Section 1: In order to give even those who are completely unaware of this battle a general understanding of this history, let's briefly introduce the various forces that appeared one by one.

1. Datang

Founded in 618 A.D., after Li Shimin ascended the throne, the Tang Dynasty ushered in its first peak. Zhenguan four years (630), after the destruction of the Eastern * Turks, the Tang Dynasty began to conquer the Western Regions, successively pacified Xue Yantuo, Huifu, Gaochang, Yanqi, Qiuzi, Tuyuhun, etc., in the Western Regions set up the Anxi Protectorate, the North Courtyard Protectorate, for more than 100 years, constantly facing new opponents, and most of them won victories, first the Eastern * Turks, then the Western Regions countries, then the Western Turks, then the Western Turks, then the Tibetans, then the Later Turks, the Turks, and then in Talas against the Great Food and fiasco. According to the urine nature of the Tang Dynasty and the previous experience (such as the fight with the Western Turks and Tibet, many failures, the four towns of Anxi lost many times, and finally came back, turned defeat into victory, and his opponents were all destroyed one after another), it is very likely that it will be brought back later, but the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion will bury everything, and the Tang Dynasty has to withdraw from the Western Regions, and the century-old work will be ruined. In the following story, Datang is the protagonist.

2. Big food

Da Shi was established and arose at about the same time as the Tang Dynasty, and was known as the Arab Empire. It is a theocratic regime, which has expanded for more than 100 years since its establishment, and its territory has expanded dozens of times. It was the main rival of the Tang Dynasty in the Western Regions, and the most powerful enemy. In the mid-7th century, after conquering Persia, which had a history of thousands of years, the Great Eclipse began to conquer the Transoxians of Central Asia, and the local Sogdians, surnamed Zhaowu Jiu, were not his opponents, and were soon conquered and occupied. The Great Cannibals occupied and enslaved this area for 80 years, and there were several times when the locals united with the Hou** people and the Tuqi Shi people to run away, but later the Tuqi Shi regime weakened, and the Great Eclipse reoccupied the Hezhong area, and sought to continue to expand eastward, occupying the four towns of Anxi in the Tang Dynasty. In addition, not long before the Battle of Talas, the Great Food had just changed the dynasty, replaced the White Great Food by the Black Clothes Food, there were many rebellions in the Hezhong region, the Black Clothes Food suppressed the rebellion with brutal means, and there were a large number of garrisons in the local area, after the Battle of Talas defeated the Tang Dynasty, because of the strong combat effectiveness of the Tang Army, they did not dare to continue to advance eastward, and then there was also civil strife in the country, and when they wanted to continue to advance eastward after the flat-bottomed civil strife, Tubo took over the position of the Tang Dynasty and resisted the expansion of the Great Food for many years. Therefore, the territory of the Great Eclipse has never crossed the Green Mountains, but the Hanaka region was firmly occupied by him, and during this time, he completed YSL. In the following story, Big Food is the villain.

3. Tibet

Tibet was the most threatening force to the Tang Dynasty, and soon after the Anshi Rebellion, it captured Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty. On the Tibetan Plateau today, the establishment and rise of Tibet was almost at the same time as that of the Tang Dynasty (that is, during this period, the three most powerful powers on the earth arose at the same time). During the Li Shimin period, the two sides sensibly chose peace, and the Tang Dynasty also married a princess Wencheng in the past, bringing with them a large number of advanced technology in agriculture and handicrafts (in hindsight, I think it is a bit like a capital enemy). But at that time, both sides were in the rising period and expansion period, and next to each other, so a few decades later, Tubo chose to move to the Tang Dynasty after adjusting the interior, from then on, until the Battle of Talas for a hundred years, it seems that Tubo has always been defeated and won less, but the foundation has always been there, and then the Tang Dynasty was in civil strife, from extreme prosperity to extreme decline, Tubo took the opportunity to capture the capital of the Tang Dynasty, Chang'an, and was driven away by Guo Ziyi, but has been harassing the Tang Dynasty for more than 100 years. In the following story, Tubo is the No. 2 villain, specializing in the Tang Dynasty for 100 years.

Fourth, the nine surnames of Zhaowu in the river are Sogdians

Here are three concepts to explain. Hezhong, also known as the Central Asian River Region, is located approximately in the entire territory of present-day Uzbekistan and southwestern Kazakhstan, and is named after two rivers. In the west of the Green Ridge and the east of the Aral Sea, there are two large rivers flowing southeast → northwest in the south and north, namely the Amu Darya River (called Wuhu Water in the Tang Dynasty) and the Syr Darya River (Yaozhi Water), the area through which these two rivers flow and the Zeravshan River basin sandwiched between the two rivers This fertile oasis is called Hezhong.

Occupying the area at that time was a group of Sogdians known as the nine surnames of Zhaowu. They built some small countries, including Kang State, Mi State, Cao State, He State, An State, Shi State, Han (Cymbal Khan) and so on, among which Cao State is divided into East Cao, West Cao, and Middle Cao, so it is also called Zhaowu Nine Kingdoms. Among them, Kang is their suzerain, the king of Mi and the king of Kang are brothers, Anguo is the closest to the capital of Khorasan so it is the most bullied, the battle of Talas has just been slaughtered, Shi Guo and Bahanna are in the easternmost of Zhaowu Jiu, Shi Guo is in the northeast, closest to Turgish (Turkic), at that time Shi Guo has two kings, and they are Turkic, before the outbreak of the Battle of Talas, Shiguo has been Turkicized, Bahana is closest to the four towns of Anxi, and the relationship with the Tang Dynasty is also the most intimate, Zhaowu Nine surnames are the only country that married the princess of the Tang Dynasty.

The Sogdians with the surname Zhaowu were active on the Silk Road for a long time, and were famous in Eurasia for their ability to do business. At the same time, it occupies the most fertile oasis in the river, but it is not very warlike, so the land in the river has become the focus of coveting and contention by all parties, but most of the time in these 80 years has been occupied, plundered, and enslaved by the Great Eclipse, and it is nominally attached to the Tang Dynasty and is under the jurisdiction of the Anxi Protectorate. Therefore, the essence of the Battle of Talas, according to my understanding, is actually the Tang and the Great Eclipse fighting for the dominance of the Transoxiana region.

