[The double is almost over, continue to ask for a monthly pass.] 】

Watching Wang Sunchen dismount, the general took a few steps forward, and before stepping into the defensive line of Wang Sunsin's own soldiers, he fell to the ground again.

"The last general, Li Quanzhong, paid a visit to the ruler."

"Alright, get up."

Wang Sunsin walked over and helped him up with his own hands. Others don't care, this Li Quanzhong, Wang Sunchen has always been very well-treated. Because he is the son of the king of Khotan, and he is the descendant of the king of Khotan.

Before the destruction of the Khotanese state, the lord of the country was the Wei Chi clan. During the Anshi Rebellion, the then lord of the country led the army to rescue the Tang Dynasty because he married the daughter of the Tang Dynasty, and was given the surname Li. Later, the lord of Gaochang state, because he regarded himself as the nephew of the Son of Heaven in the Central Plains, so more than 100 years ago, Li Shengtian, also known as the Wei Chi monk Wubo, sent an envoy to China, and called the Son of Heaven at that time as an uncle.

Eighty years ago, Khotan was destroyed by the Black Khanate. The two countries have been at war for more than 100 years, and their enmity is deep, and their beliefs are completely different. When the country was overthrown, many of its lords, nobles, officials, and their subordinates, soldiers, and common people abandoned the country and fled to Shazhou.

At that time, the descendants of the Wei Chi family also fled together, and since then they have been living with the Tubo and Han people in the Yumen Pass. It's just that they didn't forget the national hatred and family hatred with the Black Khanate, when Wang Sunchen led the army to the west and recruited the clans of Ganliang Road to go out together, the Wei Chi family selected 1,500 children of the clan and asked them to follow Wang Sunchen to the west. Now, with the addition of those that were added later, there are more than 2,000 soldiers and horses. It is the largest number of miscellaneous armies under Wang Sunsin.

Li Quanzhong was the commander in command of this army. His real name is called Yu Chi Yanda, and when he was in Ganzhou, he always used this name. When Wang Sunchen led the army to take Ganzhou, Yu Chi Yanda was gone, and there was one more Li Quanzhong.

However, Li Quanzhong is not the head of the Wei Chi family, but the eldest son, the head of the Wei Chi family is too old to accompany the army, so he sent the heir, if Khotan is recovered by the Great Song Dynasty in the future, Li Quanzhong will have a great chance to say that the Great Song Dynasty court will let him restore the country, and be the border of Yongzhen in the Great Song Dynasty.

With this thought, Li Quanzhong is careful in everything. He dared to fight hard in battle, and on weekdays, he was very polite to Wang Sunchen and did not dare to slack off.

Helped to get up, Li Quanzhong said cautiously: "The time is almost up, is the jurisdiction just going to eat in the camp of the last general?" ”

Wang Sunchen looked at the sky, the wind and snow were mixed, and he couldn't see the time, but from his stomach, he knew that it was time to eat.

nodded, and walked to the camp: "Okay, it's here today." ”

He still values Li Quanzhong very much. Took Khotan. It is impossible for the imperial court to set up liuguan to manage the Western Regions, so it can only appoint local officials, most of whom will be returned to the Wei Chi family. It has only been a few decades since the destruction of Khotan, and there are still people who miss the old master, and there are also Buddhists who are secretly hiding. With the help of the Wei Chi family, the imperial court will be able to hold the southern frontier of the Western Regions.

Li Quanzhong did not immediately follow, but first respectfully invited Wang Sunchen's personal soldiers to enter the camp together.

Many of Wang Sunchen's personal soldiers were military doctors, or conversely, in this western expeditionary army, almost all of the military doctors were his personal soldiers, and many people's lives were saved by them. Wang Sunsin's position in the army did not depend entirely on his military force.

Behind Li Quanzhong, there were more than a dozen generals and colonels, all of whom followed them to the camp.

There are many differences in the attire of these people. From these very different attire, it can be seen that among them, there were Han Chinese, Tibetans, and Uighurs.

This was true of every barracks outside the city. Wang Sunsin was different from his rough appearance, and he was always careful in his work. Several camps are mixed with old people and newcomers.

