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Chapter 206 Gao Chang
Early the next morning, Wang Dong got up and rushed to the Chinese army's tent at Hou Junji.

When he came to the big tent of the Chinese army, he found that Xu Changfu was also standing at the door. The two looked at each other in surprise, and then hurriedly bowed their hands to each other.

They stood there not long before a sergeant came out and informed the two of Hou Junji to let them in. The two hurriedly packed their clothes and walked into the tent. After entering the tent, Wang Dong looked around and found that Hou Junji's big tent was decorated with a lot of furs. , as well as a rather beautiful embroidered screen and some cultural ornaments. Sure enough, Hou Junji was just like his records in history, a person who likes flashy.

Hou Junji didn't come over to greet the two of them when they got money, but just glanced at them and continued to lean over the case with a few people dressed as military craftsmen.

Wang Dong and Xu Changfu looked at each other, and they didn't want to disturb them, so they had to watch quietly from the sidelines.

Wang Dong saw Hou Junji and several military craftsmen constantly discussing something, and after a closer look, he found that what they were holding were some mechanical models, and it could be seen that there were such things as rushing cars and watchtowers.

As for Hou Junji's case, there were still some wooden sticks and cubes, probably simulating the encirclement of the city wall. With the help of several craftsmen, Hou Junji was studying how to use those engineering devices.

Xu Changfu didn't see anything yet, but Wang Dong quickly sniffed out a breath. Datang's enemies in the Longyou area were all nomads. Even the Western Turks, there were not many things that could be called a city. , you can't use a catapult to hit Camel City, can you?

These engineering installations are obviously used to fight against cities with strong defenses, so for the Longyou Tang Army at this time, there is only one target... Gaochang Kingdom in the Western Regions.

Wang Dong thought about the history of this period and immediately realized that Hou Junji was preparing to attack Gaochang. This was probably the main reason why Li Shimin asked him to stay in Longyou at this time.

In history, although the battle between Tang and Gaochang did not break out until four years later, the discord between Tang and Gaochang has been going on for more than a year now.

The main reason for the conflict between Gaochang and Datang is actually somewhat similar to that of Tuyuhun. Gaochang Kingdom is not very clear about the tonality of Datang, which has been established for more than ten years. At this time, Gaochang is an important pass on the Silk Road. It is more than 800 miles away from Yumen Pass, which is under the strong control of Datang, and it is more than 800 miles away from Xiyi Prefecture, which was controlled by Datang, which was later Hami.

These roads in the Western Regions are not as easy to walk as in the Central Plains. Later, Cen Shen, a great frontier poet, described these roads as: "Ten days pass through the sandy moraine, and the wind will never stop. The horses walk through the gravel, and all four hooves are covered with blood. flow."

It was a road that was difficult for even horses to pass, so although it was only over 1000 miles away, Gao Chang felt that he was safe enough to fight between Datang and other forces.

In fact, Qu Wentai of Gaochang State had already surrendered to the Tang Dynasty according to etiquette and law. Six years ago, he took his wife Yushi to Chang'an to pay tribute to Li Shimin. Yuwenshi was also given the title of Li Shimin. The surname is Li, named Princess Changle.

But for the forces in the Western Regions, they couldn't see clearly what the rise of the Tang Dynasty meant, so it didn't take many years for such a happy relationship.

At this time, the dispute between Gaochang State and Datang began with the dispute over trade routes.

The Silk Road route through the Western Regions is divided into two routes, the north and the south, and there are two routes in the north, one passing through Dunhuang, Loulan, and Yanqi, and the other passing through Yumen, Xiyizhou, and Gaochang.

Previously, due to the decline of the Loulan Kingdom, the Dunhuang, Loulan, and Yanqi routes had little commercial value, and the Tang Dynasty gave up the operation. However, later the Yanqi Kingdom could no longer bear the tolls, so the leader of the Yanqi Kingdom went to plead with him. Li Shimin reopened the Dunhuang trade route. Li Shimin didn't think there was any problem with this and readily agreed.But Qu Wentai, the leader of the Gaochang Kingdom, was not happy when he found out. Originally, the Dunhuang road among the two northern trade routes had declined, so all merchants had to pass through the Gaochang Kingdom. So he made a lot of money from tolls, but now Li Shiming suddenly agreed to reopen the Dunhuang port, which directly diverted half of the passenger flow of Gaochang State, and the national income dropped sharply. So Ju Wentai was so angry that he simply joined forces with the Western Turks and secretly sent cavalry to attack Yanqi. Tang caravan.Li Shimin was very unhappy when he learned about it and scolded Qu Wentai several times. However, at that time, Li Shimin was planning to attack Tuyuhun, so he was not in the mood to spend great efforts to deal with Qu Wentai's petty troubles. However, after observing for a while, Qu Wentai realized that The people of the Tang Dynasty felt that their actions were successful, so they continued to attack the Tang Dynasty caravans, and on the other hand, they bet on both ends, uniting the Tang Dynasty and currying favor with the Western Turks. Fish for oil and water.

Qu Wentai didn't think there was anything wrong with his behavior until after Li Shimin wiped out Tuyuhun in one fell swoop. When Li Shimin asked him seriously to go to Chang'an to explain his alliance with the Western Turks and the surprise attack on the Yanqi caravan, Qu Wentai Actually, he doesn't like Li Shimin at all.

This is the reason for the general situation between Datang and Gaochang at this moment, but Wang Dong knew that Qu Wentai would do more to kill him later, and two years later he would simply join forces with the Western Turks to attack the Western Yizhou of Datang, wanting to Controlling the entire business route from Yumen under his own sphere of influence is simply an act of disrespecting his own fate, and the final result is that Li Shimin raised his troops in anger and directly sent Hou Junji to destroy Gaochang country.

Looking at the history before, Wang Dong felt that Li Shimin had been keeping Hou Junji in Longyou to prepare for the attack on the countries of the Western Regions, otherwise it would be a waste to put Hou Junji here.Looking at it this way, Wang Dong lamented Qu Wentai's death even more.

The Tang army had already prepared for it four or five years before the army attacked Gaochang, but Qu Wentai was still jumping around repeatedly, thinking that he could wrestle with the Tang people in this small place in the Western Regions.It's just crazy.

Wang Dong and Xu Changfu did not dare to speak at the side, they quietly watched Hou Junji and the generals handling the siege equipment there, and waited for Hou Junji to finish the research, and then let the soldiers Carpenter went down, looked up at Wang Dong and Xu Changfu himself and said with a smile:
"Wang Changshi and Xu Bie are coming, come and take a look, do you recognize what this is?"

Wang Dong and Xu Changfu hurried forward, looking at the various siege equipment on the table, Xu Changfu smiled and said: "The land of Longyou has been fighting against nomads all the year round, and rarely fights siege warfare. I don't quite know how to use it, if the Longyou army is to learn how to siege, I think it needs special training."

Hou Junji laughed when he heard this.

"These are the latest siege equipment, and they were also brought to me by skilled craftsmen in the pass. You are rarely involved in siege warfare, so naturally you don't know about them. The mysteries are beyond ordinary people's insight, and many of them are after I heard them. Just realized it."

(End of this chapter)