Chapter 013: The Dragon King is not the King

To surrender military power is to surrender power completely. Although Yang Hao promised him an official position as a transfer envoy, this official rank is not low, and it is a fat difference, but compared with the grass head king who is a party to kill and take away, it is very different, the dragon king did not expect that he would be in a low voice, call himself the king of children, hand over the financial and civil powers, and take advantage of the eight beauties carefully selected by the Long family, Yang Hao would even put forward such harsh conditions, so after listening to Long Hanjiang's return, he couldn't help but be furious.

Only now did he think of the return of the Shazhou to the righteous army, although the two families often fight, but now they are dependent on each other, and they share the same hatred of the enemy, can they strive for the help of the Shazhou? The Dragon King's plan had been decided, so he ordered his second brother Long Hanjiang, who had just returned to the city, to find a way to break out of the siege again and get in touch with Shazhou.

Speaking of the relationship between Shazhou and Suzhou, it is even more complicated, the Dragon King of Suzhou was originally a vassal of the Shazhou Guiyi Army, and when the Shazhou Jinshan Kingdom was called the emperor. The Dragon King of Suzhou was a vassal to the Jinshan Kingdom, but after the Guiyi Army was defeated by the Hui people of Ganzhou and became a vassal of the Hui people, the Dragon King of Suzhou broke away from the control of the Guiyi Army and set up his own door. Because of such a layer of origin, the contact between Suzhou and Shazhou is not as close as that between Ganzhou and Shazhou.

The Cao family in Shazhou learned from the Guiyi Army Zhang Yi Cháo lineage descendants to belittle other ethnic groups, and would only use force to squeeze out and suppress, and as a result, they were counterattacked, so that their power continued to shrink The lesson, often used gentle means to make friends with the Tubo and Hui tribes, and harmony is a common means of the Cao family. Therefore, Cao Jiadong married back to Khotan, married women in the west, and thought they were in-laws, but because the Dragon King of Suzhou was originally a subordinate of the Guiyi Army, he refused to turn his body and take the initiative to make friends, and the Dragon King of Suzhou instinctively wanted to keep a distance from the old master, so the two did not have much contact. But at this time, the dragon king had to rely on the Guiyi army, so he wanted to make peace with it.

There are many handsome men and beautiful women in the Dragon King family in Suzhou, not because of how good the Dragon King's genes are, but because the blood of the Suzhou people is too mixed. Generally speaking, mixed-race children are more likely to inherit the advantages of both parents, and the Suzhou Long family was originally Yanqi, but after the Yanqi people died in the country, they moved eastward and continued to integrate with various ethnic groups. Turks, Dangxiang people, Hui people, Khitan people, Han people and even Persians, big cannibals, more than 100 years, so that Suzhou has more handsome men and beautiful women, according to modern standards, a hawker in Suzhou who sells dog skin plasters is probably enough to meet the basic conditions of a model.

Since Yang Haoning wants the country and not beauties, the Dragon King wants to use these beauties who planned to marry Yang Hao and the Cao family in Shazhou in exchange for the help of the Cao family. That night, when the night was dark and the wind was high, Suzhou City quietly opened the west gate, so that Long Zhanqin led five thousand light horsemen to escort Long Hanjiang out of the encirclement, although the women who the Long family used to kiss looked delicate and timid, and looked weak, in fact, they were all skilled in bow horses, so they all took war horses, changed their riding clothes, and fought out of the encirclement with Long Hanjiang.

The dragon war fought bloodily, and finally sent the second uncle's envoy group out of the siege safely. Taking advantage of the night, a team of light horses submerged into the vast grassland. However, although they broke out of the besieging army camp, they could not avoid Ai Yihai's ears and eyes. Ai Yihai's iron cavalry has already blocked all the passages from Suzhou to Guasha, Ai Yihai was originally born as a desert horse bandit, attacking cities and plundering villages, blocking roads and cutting paths is his best skill, give him 15,000 jīng to ride, and ask him to block a road, it is naturally as easy as a hand.

So, in the evening of the next day, Long Hanjiang and the Eight Beauties were sent back to Yang Hao's Chinese army by Ai Yihai without any left.

When Yang Hao heard the news, he went out of the tent, and saw Long Hanjiang frowning and hanging his head, and the eight beauties who were even more charming and heroic after changing their riding clothes looked at him with extremely complicated eyes, but they didn't see anything to fear, and they didn't know if these beauties were born in a dragon king family, and they were used to seeing life and death scenes, or they still had the worst ending of a beauty who was also a trophy of war, and would never be violently ruined by the heavenly creatures and cut off their heads.