In Li Quanzhong's camp, several of them were Uighurs from Gaochang, with more than 800 troops. But the leader is still Li Quanzhong, who has thousands of troops.

Twenty sheep were killed in the camp, and they all raised a fire to roast them, and each small tent could eat a few pieces, in addition, there was a broth made of dried horse meat, in which carrot-based vegetables were also placed, a mouthful of soup and a mouthful of bread, and then barbecued meat was used as a spice, there was no better food, even Wang Sunchen ate like this.

In the main tent, the roasted mutton drips with oil on the charcoal fire, and the tongue of fire jumps up from time to time, licking the fat sheep that is spinning on the fire.

Wang Sunsin used a silver knife to cut the mutton piece by piece, dipped in cumin, pepper and other spices, and tasted a rare fresh fragrance. However, this was just an embellishment, and more often than not, Wang Sunsin soaked the dough in the broth and swallowed it with the soldiers below. It's just that the wind and snow outside the house ruined his plans to get close to the soldiers.

Eating meat and drinking soup, Wang Sunsin chewed hard and soaked the soup noodle cake. I regret it in my heart, but it's a pity that there is no good wine.

When it's snowing, if you can drink a hot cup of scalded knives, it will be a great pleasure. But of course there will be no one in the Western Regions, and the soju can be sold anywhere, and no one will transport wine to the Western Regions for a little more profit.

And there are also specialty wines here in the Western Regions. Especially in Gaochang, the water, soil and sunshine are good, and the grapes can be grown, and the people of Gaochang have been making wine to drink since a long time ago.

The wine of the Western Regions is very famous, and Wang Sunchen remembered that after his staff arrived in the Western Regions, he would look for wine to drink, and while drinking, he also chanted the glow-in-the-dark glass of grape wine, and immediately urged him to drink the pipa.

But let Wang Sunchen look at it, the wine produced in Gaochang Kingdom is not filtered, and the second is not distilled, so it can fade out of the bird. The wine of the Western Regions, in the eyes of the well-fed Song people, is that the color is good-looking, but it is not good to eat.

Without wine as a companion, the meal will be very fast, and in a quarter of an hour, even the cups and plates will be cleaned up.

"Jurisdiction." After a full meal, Li Quanzhong looked at Wang Sunchen's expression, "Our army is in the last barbarian, I don't know how long we have to wait?" ”

"Wait for the snow to stop. Think about it again. ”

Wang Sunsin was not greedy, and he had not yet thought of attacking the Black Khanate with the military strength he had in hand now. The military strength is too far behind, no matter how bad Black Khan is, it is also a country of ten thousand times, in his own hands, when the reinforcements from Ganliang Road arrive in Gaochang, the total number will not be too much.

Now the first priority is to expand the army, Gaochang, Qiuzi and Yanqi all have descendants left behind in Anxi Town. Although he no longer understands the Han language, he can more or less see a little shadow of the Han people from his appearance. If there are enough benefits to recruit them, they can support the Great Song Dynasty's rule over the Western Regions.

"But the Black Khans are coming and going, and they may be here soon."

"Just in time." Wang Sunchen didn't care, "It's a big deal to go through the last winter." The Black Khanate is uneasy, and it is fighting at this time, where is there any spare strength to look east. Even if they come, there will be no more than the 100,000 horses that attacked Khotan. ”

"Then I hope that the two of them can fight to the death." Li Quanzhong was looking forward to that situation, and his family was also thinking about getting a piece of the pie from it, or rather, taking back what originally belonged to his family.

"It's going to get fighting. Who made them have two kings in their house. ”

The Western Uighurs had two kings, one in Gaochang and the other in Qiuzi, and Wang Sunchen heard that the Black Khanate was also like this, so now there was a lot of infighting. There are no two days in the sky, there are no two lords of the people, there is a king in the east and a king in the west, and it is strange if there is no fight.

"If that's the case, by the beginning of spring next year, the Governor will be able to attack Shule directly."

