Traveling through Tianlong: Starting from the Zhenlong chess game

Chapter 552: Taking Gaochang City

Although the Uighur soldiers did not dare to fight with Zhao Mu, Zhao Mu showed no mercy to them.

After Zhao Mu landed on the city wall, he swung the Tongguang Sword in his hand and performed the Yuenu Sword Technique. Before the Uighur soldiers guarding the city wall could react, dozens of them died under Zhao Mu's sword.

Zhao Mu was like an unstoppable lion, constantly slaughtering the Uighur soldiers guarding the city on the city wall, creating favorable opportunities for his army to climb the city wall with ladders.

As long as he killed all these people alone, then the archers, thunder stones and rolling logs and other city defense equipment would be useless. Without the obstruction of these things, as long as the follow-up troops climbed the city wall with ladders, Gaochang City would fall in the blink of an eye.

Before this, the Uighurs had heard of Zhao Mu's reputation for being victorious in every battle. Now that they saw that his reputation was well-deserved, they all lost the will to resist.

When the Uighur general defending the city saw that Zhao Mu was so unstoppable, he stopped resisting and immediately threw away his helmet and fled.

When the other soldiers saw that their commander had fled, they no longer wanted to fight. Some laid down their weapons and surrendered, while others also followed him and fled.

Seeing that the Uighur soldiers began to flee, the morale of the subsequent troops climbing the city wall was boosted and they climbed the city wall much faster.

But Zhao Mu had no intention of letting them go, because in his eyes, those who fled in the face of battle and bullied the weak and feared the strong did not deserve to live.

Zhao Mu had studied history. During the An-Shi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty had no troops, so it borrowed the Uighurs to resist the An-Shi rebels. After the Uighurs entered the Central Plains, they also made contributions, but they looted Chang'an and Luoyang, causing great suffering to the people of the Central Plains.

Although hundreds of years have passed, there is an old saying among the Han people: "A revenge of ten generations can still be avenged."

Emperor Suzong of Tang was incompetent and allowed the Hu army to plunder the Han people. But Zhao Mu was not so cowardly. Today, he would avenge the blood feud of the people of Luoyang.

Zhao Mu has issued military orders since the Western Expedition began.

Although his army still maintained the three iron rules of not plundering people's property, not bullying women, and not killing civilians, Zhao Mu also lifted one rule for the soldiers this time, which was not to accept surrender.

As long as the enemy took up arms to resist, they would be considered soldiers and their surrender would not be accepted. Their heads could be regarded as military rewards.

Although Zhao Mu's lifting of the ban also caused some unnecessary killings, compared with the barbaric acts of massacres at any time in this era, not stopping the sword for three days, and taking what one wants, Zhao Mu's army can still be regarded as a civilized "heavenly army".

What Zhao Mu wanted this time was to wipe out all the armed forces of the Uighur tribes, and even control their young and strong men to a number that would not be able to resist the Song army in the future. Only in this way could he re-establish the "Anxi Protectorate" and allow his army to control the entire Western Region at the lowest cost.

Zhao Mu also believed that "those who are not of my race must have different hearts." If he had not been related to Xixia and Dali, Zhao Mu would have completely swallowed them up. At that time, what he would have to restore was not the territory of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, but the territory of the Yuan Dynasty.

Soon, the troops that followed the city walls also rushed up one after another. Facing these Uighur fleeing soldiers, the Qi army also burst out with amazing fighting power. They rushed to the surroundings of the city wall to clear out the remaining Uighur soldiers and seize their own military merits.

After capturing the city wall, the gates of Gaochang City were also opened by the Qi Army, and then the Qi Army rushed in like a flood. However, the situation in the city was not optimistic. At present, Gaochang City was in chaos. However, this was not caused by Zhao Mu's soldiers. It was caused by the retreating Uighur garrison. Some people were fighting street battles with the Qi Army in the city, and some people retreated in an orderly manner towards the direction of the palace.

But most of the Uighur soldiers were looting.

That's right! It was the Uighur soldiers who took advantage of the chaos to loot their own people, not Zhao Mu's army.

Seeing this incredible scene, the Qi army was also confused. They didn't know what these Uighur soldiers were trying to do.

These people wanted to take advantage of the chaos to rob some property, then hide and escape. They all thought that the Qi army would kill people, rob and rape women from house to house after entering the city, so they also took advantage of the chaos to rob some, and then escape while the Qi army was raping and looting.

However, what the Uighur soldiers expected did not happen. As a result, an interesting scene occurred. The Qi army rushed in and chased the Uighur soldiers and killed them, and rescued the people of Gaochang who were robbed. The Qi soldiers disdained the people's property and just chased the fleeing Uighur soldiers and killed them non-stop.

Even if the Uighur soldiers "cut off their tails" and threw down the looted property, trying to get the Qi soldiers to share the property and spare their lives, the Qi soldiers disdained the property and kept chasing him and hacking at him. Some of them who could not catch up would collect the property that they had discarded when they fled and return it to the people who had been robbed.

This move also confused the Uighur people in Gaochang City. Now they couldn't tell who was attacking the city and who was defending it. They couldn't tell which side they were on.

The enemy who broke in was protecting them, while their own army was looting them. The Uighur people didn't know whether the enemy soldiers were crazy or dead and dreaming.

But it's not their fault. After all, Zhao Mu had issued a death order. After the city was captured, he would open the treasury to reward everyone. But if anyone hid the spoils of war or harmed the people, Zhao Mu's law enforcement knife would be merciless. After all, Zhao Mu had killed the prince of Nanping and the nephews of Prime Minister Cai. With these previous lessons, the soldiers did not dare to touch Zhao Mu's reverse scale.

After all, if you lose your head, then there is no point in asking for money. In addition, Zhao Mu clearly distinguishes rewards and punishments, and military rations and salaries are paid on time, so the soldiers will naturally not risk losing their heads to violate military discipline.

Although the city was in chaos, Zhao Mu was leading the Qi army towards the royal palace.

Although the palace guards fought desperately, they were like a mantis trying to stop a chariot. Soon Zhao Mu's army broke through the palace gate and rushed in.

At this time, there was chaos in the palace. The guards and palace maids were either fleeing or stealing things.

Zhao Mu waved his sword and ordered his guards: "Restore order in the city quickly. All guards and soldiers holding weapons and wearing armor must be killed. Post the public security notice prepared by the princess outside. The troops are not allowed to enter private homes without permission. Order must be restored in the city by tomorrow. Bring everyone in the palace to the palace!"

"Yes!" After receiving Zhao Mu's order, the personal guard immediately went to notify the troops.

While the others were searching for the people in the Uighur palace, Zhao Mu slowly walked into the Uighur king's hall.

(End of this chapter)