Ju Zhan Ti City, the sound of killings in the Governor's Mansion was loud. When Yan Jin personally led his men and took Salah hostage into the city, a plan to trap and kill all the officers in the city began.
Almost all Persian officers above the centurion level were summoned to the governor's palace, saying that the newly arrived Hakeem was going to entertain and reward them. In fact, what was waiting for them was a massacre.
Two hundred elite Kansandu soldiers suddenly attacked dozens of officers, and almost without any reaction, these officers were all hunted down and killed.
Immediately afterwards, the soldiers of Hanshandu killed and dispersed the officers and soldiers in the outer courtyard of the Governor's Palace. Finally, under the command of Yan Jin, in strict accordance with the design when entering the city, they occupied each city head and key points one by one in divided areas.
Everyone in Persia, let alone resistance, would be shot mercilessly even if they stood up. Those who could survive were all afraid to move.
As for why Salah was not allowed to directly open the city gate and receive it peacefully, Zhang Zhao never considered it, nor did Yan Jin.
Juzhanti is really important to Zhang Zhao. Only with Juzhanti can he implement the next plan, which is to use Prince Hamid to usurp the throne to gain benefits, and there is no room for error.
Of course, there is another important reason. If the city gate is opened, the thousands of Persian troops and 20,000 to 30,000 Persians in the city will be considered to have surrendered. If they are captured by surprise, these Persians will be captured.
Those who take refuge must be fed with military rations and treated well, but there is no need for prisoners.
After winning Juzhanti, Zhang Zhao still had to build a series of water conservancy projects in Bakhna to deal with the annual Yaoxashui and the spring snowmelt floods of the Solon River.
We also need to build a series of fortresses in the Juzhanti area. We can't let our own people do these life-threatening hard work!
"Set the divine fire and thunder! Let Pei Shengyuan and others enter the city!" After personally killing the last resisting Persian officer, Yan Jin patted the shoulder of the guard beside him.
The victory of Juzhanti without the king's own troops is no less than Ma Yaozi's contribution to rescuing the three surnames of Xinqiuci and recruiting all the ministries in Beishan, right?
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On the third day of March, you will travel to work. At Mao hour, it is a good time to build a ship and take a boat.
Three miles outside the city of Thirst, by the Yaoxing River, there was a sound of gongs and drums, and sixty or seventy men tied with hemp ropes were pulled to the sand by the river and chopped down to the ground like sugar cane.
The person who was executed was a man from the Yusup family of the former governor of Bakhna of the Kara Khanate.
Moreover, it was not Zhang Zhao who ordered the execution of these men over the age of twelve, but Li Shengtian.
Yu Supu once chopped off the nose and ears of the Khotan envoy, and slapped the face of the great sage Li Shengtian. How could Li Shengtian spare him?
Not only did he personally issue an order to kill the entire Yusupu clan, he also specially transferred executioners from the royal city of Khotan.
"I sincerely wish you great success and great success in your majesty!"
An official wearing a red round-neck robe raised the wine glass in his hand. This was the special envoy sent by Li Shengtian, Anjun Prefecture Defense Envoy Ronde.
Anjun Prefecture is the prefecture where the royal city of Khotan is located. The defense envoys of Khotan are actually officials in charge of defense, public security, arrests, robbers, prison cases and other matters.
Now Li Shengtian intends to move the capital to Shule, and many civil servants who were originally in Khotan City have been greatly promoted.
Ronde was not just here to act as a special envoy, he was also here to serve as the defense envoy of Kesai City and to know about the affairs of Kesai City. This was also Zhang Zhao's initiative to request Li Shengtian.
Because there was a real shortage of officials with administrative abilities under him, he had to send people from Khotan. Otherwise, it would be impossible to carry out subsequent household registration checks, land statistics, water conservancy projects, and teaching about farming and mulberry cultivation.
"Prefect Luo, please come back! This place has been newly settled. Things cannot be controlled. We must act according to our ability. We must not delay the spring plowing this year. It is two thousand miles from Shule. The transportation of grain and grass is inconvenient. We will harvest one more grain of wheat."
, is equivalent to harvesting five more grains of wheat in Shule!"
Zhang Zhao gave detailed instructions. If the military operation against Bukhara had not forced him to go, he would not have wanted to leave.
