Chapter 161: The End of an Era

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An urgent war report was sent to Zhang Mai, and the figures at the core decision-making level of the Tiance Army were terrified. Where are the novels updated the fastest? Please look for the biquge.info of Aishang Novel Network && the latest chapter Baidu search: Biqu Ge&&

Ma Jirong and others all thought that now that the river was decided, the general could be left to guard the river, and the marshal should hurry back east.

If you want to stay as a general, everyone immediately thought of Guo Luo, but Guo Luo said: "If you want to hurry, you can't reach it, the affairs in the East are naturally very urgent, but there are still some hands and tails in the Western Regions that need to be taken care of by the marshal, and now if the marshal goes back in a hurry, the Heavenly Kingdoms and the Western Regions will see our urgency, but I am afraid that we will leave some troubles behind!" I think that it must take a little time to completely stabilize the Western Regions, so that the Western countries will no longer dare to look down on our Tang Dynasty, and then the marshal will calmly return to the east, in that case, the marshal will have no worries after returning to the east. After that, the strategy of our Tiance army can be adjusted again to attack in the east and defend in the west. ”

Liu An, who had just arrived, said: "But the situation in the east is so critical, if it is postponed any longer......"

Guo Luo said: "The east is certainly in danger, but the news has reached here, the matter over there was at least a month or two ago, and if the marshal wants to go back, it will take at least a month or two, and if the elite army returns to Liangzhou together, it will take at least half a year." The elite army needs to recuperate after such a tiring long march, at least another year, so it is at least a long time away from the crisis in the East, and it is useless to hurry back. ”

Zhang Mai was still groaning, Wei Renpu stepped forward and said: "The minister thinks that those who dare not act rashly in the east now do not know whether the marshal has returned, and they can inform the east of the date of the marshal's return to the east, and if Luntai and Liangzhou get this exact news, they can gradually adjust the strategy of attacking the west and defending the east to attacking and defending the west, and when the marshal returns to the east, then they can take advantage of the thunderous momentum and clean up the Central Plains in one fell swoop." ”

Seeing Yiwen Yiwu say this, Zhang Mai said: "Okay, just do it." ”

At the moment, Wei Renpu drafted the document, Guo Luo continued to clear the four realms, and Guo Wei led the elite troops to the east first.

Zhang Mai's Daxu is still standing still in Samarkand!

On this day, Guo Bian from the west came to write and asked Zhang Mai to move to Bukhara.

Liu An said: "If you want to return to the east, how can you go back to the west?" ”

Guo Luo said: "Just because I want to return to the east, I want to go to the west instead." ”

Everyone didn't understand what he meant, but Zhang Mai smiled and agreed, and immediately took his wife and children all the way to Bukhara. ”

It turned out that although Satuk fled into the mountains, but now the river is owned by Zhang Mai, and the Western Regions are turbulent, and they all think that Zhang Mai will overwhelm the entire land, although Satuk himself is deeply hidden, but there are still subordinates who betray him.

Zhang Mai said coldly: "Take him to Bukhara together!" ”

At this time, the 20,000 elite troops of the Tiance Army, as well as the militia leaders and engineer leaders who could organize the militia and engineers, had already returned to the east in batches under Guo Wei's arrangement, but these were all secret operations. &&&Latest Chapter Baidu Search: Biqu Pavilion&&On the contrary, under Guo Luo's organization, the more than 100,000 troops who moved from Ningyuan, together with more than 100,000 militiamen, entered the important strongholds in the Hezhong region with great fanfare, and those high-quality fertile fields and pastures that had become ownerless because of the war were also assigned.

Guo Luo's actions overshadowed Guo Wei's actions, which shocked the entire Western Regions.

At this time, Zhang Mai actually only had one guard and horse left and right on his side, plus two divine arrow battalions on the left and right, which was very small in terms of troops, but as a symbol of the entire Tiance army, the Daxu of General Tiance moved from Samarkand to Bukhara, which caused an earthquake in the entire Western Regions!

"He's going west!"

"Could it be...... He's really going to Baghdad! ”

"Could it be...... Is he really going to conquer the whole world? ”

Since Samarkand changed hands, the prestige of the Tang Dynasty has further penetrated into the entire Western Regions, from Baghdad to Egypt, and even the Catholic Holy See has known that there is such a hegemon in the East.

The Heavenly Kingdoms even kept their eyes firmly on the river, feeling uneasy in their hearts, and they were very worried that Zhang Mai would continue to move westward.

In this battle in the river, Zhang Mai achieved a complete victory but did not lose much strength, and Yang Xin and Xu Congshi's appearance made the power of the Eastern Cavalry form a huge shadow in the minds of the cavalry of all the Heavenly Kingdoms! Famous troops like the Black Knights were also crushed in an instant, and the Bouweich brothers were not sure whether their army would be able to resist if they encountered the strong forces of the Tang Dynasty.

