Chapter 480: The Diligent King of the World (6)
The sunset has already set down Wuzhou Mountain, but the night has not yet arrived. The sunset is full of sunset, rendering the sky and clouds into golden colors, which is particularly magnificent.◇↓◇↓ Novel.¥f
On the shimmering Sanggan River, tens of thousands of young women squatted by the river to wash the leather armor and clothes of Turkic soldiers. The clothes and leather armor that were to be washed by the river were piled up like mountains.
Behind these women were hundreds of vicious Turkic cavalrymen, holding whips and knives in their hands, supervising the women to wash clothes.
At this time, the night was getting late, and the eyes of the Turkic cavalry also became particularly evil. They squinted their eyes and looked behind the woman. The camp began to light a bonfire in the distance, and bursts of drums and crazy laughter came.
The women on the Sanggan River are not all Han women, but also Qiang, Tiel and Xiongnu women living on the northern border of the Sakura, but most of them are Han women.
They were all young women who were captured by Turkic cavalry from the three counties in the northern border areas by Turkic cavalry. Like other grassland ethnic groups, the Turks had a strong desire for Han women.
This is not just a physiological need, but an urgent need for population reproduction. This population reproduction demand has been going on for hundreds of years. When the Xianbei declined and the land occupied by the Turks expanded, but their population reproduction could not keep up, this demand became even stronger, and gradually formed a beastly culture, which was inherited by later Uighurs, Tubo, Turks, Jurchens, and Mongolia, which led to the tragic experiences of Han women in the Sui and Song dynasties.
There are more than 15,000 young women who have been captured in the Turkish logistics camp on the Sanggan River. They will be slaves in the future, and the wealth allocated to the generals will not be counted into the Turkic population.
At this time in the Turkic camp, they were responsible for the most heavy labor during the day, and were tragically ravaged by Turkic soldiers at night, and had to bear the pain of family destruction. Many women could not bear this pain and died shortly after being captured.
In addition to soldiers and captured women, the Turkic camp also lived at the foot of Wuzhou Mountain in the north of the camp. There were tens of thousands of elderly, weak and elderly women and children from southern Turkic tribes living in their hands. They also had hundreds of thousands of sheep, which were the reserve military rations for the Turkic army.
These tens of thousands of Turkic people were two Turkic tribes that Qimin Khan deliberately stayed in Mayi County. Although Qimin Khan moved north, the Turkic nobles did not want to give up Yunnei's strategic location to attack the south. So they left two tribes to continue occupying the grassland.
More than 8,000 young and strong men in the tribe followed Shibi Khan to Yanmen County to fight, leaving only the elderly, weak, women and children to guard their homes.
As night fell, the bonfires on the grassland were burning, and the Turkic elderly and women and children walked out of the tent to feel the joy of barbecue lamb. Groups of Turkic children rolled on the grassland, wrestling, riding horses and shooting arrows, and laughter spread throughout the grassland.
Thousands of Han female slaves were busy cutting mutton and going to the sheep pen to feed grass and milk, and they could not be seen by the bonfire.
This was a very ordinary day. The spies patrolling around did not find any abnormal situation. The Emperor of Sui was trapped in Yanmen County. The Sui army that came to support did not dare to go north to rescue. The Turkic army had the advantage, and the logistics camp was a little relaxed.
In a forest covering an area of thousands of hectares ten miles west of the camp, a Sui army from afar was lurking in the forest quietly waiting for the order to attack. Although nightfall had fallen, it was obvious that the time for attack was not yet available.
A double account has been set up in the forest, consisting of two layers of account inside and outside. This ensures that the light in the internal account will not leak out when people enter and exit.
There were five or six people standing in the inner tent, with the head coach Zhang Xuan in the middle, next to him were Li Jing and Li Shimin, and on the other side were two generals, Yuchi Gong and Pei Xingyan.
Zhang Xuan pointed to the map on the small table and said, "According to the latest information, the army protecting the Turkic logistics camp is about 10,000 people, with a total of 4,000 more troops than us. We must wait for them to fall asleep before we can start."
Li Shimin next to him said: "In fact, you can use fire to attack, burn the logistics tent, and create chaos."
"no!"
Yuchi Gong sternly refuted: "There are more than 10,000 poor women who have been captured in the camp. If they attack with fire, they are the biggest victims and must not do so."
Li Jing knew that Yuchi Gong was from Mayi County. Among these arrested women, perhaps he knew his friends, wives and daughters. Moreover, Li Jing worked as a local official in Mayi County for several years and had feelings for Mayi County. He did not agree with the use of fire attack.
