One day and the next day, Li Shimin passed down the holy decree, Wang Wendu robbed the army in Shepherd City, violated military discipline and was beheaded for public display. Cheng Zhijie was corrupt and perverted the law, shielded and connived, stripped of all official positions, and sent back to his hometown of Dong'e County, Jeju, Shandong Province for retirement. However, although Cheng Zhijie was dismissed from his official position by the holy decree, his title was not moved, making Cheng Zhijie the white-bodied county king of the elderly.

Three days later, Cheng Zhijie was ordered to go out of Beijing, and Qin Qiong, Li Jing and others came to see each other off at the gate of the city. He threw the wine bowl to the ground, hugged his fist at everyone and said: "Everyone, I understand the affection of each other, we will meet later!" ”

Everyone hurriedly returned the salute, and Lao Cheng arched his hand and turned his head to leave, when suddenly his body paused. He saw that on the city tower of Chang'an, Li Shimin, the eldest grandson Wujian and Yang Ji'er were standing with their hands down.

"Gone! We'll see you later! Cheng Zhijie roared, the sound shook the sky, and then urged the rainbow war horse to go east.

On the city tower, Li Shimin watched quietly until Cheng Zhijie disappeared from view; The eldest grandson Wujian and Yang Ji'er burst into tears, and they had already cried into tears.

Lao Cheng made witty remarks along the way, which made Cui Yu and others laugh constantly; There was no majesty in the past, and the children who followed him to Shandong to study also gathered around him and asked in a chattering voice: "King Jun, tell us what happened to the monkey who was crushed under the Five Elements Mountain?" ”

Cheng Zhijie smiled: "This is not good, let's talk about it, once a day." Have you done your homework? ”

"It's done, it's done, and we all got excellent today? The king of the county said, if we all get excellent, we will add one more time! ”

"Good! In that case, I'm going to tell you about it. Okay, if you are obedient in the future, and you get excellent in every homework, I will add it once a day! ”

"Good! We'll be obedient. The children's voices sounded crisply.

Cui Yu and the others heard that Cheng Zhijie was going to tell a story again, so they hurried over; Now Cheng Zhijie is full of excitement, which makes them a little fascinated.

The convoy had been walking for a month before arriving in Dong'e County, Jeju, Shandong Province, and as soon as they entered the Ikaruga store, they were taken aback by the situation here. The entire Ikaruga shop has been fenced off, and there is a large number of people working on it inside.

"What's going on? Da Zhuang, go check it out! Cheng Zhijie was stunned for a moment, and waved his hand at Dong Dazhuang, the leader of the guards.

Dong Dazhuang urged the horse into the turtledove shop, and it didn't take long for a green-clothed official to come out. When this person arrived in front of Cheng Zhijie, he knelt down on the ground and said: "Cheng Yu Wensheng, the young superintendent of the Ministry of Officials and Works, see the King of the Great Demon County." ”

"Yu Wensheng, what are you doing here? I ask you, what about the people at the turtledove shop? ”

"Returning to the county king, the lower official received a royal order of long live to prepare for the construction of the county king's mansion here. The entire turtledove shop had to be replanned and built, so the people of the turtledove shop moved to Dong'a to live. ”

Cheng Zhijie was relieved and asked them about the process of relocation and the progress of the project. Yu Wensheng said: "The prestige of the county king in the turtledove shop is very high, as soon as we said that we want to build the county king's mansion, the people of the turtledove shop took the initiative to cooperate, and they all moved in one day." When the garrison here heard about it, they also took the initiative to contact us and came to help with the construction, and we are sure that we will complete the task within a few months. ”

Cheng Zhijietong said a few words of encouragement to them, so he had to take people to live in Liangshan first.

Although Cheng Zhijie left the center of the Tang Dynasty, but the development of the Tang Dynasty and foreign conquests did not stop, in the twenty-second year of Zhenguan, Su Dingfang ordered Ashinadure and Xue Rengui to lead the Tang army to attack Yanqi, and Qiuzi and Yanqi resisted. Tang soldiers attack Qiuzi. In the following year, the king and the minister of power were captured, and Su Dingfang moved the capital of Anxi to protect the palace in Qiuzi.

After pacifying these two countries, Datang directly faced the most powerful country in the Western Regions, Da Shi. At this time, the Great Eclipse was under the rule of Umar, the second of the four caliphs.

One mountain cannot accommodate two tigers, and two behemoths meet for the first time, of course, no one will let anyone go. The general of the Great Eater, Gallaher, suddenly attacked the vassal state of the Tang Army, Bakhana (Dawan). Bahanna couldn't resist and asked for help from Su Dingfang, the capital of Anxi.

Su Dingfang sent Xue Rengui and Gao Kan to lead an army of 10,000 to attack, and the two drove straight in, and the enemy they killed was defeated, and even Gallah was captured.

At this time, Omar knew that he was afraid, and quickly contacted Tianzhu and got Tianzhu's help, which stabilized the situation and resisted Datang's attack.

Su Dingfang was furious and contacted Chai Shao in the rear, and sent a large army to attack the Great Food Country again; At the same time, Wang Xuance was ordered to be the chief envoy and Jiang Shiren to be the deputy envoy, and a group of 30 people went to Tianzhu to ask for the crime.

When the new king of Tianzhu, Luo Shunna, heard that the envoys of the Tang Dynasty had entered the country, he sent 2,000 men and horses to ambush them halfway, except for Wang Xuance and Jiang Shiren, all the cavalry were killed, and Wang Xuance and Jiang Shiren were also captured.

