Chapter 436: Broken Leaf Fengyun (I)

On the third day when the Tang army plundered Geluo's old, weak, women and children, a down-and-out army appeared on the ruins of Haitushi City. Their armor was broken, their weapons were incomplete, and they were as anxious as dogs. This was the great chief Atre and his three thousand remaining soldiers who were defeated in the Battle of Heluling. They hid in the wasteland for a few days and circled a lot before they dared to return to the old nest of Haitushi City, but they were facing a ruin and the disappearance of more than 100,000 tribes.

Atrey stared blankly at the ruins of Haitushi City. Of course he knew what was going on, but he did not have much sorrow or hatred. His heart had become numb in the past two days, and he even breathed a sigh of relief. At least he didn't have to explain to more than 100,000 women and children where their husbands were?

I don’t know how long he stood, but his guard chief Rut came up and whispered: “Chief, let’s go to the Eli River first! Maybe everyone can find some tribe members to come back.”

Atre nodded in confusion and walked with the commander of the guard. He didn't know what to do now. The national master went to the Uighurs to seek assistance. There was no news from the Demon Dragon City. The national master was not around, Atre felt as if he had lost his backbone, and he didn't dare to go anywhere or decide anything.

The Yili River was only five or six miles away from Haitushi City, and it arrived in a moment. The soldiers were exhausted. Before the chief's orders, they jumped off their horses and lay down by the river to rest. More than a dozen personal guards set up the last tent and asked their chief to rest. However, as soon as Atre entered the tent, the sound of thunderous horse hooves was heard. Atre's face turned pale. He instinctively ran out of the tent, turned over the horse, and his movements were done in one go, extremely fast. The Gloru people lying on the river were also frightened and jumped up and messed up. They had become frightened birds. If there was any movement, the first thing they thought of was to escape.

After a moment, the cavalry team approached and everyone breathed a sigh of relief. It was the cavalry they went to Yaolong City to inquire about the news. More than a dozen noble generals from the remaining army came to the big tent to inquire about the news.

The cavalry brought back two news, one bad news, the other good news, and the other bad news was that the Geluo army in Yaolong City had been besieged by 20,000 Tang troops for nearly ten days, and could not move at all, but the Tang army did not attack them, and the intention was unclear.

But the good news made the people of Geluo very excited. About four hundred miles downstream of the Yili River, there were several tribes of the Mola tribe who had not been captured by the Tang army, and about 30,000 people were now on their way to here.

Hearing this good news, the Geluo remnants on the banks of the Yili River immediately cheered. This was their most exciting news these days. There were also tribe members, which meant that there were cattle, sheep and tents, which meant that the Geluo people had not been completely destroyed, and that was their tribe members. Atre immediately sent a thousand people to help the tribe members arrive.

Although the first news was bad news, in Atre's view, it was also a great news, just like the second news. Duotu was trapped by the Tang army and could not come to grab his clan members and the position of chief. Once Duotu escaped, even if the Tang army did not kill him Atre, Duotu would definitely kill him to vent his personal anger. The army that killed Pierre's brothers was the confidant guard he sent out with his own hands.

Atre was walking back and forth in the tent with his hands behind his back. Now he had more than 30,000 tribesmen and an army of 3,000 people. But he was at a loss when he went where he should go and how to decide the fate of the Geluo people.

Just then, a guard came to report, "The national magistrate is back!"

Atre was overjoyed and shouted repeatedly: "Come in quickly and the national teacher."

After shouting, he ran out without waiting for the soldiers to go out. Now Surman is guiding him and shining the sun that shines on his future. As soon as he reaches the door of the tent, Surman strodes. He smiles on his face and greets the soldiers all the way.

"National Master, I want to tell you good news." Atre said impatiently.

"I already know." Surman waved his hand and said with a smile: "It should be said that it is two good news, right!"

Atre was stunned and immediately understood, "The national master is right. I think so too. If Duotu gets out of trouble, he will kill me the first time."

"What are you going to do?" Surman glanced at him and said without saying a word: "Once the Tocharanian Dashi Army attacked Saiye, the Tang army besieged Amutu Town will retreat south immediately. Duotu will come back in a long time, and you must make a decision early."

Atre nodded, and he sighed slightly and said, "I don't know what to do, I'm just waiting for the national tutor to come back to make an idea for me."

"Do you really want to listen to me?" Surman said, staring at him tightly.

