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Chapter 490: Collision of empires, captured alive and silently

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    As soon as the artillery stopped, the sounds of pity on the mountain could be heard one after another: "We are willing to surrender! We are willing to surrender!"

    When things got to this point, it was meaningless to continue bombing. Zhang Shougui did not ask for Chen Wanrong's opinion and directly issued an order: "Send the order: Datang accepts their surrender!"

    Chen Wanrong had nothing to say about this treatment.  After a day and night of bombing, the Turks have become discouraged. They have no fighting spirit at all, and it is time to stop.  Although the Turks suffered heavy casualties, they were still far from what Chen Wanrong and the others had planned. At this point, that was all.

    As soon as the order was passed, the Turks poured down from the mountain plateau and came to nourish the Tang army. They knelt down and kowtowed, and shouted in Chinese: "Thank the court for not killing!"  "

    Fifty years after the Turks surrendered, the degree of Chineseization has improved a lot, and almost everyone can speak Chinese.

    The soldiers took them away and placed them separately.

    Zhang Shougui and Chen Wanrong discussed briefly and concluded that there are three things to do now. One is to resettle the Turks, the other is to search for Mochu, and the third is to clean up the battlefield, especially the cattle, sheep and horses that are all over the mountains and plains.  Because these are the living expenses of the Turks, they will still be given to them when they are resettled in the future.

    ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? out of the current Turks, everyone is pale, the fierce flames of the past are completely gone, obedient, like docile sheep, they are asked to go east, and it is easy to resettle them.

    The search for Mochu must be done quickly. With an order, thousands of teams immediately entered the mountain plateau and began to search for Mochu.  While searching on the mountain, people who knew Mochu were sent to start searching among the surrendering troops and herdsmen.  This was a very necessary move. If Mo Chui got mixed up in the crowd, he might be able to get away with it.

    When it comes to gathering cattle and sheep, we select a group of relatively reliable people from the surrendered herdsmen, and then send a Tang Army detachment to follow them. In the final analysis, we just monitor them, and it can be done very quickly.  It didn't take long for the cattle and sheep to be gathered together. A rough estimate was that the number of cattle and sheep was not in the millions, but in the tens of millions.

    In the history of China, no one has ever captured such a large number of weapons in the war with the nomads.  The Battle of Hetao commanded by Meng Tian only captured a few million cattle and sheep. The Battle of Heshuo commanded by Wei Qing also captured only a few million cattle. Li Jing's night attack on Yinshan also captured millions of cattle and sheep, and tens of millions of cattle and sheep were seized at one time. Indeed,  History was made.

    The history created by this battle is far more than this, it is also the history of the greatest number of Turkic casualties.  Mo Chuo led an army of 400,000 people southward, followed by more than 500,000 people, which added up to not far from a million.

    Only 40,000 Turkic troops survived, but many people survived, more than 200,000.  In addition to the herdsmen scattered in various places, there were about 20,000 to 30,000 people, and the number of people who survived this battle was 2.67 million.

    This amount is much higher than what Chen Wanrong and the others planned. Chen Wanrong and the others planned to keep only 30,000 to 50,000 yuan.  Just because after a day and night of artillery bombardment, the Turks lost their fighting spirit, and it was meaningless to continue fighting, and they could only change their original intention.

    In this battle, the Turks lost a total of more than 700,000 people, the highest number in Chinese history.  Before this, there had never been such a large-scale killing by the nomads.  Zhao Wuling defeated the Xiongnu in a battle. At that time, the Xiongnu had a total population of 500,000 and went south. About 100,000 escaped and 400,000 were killed.  The battle to regain the Hetao launched by Meng Tian was similar to this.  The same was true for the Battle of Heshuo conducted by Wei Qing.

    Li Jing¡¯s night attack on Yinshan destroyed the East Turks, but the loss of the population of the East Turks was not too much and cannot be compared with it.

    The loss of more than 700,000 people was not small, and it had a very good deterrent effect.  A hundred years later, the nomads in the north would not dare to rebel. If someone wanted to rebel, someone would remind him: "Do you still remember the red plateau at the southern foot of Yinshan Mountain?"

