The punishment of being quartered on five horses by the leaders of the three Geluolu tribes was not a small one, but it was not a big shock to the tribal leaders and barbarian soldiers in the Western Regions.
Some people who are not afraid of death actually have no difference in what kind of punishment they receive, but what happens next The highlight was to make the barbarian leaders and barbarian soldiers in Anxi and Beiting tremble with fear.
After executing the leaders of the three Geluolu tribes by quartering their bodies with five horses, Zhao Ziliang ordered the captured more than 5,600 Geluolu barbarians to be escorted to the banks of the Hengluos River.
Under the watchful eye of the Dashi Army on the other side of the river, a Tang army killed more than 5,600 captured Geluolu barbarians one by one.
From the sun turning west at noon until sunset, the blood stained the whole body. river Zhao Ziliang was on horseback and scanned all the barbarian leaders and their soldiers on the bank, then looked at the large food army on the other side of the river, and shouted: "The Geluolu people betray their masters for glory, and betrayers who die unjustly never have a good end.
The fate of these Geluolu people today is the fate of those who secretly want to betray our Tang Dynasty.
Killing these people today is just to give some people with different aspirations a warning.
Think about it before they want to betray our Tang Dynasty. bear the consequences” The barbarian leaders and barbarian soldiers in Anxi and Beiting were all frightened when they saw this extremely bloody scene and heard Zhao Ziliang's words.
That night, Xuan Wu's scouting team came to report that in the flat area of the upper reaches of the Hengluosi River, they found that there were scouts from the Great Food Army who wanted to cross the river to investigate.
There may be two purposes.
The first is to detect the situation of the Tang Army. , the second is to explore the way for a sneak attack on the Tang army.
Be prepared, after all, it is June.
The river water is rising very fast and the water level is very high.
It is impossible to cross the river in ordinary river sections.
Only in river sections with flat river bed and gentle flow can it be possible to cross the river.
It seems that after the Dashi Army was sneak attacked by the Tang Army, it was also possible to cross the river.
I want to use a sneak attack to regain the situation.
Faced with this situation, Zhao Ziliang thought for a long time and decided to give up the idea of luring the enemy deep and setting up an ambush.
After all, the strength of the two sides has changed.
The Tang army is strong and the Dashi army is weak.
The Dashi army in Hengluosi City only has more than 10,000 people at full strength. , no more than 12,000 people at most, and there should be a considerable number of light infantry among these people.
The military power that Zhao Ziliang can now use does not include the captured Sogdian servants.
The more than 11,000 cavalry he brought have almost no losses.
In addition, the Western Turkic barbarian soldiers and horses have not yet left, and the main force of the Anxi Army and the barbarian soldiers and horses in Anxi, the total force is close to 50,000 soldiers, so many troops , enough to completely surround the entire Hengluosi City, so Zhao Ziliang decided to give up the dangerous tactics and directly compete with the Dashi Army head-on.
Therefore, he ordered additional reconnaissance cavalry to patrol along the entire river bank day and night, targeting The reconnaissance posts of the Dashi Army were strictly guarded to prevent the Dashi Army from taking advantage of them.
The next morning, when the Chinese army marched to the camp, Zhao Ziliang sat down on the main seat.
The generals and officials stood on the left and right sides respectively.
Zhao Ziliang looked at Bai Xiaode and asked: "General Bai, the soldiers and horses from all Sogdian countries captured by our army are all here."
Is it possible that all those who led the troops were captured?"
Bai Xiaode stood up and clasped his fists and bowed: "General Qi, the Sogdian troops and horses are led by the heads of the Zhaowu kingdoms.
None of them ran away.
They were all captured by the generals and others, and are now being held in the camp.
Strictly guarded inside.”
Zhao Ziliang said: "Okay, bring them to see me after lunch."
"promise" Zhao Ziliang said to the others: "You will also meet the heads of these Zhaowu Kingdoms later."
Everyone said together: "No" After Zhao Ziliang sent all the school officials to have lunch, he left Zheng San alone to eat together and talk about things while eating.
"Has our army's follow-up baggage troops arrived?"
Zheng San gnawed on the big cake and said: "According to the itinerary, they should have crossed the desert to the edge of the desert by now, and they should be able to arrive before this evening."
Zhao Ziliang nodded and said to Zheng San: "Okay, after the baggage troops arrive, you arrange for the craftsmen in the baggage troops to build siege equipment.
In addition, you deploy some craftsmen from the Anxi Army and various barbarian armies and let them start tomorrow morning.
Build your boat right from the start To build a pontoon bridge, in addition to connecting the existing pontoon bridge to the other side, the pontoon bridge must be twice as wide so that the cavalry brigade and large siege equipment can pass through.
If there are not enough craftsmen, people can be sent to capture prisoners from Sogdia.
Search among them and you should be able to find them.”
Zheng San agreed: "Okay, leave this matter to me.
General, don't worry, we can build the pontoon bridge according to the general's requirements within two days."
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After Zheng San left, he quickly began to send people to look for craftsmen who could do carpentry among the Anxi Army and the barbarian troops.
He really found many craftsmen who could do carpentry.
The Anxi Army had baggage troops and siege troops, and the baggage was natural.
It is indispensable, but after the defeat of the Anxi Army, the craftsmen lost He lost a lot, and many people died in the rebellion.
Zheng San felt that these people were not enough, so he sent people to continue to look for carpenters among the Sogdian prisoners.
Unexpectedly, there were more carpenters among the Sogdian prisoners than Anxi.
There are still many soldiers in the army.
