Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 455 Everyone is young, let's train a Muying first
Thanks to the help of Yili and Jieli Pijia, Zhang Zhao vowed to kill all the descendants of Pugu Jun, and it will soon be completed.

Because before Zhang Zhao attacked the Gaochang Uighur, as the winner of the four sons' seizure of the throne, after Jielipi came to the throne, he solved all his two elder brothers and one younger brother, plus more than twenty nephews and nieces.

To be exact, the descendants of Pugujun are only Jieli Pijia and his son.

People like Pu Gucheng are just the descendants of Pu Gujun's nephew, Pu Guluo, the governor of Tingzhou, so their surname is just Pugu.

You must know that the surname Pugu is actually the tribal name of the nine surname Tiele. After the collapse of the Uighur Khanate, it became the surname of the Uighur king. Among the Uighurs, there are countless people with the surname Pugu.

But there is no problem at all. Jieli Pijia has three daughters and one son. Among the three daughters, the eldest is only six years old, and the other two are four years old.

This is a little easier to handle, because since ancient times, family raids and clan exterminations will definitely not kill female groups.

Not to mention anything else, just relying on the status of Princess Gaochang is also a scarce resource.

But the remaining son of Jieli Pijia is very troublesome, don't kill it, Zhang Zhao said that he would kill all the descendants of Pugu Jun to avenge his hatred.

But Jielipijia's son is only over one year old, so if he really wants to let him go, it's a bit too much.

However, it was resolved in the end. Li Wang and Li Qilang came to Zhang Zhao. Since he was sterile, he begged Zhang Zhao to give him the child. From then on, he followed his surname Li as the heir of Li Yuanzhong, the king of Ningsai County.

Zhang Zhao immediately agreed, which was considered a good solution.

At the same time, with the assistance of Yuniang's father and brother, more than forty Uighur nobles in Gaochang City had their homes ransacked.

More than half of the Uighur nobles have been liquidated, and as many as a thousand men and women have been locked up.

Zhang Zhao didn't take care of these, but asked Guo Tiance and Li Xiaojie to do it. Zhang Zhao's bottom line was to confiscate no less than 200,000 guan of property, so that Zhang Zhao would have enough money to reward the three armies.

Of course, the 200,000 guan does not include the property of Jieli Pijia and the entire Pugu family clan.

The large amount of gold and silver goods confiscated by these families, apart from keeping a part of Zhang Zhao's internal treasury, the rest was used to subsidize part of the consumption of this expedition, and part of it was used to reward meritorious ministers.

After five days of rest, Zhang Zhaoliu, Guo Tiance and Feng Hui led [-] troops to defend Gaochang City, and personally led an army of [-] to continue westward.

Among them, the captive army used as cannon fodder reached more than [-] people, more than [-] Geluolu people, and nearly [-] Uighurs.

The reason why we continue to go west is because after the capture of Gaochang, the entire Gaochang Uighurs did not completely surrender.

Among the territories of the three prefectures and two kings in the entire Gaochang Kingdom, the basic territory of Gaochang Khan Pugu's family is only Xizhou, where Gaochang is located, and Tingzhou, where Beiting is located.

The rest of Yizhou, Yanqi, and Kucha are not under the direct rule of Jieli Pijia.

So Zhang Zhao also had to be like the Uighur Khan in Gaochang in the past, and get the surrender of these places.

It's just that Zhang Zhao's methods may be a little more brutal.

At the end of January, Zhang Zhao's [-] troops traveled starry night and starry night. It took less than eight days to run the nearly [-]-mile distance from Gaochang to Yanqi. This also gave Zhang Zhao a clear understanding of the vastness of Anxi. know.

A Gaochang Uyghur with a population of only about [-] would travel eight or nine hundred miles at every turn.

And this is not over yet, the westernmost territory of the Gaochang Uighurs is in Moman, that is, Aksu, and there are still more than [-] miles from Yanqi to Moman.

