The Battle of Castle Peak in the Longest Day of Chang 'an In the Longest Day of Chang 'an Drama, all the causes and effects originated from a bloody battle in the Western Regions-the Battle of Castle Peak. When reading stories, many people will associate the prototype of this battle with the history of "Thirteen soldiers returned to Yumen" or "Anxi soldiers were independent for half a century". What needs to be seriously pointed out is that the tragic war in China's western regions is far more than that, and there is another prototype of the beacon tower war. In fact, both the original work and the TV series have been directly pointed out: "Li Bi said:" It was in the twenty-third year of Kaiyuan that Sulu Khan of the Turkic Tubo Department made an insurrection and besieged Bohuan City in Anxi. At that time, three miles north of the city, there was a lighthouse castle with 220 soldiers stationed. They defended the fort and suddenly resisted the Turkish army for nine days. When Gai Jiayun, who was escorted by the Northern Dynasties, arrived with troops, only three people survived in the city, but the big man never failed-Zhang Xiaojing was one of the three survivors. " "The rebel riding of Anxi Tufu Army is one of the top ten tribes in West Turkistan. In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, all the western Turkic ministries, including Turkic history, belonged to the Tang Dynasty, with Ashina, the descendant of Khan of the western Turkic, as the leader. However, in the era of Wu Zetian, Ashna's influence in West Turkistan gradually declined, and various ministries began to refuse to accept orders. At this time, the sudden riding, which originally belonged to the west Turkic, gradually replaced Ashina's position. In the early years of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, a strange man named Sulu appeared in the rustic stone. Sulu originally did not belong to the leader family of Tuqishi, but an ordinary Ministry. In 7 1 1 year, the king of Xihe county in Datang, Tuqi Khan Geqi and the allied forces protecting the Northern Dynasties attacked the Turks, but they were defeated and died. Sulu stood out at this time, gathered the rest of the sudden riders to become Khan, and his army quickly developed to 200 thousand. In 7 15, the Tang Dynasty appointed Sulu as the general of Zuo Yulin Army and the ambassador of Jin Fang, and in 7 19, he was awarded the title of Zhongshun Khan, making Sulu the Khan of the ten departments of the whole West Turkistan. In the same year, the Tang Dynasty also gave the town of broken leaves to Sulu as a dental court. In 722, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty canonized Ashna's daughter as Princess Jiaohe and married Sulu to enhance Sulu's appeal in West Turkistan. The sudden riding of Khan Sulu belonged to the Tang Dynasty all his life and became an important force to control the middle reaches (between the Amu Darya River and the Syr Darya River) and prevent the big food from advancing eastward. However, Sulu became the Khan of West Turkistan, and harassed and attacked Anxi and Beiting many times at the same time, which became an unstable force on the border of Tang Dynasty. After repeated rebellion and submission, the Tang Dynasty finally launched a large-scale crusade in 735, and even contacted Dashi and East Turkistan to attack and ride together. In 738 A.D., Sulu was killed by a rebel subordinate in the predicament of internal troubles and foreign invasion, and the ministries were pacified by Tang Jun. From this time until 753, the ten surname areas in West Turkic were under the direct control of the Anxi Hufu in the Tang Dynasty. The prototype of the Battle of Castle Peak in The Longest Day in Chang 'an, according to the story arrangement, took place in the 23rd year of Kaiyuan (AD 735), which was the beginning of the large-scale war between Tang Dynasty and Tuqishi. In October of the 23rd year of Kaiyuan (735), the army of Tuqi invaded Beiting and Bahuan City in Anxi (now Aksu, Xinjiang). In the twenty-fourth year (736), Gai Jiayun, the capital of the Northern Dynasty, led an attack in the first month, and was defeated by the sudden riding army on the 26th, and returned home in triumph. The Battle of Beacon Tower Castle is a peripheral battle for local jockeys to attack Paihuan City. Bahuan City, the ancient ink city of Han Dynasty, is located in the middle of Yating Broken Leaf City in Tuqi City and Qiuci City, where Anxi Dufu is located. The key to the sudden attack on four towns in Anxi (Qiuci, Yanqi, Shule and Yutian) is to change the city. It is said in the novel that the fort stood for nine days and Gai Jiayun's reinforcements arrived. The actual history is two months. In the TV series, Gai Jiayun claimed that Li, the right-hand man, was not allowed to send troops, which delayed the time. But in fact, Gai Jiayun is the escort of the North Courtyard, and his jurisdiction is in Tingzhou (Jimsar County, now east of Urumqi), more than 1,000 miles away from Bashu City and 4,000 miles away from Chang 'an. It takes a month to deliver letters to Chang 'an. In theory, it is impossible to delay the fighter plane in order to inform such a thing. In fact, whether it is nine days or two months, the operational efficiency of sending troops thousands of miles away by Gai Jiayun is very high. It was also in the battle of changing cities that Gai Jiayun was defeated and rode suddenly, which made Sulu turn from prosperity to decline. The sudden riding and riding of copper coins in the Tang Dynasty was a wrong war. Although the sudden riding was successfully destroyed in the Tang Dynasty, it was a