Liu Guang's body is very weak because he hasn't eaten a full meal for two years.

His father was Jishan, the king of Hami Zhongshun, and he was an eighth-rank official who taught Confucianism to Hami. His grandfather was also Jishan. If nothing unexpected happened, his brother would become Jishan official in the future.

From the time I remembered, my grandfather told Liu Guang that they were all people of the Celestial Empire.

Heavenly Dynasty?

Liu Guang didn't understand very much. He was born in Hami. Except for the chief of the Zhongshun Prince's Mansion, Ji Shan and his three Han officials' families, all he came into contact with were foreign races and spoke different languages ​​from him.

Even Liu Guang's mother is both Mongolian!

As he grew older, Liu Guang read many books, including "Zuo Zhuan", "Records of the Grand Historian", and "Zizhi Tongjian"... He finally understood the significance of the Heavenly Dynasty and wanted to go back to a hometown called Jiangxi to take a look.

At this moment, the damn Turpan came. They killed Liu Guang's father and brother, kidnapped Liu Guang's mother, sister, younger brother and sister, and burned the Liu family's collection of books.

Liu Guang didn't know where his family was, so he himself became a slave to the Turpan nobles. Because he was still young and had a weak physique, the nobles thought he was useless, so they sold him cheaply to a merchant, and the merchant then resold him to his current owner.

"Bang!"

With a whip, Liu Guang's vest was so hot.

This is because he is too slow to move, but Liu Guang has tried his best. He has never learned to farm before, and he can only read and make articles.

He grows wheat in March and April, and in May, he still has to grow cotton. He is even more tired when harvesting wheat and cotton. Liu Guang always feels pain in his back and cannot stand up straight every day to be a human being.

"Boom!"

A sound of horse hooves came from a distance, and the ground seemed to be shaking. Liu Guang looked over there curiously.

This time, he was lazy and was not whipped again. The guy who supervised everyone's work was running away in great horror. Soon, thousands of cavalry rushed over. Liu Guang saw a big "king" character on the flag. What a familiar Chinese character, as if it had mysterious power. Liu Guang was moved to tears.

The cavalry walked around the fields, and all the young men without straw ropes were cut to death on the spot by them. Even if they kneel down and surrender, they could not escape the fate of death.

A team of cavalry stopped by the wheat field and shouted in Mongolian words: "You slaves, all gathered here, Wang Zongzheng is here to liberate you!"

Liu Guang immediately shouted in Chinese, Mongolian and Uygur: "The Ming Dynasty King has come to save us, and we are all here to my side!"

The confused and at a loss naturally moved closer to Liu Guang, whom they were more familiar with, and soon more than a dozen slaves gathered around them.

Although Liu Guang's feet were tied with straw ropes, he suddenly straightened his waist and bowed to the commander of the cavalry and said, "Liu Guang, the son of Ji Shan, the Zhongshun Prince's Mansion of the Ming Dynasty, has seen the general!"

The Mongolian cavalry laughed and said, "Ha, he is still a Han man. Give him a horse and a knife, and let him collect his slaves with the army!"

Thirteen-year-old Liu Guang took the scimitar, cut off the ropes on his feet, and then cut off the ropes of other slaves, rode on the horse, repeating in the language of the three tribes: "Pick up the weapon and follow me to kill those Turpan dog thieves to take revenge!"

Under Liu Guang's leadership, more than a dozen slaves picked up farm tools, and those without them picked up stones and followed the army of the Celestial Empire to attack the slave owner.

From here to outside Chiting City, there were hundreds of slaves behind Liu Guang.

They didn't go to war, and they specifically helped the Celestial Army to escort the accused Turpan women and children, and beat them up with a revenge mentality.

"Kill, there is a Turpan dog thief over there!"

Many slaves left their prisoners and rushed to the old Turpan on the roadside.

Wang Yuan was too lazy to abduct these old men in Turpan, nor too lazy to kill them, so he let them die on their own while hungry. It would be better if they could enter the city together. If Turpan had relief, it would be a waste of food. If they were not relief, they would more or less lose the people's hearts.

But the slaves didn't care. Whenever they saw the alive old man, they rushed up and killed him.

Liu Guang shouted: "Come back quickly, don't leave your post without permission. Our mission is to escort women and children to the army of the Celestial Empire."

Some slaves obeyed orders, others ignored them.

The old man lying on the roadside was instantly surrounded by dozens of slaves. The body was divided into countless pieces, and many slaves had flesh and blood in their mouths.

...

Looking at the stone city wall ahead, Ya Mulan reminded: "Wang Zhengzhi, this is Chiting City."

A middle-aged Han man next to Wang Yuan suddenly recited a poem: "There is a lot of wind in Chiting, and the drums are unstoppable. Sometimes no one walks, and sand and stones are floating around. The night is quiet, and the sky is desolate, and ghosts cry and the road is beside the road. There are many skulls on the ground, all of which are ancient battlefields! I didn't expect that Zhang Zigao, I, would also follow the Daming soldiers to conquer the ancient city of Chiting. How magnificent, how magnificent!"

This guy named Zhang Zigao had his previous position as a Prince Zhongshun's Mansion. His wife and children were both abducted, and he hid in the Kanerjing and had to escape. Later, he pretended to surrender to the general Mantaha San.

Wang Yuan used a divisive strategy to attack Hami, and Zhang Zigao immediately instigated Manta Ha to open the city with three fires, which could be regarded as making contributions to the recovery of Hami.

As for Chiting City, it was an ancient city near Qiketai Town, Shanshan County in later generations.

