The vast desert is vast, and Helian City is gradually distant.

The forts meet each other, and the river moves and waves grow.

There are no cicadas and willows, and there are bandits like defenders.

If you are not withstand hunger and cold, who will go here in the end?

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The fallen dome tents and grass fields were then thrown away the oil-soaked fire. The raging fire ignited, and soon the land where the Dangxiang relied on was destroyed.

The White Leopard City set up a small military market. The men and women who were captured were branded like horses as "slaves of the Six Mansions". After preparing the contract document, they were sold quickly.

The plundering of slaves is a reward. All the Qiang soldiers who participated in it were rewarded with each slave of the Tang family, and every time they seized a slave, they would receive food, cloth or money. In this way, the white horses, trees, slaughtered cows, and the Yelong Qiangtun City in Qiaoshan would not consider what kind of clan relationships or even kinship they had with the six governments. Because the intellectuals in the Qingzhou Academy or Buddhist temple told them: "You are the same race and origin as the Han people, and are the proud descendants of Yanhuang, and are qualified to be with the soldiers of the Tang family.

In combat, and those who were Pingxia and the six palaces were all inferior hybrids. When the Yanhuang tribe stood proudly in the Fengling city-state, they were all living in remote and cold places like ghosts. No, they were non-human and ghosts, and they were not qualified to be called "Qiang" and they were not qualified to call themselves "Miyao"! When you went west, you conquered them according to the mission of your ancestors, rather than confusing them with the dirty ones. Now it is time to be clear."

Killing these miscellaneous animals, or surrendering them to slaves and seizing their land is a kind of self-purification of the Qiang bloodline.

With this understanding, when these Qiang cavalrymen were carrying out shallow attacks, they felt that the blood on the blade and arrow clusters were coated with a layer of sacred glory, "I am the emperor, and the Heavenly Khan kills the Hulu!"

Similar to the fierce shallow attack, it occurs every day within the radiation range of the four cities at the junction of Jinming Road in Qingzhou and Yanzhou. In just over a month, the Tang army cleared the troops to kill nearly 10,000 men and women in the six governments. As for the herding grassland, it was either burned or robbed by Tang soldiers or Yi soldiers. Prince Nixiang was trapped in a huge passive manner. He could not counterattack even in several counties of Jinming Road because he could not defeat the new Tang army; but he could not protect himself. The Tang army's cavalry attacked and robbed and killed, and was constantly reducing the strength of each resistance to the destruction of the foreign lands.

At the end of September, Dai Xiuyan, the governor of Weibei, died in the army. The emperor issued an edict to mourn and posthumously enthrone the title, and asked Dai Xiuyan's younger brother Dai Xiuyan to attack the flags and festivals. Another younger brother Dai Xiuyan was the marching Sima and continued to rule the Jingsai army and returned to the control of Hunyu.

Hun Yu quickly gathered more than 10,000 elite troops in the river and Jingsai army, and went out of Sanchuankou in Yanzhou, breaking dozens of Qiang Forts, arresting more than 5,000 Dangxiang and 20,000 men and women.

Prince Nixiang could not stand it, so he could only take the surviving Fan Luo for more than 100,000 people to retreat to Luzi Pass. After arriving there, he saw that the local area was full of mountains and could not be grazed. He died a lot of cattle, horses, sheep and livestock. He was afraid that he would be surrounded and annihilated by the Tang army. He prepared to lead the six prefectures along Luzi Pass, and the Dangxiang tribes in Lishi retreated to Xiazhou in the north of Baiyu Mountain to meet with the Peaceful Xia tribes.

Gao Yue and Hun Yu were strong in Fangchi, Fu Zheng, Jin Ming and other places, with murderous aura. Gao Yue directly threatened to his subordinates: When it snows after winter, the livestock of the six governments will not be protected by the eleventh century. At that time, I personally supervised the elite and the Hun Shizhong to advance, attack the Luzi Tumen, and put all the more than 100,000 slaves in the six governments into the cage and sold them to all parts of the world.

