Tibet

Chapter 419 Encountering a Night Battle
"Ugh-"

The low-pitched horn sounded, and seven thousand Tang troops came from all directions. Arrows rained down on the Khazar Turkic cavalry. Countless enemy soldiers screamed and fell off their horses under the dense rain of arrows.

The two sides collided together, each holding a torch, and launched a tragic night battle.

Li Ye saw that the opponent's armor was distinctive, but all generals wore white helmets, but ordinary cavalry wore black helmets. condition.

With his bow and arrows, Li Ye shot and killed the enemy general wearing a white helmet while running. His arrows never missed. In just a moment, more than [-] Khazar Turkic generals were shot off their horses by him. Without the leadership of the general, the enemy army The cavalry seemed to have been poked blind and began to panic.

"Break out! Break out to the west!" Chief Wan shouted anxiously.

Li Ye stared at the leader who was shouting among the enemy troops.

Li Ye drew out an arrow, drew the bow like a full moon, and fixed his sharp eyes on the opponent's neck. When the opponent turned his head for a moment, the wolf-toothed arrow shot out like lightning and passed through the gap in the crowd. The leader of the opponent just turned his head, and the arrow The arrow hit the eyes, and the speed was too fast, and Captain Wan couldn't dodge it at all.

"puff!"

The wolf-toothed arrow pierced the throat, and the tip of the arrow protruded from the back of the neck. Commander Wan turned over and fell off his horse. Li Ye put away his bow and arrow, took off his long spear and shouted: "Kill them all and leave no prisoners!"

He waved his long spear and urged his horse to kill the crowd.
The night battle lasted from four o'clock until dawn. Except for hundreds of Khazar cavalry who broke through and fled westward, the remaining [-] enemy troops were all beheaded by the Tang army.

But the soldiers of the Tang Army also paid the price of more than 300 casualties, of which about [-] were killed and more than [-] were injured.

As the sky gradually dawned, Tang Jun also searched all kinds of items. There were tens of thousands of gold coins, all of which were used to pay for the fallen soldiers.

Then there are the horses and weapons, and all the irons are collected.

Tang Jun then divided the corpses into several piles, sprinkled kerosene on them, and lit the fire.

Li Ye left 1000 men to deal with the aftermath, while he led [-] cavalry to the camp.

Narman's army arrived at the camp first. They wiped out hundreds of fleeing cavalry, and then rushed to the camp to appease the women who had been abused by the enemy, and captured dozens of Khazar Turkic cavalry who stayed behind.

Narman needs to ask about the situation, and these captured enemy cavalry will eventually die.

Li Ye ordered the army to rest on the spot, and he and Narman walked into a large tent.

"The enemy army seized some of the property, and handed over the property to the governor to pay for the casualties!"

Narman also knew that Tang Jun had suffered more than [-] casualties, and he felt quite guilty. Although the property was exploited by the Ge Luolu people, he still decided to hand it over to Tang Jun.

Li Ye readily accepted the other party's wishes, and asked again: "Did you get any news from the cross-examination?"

Narman nodded, "I guessed correctly. It was the Khazar Khanate that broke out in civil war. The Khazar Turkic Army lost to the Gaza cavalry and was driven out of the Khazar Khanate. About 8 people evacuated eastward. The main force is now located in the northeast of the Aral Sea, and they are preparing to migrate eastward after spring. This 3000-man cavalry is their forward. The task is to seize the pasture of Xiyi Bohai as a foothold. Lihe Valley, Ashina Sabu is going to build another Western Turkic Khanate.”

"How many troops do they have?" Li Ye asked again.

After removing these 3000 people, there are probably more than 1 people left. Li Ye frowned and said, "Even if all these 1 soldiers are wiped out, there will still be more than 6 old and weak women and children, which is difficult to deal with!"

Narman said: "If the governor allows, I also need 1 people to supplement the population, and others can sell them as slaves to the Sogdians!"

Li Ye nodded slowly, "I will give you a part of the population, and the rest will be handed over to the Khazar Khanate, which is their homeland, and they can go back wherever they came from!"

Li Ye stayed in the camp for only half a day before he led his army back to the battlefield. The battlefield had been cleaned up and all the burned bodies had been dug and buried deep. The three hundred soldiers who died in battle were also cremated and their ashes would be brought back to their hometown .

