Chapter 234 The princess is missing

Li Qing'an never experienced the importance of intelligence like today. From the broken leaves to the west, the mountains, mountains, grasslands and Gobi alternated in turn. The distant distance and unfamiliar countries were destined to be unaware of each other. In this case, intelligence became extremely important.

After Li Qingan took down the leaves, his first thing was to select dozens of people from the Turks and send them to the Hezhong area to explore the information about the cannibalism.

A month has passed, and information from the Hezhong area has been continuously reported. The Great Food Army has suppressed the rebellion of Shiguo, Xiaoshiguo, Dong'anguo and Heguo. In the end, the two major powers of Anguo and Kangguo were left unrest. The Muslims made up their minds. Thousands of Shiites were arrested and slaves were killed. The king of Shiguo was killed, the king of Heguo was killed, and the king of Xiaoshiguo was also killed. The remaining Kangguo and Anguo did not comfort them. Those who did not surrender would be bloody killings.

During this month, Li Qing'an also stabilized the situation of Saiye. He ordered that Tuqi Shiren's private property be seized, and they were allowed to graze freely in Saiye. He also gave certain food to the elderly and widowed. Soon he got clues and dug out the body of Dumozhi. Li Qing'an buried him in Helicheng City with the ceremony of a great chief and allowed Tuqi Shiren to worship. After a series of comforting measures, Tuqi Shiren's horror gradually stabilized.

Li Qingan immediately selected 10,000 young and strong men from more than 20,000 thunder cavalry prisoners to join the Tang army, and detained all the Islamic missionaries who preached in the Saiye. He organized 10,000 new troops to repair the Zoroastrian temple that they were destroyed by the cannibals. Li Qingan also personally participated in the construction of the temple.

After these powerful measures were implemented, the hearts of the Tuqi Shi people gradually turned to the Tang Dynasty, and the ten thousand Tuqi Shi Xinjun also began to work hard for him. By June, the army in Li Qing'an's hands had increased to 100,000, 50,000 Anxi Beiting Army, 30,000 Tianwei Army, 10,000 Gelu and Shatuo's mercenaries, and the latest 10,000 Tuqi Shi army.

But the pressure from Anxi and Beiting is also obvious. The Uighurs in the north are a very deep wolf, and the Tubo in the south has never forgotten the ambitions of Anxi. It turns out that the main task of Anxi and Beiting is to defend one south and one north, so the 20,000 troops in Beiting and the 24,000 troops in Anxi are basically enough. However, a strong enemy was added. These 44,000 troops seemed to be caught. This is also the fundamental reason why the court combined Anxi Beiting into one and sent 30,000 Tianwei troops to Anxi to assist in the war.

On the other hand, the Anxi military was insufficient for self-sufficiency, and the long and inconvenient way to transfer grain from the mainland also made it impossible for Anxi Beiting Army to expand. In order to resolve this contradiction, the imperial court began to move military households to Suye since the year before yesterday and moved 1,500 craftsmen to Beiting, with the purpose of the Anxi Beiting achieving self-sufficiency.

At this moment, Li Qing'an had no time to slowly rectify his army and horses. Dashi was about to complete the suppression of the rebellion in the Hezhong area. At that time, they would look back and look eastward and drive the Tang Dynasty out of the Hezhong. In order to seize the opportunity, Li Qing'an began the strategy of advancing westward in June of the tenth year of Tianbao.

He entrusted Beiting to Feng Changqing, left 15,000 troops to defend the Uighurs, entrusted Anxi to Lifei Shouyu, handed him 20,000 troops to defend Tubo, and left Duan Xiushi to defend the Saiye, Li Qing'an personally led a 50,000 army to start his first Western Expedition.

In late June, the Tang army's 50,000 troops arrived in Ningyuan Kingdom.

Ningyuan Kingdom was already controlled by Li Fei Yuanli. He led 3,000 troops to be unstoppable. With the assistance of Ningyuan Kingdom's military and civilians, he captured the capital city controlled by the fake king established by Dashi in just one day. The fake king committed suicide for fear of crime.

The 50,000 Tang army slowly stopped outside the city of Thundersai. The king of Ningyuan was killed in the first attack of the cannibals. After the pseudo-king committed suicide for fear of crime, Ningyuan was temporarily under the jurisdiction of the former king's son Wumochu. When Li Qing'an's army arrived outside the city, Wumochu and Li Fei Yuanli came out together.

Wu Mochu knelt on the ground and kowtowed respectfully to Li Qing'an, "Xiao Wang Wu Mochu, see the general of the Jiedushi!"

