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The defeat was like a landslide. On the battlefield that stretched for ten miles outside Turkestan, countless Kazakhs fled in all directions.
Nearly 20,000 Qin troops had been divided into teams of a thousand men, attacking in a cross-direction and cutting back and forth, cutting the tens of thousands of Kazakh troops into pieces.
Su Jin also ordered a thousand flintlock soldiers to stand outside the east gate of Turkestan to prevent the enemy troops in the city from leaving the city to rescue.
On the huge war horses, voices of men and horses were rising like a tide, and the horses were neighing. Waves of yellow dust were rising up again and again, covering the sky.
The flags were torn down, armor and weapons were discarded, corpses were everywhere on the plain, the thick smell of blood was lingering, and the chilling murderous aura was overwhelming.
The Kazakh cavalry had been running wildly for a whole day before the battle, and their horses were already foaming at the mouth from exhaustion. Now that they were badly defeated, they could not escape even if they wanted to.
Yang Jier and his personal soldiers whipped their horses desperately, but they had not escaped for more than two miles before their horses collapsed to the ground due to exhaustion, and they were finally captured.
The 300 heavy cavalrymen of the Bukhara Khanate general Hamina did not even have the chance to put on their armor and became wandering ghosts in the wild. Among the 5,000 light cavalrymen he brought, only more than a thousand were able to escape because of the arrival of night.
Hami fled back to Bukhara with these thousand remaining soldiers without even looking back.
In order to achieve the greatest deterrent effect, Su Jin took almost no prisoners in this battle. Of Yang Jier's 60,000 troops, no less than 40,000 were slaughtered under the city.
The rest were terrified, and only regretted that their parents had given them two more legs. Their horses ran away, and they got up and ran away again. Some of them had no strength left, and even used their hands and feet. They rolled and crawled in the dark night, with endless fear in their eyes... ...
The battlefield finally calmed down. It was already night. A cold moon hung in the sky. The thick smell of blood fluttered in the night wind. Ownerless war horses wandered and neighed among the corpses. The groans of the dying sounded like the sobbing of wild ghosts...
Su Jin asked someone to count the number of Tibetans, and found that nearly 20,000 of them had been killed or wounded in this battle. Su Jin was quite surprised by this. Perhaps they were too tired during the day. Although they had defeated the enemy, they had to pay a price.
Looking around in the firelight, corpses filled the vast wilderness, no distinction between friend and foe, noble and humble. Swords, spears and armor were scattered all over the ground. The birds were silent and the mountains were silent. The night was long and the wind was rustling. Souls gathered and the sky was dark. Ghosts and gods gathered and the clouds were thick. The moonlight was bitter and the frost was white. It was so sad and miserable!
That night, Su Jin only sent troops to besiege the four gates of Turkestan City and did not attack the city.
On the next day, after breakfast and as the sun rose, Yang Jier was escorted to the city to persuade it to surrender.
The defenders on the city wall had been so frightened yesterday that they were scared out of their wits. When they saw the Khan Yang Jier being taken to the city wall, how could they dare to resist
The east gate slowly opened, and the soldiers and civilians in the city who had not slept all night either hid in their homes in fear, or fell to their knees, prostrating themselves, not daring to raise their heads, their bodies trembling;
They were really scared. Forty thousand people were lying in a mess outside the city. The coagulated blood formed a thick black scab on the ground.
Su Jin sent troops in to escort the defenders and men out of the city and ordered them to pull the bodies outside the city to a valley twenty miles away and bury them. The huge valley was piled up into a small hill.
After this battle, the Qin army's reputation was so great that it made people tremble with fear in Central Asia and was enough to stop children from crying at night.
Su Jin then led his troops into the city. His blood-stained black armor gave off a murderous aura. The clanging of his iron hooves struck the hearts of the people who were crawling on both sides of the street.
The Qin army did not have the three heads and six arms as the legend said, but to the people in the city, the Qin army was no less terrifying than a monster with three heads and six arms.
Every person crawling on the ground was trembling and in a state of panic, not knowing what was waiting for them next. Would the Qin army really not massacre the city as they promised when they tried to persuade them to surrender
They were terrified and hesitant...
There was no looting or killing. After taking control of the entire city, Su Jin only ordered the destruction of the mosques in the city and the search of all books related to Muslims in the city. At the same time, he issued an order prohibiting the belief in Muslims.
You can disobey the order, it doesn't matter, more than 10,000 young Tibetans are hoping that you will disobey the order, continue to pray, and continue to believe in the Muslim religion;
They may not be able to change your beliefs, but they can change your destiny.
