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As the former commander-in-chief of the enemy, Yang Datou was really restless. This had already started when he attacked Lanzhou thirty years ago.
He is a violent maniac and loves killing.
It was fine when he was in the Central Plains, but when he went to the Western Regions, he often committed some evil deeds. Shao Shude had a deep suspicion that if he hadn't watched, Yang Liang would have turned from his passion for murder to cannibalism sooner or later.
During the Five Dynasties period in history, there were many perverts who loved to eat human flesh. For example, Wang Jixun, Zhao Kuangyin’s brother-in-law, was extremely wealthy, but he loved to cut off human flesh piece by piece and eat it.
Yang Liang is also a bully, and often gets into red-faced arguments with others in the court. Relying on the fact that he was the leader of the saint's personal army in his early years, has seniority and outstanding achievements, he does not give face to anyone, and others take advantage of him.
Method.
This time when they attacked Bakhna, they bumped into the army of the Persian Governor Ismail on the way. The two sides fought a fierce battle. Yang Liang took the lead and defeated the enemy army at the cost of losing his horse in the middle. Fortunately, it was not serious.
During the siege of the city of Bakhna, the Persian soldiers went out of the city several times to attack. Yang Liang was delighted when he heard about the battle, and led his troops to charge again, and was wounded again.
To be honest, Shao Shude regretted letting Yang Liang command the army. It was good to arrange for him to be the vanguard before, but this time he felt soft and gave him a chance to make meritorious deeds. He did not expect to be so reckless.
Although the battle was won, it was not fought like this!
After visiting Yang Liang in the camp, Shao Shude straightened the deputy commander Li Siyuan and asked him to lead the army and continue the siege.
There should not be many enemy troops in the city. In several field battles, nearly 8,000 soldiers were captured and killed. Ismail only had 6,000 gulams to begin with. If he died, there would be about 2,000 left, plus the temporarily recruited men.
, Religious Jihad, was attacked for nearly ten days, the outer city was destroyed, and the fuel was exhausted.
After boosting his morale for a while, he returned to his tent and admired the various items captured.
"This gang of killers even robbed Buddhist temples..." When Shao Shude saw a bronze Buddha statue, he couldn't help it.
After a closer look, I found that the warriors still showed some respect. They only robbed property and did not kill anyone. Do you want me to praise them?
When I looked at this Buddha statue again, I almost laughed out loud.
There is a typical white-faced Buddha, and there is a guard next to him, who is the ancient Greek Hercules.
Shao Shude then thought of the sapphire ring engraved with the image of Hercules unearthed from the tomb of Xu Xianxiu, King of Wu'an in the Northern Qi Dynasty.
In later generations, ancient Greek Dionysian gold and silver plates were also unearthed in Tibet, and the Palace Museum also has a large number of Greek-style cultural relics from BC. Combining these points, it can be concluded that it was the result of Alexander's Hellenization of Central Asia after his eastern expedition.
This person should be like me, fighting and robbing all the way, right?
Shao Shude smiled and looked down at a pile of books.
Samarkand is the paper-making center of Central Asia. It has a short history of just over a hundred years, but it has developed extremely fast. After Gao Xianzhi failed in Talas, paper-making technology was introduced to the great foodies and soon replaced the Egyptian papyrus they used.
Therefore, there is still a considerable publishing and printing industry in the Hezhong area. The books in front of me are either in Sogdian or Persian, which Shao Shude cannot understand, but he can find someone to translate them and gradually improve them.
He is always curious about the culture of another world and eager to understand it.
Early Buddhism was heavily Hellenized and still exists in Central Asia. After a thousand years, Bakhna, as the first abandoned son of the Greek world, can no longer find many traces of Greece, while the traces of Persia are increasing day by day.
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Thinking of this, Shao Shude subconsciously walked out of the camp and looked to the west.
He had a strong idea to send envoys to Western countries to see what kind of scenery there was and whether there was any place where China could learn from each other's strengths and weaknesses.
In this life, he was destined not to be as dashing as Alexander, who left his homeland and went on an expedition thousands of miles away.
Yes, he often acted like a great khan in the prairie. In theory, he could go to war while grazing herds, and wander to far away places.
But he also knew that he would only become a rootless person and eventually be assimilated by countless foreign races. What's more, his age did not allow him to do this, and his sense of responsibility did not allow him to do so. To put it shamelessly, "Suppose there is no one in the world without me."
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"Call Li Shouxin." He returned to the tent and ordered.
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The brutal siege battle continued, and the new annexed troops suffered heavy casualties, but their numbers increased, increasing from more than 3,000 to 5,000.
Occasionally, some people rebelled, but they were quickly wiped out.
During the intervals between the siege of the city by the new annexed troops, various units of the Forbidden Army would occasionally fight. When the enemy was tired, they would throw in these elite troops to cause maximum damage.
On the fourth day of September, Li Shengtian, King of Khotan, attacked the gate city in the west and sent a large number of Dingkou. Li Siyuan threw them into the siege. In two days, more than half of them were killed or injured. At the critical moment, Shao Shude ordered Zhong Yanyou to lead Yin'an to attack the city.
Fight, conquer the inner city in one fell swoop, and start street fighting.
At this point, the fall of Bakhna was inevitable.
On the fifth day of September, Xie Yanzhang and Ye Li Kecheng led 4,000 cavalry and 6,000 horse infantry to the west and joined Li Shengtian to resist a sudden attack of Turkic mercenaries. The remaining troops began to besiege the castle. They cut off the water source and took hostages.
