Chapter 586: Crisscrossing the Western Frontier
In the Khan Fort in Gaochang Palace, Zhao Ta's golden sword sat on the king's chair in the palace, slowly drinking milk tea.
Biler stood respectfully with his hands down, a smile on his face, and from time to time glanced at Liyanazha, who was sitting sideways in front of him, and cautiously peeked at him.
Liyanaza just didn't see it, pursed her lips slightly, and didn't say a word.
For a long time, Zhao Ta put down the sterling silver cup and swept his eyes one by one.
At this moment, there were quite a few people in the hall, and in addition to Bilgo, there were more than 30 Uighur ministers standing in the rear, all of them looking unbearable, looking like they were ghosts, and some of them were "crackling" with sweat, but they did not dare to raise their hands to wipe them.
Zhao Ta smiled, the spring breeze was warm, and many people breathed a sigh of relief when they saw this, but suddenly saw him grab the silver cup and slam it forward, smashing it on the gilded temple stone, bounced a few times, jumped a few times, and made a crisp and sharp sound.
The soldiers on both sides of the main hall "bang", and they all drew their waist knives, the cold light was shining, the cool air was clear, and the bloody breath came to the nose.
Those ministers had the cowardice to sit on the ground, trembling, and the silver cup collapsed into the body of one of them, so frightened that he rolled his eyes and passed out.
Zhao Ta's expression darkened at this time, and he snorted coldly: "Wait...... Do you know why this king came to Gaochang? ”
Where everyone dared to respond, they all went to see Brother Bile, Brother Bile's face twitched, and he smiled with trembling and said: "King of Light, King of Light is coming, and he wants to sprinkle the glory on Gaochang and the land of Xizhou......"
Zhao Ta glanced at him, and the corners of his mouth flashed a hint of coldness: "This king is here to kill people!" ”
"Huh?" Biler immediately instigated and killed? Whoever kills him, it won't be here to kill him, and the ministers behind him couldn't help but tremble when they heard the words.
"I don't know, I don't know the ...... of the King of Light," Bilgor said stiffly.
Zhao Ta interrupted him: "The land of Gaochang, since ancient times, belongs to the Han Dynasty, this city was built by the Han Dynasty, and since the end of the Tang Dynasty, the dove occupied the magpie's nest, and gathered here, but it is not to obey the orders of the Central Plains, not to worship the Great Song Dynasty, but to communicate with the Khitan traitors, and the party thieves secretly hand over the money, wouldn't they all be damned!" ”
"Ah, King of Light, His Royal Highness the King of Light, the criminal minister is willing to ......" Brother Bile heard that his scalp was numb, the ancient things were actually settled, but the current treatment of the Great Song Dynasty in the East is indeed like this, he has never paid tribute and paid taxes, and he has never been a minister in the state of state, but has always regarded Liao as the suzerain, and Xixia as his brother, which cannot be explained.
Brother Bile knew that he couldn't explain it, so he directly changed his words and called him a minister, but Zhao Ta didn't allow him to continue, and sneered: "Especially knowing that the third princess is the princess of this prince, he actually dared to send him to Dongkharan to sue for peace, this kind of behavior is difficult to make up for with a thousand cuts, and it doesn't solve the anger in the heart of this king!" ”
"The king......" Brother Bile didn't hear it right, his own side didn't know about it at all, why did the other party say so? Although even if he knew it at that time, he might not have sent it, but he didn't know it, so he hurriedly shouted: "Your Royal Highness the King of Light, the criminal minister really doesn't know that Marika is His Royal Highness'......"
A loud "click" sounded, Zhao Ta didn't wait for him to finish speaking, he slapped the jade table next to him with a palm, the jade table is not a whole, but a combination of shelves, heavy and sturdy, if you want to disassemble it must be completed by three or five people, but it was directly collapsed by Zhao Ta's palm, and the debris flew sideways, and the round jade table "boom" rolled down the steps and crushed forward.
Brother Bile was so frightened that his face was like earth, and he hurriedly dodged to the side, and the ministers behind him also dodged, but there was a person who had been keeping his head down and only knew that he was afraid and did not react, and he was directly hit by the heavy table, and immediately spit blood from his mouth, his bones were broken, and he wailed.
Zhao Ta frowned, and immediately a soldier went over and dragged the minister out of the hall like a dead dog, and then there was no more sound.
Seeing this scene, the ministers in the palace trembled, and they were silent, and Bilge did not dare to speak anymore, bowing his head like a quail, and his teeth "clicked" to fight.
Zhao Ta said: "This king said that you know, that is, you know!" Who said that he didn't know, and stood up and called this king to see? ”
Brother Bile complained bitterly in his heart, didn't he say that the people of the Central Plains Dynasty were reasonable and willing to convince people with reason? Why doesn't this one talk about it at all?
Zhao Ta said in a gloomy tone: "I know that I am the princess of this king, but I still plan to give it to the thief, I think you all deserve to die!" ”
As soon as his voice fell, he immediately knelt down in front of him, shouting for mercy, willing to be a cow and a horse, and only begging not to kill his head.
