In the Qianqing Palace, in the inner room of the Jinluan Palace, Gu Xi, who was dressed in a straight vermilion court dress, sat stiffly on the chair, staring at the Lu'an melon slices with a cup of tea in front of him. He was waiting for the emperor's brother-in-law, who was in front of him, with the full report of the Hami incident in his hand. He can memorize every word on it, but every time these words appear in front of him, he is in a cold sweat behind his back.

As early as after learning that the emperor was interested in the Western Regions, he selected dozens of people from Jinyiwei who were originally from the west, and followed the caravan to Wuwei, Zhangye, Jiuquan, Dunhuang, Guazhou, Hami, Shanshan, Gaochang and other places. From the moment he discovered the traces of the beggars, he ordered the spies there to fight for the Muguls and the Xiongnu to fall out, and they must not join forces to threaten the entire Western Regions and the Dayu border.

'A Bloody Case Caused by a Pig' is indeed his masterpiece, but this result is unbearable for everyone......

blame him for being careless before, he didn't pay attention to what the emperor said, and let his subordinates take action, not only sacrificing them, but also losing the lives of more than 100,000 people in the entire city!

The Mughal people are not Xiongnu, they will not raise a rich city, they cut a stubble of leeks every year, and after a robbery, they will go back to drink wine and barbecue to celebrate their achievements. Knowing the inadequacy of their ability and strength, they crushed the opponent's will to fight by terror in order to cut off the possibility of resistance and leave no supplies to the enemy, which was a completely devastating conquest.

Yuan Yi walked into the inner room quickly, and saw that the face of this seventh uncle, who had always cared about everything, was unprecedentedly solemn, he took a deep breath, took the briefing and read it quickly, his face sank like water.

After a long time, Yuan Yi said in a deep voice, "I hope that Gaochang will still have time, remember to apply for the highest pension for them." ”

Gu Xi took several deep breaths before he spoke with difficulty, "...... Can't we shoot early? ”

"Because of the relationship between the Hubei department, the north may make the first move. With the revenge of the Mughal people, if the west cannot be contained by the Huns, but let them join forces to advance eastward, the next time it will be our city that will be slaughtered. ”

Gu Xi's expression froze, calmed down, and solemnly promised, "Minister, you will not be dishonored!" ”

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This place in the north of the Tianshan Mountains, dominated by the Junggar Basin, was originally controlled by the Dangxiang, Vultures, Kazakhs and other ethnic groups, and it was also a place where Han culture and Buddhism flourished, and the tyranny of the Mughurs shocked the countries of the Western Regions, and as more and more Han Chinese fled to Xining City, a devastating bad news spread - if the Xiongnu could not guarantee that the people of the cities would be tamed into the hands of the Mugul, Gebul would not mind slaughtering them one by one - this is not a rumor, except for the experience of Hami, In order to have more bargaining chips in the talks, the Mengwu people have turned Shanshan in the southeast of Gaochang into a dead city with broken walls and rotting corpses.

Shanshan was originally a gathering place for the Wuer tribe, which was previously controlled by the party members, and when the Huns came, they begged for a lot of money, escaped a catastrophe, and continued to be the emperor of the soil. The brutal Mughal people came, and the party members still adhered to the tradition of opening the door to pick up customers, but who knew that it ushered in a catastrophe. Fortunately, the Han people in Shanshan bribed the city defenders with a lot of money in advance, and fled to Dunhuang with many people.

The Dangxiang people were 'strongly condemned' for opening the door and thieves, and they were not only regarded as accomplices by the Wu'er people, hated by the people of the Western Regions, but also used as bargaining chips by the Xiongnu -- while urging the Dangxiang people to 'change their evil ways and return to the right and fight against the barbarian Mongols,' they also sent reinforcements to be stationed in the west of Gaochang City, and confronted the Mongols who came from the east across Gaochang City, and were prepared to cut the city to negotiate peace or start a war if they could not reach a good talk.

