"The little king's servant Gu Bijia led his ministers and people to welcome the heavenly soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty, and the barracks and buildings were prepared, but please move to the two commanders......"

Outside the Qingyang Gate of Gaochang City, on the side of the official road left over from the Tang Dynasty. A group of Gaochang Uighur officials, dressed in red robes similar to those of the Tang Dynasty and wearing a crown that resembled a Jinxian crown but with particularly tall crown ears, surrounded their king, also in the Han imperial costume, to welcome the "Great Song Heavenly Soldiers" who came from afar.

I don't know if it's because of the influence of the "declining birthrate", at this time the Uighur monarchs and ministers of Gaochang had a high degree of sinicization, and if you don't look carefully at their faces, you think you have encountered a group of remnants of the Tang Dynasty. Moreover, what they spoke was not Uighur, but the official dialect of the Central Plains.

Behind this group of Tang-style monarchs and ministers, on both sides of the official road to Qingyangmen, there are men and women wearing Han-style clothes all the way, and there are many monks wearing monk's clothes, all holding large and small clay pots and kettles - probably the meaning of "eating pot pulp to welcome the king", right?

If he hadn't known that he was in the Western Regions thousands of miles away from the Central Plains, Yelu Dashi would still think that he was in the Great Song Dynasty!

While getting down from his war horse, he said to Xiao Heda: "Xiao Junji, it seems that there is still a legacy of the Han and Tang dynasties here!" ”

Xiao Heda said with a smile: "Although Xizhou and Yizhou are called the land of the Uighurs, they are mostly Han children, and all customs are the same as those of Middle Earth, but there are more monks, and there are almost no Taoist priests and Confucian scholars. Further west, it is difficult to see the legacy of the Han and Tang dynasties. ”

Yizhou is the Hami of later generations, and it is also owned by the Gaochang Uighurs, and the degree of sinicization is higher than that of Xizhou, where Gaochang City is located. Not only because Yizhou is closer to the Central Plains, but also because Yizhou is one of the eleven states recovered by the great hero Zhang Yichao in the late Tang Dynasty - the land recovered by Zhang Yichao is not only the Hexi Corridor and the land of Hehuang, but also Yizhou and Xizhou, which are located on the land of Xinjiang in later generations, but Xizhou is actually controlled by the great Uighur leader Fu Gujun, who is nominally subject to the Guiyi army, while Yizhou is directly controlled by the Guiyi army. Therefore, the people of all ethnic groups in Yizhou were able to be ambushed under Zhang Yichao's "Lei Wei", and were "trained to be Chinese, salty and good, and their customs changed".

Later, due to the civil strife of the Guiyi Army, Yizhou fell into the Gaochang Uighurs, but at this time, the Gaochang Uighurs themselves were also quite sinicized, so they did not change the customs of Yizhou. When Xiao Heda and Yelu Dashi led the 18,000 "Great Song Hexi Army" through Yizhou, the local people thought that Wang Shi had arrived, and they were all happy to prepare to become Song people...... There are even many local heroes in Yizhou who have prepared gifts to ask Yelu Dashi and Xiao Heda for officials.

The eagerness of the heart to Middle Earth, I don't know how many times more than the Han people in Youzhou!

And the Uighur khan of Gaochang was not only not angry when he learned that the people of Yizhou were loyal to the Song, but he was also very happy—because he himself was also devoted to the Great Song!

He is also Chinese! Even the "lion king" of the Qarakhanid Dynasty is Chinese, not to mention this Gaochang Khan who can speak fluent Chinese and serve Gu Piga?

Moreover, at this time, there was a sense of urgency that a great calamity was imminent. The upper class of Uighur warriors in the Qocho Uighurs believed in the Manichaeism of family planning, while the lower class of the Han Chinese believed in Buddhism, which was submissive. The whole country is not a war scum, but a war scum. If it weren't for the Qarakhanid Dynasty's fear of seeing the Khitans, they would have destroyed the Uighurs in Gaochang a long time ago.

Now that the Khitan is in a bit of a recession, the monks who have a great voice in the Uighur kingdom of Gaochang (Manichaeism has been very sluggish by the generation of Fugu Viga) are naturally afraid to death. Seeing that Da Song had a heavenly khan, he couldn't wait to hug his thighs.

He was no exception, he was the leader of the evil infidels of the Qarakhanid dynasty, and if he was caught, he would surely go to Hell.

So when he heard that the "Great Song Heavenly Soldiers" were coming, he was so happy! I have already found a senior monk in the country to write a chapter to call the minister and recognize his father - in the future, he will be Zhao Bijia, the son of the Heavenly Khan! No longer afraid of the "Lion King" next door.

"Xiao Heda, the chief military aircraft of the Hexi Army," Xiao Heda first introduced himself, and then said in a respectful tone to Yelu Dashi, who had a rather noble temperament around him: "This is the great Liao noble, Yuntai Palace Tianli Doctor Yelu Dashi!" ”

Da Liao nobles? Jeru? What's going on!?

Fugu Vika froze for a moment, looked at Yelu Dashi with a smile on his face, and his heart suddenly became worried.

Are you the Great Song Heavenly Soldiers or the Great Liao Heavenly Soldiers? You can't make a mistake about it, it's life-threatening!

He hurriedly raised his head and looked at the flag, that's right, it was "Hexi Army General Military Aircraft Xiao", and it was written in Chinese characters. If it is a Great Liao Heavenly Soldier, it should use Khitan characters!

"May I ask who this is......" Fugu Vika smiled awkwardly and pointed to Jerodashi again.

