When the Tang Dynasty was prominent, the Anxi Protectorate and the Beiting Protectorate shocked the Western Regions, although each of them only had more than 20,000 soldiers and horses, and many forces in the Western Regions did not dare to slack off in the slightest.

Therefore, the Tang Dynasty was able to rule such a huge land with fewer troops, giving people the feeling that it would be like a country of hope in the future, and if the country of hope fought there, other countries would send troops to support.

And now, most of the troops of the Anxi Protectorate have been transferred back to the Tang Dynasty, and the road to the Tang Dynasty has been cut off by Tubo, so many forces in the Western Regions have gradually become disobedient, and today, more than 20 years later, the army of the Tang Dynasty will become a vassal army of other forces and will follow them to fight.

As soon as he thought of this, Shen Long couldn't help but sigh in his heart, the situation in the Western Regions is chaotic now, the south is occupied by Tubo, the west town of Anxi originally belonged to the Tang Dynasty, the city of broken leaves is occupied by Gelulu, Khotan and Shule City are occupied by Tubo, only Guo Xin led the remnants of the Tang Dynasty to defend Qiuzi and Yang Zhengu with 2,000 soldiers and horses stationed in Xizhou.

In the north of them is Qarluq, in the south is Tibet, in the west is the black clothes and food, in the northeast is the Hui, it can be said that they are surrounded by enemies, and the rest of them are mixed with the white Turks, the Shatuo Turks, the Huanggasi and other forces, these forces for a while you and I join forces to fight others, and for a while I unite with other forces to fight you, it can be described as chaos.

Although the black-clothed food defeated Gao Xianzhi in the battle of Talas, this did not have much impact on the situation in the Western Regions, and then the Tang Dynasty launched a counterattack to keep the black-clothed food out of the Western Regions.

After the Anshi Rebellion, the Tibetans took over from the Tang army to block the black-clothed food and continued to lock them up outside the Pamirs, and the small states in Central Asia submitted to the Tibetans. It was not until about twenty years later, when the black-clothed food was in civil strife, that Maimun became the new caliph, and he appointed Fadler as the governor of the East, and began to attack Qarlu and Tibet, which suffered a heavy blow.

Qarlu became strong after the Battle of Talas, gradually replacing the Turkish, occupying the Western Turkic homeland in the Chu River Valley, including the famous Broken Leaf City and Talas City, last year Qarlu in the Beiting area, allied with the Tubo people, and defeated the combined forces of the Hui and Yang Zhenggu, but their current strength is still not enough to shake the influence of the Hui and Tubo.

Since the Western Regions now has two powerful forces, the Hui and the Tubo, it is inevitable that they will fight each other; Because the Tibetans had previously united with Qarlu, the Baifu Turks, and the Shatuo Turks to capture the Beiting Protectorate, the Tang Dynasty could only unite with the Hui at the moment.

Yang Zhengu really had no other choice, so he still had doubts after hearing Shen Long say this, "Since Jieyugas has decided to send troops, he must have some plans for this matter, right?" What's more, the North Court fell into the hands of Tibet, and as the protector of the North Court, this official also has the responsibility to recover the lost territory. ”

"Dare to ask Dadu Hu, I have never heard of the truth that there is a civil strife but can win a battle outside, Hui Su suddenly changed the khan, even if Jie Yugas has a plan, can his army plan like him? Don't you want to save your strength for the future? If this is the case, it will not be easy to win this battle! ”

Seeing that Yang Zhengu was still hesitating, Shen Long added another fire, "Besides, even if this battle can be won, can Beiting really return to the hands of Dadu Protector?" How will the Metropolitan Protector get the North Court back from Jieyugas's hands? Just the two thousand soldiers in the city? "Today's Western Regions can be described as the law of the jungle, and it is still stretched thin for two thousand men and horses to defend Xizhou, let alone such a large territory as Beiting.

"Humph!" Yang Zhengu suddenly stopped when he heard this, turned around and looked directly at Shen Long, Shen Long's words ruthlessly revealed the embarrassing situation he was facing now, making him very uncomfortable.

Shen Long was not afraid at all, and also looked directly at Yang Zhenggu, "Dadu Protector, since it is difficult to win this battle, and even if you win, you won't get any benefits, so you really can't let these comrades go on a risk!" Most of them have been protected with great difficulty, and they should be left for the future, waiting for a better opportunity! ”

"King Guo Jun sent you, did you come to shake my military heart!" Yang Zhengu's face was not good, he reached out and pressed the horizontal knife on his waist, Shen Long spoke loudly, and the white-haired soldiers around him had already begun to whisper, through their expressions, Yang Zhenggu could feel that they had wavered.

At the end of the advertisement, Yang Zhenggu led the white-haired soldiers of Xizhou City to start marching with torches, this picture is extremely spectacular, but they embarked on a road of no return, after this battle, only more than 100 soldiers survived, and now the Tang Dynasty's troops in the Western Regions are too small, Shen Long will never allow these two thousand men and horses to be buried in the hands of the enemy.

"These words were not ordered by King Guo Jun, I really can't bear to let your comrades be sent to death meaninglessly!" If even Xizhou City falls, leaving only a lonely city in Qiuzi, the life of the Tang army in the Western Regions will be even more difficult.

Yang Xinggu's hand holding the handle of the knife clenched tightly and then let go, and only after a few times did he sigh, "You go down and rest, Rong Ben will take care of this matter and think about it." ”

Shen Long breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that Yang Zhenggu had already begun to waver, if he could convince Jie Yugas, then the two thousand white-haired soldiers might be able to survive for the time being.

After resting and eating something, Shen Long was called over by Yang Zhenggu again, this time the generals of the Xizhou garrison were all present, and they asked Shen Long about the situation of the new Khan of Hui Hui, and Shen Long carefully told them about these situations according to the details he had read from the historical materials.

In the end, many generals of Yang Zhenggu and Xizhou City also tended to stop marching to Beiting for the time being, but this matter was not necessarily up to them, and if Jieyugas insisted on advancing north, they would still have to fight.

"The last big defeat, this Hui Hui Daxiang held back the fire in his belly, I am afraid it will not be easy to convince him!" Yang Zhengu showed a look of embarrassment, with his understanding of Jieyugas, this one was obviously not easy to convince.

Yang Zhengu sent an envoy to discuss with Jieyugas, while Shen Long continued to stay in Xizhou City, and the next morning, Lu Shishi said to Shen Long, "Brother Guo, the younger brother plans to leave for Chang'an today, I wonder if Brother Guo can share a horse with me?" ”

"Brother Lu and I will go with you to meet Yang Duhu first!" Shen Long said.

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