"Commander, Hamoud has led his army into the city." The captain of the guard quickly arrived at Wan Yi's side and hurriedly reported. After Liu Xuan led the army in the south of Jiaohe City to take charge of lurking and preparing to deal with the possible detour of the Anxi Uighurs, Wan Yi stood alone at the gate of the camp, although it was the night of April 23 in the fourth year of the Apocalypse, but the battle around Jiaohe City had just begun, and the battle between the two places in the northwest of Jiaohe City was full of battles, and the cannons were rumbling, whether it was the Uighurs who desperately wanted to break through the defense line of the Tiance Army and enter Jiaohe City, or the Modao Battalion and the Seventh Corps of the Tiance Army who were ordered to divide their troops to intercept them, they didn't care at all. In the night sky, in addition to the huge fireball from the explosion of the cannonball, the huge fire shining or the bullets shuttling in the air, the line of fire is showing the fierceness of the war, countless Uighur cavalry galloping in the flames of war step by step to attack, stepping on the corpses of their own soldiers to break through the blockade of the Tiance army, after paying huge casualties, some cavalry successfully broke into the position of the Tiance army, crazy arrows and sharp cavalry knives and stepped forward to fight, Or in the flight of bayonets or bullets, the soldiers of the two armies met in a very short time, bent on destroying each other. The Uighur cavalry that broke into the position of the Tiance army desperately tried to expand their own gains and open the dense defense line of the Tiance army, and in addition to the Uighur cavalry who came forward to encircle and suppress the incoming Uighur cavalry, the soldiers next to them quickly closed the defense line to plug the gap again, and then relied on the close fire support of grenades and mortars to forcibly blow up the Uighurs who rushed in front of them, and then fired again. The two sides have been fighting back and forth in a short period of time.

However, compared to the stalemate between the two armies in a short period of time on the periphery, the city of Jiaohe, where the Uighur court of Gaochang was located, was at the last moment, and Hammud was worthy of being the general of the Uighurs of Gaochang, and immediately took out the spirit of twelve points after surrendering sincerely, and led his 20,000 cavalry to dismount and fight a siege battle, relying on the support of artillery, the city wall of the north city of Jiaohe City finally could no longer support after several days of indiscriminate bombardment, and the earthen city wall collapsed at this time. Hammoud personally went into battle and led his men frantically towards the gap, and after fierce fighting, the royal guards in the city were dead and wounded at this time, and could no longer resist the attack from Hammud after losing the cover of the city wall. It has to be said that the Uighurs were unrelenting in their fighting methods in the face of their own people, so Jiaohe City was the first to make a breakthrough among the three battlefields.

Wan Yi waved his hand to signal the captain of the guard to step back, he knew what the other party wanted to say, but Wan Yi had his own considerations for Hammud, so he interrupted the other party's unspoken words, and said: "The internal struggle of the Uighurs is better for them to solve by themselves, for the Tang Dynasty, we don't need to care about who wins and who loses, I just need a stable Jiaohe City, a stable Gaochang." Gone are the days when tribes could be used to divide the dominance. ”

At this time, after Hammud entered the city, he ordered his subordinates to continue to pursue and kill the scattered Janissaries, and he immediately headed towards the royal court with the main force. Hammud himself was a high-ranking Uighur commander of the Qocho Uighurs, so he knew everything about the city, so he soon arrived at the Golden Dome of the Imperial Palace, which was the center of the entire Qocho Uighurs. Although the Uighurs of Gaochang had been in the Gaosing area for decades, and their own living habits gradually transitioned from nomadic to sedentary, the royal court basically maintained the characteristics of a nomadic people. When Hammud arrived at the Khan's tent, the last of the royal court's guards were guarding the Uighur Khan of Gaochang and several important royal nobles preparing to flee, but after seeing Hammad, the middle-aged man wearing a golden crown but wearing traditional Uighur clothes stopped his movements, stared at Hammud and shouted: "Hammud, you are a Uighur disciple in vain, you will not die for the tribe and fight for the people, but you are willing to be a foreign eagle dog and lead troops to attack your mother, are you worthy of this grassland?" Are you worthy of the Uighur people who gave birth to you and raised you? ”

Hammoud's face changed, but he didn't stop, and came to a place about five feet away in front of this person, at this time, the captain of the personal guard behind him also chased after him with a torch and a group of personal guards, but after seeing the middle-aged man, his face changed suddenly, and everyone's eyes instantly focused on Hammoud.

