Tang Xuanzong learned of Gao Xianzhi's situation, and immediately made a decision to let him replace Fu Meng Lingjing, and awarded Gao Xianzhi Hongluqing and Yushi Zhongcheng to recruit Fu Meng Lingjing into the court. Now, Gao Xianzhi can be angry, everyone thinks like this, unexpectedly,

Gao Xianzhi was still respectful and respectful to Fumeng Lingjing, "tending to go as before", and Fumeng Lingjing became more and more uneasy. Gao Xianzhi knew that if he didn't make his words clear, all the people who had grievances with him would be scared.

In the past, the deputy capital protector Cheng Qianli, the detainer Bi Sichen, the official Wang Tao, Kang Huaishun, Chen Fengzhong and others all said bad things about Gao Xianzhi in front of Fu Meng Lingjing, and Gao Xianzhi brought them all.

Breaking grievances in person, he reprimanded Cheng Qianli, "Your face is like a man, your heart is like a woman, what's going on", and said to Bi Sichen, "You are lawless, you have taken away thousands of acres of land in the east of my city, remember?"

Bi Sichen was quite humorous, he said, "That's what you gave me when you saw my difficult life", Gao Xianzhi smiled, "At that time, you were powerful, I was afraid of you, where was I pitiful for you,

If I don't say these words to your face, you may be worried all day long, and if you say it, you will be fine." He dragged Wang Tao and the others down and beat them, and then released them all, "because the military situation is not afraid."

Gao Xianzhi, as the envoy of the four towns of Anxi, is in power, and Feng Changqing has his full trust.

Responsible for the warehouse, tuntian, jiazhen, zhidu, yingtian and other affairs of the four towns. In the future, whenever Gao Xianzhi went on expeditions, he often asked Feng Changqing to serve as the envoy to take charge of military and political affairs. Feng Changqing was resolute and resolute, governed the army rigorously, and soon did something that shocked the whole army.

Gao Xianzhi's nurse's son Zheng Dequan became a general in the army, Gao Xianzhi's nursing mother also lived in the Gao family's house, Gao Xianzhi regarded Zheng Dequan as his own brother, "family affairs are known", so Zheng Dequan has a lot of prestige in the army. Every time Feng Changqing comes back from errands,

All the generals went to pay their respects, but only Zheng Dequan disagreed, and even rushed past Feng Changqing on horseback. didn't take Feng Changqing in his eyes at all, and Feng Changqing arrived at the embassy.

Summoned Zheng Dequan and dealt with him with military law. Sixty rods. Gao Xianzhi's mother and nurse rushed to hear the news, but they couldn't get in the door, and they cried anxiously outside the door, and Gao Xianzhi was also surprised to learn the news, at this time.

Zheng Dequan has been beaten to death with sticks. Gao Xianzhi saw Feng Changqing, but he couldn't say a word, and Feng Changqing didn't apologize to Gao Xianzhi. Later, two generals committed crimes and were also executed by Feng Changqing, and the military discipline of the Tang Army was purged and renewed, and Gao Xianzhi attached more importance to Feng Changqing.

Feng Changqing's orderly logistics supply made Gao Xianzhi, who was fighting in the front, worry-free everywhere and became a well-known victorious general. In the eighth year of Tianbao (749 AD). Tocharian (present-day northern Afghanistan, west of Lesser Bolu) Ye Huli Tangara above, "The prince of Shushi attached himself to Tibet, and because of the suffering of the small Bolu army, he blocked its grain route."

Chen Si broke the murderer, and looked forward to sending Anxi soldiers, since the first month of the year to the small Bolu, and from June to the big Bolu. "Gao Xianzhi has set out again, this time the destination is even more distant than the little Bolu Kingdom, just a few months.

The Tang army traveled back and forth to the state of Shushi (now Chitral, Pakistan), defeated the army of the state of Shushi, and captured the king of Xushi, and the Tang Dynasty appointed Botewei's brother Sujia as the king of Shushi. The Tang Dynasty is famous.

