On the occasion of rebirth Zhou Sui

Chapter 144 Looting from the Fortress

Author: He Tiantian from Lotus Picking

Chapter 144 Looting from the Fortress

Cui Che lied that the supplies were burned by the Turks, and of course he did not want to embezzle them. If only Boling Cavalry was present, he might try to cover it up.

But the five thousand Youzhou knights have not yet returned home, and he has not thought about using this batch of supplies to win over them. If someone leaks the news, the court will investigate and the guilt will be serious.

Today, of course, Cui Che only has Yang Jian as the sun in his heart, but now is not the time to kill bugs and shoot at the sun.

Cui Che allocated one thousand Boling cavalry to Si Lu Fang Yanqian, responsible for burying the corpses, escorting the prisoners, and transporting the wounded and supplies back to Jixian.

Fang Yanqian arranged for people to go to Daxing to report the victory and inform Yang Jian of his next plan: to counterattack the Turks.

At the same time, he sent Li Qing, his personal companion, to report to Kumoxi, claiming that all the gifts to be given to them were burned by the Turks in Yuyang County.

News of the Battle of Yuyang will spread soon, which will also verify Cui Che's statement. The Turks did indeed send troops to rob these supplies.

This will deepen the conflict between Turks and Kumoxi. There is no need for Cui Che to plant the seeds of the conflict between them. How can there be less conflicts when they usually compete for water and pasture areas.

Fang Yanqian organized his soldiers to clean the battlefield. Cui Che led the remaining less than 7,000 cavalrymen and carried the dry food that had been prepared. Wang Dangwan was the guide and headed north to find the location of the Diqinqin tribe.

When fighting outside the fortress, the biggest problem is not to defeat the enemy, but how to find the enemy.

The nomadic people live in search of water and grass, with no fixed place, and it is easy to lose their way in the vast grasslands and deserts. Li Guang, who was known as the Lost Marquis by later generations, suffered deeply from this and eventually committed suicide with hatred.

Fortunately, Cui Che had Zhao Mu and Wang Dangwan by his side. They were familiar with the roads, and the Qinqin police were out for looting. It was impossible for their tribe to move in a short time. Facing a group of old, weak, women and children, how could Cui Che let them go?

Must hit hard.

On the eighth day of May in the seventh year of Emperor Kaihuang's reign (587), Cui Che stood on a high slope and stared at the tumultuous Turkic tribes below. He waved his hand expressionlessly, and nearly 7,000 cavalrymen swarmed down.

I saw the long black dragon swallowing up hundreds of Turkic soldiers who stayed behind in the tribe in an instant.

They killed wantonly in the tents and plundered women, children, and livestock.

War is like this. The Turks will not show mercy when they go south. Cui Che will not show mercy when he goes north to fight back.

"The steward has an order! If any man is taller than the chariot shaft, kill them all!"

The cavalrymen who delivered the order were running and shouting, and the ground patrol department had been reduced to a hell on earth, bloody and terrifying.

Of course, this does not include the Han people who were captured by the Turks in the past. They all shouted out their Han identity to avoid the fate of being slaughtered.

Cui Che planned to give all the captured Turkic women to his soldiers who would accompany him on the expedition, and he also did not forget the thousand Boling cavalry who stayed in Youzhou.

The Ground Service Department can gather five thousand cavalry, and their wives and daughters are enough to be divided among Cui Che's soldiers. There is only a difference between beauty or ugliness, not whether they are good or bad.

Zhang Wu captured a woman and dedicated it to Cui Che. According to the prisoner, she was Ketun, the diligent inspector of the Little Khan, who was also his wife.

Cui Che raised the woman's chin amidst the cheers of the entire army and looked at her carefully. He found that the woman's appearance was very different from that of his wife and concubine, so she was more valuable.

But the Ketun of a little khan is not comparable to the empress of the Northern Qi Dynasty, the empress dowager Mu Xieli, the empress of the Northern Zhou Dynasty Yuchi Chifan, the empress of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the empress dowager, and the princess Yang Lihua of the Sui Dynasty.

