The first volume of the Sun and Moon of the Tang Dynasty, Chapter 11: "I reported to the guard envoy, and the people of Shiguo killed Qianquan Mountain Pass. The night before yesterday, the A-shi Bulai Fort was captured. The other troops of the Tuqi Shi Hei couldn't resist and were migrating towards the direction of Saiye." When Zhang Qian rushed to the main hall of the guard envoy, Zhang Bao, who was the captain of the city gate, also arrived, sweating heavily and panting.

"The Shi people? Invade the Tang Dynasty? Have you sent a scout to confirm. Where is Tutun Yiliqi from another unit of the Hei family now? Can you send a messenger to ask for help?" Zhang Qian was stunned for a moment, and after a little effort, he was sure that he had heard it correctly. He blurted out a series of questions.

"The scouts have just been sent out. The current news is all sent back by the scouts patrolling fifty miles away from the west of Saiye today." Zhang Bao raised his hand and wiped his sweat, and continued to report in a low voice. "According to Tuqi Shiren, who escaped to the vicinity of Saiye, Yiliqitutun was captured alive by the Shiguo soldiers. The messenger who asked for help did not arrive. It should be that he had no time to send a messenger. But all the beacon towers along the way were lit, which should not be a false alarm."

"Close the city gate quickly and refuse to enter the thunder cavalry. Be careful that Yiliqi has ulterior motives!" Luo Huaizu has always been unscathing to guess people's hearts in the worst direction. Before Zhang Bao's words could be finished, he would decisively remind him.

Zhang Qian frowned and selectively accepted, "A person comes, I will pass on the order of the general, and strictly guard against the city gate. Verify the identity of those who enter the city. Except for the soldiers of the Thunder Ye Army, no one is allowed to enter with weapons. If a Tuqi and herdsman escapes from the west, lead them around the Thunder Ye and go to the vicinity of Yezhi City for a while!"

Immediately, a personal soldier agreed and went forward to take the order arrow to pass the order. Zhang Qian watched the personal soldier leave and tapped the table with his fingers irritably.

The war came without warning. Logically, the Shi Kingdom invaded Anxi and should have chosen to be when the four towns in Anxi were stirred into a pot of porridge last year by Soge, rather than now.

At that time, the Tang army in the four towns of Anxi had no time to take care of it. The Shi Kingdom attacked Soge's retreat in the name of the Tang Dynasty's vassals and cut off some territory. Later, the Tang Dynasty was definitely unable to ask for it to return due to its appearance. Now, even though Shi Kingdom knew that Shaye had returned to the Tang Dynasty, it would be equivalent to fighting with the Tang Dynasty. Where did the king get the confidence that he could decide Shayeye in one battle, and the Tang Dynasty was unable to launch a counterattack?

In addition, although the Shi Kingdom is known as the richest among the nine surnames of Zhaowu, the reason for its prosperity is that the two major cities of the country, Bahanna and Ju Zhanti, are stuck on the Silk Road, and can obtain a steady stream of taxes and various derivative expenses from passing caravans. If the broken leaves are taken away and the Silk Road is broken, it will definitely not be worth the loss for the country!

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"Did the guards remember that a little Burke named Sulu, a surnamed Huang, also brought his troops to graze nearby?" He was determined to give Zhang Qian a worry, Ren Wu leaned forward and whispered, "If the Shi Kingdom invaded and attacked the Hei surnamed Sulu, there was no reason not to send troops to help."

"Yeah!" Zhang Qian agreed softly, but did not discuss with Ren Wu whether Little Berke Sulu would send troops. He continued to frown and thought hard about the reasons and purpose of the Shi Kingdom's invasion.

"I'll get the map!" Ren Liu's memory was not as good as Ren Wu, and he ran to the study room on the side of the main hall of the Xingyuan.

There were messy footsteps outside the main hall of the guard commander's headquarters. Immediately afterwards, more than a dozen generals who stayed in Saiye City, including Ren Shang, Guo Chong, Zhang Jin, Ren Wei, Shi Jin, etc., hurried in and salute Zhang Qian first, and then stood near the Shuai Case and whispered in a low voice. Everyone's face was full of confusion.

"How could it be the Shi Kingdom?"

"How many soldiers do they have in total?"

"Mo Hedu is ungrateful. When did he be beaten before, did Anxijun support him?"

"I can't find a way to die. The Shi Kingdom is not as good as a high-level state in our Tang Dynasty. If the Tang Dynasty wants to destroy it, it will not take much effort."

