Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 3544
Liaodong is three thousand miles away from Guanzhong, while Gongyue City is more than seven thousand miles away from Chang'an. Generally speaking, it is unnecessary for Fang Jun to rush back to the court at this moment, because even though the road from Guanzhong to Liaodong is mountainous and rivery, the road is difficult. But after all, it is much closer. It is estimated that halfway through the journey, the Eastern Expeditionary Army has already returned to Guanzhong.

What's more, it has been two months since the Liaodong information came from Chang'an. Even if the army is bloated, it must be not far from Guanzhong at this moment.

But Fang Jun didn't dare to pin all his hopes on the Eastern Expeditionary Army.

Without it, judging from the battle report sent by Chang'an, the Eastern Expeditionary Army is really a bit weird. Hundreds of thousands of troops besieged Ping Rang City and failed. Changsun Wuji broke away from the army and sneaked back to Guanzhong to preside over the mutiny... One after another, it was really weird.

No one knows what happened inside the Eastern Expedition Army. In case of internal disputes, some people even conspired to make Li Ji and others lean towards King Jin, deliberately slowing down the army's marching speed, but I thought it was bound to return. Guanzhong supports the prince, isn't it a big deal?
In any case, Fang Jun must personally lead the army back to Chang'an to ensure nothing goes wrong.

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Pei Xingjian wondered: "Traveling thousands of miles, even though pedestrians are rare in the freezing cold at this moment, it is as difficult as heaven to completely block the news during such a long journey."

After thinking for a while, his eyes lit up, and he suggested: "Why don't you send a team of scouts to pretend to be the messengers of the Hanhai Protectorate, and say that the remnants of Xue Yantuo colluded with the Turks and intend to rebel, and go to Chang'an to ask for help..."

Fang Jun thought about it carefully, stroked his palms and said: "Keeping the contract is really smart and resourceful!"

Now that the situation in Chang'an has reached a stalemate, without external intervention, it will be difficult for the two sides to break the deadlock, and the confrontation will continue for a long time.And at this time, if the Guanlong rebels learn that Fang Jun led more than ten thousand elite soldiers to trek thousands of miles to help Chang'an, it will definitely become the "external force" that broke the deadlock. It is certainly difficult for the Guanlongmen clan to capture the imperial city, but if they use some vicious It is entirely possible to use such methods to check and balance Fang Jun.

Changsun Wuji is only greedy for power and has absolutely no moral bottom line.

If that is the case, even if Fang Jun rushes back to Guanzhong, he will fall into a passive position.The best way is naturally to stay invisible all the way, and it will be too late to react when the Guanlong rebels notice it.

However, on the thousands of miles from Gongyue City to Chang'an, there are shops and warehouses set up by Chinese and foreign merchants everywhere. It is simply a dream to sneak back to Chang'an without anyone noticing.

Since it is impossible to hide their whereabouts, as Pei Xingjian said, they gave the Guanlong rebels a wrong judgment, mistakenly thinking that the reason why the cavalry traveled all the way east was to reach Dingxiang soldiers to leave the white road and rush to the Hanhai Governor's Mansion to help suppress the rebellion of Xue Yantuo's remnants , you can probably hide the truth from the Guanlong rebels and make them feel slack.

Fang Jun thought about it carefully, but found another loophole: "This is a bit unreasonable. Since our cavalry can go round and round to help the Hanhai Protectorate, they can naturally go all the way east to Guanzhong. With Changsun Wuji's prudence, we must not Just because the Hanhai Protectorate issued a request for help in advance, it is taken for granted that we are only going to the Mobei Hanhai instead of secretly going straight to Chang'an."

However, Pei Xingjian was confident: "If we immediately send a battle report to Chang'an at this moment, saying that we have suffered heavy losses in the bloody battle with the enemy under the Tianshan Mountains, we have already had to retreat to Luntai City, give up Gongyue City, Yili River Valley and other places ... The troops returned to Beijing led by Shuai were all dressed in the clothes of the Hu tribe and raised the banner of the Hu tribe, which was enough to confuse the Guanlong rebels."

Fang Jun thinks this plan is very clever.

The victory of this battle cannot be known to Chang'an in a short time, otherwise Changsun Wuji will definitely prepare for Fang Jun's return to court, and all plans here are meaningless.Instead of reporting victory, he falsely spread the news of defeat, which made Changsun Wuji paralyzed, so that the plan could succeed.

In fact, defeat convinced Chang'an more than victory. After all, there was a huge disparity in military strength between the two sides. Since the Dashi army entered the Western Regions, the Tang army had been repeatedly defeated and retreated step by step.

In this way, it is not surprising that the whole army retreated to Luntai City and at the same time sent a Hu cavalry to Mobei for reinforcements. After all, the mountains on three sides of Luntai City are easy to defend and difficult to attack. The Tang army who retreated here dispatched some Hu people with low combat power Cavalry, make sense.

