Chapter 809 I, An Sicun, am envious of my real name
Author: Middle-aged paper tiger
Chapter 809 I, An Sicun, am envious of my real name
In Jhasa (Jokhang Temple), dozens of Han and Tibetan monks are creating a mural.
At the same time, Gu Hongzhong, who came with the army and was good at large-scale calligraphy and painting from Zhangtai, was also painting on rice paper several feet long.
This painting became extremely famous more than a thousand years later and was regarded as a famous painting that showed the unity of the Han and Tibetan peoples. It was called Zanpu Benfo, also called Zanpu Protected by the Supreme Heaven.
On the left side of the scroll, Zanpu Triwang Xuzan is riding on a sacred white horse, wearing golden armor, and opens his hands like a baby when it sees its parents, asking for a hug.
On the right side of the scroll, gorgeous golden light shines down from high in the sky. Rays of golden light are as gentle as the hands of parents kissing their children.
Under the golden light, dozens of monks of different shapes are depicted extremely vividly.
Some of them were knocking on wooden fish and chanting sutras and praying, some were turning their drums and drums with encouragement, and some were holding pipa and harp playing music to welcome them.
There is also a weapon in hand that looks like a glaring King Kong, which is to intimidate the ghost behind Zamp.
Not far from Zanpu's side, two Vajras with Buddha's light emanating from their bodies, holding demon-conquering pestles and spinning golden wheels, were attacking the ghosts chasing Zanpu.
One of them has the body of a snow lion and the other has the body of a white yak, symbolizing the loyal followers of the Liufa Sect in Tubo.
Behind Zamp, various demons wearing terrifying masks were roaring. They stretched out their long black hands and sent out ghost soldiers wrapped in black robes, trying to drag Zamp back into hell.
At this moment, underneath the scroll Zanpu, a god general was wearing silver-white armor, a silver phoenix-winged helmet, and a colorful hada. He was holding a bright silver spear, leaping into the air, and was killing those who wanted to Zanpu.
The ghost that Pu dragged back.
At the same time, behind this divine general, there are countless smaller divine generals, who are continuously bursting out from the Buddha's light and killing the devil together.
At this time, at the top of the scroll, the eagle in the sky is also catching the ghosts from the sky with a little golden light.
At the bottom of the scroll, numerous snow leopards, snow wolves, snow foxes, Tibetan antelopes, black yaks, long-haired Tibetan sheep and other animals unique to Tibet are depicted as converted mountain spirits and earth spirits.
They also held various weapons and were glowing with golden light, helping the gods and generals to kill ghosts and monsters together.
Further away, there are countless believers cheering or worshiping, which fully shows who finally won this battle.
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The Potala Palace is divided into the White House and the Red Palace. The White House handles government affairs and is a residence for Zamp, while the Red Palace is mainly used for religious purposes.
After Langdama destroyed the Buddha, the role of the Red Palace began to decline. When the Tubo Empire collapsed, it became the residence of members of the Zanpu family.
Lun Boren stood in the main hall of the White House. Zanpu's family members in the Red Palace were also moved away. The monks of the Liufa Sect had already renovated the Red Palace.
Yesterday's battle quickly became a one-sided situation. Lu Hui and other five political groups were completely unable to work together, so they were quickly defeated one by one.
The heads of Lu Hui's family were beheaded on the spot, and two to three thousand of the family's private soldiers were killed and injured. Among them, almost all the armor soldiers were wiped out, and the losses were extremely heavy.
The other four private soldiers were also defeated, but Lun Boren had made a plan in advance to focus on the Lu Hui family, so the damage to the other four families was not very serious.
As for why I chose to beat up the Lu Hui family, it was because their family was the most powerful and deeply involved with the Bon religion.
The most important point is that the Chen family has the largest share in the Lu Hui family political group.
As for the Chen family, as one of the four nobles of Tubo, Shang is simply a family of relatives. Tubo Zanpu has always chosen Zhu Meng (the first wife) from these four families, except for marrying princesses from the Tang Dynasty.
(Concerning Princess Chizun of Nepal, modern research shows that it is most likely that when Tantra was introduced to the plateau from the Ngari area, the monks from Tianzhu came up with it for the purpose of raising their own status.)
