On the second day of the first month of August, Yang Xuangan's entire army was annihilated under Tongguan, and the mutiny storm raged two? After that, it finally calmed down. [Ran^Text^Library] []

Yang Tong, the king of Yue, Fan Zigai, the remaining guard in the eastern capital, Wensheng, the remaining guard in Xijing, the general Yu Wenshu of Zuo Yiwei and the general of Right Yiwei came to Hu'er to jointly report to the Holy Lord: Yang Xuangan is dead, the mutiny has been quelled, and the situation in the Eastern Capital is rapidly recovering, so please return to Beijing as soon as possible.

On the same day, in the Linshuo Palace of Zhuo County, the Holy Lord received a report from Xijing. Although Liu Wujian, the general of the Right Tun Guard, and Li Renzheng, the general of the Right Imperial Guard, quickly supported and quickly reversed the decline of the Longxi Border Army, they were constrained by the lack of troops and materials, and could only barely maintain the status quo and were unable to launch a counteroffensive. During the same period, the situation in the Western Regions also took a sharp turn for the worse, and the Hexi Army was also constrained by insufficient troops and lack of materials, and could neither resist the counterattack of the Tuyuhun people, nor prevent the Western Turks from annexing and encroaching on the countries in the Western Regions, and retreated one after another. To sum up, the territory expanded by the Western Expedition has basically fallen; The fruits of the Western Regions were lost.

The house leak happened to rain overnight, just when the situation in the northwest was stormy, the Turks in Huining, Hexi Province were clamoring to return to their homeland, if it were not for the two major armies of Longxi and Hexi to forcibly deter by force, these Turks would have already embarked on the way home.

Three years ago, the Western Turks were in civil strife, and the Luo Khan rebelled and left their relatives and had no way out, so they surrendered to the East under the "coercion and temptation" of Middle-earth, and the Turks who followed the Luo Khan were settled in Huining, Hexi. At that time, Middle-earth promised to help Luo Khan make a comeback when the time was right. It was with the help of Middle-earth that the Khan of Qimin made a comeback, and with this precedent, the Khan and his followers believed in the promise of Middle-earth.

In the blink of an eye, three years later, instead of fulfilling its promises, Middle-earth "imprisoned" the Khan in disguise, and formed an alliance with the Khan of Chura, the enemy of the Khan. The treachery of Middle-earth angered these Turks, who rightfully wanted to leave Middle-earth. However, there was no way for them to leave.

At present, the internal and external troubles of Middle-earth have broken out together, and in this bad situation, not to mention the expedition of the laborers of the Western Soil in Middle-earth, it is difficult to even maintain the security of the northwest, so at this moment, this "card" of Luo Khan is particularly important, and Middle-earth will not let the Turks of Huining leave anyway. If they leave, Luo Khan will be left alone, and he will be weak, who will Middle-earth threaten with him?

The restoration of the Tuyuhun people will inevitably seriously stimulate the Western Tu captives and arouse the ambitions of the Western Tu captives to Middle-earth, and if the Tuyuhun people cannot be defeated quickly, it will prove that the strength of Middle-earth is not good, and there will be frequent wars in the northwest frontier in the future, among which the Western Turks are the greatest threat to Middle-earth. To this end, Middle-earth must firmly grasp the "card" of Chuluo Khan, so as to help Chuluo Khan return to the West and rise up again to blackmail the Western Turks. Also because of the existence of the example of the Qimin Khan, the Western Turks will inevitably compromise, after all, with the strength of Middle-earth is enough to help the Chuluo Khan to kill back to the Western Soil, so the Western Turks will inevitably repeat the mistake of decline, divide again, kill each other again, and finally cheapen Middle-earth in vain.

The bad news in the northwest came one after another, and the Holy Lord was extremely angry, but after the anger, he was also helpless and helpless.

What is the reason for the complete upheaving of the good situation in such a short period of time?

Lack of national strength? It is certainly not a lack of national strength, the fifth year of the Great Cause (609 AD) won a great victory in the western expedition, and in the eighth year of the Great Cause (612 AD), a huge eastern crusade of millions of people was launched, which shows that the national strength is enough to support the implementation of the national policy of active defense in Middle-earth.

Wrong policy? Now that the national strength has developed, of course, we must actively defend and take the initiative to contain and weaken the foreign captives, so as to win a safer and more relaxed environment for the rapid development of China and foreign countries, otherwise the Middle Earth will always be subject to the threat of foreign captives, and will falter in the case of being constrained, unable to focus on development, which is of course not conducive to its own strength in the long run.

Therefore, the western expedition is right, and it is also right to devote all the national strength to the eastern expedition to Goguryeo, as long as the first battle is decided, the eastern capital will be able to free up its hands and increase its support for the northwest while ensuring the stability of northern Xinjiang, so that the Tuyuhun people will not be able to form a threat even if they counterattack, and the Western Turks can only fight against the Middle Earth even if they re-enter the Western Regions, and the situation in the northwest will not take a sharp turn for the worse.

However, the First Crusade ended in a crushing defeat, and the implementation of the national policy of active defense suffered a heavy setback, and the dream of rapid development of Middle-earth was dealt a heavy blow.

Could it be a mistake in military command? Compared with the Western Expedition, the military command during the Eastern Expedition? One of the biggest changes is that military power has become more centralized, and the Holy Lord and the Central Authority not only firmly control the military decision-making power, but also "snatch" most of the battlefield command power from the hands of the front-line commanders.