"Liu Fang!"

Cui Che shouted.

Liu Fang, Sima of the General Administration Office, responded loudly:

"exist!"

Cui Che pushed the woman into Liu Fang's arms and said with a smile:

"You're rewarded!"

"I would like to thank the manager for the reward!"

Liu Fang said excitedly.

Cui Che's disdain does not mean that Liu Fang is indifferent. What the ancients liked most was to seize their wives and daughters after defeating their enemies.

Of course, it’s not that Cui Che has too high a vision, it’s actually that he has a mother-in-law, Dugu Jialuo, above him.

Cui Che pointed to the Turkic women who were driven together and said to Zhang Wu and Wang Dangwan:

"Women here, when you go back, you two will be the first to choose!"

Zhang Wu and Wang Dangwan hurriedly expressed their thanks, and then Cui Che promised the entire army that based on the battle of Yuyang and today's achievements, the order in which the Turkic women would be selected would be decided.

For a moment, the whole army cheered thunderously.

After the excitement subsided a little, the soldiers drove the women, children, and livestock back to Youzhou with the heads of the Turks hanging next to their saddles.

On the way, Zhang Wu asked:

"What should we do with those wolf cubs?"

Cui Che turned around and looked at the frightened Turkic youths, and said with a smile:

"This is my gift to Mr. Cuomo!"

Liu Fang on the side heard this and looked deeply at Cui Che, feeling nothing but admiration in his heart.

First, the Turks burned the supplies to deepen the resentment of the Kumoxi people against the Turks. Then they gave the Turkic teenagers to the Kumoxi people as slaves. It was a free bargain. How could the Kumoxi people refuse?

But the Western Turkic Apo Khan knew about this, and he would definitely ask the Kumoxi people to take the Turkic teenagers back. Whether the Kumoxi people would give them to them or not.

If they surrender and return, not to mention how Kumoxi's tribal leaders will convince the public in the future, it will arouse the Kumoxi people's resentment towards the Turks. First they burned the supplies they deserved, and now they come to snatch the slaves presented by Cui Che.

If not, the Kumoxi people and the Western Turks will inevitably clash. With the strength of the Xi people, they are naturally no match for the Western Turks. They will inevitably turn to the Sui Dynasty and seek help from Cui Che, the Kumoxi people's old friend.

After Liu Fang carefully analyzed the matter, he even suspected that Cui Che had arranged the so-called Turks going south to plunder supplies, but there was no evidence.

Even if he found evidence, he would not expose the matter. After all, Cui Che had just given himself the reward of Ke Dun, who was a diligent ground inspector. He would remember the kindness of others for thousands of years, so how could he turn around and seek revenge.

Of course, it is also related to Cui Che's many accomplices. King Yang Guang of Jin, Shangshu Su Wei, and Yang Su, the general manager of Xinzhou, are all friends with him. Behind him are Cui family Boling and Yang Lihua. Liu Fang must be crazy to do this.

When Cui Che intends to show his favor to him, he tries to dismantle him.

In Jixian County, when Cui Che took office, he ordered each of the eighteen county magistrates to recommend three scholars to be selected by Cui Che in Jixian County, and each of the Fifty Army Towns selected four sergeants.

Due to the ground inspection going south, Cui Che asked the eighteen county magistrates not to go to Jixian to report on their duties, but fifty-four scholars and two hundred sergeants had been waiting in Jicheng for a long time.

Just when everyone was impatient, Si Lu Fang Yanqian led a thousand knights from Boling back to Jixian, hung the heads of the ground patrol officers on the Jicheng tower, and built the heads of the collected Turkic soldiers outside the city into a watchtower.

, for the people of Youzhou to watch.

At the same time, the Turks went south to attack Yuyang, but were defeated by Cui Che, and the news spread like wildfire that five thousand people were captured and killed.

The scholars and sergeants who came to Jixian no longer dared to complain, and with the heads of the Turks outside the city, Cui Che also established his authority as he wished.

(End of chapter)