Yan Zhou died too quickly, which caught Euroton off guard.

At the beginning of April, when Oghuz marched into Yan Zhou, Euroton was hesitant to attack the surrounding areas of Yan to take advantage. There were two factions at the court meeting, one representing the military and strongly demanding expansion; One faction is the conservative aristocracy, and there are some long-term aristocracy, who think that they should wait and see for the time being: among the two neighboring countries in the east, although Yan Zhou borders Euroton more extensively, but Oghuz is more aggressive, compared to Yan Zhou's eyes on the Tang Dynasty, Oghuz seems to be more eager to go west, than to send troops to occupy the interests of the surrounding areas of Yan, Euroton should use Yan Zhou as a screen to reduce the threat from Oghuz and the Tang Empire.

Because of the disagreement at the court council and the split in the opinion of the Holy Church, Euroton temporarily adopted a wait-and-see attitude.

On May 15, the Tang Dynasty declared war and sent troops, which was also expected by Euroton - it was strange that the Tang people did not take advantage of the fire to rob.

Yan Zhou immediately sent envoys to Euroton to ask him to send troops, and the two countries formed an "anti-Tang-Ukrainian alliance". If Euroton sits idly by, once the barrier of the Yan and Zhou Empire is broken, Euroton will have to face the troops of the Tang Dynasty and Oghuz.

Although the letter of alliance was signed, Euroton did not act quickly on the grounds of transferring troops, and privately made up his mind that he would send troops only when the armies of the three kingdoms were all wounded, so as to pick peaches.

At this time, after the Tang Dynasty declared war, the Hexi Army, the Central Army, and the Anbei Army crossed Hengma Mountain and crossed the Yanran River in three ways, and after the 250,000 troops joined the division, they stopped in the east of the Sumu River and south of the Dale Gobi, and the 300,000 troops of Yan Zhou went south to fight. The battle began on 19 May and ceased until 15 June. The Yan and Zhou armies suffered continuous losses in battle, and had to recruit troops from all over the country to reinforce the Dale Gobi, and invested 450,000 soldiers before and after, and by the time of the general battle on June 15, only 20,000 cavalry broke through and escaped. 430,000 Yan and Zhou troops were buried in this 300-mile bloody desert Gobi.

The strategy formulated by the Tang Dynasty before sending troops was not to rush to attack the city and seize the land, with the purpose of destroying the living force of the Yan Zhou army.

This strategy achieved a great victory, and it also paralyzed Euroton very well, waiting for the Tang army and the Yan Zhou army to fight on this Gobi. Who knew that Yan Zhoujun would be defeated so quickly? I thought it would take at least two or three months to fight, but in less than a month, 400,000 people were folded in!

After the Tang army wiped out the 430,000 soldiers of Yan Zhou, it was as fast as thunder and as fast as the wind, and went north in three ways, but the Yan and Zhou army could not resist and retreated. When Euroton came to his senses and sent his troops, the armies of the Tang Dynasty and Oghuz had already approached the imperial capital Chahede.

Chahede means "Chang'an" in Xianbei language, and the Yuwen clan had always wanted to return to the Central Plains and return to Chang'an, the capital of their Great Zhou Dynasty, but this wish was declared completely destroyed with the suicide of Emperor Yan Zhou.

Yan Zhou is dead.

However, there were still a total of 100,000 garrison troops in the three military towns in the west of Yanzhou, headed by the envoys of the Kana military towns, General Zhu Guo and Xin Wang Yu Wenjian, who guarded the western border and did not surrender.

Emperor Yan and Zhou died too decisively, which made the plan of the Tang-Wu coalition army to surrender to the emperor fall in vain.

If the emperor is captured alive, whether he surrenders or not, a surrender with a national seal will be very effective, at least the magnates and ministers will not feel too shameful to surrender. The situation is different when the emperor died of martyrdom. There are some concerns about the decision to surrender in those places that have not been occupied by the Don-Ukrainian army; What's more, there are 100,000 garrison troops in the west.

