In the Battle of Suiyang, the Second Town of Linhuai in Bianzhou came to the aid of Suiyang and completely annihilated the 200,000 puppet Yan army led by Yin Ziqi.
In this battle, 50,000 puppet Yan soldiers surrendered, and only 10,000 people managed to break through and fled to Hedong.
This battle can be said to be a brilliant victory. There were only a hundred casualties on Datang's side, but in one fell swoop the enemy troops that had besieged Suiyang for ten months were wiped out.
Countless Puppet Yan soldiers died in the war, and even the Bian River was blocked for a while.
Zhang Xun immediately organized soldiers to salvage the bodies and cremated them.
At the same time, Zhang Xun and Xu Yuan jointly wrote a memorial to report the victory to the court!
At the end of the war, Xu Shuji, who was forced to come to Suiyang, became seriously ill. He wrote a memorial on his bed begging for bones and sent it to the capital together with Zhang Xun's memorial to report his victory.
Finally, there was the issue of Helan Jinming. Zhang Xun finally decided to claim in the memorial that Helan Jinming died in the attack on the Puppet Yan. At the same time, Zhang Xun recommended Helan Jinming's nephew Helan Jing as the governor of Linhuai.
The results of the Battle of Suiyang spread to Luoyang, and the puppet Yan court became even more frightened.
So much so that in the early morning of this morning, the number of officials in the puppet Yan Dynasty suddenly decreased by half.
Yanzhuang, who stayed in Luoyang, did not have much fear. He was already preparing to surrender to the Tang Dynasty.
Although the puppet Yan army in Henan collapsed, the Tang army in Henan was exhausted and could not attack Luoyang all at once.
What determines the fate of the world now is the battle between the puppet Yan army led by Cui Youqian and the counter-rebellion army led by Guo Ziyi in the Shaanxi Gorge.
If Guo Ziyi wins this battle, the last army of the Puppet Yan in Guanzhong will be completely destroyed.
The Tang Dynasty swept the entire Guanzhong and regained Luoyang, the eastern capital.
Then they can join forces with the Henan Tang Army after the victory in Suiyang, so that the Tang Dynasty will completely reverse its strategic passivity.
After that, the Tang Dynasty could return its capital to Chang'an, and could attack Hedong at any time and seize the initiative on the battlefield.
If Cui Youqian wins, he can reoccupy Chang'an and control the Guanzhong area again.
Now that the Bianhe River water transport is on the verge of being cut off due to the war, the puppet Yan army in Guanzhong can reunite with the puppet Yan army in Hedong to capture Henan again.
In this way, the economic lifeline of the Tang Dynasty would be completely cut off, and the war would again turn to the side of the puppet Yan.
The war between the Tang Dynasty and the Puppet Yan in Guanzhong and Henan was like a robbery in Go.
Subtle changes in the war situation on both sides will affect the outcome of the war in the two regions.
And the side that seems to have the advantage will fall into the disadvantaged side as long as it loses.
Cui Youqian must know that the mission he shoulders is important, but many of the troops in his hands were defeated in the Battle of Xiangji Temple. Cui Youqian was still reorganizing and training soldiers, staying in the city gates without going out to fight, and facing off with Guo Ziyi's army from a distance.
Guo Ziyi, on the other hand, also acted steadily and strictly ordered the soldiers not to attack casually. He sent small groups of troops to test Cui Youqian every day.
The generals on both sides are cautiously accumulating strength and testing each other's fighting style.
This strange feeling of suffocation made Henan's great victory seem less exciting.
All the officials in Fengxiang Mansion were keeping an eye on Shaanxi Gorge, and even Qiuwei was postponed because of this battle.
In Shang Bo's words, if Guo Ziyi failed, the Tang court might flee back to Lingwu, and then holding the imperial examination would be meaningless.
Only after the results of the Battle of Shaanxi Gorge came out, the imperial court was in the mood to hold the imperial examination.
Just when everyone's eyes were on Guanzhong, King Jianning Li Yan was very relaxed.
Li Yan has gone through the system and seen Zhang Wu's role in the Battle of Henan.
Li Yan was also very surprised by the player's ability. He didn't expect that Zhang Wu could play such a big role.
Li Yan became more aware of the power of players. These players were immortal time travellers. They could always do big jobs for Li Yan that he could not imagine.
After distributing the mission reward to Zhang Wu.
Li Yan looked at the entire territory of Longyou.
First, the Tuqishi people surrendered and became the dogs of the Tang Dynasty. After the vassal state of Oh Bu, Tuqi Shi also became the father of the Tang Dynasty together with the Geluolu people.
Since they are all the children of the Tang Dynasty father, it is difficult to continue the old business of catching Tuqishi people as slaves and selling them for money.
Zhou Jiashi, an outstanding poverty alleviation cadre of the Tang Dynasty, has arrived at Tuqishi's territory, and the Tuqishi Affairs Department has set up a stand.
During this period, the Geluolu people attacked several Tuqishi tribes. The Zhou family immediately sent words and fierce writings to Timur of the Geluolu Affairs Department.
Finally, Timur found King Jinshan, the leader of the Geluolu people, and expressed the solemn attitude of the Tang Dynasty. King Jinshan then ordered the release of the captured Tuqishi slaves.
The relationship between the Tuqishi and the Geluolu people needs to be reconciled, and more miners are needed in the Geluolu people's mines.
