Li Qing'an has never realized the importance of intelligence as much as he does today, from the broken leaves to the west, the mountains are undulating, the mountains, grasslands and the Gobi alternate in turn, the long distance and the unfamiliar country are destined to the Tang Dynasty and the Great Eclipse do not understand each other, in this case, intelligence is extremely important.

After Li Qing'an took down the broken leaves, the first thing he did was to select dozens of people from the Turks and send them to disguise themselves as merchants to investigate the information of the Great Cannibal in the Hezhong region.

A month has passed, and the intelligence of the Hezhong region has come one after another, the Great Food Army has suppressed the rebellion of small countries such as Shi Guo, Xiao Shi Guo, Dong'an Guo and He State, and finally left the two big countries of Anguo and Kang Guo have not been quelled, the Muslims have been ruthless, thousands of Shiites have been captured and made slaves, the king of Shi Guo has been killed, the king of He has been killed, the king of Xiao Shi has also been killed, and the remaining Kang and Anguo, the big cannibals have no appeasement, and those who do not surrender are bloody killings.

In this month's time, Li Qing'an also stabilized the situation of Broken Leaves, he ordered that they were not allowed to encroach on the private property of the Turgish people, and allowed them to graze freely in the broken leaves, and he also gave a certain amount of food to the lonely and widowed old people, and soon he got a clue that the body of Du Mozhi was dug up, Li Qing'an buried him in He Hunting City with the gift of the great chief, and allowed the Turgish people to go to worship, after a series of pacification measures, the panic of the Turgish people gradually stabilized.

Li Qing'an immediately selected 10,000 young men from the more than 20,000 Turgish prisoners of war to join the Tang army, detained all the Islamic missionaries who were preaching in Xiaye, and organized this 10,000 new army to repair the temple of Yuanjiao that was destroyed by the great cannibals, and Li Qingan also personally participated in the construction of the temple.

By June, Li Qing'an's army had increased to 100,000, 50,000 Anxi Ting Army, 30,000 Tianwei Army, 10,000 mercenaries of Gelulu and Shatuo, and the latest 10,000 Tuqi Army.

But the pressure of Anxi and Beiting is also obvious, the Northern Hui is a wolf lurking very deeply, and the southern Tubo has never forgotten the ambition of Anxi, it turns out that the main task of Anxi and Beiting is the defense of one south and one north, so the 20,000 troops of Beiting and the 24,000 troops of Anxi are basically enough, but after the addition of a big food strong enemy, these 44,000 troops are overstretched, which is also the fundamental reason why the imperial court combined Anxi Xiting into one and sent 30,000 Tianwei troops to Anxi to help in the war.

In order to solve this contradiction, the imperial court began to move military households to Broken Leaves from the previous year, and moved 1,500 artisan households to Beiting, with the purpose of achieving self-sufficiency in Anxi.

At this moment, Li Qing'an has no time to slowly reorganize the army and horses, Da Shi is about to complete the suppression of the rebellion in the Hezhong region, at that time they will look back to the east, and drive the Tang Dynasty's forces out of the river, in order to seize the opportunity, Li Qing'an began the westward strategy in June of the tenth year of Tianbao.

He entrusted Beiting to Feng Changqing, leaving 15,000 troops for him to defend Huifu, entrusted Anxi to Lifei Shouyu, handed over 20,000 troops to defend Tubo, and left Duan Xiushi to guard the broken leaves, while Li Qingan personally led an army of 50,000 to start his first western expedition.

In late June, the 50,000-strong army of the Tang Army arrived in Ningyuan.

Ning Yuanguo has been controlled by Li Fei Yuanli, he led 3,000 troops like a bamboo, with the assistance of Ning Yuan's [***] people, it took only one day to break through the capital city controlled by the puppet king set up by Da Shi, and the puppet king committed suicide in fear of crime.

The Tang army's 50,000 troops slowly stopped outside the city, the king of Ningyuan was killed in the first attack of the big cannibals, and after the pseudo-king committed suicide in fear of crime, Ningyuan was currently temporarily governed by the former king's son Ya Mo Si, and when Li Qing'an's army arrived outside the city, Wu Mo Si and Li Fei Yuanli greeted them together.

Wu Mo Si knelt on the ground and kowtowed respectfully to Li Qing'an, "Xiao Wang Wu Mo Si, see the general of the Jiedu Envoy!" ”

Yama is about thirty years old, not tall, but very strong, with broad shoulders, square face and big nose, giving people a kind and credible feeling.

