An hour later, Yan Yunda walked out covered in blood, with a look of exhaustion on his face.
"Your Highness, kill them all."
"There are not too many people left here. It is as empty as a ghost cave. My brothers have searched everywhere and found no treasures."
Li Ke was not surprised and just said: "Search carefully, especially the secret room."
"yes……"
Li Ke followed Yan Yunda into this secret realm-like grand canyon. What greeted him was another vast world. Palaces were built against the mountains. The style was foreign elements mixed with the style of the Central Plains.
There were corpses and blood all the way.
"Your Highness, we have captured some alive and are being tortured, but these people have tough mouths and would rather die than open their mouths."
"Then let them die!"
Li Ke said lightly and continued walking inside.
The masters from the Youth Camp and the Hidden World Family are searching everywhere for valuable treasures, but apart from the ancient buildings, there is nothing valuable left here.
At this time, Ji Yunxi came over, clasped her fists and said: "Your Majesty, the young people of the Ashina family have probably been transferred, including the treasures. Among these corpses, they are all middle-aged men. Not even a woman or child.”
Li Ke saw along the way that Ashinatai might have expected that they might be defeated, so he left the seeds for the Ashina family in advance and took the initiative with his masters to seize him and threaten Datang. Even the hidden family in the Central Plains went on strike.
It's just a pity that he was a little unlucky. He didn't read the almanac when he came out, and met the masters of the Ji family and Jiang family who were about to intercept and kill their lair.
"Yunxi, send some people to pursue them. We will definitely kill them. We can't let them escape."
Descendants of the Ashina family must not stay.
If he were a little merciful at this moment, he would probably leave disaster to future generations.
Cut the grass without eradicating its roots, but it will grow again when the spring breeze blows.
After the war in the Western Region is over, he will definitely return to Chang'an. When that time comes, he will have to battle wits and courage with the hidden family in the Central Plains. He will have no time to deal with the Ashina family.
Now, with the help of the hidden family in the Central Plains, the aliens in the Western Region will be dealt with first.
Ji Yunxi nodded, then took more than two hundred masters from the Central Plains Hidden Family and set off on their horses again.
Luo Tong came to Li Ke with a smile on his face and whispered: "Your Highness, I caught a big fish. He is the high priest of the Ashina family."
"My subordinates scared him, but he confessed and found two places where the treasure was hidden. After opening it, the whole box was filled with rare treasures."
"Okay, continue searching, and then send people to guard them. No one is allowed to touch these treasures."
"yes……"
Li Ke personally went to see the two treasure hiding places. As expected, they were relatively hidden. They were actually hidden under the sacrificial rooftop. Under the entire rooftop, there were boxes and boxes of rare treasures.
But most of it is gold.
But the high priest only knew about these two places where the treasure was hidden. The rest of the places were sealed by Ashinatai himself, and no one knew where they were.
But the high priest revealed a secret, that is where the treasure was hidden, and the descendants of Ashinatai who escaped knew it.
Li Ke immediately sent Yan Yunda to catch up with Ji Yunxi and capture all Ashinatai's descendants. They could not be killed, otherwise the treasure would not be found.
Two days later, Ji Yunxi and Yan Yunda came back at the same time, and also captured a dozen of Ashinatai's descendants.
After interrogation, all the treasures were finally found.
Li Ke kept his word and distributed some of the treasures to the people who followed him, and then asked people to guard them. He then led the people to Wangting Futu City.
At this moment, the city of Buddha had been captured by Li Jing. Ten thousand people were beheaded, and the rest immediately surrendered.
With Li Jing guarding the city of Buddha, the other generals, including Xueyantuo Pearl Viga Khan, immediately attacked in all directions to hunt down the Turkic civil and military ministers and nobles who had escaped.
At the same time, he suppressed and conquered the surrounding tribes.
When Li Ke arrived at Buddha City, Li Jing was already greeting him at the city gate with the nobles and civil and military officials of the Western Turks, and of course, their newly appointed Khan Ashinahelu.
"We pay homage to His Highness the King of Qin of the Tang Dynasty."
Li Ke stepped forward, glanced at everyone, and said, "Please get up!"
He Lu quickly stood up, took out the national seal of the Western Turkic Khanate, presented it with both hands and said: "Your Highness, King Qin of the Tang Dynasty, this is the national seal of the Turkic Khanate. Please accept it!"
Li Ke doesn't dare to accept this thing. You should send this thing to Chang'an and dedicate it to your respected Majesty Tian Khan.
"He Lu, since you surrendered to the Tang Dynasty on behalf of the Turkic Khanate, then from today onwards, set off for Chang'an and deliver this national seal to my father in person!"
He Lu did not expect that His Highness the King of Qin would be so cautious, so he could only give up and bowed: "Then" I will set off today to Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty to present the national seal to the Khan of Heaven. "
"Father-in-law, please arrange his schedule!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
"Your Majesty, it's windy outside, let's go to the city to talk!"
Li Ke followed Li Jing into the city of Buddha. The city was not destroyed by the war. Only 100,000 people remained intact. It seemed that there was no resistance, and the people of the Western Turkic Royal Court surrendered.
That night.
After Li Ke and Li Jing discussed it, they sent elite troops to Ashina's lair to empty the treasure house and send the gold to Chang'an as soon as possible.
Li Ke lived in Futu City for ten days. All the surrounding tribes surrendered one after another. With the surrender of the Western Turks, the countries in the Western Regions also surrendered one after another and presented their country's national seals and Kantu maps.
It was not until a month later that the entire Western Region, including the nine surnames of Zhaowu and Hu, surrendered.
At this point, the entire Western Turkic sphere of influence was included in the territory of the Tang Dynasty.
However, the Tocharian Kingdom and some small countries that were once ruled by the Western Turks refused to surrender and instead surrendered to the Persian Empire.
After the Tang Dynasty captured Suiye City, it expanded to the west for more than 300 miles, incorporating the former Lit kingdoms into the territory of the Tang Dynasty, reaching the Caspian Sea in the east, adjacent to the Persian Empire.
It's just that it's not appropriate to start a war with the Persian Empire at this moment. After all, the entire Western Region, including the Western Turks, has not yet been fully digested and integrated. Once there is a conflict with the Persian Empire, these newly conquered areas may be in chaos again.
For Datang, this was not worth the loss.
As a later generation, Li Ke knew that Persia was already in decline and would be replaced by the Arab Empire in the near future.
And when the Persian and Arab empires were fighting each other, it was the best time for the Tang Dynasty to send troops to Tochara.
When the news that the north of Suiye City had been taken and all the nine Hus in Zhaowu had surrendered reached Futu City, Li Ke and Li Jing had already written the battle report and sent it to Chang'an City in a hurry.
At the same time, Li Ke had also set off for Chang'an City with important prisoners of war captured in the Western Regions. Matters in the Western Regions were temporarily handed over to Li Jing.
Of course, the Western Expedition Army, before Li Shimin issued an order to return to the capital, had to station in the local area and wait for the order to return in triumph.
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