The second round of strikes began, and another 7,000 arrows were shot out, followed by the second and third batches of 20,000 arrows alternately. The rounds of arrow rain were like a storm that refused to stop, sweeping into the city.
Among the enemy cavalry, the herdsmen began to get scared. They desperately hugged the necks of their horses, praying to avoid the arrow rain that made them breathless.
But it was still useless. Every batch of crossbow bolts would cause heavy casualties, making it impossible for them to hide.
In just one hundred steps, the Tang army fired three rounds of more than 80,000 crossbow bolts. Nineteen thousand soldiers were hit by the crossbow bolts, causing nearly half of the casualties.
When the last 20,000 cavalrymen rushed only fifty steps away from the Tang army, a field of sharp swords stood up, instantly forming a murderous forest of swords.
The faces of the cavalrymen who rushed at the front were deformed. This time it was not because of excitement, but because of fear, extreme fear. They could not stop at all, and directly hit the bright and sharp swords. The Uighur soldiers screamed in fear and despair.
He closed his eyes.
'Poof! Poof! Poof! Poof!'
There was a series of sounds of long swords piercing the body, and the three thousand cavalrymen who rushed at the front died under the forest of swords. Twenty thousand cavalrymen rushed out from the left and right, surrounding the Uighur army from both sides.
At this time, 20,000 cavalry led by Yao Jin came from behind. The 20,000 Uighur troops were surrounded by 60,000 Tang legions. The Uighur cavalry had no formation and just charged indiscriminately, but were strangled one by one by the well-trained Tang army.
The cruel and bloody battle, the merciless killings of the Tang army soldiers, completely collapsed the less than 20,000 herdsmen soldiers. They lost their will to fight, cried out to go home, and rushed outside desperately, but the cruel war never
Taking pity on the weak, the commander issued a killing order, and the soldiers of the Tang army began to mercilessly kill the chaotic enemy troops. Arrows were fired one after another, and the soldiers fell one after another.
The encirclement is getting smaller and smaller, and the three thousand Mo Sword Army advances like a wall, leaving behind a bloody corpse wherever it passes. The bodies of humans and war horses are mixed together, and they can no longer be distinguished. The blood gathers and flows into strips.
small river.
Less than an hour into the war, the morale-boosting impact turned into a one-sided massacre...
In just three days, the Tang army went through two consecutive battles, killing 70,000 enemy troops and losing 3,000 of its own. However, in these two battles, the men of the Yaoluoge tribe in Huihe were basically wiped out.
The afterglow shone on the tragic battlefield, and the setting sun seemed to have been soaked in blood, red to the eye. The battlefield that lasted for more than ten miles was covered with corpses. Teams of Tang Army soldiers piled up the corpses of the enemy soldiers, poured them with kerosene, and burned them.
, the grassland is filled with billowing smoke.
At dawn the next day, there were no corpses on the battlefield, but the grass was still stained with blood. The howling of wild wolves could be heard in the distance, and they were attracted by the pungent smell of blood.
‘Woo——’ the departure horn sounded.
Guo Song left thousands of soldiers to clean up the war horses and the mess, and he led 50,000 cavalry to rush towards the royal city eighty miles away.
Along the way there were empty Uighur tents, and the Uighur people evacuated in a panic without taking away most of their furniture, cattle and sheep.
In the afternoon, the Hanerduobali Royal City appeared on the grassland in the distance. The cavalry of the Tang Army cheered and accelerated towards the royal city.
Hanerduobali is actually a general name for a hundred miles in radius, including the tents of the Uighur king and various nobles. But they did also build a city. It took a full hundred years to build and expand, and finally formed a large city with a circumference of thirty miles.
, this big city is actually the Uighur treasury, a warehouse city, and no one lives there. The Uighur Khans and nobles are still used to living in tents on the prairie.
However, all the soldiers guarding the city have evacuated, the city gates are tightly closed, and the doors of every warehouse inside are tightly closed.
Ten thousand endless tents are still kept outside the city. Here is the Huihe King's Tent, with thousands of large tents, inhabited by the Huihe Khan, his concubines, noble children, etc. Yao Jin led an army of 20,000
Go and search the big tent.
Guo Song led 10,000 soldiers into the royal city. The royal city was actually built since the Turkic era. It was all built with large bluestones. The city walls were very tall and strong. The warehouses inside were also built with bluestones. There were thousands of
There are so many warehouses and the amount of work is amazing, which shows that it took a long time to build.
The soldiers broke open the largest warehouse, and the door creaked open. The warehouse was divided into two. One side was full of sheepskins. The best old sheepskins, I don't know how many years ago, were stacked in bundles like a hill.
, there are tens of thousands of them, but on the other side are precious animal skins, tiger, wolf, leopard, bear, fox, etc. There are hundreds of thousands of various precious furs.