Brother Biler also wanted to kneel, but after looking at Liyan Nazha, he secretly gritted his teeth, it's okay to kneel to King Song, but you can't kneel to your own daughter, right?
But if you don't kneel and beg for mercy, this daughter is also a ruthless lord, shouldn't she still resent herself, and Yu Song Wang slandered him with Qianqian, planning to cut off his head as an ata, right?
As soon as he thought of losing his head, his body softened, and he was about to kneel, when Wu Song came over and pulled him to the side, and threw a few princes aside with their necks.
Zhao Ta didn't look at Brother Biler either, and his eyes swept over those ministers.
"Liyan Nazar, who wants to send you to the Eastern Qarakhanid for peace?"
Liyanaza saw that Brother Biler was taken aside, and she breathed a sigh of relief, looked ahead and said, "Lord, this is ......"
Zhao Ta saw her embarrassed look, knowing that it was difficult to say, so he smiled coldly: "That is, all of them have a share, and they are all pushed out and cut...... Zhu Jiu Clan! ”
"Huh?!" As soon as these words came out, the ministers in the palace were dumbfounded, and immediately cried for their fathers and mothers, and some fell to the ground, yellow and white.
"Lord Wang, this ......" Liyanaza was immediately shocked when she saw this, she didn't expect Zhao Ta to want to kill them all, and she would also punish the nine clans.
"The princess doesn't have to intercede for them!" Zhao Tan said lightly: "These people don't want to resist foreign invaders, some want to ask for peace is damned, and plan to send you to the hands of thieves, so as to pray for the other party to withdraw their troops, and even more damned, this king is coming to Dongchang, and if he doesn't say that he will open the city and surrender, he should die again, three major sins, the crime is unforgivable, and it must not be left!" ”
None of these Uighur ministers who could go up to the temple were left behind, and they were all disasters, both for the country and for themselves, and they were all unfavorable, and they must be cut down and eradicated.
Liyanaza said: "But the prince, if you ...... All of them are killed, how can the country be governed? ”
"If these traitors and rebels are killed, will there be no one to govern the country?" Zhao Ta's eyes flashed in front of the court in Tokyo, those golden and purple princes, those ministers and scholars, ninety percent of them were corrupt and perverted the law, preyed on the people, abused power for personal gain, and brought disaster to the country and the people, and killed all these people, can no one continue to govern the world?
What are you kidding, no one has the same sun in the east and west in the west, and no one in the world everything runs the same, not to mention that if you want to rule the world, don't kill a group, and clean up the atmosphere, how can you rule the world?
He said: "The princess doesn't have to worry, how can these waste ordinary things govern the country?" If you really have that kind of ability, you won't be helpless after losing to the Eastern Qarakhanid, and you want to use women to please each other! ”
Liyan Nazha was silent when she heard this, but this is a fact, these people all want to push her out in exchange for the withdrawal of the Qarakhanid army, and she can't wait to kill these people, but she is worried that no one will deal with state affairs after they are killed, but since Zhao Ta said this, she is also relieved, after all, when it comes to governing the country, Zhao Ta is definitely better than her.
Then these ministers were all escorted out of the palace, and without even drawing up a charge, they directly cut off their heads, and then went to their respective homes to take people, punish the nine clans, and cut the grass and eradicate the roots!
Next, continue to purge, not just kill these ministers who go to the temple, the Xizhou Uighurs have been established for more than 200 years, and all the forces in Gaochang City are intertwined, and all those who are not convinced are all killed, the same is the Zhujiu clan, and no one is left!
As for the Uighur Ming Sect, Zhao Ta directly sent a large number of troops to surround the main altar, and the Persian side sent two holy envoys and a new holy woman, originally in order to make it easier to preach in the Uighurs, everything was done by the princess Liyanazar as the bishop's internal affairs, but since Liyanazar gave birth, the Persian archist has been trying to change people, and at this moment, taking advantage of the opportunity when the Uighur court wanted to give her to the Qarakhanid, he actually sent people to seize her rights.
The army entered the main altar of Mingjiao, but all those who disobeyed were killed, what a raging holy fire, burning your own body, then you really burned well, what life is also happy, death is also not bitter, then you really don't know the bitterness.
Everywhere the King of Light goes, all those who oppose the rebellion are heretics, and all must die, even if they kill not a single one, they will be judged!
More than half of the Uighur Ming Sect had been killed, and the cities were bloodied and miserable.
Zhao Ta was red-eyed at the moment, after killing Mingjiao and killing Zoroastrianism, this is different from Mingjiao, Mingjiao is those who follow me prosper, and those who oppose me die, and for Zoroastrianism, they don't ask or judge, they are directly killed, and they don't stay.
Then he didn't finish the matter, and continued to kill Jingjiao, killing the sky and the earth, leaving no one behind.
After killing the Jingjiao and then killing the shamanism, there were not many Uighur shamans in Xizhou at this moment, and many Uighurs had changed their original belief in shamanism to Buddhism under the influence of the Tang Dynasty.
The Uighurs still have Taoism, but the two sects of Taoism and Buddhism, Zhao Ta, have not moved for the time being, and the ambitions of these two sects are not as great as those of other sects, and they always want to get involved in the imperial power, so they stay for the time being.