It turns out that a considerable part of these Sogdian prisoners were forcibly recruited to serve as soldiers.
After lunch, the generals and officials came to the main camp of the Chinese army again.
Soon Bai Xiaode personally led his troops to escort all the kings of the Zhaowu kingdoms.
Zhao Ziliang didn't say anything, and just looked at the eight kings.
The fear and uneasiness in the heads of the Zhaowu Kingdoms were clearly visible on their faces.
Although there were many people in the big tent, the atmosphere was too depressing.
Zhao Ziliang did not vocally express his dissatisfaction with the impoliteness of these kings, but it does not mean that there are no Tang military generals on both sides who can tolerate these betrayal.
The kings of the Zhaowu Kingdom just stood like this.
Bai Xiaode shouted: "You wind blowers You idiots who have fallen on both sides, do you still have the dignity to stand in front of the general?
I will chop you down one by one now."
After that, he drew out the horizontal knife with a clang.
These actions frightened the kings of the Zhaowu kingdoms to the point where they fell to their knees and shouted sadly: "General, spare your life, spare your life!"
Zhao Ziliang raised his hand, and Bai Xiaode, who was about to kill someone, stopped the horizontal sword in time, glared at the kings, snorted coldly, inserted the horizontal sword into the scabbard and stepped aside.
Zhao Ziliang stared at the princes and asked: "Dear princes, you have disappointed me so much.
I thought we had quite a friendship back then, but you regard our friendship as too worthless and treat you like Your loyalty to the Tang Dynasty is too lowly regarded.
What do you think the general should do with you now?"
Kang Guozhu Chuhe cried and cried: "General Zhao, we are helpless.
When the Shih Army came over, our country did not send troops to resist, but our country is weak and has weak soldiers and horses.
It is no match for the Shih Army.
Apart from surrendering, Other than that, I have no other choice.”
"Well, according to what you said, it is understandable that you would seek refuge in the Dashi Kingdom."
Zhao Ziliang said as he glanced at the other kingdom leaders.
When he saw the leader of the Huo Xun Kingdom, he added: "If Kang Guo and others are because of the fight, You have to surrender only if you can't fight, but I heard that Huo Xunguo took the initiative to join the cannibals, so you can't say that you were forced to have no choice but to do so."
The face of the leader of the Huoxun Kingdom changed dramatically, and he quickly said: "General, our Huoxun Kingdom borders the Big Food Country.
It has a small population, not rich products, and a weak national power.
If we don't take refuge in the Big Food Country, the Big Food Country can be wiped out in a moment.
Xiao Wang is really helpless if he loses me, Huo Xunguo."
Zhao Ziliang sneered and said: "You all speak eloquently and make sense, but I am the only one who makes no sense.
Well, don't say that I won't give you a chance to survive.
Now there is a chance.
If you do well, you can survive. , If you don't do well, I will order you all to be killed to fill in the moat under Hengluosi City.
Two days later, our army decided to attack Hengluosi City.
The Huo Xunguo army took the lead and was the first to attack the city.
Are you willing to seek the Lord of the Kingdom?"
"This" large-scale attack on the city is definitely a fatal task, so it's no wonder that the leader of the Huoxun Kingdom hesitated.
However, Zhao Ziliang no longer gave him a chance, and immediately slammed the table and said angrily: "It seems that you, Huo Xunguo, are going to be loyal to the big cannibal.
Okay, I will grant you this general.
Someone, come and escort the leader of Huoxunguo out."
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I killed and sent people to kill all the captured Huo Xun Kingdom soldiers and horses, leaving no one behind."
"Yes."
Bai Xiaode immediately stood up and waved to the two soldiers.
The leader of the Huoxun Kingdom was dragged out amidst the frightened begging for mercy.
The screams continued to come from outside, but they soon stopped abruptly.
A Tang Army soldier mentioned He walked in with the bloody head of the leader of the Huoxun Kingdom and handed over the order.
When the other leaders of the Zhaowu Kingdom saw this head, they were all shocked and horrified.
Zhao Ziliang looked at the head, waved his hand and asked the soldiers to take it out to feed the dog, then looked at the leader of Anguo, and asked: "Master of Anguo, this general wants you to attack Hengluosi City with a large number of troops from Anguo in two days.
Are you willing?
Why don't you come?
Drag him out and chop him up, and kill all the captured Anguo prisoners as well."
Zhao Ziliang was basically talking to himself.
The leader of Anguo was dragged out of the tent and beheaded by the soldiers without even uttering a word.
After the head of Anguo was also brought in and handed over the order, the remaining leaders were paralyzed with fear. .
Zhao Ziliang killed two kings in a row.
Although it was in the name of discussion, in fact, they were not allowed to consider it at all.
Once they were considered, it meant that their position was not firm yet.
It was useless to keep such people, but it was still troublesome.
After simply killing him, the remaining kings finally came to their senses.
King Kang crawled on the ground and shouted miserably: "General, our troops are willing to lead the attack on Hengluosi City."
Other countries said one after another: "Your Excellency General, our troops are also willing to take the lead.
The cannibals are burning, killing and looting in our country and doing all kinds of evil.
Our country and the cannibals have a deep hatred and sworn sworn relationship.
I can't wait to eat the meat of the cannibals.
Drinking their blood, we didn’t dare to drink their blood before because the Big Eater was too powerful, but now with the support of His Majesty the General and the Tang Army, we can take revenge on the Big Eater."
A smile appeared on Zhao Ziliang's face: "Okay, I will wait and see how you perform.
As for which country's troops will take the lead, I will consider it carefully and inform you separately."