Artillery appeared on the city wall. This "beast" of war was not only a weapon for offense, but also a "barrier" for defense.
The deterrence brought by artillery is unprecedented in this era. If Black Khan's army wants to besiege the city of Barsi Khan, which has been occupied by the Hexi army, the only way is to cut off supplies.
This city has become a city in Hexi. With Di Qing and Ye An here, it is not a problem to defend Barsi Khan. However, the Black Khans want to cut off the supplies of the expeditionary force. How could Ye An and Di Qing, as commanders, not think of this?
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Since they have decided to focus on supplies, it means that they do not dare to attack the city easily. As for the city... the food and goods from Hexi have allowed them to live an unprecedented life. In just half a month, Ye An has already begun to carry out the project.
Assimilated.
This kind of assimilation is not carried out in religion, but on the contrary, it uses religion. The teachings of Islam are the same as most religious teachings in the world, leading people to be good...
As long as it is a kind expression, it will eventually get a kind response. This is what the Hexi Army does. The expeditionary force is helping the people here restore the order of life, helping all the people they can see who need help, and at the same time inflicting violence on those who resist.
The most violent counterattack.
They did not kill chickens to scare monkeys, they did not kill people to establish authority, and they did not treat the people here as cattle, horses and slaves. On the contrary, the Hexi Army has strict discipline and will never allow violations of the local people. The resisters will disappear in the city of Barsi Khan instead of being dragged away.
They came out and executed them in public.
From the very beginning, Ye An told his soldiers that they were not invaders, but warriors who regained the lost land of the Han family!
That's right, it was to regain the lost territory. The name of the expedition was "self-defense counterattack". After capturing Barsi Khan, Ye An began to educate the soldiers about the history of the "Tang Dynasty".
As long as anyone was born in this era, there is no one who does not yearn for the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Even the Liao Dynasty and Dangxiang regarded the prosperous Tang Dynasty as their ultimate goal.
The reason why we want to popularize the history of the Tang Dynasty is to let the soldiers in Hexi understand that the land of Heihan once belonged to the Han family and to China. It was the location of the four towns of Anxi and the Anxi Protectorate in the Tang Dynasty!
As for how the Anxi Protectorate came to be in the Tang Dynasty, it is not important. Everyone in the Hexi Expeditionary Army knew one thing. They were "defeating what was right but not what was right", and at the same time they were recovering lost territory.
The history of the Tang Dynasty is not far away. Song people know it, and the Black Khan people also know it. What Ye An wants is the public opinion effect. Almost all the people of Barsi Khan are saying one thing: "Tang Jiazi is back!"
Tang Jiazi, this is almost a unified name for the Tang people in Central Asia, and it is also synonymous with their respect and fear.
Di Qing felt that this name did not fit Hexi's positioning, but Ye An thought it was very good. To a certain extent, they were also descendants of the Tang people, so there was nothing wrong with calling them Tang Jiazi.
Because the Hexi Army was called Tang Jiazi, their energy almost broke through the Tianling Cap. The Song people's yearning for the Tang Dynasty was engraved in their bones, even the people of Hexi were the same.
Seeing that the army's morale was available, Di Qing organized the soldiers from the enemy camp and the cavalry battalion to secretly leave the city by transferring manpower.
Ye An doesn't care about Di Qing's military operations. What he has to do now is to defend the city. What Di Qing has to do is to ensure the safety of the supply line. Yes, even after reaching Balsi Khan, supplies from Hexi are still flowing continuously.
Come.
This expedition not only allowed Hexi to train its mobilization troops, but also benefited Hexi's merchants and people. The merchants were responsible for cooperating with the Department of Commerce and Trade for transportation, and even took money from the Hexi government. Many of them had priority in the distribution of seizures on the battlefield.
The Department of Commerce and Trade treat merchants equally in this matter, relying only on luck and not on capital and strength.
If you come by chance and catch a good seizure, that's luck. If you come late and miss it, don't be sad. Just come back next time. Anyway, the government money is not less than a penny, and even the Department of Commerce and Trade can get it.
This resulted in Hexi merchants' strong support for the expedition to Heihan. In Hexi, merchants, big or small, as long as they had carriages and horses at home, wanted to catch up. Under the organization of the Chamber of Commerce, they went to Heihan to make a fortune. This also ensured that the expeditionary force
The logistics supply line has never been interrupted.
Although the technology and strategic thinking of the Heixi people are not as good as those of Hexi, it does not mean that they are fools. Barsi Khan is now fully armed, and they have never seen the terror of firearms.
So after being massacred by the roaring artillery and volleys of muskets on the city wall, I immediately understood that it was almost impossible to storm this city by force.
However, Baershan has abundant water resources. There are dozens of wells in the city, and there is Lake Yixiker not far outside the city. The only way is to cut off the city's food supply.
There is no way to transport food from outside the city to the city. According to the population of Barsi Khan City, the food of the Hexi army will be exhausted very quickly. Whether they give food to the people in the city or not, it will be beneficial to Black Khan.
Give it, the Hexi Army's food consumption is staggering, if you don't give it, the people in the city will definitely rebel!
Therefore, all the Black Khan armies are trying their best to attack, attack and harass the supply lines of the Hexi Army. Although these supply lines have armed guards, they are much easier to attack than the Hexi Army.
During the period when Di Qing left with his people, there was indeed a problem with the food supply. The people of Barsi Khan had not seen Tang Jiazi's army selling food for many days...
Although the food sold by Tang Jiazi is cheap and delicious, they know that this is to maintain the stability of Barsi Khan City, so smart people will hoard food.
Raza looked at Ye An mockingly, and said with an arc at the corner of his mouth: "You are very smart, turning yourself from an invader into an owner who gets his things back, and turning the Song people in Hexi into Tang family members, but while you are thinking
It is really pitiful to establish a great and glorious image while facing the plight of food shortage. How do you use the proverb of you peach blossom stone people to say it? Oh... "Fake a swollen face to pretend to be fat"!"
Ye An looked at Wang Gang with dissatisfaction and said: "Don't say these words in the future. When you see that there is no "art" in our Han language, you will be picked up by this guy."
The Wang Gang shrugged helplessly, and then said: "Master Marquis, do we still sell the food for the army?"
"Stop! Some people are hoarding food."
The expression on Raza's face suddenly became wonderful, and he said with pride: "I knew you couldn't hold on anymore! You can't hold it anymore! It's been seven days since the supply convoy has not arrived, and you have no food!"
Gang Wang looked ugly and wanted to slap the fat man across from him, but he still made no move and looked at him with a sneer and said: "You can squeeze out a lot of oil and water from your fat body, right?"
Seeing his cold little eyes flashing with cold light, Lazar unconsciously put his hands on his chest, but said to Ye An: "It is simply unrealistic for you to win over people's hearts by this method."
"Then what do you think the poor people in the city should do? Yesterday I saw a skinny woman begging for food at the gate of the military camp with her child in her arms. Her man died in the battle and she had no money to buy food. Even the food we released before
She didn’t even have money to buy low-priced food. When she looked carefully, she discovered that there was a child in her arms, not much bigger than her arm. The woman had no food at all, and no milk to feed her. The garrison at the gate of the camp couldn’t bear to give it to her.
After they had some rice porridge, the little one was already starving to death!"
"It's your fault!"
After hearing the description, Raza's fat body started to tremble, and he roared crazily at Ye An, but was kicked down by Ye An. He pointed at his nose and Ye An sneered: "My fault? You'd better think it through."