Wu Mochu is about thirty years old. He is not tall, but he is very strong. His broad shoulders, square face and big nose give people a kind and trustworthy feeling.

Li Qing'an turned over and dismounted, helped the house up, and sighed: "Your father is loyal to the court. He would rather die than surrender to the great food. His ambition is commendable. I will report to the emperor to give your father a posthumous title, but the current plan is to restore production and stabilize domestic order, and you will be the agent of the king."

Wu Mochu was overjoyed and hurriedly bowed to Li Qing'an and said, "I will do my best to comply with the general's orders, cooperate with the Tang army's western expedition, and ask the general to enter the city to rest."

Li Qing'an nodded and turned to Li Guangbi and said, "Stay on the spot and set off after two days of rest!"

The Tang army began to camp outside the city, and Li Qing'an entered the city with his house. Although the capital of Ningyuan Kingdom was the capital of Ningyuan Kingdom, its area was very small, which was just equivalent to a small county in the Tang Dynasty. There were more than 2,000 households living in the city, and the rest of the citizens were scattered in tribal forms, mainly for a living by grazing. The horses of Ningyuan Kingdom were the famous Dayuan Horses. When Wei Qing of the Western Han Dynasty, Huo Qubing obtained thousands of Dayuan horses from here to take them back to Chang'an of the Han Dynasty.

The buildings in the city of Thundersai are mainly made of stone, with low houses and densely packed together. There is only one road in the city that leads to the palace. The roads are made of soil and are not very strong, causing the city to be covered with dust, dyeing several sparse trees yellow.

"Your Highness, is there any news about the whereabouts of Princess Yi?"

When Qiyad conquered Thundersai City, the city was in chaos, the king was killed, and Princess Heyi escaped from the city in chaos, but disappeared. The cannibal was offering a reward to capture her, and Ningyuanguo was also looking for her everywhere, but her whereabouts were still unknown. There were rumors that she had fled back to the Tang Dynasty, but there was no record in Beiting and Anxi.

Li Qingan was very concerned about Princess Heyi's whereabouts, not only because she was the only princess in the Tang Dynasty and the relatives, but also Princess Heyi knew his true identity and knew that the phoenix-patterned jade was not carried by him since he was a child, and Li Qingan had to find her.

Yamazu sighed and said, "I have been investigating this matter, and I have already had some clues."

"Tell me what clues do you think?"

"When the princess fled from Thundersai City, twenty guards followed, but soon after they left the city, they encountered a team of Great Food Army and fought fiercely. In the end, the princess fled east alone, and eighteen of her twenty guards died, two of them were injured and captured. I have found one of them. He said that the princess was fleeing towards Thundersai Ye, and it is unknown whether it fell into the hands of the Lunjun. But one thing is certain, there is no such thing as her in the record of Great Food prisoners of War, and I am most worried that she will be captured as a private slave."

Li Qingan nodded and said, "If she escaped to Saiye, it would be better. After all, the enemy came from the west and the war had not yet ignited Saiye. I guess she might have hid. I will do my best to find her and give Ningyuan a reply."

Wu Mochu said happily: "Thank you, General!"

Li Qingan waved his hand and asked again: "How is the food situation? How many troops does Ningyuan Kingdom have?"

"Reporting to the general, the flock of sheep in Ningyuan Kingdom was scattered in various tribes, and the great cannibals were not stolen. They mainly looted the treasury, and the treasury's jewelry, gold, silver and various money and goods were swept away. As for the army, we can still organize 10,000 troops to support the Tang army."

"Very good! Now you will collect two thousand sheep and send them to the military camp. For the military matters, you will discuss with General Lifei in detail, and we will provide the equipment."

The two of them walked as they spoke and soon walked into the palace.

Bukhara, this is the base camp of Shiite leader Sharik, and it is also the most concentrated place for Shiites. The battle to suppress the Shiite uprising has reached its bloodiest stage, with the Muslim general Ben.

The battle to calm the uprising of Anguo for two months has been fought. More than 100,000 Shia believers were killed, and more than 250,000 were killed in death from illness and starvation.

Dusabol's 10,000 troops also lost nearly half, but Dusabol was unable to capture Bukhara.

In mid-June, the most severe moment to test Bukhara finally came, Governor Abu, Khorasan.

Muslims and Abbasid Crown Prince Mansour led an army of 70,000 to Bukhara.

The vast army marched rapidly on the road, and the trees on both sides of the road were hung with corpses of Shiites, men, women, elderly and children. In the hot and humid seasons, these corpses were undoubtedly the source of disease.

Abu.