Li Qingan turned over and dismounted, helped the house mill sip up, and sighed: "Your father is loyal to the imperial court, and would rather die than surrender to Da Shi, his ambition is commendable, I will play the holy and give your father a posthumous title, but the current plan is to restore production and stabilize the domestic order, and the king will be represented by you." ”

Yama was overjoyed, and hurriedly saluted Li Qing'an: "I will do my best, obey the general's orders, cooperate with the Tang army's westward expedition, and ask the general to enter the city to rest." ”

Li Qing'an nodded, turned back to Li Guangbi and said, "Camp on the spot, rest for two days and set off!" ”

The Tang army began to camp outside the city, Li Qing'an followed the house into the city, although the thirsty city is the capital of Ningyuan country, but its area is very small, it is comparable to a small county in the Tang Dynasty, there are more than 2,000 households living in the city, and the rest of the people are scattered all over the place in the form of tribes, mainly grazing for a living, the horse of Ningyuan country is the famous Dawan horse, the Western Han Dynasty Wei Qinghuo went to the west to go sick, it was from here to get thousands of Dawan horses to bring back to the Han Chang'an.

The buildings in the city were mainly made of stone, the houses were low, densely packed together, and there was only one road in the whole city, which led to the palace, and the road was of earth, which was not very strong, so that the city was covered with dust, and the few sparse trees were dyed yellow.

"Your Royal Highness the Prince, is there any news on the whereabouts of Princess Heyi?"

When Qi Yad conquered the thirsty city, the city was in chaos, the king was killed, Princess Heyi escaped from the city in the chaos, but she was nowhere to be found, the big cannibal was on a bounty to capture her, Ning Yuanguo was also looking for her everywhere, but her whereabouts were always unknown, there were rumors that she had fled back to the Tang Dynasty, but there was no record in Beiting and Anxi.

Li Qingan is very concerned about the whereabouts of Princess Heyi, not only because she is the only princess in the Tang Dynasty and in the river, but also because Princess Heyi knows his true identity and knows that the phoenix jade has not been carried by him since he was a child, and Li Qingan must find her.

Yama sighed and said, "I've been investigating this matter for a long time, and I have a little clue. ”

"Tell me, what's the clue?"

"The princess was followed by twenty guards when she fled from the thirsty city, but soon after they left the city, they encountered a large food army, and there was a fierce battle, and finally the princess fled east alone, and her twenty guards, eighteen people died, two were wounded and captured, one of them I have found, he said that the princess fled in the direction of broken leaves, whether it fell into the hands of the rebel army, it is unknown, but one thing is certain, there is no her in the prisoner of war records of the big cannibal, I am most worried that she will be captured as a private slave."

Li Qingan nodded and said, "If she escapes to Broken Leaf, it will be better, after all, the enemy army is coming from the west, and the war has not yet ignited to Broken Leaf, I estimate that she may be hiding, I will go all out to find her and give Ning Yuanguo an answer." ”

Yama sobbed and said, "Thank you, General!" ”

Li Qingan waved his hand and asked again, "How is the food situation?" How many troops does Ning Yuanguo still have? ”

"Returning to the Great General, the sheep of Ning Yuanguo are scattered in various tribes, and the big cannibals have not snatched much, they mainly looted the treasury, and the jewelry, gold, silver and all kinds of money and goods in the treasury have been swept away, as for the army, we can also organize 10,000 troops to support the Tang army."

"Excellent! Now you first collect 2,000 sheep and send them to the barracks, and you will discuss the affairs of the army with General Lifei in detail, and we will provide the equipment. ”

The two walked as they spoke, and soon entered the palace.

．．．．．．．． Bukhara, the stronghold of Shiite leader Shariq and the place where Shiites have the highest concentration, has reached its bloodiest stage in the fight to suppress the Shiite uprising. It has been two months since Dusapo fought the battle to quell the uprising in Angola and more than 100,000 Shiites have been killed, and 250,000 have died of disease and starvation.

Nearly half of his 10,000 troops were lost, but he was never able to capture Bukhara.

In mid-June, the most severe moment to test Bukhara finally arrived, and the governor of Khorasan, Abu Abu. Muslim and Abbasid Crown Prince Mansour marched to Bukhara with an army of 70,000.

Huge armies marched along the main road, and the trees on both sides of the road were covered with the corpses of slaughtered Shiites, men, women, old people and children, which were undoubtedly the source of disease in the hot and sultry season.

Abu. The Muslims were particularly angry, first the broken leaf was lost and captured by the Tang army, because the broken leaf was far away, he could still use the influence of the overall situation to prevaricate, but Bukhara's poor offensive made him unable to find a suitable reason.

