Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 356

Just when Zhang Zhao was about to launch the final blow against the Ganzhou Uyghurs, it would not be an exaggeration to say that the city of Ganzhou was starving and dying.

In the bustling streets in the past, the wild dogs who were so depressed that they ran past were weak, and from time to time, you could see skinny corpses, which were pulled by carts to the outside of the city and buried hastily.

The reason for all this is the blockade of the Guiyi Army.

The entire Uighurs in Ganzhou lost their source of external food almost overnight.

In fact, there were times like this in the past, but at that time, Khan would take the warriors out to fight grass valley.

Whether it is the Long family in Shangsuzhou, Sansha Gamo in Liangzhou, or the Dadan people on the grassland, they are all the targets of looting by Uighur warriors.

But it is no longer possible, because the core force of the Uighurs in Ganzhou was actually almost destroyed in the Battle of Suzhou.

The remaining warriors did not dare to go out to plunder casually. After all, with such a powerful enemy as Zhang Zhao, the only ones they could rob were the Dadan people.

But if the Dadan people were robbed, the only way out for the Uighurs in Ganzhou would be gone.

For Renyu Khan, after being unable to defend Ganzhou, he was planning to leave the desert and go to the north of the Tianshan Mountains to seek refuge with his fellow tribe. If he offended the Dadan people, he would not be able to cross the desert.

And for more than a year, Renyu Khan in Ganzhou had good luck. Zhang Zhao was ordered to go to Guanzhong to quell the chaos, and it took him seven months to leave, which gave him extremely precious time for preparation.

But the imagination is beautiful, but in fact, even if he has more time, what Renyu Khan can do is still very limited.

Because although Zhang Zhao was gone, the six athletes who were armed were still there.

Zhang Zhao did not bring Shen Nianpan and Zhao Zhenjiang with him on this expedition, so that the Yangfeigu Shen family and the Xiyinghe Zhao family would continue to put pressure on the Ganzhou Uighurs.

Shen Nianpan and General Zhao Zhen also did a very good job. Under the arrangement of Yin Yaozi, they attacked the Uyghur settlements in Ganzhou regardless of the day or morning or evening.

Snatch the horses of the Uyghurs, burn their crops, and kill anyone who dares to resist.

Among them, the Shen family knights, relying on their good equipment and excellent horses, often harass them from all directions, and they are the main force in this plundering battle.

Sometimes, they would even unite with the left-behind Zhao Zhen's family, go north from Baitinghai to the desert, and then go south through Juyanhai, making a detour to plunder Ganzhou.

At the same time, Zhang Zhao's tightening of Ganzhou's grain policy also achieved great success

Although Zhang Zhao could no longer buy much grain from Ganzhou, it was because there was nothing to buy, and the price of grain in Ganzhou was more than twenty times that of normal days.

At the same time, the spring plowing and autumn harvest of the Ganzhou Uighurs were destroyed for two consecutive years, resulting in an extreme reduction in grain production.

Zhang Zhao even forbade a grain of grain from Liangzhou and Shazhou to go to Ganzhou, choking the Uighurs in Ganzhou from both ends.

Under the multiple blows of these policies, in March this year, when Renyu Khan in Ganzhou was still preparing for spring plowing, many Uyghur families had run out of food, and poor Uyghur herdsmen and farmers often starved to death.

In February alone, there were thousands of victims who fled to Liangzhou from Zendan and other places controlled by the Uighurs in Ganzhou. Zhang Zhao took them in and resettled them one by one.

To put it bluntly, it is the upper class of Uighurs in Ganzhou headed by the Yaogeluo royal family. But for the poor herdsmen, they have no great hatred for the Guiyi Army.

It is also impossible for Zhang Zhao to completely kill the [-] Uighurs in Ganzhou. There is no need for that, and it is correct to split up and integrate.

And he couldn't kill them all, because the Uyghurs were, after all, a horse ethnic group. Among the 300,000 or so close to [-] people, about [-] were actually distributed from the north of Ganzhou to Juyanhai, and on the vast grasslands.

They are often mixed with the nomadic Tatars. It is not difficult to defeat them, but it is difficult to kill them.

. . . .

At the end of March, it was time to sow crops such as spring wheat and corn. Unlike Liangzhou, where a large number of people participated in the most important spring plowing of the year, the Uighurs in Ganzhou had to gather again.

Because Renyu Khan in Ganzhou received a tip, Zhang Zhao from Liangzhou got the honorary title of Ambassador of Jiedu in Longyou, Hexi, and was going to deal with them.

From Fanhe County in Liangzhou to the west, only a few tens of miles away is Yanzhi Mountain, and more than [-] miles away from Yanzhi Mountain is Zendan, the important town of Ganzhou Uighurs.

Zendan, also known as Shandan in later generations, is the most famous here, built by the champion Hou Shou, and it can still play a role in the hands of the People's Liberation Army. After the disbandment of the Don River Army Horse Farm in the Soviet Union, the world's largest army horse farm - Shan Danjun Horse Farm.

It was the first time for Zhang Zhao to come here. From his point of view, the entire Zendan region was flat and stretching as far as the eye could see, with lush water and grass, and jade belt-like rivers meandering on the grassy plain.

Because it is too flat, even the sky seems to have become much lower, and the clouds in the distance seem to have a feeling that you can pick them up with your hands.

"Treasure land! It really is a geomantic treasure land. The best horse farm in Hexi is here, right?"

Liu Tao, who was following Zhang Zhao, sighed, this literati is a bit courageous, the older Director Lu simply drank and ate meat in Liangzhou, but he followed Zhang Zhao around happily.

