Time passed, and in the second year of Dewu Zhou Tianzhu (692 AD), Wei Xi and Princess Taiping did not return to the dynasty for the New Year. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The husband and wife are fierce and ambitious and ready to do a big job.

Wei Xi frequently inspected various armies, even in winter.

Inspect military affairs, troop exercises, confrontations, and so on.

Encourage morale, do a good job in training troops and preparing for war, and raise the level of training in actual combat.

Princess Taiping, on the other hand, was busy building railways, and she already knew that in the vast Western Regions, the roads would never be long enough and could never be completed.

The only way to build the railway is to choose the right place to build the railway, and to connect the important regions.

As for roads, don't put resources on roads unless there are roads in the center of the city.

Commanding the engineers and the miners and her slaves to do their best, even in the coldest weather, she even knows how to draw drawings!

There is nothing difficult in the world, but I am afraid of those who have a heart!

The railway stretches out one after another, and everyone looks at the pair of (double-track) rails stretching into the distance, and they are all full of a sense of accomplishment!

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From April, the Great Zhou cavalry began to move towards the Great Eclipse Khorasan region.

At that time, horses and camels in various regions were making a fuss about "spring thinness", and they did not eat enough in winter, lost fat, and did not have enough horsepower.

But the horses and camels of Datang are like dragons and tigers, running fast!

The Great Zhou was powerful and had a strong agriculture, the peasants grew beans and grain, and the army was so extravagant that they used beans and grain to feed horses and camels.

Wei Xi used this method to bully the Hu people and neighboring countries, and repeatedly made meritorious contributions.

The cavalry of the Zhou army showed off their might there, and bullied others to be unable to use their horsepower, which caused the Hu people and other tribes to be extremely aggrieved.

The forward troops of 30,000 led by Yang Chengxian and Shi Wanchao were dispatched first, one man and three horses, using the method of interspersed infiltration, like mercury in the ground, to kill and loot all the important areas of Khorasan, and do all kinds of evil.

They attacked small and medium-sized towns and villages, cutting off communication between large cities.

Burning houses, burning and destroying (with some mounted infantry and engineers, they will do the work), looting people and wealth, grain, grass, livestock, and then destroying the fields!

Destroying all the crops in the fields and sweeping the areas they pass through will bring famine and pestilence!

The white bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles.

I am not afraid that the tribes everywhere will be dissatisfied, and the autocracy will be dissatisfied, and I will take advantage of the opportunity of the current conquest to immediately slaughter if there is a slight resistance.

If the other party is obedient, it is not good to ask for a knife at will.

In the barbaric years, it was not an exaggeration to use any means, at least the Zhou army did not torture and kill.

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"Rush!"

The Zhou army besieged a castle in the oasis, and the tribe there refused the Zhou army's offer: "Bring the fine, livestock, and grain and grass with them!" ”

The Tang army plundered the population on a large scale, Wei Xi was never afraid of a large population, he seemed to have endless wealth and grain and grass to settle the increased population, and there was never a shortage of manpower.

Generally speaking,If you automatically follow it when you surrender.,Then after a period of collective life.,After experiencing Sinicization work.,Almost all of them turned into households (that is, they have the rights of the people.,It's a free person.)。

If it falls into the hands of the Zhou army after resistance, if the resistance is not fierce, the Zhou army will take away all the young men and women, and they will become slaves of Princess Taiping.

The resistance was too fierce, Wei Xi issued military power, and the front-line officers had the right to exterminate the clan and slaughter the village!

To deter the enemy and comfort the brothers who died in battle!

This tribe dared to resist the Zhou army, and built a stone fortress of no small scale for them!

It is eight meters high, which does not seem to be high, and there is a slope of at least five meters around the perimeter, so the enemy can't even put up a ladder.

It is built next to the river, almost half of the position is surrounded by the river, the terrain is high, and the castle is condescending and looks down, you can see the range of tens of miles, giving people a sense of confidence in victory.

With this sense of superiority, although the tribe knew that the Zhou army was not good for reputation, they still refused to submit.

After sending archers to shoot a batch of arrows in front of them, everyone was unsuccessful, and the Zhou army retreated.

The tribe laughed loudly, and soon they couldn't laugh.

This castle has a "benchmark effect" because of its solidity, and when you lay it, the surrounding tribes will fall into the wind.

The Zhou army is prepared!

The tribal army saw the visitors from the East take out wood and metal rods and assemble them one by one, the metal parts were very fine, and they moved very quickly, and in less than an hour they were able to assemble six stationary trebuchets and three mobile trebuchets!

Loaded with firebombs, bombarding the castle!

"Whew! Call! Call! "The fire bombs fell on the head of the city wall one after another, and immediately exploded, and a large pool exploded, and many of them together were a lake of fire! (The sea of fire can't be said yet)

It was an extremely cruel weapon, and Wei Xi carried it forward, and there were special research institutes to study how to better store it and maximize its power.

The base material of this fire bomb is oil, and with sulfur, rosin, resin and other accelerants, the fire power burns faster and more violently than simple oil, and it is a "samadhi real fire", which cannot be extinguished even with water.

The tribal army was "lucky" to taste the latest fire bomb put into use, and the burning flames engulfed the tribal army in the city, and some people who were unlucky, covered in oil, immediately became a humanoid torch, and jumped down from the high city with a heart-rending scream!

The rocker arm of the trebuchet/cart was fired continuously, and soon after, the castle was on fire everywhere towards the side of the Zhou army.

At first, you can still hear the screams, but then they become less and less.

At this time, the catapult arrived at the city and shot under the service of heavily armored soldiers!

"Load the catapult with a saber!" Describes the use of catapults at close range, so that fire bombs can be sent almost into the center of the castle or further into the depths.

The ability of the craftsmen of the great eastern countries is incomparable, and it took two hours of continuous attack by the trebuchet/cart to damage the second unit, and the result is that the castle is in flames, black smoke rises high, and the radius of a hundred miles can be seen clearly!

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After three hours of fire attacks, the Zhou army retreated.

The purpose of the battle has been achieved.,The reason why there's no need to occupy it is that going in will give everyone nightmares.。。。 I smelled a strong smell of barbecue, and I didn't imagine the miserable situation inside, so as not to fall asleep.

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After that, it went smoothly, and the Zhou army cleared all the way through, gaining a large number of people, and encountered little decent resistance.

Even the strongest castles have been captured, and there is no longer fighting spirit in the lands.

Groups of captives gathered into a flow of people and went to the Zhaowu prefectures (the Zhaowu kingdom was changed to a state), and obtained a large number of people and some goods (not very many, the rich people ran out).

So, the big cannibal let Zhou Jun do whatever he wanted?