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【1013 History is always strikingly similar】

The cute president gave in to these people and negotiated with them, not wanting to take the too-barbarous military colonial route. If you don’t obey, you will kill. It’s easy to save trouble. If you kill people, how many years will it take to fill the population gap? The population of tens of millions of ethnic groups in the entire Central Asian Province is centrifuged, and chaos will continue.

Therefore, killing cannot solve all problems.

"I've given you time to adapt, and now I've given it. And, in the administrative process, can't I continue to adapt? I wonder what was wrong with the propaganda of the Chinese army? I think if the people sincerely support the leadership of the Chinese and Huacui Party, this problem would not exist." 6 Kangtian's words were very official, but they could still be kept in a state of water.

The cute president thinks it is fun. His long-term career as a senior military official can allow a cowherd to grow into a general or a senior government official.

If the people present are used in the later generations, they can actually be regarded as traitors. The traitors are not very arrogant. At most, they dare to fight for some rights and interests for themselves. They really have to stand up and fight directly against China, so they naturally dare not.

The cute president patiently worked at the venue for more than two hours. The deliberation process was very fast, with more than one hundred resolutions, and finally all passed unanimously!

The Chinese government is signed by Princess Katrina Kaifu, and Princess Katrina Kaifu. Now, in many cases, it can be equivalent to the signature of the cute president, because it comes directly from the president's secretariat, and even represents China better than Zhao Qingluo's signature and seal of the Chinese central government.

Most of the members of the conference signed the letter.

Not only signing, but also taking photos when everyone signs, and then taking various group photos. On the surface, it was a harmonious place. After gaining the experience of Siberia, China has become more skillful and more in-depth in Central Asia Province. The next day, the large-scale newspaper layout will be all these photos.

If you say that the people have opinions, then you are incompetent. Once you sign, you have to do persuasion work. If not, you will go to Huajun.

Force is always the first priority, and only with the politics of force to protect the escort can we stand firm.

In fact, as early as the Tang Dynasty, China had the ability to occupy the entire Central Asia. At that time, I missed a good opportunity. When I arrived at the Mongolians, I didn’t know what governance was. No matter how big the territory the Mongolians captured, it had nothing to do with China. Only when Mongolia was part of China, the Mongolians were Chinese.

During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, the forces of the Tang Dynasty met with the emerging Abbasid dynasty (i.e., the Black-clothed Food) from Arab, emerging and Shiites, and led to the battle.

The Battle of Talas was a collision between the most powerful Eastern and Western empires in the world at that time, and it had great historical significance.

In 751, China was in an unprecedented heyday during the Tianbao period of the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

During the reign of Li Longji, the national strength of the Tang Dynasty reached its peak and it also carried out many foreign troops.

Although Li Longji was increasingly intoxicated by the wine and sex at this time, he was no longer the wise monarch who worked hard to govern, and there was a serious crisis hidden under the surface of the prosperous society, the Tang Dynasty was at least the "big" Tang Dynasty, and the most respectable powerful country in the world at that time.

The ancestors of the Han people, the Huaxia people, mastered the land in the Yellow River Basin (Central Plains) and the Yangtze River Basin (Jiangnan) through the integration of war and culture.

For the Han people, the wilderness outside the Central Plains Jiangnan was not attractive - because these lands could not grow crops on a large scale; and the Han people's "expansion" was mostly because they could not withstand the massacres, plunder and harassment carried out by surrounding ethnic groups for their own territory in the past. They launched a large-scale military campaign for the purpose of stabilizing the country's territory and eliminating future troubles.

In order to defend Chang'an, it is necessary to occupy Hexi, in order to defend Hexi, it is necessary to control Qinghai, and in order to control Qinghai, it must occupy the Western Regions to divide the troops of the Tubo Empire so that it cannot expand eastward. Guo Yuanzhen, a famous general of the Tang Dynasty, negotiated with the Tubo Grand Secretary Qinling on this issue. If the Tubo Kingdom abandons Qinghai, the Tang Empire will give up the Western Regions.

During the reign of Emperor Gaozong, the Eastern and Western Turkic Khanate were successively destroyed by China. In the following decades, small Western countries such as Yiwu (Hami), Shanshan, Gaochang, Yanqi, Kucha, Shule, and Khotan were either forced to surrender to the Tang Dynasty or destroyed by force. Since then, the Tang Dynasty established the Western Regions ruling system with the four towns of Anxi - Kucha (now Kuche, Xinjiang), Shule (now Kashgar, Xinjiang), Khotan (now southwest of Hotan, Xinjiang), and Yanqi (now southwest of Yanqi, Xinjiang), and Anxi Protectorate was located in Kucha.

Almost at the same time, Arabs in the Middle East were also rising rapidly.

Since the Prophet Muhammad and the Four Orthodox Harry, Muslims have controlled the vast territory that the Assyrians, Persians and Romans have never dared to imagine. They have expanded from several tribes on the Arabian Peninsula into an unprecedented empire spanning the three continents of Europe, Asia and Africa, occupied the entire North Africa and Spain to the west, and captured the entire West Asia and most of Central Asia to the east, and the Mediterranean became the inner lake of the Arabs.