The Tang army turned around and retreated southward, and the army arrived in Suiye City seven days later.

Just three days after they came back, a powerful snowstorm swept from the north, and the whole river area became a white world, and the Chu River Valley was also covered with heavy snow.

At this time, Li Ye also received a letter from the businessman Alingto Bahan, saying that she will come to Suiye Guangming Temple in the spring of tomorrow and serve as the leader of the East Saintess Association.

This morning, Li Ye and Wang Changling came to Suiye County to study. Suiye County was established three months ago. Judge Wang Changling served as the first county magistrate. There are [-] households, including [-] Han households, and the rest are from various ethnic groups. Tuqishi people account for the majority, with more than [-] households.

Of course, this is only the number of households in the county seat. If people in several small towns in Atami and herdsmen in various places are included, the population will reach 10,000 households, with [-]+ registered residents.

"Has the governor ever considered building a few more counties?" Wang Changling asked with a smile.

Li Ye nodded, "Suiye County alone is definitely not enough. The earliest plan I made was to build at least two more county towns. One is on the hot seaside. He Lie City can be used as the county town. Its size can be counted as one. The small county is now called Atami County.

Then build a county in the Yili River Valley, called Yili County, but it doesn’t have to be established by me. I won’t be here for too long, and there are still two and a half years at most. I will try to use these two and a half years to build the foundation. Lay it out. "

"The governor plans to go back in Tianbao for 14 years?"

Li Ye nodded, "Tianbao has been in office for 14 years, and the term of office of the brothers has also expired. I want to take them back to Chang'an."

Wang Changling sighed and said: "The time here is very fast. We set off on the [-]th day of the first lunar month. In the blink of an eye, almost a year has passed."

Li Ye smiled and said: "The main reason is that the distance here is too far. It takes many days to go to any place. Next year I will face the Khazar Turkic Army. I may have to go back to report on my duties. The war with the Tubo Army may be postponed to the next year. , two or three years passed in such a flash, life is too short."

"Next spring, the first batch of military families will arrive. They are now in Beiting."

The two talked, and walked into the gate of Suiye County School. This is Wang Changling's political achievements. He has run three schools, one county school and two primary schools. There are more than [-] students in total, including him, who is in charge of logistics The three great poets Gao Shi and Cen Shen also became professors, and Xie Jin and Zhong Hui, officials with Jinshi backgrounds, also served as guest professors. Therefore, Suiye County School can be said to be the one with the highest teaching resources among all major county schools in the world. county school.

The student of the county school is called Li Pu, who is a famous Confucian in Suiye. He once taught in Luoyang Guozijian for several years. Because his father passed away, he returned to Suiye to honor his father's filial piety, and then stayed in Suiye to inherit his father's behest. Broken leaves cultivate talents.

Li Pu invited Li Ye and Wang Changling to sit down, poured a cup of hot tea for them, and said, "Li Dudu, I have a very practical problem. How to solve the students' fame? Since you are studying in the county school, you must take the exam, and then go to Participate in the imperial examination, but we do not have the qualifications."

Li Ye nodded and said: "This problem needs to be solved. Are there any students who will take the imperial examination next year?"

"Tomorrow autumn, there are five students who will take the autumn exam. They will go to Chang'an to take the imperial examination in the spring of the following year. They are all my students. They used to study with me. I think they are very good at learning, not inferior to the Central Plains students. "

Li Ye thought for a while and said: "Let's do it! Let them go to Dunhuang County to borrow the exam next autumn. As far as I know, the scholars from Anxi and Beiting will take the autumn exam in Shazhou. After taking the autumn exam, they will directly Go to Chang'an, while studying in Chang'an, while waiting for the imperial examination, all the money and various expenses will be borne by the Dudu Mansion!"

Wang Changling said with a smile: "This is a good idea. In fact, we can open two official inns in Dunhuang and Chang'an, so that we can stay conveniently!"

Li Ye nodded, "There will be more in the future. In the future, the Hezhong Governor's Mansion will set up a Jinzhaoyuan in Chang'an to strengthen the connection with the central court."

(End of this chapter)