The Golden Family, rising from the Western Regions

Chapter 240 Flatten the wheels, slaughter them all.

"Your entire family is right behind you, where can you possibly run to?"

"Warriors of Sangar, take up your bows and arrows and fight those demons!"

Sanggarhari wore an old, earth-yellow leather armor, his dark face contorted with rage, and he held a long spear, shouting fiercely.

As more and more northern cavalrymen rushed in through the breach, Sanggar Village was in grave danger.

More and more Sangar people were slaughtered and killed, but their bows, arrows, and spears seemed unable to harm the enemy in the slightest.

The huge disparity in combat strength instilled fear in many Sanghar people, who prepared to flee.

Even though Hari, Matsubayashi, and others killed several deserters, they could not stop the collapse of the situation.

Just then, a group of northern frontier cavalry noticed them.

“Those people look like chieftains of the Heluochuan people.”

"Kill them."

"Heiwa, the hundredth household member of the fourth town, shouted loudly."

At this moment, his yellow cotton armor was stained red with the blood of the people of Heluochuan.

Bathed in the setting sun, the crimson edge of the hook-and-sickle spear resembled the scythe of death, pointing towards Hari and the others.

"Boom boom boom~"

Dozens of warhorses galloped through Sanggar Village, kicking up clouds of yellow sand, like a giant earthen dragon charging towards the last resistance force of Sanggar Village.

"Pfft~"

A muffled thud of flesh and blood rang out as Heiwa, gripping his hook-and-sickle spear, plunged it into the chest of a Sangar man. Using the momentum of the warhorse, the body was sent flying several meters away.

The cavalry behind them also brandished their spears and killed the Sangar people as easily as killing chickens.

Screams and wails rose and fell in succession.

"Go to hell!"

Seeing his trusted men die one by one before his eyes, Sanggarhari's face contorted with rage, and his eyes flashed with bloodlust.

Grasping his spear, he mounted his warhorse and thrust it with all his might at the nearest soldier.

"Dang~"

A crisp metallic sound rang out as the spearhead, blocked by the armor, could no longer penetrate even an inch.

"what?"

"Damn it, what kind of armor is this?"

Hari was shocked. This armor looked like linen on the surface, but it was incredibly hard, no different from iron armor.

It was completely beyond his comprehension.

Just as Hari was in shock, Heiwa, who was not far away, also rushed over with a ferocious expression.

"Old man, you're asking for death for hurting my brother."

The soldiers were not seriously injured; they were simply thrown away by Hari's force and crashed heavily to the ground, but only suffered minor injuries.

However, the rampant pro-Japanese sentiment infuriated Heiwa.

"Dang~"

The moment the two horses passed each other, another crisp sound of metal clashing rang out. Hari looked terrified, staring at his spear, his eyes narrowing instantly.

broken!

In that brief exchange, neither of them made contact with the other, but his spear was snapped in two by Heiwa's hook-and-sickle spear.

These crudely made spears are far inferior in hardness and toughness to the hook-and-sickle spears made of Hexi steel.

First it pierced the cotton armor plate, then it clashed with the hook-and-sickle spear, already reaching its limit.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the two bodyguards following closely behind Heiwa immediately followed up, thrusting their spears fiercely into Hari's chest and back.

"Puff~"

Two muffled thuds followed, and then Hari's screams echoed through Sanggar Village.

"Ahhh~"

"Dad~"

In the distance, Sudler was still leading a dozen or so young men in a final resistance. Upon hearing Hari's voice, his expression became even more terrified.

"Hurry, hurry up!"

"Go to Huleqin Village!" Hari cried out miserably.

While the others fled, he threatened their entire families with their lives.

But when it came to her own son, all she thought about was getting him to escape.

Human selfishness and the ugly face of the rulers were fully revealed at this moment.

When Sudler saw his father covered in blood, dying tragically under the hook-and-sickle spears of the Northern Frontier Army, his whole body began to tremble.

The fear on his face intensified, and he seemed to be unconsciously muttering, "Okay, okay, run away!"

With that, she completely disregarded her father who had just died and turned to run away.

