Chapter 24: Yanqi’s Great Rebellion

On the second day, Gudu and Luofu came to see Tongluo. When Gudu arrived at the city lord's mansion, hesitated again. Luofu whispered: "Khan, if you dare not do this, then you might as well give the Kucha tribe to Gaochang. As the prime minister of Kucha, I can still get a job in Gaochang. Khan may not be as good as me when he comes there, but if you have no threat, Viaga may not be difficult for you."

Gu Du said to himself: "It won't be difficult for me, but it won't be very good to me. At most, I'll give me a ranch to support me, but I really have to spend the rest of my life like this?... No! No! If the tribes are really incorporated into Gaochang, the tribes are just a new master, but I have nothing left and can only be at the mercy of others."

Immediately walked into the mansion to ask for Tongluo. When Tongluo saw him coming again, he was a little impatient and asked him what he was doing. Gudu said that he was willing to incorporate the Kucha tribes into Gaochang according to his previous discussion with Luofu. Luofu secretly observed Tongluo's reaction. He saw that Tongluo's eyes immediately ejaculated, and he felt relieved in his heart, thinking: "He has not received the news yet. This matter has been five points."

Tong Luo suddenly became active and said, "If Khan figured it out, that's best. In fact, this is a good thing for us Gaochang, Khan, and the military and civilians of Kucha." He immediately sent someone to send more wine and meat to Gudu's mansion. I was afraid that there would be more dreams at night, so Gudu changed his mind and asked Gudu when he would officially announce this matter.

Luo Fu said, "Let's talk about it when Via Khan comes."

Tong Luo thought to himself: "If I can merge the old subordinates of Kucha, it will be a great achievement. If the Khan comes and announces it again, what else does it have to do with me?" In this era of human power, it is a great contribution to annexing a tribe of the same tribe. He said now: "It is better to settle earlier than to settle later." He urged Gu Du to settle earlier, so that Yanqi City can also re-allocate daily necessities for the military and civilians of Kucha. Since Viaga will arrive in six days, Tong Luo suggested that the matter be announced publicly tomorrow.

Gu Du showed hesitation, which made Tong Luo feel natural.

The Uighurs in the city of Yanqi were in the army. Some people fled and died in battle. At this time, there were 6,700 people. After the city was captured by the Tang army, they fled and surrendered, and Zhang Mai released the prisoners, totaling 4,500,500, all living in the southwest corner. The soldiers arrived first and lived in the military camp arranged by Tongluo. There were sentry towers arranged by Tongluo at four corners of the military camp, saying that they were guarding, but in fact, surveillance. Later, the people set up some tents and even slept in the military camp. Gudu and Luofu also lived nearby. Although there were gaps between the military camps, most of the people were the families of the soldiers of Kucha, and daily contacts could not be prohibited. Therefore, over time, they formed a group of people. There were many small doors between the military camps and the refugee area, and the supervisor turned a blind eye to this.

Because there were suddenly so many uninvested outsiders in this area, and these people were poor and miserable, and they were inevitably dirty and messy in their residences. Therefore, the people in this city hated them quite annoyed and could not wait for this area.

On the second day, Tongluo and Puba did only bring two teams of personal guards to the temporary settlement of the Uighurs in the city. When the Uighurs in Kucha saw that Khan and Tongluo had come together, they all surrounded him. Puba stood on a high place and said, "Today, Gudu Khan has an important matter to be announced." So he asked Gudu to come to power.

Gu Du had no talent for acting, but he thought that he was the leader of a country before, but because of his desire to be profiteer, he responded to Hushagar's attack on Shule, which annoyed Zhang Mai, so that his country was destroyed and his family was destroyed and he couldn't help but cry when he thought of the sadness. Seeing Khan like this, the Uighurs of Kucha had not known anything, but they had suffered hardship and rolled their eyes for a while, and they had resonance without realizing it, and some old and weak cried.

Tong Luo shouted, "Gudu, what are you doing? Why are you crying? Let me tell you about the matter."

Gu Du cried and said, "General, don't force me?"

When the people of the Uighurs of Kucha felt depressed, they all thought that their Khan must have been forced by Tongluo to do something, and they shouted: "Khan, what did he force you to do?"

