Chapter 39 The Uighur Patriarch Helping to Count the Money
The appearance of the Tang army has determined the victory!
The encirclement carefully prepared for the Turks also officially took effect.
Eighty thousand Turks trapped the Tang army and Uighur army's cavalry in the encirclement.
Pei Min also took over the command of the three armies. He did not choose to trap the Turks to death, but instead surrounded the three missing one and siege them on three sides to attack the Turkic tribes.
The Turkic Left King Que Teqin was killed, and their Khan Mojilian planned to escape in the chaos, lacking effective command.
After they made a slight resistance, the large army retreated chaoticly along the gap that Pei Min had opened in advance to the Tantian Khan Road.
Pei Min and Chengzong led their respective troops to chase behind them slowly, forcing the defeated soldiers of the Turkic tribe to flee desperately until they were exhausted and had no power to fight again, and then they calmly launched the general attack.
With the smallest casualties, this Turkic army was almost wiped out.
In this battle, the Tang army lost 700 troops and killed more than 13,000 in total. The Uighurs paid a heavy price, with casualties of more than 16,000, especially their front army, which were almost disabled.
As for the Turks, it goes without saying that they were almost wiped out.
There is a small prelude here.
Just as the Turks were exhausted and Pei Min was about to issue the general attack order, he asked Chengzong a question: "How should these prisoners be dealt with? As I mean, they were all killed. However, the patriarch was able to win this battle, and the patriarch made great contributions. I, Pei Min, are not a stingy person. These lambs are subject to the command of the patriarch. Whether to kill or collect, you will decide."
Pei Min's words directly made Chengzong's original regretful intestines stimulating.
What Chengzong wanted to do most now was to give himself a few slaps and said in tears: "Then kill it!"
When he said this, his heart was bleeding.
But I didn't know that this was Pei Min's purpose.
Pei Min had a very thorough understanding of the relationship between the Tang Dynasty and the Uighurs.
The Tang Dynasty needed an agent and an "ally" to provide him with war horses and stabilize the northern border.
Judging from the current situation in the North, Uighurs are the best choice.
But a problem between countries can never be avoided. No one is willing to be the younger brother for the rest of his life, and no one is willing to be the second brother for the rest of his life.
Now the Uighurs are very respectful to the Tang Dynasty, but as the Uighurs become stronger and stronger, or if the Tang Dynasty encounters any problems, their strength will become weaker, they will inevitably have disagreements, which is an irresistible factor.
For some reason, Pei Min has been considering the degree of it. He cannot make the Uighurs rise too quickly, nor can he let the Uighurs seriously damage their vitality and lose power in the north.
Neither of them is in line with the interests of the Tang Dynasty.
Pei Min saw Chengzong's ambition to fight. He wanted to defeat the remnants of the Turkic tribes with his own strength and then capture all the Turkic prisoners.
The Turkic prisoners were all good at riding and shooting. They were just given a bite of food and gave them a horse and a bow.
Once the Uighurs recruited the surrendered Turkic soldiers, their strength would expand to a certain extent. With the support of the Tang Dynasty, their strength would easily gain hegemony in the North.
This is too easy to get, and often I don’t know how to cherish it.
The ideal ending was that with the help of the Tang Dynasty, the Uighurs gained hegemony "hardly".
During this "hard" process, the Tang Dynasty continued to support various Uighur materials, and the Uighurs also exchanged cattle, sheep and horses at a cheap price...
Only in this way can the benefits be maximized.
In any case, Pei Min didn't want to see the Uighurs swallowing the Turks.
For some reason, Pei Min deliberately stimulated Chengzong and kindly persuaded him to join forces with the two armies to deal with the remnants of Turkic soldiers. In fact, he wanted Chengzong to feel a sense of crisis, which made him have the idea that Pei Min wanted to get a share of the pie with them.
Chengzong indeed had the idea of taking it alone. Faced with the Turks' formation, he was unwilling to wait for the arrival of the Tang army. He was eager to achieve success and ignored the details.
Pei Min, as a bystander, saw the strangeness of the Turks. Although he could not count as any tricks in the Turks, he knew that the biggest taboo in using troops was impatient. If you are anxious, something would inevitably happen.
The Uighurs' advantage is the cavalry. If he were given the command, he would ask the three thousand cavalry to conduct a tentative attack and shoot arrows from afar. Once the Turks approached, they immediately retreated and used their mobility to explore the opponent's purpose.
It is possible to detect the existence of a tripping pit with minimal casualties.
As long as you avoid the tripping pit and use more than 40,000 cavalry to fight 80,000 Turkic soldiers who are not good at infantry battles, it will be easy.
Pei Min deliberately did not say anything here, and became an hindsight. The purpose was undoubtedly to consume the Uighurs' troops and make them have no strength to swallow the Turkic prisoners.
Now after hard battles, the Uighurs have lost 16,000 troops. If the wounded are added, they will almost lose half of their combat power.
The Turks have almost more than 60,000 surrendered soldiers now.
This surrendered soldier has already exceeded the scope of Chengzong's endorsement. Just imagine, the Uighurs can have only more than 20,000 combat power, and the Turkic surrendered soldiers of 60,000 to 70,000. Why should they eat it?
There are too many unstable factors, and once a situation occurs, the Uighurs will suffer.
At this point, Chengzong could only choose to eliminate the roots and avoid disasters.
All of this is in Pei Min's calculations.
When Chengzong heard that Pei Min was so generous, he actually intended to hand over the prisoner to him. He thought so many people, and his combat power was defeated because of his villain's heart...
That feeling is self-evident.
"Oh... I had known that the Duke of the State was so generous, I should have handed over the command early..."
Chengzong thought with great regret. After the arrival of the Tang army, Pei Min trapped the enemy, surrounded the three and one, and exhausted the enemy, and other tactics. Chengzong knew that if Pei Min was commanded from the beginning, he would never be like this.
At this moment, because of Pei Min's generous actions, Chengzong firmly believed that Pei Min treated them sincerely.
"I'll give you the equipment left by the Turks. We have already obtained tens of thousands of military horses. I won't rob you of these equipment, armor, etc."
Pei Min said generously that after they ate the meat, they had to leave some soup for the Uighurs.
Anyway, he looked down on the Turks' equipment and armor, so he might as well give him a favor.
Pei Min was not interested, but Chengzong was extremely moved. Their grassland people were the most in short supply of iron. The broken iron left by the 100,000 troops was not a small amount for them.
"Then I would like to thank Duke Guo. Your great kindness and virtue are unforgettable to Chengzong! Duke Guo has what he needs, even if he says bluntly, if I, Chengzong, can do it, I will never say the word "no".
Pei Min said politely: "I have always loved famous horses and good horses. I know that you have a lot of famous horses on the grassland. The patriarch may as well sell me a few horses!"
Chengzong waved his hand with a thoughtful look and said, "It's too good to sell it. I'll ask someone to give you ten good horses to the Duke."
While they were chatting and laughing, Pei Min also issued the order to attack the general attack and completed the final blow to the exhausted Turkic soldiers!
The 100,000 Turkic soldiers who invaded were almost wiped out.
After this battle, the Turks, who had been dominating the grassland for many years, were greatly damaged and they had no power to compete for power.
Chapter completed!