By the afternoon, the unrest in the city had subsided, and the Andijanites had either been killed or fled outside the city.

In front of the Yamen of the Minister of Kashgar Affairs, Kareem, the Kashgar Bok (city lord) of the Kokand Khanate, was pushed and knelt in front of Ye Zhao by two red-clothed horsemen.

Karim looked at the Chinese soldiers and officials in front of him with horror, his head was beaten with clubs by the Kashgars and was covered in blood, and if it had not been for the arrival of a group of red-clothed cavalry, he would have been beaten to death with sticks.

He muttered and begged the Chinese to spare his life, and yesterday in his sleep, he was still dreaming of going to the Central Plains of China to grab gold and beautiful women, but when he woke up in the morning, he became a prisoner of the Chinese, and the Chinese were powerful beyond imagination.

Although he knew that the Chinese would not let him go, his legs trembled so badly that he couldn't make a look like he was dead.

Ye Zhao couldn't understand what he said, so he made a gesture, "Chop off his head to show the public!" "In the Central Plains, such cruel punishments have been abolished, but when conquering the tribes on the frontiers, sometimes barbaric punishments are unavoidable, so as to deter Xiaoxiao and appease the people.

Karim wailed and was pushed down, and in a few moments, the bloody head hung on the flagpole next to the stone lion.

In front of the Yamen, the Kashgar people wearing four-lined hats also gathered more and more, and when they saw Karim's head, everyone cheered.

Ye Zhao stood on the steps in front of the black wooden gate of the Yamen, patted his chest vigorously, and said loudly: "The people of Kashgar! I'm Ye Zhao, from Yanjing City in the Central Plains! Now I promise you that the story of your suffering is history! From then on, the Kashgar people and the Central Plains people did not distinguish each other! You are all citizens of the Empire, and I and the Emperor [***] team are here to protect you! ”

There were Kashgar people and Central Plains traders who could understand the Central Plains dialect cheering happily, but after all, they didn't know who Ye Zhao was, and they thought they were the Central Plains officials from Yanjing.

Ye Zhao gestured to Afaf with his eyes, and Afaf hesitated, although he was reluctant to show up for the Emperor of the Central Plains, but at this moment, he could only act as a translator, and said in a crisp voice: "Brothers and sisters of Kashgar, people of Allah, the Great Emperor from the Central Plains promises you that he will become your patron saint from now on, and the Great Emperor will grant you the same equality and freedom as the people of the Central Plains, you are all the subjects under the rule of the Great Emperor, and the army of the Great Emperor will protect you for generations!" ”

Reluctantly bought the hearts of the Emperor of the Central Plains, Afaf made a careful move, "The Great Emperor grants you the same equality and freedom as the Central Plains" Yunyun, Ye Zhao did not mention it in his words, Afif is a foreshadowing for the fate of the Hui people in the future, Ye Zhaoruo understands her words, and must laugh secretly in his stomach, this careful thinking is too much to look down on himself.

Countless four-fluted flower hats, men, women and children, there were thousands of people, the long street in front of the yamen was blocked, listening to Afaf's words, everyone was stunned, since no one could have imagined that it was His Majesty the Great Emperor who came to save them today.

The Central Plains traders knelt down in a panic, kowtowed and shouted "Long live!" ”

The Kashgar people, who don't know who led the head, one, two, soon, knelt all over the ground, kowtowed, and shouted, "Your Majesty the Great Emperor!" "O Allah, the Great Emperor is the messenger you have sent to save your afflicted believers!" "The Great Emperor is the eagle of the Tien Shan Mountains, praise be to Allah!"

The young Kashgar boys, their faces were even more excited, leading more than 100 cavalry to descend from the sky and kill thousands of Andijan people.

Ye Zhao smiled and accepted their worship, and gently touched his chest with his right hand, as if Allah's messenger was listening to the prayers of his people, making the Kashgar people kind and pious, and gradually, I don't know who started first, the kneeling Kashgar people raised their hands high, and bowed down again, praying, undulating like waves, as if they were on a devout pilgrimage.

It wasn't until night fell that the pilgrimage ceremony gradually ended, the sound of hooves in the distance was like thunder, and the Kashgar people in the city looked at each other, and there were already sentinels to report that it was the white commander who led the cavalry regiment to arrive.