And strangely, there is no mention of Princess Wencheng and Princess Jincheng in the Tang Dynasty.
It can be seen that these four companies are so powerful that they have been able to monopolize the crotch of all Zamps in the past, and even heroes like Songtsen Gampo are no exception.
Among the four nobles, the Chen family had the greatest hatred against the Zhang Sheng family and the Lun family, because the Chen family had been stationed in Longyou for a long time and attacked the Tang Dynasty.
Now, except for the fiefdom in Shannan area, most of their family's largest sphere of influence has been taken over by Dazhou and turned into the territory of Huangshui Prefecture, and the smaller half is occupied by Lunbo Ren and his family.
Blocking people's way of making money, such as killing their parents, so the Chen family cannot recruit them at all, and they cannot be trusted even if they recruit them. They must be eliminated, while the other four families can be fought for.
As a result, the remaining four families also injured thousands of people, two families had their heads captured, and the other two families escaped.
Lunbo Ren and Langjie Jiangcuo looked at each other, discussed with Li Xiaojie for a while, and decided to temporarily let Langjie Jiangcuo, who was older, more flexible, and better at handling government affairs, take the lead and give orders.
Of course, the underlying reason is that Langjie Jiangcuo's daughter Langyi is now the emperor's favorite concubine.
At the same time, Langjie Jiangcuo was born in the Sun Bo family, which was a wealthy family in Tubo. At the same time, his maternal ancestor was Cai Bang, one of the famous Suru, and he came from the same family as the maternal ancestor of the current Zanpu Triwang Xuzan.
If people talk about it, the relationship is still that of cousin-nephew and cousin-uncle.
With such a relationship, Langjie Jiangcuo is the most suitable choice at present.
And this moment is also the most dangerous moment.
Because you didn't win the logic points, no one will take you seriously. But if you win the logic points and control Zamp, you will immediately become the target of public criticism. The real war is coming soon, and you must unite the command first.
At this time, Lunbo Ren and others could only rely on the Six Methods Sect and the more than 10,000 cavalry, and then recruit a group of warriors from yesterday's Lezi people to strengthen their defense.
They need to hold on until next May, that is, after the ice and snow on the plateau begins to melt, and wait for the court to send important ministers and more important religious figures to Luoshang to complete the integration of the plateau.
Who told them that they were progressing too fast? Originally, their ten thousand men were planning to capture Nagqu and stay on the spot, waiting for at least ten thousand elites from the imperial court to arrive before entering Logos.
But now that he has entered the logic directly, he has to face a more dangerous situation.
The greater the risk, the greater the reward.
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If the logical question is to wait for someone to make a decision, then in Bukhara, Saleh really hoped that the emir's father, Hamid, who had been speechless, would suddenly stand up.
Come and teach him what to do?
In the fifth year of Shaoming Dynasty, on February 13th, when the weather began to change, the ice and snow in the river area receded, and the temperature began to warm up, Shiguocheng once again faced a great crisis.
This time, the Zhou army that set out from Talos and Baishui City almost came out in full force.
Not only did the 50,000 regular army dispatched more than 40,000, but Bai Congxin also sent out 60,000 cavalry among the 60,000 herdsmen brought by Bai Congxin from 40,000 households in Moxi and 60,000 households in Zubu and Yefugui.
This was a total of 110,000 troops. They swept down from the north, and in just a few days, they captured more than 20 towns, large and small, in the Qilchik River Valley where Shiguo City was located.
The more than 500,000 stones of grain that Amir, the governor of Shiguocheng, had not had time to transfer, all fell into the hands of the Zhou army.
On February 24, the Zhou army drove tens of thousands of people outside Shiguo City to fill up the trenches outside the city and dig river channels to divert the water from the Chirchik River.
The excavated soil was piled outside the city to form an earth wall that was almost as high as the city wall. Catapults, crash carts, gunpowder, etc. were all ready.
Amir, the governor of Shiguocheng, sent envoys to Bukhara like crazy. In the end, he almost begged Bukhara to send reinforcements to rescue Shiguocheng.
As for surrendering to the Zhou army, even if you give Amir a hundred courages now, he won't dare to surrender. Do you really think that I, Bai Dadu, have a terrifying reputation of massacring 100,000 people in a month just for exaggerating?
