Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 172 Persian Tang Xuanzong

Talas City, as an elite cavalry team wrapped in black war robes and holding a pure black banner rumbled into the city, Saman Persian Tashkent Governor Ali Dulav finally came to this city that had been completely destroyed by the atmosphere of war. The shrouded famous city in the river.

Countless supplies have been transported from the city of Tashkent in the southwest. Since the humiliating defeat to the Kara Khanate four years ago, the Samanid dynasty has been hoarding supplies in Tashkent.

At the beginning, it was to prevent Saktu from sending troops from Talas to attack the hinterland of the Saman dynasty, that is, the Amu Darya and Syr Darya valleys in Central Asia in later generations.

This place is the former home of the nine surnames of Zhaowu. Bukhara, Samarkand and other traditional rich cities of the Saman Kingdom are all located here. It would be bad if the Kara Khanate rushed in and plundered it.

But guarding and guarding, the Karakhans on defense have never shown signs of going south.

Later they learned that although Saktu, the Great Khan of Bugla of the Kara Khanate, had regained all the territory east of Talas, the old nobles of Kara Khan in Balasakun refused to elect Saktu because of their beliefs. For Arslen Khan.

Being stuck in the middle by Balasagun, a city that did not surrender, Saktu was unable to mobilize the army to invade south.

Although later, Saktu conveniently mobilized an army from Shule and captured most of the Fergana Basin, the monarchs and officials of the Saman dynasty were greatly relieved.

Because the core and rich area of ​​the Saman dynasty is not in the Fergana Basin, which they call Maryenang.

Their core is the three cities of Bukhara, Samarkand and Tashkent.

Moreover, the Kara Khanate's army failed to capture Juzhanti City at the mouth of the valley, so they could not easily enter and leave the basin to harass the river.

At the same time, both fighting and raising a war also made the Saman dynasty see clearly the weakness of the Kara Khanate's ability to attack fortifications.

Therefore, in the next few years, the more they defended, the more they gained experience. Instead, they used Taniguchi to block Kara Khan's army in the basin.

Ali Dulav looked at the mountains of supplies in Talas City, and couldn't help nodding in satisfaction.

But who would have thought that a few years ago, he was one of the people who opposed the hoarding of supplies in Tashkent.

Because he felt that by doing this, he was almost showing the way to the Karahans, and he was clearly telling the bandits.

'Come on!We have so many good things here, you can eat them for years if you grab one! '

This is simply child's play. With so many supplies, if they are really captured by the Karakhans, it will be pretty. With these supplies, they can use Tashkent as a base to continuously harass the hinterland of the kingdom.

But fortunately, what Dulav was worried about did not happen in the end, but it still helped him a lot today.

Without the materials hoarded over the years, he would not be able to gain a firm foothold in Talas. This famous city on the river has experienced two large-scale wars within five years, and has become very poor, unable to support the supplies of the army.

"Your Excellency, there is news from Bukhara that the rebellion provoked by the Khawaliji faction has been suppressed!"

A postman rushed over and said to Dulav who had just entered the city.

Postal officer, this strange official position, is roughly equivalent to a collection of Chinese supervisory censors and Jinyiwei stationed outside Beijing.

It was originally the center of the Saman dynasty, which was used to monitor the governors of various places and Hakem (similar to the governor), the eyes and ears of such senior local officials.

However, in recent years, under the continuous fooling and indulgence of Emir Nasr II in his later years, the postal officer's original duties were gradually deprived, and his status quickly declined.

It has changed from the eyes and ears of the court that local officials are most afraid of, to the governor and Hakem's subordinate officials. This is the case in Duraf, the governor of Tashkent Province.

"Why so fast? Could it be?" Ali Duraf was startled. It was rumored that Emir Nasr II intended to convert from the Conformist sect to the Shi'ite sect. Did it really happen?

The postal officer nodded. Although he has become a subordinate of Governor Ali Duraf, the postal officer’s way is still there. He even knew about the changes in the court of Bukhara one step earlier than the Governor of Tashkent Province. .

Throughout the Persian Saman period, the distribution of sects in its territory was divided into east and west.

From the capital city of Bukhara as the dividing line, to the east is the site of the Methodists, and to the west is the site of the Shiites.

The Hawaliji Sect is a primitive sect of the Tianfang Sect outside the two major sects. The basic believers are entrenched in the west of Saman Kingdom. Although there are not many believers, they are well-organized and come out to make troubles from time to time.

