Song Gexing

Chapter 274 The Prince of the Black Khanate Anyway
It was March in spring, and the flowers were blooming. The Song army had been besieging Nanjing, the capital of Xijin Prefecture, for more than a month. The city of Beijing at this time was not the one that came later, but a little further south.

After the Song army captured Datong City in the west, they did not continue to advance eastward. Instead, they reorganized Bai Dadan's troops and stabilized the front line to completely occupy the Xijing Road of the Liao Kingdom.

The Liao Kingdom's counterattacks failed again and again, but this was bad news. The eastern Khans of the Black Khanate could not hold on any longer. After being joined by the Jugas and Nianbage tribes, they lost sight of one thing and lost the other.

It is indeed difficult to attack Alashankou, but in order to reinforce it, the eastern Khan of the Black Khanate could only mobilize nearby troops, leaving the city of Yining empty.

As the most important main city behind Alashankou, Yining City not only shoulders the important task of reinforcing Alashankou, but also defends against attacks from the former Gaochang Uighurs.

It should be that the Song Army in Xinjiang Province has been defending and has not attacked, so the Black Khanate felt that it could temporarily mobilize troops. As long as Balasagun's army arrived, everything would be fine.

But he thought that every move he made was under the surveillance of Song Army spies and Imperial City Secret Agents. Not only did the Song Army launch an attack as soon as the front-foot army left.

Along the Ili River, the Song army quietly came to Yining City. With the same sneak attack, Yining City, which had only 3000 defenders left, was not able to hold on for an hour.

The Song army that captured Yining City seized it non-stop. The retreat of the Alashankou defenders and even the Yining army who went to reinforce it were surrounded.

General Sha'er of Yining, who led the army, surrendered immediately when he saw that there was no way to escape. He was not afraid that the defeated Song army would kill them, but he was afraid of the Jugas and Nianbage tribes.

These two groups are nomads, and the Black Khanate, which is also a nomad, understands their methods too well. Once defeated, it will almost exterminate the genocide.

The grassland people have a habit. The victor will kill all the men on the loser's side. Those who are higher than the wheel will not be able to survive. The children will be incorporated and the women will be snatched away to give birth to children.

With the opening of Alashankou, the Nianbage tribe and the Hagas coalition forces poured into the Black Khanate, and joined the Song army to rush towards Lake Iksai. Now Balashagon, the capital of the eastern Khanate of the Black Khanate, was exposed to the front. .

After hearing the news, Bogda Khan panicked and yelled at the Seljuk Empire for eating shit. After such a long time, he didn't even get a hair on the Song army, completely forgetting that he was the same.

The problem is that Seljuk was really wronged. Unlike the Black Khanate, Bogda Khan could attack Shule to the south and Zhangbali to the east, which would later become the Urumqi area.

But if the Seljuks wanted to attack the Song army, they were blocked by Congling in the south. The only way was to enter from the Uzbeli Pass to the north of Congling.

Further north, you can attack Uzgen, but then you will join forces with the Black Khanate. How can you attack from both sides to distract the Song army.

Therefore, the Seljuks could only attack the Uzbeli Pass. However, facing the Song army who could not get out, the cement bunkers were as hard as tortoise shells, and there were still thunder bullets in the fortresses.

Not to mention the loss of troops and generals, how much supplies were wasted. It was difficult to make any progress. He originally gave up, but the Black Khanate was finished now, and he panicked.

In less than a month, the tribes such as Cutulu and Chuyue in the eastern part of the Black Khanate announced their surrender to the Song Dynasty, which dealt a heavy blow to Bogda Khan.

The Gelu tribe is the Geluolu tribe, the largest ethnic group in the Black Khanate. The Geluolu tribe living in the eastern Black Khanate was renamed the Gelu tribe and lived in the upper reaches of Chuihe and Ili rivers, near Lake Balkhash.

