Yangji Bali was called "Changbala City" by the Han people in the Yuan Dynasty, and was transliterated as "Changbala City" in the Ming Dynasty. In Mongolian, it means "city of nomadic and plantation lands".
The city covers an area of 1,000 acres, which is equivalent to five Wang Yuan's houses in the capital.
It is already considered a big city in the Western Region, but there are others much smaller than this.
Take Chiting, which was robbed by Wang Yuan around the city, for example. It covers an area of 30 acres, which is the size of several standard football fields, and is only one-seventh of the size of the Wang family's house in the capital. That thing can be considered a military at best.
The fortress is already very crowded with thousands of soldiers inside, and the city walls can be densely packed.
The cities in the Western Regions are mainly populated by nobles, guards, servants, craftsmen, merchants and a small number of common people. However, small cities like Chiting City don't even have many common people, and they are almost equivalent to the lord's private castle.
The lords of Turpan have ruled this place for nearly a hundred years.
The people and soldiers may be extremely poor, but the noble lords are very wealthy. The wealth plundered in the past century, as well as the gold and silver moved from Aksu, are all piled up in the city at this time, just waiting for Wang Yuan to lead his people
Come and grab it!
In broad daylight, Wang Yuan was showing off his acting skills.
Ya Mulan was running in front with eight hundred cavalry, wearing the uniforms of Turpan soldiers. No extra makeup was needed. They were surrendered Turpan cavalry. They had been sleeping in the open for days and running for long distances. Their clothes were already dirty. Just get some livestock blood.
Going up, you will see a group of bereaved dogs that were killed and fled in panic.
Wang Yuan led other cavalry units in a frantic pursuit. After encountering pastures and plantations, he immediately stopped the pursuit and instead liberated slaves and robbed Turpan of livestock and grain.
The few young men in Turpan who did not go out with the army, as well as the old, weak, women and children who could ride horses, subconsciously followed Ya Mulan to escape.
When Ya Mulan arrived outside Bali City in Yangji, not only was she in a state of embarrassment, but she was also followed by hundreds of local refugees.
"Open the city gate quickly, the Han army and the Mongols are coming!" Ya Mulan shouted from outside the city.
Almost all the cavalry in the city were transferred, leaving only a small number of garrison troops to maintain law and order and protect the lord's property. The garrison asked at the top of the city: "Who are you?"
Yamulan's face was stained with blood, and she made up a random name and said: "I am Yachamo from Liucheng, and I followed Sutan to conquer Hami. The Hami people actually colluded with Xiaolietu and attacked our soldiers from both front and back. Sutan defeated their coalition.
, and led us to chase us to the grassland, but we were ambushed by the Troos Alliance!"
"Did Sutan lose?" the guard asked in surprise.
Ya Mulan said: "Although Sutan was defeated, the main force is still there and has withdrawn from the direction of Hami. However, my troops were chased by the Mongols, chasing them all the way from the grassland to here. They were plundering everywhere not far behind.
.Hurry and open the city gate, otherwise the enemy is coming!"
The guard was so confused that it was difficult to make a decision for a while.
At this time, a local refugee shouted: "I am Humamu who manages the plantation for the Hittite Fire Lord. The Mongolian steppe cavalry really came to kill, and the Fire Lord's plantation was also plundered. They have many cavalry,
There are at least several thousand people, please open the city gate quickly."
Hittite the Fireman was one of the sons of the city lord. The guard immediately no longer had any doubts and immediately ordered the door to be opened to let them in.
"How many enemies are there?" the guard asked.
Ya Mulan replied: "At least four to five thousand!"
The guard general was worried: "I'm afraid it will be difficult to defeat him."
Ya Mulan said: "It's okay. Yangji Bali City is so tall that those Mongolian cavalry can't get in."
The guard general said with a sad face: "Of course it is easy to defend the city, but the pastures and plantations of the fire masters outside the city will probably be robbed by these damn barbarians."
Wang Yuan was indeed robbing wildly. He divided the remaining troops into two and robbed them all around the city. In total, he rescued more than 800 slaves, captured more than 2,000 women and children, and harvested more than 4,000 various livestock.
It's a pity that there aren't many horses among them.
It was not until evening that Wang Yuan led his troops to besiege the city.
The guard general was surprised and said: "These barbarians actually robbed the goods and refused to leave. Do they want to attack the city?"
Ya Mulan comforted: "Definitely not, maybe it's to scare us."
"They are really coming!" The guard quickly organized a defense.
Ya Mulan said: "I will help you defend the city."