"There is no surname of Zhaowu's nine surnames known for being good at fighting. It's really strange..."

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Even if everyone breaks their heads, they can't figure out why Shi Guohui picked up this time to invade the Tang Dynasty? According to the information about the forces close to each other that everyone has collected over the past few months, the Shi Guo opposite the Pamir Mountains is one of the nine surnames of Zhaowu. It is called a country, but it is actually only equivalent to a larger tribe. The total number of troops in the country is only over 50,000.

Moreover, the people of the country are mainly Sogdians. The Sogdians have always been known for their business wise minds and have never been associated with the four words "brave and good at fighting"!

In the past, when Shiguo and Tuqishi had conflicts, they were beaten to the ground by Soge. Now Soge has been chopped up by the Thunder Ye Army, but I don’t know who gave Shiguo Tutun Mo Hedu confidence, and he will definitely be able to beat Thunder Ye Army.

Even if the Shi Kingdom's troops won by chance, and had just settled in the Niu Shi Award for the Anxi Protectorate's Great Protectorate, how could he not take revenge? If the Tang Dynasty moved the real seal, how could another Shi Kingdom be left in the world?

Just when he was puzzled, he saw Ren Liu and two soldiers joining the army quickly walked out of the study and quickly hung a large map on the wall.

Most of the locations of cities, villages, mountains, rivers and grasslands on the map are collected by Zhang Qianming from the vendors, and the accuracy is worrying. However, this is already the most complete and accurate map in the entire Western Region, which is far better than the oral descriptions of everyone who relies on guides to paint on sheepskins.

Everyone stopped talking and turned their eyes to the map. From the map, it can be roughly seen that Ashibulai Fort is about as far as Saiye City to Saiye City. If the soldiers of Shiguo Kingdom follow the normal combat method and the speed of the troops are high, after taking Ashibulai Fort, in order to ensure the suddenness of the attack, the soldiers of Shiguo Kingdom will definitely set off immediately, follow the Hei Cavalry's Herdsmen and attack Saiye. According to the normal advancement speed of the cavalry, their vanguard will kill to Saiye City at the latest morning early the day after tomorrow!

The closest road to Shule is about 750 miles away. The shortest road to Kucha is more than 1,400 miles. Even if the messenger is sent to rush to Guo Hong and Niu Shizhao for help, the first support army will arrive half a month later.

In other words, no matter how many troops the Shi Kingdom invaded Anxi this time? No matter what the reason for the invasion or what purpose it was to achieve, the Sui Ye Army had to face it alone in the next half month. The military camps and civil fields outside Sui Ye City had just begun to grow new seedlings. The workshops along Sui Ye River had just begun to have output and were far from recovering their costs.

"Everyone has it, follow my order!" Zhang Qian couldn't understand why Shi Guo wanted to launch an army to attack. However, he didn't have more time to think about it. He glanced at the map for a few times, then stopped thinking and began to adjust the deployment. "From now on, all the soldiers of the Suoye Camp and Xiliu Camp will return to the team. Each regiment of the Suoye Camp will draw a brigade leader and three team leaders to go to Xiliu Camp to act as the brigade leader. The vacant position will be recommended by the brigade leader of the regiment to recommend the brave and capable of conquering the public. The list will be submitted to the garrison yamen and the brigade leader. After approval by the commander, you will be responsible for collecting the list and reporting it tonight."

"As for order!" All the generals stood up and bowed their hands, and agreed in unison.

As officers, not only did they receive military pay a lot higher than elsewhere, but each of them had hundreds of acres of land, and the military garrisons of the jail offices hired people to take care of them. Therefore, guarding the Shaye is to guard their own property. There is no reason for them to do their best.

"Ren Liu, bring one hundred scouts and set off immediately and occupy Huang Yegang, a hundred miles away from Sui Ye City. If you encounter Elder Shi or Burke who escaped, send someone to Sui Ye to see me. If you meet the vanguard of the Shi Kingdom, you don't have to fight. You will immediately give up Huang Yegang and withdraw back to the city." Nodded at the generals with satisfaction, Zhang Qian grabbed the first command arrow and handed it to Ren Liu, the captain who had been following him for the longest time.

"Yes!" Ren Liubi felt glory, shouted and took the command arrow, turned around and left.

