Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 448
Just before the end of the first war between the Liao and Jin Dynasties in the Central Plains, Zhang Zhao's military operation to annex Gaochang Uighurs continued.

In November of the seventh year of Tianfu, Anxi at this time was much colder than the Central Plains.

But in such a cold season, the Gaochang Uighur army had to be dispatched.

Because Jie Lipijia received a news like a bolt from the blue.

Chen Huiyao, governor of Yizhou of Gaochang Uyghur Khanate, led more than [-] soldiers and civilians of Yizhou, and defected to Liang Kingdom.

Liangguo took Chen Huiyao as the vanguard, together with [-] soldiers from Yizhou and Liangguo, marched westward and captured Puchang City.

Jieli Pijia regretted it very much at this moment, not because he regretted not getting the title of Heavenly King, but because he regretted not making up his mind to move the Chen family in Yizhou to the town earlier.

In fact, ever since Zhang Zhao ruled Hexi Longyou, and before Jieli Pijia's father Wu Muzhu Khan died of illness, the Gaochang Uighur clan, that is, the clansmen of the Pugu family, were considering moving the Chen family to town.

Because the Chen family is not only Han Chinese, but also a wealthy family with heritage among the Han people. They have a strong sense of belonging to the Central Plains in their hearts.

Historically, it was not until Song Zhenzong's Dazhong Xiangfu period, that is, after 1008 A.D., that there was no record of the Chen family.

There is a high probability that either the family leader died in the religious war between Gaochang and Karakhan, or he was completely assimilated.

This persistence is not easy. At this point in time, it is the moment when Anxi and Hexi Hanfeng are completely destroyed.

The Kingdom of Khotan was conquered by the Kara Khanate, and the Guiyi Army came to the period of Cao Xianshun, the last Jiedu envoy, and had been completely controlled by the Uighurs in Shazhou, and was about to be annexed by Xixia.

You must know that the Chen family is not a side of princes like the Khotan Jin Kingdom and the Guiyi Army. They are just a family attached to the Gaochang Uighur Khanate. It is not easy to persist until this moment.

At least during the period of Song Taizong, they could still speak Chinese, wear Han clothes, still kept the imperial edict of the Tang Dynasty in their hands, and they could chat excitedly with the angels of the Central Plains court from the east, which proved that they still remembered their identities.

And this persistence is the root cause of Pugu's family's uneasiness towards Chen's family.

It doesn't matter if Zhang Zhao didn't rise as in history.

Because Gaochang Uyghurs themselves are Uyghurs with deep Sinicization, the Chen family does not appear to be too different among Gaochang Uyghurs.

But it's not the same now, because with Zhang Zhao, compared to the Pugu family, the real king of the Han people is by his side, no matter what, the Chen family definitely hopes to rely on Zhang Zhao.

However, it is not so easy to move the Chen family's town, because Gaochang Uighur is actually a 'joint venture company'.

Back then, Pugu Jun was able to expel Tubo in Yixiting and other states, not because of his own strength alone.

He relied on Zhang Yichao to draw part of the forces from the Guiyi Army to support him to take down the Northwest Court of Yi.

The ancestors of the Chen family were the Han clan who followed Zhang Yichao in the army. It was under Zhang Yichao's dispatch that the Chen family supported and followed Pu Gujun to attack westward.

And after Pu Gujun's self-reliance and the Guiyi Army had conflicts, it is very likely that the Chen family was ordered by the Tang court to stay among the Uighurs in Gaochang.

Because no matter how you look at it at the time, the Chen family, which has lived in Yizhou for hundreds of years, has no reason not to follow Zhang Yichao, but to follow the Uighur, Pu Gujun.

Then the biggest possibility is that out of consideration of weakening the Guiyi Army, Tang Ting sent envoys to persuade the Chen family not to return to the Guiyi Army, but to stay in the Gaochang Uighurs.

Ten years ago, Zhang Zhao went to Khotan to seek refuge with Li Shengtian, and encountered Di Luoda, Gan Pu Gucheng, who ambushed him in Puchanghai.