The Muslim was particularly angry. First, Sai Ye lost his destruction and was captured by the Tang army. Because of the distance, Sai Ye could also use influencing the overall situation as an excuse, but Bukhara's poor offense made him unable to find a suitable reason.

Mansour found an excuse to send troops. His 50,000 Syrian troops drove into the river. Old Ali was temporarily ordered to attack Egypt, so he had already led his headquarters. Now the Hezhong area was decided jointly by Muslims and Mansour. It was obvious that Abbas's hand had reached into the Hezhong area.

Mansour is Jafar, who officially changed his name three months ago to become the crown prince. If nothing unexpected happens, Mansour will be the second caliph of the Abbasid Dynasty.

Mansour covered his nose with an embroidered sack and said to Muslims dissatisfiedly: "In such a hot day, why aren't the corpse buried or burned? An epidemic will destroy the Dashi army. Muslim General, your subordinates not only do not know the minimum common sense, I don't even understand the minimum knowledge."

The Muslim said to his subordinates with a gloomy face: "Tell me my order and find someone to burn the body immediately. No delay is allowed, and execute it immediately!"

He turned back to Mansour and said, "I will give His Highness a satisfactory explanation!"

At noon, the huge food reinforcements finally arrived in Bukhara City. Dusabau was extremely frightened and rushed to meet.

He knelt before the Muslims and Mansour, and said respectfully: "Meet the Governor, and Meet His Highness the Crown Prince, may Allah bless you."

The Muslim asked coldly: "How many troops do you have now?"

"There are about five or six thousand people."

"I don't want to approximate, how many are there?"

Dusabol was extremely scared and whispered: "There are still 4,800 people."

The Muslim was furious and stared at Dusabou and said viciously: "I gave you ten thousand elite Khorasan troops, but you lost 5,200 people. Are you guilty?"

Du Sabo was so scared that he kowtowed repeatedly, "When Huyi conquered Shiguo, he only lost 200 people, but Anguo was completely different. Not only did they have the king's army join the war, but women and children from all tribes had knives, and they could kill people at any time. Huyi was unable to defend against it. Please forgive me by the Governor!"

"Give you?" The Muslim snorted heavily, "I'll spare you, but the Caliph will not spare me, someone will come!"

With a shout, he immediately rushed up a dozen burly men. The Muslim whip pointed at Dusaboling and said, "Push him down and behead him, and the heads are displayed!"

"Give me your life!" Dusabou shouted in fear, "For my conquering Shiguo, the Governor spares me once and lets me make me guilty!"

"cut!"

The Muslims were unwilling tolerate it, and a scream came, and a soldier served Dusabau's bloody head on his plate.

At this time, Mansour sighed and said, "Governor General, you should give him a chance."

The Muslim sneered and said, "He doesn't understand common sense, and it almost caused the epidemic. Damn it!"

Mansour smiled faintly and said, "Forget it if you kill, I will go and find the Eye of Light for Khalifa. I heard that the flame gem Persia has been given to Kang Guo, the Governor General, I am going to lead the headquarters to Samarkand, and Bukhara will be handed over to the Governor General alone."

"No! Let's go together, it doesn't take much time to capture Bukhara."

He immediately said to his confidant general Abad: "I will give you 40,000 troops and limit you to capture Bukhara City within one day, and tell all the soldiers that I will reward him all the first person to attack Bukhara, the woman and wealth of King Bukhara."

The drums sounded like thunder, and the attack of the Dashi Army began. The 40,000 most elite Khurasan army attacked Bukhara City like a black tide. The huge rocks rolled in the air and roared towards the city head. Huge fireballs swept across the sky like meteors, and dozens of extremely large towers rushed towards the city heading like giant monsters.

At the city gate, two thousand people braved arrows and hit the city gate with a huge siege wood. Bukhara was shaking.

More than 100,000 soldiers and civilians in Bukhara went to the city together and tried their best to resist the attack of the Dashi Army. However, their strength was too different from that of the Kharasan army, and they could not resist the large-scale attack of the Kharasan army.

Two hours later, with a muffled thunder-like collision, the Bukhara city gate was finally knocked open, and thousands of big food troops rushed into Bukhara city, Abu.

The Muslims immediately issued an order to massacre the city, and tens of thousands of troops entered the city, opening the prelude to the massacre.

However, Sharik, the leader of the Shiite uprising, escaped from Bukhara from the secret passage. It was not until fifteen years later that Sharik died of illness in the holy city of Mecca.

Half a month later, the uprising in Samarkand was also extinguished, and the Abbasid Dynasty completed its cruel suppression of the Shiites, Abu.
Chapter completed!