Later, Wang Xuance and Jiang Shiren escaped with the help of Princess Laga Sriri, and they vowed to exterminate Tianzhu and be ashamed of the Snow Messenger's killing! The two then rode north, crossing the Gandes River and the Sindustan Plains, targeting the Himalayas and reaching Nibra.

In Ni Bo Luo, Wang Xuan Ce negotiated with the King of Ni Bo Luo, and borrowed 7,000 cavalry from Ni Bo Luo in the name of protecting cattle in the southwest capital of the Tang Dynasty, and at the same time called for the major Tang vassal states in the vicinity, plus Niu Jinda sent 1,200 elite cavalry, with a total of nearly 10,000 men and horses. He appointed himself as the general manager and ordered Jiang Shiren to be the vanguard, and went straight to Tianzhu.

Outside the Northern Tianzhu Chabo and Luo City, Wang Xuance used the "Fire Ox Array" to defeat tens of thousands of cavalry in Tianzhu. A Luo Shun was shocked, he couldn't defend the city, Xuan Ce was bent on revenge, and took out various means of the Tang army to attack the city - cloud ladders, stone throwers, fire attacks, and attacked Yueyu.

Cha Bo and Luo Cheng soldiers broke the city, Xuan Ce chased all the way, killed 3,000 Tianzhu soldiers, Tianzhu soldiers drowned more than 10,000, captured 11,000, and Luo Shunna fled back to Zhongtianzhu.

Wang Xuance took advantage of the situation to attack Zhongtianzhu and vowed to destroy Tianzhu. The Tianzhu soldiers will be in contact with the Tang army (regarded as a foreign legion) and will not be able to form an army, and Luo Shunna abandoned the country and defected to the East Tianzhu, seeking reinforcements from the corpse of the king of East Tianzhu, and then recruited the remnants of the scattered soldiers to prepare for a counterattack on the Tang army.

Wang Xuance and Jiang Shiren set up a division of troops to lure Aroshuna into the bait, annihilated the remnants of Aroshuna in one fell swoop, captured Aroshuna alive, and killed the rest of the people. In the end, the Acropolis of Chaoqiantuo, which was defended by Luo Shunna's wife with tens of thousands of troops, was also broken by Jiang Shiren, and the cities near and far fell in the wind, and Zhongtianzhu perished!

Due to Dong Tianzhu's assistance to Aloshuna, Wang Xuance was ready to take advantage of the situation to die in Dong Tianzhu again. The corpse Gumo was so frightened that his soul was scattered, and he hurriedly sent ten thousand cattle and horses, a number of treasures with bows and knives, apologized to the Tang master, and expressed his surrender to the Tang Empire. Su Dingfang was overjoyed, and he came to meet Omar with his former enemy.

Umar himself was the commander-in-chief of the Muslim army at this time, and for the past two years he has been invincible in all battles and destroyed countless countries. This time to fight against the Tang Army, he gathered all the troops in the country to annihilate the Tang Dynasty in one fell swoop and enter the Central Plains.

However, the battle of Datang was completely different from them, and the first to attack was the artillery fire in the sky. The camel cavalry of the Great Food had never seen such a thing at all, and they were so frightened that they scattered and fled.

A shell exploded not far from Omar, and the flying shrapnel left Omar badly wounded and fell off his horse. Then he was carried back to Damascus.

Umar died that night, and the third caliph, Uthman, succeeded him, but at this time opponents in the country doubted his succession, and the Great Food Empire was almost divided, and it no longer had the strength to compete with the Tang Dynasty for the Western Regions.

Li Shimin was overjoyed, rewarded all the meritorious heroes, and raised the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate to the same level as the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate and Chai Shao's Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate.

In the same year, Zhang Ding's navy did not stop after taking all the island countries in the South China Sea. In August and September, they took advantage of the monsoon to pass from the city of Panyu and headed south, where they met a caravan from Persia at Polozhong (present-day Singapore).

Puluozhong is the only place in the South China Sea to the Tianzhu Ocean, and the two armies fought fiercely for this place.

Leading the Tang Army was the new Navy General Liu Renliang, and this was the first time Liu Renliang led the Navy to fight. He ordered the boat to lure the enemy, and after the enemy entered the encirclement, the dragon boat suddenly surrounded the enemy.

Each of these dragon ships was equipped with twenty lightning cannons, and the roar of cannon fire quickly smashed the enemy fleet into the sea.

This battle killed countless enemies, and they not only obtained a large amount of supplies, but also completely occupied the strategic point of Puluozhong.

Then Zhang Ding led the army into another world; Maritime transport is very well developed here, and all kinds of merchant ships are constantly flowing. When they entered the port of Basra Wublay in the upper part of the Persian Gulf, they caused a great sensation, and the people here rushed to come and do business with the Tang Dynasty; It has greatly promoted the prosperity of trade.

Basra is an Arab city and the closest port to Baghdad, and he governs the Persian port of Wublay, which is located at the head of the Persian Gulf. At this time there were not only normal merchants, but also a dirty slave trade.

These Persians snatched Africans from their distant homeland and traded them as slaves; Only 12 out of 10 of the people they looted made it to Basra alive, and the rest were thrown into the ocean on the way.

Zhang Ding had just finished the transaction when he got news that the rebellious African slaves had occupied Basra and were hurrying here.

The lord of Basra fled all the way to Woblay Harbour, and when he saw the strength of the Tang army, he hurried to see Zhang Ding and ask them to help retake the city of Basra.

Zhang Ding was overjoyed when he heard this, of course they couldn't let go of the fat that was sent to his mouth. So Zhang Ding, in the name of counterinsurgency, led the army to take Basra, and occupied Ou Blay and no longer left, extending the tentacles of the Tang Dynasty to the Middle East.