For the first time, both inside and outside the government and the opposition had a deep sense of identity with Gu Yao's concept of 'keeping the enemy out of the country', and various debates were held in the newspapers about whether the next step would be to continue to 'lead the water to the west' or to bravely advance for the sake of friendly diplomatic relations in the vast Western Regions and the safety of the Han merchants.

In accordance with the strategy of the Privy Council and the "Refugee Relief Plan" of the Relief Department, in response to Dunhuang's request for help, Shenzong issued a 'Protector Order' to all cities in the Western Regions - ordering the Jingxi Army to apply for Dayu 'passports' for all those who applied for it, to prove their identity, and to obtain asylum if they took refuge in any of the Dayu border cities, accompanied by temporary shelter and daily food.

Mingjin took the national letter and his five thousand cavalry equipped with the latest muskets to the Western Regions, and followed Wuwei, Zhangye, Jiuquan, Guazhou, and Dunhuang all the way. They did not enter the city gates, but only brought interpreters to negotiate with the officials defending the city, provided bilingual passport templates, and even after being expelled, they refrained from fighting back, and still sent out passports through private channels of merchants. The well-disciplined Yu army successfully won the love and trust of the people in various cities, and the Guazhou party army received the instructions of the Xiongnu and wanted to start with the Yu army, and even met with the resistance of the righteous people, led by Li Yucheng and the Xiongnu envoy were killed, and the rest of the party army was captured by the Guazhou righteous army and sent to the front of the Yu army.

It's really touching and hard to deal with......

However, the Mughals will soon help them with this problem.

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At this time, it had been almost three months since the Mughal people besieged Gaochang. Gaochang is a prosperous and prosperous Buddhist country in the Western Regions, the architectural layout is comparable to Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty, once with the Han people as the main body, 'this is the Han and Wei relics, Xian out of the Central Plains, formed a family, the world has accumulated for a long time', in history has successively submitted to the northern strong clan or other Western Regions powers, integrated the descendants of other ethnic groups, especially the party Xiang Qiang Tuoba clan is the most. It was also used as the capital for a period of time when the Dangxiang people resisted the Ding Dynasty and established themselves as a country, and later the Tuoba clan was subdued and obediently submitted, and most of the Dangxiang people were moved to Gaochang to live in Tongwancheng, another national capital established during the Northern Wei Dynasty. Before the Mughal came, seventy percent of the people in the city were in the party.

At the beginning, the Xiongnu were willing to cede Gaochang to form an alliance with the Muguls, also because they could not occupy absolute control in Gaochang, which was dominated by party members. They received the offerings of the nobles in the city, stationed without injuring a single person, and 'co-ruled' Gaochang with Li Quanan, the king of the party. When the Xiongnu army gathered in Khotan and was about to fight Dayu to the death, the Xiongnu guards here were killed by 'arousing the people's anger', so they had to send another team of men and horses to deal with the party members. This will be reluctant to seek an alliance, and it will be more advantageous to discuss the plan with the beggars. However, the Mengwu people had a great appetite and wanted the area north of the Tianshan Mountains and the Hexi Corridor to cut off all the Xiongnu territory in the north at once, and the two sides bargained with each other on this.

When Mingjin arrived at Dunhuang with 2,000 Dangxiang troops, he learned that a month earlier, the Mengwu people had been annoyed by the Xiongnu's delay and the ruin behavior of letting go of a large number of wealthy civilians, and began to besiege the city. The Huns retreated ten miles, Li Quanan wanted to open the door and sacrifice the city, but unfortunately the Mengwu people outside the city were shot dead by the Gaochang people who desperately resisted, Gebule was furious, and ordered 100,000 cavalry to launch a large-scale 'revenge war', Li Quanan had to agree to defend to the death.

