Chapter 223 Return to Beiting

In early December of the ninth year of Tianbao, in the white snow, Li Qingan returned to Beiting, which had been away for nearly a year. When he rode his horse through Xingxing Gorge, the endless Gobi Desert appeared in front of him.

His three hundred guards immediately cheered, and everyone jumped off their horses and ran in the snow-covered field.

"We're back!"

Li Qingan also laughed loudly. He grabbed a handful of snow from the branches, pinched it into a snowball, and smashed it to a snow crow on the pine tree from afar. A group of snow crows flew into the sky.

At this time, Cui Ganyou smiled and said, "This time, the envoy set the Anxi Jiedu Mansion in Beiting, which may have many people's expectations!"

"What's unexpected about this? My first task is to recover the broken leaves. Last year I built five castles, which is the biggest basis for recovering the broken leaves. If I don't focus on Beiting, how can I use these five castles?"

Speaking of this, Li Qing'an raised his head and breathed a long breath, and said proudly: "In fact, Beiting is just a transition. In the future, the Anxi Jiedushi's Mansion will be placed in the Sailed Ye, and that is the world where I can display my fists."

Cui Ganyou was infected by Li Qing'an's heroic spirit and said with great emotion: "I also hope to make achievements in the Western Regions and be famous in history. This is the career of a man."

"Yes!" Li Qingan patted his shoulder and smiled: "Gan You, in the future I will let you stand alone, and I will definitely change your history."

“Change my history?”

Cui Ganyou didn't understand the meaning of this sentence for a long time, so he quickly asked loudly: "Eunuch, why is it called changing my history?"

Li Qingan had already walked away, and heard his laughter from afar, "In other words, even Ge Shuhan will be your defeated general in the future!"

Cui Ganyou murmured twice, and suddenly his eyes lit up. He seemed to understand Li Qing'an's meaning, so he hurriedly chased after him, "Eunuch, I understand what you mean."

The group walked for two more days and finally arrived in Yizhou. That morning, there was still thirty miles from Rouyuan County. There was a river called Liugushui. The river water was frozen. It was far away. There were nearly a hundred tents on the other side of the river, surrounded by camp bars, forming a small camp. At this time, several cavalrymen rushed over and rushed to Li Qing'an and bowed: "General Li, my general is in the camp tent ahead and needs to go through the handover procedures with General Li."

"Okay! I'll go now."

Li Qingan urged his horse to run towards the camp ahead.

In the camp, Gao Xianzhi was wearing armor and was sitting in front of the case writing his report. He was about to leave Anxi, who had been fighting for decades. He couldn't help feeling a little sad, but he was lucky. He defeated Turchar and lost Shaw Leaf. In the end, the court did not punish him, but transferred him to Jiannan to clean up the mess.

While Gao Xianzhi was disappointed in Li Anxi, he was full of expectations for the challenges ahead. He wanted to use Jiannan's victory to cleanse his shame in Tocharo.

"You all go away! I don't want you to be around my camp."

At this time, his daughter Gao Wu's angry shout came from afar. Gao Xianzhi frowned. In order to take her away, he tried his best to talk to her, but it was useless. In the end, he had to lock her in a sealed carriage with the most primitive method.

Seeing that Li Qingan was coming, she was causing trouble now. How could this work? Gao Xianzhi put down her pen, walked out of the big tent, and came to her daughter's tent next door. Gao Wu held a horizontal knife in her hand and was shouting angrily to the dozen personal soldiers who stopped her from leaving the tent.

"If you don't go away, I'm going to do it."

The personal soldiers held large shields in their hands and surrounded her a semicircle. No matter how she shouted, they would not let her go.

"What are you doing!" Gao Xianzhi shouted sternly.

When the personal soldiers saw the commander coming, they all dodged away. Gao Wu stomped his feet and turned back to the camp.

Gao Xianzhi sighed, opened the curtain and walked into his daughter's tent. Gao Wu was lying on the table and sobbing.

"What! My mist girl is still crying?" Gao Xianzhi walked to her daughter and smiled.

Gao Wu wiped away the tears, raised her head and choked, "Dad, I don't want to leave Anxi."

"Why?"

"I can't bear to leave the grassland here, the snow-capped desert here. I like to run freely on the grassland, but Jiannan is full of mountains, I don't like it."

"I didn't say I wanted you to go to Jiannan. You can stay in Chang'an and be with your mother."

Gao Xianzhi smiled and patted her daughter's head, "Don't be willful, go back with her dad."

