Shaoming four years, 949 AD, September 11th.
Bai Congxin personally picked up 30,000 men and rode down the river along the medicine-killing water to pursue Talib, the fleeing chief of the Creek tribe.
While heading westward along the Yaoshashui (Syr Darya River), the situation on both sides of the river has completely subverted many people's imagination of the area in the river.
Although there is not much rainfall in the area where Yaosha Water flows through, and there are even endless stretches of vast moraine, the area close to both sides of Yaosha Water is a scene full of green grass and vitality because of the nourishment of this river.
The farmland cultivated by the Scythians on both sides of the river thousands of years ago is still dotted here and there. Especially in the area that is about to flow into the Leizhu Sea, there are even traces of rice cultivation.
"What a waste, what a waste!" Lu Sanlang's eyes lit up and he kept mumbling.
The lower reaches of the Yaoxishui River are much richer than those around the Yanran Mountain where tens of thousands of nomadic households live. These Ogus people don't know how to farm at all, and they are simply ruining the place.
Lu Sanlang decided who would like to stay in Yanran Mountain. He would take Yulizi, Luktu and all the divination people to move here and settle down. After ten or twenty years of recuperation, he could continue to let his children go there. Go west to occupy better ground.
"Daduhu, please serve as the vanguard, defeat the Creek tribe, capture the chieftain alive and return."
Bai Congxin looked at Lu Sanlang with a smile, "You are a killer who knows how to choose a place. Who would have thought that there would be a piece of Jiangnan beyond the Great Wall around Lei Zhuhai. With a little cultivation, there would be at least six to seven million acres of fertile land. "
Lu Sanlang chuckled, probably because he saw such a good place all at once, his mind was a little better than usual.
"Of course I can't occupy such a good place by myself. We, the divination people, are responsible for killing enemies for the saint and occupying this good place for the imperial court to immigrate to in the future."
The so-called court immigration is actually due to the fact that Zhang Shengren and his disciples were all young, and the population of the Central Plains was not abundant. It was impossible to achieve large-scale immigration without explosive growth in more than ten or twenty years.
Currently in the river, the Xiajun Yi people can only be more than 40,000 herdsmen pulled out by Bai Congxin, cooperating with thousands of Han people.
Under Lu Sanlang's control, he could mobilize more than 40,000 herdsmen from 5,000 tribes.
As well as Li Congde, the crown prince of the Jin Kingdom in Khotan, he was able to take away more than 100,000 people from Khotan.
Among them, Bai Congxin would occupy the area from Shiguo City to Baishui City and establish the Bai Kingdom as a foreign vassal.
Li Congde led his troops and people out of Ningyuan (Fergana Basin) to establish the outer vassal Jin Kingdom around Samarkand.
Lu Sanlang went to the area where Yaoshashui was injected into Lei Zhuhai (Aral Sea) and established a principality as an outpost.
As for the core cities such as Bukhara, they were basically assigned to Zhang Xianyu, the second son of the emperor.
Now Zhang Xianyu is almost fifteen years old. It is estimated that in five or six years, he will arrive in the river with a large amount of resources given by the emperor.
Before that, the three countries must act as horns to each other. With the support of the imperial court, they will continue to weaken Saman Persia, absorb the people from all over the country, rely on the Six Methods Sect to build their identity, wait for the population of the Central Plains to recover, and then swallow this piece of the river in one go. A land of wealth.
"Go!" Bai Congxin waved his hand, "How come a saint still has to give the position of a grand duke?"
Now Zhang Zhou, for the foreign vassals of Xiajun and Yimin, the title system has also come out.
From top to bottom, it is divided into six levels: the king, the grand duke, the prince, the uncle, the pacifier, and the pacifier.
Among them, the three levels of Chinese kings, grand dukes, and princes are the lords of the vassal state, and the following three levels are the lords of the vassal town.
According to the law, the king of the country can petition the court to be granted the title of Fang Bo, the Envoy of Appeasement, or the Envoy of Zhenfu.
With Lu Saburo's qualifications and status, he was quite satisfied to get a grand dukedom, so he happily led the troops as the vanguard.
