The number one scholar of the Song Dynasty

Song Jiang pressed his hand, stood up, and said loudly: "I called everyone here today, and gathered here for nothing else, but for Kaer Khan."

Ka Erhan has always been consistent with everyone. After Song Jiang said this, everyone was a little confused.

Song Jiang blushed, but luckily he was dark enough to see it.With a light cough, he said loudly, "You all know the Khotan Kingdom, right?"

The Kingdom of Khotan is an ancient country in the Western Regions. It was founded in the Western Han Dynasty and survived for more than 200 years under the rule of the Yuchi family. It was not destroyed by Karhan until the Northern Song Dynasty.

The residents belong to the Tocharians who speak the Indo-European language family. They were annexed by the Kara Khanate at the beginning of the Song Dynasty 100 years ago and gradually became Uighurized. Originally, the whole country believed in Buddhism, and the monks were also burned to death. Now they are forced to Slowly convert to Islam.

The patriarch of the Hengshan Seven Qiangs, Biesai Yeli, tilted his head and said doubtfully, "The Kingdom of Khotan has been extinct for a hundred years, why did the envoy remember it?"

Song Jiang pointed to a man beside him, and said loudly: "To be honest, this person is the direct son and grandson of the Yuchi family of the Khotan kingdom, and his name is Yuchirong."

A man rubbed his eyes, closed them again and shook his head vigorously. After opening his eyes, he was sure and called out, "Brother Gongming, isn't this Huarong?"

With a slap, his head was hit, and Yu Chirong yelled: "Fart your mother, I am the authentic Khotan prince, the eldest brother of the Yuchi family, which generation?"

"42." Song Jiang glared at him and said angrily.

"I am a descendant of the 42nd generation of Yuchi's family. I have the blood of the Khotan royal family. I had to hide in Qingzhou, Shandong only because of the bullying of the Kaerhan bird people. Now I have defected to the Song Dynasty. Tell your grievances, let Your Majesty and Brother Gongming avenge me." Yu Chirong said solemnly.

On his dark face, with two small mung bean eyes, he looked very happy, and it was even more funny when he said that he was a prince.

After hundreds of years of enslavement, the people of Khotan were trained to be more obedient than horses and donkeys, and they were obediently enslaved by the Uighurs of Karhan.

I've never heard of any of them daring to plot against the country, Song Jiang simply supported a Yu Chirong to come out.

If you want to commit a crime, there is no excuse. When someone stronger than you wants to beat you, you can even use your breath as his excuse.

The story in the scriptures is the only way to distinguish between right and wrong. In the final analysis, this world is a fist fight. Song Jiang said angrily: "The Khotan Kingdom was very respectful to the Song Dynasty at the beginning. When the country was destroyed, they still wanted to go to the Song Dynasty for help. On Yuchirong's body, there is the blood edict of Yuchi Sanghalama, the lord of Khotan a hundred years ago.

Brother Yuchirong, bring it out for everyone to see. "

Hua Rong took it out of his pocket, was suddenly taken aback, and said embarrassingly: "Brother, I forgot to stuff it in yesterday. Anyway, all the people present are brothers. There is no one who doesn't believe it. It doesn't matter whether you see it or not."

Don't lose Yeli, he has already realized that Da Song is going to attack Kar Khan, and the purpose is obvious, to open up business routes from east to west and break the monopoly of those Islamic countries on business routes.

None of the people present are fools, and if they get through with Karhan, their wealth will grow exponentially.

"Restrainer, let's be honest, when are we going to declare war?"

"Declaration of war? We are only helping the people of Khotan to restore their country. As for the return of the land to the Song Dynasty after the restoration of the country, we will talk about it at that time.

This is a battle for the people of Khotan to restore the country, not a war between Song and Karhan, and there is no need to declare war. "

"Then when will we fight?"

"Slaughter sheep for a meal today, and send troops at night to attack Yuechang City."

Chapter 364 After a hundred years of depravity, the slavery is humble

The flames soared into the sky, and the sound of killing was everywhere.

Under the city of Yuechang in the old land of Khotan, there was an uproar of people, and the soldiers and horses from the northwest of the Song Dynasty suddenly attacked and seized the city, and the small town could not resist it.

The [-] elite soldiers formed by the Dangxiang Seventh Clan are the main force tonight. They swept all the way and almost met no decent resistance, and they hit the city of Yuechang.

Almost without a moment's delay, Song Jun's advanced door-ramming car smashed the simple city gate into pieces.

Don't Lost Yeli led a large army like tigers and horses like dragons, rushing into the door without stopping, the sound of hooves was like thunder, shaking the sky and the earth.

