The battle was over, and before dark, the officers and soldiers of the Western Qin Army escorted the prisoners back one after another.
Some of the Western Qin Army carried a large amount of loot.
That night, Zhao Ziliang ordered the slaughter of cattle and sheep and held a celebration banquet to reward the entire army.
In the camp, the officers and soldiers of the Western Qin Army gathered around the fire in small groups, roasting beef and mutton, simmering bone soup, eating food, and drinking mare and goat milk.
They were not as fierce as they were during daytime battles. appearance.
Wang Jin and Zang Xiyan sat on the left and right sides of Zhao Ziliang, and the other generals and officials of the Western Qin Army were ranked according to their military positions.
Zheng San stood up and reported to Zhao Ziliang: "Your Majesty, the results of today's war have been calculated.
We captured 12,000 cattle, 18,000 sheep, 2,800 war horses, 30,000 Eastern Roman gold coins, Two hundred thousand silver coins, ten boxes of jewelry, thirty thousand sets of leather armor, and two simple spears More than 5,000 poles, 6,000 scimitar handles, 15,000 simple bows, 300,000 arrows, 300,000 kilograms of grain, Khazar Khan King Habir and a group of Khazar ministers and generals were beheaded by our army.
In addition, he killed more than 9,000 Khazars and captured 12,000 Khazars and 320 beauties."
Zhao Ziliang listened to Zheng San's words and kept nodding.
When he heard that there were three hundred and twenty beauties at the end, he couldn't help but laugh: "This Habier is really good enough.
He is already over sixty.
Marching Can he bear the burden of bringing so many beauties to the war?"
The officials and generals laughed immediately after hearing this: "Hahaha" Zhao Ziliang said to Wang Jin and Zang Xiyan: "Master Wang, General Zang, I don't have anything good here, only trophies.
You must be disdainful of ordinary gold and silver jewelry.
Since we have captured so many beauties this time, the two Let’s pick two from each of these beauties.”
Zang Xiyan couldn't help but joke: "My lord, you are too stingy.
There are three hundred and twenty beauties, but you only let us pick two each."
Zhao Ziliang also smiled and said: "Beauties, just be beautiful enough.
If you want so many, why don't you just let them idle?
If you bring so many back, you won't be afraid of Mrs.
Sister-in-law making trouble at home every day.
As you get older, you should pay more attention to taking care of yourself.
Don't worry."
My body has been weakened.”
Everyone laughed again, Zang Xiyan also laughed and didn't take it seriously.
On the following day, Zhao Ziliang ordered that several small groups of troops and officials be sent to the residences of the Khazar Khanate to declare sovereignty to the Khazars and establish local administrative agencies.
However, there were not many accompanying officials for this expedition.
In order to make up for the lack of officials, Not enough, Zhao Ziliang sent an order to the Hengluosi government to send officials, and on the other hand recruited some obedient people from the Khazars to help manage the Khazars.
Khazar Khan King Habir and his ministers and generals were almost all killed.
The original power class in the entire Khazar Korea has collapsed, the army is also finished, and the Khazar people have no chance of making a comeback and are scattered all over the grasslands.
In order to survive, the Khazars in the Khazar settlements had no choice but to accept the rule of the Western Qin.
Otherwise, they would have to be massacred or migrate westward as soon as possible.
However, they were not as lucky as the Pechenegs.
The grassland area between the Volga and Ural rivers where the Pechenegs used to live is now empty.
The Pechenegs have migrated on a large scale.
Except for a few small tribes who still stay in place, the vast grassland become sparsely populated Of course, Zhao Ziliang would not let this area remain vacant, nor would he give other barbarian tribes the opportunity to occupy this area.
He immediately sent an order to Hengluosi to move a large number of people from the hinterland of Western Qin to live there.
Grazing and farming.
The battle was over, but the matter was not over.
Samandal, the capital of the Khazar Khanate, was still controlled by the Khazars.
There were still more than 10,000 troops there.
Although Zhao Ziliang had ordered Zhao Hu to lead his army across the sea and land to attack Samandal, But he decided to lead his army south to Samandar.
On the one hand, he would completely crush the resistance of the Khazars.
On the other hand, he would also declare to the surrounding countries that all the territory of the original Khazar Khanate was now owned by the Western Qin.
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Especially the Eastern Roman Empire and the Great Food State.
Wang Jin and Zang Xiyan finally came to the West.
It was a rare opportunity.
They were not in a hurry to return to Chang'an.
They heard that Zhao Ziliang would lead his army south to Samandar in a few days, so they decided to stay a little longer and follow Zhao Ziliang.
Go to Samandar to see the capital of the Khazars.
The injured soldiers need to be treated and comforted; the fallen soldiers need to be laid to rest and comforted and cannot be delayed or neglected; the spoils of war need to be classified and counted; the prisoners need to be guarded in turns; the important military and political documents sent from the Western Qin Dynasty need Zhao Ziliang gave instructions and dealt with them one by one, and Zhao Ziliang was also very busy.
That morning, Zhao Ziliang was processing official documents.
Xuan Shiyi, the deputy general of the Fourth Army who was responsible for guarding the prisoners, came to report: "Your Majesty, among the prisoners we captured, there are two people from the Eastern Roman Empire.
One of them claimed to be an envoy of the Eastern Roman Empire.
