Han Khan

Chapter 54: The Huization of the Han People in the Western Regions
"Several centurions, Commander Yin Shanxiong has ordered that the men and cattle and sheep must be sent to His Highness' camp."

An Shilang, Kang Xintong, Zhang Binghan, Zhang Liangzhen, Duobo and others jumped on their horses after hearing the news.

Duobo frowned and asked, "Where is the scout group going?"

He was a Tatar, and the commander of Yan was also a Tatar, who took good care of him.

Because of his superb riding and archery skills on horseback, he was successfully promoted from team leader to chief of a hundred households during the reorganization of the hundred households.

However, the hundreds of soldiers he summoned under his command either had no horses, no weapons, and many of them even lacked armor!
Today, we plundered the Shatuo and Tubo tribes in Liugushui and obtained many horses, bows and swords, which can be used to equip the tribesmen. We plundered so many livestock and people, and I hope that this hundred households can get more.

He was about to continue fighting and making merit, but he was annoyed because he had to escort the prisoners and their property back to the camp.

"Commander Yan is attacking a village of the Sai people. Scouts have discovered their village, which has tens of thousands of livestock and nearly ten thousand stones of food and grass. Commander Yan is afraid that his merits will be taken away by his centurions or Commander Yin Shanxiong, so he is rushing to lead his men to attack the Sai people."

"Yin Shanxiong...this guy!" Duobo was speechless.

He had to admit that this guard commander was very powerful. He had always been protecting His Highness and had won His Highness's trust. He was a master in using the horse lance and his riding and archery skills were extremely superb.

There are more than 400 cavalry guards under his command, all wearing fine iron armor, equipped with lances, sabers, bows and arrows, lassos, iron hooves and shields. They are particularly good at fighting and can be regarded as the most elite guards regiment. Today, they defeated two or three tribes in succession, and their leaders were all beheaded in front of the battle. They are extremely ferocious.

The vassal tribes outside Yizhou City are now like fish on the chopping board.

Including the Jin-Han cavalry that were raiding the Basmidians, Uighurs, Tatar tribes, and Sai and Han villages in Liugushui, Heishui River, Nazhi, Rouyuan and other places, there were actually more than 3,000 cavalrymen competing for military merit.

Duobo secretly estimated that if he continued looting for a few more days, even if he did not attack Yizhou and migrated directly northward, he would still gain a lot.

As a centurion, he had more wealth than ordinary people. This time he intended to plunder on a large scale and make some achievements so that he could get more slaves to herd sheep when His Highness distributed them.

Yizhou City is now like a lamb to be slaughtered. Not to mention its face, even its dignity is about to be lost! Its vassal tribes have either died, fled or surrendered. How would the tenants and slaves outside the city feel about such behavior? Yizhou City cannot protect them at all!
In this way, the city of Yizhou will eventually collapse without being attacked!

It is really exciting to follow His Highness in the battle. His Highness is like a leader on the grassland. If the generals of the Guiyi Army were to lead the army, they would most likely first recruit a large number of soldiers and militiamen, gather tens of thousands of people, surround Yizhou City, and then attack the city like ants.

In this way, I don't know how many people will die! If there are heavy losses during the siege, the Hu chieftains in Yizhou will certainly not dare to surrender, for fear that the Jin Han people will massacre the city after the city is broken.

With one side attacking fiercely and the other side defending desperately, it is hard to predict what the outcome will be, but both sides will suffer heavy casualties.

"Let's go and gather with Commander Yin." Although Zhang Liangzhen and others were reluctant to give up the opportunity to plunder, they had to obey orders, so they were somewhat uninterested.

Similar to Duobo and others, there were also more than 400 guards led by the guard commander Koza, and more than a thousand soldiers from five centurions led by Zhang Chengming, Liang Xingde, Xue Shantong, Luo Wenda and others who had already attacked near Nazhishouzhuo west of Yizhou.

