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Chapter 999 The crowd of prisoners of war

Zhi's anger seemed to disappear suddenly, and he said surprisingly calmly: "I can press the handprint on the sheepskin, but only if you have to save Khan."

Kang Sumi shook her head, "He has no way to save him!"

Zhishili was immediately furious. He grabbed Kang Sumi's neckline and yelled: "It's your poison, you will have the antidote to save him!"

At this moment, two of the personal guards of Khuluo Khan rushed over and cried at the door: "General, Khan vomited blood and was already dead!"

Zhi Sili felt the darkness in front of him, and his body shook a few times, almost falling to the ground. Kang Sumi took the opportunity to break free from his hand, knocked the branch to open a big hole, and fled.

Zhi Shisili kicked the door open and walked out strode. When he saw two personal guards going to chase him, he shouted, "You can dodge!"

The two personal guards hurriedly dodged, and the dagger in Zhishili's hand came out of his hand, and a cold light was drawn out. Just as Kang Sumi was about to rush into the woods, the dagger shot through the back of his neck and pierced his neck. Kang Sumi fell to the ground, curled up all over.

Zhishisili strode forward, slashed his head with one knife, roared to the sky, knelt on the ground and cried bitterly.

Just then, a soldier rushed over and shouted, "General, we are surrounded!"

Zhi Shili stood up and saw Sui cavalry appearing from all directions. His subordinates were extremely frightened and gathered here. At this time, a Sui general shouted: "I am Luo Cheng, the general of the Northern Sui Dynasty. You and others have been surrounded by the heavy army. If you surrender, you will not be killed. Otherwise, this will be the place where you will die."

The Turkic cavalry drew their swords one after another and looked at Zhishisili together. Zhishisili waved his hand, "Put down the knife!"

He sighed, walked up and said in fluent Chinese: "I can surrender, I just want General Luo to give me a little time and let me explain a few words."

Luo Cheng was ordered by Yuchi Gong to go south to search for the whereabouts of the Turkic Khan. Just now he received news from several scouts that there was a Turkic cavalry hidden in this forest. He led 5,000 cavalry to surround him from all sides and found a thousand Turkic troops hidden deep in the dense forest.

Luo Cheng immediately looked at the Turkic general who spoke very fluent Chinese in front of him. He saw that he was covered in tears, holding a human head in his hand, covered in blood, and trampling on a corpse under his feet. Judging from the color of the body's clothes, he should have been Turkic, but he didn't know what happened, causing them to have internal conflicts.

Luo Cheng looked at his deputy general, and the deputy general nodded to him, saying that the army had surrounded the woods and the Turkic army could not escape.

Luo Cheng whispered loudly: "Give you half a stick of incense sticks!"

Zhishili immediately came to the shack where Khan lived. Chuluo Khan had vomited blood and died. Hundreds of guards knelt around and cried bitterly. Zhishili put his head beside Khan and couldn't help but kneel down and cry again.

After a moment, he wiped away his tears, stood up and summoned everyone to his side, and whispered to them: "We have no choice anymore. If we surrender to the Sui army, we may still have a chance to return to our hometown. If we do not surrender, we will only die."

Almost nine hundred people on the left of Zhishili are his tribe members. They will not have their own ideas. Following the chief is their only choice. Zhishili himself is also very clear. This is actually to give more than 100 personal soldiers of Chuluo Khan to make their own decisions.

Zhishisili said again: "If you are willing to follow me, please stand on my left!"

More than a hundred Khans and Khans' personal guards started to cry. They stood on the left of Zhishili one after another, and everyone was willing to surrender.

Zhi Shisili sighed, "Put down his weapons and go out!"

More than a thousand Turkic soldiers gave up their war horses, put down their weapons, took off their armor, and walked out of the forest. At this time, a soldier rushed to Luo Cheng to report: "Report to General, we found a Turkic nobleman who died of illness. Judging from the clothes he wore, it should be the Turkic Khan."

Luo Cheng was overjoyed and immediately ordered: "Send the eagle letter to report to the general!"

At this time, Zhang Xuan had led a large army to Jingle County. Jingle County was the capital of Loufan County. There were more than 100,000 residents. At present, all residents avoided the war, regardless of age or young, and the entire county town was an empty city. Except for houses and some heavy furniture items that were difficult to take away, basically all the fine and soft food were taken away.

