readx; On the afternoon of the same day that he had spoken with the Sogdian merchants, Li Qing'an set out for Nasebo, where he received news from Li Siye that Nasebo had been captured. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

From Samarkand to Nasebo is actually not far, only more than 300 miles, Li Qing'an galloped all the way, two days later, he and 2,000 guards arrived in Nasebo City.

The battle to attack Sebo City has ended, in this tragic battle, 10,000 Tang troops were killed and wounded nearly 3,000 people, and the Great Food Army also suffered 2,000 casualties, the casualties of the Tang Army were higher than those of the Great Food Army, not only that, but the Tang Army also fought quite poorly in this battle, and suffered heavy casualties during the siege, if there was no help from the earth-shaking thunder, the Tang Army might not be able to capture the Sebo City, especially to Li Siye's annoyance, after the Tang Army rushed into the city from the gap that was blown up, the main general of the Great Food Army, Shahim, took advantage of the opportunity of the Tang Army to transfer to the East City, and led 500 people to break through from the north gate and escape from the city. His whereabouts are unknown.

"General, it can be seen from this battle that the combat power of the great cannibal should not be underestimated!"

Li Siye was full of emotion, "The three thousand food army not only broke through our defense line, occupied the city of Nasebo, and fought a draw with the Tang army, but in the end, the main general named Shaheem was able to lead the army to escape, and escaped right under my nose, which is a great shame for me." ”

Li Qing'an listened to Li Siye's indignant tone, so he smiled slightly and said: "We have also dealt with the Great Food Army for many years, Khorasan's army has always been their elite, these three thousand people from the perspective of equipment, must be Khorasan's elite soldiers, the elite of their elite, if even such an army is mediocre, then what is the meaning of confrontation with the Great Cannibal, the key is that we can't underestimate the enemy." ”

Li Siye sighed and said: "The general is right, I am indeed a little underestimating the enemy, in fact, I can mobilize 20,000 troops to besiege the city, but I think 10,000 troops are enough, and it turned out that it was my underestimate of the enemy, so that the general of the big food will run away, I am ashamed!" ”

Li Qingan patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Don't talk about this, I want to go and see the effect of the earth-shaking thunder." ”

At the mention of the earth-shattering thunder, Li Siye's spirits were greatly lifted, and he urged the horse to take Li Qing'an to Dongcheng.

The east city wall was blown down and remained the same, it was not moved, there were broken bricks everywhere, a section of the city wall was crumbling, the mouth of the city wall was blown up and was more than ten zhang wide, and the yellow sand in the wall poured down, forming a gentle slope, and the Tang army rushed into the city through this gentle slope.

"This kind of earth-shattering thunder is really sharp, the general didn't know that when it exploded that night, the earth-shattering, both sides who were fighting in the northern city were stunned, and the two sides actually stopped fighting for a moment, and many war horses were also frightened, running everywhere, and wounding more than a dozen brothers for this."

Speaking of this, Li Siye was a little worried: "The power of this gunpowder is too powerful, and I am worried that once the secret is leaked and the enemy also has this weapon, it will also be a serious threat to us." ”

Li Qingan nodded and said: "Your worries are not bad, there is no impermeable wall in the world, how to protect the secret of gunpowder is indeed a difficult thing to do, for this reason, I decided to use this weapon as little as possible, and secondly, to keep it absolutely secret, except for a few of our core generals, no one can know what this is?" I'm going to create an opportunity to leak some secrets to the outside world, saying that this is actually a unique stone in the Green Ridge Mountains, called the Fire Thunder Stone, which will explode when it sees fire. ”

"Fire Thunder Stone, there is really you, if An Lushan knows, he doesn't know how many people he will send to Green Ridge to find this kind of stone."

The two walked as they talked, and went up the city wall from the gap, and when they walked to the north city, Li Qingan slowly stopped, staring at the mountains in the distance, and fell into deep thought.

"What is the General thinking?" Li Siye stepped forward and asked.

"I wonder why they're attacking Nasebo, what's the point?"

"Actually, I'm also thinking about this, to be honest, it's really surprising, they have nothing but to lose 2,500 people, of course, they have tasted the taste of earth-shattering thunder, maybe they want to test our combat effectiveness."

"Nope! Not so. ”

Li Qingan shook his head lightly and said in a deep voice: "I have been thinking about this question for a long time, I think this should be Mansour's strategy, and it is a strategic conspiracy of his. ”

'Strategic conspiracy? ’

Li Siye was stunned, he didn't understand what this meant, and hurriedly said, "Please elaborate on the general." ”

Li Qingan smiled slightly: "Judging from common sense, if the incident of Nasebo being occupied happened, then what kind of countermeasures would you take?" ”

"Fortify your defenses!" Li Siye said without hesitation: "We must not allow a second similar incident to happen again." ”

"That's right! Ordinary people will do this, and they will inevitably be heavily stationed near Nasebo, and we will form a mindset that since the enemy's forward troops can easily break through the defenses of Nasebo, then the enemy's main force will inevitably attack from here, so that we will deploy the main force on the front line in the middle of the Amu Darya River, especially near Nasebo, Siye, you said that at that time, the main force of the Great Food Army will attack from there? ”

After listening to Li Qing'an's analysis, Li Siye reacted suddenly, and said with a fist: "I understand, they sent 3,000 people to attack Nasebo, the purpose is to create an illusion for us, and then lure us to deploy the main force in this area, but the real main force of the big cannibals is to kill from the north or south, if they are aimed at Tocharo, then they will kill from the south, if they are aimed at the river, then they are very likely to kill from the north, in short, they will definitely not take the middle line." ”

"You understand very thoroughly, and now the thing that I am very embarrassed about is that I can't make up my mind whether the main force of the Great Food Army will go north or south, so I can't deploy troops."

