Chapter 34: The Eagle Rebirth Two

On the same day, Arslan was defeated and fled to Zhaoshan on his way back to help. Holland held his helmet and spread rumors that Arslan had died in battle. How many people could understand the truth in the chaos? Holland followed the troops back to Balashaguon and continued to siege, but Arslan's defeated soldiers fled back to Yili, spreading the news of Arslan's defeat and "death".

On Yili's side, since Satuk wholeheartedly helped Gesadanmo to make arrangements when he retreated, the army retreated very safely. Murong Chunhua chased him behind him and found no flaws. The entire army, including Gesadanmo, also had trust in Satuk. When he heard that Arslan was defeated and killed, tens of thousands of Uighur generals and soldiers on the Yili River were in chaos for a moment!

Kang Long, a general of the Shazhou Division, had to meet this time. He remembered the hurried and helpless look of the soldiers and generals under his command after hearing that Shazhou had been annexed by the Tang army. Even the arrogant soldiers and generals who had been through many battles on the battlefield seemed to have lost their strength at that moment.

At that moment of panic, all the Uighurs developed an extremely urgent desire - they needed a leader who could point them out the way and lead them out of the predicament. At this time, many people remembered their deputy Khan - Satuk Bogra Khan, who was more famous than Arslan!

In Liangzhou City, Zhang Mai sighed when he heard this, "So Satuk took advantage of this mentality to control the entire army?" He also remembered that the reason why he was able to become the leader of the Tang army in the ruins of Xin Ruiye City was because the soldiers of the Ruiye Tang army at that time had such psychological needs. The so-called "heroes created in the times" were about this situation.

Kachar said: "I later heard that there was such a voice in the army at that time, but although Ghasandam was incompetent, he refused to let go of power. After he learned that the Khan of Arslan was killed, he actually wanted to be the Khan himself."

The people in the room yelled and sneered at Li Bin, who was most familiar with the information in Lingxi: "He wants to be a big sweat like this? This is really a wise man!"

If Ghasandam could implement his loyalty to Arslan, things might not have taken a turn for the worse, but he had this idea at that time, which undoubtedly aggravated the chaos of the situation.

Kachar said, "Yes, when Gesadam was the prime minister under Arslan, he did not do anything good. Everyone just got in the way of the Khan and didn't dare to touch him. Now that I heard that the Khan was dead, who would still listen to him? But I was not very clear about what happened to the Iri army at that time. I just heard that it was Gesadam that he wanted to be the Khan, but Satuk strongly opposed it, saying that he could only launch a leader first, and then find the queen and the khan's corpse, and then be pushed by the leader of each tribe."

The Uighurs in the west of the Lingxi Province were camped in line with each tribe even when they set out to fight. Satuk actually said this to please the leaders of the tribes.

"Gesadamor's prestige in various tribes is not enough to convince people, so everyone refused to support him at all. Instead, they thought Satuk's words were very reasonable. Later, he seemed to have taken action against Satuk."

Zhang Mai sneered: "But it naturally failed. Gesadanmo was killed by Satuk, right? I guess Satuk had already won some of the morale of the army during his retreat from the Uzai River to the Yili River. I'm afraid that some of the patriarchs in the Uighur army have secretly supported him."

"The Marshal said it was right," Kachar said: "But after Satuk suppressed Gesadam, he seemed to have not taken his life. After he obtained military power, he reorganized the army and then left Ge Lan in Yili, and rushed to Balashaguon. Before he arrived, he sent people to spread the news that he had obtained military power throughout the grassland."

Zhang Mai laughed and said, "Holan was originally his subordinate. His message like this is equivalent to informing Holan of the news."

