Chapter 17 Getting Rich
The vague victory, thinking about it, makes Chen Ying a little inexplicable. If it weren't for the Turks' mistaken belief that the Tang army could spell, Chen Ying would not have been able to capture the Bogulu City. easily took the Thin Bone Law City, but the moment Chen Ying entered the Thin Bone Law City, the whole person's mood was suddenly not good.
But the Turks who occupied Nestle were a waste of this military town.
Bogulu City was originally a military town built during the Northern Wei Dynasty. As a military town, it has wells, granaries, armament depots, ordnance stations, stables, barracks and training grounds. It's just that time has passed, and most of them are dilapidated. Most of the houses have no roofs, and some of the walls have cracks larger than fists.
In a large military town, the streets were filled with tents of all kinds, and the roofless roof shelves were unified into sheepfolds and stables, and the Turks, who had no sense of urban life, made a mess of the whole city of thin bones.
What made Chen Ying even more angry was that the Turks, whether they were people or animals, were all defecating in the open, making the city full of human or animal feces, and fortunately this was a cold winter, otherwise the whole city might not be able to live in people, and the smell of alone could make people dizzy.
Seeing that Chen Ying's face instantly became gloomy, Yu Guni raised his heart to his throat, he was really afraid that Chen Ying would be in a bad mood and cast a spell to kill them all.
"Do you know what is the biggest difference between people and people?"
Yu Guni didn't know how to speak Tang Yan, and looked at Chen Ying suspiciously. Chen Ying also doesn't know Turkic, but Du Shanguo, who joined the army, can speak Turkic. There is no full-time tongue person (i.e., translator), so Du Shanguo acts as a translator.
Yu Guni finally understood Chen Ying's words, a trace of confusion appeared on his face, and he shook his head again and again. Suddenly, Yu Guni's face turned pale with fright, and he thought that Chen Ying was dissatisfied with their cruelty and killing, so he hurriedly explained to Chen Ying.
I only heard Du Shanguo explain: "He said that Mr. Chen, the villain didn't kill the Tang people." Since we have been in the south, we have not attacked any Tang City! ”
Chen Ying's face turned cold: "Bastard, in front of General Ben, you dare to fool General Ben, are you guilty?" ”
Thump.
Yu Guni immediately knelt on the ground, and it was a coincidence that the place where Yu Guni knelt was a piece of. "The general is clear, the villain's words are true, and there is no lie!"
Chen Ying was confused at this time: "Could it be that the Turks are just helping to shout and not participating in direct battles?" ”
"That's how it should be!" Gao Yunquan said: "If the Turks participated in the attack, then Lingzhou City would have been unable to defend it for a long time. ”
Chen Ying really didn't understand why Li Jiancheng told him when he left that if he could not fight the Turks, he would try not to fight the Turks, and now it seems that the Turks are the same. Both sides have been very restrained?
Chen Ying asked Du Shanguo to ask the other soldiers again and again, and finally came up with a truth that made him feel inexplicably wonderful. Since September, the battle of Lingzhou has been dominated by the Liang division, and the Turks have not attacked directly at all, at most giving some symbolic help in terms of materials. However, the Turks were poorer than Liang Shidu, and at most they helped in terms of war horses, and this help was not gratuitous, but let Liang Shidu exchange real money and silver.
Now Chen Ying is even more confused about what kind of allies Liang Shidu and the Turks are, and why Shibi Khan did not allow the Turks to attack the Tang Dynasty?
Chen Ying thought about it for a long time, but he didn't understand this question, so he had to wait until he returned to Chang'an in the future and asked Li Jiancheng what was going on.
However, Chen Ying really didn't want to live in a city full of feces and urine, so he ordered: "Yu Guni, General Ben told you that the biggest difference between humans and beasts is that people understand honesty and etiquette, while animals can't. Only animals defecate in the open, people don't! ”
Although Chen Ying even scolded all the Turks, some Turks heard this, and they were also selective.
"The villain, this will let people clean up the whole city!"
"Teachable!"
The Turks began to get busy, and they went into battle to clean up the feces and animal feces in the city. It's not going to happen in a moment's time, anyway.
Chen Ying was sure that the Turks would not dare to resist, so he ordered hundreds of people to monitor and guide them to clean up the city with hand stoves. All the Turkic troops were nervous, and although they were surrounded by only a few people who did not even have a sword, none of these Turks dared to act rashly. It sounds like a funny joke that these folk ladies are carrying a hand stove and guarding over 13,000 Turkic surrendered soldiers and civilians, but it is true.
Although there is only one hand stove in the hands of the people, in the eyes of the Turks, those people are all wizards of the Tang Army, and the things in their hands are their magic weapons.
Having hundreds of civilians with hand stoves to spy on the Turkic captives made the generals feel unbelievable.
Chen Ying confidently told everyone: "As long as people compromise once, they will form habits." Even if they knew that the minfu only had a hand stove in his hands that didn't have any lethal power, they would pretend not to know! ”
Wei Wenzhong said: "This is impossible! ”
"Do you want to make a bet?"
Wei Wenzhong was about to make a bet when he saw Gao Yunquan shaking his head at him again and again. Wei Wenzhong said: "What's going on? ”
Gao Yunquan said: "The military law of the Turks is particularly perverted, as long as they surrender, they will either be killed or become slaves, don't worry, these Turks have no way back!" ”
Sure enough, as Chen Ying expected, these Turks were very honest. Under the guidance of the people, some began to be busy cleaning up the streets, putting the shelves that had no roofs with cowhide or firewood, and began to urgently repair the city of thin bones.
Just half an hour later, the city of thin bones has changed greatly. Not only is the feces all over the street gone, but in fact, Chen Ying's method is very simple, those roof frames with large cracks are stuffed into the cracks with hot water and mud, and when the cold wind blows, they are integrated with the original walls. The roof is much easier to manage, and the Turkic tent cloth is used as a roof, which is still much warmer than a tent.
In the city of Bogulu, the big tent originally set up by Tong Lifu has become Chen Ying's big tent of the Chinese army. More than a dozen candles were lit, illuminating the entire hall as if it were day, and Chen Ying drank a glass of mare's milk wine brewed by the Turks.
When Marching Sima Lu Decao handed the list of seized materials to Chen Ying, Chen Ying saw the numbers on the list, and his eyes suddenly straightened: "Are you sure?" ”
Lu Decao said: "The lower officials have already calculated, absolutely yes!" ”
I saw that the list read: more than 11,000 scimitars, more than 2,500 spears, more than 10,000 pairs of bows and arrows for cavalry light bows, 3,000 shields, and more than 27,300 bags of feather arrows. There are more than 850 pairs of stainless steel fish scale armor, more than 1,300 pairs of lightweight mountain pattern armor, and more than 7,000 pairs of leather armor.
Although there are a lot of these materials, compared to the more than 20,000 troops set by Tong Lifu, this bit of weapons is nothing, but Chen Ying seems to have enough.
Of course, in addition to these blades and armor, the most important materials are sheepskins, cowhides, cow tendons and other materials. These sheepskins and cowhides numbered in the tens of thousands, and more than 10,000 scrawny horses and more than 4,000 horses were captured.
This allowed Chen Ying, an almost pure infantry unit, to be transformed into mounted infantry in an instant.
"Rich!" Chen Ying thought silently.