Early in the morning, when the west gate of Chang'an had just opened, more than a dozen red flag heralds had already rushed into the city anxiously.

"Urgent military intelligence! Idlers give way! ”

In the knight's hoarse voice, the sweaty war horse crashed into the Chang'an citizens walking on the road, and stumbled all the way to Suzaku Square.

The news of Li Jie's Min and Tang Dynasty's declaration of war on the Tang Dynasty was still in top secret, and he watched in astonishment as the Red Flag Herald went all the way away, and the citizens of Chang'an couldn't help but show a look of horror again, and the last time the Red Flag Herald looked so panicked in memory was that Emperor Taizong had just succeeded to the throne, and the Turks had entered Guanzhong, and then in the future, no matter what war, Datang seemed to be extremely calm.

However, wasn't Haidong conquered? The Turks also bowed their heads to the Tang Emperor, where could the enemy make Chang'an so panicked?

When the messenger arrived, Emperor Gaozong was still holding a great court meeting, and Zheng Junyou, the right attendant of the household department, was still chattering about the sharp decline in the grain output of the Tang Dynasty this year due to too many soldiers in the government and the domain.

"Your Majesty, the last general will rest in peace to protect the capital of Qiuzi Town, don't General Li He, bring the Anxi capital to protect the emergency army, please Your Majesty!"

As soon as they heard the news from the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, from Emperor Li Zhi to the eunuch Li Fuguo beside him, and then to Situ Changsun Wuji below, Prime Minister Yu Zhining, Zhang Xingcheng, Cen Changqian and others were all sincerely relieved.

Although later generations are very proud of Datang's possession of the Anxi Protectorate and dominate the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, the Anxi Protectorate is really a dispensable status for the Tang Dynasty. As long as Tubo gives up Tuyuhun, Datang can give up Anxi!

It can be seen that the location of the Anxi Protectorate on the strategic map of Datang. The purpose of the Tang Dynasty's establishment of Anxi was to place the battlefield outside the Central Plains, and Li Jie set the battlefield there, which was exactly in line with the wishes of the princes of Chang'an.

Full of ease, Li Zhi raised his sleeves and asked, "How is the war, where are the Li thieves?" How many soldiers? Can the Metropolitan Governor be captured? ”

Wiping the cold sweat on his head, Li He kowtowed with great anxiety: "The military situation is urgent, and I don't know where the Li thief soldiers are, but there are many millions of people who have invaded Anxi, and the enemies that have been identified today are the twenty-seven tribes with the fifteen surnames of Bada, the twenty-two tribes with the thirteen surnames of Alan, the seven adults of Tocharo, the six surnames of Rouran, the twenty-five surnames of Gaoche, and the ............ of the eighteenth tribe of Ding."

The voice trembled, Li He continuously listed a large number of surname tribes, and the ministers in the entire court who listened from the prime minister at the front to the junior official of the Jiupin Cheng Lang at the gate were all pale, and when they heard the end, the eldest grandson Wuji couldn't listen anymore, opened his mouth to plan Li He's report, and asked solemnly.

"Is it a million people who control the strings, or a million people?"

In the past, hundreds of thousands of Huns and Turks attacked, and they were all followed by grazing and supplying the army, and the men who really fought were about 100,000, and if it was a million troops, the water would be big.

However, under the expectant gaze of the eldest grandson Wuji, Li He trembled and bowed again: "Return to the eldest grandson Xianggong, a million people who control the strings!"

The Arab mercenary cavalry under Li Jie's command and the Guanning Iron Cavalry almost drove out the vast steppe between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, and the huge wave of immigration formed by the barbarians of Western Europe was more than two million? Listening to this number, the court became dead silent again.

"Your Majesty, Anxi is in danger, in the future, Shule Town and Broken Leaf Town have been lost one after another, and Khotanese Town in the south is under layers of defense, and life and death are unknown! The thirteen kingdoms such as Cheshi, Shache, Wensu, Linrong, and Gumo have perished, if they are not suppressed, they may be able to repeat the tragedy of the Five Hu Chaohua, and the last general will be brave and beg His Majesty to send rescue troops quickly! ”

Seeing that all the emperor's ministers stopped talking, Li He kept kowtowing anxiously, crying blood, but at this juncture, who dares to say that he led the troops to save Anxi? Or the eldest grandson Wuji was scheming, stood up from the court, stretched out his hand and pulled up Li He and said: "Sending troops to rescue is not something that can be completed overnight, Your Majesty and all the ministers still have to discuss, you should retreat and wait first, can you?"

It was already extremely polite to say whether it was okay for the general of the six grades to say it, and Li He also knew that he couldn't retreat, so he still kowtowed all the way and retreated, and the people who looked at it felt pity.

It's a pity, as soon as he left, the eldest grandson Wuji had already stepped forward with his fists clenched, bowed solemnly and said: "Your Majesty, the Fujian thieves are powerful, and they can't be easily warned, and the old minister thinks that the Fujian thieves are driving the barbarians to attack from afar, and they will not last, and the top priority should be to quickly withdraw to the people of Gua, Sha, Jiuquan, Zhangye and other states, and clear the wilderness, go out of the Liangzhou soldiers, and stick to the Yumen Pass and Yangguan to thwart the enemy's momentum.

This strategy is not new, when the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Western Regions of the Western Regions of the capital of the Ban Chao was used, when the Eastern Han Dynasty Yongyuan two years, the deputy Wang Xie of the Dayue clan led 70,000 troops, over the Green Ridge, in order to attack the Western Regions of the capital to protect the Ban Chao, the Ban Chao soldiers were few, so the wall was clear, and the Shule was adhered to.

