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Chapter 928 Sweep

With Liang Jun busy, the oasis was filled with wooden stakes with human heads in a short while.

A Liang soldier had already muttered and discussed: "What's the point of hanging these heads here?" Another answered: "Is this still necessary to ask? Of course, it is to show the military power of Daliang to them."

General Liang Jun began to urge, "Don't talk, just keep your hands and feet straight. We also want to search for the next oasis."

The military order passed above asked them to search for oasis where the Bedouin tribe existed. Once discovered, they would kill all the Bedouin people on the oasis. However, if the Bedouin people ran away, they would not have to chase them. They just need to hang the collected Bedouin heads in the oasis.

Of course, Feng Yu's request was not just to demonstrate the power of the Daliang army. The actual meaning was to intimidate the Bedouin tribe and let them know the consequences of invading the Mesopotamian plains. Feng Yu also knew that with the character of these Bedouin people, they would be frightened. Sooner or later, they would invade Mesopotamia again. But as long as this move could buy Feng Yu for more than a dozen time.

At dawn more than ten days later, at the dawn of Hamza, a Persian soldier from Liang army who had been on duty for a night was fighting with double eyelids. When he was drowsy, he faintly heard a series of horn sounds. The long horn sound drove away his sleeplessness. He looked up suddenly and exclaimed in Chinese that he had just learned: "Not good! There are unknown troops approaching. There are unknown troops!"

On the horizon in the distance, countless soldiers and flags rose. A Liang army soldier who was attracted by his shouting set up a canopy in his hand, looked into the distance, and said, "Don't shout, it's okay! This is our own people." After that, he hurried down the city and wanted to report this to the Shangfeng.

This army was on the northern grassland, nearly 300,000 Hu cavalry gathered by the Northern Prefecture Army. Now they headed south along the western coast of the Caspian Sea, running through the entire Persian Plateau and the Mesopotamian Plain, and came here.

It was Lu Bu who led this huge cavalry unit. As soon as he met Feng Yu, the latter asked straight to the point: "Fengxian, have these Hu cavalry still obeyed your orders? After all, you have been away from the Northern Palace for some years."

"When you go back to your Majesty, most of these Hu cavalry commanders have made sacrifices under the command of the empress. They have obeyed the constraints along the way and did not plunder and harass the local government offices and the people along the way."

Feng Yu nodded with satisfaction and said, "That's good. But after you cross the city wall in the south, you will no longer have to be restrained."

Lu Bu confirmed Feng Yu's meaning and said, "Your Majesty wants me to follow the rules on the prairie. All the men who are higher than the wheel are killed. Only women and those who are lower than the wheel are kidnapped as slaves?"

Feng Yu shook his head and said, "Yes, that's how it is handled. Anyway, they are also nomadic peoples who live by water and grass."

Lu Bu continued to ask, "But what should I do if there is a tribe willing to surrender?"

Feng Yu said with a gloomy face: "Don't accept their surrender. Unless the males in the tribe are willing to castrate themselves as slaves. In short, I want these Bedouin people to disappear into this world, otherwise they will eventually become a disaster for Mesopotamia."

Lu Bu was stunned, and then immediately replied: "I will obey the imperial edict."

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The flock of sheep was greedily eating the grass on the grass where the clear spring was flowing. Not far away, a 16 or 17-year-old Bedouin lies on the grass. He covered his face with a felt hat to block his dazzling eyes. He bent one leg and raised his legs to cross his legs, humming leisurely.

Suddenly the flock of sheep beside him bleated, and the shepherd boy lazily opened his felt hat and looked around. Then he found that a huge cavalry team appeared in the long yellow sand outside hundreds of battles. Because he was galloping on the sand dunes, there was almost no sound of horse hooves, but the rising sand and dust covered the sky and the sun. The shepherd boy Bedouin suddenly stood up and was so scared that he ignored the sheep and rolled and crawled towards the southwest.

There is an oasis with more abundant water sources in the southwest, which is the camping site of his tribe, and this oasis is just a place for shepherds and horses on a daily basis.

The cavalry team soon discovered this oasis, and thousands of soldiers and horses instantly surrounded the oasis. The leader of them was Lu Bu himself.

Lu Bu divided nearly 300,000 Hu cavalry into more than 100 shares, with two thousand cavalry each. Taking the original Sassanian South Great Wall as the starting line, it swept across from north to south.

The Hu cavalry and Lu Bu's cavalry were very happy to find the sheep. Lu Bu looked at the back of the fleeing Bedouin, and was not in a hurry to chase him, but said calmly: "The boys haven't eaten meat for a long time, so they slaughtered the sheep and took them away!"

The Hu cavalry and the Liang army cavalry, who were already eager to try, rushed forward and instantly slaughtered hundreds of sheep, then placed them on the horse's back, and then continued to chase the Bedouin people in the direction of the escape.

Not far away, another oasis with more abundant water and grass. The tribal chief Safowan was drinking wine and eating lamb chops in the wool felt. When he was comfortable, the shepherd boy broke in and reported: "Chief, it's not good. A large number of unknown war cavalry have come here, at least two or three thousand. Judging from their appearance, it should be Liang Jun."

Saffowan's glasses fell on the table, allowing the wine to flow all over the ground. He immediately made a decision - to withdraw. Now all the Bedouin people knew that they could not compete with Liang's army heads at all. Otherwise, the end of the incident would be that their heads would be inserted into wooden stakes to be displayed.

The entire tribe fled east in panic and disorder. Because they were walking in a hurry, many things were not taken away, so they simply set a fire to burn them clean.

Lu Bu was on the edge of the oasis and stared at the flames soaring into the sky. One of his generals said, "General, it seems they have run away again."

Lu Bu sneered, "Don't worry, they can't escape." The reason why Lu Bu is so confident is that the Liang army has changed its strategy. Hundreds of troops adopt a tactic of advancing in unison. Every time they capture an oasis, they do not give up immediately. Instead, they wait until the left and right and front and back oasis are also occupied by friendly forces before continuing to move forward. Therefore, the Bedouin people who escaped from this oasis must have defected to the nearby oasis, but eight or ten near the close oasis have been occupied by other Liang's cavalry.

After walking for more than thirty miles, Safowan finally saw a trace of green exposed on the skyline. It was the oasis of his cousin's tribe. He relaxed a little nervously at this time. But when his walk was less than a hundred battles away from the oasis, he found something was wrong. He immediately stopped and the hunting dogs under the camels were barking wildly. Then he finally found why he felt something was wrong. Widths of smoke rose from the oasis. According to their Bedouin habits, this point was not the time to cook.

He hurriedly led the team to turn around, but at this moment a cavalry rushed out of the oasis and came to him. Saffwan ran wildly with his tribe. In the end, the old, weak, women and children were left behind, and only he and hundreds of young and strong escaped. When he thought he had escaped, another Liang army cavalry appeared in front of him, and a general led by him held a strange weapon. It was Lu Bu and his Fang Tian Painting Halberd.
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