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Under the indiscriminate bombardment of the planting, the city of Shule was broken in less than a day.

Before the city was broken, Amat refused to surrender, and after the city was broken, he wanted to kneel and beg for mercy, Yang Yi was upset about how to solve the problem of Achaibu, after hearing the contrast between the goods before and after, he was angry from the heart, and the evil was born to the side of the bold, and he ordered to cut him off with a knife, and his head was hung on the city gate for three days.

Damn, I think I can't be a wicked person? Who I think wants to resist in the future?

Yang Yi did not stay long in Shule, and after discussing with Chong Jianzhong, he took the original 5,000 men and horses the next day and returned to the east via Qiuzi.

Now that the overall situation has basically been decided, the problem of the yellow-headed Uighurs and the grass-headed Tatars will only be resolved after returning to Guazhou in the light of the actual situation.

Yang Yi returned to his heart like an arrow, and rushed all the way with 5,000 men and horses, rolling yellow sand along the way.

Through Mengtou Prefecture, Dialing City, Jubi Luo Moraine, passing through a piece of oasis, a piece of Gobi, over the mountains and wading through the water, when the wind and dust arrived at Qiuzi, I saw that a large number of caravans had arrived here;

Most of these caravans were Song merchants, but half of them were not Han Chinese, because there were many Hu people of various ethnic groups in Hexi and other places under the rule of the Great Song Dynasty, and these Hu people were stronger than the Han people in the mainland, and they were not as home-loving as the Han people, so they were the favorite objects of the Great Song merchants who traveled to the Western Regions.

Generally speaking, merchants from the Central Plains either took the south or north routes, and they all arrived at Shule, and few caravans were willing to cross the majestic green mountains;

Merchants from India, Persia, Central Asia, and Asia Minor generally did not want to cross the Gobi Desert after crossing the difficult green mountains;

Shule became the main distribution center for the exchange of goods between the East and the West, and Yang Yi only stayed in Shule City for one day. The richness of the city to fully feel.

The caravan stranded in Qiuzi met Yang Yi's army, and after Shule had been pacified. Everyone cheered and loaded the goods on camels and horses. Towards Shule.

Most of the caravans also spontaneously donated food to Yang Yi's army as a token of gratitude, and Yang Yi's feat of pacifying Liaodong and then crossing Mobei and attacking the Western Regions will surely become a deed that they relish, spreading everywhere along the Silk Road.

At present, the general stationed in Qiuci is called Qian Hong, and there are only 700 Song troops under his command, in order to make up for the lack of troops. He also independently incorporated some of the former Western Uighur rout armies to assist in the defense, although these rout troops were not formally established, but were equivalent to servant armies.

But this matter was not consulted by Yang Yi, let alone authorized by the imperial court, and when he saw Yang Yi at this time, he hurriedly reported it and complained about his suffering.

Qian Hong and his seven hundred men also followed Yang Yi from Liaodong, and Yang Yi couldn't bear to be too harsh. He was only told to disband these servant armies as soon as possible after clearing the place;

Speaking of heaven and earth, the imperial court will never allow local generals to recruit troops privately. Not even a servant army.

This matter can be big or small, but many ministers in the DPRK and China are estimated to be waiting to correct their pigtails, and at this time, small things may be infinitely magnified. You have to be careful.

Further east from Qiuzi, you can occasionally encounter caravans from the west. Previously, due to the war, the trade routes were cut off for several months. Both the East and the West were in desperate need of each other's goods, and the merchants, driven by huge profits, almost followed in the footsteps of the armies.

And July, August and September three months is the best month to cross the Green Ridge, the western caravans will also seize the opportunity to cross the Green Ridge in these months, come to trade with the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty, these months are the golden season of east-west trade, and the merchants naturally do not want to miss it.

And Yang Yi also got a lot of news from the Great Song Dynasty from these merchants who came from the west, although it was hearsay, most of it could not be fully believed, but after careful analysis, some news was still available.

At least Chong Pu was appointed by the imperial court as the chief of the march of Hexi Road, and he had led the army to Guazhou, Yang Yi believed it, which made him secretly relieved.

Chong Pu is the most effective general under him in Huanzhou, in the past few years, he has been promoted step by step because of Yang Yi's many cares and promotions, if someone else is replaced as the head of the Hexi Road march, Yang Yi arrived in Guazhou, and it is inevitable that there will be some trouble if he wants to meddle in the affairs of the Western Regions.

After Yang Yi thought about it, it was expected that Chong Pu, the chief of the Hexi Road march, would not be long in coming, and he might be replaced by the imperial court at any time.

The reasons for this are, first, that the war in the Western Regions has generally come to an end, and second, that Chong Pu and Chong Jianzhong are one family, and the two brothers stay in the Western Regions with heavy troops in their hands at the same time, and the imperial court will always have some scruples.

For this reason, Yang Yi once again accelerated his itinerary and rushed to Guazhou before the imperial court sent another person to preside over the affairs of the Western Regions.

When he arrived at Yanqi, Yang Yi hurriedly asked for some supplies, and continued to hurry;

Four days later, he went to Xizhou, took Adella's mother, younger brother, and some important relatives of the former Xizhou Uighurs, and immediately crossed the Gobi Desert, which was a plague of 800 miles, and went straight to Yumen Pass through Yizhou.