Ye Zhao led the troops to make a surprise attack, and De Ling hurriedly sent a fast horse to inform Bai Laoheng of the counterinsurgency, although it took a lot of time to mobilize the counterinsurgency cavalry everywhere, but all the way to the night, and Ye Zhao's surprise attack team was only short of the front and rear feet, and they arrived in Kashgar.

A few days later, two infantry battalions and an artillery battalion of the Reading Regiment also arrived at Kashgar, and the march was so rapid that almost everyone ran to the point of vomiting blood.

Ding Baozhen, the governor of Tiannan Province, also arrived with the infantry battalion, and then Ye Zhao ordered Ding Baozhen to live in the Yamen of the former Minister of Kashgar Affairs, and the current Yamen of the Governor of Tiannan Province.

Ding Baozhen acted resolutely, and together with the representatives elected by the Kashgar people and the representatives of the Central Plains merchants, he began to pacify the residents of the city and restore the economic order in the city, and ordered the newly established Kashgar security team to go to the neighboring small towns and pastoral areas to announce that the emperor had arrived in Kashgar, ordered all tribes to surrender, and sent cattle, sheep, grain and grass.

A few days later, Yetuwa led two cavalry regiments of the cavalry division to arrive, and Ye Zhao immediately ordered him to take the battalion as a unit to drive out the Uzbek city lords and garrisons in several large towns such as Wucha City in the Western Regions, Artush City in the Northern Regions, and Tashbarik City in the Southern Regions, all of which were under the rule of Kashgar.

Ye Zhao lived in a courtyard with a distinct Kashgar style, and the Kashgar people were both hospitable and good at singing and dancing, so many of the houses had spacious living rooms, which could be used to entertain guests and hold "mesilaifu" (singing and dancing parties). At the same time, there is a storage room for farm tools and grain, and there is a cowshed in the backyard, and there are more than a dozen rooms in the whole yard.

Ye Zhao sat at the earthen kang table, looked at the telegram sent by the fast horse, and smiled at the millet stick on the windowsill, how could he feel that he had become a dirt road.

The door curtain was lifted, and Afaf, who was wearing a snow-white rounded hat, walked in, in fact, Ye Zhao wanted to take off her hat every time he saw her, although this Muslim girl really had a very special temperament in her dress, but Ye Zhao always had the mischievous idea of taking off her beautiful white round hat, I don't know if she will scream or shoot herself at that time, and I don't know if I can take off her hat and tell a bunch of crooked truths to stir her dizzy, and no longer hate herself because of the hat, it's very interesting to think about. Of course, this thought is just turning in my heart, the emperor of the Central Plains, who is getting older and older, and is admired by the world, can't still be fooling around like a child.

"I want to go to Zikman." Afaf bowed slightly, very common Muslim etiquette, she has always been straight to the point, and her attitude towards Ye Zhao is neither humble nor arrogant.

"Zikman? Where is it? "Ye Zhao hasn't heard of it.

Afif dragged the map from his desk and pointed to a place near Yarkand, east of the Khantelek Mountains, which was not marked on the map and was clearly not a strategic place.

"My aunt lives here, and the city of Kashgar has settled down, and I want to go and see my aunt, which is a tribe of the Kirgiz. ”

Ye Zhao knew that the Kyrgyz people were Kyrgyz, looked at the map and frowned slightly, and said, "Is it a herdsman tribe?" "The boundary of Afaf's finger is too close to Yarkand, and between Kashgar and Yarkand, there is a big city called Ingishar in the hands of the Uzbeks, and Zikman can be said to be in the hinterland controlled by the Uzbeks, of course, it is very remote, and according to the map of the land, there is no road to this place, to say the least, there is no plank road for marching to connect it.

Afif said: "A semi-nomadic tribe. "That is, a mix of nomadic and agrarian tribes.

Ye Zhao frowned and said, "It's too dangerous, otherwise, you will go again when you conquer Ingishal." He said strangely: "How did your aunt marry an unbeliever, but she is too rebellious, right?" ”

Before Afaf could speak, the guards hurried in and said, "Master, the Andijan cavalry has arrived at the Kashgar River. ”

In the east of Kashgar, Ye Zhao had already set up sentry sentries, and the farthest sentry was on the east bank of the Kashgar River more than ten miles away, all of which were Uyghurs from the Kashgar security team.

Ye Zhao smiled: "It's too late, it seems that I underestimated the people of Andijan, and they also know how to plan before acting." ”

The exchange of information is extremely time-consuming, and this cavalry will naturally not be the main force of Agubai on the Sangzhu front line thousands of miles away from Kashgar, but the garrison of Ingishhar.

