Chapter 403: The Khorasan Legion's Counterattack
Two months later.
"You've gained a lot!"
Li Siye looked at the dozens of female slaves of various ethnic groups wearing armor behind Yang Feng, and said speechlessly.
They are already in Kunduz City.
After two months of siege, civil strife finally broke out in the city, the remaining Tocharian nobles and Zoroastrians went to war with the cannibals in the city, a prince of the original Tocharian royal family led his people to open the city gate and welcome Yang Feng's army into the city, after a chaotic bloody battle, the heads of more than 10,000 food defenders and civilians in the city turned into Jingguan outside the city, and their wealth and women all became the spoils of the coalition army entering the city.
As for Li Siye......
It was only a few days at most to ride a horse from Qiuzi and walked the Green Ridge Road, and all the way was his own territory, as the supreme commander of the Tang Army in the Western Regions, he came to see what was strange about the combat results of his subordinates.
"Eh, the son-in-law is a small family, he is used to living a poor life, and it is inevitable to gather some of it, and the son-in-law has also prepared some gifts for his father-in-law!"
Yang Feng said with a smile.
Then he pointed behind him, where twenty top-notch horses, including three Andalusian horses, were showing off their wonders, especially the tallest of them, the white Andalusian horse, whose mane was almost down to the ground, with a halo in the sun. Of course, this is not all for Li Siye, there are two horses for him to send to Chang'an to Li Longji, among which the white horse is specified for Sister Yuhuan, such a beautiful horse of course has to be ridden by Sister Yuhuan. And on every horse, at this time there was a girl wearing her own national costume, looking at them with shy eyes, as for which Li Siye rode first, whether to ride a horse or ride them has nothing to do with Yang Feng, in this era, the son-in-law sent the old father-in-law a beautiful woman, that is the deep love of Weng and the son-in-law......
Uh, modern times too!
And there are big pockets on the horses behind these girls, which are full of gold, silver and jewelry!
"Who is that?"
Li Siye said with satisfaction.
He was referring to a large group of rough men behind those famous horses and beauties!
"That's for the saints."
Yang Feng said.
"This is the tribute envoy of the Pop Bin State, this is the tribute envoy of the Fanyan State, this is the tribute envoy of the Khandaro Branch, and these are also, a total of ten tribute envoys of the vassal states, including Tocharo, they will go to Chang'an to meet the sage, thank the sage for sending me the Tang Dynasty to expel the cannibals, relieve them from hanging upside down, and are willing to return to my Tang Dynasty and dedicate land to ask the sage to set up states and counties, and from then on forever be the people of my Tang Dynasty!"
He went on to say.
This is the tribute envoy of the tribal leaders of Afghanistan, including Kabul.
They were originally the Tang Dynasty.
Kabul is the Xiuxian Governor's Mansion, Bamiyan is the Fengdu Governor's Mansion, and the Khadaro Branch is the famous Tiaozhi Governor's Mansion, these Governors have been established for nearly a hundred years, those Zoroastrian and Buddhist tribal chieftains bear the name of the king of the Tang Dynasty, and the governor of the Tang Dynasty, except for occasionally sending a tribute to the Tang Dynasty, and putting it on the table when the monarch changes, there is no other additional burden, and the Tang Dynasty will not ask them for a penny of taxes. Because of the long distance, they never recruited them to fight, compared with the big cannibals who asked for huge taxes as soon as they arrived, it was obvious that the Tang Dynasty was a good master, not to mention that the big cannibals also interfered with their beliefs, they had no other choice before the Tang Army did not come, but now that the Tang Army is calling, of course they will not hesitate to change their courts.
"Good!"
Li Siye said with satisfaction.
Obviously, this is enough, what Li Longji wants is face, and Yang Feng's move can be regarded as giving him enough face, emperor! They all like the grand scene of all countries coming to the dynasty, and he has recovered dozens of subject countries including Hezhong for Li Longji at once, and it is estimated that a title cannot be run, and Li Siye, as a direct superior, is indispensable for a good command.
Li Longji is still very generous in terms of military exploits.
"The Persian governor has been appointed, the right Wuwei general, Li Yi, the prince of Longxi County, was appointed as the governor of Persia, and the great-grandson of the Ni Nishi was given the name Li Zhongshun as the king of Persia, and Li Yi summoned the old Persians in Chang'an, Luoyang and other places to come to restore the country, as for the Persian governor's temporary residence in Kangju, if it is changed to curb the change of the city, how to deal with the Tocharians? Here it is certain that the king of Tocharian will also be reappointed as the governor of the Yue clan. ”
Li Siye said.
"What's wrong with this, he is the king of Persia and not the king of Tochar, this land is Tocharian and not Persian, and he is just a governor of Persia."
Yang Feng said.