Moreover, Amir has learned from his past mistakes.
Two hundred years ago, the king of Shiguo thought that surrendering would save his life. As a result, he was escorted to Chang'an by Gao Xianzhi to be executed. His daughter Jinsikeya became Gao Xianzhi's concubine. The strong men and women in Shiguo City were used to transport baggage, leaving all the old and weak.
put to death.
With such a negative example, Amir would not dare to surrender even if he killed him, and neither would the soldiers in the city, so they could only ask for help from Bukhara.
But this was just like last year, there was a huge quarrel in the forbidden city of Bukhara, but Saleh could not make a decision at all.
In his eyes, the people of Zhou were certainly hateful, but Amir made him feel even more disgusting. He wished that both parties would perish together. It was really difficult to make a choice.
Time dragged on until mid-March, when Bai Congxin led his troops to capture the outer city of Shiguo City.
The deputy governor of Ningyuan, Lao Zhang Zhong, ordered Xue Shouli, the military envoy of Ningyuan, to lead 20,000 troops and tens of thousands of civilians to march down the river to deliver armor and arrows to the besieged Bai Congxin.
, medicinal materials, etc.
Seeing that the Zhou people were already trying to open up the connection between Juzhan and Shiguocheng, Saleh became anxious. He launched a nationwide mobilization and appointed General Abu Yusuf as Salar, the commander-in-chief of the army.
Needless to say, Samampos's mobilization ability at this time is quite good.
After Saleh issued a mobilization order in the name of Hamid Emir, the Samanid Dynasty mobilized 15,000 gulam armored infantry, 600 Iqta knights and their elite cavalry within a month.
Twelve thousand, and a standing army of thirty thousand Olias.
There are also 30,000 levied troops from Mutawa as auxiliaries, the total number is close to 90,000, known as 200,000.
At this time, the towering Kangju Mountains separated Shiguo City and Kangju City in Samampos.
After Amir, the governor of Shiguocheng, attempted to establish himself on his own, Samambas built the Jeddah Fortress on the north bank of the mountain to prevent Shiguocheng's rangers from going south to Kangju City.
So this time they sent troops, Saman Persia's 90,000-strong army first gathered at Jeddah Fortress, and then prepared to march north to Shiguocheng to lift the siege of Shiguocheng by the Zhou army.
However, it's all too late.
If they had arrived a month and a half earlier and the Zhou army had not yet completely controlled the towns and ferries on the north bank of the Yaosha River, then the Saman Persian army could have calmly crossed the Yaosha River and headed north to relieve the siege.
But at this time, when they were still gathered at the Jeddah Fortress, the Yaosha Water Floating Bridge had long been destroyed, and all the warships controlled by the Governor's Mansion in Shiguocheng were captured by the Zhou army.
More than 12,000 of the 20,000 troops that Xue Shouli brought from Juzhanti were naval troops. With their presence, it was extremely difficult for the Samanid-Persian army to survive the killing waters.
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At the foot of Shiguo City, Bai Congxin was also a little anxious.
It has been a year and a half since the troops were dispatched. Homesickness has spread throughout the army, all the soldiers have become rich, and their willingness to fight has dropped very quickly.
More importantly, despite the fact that he now has an army of 110,000, including those brought by Xue Shouli, there are a full 130,000, but the real elites among them are only more than 30,000.
If we cannot capture Shiguo City as soon as possible and wait until Samampos's army rushes to Shiguo City, we will be passive. If we are forced to withdraw our troops, it will be almost impossible to have such a good opportunity to break through Shiguo City.
In any case, Saman Persia was also a prosperous country in the middle of the river, with relatively developed iron smelting and handicraft industries. Even if they poured out their country, they could still produce at least 30,000 soldiers.
This is a very impressive force in the river, and it is also a difficult opponent for the current Zhou army.
With their support, it is destined that there will no longer be such an opportunity to quickly conquer the north of Yaosha Shui before the imperial army comes eastward.
There is no other way. In this case, I, the Protector Bai, can only resort to the method of massacre.
Without this trick, it would be impossible to fully mobilize the enthusiasm of soldiers thousands of miles away from their homeland.