"Of course, I only have one relative of the National Master. What can I do if I don't listen to the National Master?"

"Okay, I'll point you out a clear road." Seeing that there was no one around, Surman suddenly lowered his voice and said, "Listen to me, go and join the Uighurs. I've contacted you. As long as you go, the Loyal Khan will appoint you as Gelu Yehu and become the tenth tribe of the Uighurs. You and your tribe will be placed in the Xuanchi River Basin. That is the ancestral land of Geluru people. Do you understand? After working hard for twenty years, maybe you Gelu will become stronger again."

"Chief, no!" Before Surman finished speaking, he suddenly rushed into the outside of the tent. It was the chief guard Rut. He knelt down and shouted: "Chief, must not surrender to the Uighurs. If you surrender to it, we Geluo will be really finished. We and the Uighurs are already in competition. How could the Uighurs give Geluo a chance to make a comeback? The chief should surrender to the Tang people and become a pawn for them to deal with the Huihe people. As long as we sincerely admit our mistakes and re-loyalty to the Tang people, with the heart of the Tang people, they will definitely give me a chance. Besides, we still have more than 100,000 parents, wives and children in the hands of the Tang people. How can we abandon them and leave?"

After saying that, Rut kowtowed desperately on the ground and begged Atre to adopt his plan, but at this moment, Surman suddenly turned over and cut off Rut's head alive in an instant. Rut fell to the ground, and blood in his neck sprayed all over the ground. Surman said viciously: "It's indeed a remnant of the Tang people. How dare we persuade us to surrender to the Tang Dynasty and kill us!"

Atremer was speechless. He knew that Rut was loyal to him, but he was killed by the national teacher like this. At this moment, he felt a sense of disgust towards Surman for the first time. He was so cruel.

"What? Do you really want to surrender to the Tang Dynasty?" Surman glanced at him sideways and said coldly.

Atre suddenly felt an indescribable fatigue and palpitations. He shook his head, and sighed with his hands behind his back, "Okay! I'll just listen to the national teacher and surrender to the Uighurs."

In the middle of July of the fifth year of Dazhi, Atre, the chief of Geluo, led more than 30,000 tribes across the Yili River, entered the territory of the Uighurs to the northeast, and formally surrendered to the Uighurs. He was named Geluo Yehu by the Uighur Zhongzhen Khan, and was possessed by Han Erduoduo Bali. However, the Zhongzhen Khan sent a Sogdian as Yehu's special envoy to manage the Geluo people on behalf of Atre.

From then on, Geluo became the tenth tribe of the Uighurs. As an independent country, it has disappeared in the long river of history.

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Suiye City, at this time, the city was shrouded in the tense atmosphere of a war coming. Starting three days ago, residents of various affiliated cities of Suiye moved into Suiye City, and there were more than 6,000 refugees who fled from the Yaolong City. At this time, the city had nearly 300,000 residents, but the order was very well-organized. With the efforts of officials at all levels of Suiye, everything was arranged in an orderly manner, and all kinds of supplies, including food, were very sufficient.

Although there were only 20,000 regular Tang troops in the city, there were as many as 70,000 armed militias that could participate in the defense. There were Han people who immigrated, local Turks, and more than 20,000 miners and prisoners of war who had already obtained freedom in advance. They were also incorporated into the temporary militias to defend the city, and united as one. With the tall and solid city walls of Shuye City, even if 200,000 Great Food Army came to attack the city, they might not be able to capture the most solid fortress in the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty.

In the Western Regions Protectorate, Wang Siyu and more than a dozen senior civil and military officials were gathering together to discuss the next tactical arrangement. The major strategic framework has been decided. The main force of the Tang army went north and lured the Great Food Army of Tocharo to rescue the Gelulu people, creating conditions for Shule's Tang army to attack Shiniu, Shihanna, Yuezhi and other places in the Tocharo area, so that Tocharo will become the sphere of influence of the Tang Dynasty again and relieve the threat from the southern part of Shuye.

Although this was a bold plan to lure troops, Wang Siyu did not dare to take it lightly. After all, Shuye was a stake that the Tang Dynasty broke into the west of the Pamir Mountains. The Dashi people hated him for a long time. Not only did he have to guard against the Tochar Dashi Army taking the opportunity to attack Shuye, but he also had to guard against the Dashi Army in Zhaowu area advancing eastward and participating in the attack of Shuye.

