Chapter 179: Crisis Comes West

Is there any good way to block my wife's chirping?

There are many kinds . . .

What is the one that works best?

That is, like Yang Qing, to make up for the language disadvantage with sharp language.

For example, we think of kissing as a language, a body language.

Qin Juan's curiosity was invisibly dissipated in Yang Qing's half-annoyed and half-eager love, generally speaking, some drunken men have better staying power, and it seems that Yang Qing also belongs to this kind. After a series of battles, Yang Qing finally fell asleep comfortably in the pile of fat powder that frequently forgave him.

Although extremely tired, Xiang'er's biological clock still carried out his mission very loyally.

At three o'clock, Yang Qing, who was in a daze, was woken up by Xiang'er.

"Husband, it's time to get up. You're going to the barracks! ”

Yang Qing reluctantly opened his eyes and blinked a few times. Yes, his happy otaku career is over, and he should be an honest Tang Dynasty civil servant in the future, and he can only have a holiday every ten days. Alas, I really want to move the work and rest system of later generations, you can rest for two days after five days of work, depressed, why are the people of the Tang Dynasty so diligent?

Whining is whining, and the bed still has to be up. Carefully pulling his hands and feet out of Qin Juan's jade arms and pink legs, Yang Qing pressed Xiang'er, who wanted to get up.

"Don't move, I can do it myself. You were tired last night, so go to bed again. Yang Qing scratched the tip of Xiang'er's nose lovingly, "Could it be that I can't even get dressed?" ”

Yang Qing didn't mean anything else, just said that Xiang'er had worked hard to serve the drunken herself, but Xiao Nizi didn't know where to go, her face suddenly turned red, and she quietly pinched Yang Qing, and then buried her head in Yang Qing's arms with half joy and half disgust, and arched it lightly.

Yang Qing understood, the second wife's thoughts were very impure!

"Where do you want to go?" Approaching Xiang'er's pink earlobe, Yang Qing's hot breath seemed to be about to penetrate into Xiang'er's heart from the ear hole.

Xiang'er was ashamed, and continued to snort in Yang Qing's arms with a dissatisfied "hmm".

This coquettish remark almost provoked Yang Qing to immediately move her mind to clean up again. But fortunately, his self-control was quite passable, Yang Qing just choked Xiang'er's ears and sucked it, his hands were wantonly thin a few times, and finally let go of the little girl who had been teased and panting.

"Do you know how powerful your husband is? Let's see if you dare to make fun of me with the bell in the future! Yang Qing smiled triumphantly and got out of bed.

"Obedient, don't move!" Yang Qing glanced at Qin Juan and the bell with his eyes, and stopped Xiang'er's actions in a low voice, "If you want to come together, they both have to follow suit, really don't need to, let's sleep again." ”

Yang Qing's attitude was gentle and firm, and Xiang'er nodded obediently and closed her eyes.

Dressed lightly, Yang Qing leaned over to look at the quiet sleeping faces of Qin Juan and the others, and the love in his heart was great, and he lowered his head and kissed each other, and then he was ready to go out.

As soon as he took the footsteps, the little finger of his left hand was grabbed. Yang Qing looked back and saw that Qin Juan's eyes were still closed, her right hand stretched out, and she pulled her little finger to her lips and kissed it gently, before letting go.

Yang Qing tiptoed to close the door, and just stepped out of the backyard, he saw that the merchant Zhang Nan was already standing in front of the door waiting for him.

I haven't been in the army for more than two months, I don't know what happened to Jian Yuwei now? Xuanzong was able to allow Jian Yuwei to officially garrison the West Garden of Daming Palace, and he must have recognized Guo Xi's training and selection. I really want to see it with my own eyes!

With a hint of excitement, Yang Qing once again embarked on the road to the barracks.

Almost at the same time, thousands of miles away from Chang'an, there was also a person who was about to embark on his new journey, the most important journey in his life.

Abu Muslim, the de facto ruler of the Abbasids in Central Asia, finally sought the approval of Abu Abbas, and decided to send an army of 40,000 men on an expedition east of the Green Ridge without completely purging the remnants of the White Food!

What is the concept of East of Green Ridge? That is the town jurisdiction of the Tang Anxi Protectorate!

