Chapter 363 Summoning Millions of Tang Dynasty Divine Soldiers
In fact, ever since the news of the Battle of Talos was transmitted back to Jinling City, Emperor Zhaowu Chen Huaian has been planning how to resolve the rebellion in the Western Regions once and for all.
After much thought, he actually found a way - that is, to replace all the soldiers and horses of the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions with private soldiers who are absolutely loyal to Chen Huaian, and the so-called monarchs of the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions He is only responsible for political affairs but not the military, and separates military and political powers.
In this way, it can not only solve the problem of ownership of the systematic soldiers and horses he summoned during his Western expedition, but also solve the problem of mutiny and rebellion that often broke out in the countries in the Western Regions because they were far away from the Central Plains dynasty. It can also speed up the process of national integration. process, laying a solid foundation for the Tang Dynasty's western expedition to the Arab Empire;
This is a perfect strategy that kills three birds with one stone, or even kills two birds with one stone. Thinking about it makes Chen Huaian feel excited.
If it hadn't been for the Arab Empire's eastward expedition and the surrender of all thirty-six countries in the Western Regions except the Uighurs, it would have been difficult for Chen Huaian to implement this strategy.
After all, as the emperor of the Celestial Kingdom, and as Chen Huaian, who is regarded as the Khan of Heaven by the kings, ministers and people of the Western Regions, he still has to pay attention to a master's reputation, right?
You can't just deprive the thirty-six countries of the Western Regions of all their military power for unfounded reasons, and replace all the armies of the thirty-six countries of the Western Regions with his private soldiers, right?
Besides, those soldiers from the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions, whether they were disbanded and returned to their fields or executed on trumped-up charges, would be a huge hidden danger and destabilizing factor.
Only by executing all the armies of the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions on the battlefield in the name of counterinsurgency can Chen Huaian have a legitimate reason to station private soldiers for various countries in the Western Regions.
It sounds a bit cruel!
But, let me ask, which emperor of all ages has his hands stained with thousands of lives and blood?
Otherwise, there would be no such thing as a saying that one will achieve great success and die with all his bones.
Therefore, in order to complete this great feat, Chen Huaian has remained silent in recent days, whether it is asking for help from the Yingwu Khan of the Uighur Khanate or Lan Yu, the Marquis of Anxi in the Tang Dynasty.
Even the Uighur Khanate, which has not yet surrendered, is almost on the verge of annihilation. Chen Huaian has not responded to the messages for help from Yingwu Khan Mo Yanchu and Anxi Hou Lanyu.
He is still waiting!
On the one hand, they are waiting for the soldiers and horses led by the champion Hou Huo Qubing, the chief of the Royal Forest Army Zhao Zilong, the Marquis of Zhenxi Guo Dingfang, and the Marquis of Changxin Zuo Liangcai to intersperse in place and deliver a fatal blow to the Arab Empire army on the Eastern Expedition at the critical moment;
On the other hand, they are also waiting for the capitulation faction in the Uighur Khanate to be exposed in all its aspects;
This time, Chen Huaian used the help of Turhong, the general of the Arab Empire's Eastern Expedition, to cleanse the entire thirty-six countries in the Western Regions from top to bottom.
It can be said that except for the people of the thirty-six countries in the Western Region, he can cleanse all the others, from the king to the first-line soldiers.
It is nothing more than re-establishing a puppet regime after the war.
Anyway, he didn't expect the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions to achieve any earth-shattering achievements. He only regarded them as a "copy" on the Western Silk Road of the Tang Dynasty and a springboard for the Tang Dynasty's western expedition to the Arab Empire.
The layout of this shocking "chess game" has almost reached a perfect ending.
Next, it is his hunting moment, Chen Huaian.
In the Chinese army's tent, after Chen Huaian finished processing all the military reports, he dismissed all the people in the tent and once again summoned the [Born Emperor's Fate] system alone.
【bite! 】
[The natural emperor life system is starting...]
Along with the familiar mechanical synthesized sound in his mind, another virtual projection screen began to appear in Chen Huaian's mind.
This time, Chen Huaian used the unlimited troop explosion authority for the first time since he unlocked it.
Chen Huaian: "System, summon 1,000,000 (one million) private soldiers!"
[Born Emperor Life System]: "Dear host, are you sure you want to summon 1,000,000 private soldiers?"
"Sure!"
Chen Huaian chose OK without hesitation!
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In the first year of Zhaowu in the Tang Dynasty, August 22nd, it was the tenth day of the Arab Empire’s Eastern Expedition to Uighur.
Ten days of continuous fierce fighting caused the defenders of Princess Uihe City to suffer more than 70% casualties as they endured an attack by an enemy force dozens of times their own.
Since the fierce battle, the four city gates outside Princess City have been captured by the Arab Empire army on the Eastern Expedition. General Lan Yu and more than 3,000 remaining garrison soldiers have retreated to the Wengcheng (inner city), preparing to fight the enemy to the death and fight the final decisive battle. .
