Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 1596 Secret Decree
On the distant mountains, there are white clouds.

Under the mountainside, there are shallow valleys winding continuously.

The seasonal creek has dried up, and weeds have grown wildly, covering up the horseshoe prints.

Beside the desolate ancient tomb, herds of cattle and sheep are walking happily, driven by the shepherds.

A few naughty lambs ran away from the flock, greedily gnawing on what might be the last wave of green grass this year.

The collie dutifully rushed up and drove them back to the flock.

The little prince has sent an order to march.

As soon as this order is issued, not only the soldiers must follow, but also the logistics troops scattered everywhere.

The messenger who brought the order stood on the high hill, after ensuring that the little prince's order had been carried out, he disappeared on the other side of the mountain.

With four fast horses, he never stops.

When I was hungry, I took the water bag from the saddle, drank the milk powder that had been soaked and shaken well, and chewed two mouthfuls of dry and hard jerky.

When sleepy, slow down the horse, squint for a while as if half asleep and half awake, and then run wildly on the road after waking up, passing orders to destinations one after another.

He came to the edge of the crop field.Larks sang on the branches, and quail soared above the fragrant wildflowers.

The soldiers were harvesting wheat in the field. After hearing the order from the little prince, they sped up their actions and loaded the first batch of rough flour into the cart and sent it to the front.

He came to the clear river again.

It is a sunny afternoon.Swimming fish jumped out of the river, splashing large groups of water.

An aged horseman rests in the shade with his head resting on his saddle.

The two teenagers were wrestling aside, with horn bows and scimitars at their feet.

The messenger shouted the order.

After a while, on the rough prairie, countless horses rushed like thunder.They are smooth, fat and strong, and they are about to be sent to the front line to replace the exhausted war horses under the soldiers' crotches.

He finally came to the town full of ashes and blood, and read aloud the order of the little prince.

The soldiers got up from the women and hastily pulled on their trousers and furs.

Someone also put on the stolen leather armor and iron armor, and grabbed a sharp machete and a heavy hammer.

They set a fire and burned the village to the ground.

The women were killed one by one, and their bodies were thrown into the flames.

The order of the little prince spread across the vast prairie.

Turks, Uighurs, Yangmo people, Geluolu people, Shatuo people, Oguz people, etc., and many unknown small tribes, began to gather, and rushed to Talas according to their different marching routes. direction.

Shao Siwu led more than ten thousand cavalry from the Tianwu Army and more than a thousand armor cavalry from the Pinglu, Hengye and other armies, and headed westward first.

Just this morning, he received a message from Talas: The Persians have arrived with reinforcements, a total of more than [-] people, who were defeated by Fu Cunju.

At the end of ten days, they had wiped out more than [-] Persian troops, and the results were quite large.As for the number of his own casualties, Fu Cunshen didn't say, and he refused to say when asked Zhu Jin, only mentioned that the Jurchen savages who came out of the old forest in the northeast were seriously injured.

Shao Siwu knew it well.

The Jurchen savages are relatively fierce, daring to fight and fight hard. After wearing iron armor, they are very useful as dead soldiers in battle.

Their large number of casualties must have occurred in the battle between the formations of the two sides.That is to say, when they rushed, the Persians did not collapse at the first touch, but withstood it, at least for a long time, and this period of time happened to be the stage of continuous bloodshed and continuous death and injury on both sides, until one side could no longer hold on. until.

Persia eventually retreated, probably because there were too few soldiers.

If you can't break through the Xia army's infantry formation head-on, and the cavalry assault that has been tried and tested in the past is no longer good, and if you are harassed by the Qing cavalry around you, this battle is really impossible to fight.

At the same time, he also felt that the Persians probably had some problems with their brains.

What's the point of sending a batch of people to send a batch like this?It's better to gather tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and a decisive battle will count, but I don't know if they can draw so many people.

Of course, Shao Siwu didn't think they could send many people.

According to the news recently sorted out by Liu Mian: In the southwest of Saman Persia, there is a feud called "Safar Persia".

Around the pre-Tang Xiantong period, Yakub ben Rais Safar started his business by suppressing the riots in Sigistan (including today’s eastern Iran and southern Afghanistan), occupied the entire territory of Sigistan, established himself as emir, and founded Dynasty of Safar Persia.

In the 11th year of Xiantong (870), Yakub began to attack Tahir Persia, and successively captured Herat (now northwestern Afghanistan), Kerman (now south-central Iran), Fars, Shiraz (now Iran) Southwest) and other places, and then sent representatives to the Baghdad court to express their surrender.

