Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 1591
At the northern foot of Alai Mountain, groups of soldiers rushed into the vast plain after passing through the tunnel.

On the earth, thousands of horses are galloping.

The heroic man is riding a bow and carrying a big knife, galloping wantonly in the wilderness.

They rushed across the stream and into the countryside.

Behind the lonely fence is a flat vegetable garden.Lying beside the vegetable bed was a stiff corpse, holding a wooden stick in his hand.

Two Khotan infantrymen got off the carriage, harvested the vegetables one by one, loaded them into the carriage, and sent them to the military camp.

Before leaving, they went into the house to inspect it, but it was a pity that it was empty and there was nothing there.Only in the innermost bedroom lay an old man with dull eyes, apparently dead for a long time.

They buried the two bodies, removed the door panels, dismantled the furniture, chopped them into firewood with an axe, loaded them into the carriage, and left.

The cavalry crossed the high slope and rushed into another village.

Below the grape trellis is a stone mill.

The donkey pulling the mill has long since disappeared, leaving only a leather sheath on the ground.

Two more Khotan soldiers got out of the carriage, picked up the leather case, and carefully collected all the grapes.

The sage was especially fond of the horse milk grape.In fact, everyone likes it. They can eat it when they are free, and when they are hungry, they can even barely eat it to satisfy their hunger.

After harvesting the grapes, the two discovered a cellar in the garden, and found dozens of jars of sealed wine from it.

After a good laugh, they called for more men to load the booty into a cart and carry it all away.

The "horse bandit" from afar finally rushed to the edge of the field.

Looking at the flat farmland and some unharvested crops, without any hesitation, he called the Khotan infantry and immediately put away the wheat in the field.

The sound of horseshoes suddenly sounded.

A big green horse came into everyone's eyes, and the rider on the horse panicked, didn't dare to look back at all, and just ran forward with his head sullen.

"Whoosh!" An arrow flew out from the side of the road, and the man let out a muffled grunt, fell off his horse, rolled a few times, and stopped moving.

Several people rushed up, laughed and surrounded the big green horse, and led it away.

On August 15, the [-]th year of the founding of the pole, almost all the main force of the Xia army on the South Road rushed into the Fergana Basin.

Tens of thousands of cavalry galloped freely, unstoppable.

Bahanna, who implemented the "Dikhkan" enfeoffment system, was caught off guard and was unable to organize an effective counterattack at all. He could only shrink back, gather all capable soldiers, and rely on the city wall to resist the invasion of the "horse bandits".

But many Dihkans died unexpectedly.

Yes, Dihkan is a bad street name.

As small as a village or as large as a city, its lords can be called "Dihekan", and there are even Dihkans who specialize in collecting taxes in Bazaar.

The Abbasid dynasty almost implemented the enfeoffment system to the point of hysteria.Because of this, the Persians held large tracts of land in the hands of royal nobles, Dihkan nobles, creator temples, and religious schools, leaving very little to ordinary people.

In short, except for a small number of free people in this country (mostly living in cities and a small number in rural areas), most of the people in this country are tenant serfs.

The only difference from the enfeoffment system in Western Europe is that the Dihkan nobles need to pay taxes, and the governor uses their tax money to support officials and the army-because the serfs are in the hands of the nobles in large numbers, the governor may not be able to recruit a sufficient number of them. Soldiers, many times you can only use Turkic mercenaries or slave soldiers (Ghuram), and this creates another serious problem...

In such a situation, the trick is to beat the slow with the fast.

The iron cavalry roamed around, hunting and killing any enemy messengers and rangers who dared to move in the wild. Once any nobleman dared to take his soldiers and horses ranging from hundreds to thousands out of the city, he immediately notified the scattered soldiers and horses, Utilize the excellent mobility to gather together, give full play to the advantage of force to encircle and annihilate them.

After a few days, the effect is remarkable.

