Chapter 804 Ning and Youbang, not with domestic slaves
Chapter 804 I would rather be with a ‘friend’ country than a domestic slave
Author: Middle-aged paper tiger
Chapter 804 I would rather be with a ‘friend’ country than a domestic slave
Shaoming 4th year, 949 AD, September 11th.
Bai Congxin personally raised 30,000 men and rode down the river along the medicine-killing water to pursue Talib, the fleeing chief of the Creek tribe.
While heading westward along the Yaoshashui (Syr Darya River), the situation on both sides of the river has completely subverted many people's imagination of the area in the river.
Although there is not much rainfall in the area where the Yaosha River flows through, and there are even endless stretches of vast moraine, the area close to both sides of the Yaosha River is a scene full of green grass and vitality because of the nourishment of this river.
The farmland cultivated by the Scythians on both sides of the river thousands of years ago is still dotted here and there. Especially in the area that is about to flow into the Leizhu Sea, there are even traces of rice cultivation.
"What a waste, what a waste!" Lu Sanlang's eyes lit up and he kept mumbling.
The lower reaches of the Yaoxishui River are much richer than those around the Yanran Mountains where tens of thousands of nomadic households live. These Ogus people don't know how to farm at all, and they are simply ruining the place.
Lu Sanlang decided who would like to stay in Yanran Mountain. He would take Yulizi, Luktu and all the divination people to move here and settle down. After ten or twenty years of recuperation, he could continue to let his children go there.
Go west to occupy a better place.
"The Great Protector, please serve as the vanguard, defeat the Creek tribe, capture the chieftain alive and return."
Bai Congxin looked at Lu Sanlang with a smile, "You are a killer who knows how to choose a place. Who would have thought that there would be a piece of Jiangnan beyond the Great Wall around Lei Zhuhai. With a little cultivation, there would be at least six to seven million acres of fertile land.
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Lu Sanlang chuckled, probably because he saw such a good place at once, his mind was a little better than usual.
"Of course I can't occupy such a good place by myself. We, the fortune tellers, are responsible for killing enemies for the saint and occupying this good place for the imperial court to immigrate to in the future."
What is called imperial immigration is actually the result of Zhang Shengren and his disciples being young. The population of the Central Plains is not abundant, and it is impossible to achieve large-scale immigration without explosive growth in more than ten or twenty years.
At present, in the river, the Xiajun Yi people can only be more than 40,000 herdsmen pulled out by Bai Congxin, cooperating with thousands of Han people.
Under Lu Sanlang's control, he could mobilize more than 40,000 herdsmen from 5,000 households.
As well as Li Congde, the crown prince of the Jin Kingdom in Khotan, he was able to take away more than 100,000 people from Khotan.
Among them, Bai Congxin would occupy the area from Shiguo City to Baishui City and establish the Bai Kingdom as an outer vassal.
Li Congde led his troops and civilians out of Ningyuan (Fergana Basin) to establish the outer vassal Jin Kingdom around Samarkand.
Lu Sanlang went to the area where Yaoxishui was injected into Lei Zhuhai (Aral Sea) and established a principality as an outpost.
As for the core cities such as Bukhara, they were basically assigned to Zhang Xianyu, the second son of the emperor.
Zhang Xianyu is now almost fifteen years old. It is estimated that in five or six years, he will arrive in the river with a large amount of resources given by the emperor.
But before that, the three countries will be the horns of each other. With the support of the imperial court, they will continue to weaken Saman Persia, accept the people from all over the country, rely on the Six Methods Sect to build their identity, wait for the population of the Central Plains to recover, and then swallow this piece of the river in one go.
A land of wealth.
"Go!" Bai Congxin waved his hand, "How come a saint still wants to give the position of a grand duke?"
Now Zhang Zhou, a foreign vassal for Xia Jun and Yi people, has also come up with a title system.
From top to bottom, it is divided into six levels: the king, the grand duke, the prince, the uncle, the pacifier, and the pacifier.
Among them, the three levels of Chinese king, grand duke, and prince are the lords of the vassal state, and the following three levels are the lords of the vassal town.
