"Given the sage's grace, Suiye City is really not difficult to defeat, because since the establishment of Suiye Town in the Great Dynasty, it has been abandoned and rebuilt many times.
The reason is that the rise of the Western Turkic Khanate and the Tuqishi Khanate led to the dynasty being unable to fully control this place."
Hearing that Zhang Gao wanted him to be the vanguard of the expedition to the west, Hu Guang was so fast that he received the order in the morning and led 500 cavalry to set off first in the afternoon.
The horses and people kept resting along the way. The distance from Luoyang, the sacred capital, to Chang'an Prefecture in Jingzhao was a full seven hundred miles. Hu Guang completed the entire journey in five days.
He even had the energy to come directly to meet the Holy Spirit without going to the post house to rest.
This really makes Zhang Shengren, whose physical fitness has begun to decline, envious.
Hu Guang has reason to be so excited. Not to mention that warriors like to fight and perform meritorious service the most. Another extremely important reason is that Hu Guang is a native of Anxi!
At that time, the small Dadan tribe where the Hu family was located went to Khotan as Cao Yuanxin's dowry as a Yueqi.
Hu Guang was born in Khotan and grew up in Khotan. He followed Zhang Hao back to Khotan when he was fifteen years old. He also had a group of friends who had grown up together in Khotan.
It can be said that for others, going to the Western Expedition was hard work, but for Hu Guang, it was called returning home in glory.
Zhang Gao stood up and poured a bowl of wine for Hu Guang, and asked Xiao Sage to quickly put the roasted mutton on skewers and serve more than a dozen skewers to Hu Guang.
After Hu Guang finished fifty skewers of mutton, which probably weighed seven or eight kilograms of mutton, and drank one or two kilograms of sweet rice wine, I, Zhang Shengren, who showed off my bravery as a warrior along with his general, had the wine and meat in his throat.
As a result, I, Zhang Shengren, was very unhappy to find that his appearance ranking dropped one place again.
Then Zhang Yan asked: "Meng Zhixiang has dozens of descendants, but a loyal minister like the King of Jin has lost his blood. Are you, Meng Yiye, willing to be named Li, so that the King of Jin can feed on his blood?"
After clarifying the relationship, Zhang Hao's face relaxed, and suddenly he became angry again. He asked the barbarian bear to lift Meng Yiye in front of him, and then shouted angrily.
In the distance, Shaojian Dong looked at Zhang Yan worriedly, fearing that I, Zhang Shengren, would suffer from bad health.
Hu Guang is not shy either. Although Hu Guang now considers himself to be a Han Chinese and a Tanger, in fact his family is from Dadan, and they will later be called Tatars in history.
If this guy is here, Zhang Yan expects Hu Guang to be able to take down Broken Leaf and hold it. If he continues to the west until Zhang Yan has never been to Talas personally, there may still be some problems.
Zhang Hao let out a long sigh and personally helped Princess Fuxing up, "It turns out she is also a loyal minister.
Historically, this guy was the true founding hero of the Kara Khanate. For the Central Plains Dynasty, he was at least a figure like Guangwu of the Han Dynasty and Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty.
Suiye City and He Lie City were not fortified and could not defend themselves against the attack of the army.
But Guo Tiance basically managed not to take any money randomly, and he was a role model for officials at this time.
"Hahahaha!" Although Zhang Gao deliberately kept a straight face, he still laughed out loud in anger.
After thinking about it, Zhang Hao felt that it was not appropriate, so he just gave him 500 guan. Guo Tiance probably wouldn't accept it in terms of face.
Princess Fuxing looked at Zhang Yan with pleading eyes, "Prince Li Jin is Nu's uncle, my father Li Kerang, and Li Cungui, the governor of Daizhou, is his brother."
Meng Yiye was stupidly pinched out of the crowd by Barbarian Bear himself. He was almost paralyzed with fear. The speaker was Princess Fuxing.
The rest of the people who have reached the position of Privy Councilor can earn as much as 8,000 yuan a year from just a little bit, so they are relatively clean.
