After dealing with some daily chores, Zhang Huaiding, who was a little tired, looked at Huang Mengmeng’s sky, and missed the city of Chang’an, where he had lived for many years. But he didn’t know that under the rule of the Taiping Army, it was again. What's the weather and situation
However, the next moment, there was a voice that seemed to pierce his ears, and he suddenly became energetic and said loudly:
"What, the envoy of the State of Khotan (now the Hotan area of Xinjiang) is here? Call in!"
In fact, as the head of the Allied Forces of the Western Regions that responded to the war, the only remaining Khotan King Yuchibi Rama from the four towns of Anxi in the past, led by five thousand Khotan soldiers and horses also fell into the middle-earth, Khotan's country is left. The confrontation between several princes and their respective ministers fell into a kind of confusion and unknown.
So that after Zhang Huaiding gained a firm foothold, he sent several groups of envoys to the East City of Wangdutian (now Axbil Ancient City near Luopu County, Xinjiang), but none of them could find anyone who could call the shots and negotiate. And this Khotan country is also the focal point of the strategy and negotiation that the Taiping Army explained; there are naturally many reasons and reasons.
First of all, among the many states in the Western Regions that are different in appearance from Middle-Earth, the race, clothing, and customs of the Khotan kingdom from the emperor to the people Li Shu are known as palaces and houses facing east, and most resemble the Eastern Tang Dynasty. The place (not very husky, quite similar to Huaxia) naturally has a sense of cultural identity;
Secondly, the Khotan Kingdom was once the largest center of Mahayana Buddhism in the Western Regions. Now that the external roads are rampant and Buddhism gradually fades away, the only remaining fruit of the Western Regions is the last place of refuge. Whether it was the monks who were expelled by the Brahmin kingdoms in the land of the Tianzhu in the south, or the believers who were persecuted by Xifan in the land of the Lingxi River, they gathered here one after another.
In the old days when the four towns of Anxi survived, Khotan had multiple identities at the same time. It is not only one of the most diligent ministers in the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty, but also one of the four major towns providing the Anxi garrison of the Tang Dynasty. It leads two guards and seven towns and fifteen defenses/forts. At the same time, it is also the governor of the Bisha Dudufu set up in the Datang Dynasty, and it leads more than 30 military palaces (cities) in the ten states; it is in response to the expropriation and dispatch of the Anxi Duhufu.
And each generation of King Khotan naturally also served as the ministerial king of the Tang Dynasty, the vice ambassador of the governor of Bisha, and the deputy ambassador of Anxi Jiedu. At the same time, every time the lord of the country reaches a certain age, he will The abdication was given to the chosen prince, and he led his subjects to Chang'an to settle for the rest of his life, thus realizing a certain kind of honor for the emperor of Tang Dynasty, who was able to bury him in the mausoleum after his death.
Therefore, after decades of rule by the Tubo people and the conquest of the Uighurs from the west, it is one of the few or the only remaining tenacious to maintain their own relative independence, and still be able to pay tribute to the Western Regions that did not fall. country. Therefore, from a natural standpoint, he has always been the leader of the two generations of the rebel army, and needs good potential allies and foreign aid.
It's a pity that the contemporary king Wei Chiwa's entrusted inhumane, not only failed to successfully imitate the history of the Anshi Rebellion, the allied forces of the Western Regions went east to the King of Qin Dynasty and became famous in the annals of history. On the contrary, the defeated army was regarded as the abandoned son of the queen. The soldier was defeated and died in the battle of Shayuan near Chang'an.
Of course, there is also a good nephew of the old Tang Dynasty, one of the three Uighurs, the Lingxi Khanate established by Anxi Uighur Pang Teqin, and even the younger brother of the contemporary Khan master and deputy Khan Bu Lai. (It means male camel king), all of them were not included in the Taiping Army's firearms array with the formation, and other princes and princes of all sizes were captured and killed.
Therefore, in fact, in addition to the place in the middle of the river (the basins of the Sir and Amu Darya rivers in central Asia), in addition to the headquarters of the Khan Lord Aseren (The Lion King) who is in the deputy capital of Daluos, the huge Lingxi rear has appeared. In other words, those small cities and states that were forced to become vassals and subordinates headed by the Ponzi tribe lost their power to suppress them.
And the situation in this situation is undoubtedly that the two generations of Zhang Yichao and Zhang Huaishen, who are struggling to expand their living space and development leeway, have dreamed of the god-given opportunity; however, what Zhang Huaiding can take over now is A Guiyi army who is equally strong in the outside world and can only barely maintain by years of accumulated might.
Although, in addition to the more than a thousand soldiers who escorted him back, the Taiping Army successively released four to five thousand prisoners from the Western Army captured by the West Road raiding Longyou. However, in addition to the fact that the land of Guasha includes young people of the right age, and the re-armed children of the various families and the volunteers of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, it is only more than 10,000 people who are full of money.
At present, it is very reluctant to suppress and deter, several states and localities centered on the six towns of Guasha, and the chaos, while maintaining the basic rule under the framework of the Guiyi Army and Zhang's authority in the face of it. Let alone go all out to explore the possibility of foreign recruitment and use of troops. Not to mention that a considerable part of this army is not subject to his will.
Whether it was the Xizhou Uighur Servant Bone Department, a former ally and opponent, or the Ganzhou Uighur Anning clan as a subordinate vassal, they were also injured in the Battle of Guannei, and there are still many surviving Jian Rui as prisoners of the Taiping Army. Driven to labor; it will inevitably be depressed for a long time in the future, and even more hopeless.