5. Turgy

Turgish is actually a part of the Western Turks. The Western Turks had ten tribes (ten surnames), and the Turkish was one of them. After the Western Turks were wiped out by the Tang Dynasty, the Turks still lived in the Western Turkic homeland, and their leaders were chiefs and were still called Khans. The Turkic king's surname was Ashina Husero Khan, who was brutal and not attached to the Turks, and the leader of the Turkish tribe at that time, Uzhile, was able to soothe the warriors and have prestige, and the Hu people were obedient. To put it bluntly, the descendants of the Turkic royal family, Ashina Husero, could not cover it, and Wuzhile could cover it, so he seized his power, annexed the original territory of Ashina Husero, and established Turgish.

The leaders of the first two generations of Turgish were Uzhile and his son Suoge, and later Suo Ge helped the Tang Dynasty to defeat the enemy, and was captured and killed by the Later Turkic Mesikhan (which happened in 711), and was a hero who sacrificed his life for the Tang. After the death of Suage, the Turgish were in chaos for 5 years, until 716 A.D., when Sulu restored the Turgish Khanate, and its core tribe had been changed to the Chebi Shi Division, which can be called the Turgish Chebi Khan Dynasty.

Briefly talk about the three surnames of Turgish. There are three core tribes in Tuqishi, which are the three surnames of Tuqishi, Chebishi and Chudakun. The founders of the Khanate, Wuzhile and Suoge, father and son, were born in the Tuqi Shi Department, and the male lord Sulu was born in the Chebi Shi Department, and his powerful ministers were often born in the Great Kun Department, so the Turkic Confucian inscription has the name of "Three Surnames Tuqi Shi". Among them, the Chebi Shi Department where Sulu is located is also called the black surname Tuqi Shi, and the other two surnames are also called the Huang surname Tuqi Shi. This name is roughly derived from their hair and eyes, i.e., the black surname of the Tukish people is black hair and black eyes, and the other two surnames are yellow hair and yellow eyes.

The Turgish of the Sulu Khan's time were the most powerful, the longest, the most important role, and the most complex relationship with the Tang. It can be roughly divided into six stages: 1. Mutual need at the beginning of the establishment, 2. Later attempts to unite with the Great Eclipse to drive the Anxi army out of the Western Regions, 3. Later cooperation with the Tang Dynasty to plunder Sogdia in the river and fight against the Great Eclipse, which was the golden honeymoon between the Turgish and the Tang Dynasty, and also the most powerful period of the Turgish. 4 The two sides slowly had discord, there was friction from time to time, and most of them were Turkish attacking the four towns of Anxi or trying to seize the four towns of Anxi, but at this time the two sides had not yet torn their faces, 5 The relationship between the two sides broke down, and the faces were completely torn and fought, at this time Tang even united with Da Shi to fight against the Turkish, 6 and finally the division and gradual weakening of the Turkish.

The focus of the article is the Tuqi Shi in the Sulu era, which played a key role in influencing the overall situation, followed by the Tuqi Shi when the yellow and black surnames fought after Sulu's death, and only played the role of the fuse of the incident.

6. Turkic

The Turks are divided into four compositions, the Pre-Turks, the Eastern * Turks, the Western Turks, and the Post-Eastern * Turks. Before the Sui Dynasty and the Sui Dynasty, it was called the Pre-Turkic. Under the plot of the Sui Dynasty, the Turks split into Eastern Turks and Western Turks. The Eastern Turks were destroyed by the Tang Dynasty very early (the early days of Li Er), and their last khan was the famous Jieli Khan, who appeared in many TV dramas.

After the demise of the Eastern Turks, the Western Turks continued to confront the Tang Dynasty, not long after the death of Dazong, the Tang Gaozong Li Zhi (658) was also eliminated by the Tang, the regime was gone, the Turks were still there, the Western Turks still had ten Turks living there, and the Turks were one of the ten surnames. As for the latter **, it was established more than 20 years after the fall of the Western Turks (682) by the Turkic chieftains who had already submitted to the Tang Dynasty to rebel against the Tang Dynasty, and their locations roughly included today's Inner Mongolia and Outer Mongolia. In the following story, the main ones who appear are the Western Turks and the Later Turks, we refer to them as the Western Turks and the Later Turks, and they all play the role of dragging the Tang Dynasty back.

It should be added here that every Turk (including the Turkish, who was also separated from the Turks) had a dream of recovering the country (rebuilding the Turkic Empire, which could be on an equal footing with the Tang Dynasty or even overpowering the Tang Dynasty, such as the Eastern * Turkic heyday when he hit the edge of Weishui and forced Li Erli to establish an alliance under the city). This is a dream that is deeply rooted in their bone marrow, and they usually don't realize it very much, but as soon as the situation is relatively favorable, it will sprout and awaken. Its root comes from the yearning for the supreme glory of my ancestors (my ancestors were so powerful, the territory was so vast, they could go south to rob every year, and they also grabbed Chang'an Weishui that year, taking away the wealth of the entire Chang'an, it makes people excited to think about it). This is almost the commonality of human beings who have had a strong history, before the Gulf War, didn't Silly Damu also have such a dream?

It is precisely because of this dream of the Turks that they always rebelled after submitting to the Tang Dynasty, and the situation fell when the situation did not second, and the situation rebelled when the situation improved, for more than a hundred years, this situation has never changed, and the Tang Dynasty has not found a good way to completely solve this problem, so it has been held back by the Turks.

7. Other forces

1. Tocharo

Tocharian was located west of the Green Ridge, southeast of the river, and in the upper reaches of the Amu Darya, almost the same location as present-day Afghanistan. It was a regime established by the Turks, then attached to the Tang Dynasty, and its king was called Ye Hu. Tocharian once took in the fallen Persian king (son), and also helped the Persian prince to restore the kingdom at a specific time, and later was also invaded by the Great Eclipse and asked for help from the Tang Dynasty. Playing the role of soy sauce.

2. Persia

Persia has a history of thousands of years, and it has fought with Egypt and Greece, and the three hundred warriors of Sparta fought against Persia. Here is the Sassanid Empire of Persia, the last pre-Islamic Persian Empire, defeated by the Great Eclipse in 642 and destroyed in 651, and the Persian prince Belus, the son of its last emperor, Yazdgerd III, fled to Tocharian and was protected. During this period, he twice asked the Tang Dynasty for help in recovering the country, but the Tang Dynasty had its own enemies at that time, and the road was too far to refuse. Later, Belus briefly returned to his homeland with the help of Tocharo, but was soon beaten away. Later, (661), Tang Gaozong sent envoys to Central Asia, established the Persian governorate, and established Belus as the local governor, and the following year the Tang canonized Belus as the king of Persia.

