Prosperous Tang Soul

Chapter 349 Blood Red Snow White ([-])

It is true that, as Zhang Yi said, the Turkic people have lived on this vast grassland since they were born, and they are more familiar with the grassland than anyone else, but even so, when the cold winter comes, the people who die in the cold every year Women and children are also a large number.

However, the Turks are still afraid of the cold, so they need to graze in order to survive. When cattle and sheep cannot satisfy their survival, they learn to pick up machetes to plunder Tang.

Zhang Yi thinks that looting is a very good way. Since the Turkic people can do it, so can the people of Tang Dynasty. It's all for survival. No one's life is worth more than the other's life, so he doesn't mind letting Shuofang City live in order to survive. The more than 5000 soldiers who were about to die in the cold fought vigorously.

If you fight, you will think about it later. If you don't fight, you will have no hope.

"Choose a thousand stronger brothers!" Zhang Yi pointed to a place on the map he just drew in his hand and said to everyone: "This is here, about 170 miles away from us, it is a small tribe, according to Cheng Chumo's news Although they are not rich, they have a lot of cattle and sheep, besides some horses!"

"But the chief executive has orders"

A school lieutenant also wanted to remind.

"The general is outside, and the military order is subject to it, and it is not subject to it!" Zhang Yi said: "Bring a few gunpowder shells, and the fifth brother will lead the brothers! Bring back their cattle and sheep, and everything that can be eaten and can be eaten." Something to keep warm!"

"Yes!" Wang Laowu nodded.

He carried out Zhang Yi's order unconditionally.

"Uncle, think twice!" Jiang Wei hurriedly stepped forward to persuade Zhang Yi, "Although those people are Turks, they are all civilians!"

"civilian?"

Zhang Yi chuckled.

He dismissed Jiang Wei's words.

He knew very well that the reason why Jiang Wei said that was actually just to cancel his order.

As a lieutenant-level officer, Jiang Wei was very aware of the terrible consequences of Zhang Yi's actions. This was simply naked robbery, no different from those hateful Turkic people.

Once such a thing happened, Zhang Yi would face the situation Wan Fu pointed out in the future.

After all, the biggest difference between civilians and the army is that one side has weapons, while the other side has no weapons. In the ancient era when people were conquered by virtue, robbing these Turkic people of food was no different from killing them.

In such a cold winter, without food, winter clothes and sheepskins to keep out the cold, they could not survive this winter at all.

"Uncle, please think twice!"

All the generals and schools came out to look at Zhang Yi.

They all hope that Zhang Yi can change his mind.

After all, good officials like Zhang Yi are considered rare animals these days. They don’t take a copper coin as a soldier, and they try their best to think about them. People’s hearts are long, and they don’t want Zhang Yi to be punished because of this incident. any harm.

However, only Zhang Yi knew very well that today's army has reached the point of life and death, and this station is the most important battle between Datang and the northern nomads.

As the supreme commander staying in Shuofang, Li Jing can be said to have handed over everything in the rear to him. The only hope is that Zhang Yi can provide some basic protection for his army this time.

Of course, in addition to Zhang Yi's identity, Li Jing also recognized Zhang Yi's ability. He felt that there would be no problem for Zhang Yi to defend Shuofang City with 5000 troops and gunpowder bombs.

From Zhang Yi's point of view, since everyone is dying of cold now, it is better to let those Turkic people die than to be cold to death. Anyway, as long as they don't let these soldiers in front of him die.

It's a very simple idea, and it's also the best way to transfer losses.

"Do you think those people are civilians? And you think so too?" Zhang Yi asked with a dark face, looking at the school captain standing in a row in front.

"This"

Everyone didn't know how to answer.

It is true that those people are indeed civilians in their eyes.

Firstly, they did not launch any attack on the Tang army, and secondly, these people were also the objects of cooperation with the merchants in Shuofang City. It can be said that they served as an important bridge for the exchange of goods between the Tang Dynasty and the Turks.

Although they did not play all the roles, it is undeniable that this is a Turkic tribe closest to the Tang Dynasty. With their existence, other tribes can fight against the merchants of the Tang Dynasty without fear of the Tang Dynasty's soldiers. do business.

But if it is said that they are really civilians, it is not justified.

Because although they seem to be law-abiding, they are only on the surface. I don’t know how many merchants from the Tang dynasty have been looted on the grassland. People died and their goods were scattered. If there is no shadow of them to kill these generals, they will not believe it.

However, these things were all said in secret and could not be put on the table. They didn't know how to answer Zhang Yi's question.

"You are also very clear that the reason why these tribes are able to survive on the grassland is actually the leeches attached to my Tang!" Zhang Yi stood up and said coldly: "It can even be said that they are a group of people who did not hold Knives and guns are more terrifying than Turkic people holding knives and guns!
Don't even think about it, the Turkic people are a nation with extremely low productivity. God gave them a strong body but didn't give them enough wisdom, so they only herd sheep in this bitter cold place.

However, their single, savage thinking is only the instinct of wild beasts. They rob, they buckle, they slaughter the people of my Tang Dynasty in order to survive, and where do their weapons and necessities of life come from?These are the people who passed through.I don't deny that many of our merchants in the Tang Dynasty betrayed our nation for the mere money in front of them, but as the saying goes, there is supply only when there is demand, and they are the source.

I don't want to kill my people, so the target of my massacre is these people. With their food, cattle and sheep, our brothers can eat well, and with their sheepskins, our brothers can wear warmth. was frozen to death.So we need their supplies, because they are simply a group of hungry wolves, we just did it in advance to reduce the suffering of the people of Datang in the future! "

Zhang Yi's words are very deceptive.

As he said, in fact, these Turkic people in the borderlands of the Tang Dynasty are an important bridge between the two places.

They gave up their status as herdsmen, and they may have benefited greatly from both sides of the Tang Dynasty congratulating the Turks, and they were the first group of Turks to become rich.

In addition to wanting to fundamentally solve the secret connection between the Turkic people and the merchants of the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Yi's action against them was more out of the fear of the ten emperors of the braided dynasty in later generations.

(End of this chapter)