On September 13th, Bai Congxin and others broke through many obstacles and found the large tent of the Creek tribe more than 20 miles northeast of Lei Zhuhai.
The frightened Chief Talib of the Creek tribe asked for help from the remaining three tribes of the Ogus Yehu Kingdom at the cost of ceding half of the pasture.
Although the Ogus Ye Huguo fought endlessly with each other over the pasture, they still knew the truth of the death of lips and teeth.
On September 20th, the remaining three divisions gathered 50,000 cavalry and arrived at the battlefield under the leadership of Daye Hudanusimi.
Before, Bai Congxin tried to attack Zeng, but in order to survive, the Creek troops exploded with tenacious combat power, and Bai Congxin was unable to conquer it quickly.
At this time, seeing the overwhelming situation, he led his army back to the south bank of Yaoshashui and faced off with the Ogus Yehu army, which totaled more than 60,000 people.
This place is a full 1,300 miles away from Baishui City. Bai Congxin led an army of 30,000 people, so supplies were very difficult.
However, Ye Hu and the other four tribes were fighting on the mainland, with convenient supplies and waiting for work. Naturally, they were happy to follow Bai Congxin and had no desire to cross the river to attack.
The two sides faced off for more than ten days, and suddenly a thunderbolt came to Yehudanu Simil's ears.
It turned out that during the ten days of confrontation between the two sides, Bai Congxin sent Lu Sanlang and his son Lu Ketu to lead 3,000 fine cavalry, bypassing Ye Hu's army, and galloped for more than 500 miles in three days and nights. Under the leadership of his guide, , the direct insertion Yehu Department is also the capital of the entire Ogusi Yehu Kingdom-Yangjigan.
In this battle, because Ye Hu took all the elite soldiers in the country to Fei, Yang Jiqian was extremely empty.
Lu Sanlang went into battle in person, and his father and son rushed together to kill the last tens of thousands of armed herdsmen who came to relieve the siege outside Yangjigan City.
Beheaded more than 7,000 people, killed more than 20 high-ranking aristocratic officers from various tribes such as Yinale (tribal prince) and Subash (general in charge of the army), and hundreds of officers, both large and small.
After entering the city, he captured and killed Yehudanu Ximi's uncle, Yehuguo Adebei (prime minister) Ji La, and captured more than 300 princesses and nobles from various tribes. Even Yehudanu Ximi's mother and aunt were captured. snatch away.
The rest seized gold and silver utensils and silver coins worth hundreds of thousands of gold, 3,000 cattle, 10,000 camels and horses, 400,000 sheep, and more than 40,000 healthy women.
Then Lu Sanlang set a fire and burned Yang Jigan into ruins.
Danushmi received the news from her brother who had narrowly escaped on the front line of the confrontation, and was so furious that he almost fainted.
He was about to order a retreat at that time, but was quickly stopped by his inner circle, because if he retreated at this time, the news would definitely be leaked, and then the Zhou army on the other side would pursue him one after another, and the trouble would be big.
But now there are only two ways before Dhanushmi.
Either lead three to five thousand elite cavalry with his cronies and run back quietly. If they can intercept Lu Sanlang, they can snatch back what was taken away. Even if they can't snatch it back, they can ensure their own safety and basic market.
Because although Lu Sanlang took a big grab, there were nearly 400,000 herdsmen in the Yehu Department, so the basic base was still there.
There is another option, which is to block the news, and then bring the other three troops to cross the river to fight the Zhou army.
First defeat the main force on the other side of the river, and then encircle and capture the Zhou army that can't run fast and has no moral ethics. It comes to deceive and sneak attack.
Danushmi chose the latter without hesitation, not because he was sure of victory, but because of other considerations.
It's simple. The Zhou people were very fierce, but they were outsiders and they couldn't kill Danushmi.
But the other three, well, it should be the other two, because after the Creek tribe was killed and captured 20,000 men in Hushui City, they were also on the verge of destruction.