serious strategic mistake. Although Sulu, who rode Khan suddenly, rebelled and harassed Anxi and Beitingbian towns many times, he basically claimed to be a courtier of the Tang Dynasty for 20 years and did not really declare independence. Before the 23rd year of Kaiyuan (735), the Tang Dynasty did not really regard Sulu as a traitor. Sulu, as the nominally West Turkic Khan, was supported by the Ten Departments of West Turkic because of the conferring of the Tang Dynasty. As soon as the Tang Dynasty announced the crusade, the Ten Departments of West Turkistan almost immediately turned their backs. The Sulu rebellion, to a great extent, was also the result of the Tang Dynasty's policy mistakes on sudden riding. After the rise of sudden riding, the Tang Dynasty should take sudden riding as a breakthrough and win over Sulu as a spokesman in order to control the ten western Turkic tribes. However, the Tang Dynasty was half-hearted, insisting on conferring Ashina's successor as West Turkic Khan, which led to Sulu's dissatisfaction and resistance and triggered conflicts between the two sides. It was not until the end of the Tang Dynasty that Sulu had to admit that it was a fait accompli of Khan in West Turkistan. After Sulu married Princess Jiaohe in the 10th year of Kaiyuan (722), the natives basically lived in peace with Anxi and Beiting, and sent a large number of war horses to trade every year. But in the 14th year of Kaiyuan (726), a serious thing happened. At that time, Princess Jiaohe sent a tooth official to drive more than 1000 horses to Anxi for trade. At that time, the highest official of Anxi Dufu was Du Xian, the deputy protection officer (mostly led by Yan Yan, the prince of Yan). The messenger of Princess Jiaohe, a cavalry in the Tang Dynasty, read the order to Du Xian (according to the rules, the princess of the Tang Dynasty is entitled to give the order to Anxi Duhu). Du Xian was furious: "Ashna's daughter is not qualified to read the order to me!" Ordered the staff to beat the messenger and detained the messenger and the horse. After a heavy snow, thousands of horses all froze to death. As a result, Sulu was furious and sent troops to invade four towns in Anxi, where he plundered a lot of materials. But when he heard that Du Xian was enshrined by the court, he quickly withdrew. In the 22nd year of Kaiyuan (734), another similar incident happened. The leader of Tuqi was short of Jin Jin, driving sheep and horses to the North Court to trade, but his subordinates falsely accused him of rebellion. The North Court defended Liu Huan, regardless of good or bad, and killed both of them, which angered Sulu. This incident directly triggered the war between the two sides, which eventually led to the demise of Sulu. Judging from the two Sulu rebellions, it is obvious that the responsibility lies in the improper handling of Anxi and the North Court. The strategic significance of the imperial army's sudden ride to the Tang Dynasty; the existence of the sudden ride led by Sulu was of great strategic significance to the Tang Dynasty at that time. At that time, the big food empire was expanding rapidly, and the soldiers pointed directly at the river areas in Central Asia belonging to the Tang Dynasty. Guo Kang, Shiguo, Shiguo, Anguo and other small countries in the middle of the river wrote to the Tang Dynasty in succession, requesting troops to resist the invasion of big food. In the Tang Dynasty, the northern court and Anxi had limited power, adding up to only 40,000 people. At the same time, they have to face the threat of Tubo in the south, which is beyond the reach of rivers thousands of miles away. At this time, Tuqishi received an imperial edict from the Central Committee of the Tang Dynasty and sent troops under the banner of the Tang Dynasty, becoming the savior of all countries in the river. In 724 AD, the operation of Jinfang Road made Khan Sulu defeated by tens of thousands of troops in the Battle of Sharbat Day, and Governor Khorasan was spared. In 725 AD, the son of Sulu, El Wittler, invaded Azerbaijan. The following year, the big food empire sent tens of thousands of troops to attack the rustic stone again. In the Le River in A Mu, only 8,000 people fled their homes when the army of the "Big Stomach King" was beaten to half. In 73 1 year, in the battle of Tashi-Taakala-Chacha, the sudden riding hit Dashi's army again, almost forcing Dashi to withdraw from the river completely. It was not until the Battle of Pilars (75 1) that the forces of cannibalism returned to the river. These three battles were fought by sudden riding in the name of the Tang Dynasty, in conjunction with other countries in the river. It can be said that the sudden riding paid huge casualties and maintained the influence of the Tang Dynasty in Central Asia. After the demise of Tuqishi, although the Tang Dynasty once directly controlled the river area, the troops of Anxi and Beiting continued to attack and quell the rebellion in these places, but the strength was obviously insufficient. In the end, in the battle of Nero, the Tang Dynasty was defeated by the dominant food army because of its insufficient troops (20,000-30,000 vs. 70,000-65,438,000+10,000) and the rebellion of Geluo Road (controversial in history). After the An-Shi Rebellion broke out, Anxi and Beiting were alone for decades, but they lost the support of the ten-nation allied forces of West Turkistan. There were only 200,000 to 300,000 Hu * * people in the local area, which was unable to resist the continuous encroachment of Tubo and Uighur, and eventually fell in the late 8th century and early 9th century. (Author: Tao Mujian)