Chapter 161 The End of an Era

A report of an expedited battle was sent to Zhang Mai, and the figures at the core decision-making level of the Tiance Army were frightened.

Ma Jirong and others believed that the river was settled now, so the generals could be left to guard the river, and the marshal should return to the east quickly.

If we want to stay in the generals, everyone immediately thought of Guo Luo, but Guo Luo said: "Hastyness will not be achieved. Things in the East are naturally very urgent, but there are still some things in the Western Regions that need to be cooked by the Marshal. Now if the Marshal returns in a hurry, we will see our urgency by the countries of the Heavenly Front and the tribes of the Western Regions. I am afraid that there will be some troubles left! I think it is necessary to take some time to completely stabilize the Western Regions so that the Western countries will no longer dare to look at our Tang Dynasty, and then the Marshal will return to the east calmly. In that case, the Marshal will have no worries after returning to the east. Later, the political strategy of our Tiance Army can be adjusted to attack the east and defend the west again."

Liu An, who had just arrived, said: "But the situation in the East is so critical, if it is delayed again..."

Guo Luo said: "Although the East is in danger, the news has reached here. The matter over there is at least one or two months ago. It will take at least one or two months to go back. If the elite army returns to Liangzhou together, it will take at least half a year. The elite army needs to rest after such a tired Long March, and it will take at least another year. In this way, it will be at least a long time different from the East's crisis. If you hurry back, it will be useless."

Zhang Mai was still pondering, and Wei Renpu stepped forward and said, "I think that the East does not dare to act rashly now. I don't know if the Marshal has returned. You can first inform the East of the Marshal's return to the East. If Luntai and Liangzhou get this exact news, they can gradually adjust the strategy of attacking the West of the West to attacking the West of the East. When the Marshal returns to the East, they can use the power of thunder and thunder to clean up the ruins of the Central Plains in one fell swoop."

Seeing that every literary and military said this, Zhang Mai said, "Okay, that's it."

At this time, Wei Renpu drafted the document, Guo Luo continued to clear the four borders, and Guo Wei led the elite troops to travel east first.

Zhang Mai's big penis is still in Samarkand!

On this day, Guo Bian came to write a letter from the west, asking Zhang Mai to move to Bukhara.

Liu An said: "Since you want to return east, how can you go west?"

Guo Luo said, "Because I want to go east, I have to go west."

Everyone was puzzled by what he said, but Zhang Mai agreed with a smile, immediately took his wife and children and rushed all the way to Bukhara. When he walked on the road, he heard the report from the back: "Catch Satuk!"

It turned out that although Satuk escaped into the mountains, the river was now all over Zhang Mai. The Western Regions were raging, and everyone believed that Zhang Mai would suppress the entire land. Although Satuk himself was hiding deeply, his subordinates still betrayed him and betrayed him.

Zhang Mai said coldly: "Take him to Bukhara together!"

At this time, the 20,000 elite troops of the Tiance Army, as well as the militia and engineers who were able to organize militia engineers, had already returned to the east in batches under the arrangement of Guo Wei, but these were secret operations. On the contrary, under the organization of Guo Luo, more than 100,000 troops moved from Ningyuan, together with more than 100,000 militia militias, entered the important strongholds in the Hezhong area with great fanfare. Those top fertile fields and pastures that had become unowned due to the war were also dispatched.

Guo Luo's actions covered up Guo Wei's actions and shocked the entire Western Regions.

At this time, Zhang Mai was actually only left by his guards and two magical arrow battalions on both sides. In terms of force, there were very few troops. However, as a symbol of the entire Tiance army, General Tiance's big penis moved from Samarkand to Bukhara, which triggered a political earthquake in the entire Western Regions!

"He still wants to go west!"

"Does...he really want to go to Baghdad!"

"Does...he really want to conquer the whole world!"

Since Samarkand changed hands, the reputation of the Tang Dynasty further penetrated into the entire Western Regions, from Bagh to Egypt, and even the Catholic Church, they knew that such a hegemon appeared in the East.

The countries of Tianfang even stared at the river, feeling uneasy, and were very worried that Zhang Mai would continue to move westward.

In this battle in the river, Zhang Mai won a complete victory but did not lose much strength. The performance of Yang Xin and Xu Congshi made the power of the Eastern cavalry form a huge shadow in the minds of all cavalry in the Tianfang Kingdom! A famous army like the black knight was also instantly defeated, and the Buweixi brothers were not sure whether their army could withstand it if they met the powerful brigade of the Tang Dynasty.

When Zhang Mai arrived in Bukhara, envoys from all over the country of Tianfang arrived and came to praise the congratulations, but Zhang Mai was naturally very clear that calling the congratulations was fake, but inquiring about the news was true!