"Sprinkle Yelu Dashi, the eighth grandson of Emperor Taizu of Daliao!" Yelu Dashi said with a smile, "However, the Sprinkle family is not an official in Daliao, but is to seek Taoism under Mr. Yuntai, and this time it is to spread Confucian heavenly principles!" ”

"Confucian Heavenly Principles?" He himself was a follower of Buddhism and Manichaeism – two religions together! It's the same as the Song Dynasty's integration of Confucianism and Taoism.

Buddhism and Manichaeism also tended to unite in the Uighurs of Gaochang, and this trend was ruining the Uighurs of Gaochang, a state of the Western Regions with a high degree of sinicization.

Because Gaochang's Manichaeism is more orthodox, unlike the alienated Manichaeism in the Central Plains, although it also emphasizes the theory of "light and darkness struggle", the doctrine is too ascetic, and Buddhism is also a religion of low desire. The result of the combination of the two is the low desire of the whole society. The population is constantly decreasing, and the military power is close to exhaustion.

Confucianism, on the other hand, was unable to gain a foothold in the Uighurs of Gaochang after losing the direct support of the Central Plains court. Therefore, Fugu Vika only knows that there is a Confucianism, but he does not know the reason, let alone what the principle of heaven is?

"His Royal Highness the Prince is going to preach in my Gaochang?" Fugu Vika respectfully called Yelu Dashi "prince" on his lips, but he was somewhat resistant in his heart.

Gaochang already has Buddhism and Manichaeism, and there is no need for Confucianism to come back......

"It's not that I'm preaching in Gaochang," Yelu Dashi smiled, "but I'm going to Ye Mili to spread the Confucian Heavenly Principles!"

By the way, His Majesty the Khan, the 30,000 Khitans on Ye Mili's side haven't converted to the Heavenly Sect yet, right? ”

"No, there are no conversions." Fugu Viga breathed a sigh of relief, he had already guessed that Yelu Dashi was coming for the 30,000 Khitans of the Yemili steppe.

He smiled and said: "Your Royal Highness, although the Khitan people of Ye Mili are in Qarakhani, they have always been in the heart of Daliao. They have been looking forward to the Great Liao Heavenly Soldiers for a hundred years...... If the prince can raise the banner of the Great Liao Dynasty, they will definitely join the prince. ”

The 30,000 Khitan people who settled in the Yemili grassland had to wait for more than 20 years in their original history before they could meet Yelu Dashi and his Khitan army who migrated from Kedun City. And this group of people later became the basis for Yelu Dashi to establish the Western Liao Empire in Central Asia.

"What religion do they believe?" Oishi asked.

"Shamanism."

"Good!" Yelu Dashi laughed, and looked at each other with Xiao Tieniu and Han Dagou beside him.

You've come to the right place! 30,000 Khitan herdsmen! Moreover, he was oppressed by the Heavenly Sect and still adhered to the original shamanic belief - shamanism is very primitive, and there is no strict doctrine and strong religious power, so it is easy to convert. Therefore, after Yelu Dashi learned from Xiao Heda that there were 30,000 Khitan remnants who had been controlled by the Qarakhanid Dynasty in the Yemili grassland, he immediately began to educate them.

Dashi himself is a royal family of Liao, and Xiao Heda is a descendant of Liao, and he can borrow a little elite soldiers from the Hexi Army. As long as they can get the help of the Uighurs in Gaochang, it should not be difficult to fight the Yemili steppe to liberate the Khitans there.

And with the assistance of the 30,000 Khitan people in the Yemili grassland, Bala Shagon and the nearby Broken Leaf City are not in the bag of Yelu Dashi and Xiao Heda?

As soon as the city of Balasagon and Broken Leaves arrived, the Qarakhanid Dynasty lost its foundation, and it was impossible to support the entire khanate with the power of Kashgar - Balasagon was just outside the Ferghana Basin, surrounded by the richest land in Central Asia, and once it was taken by Yelu Dashi and Xiao Heda, the lion king of China would be finished.

Yelu Dashi said immediately: "Khan, a certain and Xiao Junji will go to Yemili after resting in Gaochang for a few days, and now it is feasible to borrow some grain, grass, cattle, sheep and horses from you?" ”

"Okay, okay!" Fugu Viga nodded again and again, "Shangguo (he doesn't know which Shangguo) but there is an order, and the little Khan obeys everything!" ”

……

"Sir Hackwood, we've determined the location of the tunnels dug by the heretics of the Peach Blossom Stone."

"Hmph, what a bunch of idiots."

Stone Town, Mahmoud. Berry was listening to his men's reports in his own mansion, his face full of disdain and mockery.

He originally thought that the army that came from the peach blossom stone was very powerful, but he didn't expect that it would not be able to fight, at least it would not attack the city. When I arrived at the stone city, I was digging tunnels in addition to digging trenches and besieging the city.

How could such outdated tactics possibly capture Stone Town? You must know that back then, the holy warriors of the Heavenly Fang Sect also encountered the problem of not being able to build siege equipment in Khotan, so they dug tunnels a lot...... Hence Mahmoud. Berry had already prepared to bury a large vat in Stone Town, so that if he noticed that the enemy's tunnels were approaching, he could immediately dig a trench in a T-shape with them.

"Let them go to waste!" Mahmoud. Berry raised his glass (he was drinking, and the Qarakhanid Dynasty was not particularly strict about the tenets of the Heavenly Sect) and said to his fellow Ghulam colleagues in the hall of the Shuaifu, "Brothers, you must have a good time tonight...... The time is coming for us to defeat the infidels! Although we will not be able to destroy the enemies outside the city, this city will definitely become a grave for heretics! ”