However, this was only in name, and in fact Belus, the king of Persia, was almost equal to the commander of the bare pole. After (673 years) named Belus Persian king (son) was persecuted by the great cannibals, fled all the way east along the Silk Road, and finally came to Chang'an, and asked the Tang Emperor to build a Persian temple in Chang'an Liquanfang, shortly after the temple was completed, Belus died. Belusbos was in exile in the Don government, playing the role of a pitiful worm who was bullied by the villain.

3. Qarluq

Qarluq played a crucial role in the Battle of Talas, and it was precisely because of his betrayal that he attacked the Tang army after the battle, which directly led to the defeat of the Tang army. This is a house slave surnamed N, sandwiched between the Eastern * Turks and the Western Turks, and often rebelled with the rise and fall of the Eastern and Western Turks. That is to say, if the Eastern * Turks are prosperous, they will be subject to the Eastern * Turks, and if the Western Turks are prosperous, they will be subject to the Western Turks, and they will also be subject to the Xueyanta Khanate and the Turkish. Later Turk Shi Suo Ge Khan was captured and killed by Hou Tu (Later Turk, here referred to as Hou Tu, mentioned earlier) Mo Si Khan, Tu Cai Shi fell into chaos, and Qarlu was subordinate to Hou Tu.

Later, after the death of the Mosi Khan, the Houtu gradually declined, and Gelulu, with the support of the Tang Dynasty, attacked the Houtu many times with the Hui. Shortly before the Battle of Talas, Qarlu and Hui had more or less replaced Houtu with the support of the Tang. After that, he participated in the battle as a servant army to help Tang participate in the battle, but stabbed Tang Tang in the back. After the Battle of Talas, Qarluq moved from the southern part of the Altai Mountains to the Syr Darya Valley, the Ili River Basin, and the Ferghana Basin, and officially entered the middle of the river to develop, and replaced the Turgish to occupy the Chu River (Broken Leaf Water) Valley. The Great Cannibal acquiesced in this act, and although there is no direct evidence, I suspect with the greatest malice that there was a deal between the two sides at the time of the Battle of Talas. It can be said that Qarlu is the party with the greatest benefits after the Battle of Talas, and sure enough, the betrayal has the greatest gain and the least cost (of course, if it weren't for the Anshi Rebellion, Tang would definitely find a way to get back on the field, if Tang won, Gelulu would not be wiped out, but the Anshi Rebellion happened, should it be said that it was his luck or vision).

4. Big and small Bo rhythm

These are two small countries in the southeast of the Green Ridge and the Green Ridge, and the two countries are originally one country called Bolu. Because it blocked the way of Tibet's outward expansion, it was broken by Tibet at the beginning of the 7th century, and those who remained in place were the Great Bolu, and those who moved out to the northwest were the Little Bolu. As a result, Da Bolu was occupied by Tubo, and Xiao Bolu moved to the Green Mountains to continue to block the way out of Tubo, and was forced to surrender to Tubo. In 747, Gao Xianzhi was ordered to capture the entire territory of Xiaobolu, and as a result, the Tang Dynasty opened up the passage between the four towns of Anxi and the central region of Central Asia. Appearing here is Xiao Bolu, a small supporting role, playing the role of the puppet state of Tubo's No. 2 villain.

5. Gulu country

The exact location is unknown, and there are few records, but it is about south of the upper reaches of the Amu Darya. In 750, a year before the Battle of Talas, a large-scale uprising against the Abbasids broke out in the Hanzhong region (its nature was mainly civil strife among the Arabs themselves), and many countries in the river also participated, and were later suppressed by Dashi, and the Bone Kingdom was also implicated and besieged by Dashi, and its king, whose Chinese name is Luo Quanjie, absconded to the Tang Dynasty for refuge, and there is a theory that it was this Luo Quanjie who brought the news that Prince Shi led the Dashi soldiers and would attack the four towns of Anxi. This doesn't really affect the whole story, so I'll take that as I believe. This Luo Quanjiequan is regarded as the role of the messenger, and he only appears once anyway.

Section 2: The approximate location of the various forces

1. Tang Dynasty

Here we will only focus on the location of the four towns of Anxi.

As we all know, the topography of Xinjiang is sandwiched between three mountains and two basins, that is, the Kunlun Mountains in the south and the Tianshan Mountains in the middle sandwich the Tarim Basin, and the Tianshan Mountains and the Altai Mountains in the north sandwich the Jungar Basin. In fact, the only areas actually controlled by the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate were the Tarim Basin, namely the four towns of Anxi, Qiuzi (present-day Kucha, the location of the Anxi Prefecture), Yanqi or Xiaye, Shule (present-day Kashgar), and Khotan (present-day southwest of Hotan). Among them, the first three are Yanqi, Qiuci and Shule arranged from east to west at the southern foot of the southern branch of the Tianshan Mountains, and the narrow oasis belt between the Tarim River, while Khotan is an oasis in the south of the Tarim Basin.

The Tianshan Mountains in the three mountains run north-south, divided into the north branch and the south branch, like the image of a herringbone rotated 90 degrees to the right. Of course, on the map, it also includes the area north of the Tianshan Mountains to the Altai Mountains, in fact, the actual control is only near Tingzhou, that is, the middle part of the aforementioned skimming, the content of the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate is relatively small, and we still mainly talk about the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate. (On the map, the Anxi Imperial Protectorate includes the entire Western Regions and Central Asia, Hezhong, Tocharo, etc.) Because they all accepted the canonization of the Tang Dynasty, but the Tang Dynasty did not actually rule them, so I think the only Anxi Protectorate is the four towns of Anxi, that is, the Tarim Basin)

2. The nine surnames of the Sogdians in the river, Zhaowu

The westernmost of the four towns of Anxi is Shule Town, and further west of Shule is the Green Ridge, which is today's Pamir Plateau. To the west of the Green Ridge and to the east of the Aral Sea, there are two large rivers, one south and one north, and the area through which these two rivers flow and the fertile oasis of the Zeravshan River basin sandwiched between the two rivers are called the middle of the river. I have introduced it when I introduced the river before, so I will not repeat it.

We use the four towns of Anxi and the Hezhong region as a geographical reference for the location of other forces.

