Elegy of Tang Dynasty

Chapter 373: Counterattack against guests
"Is your name Charlotte?"

In the commander's tent of the Anxi Expeditionary Army camp outside Yezhi City, Fang Chongyong sat on a simple bench with his legs crossed, looking at the Tuqi Khan named Shi Shi who was kneeling on the ground in front of him and asked.

"Commander Jie, his name is not Shiloh, his name is Iridhimishigudolupiga."

Feng Changqing came over and whispered.

Of course I know his name is not Charlotte! It’s just that this super long name, how do you remember it so clearly?

Fang Chongyong cursed secretly in his heart. No matter who under his command, even He Changqi, could now call out the name of the ten-surnamed Khan accurately, but he could not.

"Well, who is that? Your subordinates have already confessed that you colluded with the big food in black and tried to harm the Tang Dynasty. There is a confession document here, you just need to put your fingerprints on it.

There is no need to have any lucky thoughts, it’s okay if you don’t press it.

Anyway, after killing you, dip your finger in some blood and go through the same process. Don't worry, this ambassador will tell the court that committing suicide out of fear of crime is not a problem.

Do you have anything else to say?
If you have nothing to say, then so be it. This ambassador still has a lot of things to be busy with. "

The military tent fell silent, and all the generals looked at the unfortunate man kneeling on the ground with ill intentions.

Feng Changqing saw Fang Chongyong's embarrassed expression and suggested calmly:
"Jie Shuai, there are many monks in Suiye Town who are proficient in Dashi writing. There are some in the temples in Yezhi City. I will find a knowledgeable person to come over and provide detailed information to Jieshuai."

Its heart is awkward!

In Fang Chongyong's plan, the leader of a certain tribe of Tuqi Shi was transferred and would become the next Khan with the ten surnames of Tuqi Shi. Then, under the control of him, the Tang Dynasty's Western Region Economic and Strategic Ambassador, the transfer meeting led his troops, as well as the leaders of other Tuqishi tribes, to swear an oath to heaven in front of the "Turkic Holy Mountain" north of the Suiye River, Complete the canonization ceremony.

Fang Chongyong looked indifferent, crossed his arms, and waited for the answer from the sudden knight named Shi Shi Khan.

"Angel, please forgive me! The governor of Khorasan who was eating a lot just wrote a letter to me, agreeing to attack the Tang army together and let me cut off your retreat.

The Tenth Khan knelt on the ground and kowtowed crazily, then took out a letter from his arms and raised his hands above his head!
A crime that didn't happen is not a crime.

They all know that these routines played by Fang Chongyong are just a game of "little white rabbit wearing a hat". In short, neither Fang Chongyong nor the Tang army officers and soldiers under his command care at all how the ten-surnamed Khan defends himself.

"You are a little dishonest. The ambassador is very angry now. I hope that letter will not disappoint me. I am a person who is particularly hard to talk to when I am in a bad mood."

But I haven’t promised them yet! I really didn’t collude with the cannibals, it would be detrimental to the Tang Dynasty!

As for the person who appears in the commander's tent now, who will remember him when the time comes? If he dies, he will die.

"Donor, please wait a moment. The poor monk will translate it now."

Why did he detain the Tang army envoy with a guilty conscience in the first place?

One misstep can lead to eternal hatred. If only I could be calmer at the beginning! Unfortunately, there is no medicine for regret in the world. There is often no way to undo the mistakes of the past in the future.

However, what is unexpected is that this ignorant Khan with the tenth surname actually received a letter from the black-clad governor of Khorasan.

"Master, please help translate the Dashiwen. Just read it here."

If you speak out those careless things, you will probably die soon.

Fang Chongyong opened the letter and found that it was filled with Dashi writing, which was like ghostly drawings. He didn't recognize even half of the words and was immediately embarrassed.

Fang Chongyong put away the joking smile on his face and asked seriously: "Then tell me honestly, what else is there? If the ambassador is satisfied, I can consider sparing your life."

As we all know, it is one thing to frame a person as having a conspiracy, but it is another thing if the person actually has a conspiracy.

