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Chapter 1258 Clearance Operation
Yi County, which is about fifty miles away from the Juma River, is an important logistical base of the Uighurs. Thousands of people in Yi County were forcibly driven out of the city by the Uighur army. Yi County became a warehouse city. There are currently two million sheep and five hundred herdsmen in the city, as well as five thousand Uighur troops. In addition, there are 100,000 shi of grain and 200,000 dan of hay, which are the military rations of the Fanyang Army.

Yi County was not far from Feihu Pass. Zhu Ci deployed a thousand garrisons at the entrance of Feihu Pass Valley, but he did not tell the Uighurs that there was a valley leading to Weizhou in Hedong.

This is the cunning of Zhu Ci. On the surface, he welcomed the Uighurs, but secretly he treated them like thieves and refused to reveal any details of Youzhou.

At night, an army of 20,000 approached the exit of Feihu Pass. There were 1,000 soldiers stationed at the exit of Feihu Pass. The main general was named Wang Pan, who was the deputy general of Wang Zhaoxuan, the former defender of Feihu County. After Feihu County fell, Wang Zhaoxuan left Wang Pan to guard the exit of Feihu Pass, and he went back to report to Zhu Ci, and never came back.

Before dawn, Wang Pan suddenly received news that their military camp was surrounded by Tang troops. Wang Pan was shocked and hurried to the top of the camp fence to check.

Their military camp was a small plank-type camp covering an area of ​​one hundred acres. They could stand on the camp wall for patrol and defense. It was still dark, but countless figures could be seen outside, at least tens of thousands of soldiers.

"General, do you want to light the beacon?"

There was a hidden beacon on the top of the mountain behind them, and five soldiers were on duty in the beacon. If the beacon was lit in the camp below the mountain, the beacon would also be lit on the mountain.

Of course, the power to give orders belongs to Wang Pan. Only when he gives the order can the beacon fire above be lit.

Wang Pan glared at his men fiercely, "Are you crazy? If you light the beacon, we will all be dead."

Several generals behind him glared at the general who gave the advice. They were all marginalized generals who had lost Zhu Ci's trust and naturally would not be loyal to him. All they were thinking about was how to save their lives and property.

At this time, a soldier came to report, "General, the enemy shot an arrow letter in!"

"Where is the letter?" Wang Pan asked hurriedly.

The soldier handed over a letter stuck on an arrow, and Wang Pan opened it and read it.

It was written by General Zhang Yun, praising him for putting the overall situation first and not lighting the bonfire, and promising that as long as they surrendered, their lives and property would be safe, and if they made meritorious service, they could even be promoted to Tang generals.

Wang Pan then gave the letter to several of his men to circulate, and all the generals agreed to surrender.

Wang Pan immediately ordered: "Pass on my order, open the camp gates and surrender!"

Outside the city was an army of 20,000 led by Zhang Yun. He had received orders from the regent to capture Yi County immediately.

When Zhang Yun's army came out of Feihu Pass, the first thing they faced was the military camp at the entrance of the valley. Zhang Yun originally wanted to attack by force, but he was worried that a strong attack would cause the other side to become desperate and light the beacon tower. So he decided to adopt a soft-then-hard approach, giving the other side a chance to surrender and at the same time stabilizing the other side.

He was betting that the other side wanted to save their lives, and sure enough, the barracks opened the door and surrendered.

At two o'clock in the morning, an army arrived outside Yi County. There were about a thousand people in the army. The leading general was Wang Pan. The army drove more than a dozen large carts, which were full of gorgeously dressed women. Of course, these women were dressed as Tang soldiers.

Wang Pan knew very well how to trick the city gates into opening. The Huihe people were very cautious about other things, but the most valuable commodity was women. These bastards were crazy about women and even sent people to their military camp a few days ago to ask if there were any military prostitutes.

Wang Pan raised his badge and shouted, "I am General Wang Pan, and I am here on orders from Wang Zhengshou to send you a group of military prostitutes."

Wang Zhengshou was Wang Shoucheng, the military and political commander of Youzhou and Zhu Ci's top aide, and all the Uighurs knew him.

When the defenders on the city heard that there were women, they all lay on the top of the city wall to take a closer look. Sure enough, they saw hundreds of beautifully dressed women sitting in the carts. The soldiers were drooling.

The commander guarding the city was called Xixie Fulin, a member of the Xixie tribe of the Uighurs. He was a captain of ten thousand men and led five thousand men to guard Yi County.

Although the soldiers could not walk when they saw the women, Xixie Fulin was still very cautious. He ordered his men to put down a basket and shouted, "Put the command arrow and military badge in the basket!" Zhu Ci's command arrow was found in the Hezuo Army when they were suppressing Tian Chengsi. The Hezuo Army had 10,000 troops of Zhu Ci, and they had Zhu Ci's command arrow, which was a silver one, which matched Wang Pan's silver badge perfectly.

Xi Xie Fulin took the command arrow and the silver medal, and sent someone to find Zhu Ci's men who were guarding the grain warehouse to identify them and confirmed that they were correct.

Xi Xie Fulin then waved his hand and ordered: "Open the city!"

The drawbridge was lowered and the city gate slowly opened. A thousand soldiers escorted ox carts into the city. Soldiers ran down from the top of the city wall, staring at the woman in the ox cart with drooling. Some of the impatient ones reached out to touch her.

"No, why do these women all have Adam's apples?"

A soldier suddenly noticed something unusual and shouted.

Xi Xie Fulin was startled, then immediately reacted and shouted urgently, "Close the city gates, don't let them in!"

The main general who came in was a fierce general of the Tang army named Zheng Kai. He swung his sword and shouted, "Brothers, kill!"

“Kill!”

The soldiers took out their weapons and attacked the Uighurs on both sides. The women tore off their skirts, revealing their armor, and drew out their spears to fight fiercely with the enemy.

The drawbridge could not be pulled up as it was blocked by tools used by the Tang army, and the city gate could not be closed as it was blocked by ox carts.

The alarm bells in the city sounded urgently, "Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!"

Twenty thousand Tang troops attacked from all directions, including fifteen thousand from the North City, two thousand each from the South City and the East City, and one thousand from the West City.

Zhang Yun's goal was not to let a single enemy soldier escape.

Soon, 15,000 Tang soldiers rushed into the city.

To the south of Yi County is the Yi River, which is actually the upper reaches of the Juma River. However, this area is full of mountains and hills, so the cavalry could not move forward. The Uighurs never thought of crossing the river here, and the Fanyang army never went south from Yi County, so there is no record of this.

This will lead to a wrong idea that there is no way to go south from Yishui.

But in fact, there is a way to go, but there is no flat official road, so it is not easy to walk on.

Just one hour after Yi County was captured, a Tang army of 10,000 soldiers with 30,000 camels crossed the Yi River and arrived in Yi County.

At dawn, 10,000 Tang troops were escorting all the spoils captured in Yi County, including two million sheep and 100,000 shi of grain, which were naturally carried by camels, as well as various other supplies and more than 1,000 prisoners of war.

The army crossed the Yishui River and headed south.

The reason for crossing the Yishui River and heading south was to give the Huihe army a wrong message. The army that conquered Yi County also came from the south of the Yishui River.
At noon, a Uighur centurion arrived at the Khan's camp. This centurion was released on the north bank of the Yishui River. Of course, he was asked to deliver a letter, a handwritten letter from Li Ye to Dengli Khan.

Soon, the messenger centurion was brought before Dengli Khan.

(End of this chapter)