In order to capture the small Princess City, the Arab Empire army on the Eastern Expedition also paid a very heavy price, with more than 150,000 casualties. Almost 20,000 Arab Empire soldiers died in Princess City almost every day of fighting. Under the city.
Such casualties were the second highest casualty price paid by the Arab Empire's army during the Eastern Expedition, apart from the casualties they had to pay when facing the elite Anxi Iron Army of the Tang Dynasty in the Battle of Talas.
Because of this, after successively conquering the three cities of Heihu, Meijian, and Ketun, Turhun, the general of the Arab Empire's Eastern Expedition, who could have bypassed the Princess City and taken back the capital city of Hara Balgas, was stunned to see this person. The little princess city competes with Anxihou Lanyu of the Tang Dynasty and vows to break the city!
On the tenth day of the fierce battle, Turhon finally dismissed the siege vanguard general Aini in front of the battle again, and personally went into battle to direct the siege operations of his army.
At this time, the total strength of the Arab Empire's Eastern Expedition Army and its vassal coalition forces of the thirty-five countries in the Western Regions assembled outside the Princess City had exceeded half a million.
The garrison soldiers who retreated to the Wengcheng (inner city) of the Princess City, together with the lightly and seriously wounded, only numbered over 3,000.
It is no exaggeration to say that the 500,000 troops under Turhong's command, even with one sword per man, are enough to chop down the urn city of Princess City and chop the 3,000 defenders including Lan Yu, the Marquis of Anxi of the Tang Dynasty, into meat paste.
In addition, the other three Arab Eastern Expedition armies that defeated the three cities of Heihu, Meijian, and Ketun have also joined forces outside the city of Hala Balgas, the capital of the Uighur Khanate, with a total strength of more than 300,000.
In other words, the Arab Empire army and its vassal armies assembled in the territory of the Uighur Khanate now total 800,000, which is almost all the troops under Turhong's command except for guarding the granaries in various places.
It can be seen that Turhong of the He Khanate is determined to win this time.
As the army besieged the city, both the Princess City and the capital Harabalegas had become an isolated city, completely losing contact with the outside world.
On the wall of the Princess City Urn City, the exhausted General Lan Yu leaned on the crenellations of the broken city wall and fell into a deep sleep.
Beside him, there were garrison soldiers who had not had a drop of water or a grain of water for two days. They were lying on the narrow city wall to rest, seizing the last time before the battle to regain their strength.
Not far away, at the crenellation of the city wall, the young Uighur general Aba Bekeli was leaning on the pillars of the city wall, looking blankly in the direction of the capital, Harabalegas.
The past few days of hard and fierce battles, the experience of getting up from the mountains of corpses and blood countless times, and being forcibly pulled back from the gate of hell countless times, have made this young man in his early twenties quickly grow into a veteran of hundreds of battles. The childish cheeks already showed a maturity that looked down on life and death;
The only thing that makes Ababa Bekeli regretful is that he is about to die in battle before he can see with his own eyes the true appearance of Chen Huaian, the Khan of the Tang Dynasty!
Yesterday, when the four city gates of Princess City were captured by the enemy one after another, and the defenders had no choice but to retreat to Wengcheng, General Lan Yu finally couldn't help but to boost morale and give these dying defenders a little hope of survival. Informed the three thousand remaining soldiers in the urn city that the Great Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Tian Khan Chen Huaian, was personally conquering the Western Regions;
The expectation of waiting for Tian Khan Chen Huaian to descend from the sky and save the defenders of Princess City from life and death became the last hope of these three thousand remnant soldiers before they died.
However, looking at the menacing and murderous Arab Empire's Eastern Expedition army outside the city, young Ababa Bekli thought that he might have no hope of seeing the true face of the legendary Khan Chen Huaian in his lifetime!
Not far from Aba Bekeli, there is another Uighur general named Mawulani who has been holding on to this day.
Mawulani, who has long passed the age of knowing destiny, appears to be much calmer than Ababa Bekeli when facing life and death;
He only had to rely on the city wall, using a whetstone he didn't know where he got it from, and kept polishing the knife in his hand carefully. The blade had already become a bit dull due to killing too many enemy soldiers. The curled scimitar of the Western Regions is quietly waiting for the judgment of fate.
"Report——"
"General, the enemy has begun to attack the city again!"
At this time, Tan Li, the deputy general of the Anxi Protectorate of the Tang Dynasty, dragged his exhausted body to the side of the general Lan Yu and informed him that the Arab Empire's Eastern Expedition Army had assembled heavy troops under the city and began to prepare for the siege.
In fact, Lan Yu, who had been taking a nap with squinted eyes, had already woken up when the Arab army under the city blew their horns and beat their war drums without even needing to be informed by Lieutenant General Tan Li.
He subconsciously wanted to stand up, but found that his knees were weak and he couldn't use any strength at all.
