"Commander, Zarhan can't sit still, and plans to send a secret messenger to meet the deputy marshal in the next two days." In the huge city of Xiliuzhou, the old god of Qinkong in the capital of the Safar Dynasty was sitting inside a secret fortress, and a secret guard next to him came over and whispered. Due to the arrangement of Qin Kong in the early stage, now the Xuanying Guard Secret Guard has basically formed a complete network within the Safar Dynasty, and with the passage of time, many of the chess pieces buried at the beginning have been able to find out the top-secret news under the impetus of various forces. This time, the division of political forces within the Safarid Dynasty also relied on these shadows to pass on the news.

"To see the lieutenant?" Qin Kong was slightly stunned and then smiled: "It seems that the intelligence system of this Saffar is simply too poor, and it has been so long that we have not found out that we have infiltrated?" If you want to see Dashuai, well, you can arrange for me to go back immediately. Qin Kong had obviously come up with an idea, so he nodded and summoned the person in charge of the local secret guard in Xiliu Prefecture to quietly leave here and go to Sega Trial City, the front-line headquarters of the Southern Advance Corps.

However, after Qin Kong left, the secret guard suddenly walked out some gossip in the city of Xiliuzhou, saying that the defeat of the northern and Tiance army was not actually due to the lack of combat strength of the army, but the commander of the army in the southwest region was unwilling to invest his own elite to recover other people's territory, so he repeatedly hesitated and delayed the fighter plane on the battlefield, resulting in the final being taken advantage of by the Tiance army. After all, no matter which force still wants to retain its strength in the face of the national war, it will inevitably lead to the collapse of the overall situation, and in the end the gains outweigh the losses, not to mention that although the land in the northern region is barren, the geographical location is dangerous, and it has always been a northern barrier, as long as people with a little common sense will understand that these places must not be left to the enemy, not to mention the Tang Empire, which is still eyeing the Safar Dynasty step by step. But it can't stand the fact that at this time, Zarhan has already preconceived that the defeat of the northern battle is his own people dragging his feet, otherwise, why can the more than 50,000 southwest elites on the side of Sejashen City withdraw in time, while the other local troops are almost wiped out? In this state of mind, Zarhan had no intention of thinking at all, and directly ordered his subordinates to secretly go north to Sega Shen City to prepare to explore the way, while he once again went into a rage at the imperial meeting of the dynasty, accusing the southwestern generals who had fled from the front line of fighting ineffectively and losing their land. At the same time, pressure was exerted on the caliph to speed up the request for help from Baghdad, otherwise the Celestial Army would inevitably fall into ruin when the Tiance army marched south. To be honest, in addition to accusing the southwestern generals of ineffective combat and accelerating the southwestern forces, these remarks are also to the point, so although he offended many people, the caliph did not do anything to him, but reassured him and said that he would consider compensating the northern tribal alliance in other places to prevent their power from weakening due to the fall of the north. The Safarid Dynasty itself is different from the Central Plains Dynasty, most of them are still in the state of large tribal alliances, it can be said that the political system is relatively backward, although the caliph has the supreme ruling power, but the power of the elders of the tribal alliances and large tribes in the following regions cannot be underestimated, and it is basically a sharing of power with the caliphate. It's just that in this kind of **** country, the caliphate may be more consolidated than the organizational structure such as the tribal alliance chief after integrating royal power and divine power, and the most important point is that most of the military power is concentrated in the hands of the caliphate, so as to maintain the stability of the Safarid dynasty.

However, Qin Kong didn't know about these for the time being, and before he left, he arranged these just to burn another fire to push Zarhan forward and let him come to the Tiance army camp to negotiate earlier, as for the rest, he didn't care at all. He didn't dare to be interested in the internal struggle of the Safar Dynasty, as for the reinforcements from the Great Food Empire, the dark guards had already begun to infiltrate the Baghdad side, presumably even if the Great Food Empire sent troops to support, it would not be possible to arrive in a while. Therefore, Qin Kong planned to let Zarhan's side settle down as soon as possible, as long as this guy dared to go into the water, then there would be no room for bargaining. If this is done well, the Safarid dynasty can basically go down with a single drum and quickly pacify the south. And Gao Siji's ability to cooperate with Xuan Yingwei's actions obviously saw this benefit. However, for the support of the Great Food Empire, neither Qin Kong nor Gao Siji paid attention to it, but what they didn't expect was that the Great Food Empire reacted really quickly to the support of the Eastern Crusade, but the route chosen by others was different from what they expected.

