Cai Lang smiled, "It's just to inquire about some news of the old people in Jinling," he paused, and then said, "The strange thing is that I also feel familiar, but I can't remember where I have seen this lady." ”

Sang Luzhuo said: "You can't see it, but I can see it clearly, when you talk about Your Majesty's recent situation, her left hand is hidden behind her, and when she takes it out again, there are several deep marks, which must have been left tightly clutched." Seeing that Cai Lang still didn't understand, he said: "The Prime Minister's wife seems to be loading all her thoughts into the iron box, although she endures it without expression, but whenever she says Your Majesty, it is that kind of concerned look, but it is like a crack in the iron box, revealing light." Cai Lang listened to what she said, so he had to nod his head and say yes.

"King, this is the plan of the Xia Kingdom to destroy the country on a false path, and now Khotan has been attached to the Xia country, if this time let Wu Yingying borrow the way, if he wins, then when he returns to the division, he will destroy my country. The Uighur minister of Khocho admonished.

Wu Yingying, the king of Xia State, did his best to march westward, and the general Xin Gu led the hussar army, the flower hat army, and the trouble-relieving army as the vanguard, and Wu Yingying led the dragon tooth army, the high-hoof army, the Jiaorong army, the Lianrui army, the iron bone army, and the poplar army, followed by the army of nearly 50,000, driving countless cattle and sheep with the army, and was coming along the route of the traditional nomads in the north of the Tianshan Mountains, because all the way was fed on the milk of cows, sheep and horses, and there was no need for the rear grain team to carry the burden, and the army was advancing rapidly, and it was currently assembled in Yizhou, and the cavalry was killed under the city of Gaochang for only two or three days.

"Is there any other way?" replied the Uighur leader of Gaochang, a servant of the self-proclaimed Aslan Khan, rather bitterly. You still don't know about the army of the Xia State, the Guanghu Yang Army and the Jiaorong Army have exhausted us to deal with, this time Wu Yingying personally marched, the target was directly aimed at the Great Food Samanid Kingdom behind the Green Ridge, Gaochang and even Black Khan were just stones blocking the way in front of him, if it was Toucheng, he surrendered in order to appease the various tribes in the Western Regions, and we can also protect the clansmen, if it is an enemy with him, look at the party Xiang Tuoba clan, in addition to the one who fled to the Song State, the relatives and the family Ding are old, almost from top to bottom to kill him, and also sent the elders of the sects to curse his soul to hell forever and not be able to live beyond life. ”

"Wu Yingying is vainly raising soldiers, we can ask for help from the Liao State and the Song State. Maisowen seemed to have lost his mind, and the servant Guqin sighed, waved his hand and asked the guards to drag him out, the court of Liao and Song, that is a very distant place, the real king, now standing at the door with a sharp sword. The Uighurs of Gaochang, who once resisted Tang Taizong and are now a vassal state of the Liao and Song dynasties, including the four towns of Gaochang, Beiting, Yanqi, and Qiuci in the former dynasty, surrendered without a fight. The Uighur leader of Gaochang, the servants of Aslan Khan, who were diligent in following the rules, greeted each other on the side of the road, kneeling and handing over the letter of surrender.

Wu Yingying took it, and handed it to Chase Si, the director of the Military Intelligence Department next to him, without looking at the surrender table, and looked at the servant Guqin condescendingly, and asked: "Why bother to surrender until the soldiers are in the city, and embarrass my marching division." ”

Servant Guqin asked for divination last night, the good and evil were undecided, and when he heard the two trembling forces, he said in a trembling voice: "Weichen is late, please have mercy on Your Majesty." ”

Wu Yingying stared at his head until he saw the beads of sweat running down his neck, and sighed: "I knew this was the case, why bother in the first place, I will forgive your offense for the time being, and immediately provide my army with the necessary cattle, sheep and forage, and also, you personally take 30,000 Gaochang troops to attack the Black Khanate with us, and you will pay for your crimes." ”

He paused for a moment, and then said, "I have a marching sergeant election system in the Great Xia Kingdom, after this battle, your throne can be saved, Gaochang City will give autonomy to the merchants, the people requisitioned in the Gaochang army will be disarmed and returned to the field, and the remaining elite warriors should be asked to go to the Jiaorong army to receive training, and then re-elect Shangguan, are you really willing to agree to these conditions?"

