It was the eighth day of August in the fourth year of Zhengde in the Tang Dynasty.
Anxi, Qiuci Town, the battlefield west of Yunhu River.
"Dong dong dong dong..."
Thunderous drums rang out from the surrounding battlefield, followed by the roar of explosive pots exploding one after another and the charge slogan shouted in Chinese: "Kill! Charge!"
The sound of drums, explosions, and shouts of death quickly mixed together, sweeping from the main battlefield west of Yunhu Water to the east of Yunhu Water, a grassland full of corpses and bright red bloodstains everywhere. superior. Wanyan Xianbao, who was laughing ferociously there, was startled. The fat face that had been smiling just now suddenly became extremely solemn.
Xie Bao's lieutenant, Wan Yan Tarta, the supervisor of the Southwest Recruitment Department, suddenly stopped laughing when he heard the crow's mouth to congratulate him. He quickly looked back and saw the solemn look on his face, and became nervous. He quickly said to Xie Bao: "Recruit...we have already won!
The cavalry of the Black Khan Uighurs is nothing more than this, even weaker than the Khitans, no, than the Song cavalry before the Xuanhe War. They are no match for us and the Iron Kites of the Western Tang Dynasty. Your strategy has been successful. Now as long as we turn back and fight back, we will definitely be able to defeat the infantry of the Black Khan Uighurs. This will be a complete victory! "
Wanyan Xiebao is very capable, not only has the "crow's mouth stunt", but he is also good at fighting. In the ongoing battle of Yunhu Shui, the former enemy commander-in-chief of the Tang-Jin coalition was him.
The specific location of Yunhu Shui is in the Aksu area in later generations, more than 400 miles away from Qiuci Town. Because the Tianshan Mountains melt snow as a water source, it can nourish the large grasslands on both sides of the river.
The grasslands on both sides of the Yunhu River are also a battleground between the Black Khan Uighurs and the Gaochang Uighurs - whoever controls this grassland can use it as a base for stationing troops and grazing, and further advances towards Qiuci or Shule!
Therefore, in the more than a hundred years after the fall of the Kingdom of Khotan, the two Uighur regimes fought many battles on both sides of the Yunhu River! Although the Gaochang Uighurs suffered more defeats in these battles, due to the division of the Black Khan Uighurs themselves and the invasion of the Western Black Khan Uighurs by the Seljuk Turks, the Gaochang Uighurs won the last battle of Yunhu Water and captured the Yunhu River. Grasslands on both sides of the water.
However, the dispute between the Black Khan Uighurs and the Seljuk Turks is now over. The Eastern Black Khan Uighurs have recognized the Seljuk Turks as their suzerains, so they can concentrate their efforts on dealing with the Gaochang Uighurs.
But beyond the expectations of Ahmad Khan of the Black Khan Uighur, the great Tang Empire, which had been destroyed for more than a hundred years, was restored to its original state at some time, and even sent an expeditionary force to Anxi... You don’t need to ask to know that the Heavenly Soldiers of the Tang Dynasty came here to destroy the Peach Blossom Stone Kingdom ruled by Ahmad Khan!
Because Peach Blossom Stone Country has always regarded itself as the successor of the Tang Dynasty!
By the way, the Black Khan Uighurs and the Kara Khanate are the names outsiders call the country ruled by Ahmad Khan. "Black sweat" is called that because people in this country like to wear black clothes.
Karakhan is actually "Khan". This is the title of the monarch, not the official name of the country.
The official name of the country under the rule of Kara Khan has always been Peach Blossom Stone... and Peach Blossom Stone means China!
It does not refer to the four towns of Anxi in western China, but to the Central Plains in the east! There is a very clear explanation in the "Turkic Dictionary" compiled by Mahmud Kashgari, a great scholar of the Peach Blossom Stone Kingdom and a descendant of the Khan royal family.
Peach Blossom Stone refers to the Central Plains!
This Mahmud Kashgari called China at that time "Moqin", and divided "Moqin" into three parts: Upper Qin, Middle Qin, and Lower Qin. Among them, Upper Qin is the peach red stone, located in the east. It is the territory of the Song Dynasty in the middle country; the Qin Dynasty is the territory of the Khitan; and the lower Qin Dynasty is the territory of the four towns of Anxi.
However, the Black Khan Uighurs who ruled "Lower Qin" called themselves Peach Blossom Stone People, called their country Peach Blossom Stone Kingdom, and called their monarch Peach Blossom Stone Khan... And the entire Tianfang Sect world, That was what I thought at the time.
The reason why the Black Khan Uighur can call itself Peach Blossom Stone Khan has a legal basis... The name of Peach Blossom Stone is not something that just anyone can add to it.
The name of the Black Khan Uighur Peach Blossom Stone actually comes from the Tang Dynasty!
The founding king of the Black Khan Uighur claimed to have the bloodline (maternal line) of the Tang Dynasty, and his ancestors had married five Tang princesses.
Therefore, the Li Tang Dynasty is the uncle of the Black Khan Dynasty... If the "Uncle Tang Dynasty" dies, the "Black Khan's nephew" will of course have the right to inherit.
With this relationship, the Khan of the Black Khan Uighur could call himself Peach Blossom Stone Khan (which can also be understood as the King of Tang or the Emperor of Tang).
After the Khan of the Black Khan Uighur became the Peach Blossom Stone Khan, the Black Khan Uighur also had legal authority over the Tang Dynasty's hometown in the Western Regions.
Of course, in the 12th century, the legal system of the Tang Dynasty no longer had much appeal in the Western Regions. But in the 9th and 10th centuries, the Tang Dynasty's brand was still very bright!
That Khotan Tang fan Li Shengtian was from the Western Regions in the early 10th century, and his surname was Li... It can be seen that the influence of the Tang Dynasty was quite large at that time.
