The entire Anxi Protectorate fell, two-thirds of the Western Regions fell to the enemy, this went to Guanzhong, except for Yangguan Yumen Pass, there are almost not many fortified cities to defend, the historical Tubo is to seize the entire Anxi Protectorate and then go straight down to the Tang Dynasty Longyou, and finally hit Chang'an twice, and once captured Chang'an.

These surging nomads are not the same, after all, Tubo has a territory that cannot be abandoned, and the war for hegemony with the Tang Dynasty is not to destroy the Tang Dynasty, in the end the two countries still held a Changqing Alliance, the Tang Dynasty recaptured Longyou, until the destruction of the two countries There is no big war, and the nomads in front of them have no land at all, and they will occupy wherever they go, if they can't stop them, the Central Plains will repeat the mistakes of the Five Hu Chaohua, and the fertile fields from Guanzhong to the North China Plain will become the pastures of the Hu people and horses again.

At this time, Qiuzi Town fell, and the nomadic Hu people from the north and south of the Silk Road gathered together again, and the main force of the 400,000 Tang Army had no chance to turn back! We must fight to the death with the Hu people in this hot land of the Western Regions! Either Chang'an will turn into a sea of fire under the Hu people's soldiers, horses, swords and guns! Or bury the bones of millions of Hulu under this ancient city of Gaochang and kill a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood!

"Your Majesty, the Persian prince Belus betrayed, the town of Qiuzi fell, all the eight thousand five hundred and one people in the Anxi Protectorate were martyred, and the Governor Cheng Wuting died in the Protectorate, and now I don't know if I live or die, those Western ghosts, Central Asian Hulu launched a brutal massacre in the city, and the thousand-year-old Qiuzi City was destroyed in one fell swoop!"

Lying on the ground and crying bitterly, the Anxi cavalry who came back from Qiuzi Town had a hoarse voice, and excitedly told the civil and military officials who followed Li Zhi from Chang'an, and the cavalry told heartbreakingly.

"The inferior is also ready to kill and martyr the city, but in the fierce battle, he was smashed by the collapsed house and captured, the ghost king with a big axe and white skin let go of the inferior and came back, threatening to ask His Majesty to withdraw from the Western Regions as soon as possible, and asked His Majesty to offer 100,000 beauties of Chang'an, 10,000 taels of gold, 10,000 taels of silver, and 100,000 horses of silk, otherwise, he will set foot in Chang'an, go and obtain it himself, and turn the entire Tang Dynasty into slaves!"

"I beg Your Majesty to incorporate the Humble Majesty into the army again, even if it is a humble pawn, I am willing, as long as I can fight to the death with that group of ghosts again, and avenge my colleagues in the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, and I will die without resentment!"

The voice was crying blood, and the cavalry knelt on the ground and kowtowed, but Chang'an Wenwu, who listened to it, looked defeated and speechless.

In the process of migration, these Hu tribes also launched a fierce struggle for survival like big fish eating small fish, and now it seems that the millions of Hu Lu people have been in the hands of a few people, and these Hu Lu leaders are undoubtedly more ambitious than the small tribes that float anywhere like headless flies.

What the Hu people want, not to mention that the Tang Dynasty can't get it, even if the entire earth is estimated to not have so much wealth, this is an obvious excuse for coveting the Tang Dynasty, and the thought of fighting with countless nomadic barbarians right here made many Wenchen pale.

After all, more than 40 years have passed since the bloody decisive battle at the time of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and many civil and military forces have grown up in a peaceful environment, and they are obviously underprepared for the upcoming bloody war.

But just when everyone was shocked, the eldest grandson Wuji quickly squeezed out of the first place in Wenchen, pointed to the Anxi cavalry who came back, and asked loudly: "Where is Li Jie, the king of Fujian?" How many of the Min army were in the siege team? Were those barbarian leaders controlled by the King of Min? ”

The cavalry who asked this question was stunned, and he shook his head heavily after opening his mouth for a long time, and replied with certainty: "There are no less than 200,000 barbarians who have contributed to Qiuzi City, but not a single soldier is a Tang person, and he once followed the governor of the capital to Shule, and he didn't see a single Tang person there, all of them were strange-shaped ghosts!"

"Are you sure?"

"Dare to vouch with your head!"

Listening to the categorical answer of the Anxi cavalry, the eldest grandson Wuji couldn't help but mutter, muttering with a frowning face of doubt.

"What does this kid Li Jie want to do?"

"Alright, you go down first! Your Majesty will consider your request. ”

The cavalry had just withdrawn from the main hall of the Xizhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, and the entire court was suddenly like a frying pot, and the ministers of civil and military affairs were talking about it, shouting to express their opinions to Emperor Gaozong.

Some asked to make peace with Hu Lu, and some shouted that they wanted to fight to the death with Hu Lu here, at this time, the Tang Dynasty court was almost the same as the Southern Song Dynasty, the main battle faction and the main peace faction each accounted for half of the country, everyone fought according to reason, pulling their necks and eager to deafen each other's ears.

