Chapter 324: The Country Was Destroyed, Lan Yu Fell Into a Trap

The appearance of Bat'er, the son of Timur, the great Khan of the Turkic Empire, for Wuyi Bo Liu Ziyu, was tantamount to adding a catalyst called "ambition" to his extravagant "spoilt" life, but for the entire Tang Dynasty Compared with Emperor Zhaowu Chen Huaian, it was an insignificant existence.

Ever since Chen Huaian, the King of Jin, single-handedly made the thirty-six countries of the Western Regions surrender, countless caravans from the Western Regions traveled to and from the Central Plains every day on the Overland Silk Road. The looks and clothes of these people are almost the same as those of Battle. No difference.

Therefore, Battelle dared to sneak into the Western Region caravan, go to Wuzhou City alone and confidently to meet Liu Ziyu, who was "frustrated in officialdom", and reached an agreement with the latter under inducements that concealed ulterior secrets.

After Battle left Wuzhou City, Liu Ziyu, who had been drinking and having fun at the Earl's Mansion every day, unexpectedly thanked guests behind closed doors for the first time. He even went to the army every day to personally supervise the army's daily drills and combat readiness.

Liu Ziyu's abnormal behavior was also interpreted by the civil servants and generals in the Youyun area as the deputy general was stimulated by the Tang Dynasty's expedition to Goguryeo. He learned his shame and became brave, determined to make new contributions to the Tang Dynasty.

Liu Ziyu laughed it off and remained noncommittal.

Only he knows in his heart that everything he is doing now is preparing for his future.

At the same time, he was also curious about how Nabaatar and the Abbasid Dynasty outside the Western Regions, as he said, would defeat the powerful general of the Tang Dynasty and Anxi Hou Lanyu who was guarding Anxi.

The days passed like this day by day. Emperor Zhaowu Chen Huaian, who was far away in the Imperial City of Jinling, did not notice that outside the Western Regions, the powerfully rising Arab Empire had already set its next strategic focus on surrendering to the newly established empire. The Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty.

His thoughts were still on conquering the Goguryeo Peninsula and dealing with domestic imperial examination reform, economic development, and the connection of the North-South Grand Canal.

As everyone knows, a conspiracy against Anxi Hou Lanyu of the Tang Dynasty is quietly beginning.

It was early May in the first year of Zhaowu in the Tang Dynasty.

Shule City is the seat of the Anxi Dudufu (Beifu) of the Tang Dynasty.

Anxi Hou Lanyu has been returning to the Anxi Protectorate from Jinling City non-stop since the founding ceremony of the Tang Dynasty. It has been less than a month since then.

Although this Lan Yu has a somewhat arrogant personality, he is still a person with real abilities. During the period when he was ordered to guard the Western Regions, he managed the Tang Dynasty's overland Silk Road in an orderly manner.

On weekdays, if there were any conflicts between the countries in the Western Region, Lan Yu would usually come to mediate them, and there would never be any major troubles.

In Khotan, more than a thousand miles away from Shule City, is the Western Region Protectorate (South Palace) of the Tang Dynasty. It is commanded by Hou Huo Qubing, the champion of the Tang Dynasty who led the troops to break the siege of Khotan.

One in the south and one in the north, they were each other's horns and supervised each other, becoming Emperor Zhaowu Chen Huaian's right-hand man in governing the Western Regions.

On this day, at the residence of Anxi Marquis in Shule City, Lan Yu, the Marquis of Anxi of the Tang Dynasty, who was checking the tax list of caravans traveling between various countries on the Silk Road in the past three months, suddenly received an urgent notification from Deputy General Tan Li: "General ,Oh no!"

While talking, Tan Li, who was wearing armor but without a sword, hurriedly came to Lan Yu, saluted him and said: "General, I just received an envoy from Xiaowan State (one of the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions) to report—— "

"Ten days ago, King Tibis of the Wusun Kingdom led an army of fifty thousand troops and captured Gubi, the capital of the Xiaowan Kingdom, overnight, and captured all the King Maimaiti of the Xiaowan Kingdom and more than 300 members of the royal family. Slaughter them all;”

"The Xiaowan Kingdom has now been completely annexed by the Wusun Kingdom!"