But the next second, a whooshing sound came, and Sudler's body on horseback suddenly stiffened.

"簌~"

He looked down in disbelief and saw an arrow piercing through his body, emerging from his chest.

"Uh uh uh~"

"No~"

Sudler, his face contorted with fear, let out a desperate growl before being flung off by his warhorse, rolling into the yellow sand, and slowly closing his eyes.

In the distance, Wang Cunxiao drew his bow again, aiming at yet another fleeing Heluochuan man.

With the whistling of arrows, another man fell to his arrows.

Then, he shouted loudly to the soldiers around him: "No one from Heluochuan is allowed to escape."

“Kill all the men of Heluochuan.”

There were cavalry from the northern frontier surrounding Sanggar Village from all four directions, so the people inside the village couldn't escape.

Soon, Sanggar Songlin and all the other chieftains also fell into the yellow sand and pools of blood.

Sanggar Village's backbone was completely broken.

The setting sun, like blood, dyed the Gobi Desert a dark red.

The killing at the wall was over; corpses lay scattered everywhere, and blood stained the yellow sand.

More and more crows and vultures began to gather, flapping their wings and making hoarse cries as they circled over the village.

Hundreds of Northern Frontier soldiers rode tall warhorses and surged into the village like a golden tide.

Their armor gleamed eerily in the setting sun, and their spears were stained with blood and bits of flesh.

"Gee, gee, gee~"

"Kill all the men in the village and take all the women away."

"Ho ho ho~"

The cavalrymen roared like wild beasts, raising clouds of dust wherever they went.

An old man named Sanggar could no longer draw his bow, so he could only sharpen knives and forge arrows for the warriors at the village entrance.

Seeing the overwhelming force of the cavalry, how could they not understand that the stronghold had been breached?
Then she thought of her three sons by the wall. Were they all dead?
Before he could grieve, the old man turned and prepared to run home.

But before he could run very far, a northern cavalryman rushed up behind him, his saber flashing coldly, and severed half of his head.

"Bang~"

The corpse crashed heavily to the ground, its round eyes still filled with pain. Upon seeing this, the cavalryman turned back, turned sideways, and picked up the head from the ground as a token of his merit.

Meanwhile, the cavalry from the northern frontier conducted a thorough search of the houses in the village.

In the middle of the village, several young men brandished homemade spears in an attempt to resist.

Their faces were filled with fear, but their eyes revealed a sense of resentment.

However, their resistance seemed so futile in the face of the well-trained cavalry of the northern frontier.

A soldier swung his flail, the chain with spikes slicing through the air before slamming into a young man's shoulder, instantly turning him into a bloody mess.

The young man screamed and fell to the ground, his spear falling from his hand.

A cavalryman from the northern frontier charged forward instantly, brandishing his spear and piercing him straight through from above.

Immediately afterwards, the other cavalry followed, and another massacre began. Moments later, all the young men lay dead in pools of blood.

"Clang~"

The door to the house was kicked open, and three cavalrymen went inside.

A woman's scream suddenly rang out from inside. A woman holding a child was huddled in a corner, her face contorted with terror and her body trembling.

The three of them casually glanced around the room and found it to be very poor; there wasn't even a cabinet where one could hide.

Search~

"See if there's a cellar."

The lead cavalryman shouted in a deep voice, ordering two of his men to search, while he strode forward and stood before the woman.

"Born into a tribe like Heluochuan, he will definitely grow up to be a wolf cub."

The story of the Orphan of Zhao has always served as a warning to the soldiers in the northern frontier: when doing things, one must eliminate the root of the problem and never be soft-hearted, otherwise there will be endless troubles.

Meanwhile, in Sanggarhari's courtyard, Heiwa led his men in and stormed in.

What they saw before them took them slightly by surprise.

In the corner of the courtyard, there lay a woman's corpse, but her head had been cut off and was placed aside, while her thighs were missing.

In the traditional belief of the people of Heluochuan, once the head is cut off, there is no need to worry that the woman will become a vengeful ghost and come back for revenge.

As for the severed thighs, they were used to fill their stomachs.

Heluochuan is arid and receives little rainfall, so food is a major problem.