Even if these two natural dangers are not guarded by soldiers and horses, the supply of thousands of soldiers and tens of thousands of civilians will be daunting."
Zhang Zhou's salary was actually not low, it was a full 300 guan, which was much higher than the 200 guan and 180 guan in the Later Liang and Later Tang Dynasties.
Li Keyang was imprisoned in the palace for many years in history. Later, he was almost killed by the Tang court because of the rebellion of his father Li Guochang and his brother Li Keyong.
In the past, Li Gong Kerang was driven out by Wang Zhongsu and almost died, but when Huang Chao came to attack, he still defended Tongguan with all his loyalty, which is commendable for his sincerity. Since you are a loyal queen, get up!"
Moreover, he is familiar with Zhang Yan's style, so he will not be entangled in this.
Therefore, if the situation in Broken Leaf is as Hu Guang expected, Zhang Yan believes that his plan to raid Broken Leaf will be a great success.
"Ever since Gao Jie Shuai of the Great Dynasty evacuated the Four Towns of Anxi, or even before the evacuation, Suiye has been in the middle of a battle between Tuqishi and the Turkic tribes. The Suiye City built by the Great Dynasty was already riddled with holes.
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Princess Fuxing was Li Keyong's niece. She could even ride a horse and dance when she was young. Her hand strength was definitely not small. This pinch was so hard that she immediately pinched Meng Yiye next to her and screamed.
Bai Xiang has such a good face! Zhang Hao suddenly discovered that even though you knew he was an embroidered pillow, you couldn't dislike him at all.
The amount of information was a bit overwhelming, so Zhang Hao thought for a while and realized that the person in front of him should be the son of Meng Zhixiang and Princess Qionghua, the grandson of Jin Wang Li Keyong, and the only living bloodline of Li Keyong.
Meng Yiye was so frightened that he looked at Princess Fuxing in bewilderment, and then at Zhang Gao who showed no emotion or anger, and suddenly his whole body trembled with fear.
But for the Central Plains imperial court, this force was too weak, and even for Li Shengtian, the Great Jin Kingdom, which had not yet completely returned to the imperial court, it was not a threat.
But there was no city, and he didn't have much ambition. Otherwise, as Li Keyong's grandson, his biological mother, Princess Qionghua, was still alive at that time, how could he let his younger brother Meng Chang take the throne.
Zhang Hao laughed, "The frizzy newborn calf finally knew how to read and be polite.
If everything is the same as what I judged before, I am going to let the Khotan soldiers lead the large group behind, and together with Chen Tingxiao, I will personally lead a thousand soldiers to raid Suiye City."
After returning to the court more than a year later, the Tang court asked him to garrison at Tongguan. Then Huang Chao came to attack. Li Kerang lost a fierce battle and ran to Zhongnan Mountain and was killed by a monk. He was considered a loyal minister.
This time, Meng Chang, who had been preparing to show his temperament as a king, was frightened. He looked at his mother Li in despair.
Zhang Yan was under Zhuque's door and summoned the leader of Shu, who was relatively well-known in later generations.
But there is also a variable in it. Who is the person who can bring Guo Guangyi and Li Guoshou together and hide behind this incident?
Zhang Hao closed his eyes and recalled that in history, Saman Persia began to decline sharply at the end of Nasr II. It seemed that there was no possibility of any heroic leader.
That’s why I said that Broken Leaf is not difficult to break. It only requires more than a thousand elite armored soldiers to attack the city. If the Han people in the city are frightened by the sight of it, there may be no need to attack the city."
Then it would be better to just let Hu Guang guard the area around Broken Leaf and confront the Talas forces. By then, it will be clear who is causing trouble behind the scenes.
I think that the reason why the Suiye tribe dared to follow Guo Guangyi and Li Guoshou to cause rebellion was because they felt that Suiye was thousands of miles away from China and the saint would not bother to go on an expedition just for this matter.
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Zhang Hao nodded. Judging from the situation he received, Hu Guang's judgment was very reasonable.