So that Mansur found an excuse to send troops, his 50,000 Syrian troops marched into the river, the elder Ali was temporarily ordered to attack Egypt, he had already led his headquarters away, and now the area in the middle of the river is decided by the Muslims and al-Mansur, and it is clear that the hand of the Abbasid has reached into the middle of the river.

Al-Mansur is Jafar, who officially changed his name three months ago as crown prince, and if nothing else, al-Mansur will be the second caliph of the Abbasids.

Mansur covered his nose with an embroidered handkerchief and said to the Muslims with dissatisfaction: "On such a hot day, why don't you bury or burn the corpses, a plague will destroy the Great Food Army, Muslim general, not only do your men not know how to fight, I don't think they even know the most basic common sense." ”

The Muslim said to his hand with a gloomy face: "Pass my order, find someone to burn the body immediately, do not delay, carry it out immediately!" ”

He turned back to Mansur and said, "I will give His Highness a satisfactory explanation!" ”

At noon, the mighty army of food reinforcements finally arrived in the city of Bukhara, and Dusapo was so frightened that he hurried to see it.

He knelt before the Muslims and Mansour and said respectfully: "See Your Excellency the Governor, see His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, may Allah bless you." ”

The Muslim asked coldly: "How many troops do you have now?" ”

"And about five or six thousand."

"I don't want to about, how many are there?"

Du Sapo was terrified to the extreme, and said in a low voice: "There are still four thousand eight hundred people. ”

The Muslim was furious, and he stared at Dusapo and said viciously: "I gave you 10,000 elite Khorasan troops, but you lost 5,200 men, are you guilty?" ”

Du Sapo was so frightened that he kowtowed again and again, "When the lowly position defeated the Shi Kingdom, only two hundred people were lost, but Anguo was completely different, not only did they have the king's army to participate in the war, but also the women and children of all tribes had knives, and they could kill people at any time, and the lowly duty was invincible, please spare me!" ”

"Spare you?" The Muslim snorted heavily, "I will spare you, but the caliph will not spare me. ”

As soon as he shouted the order, he immediately rushed up with more than a dozen big men, and the Muslim horsewhip pointed at Du Sapo and said: "Push him down and behead him, and show his head to the public!" ”

"Spare your life!" Du Sabo was frightened and shouted, "For my sake, for the sake of conquering the State of Shi, the governor will spare me once and let me make meritorious service for my crimes!" ”

"Slash!"

The Muslims were unforgiving, and in a moment, a scream was heard, and a soldier served the bloody head of Dusapo on a plate.

At this time, Mansour sighed and said, "Your Excellency the Governor, you should give him a chance. ”

The Muslim sneered and said, "He doesn't understand common sense, he almost caused a pandemic, damn it!" ”

Mansur smiled faintly and said: "Forget it if you kill it, I still have to go to the calipha to find the Eye of Light, I heard that the flame gem Persia has been given to Kangguo, Your Excellency the Governor, I am going to lead the headquarters to Samarkand, and Bukhara will be handed over to the Governor to be in charge." ”

"Nope! Let's go together, it won't take much time to take Bukhara. ”

He immediately said to his confidant Abad: "I will give you 40,000 troops, and you will be given the city of Bukhara in one day, and tell all the warriors that I will reward the first one to attack Bukhara, the woman and wealth of the king of Bukhara." ”

The drums beat like thunder, the attack of the Great Food Army began, and the 40,000 most elite Khorasan army attacked the city of Bukhara like a black tide, the boulders rolled in the air, roaring and smashing towards the city, huge fireballs swept through the sky like meteors, and dozens of incomparably huge climbing towers roared towards the city like giants.

At the gates, two thousand men braved arrows and slammed a huge siege log against the gates, and Bukhara crumbled.

More than 100,000 soldiers and civilians from all over the city of Bukhara went up to the city and resisted the attack of the Great Food Army with all their might, but their strength was too different from that of the Khorasan army, and they could not resist the large-scale attack of the Khorasan army.

Two hours later, with a muffled thunderous crash, the gates of Bukhara were finally slammed open, and thousands of large food troops rushed into the city of Bukhara. The Muslims then gave the order to massacre the city, and tens of thousands of troops marched into the city, kicking off the massacre.

Shariq, the leader who initiated and led the Shiite uprising, escaped from Bukhara through the secret passages, and it was not until fifteen years later that Shariq fell ill and died in the holy city of Mecca.

．．．．．．．．． Half a month later, the uprising in Samarkand was also extinguished, and the Abbasids completed their brutal suppression of the Shiites. The eyes of the Muslims finally turned to the east, and on the same day that the city of Bukhara was captured, the 50,000 troops of the Tang Dynasty also marched into the stone country.

(To be continued)