"I don't! I don't want to go back. Even if you force me back to Chang'an, I will come back." Gao Wu said stubbornly.

"you!"

Gao Xianzhi felt angry, he restrained his anger and said, "I think you want to come to him!"

Gao Wu bit his lips tightly and said nothing. Gao Xianzhi suddenly saw himself when he was young from his daughter's stubborn eyes. At that time, his father refused to allow him to join the army in Anxi, interrupted many sticks, and even locked him in the room. However, he turned out from the broken tiles on the roof, fled home, and came to Anxi. Decades passed, and his daughter repeated the scene when he was young.

Gao Xianzhi's heart softened and said to her softly: "Monkey King, it's not that Daddy doesn't like Li Qing'an. In fact, Daddy admires him very much. He is young and promising, and has outstanding military achievements. He was brought by Daddy and is Daddy's greatest pride."

Gao Wu lowered his head and whispered: "Why don't Dad allow me?"

Gao Xianzhi sighed and said, "That's because Li Qing'an has been married. His wife is the eldest daughter of the Dugu family. How can I let my daughter be someone else's second wife and live a life with the winks of other women."

"But Dad, I don't care."

Gao Wu stood up and begged his father, "Really, I don't care about my status at all."

"You don't care, I care!"

Gao Xianzhi said angrily: "I, Gao Xianzhi, are also a dignified prince. You are my only daughter. He is a humiliation to me by marrying you as his second wife. I will never allow it!"

"Dad!"

Gao Wu knelt down and said with tears in his eyes: "I have been waiting for him for so many years. Dad, please promise me this time!"

"no!"

Gao Xianzhi was determined and had no room for negotiation. "You only have one choice, either follow your father or follow him. If you follow him, I, Gao Xianzhi, will never have you, an unfilial daughter."

He turned around and left angrily. Gao Wu looked at his father's back in despair and burst into tears.

Gao Xianzhi had just returned to the big tent. A soldier came to report that Li Qing'an had arrived and was waiting outside the camp. Gao Xianzhi looked back at his daughter's tent and ordered: "Pack up your things and handle the handover in the document account."

Li Qing'an waited in front of the camp for a while, Gao Xianzhi smiled and greeted him, "Qilang, congratulations on your reinstatement and going to the next level."

Li Qingan bowed and smiled and said, "I also wish the general to wipe out Nanzhao and shock southern Xinjiang!"

"Haha! Please follow me."

Gao Xianzhi walked quickly into the camp with Li Qing'an's hand intimately. Instead of going to Gao Xianzhi's big tent, he came to the document account that was dozens of steps away. This was the place where Gao Xianzhi's staff handled the documents. The tents, seals, arrows and related documents were simply placed on the table.

The two sat down on the thick military blanket, and the personal soldiers brought hot tea. Gao Xianzhi sighed and said, "This defeat in Tochar is caused by my underestimation of the enemy. I have always thought that the Great Food Civil War was impossible to send troops. I didn't expect that they would still send troops, alas!"

Li Qing'an took a sip of hot tea and asked, "I wonder how powerful the Grand Marshal thinks the Great Food Army is?"

"How do you say this?"

Gao Xianzhi pondered for a moment and said, "If we talk about equipment, they are not as good as the Tang army. Many of them are armored and appear clumsy, and their bows and arrows are far less sharp than the Tang army. But they also have advantages. Their commander has a high strategy and is very good at attacking the enemy's shortcomings. This time I was disrupted by their sneak attack on Shule and Saiye."

Gao Xianzhi picked up the teacup and took a sip and said, "The second is their tenacity. They fight bravely, and they are not defeated like nomadic peoples. They are unwilling to admit defeat easily. If you don't kill a soldier, he will never admit defeat. This is quite similar to the Tubo army. Qilang. When fighting with them, you must not underestimate the enemy."

Li Qingan nodded, he pondered for a moment and asked, "I wonder if the general has obtained some of their weapons and equipment? I really want to study it."

"Yes! They are all in Feng Changqing. What I worry most now is the Tang army's prisoners of war. There were about a thousand people who were captured by the Dashi Army. I left without changing them back. This is my biggest regret."

Speaking of this, Gao Xianzhi handed over the seal, arrows and a thick Anxi map to Li Qing'an, and said with a smile: "A handover ceremony should have been held, but you were my general, so you should take care of my face!"

"The Grandmaster is worried too much. I am also afraid of people with rituals. It is best to be simpler."

