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The main army was on Qu Tushou's side and there were still two groups of people to deal with, so although they won the victory, except for the 10,000 Gaochang soldiers left to guard the prisoners, the rest had to immediately march eastward.

This kind of large-scale mobilization is indeed quite difficult for soldiers who have just experienced a fight. However, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty have already exceeded their physical load from the day of training, so this This kind of transfer is just a piece of cake for them.

Li Chengyi soon knew that he could not bear the victory of Qu Tushou for a long time. Wasn't it just 20,000 Arab cavalry? He has a total of 10,000 troops, including 4,000 Gaochang troops. However, these Gaochang troops are not new recruits. They have been fighting in the Western Regions for a year. So after Qu Tushou won the victory, Li Chengyi The attack horn was immediately sounded.

This guy also investigated the surrounding situation more carefully, but because the Arab army was stationed in the wild, when Li Chengyi's army launched the attack, they also suffered a lot of damage in the first batch, but there was no obstruction around them. , so the Arab troops immediately dispersed.

This is also the situation that Li Chengyi fears the most. The 20,000-strong army only killed less than 6,000 people. The remaining people all fled in all directions. We can't catch up with them at all. Even if we throw away the armor, we can't. If you can't catch up with them, you won't be trained in this kind of light equipment and obedience, so you are no match for them.

What's more, our army has long been adapted to heavy-armed combat. Even if we catch up with others, without the protection of armor, I am afraid that there will be some fear in our hearts, and we may not be their opponents.

Cheng Chuliang, who was in the Chinese Army, immediately knew the situation on both sides. Cheng Chuliang did not criticize the situation on Li Chengyi's side. Even if he was there at that time, he would not be able to change the outcome.

This is the biggest advantage of the Arab cavalry. If we want to solve the problem, we can only drag them into the city to fight, but this will cause too much loss for us. Anyway, there are more than 10,000 cavalry, which may not be the case. Our opponents.

The biggest cake is the miscellaneous army in the middle. Prince Salaman has gathered the labor force from all the Central Asian countries. There are more than 100,000 people in it. After the previous armies were defeated, this group of Central Asians The miscellaneous army panicked immediately, and they also wanted to flee. Unfortunately, this place was too far away from their country. If they fled in all directions, few of them could hold on.

When the Tang army appeared in both the East and the West, these people only engaged in some small-scale fighting and immediately calmed down. They were no match for them at all, let alone the Tang army. Even if they encountered the Gaochang army , they had no hope of winning, so they could only honestly choose to surrender.

In this day and age, the largest recorded surrender occurred, with 110,000 troops from various Central Asian countries laying down their weapons at the same time. When he saw the densely packed captives in front of him, Cheng Chuliang's head felt extremely headache.

At least you guys should fight. If we fight, we can reduce the number of people to some extent. We don’t need to collect so much food. Now you bastards have just surrendered. Where can we find so much? of food?
Although the west also needs to build roads, there are simply not that many people needed, so we can only take them to major cities in the western region as quickly as possible, and then sell them at a relatively reasonable price. This is what we are doing today. The most important thing to do now is, otherwise, with so many mouths, it is very likely that we will be overwhelmed.

Knowing that they would never be able to return home, and that they might be sold to various places as slaves, some people thought of running away, and some thought of fighting to the death. However, after killing more than a thousand people, these people became honest, and they became They don't have much resistance. Aren't these guys afraid when they see the people of Tang Dynasty using their swords? Within a month, the threat from the Western Region was finally resolved. Although His Highness the Prince was not found, he emptied the Anton Governor's Mansion.

If there were not so many prisoners, Cheng Chuliang would never be idle here. He would definitely order his army to continue westward until they captured the city of Samarkand. But now the situation is unstoppable. The total number of prisoners before and after is nearly twenty. Wan, although more than 20,000 people have been dealt with, it is still a relatively big trouble.

He has already written a letter to the court, hoping that the court can approve him to take out military rations from various parts of the Western Regions, otherwise these guys will soon cause trouble. Of course, it is impossible for them to be overfed, but they must not be allowed to eat too much. Starved to death.

Different places in the Western Region are different from the Central Plains. In addition to eating, drinking water is also a very important thing. Now these people are walking towards the water source. If they don't find a few oases, these people will probably die of thirst. .

Li Xiang's instructions came quickly. This is an extremely important labor force. Not only in the countries in the Western Regions, but also in some more dangerous places in the Tang Dynasty, we all have to build roads and bridges. We cannot let ourselves Citizens should take risks. Isn’t this a good labor force?
Therefore, Li Xiang allowed Cheng Chuliang to use all the resources at hand to keep these people alive and transport them back to the mainland in batches. The countries in the Western Regions only need to keep 40,000 slaves, and they cannot support more.

But it's different in Datang. A lot of arable land has been opened up in many places, and our labor force seems to be somewhat insufficient. If these people come over, it will indeed relieve this pressure.

Moreover, some of them can also be persuaded to surrender, and sent to the southern battlefield, or to Goguryeo and Fusang, for cross-management. This has always been Li Xiang's policy.

The captives could only obey the arrangements of the Tang Dynasty court. After all, the Tang army did not reason with them. Apart from a nest of rice soup and two meals of rice soup without any grains of rice every day, they had no strength at all.

The countries in the Western Regions that participated in the war also shared a lot of efforts, and they can live a little better. Each one of them also sees his own future. As long as we work hard with the Tang army, we can have a good path.

As for following the Arab Empire?
Only a fool would make such a choice. Didn't you see that they had more than 100,000 prisoners? (End of chapter)