Tan Li continued with furrowed brows: "Bas, the envoy of the Xiaowan Kingdom, carried King Maimaiti's last wish before his death and desperately escaped from the capital city of Gubi. He begged me, the Tang Dynasty, to help Xiaowan who was destroyed by the Wusun. Wan Guo upholds justice!”

"What?"

After listening to Lieutenant General Tan Li's report, Lan Yu stood up from his chair in a flash and shouted angrily: "Damn it, King Tibis of Wusun Kingdom is so brave after eating a bear's heart and a leopard-"

"Not only do you not take this general seriously, but you also don't take us, the Tang Dynasty, seriously!"

Lan Yu was furious, with a rare ferocious expression on her heroic face.

Lan Yu had heard about the conflict between Wusun and Xiaowan, and when the conflict between the two countries first broke out a few months ago, he personally wrote a letter to the kings of the two countries to mediate between the two countries. conflicts between.

After that time, there was no war between the two countries.

Who would have thought that only a few months had passed, and Lan Yu had just been ennobled as Marquis of Anxi in the Tang Dynasty, and less than a month after returning to the Protectorate of the Western Regions, the king of the Wusun Kingdom would suddenly take action. Xiaowan was wiped out overnight.

This is not only a slap in the face of Anxi Hou Lanyu, but also a slap in the face of the newly founded Tang Dynasty!

If the emperor knew that when the Tang Dynasty was just established, some people dared to openly raise troops to destroy other countries on the Silk Road in the Western Regions. Long Yan would be furious and blame Lan Yu for his negligence!

Scholars can endure it, but who can’t?

It's okay to hit me, Lan Yu, in the face, but you openly hit the Tang Dynasty in the face. Is this okay?

This time, if the Wusun Kingdom is not put in order, won't all the countries in the Western Regions follow suit in the future, and the land Silk Road of the Tang Dynasty will never have peace.

Lan Yu said angrily: "Vice General Tan, please immediately pass on my order to dispatch 50,000 Guanning cavalry from the army to attack the Wusun Kingdom. I will personally kill Tibes's spirit;"

"Don't Tibis like to annex other people's countries? The general also asked him to taste the pain of destroying the Wusun Kingdom!"

As soon as he heard that Lan Yu was going to lead his troops to conquer the Wusun Kingdom personally, Lieutenant General Tan Li immediately admonished him: "General, would it be too arbitrary to send troops to conquer the Wusun Kingdom rashly?"

snort!

"Arbitrary?"

Lan Yu sneered and said: "He, Tibisdu, has already destroyed the Xiaowan Kingdom, and also slaughtered all the more than 300 members of the Xiaowan Kingdom's King Maimaiti and his family. Is his behavior considered arbitrary?"

"Vice General Tan, do you still remember that when you followed the emperor to conquer the Western Regions, what did the emperor say when he accepted the letters of surrender from the envoys of the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions at the city gate of Harabalegas, the capital of the Uighur Khanate? of?"

Tan Li hesitated for a moment and said: "Reporting to the general, the emperor said at the beginning that he hoped that the Silk Road in the Western Regions would be like a family and there would be no more wars!"

"That's right!"

Lan Yu waved her big hand and said sternly: "That's what the emperor said at the beginning - I hope that the Silk Road in the Western Regions will be like a family and there will be no more wars!"

"What the emperor said is the imperial edict!"

As he spoke, Lan Yu changed the topic and said: "But Tibes, the king of Wusun Kingdom, openly violated the holy will, provoked trouble in the Western Regions and annexed other countries for no reason;"

"Don't these scoundrels deserve the punishment they deserve?"

After a pause, Lan Yu said again: "This time, if our Tang Dynasty does not use iron and blood to suppress the Wusun Kingdom, in the future, all the countries in the Western Region will follow the Wusun Kingdom's example and raise armies to cause trouble;"

"By then, will our land Silk Road in the Tang Dynasty still have a peaceful life?"

"General Tan, carry out my orders!"

"The general will get the order!"