"It's better than this!"

Li Siye pondered for a moment and said: "We don't have to wait for their main force to arrive, we will directly kill across the river, take the initiative to enter Khorasan, seize the opportunity, and disrupt their troop deployment." ”

"Let me think about it, your plan might be a good idea." Li Qingan's brows furrowed.

At this moment, a group of cavalry appeared in the distance, about a hundred horsemen, and was galloping towards this side, several Tang soldiers came up, and after a while, a cavalryman came back to report, "General, the envoy of the Khanate of Gesar is asking to see you." ”

'The Khanate of Gesa! Li Qingan couldn't help but be stunned, what would happen if the Khanate of Gesar came to ask to see him?

"Bring him up."

Soon, several Tang soldiers brought a heroic young man and a middle-aged man over, Li Qing'an felt that the young man was a little familiar, and it seemed that he was also present when he met with Bran Khan.

The young man stepped forward and saluted, "King Gorsa Khan's son Broni is a general!" ”

Li Qingan arched his hand and smiled: "It turned out to be His Royal Highness the Prince, I said how familiar, we have seen it." ”

At this time, Li Qingan's eyes fell on the middle-aged man again, this is a burly man with a large head and a big beard, especially his eyes impressed Li Qingan, it was an unyielding gaze.

Li Qing'an's train of thought turned back and smiled at Prince Broni: "I don't know what happened to the Gesar Khanate looking for me?" ”

Broney took out a parchment letter and handed it to Li Qing'an, "This is my father's handwritten letter to the general, please see it." ”

Li Qing'an opened the letter, in which Bran Khan repeatedly claimed that the Tang Dynasty and the Gesar Khanate were brotherly states, and for the sake of brotherhood, he expressed his willingness to send 10,000 troops to assist the Tang army in attacking the Arabs.

Li Qing'an couldn't help but sneer secretly, the enthusiasm of this Gesar Khanate did not move him, on the contrary, he saw through the wishful thinking of the Gesar Khanate, this is a country that is very good at speculation, from the earliest times they sent two thousand camel cavalry to follow their southern expedition to Xinde, although the army is not much, but they have a favor.

And this time he was willing to assist himself in attacking the Great Cannibals, not for the sake of so-called brotherhood, but for the sake of trade interests, once the trade route between the East and the West was reversed back to Arabia, it would be a heavy blow to the Jewish power of the Khanate of Gesa.

Moreover, by helping the Tang army defeat the Arabs, the Khanate of Gesar will also squeeze into the ranks of great powers, and will be on an equal footing with the Tang Empire, the Byzantine Empire, and the Arab Empire as a victorious country.

Since coming into contact with the Gesar Khanate, Li Qing'an has also learned from other sources about this nomadic people who have broken away from the Turks and have gradually become Westernized.

For a hundred years, the Khanate of Gesar has been sandwiched between the Romans and the Arabs, in order not to offend these two great powers, they did not dare to choose Christianity, nor did they dare to choose Islam, and finally chose Judaism, this is to seek a balance between the two great powers, and with the gradual strength of the Khanate of Gesa, they are no longer satisfied with playing the role of the little brother, they want to be a big country, this time the war between the Tang Dynasty and the Arabs, for them is an opportunity, by cooperating with the Tang Dynasty and rising in the north.

Thinking of this, Li Qing'an smiled, neither promised him, nor refused, at this time, his eyes once again turned to the middle-aged man, and asked with a smile: "Who is this?" ”

The middle-aged man strode forward, knelt down on one knee in front of Li Qing'an, put his hand on his chest, and said with great sincerity: "Arslan of the Khorezm Kingdom has the highest respect for General Anxi. ”

Li Qing'an was stunned, he knew the country of Khorezm, that is, the country of Huoxun on the south bank of the Aral Sea, and also sought refuge from the Tang Dynasty and became a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty, and the king was named the governor of Huoxun Prefecture by the Tang court.

But the kingdom of Khorezm had been conquered by the Arabs fifty years ago and had become the most loyal client state of the Arabs.

Prince Gesa next to him introduced: "Arslan is the son of the former king of Khorezm, after the destruction of Khorezm, Arslan went into exile with his father to the Khasa Khanate, he is still the king of Khorezm, bent on recovering the country, he has 3,000 Khorezm cavalry, all of them are loyal to his Khorezm. ”

Li Qing'an suddenly understood that this time he was in war with the Arabs, not only the Gesa people wanted to take the opportunity to rise, but the Khorezm people also wanted to take the opportunity to restore the country.

Li Qing'an's sharp gaze fell on Arslan's face again, as if he had seen through his thoughts, Arslan was already in tears, he knelt down on his knees, kowtowed heavily to Li Qingan, and cried: "I was forced to leave the country when I was one year old, and I have been waiting for fifty-four years for this day, if Khorezm can restore the country, Khorezm is willing to surrender to the Tang Dynasty, and I am willing to become a slave of His Royal Highness the General." ”

Li Qing'an's eyes flickered, and sure enough, he found a trace of annoyance flashing in the eyes of Prince Broni of Gesa.

If Khorezm surrendered to the Tang Dynasty after the restoration of the country, what was the Gesar Khanate?

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(To be continued)