The Uighurs are one of the most famous Erwuzai in the entire Western Regions!

At least that's what Guo Rong thinks!

Of course, the Tang, Tibetan, and even Uighur themselves thought so

With a population of more than one million, the Uighurs are a proper ethnic group in the Western Regions and the steppes!

There are more than 200,000 people who control the strings, and the troops are abundant, but the combat effectiveness is really not flattering.

Not to mention the Anxi Army, which is known for its good equipment, sufficient training, and strong will to fight!

In fact, even during the Feng Changqing period, when the Anxi Army was at its peak, the strength of the Anxi Army did not exceed 24,000 people.

The 10,000 Anxi army could easily run around the streets with 100,000 Uighurs!

Although the Tibetans are a little worse, 20,000 or 30,000 can achieve the same level.

In fact, even the second-rate Tibetans could defeat the same number of Uighurs and defeat them.

So much so that in the Western Regions, the Uighurs, who theoretically had 200,000 troops, did not dare to provoke them at all, and the Tubo people, whose garrison was less than 100,000, even had to rely on the Anxi army to resist the Tubo soldiers.

In the words of the Qiuzi veteran, the armor, equipment, and weapons of the Tubo people are all second-rate goods eliminated by the Tang Army, and the soldiers' will to fight is also quite weak, and the generals are also a bunch of waste, and the only powerful thing is the heart of the two-five boys.

First, look at the Uighur periphery.

The Tang Army of Anxi has no threat to them, and the Tang Army of the Central Plains does not have the energy to clean them up!

Although the Tibetans had the idea of killing them, the size of the Uighurs was not small, and the Tibetans themselves had too big stalls, plus there was the Tang Dynasty in the east and the Great Food in the west, and there was an Anxi army that disgusted them in the middle......

The remaining Servant Bone Department, Khitan, and Murowei are all too small in size, and they can't become a climate at all.

And the only climate in their vicinity is synonymous with Erwuzai and Zhanwuzai, and has been cleaned up by the more powerful Erwuzai of the Uighurs.

Therefore, today, when the Uighurs are worse than the Tang Dynasty and Tibet, the strategic position of the Uighurs can be described as unique!

The overlord of the steppe, this is the status of the Uighurs today!

It's just that the Uighurs can't fight wars, but they are very good at business.

The loss of the Hexi Corridor not only severed the connection with the Western Regions for the Tang Dynasty, but also lost a very important source of war horses, whether it was the Shence army of the imperial court or the warlords of all walks of life, they lacked enough war horses.

Relying solely on selling horses, the Uighurs could get a lot of money from the various forces of the Tang Dynasty every year!

In addition, the Uighurs also controlled some of the trade routes along the Silk Road, so at this stage, the Uighurs were definitely the richest power in the Western Regions.

Rich, greedy, cowardly, but still able to live so nourishingly, it can only be said that it is time and fate!

Thinking of the Uighurs, the largest in the northwest region, Guo Rong, like all the Anxi veterans, was filled with resentment and grievances.

If nothing else, just look at what the Uighurs have been doing in the last 50 years to see why these guys are called Erwuzai.

When the Tang armies of Taizong, Gaozong, Emperor Wu, and Xuanzong were at their peak, the Uighurs served as servants as honestly as Guisun Tzu.

During the Anshi Rebellion, the main forces of the Tang army in Longyou and the Western Regions were transferred, and the Uighurs immediately rebelled and joined forces with the Tibetans to occupy the Hexi Corridor.

After taking Hexi, they felt that the Tibetans were going to attack them, and the Uighurs and the alliance of the Beiting and Anxi armies in the Western Regions blocked the Tubo people from the Western Regions.

However, the good times did not last long, the Tubo people attacked Beiting in a big way, and the Uighurs took the initiative to surrender and took the lead in counterattacking, and Beiting Jiedu caused Yang Zhenggu to be ambushed and killed by the Uighurs, Beiting completely fell, and the passage between Anxi and the Central Plains was completely cut off.

With the fall of Shule and the tense situation in Anxi, the Uighurs, feeling that the Tubo people were too powerful, once again extended an olive branch to the Anxi army and offered to provide some supplies to join forces against the Tibetans.

Guo Xin's naturally capricious Uighurs have ill intentions, and there is no doubt that they will unite with them to seek the skin of the tiger, but even if they drink to quench their thirst, what can they do?

The Tang Dynasty that Guo Rong heard from the old pawn is still Zhenguan and Kaiyuan, the Tang Dynasty that is peaceful in the world, but in fact, the entire Anxi Army is probably only known to his father-in-law Guo Xin.

In the second year of Jianzhong (781), the last decree of the imperial court was sent to the Western Regions.

Dezong promoted Guo Xin to the protector of the capital of Anxi and the observer of the four towns of Jiedu, and awarded the title of king of Wuwei County, and at the same time promoted all the soldiers who had been following Guo Xin to stick to Anxi to the seventh level.

Dezong's reward for the Anxi Army is not insignificant, but there is not a single soldier and a copper coin!

What shocked Guo Xin even more was the news that Guo Xin's uncle Guo Ziyi had passed away!

With Guo Ziyi's influence in the Tang Dynasty, he was still powerless to support himself in the fifteen years he was alive, and now that people are dead, the lights are out, and people are going to tea and cool, from that moment on, Guo Xin, who was born as a son of an official eunuch, knew that the Western Regions would not get a reinforcement or a copper coin from Chang'an!

However, the ability to hold on to the two isolated cities in the face of being isolated and exhausted is absolutely inseparable from the support provided by the Uighurs.

Thinking of this, and then thinking of his task, Guo Rong knew that this showed that even the situation of the Anxi Army could not quench his thirst, and even Guo Xin, the backbone of the Anxi Army, had lost hope of being able to defend it any longer!

If it weren't for the memory of guarding the city in Qiuzi for three years, and the care of the old soldiers, maybe he wouldn't have taken on this drudgery at all.

Hold the letter in your hand again, maybe it's risky, but if it succeeds......

When Guo Rong was thinking about the complicated situation in Anxi and thinking about how to use this letter to make a fuss, Lu Shishi, who had been holding back for a long time, finally spoke.

"Guo Lang, why did you go to Chang'an?"

raised his head and looked at Lu Fourteen seriously, Lu Fourteen is a guide, if he doesn't tell the guide his goal, this is the way to die.

If Guo Rong was still worried about Lu Shishi before, now he has also made a fateful friendship, and he feels that Lu Shishi is trustworthy and trustworthy.

If one day, I can't go on, at least one person can pass the news that the Anxi army is still fighting back to Datang!

"I may be the last messenger of the Anxi army, if I can't get to Chang'an, the Anxi army may not be able to hold on......"

"Why?"

"The Anxi army has been supporting for a full fifty years, and now there is only a lonely city left in the four towns of Anxi in the past, and there are only more than 3,000 white-haired old soldiers in Qiuci City......"

Hearing Guo Rong's words, Lu Shishi's reaction was great, as if his heartstrings had been touched, Guo Rong thought about it and said a poem he had heard in Anxi.