Changing places, if you are a Dihkan, when the roads are impassable and there are true and false news everywhere, look at the few hundred soldiers in the castle, what would you do?
The safest way is to fortify the walls and clear the fields, collect grain into the castle, arm as many serfs, citizens, and religious jihadists as possible, and use the castle to hold on to wait for changes.

When he was exhausted, he sent a brave messenger to go out of the city at night and go to various places to inquire about the news.

As for the vast countryside, you can only give up, otherwise what else can you do?Do you fight people?
You don't even know how many people they came, you only saw the overwhelming cavalry, and you don't know if it is the same group of people swaying in front of you, you dare not bet, you can only watch the thieves plunder and mess up your territory It's a mess.

Angry is of course angry.

But you will only annoy that stupid Governor Ismail.He didn't have the slightest sensitivity, and he didn't build fortresses in dangerous areas and recruit mercenaries to defend them.If you are held accountable in the future, you will definitely sue Bukhara for his negligence along with all your colleagues who have suffered losses.

You have made up your mind that if the Governor's Gorum Legion does not show up, you will stay in the city and never go out.

The initiative on the battlefield has been completely shifted.

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Shao Shude came to the outside of Woshi City and looked at the town surrounded by groups.

A large group of people formed a team within a stone's throw away.

With the sound of war drums, they took crude weapons and rushed towards the city wall in silence.

The rain of arrows is like a bet, and it doesn't stop for a moment.

The screams have been heard from the very beginning, and the total number of 1000 people has dropped by a quarter when they rushed below the city wall—some were shot to death, and some turned around in panic and tried to escape, only to be trampled to the ground by the people behind , and some people fled to the two sides, and were soon overtaken by the cavalry, beheading them one by one.

Up and down the low and thin earthen wall, both sides of the same person who pulled the sweat were gnashing their teeth and fighting desperately.

The fighting was fierce, and the corpses kept falling down the city, densely packed, and piled up into strange shapes.

After all, the defenders have rich combat experience, good location, and good equipment.The people who rushed up were unable to attack for a long time, and suffered heavy casualties, and finally broke up and returned.

"Shoot!" The dense arrows were thrown forward.

The retreating civilians without any armor fell to the ground in large areas like withered grass in a strong wind.

"Heaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa and a group of cavalrymen rushed forward, waving their sharp sabers together, killing the last batch of rout soldiers who had not yet fallen to the ground, and then retreated to the formation.

Both the offensive and defensive sides were shocked by this cruel scene.

But before they could react, the second batch of one thousand people was already ready to go.

"Dong dong dong..." The drums rang, and they hesitated at first, but under Xia Bing's coercive pressure, they finally stepped forward, gritting their teeth and rushing forward.

Shao Shude silently looked at the people who were fighting to the death, and there was no expression on his face.

He now has a deep understanding of why the local social order would completely collapse wherever the Mongols went.

This is Huang Chao and Qin Zongquan's tactic to drive people away and attack the city.But even these two inhuman people don't use this trick every time, but the Mongols use it every time, without any lower limit.

The people of Bahana are a typical European race.

Archaeological excavations of later generations unearthed many tombs in Kashgar, Aksu, Turpan and other places in Xinjiang, China.

Judging from the skull samples, they are basically of the Eastern Mediterranean branch of the Europa race, who lived in most parts of Xinjiang in BC.

The tombs unearthed in Central Asia and parts of Xinjiang are of the Central Asian-Lianghe type of the Europa race, with a small amount of Mongoloid ancestry mixed in.

In Shao Shude's view, these people were neither tall nor strong, and had a strong tendency to self-destruct in their personalities. Injury for injury, life for life, people are dumbfounded.

"Decree that after the city is broken, the guards and officials' families will be rewarded to them." Shao Shude ordered: "The remaining soldiers should form a separate team and call it the 'New Attached Army'."

"Obey." Someone went to deliver the order immediately.

Shao Shude continued to watch.

After the fight, let them burn, kill and loot to vent their anger.After this step, they are actually inhumane, and can be classified as beast soldiers and the like.

