Fenghou

Chapter 1538 Change the Country
Liu Qiong looked coldly at the overwhelming enemy troops, and immediately ordered: "Prepare the crossbow arrows!"

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The sound of war drums sounded, and fifty thousand soldiers squatted down together, put their spears on the ground, and picked up the divine arm crossbow in front of them.

Fifty thousand crossbow arrows pointed upward at a 45-degree angle, pointing coldly at the approaching enemy army.

The [-] troops advanced towards the Western Army like a black tide. The speed was not fast, but the density was extremely high, and there was an unstoppable force. The horseshoes hit the ground, and every soldier of the Yong Army felt the trembling of the ground.

One hundred thousand cavalry entered the [-]-step range of the crossbow arrows of the Yong army. It was enough for Liu Qiong to feel the wind direction and speed.

He immediately ordered: "Shoot!"

'Bang!Bang!Bang! '

The sound of clappers suddenly sounded, and fifty thousand heavy arrows were fired at the same time. The dense black arrows soared into the sky, forming a large black cloud, covering the sun.

The sky suddenly darkened, and the running Xiliao cavalry looked up into the sky one after another. When they saw that the large black clouds turned out to be arrows, they shouted in horror.

A bullet weighs only a dozen grams and can penetrate wooden boards, but heavy arrows have three or two heavy arrow clusters, and they are sharp armor-piercing arrows. The huge potential energy brought by falling from the air even exceeds that of a flat shot within fifty steps.

The armor of Xiliao soldiers is all leather armor, and some soldiers have shields, but neither shields nor shields can withstand the penetrating power of heavy arrows. In just a moment, large numbers of soldiers fell from their horses, and many horses were shot through their heads. I fell headfirst.

The screams resounded across the field, and more than 10 people were shot down in one round of [-] heavy arrows. There was a large gap in the [-]-strong team, and the team running in front was almost wiped out.

Fifty thousand soldiers lay down and wound the strings, kicked their feet and pulled the strings with their hands, wound the strings again, and placed heavy arrows.

Without ordering, the second round of [-] heavy arrows was fired again, and the black arrows soared into the sky, covering the sky and covering the sun, like locusts pounced on the Xiliao cavalry.

The cavalry team wailed again, and everyone turned their backs on their backs. Before the Xiliao cavalry could react, the third round of [-] arrows and the fourth round of [-] arrows were shot.

In just 3 minutes, the heavy crossbowmen of the Yong army fired 20 heavy arrows, Xiliao suffered an unprecedented fatal blow, and more than [-] people were shot to death.

Generally speaking, as long as [-]% of the Xiliao army was killed, their soldiers collapsed, but this time nearly half of them were killed, and they finally reacted.

The Xiliao army woke up like a dream, and they were all so frightened that they turned around and ran for their lives, and the morale of the army completely collapsed.

"Ugh-"

The horns of the Yong army sounded, and [-] cavalrymen rushed out like sharp swords, their morale was like a rainbow, and they chased and killed the enemy army like a crushing one.

The Xiliao army was defeated, and the corpses of those who were beheaded lay dozens of miles away. Xiao Wuli was terrified, and led less than [-] cavalry to flee westward in a panic, all the way out of the territory of Huihe in Xizhou.

Three days later, Liu Qiong led the army to Bieshabali, and the Huihe prince and ministers had been sent to Xiliao in advance by Xiao Wuli's assassin.

Xiliao wanted to destroy Huihe in Xizhou, and directly included the Anxi land into its own territory. It would not give the Huihe Kingdom any chance at all, and directly sent the nobles of Huihe in Xizhou to the capital of Xiliao.

However, before the food wealth in the Xizhou Huihe treasury could be sent away, they needed to be sorted and boxed, and some of them were reserved to reward the soldiers. At this time, the Yong army came to kill them.

Xiao Wuli's assassin had to temporarily close the treasury and lead his army to face the [-] Yong army.

The Xiliao army fled in a disastrous defeat, and the treasury and food supplies of Huihe in Xizhou naturally fell into the hands of the Yong army.