While reporting to the Privy Council for help, allowing them to go deep into Ruoqiang, which was controlled by the Xiongnu, to escort the civilians, Mingjin negotiated with Li Cangyu, the leader of the party in Dunhuang, and exchanged 2,000 prisoners for the right to defend the city, hoping that their party members would unite with the remnants of Yarkand and Wu'er, get rid of the Xiongnu's control, and go together to relieve the siege of Gaochang. At the same time, they were prepared that if Li Cangyu refused to accept the fleeing civilians of Shanshan and Gaochang, they would escort the refugees south to Xining. Li Cangyu wanted 2,000 prisoners, but he was unwilling to open the city gate to avoid giving the Yu army a 'chance'. When the two sides were at a stalemate, a 20,000-strong cavalry led by Rong Lin set out from Xining City, took the Kang-Tibet Plateau on the Tangbo Ancient Road, tried to go west from Golmud and Qinghai, and directly attacked Ruoqiang through the Chaka Basin Underground Plateau, so as to avoid the Xiongnu on this route taking advantage of the catastrophe in the Western Regions to suddenly march eastward. Gu Ke went to Xining City to organize the reception of refugees according to the regulations issued by the Relief Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

The Xiongnu did not care whether the Gaochang people lived or died, retreated to Dihua, and assigned a part of Ruoqiang's army to Yanqi, and used these three places to open a defensive line to block the westward advance of the Mengwu people. The party members who were accustomed to surrendering without a fight were resisted by the people in various cities, and all riots in Wuwei, Zhangye, Jiuquan and other places under their control, the party generals were killed or captured, and the defenders were all imprisoned.

The Jingxi Army advanced on the whole line, staying all the way along the Hexi Corridor, and Mingjin will converge with the Yewei coalition army in Shanshancheng and relieve the siege of Gaochang together. However, the party captives who were escorted on the road repeatedly wanted to defect or rebel against the Yu army, which was not strict with them, because they heard Li Quanan's slogan of 'no resistance, peaceful handover'.

At this moment, it has been nearly half a year since the Mengwu people first appeared in the field of vision of the Gaochang party members, and in the three months since the siege, Li Quanan wanted to sacrifice the city several times to survive, but was stopped by the fighting spirit of Li Meiguang, the leader of the righteous army in the city, and the soldiers and people. This arduous battle to defend the city ended with Li Meiguang's death, Li Quanan finally succeeded in opening the party, thinking that he was at ease, who knew that the Mengwu people 'waited for the city to be broken, regardless of the old and the young, the rich and the poor, and all were punished', and burned the tombs, palaces, temples and all written records of the party kings, completely destroying the party civilization that had almost become the overlord of the Western Regions.

On the twentieth day of the slaughter, Gaochang perished.

In addition to the 5,000 captives accumulated in the Yu army, the Dangxiang clan was almost extinct.

The coalition forces that were about to march to Shanshan and stationed were silent when they heard the bad news.

Tatahar, the leader of the Vultures, looked at the party members behind him with disdain, "This is the ability of your 'Great White Kingdom'?!" What a shame! A family member of the interpreter next to him died of Shanshan, and he humiliated the party members with red eyes.

Mingjin let out a breath of turbidity, turned his head to stop looking at the countless charred remains and broken walls in the city that had been subjected to large-scale violence and corpses, and ordered his subordinates to untie the party members and let the interpreter ask them where they wanted to go.

Li Cangyu, who was still alive and well, asked to leave without hesitation, and at a glance he knew that he wanted to occupy the north court and gain some benefits in the war between Hungary and Mongolia. Mingjin was so disgusted by his unrepentant virtue that he directly drove them to Shanshan City, which was like a purgatory on earth, sent a scout to inform Beiting and inquire about the movements of Hun and Mongolia, and led the others to retreat to the periphery of Dunhuang to defend and receive refugees.

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As the Jinyi Wei and the scouts deepened in the Western Regions, information from all over the world gathered in Dunhuang and then transmitted back to Shangjing. For Da Yu, it may be good news, but for the people of the Western Regions, it is tantamount to heavenly punishment.

