In early November, all sorts of news converged.

The countries of the Western Regions are all confirming whether the barbarian army from the west has been completely pacified, and the entire Western Regions is as lively as a festival.

The waist of the business traveler from the Xia Kingdom is very straight, and behind it is a strong country, and outsiders will be polite to you wherever you go.

And those merchants will also take this opportunity to say something that is not new in the Xia Kingdom, praising the Son of Heaven from 800 troops to the slaughter of the East China Sea group.

For a time, the prestige of Xia Guo was more powerful than before, and those people in the Western Regions who had seen the Western barbarians slaughtering the city and eating people couldn't help but be excited, praising Shangbang Xia Weide all over the world, and the words of having difficulties resonated in the hearts of many people.

As the dust settles on the last battle, the land south of Yelan Country, the people who quietly spied on this war or the spies of nearby small countries will write down what they have seen and heard in the war one by one.

Seeing the Western barbarians who were like cannibalistic devils, after being deflated outside Yelan, they were constantly defeated, and were beaten to an oasis by the Xia cavalry, and they did not dare to go out easily, and soon after, the main force of the Xia Kingdom entered the Western Regions, and the foreign barbarians began to flee, and then they were driven around by the Xia State cavalry, exhausted.

There were even people who followed the Xia army to Tianfeng Ridge, the westernmost part of the Middle Road of the Western Regions, and under their witness, they saw with their own eyes that the pickled human heads were stacked in the mountains to form a huge Jingguan.

- A tower made of heads.

When these observations and hearsay, they vividly spread, washing away the hesitation and uneasiness caused by the brutality of the Western barbarians in the Western Regions during this period of time.

Now that there is the Xia Kingdom in the east guarding the Western Regions, many people in the Western Regions are finally relieved.

"Let's back to Xia Guo, this move is finally right, isn't there a saying in the east, it's good to enjoy the shade with your back against a big tree, and follow Xia Guo in the future, it's better than what kind of robbers in the East China Sea, isn't it? Moreover, the two sides are traded, and everyone's life is also better, as long as the emperor of Xia Guo does not treat us as outsiders, follow his surname! ”

The magnates of the Western Regions did not pay attention to the market talk of the people in the Western Regions, on the contrary, after the Western barbarians were pacified, their eyes were more concerned about the Xia army that entered the Western Regions.

When he heard that the honor guard of the Emperor of Xia had gone north from Tiele to Yelan Kingdom, the surviving kings hurriedly sent envoys to chase after the Xia Emperor's team.

For a time, the fast horses carrying the documents were galloping between the deserts and Gobi from the middle and south roads of the Western Regions to the north of the country.

It can probably be seen that the clear political signal emitted by the Emperor of Xia going north to Yelan Kingdom.

With the passage of time, news began to be sent back, and the biggest news was sent by the Emperor of Xia Kingdom, who was about to enter Yelan Kingdom.

Invite the kings of the Western Regions to come to Yelan City before the end of November.

It is not inappropriate for the Son of Heaven of Shangbang to come to the Western Regions, and the king of the vassal country to go on a pilgrimage, but many times he sends his henchmen and envoys to go.

After all, if the king of a country was held hostage in the past, it would be a direct death of the country.

But now it's different, the Xia army is in the Western Regions, if you don't go, then you will hand the butcher knife to the other party yourself.

Most of the people in the Western Regions have the mentality of eating melons on this point, and see how the magnates of various countries react one by one.

After all, they chose to surrender to the Son of Heaven of the Xia Kingdom, if they did not obey the order, it would be disobedience, and even if the Son of Heaven of the Xia Kingdom wanted to punish him, he would not take the common people to the knife.

This has been the consensus of everyone for many years.

When the Son of Heaven was really angry, the people of the Western Regions sat at home and watched how the powerful people above were ruined.

Such a ferocious Western barbarian was killed by the soldiers and horses in the hands of the Emperor of the Xia Kingdom, and even if the countries of the Western Regions got together, it was not enough for people to take it seriously.

After Su Chen's words were released, during this time, ordinary people did not think as much as the magnates of the Western Regions, but waited attentively for the reactions of the magnates, patiently waiting to eat melons, and see if there were any fools who were tough with the emperor of Xia Guo at this time.