When Zhang Mai arrived in Bukhara, envoys from all the heavenly countries arrived and came to congratulate him, but Zhang Mai naturally knew very well that the congratulation was false, but the news was true!

He didn't meet them immediately, but asked He Chunshan to go and find out their tone first, after the battle in the river, He Chunshan's status has also been greatly improved, and now he can take charge of himself and almost catch up with Liu An.

The envoys of all the countries and tribes didn't even dare to sit down when they saw He Chunshan, and even Watik greeted him with a smile, and after a period of diplomatic greetings, the leader Watik asked Zhang Mai why he came to Bukhara this time.

Now Baghdad has been emptied, but at present, the Bouweishi brothers and others still serve the caliph as the head of the horse, and the envoys sent by the caliph have also become the leaders of the envoys of the heavenly kingdoms.

He Chunshan said with a smile: "Our marshal is the head of the Tang Dynasty military, this river is my old Tang Dynasty, and Bukhara is an important town in the western part of my Tang Dynasty, so the marshal wants to come to inspect it." ”

In the last diplomatic representations, Baghdad still insisted that the region in the middle of the river belonged to heaven and not to the Tang Dynasty, suggesting that even if Zhang Mai entered the river, he should return the country to the descendants of Nasr II, but at this time, Watik looked at the envoy of the Bouweich brothers, and the Bowehi brothers made a look, and Watik said: "Our caliph also heard that the Tang Dynasty Heavenly Khan recovered Bukhara from the Satuq barbarians, so we came to congratulate him." &&&Latest Chapter Baidu Search: Biqu Ge&&"

He Chunshan was overjoyed when he heard this, now that the Central Plains are in a hurry, Zhang Mai is actually in a hurry to return to the east, and he needs to do his best to stabilize the situation in the west, as long as he can keep the river, this is Zhang Mai's bottom line, and He Chunshan heard Watik say this, and he knew that the other party's bottom line was far more than that!

It's not that the diplomatic level of Watick is not enough, but that the heavenly kingdoms are intimidated by the military might of the Tang army, and their religious heads such as the caliph and military leaders such as the Bouweich brothers are all out of proportion, and as envoys, they naturally dare not show themselves to be tough, otherwise if they anger Zhang Mai and cause him to continue to wage war against the west, then no matter how the war is won or lost, these envoys themselves will have to lose their heads!

He Chunshan knew that the other party was soft, but said with a smile: "This Bukhara is the resting city of the Tang Dynasty, although the marshal has not yet given an order, but this title will be changed in the future." ”

Bukhara is one of the holy places of the Celestial Cult in Central Asia, and has a very high status in the hearts of the Celestial Cultists, known as the "noble Bukhara" and "the city that brings joy and glory to the believers of the Celestial Sect"! To change the name of Bukhara is actually a further test of He Chunshan's religious issue.

Vatik's face suddenly became ugly, but he endured it and said nothing.

He Chunshan had a bottom in his heart, knowing that it was almost the end of the matter, he smiled slightly, and did not say any more words of aggression, because he asked: "Your envoys have come to see our marshal this time, can you bring tribute?" ”

The word "tribute" is another trap, all the envoys came, naturally they also brought very precious diplomatic gifts, but diplomatic gifts are gifts from both equal parties, if it becomes "tribute", it is included in the Chinese tributary system.

Since Vatik was in charge of diplomacy with the East, he naturally knew these subtleties, but he pretended not to understand after translating, why Chunshan explained what gifts the envoys of various countries had brought this time.

In this way, the two sides reached a tacit understanding: the Tang Dynasty regarded the Bouweich brothers and others as a country of foreign nations, and the internal propaganda would call their gifts tribute; The Bouweich brothers only recognized it as a gift, but Watick did not fight head-on, but acquiesced in Datang's internal propaganda.

Among all the gifts, the gifts of the caliph and the Bouweishi brothers are the most eye-catching, Harry sent Zhang Mai a copy of the Quran with Muhammad's handwriting, with Muhammad's handwriting scriptures, which can be said to be the supreme holy object in the Heavenly Religion, Harry sent this scripture, on the one hand, to express his respect, but also to euphemistically persuade Zhang Mai to convert to the Heavenly Religion. He also hid a secret letter in the middle of the book, to the effect that if Zhang Mai converted to the Heavenly Sect, the caliph would bless Zhang Mai to become the king of the entire earth! Considering that the caliph is now only a religious authority and no military and political power, the hidden meaning of this sentence is very far-reaching.

Of course, He Chunshan didn't dare to open this "Koran", and then look at the gift of the Bouweich brothers, it was a Damascus treasure knife, and a war horse comparable to a bloody horse, the sword was inlaid with rubies, and the saddle of the war horse was all made of gold and silver, although these two treasures were not priceless, but they were not far apart. But in front of the sword of the war horse, there is also a stunning Persian beauty holding gold and olive oil.

