Although the Turkic tribes who were fighting against each other finally gave up their grudges and regrouped together with the efforts of Princess Hesijia, but, as Cheng Dong said: military is the most ruthless and objective existence in the world, and it cannot be false at all.

Your strength is not good, no matter how passionate and courageous you are, you will only suffer defeat on the battlefield.

This so-called strength includes not only the morale, training, and experience of the army, but also the number of troops, weaponry, equipment, and logistical resources.

At this time, the Turkic army, except for its high morale, well-trained, and experienced, was at an absolute disadvantage.

At the beginning, the Great Khan Ashina Zhijin led 550,000 Turkic men to the east, a grand gamble, almost lost all the Turkic Empire.

Not only did the elite iron cavalry lose all the Zijin Pass and the Weinan Plain, but also a large number of famous generals who could fight well also lost their lives in a foreign land. Not to mention the amount of war horses, weapons, gold and silver, grain and grass, the losses are even more innumerable.

In addition, the remnants of the various ministries that were lucky enough to return to the east, as soon as they returned to their homeland, they immediately started to fight and fought endlessly, repeatedly sawing and tearing for two or three years in a row, constantly consuming the only remaining blood of the Turkic Empire.

Today, even the Empire's border garrison is gone.

On the other hand, the invading foreign enemy, Persia alone, dispatched 300,000 ironclad legions at once, covering the sky and the sun, and the momentum was magnificent.

They have been watching the Turks wrestle with the Holy Tang with cold eyes on the sidelines, and for several years, they have recuperated their strength, and finally reached the point where their military strength completely surpasses that of their neighbors.

If you don't move, it's enough, and if you move, it's a thunderous momentum.

In such a situation where the two sides have a huge disparity in strength, they are as strong as a thousand snows, and they cannot quickly reverse the unfavorable situation of being passively beaten.

In the Battle of Yingge City, the left army of the Turkic coalition army was defeated, and Queen Cang retreated for 300 miles;

In the offensive and defensive battle of the fortress of Mount Iscury, 2,600 Condor soldiers were annihilated, resulting in the loss of the fulcrum of the Cancun defense line and the collapse of the entire defense line;

In the raid of the Sailun Gorge, tens of thousands of golden iron cavalry attacked the main force of 80,000 Persians for six hours, but they never broke through the enemy's position and had no choice but to retreat;

The important towns on the west bank of the Bom River fell one after another, and the Persian army and the Semitic army successfully joined forces at the Danning crossing, and the troops began to invade the Yakutian steppe;

The Battle of Hurzigit was the Battle of Hurzigit, the Turks were defeated again, and the Flame Maple Forest City was in a hurry!

A series of defeats and retreats not only made the Turkic army miserable, but also suffered the Turkic tribesmen. The Persians and Semites also suffered a lot of casualties under the fierce resistance of Yun Qianxue, and they couldn't help but be gradually aroused to their ferocity. There were more and more incidents of brutal killing of civilians, and in the end, it turned out that the Persian commander personally ordered that he would completely exterminate the entire Turkic nation in order to prevent future troubles!

In this way, a large number of refugees began to flee their hometowns, moved eastward, and hid in the western frontier to survive before the enemy's butcher's knife fell on their heads.

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After listening to everything that happened in the Turkic Empire, Xie Tanzhi and the others were silent.

Previously, Li Jiangyao had sent a letter to the Persian Emperor through his old friend Aimeni on the Turkic civil war, hoping that the Persian Empire could exercise restraint as much as possible and not easily get involved in the Turkic civil strife, so as to maintain peace and tranquility in the western Xinjiang and the western continent.

Unexpectedly, the huge temptation still prompted the Persians, who were gradually becoming stronger, to move the idea of invading neighboring countries.

To tell the truth, before the adventure to the East Expedition to the Holy Tang, the Turks had always been the king-like existence of the Western Continent. Punching Persia, stepping on Tianzhu, enslaving Semites, shaking Europa from afar, and the iron hooves of the Turkic war horses were enough to make the surrounding neighbors tremble, and they did not dare to have the slightest thought of disobeying and resisting.

The reason why the Persian emperor was willing to borrow the hand of Emmeni to fully support Li Jiangyao's development and growth when the Turks instigated the Western Xinjiang countries to rebel against the Holy Tang Dynasty was also because he wanted to try to hold off the Turks, so that they would fall into the quagmire of war and be unable to get out of the invasion of Persia.

In these extremely precious years, the Turks became weaker and weaker, and the Persians became stronger and stronger, and finally survived to the critical stage of today's offensive and defensive changes.

Not only the Turks, but the Persian emperor even turned his gaze to the East.

If he can successfully conquer the traditional enemies of the Western Continent, can the next prey be Sheng Tang, who has also been weakened by the war?

At least, there is always a chance to try to win the ghost desert in Western Xinjiang, right?

Li Jiangyao saw the ambitions of the Persians very clearly, and his comrades-in-arms were also very clear. Xie Tanzhi immediately decided to immediately send a letter to the Dadu Protector, giving a detailed report on the latest war developments in the Western Continent, and asking Li Jiangyao to decide on the next course of action as soon as possible.

Before waiting for the Dadu Protector to send back instructions, Xie Tanzhi solicited Huo Liya's opinion, and finally agreed to order the left-behind corps to start a full mobilization in the name of the Zhenjiang Military Government, strengthen the alert level of the western defense line, properly resettle the Turkic refugees, and prevent the rout of the army from all walks of life from attacking and disturbing the border.

