"It's back in the Western Regions again!" Li You stood on the somewhat dilapidated city wall, looking at the familiar reckless barren mountains in the distance, the snow-capped snow on the top of the mountain, Li You began to study his current situation, he was possessed this time by the Great Song Dynasty Special Inspection School Taishi and Zhongshu Ling Dunhuang King Cao Yanlu, at that time these titles were all false, those were just things used by the Great Song Dynasty to fool people, and what really worked was the name of "Guiyi Army Festival Envoy". Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

From the second year of the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Yichao, a native of Shensha Township, Dunhuang County, Shazhou, led the people to rise up to expel the Tubo people to occupy the sandbar and establish the Guiyi Army to the present, the Guiyi Army has been inherited for more than 150 years. When the Central Plains fell into the melee of the five dynasties, they still held on to the last territory of the Han people in the Western Regions.

After the Anshi Rebellion, Tang Suzong succeeded to the throne in Lingwu and ordered the armies of the Western Regions to quickly serve the king, and overnight, the 150,000 main elite soldiers of the Tang Empire in the Western Regions were ordered to march eastward, and the Western Regions were immediately in a military vacuum; So the Tubo people, who were beaten by famous generals such as Gao Xianzhi, Feng Changqing, and Ge Shuhan, found an opportunity to take the opportunity to encroach on many territories of the Tang Dynasty in the Western Regions.

The Tang Dynasty in the Hexi corridor of the various fortresses and cities are isolated for the Tubo one by one, in the end only left a city of Shazhou (Dunhuang), Anxi Du Zhi soldiers and horses made Yan Dynasty kill the Hexi observation Zhou Ding, who decided to abandon the city and lead the people to flee eastward, led the soldiers and civilians in the city to defend the sandbank, after holding on to eleven years, under the exhaustion of ammunition and food, Yan Dynasty had to solemnly agree with the general Qi Xin'er of Tubo that the people of Shazhou would not surrender to the Tubo people after being relocated.

Although the sandbar fell, thanks to the resolute resistance of the Yan Dynasty and others, the Han clans surnamed Zhang, Li, and Suo in the city were not displaced, which preserved a glimmer of hope for retaking the sandbank.

The Tubo people strictly ordered the Han people not to wear Han costumes, and they must be like the Tubo people, braided their hair to the left, but these Han people did not dare to forget their origins, and wore Han costumes at home to worship their ancestors every Spring Festival, and burst into tears.

These Han people endured humiliation and waited for the opportunity, they waited for sixty-seven years, and finally saw a glimmer of light, at that time, because of the disaster in Tubo for many years, starvation everywhere, so there was civil strife, in the internal friction in their strength greatly weakened, the Tang Dynasty saw the opportunity to launch a westward expedition in the case of their own strength has been extremely weak, Hedong Jiedu made Wang Zai lead the northern armies, and defeated the Tubo army led by the heat in Yanzhou. In December of the following year, Fengxiang Festival made Cui Heng play "Break Tubo, Ke Qingshui", and recovered Yuanzhou, Shimen and other six passes and Weizhou and Fuzhou in one fell swoop.

At the same time, the Tubo people burned and looted in Hexi, the ferocity of the Tubo people and the victory of the Tang army, so that Zhang Yichao, who had been preparing for many years, raised the banner of resistance, and launched an uprising when the Tubo army left the sandbank.

After that, Zhang Yichao sent ten teams of envoys to the Tang Dynasty one after another, but only the monk Wuzhen arrived in Chang'an, and the whole Chang'an was a sensation, Tang Xuanzong did not expect that the Han people in Hexi could recover the lost territory only by their own strength, and they were overjoyed; It's a pity that today's Datang has no way to provide them with substantial help, and can only give nominal rewards and rewards, the Guiyi Army's festival envoy, the eleven state observation envoys, the internal observation and disposal, the inspection of the school etiquette department, and the general Jinwu.

These encouragements greatly boosted the morale of the people in Hexi, and Zhang Yichao led the rebel army to launch a full-scale offensive against Tibet, and in less than a year, all the places in Hexi except Liangzhou were recovered; After more than 10 years of hard fighting, Zhang Yichao led the army to finally recover Liangzhou, "Helong has fallen for more than 100 years, until the hometown is restored", when people heard the poem praise, "Hexi has fallen for more than 100 years, and the road is blocked by Xiaoguan Yan Xinxi." General Ryder opened the old road and became famous all over the world. ”

Later, in order to avoid the suspicion of the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Yichao went to Chang'an as a hostage and handed over power to his nephew Zhang Huaishen, but unfortunately although Zhang Huaishen was not inferior to Zhang Yichao militarily, he was far inferior politically, resulting in the Uighurs who had previously stood on the united front with the Han people to break away from the Guiyi Army and establish the Gaochang Uighurs and the Ganzhou Uighurs.

In the following decades, the power of the Guiyi Army has been inherited among the children of the Zhang family, until Zhu Wen usurped power, Zhang Chengfeng finally broke away from the Tang Dynasty and established the "Jinshan Kingdom of the Western Han Dynasty", calling himself the "Son of Heaven in White", but he was a man of great ambition and talent, and he was completely unworthy of this name, and because he betrayed the Tang Dynasty and became self-reliant, it caused a lot of dissatisfaction among the soldiers and civilians of Shazhou, resulting in the dispersion of the people, and the Shazhou was conquered by the Ganzhou Uighurs, and the descendants of the Zhang family also lost the power to take charge of the Guiyi Army.

After Zhang's defeat, Cao Yijin rebuilt the Guiyi army, and after years of enduring it, he finally found a suitable opportunity to defeat the Ganzhou Uighurs and regain his position as the overlord of Hexi.

Since then, the regime of the Yijun has been owned by the descendants of the Cao family, and it has been passed down for 80 years; After the death of Cao Yijin's son Cao Yuanzhong, it stands to reason that the position of the righteous army should fall into the hands of his son Cao Yanlu, but because Cao Yanlu was still young at that time, he was succeeded by his nephew and Cao Yuande's son Cao Yangong, which caused the dissatisfaction of Cao Yuanzhong's line, until Cao Yangong died fifteen years later, and Cao Yuanzhong's family supported Cao Yanlu to succeed him, but this caused the dissatisfaction of Cao Yangong's children, and an indelible crack has appeared in the Guiyi army.

This is the situation I am going to face, after reading Cao Yanlu's memory, Li You, who figured out his situation, not only has a headache, but now there are Uighurs eyeing him in the west, and although the Tubo people in the south are no longer what they used to be, they are still not to be underestimated, in the East, the Great Song Dynasty has no way to provide any help to the Guiyi Army except for the nominal commendation, but it is the party member Li Jiqian who besieged Lingwu and defeated the five-way reinforcements sent by Song Taizong, and has already set his sights on the land occupied by the Guiyi Army; In the north, it is the Shangjing Road of the Liao State, which can be described as an enemy on all sides.

Internal chaos, unstable people's hearts, surrounded by wolves, it is really not easy to make a difference, for a while a little clueless Li You more and more admired Zhang Yichao who was crisscrossing Hexi, this kind of means is not something ordinary people can do, which requires great courage and unparalleled wisdom.

Of course, the Guiyi Army is not without allies in the Western Regions, Li You looked back at his wife standing beside him, Cao Yanlu, the father of this lady, is a great figure. (To be continued.) )