Chapter 567: The Western Regions Change the Sky
When Cheng Biting Jin and Morton chased after him, when he saw the head in Aguda's hand, he finally breathed a long sigh of relief, although the scattered royal tent cavalry weakened Fu Yun's strength, but it also brought great trouble to the pursuit of the Tang army, and the Tang army chased after the wrong few times, so it caught up.
"Fu Yun does not respect the Khan of the Heavens, provokes the Heavenly Empire, does not repent, dies innocently, and hopes that the generals of the Kingdom will check it!" Aguda knelt on the sand and respectfully handed the head in his hand to the Tang army that surrounded him.
Cheng Biting Jin waved his hand, and Jun Sima led the special personnel to immediately come forward to inspect.
"General Qiyu! It is indeed the head of Fu Yun. Jun Sima said with certainty, the chasing army with the previous envoy Tuyuhun had seen Fu Yun's appearance. Coupled with Fu Yun's armor and war horse on the ground, he was already the commander of the cavalry of the king of Aguda's tent, and the confessions of other royal tent cavalry, and finally confirmed that Fu Yun did die at the hands of Aguda.
Cheng Biting Jin waved his hand. Someone immediately stepped forward to save Fu Yun's head, and at the same time gathered Fu Yun's golden armor and war horse, and only then did he set his eyes on Aguda, who was kneeling on the ground.
"You killed Fu Yun!" Cheng Yanjin sighed for a while, but he didn't expect that Fu Yun, who had ups and downs but always stood tall, would die of betrayal.
Aguda immediately changed his face and said flatteringly: "Back to the words of the general of the Celestial Dynasty, Fu Yun is dying of old age, and he has already been declining, but he is trying to fight against the Celestial Empire, and the villain admires the Celestial Empire, and specially offers Fu Yun's head to show his loyalty." ”
Cheng Yanjin looked at Aguda, who looked like a villain, and couldn't help frowning and said: "Datang has already offered a reward, if anyone can kill Fu Yun, Tian Khan will definitely have a heavy reward, and he will truthfully report your merits." ”
Aguda suddenly said with a happy face: "Thank you, General." ”
Cheng Yanjin impatiently urged the horse to leave, not wanting to see Aguda's flattering villain expression again.
"Uncle Cheng won't fail to see this person's purpose, right?" Merton urged the horse to follow behind Cheng Yanjin and wondered that Aguda was Fu Yun's most loyal person, and Cheng Yanjin had no doubt that Aguda betrayed Fu Yun because of his interests.
"What's the point?" Cheng Yanjin said indifferently, "What we want is Fu Yun's head, and do you think this person can still gain a foothold in the grassland if he kills Fu Yun?" ”
How could Cheng Biting Jin not doubt it, but he didn't care about it at all, there was a huge Tang Army, and everyone's careful thinking was just the itch of scabies! In fact, how can there be only one Aguda who has other thoughts, Murong Shun, and the Tuyuhun tribes who surrendered, which one of them has no careful thoughts, as long as the strength of the Tang army is there, all the careful thinking is in vain.
Merton nodded, and looked at Aguda's gaze for a moment of deep thought.
Suddenly, there was a burst of smoke and dust billowing from the south, and a large number of cavalry rolled in, directly rushing towards the Tang army.
"Enemy attack!" The Tang Army scouts shouted!
"All the army assembled!" Cheng Yanjin yelled.
Suddenly, the Tang army quickly assembled, formed an attack array, and waited for it.
"How can there be a third-party cavalry in this place!" Jun Sima said angrily, this is a vast desert, inaccessible, since Fu Yun has been ambushed, Tuyuhun no longer has the strength to resist.
"Khotan!"
Cheng Yanjin and Morton glanced at each other and said the same thing.
They are a lone army, and Fu Yun is also a lone army, so the cavalry that appears here can only be a local force, and the Khotan country, which is the closest to here, is also Fu Yun's last target.
I thought that the fleeing Tuyuhun cavalry was discovered by the Khotanese State, which made the Khotanese State send troops, but I didn't expect that they had unknowingly pursued to the sphere of influence of the Khotanese State, Cheng Yanjin couldn't help but secretly luck in his heart, if they were one step later, I am afraid that they would really be escaped by Fu Yun.
"What about the general?" Jun Sima said with a frightened face, they are only a thousand cavalry at the moment, and they are isolated and helpless, and they do not have any advantage at all, while the Khotanese cavalry is at least thousand, if they fight, the Tang army will win less and lose more.
"What to do! Fight with him, the old man is not afraid of this small country even if he has a thousand cavalry in hand! Cheng Yanjin said proudly.
Merton hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Uncle Cheng, slow down!" , Khotan is only a small country in the Western Regions, and the number of troops is only tens of thousands, since Fu Yun has been ambushed, how can he be willing to turn his face for a dead man and the Tang Dynasty. ”
Cheng Biting Jin's eyes lit up, thoughtfully, and shouted: "Show the banner of our army!" ”
"Whew!"
