The bitter wind blew like a knife, and the knife was sharp.
Bonfires were lit on the top of the city of Kapila, and the flames swayed against the wind, illuminating the whole city as bright as day.
The foot soldiers of the Niborea Division leaned against the battlements with flintlock muskets, and they took place in rows after rows.
Zhang Hui ascended to the top of the city under the escort of his fellow knights, and the soldiers of the Nibora Division, who had fought more and more bravely along the way, remained silent and silently saluted His Royal Highness the Prince.
Standing at the head of the city and looking into the distance, the four sides of the Acropolis of Kapila were dark and twilight.
On this plain, the Acropolis of Kapila resembles a giant beast lying in wait.
"The chief of staff is not in a good situation."
Li Yibiao, the new governor of the empire, said to Zhang Hui with a heavy expression.
"I rushed over when I heard the news, how could this happen?"
"We didn't think of it either, damn Kapilavian."
After the capture of the capital of the Nipol king, the whole of Nepal soon gave up its stubborn resistance, and Zhang Hui, after negotiating with the representatives of the nobles of Nipor, rejected the request to withdraw and gave an ultimatum, demanding that the nobles of Nipol and the major Buddhist temples surrender to the expeditionary force.
After purging a few diehard resistance aristocratic forces and Buddhist temples, the remaining Nipol nobles and most of the Buddhist temples chose to surrender.
Nippor takes.
The reaction from the Hanjing side was also very fast, and the House of Nobles awarded Zhang Hui the title of King Nipol with his military exploits and granted him a fief of 300 li, while the rest of the territory of Nipol was partly under the direct jurisdiction of the imperial court, partly awarded to the meritorious soldiers of the independent regiment, and partly awarded to the former royal family of Nipol and some nobles as a reward for their active cooperation in understanding the current affairs.
The whole of Nipol was divided into more than 300 feudal princes.
The cabinet also soon issued an order to confer the title of Li Yibiao, the former right minister of Tibet, as the governor of Nipordao, and Zhang Hui as the governor.
This newly established Nipol Dao also included the five kingdoms of Tubo, Zhangxiong, Yangtong, Bolu, and Kamohabo into this Dao, and at the same time, Nipol also set up a separate province.
Governor Li Yibiao was the governor of Nipor Dao and the governor of Tubo Right State and Nipor, while Zhang Hui was the governor of Nipor.
This decision of the cabinet actually meant that the five vassal states including Tubo had been directly regarded as provinces directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial court.
Awarded the title by the imperial court, Zhang Hui was full of energy.
His independent brigade was also awarded the name of the Dahua Marine Division Nipol Mountain Division by the Ministry of War, and the Military Department authorized Zhang Hui to concurrently serve as the division commander, allowing him to recruit soldiers and horses on the spot, increasing the number of troops from the original 8,000 to 20,000.
Zhang Hui took the Tubo army as the vanguard, and then expanded his troops with Nipor troops, attacked everywhere, and quickly swept away some of the remaining Nipol rebel forces.
Just after the New Year, Zhang Hui had already waved his army down the mountain and came to the Tianzhu Plain.
The first target of his attack after descending the mountain was Kapila, a northern vassal state of the Ring of Japan.
There was civil strife in the Ring of Japan, and Alonashun mutiny usurped the throne and occupied the city of Qunu as the queen, and many other vassal states also announced their separation from the Ring of Japan.
The same is true of King Kapilavi.
As the hometown of the Buddha, Kapila has a great flourishing of Buddhism, which is different from the prevalence of faith religion in the country of the Japanese Ring.
It's just that in the past, the king of the Ring Sun had a strong army, and the kingdoms of Kapila submitted to him.
Now that he was dead, there was civil strife in the country, and the Kapilavi people were once again restored to their independence.
Zhang Hui came with his army and demanded that the king of Kapilavi submit to Dahua, and asked them to send troops to help conquer Alonashun and help the queen quell the rebellion.
However, as one of the thirty-six feudal states of the Ring of Japan, the strength of the Kapila Guardian State was not weak, and they rejected Zhang Hui's proposal.
And so a war began.
Zhang Hui, who had artillery, had a siege ability that far exceeded the expectations of King Kapilavi, and in less than a month, Zhang Hui led more than 30,000 people to attack the royal capital.
The young men recruited by the local people were used as cannon fodder, and the Tubo army and the Nibora army attacked strongly, coupled with the artillery support of the Chinese army, Zhang Hui took the royal city as he wished.
The casualties in the siege were not large, about a few thousand Kapila patriotic young cannon fodder were killed, and about a few hundred Tibetan and Nibora troops were killed, and the Dahua soldiers did not suffer a few casualties.
But just after the army entered the city, the chief of staff, Song Yue, was wounded by a child of Kapilawei.
At that time, Song Yue was in charge of directing the aftermath in the city, and when he saw a child in the city with a yellow and hungry face, he was injured by a stray arrow, and he relented for a moment and was ready to treat the child, but who knew that the child took out a knife and stabbed him after being bandaged.
"There was poison on that knife, the poison of a highly venomous snake."
Zhang Hui walked quickly to Song Yue, although the military doctor immediately treated him, but the toxicity was too strong.
Song Yue is almost dying.
"Old Song, don't sleep, I have the medicine brought from the palace here, it is the best medicine, and it will definitely be cured."