Zhang Qian knew that he was cautious and would never take his brothers to take risks easily, so he watched him leave with confidence. Then, he grabbed the second arrow, "Secretary Luo, the teaching team will give you. From today on, you will take the teaching team to patrol all the streets and alleys in the city to prevent an enemy country from entering the city and taking the opportunity to cause trouble. If you find someone who has a bad intention, take it down on the spot. If the other party dares to resist, kill it without any hesitation!"

"As for the order!" Luo Huaizu agreed in a deep voice, stepped forward to take the order arrow. His brows were furrowed and his eyes were as cold as ice.

"Shi Jin, you lead the rest of your brothers to protect the workshops and farms outside the city so that no one can take the opportunity to destroy them." Unexpectedly, Zhang Qian handed over the third command arrow to a captain named Shi who was originally from Shule, and he trusted his abilities very much. "If Ren Liu retreated from Huang Yegang, you immediately burn the workshop, and then lead your brothers across the river and occupy Jiedan Mountain on the north bank of the river. If the troops of the Shi Kingdom besieged the city, you will look for opportunities and detour behind him, so that he cannot transport supplies safely!"

"Yes! The guard commander, his subordinates will not be humiliated!" Shi Jin, who was suddenly valued, blushed and swore loudly, fearing that the people around him would not hear it.

Several officers from Shule also turned their heads to look at him, their eyes full of envy. At the same time, everyone suddenly felt a sense of relief.

The guards did not look at everyone differently. Apart from the surname Ren and Guo, those who followed him later could still get a chance to stand out.

Zhang Qian had no time to pay attention to the reactions of the generals, took a deep breath, and once again reached the fourth command arrow, "Ren Shang, Guo Chong, Zhang Jin, you three, after each completing the task of the regiment's transfer and recommendation, they will rectify the troops and take turns patrolling the city. At the same time, check the city defense facilities and make up for the omissions in time!"

"As for order!" The three generals and schoolmen who were named agreed in unison, and everyone felt the heavy weight before the war came.

There are only 6,500 soldiers in Suye Town, and 3,000 of them are new recruits who have just completed training. The 3,500 veterans were scattered to Yezhi, He Lie, Liucheng, Dunduo, Xingumo and other places, and there were less than 2,000 people left for Suye Town. They were hasty fights with the enemy, and the outcome was difficult to predict.

"Ren Wei, from now on, you will be the deputy general of Xiliu Camp." After taking a deep breath, Zhang Qian grabbed the next command arrow, "There is no chief lieutenant in Xiliu Camp, and I am the governor personally. You are responsible for summoning the brothers of Xiliu Camp for me to return to the team."

"Yes!" Ren Wei shouted loudly, his voice full of pride.

"Ren Zhi, you are responsible..."

"Guo Liang, you are responsible..."

Zhang Qian grabbed the remaining several arrows and passed them one by one. Regardless of whether he was doing useless work or not, just let the soldiers under his command have something to do to avoid panic.

Whether this battle came suddenly or not, he had to win first. Otherwise, not only would his previous efforts in Suoye City be destroyed. Many of his own arrangements for the future would inevitably be devastating.

He has not had much time left. As long as Li Xian dies, many forces will lose their constraints in an instant. If he does not have enough strength to protect himself by then, all his expectations for the future will be destined to become a dream bubble.

"Report, the guard commander, the Huang clan Shiberk Sulu escaped back and asked to see you outside the door and report the enemy's situation!" A shout suddenly came from outside the main hall. Immediately afterwards, the brigade leader Ren Tong appeared in front of everyone with a sweat on his head.

"Let him come in!" Zhang Qian frowned and gave a deep command. The other generals who had not yet retreated turned their heads to the door, pressed their hands on the hilt, and their eyes were full of vigilance.

The little Boke Sulu of Huang was originally a confidant of Soge. Last winter, he was ordered by Soge to block the Bodaling Pass and block Niu Shizhao's pursuit, so he did not fight with the Thunder Ye Army. Zhang Qian attacked Yezhi City in Xueye and cut off the head of Soge, the man decisively chose to surrender with the elders of the Tuqi Shi tribe of the Huang surname, and "peacefully" handed over to the Thunder Ye Army to the Thunder Ye Army. Therefore, he was pardoned for all his crimes, not only saving his family property and life, but also saving nearly a thousand troops under his command.

Zhang Qian was short of manpower, so he did not send troops to the fortress near the border, such as Ashibulai Fort, and he still gave it to other troops of the Hei family. However, in order to prevent the Hei family from taking the opportunity to grow, he specially arranged the troops and subordinates under Sulu to rest in the mountain ranch near Ashibulai Fort.

