In the eighth century AD, the earth's climate is relatively mild, the geological movement is weakened, natural disasters are reduced, and human civilization has ushered in a period of relatively rapid development, during which the world has risen three most powerful empires, namely the Byzantine Empire in Europe, the Arab Empire in the Middle East and the Tang Empire in East Asia, and the three have established a very friendly relationship because of the relationship between the Silk Road, but there have also been frictions and struggles during the period, and today we are going to talk about a war between the two strongest empires in ancient times. Military operations between the Tang Empire and the Arab Empire: The Battle of The Ross.
During the reign of Emperor Taizong of Tang and Emperor Gaozong of Tang, the Tang Dynasty's national strength developed unprecedentedly, and its sphere of influence continued to radiate to the west, and the Turkic Khaganate and other western states were successively destroyed by the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty began to rule Hetao, Monan, Annam and other regions. Including Gaochang, Khotan and other small countries in the western region, either submitted to the Tang Dynasty, or were destroyed by force, of course, the Tang Emperor is not a tyrant, as long as you honestly listen to me, domestic affairs, the king of your country has the final say, the Tang Dynasty and set up the Anxi Capital Protectorate here for jurisdiction.
Let's talk about the Arab Empire on the other side, the ancient Middle East region was in a state of chaos and division for a long time, after a hundred years of annexation, the Arabian Peninsula finally formed an empire spanning three continents in Europe, Asia and Africa, the Arab Empire at its peak, occupied North Africa and Spain, annexed West Asia and controlled the southern shore of the Mediterranean, and then the Arabs also began to play the eastern abacus, the Arab Empire's Eastern garrison highest commander Hajaji bin Youssef announced, who first set foot on China's territory, Whoever is appointed as the governor of China.
This kind of fanatical thinking sparked their fanaticism, and as a result, Chinese was fine, but the Indian Dynasty suffered, and a large number of their eastern regions were occupied by the Arab Empire, and the Tang Dynasty naturally felt its hostility, although the two sides maintained peaceful and prosperous trade on the surface, but secretly increased their power in Central Asia, and a friction was inevitable.
In the ninth year of Tianbao, the Tang general Gao Xianzhi was ordered to send an army to break the Cheshi state that was dependent on Tubo, and took control of the Pamir Valley region, becoming the protector of the Tuhuoluo region and Kashmir, in other words, Gao Xianzhi was the tang dynasty's spokesman and governor in Central Asia.
In 750, Gao Xianzhi continued to lead an army to attack the Shi Kingdom located in the territory of present-day Uzbekistan, on the grounds that it was "without courtesy", the Shi Kingdom turned to the black-clad Great Food (that is, the Abbasid Dynasty of the Arab Empire for help), the Arab Empire heard the news, and immediately dispatched troops, Gao Xianzhi considered that the Tang army at that time was relatively weak compared to the Arab Empire, so he decided to preemptively attack the Great Eater, leading the Tang army and other vassal armies to make a long-distance attack, going deep into the Arab territory for more than 700 miles. Eventually encountered at Theros and the Great Eater Army.
This surprised both sides of the battle, no one could think of colliding here and on the opposite side, and a fierce war broke out, but the accident occurred, and the Gelulu troops led by Gao Xianzhi suddenly rebelled and attacked the Tang army with the Arab army, which led to the collapse of Gao Xianzhi's army, which was already inferior in numbers, and Gao Xianzhi also returned with the remaining thousands of people and directly withdrew to the capital.
Although the Arab Empire won, what was unexpected was that after a few weeks, the black-clad king hurriedly arrived at the capital and wanted to go to Chang'an to take the initiative to ask for peace and plead for a truce.
It turned out that the troops led by Gao Xianzhi were only 20,000 people. However, at the cost of losing 18,000 people, facing 100,000 Arab allies, they still killed 70,000 enemies, which also made the King of Eater frightened, the Arabs refreshed their understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Tang Dynasty, they understood that this time Gao Xianzhi led only a small number of troops, the Tang Dynasty army did not move, not to mention the Silk Road Arabs also benefited a lot, so they could not wait to hope for a truce, and the Tang Dynasty was also happy to go down the slope, this battle that broke out in 751 did not have much impact on the relations between the two sides.