"Qiyu Marshal, Xuanying Wei urgently reported that the Anxi Corps fought fiercely for five days with 100,000 troops in Humi and the Safad Army from June 11 to 17, destroying more than 70,000 enemies, Zhang Sheng led the army to chase out more than 300 miles from Humi, took Bohe Prefecture, and killed Salazi, the commander of the Safarid Army." Liu Xuan hurriedly walked to Wan Yi's side, and his hands trembled a little because of excitement. There is no way not to be excited, the previous headquarters, including Wan Yi, was actually ready for Zhang Sheng to ask for help, and even Wan Yi transferred the two battalions left in the Gaochang area to the vicinity of Xizhou, and prepared to immediately dispatch to enter Khotan as soon as there was unfavorable news from Xuan Yingwei's side to assist Zhang Sheng. As a result, I didn't expect the Anxi Corps to defeat the Safarian attack alone.

Wan Yi was also a little in a trance, and after taking the urgent report sent by Xuan Yingwei and reading it carefully, he sighed: "It seems that Zhang Sheng's independence during this period of time is not small in Khotan, and it is rare that 30,000 people against the opponent's 100,000 army can still chase the death and chase 300 miles to the north." However, his temporary battalion is considered to be useless. The two battalions in Xizhou were summoned to enter Khotan immediately, so that Zhang Sheng could take this opportunity to reorganize the Anxi Corps. Tell him that the longer the Anxi Corps occupies Khotan, the more it will be able to suppress the surrounding enemy, and it is also a great response to the main force of the group army, hoping that he can train the Anxi Corps to maintain the suppression of the periphery. After Zhang Sheng defeated the Safavid army, Wan Yi immediately began to revise the strategic situation map of the northwest that he had planned before, and remarked the location of the Anxi Corps on the Khotanese side, so that the entire northwest became two independent parts, but the two departments were mutually supportive and interrelated as a whole. And Liu Xuan nodded while looking at it, Wan Yi's picture made him understand more and more that Wan Yi let Zhang Sheng play a hidden role in Khotan, which was to use Khotan as the center of the entire Anxi to contain all hostile forces, including Shule. Because Khotan was occupied by the Safavid Dynasty, but in fact, it was the location of many of the southwest prefectures under the protection of the Anxi capital, and the Saman and other places in the west were the places where the Broken Leaf City and Genros were the western strongholds, and the Qarlu and Shule in the north were protected by the Beiting capital back then, and the occupation of Khotan was almost able to contain all the forces in the surrounding area. It also provided a solid foundation for sending troops from Khotan to sweep these places in the future. Khotan itself is rich in internal water sources, is one of the regions in the northwest region is relatively rich in products, in the early years was a famous land of fish and rice, so Zhang Shengyu Khotan's victory is basically equivalent to the Anxi Corps can play such a role.

"Dashuai looks like he's been planning for a long time, waiting for Zhang Sheng to make such a move, right?" Liu Xuan looked at Wan Yi's actions and said with a smile, his handsome man had been thinking about the affairs of the Anxi Corps for more than a little time.

Wan Yi shook his head and said with a wry smile: "You think too much, the strategic position of Khotan's side does make me have this idea, but the Anxi Corps was not enough to assume such a role in our sequence before, so I originally planned to transfer the Seventh Corps over, but I didn't expect the Safar Dynasty to come over so quickly, so my idea was frustrated." But Zhang Sheng was able to rise to prominence. Now that the Seventh Corps is on the northern front, Zhang Sheng has a foothold in Khotan, and this south and north seem to be a fixed number. ”

"But the deputy marshal should have arrived at Qiuzi at this time, right?" Liu Xuan looked at the north-south striker and said thoughtfully: "Is it possible for the corps directly under our headquarters to set off?" According to the character of the deputy commander and the strength of the Seventh Corps, it is impossible for the empty Qiuzi to stop them. ”

Wan Yi nodded and said: "Let the 11th Corps be stationed in Yanqi as a large army and use it, the Modao Battalion will go to Qiuzi as a direct corps, and the cavalry corps and the Uighur Corps will first go north to Tingzhou, and recover the old land of the Governor's Mansion of Juliucheng and Shatuo Prefecture along the way, and then go south along the desert line to attack the Governor's Mansion of Yanbo Prefecture, and sweep away all the vassal forces near the Heishui River." After passing west through Lake Manas from Tingzhou, Wan Yi pointed to the northern areas of the Tianshan Mountains such as the Heishui River and the Yehe River, and said: "Let Tuoba Siji and Hammud pay attention, because Heishui River and other places are located at the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, there are many rivers and oases in these places, so they need to be leveled in one fell swoop with the momentum of thunder, so as to completely cut off the wings of the Anxi Uighurs, completely suppress their forces near Shule, and weaken their war potential." Then, along the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, all the way west to the Shuanghe Governor's Mansion as the end point of the battle, the Shuanghe Governor's Mansion shocked the northern Qarluq, forcing them not to dare to go south to aid Shule. ”

