Just when the news of the arrival of the imperial delegation in Liangzhou reached Shazhou, Zhang Huaiding had already left Liangzhou with 15,000 people.

In Liangzhou, among the more than 20,000 troops, Zhang Huaiding commanded 18,000 of them.

Among them, 13,000 cavalry and 5,000 infantry.

Although the attack on Du Lunbu lost a few people, only a few hundred people were killed in the battle, and more than 1,000 people were injured.

However, of these 18,000 people, Zhang Huaiding only took 15,000 people, 12,000 cavalry and 3,000 infantry, but the 3,000 infantry also rode on horseback.

As for the rest of the army, Zhang Huaiding directly left it to the future Liangzhou Governor's Mansion, which was regarded as a meeting gift for him.

However, when Zhang Huaiding's army passed through Ganzhou, it became 20,000 men, because he took 5,000 cavalry from Ganzhou.

The military power of Ganzhou was not strong, because the Uighurs of Ganzhou were too strong, and they rose and fell.

In the third year of Qianning, there were more than 10,000 troops left in Ganzhou, and only 6,000 cavalry.

And the Ganzhou Uighurs in Shandan next door had 60,000 or 70,000 troops!

Zhang Huaiding then took 5,000 cavalry from Ganzhou, resulting in a military force of less than 7,000 people in Ganzhou, most of whom were still infantry.

In the past, the Ganzhou Uighurs would certainly not let go of this opportunity.

Seeing that the Western Uighurs had captured Xizhou and Yizhou one after another, the Ganzhou Uighurs had long wanted to take Ganzhou.

But now the Uighurs in Ganzhou do not dare, or some rat throwers.

The Tang army had already arrived in Liangzhou, and Zhang Huaiding led the army through Ganzhou, coupled with the destruction of the Du Lunbu, Rao was the Ganzhou Uighurs with an army of 60,000 or 70,000 were also very weak in the face of the Tang army.

Can you not be empty-hearted!

When the Uighur Khanate was destroyed by the Khades, it was divided into four parts.

The strongest moved westward to the Seven Rivers Valley, and established the Qarakhanid Dynasty with the Uighurs of the Tianshan Mountains and the Qarluq and other Tiele tribes in Central Asia.

The second strongest was Wujie Khan, who entered the Tang Hetao area with thirteen troops, thinking that if he didn't leave, the Tang Dynasty would naturally not do it, and then a war broke out.

Even if the Tang Dynasty was no longer in the Tang Dynasty, it was not something that the Uighurs could bully. Then Wujie Khan was pressed to the ground by Datang and rubbed hard.

Most of the thirteen Uighurs were appeased by the Tang Dynasty and became Tang people. As for the remnants of the Wujie Khan, they fled back to the steppe, and later the Wujie Khan was killed by his own prime minister, and the Suowei was annexed by Murowei.

In addition to the thirteen tribes led by Wujie Khan, many Uighur tribes moved south, with a total of more than 300,000 people in 27 tribes, but they were all pressed to the ground by the Tang army.

The other two were the Uighurs who moved to Hexi and Xizhou.

The Ganzhou Uighurs were one of the strongest Uighurs who migrated to Hexi and established their own regime.

However, the Uighurs in Ganzhou were not as strong as those who had moved south to the Hetao before, and it was nothing to go to war with the Guiyi army, but they also had to think about whether it was worth it to go to war with the Tang Dynasty.

The Uighurs had a good relationship with the Tang Dynasty, and the Uighurs helped a lot in quelling the Anshi Rebellion.

However, after the fall of the Uighur Khanate, the hundreds of thousands of people who moved south were wiped out, and the other three Uighurs who moved west had little to do with the Tang Dynasty.

Just like the Ganzhou Uighurs, since the establishment of a tooth tent in Shandan, they have not sent people to Chang'an to ask for canonization.

Of course, the life of the Uighurs in Ganzhou was not easy, and the Guiyi army guarded them, as well as the Tubo and Wenmo people indigenous to Hexi.

