Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 359
At the beginning of April, under the city of Ganzhou, the water of the Zhangye River has been cut off and diverted, and the water in the moat outside the city of Ganzhou is almost dry.

A large number of Guiyi soldiers braved arrows and stones, like ants, kept filling the packed soil and stones into the trenches outside the city.

At the same time, the large catapults of the Guiyi Army kept throwing stones into the city of Ganzhou. The turrets at the east gate of Ganzhou were smashed down, and the houses in the east of the city were basically destroyed.

The sound of dense bed crossbows sounded, but instead of shooting at people, they shot at the city wall specifically, because soldiers could use the crossbow shafts of the bed crossbows to climb up.

More than a dozen nest carts watched every move in the city from all directions in the west. Whenever there was any movement of soldiers and horses, they would immediately notify the generals outside the city through the sound of drums and flags.

Outside the east and south gates, the peasants used soil to build several earthen walls that were about the same height as the city walls.

Numerous sharpshooters, armed with divine arm bows and wooden single crossbows, are shooting at the head of Ganzhou city.

Unlike the Liao and Xixia sieges in history, which lasted for almost a year before they were captured, the Guiyi Army only took less than a month to attack from east to west, and Ganzhou City was on the verge of being destroyed.

This is inevitable, because the Han army is not only good at field battles, but also good at siege.

The experience in this area is too rich, no matter what kind of city you are, for thousands of years, you have already summed up countless experiences, which are far beyond the comparison of the Khitan people and the Dangxiang people.

Moreover, this time, the Guiyi Army can be said to have sent out all the troops, and they are going to kill Ganzhou with a thunderbolt.

Zhang Zhao recruited [-] Guiyi troops in Liangzhou, [-] cavalrymen from the six tribes, and [-] Han infantry from the six tribes.

There are also 5000 archers from the three tribes of Shandong and Huizhou and Yuanzhou, and more than [-] civilian husbands, a total of [-] people and more than [-] civilian husbands.

This is Zhang Zhao's unprecedented generosity since he returned to Hexi.

At the same time, Zhang Zhao, as the ambassador of Longyou Jiedu in Hexi, ordered his father-in-law, Cao Yuanzhong, to observe and dispose of the two prefectures of Guasha and other states, to send all 4000 people from Guasha to the rebel army, and [-] people marched eastward from Suzhou.

Ganzhou Renyu Khan organized a field battle to resist, but was soon directly defeated by the armed Guiyi Army's six Xiaoqi, and had to retreat to Ganzhou City without even meeting Zhang Zhao's army.

So far, important towns such as Zendan, which were controlled by the Ganzhou Uighurs, have fallen one after another. The Uighurs can only stick to Ganzhou, hoping to consume the Guiyi Army.

This is a correct strategy. With the current situation in Hexi and the Guiyi Army in Guasha, Zhang Zhao conscripted 70,000 people at once.

This consumption is not easy. With the current grain storage in Liangzhou, it can last for three or four months at most.

But the idea is beautiful, but the reality is skinny. Ganzhou Renyu Khan originally planned to spend three or four months to consume Zhang Zhao, but Zhang Zhao would not give him this opportunity.

The Uyghurs were horse people, and they were not good at defending the city. They were no match for the Guiyi army. After only one month of fighting, they were on the verge of breaking the city.

If it weren't for the fact that the Ganzhou Uighurs and the Guiyi Army had had a deep hatred for decades and hated them from surrendering, civil strife would have broken out in the city long ago.

The Guiyi army from the west was brought by Cao Yuanzhong himself. As soon as he arrived, he delegated the command to Luo Tongda, the yamen soldier and horse envoy, and they went directly to Zhang Zhao's tent.

He said he was here to tell Zhang Zhaoyi his love for Weng and his son-in-law, but he was actually saying that he would not hold on to the command of these thousands of rebel troops.

Zhang Zhao also appreciated Cao Yuanzhong's actions, since the last time he left with the younger generation of Guiyi Army, there was still some estrangement between the two sides.

After all, Zhang Zhao left and did not choose to end Cao's rule over the Guiyi Army. In this way, two Guiyi armies coexisted.

But what Cao Yuanzhong did today is equivalent to sending the Guiyi army and territory in Guasha to Zhang Zhao.

Zhang Zhao also said that he would ask the imperial court to make Cao Yuanzhong the Duke of Qiaojun, and appoint him as the deputy ambassador of Longyou Jiedu in Hexi and concurrently the governor of Shazhou.

The younger brother-in-law Cao Liulang Cao Yanlu is the governor of Yizhou. As for Cao Yuanzhong's post as an envoy to observe the festivals of Guasha and Shaerzhou, he will be removed.

However, this is not without sequelae, just look at Cao Yanlu looking at Zhang Zhao's longing eyes, this governor of Yizhou may not be fooled by a false title.

You know, Cao Yanlu, Cao Sanniang and Cao Nineniang were born to the same mother, and the only older sister and younger sister in the family were given to Zhang Zhao, so you have the nerve to use false titles to fool them?
"Your Majesty, someone from Ganzhou submitted a letter, willing to surrender the head of Khan Renyu!" Zhebu Jiashi came over with a letter written on brocade silk and said.

Zhang Zhao didn't even look at it, and threw the brocade silk into the fire and burned it, "No! Today's Ganzhou City, even Renyu's flesh is not allowed to surrender."

