Chapter 1118 Follow-up to Samarkand City - The Real Choice
"Finally the city of Samarkand has been captured!" Shang Bing shouted excitedly as he looked at the Xili soldiers kneeling on the top of the city to surrender. Although he firmly believed that he would be able to capture the city of Samarkand, he could not see the city with his own eyes.
I couldn't help but feel happy after being captured.
"Immediately order Zhu Hengshi to lead troops into the city to protect the craftsmen Timur brought from the west! No one should be left behind. If one dies, I will only ask him!"
"Order Mahamu to send at least 10,000 people to surround the seminary in the city. No one is allowed to rush into the seminary, and no one in the seminary is allowed to come out."
"Order Xu Youde to send troops to protect the envoys and caravans of Western countries."
"Order Xu Youde and Zhu Hengshi to send some troops to wear black armbands and act as military police to patrol the city. If the soldiers are just looting, leave them alone, but if anyone wants to set fire to them, stop them immediately. Anyone who does not obey the order will be killed on the spot!
"Song Sheng was also happy for a moment, but immediately gave instructions in an orderly manner.
The gold and silver treasures all over the city are of course important, but even more important are the craftsmen in the city. Timur made several western expeditions, and each time he brought all the craftsmen from the places he attacked to the city of Samarkand, so that there were many craftsmen in the city at this time.
Tens of thousands of craftsmen of all kinds. These craftsmen master the most exquisite craftsmanship in the entire Tianfang and Fufu regions, and many of them are "national treasure-level" masters according to later generations. Yunxi doesn't care about limited wealth. Anyway, as long as the Western Regions and Central Plains
Economically, they belong to one body, and the wealth will flow to the Central Plains sooner or later; but if a top craftsman dies, a skill may be lost, which is an irreparable loss. Therefore, before leaving, Yunxi specially asked Shang Bing to protect the craftsmen.
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Protecting the seminary is also Yunxi's meaning. The seminary is the origin of modern Western universities. Yunxi wanted to know the organizational form of the early seminary, so he ordered the protection of some of its people.
As for protecting the envoys and caravans, it was Shang Bing's own idea. After capturing the city of Samarkand, Shang Bing had no plan to continue westward and southward to completely eliminate the city-state of Samarkand. The Han people have always paid more attention to the control of the territory.
Instead of blindly conquering a large area of land without being able to control it, Shang Bing felt that with his own strength, he might be able to conquer Afghanistan, Persia and other places that had destroyed the city-state of Samarkand, but it was impossible to control it, so he decided not to pursue the city-state of Samarkand.
Hit hard.
But the remaining forces of the Samarkand city-state, such as the tribes of Khalil and others, may continue to have trouble with him. In order to avoid a unnecessary war, he needs to make distant contacts and attack closely to contain the remaining Khalil and others. In this way, diplomacy is very important.
.So protect the messengers and caravans.
"Order all the troops to pay attention. The people wearing red scarves in the city are our own people. They are spies sent by His Majesty and His Highness to the city. They must not harm the offenders seriously. He also orders them not to just focus on looting, but to pay attention to searching for Samarkand in the city.
City officials and Timur's children and grandchildren. If you catch their orphans, there will be other rewards." Shang Bing also came to his senses and gave orders to the soldiers in front of him.
Pu Bing agreed, bowed and retreated.
"It would be great if we could capture Pirmahama alive." Shang Bing sighed to Song Sheng again. Pirmahama is now the Great Khan of the Samarkand City State. If we could capture him alive, this battle would be perfect.
"Your Highness, no matter whether Pir Mahama can be captured alive, it is impossible for him to escape from the city of Samarkand. It depends on whether the last thing he sees is a corpse or a living person." Song Sheng said with a smile.
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"Great Khan, run!" At this time, in the most gorgeous palace in the city, a guard of Pir Mahama said to him: "Great Khan, there are not many soldiers arranged by the Ming army outside the west gate of the city at this time.
Most of them are herdsmen who have been forcibly recruited from nearby, and they don’t have much fighting power. With a few hundred of us, we will definitely be able to escort His Highness out!"
"Run? Where can I run?" Pilmahama said with a strange smile on his face: "The Ming army is definitely not willing to let me escape. They want to see people dead or corpses, so they must arrange soldiers to inspect the west gate of the city.
The weak military force outside may have lured me into being fooled.”
"Besides, even if I escape the city of Samarkand, where can I go?" Pirmahama's expression turned bitter: "Go to Khalil, Umar and others? I only have a few hundred of you in my hands now.
, even if you defect to them and are not killed, you are still just a puppet."
"Moreover, I have lost this city that my grandfather has managed for more than ten years and has countless wealth. How can I have the face to defect to others? I have made up my mind. I will die here today with the city!"
Pirmahama had previously said that if the city was broken, he would run away so that he could leave the mountains without worrying about firewood. But when the city was broken, he realized that instead of being a puppet, he would spend the rest of his life losing the city of Samarkand.
It was better to die in the city than to live in self-blame. So when he saw that the situation was over, he led his remaining trusted soldiers and ran back to the palace, intending to die here.
"Yusuma, come here and kill me!" He ordered one of his guards.
"Khan!" Yusuma shouted.
"Come here and kill me!" Pir Mahama said again.
"I dare not obey this order from the Great Khan!" Yusuma knelt down and said.
Pilmahama ordered five or six people in succession, but none of them were willing to obey his order. At this time, the shouts of killing coming from outside were getting closer and closer. Pilmahama knew that the Ming army had already surrounded the palace, so he scanned the palace again.
He walked around the guards who were half kneeling on the ground, sighed and said, "Well, since none of you are willing, I'd better do it myself."
As he spoke, he picked up the candlestick on the table and lit many silk fabrics in the palace. Silk fabrics were extremely flammable, and a raging fire soon broke out.