The guard said gratefully: "Thank you, my friend, you..."
Only halfway through speaking, Ya Mulan drew out her scimitar and slit his throat with incomparable accuracy.
"Kill!" Ya Mulan's eight hundred soldiers launched an unexpected surprise attack on the defenders in the city.
In the blink of an eye, Ya Mulan had taken control of the city gate and put thousands of Wang Yuan's troops into the city.
"Except for the craftsmen, kill all the men in the city!" Wang Yuan led a group of exhausted soldiers and began to commit crimes.
A hundred years ago, the ancestors of Mansu'er occupied Yangji Bali in this way. They didn't even attack the city. They only looted the outside of the city every time. After looting several times, they were even short of manpower for farming and herding. This was
Only then did they choose to attack the city and carry out a bloody massacre in the city, turning everyone in Yangji into green.
From dusk to midnight, almost every corner of the city was covered in blood, and many of them had soldiers insulting Turpan women. But Wang Yuan could not control that much anymore. He was leading people to loot the belongings of nobles and merchants. Bali City in Yangji
The savings of the past century are opening up to him.
The next morning, treasures and food were piled up like mountains.
Turpan is not short of food at all, at least the nobles are not. They are just reluctant to give it to ordinary soldiers and common people. Therefore, after missing the spring production this year, Mansuer must lead his troops to plunder, otherwise a large number of ordinary people will starve to death.
"What's your name?" Wang Yuan asked a slave.
The slave knelt down and said: "Honorable Celestial General, my name is Dao Guru. I am a Uighur born in Hami. I was kidnapped and made a slave by the damned Mansuer seven years ago."
The origins of the Uighurs are very complex. For example, the one in front of you looks more like the Han or Mongolians. Most of them believe in Buddhism. Historically, many of them refused to convert, so they moved inland to the Ming Dynasty and integrated into the local area and became the Yellow-headed Uighurs (
Sali Uyghur), gradually evolved into the Yugur ethnic group in later generations.
Wang Yuan nodded and said: "I heard that you were very brave yesterday and the other slaves were very convinced of you. Are you willing to be loyal to me?"
Dao Guru crawled over and kissed Wang Yuan's boots: "I am willing to serve the Celestial General for the rest of my life!"
"Stand up and speak." Wang Yuan said.
Dao Guru quickly stood up and stood in front of Wang Yuan with a hunched body.
Wang Yuan shouted: "Stand up straight!"
Guru Dao was startled, not knowing why, and looked at the translator anxiously.
Wang Yuan said: "Every one of my men straightens their backs and is an upright man! So do you!"
After listening to the translation, Dao Guru was very excited. He felt that he was respected, which was an unprecedented personal satisfaction. He stood there with his head held high, waiting for Wang Yuan's instructions.
Wang Yuan said: "I want to lead troops to attack the Turpan Oasis, and I will leave Yangji Bali to you. You have to lead the more than 800 slaves and use scimitars to guard the treasure for me. When I come back next time, I will share it with you.
Land and pasture, let you become the masters here. Can you do it?"
Daugulu knelt down and swore: "I will defend my master's treasure with my life!"
"Okay, take your men and go get the weapons." Wang Yuan said with a smile.
Wang Yuan had no extra manpower, and no time to transport the goods, so he could only use more than 800 slaves to guard the spoils. If these slaves were crazy and escaped with Wang Yuan's goods, there would be no good end at all, and they would definitely be killed.
The grassland tribes took it away.
As long as the newly appointed slave leader has a normal IQ, he will not choose to abandon the city and run to the grasslands to become the prey of the Mongols.
What's more, Wang Yuan promised to give them land and pasture!
In this poor place like the Western Region, only the strong can survive, and Wang Yuan is obviously that strong.
After resting for a day in Bali City of Yangji and replenishing food and drinking water, Wang Yuan immediately led more than 5,000 cavalry southward, with Verumu (Urumqi) in front of him.
On the way, Wang Yuan passed by the ancient city of Jiaohe. The inside and outside of the city were full of his mother's bones.
It was a good deed done by Mansuer's ancestors more than a hundred years ago, and the old city of Jiaohe was completely wiped out. Inside the city, outside the city, in the streets, lanes, roads, houses, and wells, they were all filled with bones, and the corpses were not even cleaned up.
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So much so that after occupying this place, they themselves refused to live in the city, but chose to redevelop the city in nearby Verumu (Urumqi).
For Wang Yuan, Weilu Mu was undefended because the city didn't even have walls!