Even a secret king in the Indus River valley region admired the Tang Dynasty and repeatedly asked to cooperate with the Tang Dynasty to jointly deal with the threat of Tibet. Tubo suffered Gao Xianzhi's great losses several times, and was afraid of the Tang army like a tiger, and the southern route of the Silk Road was unimpeded for a long time.

The Arab Empire at this time also experienced civil war, with the Abbasids replacing the Umayyad dynasty. Its influence infiltrated the Central Asian countries, forcing the conquered areas to pay heavy taxes, and there was a fierce conflict with the hegemony of the Tang Dynasty in Central Asia.

Thus, the Battle of Talas (near the present-day Kazakh city of Zhambul) finally broke out in 751 AD, and its cause was the war waged by Gao Xianzhi against Shiguo (present-day Tashkent, Uzbekistan).

In the ninth year of Tianbao, Gao Xianzhi led his troops to attack Shi Guo under the pretext of King Shi's "no vassal courtesy". If you look closely at the history books, you will find that this kind of reason is very far-fetched, and it contains a strong utilitarian heart.

In the last years of Tianbao, in order to meet Tang Xuanzong's grand wish to expand the territory, the border generals often used unscrupulous means to come up with some unbelievable tricks.

An Lushan set up a wine banquet, drunk the chiefs of the Khitan and Xi tribes, and then cut off their heads at the banquet, and killed thousands of followers.

Gao Xianzhi pretended to negotiate peace with the king of Shiguo, but launched a surprise attack, captured the king of Shiguo, plundered Shiguo, and carried out genocide against the people of Shiguo.

Before this, Shi Guo had been paying tribute to the Tang Dynasty, as evidenced by the "Shufu Yuan Turtle", but the saying that power is truth has not become outdated, and weak countries have no right to speak.

Prince Shi fled, and he told the Hu tribe about Gao Xianzhi's fraud and greed. The Zhuhu tribe was furious and united with the Great Food Kingdom (Arab Empire) to prepare to attack the four towns of Anxi.

When Gao Xianzhi learned the news, he decided to strike preemptively, leading 30,000 troops of the feudal and Han alliances, including Bakhana and Qarluq, to penetrate deep into the border of the Great Food Country, and fought a fierce battle with the 60,000 elites of the Great Food Country in Talas (near the present-day Kazakh city of Jiangbul), and the two sides fought for five days and five nights, regardless of victory or defeat.

At this critical moment, the Qarluq people in the Tang army's camp were bought by the generals of the Great Eclipse Country, and they defected to attack the Tang Army together with the Great Eclipse ** team.

Li Siye, the general of the Right Weiwei, fought hard to open a bloody road, and only then did he leave the battlefield with Gao Xianzhi and thousands of Tang troops. The victory of the Great Food ** team was extremely hard and lucky, and the Tang army suffered heavy losses, but it did not hurt its vitality and fundamentals.

Later, out of the common interest of dealing with Tibet, the Tang Dynasty and Dashi quickly reconciled, and if it had not been for the later "Anshi Rebellion", the Tang Dynasty's military expansion should have continued. Historical records record that there were paper-making craftsmen in the captured Tang army, and it was they who transmitted paper-making to the West, but historians have doubts about this

At that time, Datang's land and sea transportation were so developed, did no one know that papermaking was a good thing for such a long time? However, the Battle of Talas did change the pattern of the world.

The Tang Dynasty's power in Central Asia was dealt a heavy blow, and after the Battle of Talas, although it tried to recover, it did not achieve the expected results. Gao Xianzhi was dismissed from his post as the envoy of the four towns of Anxi.

He entered the dynasty as the general of the right Jinwu, and was later named the prince of Miyun County. In the eleventh year of Tianbao, Feng Changqing served as the envoy of the four towns of Anxi.