But the other two tribes still have hundreds of thousands of herdsmen each. If Danushimi ran back like this, then after the destruction of Yangjigan, the Yehu tribe would be only slightly stronger than these two tribes, but weaker than the two tribes. It adds up.
How can that be done! The laws of the grassland are cruel. When the time comes, Danuximi's power will plummet, and Ye Hu's position is originally recommended. Once the Zhou people leave, these two will definitely rise up to kill him.
It's better to block the news now and take them to the Zhou people to die. No, it's desperate!
What is this called? This is called preferring to be with friends rather than domestic slaves!
I would rather let Zhou people get a big deal than let these two movies go unscathed.
So on the fourth day of October, in the freezing cold wind, Danuxi led 50,000 people, prepared tens of thousands of sheepskin rafts, and forcibly crossed the river to attack Bai Congxin's 20,000 people.
As soon as Bai Congxin saw it, he knew in his heart that Lu Sanlang might have succeeded, so he quickly led his army back to a hillock he had chosen long ago on the south bank of the river.
Ye Hu's army saw the Zhou army retreating and did not dare to attack even halfway across the river. They were overjoyed and quickly crossed the river to entangle. Nearly 10,000 cavalry entangled the more than 1,000 horse troops behind the Zhou army. They fought with each other all the way to the enemy's camp three or four miles away from the river. At the hillside.
Bai Congxin huddled his entire army on the hill. It seemed that they were surrounded and unable to move. However, in fact, only the north and west sides of the hill had gentle slopes that could be attacked. It had a geographical advantage.
Bai Congxin only left 6,000 fine cavalry as a reserve force, while the rest of the army dismounted and held strong bows and crossbows, forming a large array of bows and crossbows to defend.
On the sixth day of the tenth month, Danuxi secretly ordered the army to surround the mountain and attack. The Zhou army occupied a favorable location and fired thousands of arrows. Ye Hujun did not have much iron armor at all, which could withstand the shooting of strong bows and crossbows.
The two sides fought from the end of Chenshi (9 a.m.) to the end of Noon (1 p.m.). The Zhou army had not yet used up all their arrows. Ye Hujun had injured thousands of people and his morale was extremely low.
The leaders of various ministries, big and small, all said that the Zhou army was invincible with bows and crossbows, and begged Ye Hu to lead his army to evacuate.
At this moment, Bai Congxin ordered Chen Tingxiao, Li Jixie, Shi Shouxin, Li Chongju, Dang Jin, Luo Yangui and other brave generals to swoop down from the mountain with thousands of horses each.
Danushmi quickly ordered all the armies to form formations and fight back with bows and arrows, hoping to replicate the Zhou army's fighting style.
However, the Ogus people's bows were too weak and did not have many iron arrowheads, so they could not penetrate the Zhou army's iron armor.
The Zhou army shot Ye Hujun with one arrow, and Ye Hujun basically lost his combat effectiveness. Ye Hujun shot twenty arrows at the Zhou cavalry, but it was hard to hurt anyone.
So as soon as the battle started, within a quarter of an hour, the Great Zhou cavalry rushed into the formation of Ye Hujun's archers.
There was only one person in the party, holding iron lao, and killed dozens of people immediately. The other generals also fought from left to right, killing without calculation.
Ye Hujun was unable to resist at all, and was directly penetrated through the camp. The 50,000-strong army suddenly suffered a landslide.
Dayehu Danu Ximi and dozens of his followers hugged the neck of the war horse and crossed the poisonous water in the cold wind. They only escaped with their lives.
More than 4,000 of the 50,000 troops he led were killed and 24,000 were captured.
After that, the Zhou army pursued the defeated army and fought back to the vicinity of Fencheng City. They killed thousands of cavalry from various tribes, broke through and burned Fencheng City, captured hundreds of thousands of livestock and people, and filled forty carriages with treasures. They won the victory. And return.
More than 200 noble officers and officers from the head of the Wotanna tribe and below were killed, and more than 100 nobles from various tribes below the chief of the Creek tribe, Talib, were made prisoners.
Including Talib's nine-year-old son Selkirk, who was also captured alive.
(End of chapter)
