He didn't have the heart to think about this.

He slowly asked Tengxun the most critical question for him: "Do you have to agree to your conditions if you want to save Xiao Su?"

"yes."

Teng Xun nodded slightly.

"I have been waiting for you for a long time. As long as you agree, many problems can be solved."

Su Dawei was pondering.

He is deducing Teng Xun's intention.

The other party said that "the secret of heaven cannot be revealed" and did not spit out any useful information.

It is really hard to decide if he agrees under such circumstances.

But to save Xiao Su, this seems to be the only hope.

Do you agree?

...

In the first year of Xianheng, the Tang Dynasty.

This year, a lot of things happened.

First of all, the food is flourishing.

In April, Talas was captured.

In June, the soldiers pointed directly at the Broken Leaf Water.

The vassals of the Tang Dynasty fought against them and were greatly defeated.

The letter of help was handed to Pei Xingjian, the great protector of Anxi.

At the same time, the imperial edict from the core of the empire, the saint Li Zhi was also issued by the eunuch Wang Chengen to Pei Xingjian.

He ordered him to contain Persian Governor Blus and resist the Great Food Army.

After half a month of careful consideration, in order to maintain the Tang Dynasty's unity in the Western Regions.

Pei Xingjian personally led 10,000 elite troops and commanded the four towns of Kucha, Khotan, Yanqi and Shule, with a total of 30,000 troops. He arranged a formation along the Saiyeshui and confronted the Dashi Black Armored Army across the river.

After a brief test, the two sides started a fierce battle.

There are mutual losses.

The battle situation was once stalemate.

In August, the temperature in the Western Regions dropped sharply.

The country of Dashi had no choice but to withdraw its troops temporarily.

The Tang army was in a state of retreating to the four towns for rest.

The scale of this fight is not too large.

The total number of troops on both sides was less than 70,000.

However, the seeds of the battle between Tang and Dashi have been planted.

At this time, the great eclipse country that dominated Central Asia entered the Umayyad dynasty after the four major caliphates, namely the era of Muaweiye I.

During this period, the Great Food Empire reached a peak in its external conquest.

It starts from the Indus River and the Palacio Mountains in the east, reaches the Atlantic coast in the west, reaches the Caucasus Mountains, the Caspian Sea, and southern France, and ends at the Arabian Sea and the Sahara Desert in the south, with a land area of ​​13.4 million square kilometers.

It is one of the longest spans of the East and the West in ancient history.

It is also a great empire that spans Asia, Europe and Africa after the Persian Achaemenid dynasty, Alexander Empire, Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire.

Shortly after Muaweiye succeeded as the Caliph, he dispatched troops and attacked from both sides of the east and west.

General Hajaj Ben Yousuf led the Arab army to advance towards Central Asia during the Abdul Malik era. The eastern front army occupied Persia in 664 AD, that is, the first year of Linde, the Tang Dynasty.

Then he marched northward to the inland Central Asia.

He conquered Bukhara, Samarkand and Khwarezm, and other vast areas until the Pamir Plateau was blocked by Tubo.

Then, the Tubo people who blocked the Dashi Army suddenly disappeared overnight.

What appears before the great cannibals is a rich land with open minds.

And, the most powerful empire in East Asia.

Tang Dynasty!

The second thing that was crucial to the Tang Dynasty was that a rebellion occurred in Goguryeo.

The Tang army had to temporarily devote their energy to the East.

The third thing is that the name of the Tang Dynasty was restored to its original name and the reign of Emperor Xianheng was changed.

This time the change of the era is different from the old ones.

It was the saint Li Zhi who was very ill.

The imperial edict was issued to the Crown Prince Li Hong to take charge of the country and the Queen Wu Zetian assisted the government.

But the prince was young and had not yet grown up.

All the big and small things in the court were determined by Empress Wu for a while.

The fourth thing is a earth-shaking event.

Before and after the Dashi soldiers reached Talas and Suyes, several countries in the Western Regions rebelled against the Tang Dynasty.

Among them are the Western Turks and the Uighurs who once surrendered.

Since the prime minister of the court, Li Jingxuan, had a serious illness last year, his temperament has changed drastically.

He often takes self-conceited knowledge of the army and has many amazing words.

At that time, Li Jingxuan was dissatisfied with the new Minister of War Xiao Li, saying that Xiao Li did not know the military, and devoted the energy of the court to Liaodong, ignored the Western Regions, and abandoned the foundation and tried to cut off the foundation of the Tang Dynasty.

After several games, Li Jingxuan got the approval of Empress Wu and personally led 100,000 Tang troops to the Western Regions to quell the rebellion.

It set out in May of the first year of Xianheng and arrived in the Western Regions in October.

Half a month later, he was defeated by the Western Turks and the Uighur coalition.

The Tang army suffered losses and lost generals.

Li Jingxuan was spared only by himself.

That is one of the elite soldiers of the Tang army.

It can be said that it is the only elite remaining in the Zhechong Prefecture of the Tang Dynasty except the Anxi Protectorate.

Many of the veterans participated in the battle to conquer Goguryeo, Western Turks, and pacify Tubo. They followed Su Dingfang and Su Dawei's elite warriors.

There was no battle.

For a moment, the world shook.

The court was shocked.

The Empress Wu, who was allegedly assisted in the administration, was furious about this.

An order was issued to kill Li Jingxuan's head and level the three tribes.

Later, he dissuaded the prince Li Hong.

Recalling Li Jingxuan's old achievements, he demoted him to the governor of Hengzhou, and later changed his position to the governor of Yangzhou.

Before he could take office, he died of illness.

But even if Li Jingxuan died.

The Tang army's undefeated golden body has been broken.

Since the reign of Emperor Taizong, the Tang army, which fought south and north, and east and west, never seemed so weak for a moment.

The corners of the Tang Dynasty's territory and countless vassal states began to shake.

It seems that the situation where the Tang Dynasty dominated the world has quietly changed.

There is a saying among the people: There is no defeated army, and there is no immortal country. The Tang Dynasty has established itself for decades. As the saying goes, the powerful crossbow cannot be worn through Lu silk, probably, it has come to an end.

Everything will turn back when extremes!

Anyone who is powerful will also be defeated by this.

The people were in panic, and for a while, the storm was in turmoil.

...

In the second year of Xianheng, in February of spring.

The Tang Dynasty was in turmoil and it took a year to go on a New Year's Day.

This is the coldest Yuan Festival for the people of the Tang Dynasty over the years.
To be continued...