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    Chapter 335 The vitality is seriously injured

    With the outbreak of the Li Zhi Rebellion, the vitality of the Tang Dynasty was severely damaged, and its economy and military were greatly weakened. As a result, the Tang Dynasty lost its ability to attack external parties and could only retreat to protect itself.

    However, the 300,000 central elite regiments were almost wiped out, greatly weakening the Tang Dynasty's strength on the border.

    More importantly, with the loss of these 300,000 elite central regiments, officials in various places began to respect their own troops and no longer obeyed the court's orders as before.

    Regarding this situation, the Central Committee of the Tang Dynasty was helpless.

    For example, the king of Shu, Li Min, who had arrived in Shu to become a vassal, had been ignored by his ministers. During the entire Li Zhi rebellion, not a single soldier was sent out of Shu. Even now, he is obeying the central government's orders and disobeying them.

    Another example is Li Shimin's younger brother, the governor of Jingzhou, King Li Yuanjing of Jingzhou, who also supported his troops in Jingzhou. Although he still carried the banner of the Tang Dynasty, all the orders of the central government became a dead letter in Jingzhou. Li Yuanjing appointed himself an official and withheld tax revenue.  Almost became a warlord.

    There is also Li Fu, the king of Zhao who was sealed in Handan, Zhao. He was Li Shimin's thirteenth son and was adopted as the heir to Prince Yin Li Jiancheng. Although he still listened to Li Shimin's words, he was not very cold towards Li Zhen and did not obey Li Zhen's orders.  As long as Li Shimin is here, he can be suppressed. If Li Shimin is not here, who knows what he will do.

    There is also Ma Zhou, the governor of Yangzhou. This time, he did not react at all to Li Zhi's rebellion. He only expressed his intention to severely punish Li Zhi after Li Zhi's rebellion subsided. This was just an afterthought.

    There were many such officials in the Tang Dynasty. After the Li Zhi Rebellion, the central government of the Tang Dynasty no longer had enough power to suppress local governments, and there were signs of separatist rule in various places.

    Li Zhen couldn¡¯t help but think that in another history of time and space, the Tang Dynasty began to decline since the Anshi Rebellion, and then the feudal towns were separated and finally destroyed by the feudal towns.

    But now it is only the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and there are signs of separatist feudal towns. It can be seen that the impact of Li Zhi's Rebellion on the Tang Dynasty is really great. Without the powerful Central Army, if foreign tribes invade at this time, it will have a negative impact on the Tang Dynasty.  A fatal blow, Datang might even collapse as a result.

    The situation is really not optimistic.

    What Li Zhen lacks most now is time. As long as he is given time, up to three years, he can establish a strong central army. By then, the central government of the Tang Dynasty will have enough power to suppress the local areas and resist foreign forces.  Yi.

    However, will the surrounding Tuyuhun, Western Turks, Xi tribe, Khitan, and even Tubo, Uighur, Bohai in the northeast, and Liuzhao in the southwest really give the Tang Dynasty the opportunity and time to make a comeback?

    Lanzhou, since Li Zhi signed the peace treaty with Tuyuhun, Lanzhou, Ganzhou, Suzhou and other important western places were given to Tuyuhun by Li Zhi.

    This also caused Tuyuhun's territory to be greatly expanded in an instant, and it also gained a large population. Both its economy and military power have developed rapidly.

    Since Tuyuhun has a sparse population, it will temporarily store heavy troops in the east to digest and absorb the newly acquired land of the Tang Dynasty. Once Tuyuhun digests the newly acquired land, its national power will be greatly improved.

    The whole Tuyuhun was immersed in great joy, but no one expected that an accident would happen at this time.

    At this time, Tubo, Tuyuhun's ally and close comrade-in-arms, suddenly launched an attack on Tuyuhun.

    After the Tang Dynasty defeated Tuyuhun, Tuyuhun Khan Fuyun committed suicide, so the Tang Dynasty took advantage of the situation to support Fushun in controlling Tuyuhun, and sent backup to help Shun stabilize the situation.

    But because Fu Shun had been a hostage in the Central Plains Dynasty for a long time, the Chinese people did not follow him, and Fu Shun was killed not long after.  After Fushun died, his son Nuohebo succeeded him.  Because Nuohebo was young and needed help, and ministers were fighting for power, Tuyuhun was in chaos from then on.

    The Tang Dynasty also helped Nuohebo pacify the rebellion, and re-canonized Nuohebo as the Prince of Heyuan County and granted him the title of Khan.  The Tang Dynasty has always been very supportive of Nuohebo.

    However, Nuohebo's power was gradually emptied out. General Gesiluo and others had secretly reached an agreement with the Tubo people. So Gesiluo took advantage of Nuohebo's opportunity to worship the mountain god and led his troops to launch a sudden attack, killing Nuohebo.  He was kidnapped and later defected to Tibet.

    Originally, Gesiluo wanted to let the Tubo people support him to become the new Khan of Tuyuhun, but he never thought that all this was just a conspiracy of Lu Dongzan, a great Tubo scholar.

    Not only did Tubo not help Gesiluo become Khan, but instead dispatched 400,000 troops to annex the entire Tuyuhun without much effort. Together with Tuyuhun's newly acquired Tang states, they were merged into Tuboterritory.

    At this point, the Tubo people bordered the Tang Dynasty in the entire west and southwest, and the Tubo people occupied almost all strategic locations in the border areas between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo. The Tang army was completely passive.

    A truly powerful opponent is finally fully connected with Datang, which also indicates that Datang will have a difficult time in the future.

    Li Zhen was shocked when she heard that the Tubo people had annexed Tuyuhun. For a long time, Li Zhen regarded the Tubo people as a serious concern of the Tang Dynasty.

    In another history of time and space, after the Anshi Rebellion, Tubo in the west of the Tang Dynasty became stronger. Not only did it occupy all the territory of the Tang Dynasty in the Western Regions, it also continuously launched attacks on the Tang Dynasty. The two sides fought each other for more than a hundred years, during which the Tubo people continued to fight against each other.  Occupying the initiative, he invaded Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, twice, which led to the decline of the Tang Dynasty.

    Li Zhen did not expect that the Li Zhi Rebellion would cause such a big chain reaction. The Tubo people annexed Tuyuhun in advance, occupied the Tang Dynasty's important territory in the western region, and cut off the connection between the Tang Dynasty and the Western Regions.

    This scene is so similar to the situation after the Anshi Rebellion!

    Tubo, the biggest enemy of the Tang Empire, has risen in advance, and with Tubo's ability in Lu Dongzan, he will definitely see that the Tang Dynasty is weak after the Li Zhi Rebellion, and launch an attack on the Tang Dynasty!

    Therefore, Li Zhen began to continuously transfer limited troops to the west, including all the surrendered troops during the Li Zhi Rebellion, as well as the remnants of the Central Army Corps gathered back.

    Li Zhen has tried his best to make up for the huge loopholes on the western front.

    Although Li Zhen's movements were fast and powerful, the loopholes on the western front were too big. After the Tuyuhun annexation, the Tubo people's strength increased greatly, and they already had 600,000 troops. However, the total strength of the Tang army in the west was less than ten  Ten thousand or one hundred thousand people, it is really difficult to defend such a long front.

    Lu Dongzan, the prime minister of Tubo, was very keenly aware of the loopholes in the western front of the Tang Dynasty. How could he miss this rare opportunity(Remember this website address: www.hlnovel.com
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