"Great Khan, the time of the Uighurs has passed. Now that the Tang Dynasty has re-emerged in the East, their power is no longer something we can resist, and although I, Hammud, have led people to break through Jiaohe City, I have absolutely no intention of betraying the Uighurs. Rather, I alone will prevent the destruction of my Uighur race. Hammoud took a deep breath and his voice suddenly became high-pitched, "Brothers, I am Hammoud. Perhaps many of you are scolding me, that I single-handedly caused the destruction of Jiaohe City, led outsiders to slaughter my own brothers, sorry for the Uighurs, sorry for the Great Khan, and sorry for the Immortal Heaven. But what I want to say is, in the past few months, we have competed with Datang, have we ever won? The other party has a weapon beyond the times, the Tang Dynasty is strong and prosperous a hundred years ago, Anxi was originally the hometown of the Tang Dynasty, we have been here from the grassland for nearly a hundred years, and now the old lord of Anxi has come to recover their homeland, we Uighurs have neither the ability to defeat, nor the reason to possess it, so why can't we let go of our prejudices and return to the Tang Dynasty? General Wan, the commander of the Tang Western Expeditionary Army, has promised me that as long as we surrender to the Tiance Army, submit to the Tang Dynasty, and become the new people of the Heavenly Khan, then they will not expel us or slaughter us, but treat us as their people, and enjoy the glory of this unprecedented empire like the Tang people. Great Khan, the Uighurs don't have so many brothers to sacrifice, we have already sacrificed hundreds of thousands of warriors, does the Great Khan want my Uighur warriors to be killed and wounded before they are willing? In the past few months, from sending troops to aid Zhang Chaofeng to the Battle of Yizhou, and then to the Battle of Jiaohe City, the three major wars of the Gaochang Uighurs have all ended in failure without exception, and nearly 200,000 soldiers have spilled blood on the grassland, and there is no return for horses. This kind of ending is something that no one expected, the strength of the Tiance Army, and the sharpness of the weapons also made everyone change their style, and this insoluble suppression also made Hammad's words recognized by everyone at this time, and even the guards of the royal court were said to be silent, and many soldiers unconsciously put down the weapons in their hands, and their eyes began to change gradually.

"Hammoud, how many days have you not been captured by the Tang Army once and you have become clever and orderly? My Uighur boy has always been a good man who stands up to the heavens and the earth, how can I survive by stealing under the feet of others? In the name of the Uighur Great Khan, I declare to the Immortal Heaven that you will be abolished as a Uighur, and that you will not be forgiven by the Immortal Immortal for the rest of your life, nor will you return to the embrace of the Immortal Heavens after you die. When the Uighur Khan saw that Hamoud's words had a role, he was furious, and stared at his former general viciously, shouting, "Whoever is left and right will take down this thief for me." ”

"Does the Great Khan really want to break the net and ignore the death of hundreds of thousands of sentient beings in our household?" Hammud saw that his khan did not care, and his face gradually turned cold. Originally, when Hammud received this task from Wan Yi's side, he thought that after taking down the main members of the royal court, he could persuade them to recognize the situation clearly and surrender to the Tiance army, so that in the future, the Anxi Gaochang Uighurs would not suffer much loss, and they would definitely get preferential treatment because they were the first to defect to the Tang Dynasty, so that not only would there be no problem with racial reproduction, but it was also possible to rely on the Tang Dynasty for development, after all, the northwest is so big, and it is impossible for the Tang Dynasty to migrate too many people from the mainland. As long as he doesn't have two hearts, then the Tang Dynasty will not do anything to the Uighurs. And most importantly, Wan Yi had clearly promised him that when the time came, after the civil affairs officials took over the affairs of Gaochang, they would immediately begin to implement the household registration system promulgated by the Tang Dynasty in the Central Plains, so that the Gaochang Uighurs would also collectively enjoy the treatment of the Tang people because of their first defection. Hammoud understood that all Tang people would receive the protection of the imperial government, and they would have all kinds of rights and benefits, not only land and livestock, but also free business, and enjoy the same tax benefits as the Han people. For Hammud, who has witnessed the grim living conditions of the people at the bottom since he was a child, this is enough for him to surrender to Datang wholeheartedly. You must know that even if the Uighurs occupied Gaochang and other places, the living conditions of the ordinary tribes, except for the upper echelons, were not much better than those of the other ethnic groups at the bottom, and they were still miserable.

"Since the Great Khan does not think about the many of my Uighur tribes, then there is no need for me Hammoud to say more. Brothers, go and use your swords and swords to fight for a bright tomorrow for our Uighur people, and for them a tomorrow free from hunger and hardship. The commander of Datang is watching us, brothers, whoever is unwilling to follow Datang will kill me. Hammoud had nowhere to vent his anger, and in desperation, the sword in his hand was raised, and the countless soldiers around him shouted and then stepped forward bravely, and a mass murder began. These soldiers are basically from poor families, and Hammud's shouting in this life is equivalent to letting go of the last shackles in their hands, and the entire Jiaohe City is immersed in swords and swords and rivers of blood. In addition to the countless soldiers who did not lay down their arms and finally became the Uighur Khan, more of them were the nobles in the city who died in this melee, these soldiers could no longer control their murderous spirit after being ignited by Hammud's anger in their hearts, and in the end they searched for those princes and nobles almost door to door, no matter what race they were, as long as the rich families were almost all damaged in this battle, and some of the big families were even killed.