Li Jing said in a deep voice: "There is no need for fire attacks. As long as we attack in the middle of the night, the effect is the same. The key is to capture the stables so that the Turkic soldiers have no horses to ride. Then this sneak attack is sure to win."
Li Shimin's suggestion was opposed, and he stopped saying a word. At this time, Zhang Xuan said: "Attacking the camp is only our first step. There is a Turkic camp to the north of the camp. Although it is not an army, they also have hundreds of thousands of sheep, which can still be the food support for the Turkic cavalry, so this Turkic camp must also be eliminated tonight."
The combat principle has been decided. Zhang Xuan looked at everyone again, but no one opposed it. Zhang Xuan said slowly: "The time is set to attack at the fourth update. Let's talk about the details below. General Pei Xingyan led a thousand cavalry to attack the Turkic stable from the south first."
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As time gradually came to the fourth hour, the entire Turkic logistics camp gradually became quiet. Only a few large tents were still vaguely laughter and the cry of women. The captured women lived in the north, and their tent also became quiet. Outside the tent, hundreds of Turkic cavalry patrolled back and forth to prevent the women from escaping.
There were also cavalry patrolling around the three sheep pens, and the huge flock of sheep kept stirring up, and the sound of "ba!ba!" came from the flock.
At the fourth update, the night was very quiet, and most of the Turkic cavalry slept soundly, and the refreshing drinking of horse milk wine made them sleep particularly sweet at night.
At this moment, a long black line appeared on the grass slope two miles away to the west. The six thousand cavalry led by Zhang Xuan arrived. Soon a Turkic patrol noticed them. They began to panic and fled to the camp.
Zhang Xuan looked coldly at the Turkic camp tent that stretched ten miles ahead, and he resolutely issued an order, "General Pei attacked the stables, and the rest of the troops entered the camp!"
The overwhelming Sui cavalry rushed down the grass slope, like an avalanche, swept towards the Turkic camp. The Sui soldiers waved their swords, their eyes full of desire to kill and excitement to make contributions.
Dozens of Turkic patrols who were running slightly slower were chased and killed by the Sui army. In an instant, the overwhelming group of Sui cavalry rushed into the Turkic camp...
Pei Xingyan took the lead and led a thousand cavalry into the stable camp of the Turkic army like a torrent of steel. Here he concentrated on feeding 10,000 war horses, each war horse had its owner.
In the darkness, the Sui cavalry ran back and forth. The groom was slashed with his head while running, blood was shot out, and the thick stable railings were opened, and tens of thousands of war horses rushed out, running towards the grassland to the east.
The chaos in the stable camp alarmed the Turkic army camp. More importantly, the earth shock caused by Zhang Xuan leading 5,000 cavalry to wake up the Turkic soldiers from their sleep.
From surprise to panic, when they finally fled out of the tent in a hurry, five thousand Sui cavalry had already entered the camp, with iron hooves rushing, swords slashing, spears assassinating, and Sui army ruthlessly killing the Turkic soldiers running around.
Li Xuanba was even more crazy and massacred in the Turkic army. He was so angry that he wanted to compete with the silver hammer general Pei Xingyan. The hammer flew over, and groups of Turkic soldiers had no power to fight back. The brains and bodies were shattered by his hammer. Li Xuanba's surrounding corpses were covered with terrible sight.
Without war horses, the Turkic soldiers seemed to be unable to fight, without formations, without people, and they even had no sense of infantry fighting. It is no wonder that they were just herders from various Turkic divisions and had the horse fighting skills they had cultivated since childhood. However, without war horses, they became a group of sheep waiting to be slaughtered.
In the camp, Turkic soldiers fled in all directions, but they could not escape the Sui army's war horses and were ruthlessly killed in screams. This battle was extremely fierce. More than 8,000 Turkic soldiers were killed, and only more than 1,000 escaped by chance.
Zhang Xuan then divided his troops into two groups. He ordered Yuchi Gong and Pei Xingyan to lead 1,000 people to kill the Turkic tribes in the north, completely destroying the logistics supplies of the Turkic army.
"Everyone, weak, women and children, all resisters will be killed!" Zhang Xuan issued a massacre order to the two.
In the dawn of morning, two thousand cavalrymen rushed to the Turkic tribe more than ten miles away from the north like lightning.
It was not until more than two hours later that the killings of the Turkic logistics camp gradually stopped. Millions of sheep became the spoils of the Sui army, and more than 10,000 Han women who became female slaves were liberated. Their humiliation and anger erupted at this moment. They cried and vented their inner pain on hundreds of captured Turkic prisoners of war.
Chapter completed!