When they were at war with the Guiyi, they were also at war with the Tibetans, which prevented them from developing as fast as the Western Uighurs.

To tell the truth, when Zhang Huaiding arrived in Ganzhou with more than 10,000 troops before him, he really frightened the Ganzhou Uighurs, and thought that the Guiyi army was going to unite with the Tang army to deal with them.

However, it was later found that Zhang Huaiding was just passing by, so he was relieved.

Although the Ganzhou Uighurs were stronger than Zhang Huaiding's forces, the Ganzhou Uighurs only sent a small force to follow from afar, and there was no conflict between Zhang Huaiding's troops.

However, as for Zhang Huaiding's purpose, some people in the Ganzhou Uighurs speculated that it might be an internal problem of the Guiyi army.

The contradictions within the Guiyi army were known to the Ganzhou Uighurs.

If it weren't for the internal instability of the Guiyi army, the Uighurs would not have been able to develop in Ganzhou.

On the Tang side, the Ganzhou Uighurs were also hesitant to send envoys to see if they could be canonized by the Tang people, so that they could be justified in Hexi and would not be ostracized by all sides.

However, the high-level Uighurs of Ganzhou discussed for a long time without results, and only sent people to Liangzhou to get rid of the news, and the idea of sending people to Chang'an was shelved.

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When the rising sun shone on the city wall of Guazhou, the peaceful city of Guazhou suddenly became nervously busy, and the beacons built outside the city by the mountains and post stations suddenly lit up wolf smoke.

If there is an enemy, in the spring and autumn, smoke is called Feng during the day, and fire is called Sui at night; In the Tang Dynasty, it was the fastest and most effective way to transmit military information in ancient times.

One after another, wolf smoke appeared, standing in the distance, looking at Guazhou, which was called a spectacular.

"Servant shooting, the wolf smoke in Guazhou is ignited, do you want to attack?" Li Fuce came to Zhang Huaiding's side and asked for instructions.

Since Zhang Huaiding has decided to return to Shazhou to seize the position of Jiedu envoy, naturally the people below cannot call him assassin Shi, but call him servant shooting, which is also the name of the Jiedu envoy within the Guiyi Army, not the Jiedu envoy in the Central Plains.

Zhang Huaiding shook his head, "Guazhou's strength is not weak, this Guazhou is not the Li family's Guazhou, and the Li family is not monolithic." As long as they choose neutrality, there is no need for us to make a big fuss. ”

As one of the two core states of the Guiyi Army, Guazhou's strength is not bad, as can be seen from this dense beacon.

Don't look at Zhang Huaiding's 20,000 troops, but there are as many as 20,000 troops near the city of Guazhou, not counting the Uighur, Wenmo, and Sogdian tribes that depend on Guazhou.

It can be said that more than half of the army of the Guiyi Army was concentrated in Shazhou and Guazhou.

Of course, the Hu style prevailed in the Guiyi Army's territory, although it was not like the Uighurs and other nomadic peoples who were all soldiers, but it was almost the same.

The population of Guazhou City and its vicinity is less than 200,000, and the army has 20,000, which is not a small proportion.

It's just that unlike the proportion of Han people in Liangzhou, which does not have an absolute advantage, the proportion of Han people in Guazhou is still quite large, plus the Han people who have been Tuboized, there is a seventy percent ratio. And these populations were also after Zhang Yichao led the army to defeat Shang Fear, after forty years of recuperation, otherwise how could there be such a large population.

However, the situation in Hexi is complicated, and there are not many full-time soldiers in Guazhou, and many of them are a combination of soldiers and civilians, soldiers in wartime and people in peacetime.

Only in this way can Guazhou protect itself in the complex environment of Hexi.

Zhang Huaiding did not give the order to attack, but the city of Guazhou was in chaos, since Guazhou broke away from the rule of Tibet, the beacons outside the city had not been ignited on such a large scale for decades.

Even the Uighur invasion was not so exaggerated.

This can only say one thing, and that is that there are many enemies!