"What? Defeat the unofficial ministers?" After hearing Yuanzhi's words, Pugu Huaien suddenly stood up.

After walking back and forth a few steps along the desk, Pu Gu Huaien turned around and said sternly: "I, Gaochang, have never praised the Song Dynasty--"

Yuanzhi said: "King, a few decades ago, he sent envoys to Kaifeng Prefecture. Not to mention, Wang Yande was visiting."

Pu Gu Huaien choked and thought for a while and said, "That's just to do business with the Song Dynasty. Be more polite in writing! Even at that time, we and the Song Dynasty are also the country of nephews and uncles, not subordinates!"

Yuanzhi sighed: "King, now the heavy army is besieging the city. What is the use of these? Du Jieshuai said that the king surrendered earlier and would be a rich man in the next half of his life. If the city is broken, then—"

Speaking of this, Yuanzhi said: "I just brought back Du Jieshuai's words, what is the king doing, and you can just decide for yourself."

Pu Gu Huai'en was silent for a long time before saying, "Master, thank you for your hard work, go back and rest earlier."

Yuanzhi clasped his hands together and bowed out. He had a temple in the city, and from then on, he returned to the temple, so he didn't have to interfere with political affairs.

Pugu Huai'en looked up at the eaves and said nothing for a long time. Finally, he sighed and ordered the guards to invite Puguchen and Long Luodusha.

After the two arrived, they each sat down. Pugu Huaien said, "The Yuanzhi governor has returned. He met Du Zhongxiao, the governor of Hequ Road, and brought back Du Zhongxiao's words. The reason why the Song Dynasty came to attack was because of two reasons. First, after the Song Dynasty occupied Juyan and Yizhou, we did not send envoys to be a crime of being unjust. Second, after the opening of a cargo yard in Shengzhou, Gaochang refused to allow merchants to go through Yizhou, and Juyan went to Shengzhou, with a strange intention-"

After hearing this, Long Luodusha shouted: "What is this reason? We are naturally Gaochang, and there is the Song Dynasty, and we do not subordinate each other!"

Pu Gu Huaien said in a deep voice: "Why do we think it's not important? What's important is that the Song Dynasty believed that we were not observing the courtesy and that the army came to attack the unjust! We have been tribute to the Khitan for decades, and the Song Dynasty actually said it well. But the problem is that for two or three hundred years, the Central Plains has been sluggish, not that we have unfavorable intentions! Using this as an excuse to advance troops to destroy the country is really too much!"

Pu Guchen said, "King, in my opinion, the Song army just used this as an excuse. Now that the army is besieging the city, we really have no choice. They just say whatever they want! Whether it is to attack the unofficial officials or anything, the most important thing is that we cannot break through now?"

Pugu Huaien closed his eyes helplessly, opened them after a while, and said, "Yes, the most important thing is that we can't beat them."

Long Luo Dusha looked at the wounds on his body, so he had to shut up. He led his troops out of the city, and even a Song army was injured, and he lost nearly a thousand people. What do you think? What is the attack on the unjust officials? It was just that the Song army relied on its strong military strength to annex Gaochang.

After a while, Pu Gu Huaien said, "The question now is, will we reduce?"

Long Luodusha suddenly stood up and whispered: "King, there are nearly 10,000 soldiers in the city, but when fighting with the Song army, how can we surrender?!"

Pugu Huaien looked at the wound on Long Luodusha's body and said lightly: "So what if there are nearly 10,000 soldiers? Can you be able to go out of the city and fight?"

Long Luo was speechless, so he had to sit down slowly, feeling extremely aggrieved. In the past, he had never been so cowardly with his own courage. The Song army outside the city did not fight with you in hand-to-hand combat at all, and fired firecrackers when they came, and they couldn't even get close to their military formation. How to fight this battle?

Pugu Huaien looked at Puguchen and said, "Yu Yue, Gaochang is under your rule. Will you surrender now?"

Pu Guchen pondered for a long time before he said, "In the eyes of his subordinates, there is no chance of winning the battle. King, it's better to surrender."

