"Don't be busy, this king will go to pursue Li Jiqian, and come to the city later to talk to Pei Tingshi. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info" Li You didn't rush into the city, he finally arrived here this time, and he had no intention of letting Li Jiqian escape easily, "There is still grain and grass to be transported later, and I am afraid that the city has been out of food for many days, Pei Tingshi still let the soldiers fill their stomachs first." ”

After that, Li You commanded the army to continue to harvest the lives of the party members, and he rode a Zhulong horse with the elite of the Guiyi army to chase in the direction of Li Jiqian's escape.

In particular, Lu Sheng couldn't help but feel jealous when he saw that there were so many soldiers and horses in the party, if they really let them break through Lingzhou City and continue westward, with their Ganzhou Uighurs, they would not be able to stop them in any case. When he first followed Li You to attack the Qarakhanate, Lu Sheng was still very unhappy, but when he arrived at Lingzhou City, he began to rejoice that he had hugged the thighs of the Guiyi army, otherwise they were afraid that their Ganzhou Uighurs would not last long.

Afterwards, a team of chariots and horses slowly came to Lingzhou City, and sent the grain and sheep and horses taken from the hands of the Tubo people into Lingzhou City, Pei Ji hurriedly ordered the people in the city to come forward to respond, and soon the long-lost porridge fragrance came from the city. As soon as he drank some porridge and recovered a little bit of vitality, Pei Ji immediately led the soldiers and horses in the city to kill.

Now the reinforcements outside the city are still fighting with the party members, Pei Ji is reluctant to stay out of the matter, the soldiers and people in the city can also be said to hate these party members, and there is no complaint at the moment, and immediately follow Pei Ji to kill them, the pressure on the party members on the battlefield suddenly increased, plus Li Jiqian has taken the lead in fleeing, their resistance quickly collapsed.

When it got dark, the party army outside the city had been killed by the coalition army, and the party people left tens of thousands of corpses outside Lingzhou City, and the rest fled by the night, and the coalition army won a complete victory, but Li You has not come back yet, which makes them a little worried.

However, this worry did not last long, at noon the next day, Li You returned to Lingzhou City with the Guiyi Army, and when he came to the city, a personal soldier behind him raised the spear in his hand, and the tip of the spear was hung with Li Jiqian's head, in addition to Li Jiqian's clansmen, party members, and most of the leaders of major forces such as the Nakano Li family were also taken by the Guiyi Army.

Seeing that the enemy who had plagued Lingzhou for several years died in front of him, everyone from Pei Ji and below cried with joy, and then greeted Li You and his party into Pei Ji's Zhizhou Mansion.

"Xiaguan thank you to the king of Dunhuang and all of you for your rescue, Xiaguan has written a memo and is ready to send it to Bianliang to report your merits to the imperial court." In fact, Pei Ji is still a little worried now, the Guiyi army is only nominally subordinate to the Great Song Dynasty, but not the courtiers of the Great Song Dynasty, not to mention the Ganzhou Uighurs, Gaochang Uighurs and Khotanese troops, if they stay in Lingzhou and do not leave, Pei Ji has no way to deal with it, since the imperial court cannot send reinforcements to resist the party members, then there is absolutely no way to let them leave Lingzhou.

"Pei Tingshi has been sticking to Lingzhou for several years, and he is really a great hero of the imperial court." Li You first greatly took advantage of Pei Ji's exploits, and then expressed his attitude, "Now that Lingzhou has been stable, this king is relieved, the head of Li Jiqian and others also asked Cui Tingshi to help send it to Bianliang, and the recovery of Yinxia and other places I am afraid that Cui Tingshi will contact other Song troops to complete, this king has made some dirty efforts to rescue Lingzhou and the Tubo Liugu Department that blocked the road, and now he just led the army back to do it with them again." ”

Pei Ji heard this and already understood that Li You did not covet Lingzhou, and finally put his mind at ease, since the two sides removed the mustard in their hearts, the next conversation was naturally much more pleasant, Pei Ji thanked Li You for his rescue, and Li You also continued to praise Pei Ji's contribution to Lingzhou.

After a few rounds of drinking, everyone dispersed and went back to the room to rest, Li You came to the room and lay down and did not fall asleep immediately, but pondered the current situation. Now that the party has suffered a heavy blow, since most of the leaders below Li Jiqian, Li Deming's father and son died in this battle, I am afraid that there will be no more Western Xia in the future, and the Great Song Dynasty has one less big trouble.

More importantly, after the absence of Western Xia, the northwest frontier of the Great Song Dynasty can still bathe in the light of civilization in the Central Plains, many people know the shaving order issued by Dolgon, but they don't know that Li Yuanhao also did this hundreds of years ago, after Li Deming's death, Li Yuanhao succeeded to the throne, he ordered to abandon the Tang and Song emperors to give Li and Zhao surnames, change back to the party surname, and issued a "shaving order", all party men will shave the top of their heads within three days, leaving only a circle around the edge to form a short braid, otherwise they will be killed, and he himself will take the lead in changing into a new hairstyle.

In the future, he ordered people to create the Tangut script, using customs, writing and other ways to wash away the imprint left by the Central Plains civilization in the northwest, and the successive Tangut rulers tried their best to maintain the difference between the Tangut and the Great Song Dynasty, and they regarded their barbarians as the foundation of the state, and were always vigilant against the intrusion of the Great Song culture.

This is similar to what the Qarakhanid did in the Western Regions, which was to try to replace the influence of the Central Plains civilization on the local area with another civilization, so as to weaken the local people's sense of belonging to the Central Plains, so as to use this place for their own use. After a long time, even if the Central Plains were able to recover these lands, it would also lead to difficulties in ruling due to many differences in culture and customs, which would increase the cost of their local governance, and the situation was better in the land of the Western Xia, after all, they were closer to the Central Plains, and after the short reign of the Western Xia, they gradually submitted to the Central Plains and continued to accept the cultural influence of the Central Plains.

The Western Regions were very different, the Qarakhanid brought new civilizations and religions, so that the inhabitants here gradually accepted their beliefs, and gradually became different from the Central Plains, so that various rebellions appeared here one after another, starting from the Qing Dynasty.

Li You helped Khotan to block the attack of the Qarakhanid this time, and gradually expelled its strength to the Western Regions, which is equivalent to interrupting this process, so that the Western Regions continue to bathe in Buddhism that has been integrated by the Central Plains civilization.

Moreover, it cut off the hope of the establishment of the Western Xia, defeated the Tubo Six Valleys, and opened up the connection between the Central Plains and the Western Regions, so that the goods of the Central Plains could be continuously sent to the Western Regions, deepening the economic ties between them.

Guarding the civilization of the Western Regions and maintaining their connection with the Central Plains is the biggest purpose of Li You's mission.