On the first day of the ninth month of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Shule was approaching winter, but this ancient city did not have the chill of winter at all, but was in full swing in front of the tense military situation of both sides. On the Uighur side, although Hammud desperately defeated the Samanid reinforcements, the Uighurs gathered all the tribal armies that could be controlled near Shule, plus some of the troops stranded in Anxi by the Turgish and Qarluq in the early stage, the troops in Shule reached an astonishing nearly 200,000 cavalry, and the murderous appearance of hundreds of thousands of troops on both sides of Shule City made the surrounding countries and tribes tremble, and these two behemoths made the entire northwest wait and see, waiting for the final results of both sides. For the Uighurs, this is their last battle, and even the alliance with those forces that choose to send troops is waiting, if they can't stop the Tang Dynasty's offensive in this battle, then the next step is that the Tiance army will inevitably continue to march westward to completely recover the entire northwest, and all the people in the territory under the protection of the Anxi capital will be reincorporated into the Tang Dynasty's rule. This is absolutely intolerable for these ethnic groups who have already achieved dominance and even regional domination, no matter what their attitude towards the Tang Dynasty is, they will not give up the land they have obtained with great difficulty. Therefore, for the tribes in the northwest, this is tantamount to a war of gambling on the fortunes of the country and the clans, and there is no way out, and even some involuntary tribal leaders have begun to secretly inquire west to see if there is still land suitable for their tribes to live in the far northwest.

However, these have nothing to do with Hammoud for the time being, and he has been busy with Tuoba Sijian in the past few days to study the military management and the resettlement of various tribes after the war in Anxi. The battle on the front line was under the full command of Gao Siji, and the more than 100,000 troops of the three corps were all ready with the support of the artillery units directly under the headquarters, and Zhao Si and the Flying Eagle Brigade also began to withdraw from the city one after another in the past two days. During the time they were in charge of holding back the Uighur royal court guards southward, they were fighting against Ye Hu's cavalry in front of the palace every moment, and the Flying Eagle Brigade was also damaged for the first time in a long time. However, this did not make Su Xiaohu feel frustrated, after the large-scale expansion of the Flying Eagle Brigade, it was true that the combat effectiveness of the troops declined because the personnel training could not keep up with the old members before, but after such a long period of uninterrupted combat, these people have grown rapidly, so that Su Xiaohu was in good spirits when he saw Wan Yi.

"Marshal, deputy prime minister, the army is attacking the city." Wan Yi and Tuoba Siji boarded the viewing platform and saw that the front-line troops had begun to attack the city, and the artillery shells that were tested by the artillery unit were discharged one after another, and Liu Xuan next to him pulled Hammoud to come to him and said with a smile. Because the troops in the city have been reluctant to go out of the city to fight field battles, so Gao Siji is no longer willing to wait, it is already very cold in the northwest in September, if the troops cannot enter the city to avoid the cold for a long time, then the western expeditionary army will experience a severe test.

"General Ha, come and sit with me, it just so happens that I and the deputy prime minister have something to look for you." Wan Yi's viewing platform is far away from the front line, and their group of bigwigs basically rely on the Thousand Miles Realm to watch the battle, so although the cannon in front of them is rumbling, several people can hear it clearly at this time. Wan Yi asked Hammoud to sit beside him and smiled: "I heard from the deputy prime minister that you are going to hold a meeting of the alliance of the Uighur tribes in Shule City, right?" ”

Hamoud nodded and said: "I asked Deying to send someone to inform him, there is basically no problem on the Gaochang side, it has been incorporated into the Tang Dynasty, and the elders and leaders of the tribes below have now given up power to fend for themselves except for a few who serve in the government, but it is very difficult on the Anxi side, and there are not many Uighurs in the area of Boxian Town, mainly concentrated in the area from Yanqi to Shule and the northern region." Hammoud analyzed these things, and with the help of the materials that Xuan Yingwei had collected before, he had now basically figured out the main distribution areas of the Uighurs on the Anxi side, and sent people over, and in some areas, he even let Deying lead the army to go and use the intelligence information held by Xuan Yingwei to disintegrate from the inside.