According to the law, the king of the country can petition the imperial court to be granted the title of Fang Bo, pacification envoy, or subduing envoy. The grand duke can invite the pacification envoy or the subduing envoy. The princes can only take care of themselves.
With Lu Saburo's qualifications and status, he was quite satisfied to be able to obtain a grand dukedom, so he happily led the troops as the vanguard.
On September 13th, Bai Congxin and others broke through many obstacles and found the large tent of the Creek tribe more than 20 miles northeast of Lei Zhuhai.
The frightened Chief Talib of the Creek tribe asked for help from the remaining three tribes of the Ogus Yehu Kingdom at the cost of ceding half of the pasture.
Although the Ogusi Yehuguo fought endlessly with each other over the pasture, they still knew the truth of the death of lips and teeth.
On September 20th, the remaining three divisions gathered 50,000 cavalry and arrived at the battlefield under the leadership of Daye Hudanusimi.
Before, Bai Congxin tried to attack Zeng, but in order to survive, the Creeks launched a very tenacious fighting force, and Bai Congxin was unable to conquer it quickly.
At this time, seeing the overwhelming situation, he led his army back to the south bank of Yaoshashui and faced off with the Ogus Yehu army, which totaled more than 60,000 people.
This place is a full 1,300 miles away from Baishui City. Bai Congxin led an army of 30,000 people, so supplies were very difficult.
As for Ye Hu and the other four troops, they were fighting on the mainland, with convenient supplies and waiting for work. Naturally, they were happy to follow Bai Congxin and had no desire to cross the river to attack.
The two sides faced off for more than ten days, and suddenly a thunderbolt struck Yehudanu Simil's ears.
It turned out that during the ten days of confrontation between the two sides, Bai Congxin sent Lu Sanlang and his son Lu Ketu to lead 3,000 elite cavalry, bypassing Ye Hu's army, and galloped for more than 500 miles in three days and nights. Under the leadership of his guide,
, Zhica Yehu Department is also the capital of the entire Ogus Yehu Kingdom-Yangjigan.
In this battle, because Ye Hu took all the elite soldiers in the country to Fei, Yang Jiqian was extremely empty.
Lu Sanlang went into battle in person, and his father and son rushed together to kill the last tens of thousands of armed herdsmen who came to relieve the siege outside Yangjigan City.
Beheaded more than 7,000 people, killed more than 20 high-ranking aristocratic officers from various tribes, such as Yinale (tribal prince) and Subash (general in charge of the army), and hundreds of large and small officers.
After entering the city, they captured and killed Yehudanu Ximi's uncle, Yehuguo Adebei (prime minister) Ji La, and captured princesses from various tribes and more than 300 nobles. Even Yehudanu Ximi's mother and aunt were captured.
snatch away.
The rest seized gold and silver utensils and silver coins worth hundreds of thousands of gold, 3,000 cattle, 10,000 camels, and war horses, 400,000 sheep, and more than 40,000 healthy women.
Then Lu Sanlang set a fire and burned Yangjigan into ruins.
When Danushmi received the news from his brother who had narrowly escaped from the confrontation at the front line, he was so furious that he almost fainted.
He was about to order a retreat at that time, but was quickly stopped by his inner circle, because if he retreated at this time, the news would definitely be leaked, and then the Zhou army would start to pursue him, which would cause big trouble.
But now there are only two ways before Dhanushmi.
Either lead his trusted followers, three to five thousand elite cavalry, to run back quietly, and if they can intercept Lu Sanlang, they can snatch back what was taken away. Even if they can't snatch it back, they can still ensure their own safety and basic base.
Because although Lu Sanlang took a big grab, there were nearly 400,000 herdsmen in the Yehu tribe, so the basic base was still there.
There is another option, which is to block the news, and then bring the other three troops to cross the river to fight against the Zhou army.
First defeat the main force on the other side of the river, and then encircle and capture the Zhou army, which can't run fast and doesn't follow martial ethics. It comes to deceive and attack by surprise.
Danushmi chose the latter without hesitation, not because he was sure of victory, but because of other considerations.
It's very simple. The Zhou people were very fierce, but they were outsiders and they couldn't kill Danushmi.
But the other three tribes, well, it should be the other two tribes, because after the Creek tribe was killed and captured 20,000 men in Hushui City, they were also on the verge of destruction.