After thinking about it, there was no obvious loophole, Fang Jun made a decisive decision: "Just do this, you can write a letter of divorce, first send the news of our army's defeat here to Chang'an, and at the same time send people to Dingxiang, and set off from Dingxiang Then go to Chang'an, and send the forged Mobei request for help to Chang'an in a day or two in the evening. At the same time, I immediately dispatched soldiers, prepared well, and set off to return to Chang'an as soon as possible."

Pei Xingjian got up immediately: "Here!"

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This battle was a complete victory, but Tang Jun couldn't take it easy for a moment, and everything was running quickly.

There is not much food, fodder and supplies in the enemy camp, and most of the captured weapons and weapons are of inferior quality, so they can only be transported back to Guanzhong for ironmaking. Everything that can't be used is transported back to Gongyue City, not a brick, a tile, a knife or a gun can be left behind.

In addition, Fang Jun gathered Pei Xingjian and Xue Rengui together to discuss how to mobilize elite troops to help Chang'an, and specifically asked Wang Fangyi to participate in this discussion.

Wang Fangyi was extremely excited. This was the highest-level combat meeting of the Anxi Protectorate's Mansion, which meant that he had been recognized by the Anxi Protectorate's Mansion. Although the rank of honor had not yet been promoted, his qualifications and status were completely different from before.

But he is also a well-behaved man, he didn't raise his tail because of Fang Jun's appreciation, thinking that he was some kind of Geshiji who pointed out the country in front of the extremely big boss, but honestly wrote a pen and took charge of the records, and served tea and water...

Naturally, all the Youtunwei returned to Chang'an with Fang Jun, but the 2 troops of Youtunwei alone were obviously not enough. Xue Rengui carefully selected some elite soldiers from the Anxi Army, a total of 8000 people, and delivered them to Fang Jun together. Help him to rescue Chang'an.

Fang Jun looked at Xue Rengui's list of school captains on the paper, frowned and said: "So many people follow this commander to help Chang'an, the Anxi Army's strength is too weak, once the situation changes, how can you deal with it?" ?”

The number of the Anxi Army is only over [-]. With such a vast territory in the Western Regions, you can't even see a splash of water. Once something happens, you will inevitably lose sight of it.

Xue Rengui is full of confidence: "Don't worry, Commander. For a long time to come, the task of the Anxi Army is to hold on to the important towns. As long as this winter is over, the army can attack at any time, and it will not be a problem to rush to help each other. And Now that the Turkic people are being rebelled by the Uyghurs, all the tribes in their territories that are dependent on them are inevitably ready to move, and they have no time to take care of the Western Regions for a moment, as long as Tumidu does not rebel, they will have full confidence in stabilizing the situation in the end."

Does Tumidu dare to rebel?
It is definitely not dare, and it is not only a question of dare, in the face of the super high treatment given by Datang, only a fool will return to the Turks.

Even if the Turkic people came to persuade them to surrender, the mutual trust had already been lost, and it was impossible for Tu Miduduan to turn back...

As long as Tu Midu does not rebel, Xue Rengui is confident in ensuring the stability of the Western Regions, even if he just stands by and watches when something happens.After this battle, the Anxi army has become a powerful army in the world, enough to guard the Western Regions.

Seeing Xue Rengui's confidence, Fang Jun nodded in approval and said nothing else.

He has always known people well and has no doubts about employing them. He believes that with Xue Rengui's talent and ability plus his familiarity with the situation in the Western Regions, since there is absolutely no problem with such a resolute statement, then naturally there will be no problem.

The more soldiers and horses I bring back, the greater my confidence in defeating the Guanlong rebels. This is naturally a good thing. After all, the Guanlong rebels have gathered more than [-] soldiers and horses in the battle report, and there are still a steady stream of reserve troops ready to invest. battlefield.Occupying Guanlong for more than a hundred years, creating several dynasties with one hand, and always standing in the center of power, the background of the Guanlong Clan is naturally extremely profound.

Such a huge alliance of powerful clans and group forces are deeply intertwined and powerful. Once they make up their minds to participate in the struggle for imperial power, the power they will unleash will be extremely astonishing.Don't look at the gathering of more than ten thousand mobs, but how many soldiers and Zhechong mansions from all over the world are watching from behind?How many of them actually peeped at the opportunity and planned to participate in it personally?
The critical situation in Chang'an is not as simple as the danger in the East Palace. If one is not careful, it will be a huge disaster that will affect the entire empire.

It is very likely that the prosperous age will come to an abrupt end, and even the great empire of Nuo will decline and collapse, and the people who have just struggled from the war for less than 30 years will once again fall into dire straits...

(End of this chapter)