Yizhou is the later Hami City, which is actually more than 800 miles away from Yumen Pass, and after passing Yizhou, the desolate Gobi Desert along the way, full of desolation, makes people can't help but think about the verses of the ancients: why should the Qiang flute complain about the willows, and the spring breeze does not pass the Yumen Pass.

Walking on the desolate and empty Gobi Desert, you will have a deeper understanding of these two poems, it is difficult to see a piece of green here, and you can't feel the existence of spring at all.

It was noon, the sun was scorching in the sky, the Gobi Desert was like a fire, looking from afar, the ground was like a layer of steam, or transparent flames, and the rolling heat wave made people feel as uncomfortable as being in an oil pot.

Yang Yi was drenched in sweat, his lips were a little chapped, he took out the water bladder, and was about to take a sip, when he saw a caravan in front of the army, which was hurriedly dodging, Yang Yi didn't pay much attention to it at first, thinking that the caravan saw the arrival of the army, and the unknown situation caused panic before evading.

But the closer I got, the more I felt that something was wrong, this caravan had forty or fifty camels, most of them were wearing Hanfu, and only a few men in bearded clothes, so it can be concluded that it must be a caravan of the Great Song Dynasty;

Yang Yi's they had a clear banner, and they came all the way east, and the caravans they encountered did not avoid them.

And this caravan didn't look like it was hiding from the army. For they did not go far away, but hid under a ridge by the side of the road. Even if it's close, it's impossible to hide the traces. Yang Yi could see them at a glance, and one by one they were hurriedly letting the camels crouch under the slope.

Just when Yang Yi was surprised, a horse in the caravan galloped towards his handsome horse, waving his arms vigorously, and shouting in his mouth, but Yang Yi and their hooves were like thunder, and they couldn't hear what the man shouted.

"Han Qing, go and see what this person is going to do."

Ma Hanqing nodded, hit the horse and rushed towards that person. After exchanging two words, Ma Hanqing quickly rushed back and said loudly to Yang Yi: "My lord, this is a caravan from Jingzhao Mansion, and their caravan has invited an old guide in Shazhou, according to this old guide, there will be a sandstorm coming soon, so they hurriedly dodged." ”

"Sandstorm?"

"That's what the man said, sir."

Yang Yi looked up at the sky. The sun was scorching in the sky, burning people's faces and faces, and the presence of not a single wind was felt around, saying that a storm was coming immediately. It's hard to believe.

But Yang Yi also understood that the people of the caravan would definitely not be untargeted, if they misunderstood the itinerary of the army. Will there be their good fruit to eat?

The businessman's will not fail to understand this, so there is no certain certainty. They won't come to admonish.

Yang Yi didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly ordered the army to dodge. Thousands of men and horses were looking for shelter from the storm nearby;

Fortunately, the Gobi Desert was undulating like waves, and thousands of people and horses were lurking under these leeward slopes.

Yang Yi couldn't help but climb up to the top of the slope to take a look, only to see that the horizon had been shrouded in a yellow-black thing, like a cloud and not like a cloud, constantly rolling, overwhelming, the momentum was terrifying.

This scene made Yang Yi unforgettable for the rest of his life, and he forgot to close his open mouth.

"My lord, don't look at it, come down and hide!" Ma Hanqing's anxious yelling woke Yang Yi up. He didn't care about his image anymore, so he hid down the slope with a roll.

The wind grew stronger and stronger, and soon there was only a loud whistling sound in my ears, and the wind swept the dust and gravel and flew all over the sky, covering the whole sky;

The scorching sun that had been scorching just now could no longer be seen at this time, and the surroundings seemed to fall into darkness, and it was impossible to see clearly a few meters away.

The hurricane carried countless sand, dust, and debris, and hit people one after another, making a popping sound and making people feel pain all over their bodies;

This is still good, hurricanes can even roll up fist-sized rocks, if they are hit, they will break their bones at least and die at worst, and the momentum is amazing.

Yang Yi pressed Adella and lay behind a boulder, at this time it was really dark all around, flying sand and stones, and the whistling wind was mixed with the crackling sound of the gravel hitting the boulder;

Some of the horses were hit by the rubble and neighed and rushed down the wind, and soon they were not heard..........

At this moment, on the Gobi Desert, it is more terrible than hell, nothing can be seen, and the huge wind is like a ghost crying wolf, which is deafening. The flying sand and stones covered the sky, as if it had the power to destroy the sky.

Yang Yi lay under the boulder, as if a century had passed, before he felt that the wind was gradually subsiding;

At this time, everyone did not dare to move until the sandstorm had completely passed, and the scorching sun appeared in the sky, and everyone dared to get up;

The originally well-organized army looked like refugees for the rest of their lives at this time, and their bodies were covered with a thick layer of sand, and they couldn't see their faces clearly.

Some of the soldiers were badly wounded by the flying stones, and were lying on the ground groaning and looking miserable.

Yang Yi quickly asked people to count the casualties, and in this sandstorm, more than 80 people were injured and more than 200 horses were lost, which made Yang Yi's heart palpitate.

In the face of the terrible power of nature, any elite soldiers are vulnerable, if it wasn't for the reminder of the small caravan just now, hiding under the slope ridge in advance, these thousands of men and horses are afraid that there are only a few people left.

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(To be continued.) )