From Yizhou, the farthest in the east, to Moman (Aksu), the farthest in the west, it would be a full [-] miles.

In such a place, with the current environment and strength, only a feudal town like Muying in the early Ming Dynasty could be arranged to govern.

It was impossible even for the Qing Dynasty to bring back the officials. At most, the central government could send garrisons and garrison ministers.

But the problem is that Zhang Zhao doesn't have tens of millions of 'slaves' who can be used as confidantes like the Manchu emperors!

. . . .

The governor of Yanqi, who was in charge of guarding Yanqi, was surnamed Mi, and he was basically a Sogdian from his name.

The fact is also the same. Mi Huaiyu, the ancestor of the Mi family, was a Uighurized Sogdian, and it was rare that Pu Gujun had his own followers.

In other words, Mi Huaiyu was not the general of the Guiyi Army assigned by Zhang Yichao to Pugu Jun, but originally belonged to Pugu Jun.

Back then, Mi Huaiyu was sent by Pu Gujun to the Tang Dynasty, and the plan to separatize the Northwest Court of Yi and abandon the Guiyi Army to obey the orders of the Tang court was achieved by Mi Huaiyu.

And when Zhang Zhao arrived outside Yanqi City, someone who had escaped from Gaochang City had reported the news that the defeated soldiers from Zetian Temple had arrived in Yanqi.

In other words, they had received the news a long time ago, but at this moment Yanqi City is still closed with four gates, and the guards standing at the top of the city can clearly explain the problem.

Based on the idea that if you are willing to die, I will be willing to bury him, Zhang Zhao didn't bother to surrender. There are so many bumps on the son, so it is useless.

Zhang Zhao immediately climbed up first by bumping his son, but secretly under their cover, he transported the capital to the gate of the city with a cart.

On the seventh day of the battle, Fenjin exploded three times in a row, leaving a huge gap in the north gate of Yanqi. The barbarians and other generals led heavy soldiers to break in, and Yanqi City was quickly captured.

On the third day after Zhang Zhao captured Yanqi, Khotan envoys came from the west.

Kucha City, which had been besieged by Li Shengtian's [-]-step cavalry for more than four months, finally couldn't stand it anymore.

After receiving the news that Gaochang City fell and Jieli Pijia was defeated and captured, civil strife broke out among the defenders of Kucha in the city.

Huaishun, the governor of Kucha who persisted in resisting the Khotan army, was killed by the rebel army, and all the tribes in the city immediately opened the city and surrendered to Li Shengtian.

As the western city of Gaochang, Qiuci, which has important economic and strategic significance, was finally recovered.

Of course, the more important meaning is that after the fall of Qiuci City, among the four towns of Anxi in the Tang Dynasty in the past, Khotan was recovered by the Yuchi family, Shule was recovered by Zhang Zhao under the order of Li Shengtian, and Yanqi City had just fallen into Zhang Zhao. hands.

The recovery of Kucha means that Li Shengtian and Zhang Zhao, uncles and nephews, have finally completed the grand goal of recovering the four towns of Anxi in the Tang Dynasty.

The envoy sent by Li Shengtian was Li Congyu, the second son of Li Shengtian and Cao Yuanxin.

Zhang Zhao, the second cousin, looks a bit atavistic, with a typical Scythian appearance, not a Han Chinese like his elder brother Li Congde.

However, he is fluent in Chinese and has a very sunny smile, which is very likable.

"After the Son of Heaven captured Kucha, he never entered the city. He only stationed outside the city. He sent a special younger brother to invite the cousin of the Heavenly King to enter Kucha City together."

Zhang Zhao couldn't help but be greatly moved, Li Shengtian has been waiting for him to enter the city, what a boldness this is!

Of course, this is also Li Shengtian's test of the relationship between the two.

After all, for now, Khotan Jin Kingdom and Liang Kingdom are still two countries, but the entanglement between the two countries is too deep, and it is necessary to find a point that both parties can accept.