Aslan Khan's servants were as diligent as if they had been granted amnesty, and Chase had already sent someone to explain to him that in fact, if the Gaochang Servant Gu clan retained the King of Gaochang, the political affairs of the four towns would be handled by the state and county officials sent by the tax collector's office, and the armaments would be completely controlled by the Xia State, and from the Han to the Tang Dynasty, such a tight control over the subject countries of the Western Regions would be regarded as the extreme. If he doesn't agree, Chase warns that the Dang Xiang Tuoba clan is a role model, and this time the Xia army poured out, even if all the Gaochang people were killed, it was normal, anyway, the Xia army only needed Gaochang's water and grass.

"Your Majesty~ compassionate, it's too late for Weichen to be grateful. "Fu Guqin banged his head with a bang, Wu Yingying is not an ordinary son of heaven in the Central Plains, he doesn't mind following the rules of the grassland for the defeated tribes, and there are all kinds of means to transform and annex the tribes and surrender prisoners. The ancestors of Fugu Qinshang were nomadic Uighurs in Mobei, and they could only submit to the strong.

Wu Yingying looked at the prostrate King Gaochang on the ground, but there was a burst of annoyance in his heart, and he said coldly: "Servant Guqin, since you have submitted to me, you can rest assured, I am not the Gao Xianzhi who slaughtered and surrendered to the country, as long as you serve faithfully, you will not add to the crime without nothing, come, take the Danshu iron coupon." With a wave of his hand, Chase handed over the Danshu Iron Coupon for the title of King Gaochang to Fu Gujun, which contained various guarantees for his person and property.

When he returned home, Guqin, the servant of the king of Gaochang, only felt that he was soaking wet, and the servant reported, "Lord McThorne committed suicide in the mansion." He was stunned for a moment, shook his head with a wry smile, took out the Danshu iron coupon given by Wu Yingying from his arms, carefully unfolded it, looked at it and looked at it, carefully considered the words, and finally placed it in the jade box with a precious place, and worshiped it on the incense table.

Just when Wu Yingying accepted the surrender of King Gaochang, the three armies of hussars, Xie Fu, and Hua Hat led by Xin Gu had already arrived in Yanqi, replenished a small amount of food and forage, and marched towards Qiuzi, and the army of Gaochang Guo was left behind by them. At the head of Yanqi City, the town general Chu Luo looked at the Han army with a complicated face and once again drove to the west, countless red flags were in the hands of the sergeant, and Han Li wrote a big Xia character, hunting and hunting.

"Is this really the army of the Han Chinese?" said the adjutant general Ruo Jiu Mu quite surprised, the whole army did not carry many grain carts, but drove countless short and hardy Mongolian horses and grass sheep, if it were not for the absence of old people, women and children, it would be like a nomadic tribal transfer on the steppe.

"This is the army of the Han people, look at the ballista and the stone thrower," Chu Luo sighed, "but these Han people learned the way of the Huns and Khitans to march, and from then on they were freed from the restrictions of baggage, and where there was no clean water source, they could drink mare's milk." Fortunately, the king knew the time to surrender, otherwise, these people would have beaten grass and grain, and they could kill people like cattle and sheep. ”

"Can the Han people be so brutal?" Ruojiu asked, the noble generals of Gaochang are all familiar with historical facts, the Central Plains Dynasty passed through the Western Regions, most of them were taboo and indiscriminately killed, and more Huairou pacification methods, even if a country was destroyed, they often supported the descendants of the local royal family as kings.

"I heard that when the people of the Central Plains fought fiercely, they killed the enemy and salted them into dried meat and moved with the army. In the past, the Han army had to rely on the local people to maintain agriculture and provide them with grain and grass, so they were gentle and appeased to the countries along the way. But the army of the nomadic tribe only needs water and grass, and for the nomadic army, except for the craftsmen, the locals are simply useless burdens to them, and they also have to consume grass and food. Although the Xia army was mostly Han Chinese, since they marched like nomads, the inhabitants of the places they passed were actually dispensable to them, and when they realized this, they had no scruples about retaliating, and even if they turned Gaochang into a no-man's grassland, they would not lose anything. ”

"What's even more terrifying is that they have both exquisite craftsmen and an endless stream of manpower, the city that the nomads can't conquer, but it is what the Central Plains army is good at dealing with, if the city is difficult to overcome for a while, they will besiege the city while grazing around the city, most of the cities are built in the anointed land, there is no food, is there no water and grass around?" Chu Luo said slowly, Gaochang Kingdom was originally built by nomadic Uighurs, and after arriving in the Western Regions, he gradually began to settle down and farm, and he had an understanding of the methods of the nomadic army and the Han army.