Among them, there are only 20,000 to 30,000 people who can be considered elites. The number of real armored elites does not exceed 10,000 at most, and there are probably only one or two thousand armored soldiers.
After that, we will train together for two or three months, and then Hu Guang will make another raid over the snowy mountains, at least in July or August next year.
The air seemed to freeze for a few seconds. Everyone looked at Meng Yiye stupidly. Even the bear carrying him was dumbfounded.
On this occasion, with such a scream, it attracted as much attention as it wanted, and it immediately attracted Zhang Hao's attention.
The matter was urgent. Princess Fuxing quickly stepped forward, held down Meng Yiye's head and made him kowtow repeatedly. She also said on Meng Yiye's behalf, "Thank you, saint, for your kindness."
Just now you just talked about the beginning, now let’s talk about it, why is it not difficult to break the broken leaves?”
"Who are you?" Zhang Hao's voice became much softer.
In terms of appearance alone, Meng Chang should be in the same league as Pan Mei, a famous beautiful young man in history, and Murong Nobunaga, a handsome young man with sword-shaped eyebrows and starry eyes.
"Saint, forgive me. The person who exclaimed was Meng Yiye, the legitimate daughter of Emperor Wu of the later dynasty and the son of Princess Qionghua, sister of Zhuang Miao. I bumped into His Majesty. It's a death penalty! A death penalty!"
However, Zhang Shengren's gaze immediately alerted Meng Chang, Meng Chang's mother Li, and Li Kerang's daughter Princess Fuxing.
Zhang Hao didn't believe them, they were all guys like Guo Guangyi.
Okay, then you go to Suiye. Except for the main criminal Guo Guangyi and his gang members, the rest of the guilty Guo family members will be left to the King of Jin to be judged by Cong Kuan!"
My Lord Meng felt a chill in his buttocks. Doesn’t this saint have any special hobbies?
And even the one hundred and eighty Guan of the Later Tang Dynasty was enough for a family to live a relatively luxurious life.
Later, although the saint appointed the governor of Suiye to pacify his territory, the great virtue Guo Xuanqing did not dare to go against the saint after taking power, so he only built a pass in the old city of Baodajun to the west of Suiye to guard against Li Guoshou of Talos.
After hearing this, Hu Guang immediately sat upright, took out the map he carried with him and said to Zhang Gao.
Fortunately, Hu Guang was indeed full, so he immediately burped and said to Zhang Hao: "I haven't eaten such delicious barbecue for a long time. I ate too much at one time. It was really unethical. I ask the saint to forgive me."
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Zhang Gao looked at the white-haired old woman in front of him who was trying his best to save the Meng family, and suddenly remembered that the Jinshan Kingdom of Zhang Chengfeng was overthrown in the past, and his aunt, the Empress Dowager Ciyou, must have been like this, and she had just saved him.
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If this effect was surprising, I, Zhang Shengren, laughed so hard that I was out of breath. Then I quickly asked someone to help Meng Yiye up, "Get up, don't embarrass the King of Jin."
After everything became clear, Bai Congxin's surprise army simply followed the example of the Mongols and walked directly through Jinshan (Altai Mountain) to the Land of Seven Rivers (Ili Valley), passing through the Yibo Sea (Lake Balkhash) and going around to the back of Talas.
Let's attack from the front and back to completely kill Saktu, this annoying rat.
Of course, this is just a similarity in historical status. Saktu's personal ability is still far from the two big guys.
It’s easy to forgive. In the past, in Anxi and Hezhong, you and I, our monarchs and ministers, didn’t often eat meat and drink like this.”
When you go here, the most important thing is to recover Suiye and Talas. Li Guoshou's life and death is secondary.
The entire Suiye Guo family and the Talos Li family, plus Suiye's various tribes following them, total about 400,000 people, and if the whole people are armed, they can pull out more than 100,000 people.
The people around him all laughed when they saw the emperor, and everyone burst into laughter. The bear threw Meng Yiye to the ground in disgust.
Although he experienced the pain of subjugation and the bumpy road, Meng Chang, who was a little chubby, lost weight.