Lan Yu then remembered that his knees were injured in yesterday's battle and he could no longer stand up.
However, Lan Yu still had that domineering expression on her face, exuding a powerful aura like no other, and stared straight at the city with sharp eyes like a falcon.
Then, he ordered: "Vice General Tan, go find a rope and tie me to the flagpole. Go quickly!"
ah--
Deputy General Tan Li's expression froze, and he couldn't bear to say: "General——"
"Stop talking nonsense!"
Before Tan Li finished speaking, he was rudely interrupted by Lan Yu, who continued: "My general's knees are injured and he cannot stand up, but this general must not let the soldiers guarding the city see this scene;"
"As long as I can stand up, as long as the soldiers can still see my figure, the morale of the defenders will not fade, and the morale of the soldiers will not fade."
"Even if Turhong wants to swallow up this princess city today, this general will have to break one of his teeth before he dies. Go quickly, it's too late!"
"The last general, the last general has the order!"
After a while, Deputy General Tan Li found a rope and tied General Lan Yu, who could no longer stand to fight, to a flagpole as thick as a bowl.
On the flagpole, fluttering in the wind is a battle flag of the Tang Dynasty.
General Lan Yu's heroic feat of taking the lead indeed inspired the momentum of the three thousand remnant soldiers who defended the city. All the soldiers breathed their last breaths, clenched the swords in their hands and stood proudly on the broken wall of the Princess City, with their eyes revealing The determination to regard death as home.
"The Tang army is mighty!"
Suddenly, Lan Yu waved the ring-shou sword in her hand with the blade rolled out, and raised her arms and shouted under the battle flag of the Tang Dynasty.
"The Tang army is mighty!"
"The Tang army is mighty!"
Immediately afterwards, the remnants of the defenders behind Lan Yu began to echo, using their last strength to roar.
"The Tang army is mighty!"
"The Tang army is mighty!"
"The Tang army is mighty!"
Soon, the sound was continuously amplified, and even the Uighur soldiers guarding the city couldn't help but roar in unison, resounding throughout the entire Princess City.
On the city wall, the behavior of the remaining defenders naturally aroused dissatisfaction with the Arab Empire army attacking the city outside the city.
Turhong, the general of the Eastern Expedition who personally commanded the siege, glared fiercely at every move of the remaining defenders on the city wall, and said with a sneer: "Humph, you are already on the verge of death, and you are still in the mood to shout slogans !”
"Come here, send the order, let the army attack the city!"
"After destroying the city, no one will be left behind!"
"After destroying the city, no one will be left behind!"
The general order of Turhun, the great general of the Abbasid Dynasty's Eastern Expedition, was infinitely amplified by the messengers responsible for delivering the order, so that every Arab Empire soldier participating in the siege could hear it.
"Kill!"
The next moment, accompanied by deafening shouts of killing, the soldiers of the Arab Empire gathered in battle formations carrying ladders, siege rams and other equipment, waving all kinds of swords, guns, swords and halberds in their hands, swarming into the Princess City like a tide. city.
"Brothers, kill one to earn enough money, kill two to earn one, and fight with the idiots!"
"Fight!"
On top of the inner city wall, General Lan Yu and the remaining 3,000 defenders also sang their last swan song!
The moment the offensive and defensive sides came into contact, shouts of killing resounded throughout the Princess City.
Turhun, the general of the Abbasid Dynasty's Eastern Expedition who was personally in command, had no intention of watching the battle on the Chinese army's watchtower after giving the order to attack the city. Instead, he returned to the Chinese army's tent.
He ordered his servants to bring clean water and prepared a set of clean clothes. Even his big white horse was led down by the groom and washed thoroughly, just to board the Princess City in the cleanest and best condition and personally Plant the battle flag of the Arab Empire on the wall of Princess City.
Soon, Turhun, who had taken off his armor, put on a traditional white Arab robe and admired his own mighty and domineering appearance in the bronze mirror.
"Report——"
"Report to the General!"
Suddenly, a breathless notification came from outside the Chinese army's tent.
Um?
In the big tent, Turhong raised the corner of his mouth in front of the bronze mirror and said to himself: "Did we capture the inner city of Princess City so quickly? The Tang Dynasty Anxi Hou Lanyu was able to capture him alive according to my general's orders. ?”
"General, then, the inner city of Princess City has not yet been breached——"
Outside the big tent, the messenger's voice was full of tears as he continued: "Yes, it was the grain roads in the rear of our army that were attacked by the Tang army. The grain roads in Wusun, Chesha, Xiye, Pishan and other countries were attacked. All the treasury fell into the hands of the Tang army;"
"Furthermore, several armies of the Tang Dynasty are rushing to Princess City. Their cavalry vanguard is less than ten miles away from Princess City. They can arrive without a stick of incense;"
"Then, the Tang army that raided our army's rear grain roads and the reinforcement of the Princess City was in the millions!"
"You, what did you say?"