He did not meet them immediately, but asked He Chunshan to take a look at their voice first. After the Battle of the River, He Chunshan's status has also been greatly improved. Now he can stand alone and almost chase Liu An.

The envoys from all countries and tribes did not even dare to sit when they saw He Chunshan, and even Vatik greeted him with a smile. After a diplomatic greeting, Vatik, the leader, asked Zhang Mai what happened to him when he came to Bukhara this time.

Now Baghdad has been undermined, but in the face of the great enemy, the Buvesh brothers and others still regard the Caliph as their heads, and the envoys sent by the Caliph have also become the leaders of the envoys of the various countries in the Heavenly Kingdom.

He Chunshan smiled and said, "Our Marshal is the leader of the Tang Dynasty's military. This river is the old border of my Tang Dynasty, and Bukhara is an important town in the western border of my Tang Dynasty, so the Marshal is coming to inspect it."

During the last diplomatic negotiation, Baghdad still clenched the Hezhong area belonged to the Tianfang but not to the Tang Dynasty, implying that Zhang Mai should return the country to the descendants of Naiser II even if he entered the Hezhong. However, at this time, Vatik looked at the envoy of the Buvesh brothers. The Buvesh brothers gave a wink, and Vatik said, "We also heard that the Tiankhan of the Tang Dynasty recovered Bukhara from the barbarians of Satuk, so he came to congratulate him."

He Chunshan was overjoyed when he heard this. Now that there is something happening in the Central Plains, Zhang Mai is actually in a hurry to return east and needs to stabilize the situation in the West as soon as possible. As long as he can keep the river, this is Zhang Mai's bottom line. When He Chunshan heard Vatik say this, he knew that the other party's bottom line was far more than this!

This is not that Vattic's diplomatic level is insufficient, but that the Tianfang countries were shocked by the power of the Tang army. Their religious leaders such as the Caliph and the military leaders such as the Buveshe brothers were all confused. As envoys, they naturally dare not act tough. Otherwise, if Zhang Mai angers and he would continue to launch a war against West, then no matter what the war is successful or defeated, these envoys would have to lose their heads!

When He Chunshan knew that the other party was surrendering, he smiled and said, "This Bukhara is the Anxu City of the Tang Dynasty. Although the marshal has not given an order yet, the title will be changed in the future."

Bukhara is one of the holy places of the Tianfang Cult in Central Asia. It has a very high status in the minds of the Tianfang Cultists. It is called "the noble Bukhara" and "a city of joy and glory to the believers of Tianfang"! To rename Bukhara, this is actually He Chunshan's further temptation on religious issues.

Vattic's face suddenly became ugly, but he still endured it and said nothing.

He Chunshan felt a clear mind and knew that it was almost done. He smiled slightly and did not speak of invasion again. He asked, "Is the envoys here to visit our marshal this time, can you bring tribute?"

The word "tribute" is another trap. When the envoys come, they naturally bring very precious diplomatic gifts, but diplomatic gifts are gifts from both sides. If they become "tributes", they will be included in the Chinese tribute system.

Since Vattic was responsible for diplomacy to the East, he naturally knew these subtleties, but he pretended not to understand after translation, why did Chunshan explain what gifts the envoys of all countries brought this time?

In this way, the two sides reached a tacit understanding: the Tang Dynasty regarded the Buvesh brothers and others as countries that came to the dynasty of the Gentiles, and internal propaganda would call their gifts a tribute; while the Buvesh brothers only recognized them as gifts, but Vattic did not fight head-on, so he accused the Tang Dynasty of the internal propaganda.

Among all the gifts, the gifts of the brothers Caliph and Bwesh were the most eye-catching. What Harry sent to Zhang Mai was a "Quran" with Mohammed's handwriting, and a scripture with Mohammed's handwriting. This can be said to be the supreme holy object in the Tianfang Cult. Harry sent this scripture, on the one hand to express his respect, and at the same time to tactfully persuade Zhang Mai to convert to the Tianfang Cult. He also hid a secret letter in the page of the book, and the general idea was that if Zhang Mai converted to the Tianfang Cult, the Caliph would bless Zhang Mai to become the king of the entire earth! Considering that the Caliph only has religious authority left but no real military and political power, the hidden meaning of this sentence is very far-reaching.

Of course, He Chunshan dared not dismantle this book of the Quran, and then look at the gifts of the Buvech brothers. It was a Damascus sword and a war horse that could be compared to a sweat-blooded BMW. The sword was inlaid with rubies, and the saddles of the war horse were all made of gold and silver. Even though these two treasures were not worth a lot of money, they were not far apart. But before the war horse sword, there was a stunning Persian beauty holding gold and olive oil.

