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Although the world that Xiao Wen resided in was very different from the original world, Xiao Wen did not care about that much.

At this time, the thing he wanted to do the most was to exaggerate the threat the Arab Empire posed to the Great Tang Dynasty in the west so that he could unite the Great Tang Dynasty with the other Chinese countries.

This was also what Xiao Wen felt that he should do the most as a descendant of the Yan Huang Clan.

But in reality, the threat the Arab Empire posed to the Great Tang Dynasty was not baseless.

In the history of the 751 A.D., there was a historic battle between the Great Tang Dynasty and Gluttony, the Arab Empire.

Although the exact location of Ross was not known, it was certain that it would be in the region of Taraz, on the adjacent border between Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, west of the Green Ridge (now the Pamir Plateau).

In the ten years of Tang Tianbao's history (July-August 751), the armies of the Anxi Capital Residence met with the Muslims of the Arab Empire and the allied armies of the Central Asian countries in this place and a war broke out.

In the period of Tang Tai Zong and Tang Gao Zong, the countries of Turkic Khan, Xue Yan Tuo Han, Western Regions and Western Turkic Han were destroyed one after another by the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty expanded and began to rule the areas of Hetou, Desert South, Western Regions, Northern Desert, Annan, and so on. The small countries of the Western Regions, such as Ham, Shanshan, Kaochang, Yanqi, Turzi, Shu Le, and Yutian, were either forced to surrender to the Tang Dynasty or destroyed by force.

From then on, the Tang Dynasty established the Western Region's ruling system with the Anxi and Northern Court Capital Residence as the core.

At the same time, the Arabs of the Middle East were rising rapidly, starting with the Arabian Peninsula and expanding through the war into an unparalleled empire that spanned all three continents of Eurasia and Africa, occupying to the west the whole of North Africa and Spain, to the east the whole of Western Asia and much of Central Asia, and controlling the whole of the southern shores of the Mediterranean. The Arab Empire became another force beyond the Tang Dynasty that affected Central Asia.

At the beginning of the eighth century, the supreme governor of the Arab Empire in the east, Hajajajajib bin Yusuf, promised his two generals, Muhammad and Gutabe ibn Muslim, that whoever first set foot on Chinese soil would appoint as governor of China.

The former conquered India's frontier, massacring and driving out large numbers of non-Muslims.

The latter conquered large parts of Central Asia, such as Tulligan, Schumann, Tajastan and Bukhara, but none of them crossed China's borders.

In the third year of Kaiyuan (715), a joint Arab attack on the Central Asian State of the Syr River was defeated by the Tang.

The Arab Empire has great influence in Central Asia due to its great geographical advantage.

Originally, most of the Central Asian countries believed in Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, etc., or their own traditional religion. Feeling uneasy about the progress of Islamic culture, many countries asked the Tang Dynasty for help. It could be said that although there was no direct conflict between the two sides, there was a long history of conflict between the two countries.

However, the true cause of this war was the ninth year of the Heavenly Treasures (750).

Then you are the Great Tang Dynasty An Xi four towns, Gao Xianzi with Stone Country as an excuse, "no courtesies", to extort Stone Country.

Stone Country requests surrender, Gao Xianzi promised.

Not long after that, Gao Xianzi broke his promise and kidnapped Stone Country's king and his men, killing the elderly and children, and began the search for treasures.

After this war of national destruction, which was the first month of the Heavenly Treasure Decade (751), the High Immortal Sesame entered the dynasty and presented the captive kings to the Celestial Sect of Wonders.

Because of this, Gao Xian Zhi was awarded the right Yu Lin Great General and the King of Stone Country was beheaded.

At this time, Gao Xianzhi had reached the peak of his career.

On the other side, Stone King, who had managed to escape, turned to Black Food, the Arab Arrakish dynasty, for help.

So back in Central Asia, GaoXianzhi took the initiative to take the initiative and attack the big food.

Gao Xianzi led the combined army of the Great Tang Dynasty on a long march, more than seven hundred miles deep, and finally encountered the Great Eclipse Army in Tulrose.

