Chapter 1100: Heading West

"Rat-tat-tat..."

The sound of Machine Guns came from all over Wumu City, like the roars of wild beasts in the mountains and forests, striking terror into the hearts of the Tusman Cavalry.

Yadehan kept his eyes closed just like that, waiting with his generals.

He knew clearly that no matter what they did now, they could not change the outcome of the war.

They could only wait for their impending fate.

Meanwhile, the Tusman soldiers scattered within Wumu City had already been scared out of their wits by the Central Army soldiers.

As the Central Army soldiers entered the city, Tusman soldiers surrendered one after another.

The gunfire continued for another afternoon and another night.

The next morning, the Central Army soldiers completely controlled Wumu City.

At the same time, numerous Central Army soldiers surrounded Yadehan and the Tusman generals.

Upon receiving the news, Chang Wei led generals such as Lv Chang over.

Glancing at Yadehan, who was surrounded by Tusman generals, Chang Wei said coldly, "You are the Tusman Empire Grand Duke, Yadehan, are you not?"

After entering the city yesterday, he had found someone in Wumu City who understood the Tusman language.

After all, the Tianshan region was very close to Zhongtu, and there were merchants from Zhongtu in Wumu City.

These merchants were often proficient in two, or even three, languages.

After Chang Wei finished speaking, the merchant at his side immediately translated for Yadehan.

"Who are you? What qualifications do you have to speak to me!" Upon hearing this, Yadehan looked at Chang Wei, his face showing disdain.

Although he had anticipated that he could not escape the fate of being captured, he was still unconvinced in his heart and full of resentment toward the Song People.

"Who I am, you do not need to know; in any case, you will be a dead man soon!" Chang Wei retorted, his intent to kill rising instantly.

He understood from intelligence reports that Yadehan was not only one of the eight Grand Dukes of the Tusman Empire but also the nephew of Anka of the Tusman Empire.

Regardless of whether it was the status of Grand Duke or the identity of being the nephew of Anka of the Tusman Empire, Chang Wei was determined to kill this person.

The reason was simple.

They needed to enrage the Tusman Empire, causing Anka of the Tusman Empire to lose his reason and shift his focus to the Tianshan region.

Therefore, a dead Yadehan was more valuable than a living Yadehan.

Furthermore, he learned that as soon as Yadehan arrived in Wumu City, he had turned the Beidi people in the city into their slaves and slaughtered all the Song People who had previously served the Beidi.

These Song People had all been captured by the Beidi previously and sent here to be slaves.

Such behavior made Chang Wei exceptionally angry.

According to the exact words of the merchant acting as his translator, Yadehan had once said, "The Song People are not even fit to be slaves to the people of Zhongtu."

Without a doubt, this was the arrogance of the Tusman Empire.

He did not care whether this arrogance was learned from the Westerners or if the Tusman people had always thought this way.

In any case, he was determined to make the Tusman people swallow back whatever they had said.

"You want to kill me!" Yadehan was clearly shocked by Chang Wei's words.

The reason he had waited calmly for the Song soldiers to arrive was because he was certain his life would not be threatened.

People in his position, even if captured in war, were generally not killed.

Because once that happened, it meant total war.

"You did not hear wrong," Chang Wei emphasized.

He knew what Yadehan was thinking, but he was thinking wrong.

When two countries of equal strength go to war, they naturally treat captured high-ranking generals and nobles with courtesy out of fear of serious consequences.

But if the disparity in strength is vast, there is clearly no need for this.

Moreover, the Tusman Empire had now chosen to be an enemy of Song.

Of course, a more important point was that they, Song, themselves wanted to fan the flames of war.

Only then would they have a legitimate reason to march into the Western Lands, expand the Western Regions Protectorate into the Western Lands, and then destroy the Tusman Empire's absolute control over the Western Lands.

"You dare! You are declaring total war on the Tusman Empire!" Yadehan shouted, his voice distorted by fear.

Abbas and the other generals also became panicked.

If Yadehan were executed, they, these generals, would not be able to survive either.

Chang Wei ignored the hysterical Yadehan and simply waved his hand.

Immediately, a burst of gunfire rang out, and the voices of Yadehan and the others came to an abrupt end.

"Let three hundred Tusman Cavalry leave, and let them take the corpses of Yadehan and these people back to Tusman." After dropping these words, Chang Wei turned and left.

Before long, under the escort of Central Army soldiers, three hundred Tusman Cavalry left through the west gate.

Each of them had two horses; one horse for themselves to ride, and one horse to carry the corpses of Yadehan and the others.

To prevent them from being shot by Chen Hu's Gun Cavalry on the road, Chang Wei even gave them a safe-conduct pass.

Under the muzzles of the Central Army, these cavalrymen gradually disappeared into the Grassland.

At the same time.

The Central Army soldiers who had taken Wumu City began to count the supplies in the city and the casualties of the Beidi soldiers.

By evening, Lv Chang, Bai Shang, and Huo An brought the results of the count, and after summarizing them, handed them to Chang Wei.

"Sixty thousand Tusman soldiers dead, twenty thousand seriously wounded, thirty thousand lightly wounded, and over seventy thousand surrendered," said Bai Shang.

Because the Tusman Cavalry had already been killed by the Gun Cavalry by more than twenty thousand.

In reality, there were only about one hundred and eighty thousand Tusman soldiers in Wumu City.

"We discovered a Granary in the east and west of the city, and the grain inside is enough for us to eat for a year," Lv Chang added.

Because the defeat was like a collapsing mountain, the Tusman side had not even thought to burn the grain.

"We also captured over sixty thousand Zhongtu Warhorses, among which there are thirty-six Blood-Sweating Horses; besides that, there are over thirty thousand camels, which they used for transport," Huo An said.

Chang Wei listened and nodded slightly.

Among these spoils, he still valued the grain the most.

Clearly, the Tusman people wanted to occupy Wumu City for a long time, so they transported a large amount of grain and fodder here.

This grain and fodder is enough for two hundred thousand people to use for half a year, so naturally, it is enough for them to use for a year.

They and Chen Hu's Gun Cavalry together only amount to about one hundred and twenty thousand people.

The remaining Warhorses and such, although also important, are no longer as important as they once were.

On the contrary, the camels that can bear the burden of transporting goods in the desert and Gobi are more valuable.

"Hand over all the captured Tusman soldiers to the Beidi people to be slaves, used for managing the Tianshan pastures," Chang Wei instructed.

The Beidi people are now slaves of the Song People, and the Tusman people are slaves of the Beidi people; thus, the Tusman people are the slaves of the Song People's slaves.

This is also his retaliation for the Tusman people's slaughter of the Song People.

"Yes, General-in-Chief." The three men heard this, smiled wickedly, and answered in the affirmative.

Kelin will surely treat these Tusman people who invaded their pastures and killed their herdsmen well.

Chang Wei nodded, then thought for a moment and said, "The battle at the Beidi Khan Court and this military campaign have basically exhausted our ammunition. Now, we need to rest and reorganize in Wumu City and wait for ammunition supplies."

He paused, then continued: "Use the thirty thousand captured camels to build a transport caravan to return to Tongguan to transport ammunition. Once the ammunition arrives, we will continue heading west."

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