This place was originally a residence for the Uighurs of Kucha. At this time, news came out that people kept coming from the small path in the adjacent military camp, and more and more people gathered, and Puba suddenly became a little uneasy.

Tong Luo had not found out that it was wrong. He stared at Gu Du and said, "What are you forcing you? What are you saying this? It's obviously your own voluntary."

Gu Du sighed deeply, and the people of the Uighurs in Kucha asked again: "What is it?"

Gu Du cried and said, "General Luo said that we should merge into Gaochang, otherwise we would not let us live in the city. We should let us go to Yingshu River to herd sheep."

The Uighurs in Kucha were shocked by the old and weak, while the young and middle-aged people were angry. Although the Kucha Kingdom had both agriculture and herdsmen, agriculture relied on the sinic natives, and the herdsmen of the pastoral period depended on the right and wrong Uighur tribes. Most of the Uighurs who came from Kucha had no production for more than two generations. It was okay to ask them to be soldiers and eat military pay. Who could bear it? What's more, Yingshu River is not a good place, it was a place where Gaochang exiled prisoners. These people in Kucha knew about it.

Tong Luo even furiously said, "Gudu! What are you saying?" Puba also shouted, "Don't listen to Gudu's nonsense, we don't mean that!"

Actually, this is what they meant, but it was hard to say it in public.

Gudu was the Khan of the Uighurs of Kucha. Tong Luo called him his name twice in a row, which aroused the anger of his tribe members, and they shouted: "Tong Luo, why do you talk to our Khan like this!" "You are really polite to us Khan!" "It's also fake, it's clear that you are forcing us Khan!"

Seeing that the situation was not good, Puba pulled Tongluo and said, "The situation is wrong today, let's go!"

Luo Fu had already come up and said, "Two, what do you mean? Let's go after you finish speaking!"

The people of the Uighurs below shouted: "What does it mean? Let's go after you finish speaking!"

The more clever elders quickly sent someone to the military camp next door to notify the helper.

Puba winked, and the two teams of guards drew their swords at the same time and shouted, "Go away!" They wanted to escort Tongluo out! Gudu looked at it and pulled Tongluo, while Luofu pulled Puba. Gudu pulled out the sword and shouted, "Don't hurt my people!"

Tong Luo Yijing also drew his sword, but the two were entangled at such an equal distance. Once they took action, they would be a loss-win situation! The two teams of guards were afraid to throw mice and did not dare to move for a while.

Gudu and Luofu were the most secret, and even Huang Laotong did not know in advance, but he was very aware of his hearing. When he heard Gudu and Tongluo had something to say to the Uighur tribes of Kucha, of course he came. At this time, he was mixed in the crowd and remembered that Zhang Mai gave him training on mass movements. One of them was called "Incite the emotions of the people" - this is a scientific name. In ancient times, there was an idiom called "Flower the Flame", and then he shouted: "They want to harm Khan! Come forward to protect Khan!"

In the midst of the noise, where could the soldiers and civilians of the Kucha Huihe clearly distinguish the situation? When someone shouted, they responded: "Protect Khan! Protect Khan!" Thousands of people rushed up. The two teams of guards did not dare to make up at first, but were squeezed up by thousands of people and squeezed into a group. They could not do anything to do, and shouted to Luo: "Hurry up, go and mobilize troops!"

Huang Laotong shouted in the crowd in Uighur language: "He wants to dispatch troops to wipe out us! My elders and brothers, we have reached this point, so we will kill Tongluo and seize Yanqi as our place of residence!"

Luo Fu was stunned: "This seems to be Huang Laotong's voice!" But he saw thousands of people applauding, so someone rushed up, twisted Tongluo's head, and the servant shouted: "Gudu, are you going to rebel?"

Gu Du knew that he had no way out of retreat at this point and shouted, "I am not rebelling, I am trying to remove the defilements for Vijay Khan!" He immediately took down Tongluo and issued an order. The military camp was close to him, and he received the orders within a moment of time!