Nasr II has always wanted to completely eliminate them, but failed several times, because Nasr II himself believes in the Conventionalist, and the west is the territory of the Shi'ite.

For the people here, they are willing to pay taxes to the kingdom, or even undertake corvee, but if they are asked to fight against the Hawaliji faction, then they will definitely not do it.

Therefore, the Bukhara court has not been able to successfully suppress the several riots caused by the Hawaliji sect because of the non-cooperation of the Shiite sects in the west.

But this time, the trouble was put down in less than a month, so there is only one possibility, that Nasr II really converted.

This is not a trivial matter. Everyone knows that Tianfang is ruthless to outsiders, but in fact they are even more ruthless to their own people.

For hundreds of years, the war against heretics has been bloodier than the war against heretics.

Ali Dulav took a deep breath, knowing in his heart that the kingdom was in serious trouble, because compared with the rioting Hawaliji faction, the anger of the conventional faction was more dangerous.

Because the Hawaliji sect is a primitive sect, it pays attention to penance.

When praying, the head should be smashed, and it is an honor to fester and develop sores after the head is smashed.

When reading the "Ancient Southern Classic", there is also a need to talk about acting skills, crying bitterly for a while, and sighing for a while, and they prohibit all entertainment activities, even mourning the dead.

Who can stand this thing for a long time?
A broken head, festering sores and sores will become inflamed if you don't pay attention. In this day and age, if you get inflamed, you might belch.

The prohibition of all entertainment activities, especially the prohibition of mourning the dead, can almost be related to anti-humanity.

So although this sect had many followers at the beginning, everyone couldn't stand it later, and now it has declined.

If it drags on for a few years, maybe he will perish. It is not worth mobilizing so many troops to crusade, and it is still using such a drastic method as converting to the Shiye sect.

In fact, Ali Duraf could vaguely guess what Nasr II was thinking. In addition to being able to quickly get rid of the Khawaliji sect, the conversion to the Shiite sect could also absorb the hearts of the Shiite sects in the western part of the kingdom and stabilize the west. The role of borders.

Because Ali Buwehi, the leader of the mountain Draim people in the west of the kingdom, has been using this incident to provoke the Shiites in the west of the kingdom to leave the kingdom, so King Nasr II wants to use himself to convert , to stabilize the west.

But he forgot one thing, that is, the east represented by the middle of the river is the foundation of the kingdom.

At the same time, the Congregationists in the Hezhong area are very radical and tough.

Especially the Turkic people who have just converted to less than 100 years, they are in the fanatical stage of rising faith, Nasr II's conversion is likely to be regarded by them as a kind of betrayal.

Dulav felt that Nasr II had ruled the Samanid dynasty for too long and too smoothly. In his hands, the Samanid kingdom had only slightly shrunk in terms of territory in recent years.

These successes are glory, but they quickly made Nasr II already inflated.

He may feel that his personal conversion does not represent the royal family, and will not anger the conventionalists in the east, or that the conventionalists dare not resist and can only accept it.

But Ali Dulav knew that this would not be the case. These people would definitely rise up and make trouble. Once they make trouble, it may not be so easy to suppress.

But that's okay, this also strengthened Ali Dulav's determination. He came to Talas from the political vortex of Braha just to avoid the coming political turmoil.

And he has already found out clearly that Buglahan Saktu of the Kara Khanate has been defeated by his subjects, those pagans with stubborn beliefs, and retreated.

At the same time, these heretics were just defeated by local believers in Julan City, dozens of miles away, and suffered heavy losses.

This is a once in a lifetime opportunity!As long as he leads the army to the east, he should be able to take advantage of the emptiness and take down Bala Sagon.

With a large amount of territory in Balasagun and Talas, he can seal off hundreds of dehkans (lords) and thousands of mulks (small and medium landlords who can send troops).

With these Dehkan and Murk, he can in turn firmly control the land between Balasagon and Talas.

Maybe Ali Durav's forehead jumped a few times, maybe when the turmoil in Bukhara got out of hand, he could still find an opportunity to go south and make a career out of it.

. . . .

"Confused!" He Liecheng, Guo Xuanli slapped the table hard, interrupting Guo Xuansu, a brother of the same clan beside him.

