Xue Ju thought it was very good, but how could Li Wenyuan be fooled by this? Therefore, the two sides fell into a stalemate, and no matter how Xue Ju's army fought against the enemy on the border line, Li Wenyuan strictly ordered his troops on the border to hold out the camp gate, in a word. Definitely not fire the first shot first.

But this stalemate officially changed with the delivery of a letter of war from Xue Ju. In this war letter, Xue Ju didn't say too much nonsense, and only wrote two words on it very boldly: war.

After this letter of war was delivered to Li Wenyuan, he knew that all his previous diplomatic efforts had been in vain. None of the things I had imagined in advance happened, and on the contrary, things began to develop in the worst direction. In this Eastern Expedition Xue Ju, the commander-in-chief of Li Wenyuan is still Zhuang Fudi, compared with Zhang Juntai, Zhuang Fudi has always been more interested in the defense of the Eastern Front. Therefore, the familiarity with the terrain is naturally much stronger than that of Zhang Juntai, which is also an important reason why Zhuang Fudi was elected as the commander-in-chief.

Of course, this reason is not the main one. Li Wenyuan knew Zhang Juntai, and with Zhang Juntai's ability, even if he commanded the army in a place where he was not familiar with the terrain, it would still not affect the display of his military talent like a genius. There are two main reasons why Zhuang Fudi was elected as the commander-in-chief of Xue Ju of the Eastern Expedition this time: one is because Zhuang Fudi is very familiar with the geography and humanities on the eastern front, so familiar that he can even know where there are mountains and rivers without even looking at the map, and where he is currently located; What's more, Zhuang Fudi is also more familiar with the local officials there, and when something happens and it is necessary to communicate and negotiate with the local officials, it is more efficient for Zhuang Fudi to come forward to negotiate. But another decisive factor in addition to this is that Zhang Juntai is busy leading the army to suppress some unstable situations in Central Asia at this moment.

Central Asia belongs to the place that Li Wenyuan conquered after he crossed over, you must know that in the original history, except for Li Tang, the Central Plains governments of all dynasties have never covered their own jurisdiction here, so it has long been a nomadic settlement and pasture.

Therefore, after Li Wenyuan sent troops to conquer the country, those Turks who had lived here for generations and were unwilling to submit to the king's subordinates were naturally unwilling to withdraw from Central Asia, or gave up their free and easy nomadic life, and began to live a stable life that required obedience to the king's law and the observance of ethics. Therefore, after they reluctantly retreated to the realm beyond the reach of Li Wenyuan, the Western Turkic Khan spent a long time and a large amount of manpower to temporarily suppress the crisis of political instability brought about by his successive defeats. At this time, although they still retained some of their own land, the battle against Li Wenyuan's army was to exhaust the vitality of the army that went out. The Western Turks, in particular, were different from the peoples who were dependent on them, and those peoples could have chosen to surrender to Li Wenyuan's army when they were desperate, and Li Wenyuan must have been willing to accept the surrender of these tribes, so as to enrich the newly conquered land in such a vast Central Asia.

But for the Western Turkic Khan, surrendering to Li Wenyuan was tantamount to asking him to offer his power in front of the people of the world. Let the proud eagle of the grassland bow down to a Han Chinese, which they can't accept no matter what. Therefore, when discussing matters with the leaders of various tribes under his account, he often spared no effort to smear Li Wenyuan and discredit the army under Li Wenyuan. It was claimed that the people under Li Wenyuan's rule imposed a lot of taxes and forced labor, and even made the people hungry and miserable, and also said that the army under Li Wenyuan was all monsters, otherwise why would their weapons be so powerful. At the beginning, these ministers were still skeptical of these words, but after a long time, the three of them became tigers, and no matter how simple the lie was, it would be believed one day. Therefore, under the brainwashing of the Western Turk Khan day after day, these Western Turk soldiers and various leaders can be said to have a deep hatred for Li Wenyuan, although this trick did make Li Wenyuan's westward army suffer a little, but that's all. A large number of Turkic soldiers died on the battlefield in the process of resistance, and thanks to Li Wenyuan's lack of ambition, the Western Turkic Khan was able to pick up his life and flee westward; Or it can be said that at that time, Li Wenyuan did not make corresponding plans for the entire Western Turkic territory, so he gave up the opportunity to chase down the lair of the Western Turkic Khan, and instead chose to occupy the area he wanted, and then changed from strategic offensive to strategic defense, hoping to consolidate the results of the battle and ensure that what he got was absolutely in his own hands.

Both the Sassanid Empire and the Western Turkic Khan, who had suffered defeat in the Green Ridge region, wanted to regain some face from Li Wenyuan's side, but the Western Turks had lost the confidence and ability to fight Li Wenyuan's army head-on in a short period of time. The Sassanid Empire was the same, but it continued to send troops to harass Li Wenyuan on the border, but they were unsuccessful, and were repulsed several times by the army led by Zhang Juntai. Once, Zhang Juntai, who was a little annoyed, even personally led a division to chase into the territory of the Sassanid Empire, and after capturing several villages, he ordered the whole army to retreat with enough booty and retreat to his own side of the border.

This kind of behavior made the rulers and officials of the Sassanid Empire feel very depressed in their hearts, and they wanted to find Li Wenyuan to have a good theory. After all, Zhang Juntai's behavior is strictly a military invasion, and it stands to reason that they can use this reason to ask Li Wenyuan for a large amount of compensation, which is the best opportunity to blackmail Li Wenyuan. But if this matter is investigated in detail, the fault is on the side of the Sassanid Empire, after all, it was their army that took the lead in initiating the border conflict, but the talent who was not as skilled was chased and killed by Zhang Juntai with the army to his own territory.

After touching this hard nail a few times, the soldiers of the Sassanid Empire did not dare to harass Li Wenyuan by such means, although this can express the evil breath in their hearts, but it is obviously not a wise way to send troops to create frontal friction and have a military conflict, after all, it can't be defeated.

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