In mid-October, Hu Hongxiu, the Minister of War, set out in a hurry to the west.
Of course, it is said to be in a hurry, but it is also fully equipped, including attaches from the Ministry of Rites, attaches from the Ministry of War, a whole imperial squadron, a whole group of imperial cavalrymen from Hehuang, plus several imperial camp imperial soldiers and several new subjects.
Jinshi, there is even a team of monks and a team of Taoist priests.
It is the envoy's ceremonial guard and the gifts prepared for Yelu Dashi. They are all there, but they are not spread out specially.
The group of people traveled through the hinterland of the Central Plains and arrived at Kansai calmly. Then the Minister of War, who was heading to Kansai to check logistics and buy war horses from the Qingtang Tibetan tribe, only had a brief conversation with Yu Wenxuzhong, who had received the news in advance, and then continued.
Heading westward. In order to save time, Hu Hongxiu and Yelu Yujian, as well as a small local Tubo tribe in Qingtang, a Han caravan with experience in traveling westward, and a Khotan caravan that was about to turn back, simply met in Lanzhou.
Will do.
There, local officials and local troops had already arranged the logistics vehicles, horses, grain and grass, as well as some necessary salt, cloth and other supplies.
But at this time, it was already November, and the weather was getting colder and colder.
Over in northern Shaanxi, it is said that the battle situation was somewhat repetitive. The Jin army of the Security Army was successfully driven out by Wu Jie and Guo Hao. However, at the same time, one of the three rulers of the Jin Kingdom, King Wanyan Wushu of Wei, arrived.
Daning, an important town near the river, makes Danzhou, which is adjacent to the Yellow River, a little nervous.
But these don't matter, at least to Hu Hongxiu, Yelu Yujian and his party are too lazy to pay attention to them, because they have to go directly to the west without stopping.
As for the road heading west, it's actually not that complicated.
First of all, thanks to the Hehuang Kaibian of the Shenzong Dynasty in the past, Lanzhou, Huangzhou, and Xining Prefecture were all civilized Han states, and the Tubo regime that was entrenched here at that time was basically annexed and 'mature'.
Even when Cai Jing was in power, he did not forget to strengthen his rule over this place and suppressed the once wavering Qingtang City (the capital of Xining Prefecture, later Xining). However, Zhao Huaien, who took office five years ago to deal with the Huangshan affairs,
As a descendant of Zusiluo, he has always been loyal to the Song Dynasty... He provided the small local Tubo tribe in tandem, specifically to negotiate with the Tubo tribes along the way.
Therefore, this road is generally safe.
Secondly, it is precisely because Xixia has controlled the Hexi Corridor for a long time and then consciously isolated the Song Dynasty from the Western Regions, which in turn forced many merchants from the Western Regions to take this Qinghai Road exclusively.
Even after the Shenzong Dynasty took control of Xining, Khotan envoys came from this place immediately, and because they came too fast and too many, the Song Dynasty was a little tired of the rewards, and had to limit the envoys to come once every two years.
Khotan was later referred to as Hotan, Khotan, and the gate. It means that Khotan is a transportation hub in southern Xinjiang. At least this Qinghai Road can directly connect to Khotan.
In other words, this road has been clear and clear since ancient times until now, and it has never been a wild road.
Or to use the almost unanimous words of the three guides from Han, Tubo, and Khotan, if you follow this route and endure the hardship, you will definitely enter the big city in the Western Regions within two months, and then go to find the Yelv Stone at your leisure.
If the road is smooth, forty or fifty days is enough.
Naturally, Hu Hongxiu and Yelu Yu had nothing to say, especially since the Khotanese merchants who had just arrived in Xining City clearly told them some news, that is, these Khotanese had indeed heard Yelu Dashi's speech in southern Xinjiang before setting off.
According to the news, I knew that a Khitan king had swept away Yemili and was about to move to the south, because the Xizhou Uighur tribes who controlled Gaochang and Hamili were conducting diplomatic negotiations with the Khitan king at that time in order to avoid war.
