As soon as Xiang Jun escorted a group of senior monks from the Western Regions out of the temple gate, he saw that both sides of the road outside the temple were kneeling with black pressure Western Regions Buddhist disciples, and these believers looked at the imprisoned monks lying on the ground one by one, tears and snot flowed uncontrollably!

"My lord, do you want to disperse them?" A soldier turned his gaze to the lieutenant beside him and said.

Du Wei smiled coldly: "Why do you want to disperse them? Just let them kneel here, even if it's for a whole day. From today on, there is only one religion in the Western Regions that can preach, and that is our Lingbao Sect, and any disciples who are not from the Lingbao Sect will be brutally suppressed by us! This is a religious decree issued by Ge Tianshi himself! ”

This was a bloody religious war, in order to completely eliminate the influence of the local culture in the Western Regions, the Jin army immediately began to clear the local religious forces after suppressing the rebellion, and at the same time the Lingbao Sect began to enter the Western Regions on a large scale.

At this moment, the prisoner carts creaked out, and the Buddhist believers who knelt on the ground raised their heads one after another, only to see that the former high-ranking monks were rudely driven into the prisoner carts by the van army, and they looked so embarrassed.

In fact, if it weren't for the complete conquest of the Western Regions, Sima Shu would not have ordered the destruction of Buddha in the Western Regions, you must know that he did not publicly propose to destroy the Buddha in the Great Jin Dynasty. However, in order to change the original structure of the Western Regions, the Great Jin had to resort to violent means and forcibly impose their own ideas and culture on the people of the Western Regions.

"Master...... O Master......" wept again among the believers, who were sacred to the Enlightened Monks. How can the Jin people treat the Buddha in their minds like this? Some of the believers even wanted to stand up and stop the Jin army, but the Jin army's swords and guns were quickly aimed at them, leaving these believers with no choice but to cry bitterly.

"Master!" Suddenly, a middle-aged monk wearing a monk's robe rushed to the ox cart desperately, holding the ox cart and crying: "Master, you can't go to the Han people, they will kill your ......"

"You can't go, Master! If you go, you'll never come back! Seeing this, the believers in the audience couldn't help but shout together.

There was not a trace of fluctuation on the face of the Dao Master in the prisoner car, he glanced at the apprentice in front of him with a soft gaze, and said in a soft tone, "The poor monk is here to promote the Dharma, so everyone doesn't have to worry." The emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty went to the poor monks. There is no malice. It's just a discussion of the Dharma. Feel relieved...... Rest assured...... After the poor monks are gone, you must guard the sand gate and do not act rashly! ”

At this time, the lieutenant in charge of the escort mission came over, and for him who believed in the Lingbao Sect, these monks were too noisy. He yelled in a thick voice, "What are you people doing? It's rare to want to rebel and can't succeed? His Majesty the Emperor invites you monks to go. That's your pleasure! Why do you look so unhappy! ”

When the people around heard this, they all dared to be angry. Only a young monk suddenly jumped up and shouted, "Brute! You brute! I'm fighting with you! As he spoke, he grabbed a stone from the ground and rushed to the captain, but just as he was about to smash it, he was kicked to the ground by the agile captain.

The young monk fell to the ground with a scream, unable to get up again, and saw that his mouth and nose were full of blood. Lying on the ground and wailing. He screamed miserably: "The teacher is humiliated, as a disciple, what face do I have to live in this world." He slammed his head into a boulder on the side of him and died instantly.

With his actions, several more monks committed suicide, and the Jin army commander was obviously shocked, and even lost the power to speak. The corpses of the monks lying on the ground made Du Wei feel the terrifying power of Buddhism for the first time. However, thanks to the fact that the Lingbao Sect was not simple, the captain soon adjusted.

Du Wei looked at these Buddhist believers coldly, and after a long time, he said: "If anyone else wants to commit suicide, just come out, this official can provide you with weapons for suicide, but from now on, whoever dares to stop us will be killed!" ”

The blood and death made some of the people in the Western Regions wake up, and the soldiers of the Xiang Army raised their swords and guns in their hands and walked forward step by step, and the people of the Western Regions who surrounded them began to unconsciously give way to the road, watching the prisoner cars get farther and farther away from them until they disappeared from their sight and could no longer be seen......

An hour after the Xiang army's team left, those people from the Western Regions still gathered outside the temple in Qiuzi City and refused to disperse for a long time. Although the eminent monk is no longer there, there are still Buddhist classics and Buddha statues. Would the Buddha have taken pity on his followers, and one day he will send another virtuous monk to save his poor believers?

Just as the believers knelt there to pray, they were suddenly horrified to see that a raging fire was burning in the temple, and the sky-high flames were gradually swallowing up the largest temple in Qiuzi City.

Many people from the Western Regions wanted to rush into the temple like crazy, but soon the soldiers of the brigade drove out of the temple. In front of the mighty soldiers of the Xiang Army, the people of the Western Regions stopped their steps and did not dare to take another step forward. The soldiers of the Xiang Army looked coldly at the people from the Western Regions who were surrounding the temple in front of them, and then at the temple that was burning beside them, and everyone knew that it was over! With this fire, the history of the Buddha Gate in the Western Regions should come to an end here!