The more than 1,000 Jin-Han cavalry also reaped a rich harvest today. They captured two Sai and Han villages, more than 3,000 prisoners, more than 5,000 stones of grain, and more than 10,000 cattle, sheep, horses and camels.

These villages were not as defenseless as the herdsmen on the grassland, so it was still a little difficult to plunder them, but they eventually defeated them all.

Then, they even rushed to the Pulehai Lake in the north of Yizhou City and plundered the nomadic tribes of Tubo, Uighur and Tatar. These tribes lived on grazing, and they were directly plundered by them, capturing more than 2,000 people and nearly 60,000 livestock.

However, Duobo also got an important piece of news from these captives, that is, Yizhou had already sent a messenger to Beiting yesterday to ask Yi Duhu for help, and the other party would definitely send troops.

The news quickly reached Zhang Sheng, who made a prompt decision to change the deployment.

“Call back all soldiers, and order all centurions and guards to gather all prisoners of war, except those who can speak Tang language, into groups of ten, totaling 2,000 prisoners.

Each group of prisoners is supervised by a Jinhan warrior, and today they will be escorted to attack Yizhou.

These captives would be used as "arrow fodder" to "attack the city" with their bare hands, in order to distract the soldiers defending the city and reduce casualties during Jinhan's attack.

Some of the captives were responsible for digging trenches, destroying the city walls, and acting as "shields" for the Jin Han people. The Jin Han people hid behind these captives and let them protect them from arrows shot from the city walls. "

“In addition, order the remaining prisoners to block the Black Yizhou River and fill in the trenches outside Yizhou.

If anyone dares to resist or fails to complete the task, the entire group will be executed."

"As you command, Your Highness!"

How cruel this is!

These poor captives had only two choices: either die from the bows and arrows of the defenders on the city wall, or die from the butcher knives of the Jin Han people.

Zhang Sheng made his fortune by relying on elite cavalrymen who were originally slave soldiers. Now these elite soldiers have escaped from their slave status and have become centurions and guards with prominent positions in the Jin Han tribe.

He highly values ​​these officers of Jin Han. With 1800 guards and 30 centurions commanding all the tribesmen, he has an army of about 3000 people today. This is his most important asset and the foundation of his power. With the well-rested elite cavalry, against the tired, hungry and scarce Uighur slaves of Yizhou, how can he not win!
"Your Highness, Chen Yunque, the younger brother of Chen Yunde, the governor of Yizhou, is here." When he was thinking about the deployment of the army and how to attack Yizhou, Yan Zhi came in to report.

The corners of Zhang Sheng's mouth curled up slightly, with a hint of sneer.

"Let him come over." He said after turning around and sitting on the snow leopard skin stool in the big tent.

After the body search, Chen Yunque was brought into the big tent.

"Chen Yunque, the deputy governor of Yizhou of the Great Uighur Kingdom, has met the general." Chen Yunque was about twenty years old, a little over five feet tall, and was exquisitely dressed in a Uighur robe, looking like a Uighur.

"I wonder where this general comes from and why he attacked the Yizhou City of our Great Uighur Kingdom?" Chen Yunque looked inside the big tent and saw many strong warriors standing on both sides of the tent, including both Hu and Han people. He then looked up at Zhang Sheng, who was sitting high on the seat and looked like a Han but not a Han, and continued.

"When did Yizhou become the city wall of the Great Uighur Kingdom you mentioned?" Zhang Sheng played with the sword in his hand, staring at Chen Yunque in front of him, and spoke in a soft voice.

"Ever since our late king Jun was conferred the title of General of the Left Guard of the Tang Dynasty, this place has been the territory of the Great Uighur Kingdom! You are Han people from Anxi, Qiuci and Yanqi? Aren't you afraid that my king will send troops to attack?" Chen Yunque held his head high with an arrogant look on his face, and almost did not take Zhang Sheng seriously.

Many warriors in the tent also drew their sabers. As long as Zhang Sheng gave the order, they would definitely chop the arrogant person in front of them into meat paste.

