The 3,000 cavalry led by Liu Yu completely defeated the Tubo people after several days of continuous fighting.

Liu Yu should have fulfilled his promise to release the prisoners of war, but because the Tubo people could not raise millions of catties of food for a while, Liu Yu could only continue to detain these people. Using the military rations of the Tubo people to feed the prisoners of war of the Tubo coalition army, Liu Yu did not need to raise food by himself, which was equivalent to capturing nearly 20,000 slaves.

Liu Yu was thinking about whether it was better for them to build a Great Wall or an earthen city.

The overall situation has been decided, the army of the Loulan people is finally late, and it is Bruhan who leads the troops, this little white face is a good hand at wearing a military uniform and singing on stage, but he looks very girly when he stands in the army. There were not many soldiers and horses from Loulan, probably only four or five thousand people, and the first thing they did was to receive the city occupied by the Shun Dynasty army, but difficulties occurred. Liu Yue does not let go of power.

Chetu was very annoyed and questioned, and the object of questioning was not Liu Yu, but Bruhan. Liu Yue looked at it from a distance, and Bruhan and Chetu quarreled fiercely, and Chetu almost slashed people with a knife after the last cut. Liu Yue was not afraid of big things when he saw the excitement, he couldn't wait to cut down Bruhan with a knife. But his wish was frustrated, and although Chetu was angry at the Loulan people's indifference to the slaughter of her people, she was still able to maintain rational restraint.

"Thank you." After the most lucrative meeting, Chetu and Bruhan parted unhappily, and Chetu came over and said to Liu Yu.

"I won't give you the city back easily. I said it was two days, and now it's been four days, and time doesn't wait! ”

Chetu didn't seem to care anymore, and said indifferently: "With your Shun Dynasty's army helping us guard the city, our people will live and work in peace and contentment." Go ahead and occupy it. ”

It doesn't matter if you cut the stump. Liu Yu was at a loss. Even Che Tu, who has always been principled, doesn't talk about principles anymore?

Such a few earthen cities. Even the garrison has problems. Who will supply the military rations that occupy it?

"Who, let's discuss it again, how about you take some food out and take it as a ransom for the city?"

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The war is over, and the next strategy is already very clear in Liu Yu's heart.

Wipe out the Turks and leave no future troubles. In this way, he can go back to Chang'an City and live a leisurely life.

After making up his mind, Liu Yu didn't want to stay for a moment, and escorted nearly 20,000 prisoners of war of the Tubo Coalition Army to Loulan City. He didn't want any city ransom, and the city of Loulan was thrown there, and whoever loved it wanted it.

At this time, Bruhan began to grab credit, and they did not accompany the withdrawal of troops from the Shun Dynasty.

Before the army arrived in Loulan City, Liu Yu learned that something was going on in Loulan City. Because Bul Khan led his troops south to resist Tibet, the Khwarak people, who had just occupied the Qiuzi country, took advantage of the weakness to enter, and the Khwarak people were much stronger than these countries in the Western Regions in terms of combat power, and in only two or three days, Loulan City had already been occupied by one-third. The people of Loulan are fighting street battles with the few Khwarats in Loulan City.

"It's really interesting."

The cavalry of the Shun Dynasty stationed outside Loulan City was about 300 people. By this time had evacuated the Land of Right and Wrong, along with Timur. They have all joined Liu Yu's Chinese army. The Khwarak people deliberately did not have a head-on conflict with the Shun Dynasty people, they wanted a quick victory, and they did not expect the Shun Dynasty people to come back so quickly.

Liu Yu, who got the news, ordered the army to be stationed, and at this time they were still nearly a hundred miles away from Loulan City.

Che Tu came to the Chinese army's tent to find Liu Yu worriedly, and she had just received news from Loulan.

"General Su, can you save our Loulan once?" Chetu no longer spoke in a tough tone, but in a pleading tone. This is also the first time she has called Liu Yu "General Su", "We Loulan people will be grateful for your kindness." ”

Liu Yu sighed and said: "You Loulan people's own affairs, do you still want us to interfere with the Shunchao people?" Don't you have a few thousand troops to the south? ”

Che Tu thought of the mercenary Bulhan, who would rather see his countrymen suffer than come forward, so he felt disappointed in his own countrymen, and said: "As long as the general is willing to save Loulan this time, then Loulan will be a vassal state of the Shun Dynasty in the future, and we are willing to pay tribute every year, so that the Shun Dynasty will be the leader." ”

Liu Yu thought about it for a while, and had to say that Che Tu's statement was very in line with the interests of the Shun Dynasty. But now the situation in Loulan City is chaotic, the city has been broken, and it is not easy to save it.

What's more, Chetu is not the queen after all, and what she says is not accurate.

"Let me think about it!"

Liu Yu has long been unhappy with the people of Loulan, and even if he wants to save him this time, he does not plan to save him immediately, but will wait for the people of Loulan to be completely desperate before going. In this way, he no longer has to suffer from the whims of Her Majesty the Queen and Her Royal Highness, and everything is up to him.

Liu Yue marched slowly, marched fifty miles in a day, and began to camp before dusk. Chetu was worried, but unfortunately she was no longer allowed to enter the big tent of the Chinese army to see Liu Yu.

Liu Yu was waiting for the moment when the people of Loulan completely collapsed. Fortunately, the Khwarats were competitive enough, and at the end of the day, the palace in Loulan was conquered and looted, and it is said that the queen and her husband fled to the military camp in the east of the city. Three-quarters of the city of Loulan has now fallen.

"Almost."

Liu Yu calculated, the fall of Loulan City was likely to be that night. If you don't make a move, it will not be easy to fight again after being occupied by the Khwarats in Loulan City.

