Chapter 352: Discord

The spring breeze does not pass the Yumen Pass, and the snow flies in August.

When Wang Qinian crossed the continuous Gobi, although it had just entered autumn, the weather was already a little cold, and he remembered these two popular verses and tightened the military coat on his body.

After leaving the Star Gorge, the journey was very smooth, so smooth that he himself felt incredible, Menghu did not have any troops in this area, and even the herdsman tribes who went south to escape the cold in previous years did not see it. At first, Wang Qinian felt that this might be a trap, and Menghu wanted to use the grassland and desert to deal with them, and even cut off his supplies, mainly ammunition and food supplies, and then pounce on him to give him a fatal blow, just like the Huns did to Li Ling in history. But he had no fear of it, and since the birth of the dragoons, their mission has been to be surrounded by the enemy, besieged by the enemy, and fight the hardest battles. Over the years, this army, which has pinned countless hopes and painstaking efforts on the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, has completed his task well, and this time is no exception.

He was surprised by the Gobi Desert that he passed by yesterday, the place called "Yadan" by the natives was like a ghost domain, and everywhere was a red color, as if it was dyed with the blood of countless people. Thinking of such a strange scene, Wang Qinian couldn't help but sigh, when Zhang Qian was out of the Sai, Ban Chao ran the Western Regions, and Li Jing chased the Turks, they all thought of being here, and when they saw such a scene, they didn't know what they thought at that time.

Four hundred and ninety years after the Battle of Henglus, the soldiers from the Central Plains may have set foot on this desert Gobi for the first time.

"My lord, I found a group of people who claimed to be Vultures merchants who came to greet the army!"

Although Wang Qinian is not a poet, he still can't help but boil his blood when he thinks of this land that famous generals such as Ban Chao, Chen Tang, and Gao Xianzhi once operated.

"The Fearful Merchant?"

Wang Qinian frowned slightly, remembering that Wang Yu died in the hands of Temujin because of the conspiracy of the Wu'er merchants, ten years had passed in a flash, and Temujin's bones had died prematurely, but the Wu'er merchants who coveted the Central Plains trade routes were still shuttling between the oasis and the desert.

However, in the past few years, their life has not been easy, the trade routes in Central Asia have almost completely been replaced by shipping, and they used to make Menghu pay attention to nothing more than their financial management ability and the wealth that supports the luxurious life of the Menghu elites, but now these are no longer there, and their status in Menghu's mind is not as good as before.

"Let him come to see me......" Wang Qinian said.

The customs of the Vultures were naturally different from those of the Great Song Dynasty, and they were influenced by the Great Persian Diet and began to believe in religion long ago. However, the two fearful people who were brought to Wang Qinian were dressed in Confucian crowns, and they looked like Han people in their gestures.

Naturally, their high noses and blue eyes still show their identity, and they are not fake vultures of the Han people.

"Villain Su Luohai, meet the Grand Governor."

The leader of the Wu'er man was in his thirties, and he looked very capable, and when he reported his name, Wang Qinian's face moved: "It turned out to be you...... Ling Zun has a great credit to Menghu, how did you become a fearful businessman! ”

Before the army was dispatched, Li Ye and Wang Qinian had a list of the remaining key figures in Menghu, this Suluohai, the son of Tata Tonga, was currently being relied on by Ogedei, whose father had created the Mongolian script on the orders of Temujin.

"The villain was ordered to come, if he was in his true identity, he was afraid that he would not be able to see the governor." Su Luohai was taken aback, he didn't expect that under such an absolute advantage, the Song people would still be able to know the enemy as if they were their own and not make the mistake of pride. This made him even more vigilant, knowing that he had come to the right place.

"You brought me a message from Ogedei?" Wang Qinian smiled and asked Su Luohai.

"My Great Khan likes Han Chinese books, and has heard the story of a cunning rabbit cooking a lackey, so he sent me to ask the Governor why he was in such a hurry?" Su Luohai was very bold and asked Wang Qinian directly.

In the past few years, the Song army has invaded the grassland every year, and has fought dozens of times with the alliances of Wokotai and Chagatai in Menghu's hometown, and Zhao and Ju called it "round warfare", in order to accumulate experience in fighting on the grassland, and at the same time to achieve the effect of training. However, these wars were concentrated in the eastern part of the Mongolian steppe, and in the west, because of the existence of the buffer state of Western Xia, Mongolia did not send too many troops. This time the Song people destroyed the Western Xia really quickly, sent troops in June, and ended in July, not waiting for the Western Xia to completely stabilize, Wang Qinian went out of the Yumen Pass, and approached the Western Regions, and at this time, the main force of Menghu was still on the eastern front, and the abdomen was empty, which is why Wang Qinian traveled all the way, and even the larger nomadic tribes did not encounter the reason.