"I think it's set on September 15, although I'm afraid it's about to snow on September 15 in the northwest." Wan Yi said with a smile: "When the time comes, I will let the main force go north and hand over Shule City to you." ”

Hammud knew that Wan Yi was putting pressure on himself, and that the main force going north could avoid the feeling of overwhelming the tribes as much as possible, so that everyone thought that this was an internal matter of the Uighurs, so he nodded and smiled: "Don't worry, Dashuai, give me three months after this alliance, and I will definitely let the entire Uighur tribe be completely included in the rule of the Tang Dynasty, and never rebel from now on, integrate into the Chinese nation, and become one of them." ”

"Alright, my commander, how did I find out that you have been so interested in civil affairs lately? Why don't I tell the emperor, the last time Mr. Cen said that he had a deputy in the cabinet and was assigned to the northwest, he was too busy to be alone, and he was looking for the emperor to prepare to send an additional deputy prime minister, or I would recommend you and transfer to civil affairs? Tuoba Siji smiled beside him.

"The marshal, the deputy marshal has begun to attack the city, and the large troops have gone up." Liu Xuan had been observing the battle ahead while they were chatting, and when he opened his mouth, all his eyes were immediately attracted to the fierce battle ahead. At this time, Gao Siji's side had indeed invested ground troops, and after more than 200 cannons bombarded it for more than half an hour, the entire wall of Shule City became like a dog gnawing on it, with potholes, and countless defender soldiers were scattered in the continuous explosion. In order to suppress the counterattack of the soldiers on the city tower, the demolition team stepped forward to organize the blasting, and the mechanical crossbow also began to pour firepower for a long time, but unlike the artillery bombardment concentrated near the city tower, the main targets of the rockets were behind the city tower, near the urn city, Yuliang Road and the auxiliary military camp in the city. The rate of fire of the rockets was not comparable to that of the artillery, and the huge magazines were quickly exhausted, and the Uighur soldiers who had previously evaded the artillery and hid in the urn city or other bunkers suffered this time, the penetration of the rockets was not large enough, but the killing of living targets was reached by dense coverage, and after a dozen or so volleys, the Uighurs' reserve forces were quickly depleted, so that when the demolition team rushed forward to organize the explosion, they did not encounter any powerful counterattack. The huge wall of Shule was directly blown down by an explosion that appeared out of thin air, and countless earth and stones flew and the entire tower was blown into the air by the huge explosion force, and then scattered in all directions, burying countless Uighur soldiers who had been lucky enough to escape the explosion.

Gao Siji's tactical command is naturally perfect, and the cooperation between the various units is extremely skillful, as soon as the demoman here succeeds, the Modao battalion responsible for the first wave of entering the city on that side directly rushed up to start a street battle under the leadership of Shi Jian, and then the Anxi Corps also began to enter the city, and the shouting and explosion in the city under the joint efforts of the two corps also reached the extreme. Seeing that Shule City was destroyed, Gao Siji handed over the command of the front line to Wu Si'er, and returned to the Shuai tent himself. Seeing that the other two had already entered the city, Wu Si'er simply asked the Seventh Corps to find another way to directly blow up the gate of the northern city, which was no longer in charge at this time, and joined the sequence of street battles in the city. His confusion almost made the other two departments in the city scold him for being shameless at the beginning, but after the more than 50,000 people of the Seventh Corps entered the city, the pressure on the Modao Battalion and the Anxi Corps was suddenly reduced to the limit, and the whole army rushed forward and then began to densely intersperse countless squads of people and horses, and after dispersing the troops, the speed of cutting the opponent became very fast. However, it also gave the Uighurs an opportunity to break through, and Gao Siji had the Seventh Corps to stay behind in order to prevent the Uighurs from breaking through the city, but Us'er's move made this arrangement fall through. Eventually, after a day and a night of fierce fighting in the city, the Uighur Yehu saw that there was nothing to do, and he led his personal guard and scattered soldiers, numbering more than 5,000 people, to flee from the western city in a hurry. Although the battle of Shule City was not completed due to the mistake of Us'er, it was finally taken down completely, and because the Uighur Yehu finally led the troops to break through, there was no final decisive counterattack in the city. Especially the last of the warriors, after knowing that their Han king had broken through, they lost their morale and were eventually captured. This is also the reason why Wan Yi chose not to punish Wu Si'er in the end, one of his mistakes allowed the Tiance Army to have nearly 30,000 more prisoners, and Shule City was also relatively intact.