When Qin Kong arrived at Saijia Trial City, in fact, the secret envoy arranged by Zarhan had just left, and it was not directly from Xiliu Prefecture, but an agent from Bird Fei Prefecture. The northern region was originally the territory of Zarhan, and although it was occupied by the Tiance army, it was still extremely easy to find an agent to negotiate with the Tang Dynasty on his behalf. However, with the arrival of Qin Kong, Gao Siji also realized that he was afraid that the upheaval within the Safar Dynasty was also in the near future, once this Zarhan negotiated with his side, it would inevitably bring a huge impetus to the military operation, and this kind of leading party was not something that could be found.

"Deputy Marshal, I'm here, but fortunately I didn't delay anything." Qin Kong and Gao Siji laughed after meeting each other, "I thought that the messenger of Zarhan had arrived in advance." ”

"Don't worry, we won't see him if you don't come." Gao Siji said with a smile: "This kind of grinding thing is not only good for you and every one of us here. Gao Siji said a few words of laughter with Qin Kong, and arranged for someone to immediately notify Tie Liang and Zhang Sheng and others to come to the big tent to discuss matters immediately.

"I suggest that your army should first sweep the northern towns and then lead the army south." Gao Siji's actions Qin Kong naturally knew what he was going to do, so he walked in front of the map and said: "Deputy marshal, you don't know, the towns in the north are actually the essence of the Safar Dynasty, and their population and economy are second to none. Qin Kong continued: "Moreover, the northern towns are actually still connected with Khotan, and they can be integrated with Khotan in the north. ”

"I think it's a waste of talent for you to stay in the Xuanying Guard, or I'll go back and talk to Xiao Si about transferring you to the army, just your analysis is also the insight of the chief of staff of the corps." Gao Siji said with a smile: "I plan to let the Anxi Corps go north to carry out the sweeping mission, and the heavy cavalry battalion is responsible for the attack task." In addition, the commander has already transferred all the tens of thousands of prisoners on the northern line to Khotan, and handed them over to the Khotanese political envoy at that time, and then organized people to build a large straight road through the two places. ”

"Is there something wrong with those people who were captured in the north? Why did you transfer to Khotan's side? Qin Kong asked a little inexplicably. It is estimated that there is a shortage of people to build the railway in Qiuzi, so why did you drop people directly to Khotan? Besides, weren't there many prisoners in the Southern Front campaign who were transported back to Khotan? There's no shortage of people on the south side.

"Saman's side is also encountering the forces of the Heavenly Sect." Gao Siji smiled bitterly: "So the big marshal plans to get them all to Khotan, after all, Khotan is a Buddha country." And the marshal also urgently reported this matter to the base camp to see if there was any other way on the emperor's side. ”

"Forget it, our Xuanying Guard has nothing to do about this matter for the time being, and the Saffar Dynasty is also because of this, which causes our secret guards to be restrained when they arrange the lurking." Qin Kong also waved his hand helplessly, but he was very interested in this idea of using Buddhism to fight against the Heavenly Fang Sect.

Qin Kong pondered the feasibility of this matter while waiting in the military camp for the envoy of Zar Khan to go north, and Gao Siji took advantage of this time to mobilize troops and horses to start preparations, no matter whether the negotiations on Zar Khan's side can be successful or not, the towns in the north are the priority to recover the target, as Qin Kong said, the north and Khotan back to back, once it is taken, it can be directly integrated with Khotan, which will be more convenient for future rule.

However, Qin Kong's side didn't wait for a few days for the other party to arrive, but it may be that he has been thinking about the problem of the Heavenly Fang Sect for the past few days, and as soon as Qin Kong saw that kind of standard Heavenly Fang Sect costume dressed up, Qin Kong suddenly felt very weird. However, after rolling his eyes, he smiled and said, "Song Tingshi, who is this?" I can't be intruded by heretics in my Tang military camp for no reason. "After Sima Daoxin arrived in Bohe Prefecture, Song Lingxun was also directly appointed by Tuoba Sijian as the assassin of Bohe Prefecture, but this time in order to negotiate, Gao Siji transferred Song Lingxun in advance to prepare to cooperate with Qin Kong.

