Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 1590 Castle (addition to the lord Xingyinlong)

After running all the way back to Woshi, Satuk went straight into the castle.

The castles in Central Asia are not the same as those owned by European nobles in later generations.

They are rectangular in shape as a whole, and generally face southeast for sufficient lighting.

Many castles are divided into two parts, "winter" and "summer", and the materials used are different. The owner of the castle will live in different areas in different seasons.

The people living in the castle are more complicated.In addition to the castellan's family, there are usually guard soldiers, officials who come to work during the day, servants and servants, and teachers and students of the seminary school-of course, the prisoners in the prison are indispensable.

Castles generally have four gates, and the entrance and exit roads are made of stone.On the four corners, there are tall watchtowers and arrow towers.The highest part of the castle is a huge terrace, where the owner usually receives the cheers of the people.

Typical Persian style.

The moment Satuk charged into the castle, he gave the order to summon the soldiers.

Yes, the professional warriors on the territory are basically in the castle.Most of the army needs to be recruited temporarily to save money, and a small place like Woshi is even less likely to be an exception.

As soon as the order was issued, a crisp bell rang in the square.

The castle officials scattered out, gathered the men who had been on the battlefield, issued weapons, and organized them into various troops.

The priests also returned to the Temple of the Creator and armed all the jihads in service, probably a hundred or so, as an army alone.

There are also some jihads who quit the establishment after they were older, and brought the fanatical believers of the Creator who gathered after hearing the bell, and distributed them to various villages outside the city, calling as many people as there were.If the body looks stronger, it will be issued with serious weapons. If it looks thinner and shorter, it will be given a wooden spear. In short, the residents will be armed as soon as possible.

It should be said that their efficiency is still very high. This may be related to the fact that they often go to the streets and go deep into the countryside to spread the majesty of the Creator, and they are already very familiar with the situation in various places.

What is organization?This is organizational power.

There are full-time warriors Jihad as the supervisor team, and older veterans and fanatical believers as the backbone to organize the scattered residents and try their best to equip them with weapons to form the most basic combat effectiveness.

This may be an important reason why they are so powerful in the areas of Bahana and Hezhong.

Satuk was fully armed and stepped onto the terrace, quietly watching the bustling city.

Walsh is only a small town, but the prospects are bright.

The six big cities including Bahana are all in the west, which was the first place to be developed many years ago.After a long period of time, the farmlands, canals, pastures, and orchards in the west were basically owned, and the people began to move eastward to develop this area.

According to the old people in the city, within ten years, the population of Woshi Town increased from [-] to [-]. Countless poor farmers traveled from west to east, looking for new land—generally speaking, it is not possible, but With the help of the priests, they did get a lot of land, and of course they later became firm believers in the Creator.

"This is my city..." Satuk opened his hands and muttered to himself, "I will not allow anyone to take it away, no one can."

At the age of 30, he really doesn't have the courage to start all over again. If the so-called horse bandit is really a Xia, he will not retreat this time, and will live and die with Wo Shi.

There was the sound of orderly footsteps on the street, and the strong men who were roughly organized into troops scattered to each city gate and each section of the city wall, strictly guarding against death.

They have no choice. At the end of the recruitment, it would be nice to have a thousand soldiers, which is far from enough for field battles.

It is true that if it is a real horse bandit, maybe you can try it.

But Satuk never believed that those people were bandits. Reminiscent of a group of jihads who broke into Shule from Congling South Plains last year, it is very likely that the Xia people came to take revenge this time.

Some overconfident Dihkan still wanted to try Xia Bing's fighting power.They said that Satuk was boasting and ridiculing to the fullest, and his words were very ugly.

But Satuk was not angry.Your life is your own, there is no need to argue with those people, the reality will educate them severely.

A cloud of smoke rose from the southern horizon.

Satuk's eyes froze, he subconsciously tightened the scimitar on his waist, and went down the balcony.

The battle is about to begin.

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More than ten miles south of Uzkander City, the overwhelming cavalry almost covered the entire grassland.

Among the crowd, a group of warriors with no more than [-] people formed a tight formation, looking around nervously.

The arrows kept flying and fell obliquely into the formation, hardly causing them too much damage.

The cavalry who surrounded them were not in a hurry, and laughed and scattered far away to avoid the counterattack of the infantry.

On their left and right sides, a large group of cavalry quickly passed by and poured into the village.

Caught off guard, the men in the village still showed enough fighting courage.They fought back with hunting bows, wooden spears, and even dung forks, roaring loudly from time to time to encourage themselves.

"Get off your horse and kill the enemy on foot!" Meng Zhixiang, the guard's personal soldier, ordered.

Hundreds of pro-army members stopped their horses and dismounted immediately.

The 200 people in iron armor lined up in front, and the people in leather armor followed closely behind. After forming a tight formation, they walked forward slowly.

The bodyguard army was formed by recruiting farmers and herdsmen from the servants of the palaces, and they were essentially native peasants and the like.

But their equipment, which has been rewarded by the saints many times, is really good, and they have participated in many battles.

During the conquest of Henan, Li Tangbin was reprimanded by Shao Shude for letting the guards watch a show, and finally threw them into a cruel meat grinder-like battle.

Conquering Hebei and Hedong, they took turns to fight.

When the Bohai Sea was conquered, a part of the guards took the lead in attacking the palace.

They know how to fight and have a lot of experience.

"Woo—" the horn sounded.

The unarmored light cavalry cruising around the periphery, taking advantage of the enemy's attention being attracted by the infantry of the guards, rushed forward and rained down a large canopy of arrows.

