The feat of the Liangzhou Pledge Conference to go to the Western Regions shocked the world, not only the blood of the whole people within the Tang Empire who was stimulated by this move of the army, but also the major forces on the way to the west also sent spies to inquire about the reality of the Tiance Army. However, at this time, although the main force of the Tiance army had not yet arrived at the front line, the 30,000 forward troops had crossed the border into the territory of Ganzhou.

After being defeated by Wan Yi, the Wens fled to Ganzhou under the leadership of their leader Wen Mo'er, who were bullied by the Uighurs of Ganzhou at first, and fought more than a dozen battles between the two sides, large and small, until the two sides finally shook hands and made peace, and the Uighurs acquiesced in the fact that the Wens occupied the eastern part of Ganzhou, and the Wens ostensibly surrendered to the Uighurs and became their subordinates.

After stabilizing the overall situation, Wen Mo'er has also been developing the strength of the tribe in the past few years, trying to make a comeback. At the same time, in order to vent his dissatisfaction, he wantonly slaughtered the descendants of the Tang people in the territory and forced many Han people in the Western Regions to go to a dead end. It can be said that the eastern part of Ganzhou notified by Wen Mo'er was more brutal than the Uighurs, and the Tang people in the territory rose up to resist, and the Xuanying Wei secret guards who Hu Xiaosi personally came to Hexi to arrange before also took advantage of this chaotic situation to cover the layout, secretly contacting the descendants of the Tang people who resisted and waiting for the Tiance army to march west.

At this time, the news of the Tiance Army's large-scale attack was naturally known to Wen Mo'er for the first time, and he who had dealt with the Lingwu Army for a long time naturally knew that this time the Tiance Army was afraid that it would fight all the way to Anxi. Therefore, in addition to reporting to the Uighur royal court in Ganzhou as soon as possible, all the armies of the Wen tribe were assembled to defend the fortress Huqiu Pass along the line, trying to use the pass to block the westward advance of the Tiance army.

Shi Jian, the vanguard of the Tiance Army, has been campaigning non-stop since he left Yangguan, uprooting the forces of all the Wen Mo people wherever he went. Shi Jian obviously inherited Wan Yi's practice in Hexi, and killed all the forces that dared to resist the Tiance Army and the Tang Dynasty along the way. Under the leadership of Xuan Yingwei, in just three days, he overthrew more than a dozen towns along the way, and wiped out all the small tribal forces close to the Wen Mo people inside. The bloody corpses were hung on the earthen walls, and the strong bloody smell made the Xiqiang and other few tribes who fled here with the Wen people tremble, for fear that the butcher's butcher's knife would reach his neck in the next second.

Although Shi Jian's approach was violent, it made the remnants of the Tang people, who had been enslaved by other tribes in the northwest for a hundred years, start to run to tell each other, celebrating the return of the Tang Dynasty after a hundred years.

It's just that since the Anshi Rebellion to now, a hundred years have long passed, and there are very few remnants who really want to go to the court and the Tang Dynasty. In order to survive, the local Tang people were first oppressed by the Tibetan people, forced to change their clothes and shave their hair, change the Tang people's clothing, and then were forced to learn Tibetan, and the Tang people in the northwest were not allowed to speak the Tang dialect. After several generations have passed, what Shi Jian sees now is that except for the unyielding and suppressed remnants contacted by Xuan Yingwei, the others can't even tell which ones are Tang Min. This phenomenon is unacceptable for Shi Jian, a descendant of Anxi, looking at the descendants of his former compatriots speaking the same language as his enemies, and even looking at himself, a general of the Tang Dynasty, his eyes flashed with the same frightened expression as those Tubo and Xiqiang people, this scene made him feel particularly dazzling and heartache.

"General, we are still not far from Hexi, but I am afraid that we will really fight Anxi in the future, and whether we remember the existence of Datang is a problem." In charge of Xuanyingwei's entourage is Zhao Si, and now he is Hu Xiaosi's deputy, the general who holds the highest power in the northwest Xuanyingwei. But when he saw Shi Jian's eyes that seemed to be able to devour people, he couldn't help but be afraid, and hurriedly persuaded him.

"Yes, General. Don't you know that the Tubo people occupied Hexi back then, cutting off our way home, and if we don't follow their orders, we are afraid that the entire Han people in the Western Regions will be exterminated. The old patriarch of the Tang Min remnant clan who had been contacted by Xuan Yingwei before saw Shi Jian's unstable mood and hurriedly walked over and said, "Please don't be angry, they also have to be in love." It's just that the world has changed, and when they are really used to speaking in the language of the enemy, over time, the tradition of my Datang Dynasty has gradually faded, and this kind of forgetfulness has become more obvious after several generations. Speaking of this, the old man also looked sad and helpless.