"Don't worry, I'll arrange it right away." Liu Xuan nodded and immediately went out of the account to make arrangements. At this time, the Seventh Corps had successfully taken the Tiemen Pass and the Quli Governor's Mansion, and the army passed through the Tiemen Pass and then walked along the old silk road non-stop, and fought a fierce battle with the local forces Tiele clan in Wulei Prefecture, Gao Siji killed all the Tiele clans involved in this battle in this battle, and all the Tiele clans in Wulei Prefecture were captured as prisoners and sent troops to the rear. In this battle, more than 10,000 Tiele clans were killed, and the rolling heads made Wulei Prefecture almost become a hell on earth in an instant, and the other surrounding tribes were all shocked by this bloody killing, and they didn't dare to move at all, and this situation even continued until later, when Tuoba Si sent civil officials to Wulei Prefecture to summon the leaders of the large and small tribes here, these people almost thought that the Tiance Army had begun to target them again, and sent a large number of treasures overnight to beg for mercy.

Wulei Prefecture is the gateway to the east of Qiuci City, originally a large number of Anxi troops were stationed here, but in the previous battle of the Luntai grassland, Hammud directly gathered Qiuci reinforcements in one fell swoop, completely wiped out the main force of Qiuci, and later Shule decided to establish a new defense line in Kubiro after the only direct troops also withdrew to Kubiluo, so Wulei Prefecture has no other troops except Tiele clan at all. The Seventh Corps did not stop in Wulei Prefecture, except for leaving part of the logistics troops to wait for the follow-up army, Gao Si continued to march 110 miles from Wulei Prefecture to Qiuzi, which was the last stronghold of Anxi Dadu that year.

The 50,000 troops of the Seventh Corps arrived at the city of Qiuci with more than 10,000 artillery and logistics troops, and the few thousands of defenders in the city naturally could not resist, after Zhao Si rebelled against a deputy general from the inside, the army drove directly into it without blood, and on June 23 of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Qiuci City returned to the embrace of the Tang Dynasty. At this time, Qiuzi City was not the Qiuzi City of the year. In the last battle of Anxi, the last resistance of the Anxi army led by Guo Xin and the 100,000 elites of Tubo fought fiercely for several months, completely destroying the entire Qiuci, the city wall collapsed, and the city became a ruin, and the famous city of Qiuci became history. Later, the Uighurs occupied Anxi and built a new city next to the original site, which is now the city of Qiuzi.

Gao Siji didn't care about repairing after arriving in Qiuzi, and he didn't have time to issue an Anmin notice, so he immediately sent someone to summon the rear command to report that Qiuci City had been taken by himself, and at the same time, Zhao Si began to contact the Flying Eagle Brigade that had lurked into Shule and other places, and got the latest news from Anxi.

"The Ansians built a defensive line on Kupila's side? When did the Uighurs learn to defend themselves? Gao Siji was a little baffled, but something was unusual, so Gao Siji immediately sent people and the Xuanying Guard's secret guards to secretly approach Kupila to conduct reconnaissance and find out how to find out the Uighurs' thoughts.

At this time, the headquarters led by Wan Yi had also crossed Wulei Prefecture, and saw the Jingguan built by Gao Siji with more than 10,000 bloody heads outside the city, and naturally understood why he entered Wulei Prefecture and why almost all the surrounding tribes trembled, which was a typical massacre to kill these tribes to the cold. However, at this time, Gao Siji's report also arrived in Wulei Prefecture, and Wan Yi said that the Anxi Uighurs had arranged a defensive line in Kupiro after seeing Zhao Si's side, and sent a message to the 11th Corps and the civil affairs side to immediately take over the towns along the way, and he led the army to speed up and rush to Qiuzi.

"Go and inform Shi Jian, let them display the banner of the Anxi Army and the flag of our Tiance Army side by side, and then the whole army of the Modao Battalion will form a corps to enter the city and enter Qiuzi, and the artillery unit will line up outside the city to shell." On the morning of June 25, the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Wan Yi saw that Qiuzi City in the distance was already visible, and began to order the Modao Battalion to prepare, while Liu Xuan took the artillery and fifty artillery pieces to meet Gao Siji in advance and then formed a neat phalanx to wait. Half an hour later, when all the soldiers of the Modao battalion put on their new uniforms and began to set off in a phalanx one after another, the artillery began to bombard, and the neat salute resounded over the entire Qiuzi City, and the people in the city also went outside the city under the organization of Xuanyingwei, only to see a neat phalanx of soldiers began to walk from a distance in an orderly manner, and began to stand in line behind the artillery after coming to the outside of the city.

