Tibet

Chapter 273

Financial constraints are the best reason to convince the Abbasid caliphate. The Abbasid caliph quickly issued an order, agreeing that the [-] Khorasan army should return to Mulu immediately, ordering Abu Muslim to control the situation in Hezhong and Tocharo as soon as possible, and get River Silver Mine.

In the Governor's Mansion, Abu Muslim was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, pacing back and forth with his hands behind his back. He received an urgent help letter from Ziyad from Talas ten days ago.

Abu Muslim also realized that the Tang army attached great importance to Hezhong, so he did not hesitate to dispatch the main force of the Anxi army. If he did not send troops, it would probably result in the loss of people, money, and land.

In particular, the rebellion in Bukhara has just subsided, and there are still a lot of remnants that have not been cleared. He got the news that the rebellion showed signs of rebounding, and a large number of expelled Zoroastrians began to gather in Guangming Temple again, but the army that suppressed them was trapped. Talas.

But Abu Muslim also received the caliphate's warrant from Baghdad, agreeing that the [-] Khorasan troops should return to Mulu and send troops to Hezhong as soon as possible.

The problem now is time, the army is still on its way back to Mulu, he needs to wait patiently.

Abu Muslim walked to the sand table with his hands behind his back. This is the sand table he brought back from Shiguo. From above, you can clearly see the vast area from Congling Mountain in the east to the Amu Darya River in the west.

This sand table is very useful to him, he can fully grasp the situation in the entire river area.

Abu Muslim's eyes fell on the city of Talas, and then walked eastward along the city of Talas, and finally his eyes fell on the city of Broken Yeh. This is the base camp of the Tang army, about [-] miles away from the city of Talas.

If the main force of the Tang army went to Talas City, wouldn't Suiye feel empty?What if their logistics and food routes are cut off?
He suddenly remembered Prince Tuqishi Yu Luohuo who fled to Mulu, and he immediately ordered his subordinates: "Go and find Prince Tuqishi Yu Luohuo!"

Not long after, a man about 30 years old came. He was not tall, very strong, and had a big beard. This man was Prince Tuqishi Yu Luohuo. Huo escaped by chance, found Dashi, and begged Dashi to send troops to recover Suiye and Yili River Valley for him. At that time, the Wumaiye Dynasty was already in decline, and he didn't dare to provoke the Tang army, so he rejected his request.

When the Abbasid dynasty was established last year, he asked the governor of Khorasan, Abu Muslim, to send troops, but Muslims refused without hesitation.

But now, Abu Muslim has given him another glimmer of hope.

"Suiye is a good place. There is Rehai, Yili River Valley, Chu River Valley and Yibohai. There are still tens of thousands of my subjects living there. If the Great Food Army recovers Suiye for me, Tuqi Shi will definitely convert. Dashi religion, allegiance to Dashi."

It sounds nice, but the essence is to send troops out of food, and he came to reap the benefits. Abu Muslim would not do such a stupid thing of making wedding dresses for others.

"Apart from Tuqishi, what other nomads are there?"

"There is also the Ge Luolu Department, but they are the lackeys of Tang Jun. They were the ones who worked for Tang Jun and wiped out Tuqishi."

"Where is Ge Luolu's department?"

Yu Luohuo pointed to the west side of Yibohai on the sand table, "This is their territory!"

The Muslim nodded, "It doesn't seem very good! There are relatively few rivers, why don't they go to the Yili River Valley and the Chu River Valley?"

Yu Luohuo sneered and said: "Of course they want to go, they want to go even in their dreams, but that is Tang Jun's territory, how can it be their turn!"

Abu Muslim squinted his eyes and asked, "Does the chief Ge Luolu have any grudge against you?"

"The chief of the Ge Luolu tribe is called Sa Lei. His father was hanged by my grandfather. He has a deep-rooted hatred. When the Great Food Army attacked Suiye, the Ge Luolu people must be wiped out, and there must be no future troubles."

Abu Muslim nodded slowly, the prince in front of him is the best greeting gift for the Ge Luolu people.
Three days later, the [-] Khorasan army arrived at Mulu. After only one day of rest, Abu Muslim personally led the [-] army along the Karakum River to kill the area in the middle of the river.

It has been half a month since the city of Talas was besieged without attacking, and the Tang army has been waiting for information from Bukhara and Samarkand.

Li Ye is in full charge of Tang Jun's information, and he has connections to obtain various information.

Although the Tocharian Allied Forces were responsible for information transmission, Li Ye felt that their intelligence system was not very reliable. One was the delay of intelligence, and the other was the lack of important information.