The caliph followed suit and made up a formality, recognizing Yakubu as the governor of the occupied area.

In the 14th year of Xiantong (873), Yakub captured Nishapuran, the capital of Tahir Persia (now Neishapur, located in northeastern Iran), captured the last emir of the Tahir dynasty, and moved his capital here.

Originally, this is an inspirational story about a "coppersmith" from humble origins who raised a three-foot sword, swept the world, and founded the country.But Yakubu was so ambitious that he wanted to march into Baghdad, and he did it.He went north in the second year of Qianfu (875), and first destroyed the Ziyar dynasty in Tabaristan (now the southern coast of the Caspian Sea in Iran), but was soon defeated by the caliph's regent, Muwafak.

Yakubu led the remnant soldiers to retreat to the east, and died in depression two years later, and his younger brother Amur succeeded him.

Amur expressed his obedience to the Caliph and paid a lot of money many times, which finally eased the tension in the west.Then he decided to expand eastward, and was defeated by Saman Persia in Balkh (now northern Afghanistan) 15 years ago.

Amur was captured, and Saman Persian sent him to the Baghdad court to be executed.

At this point, the Safar dynasty was completely devastated, and had to retreat to the core territory of Sigistan, licking its wounds.At the same time, he paid Saman a large amount of silver produced in the Panjshir Valley, asking for forgiveness.

However, news came recently that because the Grand Vizier (Prime Minister) Jayhani wanted to completely turn the Safar dynasty into a vassal, forcing the small regime that was cramped in a corner of Sigistan, the two sides broke out again.

And because of the belief of the nine-year-old king Nasr (Shia), not only the generals of Bukhara (Sunni) are deeply disturbed, but there are also many rebellions in various places. This seemingly huge empire is in a state of distress and suppressed everywhere ——If the Prime Minister hadn't been more capable, he might have collapsed.

Shao Siwu was very interested in the information he learned, and at the same time felt inexplicably familiar.

Isn't this the story of the Emperor Chang'an and the Jiedushi of various feudal towns?It turns out that the Dashi Dynasty also got mixed up with this kind of virtue!
At this point, he was a little bit more convinced: at least in the next few months, it would be difficult for the Persians to gather a large army to deal with them, so don't worry about grabbing them, anyway, they will retreat soon.

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It took ten days for the news from the north to reach Fergana through the mountains, and it was already late August.

Shao Shude stood on the terrace of the castle in Guba Town, looking at the distant world.

His soldiers are everywhere in this fertile land.

Someone is harvesting the grain in the field.

Someone is grazing sheep and horses.

Someone is looting property.

Someone is marching and fighting.

The largest group of people: 2000 infantry from the five armies of Tielin, Tianxiong, Wuwei, Yicong, and Tiande; More than 2000 newly attached troops, more than a thousand monk soldiers, and 3000 Turkic tribal soldiers who have recently surrendered are besieging Bahana fiercely.

According to the old rules, the main force is still captured people from all walks of life.

If they are all shot, the various departments of the Forbidden Army will try to attack several times, if they can't take it down, forget it.There are only 5 to [-] people who can fight. It would be too bad if it was spent on siege.

"Your Majesty." Mengshi and Yue Liduo called softly behind the door.

Shao Shude raised his right hand and told them to wait.

Mengshi and Yueliduo retreated to the gate of the palace.

There was a crisp slapping sound outside, occasionally accompanied by a cry of pain.

After a while, Shao Shude came in.

Montessori glanced outside, and Adie fell sideways on the balcony.His chest was bruised and purple, and his buttocks were covered with bright red palm prints.

She was a little sad, but also a little happy.

She went through this too, and it was very painful.But after giving birth to the child, the saint became more and more gentle, so that she missed it a little.

When she was alone, she even imagined that the saint treated her roughly, and then she was so ashamed that her legs twisted and her face was as red as the morning glow.

Addie got up slowly.

Ten days ago, on the terrace in Osh, the Great Khan pampered her like this.

That time, her husband Satuk was beheaded in the audience.She watched helplessly on the stage, her ears were filled with the sound of sweating and heavy breathing, and she was almost crushed.

When the knife cut off the head, Satuk and Da Khan splashed almost at the same time.

"What's the matter?" Shao Shude sat down on the sofa boldly, and pulled Nanzhao Empress Dowager Mengshi over to clean it.

