The vast desert is wide, and the city of Helian is getting farther away.

The forts meet each other, and the river moves and swirls.

There are no cicadas hissing willows, and there are guards like guards.

If you don't tolerate hunger and cold, who will come to this end?

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The fallen tents and meadows were then all thrown into the oil-soaked fire, and the raging fire was ignited, and soon the land on which the party depended was destroyed.

A small military market was set up in the White Leopard City, and the men and women who had been captured were branded as "slaves of the Six Mansions" like horses, and after preparing the contract book, they were quickly sold.

There is a reward for plundering slaves, and all the Qiang soldiers who participated in it will be rewarded with food, cloth or money for every slave they give to the Tang family, so that the white horses, Shuyi, cattle slaughtering and the wild dragon Qiangtun city of Qiaoshan in Gyeongju will not consider what kind of kinship or even kinship relationship between themselves and the party of Liufu, because the intellectuals in the Qingzhou School Palace or Buddhist temple told them: "You are the same species as the Han people, the proud descendants of Yanhuang, and you are qualified to fight side by side with the Tang family soldiers, and those in Pingxia and Liufu, When the Yanhuang tribe proudly stood in the Fengling city-state, they were all in the bitter cold and remote places, living an inhuman and ghost-like life, no, they were non-human, they were ghosts, they were not qualified to be called 'Qiang', they were not qualified to call themselves 'medicine'! When you went west, you were tasked by your ancestors to conquer them, not to mingle with the filthy them, and now is the time to make a clear distinction. ”

Killing these captives, or reducing them to slavery and seizing their land, is the self-purification of the Qiang bloodline.

With this kind of cognition, when this group of Qiang cavalry Yicong carried out a shallow attack, they felt that the blood on the blades and arrow clusters was coated with a layer of divine brilliance, "I will kill Huluer for the Son of Heaven and the Heavenly Khan!" ”

In just over a month, the Tang Army's clearance troops hunted and killed nearly 10,000 men and women in the Liufu Party, and as for the pastures for grazing, they were either burned or robbed by the Tang Army's archers or volunteers--The Nixiang Prince was in a great passivity, and he couldn't counterattack in Jinmingdao County, because he couldn't defeat the Tang Army with cutting-edge armaments; But self-protection could not protect itself, the cavalry of the Tang army attacked and burned, and all the time reduced the strength of each resistance to the fall.

At the end of September, the Weibei Festival made Dai Xiuyan die in the army, the emperor issued an edict to mourn and posthumously, and let Dai Xiuyan's younger brother Dai Xiuxuan attack the festival, and another younger brother Dai Xiuyan was the marching Sima, and continued to unify the Jingsai army and return to Hun Xuan's moderation.

Hun Ying soon gathered more than 10,000 elite soldiers and horses in the river and Jingsai army, went out of the Sanchuankou in Yanzhou, broke dozens of Qiangqiang, captured more than 5,000 party items, and captured 20,000 men and women.

The prince of Nixiang couldn't bear it, so he could only take the spared more than 100,000 yuan, retreat to Luzi Pass, and after arriving there, he saw that the local area was all mountainous, could not graze, and cattle, horses, sheep and livestock died very much, and he couldn't help but be greatly frightened, worried that he would be surrounded and annihilated by the Tang army, so he was ready to retreat to Xiazhou in the north of Baiyu Mountain along Luzi Pass, and the party units of Lishi retreated to Xiazhou in the north of Baiyu Mountain, and met with the Xia Department of Ping.

Gao Yue and Hun Yang were in Fangchi, Fuzheng, Jinming and other places, murderous, Gao Yue directly threatened to his subordinates: When it snows after winter, the livestock of the six government party items will not be able to keep the eleven, and then I will personally supervise the elite and Hun Shizhong to attack, attack Luzi Tumen, and collect more than 100,000 slaves from Liufu into the palace and sell them to all parts of the world.