Half a month later, Zhao Ta held a feast in the Khan's fort to invite the Uighur royal family, although it was a banquet, but those royal family members thought it was a Hongmen feast, and they were so scared that they were dying, and during this time they had been killed in the dark, and the Uighur royal family was all frightened, worried that the butcher's knife would fall on them.
During the banquet, Zhao Ta looked at the people below, each of them did not dare to raise their heads, these people were frightened day by day, their nerves were weakened, and some of them had hallucinations, seeing that the clouds in the sky were all blood-colored, and as soon as there was a wind and grass, they would cup the bow and snake shadow.
Zhao Ta reassured them by saying that they were relatives, and they were to blame for killing those rebel ministers and thieves, and they would not do anything to these relatives.
Just as the banquet was about to end, a military report was suddenly sent from outside, and Zhao Ta couldn't help sneering after reading it, it turned out that it was the Eastern Qarakhanid side that knew that the Uighurs were in turmoil, and did not send Liyanaza over, and sent a large army to press the border, and captured the two cities of Uchi and Qiuzi.
After all, the border city, the gains and losses during the war are normal, but Qiuzi is already an important town, once lost, it will be convenient to have a long-term driving trend.
Zhao Ta's eyes swept down, and said lightly: "Who of you can lead the troops to retreat from the enemy?" ”
As soon as they heard that they were going to fight, the royal family was even more frightened than when they heard that they were gone, and they either shook their heads like rattles, or buried their faces in the plates in front of them, and did not dare to lift them.
Zhao Ta looked at them, then at Liyanazha, and sighed, "If this king does not come, will the Uighurs not be safe?" ”
Liana glanced at him: "Lord Wang, why don't I lead the troops there?" ”
Zhao Ta smiled and said: "The princess Jinyu body, Enke leads the troops, or this king will make arrangements." ”
Subsequently, he made Li Yanxian in command, and Luda as the vanguard, Qin Ming, Hu Yanzhuo, Suo Chao, and Guo Sheng as generals, led him to bring 20,000 of the 30,000 horses, and then gathered 20,000 Uighur soldiers, a total of 40,000 men, and went west to meet the Eastern Qarakhanid.
Li Yanxian is a handsome talent, although he is really a martial artist, he cannot be Luda's opponent, and he may not be able to beat Qin Ming and Hu Yanzhuo, but the commander of the first army is more strategic, and the overall situation is viewed, and now there are not many people like him under him, except for Liu Suiyun, there are only two and a half left.
One is Lu Jiang, the other is Li Yanxian, and Zhang Xian is only half of it, because it is still growing.
The rest of Lu Junyi, Du Yan, and Song Jiang are not handsome, Wu Yong and Zhu Wu are only military advisors, although these can also lead an army and lead troops to fight alone, but when they really encounter that kind of large-scale army melee, it is not enough to take care of all directions and plan in all directions, which is why Zhao Tan promoted Li Yanxian all the way.
Why did the Jurchens suddenly rise up and be able to destroy the Liao State and dominate the grasslands? Not to mention the specific combat strength of the soldiers, only to talk about manpower, in addition to the two male masters of Wanyan Aguda and Wanyan Wu Qimai, there are also two handsome talents of Wanyan Zongwang and Wanyan Zonghan.
Without the two characters of Zong Wang and Zong Han, the Jurchen would not be so easy to destroy Liao, and it may be difficult, as for going south to attack the Great Song Dynasty, breaking Taiyuan and trapping Tokyo, it is somewhat unlikely.
As for Zong Bi and others, although they were also in command in the later period, they were actually far inferior to Zong Wang and Zong Han.
This is also the reason why the Jurchens declined rapidly later, because only one generation was strong, Zongwang Zonghan's generation passed, and there was no follow-up, and he was no longer able to go south, and at the end of the period, it was not even comparable to the end of the Liao Dynasty, let alone the late Southern Song Dynasty.
Before the Western Expedition, Zhao Tan deliberately gave Li Yanxian the right to make decisions, so that he could be independent before the battle.
This right is great, that is to say, Li Yanxian can change the purpose of sending troops, which was originally based on resisting Eastern Qarakhanid and recapturing Wuchi City and Qiuzi City for the purpose of sending troops, but when he is in battle, he can analyze the fighters and use troops independently, which is equivalent to fighting at will.
Ten days later, the good news came back, and Li Yanxian led an army of 40,000 to recover Qiuzi and Wuchi, and drove the Eastern Qarakhanid out of the border.
Twenty days later, the military report returned, and Li Yanxian entered the territory of the Eastern Qarakhanid and captured the important town of the Eastern Qarakhanid.
A month later, Li Yanxian fought to raise the war, and then went down to the big cities such as Wugushule and Uzgen.
Two months later, most of the Eastern Qarakhanid territory was conquered, and Li Yanxian's troops besieged the eastern Qarakhanid capital, Balasagon.
Three months later, the city of Barasagon was broken and the Eastern Qarakhanid Khan, Ahmad Arslan, was captured alive.
Three and a half months later, the Eastern Qarakhanid was completely destroyed......
(End of chapter)