"Everyone, let me tell you a message. Our old friend Agush was appointed Governor of Samarkand two months ago, responsible for the military and political affairs east of the Amu River. Whether the Great Cannibal will come to rescue the Gloru people or take the opportunity to attack the Broken Ye is decided by this lord."

As soon as Wang Siyu finished speaking, a whisper rang out in the room. Many people still remember the nobleman who was melancholy, arrogant and liked to write poetry. As a scholar, he might be able to achieve some career, so that he could take charge of the military and political power east of the Amu River. Is there really no one in Dashi?

"Mr. Wang, I think the appointment of Agush as the governor of Samarkand has another deep meaning, and it is definitely not just to let him deal with the Tang Dynasty." The person who spoke was Meng Jiao, the young minister of the Honglu Temple. He had just arrived at Saiye half a month ago. In March, he accepted a mission assigned by Zhang Huan and secretly sent envoys to Bahanna and Shiguo, looking for possible ways for the two countries to return to the Tang Dynasty. Cui Yao was his business and went to the two countries with him. Unexpectedly, he happened to encounter a war between Saiye attacking the Geluo people. The road was unsafe, so the group stayed at Saiye and went to Bahanna after the war subsided.

Before leaving, Mengjiao had already done a lot of preparations, including studying the distribution of the great cannibals' power east of the Amu River.

He stood up and nodded to everyone, and continued: "From what I have mastered, Caliph Rashid is a monarch who strongly advocates centralization. Dashi also faces many crises in the rule of localities. One is the national resistance of the occupied areas, the other is the control of the localities by various families, the possession of large amounts of land and slaves, which has hindered Baghdad's effective control of various places. The same is true for the east of the Amu River. The nine kingdoms of Zhaowu resisted year by year, and the possession of countless rich lands by the Saman family. If we

The Tang army did not occupy the Saiye. Perhaps Rashid would finally consider solving the problem east of the Amu River, but now it is different. If he does not solve these two major problems as soon as possible, it will inevitably be used by our Tang Dynasty, which will eventually cause him to lose the land east of the Amu River. Therefore, he appointed Agush, who was both moderate and noble, to serve as the governor of Samarkand, to ease the hostility of the countries east of the Amu River to the Great Food and the excessive power of the Saman family. As for dealing with the Tang Dynasty, Rashid should be in charge of the command."

As soon as Meng Jiao finished speaking, Wang Siyu took the lead in applause. "Excellent!" There was also a burst of applause in the room. Wang Siyu said with a little ashamed: "Envoy Meng can study the great cannibals so thoroughly when he is far away in Chang'an. This makes us who live next to the great cannibals very ashamed. We are still glad that Baghdad sent a subordinate to the defeated future. After Meng Jun said this, it turns out that we underestimated the enemy."

Meng Jiao waved his hand and smiled, "Mr. Wang is too modest. He is not in his position and does not pursue his position. I shoulder the important task of contacting the nine countries of Zhaowu. How can I not understand these situations? Wang Da. Wang is the head of the military in the entire Western Regions. He is considering siege and fighting, and implementing the strategic deployment of the court and the emperor. There is no need to understand everything."

Wang Siyu shook her head and did not agree with the steps Meng Jiao gave him. He quickly walked to the sand table and pulled open the silk cloth covering it. When everyone saw that the commander pulled the sand table, they surrounded him.

Wang Siyu picked up the long pole and pointed at the two areas of Bahanna and Shi Kingdom and said in a deep voice: "According to the information we have obtained, the Great Cannibal mobilized two elite legions of Khorasan, a total of 40,000 troops to be deployed east of the Amu River. Among them, there was 10,000 troops in Bahanna and 8,000 troops in Shi Kingdom. I have been wondering if the Great Cannibal's attempt was to cooperate with the Tochari army to attack Saiye, then the Bahanna garrison seemed to have fewer troops, and there was no need to enter Shi Kingdom. For this reason, I was puzzled by Meng Envoy, and now I realized that Rashid's real intention in these two countries was not to attack Saiye, but to clamp down the Saman family."

Speaking of this, Wang Siyu glanced at everyone, "Do you understand what I mean?"

Everyone looked at each other, feeling enlightened but couldn't explain clearly. At this time, the attendant censor Wu Yuanheng smiled and said, "Does Wang mean that we don't need to gather heavy troops in the Sailing Ye, and we should take advantage of the opportunity to expand northward when Ge Luolu was destroyed."