This kind of beast soldier had once appeared on the land of the Central Plains, and it was the Cai thief under Qin Zongquan's account.

After Qin Zongquan's defeat, Zhu Quanzhong collected a dozen or 20 yuan, then eliminated the weak and retained the strong, suppressed them with severe punishments, and even tattooed on his face.After several years of rectification and hard training, they were scattered and recruited into various armies—some of them formed alone—and gradually became a force to be reckoned with in the Liang army, and they made many exploits on the battlefield.

The battle continues.

After paying a lot of casualties, the second group of people finally boarded the top of the city and were not driven out.

Yang Liang, who was in charge of the command, decisively invested in the third batch of 1000 people, and continued to attack the city along the opened gap.

The enemy soldiers in the outer city finally broke up.

Believe that the Creator is not really invulnerable to swords and guns, even if you add an ax to your body, you will die. The only advantage is that you have a little more courage, but after all, you cannot reverse the physical laws of the objective world.

The gate of the city was opened, and Xia Jun, who was watching the battle, cheered in unison.

The war drum sounded for the third time, and an infantry commander fully loaded rushed into the city, and together with the newly attached army, they chased the rout's buttocks and hacked all the way.

The broken soldiers fled into the Creator Temple, and the chasing soldiers rushed in, killing blood like rivers.

The broken soldiers fled to the square, all arrows were fired, and none remained.

The rout soldiers fled into the castle, and the pursuers roared in unison, taking advantage of the favorable opportunity when the enemy's troops were greatly damaged, and stepped up their onslaught.

The battle lasted until the evening, and the disheveled Satuke fled into the prison with the last hundred or so people, taking advantage of the favorable terrain to resist stubbornly.

He almost cried.

Mingming made preparations early and did his best to recruit all the troops that could be mobilized in a short period of time, and then he did not fight needlessly like Dihkan in Uzkand, but relied on the outer walls and castles to resist desperately.How come in the end, it is still impossible to escape the fate of defeat?

He couldn't figure it out.

Of course, he was so disheartened that he forgot one thing: he tried his best, but his subordinates were only a thousand soldiers, and less than half of them were real professional warriors.

Five hundred professional warriors, if they defend well, can also cause the enemy to suffer heavy casualties and make them retreat.

But what kind of devil was in front of him?He captured countless people, drove them into battle, and consumed the defenders' arrows and even their lives.When everyone is exhausted, invest in elite soldiers and defeat their last resistance in one fell swoop.

Should such a person go to Hell?
"Boom!" The prison door was knocked open vigorously.

The last defender fired an arrow, and Xia Bing who rushed in screamed loudly.But the follow-up people were fearless, and the two sides fought fiercely in a narrow space without giving in, until the last person.

"Wow!" The Sheshir scimitar in Satuk's hand broke in two.

An iron mace smashed down hard.

Satuk dodges subconsciously.But avoiding the head, the shoulder blades were smashed, causing him to fall to the ground in pain, screaming.

Xia Bing rushed forward and tied him up.

When the news of Woshi's complete capture spread outside the city, Shao Shude had just received news from Li Siyuan: He led more than ten thousand people to plunder near Aitbash, beheaded more than a thousand people in a few days, and obtained more than [-] grain Dendrobium, oxen, horses and alpacas were [-], and more than [-] people from the Bahana people were captured.

Aitbash is a small town in the easternmost part of Bahana, surrounded by various villages and small tribes, scattered in a mess and unable to gather at all.

If Li Siyuan did this, the local area would probably be empty and completely empty.

"Advanced city." Shao Shude waved his hand and said, "Let's discuss the next strategy."

The thief was caught off guard and didn't react for a while.At least east of Wosh, their organizational system has been completely paralyzed, and it is impossible to mobilize any more forces.

But it is impossible for the enemy to have no standing army at all. The next thing to discuss is how to eliminate this army.

(End of this chapter)