"Since we have promised to follow Mr. Zhangjun to protect Yibaobala Sagon, let's change it quickly and don't hide it.

What are you doing now?If you win, there is no point in keeping this little thing, and if you lose, the little people and things you keep are not enough to protect yourself. "

After finishing speaking, Guo Xuanli sighed heavily again. He had calculated thousands of times, but he never thought that Duke Zhang would be so good at motivating people's hearts.

That day, hundreds of Guo family disciples ate and drank wildly with him, and sang poems and articles all night long. Not to mention those young people, even Guo Xuanli was quite excited.

Most of these children were trained by Guo Xuanli, and they can almost know a hundred or eighty characters, and [-]% of them have a relatively high level of education.

They were talents reserved for the Nestorian Church, but they were encouraged by Zhang Zhaoyi, and everyone felt a sense of pride in being Tang'er, and a sense of pride in being the descendants of the Queen of Jagged County.

Repairing my spear, chasing the group of Hu in the north, and shaking Anxi.

Gather righteousness and return to the east, get through Ganliang, and return to the motherland.

This is Mr. Zhang Erlang's promise to everyone. They must first repel the attack of the Saman Kingdom in Persia, deter the crowd, and let Anxi become the land of China again. .

Compared with such a grand goal, being a monk who can only wear sackcloth and rough clothes, fleeing to the Jiedan Mountain for refuge, etc., is simply unbearable to look at.

What's more, Zhang Erlang's game is not just nonsense, because he has a record of [-] to [-], and that is the elite Gulam Guards of Buglahan Saktu, which is far from what the Persian army can compare.

Now Mr. Zhang Erlang has three hundred iron armored soldiers, eight hundred armored soldiers, and six hundred elite cavalry. If the Guo family can help each other, with the addition of Master Titexigu of Bala Sagon and a group of Ye Hu, they may not be without the power to fight. In other words, the chances of winning are not small.

So Guo Xuanli could only bite the bullet and gamble, there was no way not to gamble, Zhang Zhao had already taken away the souls of the young people of the Guo family.

If you die, you are worthy of your ancestors, and if you don’t die, you can enjoy the wealth and honor in the world. For the young people of the Guo family who are so poor that they can’t eat two meals a day, there is no more attractive future than this.

Perhaps, Guo Xuanli felt that the biggest reason why he was willing to cooperate with Mr. Zhang Erlang was because the slogans and future proposed by Mr. Zhang Erlang were his dreams!
"Father, do you really want to send the map of the Zhongzhen Treasury to Duke Zhang?"

Guo Guangsheng was a little confused. He was in his forties after all. When his younger brother Guo Guangcheng left all the pregnant brides behind and wanted to compete with Mr. Zhang Erlang to live up to his ancestors, he had already woken up from the frenzy. .

The burial site of the Zhongzhen Treasury is said to be a map divided into five, so that the four surnames except the Lu family and Shule Kaiyuan Temple can jointly control it.

But after all, the Guo family was the leader of the Anxi Army for hundreds of years, so in addition to the detailed map divided into five parts, they actually had a sketch in their hands.

This was copied by their ancestors. Although it is a little blurry, Zhang Zhao already has the map of Kaiyuan Temple and the Li family in his hand. If he adds the map of the Guo family and the complete sketch, he can already reveal the treasure. , that's why Guo Guangsheng was a little bit reluctant.

"Give it! Why not? Give it earlier, this is a great achievement of my Guo family, and if you don't give it to Duke Zhang, do you dare to get out the loyalty storehouse?
We were afraid to dig out treasures 40 years ago, and we are even more afraid now!

Hundreds of sets of iron armor and tens of thousands of catties of iron, if we get these into the clan, the clan will be wiped out immediately! " Guo Xuanli said loudly.

"Go to Bala Sagon again and tell your third uncle to support Duke Zhang with all his strength.

Then go and tell Mr. Zhang that ten days later, the old man will take [-] Qingqi from various tribes to Balasagun to join him! "

. . . .

In the city of Balasagun, Zhang Zhao had just held a meeting with all the big and small Yehu, as well as the sect leaders, to unify their thoughts, because the news that the Persian Saman Kingdom was coming to fight Balasagun had been confirmed.

After the meeting, the rest of the people had already gone back. Zhang Zhao only left the Buddhist Titsigu master, the Nestorian dignified master Xuanqing, who is Guo Xuanli's younger brother Guo Xuanqing.