The Chinese [***] team attacked Kashgar by surprise, wanting to make the Uzbeks in Ingishal mess up, and the remnants of the soldiers who fled to Ingishal must infinitely exaggerate the combat strength of the [***] team, and the Uzbek generals of Ingishal, after a few days of quarrels, the strong main battle generals either persuaded the cautious generals, or led the troops out without authorization, in short, finally led the troops to kill, perhaps ready to explore the Chinese.

Ye Zhao smiled slightly and said, "It's a good time, it's eaten by us in batches, and there are such good things?" ”

Later, Urden, who came in, scratched his head and laughed.

…… When Ye Zhao climbed the city tower, rows of rifles had already been erected in the gap between the battlements of the Kashgar city wall, and the gate of the eastern city was open, which was a bait for the Uzbeks to charge.

At this time, you can already hear the sound of thunder hooves, the yellow sand is rolling in the distance, the sound is terrifying, Ye Zhao picked up the clairvoyant mirror and looked at it, the black pressure of the cavalry torrent seemed to have no end, I am afraid that there are always four or five thousand horsemen.

Ye Zhao was speechless in his heart, and said in his heart that good guy, there are really a lot of cavalry.

In the Kokand Khanate, like the Outer Mongolian tribes today, the herdsmen were cavalry, but the fierce armored cavalry besieging the city of Ush was a minority after all.

Some Kashgar people on the city wall who volunteered to help defend the city saw the majesty of the Andijan people, and their faces couldn't help but change color, and some even wondered, why did they still open the city gate, no, don't they raise their hands to surrender?

Yakup was also among the volunteers, he took an Andijan musket in his hand, gritted his teeth, stuffed gunpowder and projectiles into it, the emperor's red cavalry, so that his wife was protected from the humiliation of the Andijanians, and even if he died, he would fight with the Andijanians.

In the overwhelming yellow sand, the black-pressed Uzbek cavalry had reached hundreds of paces away in a blink of an eye, and saw that the opposing cavalry had changed formations and was about to turn into a long dragon and rush into the city gate. Although they saw the muzzles of the guns at the head of the city, it was clear that they were not concerned about the threat of the musketeers.

"Fire!" The shout with an extremely peculiar tone is the tune of the emperor's [***] team, majestic, but it seems to contain a terrifying breath of death.

Immediately, at the head of the city, guns and cannons rang out.

The "bang, bang" continuous shooting of the bead cannon can deafen people's ears, and in fact, the Lianzhu artillery also wears earplugs.

On the mud and stone sacks at the city gate, two cannons were also pushed on, and in front of the sandbags, they were suddenly thrown over a series of wire and steel thorns to resist the horse, and the cannons immediately "bang bang" sprayed out continuous tongues of fire.

The Uzbek cavalry immediately turned on their backs, and the harvested straw fell down one by one, and the horses that rushed into the city gate with their usual surnames were either torn to pieces by the spray of cannons, or they fell on the rejecting horses and howled miserably.

The Uzbek commander Muhammad was a famous warrior of the Kokand Khanate, and after several days of quarrels in Ingishhar, he finally had a murderous attack, almost breaking the bones of Ingishal's hated and timid Burke, and then led his tribal warriors out to retake Kashgar and kill all the Chinese.

Muhammad was always at the forefront of the charge, but this time, he didn't know how he died, he was the first batch of bandits to be shot, "bang bang" inexplicably raised the fear of the loud sound, half of Muhammad's head was suddenly lifted off, the scene was terrifying, he didn't snort, he fell off the horse with several bandits around him.

"Kill!" His adjutant's eyes were red, urging the warriors of the clan to rush desperately towards the city gate, but the loud sound representing death seemed to never stop, and groups of fierce cavalry fell off their horses, and in less than a quarter of an hour, the yellow sand in front of Kashgar City had been dyed red with bright red, and there were corpses of Uzbek bandits everywhere, and the three-stop cavalry had already stopped.

When Muhammad's lieutenant fell from his horse, the Uzbek bandits were immediately defeated, and even in a panic, they forgot where they were fleeing, and scattered all over the mountains.

The wire in the doorway was quickly cleared and moved aside by the infantry, and the red-clothed cavalry of the Xiao Cavalry Regiment galloped out to chase and kill the remnants of the enemy.

The Kashgars on the city wall were stunned, looking at each other, unable to speak.