However, most of the time, the people of the Western Regions were still enthusiastic about how the generals of the Xia Kingdom fought bravely to push back the Western barbarians, killing them and cutting off their heads.

Occasionally, the people of the Western Regions will exaggerate the story a little and add some folk mythology, which has become a popular topic of conversation.

After all, this kind of story is also what most people talk about.

In such an atmosphere, the emperor of the Xia Kingdom mentioned by people took the ancestral locomotive at this time, and under the arch guard of the Tang army, he entered the boundary of Yelan Kingdom in the middle of the Daxue Mountain from south to north.

The snow-capped mountains are majestic, stretching from east to west.

After November, the ground at the foot of the snow-capped mountains is even drier, and ignorant children carry baskets on their backs and pick up cow and sheep dung on the ground.

In the distant oasis fertile fields, in addition to wheat, there are countless grape vine trellises, and the people of Yelan who have experienced a catastrophe are rebuilding their homes, and the men in the family are like a mother-in-law, packing up their belongings and taking care of their children.

Women repair their houses, weave vines in the fields, or bargain with passing merchants, using their little savings to buy what they need to plant next year.

Xia Guo's team came from the south.

Passing by in the sight of countless Yelan people along the way, the banner of the Xia Kingdom with a white dragon pattern on a black background hunted in the wind, all the way to the north.

The people of Yelan Kingdom, who had already heard about this, put down everything they were busy with at this time and knelt down in place.

First, it is to thank the Xia State for sending troops to help, and secondly, as the people of the subject country, they must bow down.

In all directions, cavalrymen who could speak the Western Regions urged their horses to run on the side of the team, shouting in the Western Regions dialect on the nearby ridges and roads: "The honor guard of the Great Summer Son passes by here, and you can continue to be busy without kneeling for a long time!" ”

"The Western Regions are attached to my Great Xia, and there are difficulties in the country, how can the sect master not save it!"

“…… The Western barbarians are wiped out, so you can live in peace and don't panic! ”

The surging war horses ran through the Gobi, oases, farmlands, and village markets, conveying the will of the Xia Emperor at the same time.

The greeting team from Yelan Country has been waiting on the side of the road fifty miles away, almost all of the women are civil and military in the country, but there are more civil ministers than military generals, after all, the battle to defend the city, the female generals who can handle Yelan Country are basically almost dead.

The people who can stand here at this time are all new faces who have recently been promoted from the army.

As the queen, Itas can wait in the palace, but now she is dressed in military uniform, wearing a close-fitting gold silk cotton red robe, sitting on horseback, like a female general waiting for the Son of Heaven to review.

"Queen, the Son of Heaven of the Xia Kingdom is still ten miles away, you can go to the car and rest for a while before coming out." Bainani took off her iron helmet and urged her horse to come closer.

After the battle over there, she returned to Yelan with less than a thousand camel female cavalry.

Most of the things that spread in the Western Regions during this period of time came from her mouth, after all, from Lu Bu's original warning, it was clear that Yelan Country should be prepared, and if she hesitated, it would really be a dead end.

"It's okay, I'm not tired."

Itas's face was beautiful, and her smile was suffocating, and as far as she could see, a vast amount of smoke and dust spread.

The red lips squirmed, and he said: "The soldiers and horses of the Son of Heaven of the Xia Kingdom are here!" ”

Bai Nani followed her gaze, and in an instant, the horse galloped, and several court maids dressed in costume around her also galloped wildly.

Arriving at the welcoming position, Bai Nani and the guards turned over and dismounted, untied the delicate sheepskin water bag from their waists, and held their hands above their heads.

The sound of horses' hooves approached, and the first to come was the general of Xia Guo wearing white robes and silver armor, she knew the other party, General Zhao, who had conquered the Western barbarians before, and the other party came here with more than a dozen cavalry, and stopped in front of Bai Nani with a 'call' in his mouth.

The cloak stroked in the wind, and Zhao Yun lowered the pitch-black gentian in his hand, "Your Majesty's guard of honor will arrive soon, are you queens ready?" ”

"My queen is waiting over there."

