Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 3251
The once prosperous Loulan Kingdom was completely cut off from then on, and the world only knew Shanshan.

Tangni City is connected to Qiemo, Jingjue, Jumi, and Khotan in the southwest, Cheshi in the north, Yanqi in the northwest, Bailongdui in the east, and Dunhuang in the east, which is the hub of the Silk Road.

Of course, Muni City is not far from Yumen Pass, and it is difficult for Turkic people to infiltrate it, and it has always been under the control of Datang.However, from Muni City to the west, the control of the Tang army gradually weakened. When it was near Gaochang, it could only maintain the control of various important cities.

This is the status quo of the Western Regions. It is not because of the lack of control of the Tang Dynasty, but because the Western Regions are too vast and the population is too sparse. If you want to maintain a strong ruling power in every place, you must have more than 30 troops stationed all year round. The price to pay is too great.

The sky was full of wind and snow, and the vision gradually became blurred.

After returning to the house, after Fang Jun sat back at the desk, a soldier pushed the door in and said, "Commander, a letter from Chang'an has arrived."

Fang Jun nodded, and the soldiers stepped forward to hand over the letterhead to him, then turned around and pushed it out.

After pouring himself a cup of tea, Fang Jun first looked at the sealing sealant and saw that the prince's seal on it was intact, then he opened the envelope, took out the letter paper, and looked at it carefully.

After a long time, he put down the letter paper, picked up his teacup and took a sip.

The tea is already lukewarm.

Putting down the teacup, he called the soldiers outside the door and ordered them to call Pei Xingjian and Cheng Wuting together, and the soldiers led them away.

After a while, Pei Xingjian and Cheng Wu, who were in the cold, walked in quickly. After seeing the ceremony together, Pei Xingjian asked: "The commander-in-chief is eager to summon you, but what's the matter?"

Fang Jun pointed to the letterhead on the table, and said, "Sit down first, and then we'll talk after reading."

"Here."

When the two were seated, Pei Xingjian picked up the letterhead and looked at it carefully, while Fang Jun took off the boiling water from the stove, brewed a pot of tea again, and poured a cup for each of them.

The two quickly thanked each other.

After a while, Pei Xingjian read the letter, handed it to Cheng Wuting, took a sip of hot tea from his teacup, then held the boiling hot teacup in both hands, sighed softly, and said, "Chang'an City...is really a ghost and a snake god, etc. When the empire is in crisis, these people have no heart for the country and the people, and blindly fight for power and profit. It is really shameful and hateful. However, His Royal Highness reminded the commander to be careful of harm... You are now in the army, and you are all confidantes. Some people are daring, but where is the chance?"

Fang Jun snorted, and said disdainfully: "If you can't get close, naturally you have to attack from the outside. Although the territory of the Western Regions is controlled by the Anxi Army, the Turks come and go like the wind. It may not be that no one secretly communicated with the Turks to leak the right Tunwei's whereabouts."

Since leaving Chang'an, he has been marching all the way, the cold and harsh environment made his face darker, the short mustache on his lips became thicker and thicker, his cheeks were thin and his face was rigid, his eyes became brighter and shinier, and his momentum became stronger Yuan Ting Yue Zhi looks majestic and dignified.

With a cold snort in this life, he became more and more domineering.

At this moment, Cheng Wuting also finished reading the letter, put it on the table, and said in a deep voice: "The Guanlongmen faction has great influence in the Anxi Army, and they have always had secret contacts with the Turkic people, so they are very likely to betray our Right Tunwei. , have to guard against."

Fang Jun nodded.

In fact, the Guanlongmen faction has very little regard for family and country. They only have interests in their eyes. As long as they can grab enough interests, they will treat their ancestors, abandon their ancestors, and cooperate with the enemy and treason with nothing.

I remember the first time I commanded the Shenji Battalion to follow Hou Junji to conquer Gaochang Kingdom, and I encountered a surprise attack by Turkic wolf cavalry on the shore of Lop Nur Lake, and almost wiped out the entire army and died here.Afterwards, I learned that someone bought the Turkic people with ten carts of refined iron, so that they could bypass the main force of the Tang army and attack him.

Although there was no evidence at the time, Fang Jun deeply suspected that Chang Sun Chong did it.As the eldest son of the eldest grandson family, he secretly colluded with the Turkic people, and was able to mobilize the wolf riders around the Turkic Khan, which is enough to show the deep entanglement between the Guanlongmen Clan and the Turkic people.

At this moment, if he wanted to fall into the sand in the Western Regions, it would not be surprising to bribe the Turkic people again.

Immediately, he added: "Not only the Turks, even the Arabs are also likely to make a move."