Yang Hao sneered at Long Hanjiang and said, "Lord Long has gone and returned, but the Dragon King has already made a decision?" ”

Long Hanjiang sighed, straightened his chest and closed his eyes, and said angrily: "Soldiers can be killed, not humiliated, Yang Shuai just has to do it." ”

Yang Hao said with a smile: "Yang said that he waited for the Dragon King to make a decision until tomorrow morning, how could he go back on his word?" Come on, send Lord Long and a few beauties back to Suzhou, Lord Long, be careful this time. Don't recognize the wrong road again, Suzhou City is surrounded in all directions, and it has long been surrounded by wind and rain, if you are not careful, and then mistakenly enter my military camp, it will be very embarrassing. ”

Dragon King Long Hanhai was anxiously waiting for news, and when he heard the movement outside the city, he hurriedly ran to the city, and watched in amazement as Yang Hao sent his friendly team back again, until Mu Yu led the people to return leisurely, and then he hurriedly put down the drawbridge and took the second brother and several women back.

It was night, how to calculate in the city for the time being, but at dawn, dawn broke in the east, and a round of red rì broke out of the sky, Yang Hao saw that there was still no movement at the head of Suzhou City, so he immediately issued a siege order!

For a while, the war drums thundered, the horns sounded, and the dragon king was neatly dressed up and climbed to the top of the city, and when he looked out, he couldn't help but be shocked.

The sound of war drums permeated the entire battlefield, so oppressive that people's hearts were so heavy that they couldn't breathe. Groups of soldiers rushed to the city like cháo water, in the past these days, Yang Hao's army only used cloud ladders and flying grabs to attack the city, but now it ...... Siege chariots, nest carts, watchtowers, crash trucks, and burrowing trucks drove over one after another, and I really didn't understand where they got so many giant trees and made so many huge siege machines from outside the city, just from those low trees in the desert oasis? For a while, the Dragon King almost thought that Ganzhou had fallen, and Yang Hao transferred all the chariots that attacked Ganzhou to Suzhou.

Black clouds crushed the city. The wild roar of the mountains and tsunamis shook the heavens and the earth. From afar, there is no boundary. The mountains are full of the flying dragon, flying tiger, and flying leopard battle flags of the Xiazhou army, because of the hot weather, many Xiazhou soldiers have taken off their fat robes and heavy iron armor, and they are shirtless with bows and bows, dancing with big swords and spears, jumping and jumping like a group of savages, shouting and whistling and pounced.

Although Suzhou City is not high, but at least there are three zhang, they can rely on the geographical advantage, condescending, and the Xiazhou army, and now, so many huge siege equipment, completely make up for the gap between the two sides, in front of the tall siege chariot, the Suzhou defenders have become a back attack, and under their feet, the Xiazhou soldiers use flying grabs, cloud ladders are also attached to the ants, so that they are difficult to take care of.

The Dragon King couldn't help but gasp when he saw that Long Hanjiang and the others were sent back safely, he already knew that Yang Hao's determination was unshakable, but there was a trace of luck in his heart, so that he never made the decision to surrender the city, but at this moment, he saw with his own eyes such a good weapon, so many indomitable troops, he really felt how resolute Yang Hao's confidence in Suzhou was.

The stone thrower, the bed crossbow, and the whirlwind cannon took the lead in launching a dense attack on the city, and even though he stood under the solid roof, the dragon king still subconsciously took two steps back......

Some people will not give up when they don't reach the Yellow River, even if you say thousands of words, and you don't need to prove it by force, he will never give up his delusions. The Dragon King of Suzhou is such a person, and now he finally knows that Yang Hao's behavior is indeed completely different from that of the Shazhou Guiyi Army, the Ganzhou Huifu, and the party item Li Guangrui.

Those heroes only want to occupy the most convenient passages, the richest cities, and the most fertile grasslands, and then use powerful force to force the tribes to submit to him, so that the jackals, tigers and leopards are all subjugated to his fangs and claws. To be a beautiful lion king, the "Aslan Khan" of the desert steppe, you will be satisfied.

And Yang Hao ...... Yang Hao is a Han Chinese, and he admires the governance methods of the Han people, and what he wants is the whole world, whether it is the king's land, the shore of the land, and the king's ministers. What he wanted was to turn the whole steppe into his domain, and the whole steppe people would be brought directly under his rule; What he wants is that there are no two heavens and no two masters.

The war drums roared, the horns roared, and now there was no need for him to decide anything, Yang Hao had already made a decision, and the dragon king looked back in a hurry, the spire of the pagoda in the dragon king's palace was still golden under the sunlight, but the dragon king had already understood in his heart: ...... Soon it will no longer belong to him.

At the moment of August 18, the east gate of Suzhou City was the first to be broken. After a pillar of incense, the west gate was broken. Immediately, the Longjia army of Suzhou took the initiative to abandon the north and south cities, and the whole city army withdrew to defend the inner city. At two o'clock, the smoke rising from the four cities of Suzhou belonged to the Xiazhou army.

At three o'clock, Yang Hao's three armies began to attack the inner city, the battle for the inner city was fought to the end, the city provoked the flag, and the gentry and celebrities of Suzhou were entrusted by the dragon king, and went out of the inner city to beg to surrender.