As soon as the news of the death of Emperor Yan Zhou came out, the three towns in the west immediately supported Wang Yu Wenjian as the emperor, and played the banner of "recovering the national capital and restoring Yan Zhou", and soon gathered local magnates who were unwilling to surrender and hesitated, as well as the remnants of the army that poured in from all directions, and gathered 3.78 million troops in more than half a month, known as 800,000. Taking advantage of the fact that the Tang-Ukrainian coalition army had not yet reached the west, Yu Wenjian quickly sent troops to occupy the three western states, and united with the 150,000 troops sent by the Euroton Empire, vowing to recover the land and fight a decisive battle with the Tang-Ukrainian coalition army to the end.

The Tang army and the Oghuz army also have no plans to advance westward for the time being, after all, the occupied Yanzhou territory needs to be digested, and the army also needs to rest. The Four-Nation Coalition took the Kulu River and the Huge Mountain as the boundary, forming a temporary confrontation situation.

The goal of occupying the entire territory of Yan Zhou has not yet been achieved, but the state capital has been broken, and the emperor has been captured, although the emperor has been martyred, in the national sense, Yan Zhou has perished. The soldiers of the two countries hurriedly whipped up, planted the flags on their backs, and shouted "Victory!" all the way. Yan Zhou Guopo! "Gallop to the capital.

Lubu spread to the capitals of the two countries, and it was known to all the states and counties along the way, and the government and the opposition were jubilant.

Every time the Tang Dynasty wins the war, there are bells and drums in Chang'an City, and Lubu is introduced into Daming Palace, and within a moment, the bronze bell and victory drum on the tower of the Danfeng Gate of the Imperial Palace are like thunder, and then, the bells and drums on the tower on the four sides of Chang'an City are also rolling up like thunder. After a while, the entire Chang'an City resounded with people's cheers and shouts: "Great victory!" Great victory! Yan Zhou's victory! Banzai! Long live the Empire! Long live Datang! ”

The cheers were like the waves of the sea, reaching into the sky, and the people who cheered and shouted were all proud.

This is their army!

This is their empire!

At this moment, Chang'an City has become a sea of joy, whether it is the street or the market, the alleys, the teahouse and the restaurant, the cheering people have stepped on and sang the victory music, gradually, the singing is neat, following the rhythm of the victory music bells and drums that ring the whole city, the grand and joyful sound fills the whole city.

This is a festival in the whole of Chang'an.

The courtiers in the Zichen Hall are also singing and dancing to celebrate, singing the victory music, the sound of Huanghuang is grand and mighty, high-spirited and joyful, it is the national music that Gaozong collected and created for the people of the whole country. Because the saint only looks at the court as usual, and the Chang Dynasty is only seen by the prince, the throne of the imperial couch with nine dragons and vermilion lacquer is empty, and in front of the oblique is the dragon couch square seat that is half smaller in height and regulation, Li Yuzhen sits cross-legged on the couch and accepts the congratulations of the ministers, with a faint smile on his face, compared with the atmosphere of dancing and celebrating in the hall, it seems too calm. But the courtiers who were already familiar with the temperament of the prince of the prison country did not think it was strange, and even felt pleased, thinking that the prince was not arrogant in the face of a great victory, and he could restrain himself in the face of great joy, which was an excellent prince.

Li Yuzhen really didn't have much joy in his heart, Datang had been preparing for the Battle of the Apocalypse for so long, this was the first step in the journey of thousands of miles, victory was supposed and necessary; What's more, Yan Zhou didn't completely win it, and there was still a tough battle to be fought later. The subjects should celebrate, but the chess player must be calm and sober.

In the following days, the song of victory music is like the waves of the sea, wave after wave, the tide does not stop, from south to north, from east to west, the whole country rejoices.

In addition to the people of the empire, they cheered and were proud of the Tang army's victory in another war. Although Yan Zhou is very far away for the people of the Tang Dynasty, many people have only heard of it, and at most they have only seen that land on a map or mapper, but even the people of the Annan Protectorate, who are the farthest away, and the people of the Eagle Feather Thian tribe under the jurisdiction of the Governor's Mansion of Dadongzhou on the other side of the ocean, cheered for the joy of victory so sincerely and truly - because of the war dividend!

The war against Yan Zhou is not over yet, but the official notices and official newspapers of the imperial court have announced the war dividends that can be cashed in advance, of course, there is a limit, but for small households that do not buy much, they can all be cashed out, that is, they will be able to get the money immediately. No matter how far away Yan Zhou is, it is also the benefit of the red fruit that can be held in his hand, how can he not cheer and rejoice?