This is consistent with the information Yu Jian obtained from Xixia. Considering that Xixia controls the Hexi Corridor, it naturally knows it faster and more completely. Therefore, the huge envoy led by Hu Hongxiu had almost no doubts and immediately
They left Xining Prefecture and headed west in order to see Yelu Dashi as soon as possible.
However, there are always surprises and ups and downs in travel, as well as boredom and dullness.
Less than a hundred miles west of Xining Prefecture, this group of people fell into their first huge shock because they saw the Xihai Lake, which was like a natural wonder.
Qinghai Lake, no one would call it a lake these days. The Tubo people called it the "blue sea" from the beginning. After the Han people saw such a big and blue salt water, they couldn't believe it.
They just call this lake the West Sea, but at the same time they have to admit that this is a 'blue sea'.
Of course, when the Han people continued to expand and saw the Aral Sea further west, they changed the setting of the West Sea and re-identified that the Xining Prefecture was just a "blue sea".
And in Qinghai, everyone, including Hu Hongxiu, the educated Khitan remnant Yelu Yujian, and the accompanying Jinshi, including the Cantonese guy with the lowest level of education among them, just because of their backing and the combination of Yaoshan and Qianzhou Ping
'Jia Yingzi', who rebelled against his seniority and was promoted to the Ministry of War as a Yuanwailang, immediately remembered that poem.
So-called:
Qinghai is covered with long clouds and dark snow-capped mountains, and the lonely city looks out to Yumen Pass in the distance.
Huangsha wears golden armor in a hundred battles, and Loulan will never be returned until it is broken!
This land has not been effectively ruled by the Central Plains Dynasty for hundreds of years.
The Tang Dynasty that once stretched across the world has never returned; in the past, it fought against the Tang Dynasty, Uighur, Dashi, Tianzhu, and Nanzhao at the same time, and Tubo, which expanded in five directions, was like a flash in the pan, completely falling apart and beyond control; even earlier
At some point, the Turks who used to be dominant in the past have long since moved to the edge of the Mediterranean Sea to redefine the West Sea... However, this blue sea and this poem that almost everyone can recite clearly remind everyone that this land
The land, from the mountains to the sea, has long been integrated into the cultural blood of the Central Plains dynasty.
Even Yelu and Yu Jian had such ridiculous thoughts.
The huge team continued to walk on the north side of Qinghai. In the first few days, the scholars in the team could not suppress the excitement in their hearts. They clearly recalled various allusions:
They know that directly south of them is Qinghai, the "Qinghai Changyun Dark Snow Mountain";
Knowing that the "source of the Yellow River" where "the water of the Yellow River comes from the sky" is hidden somewhere in the east;
I know that the peak of the snow-capped mountains in the north, which is vaguely visible on a clear day, is the Qilian Mountain that "drove thousands of miles to Qilian", and that the north of the Qilian Mountain is divided between Liangzhou and Ganzhou by the Western Xia, which is exactly the Liangzhou in those "Liangzhou Ci";
They also knew that if their trip continued westward, they would pass by Yumen Pass, where "the spring breeze does not pass through Yumen Pass", and Yangguan, where "there are no old friends when leaving Yangguan in the west".
But what is sad or funny is that they have not been to these places that are clearly recorded in their minds, places that even the Cantonese and the Khitan remnants can blurt out for hundreds of years?
Is this ridiculous?!
Of course, this inexplicable restlessness unique to young intellectuals will eventually be suppressed by the boring schedule. After leaving Qinghai Lake, they have been marching in the Caotou Tatar territory south of the Qilian Mountains for the next twenty days.
Then the topic turned to the four words "Caotou Tatar".
In other words, no one can explain the origin of Caotou Tatar.
Some people in the team speculated that they were close relatives of the Ganzhou Uighurs; others speculated that they were close relatives of the Xizhou Uighurs; the accompanying Khotan merchants interjected, saying that these people should be descendants of the nine surnames of Zhaowu who were driven out from the north of the Qilian Mountains by the Huns.