Zhang Sheng gradually became angry! He said in a deep voice:
"I am Zhang Sheng, a Han Chinese from Dunhuang, the son of the late White-robed Emperor Zhang Chengfeng.

It seems that my father came here three years ago. In addition, I remember that this place was originally a military town in the Western Region of the Tang Dynasty. It was later recaptured from the Tibetans by my great-grandfather, Zhang Yichao, the Grand Tutor.

My father took back Yizhou from the Great Uighur Kingdom you mentioned. Your elder brother Chen Yunde was appointed by my father as the military commander of Yizhou. I heard you keep mentioning the Great Uighur Kingdom. It seems that the Chen family of Yizhou has already joined the Uighurs, right? "

When Chen Yunque heard that the person sitting on the high seat in front of him was the son of the white-robed emperor who changed the Guiyi Army into the Jinshan Kingdom, he was dumbfounded and looked at Zhang Sheng in shock.

"This......" Chen Yunque didn't know what to say at this moment. He guessed that the enemy who came to attack might be the Guiyi Army from Jinshan Kingdom.

Now he was a little scared! Why?

Because everyone in Gaochang, Beiting and Yizhou knew that the arrogant King Jinshan was defeated by the Uighurs in Ganzhou three years ago.

Moreover, a few months ago, he also received intelligence from Dunhuang, and Jinshan King Zhang Chengfeng died of depression because of this.

There was no way the Zhang family could ever sit on the position of Jiedushi of the Guiyi Army again, but the son of King Jinshan appeared here, which meant that the other party had been replaced by other clans in Dunhuang, so he was afraid at this moment.

The man in front of him is a wolf who has lost everything. Given his hatred for the Uighurs and for the sake of wealth and population, he will never let Yizhou go as long as he wants to make a comeback.

What a "wise" man he is, because his guess is actually not wrong.

"Prince Zhang, may I ask what you want us to do in order to withdraw our troops?" Chen Yunque took a deep breath and calmed down. He also realized that it was useless to rely on talking to the person in front of him. So, he asked directly.

"Very good. When I heard you say the word 'foreign minister', I knew what I should do." Zhang Sheng stood up and walked towards Chen Yunque below. The armor on his body made metallic sounds as he walked.

He is very tall. I haven't introduced him before. How tall is he? He is now sixteen and his height is already 5 feet and a half (183cm).

He looked down at Chen Yunque, the arrogant spiritual Uighur in front of him.

Chen Yunque was trembling with fear. He was arrogant, but the source of this guy's arrogance actually came from the protection of the Uighurs. It was really a shame for the Tang and Han people.

Zhang Sheng was not angry. He calmly looked down at the humble man in front of him and said calmly: "When Yizhou City is destroyed, my sword will never let you go! It is a humiliation for me that you are still alive."

You asked us how to withdraw our troops. Now let me tell you, I want everything, including your lives. Go back and wait quietly for death, you Uighur slaves!"

"Show him away!" Zhang Sheng said!
How can we allow life and death to be in the hands of others!

"Prince Zhang, Yizhou is willing to offer a thousand horses, ten thousand cattle, and a hundred thousand sheep, as long as you, Prince, withdraw your troops." Chen Yunque was now frightened. He knew that it would be difficult for both parties to negotiate, but he still planned to give it a try, so he put forward his own conditions.

Zhang Sheng laughed loudly upon hearing this and said, "But when I conquered Yizhou City, can't we take these things ourselves?"

Chen Yunque's face changed when he heard this, and he immediately changed his tone and said, "Prince Zhang is confident that he can win?"

Zhang Sheng looked at him like a fool and asked, "How many troops do you have? 500? 600? Or 1000?"

Suddenly he said, "Han people in cities of the Western Regions are now like you, Chen. Have you forgotten the glory of the Tang and Han people? You are actually serving as dogs for the Uighur dogs."

To be continued!!
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