"Live up to the trust... live up to the heavy responsibility..."
Kou Ji was silent for a long time and sighed.
Zhu Neng pursed his lips and nodded.
The two of them stared calmly at the soldiers and horses of the Dragon God Guards in Shazhou City killing people and setting fires, without any mercy on their faces.
The nobles in Shazhou City climbed up the inner city wall of Shazhou City as early as dawn.
Seeing the soldiers and horses of the Song Dynasty killing people and setting fire to the outer city, they were so frightened that their legs trembled.
They knew exactly why the soldiers of the Song Dynasty killed people and set fire to the outer city.
In order to protect their money, food, and property, they joined forces to block the Song Dynasty soldiers and horses from the inner city.
Seeing the soldiers and horses of the Song Dynasty starving to death and freezing to death.
In order to hold back the soldiers and horses of the Song State so that the soldiers and horses of the Song State would not invade them, they used the name of righteousness to force the senior officials of the Song State and restrain the soldiers and horses of the Song State.
Now, the senior official of the Song Dynasty seems to have disappeared.
The newly-in-power senior officials of the Song State have loosened their grip on the Song State's troops and allowed them to kill people and set fire to Shazhou City.
After they finish killing the people in the outer city, I'm afraid they won't let go of the inner city.
Those soldiers and horses in the inner city are the opponents of the Song Dynasty soldiers and horses.
"Hurry...go to King Khan...and ask him to send someone to negotiate..."
The Shazhou Uighur nobles in Shazhou City, trembling all over, got off the city wall and hurried to the palace.
Although Shazhou Uighur is small, the palace of Shazhou Uighur is not small.
It is a bit bigger and more gorgeous than the palace in Qingtang.
The yellow and white domed palace complex is very rare in the Western Regions.
There is no way to compare with the flat-topped sandcastles and houses in Shazhou City.
When the Shazhou Uighur nobles entered the palace, they saw the Khan King Cao Xianshun, with disheveled hair, carrying a glass wine flask, drinking grape wine, and admiring the dancing figure of the Buddha girl.
The Buddhist girls dance a dance called Feitian.
Very gorgeous.
Cao Xianshun squinted his eyes and looked very seriously.
Seeing this, a very old Shazhou Uighur nobleman roared: "The country is about to be destroyed and the species is about to be destroyed. King Khan still has the heart to enjoy singing and dancing here?"
"Hahaha……"
Cao Xianshun laughed loudly, very wildly.
"Crack!"
The glass wine bottle in his hand fell to the ground and broke into countless pieces.
He stared at the Shazhou Uighur nobles and laughed: "You think I am the Khan again now? When you all coerced me to close the inner city, why don't you think I am the Khan?"
The old Shazhou Uighur noble stared at Cao Xianshun with a gloomy face, "Now and then, please put the overall situation first. If our Shazhou Uighurs are destroyed in the hands of the Khan, you, Khan, will be the eternal life of our Shazhou Uighurs."
sinner."
Cao Xianshun stood up slowly and cursed at the elderly Shazhou Uighur noble: "The overall situation? You old man, you have the nerve to mention the overall situation to me? When Xixia wiped out the Ganzhou Uighurs, the Ganzhou Uighurs asked us for help. What are you doing?
You prevented me from extending a helping hand to the Ganzhou Uighurs and watched helplessly as the Ganzhou Uighurs perished and became extinct.
You led the men and horses of your tribe to guard the border of the Ganzhou Uighurs, collecting the herdsmen, cattle and sheep who escaped from the Ganzhou Uighurs.
Steal their money.
What were you doing when the Xixia troops came to Suzhou?
You withdrew from Suzhou and gave it to Xixia.
You are actually doing this to preserve the strength of your tribes.
I had 50,000 elite troops under my command and fought fiercely with the Xixia troops in Guazhou for more than a month.
You have been on hold for more than a month.
I asked Song State for help and asked you to provide money, but you refused.
I can only use my own money.
While the soldiers and horses of the Song State are still on the road, and the fifty thousand elite soldiers under my command have been beaten to a desperate state, I ask you to send troops to defend Guazhou.
You lost only one battle and then withdrew from Guazhou in embarrassment.
He also gave Guazhou to Xixia.
If the soldiers and horses of the Song Dynasty hadn't arrived, they would have fought a fierce battle with the Xixia soldiers and horses at Yumen Pass.
The soldiers and horses in your hands may have become prisoners of Xixia long ago.
We retreated all the way to Shazhou.
I asked you to use some money from cattle and sheep to reward the Song army, but you didn't want to.
You forced me to close the inner city and blocked the Song army from outside the inner city, allowing them to fight to the death with the Xixia soldiers and horses.
You are afraid that the Song army will be hungry and rush into the inner city to rob your cattle, sheep and money, so you pretend to pass my order to discuss with the senior officials of the Song Dynasty, and let the senior officials of the Song Dynasty restrain the soldiers and horses of the Song Dynasty.
