The Flourishing Tang Dynasty: Beginning with Marrying Yang Yuhuan

Chapter 190 Contradictions
Assad recalled the previous scene.

Li Ying led more than a hundred people to clamor outside the city, which would have been fine, but he also let a woman join in the mockery.

Assad felt that what he had lost was not only a fighter plane, but also the dignity of a brave general.

At this time, Assad's personal guards came in, carrying a box to Assad and said, "General, the King Shou of the Tang Dynasty sent you a gift."

"Oh?" Assad was shocked and thought, "Could it be that the Tang Shou Wang wants to bribe me with a large sum of money?"

Assad hurriedly ordered someone to open the box, and was stunned when he saw the gift sent by Li Heng in the box.

Li Heng asked someone to bring him women's clothes.

After all, Assad was not Sima Yi. When he saw the women's clothes and understood Li Heng's mockery, he instantly became furious. He drew his sword and angrily chopped the boxes and clothes sent by Li Heng into pieces.

"Damn it, it's all that weak and incompetent guy Bi Steller's fault! If it weren't for him stopping me, I would have left the city and cut Prince Shou and that woman into pieces!"

Assad reflected on the problem of Bistetler. He even suspected whether Bistetler had really joined forces with the Tang army. So he took several Arab generals and rushed to Bistetler's palace.

Seeing Assad's angry look, the palace guards of Bistreller stepped forward to stop him.

Although Assad was angry, he still retained some rationality. He knew that he could not force his way in before he had a falling out with Shi Guo.

But the Shi Kingdom was just a conquered vassal state to the Arabs. Assad was used to being arrogant. Although he did not force his way in, he did not give Bischofler any face. He shouted at the palace gate: "Bischofler, come out and answer!"

After receiving the report, Bischtler rushed to the palace gate and asked in panic, "General, why are you doing this?"

Asad said: "This time, the Tang Shou Wang did not have an ambush, did you know that?"

"The Khan just learned about it." Bischtler replied.

Assad said: "If you hadn't stopped him, he would have been dead!"

"The Tang Emperor Shou is unpredictable in his military operations. We should not take risks!" Bischtler advised gently, "General, please be patient. We just need to defend the city and wait for reinforcements to arrive. We will surely avenge today's teasing!"

After being given a way out by Stahl, Assad, who had calmed down, wanted to quit while he was ahead. Just as he was about to speak, the soldiers brought an urgent report.

Assad took the urgent message and took a look at it, and the anger he had suppressed rose up again.

The urgent report said that the Tang army had gathered a large force in the south and joined forces with Abu Muslim to capture several cities in succession.

Assad suppressed his anger and asked someone to report the urgent matter to Steller.

When Bisztler read the urgent report, his face suddenly became gloomy.

Assad stared at Bischtler for a while, then took the initiative to salute Bischtler and said, "Khan, I was impulsive and bumped into you. Now we need to work together. Let's discuss the important matters first."

"Exactly."

Bisztler asked the palace guards to withdraw and invited Assad into the palace.

After entering the palace, Asad said: "Khan, the Tang Dynasty is making a feint to the east and attacking in the west. Since the Tang Dynasty has a large number of troops in the south, we should take the initiative to attack."

Bi Shitler said: "But we don't know exactly how many soldiers the Tang Dynasty's Shou Wang brought with him."

"No matter how many there are, we must attack." Asad said firmly, "The west of the Stone Kingdom is a desert, and the east is controlled by the Tang Dynasty. The reinforcements and food for the Arabs need to come from the south. If we don't attack, when the Tang Dynasty completely controls the southern part of the Western Region, we will be alone!"

Bisitler understood this truth. Bisitler sighed and said, "If Abu Muslim had not rebelled, the Tang army would not have conquered the city in the south of the Western Regions so quickly." Asad said, "Now that things have come to this, there is no need to say these useless words. I only want to ask the Khan, are you willing to send troops to attack the camp?"

Nose Steller said: "This matter needs to be considered carefully."

Upon hearing this, Assad glared at Steller and walked away.

After Asad left, Shiguo's Vice King Yina Tutun said, "Great Khan, Asad is too rude! Our Shiguo pays hundreds of thousands of silver coins to the Arabs every year, but they don't show any gratitude, but only bully us endlessly."

Nostrelle sighed heavily.

Biszteller was a pro-Arab force that had just been supported by the Arabs. However, compared to being a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty, since it became a vassal of the Arabs, the tribute it paid had become heavier and more money had been collected.

In addition to money, slaves were also required as tribute.

Now the people of the Arab Empire are boiling with resentment because of him, and the lower classes all miss the days when they followed the Tang Dynasty.

Of course, he was so emotional not because he suddenly had a change of heart and felt sorry for his people, but because the current situation was extremely unfavorable to him.

In the past, when there was a domestic rebellion, he could join forces with the Arabs to suppress it. But now that the south has suffered successive defeats, Li Heng’s troops are just outside the city, and support from the Arabs cannot come in.

Under such circumstances, the confidence of the domestic reactionaries increased greatly, and Assad, the reckless man, was resentful of him, so he was now caught in a dilemma.

The deputy king Yina Tutun in front of him was a pro-Tang faction.

Bisitler was silent for a long time, and then said to Yina Tutun: "Deputy Khan, we did have political differences before, but this is a critical moment for the survival of the Shi Kingdom, and we need to be of one mind."

"That's natural." Ina Tutun replied.

Nose Steller nodded, his eyes gradually becoming empty as he looked into the distance, and he looked very sad.

……

Inside the main tent of the Tang army.

When Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing returned from exploring the upper reaches of the Xieer River, Li Siye told them that Li Heng had taken the lead in provoking Tuozhe City.

Gao Xianzhi was very surprised and said to Li Heng: "Your Highness is naturally very brave, but you still need to put safety first. Your Highness went to scout the enemy this time, but he did not arrange for soldiers to support him. If the enemy really attacks, what will we do!"

Before Li Heng could speak, Li Siye said, "I will protect Your Highness. If the enemy forces come out, I will not be able to attack the city, but it will not be difficult to escort Your Highness back."

"Siye," Gao Xianzhi raised his voice, "Tuozhe City is just a small city. It is not worth it for Your Highness to risk his life without any support. As Your Highness's personal general, you should advise him."

"Yes." Seeing that Gao Xianzhi became serious, Li Siye stopped arguing with him.

Li Heng smiled slightly and said, "General Gao is right, but I went to investigate because I was 70% sure they would not send out troops rashly."

Gao Xianzhi's point was not that Li Heng should not go to scout the enemy, but that he should arrange for support before going. However, since Li Heng had returned safely, he felt that he should not say more, so he replied: "I am just worried about the possibility."

"Yes." Li Heng nodded, not dwelling on it, and asked, "How are the two generals doing in their investigation of the Xieer River?"

Gao Xianzhi said: "After July, the amount of water in the Xieer River will gradually decrease. If we want to divert water to irrigate the city, we need to build a dam and store water for more than a month. Our army only has 20,000 soldiers. In order to prevent the enemy from attacking the camp, we can only send 5,000 soldiers at most to build the dam. This will take a long time. Of course, we can recruit the people around the Shi Kingdom to help build the dam, but building a dam will cut off their water supply and flood their fields. They are very likely to riot."

Gao Xianzhi was previously the commander-in-chief of the Anxi Military Farm. To establish a military farm in Anxi, it was necessary to build water conservancy projects, so he knew something about water conservancy.

(End of this chapter)