Peng Lin laughed after hearing this and said loudly: "I am Peng Lin, the commander of the Anbei Army Central Camp on Hequ Road in the Song Dynasty. I am ordered to guard this place. You must not bring swords and guns. Everyone abandons their weapons and dismounts to check. Ask for where they come and go before making arrangements."

Omar said: "We are ordered to go north for the Black Khan's troops stationed in Khotan. You can leave quickly, otherwise you will be blind!"

Peng Lin said: "If you want to fight, you will fight. What's the matter! If you can fight all the way, I'll send you away!"

Omar was silent for a moment, thinking for a while, but there was nothing to say. He walked back with a round of horse heads. When Song Jun saw it, he laughed together.

Back to the military formation, Yu Sufu had seen what happened just now, so there was no need to say anything more. Seeing that the generals around him seemed nervous and were obviously afraid of fighting with the Song army, Yu Sufu said: "Even if the Song army won for a while, they could not win in all waves! To make it clear, this is the only way to go north. If we can't get through, we can only look back. If we look back, there is no way to do so? Today we can only fight to the death, and there is no other way!"

After saying that, he pulled out his waist knife and whispered: "Line up and follow me to kill you!"

It was difficult to violate the military orders, and a group of soldiers formed a formation, looking at Yu Sufu.

Yu Sufu gritted his teeth and kicked the horse hard, saying, "Don't care about anything else, just rush into the Song army formation and fight with it!" After that, he rushed out first. The Black Soldier behind him mustered up his courage, shouted loudly, and followed him.

Peng Lin saw in the telescope that when he was still two hundred steps away, he ordered the mortar next to him to fire. With the sound of the cannons, a large number of cannons rushed towards the Black Sweat army. Yu Sufu, who was in front, heard the cannon sound and was so scared that he raised his throat.

The mortar cannon was not big and the distance was close, so it did not cause much damage to the Black Sweat army, but only injured a few people. Everyone mustered up the courage to move forward, but they didn't expect the second round of cannons to come. Because the distance was close, dozens of them fell down at once.

When it arrived at the third round of cannons, Yu Sufu was hit by a cannon and his calf was bleeding. At this time, he couldn't help but shout, holding the knife and rushing straight towards the Song army. Not long after, he heard a gunshot and knew nothing behind him.

After two rounds of guns were fired and one counterattack, all the Black Khan army fled back. Peng Lin couldn't help but shake his head. Today's Black Khan army was far behind Budul's one time. Seeing that the other party could not set up the military formation again, he ordered the cavalry on both wings to step forward and end the battle.

The Black Khan army lost more than 50 people, but in fact the combat power was still there, but they had no fighting spirit and surrendered by the Song army's guns and cannons. Even Yu Sufu himself died at the platoon because he rushed to the front.

After gathering the prisoners, he briefly questioned them. He heard that the high-ranking officials and nobles from Khotan were still behind. Peng Lin was overjoyed: "If the team of more than 500 people is just like this, I will lose a little today. I didn't expect that there would be a big fish behind him, and it would definitely be a good contribution!"

He sent a hundred cavalrymen, but took the people behind him and interrogated them carefully one by one.

In the Shule City Lord's Mansion, Du Zhongxiao was sitting in the study room and was reading a book. Fu Bi came in from outside and said, "Jie Shuai, there is good news. The soldiers we arranged at the Baiyu River to enter the Tarim River came to report, intercepted the retreating army of Khotan, won a great victory, and captured them!"

Du Zhongxiao put down his book and said, "The current Black Sweat army does not have the courage to fight, and victory is the right one."

Fu Bi said: "It's nothing to defeat. They captured the high-ranking officials of Hei Khan, who were stationed in Khotan and intercepted their stolen goods. It was so lucky that these people fled and even brought the treasures of the royal family that they had robbed. Originally, the Khotan country had been destroyed for more than fifty years, so these things were good enough to keep them, but they happened to get them."

Du Zhongxiao said, "Oh, this is a great achievement. They ordered them to send them to Shule quickly to see what they were."

Speaking of this, Du Zhongxiao said, "Deputy Envoy, it seems that it is New Year, and it has been half a year since we left Shengzhou. In your opinion, should we pacify Yutian and go back, or should we go back first and leave this place for the soldiers?"

Fu Bi said, "Of course I stayed and left until I pacified Yutian. Zhang Ji had already led his troops into Yutian, and the Hei Khan army fled, but just occupied the place, and there was no big war. The latter was nothing more than Kriya and Yochang City, which opened the road to Qingtang, and it didn't take much time."

Du Zhongxiao said: "It doesn't take much time to talk about place names. When it comes to places, it's far away. It takes more than a thousand miles to get to Chang for more than ten days. By the time we pacified Yutian and returned to Hequ Road, the flowers were already blooming."

Fu Bi said: "The Western Regions are such a place. The place is very large, and the two places are hundreds of miles away. What can I do? Let's go back in spring. Shule is warmer here, not like the cold winter in Shengzhou."

Du Zhongxiao nodded and said, "Since I have decided to go back next year, I will do a few more things. I wrote a few times and the court agreed to rebuild the Kingdom of Khotan. Since I don't leave, let the court send Yuchi Sanlang back and send another official and monk to help him build the country."

Fu Bi said: "Zhang Ke has returned that the Black Khan suppressed Buddhism for the past fifty years and was a man of local indigenous people. Local people missed the time when the Kingdom of Khotan was sent back. It was possible to temporarily solve this problem. Moreover, there were not enough officials, and the officials in the court were unwilling to be officials in such a remote place. Building the Kingdom of Khotan was also a way."

Du Zhongxiao said: "There is another point. Black Sweat has been destroyed by Khotan for more than 50 years, and Buddhism here has been suppressed. If it weren't for Khotan, it would be difficult for us. If it weren't for Khotan, the influence of Black Sweat could not be removed, and it would be even more troublesome in the future. How can the government preside over the revival of Buddhism?"

The Song Dynasty's management of Buddhism and Taoism was through the Merit Department, and the local monks were established. The Western Regions are different from the mainland. The Buddhist sects are complex and there are many believers in the local area. This kind of management is inappropriate. It is easy to say that Gaochang and other places, but there are many Han people and Sogdians, so Khotan is different. Khotan is the place with the largest number of natives in the Western Regions. There are fewer Han people and there are no buffers for Khotan, so conflicts are easy to arise.

The reconstruction of the Kingdom of Khotan was only to manage civil affairs, with some public security forces, and would not allow a real army. The imperial court could manage it as long as it stationed a small number of troops, which greatly reduced the burden on the imperial court. Indigenous people from other places could also come here.

During the Han and Tang Dynasties, there were many small countries in the Western Regions, mostly because of this reason. Because the distance was too far and the place was vast, the court actually had no way to rule directly, so it could only rely on the indigenous people. Now that the railway was in Yizhou, if the construction of Shule should be accelerated, there should be no problem in that area. Khotan was too far away and there was no military necessity, so I don’t know when the railway was built.

Fu Bi was originally unwilling to rebuild the Kingdom of Khotan. From Yizhou to Shule, he saw that the western region was vast and sparsely populated, so he changed his mind. It was much more difficult to directly use court officials to govern here than Hequ Road. During the Han and Tang Dynasties, there were actually military controls, and military officials were sent, and civil servants were also in the shogunate of military generals. The military training caused by Du Zhongxiao required the separation of military and political affairs, and could no longer continue the method at that time. To send civil officials, how many officials in the court were willing to go to such places?
Chapter completed!