For Menghu, who was overwhelmed by the "wheel war", the Western Regions was the hinterland, not only communicating things, but also providing them with a lot of wealth and materials, and it was not a land that could be abandoned casually. The Su Luohai brothers were ordered to operate in the Western Regions, providing supplies for Menghu, and the soldiers and horses in their hands were only 20,000 people, most of them were still servant troops of the Western Regions, and it was impossible to resist the attack of the Song people, so he had to be bold to come to Wang Qinian, hoping to emulate the old wisdom of the merchant Xian Gao to block Qin during the Warring States Period.

It's a pity that Wang Qinian laughed and was not moved by his words at all.

After laughing, Wang Qinian shook the horsewhip and gently whipped him on the head: "This strategy of discord was actually used on me...... You're lucky, you've met me, if you had met our Governor, you would have been chopped into meat sauce a long time ago! ”

"Go back and tell Wokotai and Chagatai, just say what I Wang Qinian said, let them wash and wait for me to cut off their heads...... Well, I heard that they have collected a lot of beauties of all ethnic groups and washed them away, and my flying general Wang Qinian is a friend of beauties, and he will definitely treat them well. ”

Although his words were rude, he dissolved the discordant words of Su Luohai, and the guards soldiers next to him all laughed loudly, only Tang Shili muttered, this guy is a fool, and he spoke very loudly, and everyone heard it clearly: "I heard that Menghu women don't take a bath, and Du Du is really a good appetite!" ”

And the laughter got louder.

Su Luohai stared at Wang Qinian tightly, but he couldn't see the slightest abnormality in Wang Qinian's eyes, he couldn't help but say: "Could it be that the Great Song Tianzi really has such a big mind?" ”

"Your Majesty's mind, how can you, an outsider, understand, that you give Temujin the honorific title of Genghis Khan, saying that he is rich all over the world, but that person can't even tolerate his own brother-in-law, and his narrow-mindedness is just a little bit ......" Wang Qinian stretched out a little finger, and then laughed and said: "My family's official family has a broad mind, even if they put the Eastern Ocean and the Xilan Ocean into it, it only accounts for a small half, not to mention the small feats made by our martial artists?" ”

Among Menghu, the son of the Great Song Dynasty who was born out of thin air is really a legend. Temujin and Tuo Lei are both invincible heroes, but in front of the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, they are like children playing with wooden knives and bamboo guns, and they have no power to fight back. It is Chagatai and Wokotai, who can clean up the mess of the desert in the disintegration after Temujin's death, and they are also rare heroes, but in the face of the "round war" of the Song people every year, the two are also at a loss.

Su Luohai felt a deep sense of powerlessness in his heart, any heroic figure living in the same era as this Great Song Dynasty Emperor was afraid that it would be a tragedy.

"My Great Khan said that the south of the Great Wall is the homeland of the Song people, and my Great Khan promises not to step into the Great Wall again, and this steppe Gobi is the pasture of our Mongols, why is your son of heaven pressing step by step?"

He muttered, and there was already timidity in his words.

"When we Han people and the Huns fought for Yinshan, when we fought for Altai with the Turks, and when we fought for the nine surnames of Zhaowu with the big cannibals, you Menghu didn't know where it was! Including you fearful people, is this Western Regions yours! At the beginning, the Turks rode on your heads to make a fortune, and you bowed your heads and were powerless to resist, but it was our Han people in the Central Plains who helped you overthrow the Turks and drive away the Xue Yantuo people, but what did you do! The Anshi Rebellion took advantage of the weakness of the Central Plains, and you repeatedly harassed the Tang Dynasty and betrayed the Lord, how can you be human! Now he has colluded with Menghu, coveted the Central Plains, and withstood the blow of my Great Song Dynasty, and he still did not repent, trying in vain to occupy the grasslands and the Western Regions that were not originally yours! ”

When Wang Qinian said this, his voice became calm: "Since you dare to do such a thing, you must bear the consequences." In this expedition to the west, my Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty did not send Li Yunrui and Qin Dashi as governors, but Li Ye and my Wang Qinian as governors, why do you say? ”

After fighting with the Great Song Dynasty for so many years, Su Luohai also knows that now there are many famous generals in the Great Song Dynasty, not to mention the generals in the army such as Meng Heng and Yu Jie, among the generals of the Guards system who performed by the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, Li Yunrui, Li Ye, Qin Dashi, and Wang Qinian, who were called Siying at the time. And among them, Li Ye is most famous for slaughtering foreign races, he is not the most powerful in war, but all the foreign races that fall into his hands are almost all buried alive.