As long as the body is not one of their own, the people of Heluochuan will reuse it according to the principle of not wasting anything.

Heiwa expressed understanding, but could not accept it.

"Those who have eaten human flesh can no longer be called human beings; they should be called beasts."

"Tell the brothers that we should not hold back against the people of Heluochuan; we should kill them with the most ruthless methods."

Heiwa said in a cold voice.

As soon as he finished speaking, another soldier came out of a room: "Commander, there is a living woman in here."

The woman was very young, not even twenty years old, and her hands and feet were tightly bound by iron chains.

His clothes were disheveled, and his face was covered with traces of tears mixed with dirt.

She originally thought she was going to die, that she would be violated by those cruel savages, and then killed and eaten.

But to my surprise, someone actually came to rescue me.

"What's your name? Where are you from?"

Heiwa ordered his men to break the chains binding the woman and asked curiously.

Judging from the woman's clothing, she was undoubtedly a Han Chinese.

"I... I'm Liu Ermei, from Tiger Village. When we heard that the grassland barbarians were attacking Blackwater City, my husband took our whole family to hide with relatives in Ganzhou City..."

The woman looked timid and spoke in a trembling voice.

Little did she know that these burly men in front of her were the grassland barbarians she had described.

However, Heiwa didn't care about that. He only paid attention to the woman's background and learned about the situation of these Han people who had been abducted.

It was eventually learned that Liu Ermei's husband had been killed by the Sangar people on the banks of the Blackwater River.

Most of the other abducted people are still alive, not because Sanghar was kind, but because he wanted to slowly devour them.

"Hmph, a bunch of beasts in clothes!" Heiwa said coldly.

Then, he comforted the woman, saying, "Don't be afraid, those Heluochuan people have been killed by us, you are safe now."

"It doesn't matter if your man dies. There are thousands of men in my Northern Frontier army for you to choose from. Just marry whichever one you like."

Life still goes on.

The woman was under twenty years old, quite pretty, and a young widow whose husband had died.

They would be an absolute gem of a resource in the Northern Frontier Army; those beasts would definitely fight tooth and nail for them.

Therefore, Liu Ermei has no need to worry about her future at all.

She nodded slightly, her dirty face covered in mud. She glanced at Heiwa's rugged appearance and then silently lowered her head. At that moment, another soldier came to report: "Commander, we've found the entrance to the cellar."

This courtyard was Sanggarhari's home. When the Northern Frontier Army entered, it was empty except for this woman.

Something was definitely not right. Heiwa deduced that there must be a cellar in the yard.

Sure enough, they found the entrance in the kitchen.

It was pitch black; you couldn't see anything inside.

The soldiers of the northern frontier would naturally not enter easily.

Heiwa had only one firm stance on this.

"burn!"

"Since they don't want to come out, then let them stay inside forever!"

Soon after, thick smoke billowed from the kitchen, and faint, pitiful howls could be heard.

Heiwa left two soldiers to guard the place, and then led his men to another courtyard.

At that moment, the sounds of livestock neighing, people crying, and weapons clashing echoed throughout the village.

The crackling sound of the burning fire mingled with the flames, becoming Sanggar's final swan song.

Soon after, the sun set, and the last rays of sunlight dyed the Gobi Desert blood red.

The once peaceful Sanggar Village has now become a living hell, with corpses, bloodstains and burning remains scattered everywhere. The air is filled with a nauseating stench of blood and acrid smoke, making it hard to breathe.

The Northern Frontier Army personally sent these beasts to hell.

"Reporting to the commander, in this battle our army killed a total of 1,500 men and captured more than 630..."

In Sanggar Village, torches illuminated the starry sky. Wang Cunxiao, mounted on his horse, listened to his subordinates' reports and nodded slightly with a blank expression.

In this battle, the Northern Frontier Army almost completely wiped out Sanggar Village.

All the men were killed, and the remaining 600-plus people were all young or very young girls.

They can still have children, so they still have value to the Northern Frontier Army. This is their only asset for survival.

"Tell the brothers to interrogate those women tonight."