However, the Holy Lord and the Central Pivot did not admit that they had "robbed" the commanders of the battlefield command, because the Sailor Division acted alone, and the Sailor Commander had the command of the Sailor Division, and the three of Laihu'er, Zhou Fashang and Cui Junsu could decide the Sailor Division's offensive and defensive plans. In addition, on land, the army of the expedition to Pyongyang also has the right to dispose of it at the right of opportunity, and Yu Zhongwen, Yu Wenshu and Liu Shilong are fully responsible for attacking Pyongyang. Therefore, the defeat of the naval division in Pyongyang and the crushing defeat of the land army in Sasu were due to the poor command of the front-line commanders, and had nothing to do with the supreme command, nor did it have anything to do with the excessive concentration of military power by the Holy Lord and the center.

In order to protect their own interests, in order to overthrow the reform, in order to overthrow the Holy Lord and the reformers, the conservatives did not hesitate to sacrifice the interests of Middle-earth and Guozuo, did not hesitate to destroy the national defense strategy of active defense, and even did not hesitate to slaughter hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians of the Weifu, among which the most hated are the radical conservative forces such as Yang Xuangan and Hu Sizheng, who betrayed the country and the nation. As a result, the successive defeats of the Eastern Crusade led to the outbreak of internal and external troubles, and the general trend of China and foreign countries took a sharp turn for the worse, resulting in the loss of some of the advantages that China and Turkey had gained through hardships in the relations between the north and the south.

The Holy Lord hated the conservatives to the bone marrow, hated them for ignoring the great cause of Middle Earth, the national Zuo, the great cause of reunification, and thousands of living beings for their own selfish interests, and longed to devour Yang Xuangan, Hu Sizheng and other traitors and thieves alive.

However, the defeat of the two crusades was a bloody lesson, and the conservative forces were not only strong, but also unscrupulous and unscrupulous in order to defeat the Holy Lord and the reformers, even at the cost of all the jade. This is too terrible and terrifying, if the Holy Lord and the reformers continue to fight bloody battles with the conservative forces, insist on going their own way and do not make any compromises, the final result is not difficult to imagine, I am afraid that even if the Holy Lord and the reformers have the last laugh, it will be the last laugh.

The Lord and the reformers must compromise, and must temporarily win a rapprochement with the conservative forces at the cost of the stagnation or even regression of reform, so that they can work together to tide over the difficulties.

However, after the failure of Yang Xuangan's mutiny, the reformers and conservatives have completely torn their faces, either you die or I die, the two sides are pointed at Mai Mang, the knife is out of the sheath and the arrow is wound, they are all determined to put each other to death, no one can retreat at this moment, no one dares to retreat, and once they retreat, they may be defeated like a mountain and the whole army will be annihilated.

It's a dead end. After the failure of Yang Xuangan's mutiny, the reformers will definitely take the opportunity to make a "sweep" against the conservative forces, and a political reckoning will inevitably turn into a political storm, and Xijing, as the "base camp" of the conservative forces, will inevitably fight back to the death. In order to ensure the success of the counterattack, Xijing will inevitably deliberately worsen the situation in the northwest, and threaten the Holy Lord and the reformers with the crisis in the northwest.

Under such circumstances, the Holy Lord and the reformers could only stop at the political reckoning, stop at Tongguan, and no longer deliberately push the storm to Guanzhong and even the entire Guanlong region. However, this kind of compromise between the Holy Lord and the reformers is a forced move, it is a helpless act, as long as they are given a chance, they will inevitably kill the conservative forces, so Xijing will not recognize and accept this kind of compromise, they will inevitably maintain a high degree of vigilance, and will always have a tense confrontation with the reformists for a long time in the future, and in order to win more advantages or even the final victory in the confrontation, Xijing will definitely do everything possible to attack the reformers, use all means to weaken the central authority, and do everything possible. In this case, what kind of cooperation are the two sides talking about? How can we tide over the difficulties together?

The Holy Lord urgently summoned Pei Shiju, the waiter of the Yellow Gate.

The victory of the Western Expedition made Pei Shiju's Western Earth Scripture transform into fruitful results, but the heavens did not fulfill people's wishes, and today, just four years later, the fruitful results are about to come to naught. The failure of the Western Territory Strategy not only means the loss of the territory and the crisis of the security of the Northwest, but also gives the Holy Lord and the center a resounding "big slap", and the authority has suffered a heavy blow.

Pei Shiju sighed secretly after reading the Xijing recital.

The political struggle has become white-hot, and the political game between the two capitals has become more and more bloody, and there is a tendency to gradually get out of control. Yang Xuan's feeling? Change is like a barrel of "kerosene" poured on the flame of struggle between reformers and conservatives, and as a result, it explodes, gets out of control, and is out of control.

One of the most important reasons for the failure of the Western Soil Economic Strategy was that the central government's support for the northwest was insufficient, and the excuse of the Eastern Capital was to devote all its national strength to the eastward crusade. It is true that the Eastern Crusade has exhausted the national strength, but the question is, is it necessary to use millions of people to fight a Goguryeo, and the purpose is to kill chickens and monkeys? Is it necessary to devote all the resources of the country? Is it necessary to support the crusade at the expense of the Western Lands?

If the sacrifice of the interests of the Western Soil had indeed won the great victory of the Eastern Crusade, the deep-seated contradiction would have been covered up, but now that the benefits of the Western Soil had been completely sacrificed, and the Eastern Expedition had failed one after another, this deep-seated contradiction could not be concealed and was completely exposed.

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