He left and returned to the south of the Qilian Mountains; but when he asked a local tribal leader who had done business in Xining, he said that some of his tribe's ancestors were Tuqi Shi people... Everyone was talking about it, and the only confirmed information seemed to come from
When Yu Yeluyu saw him and his Khitans, they all insisted that in any case, these so-called grass-headed Tatars were definitely not Tatars, because the difference was too big.
But, so say but.
Suddenly one day, when Wailang, the accompanying official of the Ministry of Etiquette, was writing an official travel diary under the sunset, he suddenly lost his composure. Because he clearly remembered a text he had read in a corner, which seemed to be the reason why this group of tribes were called Caotou.
Tatar, because when the envoy from Khotan went to see Shenzong, he said that these mongrel tribes in the south of the Qilian Mountains were the Caotou Tatars... And at noon that day, the accompanying Khotan businessmen even said that these people were in Khotan.
Originally they were called yellow-headed Tatars, but people in the Song Dynasty kept calling them straw-headed Tatars, which forced them to change the name.
As for the Yellow-headed Tatars, it is much simpler. It has always been the general name for the scattered Tatar tribes in Moxi. In other words, this tribe group most likely came from the north, crossed the Hexi Corridor, and then arrived here from the Qilian Mountain pass.
But if that's the case, not only is Yelu Yuchi's assertion wrong and they are Tatars, the key point is that the reason why this tribal group in the southern Qilian Mountains is called Caotou Tatars is probably because of an official responsible for recording or copying.
It may have been caused by a mistake in copying or remembering, or it may simply be a random thing that the Khotanese made up after being asked about it by Shenzong.
And they actually struggled with this mistake for more than ten days.
However, everyone can't help but focus on the four words "straw-headed Tatar" because they are too boring.
This place is too poor and dilapidated. The largest tribe only has three to four hundred riders and can't even put together dozens of armors. After seeing the huge Song Dynasty envoys, I almost thought that the Song Dynasty came to conquer the west.
It was about to surrender... The officials of the Ministry of Rites wanted to write a temporary document for the visitor, but Hu Hongxiu stopped him because they were worried that they would alert the enemy.
As for buying a woman with half a piece of cloth, although it is cost-effective, of course it is not allowed. Not many people would do such a thing as buying a handful of salt for a sunbath... After all, I have only been away from Xining for more than half a month, and I can't tolerate it anywhere.
Can’t live?
However, the towering Qilian Mountains stretch continuously and isolate the only possible military threat to the north.
Then there were meadows and swamps all over the place that withered in winter, and the Qilian Mountains got tired of looking at them for more than ten days, and they got tired of reading the poem dozens of times, so they couldn't help but start to kill time with the words "Grasshead Tatar".
In this way, twenty days after leaving Xining, we finally passed the front section of the Qilian Mountains, left the range of the Caotou Tatars, and arrived at a mountain pass (Dangjin Pass). Next, according to the guides, we will enter the territory of the Yellow-headed Uighurs
, the Yellow-headed Uighur is stronger, and theoretically it can indeed pose a threat to the team, but the probability is low. Compared with this theoretical danger, what is more troublesome is that what follows is an intermittent no-man's land.
That's right, compared to the first half of the road, the second half of the road is still a high mountain (Altyn Mountain) that can block everything in the north, but there is no Qinghai and lush water plants in the south. That place is a desert, only the mountains at the foot of the mountain.
The long and narrow semi-desert area is passable. This is also the fundamental reason why the military threat of the Yellow-headed Uighur is relatively low. Robbery in such a place is a bit like a blind cat looking to kill a mouse.
Of course, there is water, and the overall itinerary is not a big problem. But according to experience, a considerable number of people are likely to get sick, and it is not a serious illness, but a variety of unexplained minor illnesses.
