Gaochang King Ju Wentai was indeed scared to death.

This Gaochang King, who took the lead in submitting to the Tang Dynasty during Zhenguan, later betrayed the Tang Dynasty for his interests and repeatedly jumped between the Tang Dynasty and the Turks. He thought he knew the Central Plains and had been to the Tang Dynasty several times.

When the Tang Dynasty sent Hou Junji to the governor of Zhenxizhou and the Tianshan military envoy to warn Gaochang, he did not repent, but instead became more and more serious.

Xizhou is actually a state built by the imperial court after Gaochang came to surrender. Because Gaochang itself still exists, this state is actually an enclave. In fact, it is a military fortress 30 miles away from Gaochang City. It is built on the land that must be passed by the Silk Road. On one side is the desert and on the other side is the Silk Road, built on an oasis.

The imperial court built cities and stationed soldiers here, exiled criminals, immigrated and settled, etc.

Xizhou City developed very quickly, and the Tang Dynasty also developed rapidly in the Western Regions. The Western Turkic Nishu Khan followed his promise and defeated Siye Hu and granted him the title of Khan. As promised, he transferred all the sovereignty of the five countries south of the Tianshan Mountains to the Tang Dynasty.

The Tang Dynasty then established five military towns in Yanqi, Shule, Khotan, Kucha, and Gaochang, built troops and immigrated, established post roads and beacons, and began to enter the Western Regions in all aspects. In particular, the actual control of the areas south of the Tianshan Mountains was continuously strengthened. The Western Turks withdrew from the south of the Tianshan Mountains, and the imperial court placed some tribes of the Eastern Turks coming.

This change is huge. In the past hundred years, the Western Turks have been the masters of the Western Regions. Gaochang and other countries have also surrendered to the Western Turks. The Western Turkic Khan granted the title of Turkic Kings. In addition, Turkic troops were also stationed, and nobles were stationed in various countries and taxed them.

Gaochang and others actively joined the Tang Dynasty, mainly because they wanted to use the power of the Tang Dynasty to get rid of the oppression and control of Gaochang and others. Ju Wentai thought it was good at first, and after driving away the tiger and wolf, he won the Turks, he gained freedom again.

But unexpectedly, after driving away the Turkic wolf, the Tang tiger really couldn't stay.

Seeing the Tang Dynasty garrison in the Western Regions, setting up governor's offices, counties, and built post stations, and Fengdun, the King Gaochang was also very frightened. They were only of such a small size, afraid of being annexed.

Although Gaochang, a small country in the Western Regions, was a military barrier established by the Western Han Dynasty in the original Cheshi Kingdom and was a descendant of the garrison and immigrants. Later, the Central Plains was in turmoil, and the people of Gaochang established the Gaochang Kingdom themselves. From the time of the Wei and Jin Dynasties to the Sixteen Kingdoms, Gaochang was still affiliated with the Central Plains.

Later, Xiliang was destroyed by Beiliang. Li Bao, a descendant of the royal family of Xiliang, was the ancestor of the Li family of the Tang Dynasty and his uncle, Xidu Liusha, occupied the Jianlongxing period of Yiwu, and established Yiwu Xiliang, also known as Hou Xiliang. Later Xiliang occupied Yiwu, and conquered Gaochang, confronted the emerging Beiliang, and surrendered to Rouran.

Later, when the Northern Wei destroyed Northern Liang, Beiliang wanted to learn from Western Liang to move westward. Of course, Xiliang refused. When Beiliang came, where would he stay? So Xiliang contacted the Northern Wei and then divided his troops to intercept it.

Beiliang also defected to Rouran at this time and secretly joined forces with Gaochang County Governor Kan Shuang to deal with Houxiliang.

After a great battle, Tang Qi, the uncle of the King of Later Xiliang, was killed in battle. Tang Qi was the actual controller of Later Xiliang at that time. As soon as he died, his younger brother Tang He led his army to continue to attack the remaining forces in Northern Liang and officially surrendered to the Northern Wei.