"People's hearts are profiting."

The old man landed on the chessboard with a white chess piece in his voice, and with a sigh in his voice, he vetoed the suggestion of King Zheng Susu again to make the "truth of the war" public, and said: "What about the apocalypse? The family will not change its position of interests; The wealthy who did not participate in the apocalypse will also rush forward because of the benefits brought by the expansion of the territory, just like the crocodile that smells blood, the danger of the apocalypse cannot withstand the greed of the human heart; The small people only know the immediate benefits, and they can hold more money in their hands, and how many people will die in the imperial court to open up the star road is too far away for them, and it is far less attractive than the silver money in their hands. The old but powerful hand picked up a black chess piece and fell, "The Tang Dynasty has been fighting and martial arts for so many years, and the people have become accustomed to war and are not afraid of war and death. Because war and death bring benefits. ”

The old man's eyes are vicissitudes and profound, and he has been looking at this chessboard that has been accompanied by a hundred years and played for a hundred years, the chessboard is a whole piece of Khotanese green jade embedded in it, the color is blue like the ocean, and the white and black seeds that have fallen are connected and distributed like five continents, "The world is like chess." Gaozong set the national policy of expanding the territory by force, not only to expand the territory and resources for the Tang Dynasty, but more importantly, the people's hearts. When the benefits of war become the norm, belligerence will become the 'people's nature' of the Tang Dynasty. And the undefeated myth of the achievements of the Tang Army made the people arrogant.

The old man's words were not exhausted, but how did King Zheng and King Su and others not know the meaning of this unfinished business?

The people of the entire empire are belligerent and arrogant, how can they not wave the flag for the Tang Dynasty to launch a world war? Even if the truth is exposed by them, knowing that the Tang Dynasty launched a war not only to conquer the world, but to march into the sea of stars, these arrogant Datang citizens may not be afraid, the Tang Dynasty is powerful and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the starry sky is too far away, how can the unknown danger compare to the known interests, how can the greed of the people's hearts be curbed, and the pursuit of interests?

A great country, proud of the people; strong country, belligerent; People's hearts, interests...... King Zheng and the others thought about it carefully, and they all felt cold: Gaozong has exhausted the hearts of the people.

One hundred and fifty pieces have fallen on the chessboard, covering one-third of the chessboard, and two-thirds are not covered, which is a blue "ocean...... This is a game of world chess. Back then, Gaozong took up the layout of the chess pieces, which was a game between the Tang Dynasty and the world, and between the earth and the sky.

"The master is down, take one step and think about three steps, Gaozong doesn't just think about three steps, and the next hundred steps are all there." The old man has been playing this game of chess for a hundred years, but he can't stop the general trend formed after Gaozong's layout.

"It can't," King Su's eyes swept down King Zheng and King Feng, "don't do anything." ”

Under the old man, Li Suichu, the king of Zheng who served as the left sacrificial wine of the Tiance Academy of Tianyuan, is the head of the kings and has always been the second decider; King Feng is not high in terms of seniority and strength, but he is good at strategy, he has always been the role of a military advisor, and he has been in the post of King Su's descendants due to injury, and there is a hidden tendency to surpass King Su to become the third decider - King Su respects the old man, and does not dare to question the great-ancestor of the Han King who has a high rank and unfathomable strength, and the words are to blame King Zheng and King Feng.

King Zheng glanced at him and did not speak.

King Feng's qualifications were under King Su, and he replied: "It's not that you don't do anything. "In fact, they have done a lot, both at home and abroad, and King Su also knows that there is no need to go into detail, just talk about the result, "If Euroton had sent troops to unite Yan Zhou at the beginning of the Oghuz war, and then Da Shi and the Turks had jointly sent troops to contain the Tang Dynasty in the west, Yan Zhou would not have been defeated so quickly...... According to the plan, it will last at least two or three years. "If a war of annihilation lasts for two or three years, even if the Tang Dynasty is strong, it is impossible to continue to support it. And Yan Zhou had a bad start, and the war in the future could not be sustained.

However, they were active, and Yasuyasu was also active, which led to the delay and loss of opportunity for Euroton's troops; The Great Food Empire and the Turkic Khanate have not yet extricated themselves from the situation in Egypt and Persia.