Suddenly, a huge flag unfurled in the wind, and the huge Tang character in the middle of the banner was impressive.
"Send another scout back to report the news! Khotan dared to go to war, and the old man assured that His Majesty would definitely send a large army to leave no piece of Khotanese armor. Cheng Yanjin felt uneasy and gave another order.
Suddenly, a group of scouts quickly returned to Tulun River to report the news.
"Phew!"
Thousands of cavalry from Khotan stopped 300 paces away from the Tang army and confronted the Tang army, and the atmosphere suddenly froze in the desert.
"Dare to ask, but the soldiers and horses of the Celestial Empire, Captain Khotan will be polite." What is surprising is that Yiqi slowly came out of the queue and shouted in the words of Datang.
"Wei Chiding!" Merton's heart suddenly appeared in his heart about the state of Khotan, Wei Chi is the surname of Khotan, and Wei Chi must be the lord of Khotan.
Cheng bit his golden eyes and said in a low voice: "I really should let that old boy from Wei Chigong come and let him talk to his family." ”
"Ben General Cheng bites gold, and King Yu Chi suddenly appeared, it must be to avenge Fu Yun Lao'er." Cheng bit Jin muttered on his mouth, but his face was extremely arrogant, and with a slight force in his hand, Fu Yun's head suddenly rolled down in front of Wei Chiding.
Wei Chiding looked at the head of Fu Yun on the ground, and suddenly his heart was shocked, the news of the war between the Tang Dynasty and Tuyuhun had already spread throughout the entire Western Regions, and almost all the countries in the Western Regions were inquiring about the news, among which Yu Khotan, who was closest to Tuyuhun and had the closest relationship, naturally paid more attention.
"Tugu is defeated!" Wei Chiding closed his eyes helplessly.
He had already received the news of Tuyuhun's defeat, but he didn't expect Tuyuhun to be defeated so badly, and the Tang army had already pursued into the desert.
Wei Chiding and Fu Yun are old acquaintances, when Khotan helped Fu Yun to restore the country, Fu Yun repaid him with a peach, and also repaid Khotan with a rich return, and the two countries had a good relationship.
"I heard that Khotan Tuguhun has a bad relationship, and King Fei Chi came here to avenge Fu Yun this time." Cheng Yanjin ignored the weakness of the army and said arrogantly and sarcastically.
Wei Chiding's face changed, and he hurriedly said with a smiling face: "Where? This time, the king learned that Fu Yun's rout army fled to the direction of Khotan, fearing that Fu Yun's rout would cause trouble to Khotan, so he came to encircle it, but he did not expect that the general of the Celestial Empire would take the lead and remove this harm for the people of Khotan. ”
If Fu Yun was still there, Wei Chiding wouldn't mind helping, but now that Fu Yun has been ambushed, as Merton said, how could Khotan offend Datang because of a dead man.
Cheng Yanjin didn't find fault with Wei Chiding's lies, and said with a smile: "So, what if I helped Yu Khotan once?" ”
Wei Chi Ding said with a smile: "Nash's land, the army of the Celestial Empire has come from afar, for me to eliminate this harm in Khotan, the small country has nothing to repay, and I also invite the army of the Celestial Empire to Khotan to rest, replenish drinking water, and reward the three armies." ”
"No need, now that Fu Yun is punished, Tian Khan must be eager to learn the good news, so I won't bother when I wait." Cheng Yanjin unceremoniously refused.
However, the more arrogant Cheng Biting Jin was, the more respectful Wei Chiding became: "Since this is the case, then it is rude for a small country, and I will not send it far away." ”
The two returned to the army, but the Tang army did not move at all, and kept the attack formation, aiming at the Khotanese cavalry.
Wei Chiding looked at the heavily guarded Tang Army, his face was annoyed, but he could only swallow this breath helplessly, turned his horse's head and led the cavalry to leave first.
"Wang, the Tang army is just a lone army of thousands of horsemen in the desert, but the Tang general is so arrogant and rude, why are we so tolerant!" A Khotanese general said angrily.
Wei Chiding said depressedly: "General Tang is arrogant, because he relies on the Tang Dynasty behind his back, and you don't see that there are already several scouts who have gone back to report the news." Of course, we can defeat the Tang Army, but then, can we defeat hundreds of thousands of Tang Army? ”
The Khotanese generals suddenly trembled in their hearts, even the Tuyuhun, who claimed to be 300,000 iron cavalry, was defeated in the hands of the Tang army, what capital did he have in Khotan to fight against the Tang Dynasty, just with his 30,000 cavalry?
Wei Chiding looked helplessly at the Tang army who was still guarding against them, and said faintly: "The sky in the Western Regions has changed. ”
With Wei Chiding's return to Khotan, the news of Tuyuhun's defeat and Fu Yun's ambush spread throughout the Western Regions in an instant, and everyone understood that the sky in the Western Regions had changed.
The Western Regions ushered in a new overlord, the Tang Dynasty, following the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Western Han Dynasty, and the Violent Sui, and the Han people will once again dominate the Western Regions.