Beiting City, which was once the seat of the former Tang Beiting Protectorate, managed a vast area from Yiwu in the east, to the Aral Sea in the west, to the Irtysh River in the north to Lake Balkhash, and to the Tianshan Mountains in the south, but unfortunately, with the collapse of the huge Tang Empire, the Beiting Protectorate was also reoccupied by the people of the Western Regions, part of which fell into the hands of the Qarluqs, and the other part was ruled by the Gaochang Hui.

As the seat of the Beiting Protectorate, the Beiting became a famous city in the Western Regions in the former Tang Dynasty, although it was rebuilt many times after several wars, and now it has become the second largest city of Gaochang Huifu, the first big city is naturally the capital of Gaochang Huifu, that is, the famous Gaochang City, and Beiting City as the second largest city, it is also very special in Gaochang, every summer, the king of Gaochang will go to Beiting City to escape the summer, so it is also called the summer capital here.

However, today's Beiting City ushered in a huge disaster, countless party iron cavalry suddenly killed, the Hui army defending the city only resisted for a moment, and was broken through the city by the party people, and then countless cavalry killed into the city, burning and looting everywhere.

"In addition to food, iron, and other materials, the craftsmen of the whole city must also be gathered, especially blacksmiths, carpenters, etc., all of them must be gathered and taken away!" Outside Beiting City, Li Yuanhao commanded with a serious face, and the party generals next to him also immediately agreed, and then rode away.

Looking at this Beiting City that was caught in the flames of war, the corners of Li Yuanhao's mouth rarely showed a few smiles, a few months ago, he faced the attack of Song and Liao, to be precise, it was mainly the attack of the Song army, he unexpectedly chose to avoid, which may make everyone confused, but for Li Yuanhao, it is his only and best choice.

When Li Yuanhao was driven to the grassland, he was still full of ambition to accumulate strength, hoping to kill back to Xingzhou one day, but as time went by, the Great Song Dynasty became stronger and stronger, which also made him more and more desperate, and even he did not give up sending many spies to the Great Song Dynasty, and even bribed many Song people to provide him with information, but the more he understood the Great Song Dynasty, the more desperate he became, because in the face of such a powerful empire, all his efforts seemed to be in vain.

It is also under this despair that Li Yuanhao's mentality has slowly changed, and now he has given up revenge on the Great Song Dynasty, but only considers the survival of the party group, although there are many party members in the Great Song Dynasty, but these party people are giving up their customs and traditions, and are becoming more and more like Han people, which in the eyes of Li Yuanhao and these people, they are no longer party members.

And for the survival of this pure party item in his hands, Li Yuanhao also gave up Zhenzhou very decisively, and chose to save his strength and flee to the Western Regions, after all, there were not many party items in his hands, and there were only tens of thousands of people when he fled to the grassland before, and later after the recruitment of party items in the Great Song Dynasty, coupled with multiplication, it finally recovered to more than 100,000 people, and the real capable fighters were only 50,000 or 60,000.

However, although there are only fifty or sixty thousand troops, Li Yuanhao is not worried that he will not be able to open up the situation in the Western Regions, in fact, he has been planning this plan secretly for a long time, compared to the grassland, he has long taken a fancy to the wealth of the Western Regions, so he has inquired about the situation in the Western Regions very clearly before, and even this attack on Gaochang is also a part of his plan.

Li Yuanhao has been in the grassland for many years, in addition to despairing about the situation of the tribes in the grassland, the most important thing is that the grassland is too backward in all aspects, not to mention that even iron tools cannot be produced on the grassland, so he can only use materials such as cattle and sheep to exchange iron ingots for the Great Song Dynasty or Liao, and then some simple iron tools are made by the blacksmiths with backward skills on the grassland, and the Han merchants can even exchange an iron pot for two good war horses.

It is precisely because of the backward environment of the grassland that Li Yuanhao is also deeply skeptical of the development potential of the grassland, in contrast, the Western Regions is a brilliant civilization, all walks of life are very developed, and some places are even stronger than the Great Song Dynasty, especially those skilled craftsmen, as well as various materials, which are what Li Yuanhao urgently needs, so he chose the first stop in Gaochang.

Originally, a few days ago, Li Yuanhao also led a large army to besiege Gaochang City, but no one expected him to make a false shot, and turned the army to kill under this Beiting City, although Beiting City is only the second largest city in Gaochang, but this is the smelting center of Gaochang, and the iron produced here not only supplies the entire Gaochang, but even some merchants from small countries in the Western Regions also come here to buy iron.

With the entry of the party's army, the defenders of Beiting City also quickly gave up resistance, and many people took advantage of the chaos to escape from other city gates, but they encountered the party's cavalry in ambush, and Li Yuanhao had already ordered that in addition to the craftsmen, all the others should be killed, because this battle was not only to rob the craftsmen and materials, but also to kill Li Wei, so that the entire Western Regions heard his name and were terrified, so after he entered Gaochang, almost every city was slaughtered.

Two days later, Li Yuanhao plundered a large number of craftsmen and supplies, and then burned down Beiting City with a fire. In fact, the reason why Li Yuanhao is so brutal is that in addition to Liwei, he also wants to weaken Gaochang's strength as much as possible.

Because Li Yuanhao knew that Gaochang was friendly with the Great Song Dynasty, if he wanted to gain a foothold in the Western Regions, the Great Song Dynasty was likely to support Gaochang to deal with him, so he decided to weaken Gaochang's strength as much as possible, after all, in his eyes, Gaochang was just a pedal for him to enter the Western Regions, and after looting enough materials and craftsmen, he would leave Gaochang and develop further west.

Beiting City was broken, after the news came out, the entire Western Regions was also shaken, and Gaochang was even more hit, after all, Beiting is their summer capital, and its status is only below Gaochang City, and now even Beiting has been breached, I am afraid that in addition to Gaochang City, there is no other city in Gaochang that can block the iron hooves of the party.

In fact, as the Gaochang people guessed, Li Yuanhao did not stop his footsteps in the North Garden, he immediately waved his army westward, and half a month later killed the westernmost city of Gaochang Qiuci, which was originally an ancient country in the Western Regions, famous for music and dance, but was later annexed by Gaochang Hui.

Qiuzi is surrounded by desert, and the core area is a huge oasis, and if the general army wants to attack them, they must cross the desert with harsh conditions, which can be said to be a dangerous place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but in the face of the iron cavalry of the party people, Qiuzi still has not escaped the fate of the city, but compared to Beiting City, after Li Yuanhao conquered here, he did not slaughter the city as before, but let the army pacify the people, obviously with a greater intention.

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