What Zhao Zhen is best at is summarizing lessons in history. Using history as a mirror seems to be an instinct of the Chinese nation.m.

This is how the various systems at the beginning of the founding of the Song Dynasty came into being. Of course, those systems were only suitable for the Song Dynasty at that time.

"Shi Hai picked up beans" benefited Zhao Zhen a lot. For example, the current Battle of Henglus is not without it in history. The Tang Empire and the Abbas Dynasty had a confrontation on this land.

It was an inevitable dispute between great powers. Although it was the first time, it was not the last time.

The two empires at that time were in their heyday of rapid expansion, just like the current Seljuk Dynasty and the Zhao Song Dynasty.

Both sides were seizing control of Central Asia, and the Abbas Dynasty eventually won. After the war, the Tang Dynasty stopped expanding westward, and the Abbas Dynasty stopped. Both sides maintained their pre-war situation, but the ending was confusing.

Why do both sides stop at the same time before achieving their goals?

The cause of the war was similar to the current Song Dynasty. The Tang Empire was in an era of expansion and also needed rule on the Silk Road. The Tang Dynasty at that time lived and worked in peace and prosperity in the country.

Emperor Xuanzong of Tang became increasingly obsessed with conquering other countries and showing off his military power, so he set up nine major military governors in the border areas, specifically for external expansion.

Anxi and Beiting became two major war zones, deploying an army of 24,000 people in total.

Compared with other Jiedushi, their army was very scarce, but they were the most elite troops in the Tang Dynasty at that time, with elite troops in a hundred battles. Several famous generals led them one after another, which shocked the countries of the Western Regions. As an important business area in the Tang Dynasty at that time, the ruling class of the Tang Dynasty could be said to be determined to win.

So in August of the ninth year of Tianbao, Gao Xianzhi sent troops to conquer the Shi Kingdom on the grounds that the king of Shi Kingdom "no foreign ministers" was "rituals", and plundered the Shi Kingdom, and took the King of Shi Kingdom to Chang'an and beheaded. The prince of Shi Kingdom, who escaped by chance, asked for help from the Abbas Dynasty.

In order to prevent being passive, Gao Xianzhi launched an expedition in July of the tenth year of Tianbao to "Jianfan, and more than 70,000 Han attacked the Great Food". However, in fact, the total number of Han soldiers in the Anxi Protectorate was only more than 20,000. Even if Bahan was added, Geluo and other foreign soldiers could not gather more than 70,000. The Tang Dynasty could only gather about 30,000 people to participate in the war.

Faced with the Abbas army, which has a close military source for Hengluos City, the Tang army's military strength disadvantage is very obvious, and the expedition launched by Gao Xianzhi is a risky act.

On the other hand, after experiencing the Umayyad Dynasty, the Abbas Dynasty reached its peak in national strength, occupied the entire Middle East and northern Africa, and became a powerful empire that spans Asia, Africa and Europe.

Looking around, the Central Asian region, which is only outside the Mesopotamian River Basin, remains semi-independent. The Abbasid Dynasty was also obsessed with spreading the culture of the Supreme People. Seeing that this region believed in Buddhism, the Abbasid Dynasty was determined to conquer this region.

So the two carriages driving at high speed collided with each other under the vanity of similar heights.

The Tang Dynasty had only 24,000 Han troops in the entire Western Regions. For this battle, 20,000 people were concentrated to participate in the war. This shows that the Tang Dynasty's ambition was determined to win. The chief general Gao Xianzhi and the deputy general Li Siye were all outstanding generals who had experienced wars and had rich experience.

The Tang Dynasty army was composed of a mixture of infantry and cavalry, but because of the Tang Dynasty's emphasis on cavalry and war horses, horse politics were promoted in China. Therefore, all infantry had war horses available, and they did not dismount until they arrived at the battlefield, and their combat effectiveness was amazing.

The main general of Abbas was Abu Governor of Khorasan, and his troops were composed of many, including 40,000 elite cavalry of religious soldiers from Khorasan headquarters, almost all vassal states in the Mesopotamian Basin, with a total force of about 100,000 and about 150,000.

This war had the advantage in terms of military strength, and it was dozens of times that of the Tang army, and it was fighting at home!

However, the army of the Tang Empire was not inferior. Gao Xianzhi, who had a strong warrior, performed dangerous moves and chose to fight against the Abbas.

At that time, the Tang army was more than ten streets in terms of military or military quality, both in ordnance and soldiers......

But luck makes people beat people, and the Tang army, who had the chance to win, lost completely.

But the reason for losing is not from the outside, but because of the rebellion of the Allies.

When the Tang Expeditionary Force and the huge Abbas army fought in Henglus City for five days, the Allied forces of the Geluo tribe who had been hooking up with the Abbas suddenly turned against each other and attacked the Tang army infantry and separated them from the cavalry.

The Abbas took the opportunity to attack the Tang army. The Tang army, which had been fighting for five days, finally collapsed. In order to escape as soon as possible, Gao Xianzhi and his subordinates urged their horses to trample on hundreds of Bakhan's soldiers to escape. After escaping from the battlefield to stabilize, Gao Xianzhi wanted to launch a counterattack but was dissuaded by his subordinates, so he gave up.

The final result was that when he returned to the Anxi Protectorate, there were only less than 10,000 Tang coalition troops with more than 30,000 people left.

Zhao Zhen did not recruit Dong Khan's army this time, nor did he capture strong men there, because he was worried that the joining of foreign tribes would put the Song coalition forces in danger of rebellion.

The experiences and lessons learned from historical books are very useful, but the Seljuks are different from the Abbas in the past. The Seljuks did not have direct conflicts with the Song Dynasty, but instigated the Western Khan to continue to resist the Song army.

In Zhao Zhen's eyes, Xi Khan was just a victim.

He even doubted whether the IQ of Sak, the ruler of West Khan, was not online. Two carriages from the East and West collided at high speed again. Could West Khan, who was sandwiched in the middle, survive?

No matter what, it will be "bumped" incomplete form, and destruction is its inevitable result.

Now Zhao Zhen is thinking about why after the Battle of Henglus, the Abbas Dynasty and the Tang Empire remained silent in tacit understanding and did not take action again. Zhao Zhen knew the reason for the Tang Dynasty. Because of the Anshi Rebellion, what about the Abbas Dynasty?

Wasn’t it the opportunity for them to take advantage of the civil strife in the Tang Dynasty?

Just when Zhao Zhen was suspicious, a good news came. Di Qing's army captured Hengluo City, and no reinforcements from Seljuk appeared. The sudden victory made Zhao Zhen quite uncomfortable. He did not expect that the Seljuk people were so stable.

It was a bit beyond Zhao Zhen's expectations when he saw Hengluos City change his ownership.

But what surprised Zhao Zhen even more was that Seljuk actually sent an envoy to the Song Dynasty, which almost made Zhao Zhen's curiosity reach a fixed point. Why didn't Seljuk go to war with the Song Dynasty like the Abbas dynasty back then?

The answers were all in Tugluk's national letter. Zhao Zhen was a little dumb. The national letter actually reminded the Song Dynasty that the Khitan in the north and accurately stated that the Khitan would send troops to the Yizhou in the Song Dynasty.
Chapter completed!