Song Yue's face was pale, his forehead was full of sweat, and one side of his ribs was extremely red.
"Your Highness's medicine, the military doctor has already used it for me.
But the snake venom was too venomous.
He grinned, "Old Song has also fought for half his life, hundreds of battles of all sizes, and has suffered countless injuries.
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At the beginning, I was shot blind in one eye by the Silla people, and at that time, it was all thanks to the old military doctor to save my life, but I also raised it for more than a year.
Later, it said that I should simply retire, saying that I would recuperate well in the future. ” Lao Song spoke, reaching out to hold Zhang Hui.
"Actually, the above is also for my good, but I have been fighting for half my life, and my old Song has long been used to the army.
After leaving the army, he became the founder of the country, running his own thirty-mile fiefdom, with several manors, a mine, and two small workshops, which were not bad, and the annual income was indeed a lot. ” He sighed, "It's just that whenever I'm free, I always feel a little unable to adapt, and I always feel that this kind of life is not what I want."
When I heard that His Highness was recruiting officers, and when his old comrades-in-arms introduced him to His Highness, I returned to the army without hesitation. ” This is the voice of a veteran, who has been in the army for a long time and has long been accustomed to everything there.
"It's me who is wrong, I shouldn't disturb your life anymore, it's me who is wrong, you should now enjoy your life after retirement in your own fiefdom, be a carefree noble lord, and tease your grandson."
Zhang Hui is sorry.
The two had been together for less than a year, but this old fellow had given him a lot of rich life advice and experience in leading soldiers.
From the Western Regions to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and then over the Great Snow Mountains to Nibora, he was like his own teacher, taking care of and teaching himself.
The independent regiment was united under the leadership of this old fellow.
It was also under his command that he became so strong and made such great achievements.
Even many officers and non-commissioned officers in the army were recruited by this old fellow for him.
Song Yue looked away from Zhang Hui, and there was a large group of officers standing next to him, here were his old department, his friends, and many officers recommended by his colleagues in the old army.
There are veterans who are just like him who are unwilling to be lonely and re-armored, and there are also many hairy young men, each of whom joined the independent regiment with a heart of meritorious service and came to this distant foreign land.
"The first battle of Nibora is the proudest battle of my old Song.
The Battle of Kapila was also fought very well, but unfortunately in the end I capsized in the gutter, and I was embarrassed and lost my night.
Ha ha.
Old Song smiled self-deprecatingly.
"It's Naga Pira, who deserves to die."
Zhang Hui gritted his teeth and scolded.
"Forget it, my life is enough.
In the first war of Nibora, His Majesty gave me the title of Marquis of the founding of the country, thinking that I was just a peasant child, my family was poor when I was young, and I lived on tenant land, and there were many children in the family, and I couldn't eat and wear.
At a young age, he was sold to the landlord's family as a servant, starting from herding cattle babies, and then the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, first he was coerced by the rebel army, and ate a severed meal, and then he was captured by the official army, and then turned to the court to work hard, fighting back and forth, and finally the Tang Dynasty opened the country, became a government soldier, and then came to the Dahua New Dynasty, became a professional officer, and finally was knighted for merit, became the founder of Dahua, had a fief, and also had a good industry. ” Speaking of these things, Song Yue had a smile on his face.
In his life, he is also known as a legend, although he is not as good as Qin Qiong, Cheng Biting Jin, Luo Shixin and other princes who also came out in the troubled times at the end of the Sui Dynasty, but he also earned his life for himself with a pair of hands, and also earned a title and a fief for his descendants.
"Old Song, what is a founding marquis, the merit of destroying the country by Nibra, it is enough for you to seal the county duke, not to mention the destruction of Kapila to defend the country this time, you still have the merit of making a decision and commanding."
"Enough, I started from scratch in this life, and I can finally be a marquis, that's enough."
Old Song's words slowly became weak.
"Old Song, I want to give you credit, I want to play to Your Majesty, I want to ask for the title for you, you should be crowned, the county prince is not enough, you should be crowned a national duke."
Old Song shook his head.
Fifty years of experience began to flash quickly in my mind at this time, and even many of the young times that had long been forgotten seemed to be as clear as my eyes.
When I was young, I couldn't eat enough, so I went digging wild vegetables with my brothers and sisters.
Later, he was grazing cattle at the landlord's house, and once lost the cattle and was almost not killed.
The rebels broke through the landlord's Zhuangzi, and in order to protect his wife and children, he went to get a spear and eat a severed head.
"I don't regret entering China in this life, and I will be a Chinese in the next life" Old Song's face suddenly turned rosy, and he knew that he was running out of time.
He struggled to sit up, holding Zhang Hui's hand, and he looked at his group of comrades.
He shouted out a sentence that he had often heard from the students of Guozijian and Jingshi University when he was training in the Lecture Martial Arts Hall in Hanjing.
This is a proud word, and everyone who is Dahua can be proud of Dahua.
Especially these soldiers, the army of these professions.
When talking about Wutang, Emperor Zhang Chao, who was also the principal, once told them that the military is not just a profession, not to earn money to support the family, the military has a more sacred mission, and he has an incomparable sense of glory.
Every soldier is sacred, they carry the safety of the whole China on their shoulders, the steel knives and spears in their hands are to protect the whole of China, and behind their broad chests are their compatriots and their brothers and sisters. t1706231537: