Ever since he decided to shrink his line of defense and concentrate all his forces on the royal court, King Geerhan of Chechi has been sullen. Seeing a large area of territory fall into Li Jiangyao's hands step by step, but he has no choice, is really extremely aggrieved.

Don't look at Gelhan who has the courage to open up the posture and lead his soldiers and horses to confront the Loulan army of the Alik River, but when he faced Li Jiangyao and the ghost-faced white-robed army of Metasequoia City, he was really a little stunned in his heart.

The main reason for this is that Gelhan has not suffered any losses at the hands of Alikjiang, but Li Jiangyao really hurt him.

From the first attack on Metasequoia City to the present, Gelhan has been on the road of constantly re-evaluating Li Jiangyao's combat strength, and the more he goes, the more outrageous it becomes, and the more he evaluates, the more terrifying it becomes. The Metasequoia Legion is like a fast-growing monster, and it becomes ferocious after a few days of not seeing each other, and every time it fights more with less, it still has the upper hand.

Encountering such a perverted opponent, it is really eight lifetimes of blood mold!

Gelhan is not a fool, on the contrary, the little abacus in his heart is a thief: relying on Che Chijun alone to crusade against Li Jiangyao, there is no chance of victory at all. What hatred of killing his brother, what hatred of seizing the city, none of them can be compared with the safety of his own life.

For this reason, Gelhan repeatedly asked Duolun to send a Turkic patrol to help him regain his lost territory. But it's a pity that Duolun Tui said that the blood guard general Kunli Mingtai scolded his son every day, forcing him to look for Her Royal Highness the princess, so he really didn't dare to be distracted to other places. Duolun tactfully enlightened Gelhan that his own affairs should be handled by himself, and his own territory must be grabbed back by himself.

Having hit a soft nail at Doron's, Gerhan ran to Prince Goune to intercede. I didn't expect His Royal Highness the Prince's nails to be softer, and soft with hard. Gune told Gerhan in a gentle tone that he was just a civil servant in charge of government affairs and diplomacy, and he couldn't blindly get involved in leading troops to fight.

In desperation, Gelham had no choice but to visit the Marquis of Durham again. However, before he could speak, he was scolded by the other party and blasted out directly.

Finally, he mustered up the courage to write to the Prince of the Temple, Ronia, for help. In the letter, the Prince of the Temple sincerely praised Che Chiguo's contribution to the Western Xinjiang, praised Gelhan's high wind and bright festival, and patiently explained that the current Great Tang Army in the direction of the two passes has brought great pressure to the Turks, in a word: it can't help.

However, His Royal Highness the Prince did not leave it alone, and he specifically pointed out at the end of the letter: It is proposed to attach the opinions of this king and forward them to His Royal Highness Alikjan, the leader of the Western Xinjiang Alliance.

With a thud, he kicked the ball away.

What is even more unexpected is that Alikjiang, the king of Loulan, really sent a reply letter to Gelhan at the request of Prince Ronia. However, unlike the Prince of the Temple, the old rival Alikjiang tried his best to be sarcastic and sarcastic in his letter, humiliating Gelhan and Che Chijun's good life, and finally left a sentence: "Develop good habits from an early age and do your own things." ”

Gerhan almost didn't get his nose crooked.

Sitting in his palace, Gerhan pulled the abacus and silently weighed the deal in front of him: he had five legions in his hands. Among them, the Third Legion was previously disabled by the Loulan people, the First and Second Legions were half-crippled on the Metasequoia Battlefield, and only the Fifth and Fourth Legions were still in combat strength, but they were also scattered in the border fortresses. Even if the five legions were gathered, there were only more than 70,000 people, and the soldiers were mostly horse thieves, and the quality was uneven.

On the other hand, the Metasequoia Army. According to the spies' report, after Li Jiangyao occupied Daban, Payi, and Ikru, he further expanded his forces, with a size of nearly 50,000. And well-equipped, well-trained, alive and well out of the town of Xinjiang Protectorate.

Take your own 70,000 miscellaneous cards to challenge other people's 50,000 elites, and it is polite to say that eggs touch stones.

To make matters worse, Gelhan feared that Li Jiangyao would not just be satisfied with capturing only three cities, but would continue to encroach on the surrounding territories. Metasequoia City is too close to the royal court, if one day Li Jiangyao suddenly becomes interested and decides to attack his nest in turn, it is still a big question mark whether he can stop that plague god.

That's why Gelhan jumped up and down to ask for reinforcements from all walks of life.

Just when he was worried about the Metasequoia Army, a close minister suddenly sent a secret report: the envoy of Metasequoia City came to the door and proposed to negotiate peace with King Chechi.

Hearing this, Gerhan couldn't help but be surprised. Soon, he calmed down again: Would you like to talk to Li Jiangyao? Well, that's a viable option.

If the two sides can sit down and have a good talk, make concessions to each other, and maintain a situation of relative restraint and no offenses, then Che Chiguo will have the opportunity to slowly recruit troops and expand his strength.

You must know that it is not only Metasequoia City that threatens Che Chi now, but also the Loulan Kingdom of the Alik River, as well as the Turks who are staying in the royal court. If he doesn't have enough power in his hands, he could be killed and replaced at any time.

Thinking of this, Gelhan hastened to instruct the minister to maintain confidential contact with the other party and arrange a meeting between the representatives of both sides as soon as possible.