Less than half an hour later, Feng Changqing found a monk named "Yuanji". As soon as he entered the commander's tent, he put his hands together and saluted everyone very respectfully.

Yuanji took the letter and immediately recognized the text on it easily. Because after all, they are some common vocabulary in food literature. To put it bluntly, they are an evolution of Semitic literature.

Why didn't he give this letter to the senior officials of the Anxi Army as soon as possible?

The Khan with the tenth surname did not dare to look at Fang Chongyong, and then turned his head and still refused to let go.

In fact, from some aspects, this Khan with the tenth surname was indeed quite unjust. When it comes to deeds, one doesn’t care about one’s heart. When it comes to one’s heart, there are no good people in the world. Since Tu Qishi has not done anything detrimental to the Tang Dynasty, it cannot be regarded as "colluding" with the Great Food Country.

Obviously, this monk also knows who is the big brother in the secular world.

Of course, it's not your fault that you received the letter, but it's your fault that you didn't hand it over!
After hearing this sophistry, Fang Chongyong and the generals of the Anxi Expeditionary Force who were present all shouted in their hearts: Damn it.

When this step is completed, Tu Qishi's military strength will be temporarily included in the Anxi Expeditionary Army's servant army to participate in the battle against the black-clad food. The new Khan of the Tenth Surname also needs to prove his ability and loyalty through battle and consolidate his hard-won status.

They knew very well that this person must know the contents of the letter, and there must be a secret agreement that could not be made public. So the Khan of the Ten Surnames would rather hide it for a while, and keep it a secret as much as possible.

It’s okay not to understand the key joints here!

The ten Khans burst into tears and felt extremely remorseful.

Anyway, no matter whether he is "innocent" or not, he will be randomly assigned a crime in the end and die without a burial place.

Fang Chongyong handed the letter from Abu Muslim to the deceased monk and said.

The governor of Khorasan wrote to me, but it is beyond my control! "

"Well, that's great, go ahead."

Since beheading is inevitable, why bother studying the shape of the scar?
Ever since the Tenth Khan dared to detain Feng Changqing, this was a dead end that could not be solved.

Not a single wave!

Fang Zhongyong waved his hand, pretending not to care, but in fact he was relieved.

"It's gone, it's really gone. Abu Muslim promised me to cut off the Tang Army's food route after war, that's all. I really didn't promise him!"

Fang Chongyong stepped forward and stared at the Khan with the tenth surname of Tuqishi with burning eyes. Although he did not show a threatening look, he already made cold sweat break out from behind.

You are really colluding with the big cannibal!
All the generals present were shocked. They did not expect that Fang Chongyong, a blind cat, could really catch a dead mouse.

This kind of writing is now very common in the Western Regions. It is the "third foreign language" besides Chinese characters and Turkic script. There are also many people in the Western Regions who can understand Dashi writing.

"Tu Qi Shi Shi Khan, I will promise you the land in the river. Once the deal is done, I will never break my promise. To show my sincerity, I will give you five horse bags of gold. You and I are brothers. In this battle, we only need to cut off the Tang army." There is no need for you to face the enemy head-on..."

The more Yuanji continued to read, the more Khan knelt on the ground with the tenth surname shivered.

In the letter, Abu Muslim told the Ten-surnamed Khan that as long as he could defeat the Tang Dynasty, the land in the river, including places such as Shi Kingdom and Kang Kingdom, would be under the control of Tuqishi, and he would not take away an inch of land. Moreover, Tuqishi's army did not have to confront the Tang army head-on, they only needed to cut off the retreat.

There were also hundreds of beauties and tens of thousands of cattle and sheep.

After the war, the Abu Muslims only collected the military expenses required for the black-clothed and food-rich army. The other spoils and newly occupied land were all distributed by Tuqishi.

If what the other party said is true, then Abu Muslim was indeed a living thunder fronter in the feudal era, and he never cared for himself or others.

In order to defeat Datang, it can be said that they did not care about the cost and asked for nothing in return. Even Fang Chongyong, King Louis XVI of France in his previous life, who hated the British in order to support the independence of Ame without asking for anything in return, was resigned to bowing down when he saw Abu Muslim.