Third, the location of other forces

The only place to do is Khorasan Province, which is located a little south and west of the Transoxiana region. At that time, the capital of Khorasan was called Mulu City, which was not far south of Bukhara, the capital of Angola, so Angola was the most persecuted by the Great Eclipse. To put it bluntly, Khorasan (big food) and the four towns of Anxi are the two neighbors of Zhaowu Jiu, one south and one west in the river respectively, but they are separated from the four towns of Anxi in the west by the roof of the world. The Sogdians in the west of the river also had a neighbor named Khorezm, who was also occupied by the Great Eclipse, and the neighbor in the north of the river was the Turgish.

The north of the Hezhong region is the Tuqishi, and the core area of the Tuqishi is in the Chu River Basin, the Chu River is also called the Broken Leaf Water, located in the northeast direction of the river, and a narrow canyon area at the northern foot of the southern branch of the Tianshan Mountains, which is called the Broken Leaf River. At the eastern end of the river is the Broken Leaf Castle, which was once one of the four towns of Anzai and was ceded to the Tukish-Sulu in 719, while at the western end is the Talas Castle. The city of Talas originally belonged to the Turgish, but after the Turgish rebelled, it was captured by the Tang Dynasty together with Bahanna, and then somehow it was returned to the Stone Kingdom.

It's a little bit of a point. The Silk Road is divided into two lines in the south, the northern route goes through the Broken Leaf River, passes through the Broken Leaf City to Talas, and then goes to Kang Guoanguo. The southern route takes Shule, crosses the Green Ridge to Ferghana (that is, Bakhana), and then goes to Kangguo and Anguo. At that time, Gao Xianzhi was going to fight Talas by organizing his army in Qiuzi, and he could take the southern route or the northern route, but the northern route had to go east to bypass the southern branch of the Tianshan Mountains, and then go west along the Broken Leaf River to pass through the Broken Leaf and Pingchuan to Talas. However, because the Broken Leaf City was stationed at that time, the hostile Huang surnamed Tuqi Shi and other reasons chose to take the southern route.

The other major force in Central Asia, Tocharo, was also eastward in the south of the Transoxiana region, and after Tocharian was invaded by the Great Eclipse, the territory became smaller and smaller, and its geographical location became more and more easterly, and by the time of the Battle of Talas, almost the entire southern part of the Transoxiana region was a great eclipse. In other words, Turgish and Dashi want two pieces of bread for sandwiches, one north and one south, sandwiching the beef in the middle of the river. By this time, however, Turgish had gradually declined, and was gradually replaced by Qarluq.

The following is an introduction to the Green Ridge and the forces to the east of the Green Ridge.

As mentioned earlier, the east of the Green Ridge is Shule Town, and the east of Shule is the other three towns of Anxi, and the Tarim Basin, where the four towns of Anxi are located, is equal to being surrounded by the Tianshan Mountains in the north, the Kunlun Mountains in the south and the Green Mountains in the west.

In fact, there is also a country on the Green Ridge, that is, Xiao Bolu, and the position of Xiao Bolu is just blocking the road for the Anxi Army to enter the river westward, and also blocking the road for Tubo to bypass Kunlun Mountain and attack the four towns of Anxi through the Green Ridge. Before the Battle of Talas, Xiao Bolu was forced to surrender to Tubo, and married the princess of Tubo, standing on the side of Tubo, and was later led by Gao Xianzhi to break through the entire territory of Xiao Bolu, and captured the king of Xiao Bolu and the princess of Tubo, so that Tang opened the passage to the river, and was ambitious to run the river.

Then came the location of Tibet. In fact, the location of Tibet should be very clear to everyone, that is, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. There is only one question, why did Tubo attack the four towns of Anxi and take the Green Ridge.

As we mentioned earlier, the topography of Xinjiang is sandwiched between three mountains and two basins, and the Kunlun Mountains are in the southernmost part. The Kunlun Mountains and other mountain ranges enclose the Tarim Basin. Then in the same way, Kunlun Mountain also blocked Tubo. If Tubo wants to attack the Tang Dynasty, it is impossible to walk in a straight line on the map and directly climb over the Kunlun Mountain, how high the Kunlun Mountain is, and it is very long. The only way is to bypass the Kunlun Mountains, go south out of the Dafeichuan River, to Shibao, and then either turn over the Qilian Mountains to the north and control the Hexi Corridor, or go east across the Liupan Mountains to Chang'an, which is promising. The Tang Dynasty and Tubo have also fought for many years in Shibao and Dafeichuan and other places, and they have won and lost each other, but one fact is that the battle line has been stalemate near Shibao and Dafeichuan, and Tubo has never been able to go further (after the Anshi Rebellion, Tubo took advantage of the danger to capture Chang'an, this is a later story, anyway, before the Anshi Rebellion, Tubo could not go further on this road).

The southern route is impassable, and the only way to go is to take the northern route. Along the Kunlun Mountain to the north, it is the big Bolu, the big Bolu continues to the northwest is the small Bolu, that is, the green ridge, after arriving at the green ridge, turn to the east, is the four towns of Anxi. Therefore, the Green Ridge where Xiao Bolu is located is quite important to both Tibet and the Tang Dynasty.

Section 3: The history of the Tang Dynasty's war in the Western Regions, working hard, overcoming obstacles, starting from scratch, and failing in a hundred years

1. Tang Taizong, the first Heavenly Khan

1, that year, the second emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Li Er, had just ascended the throne, and before the seat was hot, the neighbor to the north was bald (I was afraid that Dong was suddenly sensitive, so I changed it to bald, and there was no other meaning) came to make trouble. There are 200,000 male soldiers, arrayed on the north bank of Weishui, talking about hunting, Chang'an is empty, and the number of troops is only tens of thousands. When Li Er heard this, he led six horsemen to the edge of Weishui, and emptied the treasury in order to ask the Turks to retreat, kill the white horse and form the Weishui Alliance. The east bald is retreating.

That year, Tang regarded it as a great shame; That year, Don crushed his teeth and swallowed it in his stomach; In those years, Tang Mo was a strong soldier; In those years, Tang Wo tried his courage. That year, Dongbald returned with a full load; That year, the East Bald was triumphant; In those years, the East Bald was arrogant and lascivious, and in those years, the East Bald was indispensable.

2, that time, the Tang Dynasty prepared for three and a half years, and the East Bald was proud for three and a half years; That year, the Tang Dynasty captured several bases in the attacking Dongbald; That year, there was infighting in Dongbald, the boss was very proud, and the second and third were dissatisfied; That year, the Tang Dynasty specially cultivated an absolute elite to wait for the day; That year, Dongbald encountered a heavy snowstorm.