Wang Siyu laughed loudly and praised with a thumbs up: "Smart! It's true that he has a sharp eye."

He pondered for a moment and said to everyone: "Everyone is an important official of the Saiye. I have the obligation to explain to you the task of the Saiye Governor's Office that the Emperor has assigned us. Tochar is not the matter of the Saiye Governor's Office. The emperor handed it over to the Saiye Governor's Office and had deployed an army of 80,000 in Shule. Of course, this is also my business. However, specifically, the task of Saiye Governor's Office itself is two, one is to expand the north, connecting the Saiye Governor's Office and the Luntai Governor's Office (today's Urumqi) into one piece.

, plus the Golden Dragon Dao contacted Shule, so the three major governors' offices of Shule, Shule and Luntai formed a bow. This was the first strategy decided by the emperor when fighting the Anxi Battle, so he seized Shule at all costs. This was one. After establishing this bow, Shule was the arrow point, and the target was the Nine Kingdoms of Zhaowu to the west. This was the second strategy set by the emperor and the second task of Shule. However, the starting point was not Shule, but in Ashi Bulai City."

Speaking of this, Wang Siyu's sharp eyes shot towards Li Tianchen, "General Li, how are the plan to seize Ashi Bulai City?"

Li Tianchen immediately bowed and replied, "Report to the general, his subordinates have sent their most capable generals to lead their troops west, and they promised to take Ashi within five days and not come to the city."

Wang Siyu looked at the sand table carefully and said to Li Tianchen: "The Great Food Army is gathered in the south of Bahan. Ashi does not come to the city to be empty. It is a great opportunity. You must seize this matter."

"The last one will obey the order!"

Wang Siyu nodded and immediately ordered: "Transfer my order and order General Wang Ming to attack the Ge Luolu people in the Demon Dragon City and not to let anyone go."

He turned around and said to Li Tianchenling: "General Liang Tingyu is escorting the Geluo people back to Saiye. He cannot be separated. I will order you to lead the troops to go north immediately. I will give you another 3,000 engineers to occupy the Yili River Basin. Before winter comes, be sure to build Gongyue City and Yili City to defend the Uighurs from going south."

Samarkand, a famous Central Asian city flourished for a while because of the Silk Road. It was once the capital of the Kassamma and Timur Empires. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, it was the capital of Kang Kingdom, the largest of the nine kingdoms of Zhaowu, also called Samojian. Because it is located in a bond between the three kingdoms of Dashi, India and the Tang Dynasty, it also became the center of the vast area east of the Amu River in the Dashi Empire.

The Governor of Samarkand is actually the Governor of the Great Food in the entire Central Asia region. The current Governor of Samarkand is Prince Agush. As Meng Jiao said, the arrival of Agush quickly alleviated the strong dissatisfaction of the Kang people with the Great Food caused by the destruction of shamanic monasteries. Agush issued three orders in a row: no longer forcefully destroy other religious monasteries other than Islam; unify tithing taxes and cancel the additional tax imposed on not believing in Islam; no longer force people east of the Amu River to believe in Islam; these three orders hit the nail on the head and saw immediate results. A Kang people uprising that is about to start quietly subsided, allowing Agush to concentrate on dealing with the crisis of the Gloru people in front of him.

It should be said that the attack on Saiye was one of the established strategies of Dashi. Dashi would intervene in the situation of Saiye. However, Agush did not have much power in military control. He could mobilize the Turkic slave army in Samarkand and the slave army in Tochar in an emergency, but he did not have the right to mobilize the two elite Khorasan legions, and the Khorasan legions only obeyed the caliph's dispatch.

In the past few days, the news that the Geluo people were in danger had reached Samarkand. Agush did not expect the situation to change so quickly. It would take at least half a month to transfer the Turkic slave army from Samarkand to Samarkand. It was too late. He ordered the day before yesterday to urgently transfer 50,000 Tocharian troops to Camark to help the war. At the same time, he ordered nearly 100,000 troops from Kangguo, Shiguo, the United States, Heguo, Shiguo and other countries to prepare for rushing to Bakhanna. According to the Caliph's deployment, Dashi will launch the Battle of Samarkand in September and remove the nail in the eyes of Samarkand in one fell swoop.

At this moment, Agush was writing a letter to Rashid in his Governor's Mansion, telling him about his various arrangements, asking him to agree to the plan of the Battle of Shattered Leaves, and demanding that the Khorasan Legion be handed over to his command.
Chapter completed!