After learning about this, Su Haisheng felt that everything was very meaningful.
The heyday of the Tang Dynasty represents the prosperity of ancient China. The Tang Dynasty pushed the glory of ancient China to its peak, but at its peak, it fell into the abyss with the inevitable Anshi Rebellion.
This is the inevitable reincarnation of the feudal dynasty, and it is also the pain and regret in the hearts of the nation.
Fortunately, after four hundred years, their critical successors are back.
He was not so lucky. He had not found the military ruins of the Tang Dynasty all the way. He planned to ask the locals next to see if he could find the military ruins from that year so that he could pay homage to those who fought hard for forty-two years. The white-headed soldiers of the Western Regions.
Let their souls rest in peace under the Nine Springs.
Now that things have reached this point, it can be considered a perfect ending.
On December 20, the 10th year of Hongwu, Su Haisheng, on behalf of the entire Western Expeditionary Army, sent a victory report to the Zhongdu court, telling the Zhongdu court and Su Yonglin that the battle in the Western Regions had been completely successful.
All the pre-war strategic goals of the Ming army had been achieved. The Western Liao Dynasty was destroyed, and the Xizhou Uighur and Eastern Karakhan kingdoms were also completely wiped out by the Ming army. They destroyed more than 80 hostile tribes along the way, making great military achievements and numerous meritorious deeds.
On September 20, the 10th year of Hongwu, the Ming army gathered and prepared to set off.
Exactly three months later, the Ming army won a complete victory in the war, and the three-month war ended.
The Western Regions, which had been separated from the Central Plains for more than three hundred years, have since returned to the ruling order of the Central Plains Dynasty. The three hundred years of regret and sorrow of the Central Plains Dynasty have since been completely ended by the Ming Dynasty led by Su Yonglin.
The Ming army basically restored the expansion of the Central Plains forces in the Western Regions to most of the areas expanded in the Tang Dynasty.
A small number of the peripheral governor's offices of the Anxi Protectorate were not restored by Su Yonglin due to various considerations.
If the Ming Dynasty makes a breakthrough in train technology in the future, recovery will be a natural thing. However, if train technology fails to break through and is temporarily restored, it will inevitably waste people and money.
In the future, if the Renaissance organization is developed locally, the effect will be much better than setting up a military governor's office.
Despite this, the victory in the return battle that the white-headed soldiers in the Western Regions longed for finally arrived after three hundred years of delay.
It is worth mentioning that on December 23, just three days after Su Haisheng reported victory to Zhongdu, news came from the Quxian area that the local garrison, under the guidance of local people, had set up a military base more than ten years west of Quxian. An ancient dilapidated military site was discovered there.
The Quxian garrison conducted a large-scale search and preliminary excavation at this military site, but found nothing for the time being.
However, according to the map and the location of the last battle of the Anxi Army of the Tang Dynasty recorded in "The Western Regions of the Central Plains", everyone thinks that this should be the ruins of the ancient city of Qiuci, where the Baishou soldiers fought to the last man. place.
Su Haisheng was very excited and handed the matter to the marching secretary Han Wei. He quickly led his people from Hu Si'or'er to Quxian, and sent a message to Zhongdu, asking Zhongdu to send historical experts immediately.
If this is really the place where the Baishou soldiers fought, then they will definitely be able to unearth countless ruins and relics, which can help people today have a deeper understanding of what happened back then.
The Ming Dynasty was full of surplus after winning the war, and even the generals began to care about historical issues rather than military issues, and there seemed to be a tendency to turn into historical experts and archaeologists.
Compared with the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, both Xiao Orila and King Ile Arslan of Khwarezm were in a quagmire of extreme anxiety and could not extricate themselves.
the reason is simple.
Xiao Orila could not command the Western Karakhan Kingdom and continued to send troops to restore his kingdom.
Arslan could not marshal enough military power to launch an attack on the Kingdom of Western Karakhan.
At the moment when the Ming army destroyed the Xiliao and Xizhou Uighurs and was reorganizing the army, at this important time point, neither of them could do anything to change the situation.
They want to do something, but find that they can't do anything. They find that they have lost the ability to change and control the situation, which is undoubtedly very unpleasant.