That is to say, Tocharian is still the king, and even the Yueshi Governorate was re-established, but at the same time in the land of Tocharo, the Persian Governor guarded the Persian king to live here, and by the way, he surrendered here, and then recaptured their own country to the west, and of course they had to go to their own territory after regaining their own country. The only thing left is not easy to solve, that is, the finances of the Persian king and the governor's palace, after all, they need money to recruit rebels, and this is easy to do, and it can also add an additional tax to the Persians in the Tang Dynasty. Those Persian merchants have money, many of them have been doing business in the Tang Dynasty for dozens of years, amassing a lot of wealth, just let them spit it out, this is not the Tang Dynasty emperor to collect taxes from them, this is the Persian king looking for them to collect taxes, the Persian king to collect taxes from the Persians is a matter of course, if there is no money to pay taxes, then come to the meat to pay the king as a soldier, in short, this financial problem is very easy to solve.
However, because of the distance, it was too troublesome for those Persian merchants to send taxes to the king, so in order to facilitate the direct payment of taxes to the Anxi army, the Anxi army was responsible for providing military supplies to the Persian king nearby.
That's it.
"This method is very good, I will play the saint when I go back!"
Li Siye understands the insidious cunning of his son-in-law in seconds, so that he and Yang Feng are both beneficial, the Persian merchants have money and everyone knows, knock out the money of these guys, pay them to be responsible for the purchase of military supplies, and they will also transfer it to the Persian king, saying that if less than half of it goes into their son-in-law's pocket, then it must be said that they are really bodhisattvas, and the result is that they have a front-line cannon fodder, and the Persian king is here to guard the front line for them, and they can also make money for them continuously, The Anxi Army doesn't need to spend another copper coin for here.
It's just amazing!
The two of them glanced at each other, and then let out a smug laugh.
At this time, a fast horse galloped and rushed to them until it stopped with the dust rubbed by the horse's hooves, and a Sogdian cavalryman on horseback rolled down with a dusty body, knelt down with an anxious face and shouted: "Report to the general, nearly 100,000 Persian troops are besieging Barihe, and our army is in danger!" ”
"Hah, it's finally here!"
Yang Feng said excitedly.
"You'd better hurry, if they can't keep Barryhei, you're in trouble!"
Li Siye said.
"Can't hold it? If they can't hold it, they have to hold it! ”
Yang Feng said with a sneer.
And at this very moment......
"Even if you can't hold it, you have to defend it, which of you hasn't had the blood of a big cannibal on his hands, which of you hasn't cut off the head of a big cannibal with his knife, and who of you hasn't killed a big cannibal woman and robbed them of their money? There are still more than 10,000 cannibal bones piled up outside this Bari Black City, once the city is broken, none of us will want to live! ”
The head of the black city of Bari, the heavily armored king of Zhongcao, Goluo servant, brandished a scimitar with a hideous face and slashed down a deserter and shouted.
Outside the wall of Barry in front of him, countless Great Eclipse soldiers, like ants, clinging to ladders one after another, holding shields and attacking frantically, in some places there were already Great Eclipse soldiers on the city wall, and they were fighting fiercely with the Sogdian soldiers guarding the city wall, and above their heads, sharp arrows kept falling like a torrential rain, and farther away in the wilderness outside the city there were more Great Eclipse soldiers swarming like an endless tide, behind these Great Eclipse soldiers, one after another trebuchets kept working, throwing boulders at Barihei, The rammed earth walls were smashed into pieces, and even lit canisters of fire oil were mixed in, exploding in flames on or within the walls.
Next to these trebuchets, a white-robed general can be seen standing on horseback.
Abu. The wood sirling is coming.
His mighty Khorasan legion came.
After seemingly disappearing for months, this mighty legion suddenly appeared and launched a ferocious attack on Barryhe.
In fact, he had already arrived.
This legendary general in the history of Dashi, of course, will not be as simple and rude as Yang Feng, he has no demeanor of a famous general, the real famous general has to strategize, who is like him to carry a knife to cut the city gate? No grace at all! Abu. Mu Silin's army was stationed in a river valley two hundred miles away, where he silently sat and watched Yang Feng wreak havoc, and then only started now, because at this time it was already spring, the snow in the upper reaches was melting, and the water of the Wuhu River was also rising little by little, at most half a month, it would be impossible for this big river to pass directly!
His goal is to catch a turtle in an urn.
Before Yang Feng began to return, he captured Balihei as quickly as possible, cut off the supply of supplies from the river to Tocharo, and used the mighty Wuhu River to block Yang Feng's retreat.
Tocharian is too poor to support Yang Feng's army here.
Without the supply in the river, the retreat was blocked by the river, and it didn't take a month for the army that destroyed the harvest of the Great Eclipse for half a century to be trapped to death, Yang Feng's only choice was to retreat to Anxi by going to the Green Ridge, at that time he could give the Tang army a heavy blow in the pursuit, and once Yang Feng retreated to Anxi, he could recapture the river like a thunderbolt, and even fight all the way north to Broken Leaf to take revenge.
The plan is good!
But it's a pity that it can't go on!
"Bloody battle to the end, think about your wives and children, don't want the big cannibals to pile up the heads of our relatives and burn them outside the city like we killed their relatives, just show your courage and fight to the end, even if you fight to the last person, you must not let the big cannibals step into Barihei before the reinforcements arrive, the city is in the people, and the city is dead!"
The Goros cried out wildly at the head of the city.