"Oh no, they're catching up!"

Just when Longteng and his party thought they had successfully escaped, they found that the sailors of Nanzhao behind them had chased after them, a total of three boats.

Since they were all going downstream, several boats were fast.

It's not that out of this checkpoint is considered Datang, you have to arrive at the village set up by Datang at the border.

"Quick, speed up. The others took their crossbow arrows and shot them as long as Nanzhao's men caught up with them. ”

The steward hurriedly commanded.

Their ship is not a warship, so the speed is still a little insufficient compared to the warship, and seeing that the distance is getting closer and closer, the people on board are also very anxious.

After less than a hundred paces, the ship's men began to shoot arrows, whether they could shoot or not, at least to frighten the pursuers behind.

Just when everyone thought they were going to be overtaken, wolf smoke appeared in the downstream direction, and then they saw several warships flying the Tang Dynasty flag in sight.

Seeing the appearance of the Tang army, Nanzhao's pursuers stopped advancing.

Since they were taught a good lesson by Gao Biao twenty years ago, they didn't dare to start a war with Datang.

Now Zheng Maihei is in power, bent on seizing the throne, and he does not dare to provoke the Tang Dynasty.

Seeing the appearance of Datang's warship, Long Teng and the others breathed a sigh of relief.

After joining up with the Tang Dynasty's warship, the steward on board took the initiative to identify himself.

"I'm tired of reporting, Jinyi Wei is on a bad errand, please let me go!"

As he spoke, the steward handed over a sign for the generals on the warship to check.

"It's really Jinyiwei, it seems that you have done something alarming to provoke the Nanzhao border army to chase you.

But when you get here, you have already stepped into the realm of Datang, and Nanzhao will not dare to violate it. ”

After verifying their identities, these Annan defenders let them go, and as for what the Jinyi guards were doing, they would not inquire.

These soldiers belonged to the Fengzhou Governor's Mansion of the Protectorate of Annam, and they were a garrison located on the border pass, with few people, but they could deter the border army of Nanzhao.

In fact, Annam is not very stable, and the local indigenous barbarians also make trouble from time to time, not to mention the ambitions of those local clans.

Since Xiao Yu took office, the main thing has been to quell the rebellion and consolidate the Tang Dynasty's control in Annam.

So far, there have been some results.

On this side, due to the appearance of the Tang army, the ship fled, and the pursuing Nanzhao defenders could only return and report the matter.

They didn't know why the ship had forced its way through, but they reported it anyway.

The superior of this border pass is the Tonghai Governor's Mansion of Nanzhao, and when the news that a ship broke through the pass and fled to the Tang Dynasty's Annan Governor's Mansion reached the Tonghai Governor's Mansion, it happened to be delivered from Yangtho Bacheng Documents.

Based on this analysis, the Tonghai Governor's Office believed that Long Teng may have fled from their territory.

If this is really the case, the governor of Tonghai naturally doesn't want this matter to spread to Yang Tho Baa City, otherwise if he lets go of Long Teng, Zheng Maihei will not let him go.

The governor of Tonghai wanted to hide it, but the people below directly reported it.

For this governor, there are many people below who are greedy.

"What? Is it possible that Long Teng escaped from the Tonghai Governor's Mansion? How can it be? ”

Hearing the news, Zheng Maisi was shocked.

He made a lot of calculations, but he didn't expect that Long Teng would escape from the Tonghai Governor's Mansion to the Annan Protectorate of the Tang Dynasty.

"The deputy governor of the Tonghai Governor's Mansion also guessed that they didn't see Longteng on that ship with their own eyes." The people below guessed.

"It could be him, I didn't expect him to run away from the south, hateful!" Zheng Maisi said unwillingly, "By the way, why did the deputy governor of the Tonghai Governor's Mansion report, and they all governors?" ”

"It may be that he wants to hide this matter, so as not to be punished by the prime minister."

"Don't want to be punished by me? He dares to hide this kind of thing? Zheng Maisi sneered, "Since he doesn't want to be the governor anymore, then change people." ”

"Xiangye, what should I do now? What if Longteng really fled to the territory of the Tang people and moved the Tang army? Dancing God eBook

Xia Guan suggested that Xiang Ye could communicate with the Tang people, and it was best to get the support of the Tang people, which would be helpful to Xiang Ye's great cause. ”

"There's no rush yet."

