After more than 10 years of campaigning, the Karahan army, with the help of 150,000 "mujahideen" soldiers recruited from Damascus, successively attacked Shule, Yaerkan (Yarkand), Moman (Aksu) and Qiuzi (Kucha), and the army had lost most of the two countries of Khotan and Gaochang sent missions to the imperial court for emergency rescue and asked the Tang Dynasty to send troops to station.

In fact, the Tang Dynasty has been paying close attention to the progress of this war, but it will never propose to help the two countries, but it is constantly shirking.

This had to make the Khotanese and Gaochang royal families deeply feel the disaster of extermination, and then they willingly surrendered to the imperial court.

When the armies of the imperial court come, they will only take away the power from their hands, but when the Karakhans come, they will take everything from them - palaces, possessions, territories, women, and kill all their men.

The envoys sent by these two royal families not only brought a large number of treasures, but also sent a princess, which is a bit too polite......

So Li Qi has been radiant and proud of the spring breeze these days.

According to the old crooks who are proficient in the art of rooming, the maiden will give the old guys a second spring.

However, Li Qi warned his old ministers that after the old bamboo bloomed, it would not be far from death.

At breakfast, there were two more brides on the big table, Wang Qiang and Zhang Guifei were saying some sour words without being salty, and there was a thick layer of liquor on the table.

Alas, this own girl is spoiled!

Concubine Rong Tianxiang was smiling, and the two ladies who had just entered the palace seemed to be accomplices.

"The Emperor seems to be young." Wang Qiang sighed.

Li Qi put a small piece of preserved egg in the bowl of the prince sitting next to him and said: "Where is it, the queen is still young, and it looks like she is just over twenty." ”

Wang Qiang was slapped by Li Qi, her face softened, and she took a piece of sea cucumber and put it on a small plate in front of Li Qi: "The emperor works hard day and night, and he has to replenish his body." ”

Why doesn't this sound like a good word?

"I'm also for the country...... That unity. Li Qi stuffed the sea cucumber into his mouth and chewed it, in the past, it was not easy to eat this thing alive, but now it is placed in the cabin, loaded with sea water, and can be transported to Luoyang in more than a day.

If you marry someone else's daughter, you have to help.

Therefore, in the early dynasties, in front of the envoys of Khotan and Gaochang, Li Qi appointed Kang Tai as the general of Pingxi, Zhou Tingyu as the general of the expedition to the west, and An Tingluan as the general of Anxi, each leading a corps, a total of 150,000 troops, from Beiting, Gaochang and Khotan to conquer the Karahan country.

The Tang Dynasty's war to recover the Western Regions began.

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This is already the spring of the twentieth year of the Tang Republic (947).

In the fourteenth year of Zhenguan of the Tang Dynasty, Hou Jun gathered to discuss Gaochang, and the Western Turks stationed troops in Futu City, and responded to Gaochang. The Tang army went deep into the Hanhai, defeated the Hu soldiers, and then took Gaochang, Zhenguan 20 years in April, the Western Turkic mud ambush sand bowl Luo Ye Hu Ashina Helu led the people to attach, is to place Tingzhou, Chang'an two years, changed to the Beiting Protectorate.

Time has passed, since the Anshi Rebellion, the North Court of the Western Regions has fallen for hundreds of years.

With the revival of the Tang Empire, from the ninth year of the Republic, the imperial court returned to Beiting at the invitation of Shatuo and Zhaowu, and the order of the Tun Reclamation and Garrison that lasted more than ten years was issued and implemented, and the Tang Dynasty has regained a firm foothold in the land of Beiting, and the Beiting Protectorate has also opened up to the Yizhishui (Irtysh River) at the foot of Jinshan.

Today, in the area of Yizhou and Beiting, there are more than 100,000 military households in Datang.

Zhou Tingyu led 35,000 Longyou cavalry troops, crossed the Altun Mountain on the Qinghai Road, and reached Datunpu City in the southwest of Puchanghai (Lop Nur).

Although it is said that the spring breeze does not pass the Yumen Pass, with a few warm spring rains, the pale yellow sand date flowers on the riverside at the foot of the snow-capped mountain bloom one after another, making the wetland forest belt on both sides of the river bank full of fragrant atmosphere. The willow branches pulled out their tender green branches, and after the spring rains, the surface of this barren land was covered with a faint layer of green.

Spring sowing has begun, in fact, due to the low terrain, the temperature here is even higher than that of Hexi and Qingtang.

On both sides of the valley, several farm oases have been carved out of the barren land, sustaining the garrison in the area.

This is Anxi, the southern side of the Western Regions.

Tens of thousands of Longyou and Qingtang armies are mighty and stretching for dozens of miles. Zhou Tingyu led the army from Haixi City, and after more than a month, finally entered the Youchang Tuntian District in the Western Regions. However, the thousands of chariots and horses and a large number of camel caravans that supplied this army came by a detour through the Shazhou area in the west of the river.

As one of the elites of the Tang Dynasty, the Longyou and Qingtang armies already had one-third of their troops equipped with muskets. Compared with the majestic old-style cavalry troops wearing Xuanjia, carrying swords and bows, and sitting on the side of the horses of the Qingtang River and hanging steel cavalry spears, the equipment of the more than 10,000 musketeers seems to be more of an auxiliary logistics baggage force.

Outsiders would never have thought that this musket cavalry army was the elite of the real elite, the sharpest knife of this army.

Zhou Tingyu was dressed in a traditional soldier's attire, with black chain mail on his body, a bright silver helmet, a huge black war bow hanging on one side of the saddle, and a strange long weapon like a three-pointed steel fork hanging on the other.

This thing is called Bi Yan Laos, and it is a weapon that some famous generals in the late Tang Dynasty and the fifth dynasty like to use.

As a rebel general, the name of Li Cunxiao, the first general of the fifth dynasty in the late Tang Dynasty, was originally a taboo in the Jin army, but with the founding of the Tang Dynasty for a long time, a copy of "The Legend of the Heroes of the Xingtang Dynasty" gradually became popular in the folk bookstore, and the thirteen Taibao under the account of Emperor Wu became a hero worshipped by the people.

Although these stories are somewhat exaggerated and distorted of history, they are beneficial to creating a positive image of the royal family among the people, so the imperial court not only did not prohibit it, but promoted it.

Although Zhou Tingyu's surname is Zhou, his father Zhou Guangbi is the son of Li Cunxiao adopted by Zhou Dewei. Although this guy never said anything, he changed the long weapon he used from the horse lance to Bi Yanlao.

He also secretly decided in his heart that he would use his exploits to wash away the stain on his grandfather!

In addition, the Son of Heaven still hung his name in the genealogy, and quietly attributed it to Li Cunxiao's name, which made him feel a little grateful in his heart, knowing that this was a mountain of grace.

Thinking about the emperor, he is really generous, even "rebel generals" like Li Conghou and Li Congke have retained their ancestral credentials, and Li Cunxiao's rebellion seems to have been lightly exposed.

A cavalry team of more than 100 people appeared in the wilderness in front, and it should be the garrison commander of Datunpu City who rushed to greet him......

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