Drive the RV back to Datang

Chapter 645 Chapter 663: Expansion
Finally killed Ashina Helu, Fan Lihua breathed a sigh of relief, grabbed Ashina Helu's hair, held his head in his hand, turned around and held it up high, just facing the sun in the east .

Seeing this, Tang Jun shouted excitedly: "Wan Sheng, Great Tang! Wan Sheng, Great Tang! Wan Sheng, Great Tang..."

Facing the rising sun, looking at Ashina Helu's head in her hand, Fan Lihua whispered to herself: "Father, brother, brother, Lihua has avenged you..." When she said the last sentence, she couldn't help it anymore, Tears welled up in my eyes.

Feeling sad for a moment, Fan Lihua took the head of Ashina Helu and continued to chase Yang Fan's remnant army. At noon, he finally caught up with them. After a big battle, he killed nearly 3000 Western Turks and captured a large number of Western Turks. The Turkic nobles and ministers, Yang Fan left this group of nobles and ministers, and fled with the remaining [-] cavalry. Without the drag of this group of people, Yang Fan's escape speed increased significantly.

When the sun went down, Fan Lihua already knew that it was impossible to catch up with Yang Fan, and the poor should not chase her. Now she only had two thousand cavalry, and it would be too risky to go any further, so she led the army back to the royal court overnight.

In the royal court, Qin Qiong and the others are already cleaning up the mess. As the capital of the Western Turks, the Royal Court still has a large population, with more than 20 people. The people of the Western Turks cannot accept the reality of the collapse of the country. , secretly launched a riot and disturbed the wind and rain, which made the marching chiefs of all walks very headache.

When Fan Lihua returned to the city, Qin Qiong and various managers went to see Fan Lihua and reported the current situation in the city. Most of them were good news. It is worth 200 million guan, but there is only bad news, the people often riot, and the army has killed nearly [-] mobs.

After hearing this, Fan Lihua thought for a while and came up with an idea. She sent someone to bring all the captured Western Turkic officials and nobles. There were more than 300 people, ranging from street directors to first-class Western Turkic officials Commander, Fan Lihua just gave them a word, if you don’t want to die, you can appease the people in the city and let them accept this reality. Although the Tang Dynasty annexed the Western Turks, they will not enslave the people of the Western Turks. From then on, the people of the Western Turks All joined Tang Ji.

In order to make it easier for them to do things, Fan Lihua specially arranged some people for them. Not to mention, these officials and nobles are indeed useful. After all, they have a certain influence in the local area. In just one day, the entire royal court fell silent. In fact, the common people stopped raving about in anger. In fact, the main reason was that Fan Lihua's military discipline was strict, and no soldiers harassed the common people. Otherwise, it would be unstoppable.

Three days later, Yang Dingguo, Luo Kun, and Geroni came to the royal court from Xinyuan with a large army and prisoners of war. Fan Lihua sent Yang Dingguo to guard the royal court, and planned to take the two tribes of Mukun and Nishu to continue westward. Before departure, she wrote a battle report and sent it to Chang'an, reporting the great victory of Zhengxi.

Early the next morning, Fan Lihua set off with an army of [-]. She also brought with her the stone tablet with Li Hao's inscription. She said that she would expand the Tang Dynasty by seven thousand miles. Since she made such a bold statement, she must do it Well, she's always been like this.

All the way to the west, it went smoothly, no matter which tribe met Fan Lihua's army, needless to say, they surrendered directly, offered cattle, horses, gold, silver and a letter of surrender, and took refuge in Datang from then on.

After traveling thousands of miles westward, passing Shuhai, Zakmark, and crossing the Amu Darya River, Fan Lihua never made a single move.

The royal courts of the Western Turks were all captured, and the Khan was also dead. The news spread like wildfire, and the various states around the Western Turks naturally wanted to make trouble, beat the dog in the water, and launched an attack on the Western Turkic army guarding the west. At the same time, nearly ten All the countries launched a war against the Western Turks. How could anyone care about Fanlihua's army? Even if they encountered Fanlihua's army, they would not dare to fight. Among the tens of thousands of nomadic people, eleven of the clan leaders came here specially to present the letter of surrender to Fan Lihua. It can be seen that the Tang Dynasty is rich and majestic, and it really is the heart of the world. Asylum, after all... they don't have any feelings for Western Turks either.

After crossing the Amu Darya River, I came to Anxi. It used to be Ningyuan Kingdom, but it was occupied by Western Turkic forces. The name of Ningyuan Kingdom may not be very famous, but in history, there is still a very famous name, and it even appears frequently. In martial arts novels, yes, it is Dawan, a country famous for horses.

Dawan's famous horses are famous all over the world. Fan Lihua led an army to rest in peace. The Lord of Dawan came to see her in person and presented her with [-] hard-earned horses, some rare treasures, and of course, his letter of surrender.

Fan Lihua talked with the Lord of Dawan in detail for a long time, asked about the surrounding situation, and learned that the Persian and Arab empires sent troops to defeat the 15 troops guarding the border of the Western Turks. With the resistance of other countries, the [-] troops on the west side of the Western Turks had already been torn apart. , Yang Fan came here to collect the remnants and defeated generals, assembled an army of [-], plundered a large amount of food, and wanted to surrender to Persia.

However, Persia rejected him, because although Persia's national strength is fair, it is still far behind Datang. Persia dare not provoke Datang, so it dare not accept Yang Fan. The empire threw an olive branch to him.

Yang Fan defeated the army of the Arab Empire many times before. Everyone can say that he is the deadly enemy. The Arab Empire was willing to take him in regardless of the previous suspicions.

