After I looked carefully and deeply, I couldn't help but take a breath. Be good, Wang Xuance has such a big move and great ambitions. Even if I am a man of ancient and modern times, I can't help but sigh. This traitor has a lot of appetite, even ahead of time.

It turned out that Wang Xuance had seen that in recent years, their sphere of influence had been oppressing their living space due to the strength of the Tang Empire and the construction of the Tower Khan Path, and had to gradually move their sphere of influence to the west. The Western Turkic Khan Ashina Helu should be wise to say that he saw that Tubo, which was in a strong upward momentum, was a powerful kingdom, and it was actually kneaded into a dough cake between a few pushes from the Tang Empire. Tubo had become a piece of fat that the Tang Dynasty chewed carefully. Another powerful force that had originally occupied the territory of the Eastern Turkic was also destroyed under the military pressure of the Tang Empire.

The only area around the Tang Empire that can stand the battle of the Tang Empire was the only Western Turks left. The Western Turkic Khan Ashinahelu repeatedly wanted to invade the Western Regions east and wanted to seize control of the Western Regions from the Tang Empire. However, every confrontation between the Turks was sad to find that they had no way to defeat the Tang army. Perhaps it should be said that the combat effectiveness of the Tang Empire's army has exceeded their level. Most of the Tang Dynasty's troops on the northern border and Longyou were cavalry, which was not inferior to the Turkic cavalry in terms of mobility. Moreover, the cavalry in the Tang Dynasty had steel crossbows farther than their cavalry bows, and grenades that shocked horses during close combat.

In addition, the city blocks adopted a brand new building model. The city walls with concrete and bricks and stone structures were for them, and they could not even be able to chew on the ground. Just last year, the Western Turkic Khan Ashinahelu personally led 10,000 iron cavalry of the Turkic tribe, Sugemohe tribe, to attack the Sixty-Eight Posts on the Tower Khan Road. What he picked was just one of the posts, but the Sixty-Eight Posts built by the Tang Dynasty was not something that was easy to grasp.

The sixty-eight posts that Li Zhi, the insidious prince, agreed to build, were not very kind. Li Zhi and I planned to turn them into sixty-eight permanent fortresses, not only for post stations, but also needed to set up markets to facilitate the trade between nomadic peoples and our Tang Dynasty. At the same time, it also had to play a role in the power of the nomadic peoples along the road.

Therefore, the concrete brick and stone structure of the sixty-eight post stations is 500 meters long and wide. The thickness of the city wall is two meters and the height is nine meters. The inner and outer walls are all equipped with female walls on it. In addition to the gecko talent with suction cups on their hands. Most people don’t say they are climbing. Even if they use hands, feet and mouth, it is difficult to move up half a meter away. On the four corners, there is a bunker that is as high as 18 meters from the ground. It is a beacon tower and a fort. The bunker is divided into three layers, and more than a dozen archers can be stationed on each floor to shoot. In addition, there is only a city gate on the side of the road. There is a subway barricade weighing thousands of kilograms behind the city gate. In addition, there is a four-corner thorn scattered around the four corners. There are countless mines buried, twenty mortars in the other city and countless grenades.

The structure of the inner city is also extremely special. If you want to reach the city gate, you must walk up the city wall from the steps opposite the city gate before you can go around the city head. In addition, there is also a suspended suspension bridge on the steps. This suspension bridge is usually closed. Except for the garrison, no one is allowed to step on the city wall. All the firearms of the garrison are weighed within the four turrets on the city wall. Even if someone cuts the rope and wants to seize it, a grenade can blow up the suspension bridge. Anyone who wants to break the fortress from the inside is not as difficult as attacking from the outside.

Just as the Western Turkic Khan Yipi Shekui personally led the Turkic tribe, the 10,000 iron cavalry and iron hooves to roll over and ten thousand horses rose up. When the murderous aura from the West came, it was nearly ten miles away from the post station. The patrol soldiers at the fortress, which were originally as lively as a vegetable market, were doing trade, had already seen the enemy situation through the telescope from the observation post. By the time these Western Turkic barbarians rushed to about a mile away from the post station, the post station had already put all the merchants into the inner city, and closed the city gates and lowered the heavy fence.

Seeing that the Western Turkic barbarians were hopeless to launch a raid, they became eager to attack. When they came, they prepared and brought dozens of ladders. As soon as they came on the field, two thousand iron cavalry flew arrows to the city wall. But who would have thought that laying mines and four-corner irons was not a joke. The ground fire roared, and people were overturned. Just going halfway back, they lost more than a hundred snatchers. However, the Khan came in person. If he just went back like this, he would be too little face.