When necessary, the Zhenjiang army can directly send troops across the border and take the initiative to take over and control the Turkic towns adjacent to the western frontier, expand the scope of its own defense, and avoid the wars affecting the western frontier countries.

In addition, the secret agents of the intelligence department installed in the western continent have also begun to strengthen the collection of information against the Persian side, especially the Persian army, which is responsible for attacking the Turks, which is the key intelligence target in the next stage.

At the same time, Situ Wushou contacted Aimeni through Effantia to learn more about the true intentions of the Persian Empire's top brass, and expressed the concern of the Zhenjiang military government about the Turkic war, hoping that the other party would respect Li Jiangyao's advice and try to maintain the tranquility of the western continent to ensure the smooth operation of the Silk Road trade route.

Li Jiangyao, who was far away on the front line in the south of the Yangtze River, received a report from the western Xinjiang and immediately realized the seriousness of the problem.

As a neighbor of the ghost desert in Western Xinjiang and a staunch ally of the Zhenjiang army in the fight against the Turks, the Persian Empire was no stranger to Li Jiangyao. On the contrary, because of the relationship between Effantia and Ammeni, he was very familiar with the various situations of the Persian court.

Located at the intersection of the Eastern and Western continents, Persia, like the Turks, also borders the Ghost Desert of Western Xinjiang, and has been an important hub and actual beneficiary of the Silk Road trade route since ancient times. In the eyes of the people of Western Xinjiang, or in the impression of the entire Shengtang people, Persia has always been a peace-loving and indisputable country. I have rarely heard of whom they have befriended each other, and I have never seen them send troops to bully anyone.

However, Li Jiangyao knew very well in his heart that Persia was not as kind and peace-loving as they seemed on the surface. The reason why he is so well-behaved is because there is a fierce Turkic Empire squatting next to him.

The meat of the Western Continent is not enough for the Eight Pillar Tribes, where is there still a share of Persia? Or, Persia itself is meat in the eyes of the Turks, who does he dare to bully?

As the saying goes, if you don't want to, you can't.

At that time, under the instigation of the Turks, the Western Xinjiang Ghost Desert had just broken out into rebellion, and not long after the formation of the Western Xinjiang Alliance, the Persian Empire sent a large number of merchant missions, and the emperor's teacher, the Western Continent giant merchant Ameni personally led the team to visit.

Nominally, they wanted to reopen the Silk Road trade routes and ensure that the Persian Empire's trade interests with the Eastern Continent would not be lost. But in fact, their purpose was not only limited to commercial exchanges, but also hoped to get a piece of the chaotic western frontier, and even did not rule out sending troops to occupy some lands in the Ghost Desert with the approval of the Turks, so as to expand the political influence of Persia here.

It's just that later by mistake, Emmeni got acquainted with Li Jiangyao through his daughter Effentia, and the Zhenjiang army rose rapidly in a desperate situation, and finally caused the Persian emperor to decide to fully support the Zhenjiang military government in Metasequoia City, and Li Jiangyao represented their interests and gradually controlled the ghost desert in Western Xinjiang.

During the eight-year counterinsurgency war, Persia asked for money, goods, weapons, armor, war horses, and equipment from the western continent to Metasequoia.

Of course, Persia did this, and it was greatly rewarded.

Among them, the most valuable achievement is that the main Turkic army was blocked by the people of Western Xinjiang in the area east of Zijin Pass and Shengyu Pass, and finally the whole army was annihilated.

From that moment on, the greatest threat of Persia on the Western Continent was completely lifted.

However, the Persian emperor, who had broken free from the shackles of military coercion, still did not dare to make a move against his former enemies easily. After all, the Turks were too fierce and strong, and they had suppressed the Persian Empire for hundreds of years, and the psychological shadow had already been cast. In particular, Li Jiangyao suddenly played a trick to reconcile before the war, and successively released Gema Khan and Prince Tanli to lead his troops back, which immediately frightened the Persian monarchs and ministers not to act rashly.

Everyone is a smart person, and they all understand this truth in their hearts: for Li Jiangyao and the ghost desert of Western Xinjiang, it is definitely not a good thing for another overlord to rise in the Western Continent again.

As a result, the Persian emperor chose to continue to be patient, and secretly split up to support the two Turkic forces, prompting Gema to lead the Turkic tribes to fight with Tanli, Hesijia and Yun Qianxue, and constantly fight and lose their troops.

It wasn't until Gemma's coalition army captured the city of Flame Maple Forest again, and Thanli quickly counterattacked, and organized an army to drive the coalition forces out of the capital and retake the city, that the monarchs and ministers of the Persian Empire agreed that the time had finally come!

Persia immediately sent heavyweight envoys to contact the Semites, who had also been oppressed by the Turks for many years, and negotiated a joint army to eliminate the cancer of the western continent in one fell swoop, so that the Turkic nation would become the dust of history.

Although the Semitic strength was far inferior to that of the Persians, they had many tribes and strong people, and they had long been extremely dissatisfied with the long-term suppression of the Turks. Therefore, as soon as the Persian Empire expressed its intention to attack the Turks, the Semitic high priest immediately nodded in agreement, and called on all the warriors of all tribes to assemble as allies of the Persian army and march together to the Turkic borders to defeat the enemy.

At this point, the war clouds on the Western Continent were thick and the sound of killing was everywhere. Hesjia, Tanli, Gema and others are about to face a huge crisis of extinction!