Cao Yuanzhong, Cao Yanlu and his son also nodded in agreement. More than [-] years ago, Ganzhou Uyghur soldiers went to the city of Dunhuang and forced Zhang Zhao's father, Zhang Chengfeng, to recognize Ganzhou Renmei Khan, who is now Renyu Khan. It is a great shame and shame for the whole Guiyi army to have a father as a father.

This kind of humiliation can only be washed away with blood. Many people who experienced that humiliation in those years are still alive.

Emotion and reason will not allow the Ganzhou Uighurs to be easily let go, at least the head of Renyu Khan alone is not enough.

"My lord, the Fenjin has been excavated under the city of Ganzhou, and it can be blasted now!"

As soon as he finished saying no, Shi Chongmin came to report the good news. After more than a month of excavation, Fenjindu had sent the explosives to the city of Ganzhou.

There was a bang, and the explosion sounded so loud that Cao Yanlu was so frightened that he sat down on the ground, and the blood on Cao Yuanzhong's face also disappeared.

Amidst the flying sand and rocks, the city wall at the east gate of Ganzhou collapsed in an instant, leaving a huge gap.

The man in the front roared like Shen Nian, and six heavy armored infantry rushed in first, followed by Dangxiang archers, and the heavy armored soldiers of Guiyi Army and Regret Shandu were at the back.

The crowd in black armor rushed in like a black torrent. The Ganzhou Uighurs, who had already lost a large number of soldiers in the Suzhou War, did not resist a few times, and howled and lost their ability to resist. Scattered all over the place.

Ganzhou City, the royal palace of the Uighurs, is the place where resistance is most intense, and all the members of the Yaogeluo family have gathered here.

The soldiers of the Guiyi Army could only fight with them house by house, and important figures from the Yaoge Luo family were constantly captured.

Zhang Zhao interrogated them one by one and asked the prisoners to identify them. All the close branches of the Yaogeluo family would be beheaded after smashing their hands.

Mrs. Cao San was dressed in men's clothes, and she also had a leather armor on her body. She looked at the close branch of Yaoge Luo's family who was being pulled out continuously, and tears instantly blurred her vision.

Under the slight sunlight, the cousin Suo Sanlang, who could play the vertical harp with his slender fingers and speak slowly, like a warm sunshine, returned to Cao Yannai's mind so clearly, it has been blurred for a long time His appearance became clear in an instant.

Another close branch of Yaoge Luo's family was escorted and dragged in front of Zhang Zhao. This was a teenage boy who looked about the same age as Suo Sanlang back then.

When the young Uighur saw the hammer with a lot of blood and flesh, he screamed in terror and struggled desperately.

But he was being held by two majestic soldiers, no matter how violently he struggled, he was still ruthlessly pushed to the ground.

"Erlang, please spare them!" The tearful Mrs. Cao San suddenly stopped her.

Zhang Zhaolue hesitated, but nodded. He had already killed more than a dozen close branches of the Yaogeluo family, and it was really meaningless to continue killing.

"In the whole city of Dasuo, Renmei, Di Yin, and Renyu's close brothers were all exterminated.

As for the offshoots, as long as they did not participate in the siege of Dunhuang in the past, God has the virtue of living well, and they can be exempted from capital punishment and punished to do hard labor on Jingtieshan Mountain! "

As soon as Zhang Zhao's voice fell, loud cheers rang out, dozens of soldiers laughed and escorted a man in a yellow robe out, it was Khan of Ganzhou, Yaoge Luorenyu.

Man Xiong and Dunzhu grabbed Renyu's arm, and he was pressing on the bloody concrete floor in front of Zhang Zhao.

Before the attack, Zhang Zhao ordered Cao Yijin to marry the daughter of Uighurs in Ganzhou, and painted a portrait of Renyu Khan, just because he was afraid that he would escape his shell as if he had gone up to guard Miaoquan.

"Is this person Yaoge Luorenyu?" Zhang Zhaoyi pulled three groups of people to confirm, two groups of prisoners, one was Cao Yijin's grandson, the son of the previous Aduoyu Khan.

The seven or eight-year-old boy who had changed his name to Cao Yansi looked at the yellow-robed man with hatred, because Ah Duoyu was killed by Renyu.

"Brother-in-law, this person is that villain Renyu!"

'choke! Zhang Zhao drew out the horizontal knife at his waist, and then signaled Dunzhu and Manxiong to let go of the medicine Ge Luorenyu.

He looked up to the sky and screamed, the Ganzhou Uighur that led Zhang Chengfeng to the Jinshan Kingdom in the Western Han Dynasty was finally ended in Zhang Zhao's hands.

As soon as the drug Ge Luorenyu got out of control, he staggered and started to run away. Zhang Zhao shouted, "Father! Today, I will avenge you. Our Zhang family finally has its shame!"

After finishing speaking, Zhang Zhaofei stepped forward and slashed the neck of medicine Ge Luo Renyu with a horizontal knife in his hand.

The soaring head flew into the distance with blood spray, and the headless corpse ran a few steps before falling to the ground with a thud.

"Where the heads of Uighurs in Ganzhou are more than a hundred, all the males will be punished as hard labor in Jingtieshan, and the gold and silk women will be rewarded with meritorious officials. The rest will not be held accountable. All armies are not allowed to commit adultery or kill indiscriminately!"

"Follow Your Majesty's order!" The soldiers of the Guiyi Army all around promised loudly, and cheers were everywhere!
(End of this chapter)