Therefore, the 10,000 troops of the Western Turkic Khan Yipi Shekui attacked for half a day under such an inn that only stationed for 500 troops and was only 500 meters long and wide, and lost nearly 2,000 people. Even the Western Turkic Khan Ashina Helu, who was watching the battle from afar, almost let several evil Tang artillery soldiers use artillery to bombard them into pieces and flee.

The Sixty-Eight Posts of the Tower Khan Road were thus famous all over the grassland, making Xiao Xiao dare not look at it directly. The nine surnames of Tiele even praised him as the Sixty-Eight Fort of Tiankhan.

The Western Turks were originally composed of ten tribes of the surnames, divided into five Nephi tribes, five Dashijin, and five Dulu tribes. Originally, everyone had many quarrels about where to go in the future. Among them, the tribes headed by the five major Shijin, including the Alishi tribe, believed that it was unwise to repeatedly provoke the Tang Dynasty. At this time, Wang Xuance took advantage of their internal inconsistency and started a new round of provocation and disagreement activities.

According to Wang Xuance's letter, the Western Turkic Khan Yipisakkui had no choice but to move Wang Tingya's tent to the west of the Aral Sea with the will of the people. Wang Xuance sent many Western merchants to the Western Turkic Khan Yipisakkui to boast about his wealth in the West and to offer more wealth. In addition, the eastward advance was unfavorable, and the north of the Caspian Sea and the east of the Black Sea were blank areas of power. In addition, Wang Xuance encouraged him and secretly promised to strive for guidance and inducement that could benefit the West.

The Turks turned their attention to the West and used them to weaken and conquer the Western barbarians. The Tang Dynasty could sell various equipment from the Tang Dynasty to them at the right time to arm them. However, all this required them to exchange horses and other materials needed by the Tang Dynasty. In order to win the trust of the Western Turks, Wang Xuance even sent the latest European details drawn by the Tang Dynasty's Western Regions Intelligence Station to the Western Turks Khan Yipi Shekui.

They could not pass through the Byzantine, a city that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but could directly pass through the coastal plains in the northern Caspian Sea and enter Europe. At that time, countless wealth and women could become the property of the barbarians of the Western Turks. Of course, the people squatting in the West are all a group of uncivilized barbarians. It is definitely a great thing to fight with barbarians.

There is also Dashi. Wang Xuance also began to contact Dashi, but it is still very difficult. According to Wang Xuance's lofty plan, both forces will move westward, allowing them to turn all their attention to the West, so that our Tang Dynasty can fully grasp the Central Asian region.

The idea was to use the coalition forces of Persia and Central Asian countries to advance eastward, so that it could not set foot in Central Asia and had to turn its attention to the West and Africa. Similarly, it also led the eyes of the Western Turks, a powerful barbaric nation, to the west, and used strategies to lead the disaster to the west. The Great Food was in the south and the Turks were in the north, and under the two ministers, they tried to use them to attack the chaotic West.

And the vast land of Africa and Europe can definitely be used by them. Think about it, in later generations, the Dashi Barbarians had no choice but to advance westward along Africa and occupy West Pakistan because they could not defeat Eastern Rome. Now, with the Western Turks and they had the same dream and the same goal, I believe that Eastern Rome, the city of Western civilization that could stand for thousands of years in history, would collapse under the pressure of two powerful forces, and end their national destiny thousands of years ahead of schedule.

At that time, the power of the Tang Empire in Central Asia that could not be deceived by anyone could have inserted the Tang Dynasty flag into the flying spire in Byzantine City.

This idea is not only grand, it should be said to be shocking, it is hundreds of times more radical than the way I considered. Originally, I hoped to let the Tang Dynasty's battle flag be planted into Europe, but that would have to take into account the current national conditions and national strength of the Tang Empire. Now, Wang Xuance simply borrowed others and let the Western Turks compete with the West. Then, the Tang Dynasty came to make profits. Although this strategy was also dangerous, the danger was not the Tang Dynasty, but the Western barbarians.

Even if the Dashi and the Turks became strong in the future and wanted to turn back to deal with the Tang Dynasty, then the Tang Dynasty would definitely be able to assimilate and operate the Central Asian region as solid. In addition, if it could capture the old land of Byzantium, it would be a matter of mastery of the lifeline of Eastern and Western culture and trade.
Chapter completed!