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In the spring of 822 in the Shengtang calendar, the negotiators of Li Jiangyao, the commander-in-chief of the Zhenjiang Army, and the representatives of His Royal Highness Geerhan, the king of Chechi, held a meeting in a small town near Luobu Lake.

In a cordial and friendly atmosphere, the representatives of the two sides fully exchanged views on the current situation in western Xinjiang and their respective political demands, and reached a number of consensuses.

Finally, after repeated consultations, the representatives of the two sides formally signed the "Temporary Armistice Agreement between the Metasequoia Military Government and Chechiguo", bringing the long-awaited dawn of peace to the people of all ethnic groups in Chechi.

——The above is the official account in the "Chronicles of the Western Xinjiang of the Holy Tang Dynasty".

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As the nominal head of the delegation of the Zhenjiang Army at that time, General Xu Youchang, who personally participated in the entire negotiation process, recorded in his personal memoirs:

In the spring of 822 in the Holy Tang Dynasty, I went to Luobu Lake to negotiate peace with the enemy with Li Zhijiang Yaogong, the king of Zhenxi County. His Royal Highness the King of the County was dressed in a white dragon fish suit, and Qiao pretended to be a guard and traveled secretly with the group.

At that time, the enemy chieftain Gelhan was arrogant, ignoring the certainty of defeat, wanting to win the victory of our army, and instead let our army retreat to Daban and other three cities. The enemy is brazen and stubborn; I am righteous and strict, and I will not give an inch. The depth of the differences between the two sides, like a chasm and a vast sea, cannot be described, and in the end they have reached the point where each other is threatened by a large army.

Looking at this situation, His Royal Highness the King of the County sent out an edict, saying: When the decisive battle! I was alone, and I went to donate my life and return to my homeland. You are equivalent to dust, and whose family does the territory belong to?

The enemy chieftain Gelhan was frightened when he heard this, and he signed a contract with a huff.

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Compared with the official record, Xu Youchang's description should be closer to the truth.

Because it is a matter of life and death for the two armies, the heads of both sides are directly involved in the negotiations. It's just that Gelhan personally led the team, while Li Jiangyao secretly accompanied the command.

As expected, as soon as the people on both sides met, they immediately started the mode of quarreling and spraying each other, and neither of them wanted to lose to the other party in momentum.

At the critical moment, Li Jiangyao appeared and used that famous sentence that was later recorded in history to settle the situation: Then let's fight a decisive battle! We were originally alone, and all of us sacrificed our lives on the battlefield, which was nothing more than the soul returning to our hometown and dying where it deserved; And what about you? You are all dead, who will Che Chiguo fall into?

The simple and straightforward reality immediately overwhelmed Gelhan and finally led to the signing of a temporary armistice agreement between the Zhenjiang Army and Che Chiguo.

According to the agreement, the Chechi Kingdom recognized Li Jiangyao's Zhenjiang Army, and on behalf of the Shengtang Dynasty, re-governed the four cities of Metasequoia, Daban, Icoru and Payi, as well as the nearby townships and towns.

And the Zhenjiang Army also made a promise that it would never take the initiative to attack other areas of Chechi and the Chechi army.

If the two sides have no choice but to meet on the battlefield due to the interference and coercion of a third party, they should try to avoid a conflict through the secret communication channels agreed in advance, resulting in casualties among the officers and men of both sides.

Validity of the agreement: one year.

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Looking at this secret armistice agreement, Gelhan finally felt a little more at ease, and he no longer had to worry about losing his troops and losing his city and land for the time being. At the same time, he also secretly rejoiced that if the Zhenjiang Army did not take a car in the future, it would definitely have to fight other allies in Western Xinjiang.

However, he never imagined that a similar "Temporary Armistice Agreement" or "Treaty of Peace, Friendship and Non-Aggression" would not only be signed by Che Chiguo's family, but also that Li Jiangyao would finally get it in his hands every country in the top seven countries in the Western Xinjiang Alliance in terms of military strength, including the Loulan State of the Alikjiang River!

Although the agreements signed by these countries and the Zhenjiang Army are not exactly the same in form and content, the core meaning in them is exactly the same: love peace!

They will not take the initiative to provoke each other within one year, and resolutely avoid any conflict or engagement with the Zhenjiang army stationed in Chechiguo.

The kings of the western frontier of the chicken thieves all have the same mind as Gelhan: if they want to fight you, Lao Tzu will make a fortune in a muffled voice. finally ended the war, isn't it fragrant for him to live comfortably?

Among the seven armistice commitments, the only one that was more special was the Shule State, which was about the same military strength as the Loulan State. First, they were located at the northern foot of the Ghost Desert Tianshan Mountain, far away from the Zhenjiang army in Metasequoia City, so they didn't have much contact with each other; Second, the Tajik king, the king of Shule, was an old fox. He was also concerned about the throne of the leader of the Western Frontier Alliance, so he wanted to preserve his strength and avoid falling into black and white evidence, so as not to cause trouble after being discovered by the Turks.

Therefore, Shule State only reached a verbal agreement with the Zhenjiang Army.

But it was precisely because of such an ineffective verbal promise that in the later counterinsurgency war, the army of Shule State was inflicted a devastating and crazy blow on the Zhenjiang army.

If Tajikistan had foreseen this tragic situation in advance, he would have regretted his shrewdness.