Yue Liduo handed over an official letter and said, "Military situation in the north."

Shao Shude took it, read it carefully, closed his eyes, and savored silently.

In the ten days since entering the Fergana Basin, more than 4 cattle and sheep, more than [-] horses, and more than [-] camels have been snatched, and these have been sent back to Shule one after another.

Cattle and sheep are lucky, but food is very troublesome.

Since the looting, there are always 30 hu.But after half a month, the [-] army only consumed less than [-] dendrobium of millet and wheat, so much food that the warriors were reluctant to go out to graze horses, and just fed them with food.

The gains are huge.Now the army's emotions are high, and everyone is talking about capturing a big city and then withdrawing troops after a wave of plundering. Shao Shude agreed before.

Things look good up north.

In almost half a month, more than [-] cavalry swept across the country, directly beating Persia into a daze.

In his opinion, the several Persian troops dispatched were all self-rescue actions of local officials, lacking the coordination of the entire imperial court.So just like the gourd baby saving grandpa, it kept sending.

Shao Shude put himself in the shoes of himself and thought that if he was the prime minister of Persia, he would hold a meeting after receiving the news to discuss how to rescue Talas, Jahanna, Shash (Tashkent), Samarkand and other places that may be threatened.

If efficient, this would almost be a resolution.

The next step is to coordinate the counter-insurgency armies in various places and withdraw some soldiers and horses.

This is not an easy task, and retreating in front of the enemy is not that simple.In some places, it is even impossible to withdraw, and the rebellious officials need to be pardoned at the court level so that the truce can be withdrawn.

Therefore, there is a high probability that a wave of mobilization will be needed in the hinterland where no war has broken out in the country, and local garrisons will be deployed to gather in the capital, Samarkand and other places.

When the army is dispatched, a huge amount of supplies is needed.It is naturally impossible for them to rob their own people in the country, they can only be allocated and transported from various treasuries, and the army also needs to march from various places to the assembly point.

This process can't be finished within a month, and a few vanguard troops will set off if they are exhausted, but if they rush into the battlefield, under the huge difference in troops, it will also be the end of Cucurbita saving grandpa.

Therefore, there is still plenty of time.

But after all manpower is no match for nature, Shao Shude's greatest enemy is actually the snow in winter.

"Prepare a copy of the decree and send it to Secretary Cui." Shao Shude opened his eyes and said, "Let my son fight south. It's fine if Taluosi can't win it. Don't force it, you can bypass it. Go south, go south Advance in the direction of Shashi. On the other hand, tell Dalang that I will leave in mid-September, and let him take care of it. The Persians may send reinforcements, so we must think about the retreat in advance. How to arrange the troops, think in advance .Attention, this is a secret decree, my son can only give it to the confidantes.”

"Observe the order." Yue Liduo responded.

"Do you have any comments?" Shao Shude looked at Mengshi and asked.

"Well……"

"Forget it, work hard." Shao Shude closed his eyes.

Time was running out, and he had already decided to find a way to transport the seized grain back to Shule, at least part of it.

Don't be afraid of big losses on the road, anyway, it's a no-cost business.

Whether Fergana can be captured in the future depends on the generals and Dalang stationed in the west.

The arable land area of ​​a small basin is close to one-third of the entire Xinjiang in later generations, which is amazing.

Even at this time, more than 400 million hu of grain was produced a year. The governor of Persia did not seem to be able to collect much tax, but was that because of poverty? Yield is output, and tax is tax. The two are not the same concept. In fact Most of the food is eaten by producers and consumers themselves, but what if they are not allowed to eat?

From now on, we will continue to attack.Let the country's 17.6 miscellaneous soldiers take turns to go west, win the war to eliminate the troubles, lose the war to eliminate the internal troubles, and prevent Persia from taking action to solve internal problems, and finally form a Saman Persia with many internal conflicts and a relatively weak overall .

There are benefits to this.Because the big cannibals do not have the strong desire to expand the majesty of the Creator like Saman Persia, and I don't know which nerves are wrong in the minds of those people in Bukhara.

But it doesn't matter, I will help you lose weight and reduce your burden.In the future, focus your energy on the country, and stop thinking about expanding in the Western Regions.

On August [-]th, Shao Shude left Guba, which his son-in-law had captured, and under the escort of Yin Anzhi, he went to Bahana to supervise the battle.

(End of this chapter)