And depending on the size of the team, an almost indefinite number of people will die on this stretch of road, and war horses and yaks will also be lost.
But everything will get better after another twenty days of traveling, turning into the mountain pass and entering Datun City, the hinterland of the Western Region. (According to the Khotan envoy’s account, this journey is likely to pass through the Solkuli Corridor in the middle of the Altun Mountains.
, entering the Lop Nur area, which was very prosperous at this time).
This was something that was expected, everyone was prepared, and there was nothing to say.
However, after gathering these guides together, Hu Hongxiu, the leader of the World Group, who had gradually figured out some geographical elements these days, suddenly raised a question: "When we get to Datun City, do we have to go north across the Nanhe River (Tarimu River Han River)
), go to the foot of Tianshan Mountain, and then turn eastward to reach Hamili?"
The Khotanian merchant nodded immediately.
"And if we go through the mountain pass in front of us." Hu Hongxiu, who had a somewhat rosy complexion, turned around on his horse and pointed at the Qilian Mountain Pass behind him. The mountain pass was so obvious that it was visible to the naked eye. "Is it possible to go directly to Hamili without taking the detour?"
"Yes." The person who answered Hu Hongxiu was a Han merchant from Xining. "So that Hu Shilang knows that passing from here is exactly where Shazhou (Dunhuang) is. Directly north of Shazhou is Hamili. If you go from here, it only takes half a month.
arrival……"
As soon as he said this, Yelu Yujian and the others, who had also turned red next to him, looked at each other and seemed to be moved.
"But Shazhou is in the hands of the Xixia people." The Han merchants responded carefully. "When the Xixia people encounter ordinary merchants, regardless of Hu or Han, they will exploit them at all levels, let alone the nobles of Tokyo City."
Everyone became quiet again.
"If we go from Shazhou to Hamili, are there any natural dangers that we must pass?" Hu Hongxiu asked seriously.
"Shilang Hu is confused." Lian Yeluyu saw that he was a little helpless. "The northwest of Shazhou is Yumen Pass, and the southwest is Yangguan. Take Yangguan to Loulan, and take Yumen Pass to Gaochang. We are going to Gaochang... we can't avoid the Xixia people.
According to the foreign general, it is better to be patient for a while and continue to circle westward!"
Hu Hongxiu suddenly frowned when he heard this: "General Yelu, are we going to Hamili or Gaochang?"
Yeluyu was slightly startled when he saw it, and immediately asked: "Aren't they all the same place? They are all the places where the Xizhou Uighurs are? And according to what was said before, the Xizhou Uighurs just made a subordination agreement with my family, King Dashi, so they found the Xizhou Uighurs.
The Uighurs of the state can know the message of my king. Calculating the time, even if they see him directly, they can't tell."
"Having said that, Gaochang and Hamili are not the same place." Hu Hongxiu shook his head. "Gaochang has to go from Yumen Pass, but what about Hamili? We are actually going to look for the Xizhou Uighurs, right? We didn't specify Gaochang or Hamili.
Hamili?"
Yelu Yujian wanted to refute, but was finally discouraged... He really didn't want to offend this senior official Zhao Song, who had an awkward personality.
In fact, even other attachés of the Song Dynasty felt that Hu Hongxiu was overthinking. Both Hamili and Gaochang belonged to the Western Regions, and they were both from the same family. If they wanted to go to the Western Regions, wouldn't they have to go through Yumen Pass or Yangguan Pass?
However, at this moment, the Khotan businessman who could speak Chinese suddenly interjected knowingly: "If you go from Shazhou to Hamili, you don't have to go through Yumen Pass."
Everyone turned around to look.
"Shazhou, Guazhou, Hamili, and Gaochang are a four-cornered circle..." The Khotan merchant quickly explained under the gaze of everyone. "Yumen Pass is between Shazhou and Gaochang, Hamili is in the northeast of Gaochang, and northwest of Guazhou...