There is also Hu Duowuxi, a descendant of Li Sizhong who has taken refuge in Zhang Zhao. He has now changed his name to Li Guoshou.

Finally, there is a man named Pugu Naluo, who is the biggest leaf guard in Bala Sagon. He can dispatch two to three hundred cavalry with some simple leather armor, and more than a thousand infantry who have been trained, with some strength.

Once everyone was in place, Zhang Zhao was unambiguous, and directly sat on the main seat. There were so many people in the meeting that there were many people in the meeting, so he definitely couldn't reveal the specific battle plan, but now he can talk about it.

"According to intelligence, Ali Dulav, governor of Tuozhi City (Tashkent) in the Persian Saman Kingdom, has mobilized [-] troops from various places. There are at least [-] to [-] armored soldiers. It is not yet known how many elite armored soldiers there are.

It is estimated that there will be no less than this number of warrior warriors as servants, that is to say, the number of incoming enemies will be no less than 5000 people. "

Master Titsigu first reported to Zhang Zhao the information he had obtained, which was also what the Buddhists west of Balasagun tried their best to find out.

"Is the news reliable?" Zhang Zhao asked.

With 5000 people, it is estimated that the penetration rate of leather armor is one-third, which is not too outrageous, and it is not easy to deal with. It is within the range that Zhang Zhao can bear.

"It should be very high. This is from the Zoroastrians in Bukhara. Many of them were conscripted to deliver food and supplies because they knew more about it."

Zoroastrianism is not completely extinct in Saman Persia at this moment, and there are even many believers.

They are almost all concentrated in the cities, and they are the best targets for the Saman kingdom, so they have not been driven out.

Even for the sake of sustainable fleece, Nasr II appointed some Zoroastrian officials to let them manage their own people.

"That's good! Now I'm issuing an order!" Zhang Zhao nodded.

"Bong Enying Camp Officer, Ma Jirong, Marquis Yu of Quanyou Capital!"

"The last general is here!" Ma Jirong is the youngest brother of Khotan Taiwei Ma Furong. defended.

"You transfer 100 people from the first general of Youduyou in the Feng'en Camp to someone, and then you will lead the rest to assist Master Titsigu and Pugu Ye in guarding the city.

This task is very important. Whether we can defeat the enemy depends on whether you can defend Balasagon. "

"Here!" Ma Jirong stepped in and sang with a solemn face.

"Captain Cao!" Cao Yanming was the second Zhang Zhao shouted.

"He's here!" Cao Shishi responded with a panda eye socket on his face. He studied gunpowder until midnight last night, and then fooled around with his orchid until the early morning, so he was extremely tired.

"I'll give you the Qingqi of General Ashina's head. The distribution of money is of great importance, so we must protect it!" Zhang Zhao looked at Cao Yanming seriously.

Cao Yanming nodded, he knew what Zhang Zhao meant, this time the task of defending the city was heavy, and the miners from Fenjin Capital probably followed Shi Chongmin to defend the city.

But at the same time, the secret of gunpowder in Fenjindu is of great importance. Even if Bala Sagon is gone, Cao Yanming and the dozen or so apprentices he trained cannot be broken.

So Zhang Zhao asked Ashinasili's Qingqi from the Baximi tribe to enter the city, not to help defend the city, but to see if the situation was wrong, and if they couldn't defend the city, let them escort Cao Yanming to escape.

"Master Titesigu! From Ashbulai City to Balasagun, it depends on you! Remember, no one can keep a grain of food."

Ashbulai City is Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan in later generations, and about [-] kilometers from here to Balasagun is the death passage left by Zhang Zhao to the Persians.

"Young monk understands!" Tite Xigu nodded emphatically.

"Pu Gu Ye Hu, you two are dignified and dignified, and you also shoulder the heavy responsibility of defending the city. When the prudent and prudent arrives, you two can follow his arrangements!"

Zhang Zhao decided to appoint Guo Xuanli as the city guard commander of Balasagun, because he would definitely go out of the city to attack the war.

As for the specific battle plan of the Fengtian Battalion, Zhang Zhao will definitely not say it here, it is all strictly confidential.

　Today there are just over [-] words for one change, and I’m going to marry my cousin, so I’m a little lazy, and I need to change more than [-] words, hehe!
　　
　
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