Although the Black Khan Uighur did not change his surname to Li, until the Song Dynasty, the monarch of the Black Khan Uighur still referred to himself as a descendant of the Tang princess.
And here in the Western Regions, they have always insisted that they are Peach Blossom Stone and Peach Blossom Stone Khan... Now that the Tang Dynasty has been resurrected and has sent troops to fight, can Mahmud Kashgar Khan not be anxious? Getting angry?
The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty was the real Peach Blossom Stone Khan, and he was the fake Peach Blossom Stone Khan, and the legal system he ruled the Western Regions came from the real Peach Blossom Stone Khan of the Tang Dynasty...
So he had no choice but to fight for his life!
Facing the heavenly soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, the Gaochang Uighurs next door could kneel down, but he, the peach blossom stone Khan, could not kneel down!
His ancestor's claim to be Taohua Shihan is the same as the Tianfang Sect's claim to be the Caliph. What should you do if the real Caliph attacks? Can I still be called Sultan or Emir?
it's out of the question!
Therefore, Mahmud Kashgari Khan had no choice but to ask for help from the Seljuk Turks to the west, and at the same time rectified his troops and pulled out an army of 100,000, claiming to be one million, hoping to scare off the Tang Dynasty.
But...the Tang Dynasty is the Tang Dynasty!
The army of Mahmud Kashgari Khan has just been assembled in Shule (Kashgar). One hundred thousand Tang troops (known as three hundred thousand) have arrived at the Yunhu River, and they have also sent envoys to demand the immediate surrender of the "Pseudo Peach Blossom Stone Khan" !
Mahmud had no choice but to leave Kashgar with his 100,000 troops and march towards Yunhu Shui along the Kizil River.
On the first day of August in the fourth year of Emperor Zhengde of the Tang Dynasty, the armies of both sides met west of Yu Yun Hu Shui, and they agreed to fight to the west of Yu Yun Hu Shui on the eighth day of August (this auspicious day was chosen by Wanyan Xiebao).
This kind of war between two armies seems silly in the East Asian Monster Room, but in this era in Central Asia and the West, there are quite a few people who do this.
Because no one has the logistics capabilities to support the war for a long time... If we don't fight while the money in the monarch's pocket is not spent, what will happen to those noble soldiers, slave soldiers and mercenaries when the money is spent? manage?
And the "battle" proposed by Mahmud Kashgari Khan played right into Wanyan Xiebao's ambitions!
Because he knew the time and place of the decisive battle, he also figured out the tactics of the Black Khan Uighurs through Bilgo. So he formulated a strategy of cavalry to lure the enemy, infantry to resist, cavalry to ambush, and cavalry to counterattack.
That is to say, he hid his most elite Jurchen cavalry and Western Tang Dynasty iron kites (more than 10,000 plus one) east of Yunhu Water, and then added the remaining approximately 80,000 people (and 10,000 Makui Shou Lao Camp) to divide Two formations before and after. The front line consisted of about 20,000 light cavalry to lure the enemy, commanded by Li Renli. The rear formation was composed of 60,000 infantry troops commanded by Cao Mian. They formed a large square formation similar to the "Pingrong and Ten Thousand Full Formation", with Yun protecting the water at the back.
After the battle began, Li Renli first led his 20,000 cavalry to lure the Iqta cavalry of the Black Khan Uighurs. The army of the Black Khan Uighurs usually consists of the Iqta noble cavalry, the Gulam slave guard and various tribes and Made up of rabble sent from the city.
Li Renli's cavalry were all dressed in beautiful silk clothes. They looked very rich and easy to catch. The Iqta noble cavalry took the bait and launched an attack in a chaotic manner, following the Tang Dynasty cavalry in beautiful clothes. With Yun Hushui, he stupidly rushed into Xie Bao's ambush circle.
Wanyan Xiebao was also ruthless enough, allowing the three thousand Jurchen cavalry and the seven or eight thousand Western Tang cavalry brought by Wanyan Tarta to attack together. In just a moment, these Yitak masters were stunned.
And Li Renli led the "beautiful cavalry" to kill the cavalry, and the 30,000 cavalry killed together, beheading more than 20,000 Itak masters of the Black Khan Uighurs. The casualties were heavy, and at least he lay down on the grassland east of the Yunhu River. Fifteen or six thousand corpses of Lord Itak!
But just as the cavalry of the "Tang and Jin Allied Forces" were cleaning the battlefield, Wanyan Xiebao heard the sound of attacking drums coming from the other side of the Yunhu River... This should be Cao Mian's troops launching a full-line fierce attack. Got it!
This is wrong!
The original plan was to wait until the cavalry returned before Cao Mian launched a fierce attack. Why did he attack in advance now?
Could it be that the Uighurs also have some tricks up their sleeves?
When Wanyan Xiebao was thinking, he suddenly heard Li Renli shouting: "Recruit... The other side of the river also won the battle! What a great victory... The Uighurs' offensive was defeated by Cao The Prime Minister's infantry was completely defeated! There were more dead people in front of the battle formation than here! So Prime Minister Cao had no choice but to run away if he didn't attack the enemy..."
It turns out that it’s not that the Uighurs have a trick, but that their fighting power is too weak and they can’t defeat the 60,000 infantry army commanded by Cao Mian, who has become Prime Minister Cao... Prime Minister Cao’s 60,000 infantry army is also the same as that of the Song Dynasty. After fighting for so many years as a regular army, the infantry of the Black Khan Uighurs was completely a makeshift militia. Even their Gulam Guards were just troops that followed the Khan. There was no way they could defeat Prime Minister Cao's infantry. After two rounds of attacks, they were completely defeated!