Guo Song gently stroked a piece of black bear skin. This bear was at least three meters tall and very majestic. Its skin was completely peeled off and tanned very well. Its fur was thick and soft. When you lay on it, you felt like you were melting.
"Your Highness, gold was found in the warehouse over there!" a soldier shouted.
Guo Song hurriedly walked out of the warehouse and came to a small warehouse. The warehouse was filled with large wooden boxes filled with gold ingots. There were at least hundreds of large boxes. Each large box contained sixty gold ingots. Each box contained 60 gold ingots.
The gold ingot weighs about five kilograms. A rough estimate shows that there are thirty thousand kilograms of gold in it, nearly five hundred thousand taels.
At this time, Guo Song saw Kang Bao lying on the gold ingot and looking closely, and asked with a smile: "What secret did Lao Kang discover?"
"It's not a secret, I know the origin of this gold."
Kangbao scratched his head and said: "These golds were all stolen from Sogdian countries. I saw the gold symbols of Shiguo, Kangguo and Anguo. There should also be gold from Tocharia."
Guo Song thought for a while and said: "Tochara is rich in silver, so there should be a lot of silver here."
"There's silver!"
Kang Bao immediately said: "Next door is the silver warehouse. The amount of silver is at least ten times that here. Then there is the jewelry warehouse, the porcelain and silk warehouse, and finally the jade warehouse."
There was actually a jade warehouse, and Guo Song immediately became interested, "Go and have a look at the jade warehouse!"
Everyone laughed. Everyone knew that their lord was a jade fanatic and had a special love for jade.
But Guo Song was greatly disappointed with the jade in the jade library. The jade was basically Xiu jade, and Xiu jade was serpentine jade. There were also a lot of jade transported back from Tochara, which later became Afghan jade.
Quartzite jade is not the tremolite jade he cherishes.
At this time, the soldiers discovered a huge icehouse located in Beicheng. It was filled with frozen mutton and milk wine. This was the Uighur grain warehouse.
In addition, there are millions of kilograms of pig iron and copper ingots, a large amount of medicinal materials, armor, leather armor, spears and swords, as well as a large amount of cowhide and horsehide.
The soldiers also found several money vaults, including several million pieces of Kaiyuan Tongbao and tens of millions of Western gold coins. There was also a cloth and silk warehouse, which contained thirteen million pieces of cloth and colorful silk.
"Your Highness, didn't you say that Uighur's national power is insufficient?" Li Bing asked doubtfully. The rich wealth and materials in front of him really puzzled him.
Guo Song said calmly: "Think about it, the Uighurs inherited the Turks' huge wealth, and they have accumulated wealth for hundreds of years, but half of the warehouses in Cangcheng are empty. Maybe for them, this is a lack of wealth. They can
Imagine how much wealth they accumulated in the past. They robbed money and materials worth hundreds of millions of guan from the Central Plains alone, and extorted millions of guan of horses and silk from the Tang Dynasty every year, which lasted for more than ten years."
At this time, the marching commander Liu Bingyi stepped forward and said: "Your Highness, can you take wine and meat from the icehouse to reward the brothers tonight?"
Guo Song said happily: "It's absolutely okay. Brothers are allowed to eat and drink tonight."
Liu Bingyi led his soldiers to carry wine and meat, and Guo Song left the city. At this time, Yao Jin had also completed the search of the camp, and seized a large number of gold and silverware that the Uighurs had no time to take away. Other various materials were piled up in mountains.
We also found more than 15,000 Han Chinese, who were basically women kidnapped from the Central Plains. Most of them were in their twenties and thirties, with ragged clothes and haggard faces. Some were older and had even stayed in Uihe for more than twenty years.
, except that the appearance is still Han Chinese, other habits and language have been Uighurized.
But no matter how they changed, their status as slaves could not be changed. They were all the private property of the Uighurs. It was just that the old, weak, women and children of the Uighurs fled in a hurry and could not take away much property, leaving them behind with other properties.
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Fifteen thousand women cried loudly. They never dreamed that they would see the Tang army come to rescue them in their lifetime. Many women even fainted from crying.
In addition to women, there are more than 3,000 Han men who are also slaves and are responsible for menial tasks such as sheep herding and logging.
At this time, Yao Jin smiled bitterly and said to Guo Song: "Everyone was shocked when they discovered these Han people. Basically every medium-sized household has a Han female slave. They are all hiding in small tents. They found out that we are the queen of the Tang Army.
, they all rushed out, yelled, cried and burst into tears. When they finally gathered, I didn’t expect there would be so many people.”
Guo Song nodded and said: "When we left, Xue Changshi said that we would meet many Han slaves in Uihe. I didn't take his words to heart. Now it seems that he was right. However, the Han people
Are there too few men? There can’t be more than 3,000 men!"