Zhang Zhao got off his seat and took Li Congyu's hand, "Uncle's great kindness to my nephew is unforgettable!"

As he spoke, Zhang Zhao smiled and pointed around and asked Li Congyu, "What does Congyu think of Yanqi City?"

"The water and grass are lush, the fields are criss-crossed, and the road is blocked by cattle and sheep. It really is one of the four towns in Anxi in the past!"

Li Congyu's eyes were shining brightly, and he was a little excited. He obviously understood the meaning of Li Shengtian's sending him a message.

"As long as my cousin is satisfied!" Zhang Zhao clapped his hands with a chuckle, and three beautiful young girls came in from the outside.

"My cousin can choose one of these three beauties, they are all the jewels in the palm of the Yanqi noble family!"

When Zhang Zhao finished speaking, Li Congyu's face turned red.

This is exciting, a young man under 16 years old is seeing this excitement for the first time.

However, as expected, he was as cunning and pungent as Cao Yuanxin, who could be called the son born of a female politician.

Zhang Zhao felt that the blood was rushing to the top of Li Congyu's head, but he still maintained a certain degree of sobriety.

"Dare to ask brother, among the three of them, which one is surnamed An?"

"Hahaha!" Zhang Zhao looked up to the sky and laughed, reaching out to pat Li Congyu on the shoulder.

"Brother Cong Yu, it's really my family's Qianliju! In the future, we will carefully manage this place. Ten years later, you and my brother will stand side by side and go west. At that time, we must guard this great river and mountain for my brother and me!"

The reason why Zhang Zhao was so happy was because Li Congyu asked the question very well, and he was not dazzled by the beauty.

Because there were two surnames Mi and An in the Yanqi Hao family at this time.

Mi Huaiyu, the ancestor of Mi, was one of the culprits who split the Guiyi Army back then, and now he is fighting against Zhang Zhao, so he is destined to be severely punished.

An's ancestor, An Ning, was an ally of Zhang Zhao's great-grandfather Zhang Yichao in the past.

An Ning was the controller of Xizhou at that time, which is now Gaochang, and he called himself the nondescript name of Xizhou Mushou.

At that time, Pang Teqin, the ancestor of Buglahan Saktu, moved westward to Anxi, and An Ning was Zhang Yichao's most important ally in attacking Pang Teqin.

It was just that Zhang Yichao was called into Chang'an before he could attack Pang Teqin.

An Ning thus lost his backing, and was finally forced to submit to Pugu Jun.

Pugu Jun, who originally only had Tingzhou and Yizhou, was also able to enter Xizhou. He claimed that the Jiedu envoy of Yizhou and Yizhou deceived Guo Dalang, and it happened after that.

Therefore, attacking Mi Huaiyu's descendants and supporting An Ning's descendants is Zhang Zhao's political correctness.

It's just that Li Congyu is still a little unclear, what does Zhang Zhao mean by guarding this great river and mountain for my brother?He thought it was him who asked him to guard Yanqi.

But Zhang Zhao didn't think so. Sooner or later, Anxi would be brought under the direct jurisdiction of the Central Plains court.

People like Li Congyu are the Mu Ying-style characters that Zhang Zhao wants to cultivate. His final destination is either to go to the land of seven rivers or to the Caspian Sea.

Who is Zhang Zhao's eldest son, Zhang Xiancun (Li Zhun), who is not yet ten years old.

It will take too long for the sons to grow up to be able to stand alone on one side, and someone like Li Congyu can just be used for a transition.

"These three are all daughters of the An family. There is no daughter of the Mi family. Go and choose the one you like the most!"

Zhang Zhao laughed and continued, what a joke, of course he wouldn't put Mi Huaiyu's heir here.

"Chuan Masha just came here. After a certain confession to him, the army immediately broke out and went to Kucha!"

(End of this chapter)