Many merchants from the Western Regions sensed the business opportunities, and a large number of slaves from the Western Regions were sold into Geluolu.
These merchants from the Western Regions are also very mobile. Now that a slave can be sold at a good price in Geluolu, they exchange spices for slaves. For these merchants, the slaves can still walk on their own, which is more cost-effective than spices.
of trading.
Among them, the businessmen of Dashi are the ones who grasp the changes in market trends the fastest.
The powerful dynasty that now spans the entire Central Asia is called the Abbasid Dynasty.
Because the soldiers of the Abbasid Dynasty wore black robes, the Tang Dynasty called them Black Clothes and Dashi.
During the heyday of the Abbasid dynasty, it controlled the entire Central Asia region, competed with the Eastern Roman Empire for supremacy, and also set foot on the African continent to conquer a series of small North African countries such as Egypt.
In the Battle of Henglus, the black-clad Dashi defeated the Tang army and extended his tentacles into the Western Region, turning the originally stable Western Region into chaos.
However, after the second monarch, Mansur the Great, succeeded to the throne, the Abbasid Dynasty changed its strategy of advancing eastward. After the Battle of Hengrus, it even retreated from the eastern defense line.
This monarch was a well-known sage in the Abbasid dynasty, and he focused his energy on the expansion of the empire to the west.
This is a very wise move, considering that the battle of Henros is itself an encounter.
The Tang Dynasty was caught off guard and encountered the black-clad army. The number of Tang troops on the battlefield was much smaller than that of the black-clad army.
Moreover, the Tang army fought outside its own territory and sphere of influence. The black-clad Dashi was lucky enough to win, but also suffered huge casualties.
After extending his influence deep into the Western Regions, Emperor Mansur learned that in the monster room of East Asia, in addition to the terrifying Tang Dynasty, there was another Tibet that could also defeat the small countries in the Western Regions.
The wise emperor decisively chose to go to the west to pick up soft persimmons first.
The soft persimmons surrounding the Abbasid Dynasty were naturally the group of small tribes and kingdoms in Central Asia.
These small countries share the same origin as the Abbasid dynasty, but they have different beliefs and accuse each other of being heretics.
These small countries fought on their own, and under the army of Emperor Mansur, these small countries were conquered one after another.
While Emperor Mansur was conquering the West, he was also strengthening trade with the Tang Dynasty.
You must know that Central Asia is full of large and small deserts, and these tribal chiefs are real chiefs, not the local tycoons of later generations.
And trade has become the best choice in this land.
Nowadays, the merchants dressed in black and eating a lot of food are the most famous merchants in the entire civilized world. During the Emperor's period, there was a special residence in Chang'an City for the food merchants.
The Dashi merchants were very keen. After they discovered Ge Luolu's need for slaves, the Dashi merchants' powerful trading machine began to operate.
For the Big Eaters, they seemed to have discovered an excellent trade model.
The enemies of the Abbasid Dynasty were all turned into slaves and sent to the mines of Qalulu.
Either the rebellious prince of Persia.
Or the Tungus and Slavs invading the northern border.
Or maybe it’s the chief of a southern country in Tianzhu who doesn’t grow spices well.
There were also the Byzantines who were at war with the Abbasids.
Egyptians and North African natives who resisted the Abbasid attack.
Even the heretical sects within the Abbasid dynasty.
These were all demoted as slaves and sent to Geluolu's Jinshan Mountain.
What is even more ironic is that Tuqishi, who was originally a victim, actually joined this trade chain.
They turned from victims to perpetrators. The Tuqishi people began to continuously attack small countries in the Western Region, capturing the people of these small countries as slaves and selling them to their old rivals, the Geluolu people.
Here in the Western Regions, the attitude of Guo Xin, the Protector of the Western Regions, is still ambiguous.
Guo Xin kept a certain distance from Li Tan, his childhood friend, and the Western Region Protectorate still operated semi-independently.
However, Li Yan was not in a hurry to annex the Western Regions, because once he annexed the Western Regions, he would have to border with Tubo and Black Clothes Dashi, which would increase the pressure on the Western Front.
Now is the period when the Great Detour Tactics is being implemented, and Li Yan has no extra strength to develop the Western Regions.
The Uighurs in the north are now Longyou's loyal lackeys. Through trade, Longyou has firmly controlled the various Uighur tribes.
The Uighurs took the initiative to propose marriage to the Tang Dynasty, and now Li Yan's "cousin" Li Guangqin has entered Hexi.
The betrothed princess will meet Li Yan in Shazhou and then go north to Uyghur to get married.
Tubo Zanpu in the south did not express any position on the loss of Tuyuhun, but it was heard that Tibet was uniting with Nanzhao to attack the Xichuan area of the Tang Dynasty.
It can be said that the grand detour strategy that concerns Li Yan the most is progressing smoothly.
Fang Guoshou had already built a city in Tongliao and prepared food supplies for the army.
Yuchixin led the army and was less than ten days away from Tongliao City.
Occupy Tongliao, then control the entire Songmo Governor's Mansion, and then control western Liaoning.
As long as it can gain a firm foothold in western Liaoning, it will drive a nail into the back of the Puppet Yan.
Some players even proposed the slogan of occupying Liaodong and colonizing Silla and Japan.
Longyou's external expansion has entered a period of slowdown. What Li Yan is most concerned about now are the two major projects inside Longyou.