Wang Sunchen drank the tea that was decontaminated with meat after the meal, and said with a smile when he heard the words: "Attack Shule? Black Khan must be desperate. ”

The southwest of the Moman is Shule [Kashgar], which is the eastern important place of the Black Han Kingdom, separated from its mainland by a green ridge. Walking along the foot of the Tianshan Mountains, you won't get lost, but the distance is a little longer, and you have to walk nearly a thousand miles to get there.

Fighting in the Western Regions, he soon lost his sense of distance. Five or six hundred miles is considered close, but one or two thousand miles is normal. Unless you are willing to cross the desert, you can only follow the road of the oasis, city by city. In other words, it is the Central Plains, and you can walk from Kaifeng to Bingzhou and Baozhou for a thousand miles, and you can see the beard of the Khitan people.

"The last general is afraid that they will not fight hard. When the time comes, please let the last general take the lead! ”

Li Quanzhong raised his voice to ask for war, and even a group of generals and colonels of the Uighurs of Gaochang also appealed for war.

Not to mention the hatred of the country and the family, it is because of the Great Food Sect and Buddhism that the enmity on both sides has deepened. In order to believe in which sect, Khotan and Hei Khan have been fighting for nearly a hundred years. When Khotan was destroyed, those black sweat soldiers who believed in the Great Food Sect were all destroyed in Khotan, and the Bodhisattva's head was soaked. How can the Uighurs, who have always been devout Buddhists, endure this?!' Buddhists are eager to eat meat.

Li Quanzhong looked at Wang Sunchen nervously, this is the key to whether Khotan can restore the country.

If another person had led the army, perhaps there would not have been such a brilliant victory as he had in Gaochang. But if you have a good eloquence, it is not impossible to persuade Gao Chang to surrender to the imperial court. Then he led the Uighur army to attack the Black Khanate, which had occupied Khotan, and easily recovered Khotan. But Wang Sunsin used the most violent methods, which made it difficult to understand his thoughts.

Wang Sunchen thought about it for a while, then nodded, "If there is no problem at that time, let your family be the pioneer." ”

It seems like it's just a small thing.

Li Quanzhong's hatred of the Black Khanate is well understood. The Uighurs, ignoring their hatred of the Han Chinese who had just attacked their homeland, shouted that they would attack the Black Khan together, but Wang Sunsin secretly shook his head.

Perhaps because of Han Gang's influence, his view of religion is to let people know loyalty and filial piety, and collect wealth by the way. Nothing else should be done. Believers can worship whatever temple they want, and what to fight? Confucianism is the first, and he doesn't care what those foolish men and fools go to worship. It doesn't matter what you believe, as long as you don't oppose the imperial court, then it's fine. If you dare to be rebellious, you will worship Shizun, Daozu and Hu Dadu, and you will cut off your head or cut it off.

"Thank you!" Li Quanzhong was elated, and bowed down to Wang Sunchen in the tent to thank him.

"This year, it was cold early, the fat of the livestock had not yet grown and fruited, and the forage had not had time to be harvested. Next year, we will definitely be able to gather more people to attack Shule. ”

It snowed at the beginning of September, and it was normal at the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, and I saw a lot, and I didn't care about the climate in the sky, but if it snowed in September at the southern foot of the mountain today, what would happen to the situation in the northern foothills? This winter, I don't know how many people can't survive. To attack Shule is to grab grain. Moreover, the snow in the green ridge melts late, which can at least leave Wang Sunchen an extra month. Of course you have to fight.

Take Shule, and to the west is the Green Ridge. As long as the army is guarded here, in the face of the Black Khan army that came over the mountains and mountains, half of the victory will be won before the battle starts. Even if Li Quanzhong doesn't mention it, he will also fight. As for whether the Black Khanate would send envoys to the Great Song Dynasty to seek justice, Wang Sunsin didn't care so much. There's someone behind him.

However, it is not good to say that the Black Khanate will not be so passive. To be able to lay down such a large territory, it is impossible not to see the significance of Shule and Khotan.

Half a month later, the Black Khanate gathered 30,000 troops at Shule Point, regardless of the snow on the road, and rushed straight towards Wang Sunchen's headquarters.

The previous speculation became a reality, and Wang Sunchen only sneered, and then became excited, and he was about to fight again.