Chapter 258 Adults must be responsible for their own choices

Author: Mu Yunfeng

Aksu.

Amid Aunt Wang's heavenly singing, Ambassador Yang leisurely crossed his legs and sat on his homemade rocking chair, tapping the rhythm of the music on the armrest while admiring the advancing enemy troops outside the city.

There were several beautiful girls waiting beside him.

Those who handed him grapes, those who fanned him, those who beat his legs...

What you want is this feeling.

Even if the legs are heavily armored, the beating feels more like knocking on a wooden fish.

Outside the city, after a month of preparations, the enemy troops finally began to attack. They were sweating profusely while pushing counterweighted trebuchets, siege towers, ladder trucks, and stubby rock cannons.

, and there are countless people carrying flying ladders. The materials used in these siege equipment are basically demolished houses directly from Baicheng, Quxian and other places where the city was massacred. Although there are actually poplar trees along the coast that can be cut down, but

Hudada still proposed to demolish those houses, as they cherished the Poplar euphratica trees very much. Anyway, Quxian, cities like Baicheng were also empty, and those houses were demolished to build siege equipment.

Then transport it over by water.

In this season, the Tarim River can be transported by water.

In fact, the supplies for the 150,000-strong army were also transported by water from Kashgar. Although Husada was in pain, he had no other choice but to do his best to search for food and livestock from various cities and then send them to feed them.

Timur's huge army is like a bottomless pit.

As for Timur’s fighting to support war…

Where can I grab it?

In a sense, Quxian is just an empty city.

Yang Feng's group of hungry wolves had already robbed it.

Not to mention the livestock and grain, all the women and children were snatched away and sent to Chaliqi. Only Baicheng was unlucky enough to be wiped out with blood. However, there were 5,000 young men in Baicheng and some of the women who were given to Yang Feng, who also brought grain with them.

Before that I went to Chali Lose.

Timur probably massacred the city because of lack of supplies.

There is some food and livestock there.

but……

The population there also needs to be consumed.

If he robs them all, they will definitely not agree. Since they are not given a way to survive, of course they will fight tooth and nail.

In this case, it is better to just kill the people who have no food.

As for the loss of fork strength...

Tamerlane slaughtered the city of Bai, and the city lord, who had lost his power, naturally fought to the bitter end.

Moreover, they were originally Gaochang Uighurs who were forcibly converted, but now they are generally called Sali Uighurs. Although this name originally referred to Yellow-headed Uighurs, Gaochang died long ago, so they are basically mixed together. Including

Don't miss the miscellaneous brands in Bali such as Turpan, Huozhou and other places. The entire east of Tiemenguan is counted, the northern Xinjiang is Mongolia, the western part of southern Xinjiang is the Dugrat tribe, and the middle area including the lower reaches of the Tarim River is Saliweiwu'er.

In fact, they were forcibly converted for only more than ten years. Under the current circumstances, they were certainly not willing to let Timur beat them over and continue to be enslaved.

If Timur did not slaughter the city, they might consider kneeling again.

Then I won’t kneel down when the city is massacred.

Then the fork lost its power, and Turpan and other cities quickly united together to gather together the remaining young men who could fight, and quickly arrived at Tiemen Pass to set up defenses.

And asked Song Sheng and Hami for help.

Timur's forward cavalry tried to attack after arriving at Iron Gate Pass.

But failed.

It is also difficult to supply supplies if the distance is too far.

Now all Timur's supplies have to be transported from Kashgar and Yarkand, and the distance to the iron gate is nearly two thousand miles. Such a transportation distance cannot support a large-scale attack there, so his army has stopped at the iron gate.

The door is closed.

"The population of the Western Region has been reduced by at least half due to your actions!

So cruel!"

Zhang Fu, like him, sat leisurely on the same rocking chair and sighed.

Of course, he changed his words in nonsense words.

He has been in Longquan Guard for so long, so of course he can speak the languages ​​of those tribes.

But what he said is also true. This war drastically reduced the population of the Western Region, and the vast majority of those who died were young and strong. Among the 60,000 troops they brought across the Iron Gate Pass, less than half are still alive, and

There is still one third of Ugqi Hashiha's army.

This is just from their side.

As for the enemy, more young and strong people died.

And the war is not over yet, it can only be said to be halfway through.

Next, Timur withdraws his troops, and Yang Feng will definitely have to hunt down Hudada, Kashgar, and Yarkand. The cities will have to face a war. Deaths in the war plus those who were captured will eventually be enough to survive in southern Xinjiang.

The lower third of the population would be good.

"How can you blame me?

Shamichagan and his son are here to get rid of their powerful officials and restore the authority of the Great Khan. On the contrary, I am helping them. This is what they invited me to do. Tuli Timur is here to help their brothers from the Golden Family. In addition,

In order to plunder, they also thanked me for giving them the opportunity to escape poverty. As for the new auxiliary troops, it was the Khan who followed them who served the country loyally.

This is their responsibility.

As for Uge Qiha Shiha, he wanted to redeem his merits and obtain a pardon from the Ming Emperor.

None of them were forced by me or tricked by me.

It's all voluntary.

As for the current result, how can there be no surprises in this war? Could it be that I knew beforehand that Timur would send troops? War is risky. We are all adults and we must be responsible for the choices we make.

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As for Timur massacring the city, it was because he was cruel by nature."

Yang Feng said in the same language.

Then he straightened up...

"Timur, you cruel devil, I condemn you. The spirits in heaven who worship the people of this city will not let you go.

You're going to hell."

he shouted.

Then he lay down again.

"Look, I condemn him!"

he said.

Zhang Fu was speechless.

"Ambassador, their trebuchet is in position."

A Ming army officer came over and saluted and said.

Yang Feng lazily straightened up again...

"I'm going out to show off again!"

he said.

The next moment he jumped up, and amid cheers on the city wall, he instantly grabbed a log standing by the city wall, flew outward, and thrust the log into the moat in mid-air, just as he fell towards the river.

At the same time, the log reached the bottom of the river. The buoyancy of the water and the buffering of the silt gave him a certain buffer, and then he used the length of the log to fall to the other side.

There was an excited roar on the city wall, and even the sound of drums and horns sounded chaotically.

Ambassador Yang put on a half-centimetre-thick iron plate.

Then he pulled the log out of the moat and raised his hand upward.

A specially selected soldier on the city wall immediately threw a gourd at him.

Ambassador Yang caught it without looking back.

Then he pulled out the plug and poured the gasoline inside onto the logs like a charm.

His own distillate.

There is a lot of crude oil used for city defense in Aksu City and Wushi City. This thing is commonly used in cities in the Western Regions, because it is available in Kuqa. There is a crude oil stream emerging in the northwest mountains, which should be from the modern Baicheng Oil Field.

Oil sprouts. As for the distillate, it is even simpler. Get a closed large pot, connect an iron or copper rolled pipe and soak it in water, boil the crude oil over a fire and condense the steam. It doesn't matter what kind of oil these are now.
To be continued...