This Wang Qinian also did a similar thing, in a round battle, because a Mongolian people murdered a lone Guards dragoon soldier, Wang Qinian killed all the men in the entire tribe who were taller than horses' legs, and the murderous reputation was enough to make the Mongolian children dare not cry at night. Because Li Ye's eyes are small and Wang Qinian has a beautiful beard, there are songs in the Western Regions that sing: "When you meet Li Yanxiao, it is indispensable to be buried alive, and when you meet Wang Dahu, blood stains Huangquan Road." ”

"You ...... You ......"

"My family has a decree, the Western Regions Zhuhu, originally a relic of the Central Plains, thousands of years of surrender to the Central Plains, as long as naturalized, will still be recognized as the Song people, enjoy the grace of the people of the Great Song Dynasty, but if the heart is to the barbarian Hu, stubborn, admit the enemy as a relative, and intend to be self-reliant, allow Li Ye to act cheaply with my Wang Qinian." Wang Qinian pulled his beard and smiled: "Do you know how to act cheaply?" ”

Su Luohai nodded subconsciously, he knew that the purpose of coming this time was impossible to achieve, but from Wang Qinian's words, he still got an important information. The Song people came to the Western Regions this time to bring the Western Regions back under their rule and not allow any opponents to exist.

"It is said that the Mongols like to slaughter cities during their westward expeditions, and you Wu'er people have contributed a lot." Wang Qinian sneered again, the Mongol slaughter of the city was barbaric by the Mongols, and on the other hand, it was also related to the greed of the Wu'er merchants who supported the Mongols: "Su Luohai, think about it, after my Great Song Dynasty drove the Mongols away from the Western Regions, what will happen to you Vultures!" ”

Su Luohai was dripping with cold sweat, his teeth were chattering, and he could barely stand on his feet.

He naturally knew that without the protection of the Mongols, they, the fearful people who had done boundless murder, would be torn to pieces by the surrounding tribes—unless the Great Song was willing to shelter them and give them the same status as the Song people. But now that the Wu'er are helping the Mongolian people, will the Great Song Dynasty still give them status?

He originally came to divide the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty and Wang Qinian, but the result was that Wang Qinian separated the relationship between the Mongolian people and the Wuer people. Since ancient times, it is easy to share hardships and hardships with wealth and wealth, when the Mongols crisscrossed the desert, the Vultures would naturally take refuge in the past and share some scraps, but now it is obvious that the foundation created by Temujin is already Bo Xishan, so that the speculative Vultures are still tied to the Mongolian people, how is that possible!

Thinking of this, Su Luohai didn't say a word, and knelt on the ground: "The governor spares his life, the villain and the whole clan have a big sin, only please understand that the governor has the virtue of a good life, and leave a way for the people to live, if so, the villain is willing to respond to the Great Song Dynasty!" ”

"You're not qualified to put it all together." Wang Qinian waved his whip proudly: "I have three thousand dragoons here, and there are 50,000 troops behind me, with these troops, it is enough to sweep away any enemy who dares to stop my Great Song Dynasty!" What you can do now is to listen to my orders, strive for meritorious service, and reduce some of the sins of your whole clan - after the major event is decided, maybe the Son of Heaven will see that you have made a small contribution and give you forgiveness, but now, you are not qualified to put forward any conditions! ”

"Yes, yes, the Governor of the Metropolitan has taught that the villain is willing to atone for his sins!" Su Luohai said continuously.

"After you go back, you will say that you will move Chagatai and raise troops to march westward to avoid my Great Song Dynasty." Wang Qinian said casually: "The Great Eclipse in the west, the Persian countries, and the Turkic remnants further west are all my old enemies in the Central Plains, if you can destroy them, the Son of Heaven of the Great Song Dynasty can give you their land." ”

"Naturally, you can also choose to stay in the Western Regions and fight me...... In short, I don't need you to do anything. ”

Wang Qinian was not a fool, he could be coaxed by Su Luohai in a few words, he did not need any internal response from the Vultures, he was ordered by Zhao and Ju to drive the Vultures and the two Mongols westward as much as possible, and drive them to attack the Persian food region and the Sultanate of Rûm. For the Mongols to use their scimitars to harvest Central and West Asia, especially extremist sects such as the Old Man of the Mountain, they must be completely eradicated.

As for whether the Mongols are willing to obey or not, it doesn't matter, under the heavy pressure of the Great Song Dynasty, Chagatai and Wokotai can get this way of life, how can there be any reason not to obey!