In a few years, there will be no more Buddhism in the Western Regions, this will be the territory of the Great Jin Empire, and it will also be the territory of the Lingbao Sect, and the thirty-six countries of the Western Regions will become history completely. This will become a paradise and paradise for the Han people, and when I think of this, a smile appears on the corner of the mouth of every soldier of the Xiang Army.

Everything that happened in the Western Regions was quickly sent to Emperor Sima Shu's desk, and the Western Regions were finally to be completely resolved. The Western Regions is basically a knot in the heart of the Central Plains dynasties, and in order to conquer the Western Regions, the Chinese people have struggled for thousands of years. The people of the Western Regions always surrender and rebel, and rebel and surrender.

The Western Regions were first conquered by the Chinese during the reign of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty. In addition, in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Ban Chao had operated the Western Regions for 40 years, and basically conquered the Western Regions. Since then, until the time of Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, China has never conquered this place again.

Even if it is as strong as Tang Taizong, it is only the conquest of Gaochang State, as for the western region controlled by the Western Turks, it was pacified by Su Dingfang when Tang Gaozong was in power. In addition, during the Anshi Rebellion, the Talas were defeated, and the Western Regions became the territory of Tibet, and later became the territory of the Uighurs, and then until the Song and Ming dynasties, China never conquered the Western Regions.

By the time of the Yuan Dynasty, the Western Regions became the territory of the Mongolian Han State, and then the Qing Dynasty, it took 70 years before and after, until the Qianlong period, China pacified the Dzungar and the size and Zhuo, and then came to the Tongguang period, the Western Regions were occupied by Agu Bai, and finally Zuo Zongtang recovered Xinjiang and Ili, so far the Western Regions can be regarded as an inseparable territory of China.

Many Buddhist disciples were unwilling to withdraw from the Western Regions, and fled from the east to the west, and some monks even prepared to go to the Indian continent to ask the Buddha there to send troops to attack the Great Jin.

And Shi Le, who had been worried about the westward advance of the Xiang army, finally breathed a sigh of relief, in his opinion, the Xiang army may not have the energy to go west in a short time. Since May of the thirteenth year of Hongwu, the Great Jin Dynasty has begun a large-scale counterattack in the Western Regions. This great battle, aimed at recovering the Western Regions, was mainly commanded by Zhang Fang, the envoy of the Northwest Jiedu. After a series of battles in the early stage, Zhang Fang commanded nearly 130,000 Xiang troops to recover most of the Western Regions such as Yanqi, Cheshi, Shanshan, and Qiuzi.

Forced by the strength of the Great Jin Dynasty, and Shile's main force was almost disabled by the Xiang army in the three battles of Qiuzi, Shanshan, and Gaochang. Therefore, in this war between the Qiang and the Great Jin for the Western Regions, Shi Le was basically at a disadvantage.

However, the elite of the Qiang nationality led by Shi Le did not completely give up hope, and after suppressing the rebellions in the west such as Shule and Khotan, Shi Le, with the assistance of Kui An and others, began to forge ahead again, ambitiously preparing to launch a full-scale counteroffensive, trying to reverse the passive situation of the Qiang people in the Western Regions in one fell swoop when the Jin army was unable to advance westward.

However, Shi Le was not reckless, he knew that the strength of the Great Jin was far above that of the Qi clan, so he had been waiting for the opportunity to try to save the situation from the disadvantage.

After a short period of rectification in Shile, the strength and morale of the Qiang coalition army temporarily recovered. After marching and fighting for so many years, Shi Le's grasp of the fighter plane was positive and accurate, and in his heart, if the Qiang people could really take this opportunity to bring all the countries of the Western Regions to their hearts, then the strength gathered would indeed be considerable, and they could compete with the Great Jin.

In the past, the military strength of the Great Jin Empire was far stronger than that of the Qiang Nationality, so how could most of the subject countries of the Western Regions give up on a weak person? What's more, the previous acts of the people have already made the hearts of the countries cold, and their way of oppression by force has also aroused the general disgust of the countries of the Western Regions.

If it weren't for the series of actions of the Jin people at this time, which were even more unbearable than them, how could they give Shi Le the opportunity to reunite the hearts of the people in the Western Regions again.

If you want to become the leader of the nations, you must either have absolute superiority in strength, or you must win the hearts of the people, and in the past, the people of the Qiang tribe only had the former, but now they have to fight the idea of the latter. Although most of the people of the Western Regions did not like Shile, this time most of the people of the Western Regions chose to cooperate with the Qian.

However, Shi Le was very sober about the flattery of the people of the Western Regions, and he knew that there was a blood feud between the people of the Qiang and the people of the Western Regions, and it was tantamount to a fool's dream to get the loyalty and death of the people of the Western Regions. Even if most of the people in the Western Regions fell to Shile due to the destruction of Buddha in the Western Regions, fundamentally speaking, these people in the Western Regions just wanted to take advantage of the Qiang people.

However, Shi Le is not easy to mess with, he has long had the intention of sacrificing the people of the Western Regions to save the Qian. As the saying goes, the friends of the dead are not the poor, so let the people of the Western Regions fight with the Great Jin, as for the Qian, he Shile has already set his sights on the Indian subcontinent. (To be continued......)