Meng Yiye, well... this is also a ‘Master!’ He was famous in Shu for his fondness for Huafu delicacies, singers and dancers, and was proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting.
Originally, Meng Chang's appearance and temperament were more similar to Jia Baoyu's, quite mellow, but after going through some ups and downs, he actually gained a bit of charming vicissitudes.
There is a reason why she dared to pinch Meng Yiye and come out to announce her family status like this.
Alas, there are not many emperors in history who are so careful! Zhang Shengren was a little arrogant.
A bit like Leslie Cheung whose childishness has faded.
It's just that at present, the Tang Dynasty, the Turks, the Dashi, and the Tubo are all lagging behind and competing with each other in Anxi. Saktu must indeed be considered very capable.
Because Princess Fuxing had contacted her younger brother Li Cungui in the past few days and knew that Zhang Yan treated the Daibeiwu people in Hedong favorably and often regarded their uncle Li Keyong as a loyal minister of the dynasty, she dared to take the risk.
After finishing speaking, Zhang Gao looked back at Dong Shaojian and said: "I will allocate 500 gu from my internal funds to Guo Tiance, and I will say that I reward him."
Speaking of Anxi, Hu Guang's face suddenly showed a scowl, "Li Guoshou was just a scavenged dog wagging its tail in front of a saint back then, but now he dares to do something like a rabid dog barking at the sun. I swear to capture and kill this thief for the saint."
Hu Guang also laughed when he heard the words, and after a while he said to Zhang Yan with some embarrassment: "When I came to Chang'an Mansion, Privy Councilor Guo Gong also specially invited me to meet at Guiyi Tower, and also gave me a generous gift of three hundred guan. Outside of the words, I always ask you to do your best to attack your heart."
They don't have much determination to resist in their hearts.
"What are you going to do?" Zhang Yan asked calmly.
After listening to Hu Guang's report on the plan to capture Suiye City, Zhang Gao made slight adjustments to the plan for the western expedition.
It's a pity that Guo Tiance not only has to use these three hundred coins to maintain the status of a privy envoy, but also supports other Guo family members living in the Southern Tang and Chang'an areas, so life is really tight.
In the third year of Shaoming Dynasty, on July 12th, when Huguang had selected a thousand elites for the Western Expedition, and Yao Yuanfu had also recruited 2,000 Han light armored cavalry from Shuofang, Meng Chang, the Lord of Shu, finally arrived in Beijing. Zhao Chang'an Mansion.
Among Zhang Gao's concubines, Xiao Sage was the only one who liked to show up in such a public manner, because this was a common thing among the Khitan people.
After all, there is no reason to reward Suiye Guo family despite his lack of merit. The Guo family has such a big problem.
He doesn’t want to be Phoenix Murong Chong!
Mrs. Li was also frightened to the point of losing her mind, but Princess Fuxing next to her was smart. She quietly reached out her hand from behind and suddenly pinched Meng Yiye's thigh next to her.
Zhang Gao waved his hand, "Li Guoshou is an arrogant villain and has no ability. I will not get angry with such a person.
Such a national power may seem weak, but after the collapse of the Turks and the decline of Persia, it is really a big force. At least it can mobilize tens of thousands of people if it is careful.
So this playboy, who had not experienced much since he was a child, was trembling in fear one second, and then forgot all the screams the next second.
I thought about it and calculated it again. When Hu Guang set off, Li Shengtian and Chen Tingxiao were in Anxi and Beiting respectively and had finished deploying their troops. They had to go by the end of this year anyway.
Well! Zhang Yan said, this is very authentic, and this is the favorite trick of famous generals in the Han and Tang Dynasties.
There is still more than a year, and Zhang Yan can just gather the 120,000 households on the grassland and capture them.
Even if the country is subjugated, we can't even protect the back door!
So the most likely possibility is that Saktu is seven or eight years younger than Li Shengtian.
When the time comes to meet Fei on the dragon bed in Weiyang Palace, how can I still live?
Moreover, the saint's prestige among the Zuiye tribe is not so easy to eliminate.
