Xiao Ming led the army all the way to the west, but on this road, there were scenes ravaged by war everywhere, the ten rooms and nine empty rooms in the prefecture and county passed, when approaching Yizhou, found corpses all over the ground, there were soldiers and ordinary people, Yizhou City should be regarded as the fourth largest city in the Uighur country, and now more than 30,000 defenders were slaughtered by Yang Qizhong!

After Xiao Ming arrived in Yizhou, he learned that Yang Qizhong had led an army to attack Gaochang City, which was the capital of the Uighur state, and there were at least 100,000 troops.

At the same time, a large number of Uighur troops fled to the capital Gaochang, where they were burned all the way, and many houses in the prefectures and counties were burned, soldiers and civilians were killed, and a large number of people fled in the direction of Beiting.

Xiao Ming sat in Yizhou and waited for the battle report, according to the legionnaires who stayed behind, the main force of the Golden Legion led by Yang Qizhong fought several vicious battles on the outskirts of Yizhou, completely annihilated the opponent's 20,000 cavalry, and finally used artillery to attack the city, and the Uighur defenders surrendered, but these people were all killed by Yang Qizhong's order!

Xiao Ming felt that the murderous aura on Yang Qizhong's body was getting heavier and heavier! may also be that he was saddened by the tragic death of his father and two younger brothers, and hated Yelu Xiaoju Butterfly in his heart, but killing so many people for no reason is really undeserved, God still has the virtue of a good life, let alone people! Xiao Ming felt that Yang Qizhong should be persuaded to do so.

This is also Xiao Ming in some kind of consideration, to put it bluntly, he needs a lot of human resources, at that time the population of the Great Song Dynasty was not very large, the Western Xia Kingdom, the Liao State and the Uighurs, the population of these countries is very sparse, there are often wars and natural disasters, people's life expectancy is generally not high, the birth rate and mortality rate are very high, so looking at the current land of China, the population is really not much.

According to Yang Qizhong's killing, at least in the western region, there will be a lot of uninhabited areas, and the western region is a resource-rich area that Xiao Ming values more, where coal mines, iron mines, silver mines, copper mines, aluminum mines, and gold mines ...... There are countless of them, animal husbandry is even more developed, and the wool of Ganzhou and Western Xia and the cowhide and camel hair of Liangzhou, Guazhou, Shazhou and other places are also very rich.

Xiao Ming originally had the intention of opening a special wool spinning factory in Xingqing Mansion, wool spinning plus cotton spinning is the direction of Richanglong's future leadership in the textile industry, but the most needed for all this implementation is human resources, so he began to organize a large number of personnel to immigrate to the eastern region from now on!

It's not too easy to organize immigrants now, after all, everyone doesn't trust Xiao Ming too much, so Xiao Ming in Yizhou in addition to searching for all kinds of craftsmen, he adopted a relatively soft policy of reassuring the people, just after experiencing the turmoil of a war, what the people need most is to recuperate, and at this time it is the least possible to make a big move.

There are about 150,000 strong men in the entire Yizhou City who were pulled away by Yang Qizhong, transporting various equipment and supplies for the Golden Legion, and the entire Zhou Zhou area is really sparsely populated now, and it is obviously not a good deed to pay lightly during the war, and it is fundamental to rule by doing nothing, Xiao Ming in addition to exempting all the local people from servitude and taxes, even the local government has abandoned it, and only established a joint security organization in the local area Why is it necessary to be safe.

Craftsmen are resources comparable to gold for Xiao Ming, since the group has been plundered by Yang Qizhong, there is no way, Yizhou is like an abandoned city, Xiao Ming does not stay long, and sets off to Gaochang, ready to meet Yang Qizhong.

At this time, the battle report came again, Yang Qizhong's troops came to the city of Gaochang, but they did not attack, and the Uighurs actually used hundreds of thousands of troops to dare not go out of the city to fight Yang Qizhong's decisive battle, but kept sending envoys to Beiting, to Yanqi, and even to Qiuzi and other cities to call for reinforcements, obviously the Uighur court had been beaten by Yang Qizhong!

