Li Daozong led an army of 30,000 and spent ten days rushing to Suoyang City.

Suoyang City is the city built by the Sui and Tang Dynasties after the abandonment of Hanyumen Pass and Yangguan, located in the southeast of Guazhou County 70 miles, and Guazhou is Dunhuang County.

At the beginning of the establishment of Suoyang City, it was the location of the Yumen Pass in the Han Dynasty. This place is actually closer to the handover of Longyou Road and Tuyuhun, but now that Tuyuhun has become the Tang Xizhou, the location of Suoyang City is naturally lonely, and it is not a border city.

The reason why Li Daozong rushed here was because if the army went to Dunhuang County, with the number of merchants coming and going from Dunhuang County, this news might leak.

And An Xinggui also rushed here.

"Governor Li."

"Liang Guogong."

The two men saluted each other, exchanged pleasantries, and then sat down.

"What do you think about this combat mission?" Li Daozong asked after sitting down.

"The combat effectiveness of the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions is actually not strong, with the strength of our army is enough to suppress them, even the difficulty of attacking the city is not high, the biggest trouble here is Gaochang and the Western Turks, the current situation in the Western Turks is unstable, the attitude is ambiguous, Gao Chang's words...... In fact, it's not difficult to take it, Ju Wentai is this person...... It's really a grass on the wall. "An Xinggui has been in Longyou Road for so many years, and he is naturally very clear about the situation in Longyou Road.

"That's true, before sending troops this time, we probably discussed it first, and decided that the troops would be divided into three routes: the south road, the middle road, and the north road, and the 10,000 troops would take Wuqiang and the end as the route, led by Xue Wanjun and Xue Wanche, all the way to the Shule country at the foot of the West Kunlun Mountains. The other road is also separated from the Southern Route Army with 10,000 troops, as the Middle Route Army, limited to Yanqi and other countries, all the way to the Guiqi Zici Country, and then go straight to the Yili (non-typo, Tang Yili River is called Yili River) River area, led by Niu Jinda and Li Daliang. ”

"The remaining 30,000 troops are used as the Northern Route Army, and we set out from Yiwu to take Gaochang, Cheshi Qianguo, Cheshi Houguo and other Western Regions countries, and take the entire north of the Tianshan Mountains." Li Daozong probably talked about the previous analysis.

"There's a problem here." An Xinggui thought for a while and said, "The overall diversion problem is not big, the strength of these Western Regions countries is average, but how to deal with this involving the Western Turks?" ”

"At present, the Western Turks are divided into three khans, bounded by the Ili River, one of which is the Yibi Pi Du UO land, located west of the Ili River, which controls the largest land area of the Western Turks, and the west and north are controlled by the Gulli, and he is hostile to the Tang Dynasty. And to the east of the Ili River, the Khan of the Fortune was subordinated to the Tang Dynasty, and of course the submission to him was only to find external support, involving the Ebilu - he mainly controlled the east of the Ili River, as well as parts of the 36 countries in the Western Regions. ”

The third khan was Ashina Shilu, who was said to have been born from the Ashina clan of the Western Turkic royal family. It currently controls the part west of Tianzhu that stretches to the Ili River. This person has a neutral attitude, that is to say, with the Ili River as the center, the world is divided into three parts, the eastern and southeastern parts of the Ili River and other places are out of control, and the west and northwest of the Ili River are Yipi land. ”

"And the southern part of the western part of the Ili River is controlled by Ashina Shilu, and without this Ashina Shilu, our caravan would not have been able to cross the territory of Epiru." An Xinggui said helplessly.

"Eh, Ashina is a donkey? What kind of name is this......" Li Daozong was a little speechless.

"That's the way the Turkic names are, they all have other meanings, we're just transliterations. Now the point is, what if we're going to attack, what if we lose money? Our target strategic location is a place where there are profits and losses. An Xinggui shook his head with a smile and said.

"If we attack directly, there is a good chance that we will push the loss of the profit to Epiru." Li Daozong thought for a moment, "But their war has affected our trade with the Western Regions, if these two people have a very good attitude towards us, then there should be no problem in uniting them to directly exterminate this Ebiru land." ”

"In that case, our early advance will be quickly resolved, the point is that after taking these countries, we can't divide our troops, if we don't divide our troops, will the nobles of these small countries who stay in the local area ...... Two hearts? An Xinggui looked at Li Daozong and asked.

"Actually, I think it's better for us to go straight to the Yili region after the extermination of Gaochang, negotiate with the remaining two khans of the Western Turks, and after the elimination of Yipilu, part of the area of Yibilu will be handed over to Yililu, then the so-called 36 countries of the Western Regions are within our control." An Xinggui made another suggestion.

Li Daozong looked at the military map, pondered for a while and nodded, "It's okay, Gaochang must be exterminated, after the extermination of Gaochang, if our army completely exterminates Yibi Lulu, it means that we control these passes that can cross the West Kunlun Mountains, then with the mountains as the boundary, all the countries within the pass are just the turtles in the urn of my Tang Dynasty." ”

"I'm afraid that we won't have to do it when the time comes, they will surrender directly."

"Speaking of which, Governor Li, I wonder if there is any explanation in the order given to you by His Majesty about how the kings and royal families of these small countries should be handled?" An Xinggui looked at Li Daozong and asked, this battle is dominated by Li Daozong, supplemented by An Xinggui, so there are some things that only explain that Li Daozong said in the past.

"According to the previous method, they wrote to call them ministers, directly canonized their king as the local protector, established the capital protectorate, and attached to the rule of my Tang Dynasty, or?"

"In the future, this is my Datang Xinjiang Road! These are the territories of my Datang! Li Daozong replied very simply.

A Xinjiang Dao, An Xinggui understands that there is a big difference between Dao and Duhufu. The prefecture was more like the member states of the Soviet Union in later generations, and once it was dissolved, it would be its own country.

But if you say the Tao, it is a province of Datang! In any case, this will be the inherent territory of my Datang!

There's a big difference between the two!

"What about these royal families?" An Xinggui hesitated and asked.

"Negotiating with them, in the words of His Highness, is to call on these kings to learn from King Jiang Quhu of the Qiang Kingdom." Li Daozong said lightly.

Okay, as soon as I heard about Jiang going to King Hu, An Xinggui understood, and Jiang went to Hu to be famous in the Western Regions. After all, although Wuqiang is a small country, it once at least belonged to Shanshanguo with Yanqi, Loulan, etc., and Shanshanguo was still very powerful at the beginning.

But Jiang went to Hu to make a commotion and directly sold the whole country...... sold to Datang, and he himself went to Chang'an City to enjoy.

This thing...... How to say it, the kings of various small countries in the Western Regions were stunned, what an outrageous operation.

And his reputation in the Western Regions ...... Anyway, most of them are ridicule, and they all use Chinese historical examples to mock him, saying that he is not happy. Just for pure pleasure, forgetting the people of the whole country.