The refugees outside the city restrained the Song army so that they would not appear in the inner city."
When Cao Xianshun said the last words, a stiff smile appeared on his face and tears flowed down his face.
Cao Xianshun shouted: "There is a saying in the Song Dynasty, which is that if the skin is gone, the hair will be safe. If I, the Shazhou Uighur, are gone, do you think you can still survive?"
Cao Xianshun stared at the old Shazhou Uighur nobles and roared: "Don't think that I don't know what you have in mind. You just want to wait and see who will win in the confrontation between Song and Xixia.
If the Song Dynasty wins, you will push me out and ask the Song Dynasty to help us regain our lost territory in the name of righteousness. Then you will send the Song people out of my Shazhou Uighur territory.
If Xixia wins, you will push me out and let Xixia kill me.
Then you will donate the money I, the Shazhou Uighur, have accumulated over the years, as well as a small amount of your own money, so that you can become a noble of Xixia and continue to live a superior life."
"Hahaha……"
Cao Xianshun shed tears and laughed, "It's a pity that you didn't expect that the Song Dynasty today is different from before. The Song Dynasty actually sent a more powerful army to fight against the Song army trapped in our Shazhou City.
.
You didn't even expect that among the Song officials who always respected etiquette and obeyed the rules, and who always regarded themselves as ministers of the Celestial Empire, there was actually a ruthless person.
The emperor of Song Dynasty actually sent him here.
After he arrived in Shazhou City, the first thing he did was not go to settle accounts with the Xixia people.
I’m here to settle a score with you.”
"Hahaha……"
"Now that someone else is coming to kill you, you are afraid, you are scared...you want to ask me to help you make peace..."
"Perhaps you are still thinking about letting me suppress the Song people in the name of righteousness, so that the Song people will not covet your money..."
"..."
Cao Xianshun laughed, with runny nose and tears, and said many things crazily.
Like a madman.
The old Shazhou Uighur nobleman stared at Cao Xianshun coldly and said in a deep voice: "Has King Khan finished speaking?"
Cao Xianshun wiped his own nose and tears and said: "It's over... I feel much better after saying it... You go away... I won't help you... Since you don't care about the existence of Sandbank Uighurs, why should I care?"
You...if you want to die, let's all die together, and let's all be the souls of the Song Dynasty's swords..."
The old Shazhou Uighur noble snorted coldly. Since Cao Xianshun had lost his face, he no longer needed to pretend. He glared coldly and said disdainfully: "King Khan felt that borrowing the two princes
If we take the Uighurs from Xizhou and send them to Khotan, can we sit back and relax?"
Cao Xianshun's eyes widened in astonishment and he lost his voice: "How do you know this?"
The old Shazhou Uighur noble said calmly: "There is nothing to guess. The princess used to be the princess of the Kingdom of Khotan. Although the Kingdom of Khotan was destroyed, the Yuchi family is still very powerful in the Western Regions.
If the Khan sends the two princes out, they will definitely be sent to Khotan."
Cao Xianshun said in a trembling voice: "How did you guess that I would send the two children away?"
The old Shazhou Uighur noble sneered: "When we forced you to blockade the inner city, but you didn't make a big move, I guessed what you were going to do. When you pretended to ask for help from the Xizhou Uighurs, you sent all the guards around you
When I sent them out, I guessed that you would send the two princes out among your own soldiers.
As expected, after we sent people to rob and kill the envoy you sent to Xizhou Uighurs to ask for help, we found two princes in the envoy team."
Cao Xianshun stared at the elderly Shazhou Uighur nobles in horror and exclaimed: "Did you capture them?"
The old Shazhou Uighur noble did not deny it, but nodded and said: "The two princes are now guests in my sandcastle."
"You...you..."
Cao Xianshun was trembling all over and pointed at the elderly Shazhou Uighur noble.
The old Shazhou Uighur noble said coldly, as if he had not seen his finger: "Please King Khan quickly send someone to discuss with the Song people and ask the Song people to stop the army immediately."
Cao Xianshun screamed: "You have done everything possible. Even if I go to find the Song people in person, there will be no results."
The old Shazhou Uighur noble snorted coldly: "That's your business. If the Song people come to the inner city with troops, don't blame us for being cruel, King Khan."
"Let's go..."
The old Shazhou Uighur noble abandoned these words and led the other Shazhou Uighur nobles to decisively leave the palace.
"Plop..."
Cao Xianshun fell to the ground in a daze, and after a long time, the sound of wailing spread throughout the palace.
However, no one took pity on him except the princess who rushed to him to inquire.
Kou Ji felt that all Shazhou Uighurs were not worthy of mercy.
He will also have no mercy on any Shazhou Uighurs.
Kou Ji stared coldly at Yang Wenguang who led 40,000 soldiers and horses, divided into countless small groups, and fought outside Shazhou City.
After the envoys sent by Cao Xianshun, the governor of the Guiyi Army, left the inner city, Yang Wenguang led his troops and cleared out all the Shazhou Uighurs in the outermost circle of the outer city.