When Xiao Ming rushed to the periphery of Gaochang, Yang Qizhong had just finished the battle, and the 180,000 troops of the opposing coalition army were broken by Yang Qizhong, and the commander of the Uighur King of Qin, Yanqi, was killed! Prince Jungar of the North Court was killed, and his soldiers and horses were killed countless in battle!

Xiao Ming's arrival made Yang Qizhong very happy, he led Xiao Ming to stand on the high ground to inspect the battlefield, on the battlefield with yellow sand, corpses everywhere, dead corpses of people and horses, military flags upside down, ownerless war horses running around, vultures circling in the sky and air, crows flying around! A post-apocalyptic vision!

Xiao Ming couldn't bear it in his heart, and euphemistically proposed to Yang Qizhong, let him kill less, it is better not to kill if he can, the other party not only surrenders, but can let them live, why rush to kill them all?

"The handsome man doesn't know!" Yang Qizhong said: "The Westerners are cunning, I have spared thousands of their prisoners, but it didn't take long for them to immediately pick up arms and rejoin the battle formation, and many casualties of our army are caused by the other party's fraudulent surrender!" I had to kill! ”

"Besides, our army has more than 30,000 people on the Marsi Expedition, and the troops are repeatedly overstretched, how can we divide the soldiers and guards to guard the prisoners? It's better to just do it once and for all! ”

Xiao Ming said: "But these people killed by you also have parents, wives and children!" ”

"Handsome! These people are enemies on the battlefield with weapons! How can I have the kindness of a woman? ”

Yang Qizhong is very tough, Xiao Ming is very helpless, Yelu Xiaoju Die does not die, Yang Qizhong will continue to kill, no one can say that he is not convinced, Xiao Ming persuaded him bitterly for a long time, Yang Qizhong only agreed, try to kill as little as possible, and treat the pawns to disperse in the future, no need to kill again, Xiao Ming is already very satisfied with such an answer.

The two discussed the current situation of Gaochang City, the Golden Legion is currently in the north of Gaochang City, where is the camp camped and does not move, every day is eyeing the tiger, Yang Qizhong does not besiege the city, and the siege cannot be surrounded, one is that there are few soldiers, and the other is that Gaochang City is a big city in the Western Regions, the capital of the Uighurs, where do you think you can run? During this time, there were not a few people who fled from Gaochang, but the army and the royal family and nobles did not run.

If the royal nobles or the ministers of the court want to escape, there will naturally be an army escort, how can they escape the eyes of the scouts of the Yellow Army legion, no one can run away at that time, it is better to rely on the high wall to guard the safety, but all this will be completely over with the arrival of Xiao Ming!

The Uighurs had just learned that the 180,000 troops who had come to King Qin had been annihilated by the Golden Legion, and the entire royal court was panicked, and they finally became a little desperate, and the surrender and escape faction finally overwhelmed the main battle faction, and at this moment, Xiao Ming's letter of persuasion to surrender was sent in.

Xiao Ming gave the other party's conditions for surrender in a very arrogant tone, the first one, hand over the culprit, Yelu Xiaoju Diehe, and Brother Yu Chibo. The second is to hand over a million gold for atonement. The third is to cede 800 miles of land east of Yizhou, where the wasteland of Lop Nur is located.

Xiao Ming's conditions were very harsh, and let them give an answer within three days, otherwise the army would attack the city and wipe out the Uighur royal family! This is a strategy that obviously provokes the other party, Xiao Ming really doesn't want to smash this centuries-old majestic ancient city of Gaochang, this ancient city is too famous in later generations!

Regardless of how the other party replied, Xiao Ming only asked Qian Baguang to build a fort outside Gaochang City, and the muzzle of the cannon was directly facing the north gate of Gaochang City, and the soldiers of the Golden Legion were ready to attack, Xiao Ming's purpose of provoking the other party was to let the other party go out of the city and fight with him, and it was better to destroy the opponent's living force outside the city than inside the city.

As a result, three days later, Gaochang City did not make the slightest movement, Xiao Ming was furious, and ordered Qian Baguang: "Give me a shot at him!" ”

In the loud sound of cannons, the north gate of Gaochang City, the gate several inches thick was blown to pieces, the corpses of the guards were thrown up several zhang high, the iron chain of the suspension bridge was also blown up, and the defenders of Gaochang were panicked and threw down a large number of bricks and debris from under the city wall to block the north gate.