That night, it was a cold night, and the amazing Li Jing only brought 3,000 iron horsemen to make a long-distance attack on Dingxiang, the garrison of the Eastern Bald Khan; That night, Jieli Khan was frightened all night, and he didn't know whether to fight, defend or run, and hesitated; That night, Li Jing broke through Dingxiang, and that night Jieli Khan fled to Yinshan. After that, Jieli sent someone to sue for peace, and then Tang Jian went and told him, don't be afraid, don't run, let's sit down and talk; After that, Li Jing and Su Dingfang continued to attack, killing more than 10,000 enemies and capturing more than 100,000; Jieli ran away, and the brave and wise Tang Jian also ran away, and then Jieli was captured alive, and then Dongbald was destroyed.

That year, that war, the Tang Dynasty famous generals were like clouds, that war was amazing, that war, the whole country celebrated, Emperor Taishang played the pipa, Emperor Li Er danced, after that war, the Tang Dynasty began his dream of a strong country and took the steps of fighting for hegemony.

3. After defeating the Eastern Bald, the Tang Dynasty completely lifted the Turkic threat to the central power, and since then the offensive and defensive forces have changed positions. In addition, the Tang Dynasty also received additional rewards, subduing four Turkic generals: the general Zhi lost Sili, Ashina Dur, Ashina Simo and Qibi He Li, and for a time the soldiers were fierce, inspired by the victory, and everyone worked hard.

At that time, there were many large and small countries in the Western Regions, most of them submitted to the Western Bald, since the Sui Rebellion, the Silk Road was interrupted for a long time, and Tang Taizong had the intention to reopen the Silk Road and operate the Western Regions. In those years, the Tang Dynasty frequently used troops, and after pacifying Dongbald, it successively pacified Xuyantuo, Huifu, Gaochang, Yanqi, Qiuzi, Tuyuhun and so on. In the fourteenth year of Zhenguan (640), in August, the Tang Dynasty destroyed the Gaochang Kingdom, and in the second month, the Anxi capital was placed in Jiaohe City, Xizhou (now Turpan).

At that time, the Western Turks relied on their strength, detained Tang envoys, attacked Yizhou, and in September 642, Tang Anxi Protector Guo Xiaoke successively defeated the Western Bald, and the Western Turks subordinated to the Tang Dynasty. Then there was internal strife in the West Bald (the Western Bald Khan broke through the rice country, monopolized the capture, and his subordinates were captured and executed by him, so there was a rebellion, and then his subordinates surrendered to the Tang Dynasty to ask for another Khan), the Tang Dynasty then calmly attacked Qiuci, and in the twenty-second year (648), the Tang army entered the country of Qiuci, moved the Anxi capital to Qiuci, opened the four towns of Anxi, Qiuci, Yanqi, Khotan, and Shule. In the second year (649), Taizong collapsed.

4, Taizong defeated the East Bald, opened the Silk Road, opened the four towns of Anxi in those years, the Tubo regime was first established, a generation of Ming lord Songtsen Gampo stabilized the interior, began various reforms, adopted the calendar, created writing, and formulated laws. So he thought of the Tang Dynasty and asked the Tang Dynasty for marriage, but the Tang Dynasty refused at first. Later, Tubo has been harassing the Tang Dynasty, and there are not many big battles, and small battles are non-stop.

After the Tang Dynasty destroyed Tuyuhun in 637, he fought a battle with Tubo the following year and defeated Tubo. Then Songtsen Gampo proposed to the Tang Dynasty again. Maybe it was annoying him, maybe it was some other reason, so Taizong married the maiden Princess Wencheng to Songtsan Gampo, and there were a large number of maids, craftsmen, artists and a large number of dowries such as silk, classics, medical books, and grain. Brought a large number of advanced technology, craftsmen taught them to farm, renovate water conservancy, construction, papermaking, winemaking, pottery, milling, metallurgy, etc., maids taught them weaving, embroidery, etc., in short, Songtsam Gampo took a big advantage, not only married a beautiful white rich and beautiful wife, but also obtained a large number of advanced technology and advanced culture, simply a big winner in life. In those years, the main theme of Tibet and the Tang Dynasty was peace and friendship. (Resentment, resentment, the Tang Dynasty is simply an enemy, and Tubo is a Zhongshan wolf.) ）

Similarly, in these years, the Great Eclipse has not been idle, the year Li Er defeated the Eastern Bald, the Great Eclipse was established and began to expand rapidly. At that time, the Great Food was extremely vigorous, and it was also extremely advanced compared to the other forces around it. Open and inclusive, unified with religion, strong and rigorous organization, and advanced science and technology. When Europe was still in the dark Middle Ages, when Europeans were still living dirty with pigs and sheep on garbage and dung, the great cannibals at that time inherited the ideas of ancient Greece abandoned by Europeans, scientific and technological civilization, stood out from the crowd for a while, and soldiers were not afraid of death (honors after death, the kingdom of heaven, food, beautiful scenery, and seventy-two beautiful women who were always virgins), so they swept almost everything around. Soon conquered Syria, Iraq, Egypt, etc., then defeated Persia in 642 and destroyed Persia in 651.

During the destruction of Persia by the Great Eclipse, the last Persian prince fled to Tocharian and wrote a letter to Li Shimin asking for help, but at that time Li Er was already dying, his health was very bad, and the road was really long, because he did not answer.

Second, during the period of Gaozong until the empress ascended the throne, it was difficult to keep the business

1, I have to say that Gaozong, Taizong's father and son are really similar in some aspects. As soon as Taizong became the emperor, the group of eastern bald people came to make trouble, and when his son Li Zhigang became emperor, there were also Turks who came to make trouble, but this time it was not the eastern bald, but the western bald.

It all started with the internal strife in the West in the above book. This infighting drove out the old khan who ate alone, and asked the Tang Dynasty to ordain a new khan. There was a party named Ashina Helu who was the party of the old khan, who was attacked and expelled by the newly established Ibhi Khan. So the lost dog Ashina Helu led the tribe to join the Tang Dynasty, when the Tang Dynasty was sending troops to crusade against Qiuzi, so they were first used as guides, after the war, he was named a big official, and his intention was also to restrain the new Khan of the West Bald.

Heru had this opportunity to secretly attract the scattered people, accumulate strength, and strengthen himself. Soon (649), Taizong collapsed, and He Lu got the news that he was plotting to seize Xizhou (that is, Jiaohe City, that is, today's Turpan) and Tingzhou, Gaozong Li Zhi heard the news, perhaps underestimating Xi's determination to restore the country, maybe he was afraid of trouble, in short, he chose a palliative but not a cure, that is, to send someone to comfort He Lu, and asked him to send his son to Chang'an to enter the court and Suwei, which was regarded as a hostage, so the matter was temporarily resolved.

