Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 1597 Canonization
Outside the city of Khan, the army became angry because Yang Liang was injured.

As the former commander-in-chief of the enemy, Yang Dadu was really not at ease. This had begun when he attacked Lanzhou 30 years ago.

He is violent and murderous.

It was okay when I was in the Central Plains, but when I went to the Western Regions, I often did some evil deeds.Shao Shude deeply suspected that if he hadn't been watching, Yang Liang would have changed from a murderous pervert to a cannibal sooner or later.

During the Five Dynasties period in history, there were many perverts who loved to eat human flesh. For example, Zhao Kuangyin's brother-in-law, Wang Jixun, was extremely wealthy, but he loved to eat human flesh piece by piece.

Yang Liang is also a master of fighting, and often gets angry with others in court.Relying on the fact that the soldiers who were saints in the early years are upright, senior and have made outstanding achievements, no one will give him face, and others will have nothing to do with him.

This time when they attacked Bahanna, they ran into the army of the Persian governor Ismail on the way. The two sides fought a big battle. Yang Liang took the lead and defeated the enemy army.

Besieging the city of Bahana, the Persian soldiers went out of the city to attack several times. Yang Liang was delighted when he heard the battle, and led his troops to charge and kill, and was injured again.

To be honest, Shao Shude regretted letting Yang Liang command the army.It was good to arrange him to be the vanguard before, but this time I was soft-hearted and gave him a chance to make meritorious deeds. I didn't expect it to be so reckless.

Although the battle was won, it was not fought like this!
After visiting Yang Liang in the camp, Shao Shude straightened Li Siyuan, the deputy commander, and led him to lead the army to continue the siege.

There should not be many enemy troops in the city. In several field battles, nearly [-] prisoners were killed.But Ismail originally only had [-] ghrams, and there were about [-] left after he died. In addition, the young men and religious jihads collected temporarily were attacked for nearly ten days, and the outer city was destroyed. The oil is exhausted and the lamp is dry.

After boosting morale for a while, he returned to his tent and admired the various items seized.

"This group of killers even robbed Buddhist temples..." When Shao Shude saw a bronze Buddha statue, he couldn't help it.

After careful understanding, the warriors still gave some face, they only robbed property and did not kill anyone. Is this for me to praise them?

Looking at the Buddha statue again, I almost laughed out loud.

A Buddha with a typical Caucasian face and a guard next to him is the ancient Greek Hercules.

Shao Shude also thought of the sapphire ring engraved with the image of Hercules unearthed from the tomb of Xu Xianxiu, King Wu'an of the Northern Qi Dynasty.

Later generations of Tibet also unearthed ancient Greek Dionysus gold and silver plates, and the Palace Museum also has a large number of BC Greek-style cultural relics. Combining these points, it can be concluded that it is the result of Alexander’s Eastern Expedition and Hellenization of Central Asia.

This person should be like me, fighting and robbing all the way, right?

Shao Shude smiled, and then looked down at a large pile of books.

Samarkand is the center of papermaking in Central Asia. Its history is not long, only more than a hundred years, but it has developed extremely fast. After Gao Xianzhi failed in Talas, papermaking technology was introduced to Dashi, and soon replaced the Egyptian papyrus they used.

Therefore, there is still a considerable scale of publishing and printing industry in Hezhong area.The books in front of me are either in Sogdian or Persian. Shao Shude can't understand them, but he can find someone to translate them and gradually improve them.

He is always curious about the culture of another world and eager to learn about it.

Early Buddhism was heavily Hellenized, and it still survives in Central Asia.After a thousand years, Bahana, as the first abandoned son of the Greek world, could not find many traces of Greece, and the traces of Persia were increasing day by day.

Thinking of this, Shao Shude subconsciously walked out of the tent and looked towards the west.

He had a strong idea to send envoys to the western countries to see what kind of scenery there is and whether there is any place where China can learn from each other.

In his life, he was destined not to be as chic as Alexander, leaving his homeland and traveling thousands of miles.

Yes, he often acts like a grassland khan. In theory, he can fight while grazing, and wander far away.

But he also knows that it will only become a rootless duckling, and will eventually be assimilated by countless alien races.What's more, his age doesn't allow him to do this, and his sense of responsibility doesn't allow it—to put it shamelessly, "If there is no one in the world..."

"Call Li Shouxin here." He returned to his tent and ordered.

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The brutal siege battle continued, and the newly attached army suffered heavy casualties, but the number of them fought more and more, from more than three thousand to five thousand.

Occasionally someone rebelled, but was quickly wiped out.

During the siege of the new attached army, the various units of the imperial army would occasionally fight. When the enemy was exhausted, they would throw in this group of elite soldiers to cause the greatest damage.

On the fourth day of September, Li Shengtian, king of Khotan, sent another large number of Dingkou to the west of the gate city.Li Siyuan threw it into the siege, and after two days, more than half of them were killed or injured.At the critical moment, Shao Shude ordered Zhong Yanyou to lead Yin An into the battle, broke through the inner city in one fell swoop, and started street fighting.

At this point, the fall of Bahanna was inevitable.