This is the wealth accumulated by Huihe in Xizhou for a hundred years, and many of them were plundered from Huihe in Ganzhou. This wealth is very characteristic of the Western Regions, with mountains of treasures, hundreds of boxes of gold and silver coins from Persia and Dashi, from the Central Plains Silk and porcelain, as well as various precious furs, medicinal materials, and millions of sheets of fine sheepskin and white cotton cloth.

In addition, there are 30 shi of wheat and 20 shi of black beans and barley. There were more grains, but they were all consumed due to the war.

There is also countless mutton and grapes in the ice cellar.

In addition, there are millions of sheep, tens of thousands of war horses, and hundreds of thousands of cattle, donkeys, camels and other livestock, all of which are the property of the king and nobles.

But the urgent task at hand is to legalize the Yong army's occupation of Huihe in Xizhou.

According to the instructions given to him by the emperor Chen Qing in advance, Liu Qiong found a dilapidated old Huihe nobleman named Wukang among the people. in the roster.

Liu Qiong immediately read out the emperor's imperial edict, which was of course a blank edict, just fill in Wukang's name, and made him the king of Huihe and canonized him as the king of Gaochang.

Liu Qiong then signed a new treaty on behalf of Yong and the new king.

This time, the Gaochang model of the Sui Dynasty was adopted. The king of Huihe accepted the canonization of the emperor of the Yong Dynasty, changed his name to King Gaochang, and moved his capital to Gaochang.

This is actually a symbolic King Gaochang. There is no army, no ministers, only a palace, and some guards, maids, etc. Of course, the people still recognize him as the Huihe Gaochang King spiritually.

Wu Kang fully accepted this arrangement, and he was very satisfied. His family was so poor that there were only a few sheepskins left, and he lived with his old wife in a few low and dilapidated houses, relying on his son to work as a petty official to earn a little money.

Now that Wukang turned around and became the king of Gaochang, Liu Qiong gave him a large box of jewels, ten boxes of gold coins, and a large amount of silk cloth and other properties, and gave him 30 sheepskins, [-] sheep, and a large area. pasture.

Like a dream, Wukang became one of the richest millionaires in Huihe overnight, and also owned a palace covering an area of ​​[-] mu.

Wukang is not stupid, he knows that his destiny lies in accepting the canonization of Emperor Yong Dynasty, as long as he has no ambition, then his descendants will become kings of Gaochang from generation to generation.

As for the Huihe people who are easier to buy, Liu Qiong ordered people to go to various places to post notices, announcing in the name of the emperor of the Yong Dynasty that the Huihe people in Xizhou were exempted from taxes for ten years, and the businessmen were exempted from taxes for five years. At the same time, the military service system that the Huihe people hated was abolished. And the labor system, that is to say, tens of thousands of Huihe people no longer need to be soldiers.

As the news spread, the entire Xizhou Huihe was boiling. In order to resist the eastward expansion of Xiliao in recent years, Xizhou Huihe desperately expanded its army and collected taxes. The taxes of the people everywhere were extremely heavy and miserable.

At this moment, all taxes and military service disappeared, and there was no need to pay taxes for ten years. The people rejoiced, singing and dancing everywhere, celebrating the arrival of a happy life.

Although many Huihe officials understand that if the military service system is abolished, Huihe will have no army, which means that Huihe no longer exists as an independent kingdom. Of course, it is one thing for Xiliao to occupy Anxi. Accept the occupier's arrangement.

Compared with Xiliao's direct destruction of the country, the Yong Dynasty was much gentler. At least the Huihe Kingdom in Gaochang continued to exist, even if it only existed in name, but it also prevented the Huihe people from the pain of destroying the country.

This is actually a model of boiling frogs in warm water. The people accepted the tax-free gift from the Emperor Yong Dynasty, and in fact recognized the Emperor Yong Dynasty. More than ten years later, when the Han culture gradually merged with the Huihe culture, when the Yong Dynasty ruled Seals are everywhere, and the people of Anxi recognized themselves as the people of the Yong Dynasty.

Liu Qiong didn't stop there. He ordered Li Cheng to lead [-] Shazhou troops to guard Anxi, and Liu Qiong continued to lead a [-] army to attack the mainland of Xiliao.

He needed to encircle Wei and rescue Zhao, forcing the Xiliao army on the grassland to retreat.

(End of this chapter)