Vice King Xie attacked for two months, the supplies were really exhausted, sent an envoy to the King of Qiuzi for help, halfway the envoy was cut off by Ban Chao's ambush soldiers, and gave his head to the deputy king of the Yue family, Xie had to apologize to Ban Chao in fear, Ban Chao then let him go back to the Yue Clan, Enwei and Shi, after which the Da Yue clan was also reconciled with the Eastern Han Dynasty.

However, in the face of an army of more than one million, what the princes of the court were thinking about was not how to fight back in the future, but how to defend the three acres of land in Guanzhong, and the eldest grandson Wuji's suggestion was in line with everyone's interests, and it was rare that the eunuch Li Fuguo did not disagree with him, but nodded and beat the side drum on the side.

"Your Majesty, the eldest grandson's plan is very wonderful, very wonderful!"

Li Zhi himself was actually frightened enough by the name of more than a million people who control the strings, and when he saw the eldest grandson Wuji proposing to stick to it, Li Zhi was of course also eager to do so, however, without waiting for Li Zhi to nod yes, the closed door of the Zichen Hall was opened again, and the eunuchs outside shouted loudly.

"The envoys of the Min and Tang Dynasties have arrived!"

Just was knocked on the door, followed by the other party's envoy arrived, in an instant, the eyes of hundreds of Chang'an ministers were all attracted to the gate, seeing that lupine scarf, Bo with green shirt, personable person stepped into the hall, Wang Yuan, the secretary of the Tang Rite Department, looked at it a few times in disbelief, and then roared angrily.

"Wang Xuance! Stoop to the thief! You dare to run rampant in the court, you have simply lost the face of the Taiyuan Wang! ”

The mood has never been so happy, looking at Wang Yuan, one of the several long houses of the Taiyuan Wang family now, Wang Xuance deliberately showed a very surprised look on his face, and asked in surprise: "What Taiyuan Wang?" Hasn't he been expelled from the clan below? Now he is the patriarch of the Jingshi Wang clan, and he is an envoy for His Majesty, what does it have to do with the Taiyuan Wang clan? ”

Wang Yuan, who was choked on a word, almost fainted.

Although the Taiyuan Wang family is self-respecting as a family with five surnames and seven families, but from the beginning of the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, it began to continuously suppress the world's families, Li Zhi succeeded to the throne and reused the eunuchs, and it was even more overwhelming for the seven families, wearing the golden and jade coats of the family, and the families were not having a good time, especially the Taiyuan Wang family bore the brunt, after the queen fell out of favor, every time Li Zhi's knife always fell on the head of the Taiyuan Wang family, and the official power of the Taiyuan Wang family in the court has shrunk by half for more than ten years.

In this case, the Taiyuan Wang family had to focus on Damin, which is also the capital of China, and the best way to be reused in Fujian is to win over the two prime ministers surnamed Wang who are in power in the Damin court, Wang Yuan is also one of the planners of this matter, and several Changfang of the Wang family sent a delegation to Damin.

However, at that time, Wang Fangyi was fighting in Arabia with Li Jie, and this delegation specifically found Wang Xuance in Beijing.

Originally, it was a good thing to recognize the ancestors and return to the ancestors, but the sons of the long house who went to the house also took their identity as a long house too seriously, and treated Wang Xuance like a slave, so that he could recognize his ancestors and return to the family tree, and it was like a gift.

Originally, the sense of belonging to the Taiyuan Wang family was weakened, and in this way, Wang Xuance's last hope of returning to the sect was extinguished, and it was worthy of Wang Xuance, while humming and treating the sons of the long house politely, and on the other hand, secretly contacting the members of the Wang family who had moved to Damin and had not come out of Damin.

On the day of the negotiated recognition of the ancestors and return to the ancestors, Wang Xuance unexpectedly announced the establishment of the Jingshi Wang clan in a separate sect, and hundreds of Wang clansmen also joined the Jingshi Wang clan in unison.

What's more, Wang Xuance's move actually launched a movement in Damin, and the Fujian Shi clan became independent in the place of residence, severing the subordinate relationship with the Central Plains clan to show loyalty, which dealt a heavy blow to the influence of the Central Plains family.

Thinking of the past, Wang Yuanqi's face turned red, but at this time, his level was no longer in Wang Xuance's eyes, and today Wang Xuance had a more important task, and teased Wang Yuan, and then Wang Xuance turned his attention to Li Zhi, who was sitting on the dragon chair, his face was already distorted by anger, and bowed heartily.

"My Majesty sent his subordinates to meet the Emperor of Chang'an, the last time the Emperor of Chang'an sent an envoy to the court, His Majesty of my family was very moved, so he came with the soldiers of the world, stationed outside the city of Huaqiuzi, and invited the Emperor of Chang'an to hunt the world, but my Majesty was kind, listening to the situation just now, the Emperor of Chang'an did not dare to come?"

Shaking his head with emotion, Wang Xuance spread his hands and sighed as if he was very hurt: "Hey, it seems that my majesty said that the concubine of Chang'an is not enough for his opponent, and Weichen didn't believe it at first, but now it seems that His Majesty is really right!"

Wang Xuance's words are really angry, the emperor is self-respecting, and Li Zhi grew up with the shadow behind Li Jie since he was a child, and he is most taboo about his words that he is not as good as Li Jie......