Today, the troops of the Shi Kingdom invaded, and Shitutun Yiliqi, a black cavalry living in the fort village, was defeated and captured. Little Berk Sulu, who had no support for the fort village, fled back to Thunder Ye City with all his tails. It is really hard not to doubt whether this person and Shi Kingdom would secretly communicate with each other?!

"Report, General Huang Sulu, meet the Grand General!" The thunder cavalry Shi Xiaoboke Sulu also knew that he was embarrassed. He actually took the initiative to hand over the weapons and followed Zhang Qian's personal soldiers to report the door. Then, he raised his hands and ran forward a few steps, kneeled in front of the General's case with a "thump", and cried loudly, "General, General Wu has let down your kindness and has been wiped out. General Wu came to lead him to death, and asked the General Wu to chop off the General's head to boost his military power! Wuwu, Wuwuwu, Wuwuwu..."

"All the army was wiped out?" Zhang Qian held the table with both hands, leaned forward, his eyes wide and round. In an instant, it seemed like he had traveled back to the 21st century, sitting under the stage watching a third-rate actor performing a bad performance.

However, the bloody smell from his nostrils clearly told him that Su Lu was not performing. The other party's broken armor and the bleeding wound also told him that this person had indeed experienced a bloody battle before he could barely escape from the sky.

"The General of the Mo was incompetent, and was fooled by the people of Shiguo, and was surrounded by them. Fortunately, the brothers around him fought to the death, so he fought a bloody path. The General of the Mo was supposed to commit suicide and apologize, but he was afraid that he would die and no one would come to report the military information to the general, so he escaped back to Thunder Ye City with shamelessness!" Little Berke Sulu's crying continued to come from his feet, and every sentence was filled with aggrievance.

"Come on, help him up and stand and talk." Zhang Qian calmed down, drove the absurd thoughts out of his mind, and then gave a deep command.

Several lieutenants who were still in the main hall stepped forward to hold Su Lu's arm and helped him up. At the same time, they quickly checked whether the wound on this person's body was true with their eyes, so as not to use a bitter trick to lure everyone into being deceived.

But the little Berke Sulu struggled while continuing to cry: "Master, it's not a pity to die. I also asked the Master to send troops to save our tribe. Since they surrendered to the Master, they have been devoted to being Tang people and never thought of following other Khans again!"

'That's because the Grandmaster collects low taxes, and he also teaches you to shear wool and make yarn to exchange for money!' Ren Kai, Guo Cheng and other generals muttered in their hearts, but increased their strength in their hands and forced Little Berk Sulu to mount.

"I remember you have seven or eight hundred brothers under your command. If you add herdsmen, there should be no less than three thousand." Zhang Qian waved his hand and signaled everyone to let Su Lu go. Then, he asked softly, "Why are you lost in the battle? Ilyich, do you have any news about him?"

"Yes, it was the idiot Irichi who was fooled by the Shi people first, which dragged his subordinates and fell into the ambush of the Shi Kingdom's soldiers!" Little Bork Sulu raised his hand and wiped his tears, choked and explained, "He is greedy for money. No matter how many people there were in the caravan, as long as he gave money, he would let the other party go to Ashibulai Castle for overnight. As a result, Mohedututun's younger brother Yihu disguised more than 200 warriors as guards of the caravan and sneaked into Ashibulai Castle. Then he suddenly attacked at night, cooperated inside and outside, and directly captured Irichi alive..."

No wonder Soge admired this person during his lifetime. This guy was indeed quite eloquent. While speaking and crying, he quickly reported the war clearly. By the way, he pushed all the responsibility for defeat to the Hei Tuqi Shitutun Yiliqi.

It turned out that under the command of his brother Yi Hu, the Shi Kingdom army first sent a dead soldier to pretend to be a vendor entourage and sneaked into Ashibulai Fort. Then they came to the city and caught the Hei Chushi off guard.

Tutun Yiliqi, who was in the other tribe of the Hei clan, was afraid of death. After being captured by the Shi Kingdom army, he surrendered to Shi Kingdom. While sending his confidant to ask Sulu for help, he secretly pointed out the location of the resting place of Sulu's troops. As a result, Sulu Nian went to rescue at night for the same tribe, but plunged into the trap set by the Shi Kingdom. Immediately afterwards, the resting place was also attacked and smoke rolled.