To be honest, Fang Chongyong was quite excited about what was promised in this letter.

He also lamented in his heart that this Abu Muslim was really a hero, and he spent a lot of money to win over his allies.

At least, this bad check was written openly.

After the war, Shi Shi Khan, a sudden knight, will definitely make a lot of money by standing on his side. That is, of course, assuming Abu Muslim will fulfill these promises.

"If I were Abu Muslim, I would first make an agreement with you to jointly defeat the Tang Dynasty, expel the Tang army to the west of Congling, and prevent the troops from Anxi and Beiting from crossing Rehai. Then I would find an excuse to break the contract, and in turn accuse you of greed and excess. , I won’t give you a piece of land. Then I turned around and made a peace with the Tang Dynasty, saying that the reason why I fought with the Tang Dynasty before was just because I was accidentally bewitched by you, and then I accidentally met the Tang Dynasty.

In the end, the Dashi Kingdom agreed to join forces with the Tang Dynasty to attack Tuqishi, divide the land in the river equally, and drive you into the desert to eat sand, ending your humble and ignorant life.

In this way, you will become a completely treacherous clown who will end up miserable and be despised by everyone.

Even if you take out this letter in the future, no one will believe it, or whether you believe it or not is no longer important.

So I said, are you holding candles in your head?

Someone only bought you for a mere five horse bags of gold? Do you really believe that Abu Muslim will keep his promise?

When Datang withdraws from the river, won't you be the next unlucky one? The gold he gives you will be earned back a hundred times a thousand times from you in the future!
You idiot! "

Fang Chongyong looked at Khan kneeling on the ground with the look of a fool and asked in disbelief.

There are always some smart people in the world who think that they have everything under control and that everyone else is in their calculations.

Khan is not the first, nor will he be the last.

Tu Qishi has been suppressed by the Tang Dynasty for decades and is eager to repeat the glory of the past. This feeling is understandable.

However, for a force to achieve great things, it must not only consider the guiding role of the leading figure, but also objectively view the driving influence of historical trends.

Above the wind outlet, a brick can fly, but this does not mean that the brick itself has strong flying ability.

Under the squeeze of the two huge forces of the Tang Dynasty and the Dashi Dynasty, it was difficult for the nomadic peoples in the Hezhong area to move freely and horizontally as they did when the Western Turks were dominant.

This is the general trend. Today is no longer the era of the Western Turks.

If you want to play diplomacy with others, you must have the ability to serve at the dinner table!

"Angel! I already know I was wrong! I will give you the five horse bags of gold to atone for your sins.

As for Abu Muslim, I would also sternly reject him.

I was really distracted for a while and did not hand over this letter to you.

But I would never dare to be an enemy of the Tang Dynasty! Please spare me this time, I will never dare again! "

Khan, surnamed ten, knelt on the ground and cried and begged, like a wounded beast howling his last song, having given up all his dignity.

Right now, he only has one thought in his mind, and that is: survive. He would give up anything in order to survive.

"You all stay out of the way."

Fang Chongyong looked around and said.

Hearing this, the generals and the monk with the Buddhist name "Nirvana" all filed out. In the end, only Fang Chongyong and the ten-named Khan were left kneeling on the ground in the handsome tent.

"You made a mistake. Strictly rejecting Abu Muslim is not necessary at all. The ambassador has other plans for this matter.

You should write a letter to Abu Muslim now and send someone to deliver it to the Parthian Kingdom and deliver it to Abu Muslim who is in full swing.

Just say that Tang Jun has crossed the border and has a bit of an unpleasant quarrel with you, but they don't know the agreement between you and him yet, and they haven't broken up with each other yet.

You agreed to Abu Muslim's agreement to attack Tang Dynasty, and you are willing to become brothers with him. You will never break the covenant and everything will be done as agreed in advance.

If this is done, I will spare your life. After all, it wouldn't be interesting for me to kill you, and I won't gain any more flesh, right? "

Fang Chongyong gently patted Khan surnamed Ten on the shoulder and looked at him meaningfully.

"Thank you angel for not killing me! I'll write, I'll write now!"

