Chapter 17: Can't afford to lose......
There is a way that men don't flick when they have tears, but they haven't reached the sad place!
Starting from Qiuzi, the young men died in front of him one after another, originally Guo Rong thought that he had long been numb, and mentioned the eighth regiment again, and mentioned the young man who had been sleeping in the vast desert, and unconsciously Guo Rong's face was already full of tears!
Looking at Guo Rong, who was like a tiger descending from the mountain, and was seriously injured, but now Guo Rong, who was in tears, Lu Shishi was silent.
Guo Rong didn't say where the two hundred years were, but from the battlefield in Xizhou that day, Lu Shishi could know the result.
Guo Rong never directly mentioned his identity, nor did he directly mention why he went to Chang'an, let alone explain to him what the battlefield where the two met.
However, now everything about Guo Rong, Lu Shishi understands!
did not disturb Guo Rong, who was emotionally stimulated, Lu Shishi stood quietly by Guo Rong's side.
Soon, Guo Rong's tears had been blown away by the wind and sand, and the brave and fearless captain of the Tang Anxi Army accompanied Rong returned.
"As long as there is still a breath left, even if the city is full of gray hair, the Anxi army will do its best to protect the Tang Dynasty, but for a full fifty years of trapped in the Western Regions, the Anxi army will really not be able to hold on!"
"Once Anxi is attacked and plundered by the Tibetans, the Uighurs will be completely subjugated, which can liberate at least more than 100,000 Tibetan troops, with these soldiers and horses, the Tubo people can attack Dashi in the west, and enter the Tang Dynasty in the east, and the consequences are unimaginable!"
Suddenly, Guo Rong remembered the question mentioned when interrogating the Tubo shooter during the day today, Lu Shishi had been wandering in the Hexi Corridor, and he might not know what he didn't know.
"Fourteen Lang, do you remember what the Tibetan marksman mentioned today?"
"Remember!"
"Is this true? Do you know what's going on? ”
"Guo Lang, it's true, I heard about it when I was in Guazhou!"
After thinking seriously for a while, Lu Shishi slowly spoke.
"I remember that three years ago, that is, in the eighteenth year of Zhenyuan, the famous Tang general Jiannan Jiedu made Wei Gao lead his troops eastward to besiege Victoria, and 100,000 Tubo troops rushed to the rescue, and even 20,000 horses were dispatched to the west of the river."
"I don't know the process in the middle, but I heard that in the end, the Tang Dynasty won a big victory, the Tubo people lost more than half, and the Tubo Daxiang who led the army was captured."
When he said this, Lu Shishi's face was filled with excitement and joy, as if he was the one who captured the Tubo Prime Minister!
However, after a moment of joy, Guo Rong's brows furrowed, his expression became cold, and his face gradually turned pale......
Guo Rong's reaction made Lu Shishi directly confused.
"Guo Lang, isn't this a good thing?"
"A good thing?" Guo Rong's face was cold and iron-blue, with a bitter smile on his face.
For the Tang Dynasty, defeating Tubo and capturing the Tubo Prime Minister is indeed a great victory, which is a good thing for the Tang Dynasty, but it is ...... for Anxi
The value of the existence of the Anxi Army in the era of Taizong and Gaozong was more to control the trade routes of the Western Regions, but in the era of Wuzhou and Suzong, the more important value was to make the Tubo people suffer from the enemy and could not attack the hinterland of the Tang Dynasty!
With this great victory, it proves that Chang'an is now capable of defending against Tibet, and the value of Anxi will be reduced again......
Guo Rong's history is indeed not good, but he also knows that after the Anshi Rebellion, the feudal towns were divided and the troops were self-reliant, and the control of the Tang Dynasty center over the local area was extremely reduced.
It is estimated that the Tang Dynasty is now thinking about how to cut down the feudal town, rather than recapturing the land of Anxi.
In all fairness, Guo Rong has long known that Guo Xin may have a glimmer of hope, but he never thought that the current situation Datang would save Anxi.
The person who can save Anxi, Guo Rong has always thought of himself as himself.
Referring to Dezong's commendation of Anxi and Beiting in the second year of Jianzhong (781), the imperial court obviously will not give itself a single soldier, nor will it give itself a penny or a grain of rice, but it will definitely not be stingy with those things that are not costly, such as promotion, such as glory.
Even if it is a memorial arch, His Majesty of Chang'an must give an explanation to the Anxi army that has been guarding Anxi for 50 years, otherwise the people's heart, the army's heart, and the country's heart will be gone!
And that's what Guo Rong needs!
Glory determined by His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty!
If there is no system, it is useless to have the emperor's reward, but after having the bonus of his own system, this becomes the hope of returning to the Western Regions and rescuing the Anxi Army!
What he has to do now is to rush to Chang'an with Lu Shishi, and then report that Anxi is still alive, and at the same time, get in touch with the Guo family and get a little help.
Not to mention anything else, even if he is not given a single soldier, as long as he is given the right to recruit thousands of soldiers and horses, even if he recruits soldiers in Guanzhong, he can pull up a team of soldiers and horses.
He won't command a large army to fight, but this is not a big problem, Li Tang, who was born in Guanlong aristocracy, established the country with martial arts, even if there are countless people who can fight well before they are destroyed!
And the Guo family was originally a gate, and after Dezong succeeded to the throne, he arched Guo Ziyi, and then split his rights to his heirs, juniors, sons-in-law, etc., but a living king of Wuwei who can control the Western Regions is of great significance to the Guo family.
Besides, no one is born a general, even Han Baiwei Huo, except for Huo Quai, the chosen son who opened a VIP position, the other three also started from a humble start and slowly made their own prestige.
It really doesn't work, it's just to arm the recruits to the teeth with equipment......
The most important thing is that you can't lose!
Even if he can take off his armor and hide in the mountains and forests to survive, but the people of Anxi cannot, if he can't rush to Chang'an and can't pull out a large army to rescue Anxi, then the Central Plains will lose the Western Regions for thousands of years.
The Thousand Miles of Buddha Kingdom in the Western Regions will become green, and the millions of Han people in the Western Regions and the Hexi Corridor will be reduced to slavery until they are rescued by the Guiyi Army decades later.
All these things, like a thousand heavy burdens, pressed Guo Rong's shoulders.
"Clean up, I'll keep watch in the middle of the night, wake me up in time if there is a situation, don't take off your armor, if you don't want to die......"
"Hmm!"
Seeing that Guo Rong didn't want to speak much, Lu Shishi didn't continue to ask questions, but wrapped a felt blanket and started the vigil.
In the dark night, wolves often appear in the Gobi in the Western Regions, and wolf howls continue to sound one after another.
If it was usual, Lu Shixi would definitely not dare to sleep on the Gobi.
But at this moment, the armor on his body, as well as Guo Rong, who was wearing sharp armor next to him, gave him a sense of security
Grew up on a sandbar under the enslavement of Tibet, but Lu Shixi had never seen such a brave person as Guo Rong. At the same time, the experience along the way also made him have a deeper recognition of the identity of the Tang people!
Two waves, a total of eight Tibetan elites, including even a marksman, ended up dead in Guo Rong's armor and lance, a crossbow and a knife!
If the Gobi wolves come, I am afraid that it will only increase the meat for them.