...If you want to go to Hamili from Shazhou, of course you can take Yumenguan to Gaochang and then transfer to Hamili, but you can also turn east from Shazhou, retreat to Guazhou, and then go directly from Guazhou to Hamili... This road is not the same.
There are no barriers.”
The Han merchant also nodded heavily.
Yelu Yu saw Hu Hongxiu and Hu Hongxiu looking at each other silently, and seemed to be moved. The latter turned back to see the two heads of the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of War.
The two principals hesitated for a moment, and then one of them, a member of the Ministry of War called Liang Jiaying, blurted out with a strange accent: "It's a bet! The population here is so sparse, let's divide the troops into two groups, and go all the way.
Qingqi is going from Guazhou to Hamili...why can't we bet on it!"
Hu Hongxiu nodded immediately, and the matter was considered passed.
There was no way, three of the four who had the right to speak had been on the battlefield, and the three who had been on the battlefield basically had no doubts about this risky choice, which made the learned etiquette officer
The foreigner had nothing to say.
For a time, everyone made a plan. Hu Hongxiu and Yelu Yujian selected a hundred horses, wearing local yellow-headed Tatar rags, carrying enough water and food, leaving the Zhengbei Pass, entering Shazhou, retreating to Guazhou, and then heading straight to Hami.
force.
The remaining people, headed by Liang Jiaying and the rites official Wai Lang, took their baggage, caravans, gifts, and ceremonial guards and continued westward calmly. They walked for another twenty days and transferred to Datun City in the Western Region as a backup.
But now that the decision was made, and the leaders were all from the battlefield, they did not hesitate and put it into effect immediately.
It can only be said that the Xixia people never thought that the one hundred cavalry who jumped out of the Qilian Mountain Pass were actually Han envoys. In fact, they did not realize that the one hundred cavalry were at all... After the hundred cavalry came out of the Qilian Mountain Pass, according to the guide's guidance, there was no
Instead of paying attention to Shazhou City, they went out at night and day. They first ran to Sanwei Mountain and then passed through Changle City, a small town on the way. They only bought enough food and water in the villages around Changle City, then crossed over at night from the north of Guazhou City and bypassed it.
The small desert around Shule finally galloped straight to the northwest.
The Xixia people didn't react during the entire process.
They had no reason to react. The Xixia Xiping Military Division in Guazhou only received a report from Changlecheng two days later, saying that there was such a group of yellow-headed Tatars. They must have just robbed a fortune and were actually quite rich.
, went from west to east... The people from the Xiping Military Division didn't want to go and look for it, but when they asked and learned that these people had already crossed the Shule Desert, they lost all interest.
As long as the core land of the Hexi Corridor is not disturbed, who is willing to take care of this kind of place?
So, surprisingly but not dangerously, Hu Hongxiu and Yelu Yujian arrived at Hamili five or six days before the Chinese New Year, and then got the exact news. It turned out that Yelu Dashi was ahead in Gaochang (later Turpan)!
Let us also say that after long discussions, the Uighur tribes in Xizhou, with Gaochang as their actual capital, expressed their respect for Yelu Dashi early on. However, Yelu Dashi was not as simple as just a letter. He still led the army southward, and followed Yelu Dashi.
After Dashi's troops went south to Beiting (Belgashi Bali), the Uighur regime in Xizhou, headed by the Uyghur King Bilge, made a final ideological struggle and formally professed tribute to Yelu Dashi.
It was a heavy gift of 600 horses, 100 camels, and 3,000 sheep, and the promise to provide Uighur nobles as hostages.
Therefore, Yelv Dashi's soldiers completely surrendered the Xizhou Uighurs without a single blow. He was about to lead his army to Gaochang to join forces with Bileg, and at the same time accepted his gifts and hostages.
This is great news.
But it's also bad news... Because Yelu Dashi told the Xizhou Uighur tribes from the beginning that he was going to the Black Khanate further west to 'borrow troops', so the Xizhou Uighurs were just borrowing the road.
, we will go west soon.