"Well, forget it, this kind of thing should be left to the cabinet, I'm afraid that when I see them, they can't help but raise their butcher knives again. Zhao Si, you immediately send someone to summon the marshal, and ask him to contact the cabinet to send someone with the army to deal with this matter. By the way, write these things into articles and send them to the marshal. After Shi Jian ordered this, let those bereaved families temporarily take charge of the miscellaneous affairs of the towns along the way, and led the army to continue to set off.

At the beginning of April of the third year of the Apocalypse, Wan Yi had already led the main force of the Western Expedition Army out of Yangguan and entered Ganzhou when he received Shi Jian's report. The pressure of the Tiance Army's troops on the realm brought unprecedented pressure to all the clans in the Western Regions, especially Shi Jian's actions during this time, and the bloody killing almost said that he was here for revenge. When the Tang Dynasty was in decline in Anxi, and the Anxi army was surrounded and suppressed by the Tubo people, the role played by these tribes was not very glorious, so for a while, the entire Ganzhou was panicked. The Uighur court also began to gather troops in preparation for the arrival of the Celestial Army.

However, at this time, there was another force active in Ganzhou - Tang Kou. In fact, the term was first invented by the Uighurs, originating from a group of rebels who had escaped from the Guiyi army more than a decade earlier. They claimed to be the people of the Tang Dynasty and were determined to lead the Han Chinese people in the Western Regions to resist the rule of the Uighurs and Tibetans and restore the Tang Dynasty's Western Regions. There was even a time when they were called Anxikou by the tribes of the Western Regions. At first, after this force left the sandbank of the Guiyi army, it was very powerful, with all the troops and horses, and everywhere it went, it also received the support of countless Han people in the Western Regions, and they dared to confront the Uighurs head-on. Its leader, Zhang Sheng, even said directly that there was no need for the Tang Dynasty to return to the Western Regions, and with the efforts of the Han people in the Western Regions, they would be able to remove all obstacles along the way, open up the Silk Road, and return to Anxi.

If Li Xuanqing and Zhang Sheng met before, they would definitely know this person's true thoughts, that is, they have completely lost hope and confidence in the Tang Dynasty, and they are unwilling to pin the future and fate of the Han people in the Western Regions on the court that has no name or substance, but wants to be angry and self-reliant, and rely on their own strength to complete self-redemption independently.

It was only after that these people fought to the death with the Uighurs for many years, and the difficulties of replenishment, and the gradual decline of their power, and the fact that many Han people were afraid that they would be retaliated against by the Uighurs because they had contact with them, so they no longer supported them, and even betrayed their whereabouts one after another, forcing the spontaneous resistance of the Han people in the Western Regions led by Zhang Sheng to gradually go underground and begin to hide in the shadows and wait for the opportunity.

"Grandma, after so many years, it's finally time to come. What did you do in the early years, this time there is revenge, there is revenge. Zhang Sheng is forty-one years old this year, and his messy hair is like a bird's nest, walking around his underground castle.

"Head, I heard that the Tang Army in the east seems to be sending people to look for us now, should we get in touch with them?" Finally waiting for Zhang Sheng to calm down, a subordinate dressed in black beside him asked.

"Well, let's wait." Zhang Sheng waved his hand and signaled his subordinates not to contact the Tiance Army for the time being. Without the support of the Han people in the mainland, the "Tang Kou" led by Zhang Sheng almost represented the most promising Han resistance force in the Western Regions.

"But we can't do nothing, I heard that the Wen people plan to gather troops to confront the Tang army at Huqiu Pass, why don't we join in the fun, wouldn't we be too sorry for this Han skin?" Zhang Sheng sneered: "Go and inform the brothers, let's go and make a big deal, let all the tribes in the Western Regions know and know, even if they slander Tang Kou, we are all the people of the Tang Dynasty, the blood of China, and we are of one heart and one mind against foreign enemies, regardless of you and me." ”

Zhang Sheng's order instantly turned this underground castle into a veritable rat's nest, countless rat-like warriors have drilled out from all corners of this castle and then quickly appeared on the ground one by one, only to see a figure suddenly appear on the vast desert, these ragged but silent warriors exude a terrifying dead air, as soon as they appeared on the ground, the temperature of this place quickly seemed to have dropped a lot.

"Brothers, we have been dormant in this ghost place for nearly half a month, and it's time to go out and do activities." Zhang Sheng stood in front of everyone with a huge long knife, and his voice spread far away, "Otherwise, those damned Uighurs and Wenmo people would think we're all gone." This time, let's go dig out the nest of the Wen Mo people. Let the people of Wen Mo also taste the pain of losing their homes. With a wave of his right hand, Zhang Sheng disappeared into the desert with the thousands of lifeless warriors in front of him.

