Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 917
At this time, after the two smoke and fog bombs exploded, they instantly turned into two clouds of extremely irritating smoke, which expanded in an instant, covering all the swordsmen on both sides.

"Be careful, it's poisonous!" The complexions of these swordsmen all changed drastically, they reacted quickly, and they thought they were smart and quickly held their breath, but their eyes were already so gray that they couldn't see anything.Only a dozen or so people on the far side ran out of the smoke range in the first place.

This kind of change surprised everyone in the hall except for a few people, and immediately there was a panic, desperately trying to stay away from the smoke, after all, the smoke looked poisonous no matter what.Cao Xuefei's expression changed even more, and he shouted: "Don't panic, arrest Duanmu Zhongren and Zhang Zhiwen first."

The more than 20 swordsmen who were not shrouded in the smoke immediately rushed towards Duanmu Zhongren and Zhang Zhiwen with swords and axes.

"Don't let them stop, maybe you want to die." An indistinguishable male and female voice suddenly sounded in the living room, the voice was not loud, but it was extremely clear amidst the chaotic screams, exclamations, and shouts of killing , as if ringing in everyone's ears, even made the living room suddenly quiet.

Immediately afterwards, Cao Xuefei's exasperated voice was heard: "You...you all stop first."

After being stunned for a moment, the 20 or so swordsmen stopped, and followed the crowd to look at Cao Xuefei, but they were shocked again, but it was the handsome little novice who had been standing behind Zhang Zhiwen all this time before. Standing beside Cao Xuefei, holding a dagger in his hand, the point of the sword was pressed against Cao Xuefei's throat.

At this time, those swordsmen and axes, coughing with snot and tears, had already ran out of the smoke and bombs one by one, but they were also stunned on the spot seeing the scene in the hall at this time.

The living room was dead silent.

Cao Xuefei's face was extremely ugly, and he said, "Are you from Xiangfu Kingdom?"

What he was asking was of course Zhong Sanhe and the little novice who was forcing him with a sword.But the two of them didn't bother to answer him, and the little novice said calmly: "Take out the tiger amulet for dispatching soldiers and give it to Zhang Weng."

A trace of fierceness flashed in Cao Xuefei's eyes, he snorted coldly, and said, "So what if I don't take out the Tiger Talisman of Troop Dispatch, don't you really dare to kill me?"

Cao Xuefei's implication is that if you kill me, don't think about getting out of Cao's mansion alive.

But he soon regretted what he said. Everyone saw a flash of sword light, and Cao Xuefei screamed. He hadn't moved at all, but half of Cao Xuefei's right ear was gone, and blood had flowed down half of his face, pouring in from the inside of his neck.Cao Xuefei's face was already pale, and his whole body was shivering from the pain.But he was afraid of touching the sword tip at the throat, so he forcibly controlled his body.

"Every time I say a word in the future, if I repeat it a second time, one thing will be missing from your body." The little novice said lightly.The icy coldness contained in the words caused many people in the living room to shudder inexplicably.

The hatred and determination in Cao Xuefei's heart just now had been shattered by the ruthlessness and indifference of the little novice, so he hurriedly took out the military amulet from his bosom while trembling, the little novice took it, handed it to Zhang Zhiwen who came up, and said: "This The [-] volunteers in the city will trouble Zhang Weng, and I, His Majesty the Emperor of the Xiangfu Kingdom, will definitely not let the Zhang family down."

Zhang Zhiwen nodded and said, "This old man will definitely do his best."

The little novice suddenly took out a pill, pinched Cao Xuefei's chin, and forcibly fed it from his mouth.Then in the latter's gloomy expression, he said: "Master Zhang Weng will be escorted out of the mansion by Troublemaker."

As he spoke, he had put away his dagger. Cao Xuefei froze on the spot, his expression fluctuating, and the little novice said again: "Don't take chances, no one in the entire Western Regions can cure this poison. If you have the antidote, your Cao family may not be rich and honored for a lifetime. Otherwise, it doesn’t matter if you die, and the entire Cao family will be buried with you.”

Duanmu Zhongren said at the right time: "Everyone still hasn't made a statement at this time, are you going to wait for the catastrophe of genocide?"

The Patriarchs of the other seven great families glanced at each other, and immediately expressed their willingness to pledge allegiance to Xiangfu Kingdom.

"Forget it! Forget it!" Cao Xuefei sighed when he saw this, knowing that he had lost a complete defeat this time, so he had no choice but to let others slaughter him.

In the second year of Tianding, on the evening of July [-], the Cao family of Guazhou opened their doors to offer the inner city.So far, Guazhou has fallen into the hands of Xiangfu Kingdom.

On July [-]th, when Cao Xuefei repeatedly assured that he could make Shazhou City surrender easily, and Yang Jiye was about to let Han Tao take [-] troops to follow Cao Xuefei to Shazhou, Kou Minglu, the Western Regions Branch of the Ministry of Security, received The spies sent an urgent report that the Lion King of the Uyghur Khanate in Xizhou mobilized [-] troops to encircle Shazhou.