In the fourteenth year of Tianbao (755 AD), An Lushan rebelled. An army of 150,000 rushed to Luoyang and Chang'an. The elite soldiers of Anxi and Beiting entered the king of Guanqin, and the border was empty of troops.

But it still struggled for a long time. Later, the Tibetans and Qarluq captured the Beiting Protectorate. The Tibetans captured the Anxi Protectorate, and the power of the Tang Dynasty in Central Asia declined.

At this time, Tang Xuanzong had not yet realized the severity of the situation, and the elite soldiers of Shuofang, Hexi, and Longyou were far away, and they could not be rescued, and there were few available soldiers in the hands of the imperial court. And An Lushan's subordinates are all long-trained tiger and wolf divisions, and the rabble is not their opponent at all.

Tang Xuanzong named Li Wan, the king of Rong, as the marshal, Gao Xianzhi as the deputy marshal, and the tens of thousands of soldiers were mostly temporarily recruited from the market.

Li Wan fell ill and died within a few days of taking office. Gao Xianzhi led the troops to the battle, and it was the eunuch Bian Lingcheng who was the supervisor.

Feng Changqing was also recruiting new soldiers in Luoyang to fight against the rebels, and was soon beaten by An Lushan and fled, Luoyang fell into the hands of the rebels, and Feng Changqing met Gao Xianzhi in Shaanxi County (near Sanmenxia in present-day Henan), and the two came to the same conclusion.

Now the only way out for the Tang army is to hold on to the danger and wait for reinforcements from all over the country. And Tongguan is the gateway to Chang'an,

The terrain is precarious. Easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is the most suitable place to hold on, and they decided to abandon Shaanxi County and retreat to Tongguan. In order not to leave the material resources of Taiyuan Cang.

Gao Xianzhi opened the Taiyuan warehouse, distributed the money and silk to the soldiers, and then set fire to the Taiyuan warehouse, at this time, the rebels had already rushed over, and the Tang army discarded the armor along the way. Delaying the rebel attack, he finally retreated to Tongguan before the rebels.

As soon as he arrived at Tongguan, Gao Xianzhi immediately strengthened the city defenses and prepared sufficient equipment to deal with round after round of attacks by the rebels.

Feng Changqing was stripped of his official title, demoted to a commoner, and stayed in the army to serve, he helped Gao Xianzhi train recruits, supervise the left and right armies, the rebels' offensives were repulsed again and again, and Tongguan was impregnable.

Chang'an is safe for the time being. According to the countermeasures of Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing, Yiqiē all developed in a direction favorable to the imperial court, and the shape was quite optimistic, however, Tang Xuanzong walked out of the faint trick of hatred for thousands of years.

Bian Lingcheng, the superintendent of the army, reported to Tang Xuanzong, "Chang Qing shook the crowd with thieves, and Xianzhi abandoned Shaanxi for hundreds of miles, and stole and reduced the food of the soldiers".

Tang Xuanzong was furious and sent Bian Lingcheng to the army to kill Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing. On January 24, 756 AD, Bian Lingcheng arrived at Tongguan, first beheaded Feng Changqing to show the public, and the corpse was on the reeds, and 100 Mo swordsmen waited for Gao Xianzhi's arrival.

In the past, Gao Xianzhi had rejected Bian Lingcheng's requests many times, of course, he thought that this dead eunuch would not say anything good for him in front of the emperor, but after being convicted to death, Gao Xianzhi obviously did not have this mental preparation.

He said to Bian Lingcheng, "I am guilty of defeat, and I dare not resign, but to say that I stole and reduced the food of the sergeants is completely framed, you have been in the army for a long time, you should know it in your heart", but the dead eunuch was unmoved,

Insist on doing what the emperor wants. Gao Xianzhi said loudly to the recruits outside, "I'm guilty, you just say it; If you think I'm not guilty, just shout wronged", and the shouts outside shook the world, "wronged". Gao Xianzhi knew that the matter was irreparable, and said to Feng Changqing's corpse,

"You were introduced by me, and you were the envoy of the festival in my place, and today I will die with you, this is my life", and then he was killed. After the death of Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing, the successor Ge Shuhan was persecuted by Tang Xuanzong.