"I need to know the locations of the other villages in Heluochuan, as well as the locations of water sources in this Gobi Desert," Wang Cunxiao said in a deep voice.

The Uyghurs of Heluochuan are like a group of rats hiding in dark corners.

Eliminating them isn't difficult; the challenge lies in the time it takes to find them.

The most important issue is the water source; the further west you go, the farther you get from the Blackwater River.

For large-scale cavalry operations, water is the most indispensable resource.

Therefore, it is necessary to interrogate the prisoners.

"That's right~"

Wang Cunxiao suddenly turned his head and waved to Huang Daquan.

"Qian Hu!"

Huang Daquan immediately rode over, dismounted, and looked at Wang Cunxiao with a slightly apprehensive expression.

"Old Huang, you've worked hard in this battle too."

Wang Cunxiao pointed at him with his riding crop, smiled slightly, and said, "How many heads did you just take?"

Huang Daquan immediately opened the bag at his waist, and inside were six left ears.

Six? Not bad.

Wang Cunxiao nodded in satisfaction. He had noticed Huang Daquan during the previous battle.

This man was a brave and fierce warrior, a rare talent, so I decided to recruit him completely.

He turned to a general beside him and instructed, "Record Huang Daquan's merits and issue a reward later."

"Yes, Commander." The general nodded slightly.

He was the military officer of this thousand-household office, responsible for military law and the statistics of battle merits.

Upon hearing this, Huang Daquan immediately showed a look of surprise and delight.

"Is this true?"

"Send them all to me?"

Wang Cunxiao immediately looked dissatisfied and glared at him fiercely.

"Of course I'll send them all to you."

“Our Northern Frontier Army values ​​fairness the most. Whatever is due will be given to you, not a single copper coin will be shortchanged.”

"And if you ever have bad luck and die, your military merits will be awarded to your family."

"Your son can also inherit your position."

"By the way, you killed six people, so you're no longer a slave."

"Afterwards, I, the commander, will personally promote your whole family to the rank of 'town' and you will be under my command as a dignified Northern Frontier Garrison Army."

Upon hearing this, Huang Daquan immediately grinned and nodded, saying, "Thank you, Commander Xie."

"I'm bad with words, how about I kowtow to you instead!"

As he spoke, Huang Daquan made a gesture to kowtow, but Wang Cunxiao kicked him away.

Pointing his whip at his nose, he cursed, "You fucking want me to get yelled at, don't you?"

"Remember this from now on: in my Northern Frontier, you don't need to kneel before anyone."

This rule was personally formulated by Li Xiao.

Men from the northern frontier should be upright and act with their backs straight.

You can kneel to heaven, earth, and your parents, but you don't have to kneel to officials.

If you can't even stand up straight internally, how can you stand up straight when facing external enemies?

Therefore, if Li Xiao were to hear that Wang Cunxiao's men had knelt before him, he would definitely kick him hard with his size 45 feet.

"Yes, yes, yes~"

"I'm so excited."

Huang Daquan chuckled and said.

The main problem was that in the previous Blackwater Army, even military pay was withheld, not to mention military merit rewards.

It would be good if a third of them could be distributed.

However, to their surprise, the Northern Frontier Army distributed the full amount of merit.

Huang Daquan immediately saw a bright future and envisioned his family living a good life in the future.

Subsequently, Huang Daquan was appointed as Wang Cunxiao's personal guard temporarily. After his name was reported to the Grand Protectorate, he would become a formal garrison soldier.

In order to reward Huang Daquan and to win over people's hearts, Wang Cunxiao ordered a Sanggar woman to be thrown in front of him.

"Chief, this is~" Huang Daquan was still a little reserved.

After all, Blackwater City had not experienced a war for decades.

The memories of these wars of plunder have long since become unfamiliar.

"Here you go!" Wang Cunxiao patted his shoulder gently and said with a smile.

"Although the men of Heluochuan are ugly, the women are really beautiful."

"Let loose tonight."

"If you really like her, once you've saved enough money, you can redeem her and take her home as a concubine."

Having said that, without caring how embarrassed Huang Daquan was, he turned around and walked into his own tent.