But the other two tribes still have hundreds of thousands of herdsmen each. If Danushimi ran back like this, then after the destruction of Yangjigan, the Yehu tribe would be only slightly stronger than the two tribes, but weaker than the two tribes.
It adds up.
How can that be done! The laws of the grassland are cruel. When the time comes, Danuximi's power will plummet, and the position of Ye Hu is originally recommended. Once the Zhou people leave, these two groups will definitely rise up to kill him.
It's better to block the news now and take them to the Zhou people to die, no, that's desperate!
What is this called? This is called preferring to be with friends rather than domestic slaves!
I would rather let Zhou people get a big deal than let these two movies go unscathed.
So on the fourth day of October, in the freezing cold wind, Danuxi led 50,000 people, prepared tens of thousands of sheepskin rafts, and forcibly crossed the river to attack Bai Congxin's 20,000 people.
When Bai Congxin saw it, he knew that it was probably Lu Sanlang who had succeeded, so he quickly led his troops back to a hill on the south bank of the river that he had selected long ago.
Ye Hu's army saw the Zhou army retreating and did not dare to attack even halfway across the river. He was immediately overjoyed and quickly crossed the river to entangle. Nearly ten thousand cavalry entangled the more than a thousand horse troops behind the Zhou army. They fought with each other all the way to the enemy three or four miles away from the river.
At the hillside.
Bai Congxin huddled his entire army on a hillock. It seemed that they were surrounded and unable to move. However, in fact, only the north and west sides of this hillock had gentle slopes and could be attacked. It had a geographical advantage.
Bai Congxin left only 6,000 fine cavalry as a reserve force, while the rest of the army dismounted and held strong bows and crossbows, forming a large array of bows and crossbows to defend.
On the sixth day of the tenth month, Danuxi secretly ordered the army to surround the mountain and attack. The Zhou army occupied a favorable location and fired thousands of arrows. Ye Hujun did not have much iron armor at all, which could withstand the shooting of strong bows and crossbows.
The two sides fought from the end of Chenshi (9 a.m.) to the end of Noon (1 p.m.). The Zhou army had not yet used up all their arrows, but Ye Hujun had injured thousands of people, and his morale was extremely low.
The leaders of various ministries, big and small, all said that the Zhou army was invincible with bows and crossbows, and begged Ye Hu to lead his army to evacuate.
At this moment, Bai Congxin ordered Chen Tingxiao, Li Jixie, Shi Shouxin, Li Chongju, Dang Jin, Luo Yangui and other brave generals to swoop down from the mountain with thousands of horses each.
Danushmi quickly ordered all the armies to form formations and fight back with bows and arrows, hoping to replicate the Zhou army's fighting style.
However, the Oghuz people's bows were too weak and did not have many iron arrowheads, so they could not penetrate the Zhou army's iron armor at all.
The Zhou army shot Ye Hujun with one arrow, and Ye Hujun basically lost its combat effectiveness. Ye Hujun shot twenty arrows at the Zhou cavalry, but it was hard to hurt anyone.
So as soon as the battle started, within a quarter of an hour, the Great Zhou cavalry rushed into the formation of Ye Hujun's archers.
Only one member of the party was able to kill dozens of people with iron weapons in hand. The rest of the generals also fought from left to right, killing without calculation.
Ye Hujun was unable to resist at all and was directly penetrated through the camp. The 50,000-strong army suddenly suffered a landslide.
Dayehu Danu Ximi and dozens of his followers hugged the necks of their horses and waded through the poisonous water in the cold wind. They only escaped with their own lives.
More than 4,000 of the 50,000-strong army he led were killed and 24,000 were captured.
After that, the Zhou army pursued the defeated army and fought back to the vicinity of Fencheng City. They killed thousands of cavalry from various departments, broke through and burned Fencheng City, captured livestock, hundreds of thousands of people, and filled forty carriages with treasures. They won the victory.
And return.
More than 200 noble officers and officers from the head of the Wotanna tribe and below were killed, and more than 100 nobles from various tribes from the chief of the Creek tribe to Talib were made prisoners.
Including Talib's nine-year-old son Selkirk, who was also captured alive.