But the paper can't contain the fire after all, every Turk has a heart to restore the country, Helu is especially strong, just temporarily suppressed, and continues to secretly expand his strength. Two years later (651), Helu's son returned to the Turks, and Helu no longer had any worries, rebelled, and went west to attack the old land of the old Khan, who ate alone, and defeated the newly established Ebi Sakuku Khan, who called himself Shabala Khan. And actively contacted the old khan who was driven away, and the two sides joined forces together, and the countries of the Western Regions and the departments of Chuyue and Mi were mostly attached to it. Helu successfully unified the western bald, and officially started a full-scale war with the Tang Dynasty.

2, fortunately, Gaozong also noticed that something was wrong, and at the end of 650, the four towns of Anxi were dismissed, and the Anxi Protectorate moved back to Xizhou. In the autumn and July of the same year, Helu entered Koting Prefecture, captured Jinling City and Puzhi County, and killed and plundered thousands of people. In the following year, Gao Zongzhao left the general Liang Jianfang, and the right Xiaowei general Qi He Li as the head of the march of the Gongyue Road, and Fa Yanran protected the 50,000 cavalry to crusade, broke the Western Turks in the Yuebu, killed 5,000 of its people, and captured more than 60 Qu Shuai.

After that, Tang attacked Xibald twice in May and December of the sixth year of Yonghui (655), winning and losing each other, and killing tens of thousands of enemies. In December, the Tang general Su Dingfang (yes, it was the Su Dingfang who was hacked out of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, in fact, he was loyal and flamboyant) even more brilliant, with 500 horses breaking 20,000 horses, killing more than 1,500 people, and obtaining more than 2,000 horses.

In my opinion, the main responsibility lies with Gaozong, to be honest, he is really a little mediocre, first thinking that his own courtesy and favor can win the heart of Helu's son, let him return to the Turks, and then the front-line commander of the army is constrained in many ways, resulting in the third attack on the West Bald in vain. So, in the second year of Xianqing (657), Tang Gaozong once again sent Su Dingfang, the general of the Right Tun Guard, to attack Helu, but only gave Su Dingfang 10,000 soldiers and horses, while at least 80,000 men were dispatched on the previous two occasions.

History: On the 21st day of the first month of the second year of Xianqing, Tang took Su Dingfang as the head of the Yili Road march, led Yanran to protect Ren Yaxiang and deputy to protect Xiao Siye, and sent more than 10,000 Tang soldiers and Hui soldiers to crusade against the Western Turkic Shabaluo Khan from the north road; He also ordered the right guard general Ashina Mi Shot and the left guard general Ashina Buzhen as ambassadors to pacify the quicksand, and recruited the remnants of the Western Turks from the south road.

Gaozong's idea was very clear, he didn't have any hope for Su Dingfang at all, Su Dingfang only played the role of feints and pinched to attract the attention of Xibald, Gaozong's real plan was to hope that the two brothers Ashina Mi Jie and Buzhen could draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle and appease Helu's Xibald tribes. What he didn't expect was that Su Dingfang would be so powerful, fighting Dingding and destroying the West Bald.

3, in other words, the Turks really like infighting, because its essence is actually a tribal alliance (not Yamaguchiyama), and there is not much strict organization, the Turkic Khan is only the leader of a tribe, and his generals are the leaders of other tribes, and it is easy to infighting due to unequal distribution of spoils. No, as early as the fourth year of Yonghui (653), the old khan who was driven away by the alliance with Helu died, and his son had a conflict with Helu, and the five crossbows were lost (there were ten great tribes in the western bald, and these were five of them), and Helu lost a big helper.

Later, Heru defeated one of the five crossbows and captured the family of its leader. Su Dingfang accepted Xue Rengui's suggestion to find the family of the leader of the Ni tribe from a part of Helu's defeated army, returned these family members to the Ni tribe, and gave them property to comfort them, so he won over the Ni tribe to attack Sha Boluo. I have to say that Su Dingfang is lucky, the Tang Dynasty is favored by God, when the Tang Dynasty hit **, the East Bald infighting, centrifugal detachment, this time Su Dingfang attacked the West Bald, the West Bald is also internal strife, and later He Lu forcibly subdued the internal strife, commanding the ten surnames of the West Bald, but also internal instability, centrifugal and detached.

In the winter of December of the second year of Xianqing (657), Su Dingfang led an expeditionary force composed of 10,000 Han troops and Hui troops, and defeated the Mukun Department in one of the five Lu in a blitzkrieg.

Su Dingfang led an army of more than 10,000 and prepared to continue to blitz other tribes in Xibald. However, the blitzkrieg could not be effective every time, and the fish that slipped through the net quickly reported the news of the Tang army to Helu. And since the two battles with the Tang Expeditionary Force the year before last, Helu has been on guard day and night. After receiving the news, in a short period of time, 100,000 cavalry with ten Turkic surnames on both sides were mobilized to counterattack, and the main forces of the two sides would fight on the western plain of the Yuza River (now the Irtysh River in Xinjiang).

At that time, the disparity between the enemy's and our forces was extremely great, and the situation was extremely dangerous, Su Dingfang according to the situation at that time, he ordered the infantry to defend the high ground in the southern plains with dense spear formations, and he himself led the cavalry to line up in the northern and northern plains. He Lu saw that the Tang army was small, marched and surrounded, attacked on all sides, Helu's cavalry attacked the Tang infantry three times, the Tang army was well-trained, the fighting spirit was high, and the fight to the death did not retreat, He Lu's three impacts failed to shake the Tang army's position (the Tang army was mighty), Su Dingfang took advantage of the situation to lead the cavalry to launch a surprise attack from the side, the west bald was caught off guard, and it was a big defeat, Su Dingfang led the army to chase and kill 30 miles, captured more than 30,000 people, and killed 200 people such as Dagan, the leaders of his subordinates. The next day, the Tang army pursued by victory, at this time the people of the Western Bald Army were scattered, no one dared to fight, Hu Luwu and other troops in the Western Bald surrendered, Ashina Helu and his son and son-in-law, as well as Chu Mu Kun Qu Lu and others only led hundreds of horsemen to the west and fled in embarrassment.