Yakupu fired only one shot from start to finish, and while he was still scrambling to reload, the war was over.

The terrifying Central Plains army, the terrifying Central Plains emperor.

Yakup's mind was blank, and there was only one feeling in his heart, thinking that the Great Emperor and his terrifying army would be their protectors in the future, Yakupu let out a long breath in his heart, and felt unusually relaxed. Looking back at his stunned people, perhaps, they all have the same thoughts as him, right?

On the city tower, Ye Zhao took a puff of cigarette, turned around and ordered: "The third battalion and the Xiao cavalry regiment pursued the enemy soldiers and took Ingishal by chance!" ”

Chasing the frightened Uzbek cavalry, you can get down to Ingishal without much effort, and then you can do it!

Another thought popped up in Ye Zhao's head, and he turned his head sideways and said to Afaf, "I'll go to Qi Keman with you." ”

Afif was slightly stunned, then nodded.

…… Ye Zhao still led the two sentinel cavalry teams of Mengjiang and Zhao Kui, plus the Ouchi guards, more than 300 horsemen, and galloped to Qi Keman.

Bypassing Ingishal and arriving at Topuluk, he left the plank road and galloped through the meadows, the sky was high and the clouds were light, the grass was green, and the horses seemed to be jubilant, and ran more and more vigorously.

Two days later, next to a lake with clear water, I found the Kirghiz tribe mentioned by Afarf.

The green meadows, the neat farmland in the distance, the blue lake as smooth as a mirror, and the white clouds of sheep flowing on the hillside, a good picture of paradise.

The tribe composed of white yurts in the green grass is like a fairyland, and the huge white yurt in the middle of the tribe is as gorgeous as a palace, and there are hundreds of small yurts scattered around it.

According to Afaf, the Kirghiz are a very large tribe of thousands, and only a part of them settle on the shores of this small lake, and there are also nomadic herders with yurts, who will migrate back in winter.

The Kyrgyz people are Kyrgyz, belonging to a mixed ethnic group, many of them already have Europa characteristics, handsome guys, beautiful Eurasian girls, and they look quite eye-catching.

It's just that when Ye Zhao and Afaf's cavalry team approached, the herdsmen shot extremely hostile eyes, and in the camp composed of white felt houses, there was a crisp sound of hitting iron weapons, thinking that it was a kind of early warning tool, and then I saw that in the white felt houses, young men with iron spears and clubs poured out, gathered in front of the tribe's wooden fence, and watched the cavalry team slowly approaching vigilantly.

Afaf muttered Kashgar language, and the Kirgiz people living in southern Xinjiang knew the Uyghur language, and after listening to Afaf's words, the hatred on his face gradually disappeared, and some people seemed to rush to the snow-white yurt palace in the center of the camp to report the news.

Ye Zhao dismounted with the cavalry and asked, "What did you say?" ”

Afaf said, "I said I was the sister of the headman. ”

Ye Zhao said: "Isn't it Ramadan today?" ”

Afaf was completely unmoved by Ye Zhao's joke, and replied very seriously: "My aunt is married to the patriarch's uncle, I am really the patriarch's sister, and I didn't lie." ”

Ye Zhao nodded slightly, seeing that Afaf had a lot of intimacy with the patriarch of this Kirgiz tribe in his tone, he couldn't help but be surprised.

Afaf said, "My sister is very beautiful. ”

Ye Zhao said: "What sister? ”

"Patriarch, don't you know? She is your canonized toast in the Central Plains, don't you know? Afaf looked at Ye Zhao in surprise.

Ye Zhao shook his head slightly, and said strangely: "Is there still a female toast?" ”

Afaf nodded slightly, and then whispered.

Here the hereditary Tusi of the Kirgiz people is the Gegesi family, the current patriarch Gul Shayir, since he was a child, beautiful and good at dancing, hospitable, the old patriarch has no heirs, and the Kirgiz Zikman tribe is more equal to men and women, the old patriarch died, Gul Shayir inherited a Tusi, she is fair, very loved by the clan.

As he spoke, several girls came out of the tribal camp, all in purple robes and purple hats, and the costumes of the Kirghiz people were very gorgeous, and they said a few words to Afaf, who turned back to Ye Zhao and said, "Sister, please let us in." ”

Ye Zhao made a gesture, as long as Urden accompanied him alone, he and Afaf walked into the Kirgiz camp under the guidance of the Kirgiz girl.