"After a hundred years of Anxi, Datang is finally back today. Ancestors, your Heroic Spirits can be blinded today. Wan Yi walked to the city with the people directly under the command under the gaze of everyone, looked at the Qiuci City in front of him, and nodded, although the current Qiuci City is not the Qiuci City of the year, but its meaning will always be unique in the minds of all the Tang people, so when Wan Yi said this, everyone in the Tiance Army turned around and saluted to Qiuci City, and then in front of all the people, Wan Yi led more than 100,000 Tiance soldiers to kneel towards the city wall.

"The ancestors of Anxi are above, and the descendants of the unscrupulous Emperor were ordered by the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty on June 25, the fourth year of the Tang Dynasty, to recover Anxi, re-ascend to the old land, face Qiuzi City, and worship the ancestors." Wan Yi stared at the Qiuzi City Wall in a deep tone, and sighed, but after turning around and standing up, he changed, and the whole person suddenly emitted a scorching momentum, "The Tang Dynasty has landed in its homeland after a hundred years, and I can't wait, so that the ancestors and ancestors have waited too long, and it has also made the glory of the Tang Dynasty sink for a hundred years." But what I want to say is that now that we are here, this will become a territory that my Datang will never lose, and we can't let the Anxi war spirit of the year be disappointed again. ”

"Ladies and gentlemen of Qiuzi, all the soldiers of the Western Expeditionary Army, before the Western Expedition, the emperor said that when we defeat Qiuzi, he will personally come to Anxi to guard the spirits of your ancestors." As soon as Wan Yi's words came out, the hundreds of thousands of soldiers present were facing the east under the leadership of Shi Jian, and Shi Jian, as a descendant of General Shi Ba, cried bitterly, and the soldiers of the three armies were all in tears.

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers at this time facing the rising sun in the east, like a monument standing on the wasteland outside the city of Qiuzi, the northwest sky in the morning is so far away that everyone's figure is unusually resolute, as if the Tiance army has walked step by step over the mountains and rivers of the Tang Dynasty for so many years, it is they who use their shoulders to resist the crumbling national situation of the Tang Dynasty, it is they who have snatched back the national fortune that the Central Plains Dynasty has lost for a hundred years, and it is they who have come all the way from the distant Chang'an, the desert yellow sand, the sunset of the long river, Now standing under Qiuzi City, Wan Yi is full of emotion. Liu Xuan, who was standing near the artillery, picked up the pen and painted the picture of Wan Yi and the distant monument standing still, and later this painting also became the most famous painting of the media group to introduce the Northwest Qiuci and the Western Expeditionary Army, so that everyone realized the significance of the ancient city of Qiuci to the Tang Dynasty and Anxi.

Wan Yi's military parade outside the city and the commemoration of the Anxi Army also made all the participating Qiuzi Bai surnames deeply stimulated, although today's Qiuzi Bai surnames are no longer the descendants of those people back then, most of them are migrated from other places, but the achievements of the Anxi Army that were passed down from Qiuci back then are still awakened, especially several of the old people who are still the descendants of the Qiuci locals who helped Guo Xin to fight, and they can't help but burst into tears when they see the Anxi military flag of the year raised again in Qiuci. They have not yet been born in that battle, but the Anxi army has been circulating in this land for a long time after the defeat of Qiuzi, and the back hands left by Guo Xin have also been born after that, although they were denounced as "Tang Kou" by the Tibetans and Uighurs, but they still led many people in the northwest who were not far away to surrender to the Tang Dynasty to fight all the time, which is the origin of Zhang Sheng's team.

"Immediately send a message to Chang'an, the Western Expeditionary Army entered Qiuzi on June 25, the fourth year of the Apocalypse, and Wan Yi led the army to preside over the memorial of the Anxi war spirit." After presiding over the ceremony, Wan Yi asked Liu Xuan to report to Chang'an immediately. He knew the status of Qiuzi in Li Xuanqing's mind, so he instructed Xuanyingwei to spread the news to Chang'an as quickly as possible and invited Li Xuanqing to come to Qiuzi.

In the following days, through word of mouth among the people and the secret promotion of Xuan Yingwei, the news of the Qiuzi military parade to worship the ancestors quickly spread all over Anxi, and all ethnic groups in the northwest, including the Uighurs, were thinking about one thing except for a chill, the return of the Tang forces to Anxi was inevitable, and how their tribes should get along with this central empire in the future.