"Yes." Kachar said: "But not everyone could see it clearly at that time. After hearing the news, Holland immediately led troops to welcome him. Both sides met in the south of the Rehihe (now Lake Ixe), and Satuk scolded the two armies, and Holland was betrayed the master and asked him to surrender. It was normal to scold him in front of the formation, but this time Holland was scolded by Satuk and cried bitterly. He then knelt down in front of the formation, saying that the reason he left Satuk was because he couldn't stand Arslan's incompetence and refused to be a cowardly subordinate. Now he was trying to find someone to come east to find a better lord for the Uighurs. Now that the tribes have already supported Satuk as the main force, he is willing to surrender unconditionally, so he led 15,000 troops into Satuk's command."

Xi Sheng couldn't help laughing when he heard this: "This stuttering general, I didn't expect that he would act too."

Zhang Mai naturally understood that Satuk and Holland were playing a double act, but Kachar was not in the south of Rehai at that time, so he did not see tens of thousands of people listening to Satuk Chen's words about the future of the Uighurs.

It was a very inflammatory speech. Kachar had no personal experience, so he had no feelings. Xi Sheng and others passed the double retelling, so they felt even more like a joke. However, the Uighurs who had personally experienced Satuk's scolding and appeal were all impressed.

At that time, Satuk talked about the glorious past of the Uighurs to the present of difficulties, and from the present of difficulties to the future. At this time, Satuk not only learned a lot from his old opponent, Zhang Mai, but also integrated many ideas of the Tianfang Sect. When he talked about the glorious history of the Uighurs in the northern desert, many Uighurs felt that their blood was rolling like boiling blood, but when he talked about the trouble in front of the Uighurs, thousands of people, especially the poor in the lower class, felt the pain of their skin. They gritted their teeth and hated them as Satuk told them. This hatred slowly pointed to both the inside and the outside - the incompetence of Arslan and the "oppression" of the Tiance Tang army on the outside!

The power of hatred opened a channel for venting the pain accumulated by the weekdays due to poverty, and gushed towards the Tang army of Tiance who "squeezed the living space of the Uighurs" and the Arslan who "coordinated badly". Finally, Satuk ended with religiously tempting words and told his prospects for the future of the Uighurs. At the moment he finished, many people on both sides of the battle were in tears. Ruo Xisheng was a Uighur, and after hearing that words, he was afraid that he would be excited. If Zhang Mai was also on the scene, he would be so angry that he would scold Satuk for stealing his master!

But many people were moved by the tens of thousands of Uighurs by the Rehai Sea. Holland rolled down and cried bitterly. It was better to say that he deliberately did not suppress his emotions than acting. Holland really believed that Satuk could lead the Uighurs to a brighter future, just like Shi Jianshiba believed in Zhang Mai. In that atmosphere, the two armies formed a whole under the banner of Satuk. Some of the tribe leaders with good rationality saw the strangeness, but by then it could no longer turn around the whole situation. Even Gesadanmo turned against him when he saw this situation and was willing to be Satuk's adviser.

Kachar continued: "Satuk reorganized the army by the sea, arranged his confidants and eliminated dissidents, strengthened his control over tens of thousands of troops. He asked Gesathanmo to write a letter to his eldest son Gesathihui. Gesathihui saw that his father was already in Satuk's army and he wanted to stick to it, it would be difficult for the Gesathi family to gain the trust of Arslan. Besides, Satuk's power is strong, so he took advantage of the situation to surrender to Satuk."

Since then, the Yar defenders were also controlled by Satuk. The defenders of Melki and Kulan City saw that the situation was irreversible, and they also surrendered. At the end of the reorganization of the Rehai army, the Talas left-behind army led by Sulai, together with the Yarki and Kulan City and Kulan City, Melki's army were connected. In just two months, Satuk reversed the internal structure of the entire Lingxi Uighurs and stole the military and political power of the nomadic Khanate.