For example, the rebellion of tens of thousands of Zoroastrians in Bukhara, they missed such important information. If the rebellion in Bukhara is used well, it will definitely seriously affect the strategic decision of Abu Muslim.

Li Ye knew very well that the Buddhist forces were aware of the Bukhara rebellion, but they were not interested in the actions of the Zoroastrians, so they did not consider it important information.

It was this selective mistake that made Li Ye feel that it was necessary to build an intelligence network by himself. He still used the contacts of Bahanna. Eagle Letter provides various business intelligence to the headquarters of the Barhana Chamber of Commerce.

Then just change the commercial information into military information. Once Bahana receives the message from Feiying, he will immediately send someone to ride a horse to send the information to Talas City. Six beacon towers were built on the top of Qianquan Mountain and north of Kesai City. Once the main force of Dashi was dispatched, the beacon towers would be lit.

That afternoon, Li Ye was reporting to Gao Xianzhi the adjustment of the trebuchet in the big tent of the Chinese Army, when suddenly there was a commotion outside, and someone rushed to the tent door and shouted: "Commander, the beacon fire on the top of the mountain is lit!"

Li Ye was overjoyed, and hurriedly walked out of the big tent, Gao Xianzhi also followed.

After walking out of the big tent, I could see clearly that three straight beams of smoke were burning on the top of Qianquan Mountain.

"Is it the main force of the enemy army?" Gao Xianzhi asked.

Li Ye nodded, "This beacon tower has only one purpose. When more than [-] cavalry troops pass by Bukhara, it will light a beacon fire. A [-] cavalry army will light two beacon fires. A cavalry army of more than [-] will light two beacon fires. The food army is dispatched, that is three beacons!"

Gao Xianzhi stared at the three beams of beacon smoke, nodded slightly and said: "It seems that the main force of the enemy army has been dispatched!"

He smiled and asked Li Ye again: "Isn't it too cruel to act according to the plan?"

Li Ye said calmly: "The battlefield is never either you die or I live. Why should the commander care about how they die?"

A flash of approval flashed in Gao Xianzhi's eyes, and he said slowly: "I'm just worried that you have the kindness of a woman, what you said is quite right, there is never room for mercy on the battlefield!"

The night gradually deepened, and at midnight, eighteen large trebuchets slowly approached the city of Talas. These were Kundu stones built according to the patterns on the treasure book, and they were exactly the trebuchets of the Tang Dynasty. They reassemble.

Now that the snake has been lured out of the hole, Tang Jun will naturally kill the [-] food army in the city.

If they are not killed, once the war breaks out, the Tang army will face the severe situation of being attacked from both sides.

There is only one gate in Talas City, and almost all the cities in the nine kingdoms of Sogdia have one gate. This is mainly because the palace is usually located at the top of the main road, and it is not convenient to open the gate behind the palace.

But Juzhanti is a special case. It is a transportation hub city and needs to open the north and south gates.

Six thousand crossbowmen were already in place, and the city gate was sealed off, and five thousand cavalry were deployed around the city wall. Even if they jumped into the city to escape, they would die.

Naturally, the Tang army wanted to attack Talas City with fire. Eighteen large trebuchets surrounded Talas City from east, west and south.

The Kanda of Bahana is oil. The Fergana Basin is a well-known oil producing area in Central Asia. A small amount of oil has spilled since ancient times. The largest overflow well is in Anji City in Bahana.

For hundreds of years, people here have been using oil to treat skin and light lamps, but the use of oil for war began with Li Ye.

The oil is packed in large clay pots. The climate here is dry and there are not many trees. Wooden barrels are almost never used, but various clay pots are used, and it is the same until now.

A clay jar of oil weighs about fifty catties, and if it falls from a height of one meter, the clay jar will shatter into pieces.

The large trebuchet opened creakingly, and large clay pots were put into the throwing pockets. Gao Xianzhi gave an order, "Launch!"

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Eighteen trebuchets were launched at the same time, and eighteen cans of kerosene flew into the air, drawing an arc in the air, and threw them into the city of Talas.

Thousands of cavalrymen of the Tang army fired dense rockets into the city at the same time. Thousands of rockets soared into the sky, like thousands of bright lights across the night sky, and shot into the city.

The city suddenly ignited a raging fire.

　The origin of oleander is Central Asia.

　　But during the Tang Dynasty, Lao Gao really didn't know whether Central Asia produced oil or not.

　　However, according to historical records, both Persia and Byzantium used oil to fight.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)