Because the current food pressure is still very high, at least half of the food and fodder for tens of thousands of troops needs to be transferred from Khotan. If the spring plowing in Bakhna this year is delayed, it will inevitably affect subsequent military operations.
"I will obey the King's orders! I will do my best according to the King's instructions!"
Ronde quickly crossed his arms and bent down, very respectfully. In Khotan now, the orders of the Great Sage and Emperor must be obeyed, and the orders of King Zhang are also very important.
The sails of each ship were raised, and hundreds of large and small ships were flowing down the river from the newly broken ice.
This is the best opportunity. If we delay it any longer, the flood from melting snow in the mountains will come.
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Juzhanti City is actually two cities instead of one city. This city spans Yaoxishui, and there are three pontoon bridges between the two cities to connect them.
However, the city on the west bank is very small and can only be regarded as a fortress. Generally speaking, Ju Zhan Ti refers to the main city on the east bank.
Looking at the five or six meter high city wall, the protruding horse face, and the densely packed boats in the river, Zhang Zhao suddenly felt a little lucky.
Fortunately, he first sent Pei Shengyuan and Xue Shouli to find the descendants of Dongcao Kingdom, and then sent Yan Jin south.
Then Yan Jin, led by the descendants of Dongcao, bypassed Juzhanti and captured Salah, and finally deceived him into opening the city gate.
If this were not the case, I am afraid that if this city had a backbone, he would have to lead an army of 30,000 to fight for at least several months!
"Great Khan, Prince Hamid of Bukhara agreed! This is the younger brother of General Hussein, Prince Hamid's confidant. He came specifically to meet the Great Khan."
Only two days after entering Juzhanti City, Xue Shouli's younger brother Xue Sili rushed back from Bukhara.
Well, Zhang Zhao's identity is quite changeable. Internally he is King Zhang of Khotan, and externally he is Ju'er Khan with Suiye.
"Give me a seat!" Zhang Zhao waved his hand, and after the envoy from Bukhara came to bow down, he gave him a small round stool.
"It seems that Prince Hamid has finally made up his mind. Will he agree to all my conditions?"
"His Royal Highness the Prince has agreed that as long as the Great Khan can help His Highness the Prince ascend to the throne of the Emir, the treasury of Bukhara and Samarkand will belong to the Great Khan. His Highness the Prince promises that it will never be less than six
Millions of dinars!”
The dinar was the monetary unit of Saman Persia. In later generations, the legal tender of some countries in the Gulf region was still called the dinar.
At this time, Shaman Persia was minting large dinar gold coins and dinar silver coins. At this moment, the messenger did not say large dinars, but dinars, which meant that they were not gold coins but silver coins.
One dinar silver coin is approximately equal to a little more than half a pound, and six million dinars is approximately 35.6 million dollars. This reward is quite generous, and Zhang Zhao is very satisfied.
In big river cities like Bukhara and Samarkand, the annual tax revenue may be only a few hundred thousand dinars. Zhang Zhao took away the tax revenue of these two places for about five years, but Prince Hamid still managed to make the money.
"So how is Prince Hamid going to act? How do I need my warriors to cooperate?" After the price has been negotiated, it's time to figure out how to act.
"Exactly one and a half months later it will be the 29th day of fasting in Ramadan, and the next day will be our ***.
On the second day of the wedding, as usual, the emir would lead all the ministers to take a bath and burn incense outside the city, chant the main words of praise and hold a grand banquet.
If His Majesty the Great Khan’s warriors can appear on time, His Highness the Prince will offer the treasures of Bukhara and Samarkand!”
Ramadan is the ninth month in the celestial religious calendar, which is also known as the Hijri calendar in later republics.
Tianfang believers must fast this month, and the last day of September in the Tianfang religious calendar is April 27th of this year's lunar calendar, so there is only enough time to do so in one and a half months.
Zhang Zhao nodded, Prince Hamid is quite ruthless! He wants to take advantage of this attack to wipe out all the nobles in Saman Persia.
However, the difficulty is not small, because when Nasr II, the dignified emir, goes out of the city, he must have set up defenses in advance. How can Zhang Zhao lead people to lurk there? That is the time to test his ability.
"I wonder how many guards Nasr II will bring out? How is the equipment? How is the combat effectiveness? What help can Prince Hamid provide us?"