Hammoud did not stop the killing, or rather, it was originally intentional on his part, except for his own personal guards to stand guard for some families who did not have major evil deeds to ensure that they were not affected, the other high-level leaders of the Gaochang Uighurs were basically corrupted and degenerate because of their decades-long stable life, and they did not spare their own people in addition to oppressing other ethnic groups in the high-yield territory. Hammoud could not imagine that if these people did not take action himself, they would be angry with the entire Uighur tribe because of these people when they took over the city of Jiaohe City. Therefore, Hammoud simply took advantage of this scuffle to solve all the troubles at once, and used his butcher's knife to borrow the heads of these people to win a bright future for all the Uighur people. Therefore, the killing continued until the next morning, when Hammud withdrew his troops, escorted the Uighur Khan and other high-ranking royal families to the camp of the Tiance army, and ordered his soldiers to start to put order in the city, collect all the corpses of the Uighurs killed in the battle, seize all the treasury, and seal all the property of the big families who were raided to prepare for handing over to the Tiance army.

Although Wan Yi did not enter the city, but Hammud's actions in the city were known for the first time through the secret guards of Xuan Yingwei, and Wan Yi did not interfere with Hammud's purge in the city, but he was very surprised by Hammad's ruthlessness and cleanliness, such a large-scale purge will inevitably make the Uighurs' dominance in Jiaohe City and even the entire Gaosing area drop significantly, and there will even be a huge power hollow in Jiaohe City, which is equivalent to giving the Tang Dynasty the opportunity to reformulate the ruling order. Hammud behaved like this, not only for his own future, but also for the promise he made to him at the beginning. Do your best to eliminate the reason for the Tang Dynasty to suppress and suppress the Uighurs after the war, and first eliminate those corrupt forces in the clan.

"Enlighten the marshal, Hammoud sent someone to ask when the marshal will enter the city." Seeing Wan Yi sleepless all night, the captain of the guard walked in and put on a cloak while reporting the situation, and said, "Commander, are we going to enter the city as a whole army?" ”

"You go and lead a thousand guards to follow me into the city, and the others stay in the big camp without mistake, take care of the Anxi Uighur captives in the rear camp, and someone from the logistics team will come over tomorrow, and hand them over when the time comes, and the deputy prime minister of Shazhou will be summoned to say that Jiaohe City has been taken, so he can send someone to receive it as soon as possible." When Wan Yi walked to the city of Jiaohe with a thousand personal guards, Hammud had already led people to greet him at the gate of the city, and when he saw Wan Yi coming, he immediately dismounted.

"The general can overcome a strong enemy and take Jiaohe City, a great achievement." Wan Yi picked up Hammoud and smiled slightly, and led him to walk into the city.

"Marshal, the city has just experienced war, did the marshal let the guards enter the city first?" Seeing that Wan Yi didn't even arrange the guards he brought to the city in advance, Hamoud pulled himself to talk while walking inside, and suddenly his heart was shocked, and he hurriedly pulled him and said.

"Oh, the general hasn't finished clearing the city of the participating enemies?" Wan Yi didn't understand it at first, but then he knew the other party's thoughts and smiled slightly: "Since the general has decided to surrender to the Tang Dynasty, then the general's subordinates are also my Datang army, although they have not yet been authorized by my Datang General Staff and the Ministry of National Defense, the general's subordinates cannot be reorganized for the time being, and cannot be renamed the Tiance Army, but I think the General Staff will not have any objections to the general's righteous deeds, and the rest is an order from the General Staff, is it possible that the general will not be able to protect the safety of the commander because he has not been reorganized and renamed?" ”

"Okay, this marshal can officially inform the general that before the deputy prime minister of the cabinet sends someone to take over Jiaohe City, the defense in Jiaohe City is still in charge of the general." Wan Yi's words reveal trust in Hammoud, and it is also a strong display of self-confidence. This kind of immovable bearing made Hammoud feel very nostalgic, and hurriedly arched his hand: "Hammoud can win the trust of the marshal, and he is inexplicably happy, please rest assured that the marshal will serve the Tang Dynasty wholeheartedly, obey the commander's dispatch, and dare not disobey." ”

"As long as you sincerely submit to Datang, Datang will definitely not disappoint everyone's expectations. His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty has long said that we will establish a big family of the Chinese nation with all tribes as one, and I once again sincerely hope that the Uighurs will be called a member of the Chinese nation and become a solid foundation for the Tang Empire. Wan Yi looked at the Uighur soldiers beside Hammud and smiled slightly, and his voice became extremely passionate.