Su Lu led the warriors to fight desperately, but found thick smoke rising from the direction of the resting place. Suddenly, the morale of the army was in chaos. Thanks to his ability to pass the martial arts, another group of warriors around him had experienced many battles, so he sacrificed his life to break through the siege and came to Shuye to inform the enemy.

"Damn it! Irichi surrendered, and he even had to frame his fellow tribe!" Ren Kai was indignant when he heard it, frowned and cursed in a low voice. "He is not afraid, those innocent and innocent thunderbolts who died in vain will go to settle the score with him in the middle of the night."

"This guy is so greedy for money, he deserves this disaster. It's a pity that those men under Su Lu's command!" Ren Cheng looked sympathetic and whispered to the sidelines.

The captain Ren Wu was more competent than both of them. Putting aside those loyalties, he grabbed Su Lu's arm and asked in a deep voice: "Since you have been surrounded by the troops of the Shi Kingdom, you should know how many soldiers and horses the Shi Kingdom has dispatched this time, and who is the leader of the army?"

"The Shi Kingdom dispatched eight thousand, no, ten thousand, no, at most ten thousand soldiers." Su Lu secretly glanced at Zhang Qian, and confirmed that the other party had not taken the opportunity to get rid of him, so he responded loudly, "The most ten thousand is 15,000, and it is impossible to have more. The leader is Yihu, the younger brother of Mohedututun, Shi Kingdom."

"Ten fifteen thousand?" Everyone present, including Zhang Qian, could not believe their ears, and blurted out his questions, "Do you see clearly that Shi Kingdom only has 15,000 soldiers?"

"Don't there only 15,000 soldiers surrounding you, and the rest of the soldiers are not nearby, right?"

"Sulu, did you also learn from Na Yilichi, surrender to Shiguo, and then trick the general into being deceived?"

"Sulu, if you have bad intentions..."

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"I can swear, swear to the sky!" Little Berk Sulu was anxious, raised his palm and cursed loudly, "If I have half a lie, I will let thunder fall from the sky to death in the sky! The White Wolf God cursed me, and maggots gnawed my bones, so that I could not return to the embrace of the sky after death!"

"You don't have to swear!" Zhang Qian frowned and shouted in a low voice, "Just tell me how powerful the troops of Shiguo are, and what the enemy generals are, and there is no need to deliberately belittle them or exaggerate them."

"The combat effectiveness of the troops in the Shi Kingdom is far less than that of the samurai warriors. If it weren't for the siege and the old camp being raided by them, resulting in a great chaos in the morale of the army, I might not have been able to come out with my brothers!" Su Lu bowed to Zhang Qian gratefully and responded loudly.

Then, hesitated for a while and continued to report loudly, "As for the number of troops, I was afraid of misleading the general, so I deliberately said more. It should be less than 8,000. At that time, there were only four or five thousand people surrounding me. I was afraid that they would have other teams, so I doubled. That Yihu was Mohedutututun's younger brother. He was ordered by his father before his death and stationed in Talas. If he had more than 20,000 troops, when his father died last year, he would definitely raise an army to compete with Mohedu for the throne. It would be impossible to be willing to surrender to Mohedu!"

"I want to swallow the broken leaves with less than 20,000 soldiers? Isn't Yi Hu crazy about gaining or losing his heart?"

"Master, be careful of fraud!"

"Sulu, who did you hear that Yihu and Mo Hedu are in a disagreement? Without Mo Hedu's support, would he dare to provoke a war between the two countries without authorization?"

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The generals present spoke again. No one could believe that some people were so brave that they could be so brave. They only rely on more than 10,000 soldiers and horses to pick up the tiger beards of the Tang Dynasty.

Only Zhang Qian suddenly felt transparent in his heart.

As a former liberal arts student, no matter how poorly he studied history, he would not have heard of the place name "Talas". Especially this place name is related to the Shi Kingdom of Zhaowu's Jiu surname.

On the eve of the Anshi Rebellion in another time and space, the Shi Kingdom was invaded and provoked the war. Then Gao Xianzhi, the governor of the four Anxi towns, sent troops to fight all over the ground. Then, the prince of the Shi Kingdom, all the carriages and barely attracted a large army of food and horses in time, causing tens of thousands of Anxi soldiers to hate the city of Talas.

This is the case in this time and space! It’s just that the prince was replaced by the brother of the king!
Chapter completed!