Arslan is actually okay, because he himself knows that he is not strong enough, but he is still more or less a king and has power.
They lost a lot of troops in the previous defeat, and the main army collapsed. Now they have gathered the defeated troops and plan to recruit some soldiers from the country. It is not difficult to gather 40,000 soldiers.
He was thinking of trying to capture the river area controlled by the Kingdom of Western Karakhan, so that he could make up for the losses in the previous war.
So it's not that Arslan can't do it, it's that he can't do it now. He needs time and money.
But Xiao Weili was different. He really couldn't do it even if he gave him time and money.
Only more than 300 of his subordinates successfully escaped with him. Later, he continued to gather the defeated troops, and gradually gathered more than 1,000 people. They followed him and fled from the vicinity of Hu Si'or'er to the Chachi area. They were barely able to escape. Arrived at a safe place.
But how could he be addicted to safety?
He eagerly went to Hezhong Prefecture, found Masud, the Khan of the Western Karakhan Kingdom, and asked him for help, saying that he needed more troops to go back to challenge the Ming Dynasty and wipe out all the Ming army.
He asked the Western Karakhan Kingdom to provide him with more troops and food to help him recover.
However, what he received was not Mas'ud's hospitality and smile, but direct arrest. Then Mas'ud went to the prison and cursed Xiao Weili, calling him worthless.
Of course, this is inevitable.
The Kingdom of Western Karahan has always followed Xiliao's progress, and Xiliao will do whatever it says. This is of course based on Xiliao's strong foundation.
This time, Xiliao not only perished, but also destroyed more than 20,000 elites of the Western Karakhan Kingdom. Only a few thousand of the 30,000 troops escaped alive, which greatly damaged the vitality of the Khanate.
Mas'ud was particularly angry because this 30,000-strong army was directly under the Central Government of the Khanate. Without this army, the Central Government of the Khanate would be more passive in the face of rising local centrifugal forces. Mas'ud himself There will also be tremendous political pressure.
When it was time to send troops to fight, Mas'ud had doubts. He was worried that he would not be a match for the Ming army and did not want to be an enemy of the Ming Dynasty. However, he was frightened by Xiao Orila's strength and had to do so.
But now that Xiao Orila has lost the battle, his strong aura is gone, and Xiliao is almost finished, what else is there to be afraid of?
Xiao Orila could not figure out the changes in the strength and status of the two sides at first, and he was arrogant and asked Mas'ud to immediately mobilize the country's troops and put them under his command, but what greeted him was only jail.
Xiao Orila was very angry and quarreled with Masud, saying that he was an unscrupulous bastard and a completely unreasonable rotten egg. He actually dared to arrest the marshal of the capital city. Aren't he afraid of being held accountable by the king?
"You have defeated an army of 80,000 people, and your country still has the damn ability to accuse me! Do you think the Ming people's army is just a display?"
In anger, Masoud kicked Xiao Orila in the stomach. Xiao Orila's limbs were locked. He was so painful that he fainted and fell unconscious.
This kick not only vented the fear and anger in Masud's heart, but also made all his fears towards Xiliao and Xiao Orila disappear.
He decided not to follow Xiliao forward anymore, and Xiliao himself could not move forward.
Faced with the current situation, he had no other choice. He could only offer his loyalty to Ming Dynasty.
As long as he surrenders to the Ming army before the Ming army attacks, the Ming army cannot defeat him.
As long as he admits his own incompetence and weakness, he is invincible.
Of course, in order to increase the probability of successful surrender, Masud decided to use Xiao Orila as a symbol of sincerity, supplemented by a large amount of gold and silver jewelry, plus the heads of more than a thousand Western Liao soldiers that he personally led his army to annihilate. This represents the "loyalty" of the Western Karakhan Kingdom.
It seemed that he had never considered whether the Ming Dynasty had ever gotten involved in the Kingdom of Western Karakhan, nor had he considered the idea of the Khwarezm Kingdom.
In his eyes, Khwarezm is a loser country that has just been defeated and is not qualified to play this big game.
In this current period, there is only one chess player in the world.
That is Ming Dynasty!