At this time, Shanshan was named Bican City, and joined Chiting City to Liucheng (Lukeqin Town later).

Many wastelands hundreds of years later are still green pastures. The herdsmen here are all semi-cultivated and semi-pardoned, not nomadic. Due to terrain restrictions, they can only swim to the Gobi Desert if they want to be nomadic.

"What a pasture," Zhang Zigao smiled and bowed to Wang Yuan, "Why would you rather be led by me and set fire to the general manager of Wang?"

Wang Yuan waved his hand and said, "Go."

Zhang Zigao immediately led hundreds of Han cavalry to collect dry grass and burn the ranch. The guy's wife and children were missing, and he hated Turpan in his heart, hoping to burn the ranch in Turpan to a complete piece.

Although Chiting City is not large in size, it is built with stones on the spot, making the city extremely sturdy.

Wang Yuan didn't plan to attack the city, so he led his troops around the city and headed straight to Bican City (Zhenshan). At the same time, he left four thousand cavalry guarding outside Chiting City, and thousands of other slaves helped to plunder the formation. The defenders dared to go out of the city and siege and kill them directly!

Due to geographical reasons, we only need to be on guard against Hami and Xiaoleiba.

However, Hami and Xiao Lietu were beaten by Turpan every time. How could Chiting City send heavy troops to guard it?

And it was spring, and many soldiers went home. Their war horses needed to reproduce, their land needed to be cultivated, and the Turpan army was in a scattered state and it would take at least one month to gather.

In the narrow area east of Chiting City, the pasture was burned by Wang Yuan, the farmland was trampled by Wang Yuan, and the Yanlu villages and tribes were all robbed by Wang Yuan.

Only hundreds of cavalry scattered, successfully fled into Chiting City. With the number of defenders in the city, there were only more than one thousand cavalrymen, and there were also one or two thousand infantry guarding the city.

With only two or three thousand people, how dare you go out of the city to meet the enemy?

Bypassing Chiting City, there are also narrow areas, all of which are grasslands and arable land.

It was particularly troublesome for the Han Dynasty to attack the Huns, but it was very convenient for Wang Yuan to attack Turpan. Because the Huns were nomadic and Turpan was a garrison, and the oasis was impossible to move away. At least Wang Yuan would not get lost, or lead the army but could not find the enemy.

Wang Yuan and Ya Mulan had no intention of taking action. Instead, Zhu Ying, Zhang Wei and Zhu Dangteng led the Han cavalry and Mongolian cavalry and were busy rushing left and right.

Unfortunately, it is estimated that many young and strong people have already obtained news here that they have rode their horses and fled, leaving only the elderly, weak, women and children behind to rob Wang Yuan.

He burned, killed and looted all the way, about twenty miles away from Bican City (Shanshan), and Wang Yuan finally ordered the withdrawal of his troops.

Chiting City was basically destroyed. Although the city was not damaged at all, the nearby area had become a piece of white land. Arable land can still be replanted, but the grassland cannot be restored in a short period of time. The most fatal thing is that the population will either be killed or kidnapped by Wang Yuan.

A total of more than 1,000 women and more than 2,000 children were captured. Except for the elderly, all young and strong men who were higher than the wheels were killed, and all the elderly were abandoned on the roadside. More than 6,000 livestock of various kinds, including food and wealth, and more than 2,100 slaves were liberated.

The Turpan Oasis is so big that it was directly destroyed by Wang Yuan!

In addition, Wang Yuan obtained more than 80 newly attached Turpan cavalry, all of whom were the families of the cavalry who surrendered with Yamulan.

Whoever has a family member, explain in advance and leads the way to plunder his hometown...

"Wang Zhengzheng, the enemy cavalry is about to catch up, there are at least three thousand cavalry!" On the way to withdraw, the whistle cavalry from the rear came to report.

Wang Yuan ordered: "Don't worry about him, strengthen the vigilance and retreat as planned."

Wang Yuan took prisoners, livestock, money and food to safely join Chiting City, and then returned to Hami in a swagger.

Most of the cavalry that caught up with him came from Bican City (Shanshan), and some were young and strong people who fled from the west of Chiting City. They joined with the cavalry in Chiting City, and their troops increased to more than 4,000 cavalry. Eight miles east of Chiting City, they finally caught up with Wang Yuan's plundering troops.

Wang Yuan had more than 8,000 cavalrymen, but he had to separate his hands to take care of the prisoners and livestock, and about 7,500 cavalry could be put into battle.

More than 4,000 Turpan cavalry chased after hundreds of steps and slowed down. Looking at that, I guess I wanted to restore a little horsepower, and then attack Wang Yuan's troops directly with less attacks.

My heart is so big!

After a long-distance pursuit, the horse was tired of running, but he actually dared to attack twice his enemies.

This shows that Turpan is really a war machine. He dares to fight hard battles. No wonder he can rely on Turpan Oasis, fight Xiao Lietu in the north, attack the Qiwei of Guanxi in the east, and the Yeer Qiang Khanate in the south!

How could Wang Yuan help them recover their horsepower?

The speed of escorting a large number of prisoners and goods by yourself must be very slow. The longer the time passes, the better the pursuers will recover, and it will be more difficult to deal with.

He divided a thousand Han cavalry and a thousand Mongolian cavalry, and escorted the prisoners to continue on the way. Wang Yuan immediately fought back with the remaining cavalry.

About 6,600 miscellaneous cavalry, against 4,200 Turpan elite cavalry.

The battle is about to break out!
Chapter completed!