Chen Huiyao, who was not the governor of Yizhou at that time, mobilized nearly a hundred soldiers when his protector Gucheng left.

A Chen family with only a few tens of thousands of people under its rule and only two to 30,000 people in its core group, why does it have hundreds of sets of armor?
There is only one possibility, it was rewarded by the Tang court to the Chen family after they obeyed the order to stay among the Uighurs in Gaochang in the past.

The Chen family was not only kept by Tang Ting in Gaochang Uighurs in order to weaken the Guiyi Army, but it was probably a nail for Tang Ting to influence Gaochang Uighurs.

Therefore, although time has changed and Tang Ting is gone, the Chen family cannot be simply regarded as subordinates of the Pugu family. They should be shareholders of the Gaochang Uyghur Khanate.

And such shareholders also exist in large numbers in the Gaochang Uighur Khanate.

After all, Pugu Jun didn't rely on his own ability to pull up a team to defeat Tubo and regain the Yixi Court, but integrated the Western Expedition team of the Guiyi Army to take down this country.

It was because of this that Jieli Pijia had to treat the Chen family with caution, and the Chen family was not helpless.

However, the determination and speed of Zhang Zhao's actions, as well as the determination of the Chen family to seek refuge, exceeded Jieli Pijia's expectations.

. . . .

Puchang City, it is more dilapidated than what the merchants said. After all, these merchants are from the point of view of whether they can live, but Feng Hui must consider it from the military point of view.

From Feng Hui's point of view, Puchang City is a very popular city for businessmen.

Because the surrounding walls are already dilapidated and dilapidated, the houses of the residents in the city are relatively intact, and there are still many people.

When there are many people here, the business will be active. It is convenient to buy and sell, and it is more convenient and cheap to stay and eat.

In addition, the city wall was damaged a lot, and it was very easy to evade some taxes, as long as the tax collectors didn't get up, they sneaked away from a certain gap and it was over.

But for the army, this is terrible. There are too many people, and it is a troublesome task to clean up the residents in the city.

If they don't clean up, who knows who they are targeting?Moreover, the city wall is damaged everywhere, and there is no way to protect it at all.

After discussing with Feng Hui and Chen Huiyao who arrived in Puchang City, the two simply robbed the residents of Puchang City, demolished their houses, and transported the wood and stones to the former Datang Chiting Shouzhuo City five miles northeast.

Although this guard city is basically abandoned, the walls are still basically intact.

Moreover, there is also a Chiting Peak in Chiting City. There is a well on the peak, which was built by the Anxi Army of the Tang Dynasty in the past.

The more than [-] of them save a little, at least for a month or two, they don't have to worry about drinking water.

Chiting City has a very wide field of vision, and the South Lake Gobi where it is located stretches as far as the eye can see. In the entire area, only Chiting Peak, where Chiting City is located, is the only high point.

This is also the direct reason why Chiting Shouzhuohui was established here in the past. No matter who wants to pass through these places with low bushes, they can't escape the sight of the soldiers at the top of the city.

The population of the Uighurs in Gaochang is about [-], but the exact number is probably not clear to Jieli Pijia.

Its land area is the three states of Tingzhou (Urumqi generation), Xizhou (Gaochang), Yizhou (Hami) and the territories of the two kings of Yanqi and Qiuci (Kucha) in the Tang Dynasty.

After the Chen family in Yizhou, only Tingzhou, Xizhou, Yanqi, and Kucha remained.

Uh, or it can be said that Tingzhou is gone now, but Jieli Pijia doesn't know that he has been made dumplings.

Before Jieli Pijia arrived at Chiting City, thousands of Gaochang cavalry had already arrived outside Chiting City, and they approached without compromising their capabilities to test the depth of Liang's army.

Feng Hui sneered, and directly dispatched [-] infantry troops to line up outside the city.

The overjoyed Gaochang cavalry fought around for an hour, leaving hundreds of corpses behind, and fled in embarrassment. Up to now, they dare not come over, but only watched Feng Hui's troops from a distance.