Hearing that Yang Fan had defected to the Arab Empire, Fan Lihua couldn't help frowning. Yang Fan was good at using soldiers, and he acted unscrupulously. From the fact that he left Ashina Helu and his officials behind when he fled, it can be seen that this man is more sinister than a poisonous snake Well, the attitude of the Arab Empire towards the Tang people has never been very friendly. If Yang Fan is accepted, it may be extremely unfavorable to Datang in the future.

However, even if Fan Lihua knew about this, she was helpless. Although she was the general manager of the army, she could not act recklessly. If she took the initiative to start a war against other countries, she needed the approval of the emperor. She could not fight whoever she wanted. It is absolutely impossible to attack the Arab Empire with such a large force.

After seeing off the Dawan lord, Fan Lihua took out the military map and looked at it. She stared at the map for a long time, then raised her head and sighed: "No wonder Li Hao told me before the expedition, that this western expedition can only be reached in Dawan, and cannot continue. Going forward, the northwest is Persia, and the northeast is the Arab Empire. I have no land to expand. I didn't expect that the Western Turks would be swallowed up by the Arab Empire for nearly a thousand miles of land in just a few years. Fortunately, from Anxi Dufu to here, It’s almost seven thousand miles away, so I’ve fulfilled my promise.”

After sighing, Fan Lihua immediately began to write the battle report. The content of the battle report was very simple. Li Shimin was asked to set up Anxihuo in Dawan to find the second prefecture, move westward to the Anxi Dufu Mansion to Anxi Prefecture, and send more troops to the Anxi Duhu Mansion. Guarding the frontier fortress, the Western Turkic general Yang Fan defected to the Arab Empire. It can be seen that the Arab Empire was quite ambitious and might be detrimental to the Tang Dynasty.

After finishing the battle report, Fan Lihua sent a fast horse to send it out, and then told Fan Shui: "Fan Shui, early tomorrow morning, bring [-] elite soldiers, bring a stone tablet, and follow me to the frontier to erect a monument."

Fan Shui was shocked when he heard the words, and he was so excited that this moment is finally coming. At this exciting moment, as a general, his greatest glory is to expand the territory for the country. How can such a major event not be exciting, and it will definitely be passed down in history, just like Li Guang's "drinking horses and wine springs, sealing wolves to live in Xu".

Early the next morning, Fan Lihua set off with [-] troops in light clothes. In the afternoon, they came to the vast wilderness hundreds of miles away to the west. The envoy of Dawan who was leading the way suddenly said to Fan Lihua: "Director Fan, we have arrived."

Fan Lihua stopped the army, and turned to ask him, "Is this the border between Datang, Persia, and Arabia?"

"Yes, Chief Fan." Dawan envoy nodded and said, "This is the border of the Tang Empire, the Persian Empire, and the Arab Empire."

Fan Lihua raised her eyes and looked around. There was a vast expanse here, and she could see the mountains in the distance, but she couldn't see any clear signs, and she didn't know how to define the national boundaries. According to the map, it was almost here. She dismounted and moved forward. After a while, he stomped his feet vigorously, leaving a footprint on the ground, and then said loudly: "Here, erect a monument!"

"Yes!" Hundreds of people shouted excitedly from behind, a dozen people came to dig the soil with shovels, and the rest began to move the stone tablet. At this moment, the upper half of the stone tablet was wrapped in black cloth, blocking all the inscriptions, only If you look at it, it looks like a big rock.

Dawan's envoy didn't quite understand, walked up to Fan Lihua and saluted and asked, "Director Fan, what are you doing?"

"Set up a stele." Fan Lihua said slowly, "Have you heard of King Qiongnan of the Tang Dynasty?"

"I've heard it, I've heard it!" Dawan's envoy widened his eyes and raised his voice when he heard the words, praising, "King Qiongnan is a strange man of the Tang Dynasty, just like General Manager Fan, he is an invincible general !"

Fan Lihua said proudly with her hands behind her back: "In the 17th year of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty, King Qiongnan at that time was only the Marquis of Lantian. Thousands of miles away from the Western Turks, a stone tablet was erected on the territory of the Western Turks. The inscription said: The boundary tablet of the Tang Dynasty, and the east of this boundary is all the land of the Tang Dynasty. Come to the court, if you dare to map an inch of land in the Tang Dynasty, your family will be destroyed, and anyone who violates the heavenly power of the Tang Dynasty will be punished even if it is far away! In the 17th year of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty, Li Shikuang erected a monument here to alert all nations."

The envoy of Dawan was shocked when he heard the words, fell to his knees with a plop, and shouted reverently: "I, Ningyuan Kingdom, dare not disobey the loyal ministers of the Great Tang Dynasty. The prosperity of the Great Tang Dynasty will last forever!"

Fan Lihua turned her head and glanced at him, and said slowly: "Ningyuan Kingdom no longer exists, you have to be careful what you say in the future, my Tang...does not allow a country to have a country, this matter is also with your country leader. said."

"Yes, the villain is guilty! The villain is guilty!" The envoy of Dawan didn't expect to be flattered on the horse's leg, and was so frightened that cold sweat broke out on his forehead. Fortunately, Fan Lihua didn't care about him.

After a long time, the stele was erected. Fan Lihua stepped forward to uncover the black cloth in person, and the black cloth floated away with the wind, revealing the inscription. Next to Li Hao's inscription, there was an extra line of words, which read: The 24th year of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty , Fan Lihua defeated the Western Turks, expanded the land for seven thousand miles, moved the monument here, and borrowed Li Shikuang's words to wake up all nations!
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