Kachar sighed: "Although Balashagun had not yet fallen, and the news that Arslan Khan was still in Zhaoshan Palace had been passed back, but Satuk had a high reputation among the Uighurs. Now he has gained momentum again. The news came out that many soldiers and civilians in Balashagun City were also competing to go out of the city to join Satuk. Seeing that Balashagun's situation was over, the queen suddenly remembered that her father (Ashina Korensu) came. She released her father. After listening to her father's idea, she led the troops whom Shangken followed all the way to Zhaoshan. In Zhaoshan Palace, the Khan had also released me and appointed me as a general, collecting troops along the coast of Yibohai, and preparing to fight to the death with Satuk."

At this point, Zhang Mai finally understood the reconciliation between their Ashin family and Arslan, but he also thought that relying solely on the remaining forces of the Uighurs in Yibohai, it would be obvious that he would be unable to recover the crisis.

"However," Zhang Mai said: "Although Satuk seized the power of the regime, his stolen country this time was based on a conspiracy. I guess it would be difficult to convince the public in a short period of time."

"The Marshal was expected," Kachar said this and tears came out of his eyes: "In addition to the Uighur generals, there were many evil teachers from the Tianfang Sect in addition to the Uighur soldiers and generals! We learned in Zhaoshan that after entering Balashaguon, Satuk immediately gathered all tribes on the side of the Saitou River to convert all the Uighur tribes to the Tianfang Sect. Those who do not believe in the religion will then use ten thousand people as formations to burn snow to water on the side of the Saitou River and use ten thousand large buckets to fill hot water. Anyone who is willing to follow the laws of the Tianfang Sect will wash it with hot water, and those who refuse to join the religion will all drive them into the Saitou River where the ice skin is chiseled..."

Speaking of this, his voice trembled: "We heard that when the cold wind blew that day, people could be seen everywhere under the translucent ice skin - they were driven into the ice cave and drowned and frozen to death, and the corpse of the ice skin was attached to the inside! After this washing, my Uighur tribe had a total of less than 20,000 people!"

The windows were clearly closed tightly, but everyone in the room suddenly felt a chill on their backs. Except for Zheng Wei, Zhang Yi and several other civil officials, everyone was in a battle, but everyone suddenly shuddered at the same time.

Zhang Mai has seen the fanaticism of Vardan's Jihadist Death Legion. It is unlikely that the world of Tianfang Sect could directly bring Satuk support, but if a group of fanatical religious instigators entered Satuk's team, the role it would play would be incalculable!

The two reorganizations in the south of the Rehai River and the side of the Saitou River allowed Satuk to strengthen its control over the western Uighurs of the Lingxi, especially the second reorganization. Although the population losses were caused by excessive violent means, the power of religion made the remaining people more pure, more barbaric, and more uniform. After completing all this, Satuk strengthened the defense of the southern line, and also braved the cold of the east to send troops to the Zhaoshan Palace.

Zhaoshan Palace is in the north of Balashaguen, and the weather is colder and drier than Balashaguen. However, there is no mountain barrier between the two places, so as long as people familiar with the roads lead, there is still a possibility of traffic in winter.

The palace was located near the Yili River that flowed into Yibohai. After Satuk completed the second reorganization, he immediately sent seven thousand cavalry. Among the seven thousand cavalry, one thousand senior jihadists, four thousand fire hunters and three thousand powerful people who had newly joined the Uighurs. The army was led by Holland and drove to the middle reaches of the Yili River. At this time, the Yili River had already been frozen strong, and the seven thousand people used the ice skating tools created by Fire hunters to slid down the river and rushed straight to the Zhaoshan Palace.

The Zhaoshan Palace, which was burned once by the Anxi Tang Army, the predecessor of the Tiance Tang Army, had lost most of its fortifications, and after that, Arslan had no intention of repairing it. At this time, Holland suddenly arrived, and Arslan had no choice but to face the enemy head-on.

The cold weather is not suitable for combat, and both sides can only exert their normal combat effectiveness. However, this unfavorable condition is almost equal to both sides. After Arslan arrived at Yibohai, he collected more than 10,000 troops, but the more than 10,000 people were obviously miscellaneous troops and could not be compared with the elite troops sent by Satuk.