The envoy closed his eyes and sat on the carriage that showed his identity with a sad look on his face, and drove slowly towards the south city gate.
After experiencing several interceptions, several excuses, and several beggings along the way, I finally arrived at the South City Gate.
Kou Ji stood on the wall of the south city gate with his hands behind his back. He glanced at the slowly approaching carriage, then looked away, and didn't look at the carriage again.
After the carriage arrived at the south city gate, the Shazhou Uyghur envoy in the carriage shouted loudly: "Shazhou Uyghur Khan Princess Yuchi, please see the angel of the Song Dynasty..."
"The princess of Shazhou Uighur Khan, Princess Yuchi, asks to see the angel of the Song Dynasty..."
The elderly Yuchi in the carriage shouted twice but received no response.
She gritted her teeth and added: "Mrs. Yuchi, the third-rank imperial concubine of the Song Dynasty, would like to see the imperial envoy..."
There was still no sound from the south city gate wall.
Just when Yuchi was about to repeat it, he heard Liu Heng say faintly on the top of the city: "Since last night, there has been no third-grade imperial concubine named Yuchi in the Song Dynasty."
Mrs. Yuchi's heart trembled. After thinking for a long time, she shouted again: "Li Shi, the leader of Yutian Town, the leader of the four towns in Anxi, Li Shengtian, please see the angel of the Han family..."
As soon as these words came out, Kou Ji finally had a reaction.
Kou Ji stared at the carriage that Yuchi was riding in, and said calmly: "Since you are loyal to the Han Dynasty, you should hide aside and don't wander around the city, or you may hurt your own family."
Yuchi mentioned that the Four Towns of Anxi, the Protectorate of Anxi, were established during the Tang Dynasty.
His ancestor, Yuchi Seng Wubo, was very loyal to the Tang Dynasty after he attached himself to the Tang Dynasty. He even changed his surname to Li and called him Li Shengtian. He always regarded himself as a minister of the Han Dynasty.
Even after the fall of the Tang Dynasty, the Khotan clan has always regarded themselves as Han ministers.
It was precisely because of the merits accumulated by his ancestors that Kou Ji opened his mouth to talk to her.
With the support of her servant, Mrs. Yuchi shakily got out of the carriage, knelt on the ground piously, and said plaintively: "I beg the angel of the Han family, for the sake of the past merits of my family, the Li family, to release a Shazhou Uighur horse. "
Yuchi is Li Shengtian's favorite daughter, named Princess Shengtian.
When he was young, Li Shengtian, the leader of Khotan, married Cao Yijin, the prince of the Guiyi Army who was entrusted by the Later Tang Dynasty.
Cao Yijin married his daughter to Li Shengtian, the lord of Khotan, and Li Shengtian married his daughter to Cao Yanlu, Cao Yijin's grandson.
When Cao Yanlu served as the Jiedushi of the Guiyi Army, he lived in harmony with the Yuchi family.
However, when his son Cao Zongshou grew up, he forced Cao Yanlu to commit suicide by taking poison. He ascended the throne and inherited the Yuchi family as his princess.
After Cao Zongshou died, Cao Xianshun inherited her.
Although she is very old, she is still the princess of Shazhou Uighur Khan.
The old Yuchi was kneeling on the ground, very pitiful.
But Kou Ji stared at her with a very cold gaze, "Since you think you are a member of the Li family, you should not interfere in the affairs of our Song Dynasty and the Shazhou Uighurs. The Shazhou Uighur Khan Cao Xianshun caused tens of thousands of deaths in our Song Dynasty. here.
I will never let him go."
Yuchi lamented: "This matter is not the fault of King Khan, it is really..."
Before Yuchi finished speaking, Kou Ji snorted coldly and said: "I don't want to know what his reasons are. I only know that tens of thousands of people from my Song Dynasty died here, so they should pay with blood and double the amount. "
Yuchi cried and begged: "I beg the angels of the Han family to have mercy..."
Kou Ji stared, "I pity them? Then who pity those dead Song Erlang? When they starved to death silently in the camp, did anyone take a second look at them?
If you go to the military camp where the great Song soldiers are stationed, you will find a mountain of corpses. They are all so skinny that they don’t even look like a human being after death.
If I don't avenge them, I don't dare to see them, and I don't have the shame to see them."
"Angel……"
"You don't have to say anything. If you want to beg for your life, with the merits of your Li family, I can spare your life. Others must die. No one can persuade me, and no one can change my will."
Kou Ji said coldly.
Yuchi wailed loudly.
Kou Ji coldly ordered Liu Heng who was standing not far away: "Send someone to take her down to rest. If she insists on entering the inner city, send her back. But if she returns to the inner city, wait until our troops arrive. When in the inner city.
There is no longer the Li family in Khotan, only the Yuchi family of the Uighur princess in Shazhou.
If our soldiers and horses encounter you, you don't have to hold back."