Bai Nani stepped forward respectfully with a water bag in both hands, said a word, and said sincerely: "General Zhao, please drink the snow water on the Great Snow Mountain." ”

Zhao Yun nodded, took the water bag she handed over, a smile appeared on his face, then unscrewed it, poured a sip, and returned it with a bow.

"The water of the Great Snow Mountain, not bad, it is estimated that Your Majesty likes it!"

After speaking, he shook the reins and urged the horse to gallop again, and when the Son of Heaven came over, he must have a close henchman to investigate, which is a ritual.

At the same time, it also shows the majesty of the emperor of the great country to the top and bottom of the Yelan country.

With Zhao Yun's words: "Continue to investigate", he ran away with more than a dozen cavalry behind him and disappeared from Bai Nani's field of vision.

"Such a strong general is actually used as a scout......"

The sound of the wind on the Gobi passed by whimpering in her ears, and she stood there for a long time with a sheepskin water bag, stunned to see the other party away, with an indescribable emotion in her heart.

Soon, when the Xia Emperor's procession came, Bai Nani knelt on the side of the road with her female guards, throwing the green leaves and flower petals brought down from the snow-capped mountains, as a way to express respect and deference to the Emperor of the Xia Kingdom.

"I've seen you, above the main hall."

The ancestral car stopped in front of the woman, Su Chen lifted the curtain, his eyes passed through the corner of the curtain, and glanced at the woman from the Western Regions who was kneeling not far from the wheel.

The latter shuddered and buried his head lower.

"Yelan Kingdom has played well this time, I like you very much!" The curtain closed again, Su Chen leaned back, continued to hold the scroll and flipped through it, and the words also spread outside at the same time, "Keep up." ”

"Yes!" Bai Nani didn't dare to disobey, leaving a few female guards to continue to throw flower petals and green leaves, and she turned over and followed the side of the frame of Xia Guotianzi slowly behind.

At this time, she was in the entire Tang army column, and she completely felt the neatness of the Xia Guo's soldiers, and in her field of vision, the banner of the forest swept across the Gobi, the overwhelming majesty.

In the marching army, the armor soldiers around the Son of Heaven were even stronger, no worse than those Western barbarians, and those ordinary soldiers who seemed to be thinner, almost all of their armor had traces of swords and spears, and their legs were tense and powerful when they walked, as if they were bursting out of a charging posture at any time.

Every move can be said to be the elite of a hundred battles.

Soon, ten miles away from Yelan City, the rushing cavalry was divided into left and right, and the Tiger Guard Battalion armor soldiers were sinking halberds and shields, and the ground was slightly shaken.

Lu Bu, Zhao Yun, Ma Chao, and Huo Qubing rode around the guard, and Qin Qiong, Yu Chigong, Cheng Yanjin, and Li Xuanba will be ranked behind.

Itas looked at the neat and slaughtering army in front of her, and her heart couldn't help but tighten, and it was an old female officer next to her who whispered a reminder that she came back to her senses.

She didn't have the temperament that a glamorous woman should have at all, but she turned over from the horse in a panic, took off her helmet at the same time, and quickly walked to about ten steps in front of the imperial chariot of the emperor of Xia Kingdom, kneeling on one knee.

"Under the Great Snow Mountain, the Queen of the Lan Kingdom, Itas, pays a visit to the Son of Heaven."

The curtain is lifted.

With a faint smell of incense wafting out, Itas raised his gaze slightly, and the tall man at the bottom of his eyes sat on a large black iron chair paved with white tiger skin, and behind him was a high shrine, on which were full of enshrined spiritual seats.

The green smoke in the incense burner filled the air, curling around the spiritual seat.

Next to the emperor of the Xia Kingdom on the chair, there was a middle-aged Taoist priest holding the dust, and this scene added a lot of mystery to the emperor.

"Do you speak the words of Huaxia?"

Su Chen closed the book, slapped Li Tiangang's arms casually, and in the faint white eyes of the other party, he got up and walked out of the car, and raised his hand to the beauty of the Western Regions who was kneeling on one knee as he walked.

"If you will, then get up and speak."

"Just a little."