The screams continued one after another.

The enemy Ding Zhuang, who was gathered together by beating chicken blood just now, rushed forward, subconsciously looking for a place to hide.

"Kill!" The guards and soldiers roared, and stepped forward quickly, stabbing the enemy's thin formation with a spear.

"Kill!" The heavy swordsman and Mo Daoist came out in more numbers, slashing and killing wantonly.

In the rain of blood, stumps and arms fell all over the ground, and heads rolled around.

The enemy finally couldn't hold on anymore, the people behind threw the equipment directly, turned around and ran.

Seizing the opportunity, the cavalry of the guards rushed forward again, throwing arrows at the enemy's back.

"What a massacre!" Liu Han, the Marquis of the Golden Sword Army, came over and scolded with a smile: "The dogs are quite good at fighting and cooperating, and they are all fine."

The "dog thing" in his mouth naturally refers to the guards and the army.

Forbidden army warriors always have a self-confidence that they can't beat me, and look down on other people from all walks of life.This time, I was a little surprised to see that the guards defeated the enemy with skillful cooperation.

With good equipment, tacit cooperation, and daring to fight, they may be inferior to the Forbidden Army in terms of combat skills. These Shao family slaves are really not to be underestimated.

After eliminating all the thieves, Qingqi immediately dispersed, cruising around the village.

The brigade of infantry rushed into the village and looted food, grass and goods in an orderly manner.

The grain was sorted and put into sacks, barrels or any container, even directly loaded into the carriage, surrounded by several wooden boards so that more grain could be loaded.

The sheep were driven together with bleating bleats, handed over by special personnel, and taken to pastures at the southern foot of the mountain to graze.Later, they will be handed over to the main force, some will be used as military supplies, and some will be rushed to Shule to be raised in captivity.

As for the collected horses, they were all expropriated and used as means of transportation.

The looting is proceeding in an orderly manner.

On the other side, with the arrival of the [-] crossbowmen of the Golden Sword Army, the end of the [-] enemy soldiers also came.

After a burst of rapid crossbow firing, blood flowed like rivers on the battlefield, which was horrible.

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Five hundred cavalry infantry dismounted outside the town of Uzkander, carried a temporary wooden ladder, easily climbed over the earthen wall, and opened the city gate.

Hundreds of cavalry who had been waiting impatiently rushed forward and rushed into the town along the stone road.

Cries sounded almost at the same time.

The only three hundred soldiers had been wiped out in the wilderness, and there were hardly any armed forces in the city.The people of Khotan rode their horses forward, rode bows and fired continuously, shooting and killing everyone who was still moving like hunting wild animals.

The mounted infantry didn't delay, they lined up neatly and rushed straight to the castle.

There were probably dozens of warriors in the fort, with men who were temporarily armed, condescendingly shooting Xia Bing who approached.

These people's archery skills were still very precise. In a short while, more than a dozen people were lying on the ground, and Ma Sixun, who was leading the team, was so anxious to curse.

As a last resort, they gave up their plan to take the castle lightly, put away their contempt for the enemy, and attacked in a strict manner according to the regular siege method.

After a while, the first group of people climbed to the top of Nancheng, and a few spears came towards them, very tricky, and directly stabbed the first few people down.

Ma Sixun waved his hand expressionlessly, and the second batch went up again, and was quickly killed by the enemy again.

The third batch followed.

On the west side of the castle, another group of people boarded the city wall and fought fiercely with the guards.

On the east side of the castle, the warriors who ascended first roared and rushed into the crowd of enemy soldiers, fighting bravely with the posture of dying with the enemy.

The fight lasted for half an hour before it ended.

About [-] or [-] castle guards, [-] to [-] male servants, dozens of students of the school of economics, and more than a hundred young men who hid in the castle, most of them died on the spot.

The warriors of the black army who rushed into the castle launched a massacre in venting anger.

No matter men, women, old or young, one knife will be used directly to deter all those who dare to resist.

Those who stayed behind in the Creator Temple were also pulled out and beheaded on the street.

For a time, blood flowed into rivers in the city of Uzkand, and the smell was soaring.

At the third quarter of Yin time, Yang Liang was sent into the city by the vanguard.

He has already received news that Aitbash was conquered and beheaded more than two hundred people.Li Siyuan is leading the crowd to plunder supplies in the wild, and will come back in a few days.

After going down the mountain for three days, he conquered two towns and looted more than ten villages. The gains exceeded Yang Liang's most optimistic imagination before the war.

Thanks to the fact that the new grain has just been harvested, the seized grain is estimated to be no less than [-] hu, and the number is still increasing-this transportation is inconvenient, and most of it is kept as a military supply according to the regulations.

There were more than 1 miscellaneous livestock such as cattle, sheep, horses and camels. Except for horses, all the other livestock were sent to the rear, and then drove back to Shule through Congling Nanyuan.

In addition to these, there are many other goods, the value of which is hard to count.

For example, Yang Liang was holding a few coins in his hand at this time.

The gold coins are called dinars, and the silver coins are called dirhans. They are round and exquisite in workmanship, showing a very good level of craftsmanship.

The scriptures are written on the front of the coin: "He is Hu Da, the only Lord, and Hu Da is the one on which all things depend."

On the reverse side are the names of the founding dynasties and caliphs.

This place is indeed much richer than the grassland tribes!
Yang Liang felt that this trip was the right one, and he looked forward to greater gains in the future.

(End of this chapter)