Pei Xingjian was at a loss: "Aren't the Arabs fighting back and forth with the Anxi army in the west of Gongyue City? How could they send out an army to go deep into the hinterland of the Western Regions and take great risks to attack us?"

Arabs are different from Turks.

The Turkic people have always had a strong control over the Western Regions. Even though they were defeated several times by the Tang Dynasty and had to flee to the desert grassland in the far west, they still had a strong foundation in the Western Regions. It is not difficult to sneak into the Western Regions and attack Youtunwei.

But the Arabs are outsiders, they have never set foot in the Western Regions, and now they wantonly slaughtered the Hu tribes in the Western Regions for food and supplies.

Immediately, thinking of a possibility, his expression changed, and he blurted out, "Could the commander think that someone is colluding with the Arabs?"

This is unbelievable.

The Turkic people are tyrannical in Mobei, and they are powerful. Even though they are beaten into a mess by the Tang Dynasty now, their roots are still there. It is understandable that those powerful forces secretly colluded with them to seek benefits.However, the Arabs are western barbarians and have never had any contact with the Tang Dynasty. This time, they invaded the Western Regions as robbers, robbing the interests of various clans in the Western Regions. mutual cooperation?
no profit...

Fang Jun was playing with the ceramic teacup in his hand, and said in a deep voice: "This time the Arabs conquered the Western Regions, from the timing they seized when they sent troops, to the marching route and deployment after entering the Western Regions, all of them showed the situation of the Anxi Army. Knowing it in detail, it is always possible to avoid the truth and make it false, which makes the Anxi army restrained everywhere. If Xue Rengui's military strategy is not the best choice, and the Anxi army is elite and good at fighting, I am afraid that it will have been defeated. It is impossible for the Arabs to have such a powerful detailed operation system. It can only be that someone secretly betrayed the secrets of the Anxi Army."

Pei Xingjian was shocked and said: "So, it can be called treason!"

Cheng Wuting stood beside him and said in a strange manner: "So what about treason? In the eyes of those aristocratic families, only the family has no country, as long as they can gain benefits for the family, they don't care whether the empire is full of floods and wars!"

Why is the aristocratic family condemned by the world?It is because of their indifference to the country and the nation, and they are wholeheartedly seeking the interests of the family. As long as it is beneficial to the family, they can definitely treat the people as dogs and the country as straw mats, and hand them over to the hands of foreigners.

Since the ages, nothing like this.

Fang Jun took a sip of his tea and sighed softly: "It's a pity that the 'Baiqisi' is restrained by His Majesty in Chang'an City. At most, he has energy in the Guanzhong area, and in order to prevent his tail from getting too big, he only faces the inside and not the outside. 'Baiqisi' has become the intelligence agency of the Tang military, responsible for collecting internal and external intelligence, so we don't know that those people are collaborating with the enemy and treason but have no evidence, so we can only let it go."

In his opinion, His Majesty Li Er was still too cautious.

It is true that while consolidating the imperial power, the emperor's minions such as the "Hundred Knights" are very likely to develop into a vicious tumor that cannot be removed, and then destroy the court structure and make the heavens angry, but if they are guided to develop outward, there will be no way out. And unfavorable weapon.

Perhaps, history also limited the emperor's vision.From ancient times to the present, countless emperors have had such powerful and powerful secret service offices as "Baiqisi", such as "Plum Blossom Neiwei", "Huangchengsi", "Jinyiwei", "Stick Office", etc. etc., but they only regard it as the emperor's minion, responsible for stabilizing the imperial rule, but never develop its function to penetrate externally.

In wars, the role of intelligence is obvious, and sometimes it is even more powerful than a powerful army. These emperors use the most powerful intelligence agencies under their hands in vain. They only know how to stabilize the imperial power and prevent internal chaos.

As a result, both the Song and Ming dynasties fell into the hands of foreign races, and their own intelligence agencies made almost no contribution to foreign wars...

The three of them were discussing the countermeasures, when they heard footsteps outside, the soldiers entered after knocking on the door, saluting: "Commander, Xue Sima sent someone from Gongyue City to bring you a letter."

Fang Jun's heart sank, and he hurriedly said, "Bring him here!"

Could it be that something happened in the Battle of the Western Regions?
Although the Arabs are unstoppable and march straight in, the Western Regions are vast and have sufficient strategic depth. Xue Rengui's strategy is excellent, and the situation will not be corrupted for a while, leading to the complete fall of Gongyue City and Luntai City, and the complete exposure of Jiaohe City. Under the peak of the enemy soldiers.

But Xue Rengui sent someone to deliver the letter at this time, obviously he had just entered the Western Regions and the letter was already on his way, which gave Fang Jun a bad feeling...

(End of this chapter)