After the preparations were made on the second day, it was just dawn, and the Tang army was ready to set off.

Although it is known as a 100,000-strong army, it is actually only about 50,000 people, of which there are only 10,000 Tang troops, and the rest are all Gaochang troops.

Before this army set off, the coalition forces of the countries in the Western Regions had already set off in advance, and they were fifty miles in front of the Tang army, and the two armies were divided into two places to advance.

The armies of the countries in the Western Regions also understand that they are treating them as cannon fodder, but they don't dare to resist, don't you keep saying that you are loyal to the Tang Dynasty? If this is the case, then you will now prove that you are at the forefront of all armies, and that you are the first to encounter the armies of the Arab Empire, and you will prove your loyalty by killing them.

In fact, many people in the Western Regions want to be neutral, according to their ideas, no one on either side can afford to provoke them, so we simply don't rely on anyone, let them fight both sides, and when they both lose, then we can restore the right to the Western Regions.

Of course, this idea is good, but whether it is the Tang Empire or the Arab Empire, their rulers are not fools, and since the war zone has been chosen in your area, it will never give you any chance.

The sounding balloons are constantly rising, in order to grasp the surrounding situation in advance, if the cavalry of the Arab Empire rushes in front of us, then we will also cause a certain amount of panic, with these sounding balloons, it will not be a problem.

The cavalry naturally rode their own horses, and the ordinary infantry also had camels, if they relied on their legs, then there was no need to fight, the area of the Western Regions was too large, so there must be transportation.

Camels can not only camel things, the most important thing is to know the way in the desert, you let go of the leading camel, he can take you out of the whole desert by himself, which is one of the reasons why this march carries a large number of camels.

The Arab Empire has also received the news of the Tang Army's withdrawal, and they are not in a hurry at the moment, after all, it will be at least a month and a half before they move west from the location of the Donghu Mansion in the Western Regions, and what they want to deal with most now is the envoy from the Empire.

The city of Samarkand

When the Tang army was marching out, the envoys of the Arab Empire with their large army, the vanguard also arrived, standing on the city wall and looking into the distance, a bunch of cavalry wearing black gauze slowly poured over, like black ants in the desert.

"God bless us."

Governor Faisal recited their slogan, and the army in the distance was already in front of him, and the governor's palace set up a full guard of honor to welcome the envoy of the Arab Empire, their third prince, His Royal Highness Salaman.

If you want to attack some ordinary countries, you only need to send some tribal generals, and it is impossible to send princes, you must know that the emperor of the Arab Empire has only three sons, and this highness Salamatan is likely to ascend to the emperor, and he is the most likely of the three princes to be crowned prince.

This time let such a prince come to the East, this is indeed to show their importance, others may not do a good job, after all, the sky is high here, the emperor is far away, but Prince Salamatan has his own ambitions, once he can open the passage to the Tang Empire, then he will write a strong stroke in the history of the empire, no one can prevent him from becoming the emperor of the Arab Empire.

"See His Royal Highness the Prince."

Everyone in the Governor's Palace knelt down and saluted, and thousands of people knelt down, but the city still looked a little dilapidated, and when they took down here, they killed the entire city, although it has been a lot better over the years, but compared to the land in the interior of the Arab Empire, it is still a little desolate.

"...... Start"

Prince Salamatan loves cleanliness very much, and after such a long time on the road, he is still spotless, which is indeed surprising, and now after arriving in Samarkhan City, he did not have too much contact with his men, but went directly into the residence arranged for himself, bathed and changed.

Governor Faisal and his men have been waiting at the door for a long time since they left the court, and suddenly they saw His Royal Highness the Prince, as if they saw their king, so these people dare not have any neglect, they must show their sincerity, otherwise, the court will think that you have changed your mind and disrespect His Royal Highness, that is, disrespect to the king.

Every court has its own internal strife, there will always be some disharmony between the officials inside the court and the external feudal officials, when you are not cautious enough in doing things, then don't blame others for seizing this opportunity to attack you.

"Let's do it all, taste some food from my hometown, I specially brought it to you from the capital of my country, and I know that you have been away from your hometown for a long time, you should miss these things very much."

Prince Salamatan asked his subordinates to send some food and drink, all of which were good things from their hometown, of course, for these high-ranking officials, as long as they wanted to eat and drink, it was still easy to get, although they were stationed outside, it did not mean that there were no merchants between the two places, as long as there were merchants, then what kind of goods could be sent.

However, these things were brought by His Royal Highness the Prince, so they had to pretend to be very rare, and some even stuffed them into their mouths regardless of their image.

How could Prince Salamatan come to such a place without conducting an investigation into the local magistrates? These people, as the representatives of the suzerain's country stationed in the vassal country, are simply the soil emperors here, and their daily life is also luxurious and abnormal, and these local products from their hometown have long been unable to impress them, this is just these people pretending.

"Your Excellency the Governor, I heard that you have achieved gratifying results in the investigation of the Tang Dynasty, and you have also found out all their confidential information, and even bought off some court officials, is this the case?"

Prince Salamatan ate a little and immediately entered the work process, which was similar to Li Xiang, never delaying time, finishing the important things first, and then talking about the unimportant things.

When Governor Faisal heard this, he immediately had a smile on his face, and asked his men to bring a few letters.