In addition, please bring brothers Guo Guangcheng and Guo Guangsheng with you. They have been begging outside the palace gate for a whole day, because they are afraid that my anger will prevent the Suiye Guo family from turning over."
In the past few decades, it has experienced at least four large-scale destructions of the city. Although Suiye City was relocated and rebuilt several times during this period, both the old and new cities were still severely damaged.
Zhang Hao looked at Hu Guang dumbfounded, "Guo Tiance has been cautious all his life. If someone else gives him three hundred guan, it's just a drop in the bucket. If Guo Tiance gives 300 guan, his family may not know the taste of meat for a few months."
"Coward! Are you the only one who wants to be called a saint?"
"Get up! King Erzu Jin is such a hero, how can his descendants be so cowardly? Aren't they not men?"
Meng Yiye was stunned for a few seconds. Just now he was pretending to be stupid because of his blessing. Now in this situation, he was a little unclear whether it was good or bad.
"I plan to collect detailed information after arriving in Shule before making a judgment.
Meng Yiye, who was in a daze, burst into tears as soon as he burst into tears. He was so blessed that he suddenly said, "I know you are wrong, please calm down!"
Meng Yiye was suddenly confused. For a moment, he thought that the person standing in front of him was not Zhang Yan, but his father, Meng Zhixiang, because Meng Zhixiang liked to scold him like this in the past.
Later, we experienced Ponte Qin entering Suiye, the Persian army shattered Ye City, Saktu besieged Suiye, and the Saint defeated the Persian army in Suiye City.
In the eyes of the Khitan people, one of the most important signs of a good man is that he can eat
A person who eats a sheep in one meal is a warrior, and one who can eat half a cow in one meal is like a god descending to earth.
"I agree with this surprise strategy, but we must pay attention to the accuracy of the intelligence.
Meng Yiye seemed to have just come to his senses. He quickly knelt down on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly, "When my father was still alive, he often taught his servants these words, and now he has admitted the wrong person. It is a capital crime! A capital crime!"
The shiny mutton oil kept flowing along the beard, and the big skewer of meat disappeared immediately without even opening the mouth. In this way, I could still find time to praise loudly.
So Zhang Hao stopped Dong Shaojian, who was about to leave, and said, "Don't give these five hundred guan to brocades, silver collars or anything like that. Just exchange them for big money, burlap, fine cloth, mutton and rice grains, and reward them in five months."
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Before Zhang Gao could say anything, Shaojian Dong in front of him was furious. He knelt on the ground with his halberd pointed and all the Meng Shu clan members shouted: "Who exclaimed? Dare to act disrespectful in front of the emperor?"
Moreover, Hu Guang's success rate should be quite high, but Zhang Yan didn't believe it. There were more than 5,000 people from the Guo family who stayed in Suiye alone. After more than ten years of gathering together, they now have a scale of at least 20,000 to 30,000 people.
After giving a slight salute to Xiao Sage, who had a big belly, Hu Guang pretended to be bold and started eating.
Only Xiao Sage, a silly girl, still squinted her eyes and praised loudly to the side, and even wanted to come over to persuade her to drink and eat.
But after all, seeing is believing, Zhang Yan did not express any special agreement, and he knew that Hu Guang must not have finished speaking, so he waved his hand to signal Hu Guang to continue.
Sure enough, Hu Guang pointed to the legend on the map that represented high mountains and said: "The most difficult thing about attacking Suiye is to cross the long Tianshan Mountains and the raging Nalen River.
Princess Fuxing couldn't help crying on the spot after being helped up by Zhang Yan, because she knew that Zhang Yan's statement had saved her descendants such as her brother-in-law and lover Meng Zhixiang.
Sure enough, after Zhang Gao pondered for a moment, he named Meng Yiye Li Congye and regarded him as Li Keyong's grandson.
He abolished the humiliating Marquis of Disobedience originally assigned to Meng Chang, changed it to the title of Marquis of Longgang, and ordered people to build more than a hundred houses in Luoyang, the sacred capital, as Meng Chang's residence.