Liu Yu held a brief military meeting, and then sent three lines of soldiers and horses, about 600 cavalry, to rescue Loulan City from the east, south, and north of Loulan City. This time, in order to completely deter the Khwarats, Liu Yu asked people to use the weapon of the housekeeper: the earth cannon.

The Chinese army also drove overnight to press Loulan City, and everyone could see the flames of Loulan City along the way. The Khwarakers were very brave in the battle with the Loulan people, but in the face of the muskets and earthen cannons of the Shun Dynasty, they completely lost their proportions, and the remaining Khwarak soldiers fled from the city in less than an hour, but unfortunately because of their scarcity of cavalry, the Khwarats who escaped from the city did not escape the fate of being killed. The cavalry of the Shun Dynasty won three battles and three victories inside and outside Loulan City, and when Liu Yu's Chinese army arrived in Loulan City, Loulan City at this time had been occupied by the Shun Dynasty army.

"What a beautiful day."

Liu Yu did not rush into the city, but continued to send troops to clean up the battlefield in the city. The city of Loulan became depressed because of this battle, and the culprits were not the Khwarats, but the earthen artillery of the Shun Dynasty army. When Liu Yu led the troops into the city the next morning, half of the houses collapsed on both sides of a street at the gate of the southern city. This is just a microcosm of the ruins of Loulan City.

The refugees in the city sat on both sides of the street, watching the Shun army enter the city, and they had now completely lost the ability to resist. Chetu dismounted from time to time to comfort the people, and the people were also grateful, after all, it was Chetu who brought Loulan's reinforcements back, and her reputation among the people at this time was even comparable to that of Queen Loulan.

In the badly damaged Loulan Palace, Liu Yu finally met the queen of Loulan Kingdom, Queen Hulin. Of course, there is also Loulan's Wang Fu Ning Luoer. Liu Yu stepped into the palace of the Loulan people with his head held high as the commander-in-chief of the occupiers, and the queen and the officials of the Loulan people came out to salute and greet him.

Liu Yu walked straight to Queen Hulin, looked at this queen who was nearly forty years old, a little rich but also graceful and beautiful, and said with a smile: "This must be Her Majesty, the queen of Loulan Kingdom, fortunately, fortunately!" ”

If Liu Yu met with Queen Loulan as a state envoy, Liu Yue would have to salute. At this time, Liu Yu had a careerist's smile, with only a little enthusiasm on his face, not respectful.

Behind Queen Lin, there is also the eldest princess of Loulan, the crown prince of Loulan, who is already in her twenties, and the second princess that Liu Yu saw in the Yue clan and the third princess who she saw in the palace that day. At this time, there was a baby in the swaddling clothes in Ning Luoer's arms, which should be the newborn child of Queen Hulin.

No matter how domineering Liu Yu is, the current Loulan people can only cater to it. Liu Yu didn't make too many times, at this welcoming banquet, he just sat in the head position on one side, and Queen Hulin and Prince Ningluoer sat in the main seat. At this time, the people of Loulan were most concerned about when the troops of the Shun Dynasty would be willing to withdraw from Loulan, while Liu Yu was concerned about the ransom issue.

The city can not be taken away, Loulan City is 108,000 miles away from the Central Plains, the transportation is not developed in these years, and it is relatively difficult for the Shun Dynasty to garrison. As long as the conditions are negotiated, Liu Yu does not mind returning Loulan City to the Loulan people to operate.

Because the language of the two sides is not compatible, and the very unknown Bruhan is not there, the person in charge of translation becomes Chetu, but in fact, the second and third princesses of Loulan Kingdom both understand the Central Plains, and sometimes what Liu Yu said is clearly translated in her mother's ear.

Queen Lin finally relieved herself when she learned that the Shun Dynasty people did not plan to stay in Loulan Country for a long time, but she was still very worried that this Shun Dynasty envoy who had been offended by them would take the opportunity to take revenge on the Loulan people and do things like slaughtering the city. In the Western Regions, it is not uncommon for the people of the city to be slaughtered after the fall of a country, and they are afraid that the people of the Shun Dynasty will not have the patience to run the Loulan Kingdom, but directly adopt the simplest and rude methods.

Queen Hulin said a word, and then the entire Loulan people's palace was silent, and even Che Tu's face was a little changed, and said: "Your Majesty our queen, I want to marry our third princess, Princess Xiyi, to you!" ”

Liu Yu was stunned for a moment, and then looked at the shy girl beside the queen, and felt as if she had become a beast. This Princess Xiyi is not fully developed, thirteen or fourteen years old, delicate and thin. But he also knew that at the age of thirteen in the Western Regions, he had reached the age of marriage.

"We'll talk about it later!"

Liu Yu didn't say yes or no, but he had already denied the marriage in his heart. He knew that if he openly refused at this time, he would definitely be hostile to the Loulan people, and it was also the biggest insult to the Loulan people. After all, this is different from marrying a princess ordinarily, Queen Hulin marrying Princess Xiyi to Liu Yu is tantamount to a humiliating "harmony", and it is impossible for Princess Xiyi to maintain a noble status when she marries, and she may not even be as good as a maid.

"It's better to talk about the withdrawal of troops tomorrow." Liu Yu said, "We don't want the city of the Loulan people, we don't want your population, and the most important thing is your submission, by the way...... Borrow some more food. The more you borrow, the better. ”

Because of the protracted war in the north, Liu Yu also learned from Zhang Wuzhu about the lack of food for the Shun Dynasty army in the north. Raiding alone was no longer enough to sustain the northward march of the Shun army. Such a good opportunity to "borrow grain", of course, Liu Yu will not miss it. (To be continued......)