Six or seven thousand Kucha Guest Army took action now, and the people of the Uighurs in the Kucha Guest also cheered. More than 10,000 people occupied the mansion and granary of the city lord under the leadership of the Buddhist monks, rushed to the west gate again, and soon occupied the south gate. Yanqi was adjacent to the Yuhai, which was the largest inland Danshui Shutu Lake in China, and it occupied an area of ​​more than 1,000 square kilometers during the Tang Dynasty. Although the Kucha Army occupied two city gates and captured Tongluo and Puba, it was a guest army after all. The Kucha Guest Army felt that the Yanqi people abused him, but the military and civilians in the Yanqi guarded the side felt that they "repaying their kindness with grievances", they were resentful and refused to surrender.

Because Tong Luo suddenly lost his opponent, Gaochang's Yanqi defenders were headless, and they were caught off guard and were very passive. When other generals introduced another general, Gekumu to be the commander, Gudu had already occupied many key strongholds. The two sides launched street fighting in the city, and they were not in the same position. Gudu could not occupy the entire city for a while, and Gekumu could not defeat Gudu.

While dealing with Gu Du, Gekumu sent troops to Yinshan Village. Gaochang was in a hurry, and Luofu hurriedly asked for help from Qu Li.

Unlike the Kucha area, the Yanqi area is a basin with a large lake in the basin, surrounded by mountains on all sides, the Tianshan Mountains on the north, and the Loulan Mountains on the south. These two rows of mountains are steep and difficult to cross. There is a Yinshan Mountain to the west, which is not very majestic. There is a road to reach Gaochang. There is a big village above, about 120 miles away from Yanqi City. There are two or three thousand soldiers and a broken hole to the west. There is a broken hole to the west. It was occupied by Shiba in the chaos. Later, the Anxi Army withdrew. Before leaving, Murong Chunhua dismantled the gateway and various defense facilities, leaving only an empty building that is difficult to repair for a while. From Tiemen Pass to the Yanqi Basin and then to the southwest, Qulicheng is about 70 miles away.

Luofu and Gekumu sent messengers at the same time, but Yinshan was not prepared, but Xue Fu had been waiting for a long time. As soon as he received the news, he immediately ordered to set off. When he arrived at Tiemen Pass, the reinforcements from Yinshan Village had not yet arrived.

Ma Shun led three hundred cavalry to the west gate and knocked on the door. When Huang Laotong saw his own people arrive first, he saw the flag of the Anxi Army at the top of the city. He was so happy that he danced with joy. He lost his composure for a moment and shouted to Gu Du: "Open the city gate quickly, open the city gate quickly!"

Gu Du's face changed and hesitated again. Luo Fu knew what Gu Du was afraid of and shouted to the Anxi Army under the city: "Yanqi has two gates yet. Please ask your army to head to the west gate and attack the north gate. We will advance from the inside and outside, and we will definitely make a wonderful effect!"

Ma Shun was furious. Soon Xue Fu led his troops to the city. Seeing that the city gate was not open, he was not angry after asking. He smiled at the city head: "Prince Luofu has a good idea! If we need to enter the city to help, raise the fire again." As he said that, he led his troops to retreat a little, Gu Du was relieved when he saw that he did not force the city.

Ma Shun was very angry and shouted, "They asked us for help, but they didn't open the door after we came. What's that!"

Xue Fu smiled and said, "He was afraid that we would turn our backs after entering the city. Now we should not be anxious. If we are anxious, we will have to make a bad thing." But he sent someone to ask about the latest situation in the city.

On the other side, Luo Fu saw that the Anxi army did not force him, but was a little disgusted and said to Gudu: "The Anxi army came from afar. Although we have to be more careful of them, we can't do too much. It's better to wait for me to go down and serve them on behalf of the Khan, and at the same time explain the situation in the city to them."

Gu Du said, "It should be like this." He opened a small door and sent Luofu out of the city. Huang Laotong also came out.

When Xue Fu saw Luo Fu, he seemed very polite. Luo Fu said that he had no choice but to not open the city gate. Ma Shun and others thought: "What are the difficulties? Don't you just don't believe us?" Xue Fu didn't complain, and didn't even question it, just said: "We can understand this. This time we are mainly here to help Gudu Khan retreat the enemy. It doesn't matter whether he or she enters the city."

Seeing that Xue Fu was not angry and turned his worries into joy, Luo Fu said that Gekumu had already asked for help from Yinshan and Gaochang.

Xue Suding said on the side: "The distance between Yanqi and Gaochang is similar to that between it and Kucha, but our main force stationed in Wulei, which is only half the distance from Gaochang to this distance. Before Viaya arrived, our Anxi army arrived. Now we only need to deal with the troops in Yinshan."