As early as 200 years ago, with the help of the Tang Dynasty, the Uyghurs, who were still called Uyghurs at that time, destroyed the Turkic Khanate and established the Uyghur Khanate, and later renamed the Uyghur Khanate, but the Uyghur Khanate only existed for less than a hundred years , was destroyed by Kirgiz.Afterwards, the Uighur tribe in the Mobei area was divided into four tribes, and the most powerful one moved westward to the Qihe River Basin, and established the powerful Karahan Dynasty in Central Asia with the local Uighur and Ge Luolu tribes such as the local Tianshan Mountains.One of them occupied the Ganzhou area and established the Yellow-headed Uighur Khanate. In the original history, the Yellow-headed Uyghurs (Sari Uyghurs) lived with the Mongolian and Han people for a long time, and developed into the Yugur people of later generations. Of course, they are now being ruled by Xiangfu Kingdom. The third part is the southward part headed by Wujie Khan, who went south from Hetao. Due to the invasion of the border of the Tang Dynasty, they were destroyed, and a large number of tribes merged with the Han people in North China; The army surrounded the Xizhou Uighurs in Shazhou.

"The population and territorial strength of the Xizhou Uyghur Khanate are second only to the Karahan Dynasty. It is located in the land of Gaochang, that is, the Turpan Basin established a political power. Believe in Manichaeism and Buddhism. According to the information obtained by the spies of the Ministry of Security, the Uighur population in Xizhou is about 200 million, with 20 troops, and they are all cavalry who can control strings." In the abducted living room, an enlarged military meeting was being held at this time, and Duanmu Zhongren and Master Yunyue were also present.Tang Xingwu first described the general situation of the Xizhou Uighur Kingdom.

With [-] troops from Hehuang besieging Lanzhou, and even when Lanzhou had already fallen, whether to continue westward to Shazhou and take Shazhou back from the Xizhou Uighurs was not difficult to decide.In fact, if it were not for Duanmu Zhongren's insistence on sending troops to Shazhou to save tens of thousands of Han people in Shazhou, there would be no need to even hold this meeting.The reason why Duanmu Zhongren was able to let Yang Jiye call the generals to hold a meeting to discuss this matter was because Master Yunyue suddenly took out an imperial decree after taking Guazhou, appointing Duanmu Zhongren as the Hexi Observation Envoy to restrain Su and Guazhou. , Sha Sanzhou, and these three prefectures will naturally be served by people sent by the imperial court.However, some officials below Zhizhou will inevitably be selected from the Long family in Suzhou and the nine major families in Guazhou.Of course, Shazhou is now mostly in the hands of the Xizhou Uighurs.

Since the establishment of the country, Xiangfu Kingdom has neither set up roads like the Tang Dynasty, nor did it set up roads like the Song Dynasty. Therefore, it is the first time that this is the first appointment of a provincial official in later generations, although Duanmu Zhongren is among them. He is familiar with the Hexi Corridor, and has high prestige among wealthy families in the Western Regions and scholars, as well as his own ability. He also contributed to the capture of Longzhou and Guazhou this time, but Ye Chen made an exception and appointed Duanmu Zhongren as Hexi Through observation, it can be seen that Ye Chen attaches great importance to Duanmu Zhongren.

However, although Duanmu Zhongren became the second-rank official of Xiangfu Guozheng, the reason why he said at the meeting that he sent troops to Shazhou immediately was quite convincing.But still failed to convince Yang Jiye and other generals in the army.After all, there were 20 Uighur cavalry in Xizhou. Even if the Tubo [-] troops had not invaded Lanzhou, Xiangfu Kingdom was not ready for war with the Uighur Khanate in Xizhou.

After failing to convince Yang Jiye and others, Duanmu Zhongren quickly put the Shazhou matter aside for the time being, and began to busy select officials, set up observation missions and the state capitals of Suzhou and Guazhou, and appease the people. matters.

In addition, because the Long family of Suzhou wisely opened their doors to offer the city, and because they had never fought against the army of the Xiangfu Kingdom from the beginning to the end, the wealth of the Long family was preserved, and Long Xiaotian was granted the title of uncle of Suzhou.The [-]-strong army of the Long family will continue to be commanded by Long Xiaotian, but except for Long Dingwen, who was selected by Duanmu Zhongren as the judge of Suzhou, the other Long family members are far and near, with a total of [-] members. Moved to Xiajing.Of course, the [-] troops will be gradually reorganized and sent to the teaching team for training.

Compared with the Long family, the Cao family did not have such a good fate. They did not have any titles and were only allowed to keep one-tenth of the family assets and wealth. Thousands of people also all moved to Xiangfu Guodang Xiangzhou.This prefecture is the former Dangxiang county where Kou Zhun served as the magistrate of the seven counties in Hetao. In April, Kou Zhun applied to be promoted from a county to a prefecture. State.However, Kou Zhun did not take advantage of the trend to jump several ranks to become the prefect of the party, and the imperial court selected another prefect, and Kou Zhizhi was promoted from the seventh rank to the sixth rank Lanzhou Tongpan.It's just that there are a lot of handover matters in Dangxiang state, and he hasn't taken office for a while, but unexpectedly, Lanzhou has been besieged by the Hehuang Tubo army.

In the second year of Tianding, on July 2th, after only one day of rest, Yang Jiye led the first cavalry brigade of the Black Wolf Legion under his command, the first cavalry brigade of the White Wolf Legion under Tuobashi, and the Liao cavalry attached to these two brigades. There are more than [-] people from Pan Luo Ajiu's Liangzhou Brigade and Kurban's Ganzhou Brigade, as well as the [-] Suzhou Dragon Cavalry led by Long Xiaotian and the [-] Guazhou Guiyi Army, a total of more than [-] people The cavalry set off from Guazhou to Liangzhou.

(End of this chapter)