However, after Wan Yi entered the city, the rectification in Shule City officially began. As for the large and small Uighur nobles in Shule City, whether it was the high-level leaders of the Tang Dynasty in the northwest led by Wan Yi or the Uighurs who had undergone the Gaochang reform such as Hammud, they did not have the slightest favor for these strata who held privileges but had actually become an obstacle to the Tang Dynasty's rule in the northwest. Therefore, on the third day of entering the city, after the Uighur army was officially appointed as the Shule City Defense Corps, Hammoud and Tuoba Siji immediately issued a proclamation, first directly ordering the seizure of the mansions and treasury of seventy-one Uighur nobles, large and small, and arresting all these nobles from top to bottom and putting them in prison. Although these nobles themselves were the middle and high-level of the Uighur regime in Anxi, and there was not much reaction from all walks of life in the city after the war, but just later, Hammoud made another move, and sealed up more than a dozen other wealthy families of various ethnic groups led by the city, accused of preying on the common people and oppressing the people of the northwest. This directly made everyone in Shule City frightened by this, and they didn't know who Hammud was going to attack next. Many people have studied the actions and reforms in other occupied areas of the Tang Dynasty before, and they feel that this time Hamoud's military management yamen acted too violently, and as Hamoud's follow-up actions became bigger and bigger, it had even caused some wealthy businessmen to prepare to flee Shule and go to other places.

However, at this time, Tuoba Sijian suddenly summoned the major wealthy families in the city as the deputy prime minister of the Datang Cabinet and the head of the Northwest Special Region, preparing to convene the Shule Industrial and Commercial Conference, so that everyone could smoothly pass the handover and be familiar with the new commercial rules of Datang. This is good news for the business class who are in fear all day long, and do not know when Hammoud will come to their door. You must know that Hammoud has pushed the person in charge of the seventy-one nobles in front of him directly outside the city on the charge of rebellion, and the bloody butcher's knife will fall again at any time. For the various industrial and commercial tycoons who still exist in the world at this time, they are not much concerned about who will rule Shule, because the land output in the northwest is not large, most of them are grassland deserts, so business has been the main way of survival of the various ethnic groups in the northwest, they honestly do not pay much attention to who rules the northwest, but are more interested in who can give them smoother trade routes and cheaper taxes. In fact, although the reform and new policies implemented by Datang every time they occupied a place hurt the original strata in the short term, the new policies actually brought new development opportunities to the industry-based industries. Therefore, almost as soon as Tuoba Si's instruction was issued, the major families who received the invitation letter said that they would send important people to participate, and they immediately stood in line to express their support for the Tang Dynasty's rule over Shule.

In the face of almost the main members of the entire Shule industry and commerce, Tuoba Siji first said on behalf of Datang that Datang's cleanup of Shule has basically ended, and will not increase the attack for the sake of the previous Uighurs, but I hope that everyone present will make it clear that up to now, the Tiance army has occupied all the Anxi areas east of Shule, and the Tang Dynasty's recovery of the entire Anxi is already a general trend and cannot be violated. He hoped that everyone present would recognize the situation clearly and not easily become enemies of Datang, otherwise becoming the bloody Dharma field would be the best witness.

After shocking these people, Tuoba Sizhi moved out of the industrial and commercial policy of the Tang Dynasty, saying that all areas included in the territory of the Tang Dynasty will pass the Datang Industrial and Commercial Code, and in the future, Anxi will be the same as the Central Plains, and all those who hold the household registration of the Tang Dynasty will receive the preferential tax treatment of the Tang Dynasty and the protection of the Tiance Army, and as the people of the Tang Dynasty, they will be able to enjoy the treatment of the people of the Central Dynasty.

Tuoba sent a copy of the provisions of the Datang Industrial and Commercial Code to everyone present, and said that from September 15, the Uighur League would begin to formally reform the civil affairs of the entire northwest, and that the new household registration of the Datang would be immediately in the hands of the people of the Datang Dynasty.

Tuoba Sizhi did not explain in detail the various problems in everyone's minds, but instead took care of himself and directly ordered the guests to be sent off after saying what he wanted to say. Although these people walked out with a stomach full of questions, a thought flashed in everyone's hearts, who will this Datang household registration be issued to? And some of the more sensitive people heard a hint of extraneous voices, the Uighur League conference was held on September 15?