Itas didn't speak, she really didn't know before, she was still taught by Bai Nani temporarily, you must know that she never thought that one day she would deal with the Xia Kingdom in the east, after all, the Northern Dao of the Western Regions is too far away from the east, and there is still a steppe of the Xirong people in the middle.

But now the entire Western Regions has begun to be proud of speaking the words of Huaxia, which is like a dream.

Here, after Itas finished speaking, she didn't get up immediately, but made a prayer motion, and then knelt on her knees and moved towards Su Chen, in Su Chen's surprised gaze, she slowly lowered her forehead and gently touched the instep of the emperor of the Xia Kingdom.

"The supreme son of Xia Kingdom, this is the supreme courtesy of Yelan Kingdom to you!"

Bai Nani explained respectfully on the side.

"The people of Yelan Kingdom will obey the dispatch of the Son of Heaven of the Xia Kingdom, and from now on, from Queen Itas, they will worship the Son of Heaven of the Xia Kingdom for generations!"

Not far away, Lu Bu was on horseback, nodding with a smile on the corner of his mouth, this is what he said before.

Put the entire Yelan Kingdom in the hands of Su Chen, only in this way can not only save his life, but also have no worries about food and clothing, and he can't say that he can continue to retain the title of queen.

"You pointed out?" Huo Quzhi asked in a low voice beside him.

"Hehe, a certain family just pities the fragrance and cherishes the jade, and points it with a finger, saving the language barrier, and the customs are different, which annoys Your Majesty."

Lu Bu didn't feel anything wrong, from his man's point of view, not to embarrass this group of women, it was really a big husband's doing.

Huo Quzhi teased without scruples next to him: "Do you want to be a son-in-law?" I heard about what happened to you when you entered the city that day, haha! ”

If it was someone else, Lu Bu said that he couldn't punch it, but it was Huo Qubing who was talking next to him, and he was a wolf!

He is the person he admires.

was teased by the other party, Lu Bu only smiled faintly, which made Li Xuanba behind him very dissatisfied, he clasped his hands to his chest and squinted his eyes.

"Favoritism, I've said it before, why just punch me! Don't hit him?! ”

Cheng Biting Jin tilted his head: "Hmph, if you change me, I also choose to beat you, but I can't beat you!" ”

……

Talking and laughing in the back, Su Chen in front of him couldn't hear it, and after accepting Itas's kneeling greeting and entrustment gift, the corners of his mouth inevitably hooked up a gentle smile.

"Arise, O general knowledge, Queen Itas, come, ride with me!"

Su Chen probably knew that the women of Yelan Country were regarded as men, so he helped the beautiful queen in front of him up and treated them like men.

This made Itas extremely useful, but she didn't dare to share the car with the emperor of Xia Kingdom, and after some excuses, she rode on her horse, like a guard, accompanied by the ancestral chariot, and laughed with Su Chen in the chariot, all the way into Yelan Kingdom.

“…… Yelan Kingdom stands alone, blocking the Western barbarians, as well as Ugoli and Jukan for a month, so that I can treat each other differently, if you can't hold on, otherwise I will see a ruin, uninhabited land when I come here today. ”

Entering the quaint city tower with traces of weathering, Su Chen sat on a big chair and looked at the exotic streets in the city and said, while Itas next to him rode on horseback and listened respectfully.

The chariot shook slightly, the smoke of the incense curled, Su Chen's gaze was majestic, and the voice was still continuing.

"There are some things I don't like to say in the court, there is a place to make face, in private, such as now, I can speak freely, since Yelan Kingdom chooses to surrender completely, then I won't go around in circles with you, this Western Regions, I want to pinch it in my hands, and it will no longer be governed by the king."

Su Chen's gaze swept over Itas on horseback over there, and when his words fell, the other party trembled obviously, Su Chen stood up and said softly: "However, if you are sincere to me, I can make an exception for you." ”

"In the future, you will still be the queen, but you can't participate in the governance of people's livelihood! Got it?! ”

Itas nodded silently, apparently this was already expected by her.

In late November, the procession of the kings of the twenty-four countries of the Western Regions came one after another and entered the territory of Yelan Kingdom.

(End of chapter)