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a few months later.

Anxi Duhufu sent Hongling envoys to enter Chang'an urgently, and there was news of the military situation of the states in the west of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Er learned that Su Die, the king of Kuzi, was dead, and his younger brother Li Bubi was established as the new king of Kuzi.

After Li Bubi succeeded to the throne, despite the dissuasion of the ministers, he sent troops to harass the border areas of the Tang Dynasty.

He thought that since the Great Tang pacified the Xueyan Khanate, most of its troops had been placed in Mobei and Monan, and he knew that Li Er would send troops to harass Gaoju Kingdom from time to time, so he thought that the Tang's troops had no time to take care of the west.

The former king of Guizi once took advantage of Li Eryu's personal expedition to the Gaogu Kingdom, he also invaded the border areas of the Tang Dynasty, and fought against the Tang Dynasty together with the Yanlao Kingdom.

Li Er had thought about sending troops to conquer the Kingdom of Guizi before, but at that time, not long after Li Er conquered the Kingdom of Gaogu, he wanted to conquer the Kingdom of Xueyan again, so he ignored the Kingdom of Guizi.

Now, the newly-incumbent King Guizi provokes Datang again, and it is the best time to destroy him. Li Er decides to send troops to crusade against him.

Datang at this time, the north has been set.

The powerful Gaogu state in the east did not dare to attack Tang, and the rest of the states surrendered to Tang.

The only powerful countries in the west are the Western Turks, which are on the defensive and unable to take the initiative to attack, and the lingering Yanlao country.

The small country in the south is only looking forward to the Tang Dynasty.

After discussing with the ministers, Li Er decided to appoint Zuo Xiaowei's general Ashinasheer as the general manager of the march against Kucha.

Appointed General Youxiaowei Qibi Heli and Anxi Governor Guo Jing as deputy chiefs of the march.

Li Er originally thought about ordering Wei Hao to be the chief commander of the march, but he thought that to deal with a mere small country of Guizi, killing chickens does not need to be slaughtered with a knife.

The other most important reason is that Ashinasheer and Qibi Heli are not only excellent in military ability, but also are Hu generals.

Because of the crusade against Guizi this time, Li Er planned to use Hu soldiers as the main force.

With Ashinasheer and Qibi Heli leading the army, the Hu soldiers must be more willing to obey the command!
As for the appointment of Guo Jing as the deputy commander-in-chief of the army, the main reason is that he is familiar with the Western Regions and has fought against Yan Lao and Guizi Xi Dajue, so he can know himself and the enemy.

After the general was selected, Li Er ordered to conscript more than [-] soldiers and horses from the Hu tribes such as Tiele states and Dajue, Tupan, and Tugu to attack Guizi.

Of course, the so-called more than [-] soldiers and horses are purely external claims, but the actual number of soldiers and horses conscripted is only about [-].

To deal with a small country like Kuzi, it can be won without [-] troops.

But Li Er used [-] soldiers and horses in order to be safe and to quickly take down Guizi.

Although Guizi Kingdom is not a big country, it has more than [-] soldiers and horses. Li Er dare not underestimate the enemy.

At the same time, Li Er had another purpose.

He wants to take advantage of this opportunity to attack the old country of Yan Yan.

The army led by Ashinasheer, Qibi Heli and others rushed all the way, with overwhelming momentum.

According to Li Er's order, Ashinasheer ordered Qibi Heli to lead some soldiers and horses to attack Yanlao country first, so as to cut off Guizi's retreat.

Old King Yan knew that the Tang army was approaching menacingly, so he was so frightened that he led some soldiers to abandon the city and flee.

When the king of Guizi learned that the king of Yanlao had escaped, he wanted to send someone to bring the king of Yanlao to the capital of Guizi.

King Guizi has received information, knowing that the Tang army's use of troops this time is to deal with the country of Guizi.

The enemy of the enemy is a friend, and he wants to deal with the Tang army with the people of Yan Laoguo.

However, when King Yan Lao fled to the east of Guizi Kingdom, he met the Tang army led by Ashinasheer.

Ashinasheer sent a team of soldiers and horses to kill the king of Yan Lao Country.

