The Ganzhou Uighurs were descendants of the Ding Ling people, who turned south after the Xiongnu migrated westward, migrating to the vicinity of the Tien Shan; By the time the Turks had risen, they were again dependent on the Turks, and in the Tang Dynasty, Li Jingsheng's capture of Jieli Khan weakened this powerful tribal alliance, and the tribes that had previously depended on them began to break away from their rule. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

During the attacks on the Turks, Korea, Xue Yantuo, and the pacification of the Anshi Rebellion, the Uighurs maintained good relations with the Tang Dynasty, and the Uighurs grew in the process. Unfortunately, there was no eternal overlord in the steppe, and the Uighurs, who had long been under Uighur rule, attacked while they were in decline. The Uighurs were divided into three routes, moving to Turpan, west of the Green Mountains, and to the Hexi Corridor, and the group that moved to the Hexi Corridor was called the Hexi Uighurs.

Pang Teqin, the leader of one of the Hexi Uighurs, was called Khan in Ganzhou; At this time, it was also the time when Zhang Yichao led the Guiyi army to recover Gansu, Su, Lan and other ten states, Pang Teqin and Zhang Yichao formed a relatively friendly relationship, and borrowed the road to Zhang Yichao to let his envoy return to Chang'an, Pang Teqin was canonized as Huaijian Khan by the Tang Dynasty, and the troops he led were also called Ganzhou Uighurs.

When Zhang Yichao was in control of the Guiyi Army, he controlled the Ganzhou Uighurs with his excellent military ability and political skills, but his descendants did not have this ability, and a rift gradually arose between the Guiyi Army and the Ganzhou Uighurs, and they gradually broke away from the control of the Guiyi Army; Until Zhang Chengfeng succeeded to the throne and took advantage of the fall of the Tang Dynasty to establish himself as the king, established the "Western Han Jinshan Kingdom", and called himself the "Son of Heaven in White", the Ganzhou Uighurs besieged the sandbank, and Zhang Chengfeng surrendered and became the puppet of the Ganzhou Uighurs.

Later, Cao Yijin took control of the Guiyi Army, and he temporarily inherited the "father-son alliance" signed between Zhang Chengfeng and the Ganzhou Uighurs, with the Ganzhou Uighurs as his father and the Guiyi Army as his son, and in order to win the trust of the Ganzhou Uighurs, he also married the daughter of the Ganzhou Uighur Tianmu Khan, which looks no different from Shi Jingjiao calling the Liao State his father.

However, Cao Yijin was much more productive than Shi Jingjiao, and during this humiliating time, he used marriage to build relations with various surrounding forces, and on the other hand, he continued to send envoys to the Later Tang Dynasty in the Central Plains and obtained their canonization, and the Shazhou Guiyi Army also recuperated and continued to grow.

After a short wait, Cao Yijin finally gathered enough strength to launch an attack on the Ganzhou Uighurs, who were now gradually weakened and collapsed, and the Uighur Khan surrendered to Cao Yijin, renamed the Guiyi Army as his father and the Uighur Khan as his son, completely reversed, and the Guiyi Army once again established its hegemony in Hexi.

All this was very good, but like Zhang Yichao, Cao Yijin's heirs were not as stoic and cunning as him, and gradually fell into internal strife and ignored external threats, and while Cao Yanlu and Cao Zongshou were fighting, the Ganzhou Uighurs regained their vitality and gradually became less submissive, and began to contact the courtiers who had served in the Uighurs within the Guiyi army as internal responses, and constantly launched a test against the Guiyi army.

The internal part of the Guiyi Army was because of the competition between Cao Yanlu and Cao Zongshou, and secondly, the internal response of these two ends of the first rat, so it did not launch a strong counterattack against the Ganzhou Uighurs at the beginning, and the soldiers of the Guiyi Army did not have much interest in such a campaign, until today Ban Chao resorted to such means.

For these ordinary soldiers, they don't feel and are not interested in the high-level disputes, the threat of the Ganzhou Uighurs is still very far away, but the goods that were lost just now are real, in the previous month, each of them grabbed money that could be spent for a long time, and was thinking about how to use the money to enjoy themselves after returning to the sandbank, but they didn't expect that the effort would come to naught in the blink of an eye, which simply made them unbearable, and for a time the morale of the thousands of Guiyi troops reached its peak.

Of course, all this is the credit of Ban Chao, whether it is the traces of these bandits or the tokens left by the Ganzhou Uighurs, it is all operated by Ban Chao, and he also used these small means to clear the obstacles for Li You to clear the Ganzhou Uighurs. He was not at all worried about the outcome of the battle, as the Ganzhou Uighurs were now unprepared for the Guiyi army, and their attack was so sudden that the Ganzhou Uighurs could not react at all.

"Dingyuanhou's move is really admirable." During the march, Li You couldn't help but whisper to Ban Chao, to be honest, there was absolutely no way for him to unite the Guiyi Army in such a short period of time.

"These are just some of the experiences I have had in the Western Regions for many years." Ban Chao talked very happily, and began to slowly tell Li You about his experience in controlling the countries in the Western Regions, "In the past, when I was in the Western Regions, most of the Han soldiers in the Protectorate were some rebellious people who were exiled to the Western Regions, and the people who were far away from their hometowns were moved, and if they wanted these people to obey orders, they must not be treated with severe punishment and strict laws like the Xiliu Battalion, and they must have a wide word on weekdays, as long as they don't make a big incident, some small mistakes will be turned a blind eye and let go of the past, and when the battle is about to be tempted, they will be tempted by merit and capture. Then they will be grateful to Dade for his perseverance......"

Indeed, the situation faced by the Guiyi Army now is roughly the same as that of Ban Chao at the beginning, if it is treated with the strict military discipline of the Qi family army and the Yue family army, it is impossible to say that these people have already run away, it is far less effective than Ban Chao who is driven by interests, anger and hatred, and in the Western Regions and not the Central Plains, their military discipline corrupts some scourges are also those alien races who are afraid of power and not virtue, the more ruthless they kill, the more afraid those people are, if you are lenient, they will misunderstand that you are weak and can be bullied.

"If it weren't for Dingyuanhou's mention, I wouldn't have thought of such a way anyway." Li You couldn't help but sigh, these valuable experiences really helped him a lot, and in such an environment, only Ban Chao was the most suitable, even if he called Bai Qi or Qi Jiguang, he didn't dare to say that he could do better than him.

The route of the bandits was also planned in advance by Ban Chao, and the nest of the last wave of bandits they exterminated was not far from the junction of the Guiyi Army and the Ganzhou Uighurs, which perfectly explains why they encountered the Ganzhou Uighurs who came to set fire to them while they were celebrating, and also made it easier for them to launch a sneak attack on the Ganzhou Uighurs.

"Your Excellency, you can already see the city of the Uighurs in Ganzhou ahead, and they have no defense." After a short march, the Guiyi army was finally about to fight a decisive battle with the Ganzhou Uighurs.

"Well, while they are defenseless, they all rush into the city with the envoys of this section." Ban Chao's work has been completed, and it is up to him to fight the war. (To be continued.) )