When Xue Fu asked how many soldiers and horses there were in Yinshan, Huang Lao said, "There are about two or three thousand troops." His source was Lu Mingde. Xue Fu asked the soldiers again how powerful they were. Huang Lao said, "It is probably similar to the Yanqi defenders."

Ma Shun, Wu Liji and others all said, "If it were the Yanqi defenders, what would you be afraid of! Not to mention two or three thousand, even five or six thousand would not be afraid of him!"

Xue Fu had another plan and said to Xue Suding: "I will deal with the people from Yinshan Village and leave a general in the mansion to respond to you."

Xue Suding guessed his intention, leaned closer and asked in a low voice: "Is the general going to seize the Silver Mountain?"

Xue Fu smiled and said, "If you can take it, you can take it. Once Yinshan Village is taken down, it will be a sign of closing the door and fighting against dogs."

Xue Suding said: "You just have to be careful that the back path is cut off."

Xue Fu glanced at Luo Fu and said, "I'm going west. If Gekumu dares to attack me, you don't have to worry about me. First assist Gudu Khan in capturing the entire Yanqi city. I can resist it for a while." Then he led the generals of the two palaces and used the two monks brought by Huang Laotong as guides.

When the army reached fifteen miles west of Yanqi, they saw smoke and dust rolling in the distance. Wu Liji said, "General, what is coming in front should be reinforcements from Yinshan Village. Let's ambush and fight the reinforcements."

Xue Fu looked at the coverage of the sand and said, "There are not many people, at most three thousand people, maybe less than yet. Now it's too late to ambush. Just set up a formation and defeat them in a dignified manner!"

The magistrates received the order, and the two governments were 2,400 soldiers dismounted and raised their strength.

Xue Fu's integration into the Anxi Army was getting longer and his subordinates' equipment was just like one day. At this time, the 2,400 people were trained in Shule, each wearing a cotton coat and autumn outfit. The soldiers of the two mansions brought 3,600 fast horses, one-third of the melee weapons were spears, one-third were horizontal swords or scimitars, and one-third were spear swords and two belts. Two of the core battalions had iron helmets, breastplate, shoulder armor, and leather back protection. The non-core battalions used leather armor. Each mansion had three hundred archers and one hundred crossbowmen. This was the general equipment of the main regular army of the Anxi Tang army. Although the equipment was not as good as the Longxiang Mansion led by Shi Ba, it was beyond the ordinary army of the Western Regions.

A quarter of an hour later, the enemy gradually approached, and Wuliji said, "One thousand five hundred people."

Xue Fu laughed and said, "If there are three thousand people in Yinshan Camp, then half of them will be sent to rescue him. Humph! If Yanqi is in danger, what is the use of more than one thousand people? Either don't come or just come out in full swing. Half of the army is a taboo. The guards of Yinshan Camp are mediocre! The soldiers obey orders!"

The soldiers of the two palaces shouted in unison and responded: "No!"

Xue Fu pointed to the Lai Army and said, "Annihilation of this army! Then head to Yinshan and flatten the Yinshan Village!"

Two thousand four hundred people responded together: "As for your order!"

Although this group of soldiers was trained in Shule, many of them were Xue Fu's old subordinates, and they fought all the way from Shule. During this period of time, Xue Fu continued to train. The cooperation between the soldiers and generals had a deep understanding. After a few words, the whole army was silent, with only the hissing breaths and the sound of the noses.

The two Yanqi monks as guides were shocked to see the Anxi Army's military discipline.

The landform of the northwest is different from that of the eastern part. It is often open. The thousands of people under Xue Fu's command lined up in three rows, which is very small. Although the Uighur army that was driving towards him saw that the number of Tang troops was greater than that of him, it was only a few hundred more people. Moreover, more than two thousand people stood there motionless, as if they were stunned. They didn't think the other party was terrifying, so they sent five hundred cavalry to tentatively attack the right wing of the Tang army.

Seeing that the opponent was approaching, he was about to enter the range of crossbow arrows. According to the regular tactics of the Tang army, he would fire crossbow arrows, then fire bows and arrows, and finally dispatch cavalry to fight hand-to-hand combat.
Chapter completed!