And Ashinasheer took other soldiers and horses to kill where the capital of Guizi Kingdom was.

Knowing that the Tang army was approaching and that King Yanlao had been killed, King Kuzi ordered his generals to lead an army of [-] to a decisive battle with the Tang army in Duobei City, three hundred miles away from the capital Yiluo City.

After many days of fierce fighting, the Guizi Army in Duobei City suffered heavy casualties.

The Tang army is not only brave, but also has bows and arrows, crossbow carts, rush cars, catapults, and ladders for siege.

General Guizi, who was guarding Duobei City, knew that he could not hold it anymore, so he had to abandon Duobei City and lead the remaining soldiers to flee.

When the news of the breach of Duobun City reached the ears of King Kuzi, he immediately realized that the capital Yiluo City could not be defended either.

After thinking about it, King Guizi fled westward with his confidant generals and thousands of pacers, leaving the prime minister to guard Yiluo City.

The Prime Minister of the Kuzi Kingdom knew that its king had fled, and realized that it was pointless to guard Yiluo City.

He considered again and again, and definitely opened the city gate to surrender to the Tang army.

Ashinasheer accepted the surrender of the Prime Minister of Kuzi, and led the Tang army into Yiluo City.

After a short rest, Ashinasheer ordered Guo Jing and others to stay in Yiluo City, while he personally led thousands of elite soldiers to pursue King Kuzi.

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Chang'an City, Ganlu Hall.

Li Er received the battle report from Guizi and learned that the Tang army had broken through the capital of Guizi.

He was overjoyed that it was just around the corner to wipe out Guizi Kingdom.

On the third day after Li Er shared this joy with all the ministers, he received another battle report from the Kingdom of Guizi.

When Li Er finished reading the battle report, his face sank, showing displeasure.

Li Er immediately summoned all the important ministers and told them the battle report he had just received.

It turned out that Guo Jing, who was staying behind in Yiluo City, camped outside the city, and was negligently guarded. He was attacked by an army led by the Prime Minister of Kuzi who pretended to surrender.

When Guo Jing discovered that the Prime Minister of Kuzi was approaching with his army, he hurriedly led more than a thousand soldiers into the city.

However, the vanguard troops of the Prime Minister of Guizi had already boarded the city before Guo Jing and other Tang troops entered the city, and joined forces with the soldiers of Guizi who also pretended to surrender in the city to attack Guo Jing and his troops.

Under the attack of the enemy's front and back, Guo Jing and his Tang army were defeated and suffered heavy casualties.

When Guo Jing led the remaining soldiers and horses to retreat to the west gate of Yiluo City, he was besieged by the enemy and finally died in the west gate of Yiluo City.

After hearing this, all the important officials were surprised.

Originally thought that the country of Guizi was easily captured, but unexpectedly its capital, Yiluo City, was taken back again.

Not only that, because of Guo Jing's fault, the Tang army suffered a lot of damage, and Guo Jing also died in battle.

After Li Er in the palace heard the battle situation, he felt sorry for Guo Jing on the one hand. After all, he had worked with Guo Jing and knew that Guo Jing was brave and resourceful in battle.

On the other hand, he was worried about the other Tang troops who were still fighting in Guizi.

Now that Yiluo City has fallen back into the hands of the people of Guizi, the people of the country of Guizi will be called up again to deal with the Tang army.

The tribes around the Guizi Kingdom that originally surrendered to the Guizi Kingdom and were falsely entrusted to the Tang Dynasty will also rekindle their hopes in Guizi and follow Guizi to fight against the Tang army.

In other words, Ashinasheer and other Tang troops will surely make enemies on all sides, and the situation is not optimistic.

Li Er glanced at the ministers and said lightly:
"Everyone, what do you think about this matter?"

"Your Majesty, now that Guo Jing died in battle, his soldiers and horses suffered heavy losses, which is equivalent to the loss of Ashinasheer's arm. I think that the Tang Dynasty should send reinforcements to help Ashinasheer, so as to prevent the Guizi army from taking the opportunity to besiege the already The Tang army who entered the country of Guizi."

Changsun Wuji was the first to speak.