not easy to settle these homeless people, right?" ”
Pan Liao smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Although I am a little tired, the harvest is not small, and I am proud to be able to manage more than 600,000 displaced people in an orderly manner." ”
"If you have to pay, you will reap, how is the situation in the internal affairs camp?" Guo Song asked again.
Pan Liao gave a thumbs up, "It is simply a stroke of genius to make Jun insert the soldiers of the internal affairs battalion into the displaced people, this is the most effective method, 200,000 young and strong men have been governed obediently, and there has been no fighting, they go to Hehuang to plant wheat, just like the army obeys the command, so that the king should reward these 1,000 soldiers of the internal affairs battalion." ”
Guo Song smiled slightly: "Of course there will be rewards, but this method is not something that can be used casually, it must be the most loyal soldier, Wang Yue is a little ambitious, and the 200,000 homeless people will become a big problem." ”
"The envoy is right, you must indeed use this method with caution."
Guo Song smiled again: "This expedition to the west of Gelulu, seized a large number of booty, there are more than 3 million cattle and sheep alone, 100,000 war horses, all placed in the Yili River Valley, by the Wusun people to graze on our behalf, this is the condition for the Yili River Valley to be handed over to them, and will be sent to Hexi in the future, as well as a large number of sheepskins, gold coins, silver, pig iron and copper, and other materials. ”
When Guo Song said this, he saw that Pan Liao seemed to have something on his mind and didn't pay much attention to what he said, so he asked, "What's wrong?" ”
Pan Liao sighed, "Don't you want to ask, what conditions did we agree to, did Zhu Zhu allow our homeless people to grow wheat in Hehuang?" ”