Not to mention the miscellaneous names he brought with him, even elites such as the Great Zhou's pro-army Yu Linwei and the Forbidden Army Hanhai Town came, and I'm afraid they would have to be rewarded with looting.
Hu Guang saw Bai Congxin's thoughts and took the initiative to say: "Let the auxiliary soldiers from the Six Ten Thousand Households take action. The rest of the elite cannot let them kill people freely, otherwise it will be difficult to control them in the future.
There are about 20,000 men in the city left for a certain person and sent to Suiye. The men will be serfs and the women will be given in marriage to the Han people who have settled in Suiye."
Bai Congxin nodded, "That's good. The auxiliary soldiers who went into the city and killed people just left tens of thousands to guard Shiguo City.
I will go and discuss with Xue Shouli and ask him to move 3,000 households from Ningyuan for us. Anyway, it will be convenient to travel with medicine and water."
On March 22nd, before the Saman Persian army could survive the killing, Bai Congxin used the massacre of the city as a temptation to encourage his soldiers to attack the city.
At the same time, Xue Shouli brought a certain number of craftsmen so that Bai Congxin could repair the already overwhelmed catapults and then use them to bombard the inner city.
On March 25, the army finally captured the inner city of Shiguocheng. Tens of thousands of auxiliary soldiers swarmed into the city and captured alive the governor of Shiguocheng, Amir, his wife, his children, nieces, and dozens of others. They also beheaded more than a hundred officers including General Mahmoud of Shiguocheng.
, the number of casualties exceeded 15,000 soldiers.
Subsequently, auxiliary soldiers from six tribes and ten thousand households looted the city, killing more than 20,000 unlucky people in Shiguo City, plundering mountains of gold and silver, and capturing more than 20,000 strong men and healthy women.
However, they can only get a small part of this gold and silver, and most of it must be handed over to the main force allocated to the army.
As soon as Shiguo City was captured, Bai Congxin immediately led the main reinforcements to kill the riverside. Until now, Samampos's army was still unable to cross the river under the harassment of Xue Shouli's more than 10,000 naval troops.
Seeing that Shiguo City had been captured and the Zhou army was in good order, after the two sides faced off at Yao Kill Shui for more than 20 days, Saman Persia Grand Salar Abu Yusuf had no choice but to retreat. He simply gave up Yao Kill Shui and defended Kang.
Jeddah Fortress at the foot of the mountain.
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An Sicun followed a group of colleagues and wandered slowly on the streets of Shiguocheng. The streets that had just been looted still had the smell of blood coming from nowhere.
In the past, the smell of blood was not noticeable in the city after looting, because the more obvious smell of smoke would suppress the smell of blood, and the raging fire would also quickly dry the blood.
However, Shiguocheng only experienced a certain degree of massacre because Gongbai Congxin of Kucha County had been arranged to build the country here, so there was no need to destroy the city.
More than 20,000 people were killed before and after this, which was not considered a large number of killings in a place like the river.
Several Zubu herdsmen laughed and grabbed the hands of a young Shiguo woman on the street. The woman's frightened screams attracted the attention of An Sicun and others.
As the team stepped forward, a few flying kicks kicked these herdsmen staggering around, and then ran away in despair.
However, this was not an attack of the captain's sense of justice, but an arrangement in advance. The mission of these herdsmen as auxiliary soldiers was to enter the city to kill people, then loot, and finally get a small part of the loot.
By this time, the massacre and looting had long ended, and everything in Shiguo City belonged to them, the elites, including the women who had been taken advantage of by these herdsmen, and they also belonged to them.
The woman was very good-looking. Judging from her torn clothes, she was once the daughter of a wealthy family. Moreover, she was very smart. She immediately hugged the captain's thigh and kept rubbing and pleading.
As a result, several colleagues who originally wanted to follow him and touch them stopped immediately when they saw this.
The captain’s surname was Zeng. He was a tooth soldier of the Anguo Army in Xingzhou. His situation was similar to that of the famous unlucky man Luo Yangui.
When the Khitan people invaded the south, the army was resisting desperately in Xingzhou, and even took the lives of his wife and son. He finally managed to get through to the founding of the Zhou Dynasty, but he foolishly followed his boss to Hedong to seek refuge with Liu Zhiyuan.