Pugu Huaien said, "I have surrendered? I have surrendered for two hundred years. How can I explain to my ancestors!"

Pu Guchen was helpless: "So what if you don't surrender? Now there are heavy troops sieges in the city, and the Song army still has many artillery, which cannot stop them. I originally thought that we were guarding in Gaochang, and the reinforcements from Yanqi and Beiting would come, but now there is no hope. The road from north to Beiting and the road from south to Yanqi has been occupied by the Song army, and the reinforcements can't come at all--"

Speaking of this, Pu Guchen sighed heavily: "And to be honest, the reinforcements are coming, can they fight the Song army? The day before yesterday, General Long Luo led his troops to fight, and before he even arrived the Song army's formation, he was fired back by a fire. How can he fight such a war?"

Pu Gu Huaien was speechless. This was the most cowardly thing that made him cowardly. Nearly ten thousand soldiers in his city were very powerful in the Western Regions, but he could not fight with the Song army at all. The Song army's artillery had blocked the city gates. If he wanted to, the soldiers in the city could not leave the city. If he had known this, it would be better to go out of the city to fight with them when the Song army first came, and would not be so passive.

Entering the artillery era, siege and siege are no longer the same as before, and there is still a chance to go out to kill the enemy. There are only a few city gates in the city, and the opponent's artillery is blocked, so even the city cannot be out. Unless there are cannons in the city, they can shoot further and force the opponent's artillery away.

Pu Guchen said: "If we don't surrender, we can only defend ourselves. The problem is that the Song army has artillery, so it is hard to say whether it can open the city gate or even knock down the city wall. If we want to try, the outcome after the city is broken, then we can imagine it."

As soon as the Puchang city gate was blasted, the city lord led his men to surrender. After surrendering, everything was fine. The city lord just lost his position and could still be a commoner. It was just that the Song army did not allow him to stay in Puchang. Liuzhong was different. The city lord held on his feet, and finally the city was broken. Most of the soldiers and horses in the city died in battle, and those who did not die became prisoners of war. The prisoners of war were criminals, and the Song army gathered them together, and they didn't know what they wanted them to do.

This is the helpless thing for the army in the old era when facing the new army. It is even more embarrassing than the Qing army in history. When the Qing army faced the invasion of foreign enemies, it had been exposed to firearms for hundreds of years. It was not unfamiliar with it, but the army could not fight. Now Gaochang has never been exposed to firearms before, but the Song army came, but it was full of firearms, and there was no possibility of fighting. It was just passively beaten.

Pugu Huaien slapped the table hard: "Why is this happening? Gaochang has been established for more than 200 years, but has it ever been like this!"

Puguchen and Long Luodusha looked at each other and shook their heads slightly. Before the Song army came, the important officials and senior officials of Gaochang State were very considerate of themselves, thinking that within 10 or 20 years, the Song army would not have the strength to manage the Western Regions. Only when the Song army arrived did they realize how bad they were.

Standing up, Pugu Huaien paced back and forth in the room. After a while, he turned around and said, "I am really unwilling to surrender like this!"

Long Luodusha said, "King, how about I lead my troops out of the city tomorrow and fight the Song army in the last battle?"

Pugu Huaien shook his head: "I have fought the day before yesterday, and it is useless. There is no need to leave the city and let the Song army laugh at me. I am the lord of a country and surrender is ominous. Let's see the Song army outside the city tomorrow together to see them besiege weak places. If you have an opportunity, you will take the soldiers and horses in the city to fight out! After leaving the city, avoid the Baishui and cross the Tianshan Mountains to Beiting!"

Long Luodusha was shocked: "Doing this is to abandon the foundation in the Western Regions! Gaochang has 10,000 troops and more than 20,000 Yanqi's people, which is our foundation. Without these more than 30,000 troops, there are not many people in Beiting and Zhangbali areas!"

Pugu Huaien said, "What's the solution? The Song army has nearly 100,000 people, and has occupied all the remaining cities in Gaochang. How can we maintain such a large army? Beiting is leaning on the desert in the north, and the Song army attacks, so we flee to the desert!"
Chapter completed!