"De Run is right, this is the Shandan racecourse established by Hou Huo, the champion of the early Han Dynasty, after he went to Qilian in Lie County.

Its unique conditions are still above the Liugu Valley in Liangzhou and the Yellow River Valley in Lanzhou. In the past, the Han army was invincible in Yunei, and it mostly relied on the strength of the Shandan army horse farm! "

But within a few days, Zhang Zhao didn't call Liu Tao an angel, but directly called him by his name.

While the two were talking, dozens of Uyghurs came out from nowhere. They seemed to be chased by Guiyi Army cavalry and had nowhere to escape. They ran towards Zhang Zhao in panic.

Guo Tiance next to Liu Tao and Zhang Zhao turned pale with fright, because there were dozens of Uighur knights running over, and Zhang Zhao had only the two of them on his side, and the rest of the guards were preparing wine and meat in the distance.

King Zhang Jun is not here to attack Zendan City at this moment, but to personally investigate whether Zendan is suitable for raising horses as rumored.

Because Zhang Zhao's second- and third-generation mixed sweat-blood horses and fold-eared horses were bred very rapidly at this time, and a good horse farm was urgently needed, so Zhang Zhao felt relieved and came to inspect it himself.

Dozens of Uighurs who were forced to ride saw that there were few people in Zhang Zhao's place, and saw that he was dressed gorgeously. They might want to catch Zhang Zhaolai and threaten the Guiyi Army cavalry who were chasing behind, so they rushed over without losing momentum.

Zhang Zhao sneered, he was average in riding and archery, so he simply dismounted and held the divine arm bow.

Three arrows were fired in succession, and the two unarmored Uighur knights fell down immediately, and the momentum of the Uighurs rushing forward was stopped.

At this moment, Li Cunhui's Pegasus rushed over, waving his hands like eagles spreading their wings.

In a dozen or so breaths, he shot seven arrows in a row, and every time he shot the enemy cavalry, he fell in response to the string, and even directly shot the Uighur knights who were rushing to them and fled in all directions.

Seeing that the enemy cavalry was frightened, Li Cunhui dropped his bow and arrow, held a long lance, and relied on the explosive power of the folded-eared horse under his crotch, to rush into the Uighur knights and beat him up.

One person beat twenty or thirty Uyghurs screaming and screaming, and they didn't even fight back.

The reason why Li Cunhui arrived in such a timely manner when no one was around Zhang Zhao was because he had been paying attention to Zhang Zhao.

Li Cunhui was deeply shocked by his trip to quell the chaos in Guanzhong in the past few months.

In addition to feeling that Zhang Zhao might be in charge of the Central Plains, or at least in Guanzhong, he also deeply felt the benefits of Murong Nobunaga being Zhang Zhao's good eldest son.

Originally, he and Murong Nobunaga were called Gui Yijun Shuangbi, but now, Murong Nobunaga is much more famous than him, and he can even marry a princess.

Li Cunhui felt that he didn't need Murong Xin's long job, what he felt was missing was to worship Zhang Zhao as a righteous father.

So as soon as he returned to Liangzhou, Li Cunhui wrote a letter to his father Li Shaozong, expressing his grievances.

The day before yesterday, Li Shaozong's reply letter arrived, saying that he would go to Liangzhou in person, and he would bring Li Cunhui's aunt and all the younger generations of the Li family.

Li Cunhui's worship of Zhang Zhao as his adoptive father should come true soon.

"What a heroic son!" Liu Tao couldn't help clapping his hands and exclaimed loudly: "Jun Wang, I heard that this son is still from the Li family in Longxi?"

Zhang Zhao replied with a smile: "Not only is he the son of the Li family in Longxi, but he is also a branch of the Tang clan. Hui'er is the ancestor of Hui'er. He is the sixth son of Emperor Taizu Jing, King Xi."

Emperor Taizu Jing of the Tang Dynasty refers to Li Yuan's grandfather Li Hu, and King Xun Li Yi is Li Hu's sixth son and Li Yuan's sixth uncle.

The people of Li Cunhui are the descendants of Li Yi. To be precise, they should be the six sons of Li Yi and the descendants of Li Youliang, the king of Changle who once served as the governor of Liangzhou.

However, this guy's character was not very good, and he was executed for treason in the end. Li Cunhui and his group basically only mentioned Li Wei, and even directly mentioned Li Hu.

After dozens of Uighur knights were killed and scattered, they were quickly chased and hacked to death one by one by the Guiyi Army cavalry who swarmed after hearing the news.

And Wen Chongle, who made this big mistake, ran over with a pale face, and knelt down in front of Zhang Zhaoma.

Zhang Zhao frowned. Although Wen Chongle was a bit of a thieves and liked opportunism, he was still very careful, so that the Uyghurs could not even clean up the Dandan racecourse.

Sure enough, before Zhang Zhao asked, Wen Chongle reported loudly: "Your Majesty, a cavalry force of hundreds of people suddenly appeared in the southwest. I led the soldiers to surround them. Let the thief cavalry disturb the King. It is a death penalty!"

"Officers above team leader, twenty army sticks per person, thirty army sticks for you, write it down first, beheading one level will avoid it!" Zhang Zhao waved his hand, signaling Wen Chong to be happy.

"Who is coming?"

"The leader claimed to be surnamed Huang, and said he was an old friend of the king!"

Zhang Zhao showed a smile, he knew who it was, and greeted Bai Congxin and Qiong Re Duojin. Zhang Zhao took more than a hundred riders and headed straight to the southwest.

(End of this chapter)