Zheng Maisi didn't know why, but he didn't want to strengthen ties with Datang, otherwise he wouldn't have made so many troubles.

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Anxi Dadu Hufu, Liangzhou.

The imperial court's report on the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate quickly gave a reply, and then a messenger quickly sent it to Liangzhou.

At this time, Liangzhou City could not see many signs of tension when the war was coming.

This is also normal, even if there is a war with the Xizhou Uighurs, it will not affect Liangzhou, after all, there are also Shazhou Governor's Mansion and Gansu Governor's Mansion in front.

After the imperial edict was sent to Liu Kui, all the civil and military officials of the Metropolitan Protectorate were also very curious.

As for the Western Uighurs, they have been collecting relevant information for several years, and they also know that the strength of the Western Uighurs is not weak.

Although the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate had a great deal of autonomy and had more than 100,000 troops, it also needed to guard against the Tibetan tribes and could not spare too many troops to attack the Uighurs in Western China.

"Dadu Hu, what does the imperial court say?"

After reading the edict carefully, Liu Kui said in a deep voice, "The Holy Lord's will is to control the scale of the war and weaken the strength of the Uighurs in Xizhou, and at most we can only be allowed to take Yizhou."

It means that it cannot evolve into a full-scale war between the Tang Dynasty and the Uighurs in Western Prefecture. ”

"Why? With such a good opportunity, why does the Holy One want us to exercise restraint? The generals below were very puzzled.

Liu Kui explained, "It's very simple, the imperial court wants to use troops against Nanzhao. Major changes have taken place in the domestic political situation of Nanzhao, and the Holy Lord should want to take the opportunity to attack Nanzhao, and he does not want to fight on both sides at this time, so he wants us to restrain the scale of the war. ”

"Since it is the will of the Holy Lord, the lower officials feel that it should be carried out." Xu Shiren said without hesitation, "The strength of the Xizhou Uighurs is already strong, and it is very difficult to defeat the Xizhou Uighurs with just one or two wars.

Since the imperial court is temporarily unable to look westward, we can first unite with Zhongyun to weaken the strength of the Xizhou Uighurs, and also take the opportunity to show the countries of the Western Regions that our Tang Dynasty wants to return to the Western Regions. ”

Liu Kui nodded, "There is no good way at the moment, let's go and test the combat strength of the Xizhou Uighur army first, and then talk about the rest later."

Don't forget, even if we don't have the support of the imperial court, we are not afraid of the Western Uighurs. Sooner or later, our Dadu Protectorate will have to move back to Qiuzi, and that is the hometown of our Anxi Dadu Protectorate.

The requirements of the Pondu Protector are not high, that is, he hopes to defeat the Uighurs in Xizhou before leaving office, so that I can return to the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty. ”

"Yes!"

The enthusiasm of the crowd was surging.

Returning to the Western Regions is undoubtedly the origin of this group of civil and military officials, and it is also their mission.

From the time they entered the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, what they dreamed of was to return to the Western Regions in their lifetime.

And it is normal for Liu Kui to say this.

The successive governors before the Anshi Rebellion served for as little as one and a half years, and as many as seven or eight years, and Liu Kui has been in office for almost three years.

Even if it is calculated according to seven or eight years, he is almost halfway through his tenure, so he naturally wants to make great contributions before leaving office.

His exploits since taking office are that he has occupied most of Qinghai and Tibet, but he has not been able to attack the hinterland of Tibet, and there are always some fly in the ointment.

There was no progress on the Tibetan side for the time being, so he set his sights on the Western Regions, and if he could defeat the Uighurs in Western Prefecture, he would not leave with regrets.

Who doesn't want to be a famous general recorded in the history books, but since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the generals of one or two countries have not been destroyed, and they are embarrassed to say that they are famous generals.

Liu Kui's status has reached the level of the Duke of the Kingdom, and it is estimated that the king is no longer playful, after all, there is no king with a different surname who is currently alive in the Tang Dynasty.

Zhu Wen is the king of Liang, I don't know what the end will be.

Liu Kui himself is a colt, with a high status and no shortage of money, so he naturally attaches more importance to reputation.

How to earn fame?

Destroy a country first, such as the Uighurs in Western Prefectures.

The Uighurs of Western China had long known that the Tang Dynasty would return to the Western Regions, but they didn't expect it to be so soon, knowing that attacking a caravan would lead to the destruction of the country, and they would not do such a stupid thing.