In August of the 14th year of Zhenguan, the Tang Dynasty destroyed the Gaochang Kingdom, and in September, the Anxi Protectorate was placed in Jiaohe City, Xizhou (now the site of the ancient city of Xijiaohe in Turpan, Xinjiang) to manage the military and political affairs of the Western Regions. In June of the twentieth year, the Western Turkic Yibi Khan invited peace, and Tang made his subordinates cut Qiuzi, Khotan, Shule, Zhu Jupo, and the five countries of Lingling as a dowry. In the 22nd year, after the Tang army entered the Qiuci country, it moved the Anxi capital to the capital of Qiuci (now Kuqa, Xinjiang), and at the same time built castles in the four cities of Qiuci, Yanqi (now southwest of Yanqi, Xinjiang), Khotan (now southwest of Hotan, Xinjiang), and Shule (now Kashgar, Xinjiang), and built a military town, which was protected and unified by the capital of Anxi, so it was referred to as "the four towns of Anxi".

Due to the continuous competition with the Turks and Tibetans for many years, the four towns of Anxi changed from time to time, and it was not until the first year of Xuanzong that the four towns of Anxi were basically stabilized and returned to the old system.

The ambitious Abu' Abbas, who had not even cleaned up the Arabian Peninsula in his own backyard, had set his sights on the East, a vast territory controlled and protected by the world's most powerful empire, with abundant and beautiful products, but many small states and weak powers. Such a piece of fat was undoubtedly a great temptation for the Abbasids, who were determined to build a huge empire.

Although he had heard too many legends about the Great Tang from merchants who had been walking the Silk Road all year round, the Abbasids had always seemed to have a natural fear of the Tang Empire, but this time, perhaps Allah forbid, the opportunity came, and the Great Tang seemed to have completely offended those small subject countries.

In the sixth year of Tianbao, Gao Xianzhi, a Goguryeo native, was awarded the official position of deputy protector of Anxi by Xuanzong, and led 10,000 horsemen to cross the green ridge and fight with Xiao Boluguo.

Xiao Bolu once obeyed the Tang Dynasty, but later broke off relations with the Tang Dynasty due to the co-optation of Tibet. Although it was a small state, there were more than twenty Central Asian states to the west of its territory, and these countries had to pass through Xiaobolu when they paid tribute to the Tang Dynasty. Due to the blockage of the passage, the nations no longer paid tribute.

Gao Xianzhi's strange soldiers descended from the sky, cleared the pro-Tibetan forces in Xiaobolu's country, and returned to the dynasty in triumph. And the states of the Western Regions also paid tribute to the Tang Dynasty again.

Gao Xianzhi made the most of the historical feats for the imperial court, and was successfully promoted to the envoy of the Anxi Jiedu - equivalent to the governor of the Western Regions.

Three years later, Gao Xianzhi conquered Shiguo (located in present-day Uzbekistan, one of the "Zhaowu Nine Surnames"), and the reason for sending troops was very abstract: "Failure to fulfill the courtesy of the vassal state." ”

The king of Shiguo surrendered, was sent to Chang'an, and was beheaded.

Gao Xianzhi captured the Stone Country, seized the treasure of the Stone Country, "Da Sese" (high-grade emerald), dozens of stones, and a large number of gold, silver and jewelry, it seems that the purpose of this military operation is this.

All the Tang vassal states, including the "Zhaowu Nine Surnames" (a generic name for more than a dozen small states of Sogdians or their descendants who came to the Central Plains from the Sogdian region of Central Asia, and whose kings all took Zhaowu as their surnames), were in danger, and who knew that the next unlucky person would not be themselves?

There is much help for the righteous, but little help for the unjust. Although this quote comes from the Chinese Mencius, the Abbasids did not necessarily understand this truth.

Therefore, Abu Muslim, who had the same ideals as the Abbasids, did not hesitate to agree when he proposed to the Abbasids to recruit some of the elite main forces of the Khorasan army to march eastward and cooperate with the Abbasids' combined forces in the Central Asian subject countries to fight with the Tang Dynasty for control of Central Asia in the name of avenging the Stone Kingdom.

The only concern was that the remnants of the former Umayyad dynasty and the large families who opposed the war on two fronts would not be made aware of this decision. So Abu Muslim decided to take advantage of the smoke in the early hours of the morning to take 40,000 elite Arab warriors out and march towards the east without even realizing it!

Chang'an will not know, Datang will not know, a great battle between the East and the West that they will never be able to look west again in history is coming, and the pride of Datang does not allow them to imagine the defeat of their home country, and perhaps it is precisely because of this pride that it has led to a regrettable, rare and important defeat in the history of Datang.

Only this time, will the ending of history be rewritten?