Although the Sui army was stationed in Jingle County, the soldiers did not station in the city, but instead set up a camp covering thousands of acres outside the city, stationing 100,000 troops here.

The Sui army was extremely busy these two days. After cleaning up the battlefield, they immediately took stock of the spoils. The 20,000 Tang troops were also preparing to return to Taiyuan.

In this battle, the Tang army suffered nearly 10,000 casualties and paid a heavy price. At the same time, this army also formed a deep friendship with the Sui army. Everyone felt a little sad when they thought they would meet on the battlefield in the future, but the reality was so cruel. Wang Junguo could not lead the army to surrender to the Northern Sui army. He had to lead his army back to Taiyuan City.

"It is an honor for Jun Kuo to be able to fight with Your Highness this time. Jun Kuo has gained a lot from his guidance. I will say goodbye to you and take care of your Highness!"

Xie Yingdeng was a little worried, but he didn't say a word and bowed deeply to Zhang Xuan.

Zhang Xuan nodded slightly and said, "The Tang army paid a huge price to destroy the Turkic army this time, and the two generals made great contributions. I will write a letter to the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty and ask him to reward the two generals. The fallen soldiers also asked the Tang Dynasty to give a generous pension. In addition, I will send someone to Taiyuan to discuss the specific discussion with Prince Jiancheng. I will not let the two generals be embarrassed."

"Thank you for your concern and understanding, we will have a date later!"

After saying that, Wang Junguo turned his horse's head and ran away quickly. Xie Yingdeng also bowed to Zhang Xuan, turned his horse's head and chased him.

The two led a large army to move south and gradually walked away.

At this time, Fang Xuanling slowly walked up and smiled: "They can get high praise from His Highness, but they may not be able to do so in the Tang Dynasty."

Zhang Xuan understood the profound meaning of Fang Xuanling's words and said lightly: "If Li Yuan does not admit it, it does not mean that people in the world do not recognize it. Justice is in the hearts of the people."

At this time, a report soldier rushed over and shouted loudly: "Report to the Grand General, the Turkic Khan was captured by General Luo."

The tense heart in Zhang Xuan finally relaxed. The arrest of Chuluo Khan means that the southern Turkic invasion finally came to an end.

Luo Cheng arrived in Jingle County at dusk. To Zhang Xuan's expectation, Chuluo Khan was not captured alive, but had passed away. Luo Cheng brought his body back.

The general Zhishili and more than a thousand soldiers were brought back together. They chose to surrender. Surrender was divided into two situations. One was to be surrounded or had no way of retreat. This kind of surrender was actually captured. The rule of the Sui army was that the stubborn resisters were killed, and they were not captured without exhaustion.

Another type is that after escaping from the battlefield, they took the initiative to surrender to the Sui army camp. This is the true surrender. It has a little surrender, so it will be somewhat preferential. There are also many such Turkic soldiers. They were the Turkic soldiers who took the initiative to surrender to the Sui and Tang Dynasties the next day after they escaped under heavy rain last night. There were more than 3,000 Turkic soldiers who took the initiative to surrender. Of course, the reason why they really came to surrender was that they had to come back to surrender.

In this battle, nearly 30,000 Turkic soldiers were captured, including Mayi County, and two ten thousand men were captured, one was Wen Mutie and the other was Zhishishi.

According to convention, the chiefs of various Turkic tribes need to take out cattle, sheep or other materials to redeem these tribesmen, such as Han slaves abducted by the Turks, etc. If there is no ransom, these prisoners of war will be released back to the grassland after five years of hard labor in the Great Sui mine. The soldiers who voluntarily surrender only need to be released after two years of labor. This is a little preferential treatment for surrender.

Zhang Xuan came to a large tent, and there was a person sitting in the large tent. It was the ten thousand men who were captured by Luo Cheng who were in a state of no way to think.

Zhishisili was slightly different. He was the chief of Zhishi's tribe, and the Zhishi tribe was distributed in the southern part of Yinshan. It was a large tribe of the Turks. Another reason was that Zhishisili became a famous general of the Tang Dynasty in history, leading a large army to defeat Tuyuhun, Tubo, Xueyantuo and other troops, and made great military achievements for the Tang Dynasty.

Zhang Xuan knew this, so he was quite interested in this power of thinking. Not all Turkic tribes are enemies. As long as the strategies are used properly, some Turkic tribes will also become the support of the Northern Sui Dynasty.

"The commander-in-chief is here!"
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