In other words, if we arrive too late, we will continue westward without knowing the Yelu Dashi.
Hu Hongxiu, Yelu Yujian and others were exhausted at this time. The number of the hundreds of cavalry accompanying them had been reduced to seventy or eighty, and they were all exhausted. But at this time, they could not care about anything. The two immediately changed their horses on the street in Hamili.
Three tired horses were exchanged for a good one, and thirty horses were obtained. Eight more followers were selected, one person and three horses. In the name of Yelu Dashi's subordinates, they immediately set off westward to Gaochang again.
I have to say that Bileg is still very capable. He didn't play any tricks. Facing Yelu Dashi and his army, the Uighur king honestly opened the city gate, presented gifts, and handed over
The children took out their savings at the same time and entertained Yelu Dashi and his entourage. The banquet lasted for three days.
The entire city of Gaochang was in a state of revelry to avoid a war.
On the third day of the continuous banquet, Yelu Dashi, who was happily drinking wine, suddenly heard a name that could bring back sadness for half his life.
And it’s the authentic Khitan pronunciation.
"Yelu Yu Jian?" In the cheerful atmosphere of the whole city, when everyone was excited to avoid a war, Yelu Dashi, who was not yet forty years old this year, sat on the throne of the Uighur King and heard the words
It felt like a lifetime ago. "He still dares to come to see me? How many people did he bring with him?"
"Ten!" In front of Dashi, a Khitan general bowed his head and faced him. It was Xiao Wulila, the arm-like figure under Yelu Dashi.
"Ten?" Yelu Dashi, who had a ruddy complexion and was wearing a brocade robe, smiled, then picked up the glass cup at hand, swung the wine in the cup, and then turned to face the Uyghur King Bilge beside him. "Ten.
Not bad! Ten warriors who live and die together, fighting side by side, are so proud of the thousands of soldiers with different aspirations... This guy can bring ten Khitan warriors here to look for me, I would be embarrassed to chop his head off
Already."
Belgo smiled...he didn't understand a word...but that didn't stop him from smiling.
"There is also a minister of the Ministry of War of the Zhao and Song Dynasties!" Xiao Weilila waited for the Uighur King to finish laughing before adding calmly. "Ten people, one Yelu Yujian, one minister of the Ministry of War of the Zhao and Song Dynasties Hu Hongxiu, one Khotan guide, seven Xihelu
He was born in the Imperial Cavalry of Zhao Song Dynasty... It is said that there is also a handwritten letter from the official family of Zhao Song Dynasty and a gift specially selected by the official family of Zhao Song Dynasty."
Yelu Dashi was stunned when he heard the first sentence of the supplementary description. He listened to it all at once, remained silent for a long time, then suddenly stood up, then suddenly sat back, raised his hand to signal again, stopped midway, and finally opened his mouth to speak.
There was silence for a moment.
No matter how you look at it, it looks like you have drunk too much.
But after waiting and thinking for a long time, the biggest Khitan remnant in exile still waved heavily with a drunken breath: "Bring us in together!"
He didn't drink a glass of wine in three days, but Xiao Weili, who was just setting up the city defense, immediately left and brought ten people in after a while.
The Uighur King and below had already noticed the situation here, but they observed the words and expressions and became awe-inspiring early on.
Let's say that the ten people who had gone all out to get here were already exhausted to the extreme. When they entered the palace, compared with the Uighurs and Khitan nobles who had been feasting and carousing for three days, they were really embarrassed.
As for the first two people, Yeluyu knew that today's success or failure depended on whether they could form an alliance, but they remained silent and just stood in the palace panting, then went to see Hu Hongxiu.
As for Hu Hongxiu, who calmed down for a moment, he handed over his hand calmly: "Today is the New Year's Day. Hu Hongxiu, the Minister of War of the Song Dynasty, asked Da Shi Lin Ya on behalf of the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, what is the mood of the New Year in Yi State?"