After hearing the news of Gao Yue, the prince of Nixiang knew that this human slaughter and plague god would definitely be able to do what he said, so he was so frightened that he sent several relatives to pass through Luzi Pass and send this message to Tuoba Zhaohui's Tongwan City, and urgently begged the other party to take it in.

The Tongwan City at the Qiwu Mountain in Xiazhou was built by Helian in 413 A.D. when the "Heavenly King Da Danyu" Helian appointed Qigan Ali as the general as a master craftsman, and levied Bai in the north of the mountain (Lingbei) 100,000 people to build, so the city is majestic, so it takes the meaning of "unifying the world and ruling all nations", and is named "Tongwan City". Legend has it that when the city was built, he was so cruel that he ordered the people to steam sand, lime and clay into a triple clay, ram it into a wall, and then use a sharp cone to probe. After the completion of the Tongwan City, because the city wall is lime white, and very tight, from a distance to look like the water training white belt, so it is also called "White City".

It has been nearly 400 years since the birth of Tongwan City, when Helian Bobo dominated here, Xiazhou was still a land of abundant water and grass, suitable for farming and grazing, even if the Liang division was divided here in the early Tang Dynasty, it can also be called a rich land, but now there is a tendency to desertification, but even so, when the Pingxia Department came to this majestic city, it was still overwhelmed by its spirit! Its outer city is huge, but several sections have collapsed, and the front is full of wind and sand blowing from the north, but the inner city is still standing in place, even in the Song Dynasty, Shen Kuo who came here to visit is full of praise, not to mention the group of barbarians in the Pingxia Department.

Its inner city is divided into the east city and the west city, the circumference of the west city is 7,200 feet, the circumference of the east city is 7,500 feet, the width of the city wall is up to 48 feet, it can be used for four horses to gallop through, and the horse face is extremely well preserved, the four corners of the east and west city walls are built with extremely tall pier platform corner towers, the corner tower has a total of seven layers, each layer stretches out many wooden rafters around the wall, the rafters can be laid with wooden planks, circle up the railing, the shape is like a plank road, the terrace, can be used by soldiers to cover their bodies on it, launch arrows, the top of the pier platform is flat, there is a gorgeous enemy tower built for commanding, erecting ballistas, And every other section of the protruding horse face, its interior is hollowed out, laid with shelf stairs, divided into several layers, stored countless grain, weapons and stones, soldiers inside, can rest, can also climb the city wall, defend against the attacking enemy.

As Helian Bo's stone tablet of Tongwan City said, this city can be described as "a high corner hidden sun, Chongyun Jiyun", "high structure Qianxun, Chongji Wanren".

When Tuoba Zhaohui of the Pingxia Department led countless clansmen to gather in Baichengzi, he couldn't help but sigh at its majesty and magnificence, and was even more grateful to Helian Bobo for giving them the name of Xia in the dark, and gave them a big fortress that was difficult to attack - so the Ding Zhuang of the Pingxia Department repaired the collapsed city wall, repaired the decayed corner tower, laid the wooden rafters again, wrapped the railings in raw cowhide and camel skin, and slightly prepared the city gates, roads and palaces of the inner and outer cities, and added some pavilions for the chieftains who were loyal to themselves. The clan lived or was used to receive foreign "envoys".

Now Tongwan City has regained its vitality, Tuoba Zhaohui changed its name to "Yuanhui" and called himself the Son of Heaven, took the lead in imitating the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty, built a temple in the west city, sacrificed to his dead father, and also built a "Temple of the Heavenly King" to worship Helian Bobo, to please the founder and protector of the Tongwan City, and he lived in the palace, wore a golden crown, wore a colorful silk robe, and canonized his wife and concubines and heirs, and enjoyed the treatment of the real emperor.

When the prince of Muxiang came to the mansion in the outer city for help, Yuan Hui summoned the chiefs into the palace to discuss the matter.