In fact, it is relatively easy to change the beliefs of nomadic tribes such as the Kazakhs, Turkmens and Kyrgyzstan. They did not originally believe in Islam, and it has not been long since they converted to Islam.
The Kazakh royal palace was also in the style of Islam, with a tall dome that looked quite imposing. Su Jin led the generals into the palace, and the concubines and maids in the palace were so frightened that they all lowered their heads desperately.
Su Jin asked Yang Jier, "I heard that you have a very beautiful daughter who you are going to send to Ottoman Empire for marriage."
Yang Jier, who was being escorted by the soldiers, struggled hard for a few times, screaming. The soldier who was escorting him kicked his knee, making him fall to the ground with a thud. The severe pain from his knee made his facial features distorted and he broke out in cold sweat. Now he finally behaved himself.
"Yang Jier, you are clinging to the wrong person. If you really have such a beautiful daughter, it might be much better if you send her to Daqin to marry."
After the guide translated Su Jin's words to Yang Ji, he cried out a few times. Su Jin didn't understand and looked at the translator.
"He said, if you dare to insult my daughter, I will not let you go even if I become a ghost..."
"Hahaha... ... ."
Hearing such a threat, not only Su Jin, but also Yang Zaicheng, Li Sheng, Chen Runan and other generals beside him could not help but laugh.
Su Jin walked towards Yang Jier. At this time, a young girl rushed out from the concubines and shouted loudly. Although Su Jin could not understand what she was shouting, he could roughly guess from her expression.
The girl was about fifteen or sixteen years old, with a pretty face and skin as white as cream. She was truly a beauty of extraordinary beauty.
Yang Zaicheng couldn't help but exclaimed: "Not bad, not bad, this is much better than the Ferghana horse..."
"Shut up." Su Jin scolded softly.
"General, I want to prepare a gift for your majesty."
"Since this is a gift prepared for His Majesty, how can you be so critical of it?"
"This... I realize my mistake. Thank you, General, for reminding me." Yang Zaicheng scratched his head awkwardly, then retreated with a dry laugh.
At this time, the beautiful girl was held by other concubines, her face full of tears, like a pear blossom in the rain, crying and shouting. Yang Jier, who was held on the ground, also kept talking to her. The father and daughter seemed to have a good relationship.
Su Jin watched this scene and asked the guide with interest: "What are they talking about?"
"Replying to the general, Princess Aguli asked the general not to harm her father Khan and her mother Queen. As long as the general agrees, she is willing to serve the emperor of Daqin."
"Hahaha." Su Jin laughed. Aguli probably thinks she is beautiful, but is it up to you whether you are willing or not
Su Jin said to the guide, "Tell her that as long as she doesn't commit suicide and obediently waits for arrangements, I can promise not to harm her father."
After confirming that the girl was the future queen of the Ottoman Empire, Su Jin had her taken away and carefully guarded.
Turkestan was taken, but there was still a lot to do. Kazakhstan was divided into the Great Juz, the Middle Juz, and the Small Juz, also known as the Big Tent, the Middle Tent, and the Small Tent.
Turkestan is just a big tent, and there are still many soldiers in the middle and small tents, so Yangjier, the Khan, is still very useful. He just took advantage of the situation and sold Aguli a favor.
Afterwards, Su Jin wrote a victory memorial and sent his troops back. At the same time, considering the complexity of Central Asia, the Kazakhstan Middle and Small Tents were not taken down, and the Ottoman Empire's empress-to-be was robbed. The Bukhara Khanate and the Brut Khanate in Transoxiana were not taken down either. The situation in the entire Central Asia was still a mess, and his own troops were inevitably a little thin.
While he ordered the 10,000 nomadic troops left in the western desert to advance westward, he also wrote to the imperial court, requesting that more able-bodied men be drawn from Tibet to form an army and sent to Central Asia in order to better control these areas.
In order to facilitate the imperial court to continue to recruit men from Tibet, Su Jin asked the Tibetan soldiers in the army to sort out their spoils of war, including the property left behind by those soldiers who had died in battle, as well as the pensions they deserved, and compiled them into a list. Then he sent 500 people to escort them back to Tibet and hand them over to their families.
The Tibetan soldiers who went on the expedition won many victories and each of them had a rich harvest. After sending the harvest back, it was enough for their families to live a good life.
Money can move people's hearts. Su Jin believed that with such a good thing, it would not be difficult for the court to recruit more people from Tubo.
On the other hand, allowing the families of these Tibetan soldiers to live a better life would also be beneficial to the stability of Qinghai-Tibet and to the court's policy of reforming the Tibetan people into officials.
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