This time, Yang Hao no longer came forward in person, but was received by Zhang Pu. After the two sides confirmed the surrender, Long Hanjiang entered Yang Hao's military camp for the third time and began to formally negotiate the surrender. The meaning of this is self-evident: if the Long family takes the initiative to surrender, it will be Yang Hao's guest, and now that the soldiers are in the city, they have to surrender, it is impossible to receive such preferential treatment, Yang Hao refuses to come forward, then the transfer position he promised to give Long Hanhai will also be in vain, the Long family is destined to leave the circle of powerful forces in Hexi, and his best ending can only be to become a rich man in Xiazhou City.

But there is no way to end it, you have to pay as much as you want. When Suzhou City is still in the hands of the Long family, if it and the army are handed over to Yang Hao intact, the return will naturally be high, since you still have the illusion of what happens, hoping to withstand the attack of the Xiazhou army and keep your own territory, then you will have to bear all the consequences of failure.

Although the Long family had to surrender, how could they be willing to collapse, so when they proposed to Zhang Pu to surrender, Long Hanjiang once again euphemistically proposed the intention of sending several women of the Long family to be Yang Taiwei's concubines, although Zhang Pu had full power to negotiate, but he didn't dare to make decisions for Yang Hao in this kind of matter, so he found an excuse and went to see Yang Hao.

After hearing this, Yang Hao smiled at Zhang Pu and said: "The Long family will not give up if they don't reach the Yellow River, and they will not give up when they reach the Yellow River." Now that he is exhausted and forced to surrender, do you still want to bargain with me? His only choice is to surrender as soon as possible, hand over the inner city of Suzhou, I will arrange for him to move his family to Xiazhou, give him a mansion, and the safety of the Long family and personal private property will be properly protected, and there are no other conditions, so that he does not have to have doubts. ”

Zhang Pu said with a smile: "The Long family has good intentions, why should the handsome refuse to be thousands of miles away?" In fact, it is common to sacrifice a daughter with relatives. It is said that the women who are dedicated to the Long family are indeed charming and moving, even if the posture is mediocre, the handsome should not refuse. Although it is impossible to decide the decision of a powerful force on one side, this delicate moment, this move, is of great significance. ”

"The Long family offers beauty, for the Long family, this is a loss of sincerity, and the handsome man accepts it, this is to calm his heart, so as to envelop them. If the marshal refuses, the Long family will inevitably have trouble sleeping, and I don't know if the marshal has any follow-up sanctions against their Long family, and they will be uneasy, they will be suspicious, suspicious, and maybe they will take risks......"

Yang Hao interrupted his words and said categorically: "Now that the Dragon King is no longer negotiating, but surrendering, the Long family must understand a truth: they no longer have the capital to bargain with me!" ”

Zhang Pu was helpless, so he had to nod and agree: "Yes, the last general knows how to do it." ”

Yang Hao watched him walk out of the big tent and shook his head with a smile. Of course, he will protect the Long family, since he has descended, he must not kill them, and he must ensure their safety; But when it comes to this time, the sanctions against them must not be soft, how to deal with the Long family today, the Cao family in Shazhou and the night in Ganzhou will soon know that the Long family is their example.

Grace and power, rigidity and softness, this is the means.

As for the beauties of the Long family, Yang Hao does not shy away from their beauty, although they have not fully seen their appearance, but only from their figures, posture, and temperament, they already have their own characteristics, compared to their own wives and concubines, they have a unique beauty charm of the exotic grassland, if the Long family is taking the initiative to sacrifice the city at the same time, offering their daughters and relatives, in order to appease the Long family and dispel their doubts, he will not refuse.

In this era for a long time, he has become accustomed to the phenomenon of using women as tools when the powerful compete in this world, and the political marriage of the wealthy and powerful is not only a common thing in ancient times, but also less in modern times? He wouldn't do such a thing, but if he wanted to accept it, he might as well have it, even if he wouldn't establish any deep feelings in the future, he didn't have much resistance to filling the inner room of his private house with these eye-catching beauties out of political needs.

However, now it is not necessary, since there is no need for this, then what is the use of them? Beauty, Yang Hao has seen a lot, and his resistance and vision for beauty are also constantly improving, he appreciates the beauty of those women, but he will completely have the intention of hiding their golden house, not to mention, this move is still a jǐng show to the Long family, Shazhou and Ganzhou.

However, for the Long family, but do not think about it, the role of the relatives is limited, but this is the only means for the Long family not to be abandoned by power, after getting Zhang Pu's reply, the Dragon King felt sorry for himself, while calling those daughters, nieces, and nieces to the front, tearfully making the final efforts and arrangements, hoping to rely on them to save the situation of the Long family's defeat to the greatest extent.

And Yang Hao, who overturned the mountains and took Suzhou first, had already begun the conquest of the Guiyi Army in Shazhou without stopping at this time.

The sandbar is the nest of the Guiyi army; The Guiyi Army was once the pride of all Han people in the Western Regions. The method of hitting the sandbar is naturally different from that of Suzhou......