Minister, and the other is the Archbishop of Judaism in the Khazar region, they are clamoring to see the king."
"Oh" Zhao Ziliang thought for a while and then ordered Xuan Shiyi: "First, starve these two people and all the Khazar prisoners for three days.
They will only give them water every day and no food."
"yes" Immediately afterwards, Wang Can came in and reported: "Your Majesty, the Magyars living in the northwest of the original Khazar Khanate are unwilling to surrender to us and are not willing to be ruled by us.
They feel that they cannot defeat us, so they began to migrate to the west one after another."
Zhao Ziliang stopped his brush and asked: "Are you talking about the Magyars?"
"Yes, they are the Magyars.
They are vassals of the Khazar Khanate.
They surrender to the Khazar Khanate and have a population of only a few hundred thousand people."
Zhao Ziliang thought for a moment and said: "It doesn't matter.
If they want to move westward, let them move westward.
Just let them go and harm the Western countries.
Since they have moved away, we can also take over the vacated land.
Tell the soldiers over there, don't Stop them from moving westward" "promise" A few days later, Dugujun came into the tent and reported: "Your Majesty, the Mordovan people in the northwest sent an envoy to ask for an audience with your Majesty, saying that they are willing to surrender to your Majesty and Western Qin, and pay tribute to your Majesty every year.
I wonder if your Majesty will meet you." their messenger"
Upon hearing this, Zhao Ziliang asked: "The Mordovan people's territory is not small, and it is not close to here.
Our troops have not pointed there yet, and there is no threat to them.
Why would they send people to surrender to my king?"
Woolen cloth" Dugujun said: "Your Majesty, the Mordovans have submitted to the Khazar Khanate just like the Magyars before, but they have greater autonomy and a higher degree of autonomy.
The northwest is colder, and the Khazar Khanate has no control over them.
They are also beyond their reach, and large-scale mobilization of troops is a waste of manpower and material resources, so we can only allow them to govern themselves and ignore them as long as they send people to pay tribute every year."
"Okay, please make arrangements for me to meet with the Mordovan envoy tomorrow."
"Yes, Your Majesty" There were quite a few Mordovans coming, more than a hundred of them.
They didn't bring any cattle, sheep or livestock.
They all rode horses, each with two horses, and they carried a lot of valuable animal skins, Horns, bones and precious gems.
The leading Mordovan man wore a pointed animal skin hat and was dirty all over.
The beard and hair on his face almost covered his entire face.
His beard was not tidied up and looked messy.
A pile of withered wormwood, and he was the only one who was relatively well-dressed.
The other Mordovans were sloppier than this man, and an extremely unpleasant smell hit his face before he even got close.
He was indeed a barbarian, and he didn't know how to tidy up, making him look sloppier than a beggar.
The generals and officials of the Western Qin Army in the tent couldn't help but cover their nostrils.
Seeing that everyone in the tent was wearing shining armor, gorgeous clothes, and exquisite crowns and jewelry, the Mordovan envoy seemed to feel ashamed of himself from the bottom of his heart, and seemed a little restrained.
He stroked his chest deeply.
He bent down and said in a language that Zhao Ziliang and others could not understand: "The Mordovan envoy Babra salutes His Highness the Great King of Western Qin" Perhaps because he had not seen much of the world, perhaps because he had no writing and culture, and could not speak any gorgeous language, the Mordovan envoy just expressed his greetings to Zhao Ziliang in simple sentences.
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After listening to a Khazar translator, Zhao Ziliang asked: "Babra, what did you Mordovans send you to do?"
"Respect the invincible king.
In the past, the Khazars' cavalry was invincible.
The tribes in the northern grasslands, forests and swamps were beaten to their knees.
But now the king's army has destroyed the Khazars.
It can be seen that the warriors of the Western Qin Dynasty are better than the Khazars.
The Sa people are more brave and good at fighting, and the strength of Western Qin is also stronger.
We Mordovans have a small population and weak strength, and are unable to withstand the king's attack.
Therefore, we take the initiative to come to the king to surrender.
Please allow and accept the king.
Let us Mordovans follow your footsteps and move forward together.
We need your help.
Shelter from being invaded by other ferocious tribes."
"You Mordovans are quite smart."
Zhao Ziliang asked without comment, "What gift did you bring to me this time?"
Babra quickly said: "There are two hundred rare animal skins, a hundred pairs of animal horns, twenty pairs of animal bones, and this" After speaking, Babra took a dirty animal skin bag from a follower behind him.
He opened the animal skin bag, revealing six fist-sized, yellow and shiny stones.
Zhao Ziliang was surprised and waved.
A guard next to him stepped forward and took a stone and handed it to Zhao Ziliang.
Zhao Ziliang took it, looked at it, and weighed it.
This thing turned out to be something that other generals and officials in the gold ore tent were familiar with.
His expression changed.
If it were really gold ore and the reserves were abundant, Western Qin would be very prosperous.
Zhao Ziliang asked calmly: "Do you have many of these things?"
Babra said: "There are not many.
You have to dig in the mountains to find them.
We also like it when it shines.
Every household digs some and displays them at home to make them look more beautiful."
Everyone was speechless for a while.
I bet the Mordovans didn’t even know this was gold ore.
They just thought it was shiny and looked good, so they dug some up and kept them at home.
This also shows that the Mordovans may not have any smelting technology at all. , otherwise it would be impossible not to know gold ore
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