Su Dingfang is worthy of the peerless general, and this battle decided the fate of the destruction of the Western Bald. At the same time, the Tang Army on the South Road was also invincible. After learning of Helu's defeat, Nandao Xibald also surrendered to the two brothers, Ashina Mi and Buzhen. Su Dingfang continued to beat the water dogs, ordered his subordinates to chase after He Lu, and led the new subordinates to follow him. At this time, the wind and snow were thick, and the snow on the ground was more than 2 feet thick, and the march was extremely difficult. All the generals asked Su Dingfang to wait for the weather to clear before marching, but Su Dingfang pointed out that the enemy must not be given a chance to breathe. He ordered to march day and night, and after joining forces with the Southern Route Army, he continued to march more than 200 miles until he reached the Helu Ya Tent on the Golden Tooth Mountain (northeast of Tashkent, Tashkent is the capital of Shiguo).

He Lu was also unlucky, he didn't expect the Tang army to chase so quickly, at this time he went hunting to get food, defenseless, and was defeated by the Tang army again, He Lu and his son fled to Shiguo, and then were captured by the people of Shiguo and sent to the Tang army, so far the west bald perished. Subsequently, the Tang Dynasty placed the two capitals of Kunling and Mengchi in the hometown of the Western Turks, and divided them into ten surnames. At this point, the Tang unified the entire territory of the Western Turks.

4. After the pacification of the Xivulture Rebellion (658), the four towns of Anxi that had been evacuated were also restored. The following year, the 67-year-old Su Dingfang once again led his troops to pacify the Green Ridge, swept away the remnants of the pro-western baldness, and raided again, marching 300 miles in one day and one night. The rebellion rushed to the battle, was defeated miserably, and then surrendered to the west of the Green Ridge. As a result, the Tang Dynasty once again carried out large-scale administrative divisions of the states west of the Green Mountains, which were originally within the Western Turkic sphere of influence. "From the west of Khotan, and to the east of Persia, all the sixteen kingdoms shall have their kings as their capitals, and their subordinate departments as their prefectures. Eighty-eight prefectures, one hundred and ten counties, and one hundred and twenty-six military and government governments", it was at this time that the Tang Dynasty established its rule over the nine surnames of Zhaowu in Hezhong, as well as the surrounding countries such as Tocharian and Gulu. Datang also had peace in the Western Regions for several years. However, Tang was not idle, and went to the east to fight Baekje and Goguryeo, and defeated Goguryeo in 667, fulfilling the wish of several generations, and the whole country was inspired. But within a few days of peace, the Tubo No. 2 rebellion jumped out and made trouble.

A full-scale war broke out between the Tang and Tibetans around 670, and in the following 30 years, a number of major wars broke out between the two sides. Objectively speaking, the Tang Dynasty was beaten badly, and for the first time suffered losses for a long time. Before this, the Tang Dynasty had only suffered deflated during the Weishui Alliance, and the rest of the time was pressed against the opponent, although Taizong's expedition to Goguryeo failed, but he did not suffer any losses, and more than 10 years later, Tang destroyed Goguryeo in one fell swoop. Only this time, he suffered many losses, and it was not until 30 years later that he found his place in the hands of the empress. The previous battles with Tubo were more victories and fewer defeats, and Tubo even recorded that in the Wuhai War in 559, Tubo 80,000 were defeated by Su Dingfang's 1,000, and the main general was killed in battle (some people say that it was 80,000 households, and some said that 80,000 households were left with 1,000 in the end, but in short, they themselves recorded that it was a big defeat), how could it be that ten years later, the Tang army would not be able to? Personally, I think there are several reasons for this. (1) The Tang Dynasty has won one victory after another in these years, and it has the heart of underestimating the enemy (if Xue Rengui led the vanguard to advance lightly in the Battle of Dafeichuan, he was defeated by more battles and fewer defeats); (2) The geographical advantage of Tibet is condescending, I want to fight you casually, if you want to fight me, you have to climb, the road is difficult. (3) At that time, Tibet was indeed in a period of strength.

5. The following is a list of the confrontations between the two sides over the years.

(1), taking advantage of the Tang Dynasty's use of troops in the western bald, Goguryeo, Tubo captured the big and small Bolu, opened up the green ridge road, and annexed the Tang Dynasty's vassal state Tuyuhun in 663; (2), in 670, he captured the Eighteen Prefectures of the Western Regions, and united with Khotan to capture the city of Qiuci (now Aksu, Xinjiang), and Tang was forced to strike the four towns of Anxi; (3) The counterattack of the Tang Dynasty, the Battle of Dafeichuan, Xue Rengui led 50,000 troops, drove straight in, and prepared to fight all the way to Luosa (Lhasa), but Xue lightly advanced with the enemy, and the expedition to the Tang Dynasty was defeated; (4) In the same year, after the Battle of Dafeichuan, Tubo took advantage of the situation to capture Qiuzi, the capital of Tang Anxi, and occupied most of the four towns of Anxi; (5) In 675, the four towns of Anxi were restored to the Tang Dynasty; (6) In 678, in the battle between Tang and Tubo Qinghai, Tubo lured the enemy to retreat, and the Tang army continued to go deeper, suffered a great defeat and suffered heavy losses; (7) In the same year, the four towns of Anxi after Qinghai were again occupied by Tibet; (8) In 679, the Tang army recovered the four towns of Anxi; (9) In 680, the Tubo army attacked Heyuan (now the eastern part of Qinghai Province), but was repelled by the Tang general Heizhi Changzhi, who passed through the source of the river and was well prepared for battle; (10) In 681, Tubo Zanpo led an army of 30,000 Tunliang Feichuan, and was defeated by 3,000 cavalry led by Heizhi Changzhi, who was deeply afraid of Heizhi Changzhi; (11) In 682, Tubo entered the Kouhe source army, and the army envoy Lou Shide attacked it in Baishuijian, eight battles and eight victories, and Tubo was defeated; (12) In 684, Wu Zetian abolished Zhongzong and established Ruizong, and he was in the dynasty to call the system, and he was dictatorial to the government, and in the same year, Xu Jingye gathered 100,000 people to oppose the army, and was exterminated by Wu Zetian with 300,000 troops; (13) From 686 to 690, Wu Zetian opened the wind of high secrets, appointed cool officials, and purged the country, and in 689, the Qinghai border general Heiya Changzhi was falsely accused of rebellion by Zhou Xing and others, and was imprisoned and killed, and Tang destroyed the Great Wall; (14) In 687-689, Empress Wu concentrated on internal purges, relaxed externally, and reduced Anxi's defense. Tubo took the opportunity to occupy the four towns of Anxi; (15) In 689, the battle of the Yinzhijia River in the Western Regions, during the alternation of Li Wu's regime, the former generals either died of old age, were convicted and exiled, or were killed, Wu Zetian had no generals available, and used a mediocre talent, and the Tang Dynasty was completely defeated in this battle, losing more than 100,000 troops. After this battle, the Tang Dynasty was forced to abandon the four towns of Anxi, and the Tang forces almost withdrew from the Western Regions.