The Arab Empire became China, and other powerful force influencing the Western Regions besides Tubo.

At the beginning of the 8th century, Hajaj bin Yusuf, the highest commander of the Arab Empire in the East, promised that his two generals, Muhammad and Gutaibai Ibn Muslims, would appoint who would first set foot on Chinese territory.

So the former conquered India's border areas, while the latter conquered large areas of Central Asia such as Taligan, Schumann, Tahastan, Bukhara, etc., but no one could cross the borders of China.

In the third and fifth years of Kaiyuan, Tuqishi joined forces with Tubo, and the Great Food Army fought two wars against the four towns of Anxi, and were both repelled. The war in the fifth year of Kaiyuan was found in "Zizhi Tongjian". New Turpan documents also involved this battle.

Due to its huge geographical advantages, and the Tang army fought with the Tubo Kingdom in Qinghai during this period, and had no time to take care of the Western Regions. Arab influence gradually emerged. Most of the countries in the Western Regions originally believed in Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, etc. or their own traditional religions, and were uneasy about the eastward advance of culture and were even more afraid of the fierce Muslim warriors. Therefore, many countries asked the Tang Dynasty for help.

In the early years of Tianbao, Tubo used force to force Xiao Bolu (Gilgit, now Kashmir) to marry him.

Since Xiao Bolu is located on the important road from Tubo to Anxi, more than 20 countries in the northwest surrender to Tubo, interrupting their contribution to the Tang Dynasty.

When Tian Renwan, the governor of the four towns at that time, failed to attack three times, Gao Xianzhi (a remnant of Goguryeo) was appointed as the camp recruitment envoy by Xuanzong in 747 AD (the sixth year of Tianbao), and led 10,000 infantry and cavalry to carry out a long-distance expedition.

Gao Xianzhi left Anxi and arrived at Lianyun Castle in just over a hundred days (Salhad, northwestern Xiaobolu, now northeast of Afghanistan).

Lianyun Castle was in a dangerous terrain, and there were 10,000 Tubo soldiers defending it. However, the Tang army under Gao Xianzhi's command was brave in fighting and captured the city in half a day. After that, Gao Xianzhi led his troops to continue to go deeper, crossed the steep Tanju Ridge, entered Anuyue City, pacified the Xiaobolu Kingdom, and captured King Xiaobolu and Princess Tubo alive. After this battle, the Tang army became more famous in the Western Regions, and Gao Xianzhi was also promoted to the Jiedushi of the Four Towns of Anxi.

In the ninth year of Tianbao (75o), Gao Xianzhi was ordered to launch an army again, defeating the Cheshi Kingdom, which was closely affiliated with Tubo, and capturing its king Bote.

These two difficult expeditions made Gao Xianzhi gain a great reputation in the Western Regions and also marked the peak of the Tang Dynasty's expansion in Central Asia.

At this time, China had become the occupant of the Tarim region, the Ili River Basin and the Isek Lake area and the Sect Master of Tashkent. She controlled the Pamir Valley and became the protector of the Tochar region, Kabul and Kashmir. Gao Xianzhi was the governor of the Tang Dynasty in Central Asia.

Almost at the same time, the Arab domestic revolution was born. In 1975, the Abbasid Dynasty (the flag is still black, known as the black-clothed food in Chinese history) replaced the Umayyad Dynasty (the flag is still white, known as the white-clothed food in Chinese history).

After initially solving the problems in Tubo, Gao Xianzhi planned to take advantage of this big food and change the generation of the big food. The rebellion in the river was a rare opportunity to cut off the big food and gradually restore the Tang Dynasty's sovereignty in the area outside the Lingbian.

So a small Western Region country called Shi Kingdom became a victim.

In 750 AD, the rulers of the Tang Dynasty, on the grounds that the Shi Kingdom, the vassal state of the Western Regions, "no foreign ministers' etiquette" was "the governor of Anxi of the Tang Dynasty, led troops to conquer. The Shi Kingdom requested surrender, and Gao Xianzhi promised to reconcile.

Soon Gao Xianzhi violated his promise, captured and slaughtered the city of Shiguo, took away males, killed the elderly, women and children, searched for property, and captured the king of Shiguo. In the first month of 751, Gao Xianzhi entered the court and presented several captured kings to Xuanzong. He was awarded the general of the Right Yulin for his outstanding military achievements and killed the king of Shiguo. At this time, Gao Xianzhi reached the highest peak of his career in war.

The prince of Shi Kingdom, who escaped by chance, so he asked for help from the Abbasid Dynasty (Black-clothed Dashi) of Dashi (Arab Empire). Dashi reinforcements planned to attack the four towns in the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty. Gao Xianzhi took the initiative to attack Dashi.

Gao Xianzhi led the Tang Dynasty coalition forces to raid for a long distance, going deeper than 700 miles, and finally encountered the Dashi army in Talas.