This was not a small meeting of more than a dozen important ministers, almost all the ministers who went out with the car made a fuss, and the noisy court shook the tiles and buzzed, and it also shocked Li Zhi's Achilles heel to be exposed.

Li Zhi's biggest weakness, cowardice!

The eldest grandson Wuji is interested in this, so he tried his best to support him, the third nephew, to ascend the throne, Li Shimin in history actually took a fancy to this, hoping that after Li Zhi ascended the throne, he and many brothers could coexist, but no one thought that the cowardly Li Zhi could actually make a big disrespectful move to steal joy with the emperor's talent in front of Li Shimin's sickbed, and the martial artist who stole joy was like a dazzling sun, not only supported her husband to create the rule of Yonghui, but also overthrew the eldest grandson Wuji and destroyed Goguryeo, In the end, he came to the front of the stage and ruled China for nearly half a century.

However, in this time and space, Wu Meiniang is the Wu Guifei of the Min and Tang Empires, lacking this strong shoulder support, in the face of the chaotic court situation, Li Zhi couldn't control it for a while, I remember sweating profusely and stomping my feet again and again, I was speechless, and the eunuch Li Fuguo on the side was also a character in the dark after all, and the ministers were boiling, and he didn't dare to come out.

After arguing for a long time, suddenly a thunderous roar suddenly exploded in the court: "Enough! You and the others are the pillars of the court, arguing and abusing like the villagers in the mountains, what kind of system! Where is the history of the Inspectorate? ”

The imperial history came forward to remember the impeachment, in the end, it was the characters who were killed from the troubled times of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the old eldest grandson Wuji burst into a sentence, which shocked the entire court and immediately became silent, and the ministers all knelt on the ground and confessed their crimes.

suppressed the ministers, and the eldest grandson Wuji clenched his fists again and loudly asked Li Zhi for his life: "Your Majesty, Hu Lu is surging, how can I let it run rampant in China?" Rate the beast to eat people? Ministers are courageous, please Your Majesty immediately straighten out the soldiers and horses, rectify the generals, and fight to the death with Hu Lu here, and defend my China! ”

Changsun Wuji's sentence basically set the main tone of the war, although he does not advocate a decisive battle out of the pass, but Changsun Wuji is not a pedantic person after all, the town of Qiuzi is lost, the opportunity to retreat into the pass has been lost, although the Tang army is the most right dynasty in the entire Chinese feudal dynasty, but after all, it is still a mixed army of infantry and cavalry dominated by hoplites of the farming nation, but the other party is a nomadic light cavalry, if you retreat, it is likely to be caught up halfway, and then the soldiers will have the intention of retreating. It is likely to lead to the tragedy of Emperor Yang of Sui when he conquered Goguryeo.

Hundreds of thousands of people were not prepared for a sudden retreat, and were finally pursued and killed by tens of thousands of Goguryeo soldiers, which turned into a catastrophic rout, and the 960,000-strong army was destroyed in one fell swoop.

A character like the eldest grandson Wuji may tolerate and save himself in every possible way at ordinary times, but he will never be soft-hearted when he should be ruthless.

The eldest grandson Wuji's request was exactly in line with Li Zhi's request, and Li Zhi also hurriedly seized the opportunity and asked Qi Bi He Li without beak: "Where is the secretary of the military department?" How did our DPRK respond to the war, and did the military department come up with a perfect strategy? ”

But the development of the bureau is stuck here! Suddenly being named, Qi Bi He Li was dumbfounded, and after a while, he knelt on the ground speechless.

"Only with one blood, fight to the death!"

This seems to be impassioned, but it shouldn't happen to a big country's military department secretary, 570,000 should fight a million, Datang is not dominant, a good military department secretary should do his best, and the soldier's trickery should also be brought into full play.

However, there was a fault line in the handsome talent of the Tang Dynasty at this time, Li Shimin's generation of generals who were in charge alone, Li Jing had long withered, Li Ji was expelled, Cheng Mingzhen died of illness, Pang Xiaotai died in battle, Su Dingfang, Pei Xingjian, Xue Rengui and other generals who should have inherited the position were abducted by Li Jie.

What is the strength of the contract, the flow of the stubborn and lost thinking force is a fierce general, the courage and courage to command the battle is not bad at all, Wang Xiaojie Gaokan is also a famous general, and he will never fall behind in fighting bravely, but the handsome talent of the overview party always lacks a bit of bearing, the eldest grandson Wuji is not in the army, seeing that the decisive battle is imminent, the court can't come up with a foolproof strategy.

The entire court was silent for a while.

Fortunately, there is also a Tang Xiujing who is outstandingly resourceful.

At this dead moment, Tang Xiujing walked out of the court class and knelt down in the ranks.

"Your Majesty, the minister has a plan, I don't know if it's feasible?"