Khan surnamed Ten was so excited that his whole body was shaking. He had already stepped into the gate of hell with one foot, but now he can still save his life. There is nothing better than this!
"Remember to write it in Turkic script."

Fang Chongyong couldn't help but mention something, for fear that if he wrote in Chinese, his secret would be revealed.

"I understand, please rest assured, angel, I will definitely handle it and handle it properly."

The Tenth Khan was crying and laughing, and he was on the verge of madness.

"Go and write a letter. The letter will be delivered later."

Fang Chongyong waved his hand and sent the Tenth Khan away. After the other party was led away by Feng Changqing, he sighed and his expression was not as relaxed as before.

It is not easy to eat in black. Abu Muslim is also a heroic figure, and he definitely does not intend to conquer the river by relying only on brute force.

They were very skilled in diplomacy, using their righteous hearts to win over one group of people, using their wealth and land to win over another group of people, and trying to isolate Datang as much as possible.

With the exception of Tochar, which has rugged terrain, all countries to the west of Congling are enemies, or they are secretly so-called "neutrals" who prefer black-clad food.

Among the countries in the Western Regions, there were those like Shi Guo who openly resisted, and others like Kang Guo who secretly worked with the black-clad Dashi.

Could the Tang army fight their way through and kill everyone?
Gao Xianzhi's actions only accelerated the attack speed of Black Clothes Dashi. Even without Gao Xianzhi, the Black-clad Dashi would continue to encroach on the Hezhong area, and sooner or later there would be a battle with the Tang Dynasty.

Killing this momentum is now the minimum strategic bottom line for the Anxi Expeditionary Force. If it fails, it means that the expedition is a complete failure, no matter how brilliant the achievements are on the battlefield.

……

Yezhi City, like Suiye City, is "a city with no defenses". The administration here is minimal, and commerce is prosperous, but they are all "traveling merchants" rather than merchants with fixed shops. Everyone came and went for temporary stays, which seemed a bit unbelievable to Fang Chongyong.

There are only some Tuqishi guards in the city maintaining basic order and collecting some business taxes.

This is the only way to get from Atami to the river. There is a mixture of fish and dragons, which is both lively and chaotic.

Yezhi City is a place that exists purely for trading! Not only goods are traded here, but also news is traded. There are many thieves. At the same time, criminals and speculators from all over the place are passing through, making it difficult to distinguish the authenticity.

Fang Chongyong changed into casual clothes and came to a stall under the protection of He Changqi and others. The merchant setting up the stall was none other than Che Guangqian, who was pretending to be a small businessman from the Western Regions!
"Is there any news from Shiguo?"

Fang Chongyong pretended that he was a customer picking fruits, and asked Che Guangqian casually, who was wearing a robe that covered the whole body that is common in the desert.

"Back to Commander-in-Chief, Da Shiren has already negotiated a deal with the King of Kang State, and is preparing to quietly cross the border of Kang State and pursue Gao Xianzhi's team from the west.

However, it is still in the stage of causing but not happening. Gao Xianzhi did not do anything. He ordered the army to plunder the local grain reserves of Shiguo in order to strengthen the walls and clear the country. Gao Xianzhi was not a fool.

That’s all the news for now. "

Che Guangqian pretended to be bargaining and said in a low voice.

Shiguo has relatively developed agriculture and a relatively suitable climate. It produces wheat and corn, and is also rich in cash crops such as grapes and fruits. Gao Xianzhi would definitely not leave Shiguo’s food to the cannibals. Without food, no matter how talented you are, you can't do it.

The Western Regions are no better than the Central Plains, and food can be raised everywhere. In the desert climate, only the dots of oasis belts are productive. If you don’t have anything to eat, you have to wait until next year!

At least, that's the theory.

"Gao Xianzhi underestimated the cannibals. The cannibals have rich experience in dealing with desert climates. They can find ways to overcome them with food and drinking water.

You go to Stone Country again and observe closely what’s going on there. The Great Eater probably used Shiguo as a bridgehead and continued to expand eastward. "

Fang Chongyong said a few words, then threw down a small bag of golden beans, took a bunch of grapes from the stall as if nothing had happened, and walked away.

(End of this chapter)