Li Cangyu really went to the North Garden, although the North Court was also occupied by the party, but the current city lord was a Han who had submitted to the Xiongnu and refused to let them in. Li Cangyu, who was blocked, met the Mengwu people who came to walk nearby, and the leader was Gebule's youngest son Kute Thorn, who wanted to take the initiative to surrender, but was disgusted with 'no wealth and powerlessness', and thousands of party members who did not know how to resist were driven by a thousand cavalry like cattle and horses from one king flag to another in the distance, and those who did not fall behind quickly were all beheaded by the Mengbing soldiers with a knife, and only two percent of the survivors were killed. The city lord immediately decided to send a letter of return to Dayu to send the people out of the city, and when the Mongolian army came, Beiting would definitely be the next Gaochang.

The Huns' concessions did not have the desired effect, and the Muguls did not know why they fought with them and followed closely. The leading Huhan Maodun Shan Yu could only face the Mengwu people in Dihua, and the rest of the Xiongnu army immediately arranged the defense lines of Jimo, Luntai, Changji and other places. This is indispensable to the credit of Dayu Jinyiwei, all kinds of poisoning water sources and horse feed, or pretending to be the Huns to assassinate the Mongol army spies, etc., provoking Gebule's revenge and biting the Huns.

Rong Lin finally came down from the Chaka Basin, entered the periphery of Ruoqiang, and led the army to raid the Huns who were divided into troops and the end of the land several times, and the elusive tactics, coupled with the long-distance, high-precision, and large damage of the musket, the Huns suffered heavy casualties. If it weren't for the fact that the supply line of the Yu army had to bypass Dunhuang, it was not stable enough, and it might have been able to push the Huns to the Green Ridge in one go. The victory of the Yu army gave great confidence to the cities of the Western Regions, and also attracted the attention of the Mengwu people.

Just when the people of the Western Regions were worried that Dayu would join forces with the brutal Mongolian army, the Yu army put forward the request that 'do not hurt the Han people' and send troops on the Ruoqiang line, and at the same time stepped up to escort the people from the Western Regions who escaped from Beiting, Yanqi, Jimo, and Luntai, and even Jinghe, Changji, Ningyuan, Qiuci, and Khotan to the west of the Dihua defense line.

Gebul was very dissatisfied with Dayu's attitude, but two things happened that made him have no time to care, so he could only pour out all his monstrous anger on the Xiongnu and the party members. The first is that in order to promote peace talks, the Huns sent a large number of beauties and gold coins, and Gebule's second son, Ye Suhai, was bitten into a eunuch by a click when he was enjoying the beauty. Another thing is that the party members who have always faced strong enemies with the image of a nest bag came out with a stiff-necked Li Yepei, and after licking his boots and drilling his crotch for the Mengren, he suddenly came out with 'Jing Ke stabbing the king of Qin', and stabbed a sharpened bone hidden in his mouth to blind Kute's left eye. The enraged Gebul ordered the killing of all the party members, divided his troops to surround Dihua, Yanqi, and Luntai, and promised to divide and rule the Western Regions with the Tianshan Mountains as the boundary in the future, so that Dayu could attack Ruoqiang and Jimo at the same time.

The Privy Council also took this situation into account when deducing the development of the war in the Western Regions before, and Mingjin's reply was quickly given to Gebul, if the Mongols did not hurt the non-Xiongnu civilians, especially the Han Chinese, they could join forces to deal with the Xiongnu first.

The Mongol army was noncommittal about Dayu's conditions, and after besieging the three cities, they first cut off the water sources and supply channels, let the craftsmen of the army who had been captured before make siege equipment from local materials, and then drove the slaves to attack the gates, and used the lives of these people to consume the Xiongnu's arrows and crossbows, creating an atmosphere of panic.

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Ten days later, the first person who couldn't help but do it was the Xiongnu right valley Liwang Yiwei who was stationed in Luntai.

Luntai City is a city reborn from the ashes, which was burned down by Li Guang during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, so both the Tang Dynasty and the Ding Dynasty only incorporated it into Yanqi City or Qiuzi City to administer it, and the Ji Dynasty became independent because of the weakening of these two forces. The Xiongnu were crippled by Dayu Taizong, retreated and passed by here, and easily dominated the city, replacing the Evie evil to do. The small wall of the city in this place was broken, and the support for ten days was close to the limit, but fortunately, Evie's younger brother Uwei ignored Huhan Maodun's order and rushed to reinforce from Qiuzi, and Evie naturally wanted to counterattack and join forces with his younger brother.

