Temujin sent his men to clean up the battlefield, gathering the surrendered soldiers from Galdan's army while executing those who stubbornly resisted on the spot.
He then ordered the army to set up camp outside the city. After so many days of long-distance marching, followed immediately by a fierce battle against Galdan, the soldiers under his command had already reached their limits.
As for Wushuang City, it was merely an isolated city. It could not stir up much trouble.
Temujin then summoned his generals to discuss persuading the city to surrender. This had always been Mongol Empire practice. Whenever they reached a new place, they did not attack immediately, but instead first employed threats and inducements to see whether they could secure a surrender. It saved them a great deal of trouble.
Moreover, over the years, they had massacred cities that resisted after being breached, while treating those who surrendered from the outset well. As a result, their efforts to persuade others to surrender often proved highly effective.
This time, however, no one dared volunteer as the envoy. Persuading someone to surrender carried a certain degree of danger. In previous years, they had encountered quite a few irrational local lords who, unable to defeat the Mongol Empire army, vented their anger on Mongol Empire envoys and murdered them by exceptionally cruel means.
Of course, such acts were always followed by brutal retaliation from the allied armies, but what did that have to do with the dead envoy? No matter how glorious Mongol Empire became afterward, he would already be dead.
Besides, they had just killed the city's lord, Dugu Yifang. Going in now to urge them to surrender was practically offering up their heads.
With the cultivation of Meng Chixing and Phags-pa, they could have entered the city and still