As the supreme commander of the Battle of Sanggar, the women in Wang Cunxiao's tent were naturally among the most beautiful in the entire village.

As for the most beautiful one, it should naturally be given to the Grand Protector.

Huang Daquan stood there blankly, looking rather at a loss.

Looking at the trembling woman on the ground, she was in her early twenties and had probably given birth, but she maintained a very good figure.

He was handsome, with fair skin and distinct features of a different ethnic group.

Wang Cunxiao is right. The men of Heluochuan are short, thin, and ugly.

But the women were completely the opposite; they were all incredibly beautiful.

With her fair skin and large eyes, she resembled the Hu woman Huang Daquan had once seen from afar in Heishui City.

Especially now, seeing her trembling, only added to the excitement in his heart.

"Made!"

Why am I working so hard?

"Isn't it all about wealth and status, so that my wife and children can live a good life, and so that I can live a good life too?"

"I'll take any woman I want, no matter how few I have."

Huang Daquan, an honest man, quickly transformed. His eyes turned fierce, and he carried the Heluochuan woman into the house next door.

Soon after, most of the people in Sanggar Village disappeared and went into their tents.

The laughter of the Northern Frontier Army and the cries of the women echoed through this village in the Gobi Desert, stained red with blood, lingering for a long time.

The following day, a large amount of information was gathered and reached Wang Cunxiao.

These were all revealed by these Sangar women under torture and interrogation.

"The nearest village to us is more than ten miles away, called Huleqin Village, which has always been on good terms with Sanggar Village."

"I heard that the two sides are also planning a marriage alliance. Sanggar Village is preparing to marry the daughter of the Huleqin Village Chief," Heiwa said in a deep voice.

The women of Heluochuan are not as faithful as one might imagine.

Under the dual torment of body and soul, many people revealed far too much information.

Most of the villages in Heluochuan fell into the hands of the Northern Frontier Army.

"The journey of a dozen or so miles is relatively simple, but the water source remains a major problem," Wang Cunxiao said in a deep voice.

There is almost no water source between the two villages.

The only water source is the well in Sanggar village.

It's just salt water, very bitter, but for large-scale military operations, you don't need to worry about that too much, as long as it doesn't kill anyone.

And thankfully it's springtime now, the ice and snow are melting, and the groundwater level is rising.

In the summer, the wells in Sanggar village would probably not be able to supply so many soldiers and warhorses.

"Shuanzi, take your men and stay in Sanggar Village to guard these women."

It was also to provide supplies to other units.

Sanggar Village was essentially a transit point for the Northern Xinjiang Army in Heluochuan.

"Everyone else, fill all the water bags and set off immediately. Before sunset, breach Huleqin Village," Wang Cunxiao commanded in a deep voice.

Heiwa, Shuanzi, and the other officers all clutched their chests and shouted emphatically, "Yes, sir!"

Soon, Wang Cunxiao led his cavalrymen out, galloping across the land like a giant yellow dragon.

But when they arrived at Huleqin Village, they found a yellow sun and moon battle flag erected on the wall.

Below the battle flag were several cavalrymen dressed in yellow armor.

Upon seeing this scene, Wang Cunxiao was slightly stunned. He immediately realized that he had arrived too late; the village had already been captured by his own people.

Then, the officers from Huleqin Village led their men out.

"Haha, Xiao Wang, you're too late. This village has already been taken over by your brother."

A middle-aged commander from the same Fourth Town laughed heartily at Wang Cunxiao.

Wang Cunxiao chuckled and said, "Old Ding, you're pretty quick."

"Hehe, you're not slow either."

“Yesterday I saw you attacking that village behind, so I didn’t go over to check on you. Judging from your appearance, you must have taken that village by now,” Old Ding said.

"It's a trivial matter, not worth mentioning," Wang Cunxiao said confidently.

After replenishing their water supply in Huleqin Village, Wang Cunxiao's soldiers continued their journey toward their next known destination.

The same thing happened under Commander Ding; he went to attack another stronghold.

All the major thousand-household armies launched separate attacks, determined to wipe out the entire Heluochuan and completely turn it into a place name.

(End of this chapter)