After the remnant force of Beiliang Juqu Anzhou was defeated by Tang He, he led his troops to attack Gaochang at night. Because he had agreed to fight Tang Qi with Gaochang during the war, but Kan Shuang turned against him and refused to send troops, resulting in the defeat of Beiliang.

Juqu'an Zhou attacked Gaochang, and Kan Shuang had to escape from Rouran. Juqu'an Zhou sent envoys to Jiantang with his letter to pay tribute to the Southern Dynasty, and used this to fight against Houliang and Northern Wei.

More than ten years later, Rouran Luo Khan decided to help Kan take back Gaochang, so he sent a large army south to attack and destroy Beiliang, killed Juqu Anzhou, and let Kan return to Gaochang. At this time, Kan Shuang was dead, so Rouran made Kan Bozhou the King of Gaochang.

Kan Shuangshi was just the prefect. By the time of Kan Bozhou, the Kan family officially established Gaochang Kingdom. From then on, Kan used Rouran as its protector and completely cut off its official relations with the Central Plains.

The Kan family was passed down for three generations under the protection of Rouran for thirty-one years.

Later, King Kan Shougui was killed by King Gaoche Kezhiluo. The Kan family was destroyed, and the people of Gaochang supported Zhang Mengming as the king. However, Zhang Mengming only became King Gaochang for eight years, and was killed by the Chinese people, supporting Ma Ru as the King of Gaochang.

Ma Ru became Queen Gaochang and sent people to pay tribute to the Northern Wei Dynasty, asking the Gaochang country to move to the mainland to get rid of the shackles and control of the soft country. The Northern Wei accepted the request and sent generals to secure the security of the Gang, and severed Yiwu's 500-mile land for Gaochang to live.

But Ma Ru's plan to move east was opposed by the Ju family and Gong family in Gaochang. They colluded to kill Ma Ru and made the right chief Ju Jia the king.

Ma Ru became King of Gaochang for only five years.

Gaochang has since become the control of the Ju family, and it has been passed down for more than a hundred years.

As the queen, Ju began to sway the strategy of swaying on the wall. The left and right gaps between the Central Plains and the softness were the source of the left and right gaps. No one offended them. While vigorously developing trade and agricultural handicrafts, the economy developed rapidly. At that time, wars in the Central Plains were frequent, and many Han people took refuge in the Western Regions and flowed into Gaochang. In addition, the arrival of Sogdian and Hu on the Silk Road greatly increased Gaochang's national strength.

Later, the Turks destroyed Rouran and marched to the west. Gaochang surrendered to the Turks again. When the Great Sui Dynasty unified the world, they traded with the Western Regions in Zhangye. Then they marched into Yiwu, destroyed the Yiwu Kingdom, and established Yiwu County, Gaochang took the initiative to pay tribute to the Great Sui Dynasty and came to pay tribute to the Central Plains to pay tribute to the Central Plains.

Yang Guang then gave Princess Huarong to the Gaochang King who came to the court, and appointed the Xirong Captain in Gaochang to manage the affairs of the Western Regions.

The two sides had close relations. Later, the Sui Dynasty conquered Gao Ju and the King of Gaochang personally led Gaochang troops to Liaodong to assist in the conquest.

During the Sui Dynasty, Gaochang used the momentum of the emerging Central Plains Great Sui Dynasty to get rid of the Turks and no longer be subjected to such strong oppression.

However, later, the Second Emperor of Sui Dynasty died, and Gaochang was once again controlled by the Turks.

Until the rise of the Tang Dynasty, Gaochang wanted to take advantage of the situation like the alliance, enter the Central Plains to pay tribute, take the initiative to submit, etc., which were all very effective, and the Tang Dynasty also treated Gaochang very well.

However, as the Tang Dynasty continually conquered the Western Turks, Siye Hu Khan, supported Nishu Khan, and established Khan with Russia. The Tang Dynasty entered the Western Regions in an all-round way, built cities and stationed troops and immigrated, established the Governor's Office to establish prefectures and counties, and even established a Xizhou in Gaochang and stationed the Tianshan Army.

