In the 6th century, the Arabs in the Middle East rose rapidly, and after decades of war and foreign expansion, the Arab Empire became a super empire spanning three continents: Asia, Europe and Africa. At the beginning of the 7th century, the Arabs annexed the entire southern shore of the Mediterranean sea to the west, defeating the Byzantine Empire and making Europeans tremble! The rapid expansion and cultural cleansing of the Arabs forced the countries of Central Asia to embrace Buddhism or their own religious culture to be uneasy, so they sent envoys to another super-large empire to the east for help.
Letters of help were delivered to Tang Xuanzong, who was then the emperor of the Tang Empire, and Emperor Xuanzong was not interested in this Arab country, because at this time, the Tang Dynasty was fighting against Tubo on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and Nanzhao in the southwest, and there was no time to manage the affairs of Central Asia!
On this side, the Arab Empire won a great victory in the battle against the West, and it happened that the Shi state in the Western Regions at that time rebelled against the Tang, so the Tang Dynasty general Gao Xianzhi led the Anxi army to destroy the Shi Kingdom, and the Shi prince who luckily escaped turned to the Arab Empire (Abbasid Dynasty) for help.
The Arab Empire had originally wanted to expand to the east, and now when he received the request for help from the Stone King, the Arab Emperor happily accepted the Stone King's request for help and sent 100,000 troops to follow the Stone King back to the Western Regions.
Gao Xianzhi heard that Shi Guo had asked DaShi for help, and (the Tang Dynasty called the Arab Empire DaShi) took the initiative to lead 20,000 Anxi troops and 10,000 servants of the Western Regions to the second largest stronghold of Shi Guo. The Tang army finally arrived at Qiluo after more than three months of long-distance raids, and at this time the Arab coalition army had already been deployed here for a long time, and then the Tang army took the initiative to launch an attack on the Arab coalition army, and the Arab coalition army used its numerical superiority to fight with the Tang army, and the most elite of the Tang army and the Anxi army shined in this battle, and the Arab coalition army was on horseback for a while, and the losses were heavy!
After five days and five nights of fighting, both sides suffered heavy losses but it was difficult to distinguish between victory and defeat. At the most critical moment of the battle, Ge Lulu, who was attached to the Tang army, suddenly defected and the Arab coalition army attacked the Tang army, and the Tang army had to retreat from the battlefield due to its numerical inferiority! In this battle, the Tang army lost 20,000 people before and after, while the Arab side lost more than 70,000 people, which can be described as a tragic victory!
Afterwards, Prince Shi asked the Arab army to take advantage of the victory to pursue, but the Arab army at this time was already stunned by this battle. The most elite army in his country was beaten by a border guard army of the Tang Dynasty, and the strange knife used by the Tang army was so powerful that the Arab soldiers were often cut into two pieces with one knife, which made the Arabs completely frightened.
Not long after, the Arab Empire sent envoys to the Tang Dynasty to ask for peace, hoping to test the tang's national conditions. When the Arab envoys came to Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, they were completely shocked by the prosperity and strength of the Tang Dynasty. After the emissary returned, he told the Arab emperor about the national conditions of the Tang Dynasty, and heard the emissary's account that the Arab monarch was also shocked by the strength of the Tang, so he ordered the imperial army to withdraw from the western front and return to China. The Tang Dynasty did not lose the Western Regions because of this battle, and the countries of the Western Regions saw the powerful and incomparable combat effectiveness of the Tang Dynasty and the small countries that had originally separated from the Tang Dynasty and attached themselves to the Tang Dynasty.
Soon after the Battle of Qiluo, Datang suffered heavy losses in the battle against Nanzhao, and in 755 An Lushan Shi Siming launched a rebellion, this huge rebellion caused the Tang Empire to be seriously injured, and it was not long before the western region was also taken advantage of by Tubo to seize the opportunity, and the Arab Empire was completely subdued by the Tang after the Battle of Qiluo, so it obediently went west to beat the Byzantine Empire. Due to the frenzied expansion of the Arab Empire, domestic resentment boiled over, and it was not long before the Arab Empire was defeated by the rising Turkic tribes. The Europeans also took the opportunity to launch an attack on arabia to the east! Then the Mongols launched a western expedition to completely conquer the scattered Arab Empire! Datang also completely exhausted its vitality because of the Anshi Rebellion, and was finally ended by its own subordinates, and the Battle of Qiluo also became the first large-scale contact between the civilizations of the East and the West, and then the two sides began to carry out friendly exchanges in all aspects of economy and culture, and this battle also played a key role in promoting the civilization of the East and the West.