Then, there was no more. After Liu Zhiyuan's defeat, the team was in dire straits until Yao Yuanfu selected him to participate in the Western Expedition.
Captain Zeng gently lifted the woman's chin, and his eyes suddenly lit up. No wonder this little lady refused to leave even at the risk of being beaten by elites like them.
Her eyes were as curved as crescent moons, her teeth were as white as white shells, and her small mouth was bright red. She looked at Captain Zheng pleadingly, and her big wet eyes made Captain Zheng, who was so talented, unable to help but get angry.
compassion.
"An Si, go with me. I still don't understand what this little lady is saying."
An Sicun is not actually Han Chinese. His ancestors are Sogdians who came to the Tang Dynasty during the Yonghui period. Even now, An Sicun's eyes are still a little gray.
But you must not ask him if he is a Sogdian, because maybe he will pull out a knife and stab you.
This may be because the ancestral genes were stimulated. An Sicun learned the Turkic language commonly used in the river very quickly, and now he is no different from the locals.
Zeng Duizheng could speak a few words, but he couldn't speak well, so he called An Sicun along.
Everyone noisily asked the woman to take them home. This was an order given by the governor of Kucha County. Those of them who were willing to stay in Shiguo City could choose any woman in the city and live directly in her home.
Naturally, it depends on your own interests whether the girl's family will become your slaves, or whether you marry this girl out of kindness to give them a slightly higher status.
The woman's home was not far away. It was indeed a wealthy family, similar to the Sanjin Courtyard in Han Dynasty. When the woman brought people in, seven or eight people knelt down inside the door.
Among the first two, one is a woman who is slightly milfish, but still looks plump.
The other one is a somewhat evasive girl wearing a flowery hat. As for the others, they look like they are originally servants of the family.
Captain Zeng was staring dumbfoundedly at the evasive little girl in the distance who was no more than fifteen or sixteen years old. An Sicun felt that Captain Zeng was salivating because this girl was even more beautiful.
"Gudong!" Someone swallowed, and Captain Zeng immediately became jealous. He even coaxed and scolded everyone, except An Sicun, and kicked them out.
The woman pointed at the people in the house and babbling. Sure enough, these three women were the masters and the other six were servants.
Moreover, the woman who looked a little older, but still had some charm, was not the mother of these two women, but their sister-in-law.
As for the men in this family, their father and brother were forcibly recruited by Amir, the governor of Shiguo City, to defend the city. The former died on the city wall, and the latter had been tied up and was about to be distributed to broken leaves.
"Hahahaha. What a blessing from God! A certain Zeng Erlang has been suffering all his life, and finally got his fortune!" Captain Zeng laughed three times, and then pointed a domineering finger.
"This is the family, and I will be the man of this family from now on.
Ansi, don't be picky, just be a neighbor with Yeye, and I will go and ask the medicine man again, no matter what, he will give you and me an official position in this Shiguocheng."
‘Made, this thief slave is really lucky!’ An Sicun couldn’t help but cursed in his heart.
Families with surviving relatives are the easiest to manipulate because they still have concerns and do not dare to go to extremes.
Moreover, these three women are sisters-in-law, with good looks and figures, so they would be sleeping together at night.
It was fucked by a dog, how fucking good it was!
Captain Zeng was still promising benefits, because he had to beg An Sicun to help him practice simple Turkic dialect, otherwise it would be difficult to communicate. An Sicun's eyes were red with envy.
The Duke of Qiuci County gave them such elite soldiers, or killers who were very suitable to be colonists, and promised each person a thousand acres of land and ten households of serfs.
Now, An Sicun only needs to find a family with similar conditions to the one Captain Zeng is encountering, and that will be perfect.
A sour fake cheer erupted outside the house. A group of people were saying congratulations and asking Captain Zeng to eat roasted lamb and drink wine, but their eyes were peeking into the house.
Captain Zeng didn't want to be fooled by them, so he asked the young lady in the house to move a stool and block the door with a big sword.
Beat him to death. He won't go out to drink with these killers tonight. Who knows if he comes back drunk, there will be less people in the house.
No, I wrote too much yesterday, but today my mind is completely empty and I can’t write anything anymore.