At this time, Shi Jian, the forward general of the Tiance Army, stopped more than 100 miles away from the fortress of Huqiu Pass, and a fast horse message from Xuan Yingwei made his face extremely ugly, this is not another order, but a material from the headquarters of Xuan Yingwei transferred by Wan Yi, Tang Kou in the mouths of various ethnic groups in the Western Regions was formed by the descendants of the Anxi Army that year, and it was also the descendant of the Zhang family, the general of the four towns of Anxi, but later the Zhang family was betrayed and sacrificed by traitors before the Battle of Qiuzi. Unexpectedly, many years later, a group of people from the Zhang family traveled thousands of miles to settle on the sandbank, and finally joined the Guiyi Army. It's just that later, for some reason, he defected from the Guiyi Army and came to the Ganzhou area.

"General, this team of the Zhang family fought for decades from Ganzhou to Suzhou, and finally became an underground organization, specializing in raiding the scattered strongholds and caravans of various ethnic groups in the Western Regions. I heard that the slogan of returning to Anxi was also raised. Zhao Si saw that Shi Jian's face was ugly after reading the message, and explained: "Xuan Yingwei has sent people to find their traces, but there is no news yet. ”

"Then don't look for it for the time being, I know their minds, they have been fighting alone for decades, traveling thousands of miles, without any allies, and without any hope. To be honest, it is not easy for them to hold on until now, if it weren't for the emperor's words from Helan Mountain that woke me up, I'm afraid that I would be even more unbearable than them. Forget it, people like them will never trust anyone unless they want to. In this cruel Western Regions, it is more difficult to survive than anywhere else, let alone the Han people. Shi Jian looked up to the sky and sighed, "It's because we're late." Go and send someone to tell all the people along the way that Datang is back. In the future, anyone who dares to point fingers at the descendants of the Tang people in my Western Regions and hide their bad intentions will be the enemies of my Tang Dynasty and the enemies of my hundreds of thousands of Tiance army. ”

In the following time, Shi Jian's army of 30,000 was almost lined up in a zigzag, comprehensively collecting the descendants of the Tang people scattered everywhere, and the secret guards of the Xuan Ying Guard in the local area were even more fully dispatched to lead the people from all over the country to come to the front of the army. Shi Jian directly played the banner of the descendants of Anxi, directly revealed his identity, and called on the descendants of the Tang people in the northwest to join this huge war as a descendant of the Anxi Army, and expelled the oppression of the Han people by the large and small tribes in various places.

Shi Jian's actions made Wan Yi in the back thoughtful, and began to ask the army to make a big banner and write directly: "Those who offend my Tang Dynasty will be punished even if they are far away", so as to inspire those people with lofty ideals who have been running for the livelihood of the Tang people in the Western Regions all the year round, and tell them that the new Tang Dynasty has drawn out the most powerful force to support them, recover Anxi, and rebuild the world.

Wan Yi's actions naturally spread in an instant, and everyone in Ganzhou knew about it, and almost all the tribes in Ganzhou knew that this Tang army was coming overnight, but they were afraid that the Western Regions would change the sky in the future. Some of the clans began to consider whether to prepare a way back for their own families, while most began to plot and discuss preparations against the Tiance Army. In contrast, after the decline of the Tibetan power, the Western Regions was dominated by the Uighurs, but the other ethnic groups still played various roles in it.

The reaction of those few tribes is different, those Tang Min remnants who have been hidden for nearly a hundred years have begun to become active under the actions of the Tiance Army, they may not be able to provide immediate assistance to the army, but they have greatly boosted the morale of the people, and almost without the guidance of the Tiance Army, these people began to contact the forces that were on the surface when they were separated, ready to do it anyway.

In the middle of April of the third year of the Apocalypse, the main force of Wan Yi's army converged with Shi Jian and went to Huqiu Pass, preparing for a decisive battle with the Wen Mo people and taking down this roadblock to the Western Regions. At about the same time, news came from the Uighur court in Ganzhou, and 100,000 iron horsemen began to assemble and prepare to march southeast. All of a sudden, the news of Xuan Yingwei began to be transmitted rapidly in Ganzhou by carrier pigeons and cavalry, and the news of the Uighurs was transmitted to the Tiance army camp as soon as possible. At this time, the dark battle that Xuan Yingwei was preparing to lead also began quickly after the arrival of the Flying Eagle Brigade in the rear. The Northwest War was on the verge of breaking out.