But Ross City was the second largest stronghold of Stone Country, and according to the Book of the New Tang, Stone Country: "But in Ross City, Stone Country often split up their troops to take control of it."

And Samarkand, not far from the city of Tarus, was then the gathering point of the great cannibals.

This was also the main reason why Gao Xianzhi and his big meal met here.

This was because Gao Xianzhi did not know the intentions of eating so much. Furthermore, Tang was scattered across the lands to the west of the Green Mountains, making it difficult for them to gather.

In order to stop the advance of the Great Food, he used offense as defense and expedition as food. To Gao Xianzi, who was well-versed in the art of war, this seemed to be a feasible method of defense.

It could be said that the victory or defeat of the Battle of Roth itself didn't matter to Gao Xianzhi. Even if his thirty thousand soldiers had all been wiped out by the army, as long as they could buy time for the Great Tang Dynasty to deploy all the other armies in Central Asia, no matter how hard they tried, they would still not be able to defeat the army that had already gathered — after all, it was just like how Song in his era when he was the world's strongest economy, his military might was the weakest of the lot.

Although the Arab Empire was the second richest empire in the history of the world, its military might was incomparable to that of the Great Tang Dynasty.

Ten Years of Heavenly Treasures (751) In April, Gao Xianzi led thirty thousand Great Tang Dynasty armies and set out from Anxi.

After three months of trekking across the desert over the Pamir Plateau (the Green Ridge), Kao Xianzhi reached the Arab-held Taros in July and began to lay siege to the city of Tarus.

Since the Arabs were already preparing for the attack on the four towns of Ansi, a hundred thousand troops were immediately dispatched to Taros after receiving word of the attack from Gaoxingzhi. A decisive battle was waged between the two sides of the Rhodes, near today's Aulie-Ata, which is now Jiangbo.

Under Gao Xianzhi's command, the Tang army was brave and battle-ready. Relying on the strong bows and crossbows of the infantry, the Tang army had once held a great advantage. Once, the Tang cavalry had completely suppressed the Arab cavalry.

However, due to the sheer numbers of Allied Arab troops, GaoXianzhi was unable to achieve a final victory. The battle lasted five days, and on the evening of the fifth day the soldiers of the Qarluq suddenly rebelled, surrounding the Tang infantry from behind and cutting off their contact with the cavalry.

The joint forces of the Abbas dynasty took advantage of the chaos in the Tang army and dispatched heavy cavalry to attack the Tang infantry.

GaoXianzhi was attacked from both sides by the Arabian and Gellogu tribes, unable to hold on and eventually defeated.

Gao Xianzhi, Li Xianye, and Bei Feng gathered up the remnants of Duan Xiuzhu and retreated in the direction of Anxi. Along the way, they happened to meet the retreating soldiers of the Great Tang Dynasty alliance.

Li was afraid that the Arab troops would catch up with them, so he killed more than a hundred of the soldiers before they were able to lead the way.

After the war, there were only a few thousand soldiers left in the army of thirty thousand.

This battle ended in a crushing victory for the Arab Empire.

It was the only time in several border clashes between the Arabs and the Great Tang Dynasty that they had won against the Ansi army. In the war afterwards, because the Great Tang Dynasty's army had already taken precautions against this country in the west that was on the same level as them, they were not defeated again.

The war had little effect on the territories of the Tang Dynasty and the Arabs. After the war, the Tang Dynasty still controlled the Western Regions, but they did not continue to expand towards the West. Of course, this was also because of the limited territory that the feudal age controlled.

The people at that time must also have known that if the Great Tang Dynasty's army continued to expand towards the west, then the first thing they would have to face was not the rebellion of the Arab Empire, but the rebellion and secession of the Anxi Capital Residence.

Of course, these were all things that Xiao Wen knew about. In this world, no one else knew about this war that had yet to happen.

However, when Xiao Wen saw that Wang Xuance was interested in this Arab Empire that was blocking the Great Tang Dynasty from making a fortune, he exaggerated and promoted the Arab theory of threat to Wang Xuance.

In a short period of time, this diplomat of the Great Tang Dynasty already had the idea of joining forces with the Han, and even had the idea of extinguishing the's food during the summer.