The Tang Dynasty slowly controlled the Silk Road.

What's even more terrible is that the Tang Dynasty later opened a new road directly to Yanqi, which greatly reduced the flow of Gaochang's Silk Road, which was simply to dig the lifeline of Gaochang.

The Xizhou established by the Tang Dynasty was not only a decoration, but it has gradually begun to expand over the years, gradually invading Gaochang's power bit by bit.

The land of registered people was counted, the land was measured, and even tax was collected. Although not much was levied, this was no longer just a tribute, but a tax was collected, even more comprehensive and detailed than when he was a Turkic person.

The Tang Dynasty began to intervene in all aspects of military, internal and commercial affairs, and Gaochang was increasingly restricted and was constantly losing independence.

The Tang Dynasty became stronger and stronger in the Western Regions day by day, and even the people of Gaochang gradually listened to the words of the Xizhou Yamen. King Gaochang's authority was getting lower and lower. How could King Gaochang not be surprised?

They joined the Tang Dynasty, just to borrow from the control of the Turks in the Tang Dynasty, but they never thought of truly integrating into the Tang Dynasty.

When it comes to personal interests, King Gaochang, the Han family in the Western Regions, the most loyal vassal king, turned against him.

Although the Tang Dynasty was at its peak and had great strength in the Western Regions, for Gaochang King Ju Wentai, if Gaochang was no longer the kingdom of Ju, how could the Ju family continue? Even if the resistance failed, it would be a death to destroy the country. Now that this continues, the same result will be the same.

Resistance is destruction, and not resisting is destruction. It is better to fight, especially when Yugu imagines being the Western Turkic Khan, the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty did not agree, they were also disloyal to the Tang Dynasty. The two hit it off and formed an alliance to fight against the Tang Dynasty, and rebelled.

Hou Junji went out to the town of Xizhou, with only a thousand soldiers and only one city.

Although he strongly warned King Gaochang, how could King Gaochang be afraid of you scaring him at this time?

He immediately returned to Hou Junji and sent troops to block the Xizhou. He issued an order to expel guests, asking Hou Junji to lead the Tang soldiers to evacuate within a specified period of time. Hou Junji had the responsibility to defend the territory, so of course he could not leave.

So King Gaochang blocked Xizhou, cut off water and food, and banned the caravans from waiting for supplies. Hou Junji had few soldiers in Tianshan, and he was really not a match for Gaochang and Yugusai.

I can only wait for the imperial court to be appointed as the army.

When Cheng Yaojin was the chief marching commander of Jiaohedao and gathered troops in Dunhuang, Gaochang was determined to issue a national mobilization order to recruit young and middle-aged people from the country to join the army, preparing to give a try with the Tang Dynasty, and spent a lot of money to recruit mercenaries, hire Sogdian mercenaries from the nine countries of Zhaowu, and hired the Western Turkic tribes.

Both sides rolled up their sleeves and wanted to do a big fight. Anyway, there was no other way to solve this matter. Either the Tang Dynasty destroyed Gaochang and became Xizhou, or the Tang Dynasty could not seize Gaochang and was eventually forced to withdraw its troops.

That is, when Qin Lang fought against the Tubo army in Hequ, Cheng Yaojin also completed the army assembly, gathered more than 20,000 Tang troops in Hexi, Longyou and the Western Regions, as well as the Western Regions soldiers from Yanqi Shule Kutchi Yiwu, as well as the Western Regions army of the East-West Turkic Army, forming a 100,000-strong coalition, all the way to Gaochang.

Gaochang was a junior high school, but after more than a hundred years of operation by the Ju family, its strength was already very strong among the countries in the Western Regions. At this time, the country also had tens of thousands of households, had more than 20 cities of all sizes and large, and mobilized more than 20,000 troops.

They are not nomadic tribes, but city-states, and they still have excellent combat power when defending the city.

In fact, this is true. Ju Wentai was determined to fight against the Tang Dynasty, mobilized more than 20,000 troops to resist the Tang army, and joined forces with Yugu Settlement, borrowed tens of thousands of Turkic troops as support. Cheng Yaojin's 100,000 army could not gain any advantage at the beginning.