"Is the New Year going to be celebrated today?" Yelu Dashi looked at the audience in astonishment in Hebei Chinese he was familiar with, but then shook his head. "You can't celebrate the New Year... Don't you, Mr. Hu, know that since your family broke the alliance, Song Dynasty
Have the Liao been at war with each other for fourteen years? How dare you come to the enemy's territory in Gaochang?"
Hu Hongxiu was silent for a moment, and the scene actually turned cold.
After a while, Xiao Weili stood by and snorted coldly: "Why doesn't the Song envoy speak? After thousands of miles, there is nothing to say?"
"It's not thousands of miles. From Xining Prefecture to here, it's only more than two thousand miles, and it takes less than two months." Hu Hongxiu said sincerely. "If we can go to the Hexi Prefectures, it will be faster. It's not that I have nothing to say... I
When I came here, I thought about it for a long time on my horse. I also thought that after meeting Dashi Linya, I would have such boring words waiting for me, so I also thought of many responses... For example, at this time, I just said that Gaochang is the hometown of China.
, I am an important minister of China, why can't I come? But just as I was about to say it, I felt that after all, I have worked hard for two thousand miles to get here, and if I just talk about these nonsense, it seems quite meaningless, and I will also be sorry for the emperor who is waiting in Tokyo."
Yelu Dashi sneered, not sure whether he was mocking himself or the person in front of him.
At this point, Hu Hongxiu also turned to Yelu Dashi and handed it over calmly again: "The Dashi Linya... My official family wants to use the river as the boundary to allow Xixia to be divided into six counties in the west of the river, the land of the Sisi and Daliao, so that Xixia can be divided equally between the two families.
How about being able to visit your homeland in Dashi Linya?!"
Yelu Dashi's heart was pounding, but he sneered again, and then he seemed to feel that he was a bit embarrassed to intimidate an important minister of the Song Dynasty who dared to lead only ten people across 2,000 miles of Xixia to blockade this place, so he directly stroked his chin while considering the gains and losses in his heart.
Perfunctory: "You just said you had a gift for me?"
"have."
As Hu Hongxiu spoke, he took off the helmet of a Han knight beside him while Yeluyu was stunned, and then handed it to Xiao Weili, who was also at a loss.
But then, this important minister of the Song Dynasty, who did not look like an important minister of the Song Dynasty at all, made all the Khitan people present change their expressions with just one sentence:
"This is the helmet that Wanyan Loushi wore when he died in battle at the foot of Yao Mountain! My emperor heard that this man was closely related to Dashilinya, so he sent it to me... It happened to be the New Year for Dashilinya and all the Khitan warriors.
present."
Xiao Weili, who had always had a sullen face, immediately lost his composure. His helmet, which smelled of sweat, fell to the ground and rolled several times in the splendid palace of Gaochang before he stopped.
"Shilang Hu." After a long time, Yelu Dashi broke the silence. "I also heard some words from Dangxiang merchants... Some people said that in the battle of Yaoshan, it was your official who shot Wanyan Lou to death with an arrow.
?”
"No, it was Qu Duan, commander of the Imperial Cavalry Army, who shot Lou Shi's armpit with an arrow. Han Shizhong, Commander of the Imperial Left Army, shot an arrow at the head of Lou's horse. Then Hou Dan, the commander of the imperial camp's central army, struck out with an axe.
Before, chop off his arm first, then chop off his head!" Hu Hongxiu answered seriously. "As for my emperor, although he opened his bow early and wanted to shoot, he failed to succeed. If Qudu hadn't unified the arrow, he would have almost died on the spot... However, these are all old things.
Okay, my emperor still has a few words for me to convey to Dashi Linya..."
"There's no rush." Yelu Dashi suddenly stood up and turned to look at Bileg, the Uighur King of Xizhou. "I will lend you flowers to offer to the Buddha, and I will also ask for a glass of wine for Mr. Hu."
Ps: Thank you to book friend Xia Hou Ningyuan for your cuteness...I am very grateful.