Chapter 679 After relieving Liu Zhang and others from being trapped, the Plains Army did not immediately return to the court, but continued to march westward to the interior of Pyal. 78 no pop-up window update fast At the same time, Xiao Muqing also sent a letter back to Huandi, temporarily recruited the local army of 20,000 Huan people, and asked him to bring more guides who understood the terrain of Piar.
If you don't know the terrain, you will never be able to win the battle.
Ten days later, the reinforcements sent by Huandi converged with the Plains Army, and by the way, the armaments and military resources of the Plains Army were also replenished.
Then, Xiao Muqing ordered that the whole army would not march slowly, but instead advance at full speed.
The Plains Army advanced all the way, and it took less than twenty days to capture the three cities of Butun Mountain, Dailiji, and Huahu, and then, the national capital of Pyar, Tegeya.
At this time, the Plains Army was still more than 250 miles away from Tegeya, and according to the marching speed of ordinary legions, it would take three days to reach Tegeya.
Pyar urgently drew troops from all over the country, hoping to gather a large army here in the national capital and fight to the death with the plains army.
However, what Pyal never expected was that the Plains Army had only one day's work to arrive at Tegea, and when the sky was getting brighter and the defenders at the head of the city looked out, the Plains Army had already reached the city with incredible troops.
Traveling two hundred and fifty miles in a day, and still marching with a legion, carrying a large amount of supplies and food and grass, which seemed impossible to many in any way, but the Plains Army did exactly that, and the whole army seemed to have suddenly fallen from the sky in front of the city of Tegea.
Tegea City was ill-prepared and rushed to the battle, so to speak, it was passive from the very beginning of the battle.
Seeing that the offensive of the Plains Army was becoming more and more fierce and the defenders were becoming more and more difficult to resist, Pavila, the king of Pyar, was forced to send an envoy to submit a surrender letter to the Plains Army, and wrote a handwritten letter to Xiao Muqing.
The general meaning is to persuade Xiao Muqing to stop fighting, Pyal has already served, and will never invade the Wind Country again in the future, and is willing to pay tribute to the Wind Country every year.
Regarding the letter of submission from Pierre, Xiao Muqing's reply was three words: do not accept.
You were the one who started the war at the beginning, but now that the war is tight, you don't want to fight anymore, and the war starts when you want it to start and ends when you want it to end Xiao Muqing ordered all the soldiers of the army to continue to attack the city with all their might, and in any case, they must take Tegeya before dark.
Now the defenders in Tegeya City are only about 20,000 people, and no matter how strong the city is, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, it will not be able to withstand the strong attack of the wind army of more than 100,000 people.
Pavela was the first to sit still, abandoning the capital, taking his family, ministers, and personal guards with him, and fled from the west of the city.
As the king fled, Tegea's defenders were defeated even faster, and by the end of the afternoon, the eastern walls of the city were finally breached by the Plains.
A large number of wind troops poured into the city from outside the city, and the red-eyed wind people were more ferocious and tyrannical than the Piars.
After entering the city, they didn't care whether the other party was a soldier or an ordinary person, they killed people when they saw them, robbed them when they saw money, and set fire to those large objects and buildings that could not be moved.
All of a sudden, the huge city of Pyal was on fire, as if it had become a sea of fire, and the streets and alleys of the city were full of blood, and the corpses and stumps and severed arms were all over the ground, like hell on earth.
Upon hearing the news that the king of Pyal had fled from the west of the city, the student army led by Liu Zhang, Bai An, Yan Yan, Xu You, and Kumagai immediately pursued them out of the city.
It wasn't that they hated King Pyal so much, but they couldn't stay in the city at all.
The scene of the Plains Army killing people and abusing a large number of civilians made them really watch, of course, they couldn't stop it, this is war, this is the cruelty of war, and this was what the Pyar Army did when it invaded Qinglin County.
Pavela ran too fast, Liu Zhang and others chased out more than ten miles, and found no trace of the other party, because of the lesson of the last rash advance, this time they did not dare to blindly chase down, and then collected their troops and returned.
Under the ravages of the Plains Army, the city of Tegea was sacked, and most of the hundreds of thousands of nobles, commoners, and slaves in the city were killed and buried in the fire, and a large number of women and children were captured by the Plains Army and brought back to the Windy Country as trophies.
After burning Tegeya, Xiao Muqing heard that the tombs of the successive monarchs of the Pyar Kingdom were near Tegeya, and he didn't even think about it and sent an order to dig up graves and plunder money.
Such a barbaric approach made Liu Zhang and others feel that it was too much, and it was not too much to kill people, since King Pyar had already fled, why bother digging people's ancestral graves again Xiao Muqing replied simply, the country's treasury is empty now, and where the military expenses and expenses for this expedition come from, of course, are the wool from the sheep.
If you can't get back the military expenses from this war, can't make up for the losses of your own Qinglin County, and can't earn enough benefits, then what's the point of fighting this war Fighting a war is to make money, not to lose money, and this is the consistent tradition and code of the wind army's warfare.