If the Tang Dynasty wants to establish hegemony in Central Asia, it must defeat Arabia, and if Arabia wants to fully control Central Asia, it must defeat the Tang Dynasty's challenge.

In April of the tenth year of Tianbao (751), Gao Xianzhi led his army from Anxi. After crossing the Pamir Mountains and crossing the desert, after three months of long journey, Gao Xianzhi arrived at the city of Talas in July. Thousands of Arab troops had already been stationed in the city, so the Tang army had to start besieging Talas (near Jiangbul City in Kazakhstan today).

After receiving the news of Gao Xianzhi's attack, the Eastern Governor Abu Muslin, stationed in Basra, immediately issued an order, and the general Seyed bin Houmede led thousands of troops to guard the city of Talas first, strengthened defense, and won time for the army to gather.

Abu Muslims led their 10,000 people to Samarkand to build fortifications and prepare for the war. Chiad and another general Abuda Ud Harid bin Ibrahim Zuhli summoned 10,000 troops from the river to rush to Talas City. Gao Xianzhi siege failed to defeat the city of the city for five days. Arab reinforcements arrived and attacked the Tang army from behind. Both sides fought a decisive battle near Oli Ata on both sides of the Talas River. The mercenaries of the Gloro tribe suddenly rebelled when they saw something was wrong, and the Tang army was in chaos.

The Arab coalition took the opportunity to dispatch heavy cavalry to assault the center of the Tang army camp. The Tang army, which had been fighting for several days, could no longer support it under the attacks inside and outside, and finally defeated. Gao Xianzhi placed an order to escape under the cover of the night.

Li Siye and Duan Xiushi gathered their scattered soldiers and escaped to Anxi. On the way, they happened to meet the soldiers of the Chinese coalition forces, Bahan, who also fled here, causing the troops and vehicles to be crowded and blocked the road.

Li Siye was afraid that the Arab pursuers would be able to fight against the Allies, and waved his big stick to kill more than a hundred soldiers of the same Tang coalition, and then he opened a bloody road and the remaining Tang army was able to pass.

Previously, Li Siye advised Gao Xianzhi to abandon his troops and flee, but was scolded by Duan Xiushi for "fighting against the enemy and running away is not brave; avoiding oneself from trapping the crowd is not be kind."

After gathering the remaining soldiers, Gao Xianzhi was not willing to accept it and still wanted to launch a counterattack. After Li Siye and others persuaded him, he finally gave up. In the end, Gao Xianzhi had to lead the remaining soldiers to flee to Anxi.

The Tang army suffered heavy losses in this battle. The 20,000 elite troops in Anxi were almost wiped out. Nearly half of them were killed and captured, and only more than a thousand people were able to recover.

Arabia was busy quelling the rebellion and was satisfied with the preservation of Central Asia, but failed to expand further.

After the Battle of Talas, the elite troops of the Anxi Protectorate were completely lost, but the recovery ability during the prosperous Tang Dynasty was amazing.

Just two years later, Feng Changqing, who was promoted to the governor of Anxi, attacked Dabolu (now Palestine, northwest of Kashmir) in the 12th year of Tianbao (753). He "defeated it and returned after surrendering." This shows that the strength of the Anxi Protectorate had been basically restored.

If it weren't for the Anshi Rebellion, the Anshi Protectorate might have the ability to compete with the Arabs again.

Gao Xianzhi retreated and was still entrusted by Xuanzong to value it.

In November of the 14th year of Tianbao (755), An Lushan rebelled against Fanyang, and the world was in chaos.

Gao Xianzhi was ordered to conquer the rebels and guarded Tongguan with empty defense and no warfare. This famous Goguryeo general showed his outstanding military talent and once defended the gateway of Chang'an.

Unfortunately, soon Xuanzong believed the slander and mistakenly killed Gao Xianzhi.

After that, the Tang Dynasty gradually fell into a state of separatist rule by the vassal states, and did not regain its former glory. The hegemony in the Western Regions also disappeared with the wind with the collapse of the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

Due to the Anshi Rebellion a few years later, China's national strength was severely consumed, so it could only give up the competition with Arabia in Central Asia.

At the same time, the rise of Tubo successfully blocked the Arabs' eastward advance and avoided further loss of the western territory of the Tang Dynasty.

If it weren't for the civil strife within the Tang Empire, perhaps, in just a few years, they would have regained their hegemony from the Arabs.

However, the subsequent Anshi Rebellion caused the Tang army to lose this opportunity forever. It was this eight-year civil war from the empire that almost exhausted all the wealth of this powerful empire.

The decline only suddenly began at that time.

The empire rebuilt from the ruins is no longer the former Tiankhan Empire. In 792 AD, the Tubo people conquered the last stronghold of the empire in the Tarim Basin.

The Han army never set foot on this land in nearly eight hundred years before the Qing Dynasty.

History is always surprisingly similar. This time, without absolute superior forces, the Chinese army relied on political means and the momentum of defeating Tsarist Russia to absorb the Central Asian regime. The requirements for the cute president, the Chinese army, the Bureau of Statistics, and the administrative system of China are even higher!
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