Giving up the strategy of sticking to Tongguan, going out of the pass to fight a decisive battle with the rebels, and soon defeated, the generals were afraid of repeating the mistakes of Gao Xianzhi, and hijacked Ge Shuhan to surrender to the rebel camp, Tongguan was lost, and Tang Xuanzong fled to Sichuan

, the state affairs are out of control. After the Anshi Rebellion was pacified, it had lasted for eight years, and the Tang Empire was broken, and it never regained its former glory, and Gao Xianzhi's achievements in the Western Regions have almost become a unique sound in the history of the Tang Dynasty.

According to historical records, the Tang army had a strength of about 30,000 troops, including 20,000 soldiers from the Anxi Protectorate and 10,000 from the Balkhana and Qarluq allies.

The head of the Arab side was Abu Abu, the governor of Khorasan. Muslim, the general of his command is Ziyad. Ibn . Surrey, including 40,000 religious warriors in Khorasan headquarters, plus the army of the client state, is far more numerical than the Tang army.

Li Siye did kill hundreds of Bahan's soldiers, but that was because they blocked the road, and the Tang army wanted to flee for their lives. Your Excellency is saying that Li Siye was extremely powerful in killing the enemy in the Anshi Rebellion, and if he went down, everyone and horses were shattered, so this was not the case in the Battle of Talas?

Lee Kwang-pil

During the heyday of the Tang Empire, the territory was unprecedentedly vast, reaching Lake Baikal in the north, central Vietnam in the south, north of Heilongjiang in the northeast, and Syr Darya and Amu Darya in the northwest.

In the process of quelling the Anshi Rebellion, he was full of wisdom and achievements, and wrote one war legend after another.

There is a "beauty trick" in the art of war, which uses the principle of "opposites attract", and Li Guangbi is ingenious and applies it to war horses, singing a wonderful show that is amazing.

When Li Guangbi fought with Shi Siming's rebels, he obviously felt the pressure of the opposing cavalry, because many of the horses in Shi Siming's camp were brought from Saibei, and these stallions were strong and tall, running like flying, so that Shi Siming's cavalry had strong combat effectiveness.

Li Guangbi found that when there was no war, these stallions had to rush to the river every day to bathe and graze, so Li Guangbi bought mares with foals on a large scale, and bought 500 mares and foals from the people at once.

When Shi Siming's stallion reached the river again, Li Guangbi drove the mare out of the city, but left all the foals in the city. The mare came to the river outside the city, and attracted the attention of all the stallions, and the stallions were in heat, and they ran down to the mares, and the mares, thinking about the foals in the city, turned and galloped into the city.

The stallions were in hot pursuit, and all of them ran into the city where the Tang army was stationed, and when Shi Siming reacted, he wanted to intercept the horses, but these stallions had been captured by the Tang army, and later, they were added to the mounts of the Tang army.

Making Li Guangbi's troops the most combat-effective part of the Tang Army, with many meritorious achievements and a world of prestige, this strategy was only a small test of Li Guangbi, and the story of his life was even more exciting.

Li Guangbi (708 A.D. - 764 A.D.) was a native of Liucheng, Yingzhou (now Chaoyang, Liaoning), belonging to the Khitan tribe, and his father Li Kailuo was a Khitan chieftain.

When the Tibetan invaded Heyuan, Li Kailuo led the elite soldiers to meet the battle, and when he set off, he said to others, "After pacifying the Tibetan thieves, I can't come back".

On the way back to the division in victory, he really fell ill and died, the imperial court posthumously presented the governor of Yingzhou, called the martyr, Li Guangbi became a martyr's son, he was a young man, began the glorious history of the southern expedition and the northern war. (To be continued.) )