"I saw it in the rear just now, you climbed up to the top of the city and killed three Qarakhanid soldiers with your own hands, and you were a good man. "www.biquge.info Li walked quickly to a wounded soldier, pressed his shoulder to prevent him from getting up, and asked, "Where are you injured?" Can the doctor show me? But what is missing? ”

"Lord Wang!" As an ordinary soldier, where has he ever seen a noble person like Li You talking to him so kindly, he immediately cried bitterly with gratitude, and even forgot his injuries, and said intermittently, "Lord Wang, it's not that you don't work hard, it's really that there are too many enemies in the city, and I can't rush through even if I risk my life." ”

"It's not your fault, it's not your fault." Li You comforted him repeatedly, "You have done your best, I and the King of Khotan have seen it, you are worthy of being a good man in the Khotanese army, and you are also an example for the 100,000 soldiers of our coalition army." Don't worry about anything else now, heal your injuries first, and rely on you to kill more enemies in the future. ”

"The villain must do it." This man was so excited that he could hardly speak, and Yu Chi Sinhala Rama also stepped forward and promised many rewards to reward him for his heroic performance today, and the soldiers who followed them were extremely envious, and they had secretly made up their minds that if it was their turn to fight, they would definitely use all their strength to fight, and they would never be compared to him.

When Li You came out of Shazhou, he brought a lot of doctors, and Ban Chao also specially selected those monks who were proficient in medicine when he recruited senior monks in Bianliang, so most of these wounded soldiers were properly settled, and most of the soldiers in Khotan believed in Buddhism, and some monks were comforted on the side, and their mood gradually calmed down, and they lay there quietly to take medicine and recuperate.

The news of Li You and Wei Chi Sinhala Rama also reached the ears of the other coalition forces, and these people were quite relieved to meet a commander who cherished his soldiers, and the morale of the siege was gradually recovering, and countless soldiers were asking their superiors to fight, eager to participate in tomorrow's siege battle.

After visiting the wounded soldiers, Li You and Yu Chi Sinhala Rama had another thing to do, that is, these soldiers who died in the city today, a vacant space was specially vacated in the middle of the camp, and those monks from Bianliang, Khotan, Shazhou, Gaochang and Ganzhou wore robes and held all kinds of ritual weapons, chanting the Buddhist scriptures of the dead, and the soldiers who had leisure gathered on the periphery and silently chanted with these high monks, hoping that they could go to the Western Heaven Elysium as soon as possible to enjoy peace.

This war can also be said to be a war between two religions, the Khotanese state led by the Sinhala Rama has been fighting a war with the Qarakhanid state for decades, and in order to protect their land and faith, countless brave and warlike Khotanese people, Gaochang Uighurs and Guiyi army have paid a terrible price, and still firmly hold on to their land and faith from falling.

The reason why Li You chose to vigorously aid the Khotanese army, in addition to military and in-law reasons, this is also an important reason, although the Western Regions have been separated from the direct jurisdiction of the Central Plains Dynasty, but in addition to the Karakhanid, Khotan, Guiyi Army and other other forces still regard the Central Plains Dynasty as orthodox, still accept the influence of the Central Plains civilization, they are full of respect and yearning for the Central Plains, those murals and ancient scrolls in the Dunhuang caves can prove these.

If the Great Song Dynasty could fight a little bit and establish contact with the Western Regions, then these forces would not bow down to the Central Plains like they did in the Han and Tang dynasties. However, if the Karakhanid Empire occupied the Western Regions, it was very different, they did not believe in Buddhism, which was increasingly integrated with the civilization of the Central Plains, but in another religion that came from the West.

If they are allowed to expand to the entire Western Regions and spread their beliefs to all parts of the Western Regions, then the already extremely fragile bond between the Central Plains Dynasty and the Western Regions will be ruthlessly cut off by them, even if the center of the Central Plains Dynasty is restored to strength in the future, it will be an extremely troublesome thing to rule the Western Regions, because by then the people of the Western Regions will not be as yearning and respect for the Central Plains as they were in the Han and Tang Dynasties, and it will be extremely troublesome for the ties of civilization to be reconnected if they are cut off. If you lose to Allah Korea today, you will have to pay a hundredfold and a thousand times to regain this land in the future.

The solemn chanting continued for a long time before the soldiers gradually dispersed and returned to the camp to rest, and the monks continued to perform services for the fallen soldiers to bless them with peace after death.

Li You and Yu Chi Sinhala Rama and others also accompanied him for a long time again, especially Yu Chi Sinhala, he seemed particularly pious, and finally got up and went back under the persuasion of Li You and others, and he will continue to attack Kashgar City tomorrow, and he needs to continue to command the battle, if he is tired, it will be too cost-effective.

Early in the morning of the second day, the army again came to the east wall of Kashgar City, trebuchets and other siege equipment were in place one by one, tens of thousands of soldiers slowly moved forward, and the clouds of war once again hung over the heads of the two armies.

When the first rays of sunlight sprinkled on the city of Kashgar, Bilge issued the order to attack, last night after a fierce quarrel, he grabbed the task of today's siege in his hands, if not captured today, tomorrow it will be Lu Sheng's turn to lead the soldiers of the Ganzhou Uighurs forward, the day after tomorrow is Li You commanded the Guiyi army to attack the city, and then it will be the turn of the Khotanese army of Wei Chi Sinhala, these four armies will take turns to attack the city of Kashgar, constantly consuming the strength of the defenders in the city until the city falls.

Countless stone bullets screamed and crashed into the broken walls of Kashgar, and the soldiers of the Qarakhanid Kingdom bent down and hid behind the battlements to hide.

The Uighur soldiers raised their shields above their heads to shield them from arrows, and rushed to the bottom of the city with a hook at the top of the ladder, and the Uighur soldiers began to climb as fast as they could, and they were greeted by deadly stones and hardwoods, and even if they could climb the top of the city, they would be killed and thrown off the city by the more numerous Qarakhanid soldiers.

But not a single soldier flinched, they all knew that it would be difficult to take the city today, but it was always good to consume more enemy soldiers, stones, hardwoods, and arrows, and as long as this attack continued, one day the soldiers of the Qarakhanid would not be able to withstand it.

Li You looked at the tragic battle in front of him expressionlessly, and one method after another flashed in his heart, looking for the flaws of the Qarakhanate, he would not use his life to attack the city like this, there would always be other ways.