, calling for surrender and other methods, using both civil and military methods, launched a rapid offensive - the new vassal troops continued to take the lead, and the newly surrendered Turkic tribesmen were also forced to coordinate the attack.
On the seventh day of September, news came from Fu Cunxen of the Northern Route Army that he had given up the attack on Talas and turned the entire army to Baishui City. At the same time, he sent light cavalry deep into the hinterland of Persia to intimidate the enemy and create chaos.
The envoy going to the North Road to send a message set off seven days ago. Shao Shude asked him to pay attention to the movements of the main Persian army. More importantly, when will it snow?
Under the continental climate, once it snows, the weather will become extremely cold, making it unsuitable for large-scale military operations. What's more, there are also supply problems.
The agricultural conditions in Talas and Baishui City are not as good as Fergana. The Central Route Army and the North Route Army may not be able to grab as much food as the South Route Army, and they must graze cattle and sheep in the wild.
By this time, the pasture has stopped growing and has completely turned dry. What will happen to the cattle and sheep after eating the last wave of yellow weeds on the grassland? What's more, the sheep cannot eat food at all, which is too wasteful.
Fu Cunshen was a veteran of the war, so he shouldn't have reminded them, but Shao Shude was still worried that they had made a mistake, so he couldn't help but nag a few words.
On the eighth day of September, the castle was finally breached, and the new commander of the vassal army, Babu (meaning bull) of Turkic descent, personally beheaded the Persian governor Ismail, marking the end of the war.
In more than ten days, more than 20,000 people were killed or injured. Although most of them were captured Bukhan people, this number is still shocking.
Mongolian warfare is too cruel. If you conquer six big cities one by one, how many casualties will be needed? Add to that the lives killed during looting, and the people who starved to death when they fled. If you do it a few more times, it will be almost the same as pulling the Khan.
It's useless.
History has actually given us the answer.
Before the Mongol invasion, Central Asia had developed city-state civilizations.
After the Mongols arrived, they first burned, killed and looted in the wild, then blocked the irrigation channels that local agriculture relied on, threw diseased corpses into the city, blocked karez wells, poisoned water sources, or threw them into wells.
Corpses, etc., driving people to attack cities, massacres, cannibalism and threats are even more trivial.
Shao Shude thought about it carefully and realized that he was still considered "civilized" and "restrained". It was really a great irony.
Before entering the city, Shao Shude first summoned the new vassal troops and Turkic tribe leaders outside the city.
Looking at these bloody officers and chieftains, he didn't mind them being dirty at all. He patted their shoulders with satisfaction and said in Uighur: "In the thirteenth year of Jianji, I sent troops to attack the Tatars and defeated them on the Mobei grassland.
Got them."
"For fourteen years, under my unquestionable order, people built a palace for me and engraved my eternal edict on a stone tablet..."
"I spent the whole spring on the sacred peak. When summer came, the warriors said to me, 'The Uighurs insulted me and provoked me.' I prayed to heaven, and in response to the omen I received, I whipped
My border..."
"I said, 'Go! Gather the people and the army, destroy the enemy, and give me their beautiful khatuns, and I will give you rich rewards...'"
"The Uighur generals came, and we defeated them easily. Because of this victory, I conferred the title of five Meilu. They knelt down in front of me and swore to defend my huge territory..."
"In June, the princes of Aslan Khan came, and my generals defeated them honorably at the Sihun River. Sartuk threw away his khadun and fled in panic..."
"The people of Karasha were exhausted and knelt at my feet respectfully, asking me to be their khan and conquer Bakhna to protect them from the jihadists..."
"So I marched again. The generals swore to defeat all those who challenged my majesty. We defeated the Persian Yehu and captured his city..."
Having said this, Shao Shude paused for a moment, looked at the new commander of the attached army, Babu, and said: "Babu, I now officially grant you the position of Dagan. You will continue to command your troops and fight for me."
"Supreme Khan, who is born wise, I swear to always surrender to your majesty and listen to your every word." Babu was overjoyed and immediately knelt down and said.
"She, the wife of Persia Yehu, belongs to you." Shao Shude grabbed the escorted woman, pushed it into Babu's arms, and said: "You can take ten camels and go to the city to choose whatever you like.
Your belongings, as much as you can carry, are all yours."
"The supreme Khan is born wise. I am willing to conquer the people of Turks, Sogdia, and Persia for you, so that everyone can bathe in your glory." Babu touched his head to the ground, convinced.
"Kutkin." Shao Shude looked at a Turkic chief again and said: "I am very happy that you can obey my call and fight for me. Now I grant you the position of evacuating Jin, east of Aitbash.
It's all yours, guard the territory for me."
"Born to be a wise and supreme Khan, I swear to always follow your call, fight for you against anyone who goes astray, and bring them under your majestic rule." Kutkin never expected to acquire so much land.
, replied with a smile.
"Talkhan..."
Shao Shude ennobled several Turkic chiefs in one breath, and another Yangmo man, and basically divided up all the land captured east of Ba Khana.
After saying this, he looked at the generals of the Han army gathered around him, laughed loudly, pointed his riding whip towards the city, and said: "Take your sons and daughters to have fun, and come back to see me in two days."
After the order was passed on, warm cheers came from far and near. The battalions were immediately assigned their order, some were stationed outside to guard, and some rushed into the city...