Therefore, in this case, as a regional state with a vast area of thousands of miles and dozens of cities and towns, Khotan, which can conquer tens of thousands of victorious troops all year round, has become a key existence. In fact, in addition to the five thousand soldiers who had already sent troops with the king, the Bisha Dufu, which was once under the jurisdiction of the Anxi Duhu Fu of the Tang Dynasty, still followed the routine system of more than 30 military Fu in ten states.
Therefore, if the remaining Khotan territory can be fully mobilized, there will be few adversary military presences east of Congling (Pamirs).
(Don’t say that the early Buddhists had no martial ethics and were able to spread the Dharma across countless deserts, Gobi, and poor mountains. They were all comparable to Sui Faxian, Yijing, and Tang Xuanzang. Their physical fitness exploded and their spiritual will was extremely tough and survived. This is not the Buddhism people in Middle-earth who were successively domesticated and tuned/instructed by the secular regime to use the Sanwu-One Sect's extermination of Buddhism movement.
As Khotan, the last Buddhist kingdom in the Western Regions, it has made strides with the Anxi Uighur/Black Khanate, which has the Seven River Valley and Fergana Valley, and converted from Buddhism and Manichaeism to Green Religion, because of the persecution of Buddhists. If not, he fought a war of faith for more than 40 years. With the help of the traditional ally Xizhou/Gaochang Uighur, he attacked the capital city of Kashgar and killed the Black Khanate in the battle of Yingjisha. Khan Ali.
Only later, in the rest of the Black Khanate in the western river, under the leadership of Prince Yusup, launched the jihadist army on the grounds of common respect. They recruited a large number of soldiers from Khorizmah, Hezhong, and Khorasan, and from the Turks in the south. The Ghaznavid dynasty received reinforcements, and the *** volunteers brought by four imams, including the sage of the *** religion and the leader of the Bukhara religion, Muhaiddin, joined the ***.
As a result, in the Jedi counterattack under the city of Yutian, Gaochang and Ganzhou Uyghur cavalry of the same faith, horseback infantry of Qingtang Tubo and Tang-style infantry of the Guiyi Army successively came to aid, and the jihadist army was once again annihilated. The four great imams and a large number of them died in battle. On both sides of the Qianli Avenue from Kashgar to Khotan, Mazha, which was called "Sheyid (Tomb of the Holy War)" was left all the way.
But after all, Khotan relies on a desert oasis and a city-state with limited population resources. This process of victory almost exhausted all national power and caused serious local damage. Therefore, when the jihadists come back in the coming year, they will never come back. There was not much resistance left, and they were defeated before the reinforcements arrived.
During this period, I faced repeated requests for help from the State of Tian; I always had the iron-blooded Song with the highest winning rate in foreign wars. The greatest support I could give was to send out a travel group composed of 150 monks as a spiritual force. With the encouragement of the name, Guiyijun and Yutian were included in the foreign feudal clan in the history books and daily notes.
This war expanded the spread of the Confucianism, changed the power of the Confucianism and Buddhism in Xinjiang, and consolidated the position of the Confucianism in Xinjiang. The Buddhist forces that originally had an absolute advantage in the local area have begun to be suppressed and liquidated by the expansion of the Communist Party. Therefore, in the archeology of the ancient temples in Central Asia, a lot of bones can always be excavated.
Although some groups still adhere to the Buddhist beliefs for a long time, and there are still Christian believers such as Manichaeism and Nestorianism in the Western Regions, the trend of overall democracy is inevitable. At the same time, it also caused a large number of deaths in the western and southern parts of the Tarim Basin, the destruction of cities, severe damage to productivity, and economic decline. And a thousand-year-old population change)
(Speaking of which, I would like to advise individual whistle-blower dogs who always talk about religious and ethnic issues. If you have the ability, you can block the official account of the Chinese Academy of History. If you have the ability, you can learn from the central government regarding Xinjiang’s "main ethnicity" issue. I’ve deleted the affirmation, and I have the ability to burn the Tang Dynasty documents unearthed in Kuqa, Xinjiang; is it that citing the official facts that have been recognized and poking some ulterior minds and lungs?)
In addition, I will add a short paragraph from an ancient man. Song Dynasty Hong Hao’s Song Mo Ji Wen records:
"The Uighurs have been in the Wei Dynasty since the end of the Tang Dynasty. In the heyday of the dynasty, there were people who lived in Qinchuan as acquaintances. The unmarried women first communicated with the Han people. There are a few children who can match their species before they are nearly 30 years old. The matchmaker comes to discuss, parents It is said that my daughter tastes to be with someone and someone, and she wins with more, and the customs are all. Today there are also those with deep eyes and unshaven beards, who are born with Han children."
The general idea is that the Uyghur people that the author saw at the time were generally self-contained in Tang, so they were almost Chineseized in ethnicity. In other words, as long as you are once powerful, people cannot look up, even if things change for many years, there will be people who will miss and admire you, and strive for rejuvenation. This is the meaning of the Han and Tang Dynasties.
However, when the envoy from Yutian was brought in, he bowed down in front of Zhang Huaiding with a little anxiety, hissing loudly and shouting:
"Please also Jieshuai for the good sake of the old Japanese alliance and save the thousands of people in our country..." (End of this chapter)