"This is Awanda, the eldest son of the Uswan family in Tofei Prefecture, who is ready to negotiate with our army to open up a northern trade route." Song Lingxun was a little confused about Qin Kong's identity, but Qin Kong's freedom of coming and going in the Tiance Army camp made him dare not slack off, so he explained when he heard the words, and also introduced the identity of the envoy who came this time.

"Northern Trade?" Qin Kong was stunned for a moment, and then felt amused at the excuse that the other party came up with, when did he still want to use this excuse to prevaricate others. However, Qin Kong didn't break it, but sat straight on the main seat and said: "Now that the Tang Dynasty has recovered its homeland, it is helpless for the northern trade road to be cut off because of the war. But after all, the matter of business is civil affairs, and I wonder if Mr. Awanda has come to the wrong place? This is the big camp of my Tang army, aren't you afraid of being seized? ”

Nwanda was a little incomprehensible to Qin Kong's series of Tang Yan, but a general sitting next to him quickly translated it for him, and after only listening to him mutter, the general said: "Respected general, it is precisely because of the war that the business road will be cut off, so we rushed to your army camp in the hope that your army can open the trade road as soon as possible, after all, we are just businessmen, we are not interested in war, and we are not willing to meddle in the war, we just want to talk about business." ”

"In business?" Qin Kong smiled coldly, he really didn't know what to say about the messenger found by Zar Khan, to be precise, Zar Khan's mind was wrong, and it was not a good thing to think about this kind of thing, so he said directly: "I'm sorry Mr. Awanda, I'm repeating, Datang is recovering the old land, so this is the first priority at present, before the war is over, it is impossible for the business road to be open to the enemy, otherwise it will be irresponsible to the hundreds of thousands of soldiers in our Datang who are fighting bloodily on the front line, this is our bottom line." If this is your attitude, I don't think there is any need for us to talk about it anymore, and we will wait until the war is over. After Qin Kong finished speaking, he glanced at Song Lingxun beside him, who nodded and took over the conversation and continued: "I'm sorry Mr. Awanda, although you and I have had contacts before, I can only say that it is a pity that what Datang needs now is not a merchant who does business, but a subject who needs to be submitted." Therefore, if Mr. Nwanda can't make a decision, then hurry back as soon as possible to discuss with your lord, and time waits for no one. ”

Qin Kong and Song Lingxun's words had already been made very clear, so although Awanda's face changed, he still nodded and stood up to say goodbye to the two. Song Lingxun came back and said to Qin Kong after sending the two out of the barracks: "This Awanda is a puppet, there must be someone behind him, and it is definitely not his father." I've seen his father, how can he have the audacity to send his eldest son to us at this time. ”

"I know, he is Zarhan's person, but this young man's temperament is not bad, although he just chatted with us for a few words, but it is not bad to be able to pamper and not be shocked, but his heart must be different if he is not of my race." Qin Kong's words made Song Lingxun startled, and he opened his mouth to say something, but he didn't say it after all.

"Okay, Song Thorn History, I recently heard that there are a lot of remnants of Anxi who migrated from all over the country in Bohezhou, right? If you have time, you can select a few talents to come out and send them to District Chief Sima. Qin Kong was actually a little curious about this Song Lingxun, but after thinking about it, he still spoke, after all, there was one thing he couldn't avoid, that is, in this vast land south of the Green Ridge, in addition to these Anxi remnants, there was almost no one who wanted to be in the Tang Dynasty, and before the people in the mainland could not come over in a short time, they still needed to rely on these people, and I believed that relying on the successive victories of the Tiance Army, these subdued ethnic groups would be assimilated sooner or later.

"Vice Marshal, I'm back." After Qin Kong and Song Lingxun said goodbye, they immediately returned to the handsome tent and said the first thing they said when they saw Gao Siji: "The other party has this thought, but these guys treat this as a commercial negotiation, and they still want to bargain." ”

"Then just send troops to promote peace, and fight until they have no other thoughts and honestly submit to us." Gao Siji said with a smile: "People are originally here to explore the way, do you still expect this negotiation to come naturally?" But it's good to contact it once, at least you can get the word back. I see that you don't want to stay with me anymore, hurry back to Xiliuzhou, once our side sends troops, you can go directly to Zarhan for a face-to-face talk. If it doesn't work, I'll beat him until he's convinced. ”

"Yes, but I feel that there should be movement on the side of the Great Food Empire, and this matter should be prepared by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs." Qin Kong had originally walked to the door, and suddenly spoke.