"Speak!" Li Zhi was anxious, and when he heard that his love would have a plan, he immediately raised his hand excitedly.

With Li Zhi's support, Tang Xiujing also had a little confidence in his heart, and after bowing again, Tang Xiujing's voice was still a little lacking in confidence, and he said hesitantly: "The minister thinks that my army should be retreated!" Give up Xizhou and Jiaohe City! ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone was shocked, the eldest grandson Wuji couldn't help frowning, and Li Zhi stared at him in shock.

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In July of the fifth year of Damin Mingfeng, the second year of Tang Linde.

The Hu army that was driven from Central Asia divided its troops into two routes, and after breaking through Qiuci Town, the last town of the four towns of Anxi, from the north and south, they raised their troops to the east, and the 120,000 cavalry of all Central Asian ethnic groups gathered as the vanguard, and went straight to Gaochang State, Xizhou, where the Turpan Basin is located!

Flaming Mountain, Turpan's grape ditch is famous all over the world, the meltwater of the Tianshan Mountains moistens this basin, the land is fertile, rich in resources, it is one of the best places in the Western Regions, especially here are the land of the Han people.

From the beginning of the Wuhu Chaohua, a large number of Han people in Longxi fled to the Western Regions, settled here, during the Sui Dynasty, the eight-layer population of the Gaochang Kingdom of the Koji clan was already Han people, Tang Taizong sent Hou Jun to break Gaochang and establish the Tang Dynasty Xizhou, the prosperity of the Silk Road is to bring incomparable wealth to the Turpan Basin, the first stop of Chang'an.

The Central Asian tribes who were afraid of the prestige of the Tang Dynasty had basically surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, and the rest were all robbers who coveted the richness of the Tang Dynasty, Li Jie's political propaganda was quite in place, almost from the Viking kings, earls, Frankish princes or Germanic chieftains at the top to the lowest Germanic soldiers below, almost everyone knew how rich Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty with a population of one million was, silk wrapped around trees, grain warehouses, singing and phoenix dancing, and splendid.

Almost with red eyes, these robbers killed Xizhou, however, what Datang left behind was an empty city.

Jiaohe, which had once obstructed the advance, did not leave even a single shoe, Xizhou also opened four gates, an empty city, Tiandi City, Mokou City and other important counties were also empty, and the Central Asian tribes full of looting expectations pounced, and they couldn't help but be angry.

On the 16th of July, Sharmat, the leader of the Franks, and the Viking king Ragnar. The main leaders of the Central Asian tribes, such as Lodbrock, King Bailan, King Ding Ling, King of Bada, and Six Kings of Tochar, led the main army of 660,000 horsemen to break away from the huge nomadic tribes and arrived in Xizhou first.

Qiuci is a famous iron-producing area in the entire Western Regions, and almost half of these nomadic barbarians have changed their equipment, and it is the time to go to Xizhou with murderous spirit, and they want to fight a decisive battle with the main force of the Tang army that appeared here before, and they are empty, and these ambitious barbarian leaders are also furious.

The nomadic army almost turned over the entire Xizhou Guazhou, the houses left behind by the Tang people were burned, and the crops planted were eaten by the war horses, but just when the immigrant army drew their swords and looked around, several tribes suddenly fled back from the east and brought important information.

The Don army is in the moraine!

Gaochang Xizhou is seven thousand miles away from Chang'an, which connects the Hexi corridor with two thousand miles of sand moraine, here is a very difficult section of the Silk Road, the climate here is hot, there is no water and grass, the Koji Gaochang Kingdom is relying on here to resist the attack of the Tang Dynasty, and now the Tang Dynasty is also using the Central Asian Nordic tribal alliance to attack a week or so before, all the Tang people in the Xizhou area are gathered together, retreat towards Hexi, and retreat to Liangzhou, that is, Gansu Wuwei in later generations.

The information brought by these fleeing tribes was not only that, they also described the wealth taken by the Tang army, silk, porcelain, gold, silver and copper stuff filled the camel caravan of 2,000 camels, and the nobles, scholars, and children of Xizhou dragged their families and families with them.

After all, these tribal alliances in Northern Europe and Central Asia were composed of countless tribes, and after receiving the news, there was a disagreement almost immediately, and the Vikings, the Bada, the Turks, and the Lans almost immediately advocated pursuit, while the Frankish kingdom, Sharmat and the Tocharian kings advocated to occupy the Western State and no longer continue to pursue.

The disagreement caused a split, and in the end, 400,000 nomadic cavalry, including Vikings, pursued the main force of the fleeing Tang army in one fell swoop, while the Franks and Tocharians occupied Xizhou, Guazhou and other places in the division, intending to make it a new barbarian kingdom.

Carrying 300,000 infantry and more than 400,000 soldiers and civilians, the Tang army could not go far after all, and on July 22, the first to go out caught up with the Tang army's rearguard troops in a sandy area called Dead Wolf Beach.

Harvest, even more exciting of these barbarian wolf packs with red eyes............