Li Qing'an took over the seal and arrow representing Anxi's power, but Fu Jie was not handed over to him. When he left, Li Longji had already given him the tribute. Gao Xianzhi's tribute was to pay back Li Longji and regain new tribute. Since then, Anxi's power has been officially handed over to Li Qing'an.

Gao Xianzhi had a little sadness in his eyes. His Anxi, his dream passed like water. The Yangtze River pushed the previous waves. He was old. The Tang Dynasty's dream of the Western Regions was to be realized by the younger generation. Gao Xianzhi slowly stood up and finally gave a tribute to his former governor Dayin.

In the vast snowy world, Gao Xianzhi and his group gradually moved away, heading to the distant east, slowly turning into a group of small black dots. Li Qing'an immediately looked at them in a hill, and he suddenly turned around and looked at the vast Anxi land. A stream of passion boiled in his heart. From now on, this rich and beautiful land belongs to him.

He rode his horse and ran towards the vast world.

Jerusalem, the last lonely city of the Umayyad dynasty, has been in the fortunate for a whole year. The final fierce battle between the Abbasid and the Umayyad dynasty reached its climax in the flames and smoke. This is also the last battle between Shiites and Sunni Muslims for the holy city.

The huge rocks swelled in the air, roaring and hitting the dense crowd. The huge fireballs flew into the city with bright flames. The wreckage of attacking rams, ladders, trenchers and other remains were covered with thick smoke. In the middle were countless burning corpses and cut people's heads. In a lake wave in the west of the city, the poisonous flames unique to the Arabs burned on the water, as if the hell on earth reappeared on the earth.

Abu, the emperor of the Abbasid Dynasty.

Abbas looked at the city that had finally resisted stubbornly. He waved his hand gently and issued the final attack order.

With a low horn sound, a huge monster slowly drove out of Abbas' camp, black all over, twenty feet long and eight feet high. This was an extremely huge attack ram. In the Damascus offensive and defensive battle, it collapsed the heavy city wall and the cornerstone of the Umayyad dynasty. Today, it once again put on the battlefield and will end the final war.

The huge hammer required five hundred camels to pull and was driven by a thousand people to hit the city wall. Its huge hammer body was a olive tree of two thousand years, and the iron chains that were hundreds of feet long were thicker than the arms were built in Kufa. All the frames were made of a thousand craftsmen in a year, and it cost 300,000 Dhs silver coins.

This siege ram was called the "King of Devils" by the Abbas army. Its appearance represents the end of the war. The siege ram is moving forward slowly. Every step it takes is earth-shaking. Gradually, the resistance on the city has stopped. Countless Umaya soldiers knelt down and looked at this monster taller than the city wall in horror.

Umayyad coach Abu.

Rahman knew that the situation was hopeless, so he pried off the gem from the Umayyad Caliph's crown with his sword and stuffed it to his son Abdu.

Rahman said loudly: "Go away quickly and escape from Jerusalem along the secret passage, flee to Spain, and re-establish our Umayyad dynasty."

The young Rahman shook his head firmly, pulled out his sword and said, "I will live and die with Jerusalem!"

Abu.

Rahman was furious, and he punched his son to the ground, roaring: "You are the last royal family of the Umayyad Dynasty. If you die, the Umayyad Dynasty will be destroyed. Go away!"

"Boom!" With a muffled sound, the sky and the earth shaking like a crack in Jerusalem, Abu.

Rahman's eyes were red in anger, "Aren't you leaving?"

A kind of grief of choosing between life and death burst out in Rahman's eyes. He turned around and ran towards the city, Abu.

Rahman looked at his son away, picked up the crown that had lost its glory, slowly put it on his head, waved his sword, and shouted loudly: "Swear to live and die together with Jerusalem!"

"Boom!" Another earth-shaking sound, the city wall collapsed, and a hundred thousand Abbasids flocked into Jerusalem.

Abbas walked through the main gate to Jerusalem. In front of the main gate, the head coach of the Abbas army presented the crown of Umayyad Caliph to Abbas. The crown was made of pure gold and was inlaid with hundreds of dazzling gems, but the largest red holy stone in the middle of the crown was gone, and the crown seemed to have lost its life.

Abbas looked at the crown for a while and said to his brother Jafar coldly: "The Persian Zoroastrianism's holy stone Eye of Light can make up for the life of the crown, I need it."

"Great Caliph, I'm going to find the Eye of Light for you."
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