Although this battle was won, it also exposed their strong combat power. Although it is said that winning a war can play a certain role in intimidation, there is the same disadvantage, that is, once the Western Regions Alliance decides to send troops again, it must be more prepared.

"Not bad." Zhang Tian also had the same attitude towards this matter, "In this way, Sima Junshi, I will trouble you to pay attention to the movements of the countries in the Western Regions, although we now have the internal response of Xiaowan Kingdom, but we can't bet all our hopes on this person, we still have to have our own other news channels, so as to ensure that when the other party moves troops, we can be prepared." Of course, defense is always passive, and if possible, we should look for opportunities to strike first. ”

Zhang Tian came to solve the problem of the Western Regions on the orders of his father this time, naturally hoping to have a successful result, which was to prove himself and avenge his defeat in the war with Shu.

Although Zhang Chao did not say it explicitly this time, as a son and the crown prince of the dynasty, Zhang Tian was indeed very clear in his heart that his father was giving himself a chance to make great contributions. Although it is true to say that he is the crown prince, the current Celestial Empire is too powerful, and if you want to inherit this family property, it is obviously not possible to have enough strength. And this time is undoubtedly an opportunity for him to make great contributions, if he can pacify the countries of the Western Regions, when he inherits the throne in the future, others will naturally not be able to say something.

The affairs of Wusun Kingdom seem to come and go quickly, but in fact, they have attracted a lot of attention among the countries of the Western Regions. The defeat of the 100,000-strong army in just one day and one night is equivalent to sounding a wake-up call to other countries and letting everyone know the terrible nature of the Celestial Empire.

At this time, the Celestial Empire is like you like the sword of Damocles, hanging high above the heads of all nations, making them feel very depressed.

No one wants to be threatened, and the same is true for the countries of the Western Regions. Although none of them alone can be a powerful opponent of the Celestial Empire, they can unite. Under the common demand, the Western Regions Alliance, a department that can only play a role at critical times, began to operate at a high speed. In order to achieve their goal of winning by surprise, several major countries in the alliance began to secretly carry out consultations, and even in order to prevent confidential matters from being leaked, this time they also excluded the participation of the monarchs of some small countries.

Among them, the nine powerful countries in the Western Regions have frequently begun to meet and contact, they are Wusun, Dawan, Ruoqiang, Loulan, Gumo, Anxi, Dayueshi, Kangju and Daxia.

These nine countries almost have the characteristics of a common country, that is, they all have more than 300,000 troops, and the territory is also vast, so they have become a well-deserved power in the Western Regions.

In the past, what the nine countries were thinking about was annexing each other, and to put it bluntly, it was also a bit like the Warring States Period, everyone wanted to be big, so naturally there was some friction. But this time, when facing the Tiger Celestial Empire, they really had to temporarily unite together and share the foreign enemy.

The nine families are united, and the strength of the army is as high as nearly three million, and in terms of military strength alone, it has exceeded the three legions of the Celestial Empire by a lot, which also gives them more confidence, and even dares to speak out against the Celestial Empire head-on.

It's just that the nine families didn't choose to fight face to face right away in the end, because they had understood that the current Celestial Empire is too powerful, and the total number of troops is even over five million, if they take the lead in provoking a war, once the Celestial Empire raises the whole country's troops, the victory or defeat will be five or five. In order to increase their chances of winning a battle, they were still determined to look for foreign aid, if they could lead the forces of the Celestial Empire to travel around, it would be much easier to just deal with the 1.5 million enemies of the Celestial Empire in front of them.

It's not so easy to find foreign help. Looking at the current Celestial Empire, there is no enemy in China, and after Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of Western Shu, fell ill and died, no one could be the opponent of the Celestial Empire. Even on the islands to the east, the Yamato Kingdom, the Lesser Wa Kingdom, was still struggling, and it was only a matter of time before it was destroyed.

There are also countries such as Xianbei and Xiongnu that seemed to be powerful in the past, but they have also scattered under the suppression of the Celestial Empire over the years, and it is very difficult to find their traces, let alone point out what trouble they can bring to the Celestial Empire and contain what troops.

From this point of view, it seems that there is only one person who can be allied, and that is the Rus' Kingdom in the northeastern part of the Celestial Empire.

How powerful the Rus' kingdom was in the past, even the countries of the Western Regions that were far away were very clear. But such a powerful country was finally defeated by the Celestial Empire in the war, and finally had to cede the land and pay reparations, and cowered in a corner.

Although it seems that the Rus kingdom is not as big as before, but the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and more importantly, the country hates the Celestial Empire, which is the basis on which the two sides can unite. And once the Rus State makes a move and restrains part of the Celestial Empire's forces, then when the Western Regions United begins to counterattack, the Celestial Empire will have no reinforcements to send, so the battle can be won.