He Chunshan was so smart that he immediately understood what the Bouweich brothers meant: they were going to sue Zhang Mai, they were willing to offer gold and beauties to seek peace, but if Zhang Mai insisted on going west, then the soldiers and soldiers of the Tang army would be greeted with war horses and swords! However, with the beauty gold in the front and the war horse treasure knife in the back, it can be seen that the Bouweich brothers still don't want to be enemies with Zhang Mai if they can.

This meeting was very tense for the envoys of the Heavenly Kingdoms, but He Chunshan was full of spring breeze, and the next day he arranged for the envoys to meet Zhang Mai.

Watik prostrate forward and said in a few Tang dialects he had just learned: "The noble Heavenly Khan, the invincible Heavenly Khan, and the envoy of Alifa have come to pay their respects again. ”

Zhang Mai smiled and was about to sit them down, when there was a commotion outside, and he asked, "What's the matter, so noisy!" ”

Ma Xiaochun flashed next to him and said, "Satuk has been escorted." ”

Zhang Mai snorted, Ma Xiaochun understood, and ordered: "Summons Zhang Huaizhong to meet him!" ”

The two guards escorted an old man with gray hair and a wrinkled face in, and Zhang Mai glanced at it and said, "Where is Satuk?" Before he finished speaking, he suddenly recognized this old man as Satuk, and suddenly felt sad for no reason, since he came to this era, this Satuk has been entangled with himself for I don't know how many years! He didn't expect that this toughest opponent would look like this at this moment.

Even Watick and the others couldn't have imagined that the Hui overlord who once shocked the Western Regions would be reduced to what it is today!

Satuk was half-lying on the ground, one of his right hands and one of his left feet were broken, Zhang Mai said unhappily: "Who let you torture him!" ”

The team that escorted him hurriedly said: "Marshal, we didn't torture him, his right hand was cut off by the subordinates who betrayed him, and as for this foot, it was broken in the chaos during an escape on the way to the west. ”

Zhang Mai's gloom turned into pity, Satuk raised his head slightly, saw that this pity was worse than death, and shouted angrily: "Zhang Mai! Kill me! Kill me! ”

Ma Xiaochun shouted: "Shut up, you have you talking like this in the face of Tian Khan!" ”

Zhang Mai groaned slightly and said, "Originally, you are my good opponent, and I respect you." But I've let you go a few times, and you've betrayed me a few times! Such sin of rebellion cannot be forgiven. ”

"Good, good......" cried Satuk, "hurry up and let me die, I don't want to be humiliated in this world!" ”

Zhang Mai said: "After you die, I will erect a monument for you, where do you want to be buried?" ”

Satuk laughed and said, "Where are you buried...... Is there anything else that matters about this kind of thing? ”

Zhang Mai said leisurely: "You are the most difficult opponent I have been in this world so far. I erect a monument for you, not for you, but for myself. I have swept through the Western Regions and destroyed many enemies, and from now on, I will erect monuments for them one by one, and you will be the most magnificent one besides the light of Jerod! ”

Satuk showed anger on his face, this anger made him show a heroic spirit like returning to the light in aging, and the whole person actually stood up violently on one foot, and the envoys of the surrounding countries were shocked by his might, and they all took a step back, thinking: "This Hui overlord really deserves his name, all of them are on this, and there is such a momentum!" ”

"Since it's for yourself to erect a monument!" Satuk said angrily: "Then come and ask me what I am doing!"

Zhang Mai laughed and said, "Yes! I ask you what to do! After a pause, he said, "Do you have any other wishes?" We're old rivals, but we're also old friends. If you have any wishes, as long as there is no conflict with state affairs, I will try my best to accommodate you. ”

Satuk didn't say a word, and Zhang Mai said: "Don't you want to explain anything about your sons?" Satuk sneered: "If you want to kill them, they won't live, if you don't kill them, they won't die, what is there to say!" ”

Zhang Mai said: "You can really see it! If it weren't for the death of my father-in-law at your hands, I would have to explain to my wife and all the generals in the old Lingxi army, I really want to let you go......"

Satuk said categorically: "No need! Now I live, only to be humiliated, and one more day of life, one more day of humiliation! Zhang Mai! If you really respect me, give me a good time! ”

Zhang Mai was silent, and said after a long time: "Okay, I will fulfill you." He asked, "Who will give him a ride for me?" ”

Guo Bian rushed out, his eyes were red, and shouted, "Who else can there be besides me!" ”

The generals were originally eager to try, but when they saw Guo Bian, they all stopped, Zhang Mai pulled out the red satin blood spear behind his back, handed it to Guo Bian, and said: "Now, there are not many people who are qualified to sprinkle blood on this blood spear. Although he killed his father-in-law and did not share the sky with the Guo family, he was also qualified to die on this spear! ”

Satuk smiled sadly, turned around and went out of the tent, Guo Bian followed, and soon the cannon outside the tent sounded, and everyone in the tent knew that a generation of heroes had died, and an era was over.

(To be continued)

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