Summary: At the beginning, when the Tibetans invaded, Tang felt that he was very good, so he ran to the territory of the Tibetans to conquer the Tibetans, and was defeated several times. Then the Tang Dynasty learned to be obedient, garrisoned at the border, and once Tubo came, he defeated Tubo once, and beat Tubo so that Tubo had no temper. Then the Tang Dynasty was in civil strife, power alternated, internal purges, famous generals fell, strength was greatly damaged, and Tubo occupied the territory of the Tang Dynasty. In the end, a decisive battle broke out between the two sides, and the Tang Dynasty was completely defeated, defeated, abandoned the four towns of Anxi, and withdrew from the Western Regions.

6, during this time, of course, other forces were not idle, which can be summed up in two things, (1) the ** descendants who were wiped out when Taizong rebelled, and established Hou**, here I refer to it as Hou Bald, and kept plundering and harassing the Tang Dynasty; (2) Da Shi invaded and occupied the Sogdian Zhaowu Nine surnames in the river, and the Zhaowu Nine Kingdoms were bullied very badly. Let's talk about baldness first.

As mentioned earlier, from 670 onwards, the Tang Dynasty began to fight with the Tibetans, which of course gave the Turkic remnants a good opportunity. The Eastern Bald were destroyed as early as 630, but the Eastern Bald people are still there, still living in the old land, and their leaders are the chiefs of various tribes, who have accepted the rule of the Tang Dynasty for half a century and live a stable life. But at this time, the Tang Dynasty's successive defeats against Tibet and the instability within the Tang Dynasty made these Turkic chieftains see hope and opportunity. I have emphasized more than once that every Turk has a heart to restore the country, so in the second year of the defeat of the Tang Qinghai War (679), the army rebelled, and soon conquered a very large territory, including the current Inner Mongolia and Outer Mongolia, and often raided the interior, such as northern Shanxi, northern Shaanxi, etc.

Don't talk about the specific process, anyway, the Tang Dynasty was all kinds of chaos, all kinds of losses, and post-baldness was all kinds of advantages. Speaking about the reasons, I think there are four reasons. (1): The Tang Dynasty's loose fetters ruled, the remnants of the Eastern Bald did not bear tribute, the living environment was stable, and the economic strength increased greatly; Then there is the army under the command of the chiefs, who often follow the Tang army to fight in the east and west, and the army has been tempered and has always maintained its combat effectiveness. (2): After the Later Bald Dynasty was reinstated, its first two generations of leaders dealt with the Tang Dynasty properly. (3): The external environment of the Tang Dynasty was indeed very bad at that time, and it suffered many losses in Tubo, and the Khitan, Xi and others rebelled against the Tang Dynasty, which gave Hou Bald a chance. (4): It is a variety of mistakes within the Tang Dynasty, serious infighting, such as Pei Xingjian forced Hou Bald to surrender to the Khan Fu Nian at that time, Pei promised to keep him from dying, but after returning to Beijing, some traitorous ministers were jealous of Pei Xingjian's great merit, and instigated Gaozong to kill Fu Nian, resulting in Hou Bald's rebellion, and then for example, Hei Tooth Changzhi, defeated Hou Bald's army many times, but was finally killed by Empress Wu for political reasons.

7. At this time, the Great Eclipse entered the Umayyad Dynasty, the monarch began to be hereditary, the Great Eclipse entered its heyday, and the military expansion also reached its peak. After thoroughly consolidating his rule over Zakhorasan and the surrounding area, he conquered Tocharo, a Tang vassal state in 667, and Anguo in 674, plundering his belongings and then retreating to Tocharian territory. In 676, the governor of Khorasan, Said, invaded Hezhong again, defeated the Kang and An coalition forces, and forced Anguo to take more than 200 noble children as hostages and capture 30,000 Kang prisoners of war. In 681, the Arab army entered Kang and captured the city of Samarkand. In 683, the new lord of Khorasan, Salmu, garrisoned Bukhara, but temporarily stopped plundering the river due to internal power struggles.

The plundering and occupation of the river by the Great Eclipse was divided into four parts: (1) the deployment of garrison troops to ** resist the uprising; (2) political control, oppression, and migration, such as the establishment of puppet regimes, the use of captured cities as strongholds, mass migration, and the demand that local residents give up half or all of their houses in the cities to the Arabs who moved in; (3) economic oppression, all kinds of exorbitant taxes, land taxes, poll taxes, etc., and the compulsion of the Nine Kingdoms of Zhaowu to pay tribute, and the coercion of the local population to provide them with slaves, handmaidens, livestock, grain, textiles, and all kinds of other goods, and to fully meet all the needs of the Arab garrisons; (4) Destroying the original culture of Central Asia, forcing the Central Asian people to convert to Islam, and implementing a policy of religious persecution.

From the above, it can be seen that the difference between the policies adopted by the Tang Dynasty and the Great Food towards the conquered can be said to be two extremes, one is lenient and makes the other party often rebellious, and the other is harsh and makes the other party hateful but must bend the knee to accept. Of course, as the nominal younger brother of the Tang Dynasty, he was beaten and must have asked the Tang for help, but at that time, the Tang Dynasty was taking care of itself, and the only thing to do was to canonize themselves on the surface, give Tocharian and Zhaowu the nine kingdoms extremely high status and privileges, and comfort them against the Great Eclipse, and also sent troops to escort the son of the deceased Persian King (son) The new light pole "Persian King" Ninishi arrived in Central Asia, trying to fight against the Great Eclipse, but it was useless (in troubled times, it still depends on strength to speak, at this time the Tang Dynasty was seriously weakened by Tubo, and can only play false, So it's useless at all).

In 701, Da Shi once again plundered the nine surnames of Zhaowu in Hezhong on a large scale. In 705, Qudibo became the governor of Khorasan and began a large-scale war against Central Asia. In less than 10 years of his tenure, he crossed the Amu Darya River seven times, including the city of Bukhara in Angola in 706-709, the city of Samarkand and the oasis of Khorezm in 711, the country of Stone in 712, and the two attacks on Pakhana in 713-715.