Only attack hard.

After a few days of tentative attack, Cheng Yaojin had to sigh that Gaochang was worthy of being a military barrier established when the Western Han Dynasty was operating the Western Regions, and it was indeed difficult to attack.

The city is high and the walls are strong, and the soldiers are fierce.

He could only delay the siege, recruit craftsmen, and start building siege equipment. He could not conquer the attack quickly, so he could only prepare for a tough battle.

The 100,000 coalition forces of the Tang Dynasty besieged Gaochang, and they had to be prepared for Yugu Station. They fought and stopped and fought for three months but failed to fight.

It was almost the New Year, and Cheng Yaojin's siege equipment was finally built. At this time, shocking news came from the Central Plains that Qin Lang wiped out 250,000 Tubo's troops in Hequ, killed 200,000 formations, and captured nearly 50,000...

There is also news that Qin Lang led a victorious army to the Western Regions and was about to destroy Gaochang and Yuguzhi together.

Qin Lang has made great achievements over the years, destroying Tuyuhun, pacifying the southern barbarians of Ling, defeating the Turkic troops, and now annihilation of the Tubo barbarians. If he leads the Jiannan Army to advance westward, it will be amazing.

The first thing he was afraid of was not Ju Wentai, but Yu Gushe. This man was inexplicably afraid of Qin Lang. He heard that Qin Lang had killed 200,000 Tubo troops in the formation and now led the victorious army to the west, which was frightened to panic.

As for the subordinates of Yugu, the two divisions of Chuyue secretly took the initiative to surrender to Cheng Yaojin. Of course, Lao Cheng accepted it with a smile and asked the second division to surrender. These two divisions were very cruel. After receiving the Tang Dynasty's approval, they turned around and launched a surprise attack on Yuguzhi.

Yugushi never expected that the change would change on the same day. The den was attacked and caught off guard. He could not summon his troops in panic, so he had to flee west in a hurry.

As a result, he didn't get far, and was ambushed by the Western Turkic Khan, who was enthroned by the Tang Dynasty, and Hu Luwu, a subordinate of Russia. The troops that originally followed Yugushi turned against each other and sent envoys to Cheng Yaojin to surrender. Yugushi also wanted to summon the old subordinates, but no one was willing to follow him, so he had to take his personal side to flee to Tochar.

Yugushua's rapid defeat also led to Gaochang becoming an isolated army.

All kinds of true and false disappear, and the powerful clans in Gaochang who were originally damaged by interests and wanted to resist the Tang Dynasty with Ju family were panicked.

They thought that they could fight against the Tang Dynasty by forming an alliance with Yugushi, but who knew that Yugushi was defeated so quickly. The original ally of Chu Yue and Chumi and other troops turned around and became the vanguard of the Tang army's attack on Gaochang.

And the war god is about to arrive, which makes people even more frightened.

Someone took the initiative to send someone to secretly meet Cheng Yaojin and wanted to surrender.

Ju Wentai was frightened and anxious, but the situation was over.

When he found out that he had lost the control of Gaochang Kingdom and only the palace was still under his control, he finally vomited blood and died of fear.

Ju Wentai was scared to death.

Of course, some people say that Ju Wentai was actually bribed by Gaochang, a powerful man who secretly surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, and secretly poisoned Ju Wentai, but no one admitted this.

As soon as Ju Wentai died, Prince Ju Zhisheng completely lost control of Gaochang. Finally, under the pressure of a group of ministers and noble families who had secretly surrendered to Tang.

Cheng Yaojin surrounded Gaochang for more than three months, built many siege equipment, gathered countless troops, and finally destroyed Gaochang without fighting.

When Li Shimin received the good news in Chang'an, he was very moved.

"The Grand Marshal is better than 100,000 soldiers per person!"

Li Jing was so amazed.

"This is all the power of the saints and the power of the Tang Dynasty, and it has nothing to do with the ministers."

Qin Lang said while packing the fish.
Chapter completed!