"According to past practice, the guards of Alka Forbidden City will dispatch 3,000 people to be responsible for specific protection, and there will also be about 10,000 Gulam Guards deployed outside.
However, since Prince Hamid was already under suspicion, General Hussein estimated that these Ghulam Guards were likely to be mobilized from Samarkand and other places.
In terms of equipment and combat effectiveness, the Ghulam Guards are not very strong, but the Emir's three thousand guards have very strong combat effectiveness.
All of them are equipped with iron armor, and there is also a Qianhu cavalry among them. If they cannot succeed in one blow, they can at least protect the emir back to the city.
As for His Highness the Prince, he will lead the Bukhara Gulam Guards who are loyal to him to launch an attack that day, and what needs to be solved by the Great Khan is actually His Highness the Emir's three thousand guards."
Two thousand heavy armored infantry and one thousand armored cavalry are all elites, and they are definitely not a force that can be easily eaten.
But Zhang Zhao was not afraid, because the guards of Nasr II were said to be elite, but in fact they had not been on the battlefield for a long time.
But Zhang Zhao is different here. They have been fighting for the past two years, and they are already very familiar with the cooperation between them.
Ronde also just sent 300 sets of cotton armor, which also has advantages in terms of equipment. There is no need to bring too much. Only six to seven thousand elites are needed to make Nasr II unable to escape.
The problem now is how to avoid the surrounding towns and sneak into Bukhara.
But this was Zhang Zhao's secret, and he would definitely not discuss it in front of the special envoy, so Zhang Zhao asked Guo Tiance to take him down to entertain him, while he himself invited the generals to discuss it.
"Now the general plan has been figured out. As long as we can reach the outskirts of Bukhara, we can directly kill the emir of Saman Persia!"
Guo Tiance took out the map, which Xue Sili had brought back. The three places of Jiuzhanti, Samarkand and Bukhara were clearly marked on the map.
It is about 600 miles from Juzhan to Samarkand, and less than 400 miles from Samarkand to Bukhara.
Zhang Zhao focused on Samarkand, "Prince Hamid promised, and he has already arranged the road from Juzhan to Samarkand.
At that time, we can be allowed to pass in the name of the Juzhan Ti garrison. The officials here are all from his wife's clan and his mother's clan, and are his sympathizers and supporters, so there should be no problem.
So the key point is here, the city of Serdihen located northwest of Samarkand, which is the only way from Samarkand to Bukhara.
Moreover, from here on, the officials and garrison are all confidants personally appointed by Nasr II, and it is the main road to the capital, so it must be tightly defended, and I am afraid it will be difficult for us to pass."
Everyone frowned, because it was only less than four hundred miles from Samarkand to Bukhara.
But this 400-mile journey can only be passed along the dense water. Without the dense water and the river channel of the dense water, there is endless red desert on both sides.
So in fact, there is only one way to go from Samarkand to Bukhara.
Zhang Zhao stared at the map for a long time and suddenly remembered something. In history, when Genghis Khan killed Khorezm, he seemed to have directly crossed the Kizilkum Desert, known as the Red Desert, and unexpectedly reached the city of Bukhara.
What he did was simpler than that of Genghis Khan. After Genghis Khan crossed the Kizilkum Desert, he still had to find a place to cut down trees and build siege equipment, but Zhang Zhao didn't need to. He only had to appear on the outskirts of Bukhara.
What's more, he has no experience of crossing the desert. When he first raided the capital of Zhongyun Kingdom, Muni City, he led his troops across the edge of the Taklimakan Desert.
At this time, the Kizilkum Desert is easier to cross than the Taklimakan Desert, because it has not yet turned into the terrifying red desert of later generations.
At this time, the Kizilkum Desert still has some vegetation, and the precipitation can even reach about 300 millimeters per year.
"Xue Sili, didn't someone from the descendants of the Dongcao Kingdom say last time that they had lived in the Red Desert? If you find him, you should take someone to familiarize yourself with the path in advance.
Cao Yanming and Yin Yaozi were responsible for collecting camels to build Sinan.
All the officers will go down and screen the warriors under them, and select six thousand people. The lonely king will take you directly through the Red Desert and defeat the Samandro Persians in one battle."
This chapter has been completed!