Chapter 512: During the Attack (1)

Bilus arranged everything at home and set out on the road to return home. This time, he didn't know if he would have the chance to return to Chang'an or see his family again.

However, Bilus didn't regret it at all. Recovering Persia was his lifelong wish.

After a long journey, Bilus finally arrived at the Anxi Protectorate. Bilus was warmly received by the Anxi Protectorate.

"Protector, I wonder how the envoy's negotiations with the Arabs are going?" After a good meal, Bilus asked about the negotiations with the Arabs.

"No news has been received. The envoy has left the Anxi Protectorate and entered the Arab Empire for several days. Logically, there should be news."

"Even if there is no agreement, the latest news should be sent back, but there is no news so far, not a single word." Anxi Protector said.

"The Arabs are brutal and cruel, but now there is no news at all. Could it be..." Bilus did not continue to speak here. He believed that Anxi Protector would understand what he meant.

"Does the Persian king mean that the envoy has met with an accident? How dare the Arabs be so bold and presumptuous? Is the Persian king worrying too much?"

"Who in the world dares to provoke the Tang Dynasty, and who has the courage to kill the Tang envoy?" Anxi Protector said proudly.

With the current strength of the Tang Dynasty, it is indeed capable of looking down on the rest of the world. Not many people dare to touch the Tang Dynasty's envoys.

But the Arabs are one of the few, and it is not impossible that they will kill the envoys.

"It's always better to be careful! I think the Protector General should send someone to investigate." Bilus said.

"I will send someone to investigate this matter. The Persian king has been very tired from traveling all the way. It's getting late, so you should rest early!" said the Protector General of Anxi.

Bilus did not say much. Whether to believe it or not was up to the Protector General of Anxi. He had said everything he should say. Bilus got up and followed the soldiers to rest in the room prepared for him.

After Bilus left, the Protector General of Anxi thought about it, and finally decided to send someone to investigate. After all, the envoy had been away for so long, but there was no news at all, which was really suspicious.

The next day, the person sent by the Anxi Protector General to gather information came back. Not only did he come back, he also brought back a person.

A person who was seriously injured and dying.

This person was a member of the envoy group and an attendant of the envoy.

"What's going on?" Looking at the attendant who was breathing out more than breathing in, the Protector General asked the soldier.

"When we met him, he was already like this. It seems that he is dying." The soldier said.

"Military doctor, why hasn't the military doctor come yet?" The Anxi Protector General shouted loudly.

Several military doctors hurried over to check the condition of the injured.

The Anxi Protector General frowned and was worried. The person was unconscious and could die at any time. There was no way to get any specific news from him.

What happened to him that he was injured like this?

Did he encounter robbers on the way, or was he injured by someone, or was it done by the Arabs? He had to find out before he could decide what to do.

"Protector General, he's awake!" someone shouted, pulling Protector General Anxi back to reality.

Protector General Anxi hurried forward to check.

"Brother, what happened to you? Who hurt you like this? Where are the others? Where is the envoy?" asked Protector General Anxi.

"He, they are all dead, I, I just managed to escape with great difficulty." The envoy's follower said with difficulty, he could die at any time.

"How could this happen? Who did it, who was it?" asked Protector General Anxi.

"Yes, yes, the governor-general of Khorasan..." The envoy's entourage died before they could finish their words, with eyes wide open.

"Don't worry, brother, the Tang Dynasty will avenge you, so go with peace of mind." The Anxi Protector closed his eyes with his hands.

Although he did this and did not explain the whole thing clearly, according to what he just said, it can be proved that the whole thing was caused by the governor of the Khorasan region of the Tang Dynasty.

The specific reason is no longer important. The courage to kill the envoys of the Tang Emperor is enough to sentence them to death.

What's more, the emperor has already issued an edict that if the negotiations fail, he will send troops to retake Anguo.

This was the first time that an envoy was killed since the establishment of the Tang Dynasty. As the Anxi Protector, he had no choice but to do something.

"Send someone to deliver the envoy's message to Chang'an to His Majesty the Emperor in an urgent manner." Anxi Protector said.

"Yes!" The deputy general received the order.

In fact, the whole thing went like this. The Tang envoy left the Tang control area and entered the area ruled by the Arabs.

Along the way, the Arabs were not friendly to this group of foreign pagans.

The envoys came to the Governor's Mansion in the Khorasan region and wanted to meet the then Governor of Khorasan and asked to see the Khalifa, the supreme ruler of the Arabs.

The Governor of Khorasan naturally rejected the request of the Tang envoys. What qualifications did an envoy have to meet their Khalifa?

The Tang envoy expressed dissatisfaction. He was on a mission to the Arab Empire to represent the Tang and the emperor to negotiate with the other party, so he naturally had to meet the other party's supreme ruler.

Even if he did not meet their supreme ruler, he had to meet the other party's representative. Others were not qualified to negotiate with them.

The attitude of the Tang envoys made the governor of Khorasan very dissatisfied. What a great Tang Empire. Wasn't the once powerful Persian Empire also destroyed by the Arabs and became the territory of the Arabs?

In the eyes of the governor of Khorasan, there was no difference between the Tang Dynasty and the Sassanid Empire of Persia. Anyway, it was no big deal for the Arabs to destroy one empire or two empires.

The governor of Khorasan did not take the Tang Dynasty seriously. Indeed, the Arabs had the capital to ignore the Tang Dynasty, that is, the Arabs had a vast territory.

When their territory was at its largest, it extended to Central Asia in the east and Spain in the west.

It can be said that they had never been invincible, so they did not take the so-called empires in places other than the Arabs seriously.

So the governor of the Khorasan region ordered the capture of these envoys, plundering their treasures, and executing them all.

This was a provocation to the Tang Dynasty. Not only did they execute the Tang Dynasty's envoys, but a few days later, they sent troops to occupy many places in Central Asia, including Samarkand and Khwarazm, and were not stopped until the Tang army rushed over.

The news reached the Anxi Protectorate, who was furious. He hadn't sent out his troops yet, but these places were occupied by the Arabs. It was really abominable.

If he hadn't been prepared, the Anxi Protectorate would have sent out his troops to fight the Arabs. He would have allowed a governor of the Arabs to be so arrogant.

Because the Arabs' initial offensive was too successful, the governor of Khorasan thought that the Tang Dynasty was also a soft persimmon that could be easily squeezed, so he decided to make a move.