This piece of land is the western part of Xinjiang for later generations. It is vast and sparsely populated, and the cities are far apart. Often, there are no people inhabited for a long time.

The Song army was stationed in the city for one night. After the vanguard party entered the city, they beheaded all the officials in the city and appeased the people by saying that the prince of Khotan had returned to the country.

These Tocharian people who have destroyed the country for a hundred years have long forgotten that Khotan is a taboo, and the ancestors who dared to say this were all killed.

The most terrifying thing in the world is that no matter how many blood debts committed by the invaders, most of the descendants after being ruled for a hundred years will forget the shame and hatred of their ancestors.

The same is true for the Khotan Kingdom. The 1000-[-]-year Guozuo cannot change the reality that they are now loyal slaves of the Karahan Dynasty.

After the Song army entered the city, many people spent this turbulent night in numbness. The city was full of chaos, the generals could not be found, the generals could not find soldiers, fires broke out everywhere, roaring and fighting everywhere, and they were as energetic as a herd of bison The party soldiers like a calf hunted and killed Karakhan's defenders and officials wantonly in the city.

In the small northwestern border town with no news, the day after the fall, the news of the war still hadn't spread.

A group of people from Khotan gathered in the city, and they all looked at a loss when they heard that the prince was coming to restore the country.

This black-faced man with a beard looks nothing like them, but he could be their prince

The Yuchi family died long ago. Back then, the Karahans burned all the monasteries and monks and royal families in Khotan to death.The massacre lasted for decades. It can be said that the three generations lived under the shroud of blood, and they might be decapitated as heretics at any time.

Now these Khotanese people, the oldest one, had already been ruled by the Karahan Dynasty for many years when they were born.

Hua Rong said impatiently: "None of these people has the guts. They dare not resist a long time ago. Telling them this is a waste of time. Let's just keep fighting."

"Su Keye, you take the people of your tribe to stay, escort the follow-up supplies, and kill the remaining enemy troops. The rest follow me."

Song Jiang counted the number of people, and there was almost no loss. He left hundreds of soldiers to guard and led the mixed troops of various ethnic groups to continue the westward expedition.

Since ancient times, when the Central Plains Dynasty went west, they only arrived here during the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, and they ruled in name only.Now embarking on the journey to the Western Regions again, the long team is dominated by Dangxiang people, Kerai people, Tubo people, and Uyghur people.

The mighty people and horses walking in the vast sea of ​​sand dunes gave Song Jiang a strange feeling.

Seeing that his expression was wrong, Hua Rong leaned closer and asked, "Brother Gongming, I think your expression is wrong, what are you thinking?"

Song Jiang sighed, and said in a low voice: "Since I was in Jeju Prefecture, I have defected to the Shaozai. I have fought in the east and the west, Fangla, Dali, Ding Uighur, and An Tubo, but they are all not far from the country. Now this Kakashi The La Khanate is thousands of miles away from us, separated by a large area of ​​the old land of the barbarians, and the eyes are smeared. What do you think they will look like there?

Whether their soldiers can fight, whether there are snakes, insects, poisonous beasts on their land, and whether there are strange weapons. "

When Huarong heard it, he laughed: "Brother doesn't care what kind of bird he is, as long as we brothers are together, the army is strong and the horse is strong, we can't go anywhere in the world, and any bird country can't be destroyed. Is there anyone in the world stronger than Da Song?"

When Song Jiang heard this, he frowned and said with a smile: "Brother Huarong is right, no bird country is as good as Song."

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When the war in the northwest was in full swing, Yang Lin set off from Datong Mansion in Yunzhou to return to Yanmen Pass.

Outside Yanmen Pass, there are nearly 20 soldiers and horses assembled. Unlike Song Jiang's mixed ethnic groups, here are basically Han soldiers.

Inside the carriage, Yang Lin wrapped his body in a cloak. He was full of ambition, smiled and folded Huanxiang and said: "When you arrive at Yanmen Pass, Zhe Keqiu and Yao Gu are here, you have to be careful."

"What are you afraid of? If you dare to steal, don't be afraid." Zhe Huanxiang's cheeks were slightly red, but his mouth seemed to be nonchalant.

When Yang Lin saw that her earlobes were as red as agate, she knew that the woman was joking, and she was actually terrified.

He purposely smiled wildly, and said: "My official Da Song Shaozai, Yao Gu and Zhe Keqiu all have to watch my face, for fear of what they will do. When you get to Yanmen Pass, you will follow behind me, some children of the Zhe family and the Yao family, I still don’t recognize it completely, so please introduce it to me.”

Zhe Huanxiang was so frightened that he finally collapsed, shook his arm, and begged for mercy: "Good man, I will hide by your side, and I will never see anyone."