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17. War without poetry

The well railing car is like a tall building with three floors. Each floor is lined with fake female walls or side signs to the west. A strong archer stands behind it, with a divine thunder gunpowder cartridge in his bag. There are ladders connected with "Z" shaped stairs between the three floors. There are three elite teams around the vehicle, first jumping and driving them slowly.

Soon, all the floors of the well railing began to shoot whip arrows dragging the tails of fireworks, and kept approaching the east gate of Fangqu City, which was fighting in a mess. After the trekking hand filled the dry trench with firewood bales, the left and right suddenly turned into flat ground. The well railing was less than thirty steps away from the city wall!

At this time, the commander Li Xian, the left Yuhou Hou, and Zhou Ziping, the right Yuhou, drove over the lineups and prepared to climb the city from the well railing. He waved and shouted, bringing Gao Yue's latest order: "The Great Yin has an order, and the Qiang people in the city are all saints and lords! If you go out of the city to serve, you can supervise it and give water and rice, and you must not kill or indiscriminately." After shouting, Li Xian and Zhou Ziping each held a white flag in their hands and inserted it into the open space under the city. They shouted repeatedly in Chinese and Qiang words to the smoke-filled city. The Great Yin has an order, and those under the White Banner will not die.

Ye Lichi and Shu Hurong, who were fighting on the city, burst into tears on their backs and said that the people of their clan would not have to die together in the city.

Soon, at the gates of Luocheng, the two tribes were crying and swarming at the white flag at each gate of Fangqu City.

At this time, Gao Chongwen tribes on the north wall, Fan Xichao and Wu Xianfu tribes on the south wall, also began to attack and arrest Dangxiang's surrendered people everywhere.

At the east gate where the Tang army was mainly attacked, the war was the most cruel and fierce. The Dangqiang soldiers who were attached to the Tang family and the Dangqiang soldiers who rebeled against the Tang family cursed each other as "mixed men", and then ruthlessly stabbed each other with corpses mixed with blood, lying full of incomplete battlements. When the Qiang soldiers retreated with all their strength, the Tang army in the back formation jumped around the main force and began to surround the three well railings as the core, and continued to launch a strong attack, in order not to let the wild animals get a chance to breathe and rest.

The highest level of the well railing near the city wall was placed down the bridge board, and then the jumping soldiers held the flat-row sword in their hands. The fish jumped to the top of the city wall, slashing wildly. The teams below followed the stairs and continued to fill the battlefield on the top of the city wall.

This made Dangxiang completely unable to resist. Ye Lichi, who was fighting against a wooden pillar on the ruins of the watchtower, was killed and injured, and was finally surrounded by five or six Tang army jumping soldiers.

The two leading the hands held the tiger-head pattern in their hands, and the sharp short-handled horizontal knife in the back; the two leading the back raised the long sword in the flat-long knife and passed the shoulders; and on the side, each standing with a hand, slightly buckled his waist and calmed his steps, and the sharp three teeth kept turning in his hands.

These six jumping soldiers all had murderous auras on their faces.

Although Ye Lichi was covered in wounds, he still roared and raised Park's sword.

A palladium boring hand leaped and blocked Ye Li Chi's Pu's knife with three toothed bars. Another position suddenly stabbed. Ye Li Chi screamed, his arm was pierced through and nailed to the broken pillar.

Then the sword player stepped forward and stabbed Ye Lichi's abdomen with a horizontal knife.

Ye Lichi's intestines flowed out and knelt on the ground. The Tang Bing then pressed his neck with a long sword on Pinglong. Then the long sword moved slightly, and the blood and the cartilage in his throat splashed together. Ye Lichi died immediately and fell to the ground with a thud.

In the afternoon, the Tang army not only occupied the ridge tower in Fangqu City, but the other gates were also broken. All the people rushed into the city from different directions. Those who dared to resist were killed, while those who surrendered were trapped by the bridle and pulled them away.