After having a plan, under the secret merchants of the Nine Kingdoms of the Western Regions, a very elite team of envoys was sent to the Rus, the former powerhouse in the north, in a very hidden way.

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Jinyang City, the imperial capital of the Celestial Empire.

In the palace, Zhang Chao sat high on the golden dragon chair, and below, Lu Su, Minister of the Interior, and Lu Fei, the director of Skynet intelligence, were standing on the left and right.

Even if Lu Fei is here, needless to say, the matter discussed this time is naturally related to intelligence. In fact, the news just obtained that Anatoly, the king of Rus' is secretly uniting Kazakhstan and Ukraine's two neighboring countries to plan to send troops to the Celestial Empire.

It is not true that they sent troops to the Celestial Empire, and the result of their deliberations was only to recapture the original territory of Rus' occupied by the Celestial Empire. That is, from the city of Great Russ to the south of Pahan, Adaner, Sanlibel, Beitki, Nexus and finally the city of Haypaola.

After all, in the past, these places were originally owned by the Rus State, and they were snatched by the emperor of the Celestial Dynasty Zhang Chao when the two princes seized power after the death of the powerful emperor Yaxiongfu.

Now, the second prince Ivan, who participated in the seizure of imperial power, has died, Anatoly has become the new successor monarch, and all the opposition forces in the country have been suppressed.

A war with the Celestial Empire will happen sooner or later. In the end, only one of the two powers remains, which is the consensus of many. It's just that because the vitality of the Rus Kingdom was greatly damaged before, everyone thinks that even if there is a war, it shouldn't be so fast.

Anatoly naturally understands this truth as well. If you want to delay it for a few years, after he trains more elite soldiers, the victory rate will be much greater in a battle with the Celestial Empire. But because of the affairs of the Western Regions, he really had to start a war in advance.

The envoys of the Western Regions had already been secretly seen, and he knew that these people were preparing to launch an attack on the Celestial Empire in the near future, so that they could at least contain the forces of more than five legions of the Celestial Empire. In other words, half of the Celestial Empire's military strength will be caught in the war situation in the Western Regions and cannot extricate itself.

With the addition of the two legions used by the Celestial Empire in the Yamato Kingdom, I am afraid that the forces that the Celestial Empire can really use in the future are already very limited. And taking advantage of this opportunity, he suddenly led his troops to attack, presumably he would be able to catch the other party off guard, and even at that time, it may not only be to snatch back his own land, but it is not impossible to invade the land of the Celestial Empire.

Anatoly believes that a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity has arrived, and he must seize it, or he will be sorry for himself.

But despite the good words of the envoy from the Western Regions and the seemingly clear analysis of the situation, Anatoly still did not have any underestimation. Having suffered at the hands of the Celestial Empire, he knew the power and horror of this enemy, and in order to ensure the chance of victory, he decided to unite the two neighboring countries of Kazakhstan and Ukraine to send troops together. Although in this way, the fruits of victory will be scraped out partially, but as long as it can increase the probability of victory, he will admit it.

It's just that Anatoly doesn't know that if he moves only one country, although the probability of victory will decrease, at least he can secretly send troops. But when he contacted Kazakhstan and Ukraine, the news naturally spread.

The reason why the news can come out is naturally the reason why the Tianyan organization has done its work a long time ago.

After Zhang Chao defeated the powerful Rus' Kingdom and obtained a large amount of land, he knew that this matter was not over, and there would definitely be a war in the future.

It's just that the Celestial Empire at that time did not have enough troops after several battles, and there were still Western Shu and Eastern Wu in the internal balance, so he had no choice but to accept it when he saw it and retreat first. But when he was doing these things, he did have a precaution, and ordered the Tianyan Organization to arrange secret agents no matter what, and pay attention to the movements of the Rus' country, Kazakhstan and Ukraine.

Zhang Chao issued a holy decree, and the members of Tianyan began to get busy, and under their set-up, the Kazakh general Marhua was successfully subdued.

In any case, he is also a general who leads the troops of a country, and it is naturally not easy to subdue Malhua. But the members of Tianyan fully played the role of poison 0. They first provided the general with a large amount of poison 0 for free, until the other party suddenly broke off after becoming addicted to it, and naturally took down this person.

It's just that things are done secretly, and Malhua doesn't want to lose his public image, and he has never mentioned in front of outsiders that he has a hobby of taking drugs, so this matter is not known to outsiders.

At the beginning, Tianyan's move was just to arrange an eyeliner in the Kazakh state, but no one expected that this time the Rus' country was ready to send troops, and he actually informed the Kazakh high-level, and Marhua, as the leading general, was allowed to lead 500,000 troops to cooperate with the Rus' move.