When we recalled the scene that day, Kachar couldn't suppress the fear on his face: "Those people slid on the ice, and they seemed to be chanting spells in the ice and snow. The kind of spell that could drag people to hell alive, we fought with them, and they were defeated in all three battles! Dozens of lives of my Ashin family were also sent there."

The casualties in the three ice and snow battles were actually not large, but the combat effectiveness of the green Uighur army defeated the morale of the soldiers and generals under Arslan. Surrender and rebellion occurred one after another. When Holland approached the foot of Mount Zhao, Ashina Colunsu offered a plan to flee to the northern court.

But at this time Arslan did not want to escape anymore. His face was not as thick as Viaga, but his self-esteem was much stronger. Arslan, who had been arrogant for many years, could not accept the days of begging for protection from his former enemies.

"Khan asked us to leave first." Kacharmer cried: "He said that he wanted to cut off the rear for us. We all knew what that meant. We wanted to die together, but Khan entrusted the princess to us, which made us dare not commit suicide. Therefore, we followed the Yibohai coast and reached its northeast extreme, and continued to go east. God blessed! We actually crossed the Dutan Ridge Pass smoothly! But we paid half of our lives for this!"

The so-called wind and snow blocking roads is not completely cut off in some places, but it only costs a great price to move forward. Moreover, in many places, a few people can pass through, but the army cannot move forward.

When the fugitives led by Ashina Colunsu set out, nearly 1,000 people were left, but when they arrived in Beiluntai City, there were only 100 people left. Even so, Colunsu already felt that this result was very lucky.

After telling the story of Lingxi, Kachar seemed to be exhausted. Zhang Mai asked him to go down and asked Ma Xiaochun to send someone to take good care of him. Follow the Shibata to open the window, let the cold wind blow in, and wake everyone in the house!

Zhang Mai hit the table suddenly, shocking all the ministers in the room.

"You, you, you!" His eyes stared from everyone's faces: "Is it time to wake up? Just as we were rejoicing in the victory we had achieved, did anyone think that there was an enemy that had been lurking for several years! Zhang Huaizhong - No! Satuk! He is like the wind and snow outside the window. If we are not awakened by it, we will be buried by it!"

"Little stone!"

Shiba was screamed so hard that he straightened his body.

Zhang Mai said: "Do you need to take care of yourself too? How long has it been to Liangzhou? Look at your current belly! Are you still the iron beast you used to be?"

Shiba's belly is not worthy of gaining weight, but it is no longer the thin appearance he used to be.

"Xi Sheng!"

"exist!"

Zhang Mai said: "You ruined your body in the war, so we acquiesced to you to recuperate, but have your aura been cured? I think you are becoming more and more like Li Bin in the past year. Are you going to sit and command the Modao Battle Axe Formation! And you, you, you, you!"

Zhang Mai pointed over the generals' faces: "Liangzhou seems too comfortable than Lingxi! Especially after the wine shops, butchers, tea shops and even restaurants that have become more verbal, I see some people starting to fall! But the cold wind in Satuk should wake up all of us! If we don't wake up now, today's Arslan will be ours tomorrow!"

When Zhang Mai and Zheng Wei started to run the city, they wanted to continue to carry out some technological innovations in the urban environment after reaching a certain level. For example, the development of gunpowder, the improvement of steel, the use of non-human machinery, etc.

However, after entering the city, some soldiers and civil officials forgot this original intention and were attracted by some living facilities in the city.

Now, Guo Wei is traveling through the ironwork workshop in Liangzhou. Unlike the simplicity when he first entered last year, there are several workshops in Liangzhou City that have already reached a considerable scale. A hydraulic windmill was even built last fall, thus saving a lot of manpower and greatly improving the forging process.

At this time, a craftsman leader took the crude map brought by Guo Wei and asked again: "Are you sure you want to equip this... thing?"
Chapter completed!