The leader of the Mongolian army was Gebule's eldest son, Hu Qin, who was bent on avenging his younger brother who had no son. His men were the strongest warriors of the beggars, fearless on both sides, armed with a strong bow and a crossbow, and three or four horses, and full of quivers with feathered arrows with armor-piercing cones.

When the Huns charged, they first shot with strong bows at a long distance, and almost everyone in the Inner Mongolian cavalry could be killed with one arrow. Wait for the opponent to get closer, switch to a faster crossbow bolt and fire a few waves, then rely on your faster and more agile horse to quickly retreat, and pull the distance again, followed by a new round of arrow rain. This was repeated several times, and finally when the Mongol cavalry swung their sabers and turned around and began to charge, there were few tired Hun heavy armored cavalry left, and the more agile light armored cavalry could not withstand the slashing and charging of the saber.

The Huns were crushed.

Uwei didn't have time to gather the remnants of the army, stuck a few arrows in his body, and together with his seriously wounded brother, fled to Qiuzi in a hurry with hundreds of guards, and the remaining nearly 30,000 slow-running Hun cavalry were slaughtered. Because Luntai and Ruoqiang are only separated by a Tarim Desert, taking into account the conditions proposed by Dayu, he did not order the slaughter of the city with restraint, but only plundered, and the Huns who were searched were all killed, regardless of men, women and children, and then went to Qiuzi to garrison troops. The common people of Luntai were lucky enough to escape the catastrophe and immediately sent volunteers to Dunhuang to ask for help.

Yanqi is located in the east of Luntai, is a place where Sinology is developed and Buddhism flourishes, close to the West Sea (Bosten Lake), although the climate is cold, but the land is fertile and rich in resources, and the impact of the siege is not serious. Gebule's third son, Bahei, supervised the war here, he has always been not on good terms with other brothers, and did not have much revenge, but he was a shrewd and capable man, while doing the siege of the city, while sending people into the city, negotiating separately, threatening to deter the Xiongnu Rizhu Wangquan Qulu to abandon the city and retreat, and at the same time lured and lobbied the monks to persuade the people in the city to surrender and overthrow the Richai king. With such a two-pronged approach, coupled with the fact that Luntai City had survived and the news that the Yu army was pressing down and preparing to attack Ruoqiang, the people, nobles and monks in the city gradually leaned towards the plan of surrendering to the wealth, and Quan Qulu and his 50,000 men gradually felt the pressure.

In mid-May, Gebul began to storm Dihua, and at this time, the 200,000 Yu troops who had slaughtered Khotan from Dunhuang were like a bamboo, under the leadership of Fang Liangzhi and Guan Sancai, and occupied Ruoqiang, rushing to the end. Huhan Maodun immediately contacted the Sakya Dharma King of Tibet, hoping that they would come down from the Green Ridge, send troops to Pishan, and block the offensive of the Yu army together with the Xiongnu army of Khotan and the end of the year. Rong Lin's army adapted to the plateau climate, retreated into the Weizang region, and with the cooperation of Ganden Tripa and the Lang family behind him, approached the Luo, and took advantage of the dispute between the Sakya Four Ladrang that led to the replacement of Benchin, and fiercely cleaned them up, rescued the imprisoned Lang Pazhu Wanhu Changqu Gyaltsen, and with his cooperation, defeated the Sakya coalition army again, and led the former Tibet.

At the beginning of June, Quan Qulu learned that Tubo was too busy to take care of himself, and his family was a little unable to bear it, so he was ready to evacuate his belongings and slaves to the area of Changji and Jinghe. The trembling Yanqi people welcomed into Bahehe, and contributed rich goods, grain, grass, livestock, and slaves, but still suffered a heavy sack. Although no more than 100 people were killed, all the women that the Mughal people saw were dragged on their horses and roared away with the Mongol army. The agonizing Yanqi people elected a Han as the lord of the city and officially surrendered to the Yu Dynasty.