On the fifth day of September, Xie Yanzhang and Ye Likecheng led [-] cavalry and [-] cavalry infantry westward to join Li Shengtian to resist a sudden rush of Turkic mercenaries.The rest of the troops began to besiege the castle. They cut off the water source, took hostages, and called for surrender. They used both civil and military methods to launch a swift offensive. .

On the seventh day of September, news came from Fu Cunshen of the Northern Route Army that he had given up attacking Talas, and the whole army turned to Baishui City. At the same time, he sent Qingqi deep into the hinterland of Persia to intimidate the enemy and create chaos.

The envoy to the North Road set off seven days ago, and Shao Shude asked him to pay attention to the movement of the main Persian army.More importantly, when does it snow?
In a continental climate, once it snows, the weather becomes extremely cold, making it unsuitable for large-scale military operations.What's more, there is the problem of supply.

The agricultural conditions in Talas and Baishui City are not as good as in Fergana.The Central Route Army and the North Route Army may not be able to grab as much food as the South Route Army, and must graze cattle and sheep in the wild.

By this time, the pastures have long ceased to grow, and have completely dried up. After eating the last wave of withered and yellow weeds on the grassland, what will the cattle and sheep do?What's more, sheep can't eat food at all, and it's too wasteful.

Fu Cunshen was an old man, so he shouldn't have reminded him, but Shao Shude was still worried about their mistakes, so he couldn't help nagging.

On the eighth day of September, the castle was finally breached, and Babu (meaning bull) personally beheaded the Persian Governor Ismail, the commander of the new attached army and Turkic Rahana, marking the end of the war.

In more than ten days, more than 2 people were killed or injured. Although most of them were the arrested people, the number is still shocking.

The Mongolian warfare method is too brutal.If the six big cities are conquered one by one, how many young men will be killed or injured?Coupled with the lives killed during the looting, and the people who starved to death when fleeing, if you do it a few more times, it will almost be useless to pull sweat.

History has actually given the answer.

Before the Mongol invasion, there were developed city-state civilizations in Central Asia.

After the Mongols came, they first burned, killed and looted in the wild, then blocked the irrigation canals that the local agriculture depended on, and threw diseased corpses into the city, blocked Karez wells, poisoned water sources, or threw corpses into wells Wait, driving people out to attack cities, massacres, and threats of cannibalism are even more trifling.

When Shao Shude thought about it carefully, it was a great irony that he was actually considered "civilized" and "restrained".

Before entering the city, Shao Shude first summoned the leaders of the newly attached army and Turkic tribes outside the city.

Looking at these bloody officers and chieftains, he was not too dirty at all, patted them on the shoulder with satisfaction, and said in Uighur: "In the 13th year of Jianji, I sent troops to attack the Tatars and defeated them in the Mobei grassland. them."

"In 14 years, under my unquestionable order, people built a palace for me, and engraved my eternal edict on the stone tablet..."

"I spent the whole spring in the holy peak. When the summer came, the warriors said to me, 'The Uyghurs insulted me and provoked me'. My borders..."

"I said, 'Go! Gather the people and the army, destroy the enemy, and bring me their beautiful khadun, and I will reward you richly...'"

"The generals of the Uighurs came, and we easily defeated them. Because of this victory, I canonized five records, and they knelt before me and swore to defend my huge territory..."

"In June, the prince of Aslan Khan came, and my generals defeated them openly at the Sihun River. Satuk left his Ketun and fled in a hurry..."

"The people of Karasa were so exhausted that they knelt down respectfully at my feet and asked me to be their Khan and conquer Rahana so that they would be free from jihadists..."

"So I marched again. The generals vowed to defeat all those who challenged my majesty. We defeated Persian Yehu and captured his city..."

Having said that, Shao Shude paused for a moment, looked at Babu, the new commander of the attached army, and said, "Babu, I now officially grant you the post of Dagan, continue to lead your troops and fight for me."

"Supreme Khan born wise, I swear that I will always submit to your majesty and listen to your every word." Babu was overjoyed and immediately fell to his knees and said.

"She—the wife of Persian Yehu, it's yours." Shao Shude grabbed the escorted woman, pushed it into Babu's arms, and said: "You can take ten camels and go to the city to pick any one you like. The belongings, as much as you can carry, are all yours."

"Born to be a wise and supreme Khan, I am willing to conquer the Turkic, Sogdian, and Persian peoples for you, and let everyone be bathed in your glory." Babu touched his head to the ground, convinced.

"Kutkin." Shao Shude looked at another Turkic chief and said, "I am very happy that you can follow my call and fight for me. Now I grant you the post of Yi Li Jin, east of Aitbash It's all yours, guard the territory for me."

"Born to be a wise and supreme khan, I swear to always follow your call to conquer any who go astray for you and bring them under your majestic rule." Kutkin never imagined that he could acquire so much land , responded with a beaming smile.

"Tarhan..."

Shao Shude canonized several Turkic chiefs in one go, and there was another Yang Moren, who basically divided up all the land seized to the east of Bahana.

After saying this, he looked at the generals of the Han army gathered around him, laughed, pointed his whip towards the city, and said: "Let's take you guys to have fun, and come back to see me in two days."

After the order was conveyed, there were warm cheers from far and near.The battalions were immediately assigned a good order, some were stationed outside to guard, and some rushed into the city...

(End of this chapter)