    Because this mountain plateau was dyed red by blood and never faded, it was called "Red Plains".

    Not to mention the Turks who were closer to the Tang Dynasty, even the Xue Yantuo, Uighur and Geluolu tribes who were farther away were also shocked. They did not dare to have second thoughts and could only surrender to the Tang Dynasty honestly.

    Of course, this was not what Chen Wanrong could have expected.  The purpose of reducing the Turkic population was to stabilize the Northland for a hundred years, but the effect far exceeded expectations.

    The biggest gain is that the demise of the post-Turkic people has been advanced by thirty-three years.  Historically, after the death of Mochu, the country's power declined day by day, but it still supported it for decades. It was not until 745 AD that the Tang Dynasty, Xue Yanbu, and Ge Luolu united to destroy it.

    Once the Turks were eliminated, the threat from the north was completely eliminated.  Chen Wanrong and Zhang Shougui discussed it briefly and immediately sent a small team of Tang army escort envoys to the northern tribes to inform them of the Tang Dynasty's power.p; "What happened next?" Zhang Shougui asked.

    Chen Zairong replied: "As soon as we went up, we were discovered by Mochu. He immediately ordered his bodyguards to come and kill us. His bodyguards are very skilled, but we can still cope with it. This place is too narrow and we can only do it one-on-one."  Even if we had to fire arrows, it would be inconvenient for him to fight. We killed all his bodyguards, and Mo Chuu wanted to kill himself, but he had the scimitar on his neck and didn't have the courage to wipe it off, so he was captured by us."

    He learned martial arts from Sima Chengzhen, and what he was best at was fighting alone. In such a place, that was to give full play to his strengths. Although there were many people in the bodyguard, there was no way he could defeat him unless he killed him.  Strange.

    Chen Zairong finally said: "It is easy to catch him, but it is difficult to get him down. It took us a lot of effort to succeed. If there weren't so many of us, we really wouldn't be able to get him down. So, we caught him together."  Live in silence."

    After hearing what he said, everyone was both happy and surprised. They never thought that there was another cave on the cliff. If Chen Zairong hadn't discovered it, he might have escaped silently.

    Zhang Shougui asked the soldiers: "Is what General Chen said true?"

    Several soldiers nodded and said, "That's right. However, it was General Chen who caught Mo Chuu. Up there, General Chen was rushing to kill us, and we couldn't help. Only when we got Mo Chu down did we get out a little bit.  force."

    Zhang Shougui immediately said: "The credit for capturing Mo Chui belongs to Chen Zairong. You also have great achievements. I will ask the emperor for a reward for you."

    "Thank you, Commander-in-Chief!" Although he didn't catch Mo Chuo with his own hands, his contribution was not small, and several soldiers were very happy.

    "Mochui, you fell into our hands today, what else do you have to say?" Zhang Shougui's eyes widened and he looked at Mochui.

    Mo Chui lost all his former majesty and said with a trembling voice, "Commander, please spare my life!"

    Seeing Mo Chui's frightened look, Zhang Shougui couldn't help but shake his head: "Mo Chui, when you raised an army, conquered the east and west, and killed countless people, you can be considered a man. Why are you so timid? You didn't even have the courage to commit suicide.  !¡±

    Mo Chui¡¯s statement made no one think of it: ¡°Commander, Mo Chui just realized today that committing suicide requires more courage than killing someone else! Only a brave man can¡¯t do it!¡±

    Suicide does require great courage. Not everyone can do it. After hearing this, Zhang Shougui wanted to ridicule him, but he didn't know where to start. He opened his mouth wide and had nothing to say.

    Chen Wanrong couldn't help but sigh to himself: "To this day, Mo Chuo has no courage at all! He is also a monarch, but he is far behind Chide Zuzan. When Chide Zuzan was captured, he was still calm.  Self-possessed, but sipping silently is like a bereaved dog, terrified all day long! What a shame!" (To be continued, if you want to know what the funeral will be like, please log on to www.qidian.com, there are more chapters, support the author, and support genuine reading!)  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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