The fall of Luntai and Yanqi cast a shadow over the heads of the Dihua people. 'Circumference of fifteen miles, one zhang and two feet high' Dihua City from the Tang Dynasty is the Xiongnu ten surname tribes of the prefecture, before the Xiongnu annexed Kazakh, Yarkand and Wu'er, it is located at the junction of the three ethnic groups, and the heyday of Tibet has also been occupied, and even when the moon is not here. The Xiongnu have always had a deep affection for this place, and every time the successive dynasties were beaten away, they had to firmly dominate this place in the name of "recovery" or "conquering", so Dihua is a place where the descendants of the Xiongnu live. Especially now that many non-Xiongnu descendants have fled with the Han Chinese, the Thai people in the city are half of the Xiongnu blood with protruding cheeks and broad faces, high noses and deep eyes.

The news that the Xiongnu wanted to abscond suddenly spread throughout the city, and many people said that they saw many carriages full of wealth sneaking into the old city in the north at night, and it must have been that Huhan Maodun wanted the whole city to use the people of the city in the south as sandbags to resist the Mengwu iron cavalry, and he broke through the north gate with the least Mongolian army.

Dihua is divided into two cities, the old and the new, the new city is in the south, it is the Xiongnu and other outsiders to control the 'old Han City' in the north and built, twice as large as the old city, now the north is almost ten rooms and nine empty, the south has become the key garrison place of the Mughal people.

The nobles and commoners who were struggling to flee rushed into the northern city, intending to flee to Beiting or Changji with Huhan Maoton's convoy. Naturally, such a movement would be noticed by Gebul, and the beggar army, known as 300,000, began to attack the gate and sent troops to intercept the horse convoy at the north gate. When the northern city was breached, Huhan Maodun, who had arrived in a hurry, was leading his guards to drive away the civilians without horses to block the charge of the Muguls, and then break through with a carriage. Unexpectedly, the Mongol army made a way for the civilians to escape, and only shot the horsemen. Seeing this, many nobles immediately dismounted and galloped with the common people. This large wave of civilians ran out of the city gate, and the Mongolian army immediately rushed to the north city gate, and the carriages that were inconvenient to retreat blocked the retreat of the Xiongnu army, and the northern city began to be overwhelmingly slaughtered. Huhan Maodun retreated to the southern city in a rage under the protection of a few personal guards, closed the Yongdao, distressed that almost all his property had fallen into the hands of the Muguls, but he did not know that his brother Qilong had gathered all the generals who were dissatisfied with his 'abandonment of righteousness for money', and directly killed him and established himself as Shan Yu. Huhan's son Huyan saw that the situation was not good and hidden, taking advantage of the gap left after the Mughal people pulled away the spoils of the northern city, he secretly opened the north and south city corridors with his subordinates and his father's personal guards, and fled to Changji overnight.

By the time Chirondu found out, the Mugultures had rushed out of the corridor.

Qilongdu was still a bloody Xiongnu king, leading the Dihua people and 100,000 Xiongnu troops to resist stubbornly, and several times defeated the Muguls back to the northern city. However, such a desperate resistance still failed to escape the fate of breaking the city, and in the end, only Tu Xu, the son of Qilongdu, fled to Jinghe with less than 100 people. Gebul ordered a month-long massacre of the city's inhabitants, and after completely looting and destroying Dihua, the city was burned and evacuated, and only one hundred and six beautiful women were spared from death as slaves.

The smoke of Dihua once again witnessed the bloodshed and tyranny of the Mughals, occupying, plundering, massacring, living and perishing those who disobeyed me - this was the genocide brought by the Mughals. On the prosperous Silk Road in the past, the places where the Mengwu iron horsemen passed were all scorched earth, with mountains of corpses and bones, and nearly a million people died.