In the early years of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, after handling the Tubo incident, Anxi Gao Made County Governor adopted the increasingly fierce Arabs in order to seize the Western Regions. The reason is that after the defeat of the once powerful Turkic tribe, the Arabs who lost their opponents established hegemony in Central Asia and oppressed the nine countries of Zhaowu in Central Asia, which was a traditional vassal state of the Tang Dynasty.
In order to break through the iron curtain rule of Arabia, Gao Xianzhi claimed that the four Arab allies (around Uzbekistan) were rude to the Tang Dynasty and rashly launched a violation of the peace of the four countries. In fact, the essence of this kind of peace is the peace initiated by Tang Jun to destroy its allies in order to impact Arab forces in Central Asia.
As early as a few decades ago, about 660 AD, General Su's Tang Jun entered Central Asia, forcing western countries to worship the Tang Dynasty as the sovereign state. In advance, the territory of the Tang Dynasty extended from the Aral Sea in the west to central Korea in the east. Historically, the east of the Persian Gulf and the west of the jungle are all Tang soil.
However, the good times did not last long. In the early days of Tang Gaozong, Wuhou seized power and Tubo invaded. In order to concentrate on making up for the powerful Tubo, Tang Jun could not withdraw the Green Ridge and maintain its mastery of Central Asia. During the reign of Wu Zetian, domestic chaos made it impossible for China to manage distant Central Asia.
It was not until several decades later that Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty noticed the hegemony of the Tang Dynasty in Central Asia and hired Gao Xianzhi to guard the 4 towns in Anxi. However, the Arabs who rose ahead of time have established a stable regime in Central Asia.
In the first month of the tenth year of Tianbao (75 1), Gao Xianzhi, who came back from conquering the Stone Kingdom, presented the captured Tuqi tribe Khan, the Turkic chieftain and the king of the Stone Kingdom to Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. Visible, Gao Xianzhi's counterattack in the western regions did achieve early success.
Gao Xianzhi's move to restore the Tang Dynasty's influence in the middle of the river will naturally attract the attention of the Arab Empire. After all, the war for hegemony between the two countries was in Tianbao 10 of generate, which is the famous battle of Luo Heng. This is a war that will be fought sooner or later. To restore the hegemony of the Tang Dynasty in Central Asia, we must defeat the Arabs.
Comparing the strength of the two sides before the war, we can easily find that the number of Tang Jun troops stationed in the Western Regions is far less than that of Arabs, and the only way for Gao Xianzhi to win is through slow progress.
The main commander of the Tang Dynasty was Gao Xianzhi, the assistant commander was Li, and the special commander was Duan. The military strength is 20,000 in Tang Jun, and the allied forces are 10,000 nomadic horses of the Geluolu tribe. In advance, all Anxi guards only needed more than 24,000 troops, and more than 80% of Anxi guards were deployed in the battle of Nero.
The Lord of the Arab side will be Abu, the governor of Khorasan, Arabia. Muslims, generals include Zeyad, Ibn and others. The Afghan side sent 40,000 religious soldiers from the headquarters in Khorasan, plus more than100,000 military forces from almost all countries in the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers that the Arabs have mastered. The total strength should be between150,000 and 200,000. In military strength, the Arab Coalition forces occupy an absolute disadvantage, but Tang Jun, which has been through many battles, is not so easy to deal with.
Gao Xianzhi, who knows the art of fighting, understands that soldiers are expensive at a rapid pace, and he can win this battle as long as he drags on. He crossed the Green Ridge (Pamir Plateau) and went deep into Central Asia for more than 700 miles, trying to introduce the war disaster into the land controlled by Arabia and keep the enemy out of the country. Arabs, who have a good popular base in other places, sneered at Tang Jun's supplies and military resources and immediately made an offensive gesture.
According to historical records, Tang Jun's foot soldiers all used strange knives, and when they lined up, they marched like a wall. According to historical records, when they took the knife, the military and horses were all broken. The cavalry in Tang Jun is mainly light cavalry. They use stable horses and horizontal knives in melee. At that time, Li Jing, a famous Tang Dynasty soldier, used 3,000 light cavalry to climb over Yinshan Mountain and defeated East Turkistan.
Tang Jun's armor abandoned the armor of Wei and Jin Dynasties and evolved into the armor of Tang Dynasty represented by Mingguang armor, which became lighter and lighter, but its attack power was greatly improved. In the Tang Dynasty, the biggest disadvantage of Rongxing's weapons was the mature crossbow. Tang Jun generally uses four kinds of crossbows, Fuyuan crossbow with a range of 300 steps (450 meters), tension crossbow with a range of 230 steps (345 meters), angle crossbow with a range of 200 steps (300 meters) and single crossbow with a range of 160 steps (240 meters), all of which can pose a threat in different categories.
But when it comes to horses, Arabs are at an absolute disadvantage. Arabian horse is the best horse in the world, which is incomparable to the horses used by Tang Jun in China and the West.
It is said that after the arrest of the King of Shiguo, the Arabs are prepared to unite with all the countries in the rivers of Central Asia to fight back. After losing this information, Gao Xianzhi set out from Anxi in April of Tianbao 10 (AD 75 1 year), ready to strike first.
Tang Jun is crossing the Pamirs (Green Ridge) and Gobi. After a long journey of three months, Gao Xianzhi arrived in Horosz controlled by Arabs in July and began to besiege Horosz.
The two sides fought a duel on both sides of the Velos River in today's Ollie-Ata block. At Gao Xianzhi's behest, Tang Jun was very good at fighting. With the strong bow and crossbow of the infantry and the long arm of the light cavalry, Tang Jun repelled the Arab attacks again and again.
By the time the fifth geographical position campaign was launched, the situation gradually changed. After the war in China, Tang Jun's ally, the Grolu tribe, suddenly rebelled. They surrounded China from the front and cut off contact with the cavalry. Tang Jun neglected each other from beginning to end and cried in a big mess.
While the Arab Coalition forces used the infighting in China to put forward a one-sided general attack, and the embattled Tang Jun was finally defeated. Only a few thousand of Tang Jun's 20,000 Anxi elite troops escaped.
Even at such times, the consequences of this peace are tragic. The Arabs paid several times the casualties of Tang Jun, and the amazing fighting capacity of China Rong Xing in Pilars War left a deep impression on the Arabs.
Arabs consider that if they continue to move eastward and enter the traditional sphere of influence in China, they will face the powerful Tubo regime even if they defeat the Tang Dynasty. The Tubo Empire established by Tibetan ancestors in advance has 65,438+10,000 elite cavalry, and even India and Anxi were invaded by Tubo. So Arabs dare not pursue victory, but only accept it at a good time.