Hearing Xiao Muqing say this, Liu Zhang and the others had nothing to say.
Next, the Plains Army launched a large-scale excavation and plundering of the ancestral tombs of Piar, and the treasures in each mausoleum were robbed.
Feeling that the gold, silver and jewels that he had plundered were almost over, Xiao Muqing ordered the whole army to retreat, and on the way to the mainland of the Wind Country, the Wind Army also wantonly plundered, killed and destroyed the towns of Pial along the way.
In Xiao Muqing's words, either they won't fight, or if they do, they will cripple and beat Pyal at one time, so that they can only start to recover in the next ten or twenty years, and they will not be able to invade the border of the Wind Country again.
This time, the long-distance attack of the Plains Army really injured Pierre a lot.
Not only was the country destroyed, but also the ancestral tombs and more than a dozen towns were destroyed, and the casualties were not too many, about 100,000, while more than a million civilians were killed, and tens of thousands of women and children were captured and taken to the country of wind as slaves.
It is impossible to count how much gold and silver the Plains Army plundered from Pial this time, but the carriages loaded with the booty alone were divided into more than ten batches, and the number of carriages in each batch was between two hundred and three hundred, and the last batch returned to Zhenjiang with the Plains Army, which was as many as five hundred carriages.
The Ming system of each batch of loot was put together, and it was more than a foot high, and the richness of this loot made Tang Yin speechless.
In order to show the results of the great victory of the Feng Army, and also to enhance the pride, self-confidence and cohesion of the people of his country, Tang Yin also ingeniously ordered the construction of an exhibition hall in Zhenjiang, and some exquisite trophies were displayed and opened to the public.
The construction of an exhibition hall was the first of its kind at the time, but it was nothing new for Tang Yin.
Because of the harvest of this campaign against Pyar, Tang Yin, who tasted the sweetness, immediately revealed his belligerent nature, and he asked the plain army of the class division to return to the dynasty to stay in Zhenjiang to rest, and on the other hand, he ordered the Sanshui Army led by Liang Qi to continue to send troops to Pyal, without the goal and focus of the attack, and there was only one purpose, that is, to plunder, in order to fill the current empty treasury.
In Tang Yin's view, the financial revenue of governing the country was not as happy and rich as foreign wars.
At first, Pyal thought that the Wind Country was a sheep, and wanted to take advantage of the Wind Country's unstable foothold in Huan Land to make a profit, but he didn't expect the Wind Country to be a wolf, and he was also a vicious and insatiable hungry wolf, even if they didn't want to provoke the Wind Country anymore, but the fierce Wind Army still attacked one after another.
Tang Yin was very excited about the battle of the Plains Army, and he specially invited Xiao Muqing to explain in detail the specific details of the battle and the performance of Liu Zhang and others on the battlefield.
Xiao Muqing's 1510 eloquent talk, in the end, he praised the performance of the student army, especially Liu Zhang, in his opinion, this person is a natural general, with time, he will be able to shine in the future.
Tang Yin smiled as he listened, in his impression, Xiao Muqing had never praised a person like this.
He said: "Looking at the war report that came back, it was mentioned that Liu Zhang made his own initiative to pursue and kill the enemy army, but as a result, Fan Xia's rash mistake almost led to the annihilation of the entire army. ” "It is true, but the last general can only say that the flaws are not hidden."
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Xiao Muqing said: "Experience, tactics and strategies can be mastered through acquired learning, but the keen sense of smell on the battlefield, the grasp of fighters and the courage to move forward are innate, and they can't be learned if they want to learn the day after tomorrow, and Liu Zhang just has these." ” It is rare that Xiao Muqing will praise a descendant, Tang Yin looked at him with a smile and said, "In this way, I really chose the right person in the first place." ” "Yes, King.
In fact, the last general also has the heart to keep him by his side, if the last general is not in the army one day, Liu Zhang can also take over the banner of the Plains Army" Hearing this, the smile on Tang Yin's face disappeared instantly, his face sank, and he said in a condensed voice: "Where can you be in the army if you are not in the army, the Plains Army was created by you, and it is also the most trusted and most capable legion by me, even if you are seventy or eighty, you have to give me the job."
Although Tang Yin's words were arrogant, Xiao Muqing was extremely moved, as a courtier, he could be so trusted and relied on by the king, and he had no regrets in this life.
He lowered his head and said: "Doesn't the king often say that if the crockpot does not break from the well, the general will inevitably die before the battle?"
Even such a powerful Wu Guang can be damaged in front of the battle, let alone himself "This is for others, not for you" Tang Yinteng stood up suddenly, walked to Xiao Muqing, and then slowly squatted down, and said quietly: "Although you and I are monarchs and ministers, in fact, I have always treated you as an old brother, and you helped me fight the rivers and mountains of the Wind Country, I don't want to be left alone when I enjoy the country." ” Xiao Muqing was moved when he heard this, his eyes suddenly turned red, he got up and knelt on the ground, and said in a trembling voice: "With the king's words, even if the last general is crushed, the last general will not give up":