Although they are far away from the political center of Balashagon, their influence is still there. After all, they are the most populous among the people in the entire Khanate.

As for the Chuyue tribe, it was even more of a disaster. This race is now weak, but its former glory was enough to blind the Uighurs.

The Chuyue tribe was called from the Song Dynasty. Before that, they were called Shatuo. During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the Shatuo tribe alone established three countries.Among the Later Tang, Later Jin and Later Han, the Later Tang was the most famous and the most powerful. Li Keyong was a God of War in the Late Tang Dynasty.

His history is mixed with praise and praise. On the one hand, he invaded Chang'an City and forced Xizong of the Tang Dynasty away. It can be said that the Tang Dynasty was destroyed in his hands.

Because it was he who caused the dignity of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, which had just recovered a little, to disappear, and aroused the ambition of other Jiedu envoys to covet the throne.

But on the other hand, he also conquered the east and west for the Tang Dynasty. Huang Chao was destroyed by him, and he also conquered the major Jiedu envoys who had taken power.

In the end, after the Tang Dynasty perished, he still wanted to restore the Tang Dynasty. For the rest of his life, he targeted Zhu Wen, who destroyed the Tang Dynasty, and vowed to be incompatible with each other.

From this point of view, he is Li Tang's filial son, but from the point of view of his attack on Chang'an City, he is not a loyal minister, and is indeed a very contradictory person.

Today's Shatuo people have lost their former glory, but the impression of being good at fighting is engraved in their bones. Even they surrendered to the Song Dynasty. Bogda Khan really didn't know if he could hold on.

Soon he was no longer needed for support. His son Ahmed helped him make the choice and led troops to besiege the palace, forcing him to issue an edict to surrender to the Song Dynasty.

The Eastern Khan of this generation, Bogda Khan, was also wise and brave when he was young, and even proudly added the three words "peach blossom stone" to his name.

Peach Blossom Stone does not mean a gem. In the minds of the people of the Black Khanate, it means the Central Plains Dynasty. In other words, Bogda Khan regards himself as the legitimate son of the Central Plains Dynasty.

This can be seen from the "Dictionary of Turkic Language" written by Muhammad Kashgar, an important minister of the Black Khanate.

He divided China into three parts: the Song Dynasty in the east, the Liao Kingdom in the north, and the Black Khanate in the west.

The Peach Blossom Stone refers specifically to the Song Dynasty. Bogda Khan mentioned it to the old Zhao family several times, always calling him "Uncle of the Han family and the official family".

As mentioned above, because he believed that he had Han ancestry and was a descendant of the Princess of Tang Dynasty, he called the current emperor of the Central Plains Dynasty uncle.

Bogda Khan's original name was Hassan Bogda. After he was added to the Peach Blossom Stone, he was honored as Hasan Peach Blossom Stone Bogda by the Black Khanate.

It should be said that the Song Dynasty without Zhao Fang could only watch the distant Western Regions. The Black Khanate became stronger and stronger. It was not until Bogda Khan's grandson succeeded to the throne that it weakened and was conquered by the Western Liao Dynasty.

Because his son Ahmed Arslan is also an outstanding talent, but it is precisely because of his excellence that he can see that the current Song Dynasty is simply irresistible.

If they surrender, they can still get the hereditary title, but if they resist to the end, the Song army may only occupy the land, but the Nianbage tribe and Xigasi will definitely massacre and loot, and there will be nothing left by then.

The Song Army could indeed restrain these two troops, but it could not be completely restrained because they were satellite troops who joined in the form of allies and had a certain degree of autonomy.

They would definitely not dare to disobey the command in a battle, but it would be difficult to prevent them from looting. Only by surrendering and making the eastern part of the Black Khanate become the territory of the Song Dynasty could they be restrained.

After all, they will have to rely on the Song Dynasty for support in the future, otherwise the Liao Kingdom, which has recovered its strength, will never let them go.

(End of this chapter)