Section 212: The Turks March (2)
In the second half of May of the fourth year of Wude, the originally calm border between the East and West Turks was no longer calm. The Western Turks army gathered on the border between the East and West Turks, and crossed the not-so-obvious border line in front of them at dawn on May 23, like a sharp arrow.
The rolling wave of cavalry rolled forward like waves. The iron hooves of war horses rolled up the rolling yellow sand, and the sky seemed to be filled with riots of sand and dust. The rolling sand and dust swept by, and several tribes that originally lived in the western border of ** were attacked by the Western Turkic tide at the first time. The iron cavalry was facing no grass. The rolling blood fell on the field where horses were once herding, and the heads were cut off in pieces under the scimitar. The tribes swept by cavalry were then terrible corpses. No matter the elderly, weak, women, children, men, women, and young, even pregnant women were humiliated, and their stomachs were pierced by sharp spears and jumped on the tip of the spear. There were even cruel and blood-killing Western Turkic soldiers who cut open the pregnant woman's belly, leaving the newly formed child naked outside with blood.
The Western Turkic cavalry were hanging bloody heads beside the necks of horses, and the blood was still falling. The rolling cavalry trend was raging and rushing forward, allowing blood and death to continue to leap towards the heartland of **. It was really a time when the iron hooves passed by, and ghosts cried and wolves howled.
Later historians often believed that the battle between the East and West Turks was a war destined to come.
As early as the third year of Wude, in order to attack the territory of Liangzhou in the Tang Dynasty, Jie Li Khan reconciled with Ye Hu, the Western Turkic Khan at that time. The original relationship between the Eastern and Western Turkic Turks has been temporarily eased for a while. However, the relationship between the Eastern and Western Turkic Turks has been very tense since the split of the Turkic Han Kingdom. Although their predecessors were both Turkic Han Kingdom, they could be said to be twin brothers born to a mother, perhaps because of this relationship that they all claimed that they were the real successors of the Turkic Han Kingdom, and then attacked the brothers with iron and blood, and wanted soldiers armed with steel to complete the unification of the Han Kingdom.
At the end of the third year of Wude, **'s defeat in Liangzhou made the originally stable relationship between the two countries completely unstable. It was precisely because of the strength of the Western Turks that Jie Li Khan at that time that he had to reconcile with the Tang Dynasty, and Liu Shan had a mission. However, although ** welcomed Liu Shan, the envoy of the Tang Dynasty, and in order to win over this general who showed great power in Liangzhou, Jie Li Khan even staged a show of giving away a golden sword.
However, Jie Li Khan never expected that Princess Sinan, the pearl on the grassland, finally got together with Liu Shan, but she lost control of the **, allowing Princess Yicheng, who had always had considerable strength, to seize control of the **.
In the fourth year of Wude, when his troops were seriously insufficient, he sent 100,000 Turkic cavalry to support Liu Shan's military operations in Hebei. This weakened **'s military strength even more. Some people thought that this was Princess Yicheng's biggest failure, while others said that Princess Yicheng knew nothing about military affairs, which led to another serious weakening after a great loss of strength. Even after the Western Turkic march against **, many tribes of ** had raised the banner of confronting Princess Yicheng. They even cooperated with the attacking Western Turkic forces to deal with Princess Yicheng together.
The situation of ** became very unstable for a moment, with strong enemies outside and chaos inside. It seemed that the country was destroyed and the family was destroyed. It seemed that the reunification of the Turks was only a matter of time, and this time was still being squeezed and reduced by the momentum of the attack of the Western Turkic army.
However, no one knew that Princess Yicheng was just staying in the royal court every day. From time to time, the border military newspapers came from outside. Without exception, these military newspapers were defeated here and there. No one left of which tribe was massacred by the Western Turks. Anyway, they were all bad news that they could not be bad anymore. However, Princess Yicheng, who received these news, just hurriedly read these military newspapers. It seemed that the deaths of tens of thousands and the defeat of the entire army had nothing to do with her. The entire tribes were massacred. In Princess Yicheng's eyes, they were just a simple number on parchment paper and a simple cold number.
In early June of the fourth year of Wude, before people could notice it, the war between the East and West Turks changed again. Faced with the massacre of the Western Turks, the tribes of the Supreme People had gradually united. Originally, they were also observing the war, while seriously protesting Princess Yicheng's orders, and even stood on the side of the Western Turks with righteousness. However, the Western Turks had only one attitude towards these tribes, that is, killing them all, grab them all, and a light that is not suitable for children.
The arrogance and cruelty of the Western Turks finally drove the tribes that began to stand in the middle to Princess Yicheng's side, and drove the tribes that were preparing to cooperate with the Western Turks back to their original positions.
On June 5, 2014, the Western Turks still burned two tribes into white land within one day, and retreated back to the supportive soldiers. But on this day, the army of the tribes discovered that they had encountered very tenacious resistance when they invaded these tribes. Moreover, they had obviously fewer things in these tribes. Originally, they thought they would encounter many elderly, weak, women and children, and they could practice their cruel and invincible sword techniques, but the old and weak seemed to be very few.
Before he knew it, the aura had already ignited a fierce anger against the attack of the Western Turks. The anger was burning fiercely. Thousands of herders of the ** took up their weapons, rode their tall horses, and began to gather in various tribes. The ** had faintly entered a state where the whole nation was fighting.
In early June of the fourth year of Wude, Liu Shan led his men and horses had crossed the Hebei border. Liu Shan asked the grassland soldiers to escort the prisoners, and then sent a small number of elite grassland soldiers and Liangzhou soldiers to be responsible for regaining the land of Hebei controlled by the grassland soldiers. One by one, the prefectures and counties were controlled by the Liangzhou soldiers who rushed to the scene.
At the beginning, most of these prefectures and counties were still under the control of the grassland soldiers, and Liu Shan just took over. Although some prefectures and counties had been recaptured by Hebei soldiers at this time, Liu Shan's Liangzhou army soon took back these places as soon as they arrived.
The Liangzhou army attacked the depth of Hebei at the fastest speed. The horse hooves of the cavalry trampled on the land under their feet. The prefectures where news came were the routes and targets of the Liangzhou cavalry's attack.
In the controlled place, Liushan's Liangzhou army posted an announcement on the people's peace as soon as it arrived, and then sent troops to maintain local public order. Because the grassland soldiers were rampant in these places before, many places were very chaotic. As soon as the Liangzhou soldiers arrived, many places became even more chaotic, and some landlords and powerful people even stood up to make the situation even more chaotic.
Chapter completed!