In front of the tent of the small palace in the gorgeous yurt, there stood a suffocatingly beautiful Kirgiz aristocratic woman, with deep eyes, dark eyelashes, long and slightly thick lips, but with the allure of caste, typical Eurasian mixed characteristics. Wearing a snow-white "Kalpak", a tall velvet hat with a national style, like the kind of hat worn by Mongolian princesses in later TV dramas, but it is more gorgeous, with a high tassel of hat that is half a foot high, sprinkled with thousands of snow-white velvet.

Needless to say, this must be the female Tusi Gulshayir.

Ye Zhao rubbed his nose, these side girls, why do they always have a strange idea of taking off her hat when they see it?

Afaf had already hugged and talked to Gulshail affectionately.

After talking for a while, Afaf remembered that Ye Zhao was beside him, and hurriedly said something to Gul Shayer, and Gul Shayir's amber seductive eyes looked at Ye Zhao.

"You, are you from the middle and the original?" Gul Shayir spoke the Central Plains dialect with great difficulty, his tone was stiff, and his voice was slightly sandy, but it was very beautiful and had a sultry taste.

Ye Zhao nodded slightly, and said in his heart that Afaf was also very measured, and she only had one personal guard with her, so she knew not to tell her identity, although the person in front of her seemed to have a very good relationship with her, but in military affairs, there was no trace of emotion.

Gul Shayir stared at Ye Zhao for a few moments, and then whispered a few words to Afaf, who showed a slight look of surprise in her pretty eyes, and turned to Ye Zhao and said, "My sister asked you, whether you are married or not." ”

Gul Shayer's amber-like eyes also looked at Ye Zhao and asked, "You, yes, no, wife?" ”

Ye Zhao was stunned, stretched out seven fingers, and said, "Yes, seven, one." He said it word by word, so that she could understand.

Gulshayir was stunned for a moment, then giggled, turned around, and politely invited Afafu and Ye Zhao into the yurt.

Seeing that the master was embarrassed, Uerden didn't dare to laugh, and said in his heart that a barbarian woman, how could she ask the master if he had a wife as soon as they met, did he want to recruit a son-in-law? It's too fast, isn't it? I have heard that the Fanyi woman is enthusiastic and bold, it seems that it is true, this barbarian woman is very beautiful! The waist tied by the silver buckle brocade looks very powerful, and the whole body exudes the atmosphere of the wild surname, which is very different from the Central Plains woman.

The big tent of the yurt is extremely gorgeous, with silk carpets hanging on the four walls, a large red velveteen bottom, black velveteen as a edge, and a golden silk tassel at the junction of the edge cores on the lower edge.

On the ground, there are embossed colorful felt carpets and woolen carpets with flower patterns, and the cowhide and leather blankets on both sides are covered with brocade seats, and the tent is so large that it can accommodate dozens of people singing and dancing.

Ye Zhao and Urden sat cross-legged in the guest's seat, Gulshayir pulled Afif to sit on the main seat, and there were Kirgiz girls offering mare's milk and yogurt, it seems that these purple-robed Kirgiz girls should be the slave girls of the Tusi family.

Mare's milk, Ye Zhao really hasn't drunk it, smelling the taste, but he doesn't really want to touch it, but out of politeness, he still took a sip, it is not as unpleasant as imagined, and there should be condiments added to it to remove the smell.

Putting down the leather cylinder containing the mare's milk, Ye Zhao said: "Geger Si Toast, you seem to have something on your mind?" ”

Gul Shayir was stunned, but he didn't want this Central Plains man's eyes to be so sharp. She is now indeed bearing the boss's heart, the Andijan people invaded, sent an envoy to surrender, heard that the Andijan people have conquered Kashgar, Ingishhar, Yarkand and other cities, a hundred battles are won, in order to avoid the disaster of the whole clan, Gulshayir surrendered, and also offered a large number of horses, cattle and sheep. Who knew that maybe the messenger went back to tell the beauty of the female toast, and the commander of the Andijan people, Aguba, sent another envoy to propose marriage, and the envoy had already come four times, and Gulshail delayed again and again, but the tone of the envoy became tougher and tougher each time, and became more and more unpolite, and he said, Commander Agubai said, next time, she will bring people directly, if she does not go with the marriage team, she will kill all her people.

Although Gulshail was happy to see Afarf, he could not hide the sorrow in his heart, for the first time, he was humiliated like this, and for the sake of the fathers and elders of the clan, it seemed that he could only succumb to the silver power of the Andijan people.

(To be continued)