After hearing the news from Gao Yue, Prince Nixiang knew that this man was slaughtering. The plague god would definitely do it when he said it. He was so scared that he sent several people to pass through Luzi Pass and send the message to Tuoba Chaohui's Tongwan City, and urgently asked the other party to take it in.

Tongwancheng in Qiwu Mountain, Xiazhou, was appointed by Helian, the "God King of Heavenly Kings" in 413 AD, and built Chigan Ali as a master craftsman. He recruited Baibai from the north of the mountain (north of the lingge), and built this city with a dominant city. Therefore, it was named "Tongwancheng". Legend has it that when building a city, Chigan Ali was extremely cruel and ordered the people to use sand, lime and clay to steam it into three-combination soil, ramming it into a wall, and then used a lime cone to spy. Anyone who entered the city wall would kill the people who built the wall and force it to rework. After completion, Tongwancheng was lime-white and very tight, and looked like water-training leucorrhea from a distance, so it was also called "Baichengzi".

It has been nearly four hundred years since the birth of Tongwan City. When Helian Bobo dominated here, Xiazhou was still a land with lush water and grass, suitable for farming and peasantry. Even if the Liang army in the early Tang Dynasty was divided here, it was still a place of wealth, but now it tends to be desertified. But even so, when the Pingxia tribe came to this majestic city, it was still overwhelmed by its spirit! Its outer city was extremely large, but several sections had collapsed, and the front was filled with wind and sand from the north, but the inner city was still standing in place. Even in the Song Dynasty, Shen Kuo, who came here to visit, praised it, let alone the group of barbarians of the Pingxia tribe.

The inner city is divided into Dongcheng and Xicheng. The circumference of the west city is 7,200 feet long, the circumference of the east city is 7,500 feet wide, and the city wall is 48 feet wide, which can be used for four horses to rush by. The horse face is very well preserved. There are extremely tall pier and horn towers built at the four corners of the east and west city walls. There are seven floors in the corner tower. Each floor extends many wooden rafters around the wall. Wooden boards can be laid on the rafters and railings, shaped like a plank road and a terrace, which can be used for soldiers to cover their bodies, launch arrows and stones. The top of the pier is flat, and a gorgeous enemy tower is built for command and crossbows. The protruding horse faces are even hollowed out inside, and a layer of laminated lanes is laid, divided into several layers, storing countless grains, weapons and stones. If soldiers are inside, they can rest or climb up the city wall to defend against the attacking enemies.

As Helian Bobo's Tongwancheng Stone Monument says, this city can be said to be "the sun is hidden in the high corner, and the clouds are rising from the walls", "the building is rising from thousands of miles away, and the foundation is rising from thousands of feet high."

When Tuoba Chaohui of Pingxia tribe led countless tribes to gather in Baichengzi, he couldn't help but sigh at its majesty and gloriousness. Helian Bobo gave them the country name of Xia in the dark and gave them a large fortress that could not be captured. So the Tings of Pingxia tribe repaired the collapsed city wall, repaired the decaying corner tower, laid the wooden rafters again, wrapped the railings with raw cowhide and camel skin, and slightly prepared the gates, roads and palaces of the inner and outer cities, and added some inns for the chiefs who were loyal to themselves, the tribesmen, or used to receive "envoys" from outside.

Now Tongwancheng has regained its vitality. After Tuoba Chaohui changed his name to "Yuanhui" and called himself the Qing emperor, he took the lead in imitating the emperor of the Han area and built a ancestral temple in Xicheng to worship his father who died. He also built a "Tianwang Temple" to worship Helian Bobo to please the founders and protectors of Tongwancheng. He lived in the palace, wore a golden crown, wore a gorgeous silk dress, and enfeoffed wives, concubines and offspring, and enjoyed the treatment of a real emperor.
Chapter completed!