But Xiao Ming did not mean to attack the city, but every time a cup of tea passed, he asked Qian to pull out the light and fire a cannon, the ruler of the cannon was only locked at the north gate, the entire north gate was basically blown to pieces, the crater on the ground emitted black smoke, and the city tower also collapsed half of the corner, and almost no one dared to go there.

At this time, the Uighurs knew that they were afraid, and they sent a surrender team from the east gate to the city and went around for most of the time before coming to the position at the north gate, and the Uighur envoys with runes and white flags bent down and presented Xiao Ming with a letter of surrender, begging Xiao Ming not to fire any more cannons!

Regarding Xiao Ming's conditions of surrender, the envoy said that he could not be the master, since the king had decided to surrender, he would definitely agree to the conditions, but Han Lingshou and Zhao Yanwen, who were standing on the side, said angrily: "What nonsense! Since your king has decided to surrender, is there still any reason why he will tell you whether he will accept the conditions or not? ”

The envoy kowtowed again and again in fright, "The opening of the city was originally done by several princes and ministers of the royal court, and my king has now been placed under house arrest in the Sumeru Vajra Tower, and I also ask the king's heavenly soldiers to forgive my king after entering the city!" ”

Xiao Ming asked, "Let me ask you, is Yelu Xiaojudie, the leader of the Khitans, also under house arrest?" ”

The envoy nodded and said: "This person harbors evil intentions, he really deserves to be killed, we have put him under house arrest and are only waiting for the king to punish him personally!" ”

Xiao Ming waved his hand and said, "Enter the city!" ”

The Golden Legion took over the city's defenses as soon as they entered the city, and the Uighur soldiers had already lost their armor and fled! Xiao Ming took people directly to the largest temple in Gaochang, Luotoutuo Hongyou Temple, this temple is the largest Buddhist temple in the Western Regions, covering an area of several hundred acres, with thousands of monks, the most famous is that there is a Sumeru King Kong Pagoda in the temple.

The Sumeru Vajra Pagoda contains the true body relics of the Western Regions generation of high monk Kumaroshi! It's a Buddhist monastic land! Xiao Ming led his troops to break in, but was obstructed by the abbot of the temple, and the monks behind him lined up, blocking Xiao Ming's way.

"My Buddha is merciful, the general has made many killings, and he is covered in blood, so he must not set foot in my Buddha's holy land!" The host spoke.

Yang Qizhong was behind Xiao Ming, and he was about to have a seizure, but Xiao Ming said, "The master thinks I'm dirty, right?" Then go and go, and the Uighur king and his henchmen will bring it to me personally. ”

"Amitabha! That is, to enter my Buddha's door, that is, my Buddha's disciples, the vast number of Buddhas should protect the good people, the general is deeply sinful, and he should have the intention of repentance, why should he bring blood into the holy land? ”

Yang Qizhong was furious: "For his own selfishness, the Uighur king provoked a war and caused misery, and now he is a turtle with a shrunken head and hides in the Buddha's gate, is it written off?" Get out of the way! Otherwise, I'll kill you! ”

The host clasped his hands and said, "Amitabha! If I don't go to hell, who will go to hell, if the old man dies and can save the living beings in the world from knives and saws, the general will kill the old man first! ”

Xiao Ming said: "Look at the appearance of your brain full of fat, I want to live a more moist life in the future, you Luo Tou Tuo Hongyou Temple must enjoy the royal worship, now the temple has so much property, are you really willing to do it?" ”

The fat on the host's face shook and was silent, Xiao Ming sneered and said, "I will protect your temple property, give you gold, and let you shape the golden body of the Bodhisattva again, this is always okay, right?" Get out of the way! The last shout came out, and the host stepped aside with a blank face.

Xiao Ming smiled proudly, how can there be any people in this world who can't be impressed! He continued to break in with people, but he ran into trouble again outside the Sumeru Vajra Tower, and it was a group of thin monks who stepped forward one by one and blocked the outside of the tower gate!

"The Holy Land of the Spirit Tower, the laity can't enter it! I'll wait to defend to the death, and ask the general to step down! ”