He Chunshan was so smart that he immediately understood what the Buweishi brothers meant: they wanted to tell Zhang Mai that they were willing to offer gold and beauties to seek peace, but if Zhang Mai insisted on going west, then the soldiers who welcomed the Tang army's war horses and swords! However, with beautiful gold and beauties, and with war horses and swords, it can be seen that if it is possible, the Buweishi brothers still do not want to be enemies with Zhang Mai.

This meeting was very nervous for the envoys from all countries in the Tianfang, but He Chunshan was full of spring breeze. The next day, he arranged for the envoys to see Zhang Mai.

Vatik crawled forward and said in the few words he had just learned: "The noble Tian Khan, the invincible Tian Khan, the messenger of Alifa came to pay his respects again."

Zhang Mai smiled and was about to let them sit down when noise came from outside. He asked, "What's the matter? It's so noisy!"

Ma Xiaochun flashed out from the side and said, "Satuk has been escorted."

Zhang Mai snorted, Ma Xiaochun understood and ordered: "Summon Zhang Huaizhong to meet!"

Two guards came in with an old man with white hair and wrinkled face. Zhang Mai looked at him and said, "Where is Satuk?" Before he finished speaking, he suddenly became stunned and recognized that the old man was Satuk. He suddenly felt sad for no reason in his heart. Since this era came, Satuk had been entangled with him for many years! He did not expect that this most difficult opponent would look like the Aging City at this moment.

Even Vattic and others would never have imagined that the Uighur overlord who once shocked the Western Regions would have fallen to what he is today!

Satuk half-lying on the ground, one of his right hand and the other left foot was broken, Zhang Mai said unhappily: "Who asked you to torture him!"

The team that escorted him was hurriedly saying, "Report to Marshal, we have not tortured him. His right hand was cut off by his subordinates who betrayed him. As for this foot, it was a runaway on the way to the west and was interrupted in chaos."

Zhang Mai's anger turned into pity. Satuk raised his head slightly, and when he saw this pity, he felt more uncomfortable than death. He shouted in anger: "Zhang Mai! Kill me! Kill me quickly!"

Ma Xiaochun shouted, "Stop talking, you are talking like this in front of Tian Khan!"

Zhang Mai pondered slightly and said, "Originally, you are my good opponent, and I respect you. However, I have let you go several times, but you betray me several times! You cannot forgive such a crime of rebellion."

"Okay, okay..." Satuk cried: "Let me die quickly, I don't want to be humiliated in this world!"

Zhang Mai said: "After you die, I will erect a monument for you. Where do you want to be buried?"

Satuk laughed and said, "Where is there any such thing as burial...?"

Zhang Mai said leisurely: "You are the most difficult opponent I have ever been since I came to this world. I erected a monument for you, not for you, but for myself. I swept across the Western Regions and wiped out countless enemies. From now on, I will erect monuments for them one by one. You will be the most magnificent one besides Yelu Deguang!"

A look of anger appeared on Satuk's face. This anger made him look heroic in his aging. He stood up suddenly with one foot. The envoys of the countries around him were shocked by his power and all took a step back. They all thought: "This Uighur overlord is indeed well-known, and he has such a momentum!"

"Since you are erecting a monument for yourself!" Satuk said angrily: "Then come and ask me what I'm doing!"

Zhang Mai laughed and said, "Yes! I'll ask you what you do!" After a pause, he said, "Do you have any other wishes? We are old opponents, but we are also old friends. If you have any wishes, as long as there is no conflict with state affairs, I will try my best to satisfy you."

Satuk said nothing, Zhang Mai said, "Do you want to explain anything about your sons?" Satuk sneered, "If you want to kill them, they can't survive. If you don't kill them, they can't die. What else can you say!"

Zhang Mai said: "You are really open-minded! If my father-in-law hadn't died at your hands, I must explain to my wife and to all the soldiers and generals of the old troops of Lingxi, I really want to let you go..."

Satuk said decisively: "No need! Now I live, I will be humiliated. If I live one more day, I will be humiliated one more day! Zhang Mai! If you really respect me, give me some fun!"

Zhang Mai was silent and said for a long time: "Okay, I will fulfill you." He asked: "Who will send him a ride for me?"

Guo Bian rushed out, his eyes flushed, and he shouted, "Who else can be there besides me!"

Several generals were eager to try, but when they saw Guo Bian, they stopped. Zhang Mai pulled out the red satin blood spear behind him and handed it to Guo Bian and said, "Now, there are not many people who are qualified to sprinkle blood on this blood spear. Although he killed his father-in-law and was irreconcilable with the Guo family, he is also qualified to die on this spear!"
Chapter completed!