Shu Hurong, the chief of the Great Zerg, was seriously injured by the Tang army's divine thunder rocket. He abandoned Luocheng with dozens of remaining troops and retreated into Zicheng. The Tang army surrounded him from three sides and chased him relentlessly. Finally, Shu Hurong killed seven children in the former site of the City God at the base of Zicheng, and then set fire to the temple.

When the Tang army broke through Zicheng Gate and rushed in, the entire City God Temple turned into a sea of ​​fire, and the surrounding area was full of the big Zerg surnames that Fu Jian had attacked, and some of the big children who survived were caught by Tang soldiers and dragged outside Zicheng.

Looking at the miserable flames soaring into the sky in Zicheng, Gao Yue, who was supervising the battle, understood that the war to eliminate the rebel Qiang in Qingzhou was over.

The merchants and fangmen in the camp couldn't wait to carry their goods and money and flock to the still-burning Fangqu City, and spontaneously built a high platform with unburned wooden fences. Then they automatically threw themselves into the Tang army camp, or the party members who had attempted suicide, were soon divided into different teams, and were detained by the Dingwu Army or the Yining Army's small schoolmen. Some of them climbed there and started trading directly. The other part was detained around the camp, tied with ropes to the antlers or gun fences. The Tang army threw water and food to allow them to survive and sell them later.

Some more beautiful Dangqiang women, whether married or unmarried, were in the camp that night, and were humiliated by Tang soldiers and cried endlessly.

Gao Yue sat upright in the tabernacle and accepted the celebrations of his subordinates and generals.

On the bed of the first rope, Quan Deyu, who was sitting, looked pale. He finally realized what the real war looked like.

There is no poetry in the war.

In front of him, the grand imperial court of the twin palaces with purple robe and goldfish promised to send out three hundred goods, and was willing to sell the seven thousand Qiang slaves (Dongshan slaves) at a constant price to merchants who transported logistics for the army. After Yaren, he distributed all the three thousand captured Qiang women, including Ye Lichi, Shu Hurong and other wives and concubines of the big surnames to his soldiers.

Gao Yue looked at Quan Deyu specifically and asked him, "Thank you for your hard work in Zaizhi. I want to give you four long, thin and white Qiang girls to you, how about it?"

Quan Deyu frowned in pain, lowered his head and bit the back of his hand, not knowing whether to refuse or not.

But when Gao Yue clapped his hands and asked the tent to escort a few beautiful Qiang girls up, he still agreed.

There were also dozens of children from the big family rescued from Zicheng. Gao Yue did not kill this time, but told his subordinates that it was not good to kill, but they would never let them live in Qingzhou if they were not killed. The final decision was to castrate all the boys and send them to the emperor's court with the girls.

There were more than 20,000 left. This time Gao Yue was not polite. He would neither pay tribute to the emperor nor sell it to Du You's Lingnan at a low price. He specifically asked Fengxiang and Xingyuan to print paper and make coupons, requiring each Qiang slave to give Zhang coupons, half of which was distributed to Xingyuan Fengxiang's cotton fields, the workshop was an official slave, and the half was directly distributed to generals and soldiers as rewards, and let the soldiers be sold to merchants who followed the army.

The trade at Fangqu City lasted for nearly a few days. This time, the generals and soldiers of the Yining Army and Dingwu Army made a fortune, and each of them received thirty or forty cents of coins, which was almost equivalent to the regular salary of one year.

In the Zichen Hall of the Daming Palace, the autumn wind was rustling. After listening to the description of the Qingzhou war in Jinzouyuan excitedly, the emperor couldn't help but shout to the sky, full of heroism.

This expedition was only three months before and after, and it took more than ten days to sell Qiang slaves. The imperial court spent money on the expenses, and the rewards were only one million and one hundred million guan. Then the money for selling slaves was about 400,000 guan, so the actual cost was only 700,000 guan. Not only did it cost less, but it also made a huge profit after the war!

The court can free up more money to consolidate and digest the newly occupied areas.
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