At this moment, looking down from the head of Suzhou City, flags are flying over the camp of the Shazhou Guiyi Army and the Lanzhou West Expeditionary Army, inside the large camp, the five-foot short wall separates the large camp into a number of small camps with independent defense capabilities, and the head of each battalion is stepping up the drill of sergeants, the outside of the camp is built with loess and wood to form a wall three zhang wide and two feet high, and a trench two zhang wide and seven feet deep is dug outside, and a vast open space is cleared outside the trench, except for a few main passages in and out of the camp, there are dense pits that break horses' hooves and obstacles such as antlers and spikes. A clearing was cleared behind the camp, and from a distance, countless siege equipment was being built, according to Wu Yingying's meaning, the Ganzhou Uighurs had become a fish in the cauldron, and the Lanzhou army would rather sweat more than shed less blood, and when the equipment was completed, they would first bombard the city with a stone-throwing machine day and night, killing and wounding the enemy, and then march to the city to fight, and then they would have to drive the surrendered Uighur soldiers to fill the outer walls of Ganzhou and dig the city walls for the front. After this battle, the Lanzhou army had to digest the millions of people in Hexi with more than 10,000 soldiers, and each sergeant was an extremely important and valuable seed.

"Prime Minister, is there no other good way than to beg for peace?" Looking at the continuous Han army camp tents under the city, Yao Luoge Jingqiong's face was depressed, and only a few hundred men and horses fled back with him, plus the nearby Uighur troops, the defenders of Suzhou were less than 3,000, and it was really difficult to fight with the vigorous Han army, not to mention, the attack and defense of the city was not the Uighurs' forte.

Dong Tu lowered his head under his forced gaze, the matter had come to this. Jing Qiong was not reconciled, and asked again: "My Uighur tribes originally migrated from the Western Regions, can't they retreat to the Western Regions?"

"Khan, although the Uighurs of Gaochang are of the same vein as us, we have been separated for a hundred years, and now the relationship between the Gaochang Cai clan and the Cao clan of the Guiyi army is even closer than ours. Dong Tu replied respectfully, "We have repeatedly blocked the passage of the Gaochang Uighurs to pay tribute to the Central Plains court, and although we have made huge profits, we have already stiffened the relationship between the two sides, and besides, if we go to the Western Regions, those Gaochang Uighur nobles will probably swallow up the people west of the river." , surrender to Wu Heroes, the Han people cannot rule the Uighur tribes, and ultimately have to rely on these Uighur nobles, which is the same reason as the Han people say, 'There is no immortal court, but there is an immortal family'. Back then, Zhang Yichao expelled the Tibetans, and his prestige was so great, but he didn't want to reuse our Uighur tribes. ”

Dong Tu's family is in the Lanzhou army, he has been weak since he was a child, can not go into battle to fight, familiar with the history of military books, by giving advice to the Khan to get the position of prime minister, although he has done a lot of ambiguous things, to the point that he has never been stained with blood, even if he returns to Lanzhou, he will not be cursed by the punishment, besides, Wu Yingying always has to use some Uighur people to help him subdue the various departments, Dong Tu thinks that he is familiar with Han allusions, and he is a Uighur, even if he takes refuge in Lanzhou, he will be reused. His current mentality is the same as the mentality of Cao Cao's soldiers who went south to Jiangdong and the ministers back then.

Jing Qiong nodded and said in a low voice: "The Han people say that 'a big husband can bend and stretch', and I also know it. However, seeing that the great cause of unifying Hexi is about to be accomplished, but there are branches, I am really unwilling. Seeing that the Guiyi army in Shazhou was declining day by day, the Tubo people were busy attacking and killing each other, and the Uighurs wanted to unify the land west of the river, but they failed, Jing Qiong asked in a deep voice: "If I use the children of the Han people in Hexi as bait and lure the Qingtang and Tubo tribes to help, can I?"

Dong Tu's face changed drastically: "This is a strategy to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, but I am afraid that it will harm myself." Seeing that Jing Qiong was still hesitant, Dong Tu said: "The Han army is building siege equipment day and night, although it has not been launched at the moment, once it is launched, it will be a thunderous momentum, this small Suzhou city may not be able to hold on for two days, and the Tubo people will not be able to quench their thirst from far away!"

Jing Qiong sighed and said in a low voice: "I, the Uighurs of Ganzhou, have been canonized by the Great Song Dynasty, so can the imperial court connive at this Lanzhou Wu hero to destroy us." I heard that Wu Yingying has taken all the relatives and nobles of my clan in Ganzhou into custody, and he will also try his sins, and the guilty people will also ask the elders of the sects to put a poisonous spell on their souls and send their souls to hell forever. Such a ruthless person, I am afraid that it will not be able to achieve good results. ”

Dong Tu changed his mind in his heart, and he was determined to promote Jing Qiong's surrender, but seeing that he was only worried that he would end up with no good fate, he immediately bowed down and said: "If the Khan is worried that Wu Hero will turn his face in the future, the minister has a plan. Seeing Jing Qiong listening attentively, he knew that Jing Qiong already had the intention of surrendering, so he said: "The minister watched the heroes of Lanzhou Wu act, boasting of the righteousness of heaven, his soldiers were strong and brave, the system was lawful, and the people were all serving him to death. After learning that it was the Lanzhou army that captured Ganzhou, Dong Tu carefully analyzed all the information he could collect about Lanzhou and Wu Heroes, he was a Hu man, and he did not have such deep prejudices as the Central Plains Zhengshuo, and he was familiar with the history books of the Han people, and he could deeply understand the significance of Wu Hero's various measures, if it were not hostile, he would have admired Wu Heroes a few times, and at this moment he said it casually, only to hear Jingqiong Khan's face sank slightly, and he secretly wondered in his heart that since Dong Tu already knew that Lanzhou Wu Hero was difficult to deal with, why didn't he remind himself earlier.

Dong suddenly saw Jing Qiong's face change slightly, his heart woke up slightly, and he changed his words and said: "Since ancient times, people with such great ambitions have paid special attention to the evaluation of history, such as Emperor Wei Wudi, such a person with outstanding civil and military skills, just because of lust and righteousness, for thousands of years, everyone said that he was a traitor. If Your Majesty gives the princess to Wu Yingying and his relatives, then he will become your son-in-law, and if he breaks his promise, it will be very detrimental to his popularity. The glory and wealth of the second half of the Khan's life were naturally preserved. ”

Since the Han Dynasty, the Central Plains court is not ashamed, and the Uighurs are naturally the same, Jing Qiong also felt feasible after listening to Dong Tu's strategy, and only muttered slightly: "I heard that Wu Hero already has a wife, so I am afraid that I have wronged Alidai." He has no children under his knees, and he is such a well-behaved daughter, and he will inevitably be reluctant to take it out of his hands to make a bargaining chip to please the enemy.

Dong suddenly saw that his face was unbearable, and hurriedly said: "The Khan has no worries, Her Royal Highness the princess originally knew that she was well-read and loved, and this Wu hero is a hero of the day and did not mention it, my Hexi Uighur tribe has 300,000 people, he always wants to encircle my Uighur tribes, if it is a person who does great things, as long as he agrees to this peace, no matter what he thinks, he will not treat the princess lightly no matter what, and even to the Khan, you will definitely be respected." He added another sentence in his heart, but with his ambition, he will never let you be in power again.

Under Dong Tu's strong persuasion, the Uighurs of Ganzhou sent envoys to the Han army camp outside the city to ask for surrender, which provoked a fierce controversy.