Jieli Pijia rode in a precious chariot inlaid with gold and jade, pulled by six pure white BMWs, and on the roof was a nondescript thing that imitated the yellow umbrella in the Central Plains.

The composition of Gaochang Uyghur's army is also similar to that of Khitan. The core is about 10,000 people with a certain amount of iron armor and a large number of leather armor.

They are similar to the Khitan's Left and Right Pishi Army. They are usually stationed in Gaochang, the capital of the country, and they are also these cavalry who go to Tingzhou to escape the summer heat.

There are also some local armies like the Chen family in Yizhou, which are divided into three places in Qiuci, Yanqi, and Yizhou, with a population of about 20,000 people.

Now that the Chen family is gone, there are about 6000 people left.

The families that controlled these local armies were all 'shareholders' when Pugu Jun established the Gaochang Uighur Khanate.

The last part is the tribal army with a large number but average armor and weapons and combat effectiveness.

Most of them were nomads from various ethnic groups on the territory of the former Yixiiting Jiedushi in the Tang Dynasty who surrendered to the Tubo people, and a small number of people from various tribes who were brought from the plateau by the Tubo people.

These people belonged to the thoroughly ruled class, but the Gaochang Uyghur rule was still much milder than that of Tubo, who played military slavery, so this part of the population had almost been Uyghurized within a few decades.

They prepared their own weapons, armor and war horses. The Khan of Pugu's family only needed to provide them with daily food and grass, and there was no salary. Their profits basically depended on rewards and plunder after victory.

About 5000 people of this kind of armed herdsmen were recruited for the Jielipijia this time.

. . . .

Xue Guizhong quickly climbed up the sentry tower on Chiting Peak, and kept reporting the data while asking Yang Guizhong under the tower to record.

The three families of Yang, Zheng, and Xue in Xinkucha still maintain their naming methods up to now.

The descendants ranked by Gui are the descendants of Yang Shouli and the others who were brought back by Zhang Zhao back then.

Most of Yang Shouli and his generation were constrained by a difficult environment, and there were few who excelled in both martial arts and literature.

Most of the people are working as secondary officials and minor officials in Liangguo's prefectures and counties. It is considered good if they can go to a county to be a county magistrate.

The same is true in the army. The descendants of the three Anxi troops in New Kucha are basically small officers, and they are not yet elite troops.

The only ones whose positions in the army are fairly high, on the contrary, were the few people who were trained by the Kara Khanate as Gulam together with Lu Sanlang and the others, and they are developing well now.

But those who keep the characters are not good, but those who belong to the characters are not bad.

They have always been recruited and trained by Zhang Zhao himself, and sometimes Zhang Zhao will give them a few lessons in person.

Xue Guizhong and Yang Guizhong, who are 17 years old, are the best among them. After the two finished counting the data, they quickly reported it to Feng Hui at the top of the city.

Feng Hui glanced at the two boys appreciatively. As a general, counting soldiers is a very important skill.

"This Jieli Pijia really thinks highly of us. Look, there are 30,000 people here!" Feng Hui smiled and said to Chen Huiyao beside him.

Chen Huiyao was also observing the military appearance in the distance, he said while watching.

"When a certain father was alive in the past, he once said to a certain person that the four sons of Wumu Lord Khan have no appearance of a king, but the third son has a little ability to understand people, but he likes extravagance and ostentation. It is true!"

After hearing this, Feng Hui laughed, "My lord is really astute, I just arrived here, and this Jieli Pijia didn't find out clearly, so he came here with an army of all-powerful soldiers.

There is also a horse in brocade clothes all the way, a mere Rong Hu Hao chieftain, and the pomp is just like that of the first emperor on tour. "

After finishing speaking, Feng Hui's face was serious.

"My general ordered that Guo Guangcheng and Chen Huiming each lead 600 cavalry as the left and right flanks, and Wu Jixing, Dunzhu, and Manxiong each led [-] people as the central army. They went out of the city in armor. It is our turn to try the weight of the Gaochang army gone."

(End of this chapter)