Why did the Tang Army, which originally occupied the initiative in the Battle of Talas, suffer a cru

In the Battle of Talas, the Tang Dynasty fought fiercely with the Arab Empire for five days, and the Tang army suffered a heavy defeat.

1. Gao Xianzhi's responsibility.

The cause of this war is related to Gao Xianzhi, in that 750 years, Gao Xianzhi destroyed the Shi Kingdom (one of the nine kingdoms of Zhaojiao Yuwu), and mutilated women and children, and robbed capital, which caused the Central Asian countries to be fearless, and gave the black-clothed food belt a false sail to stain Central Asia. In fact, the initiator of this war is actually Gao Xianzhi.

2. The difficulty of the campaign.

Gao Xianzhi's strategy of long-distance attack made it very difficult for the Tang army. First of all, the terrain is unfamiliar; secondly, the intelligence information is poor, and it is impossible to know oneself and the other; In the end, there is no service guarantee for the deep-seated enemy territory. At that time, the Tang army expected to defeat the black-clothed Dashi in a battle, but it was not satisfactory.

3. Qarluq's rebellion.

The Tang army was at a disadvantage in the total number of soldiers, and at this time, more than 30,000 Gelulu troops suddenly rebelled, so that they were still in a state of stalemate in battle, and under the attack of the Arabs and Qarluq rebels, the Tang army, which was still sparing no effort to fight, could not support it, and the whole line collapsed in an instant, and the whole army was basically wiped out.

The outcome of the Battle of Talas essentially laid the foundation for the future of Central Asia, and the Tang Empire collapsed four years after the end of the war, in 755 AD, when the "An Lushan Rebellion" broke out. The Central Asian states, which had been attached to the Tang Dynasty, then submitted to the Abbasids. After that, the Chinese civilization completely withdrew from Central Asia, and a process of general Islamization began in this region.

The Talas War (怛, pronounced dá) was a war caused by the Tang Dynasty's Anxi Protectorate's army meeting with the Muslim and Central Asian armies of the Arab Empire in Talas. The Battle of Talas took place in the 10th year of Tenhe (July-August 751). It ended with a crushing victory for the Arab kingdom.

This campaign was basically not harmful to the territory and relations of the Tang Dynasty and the Arab side. At the end of World War II, the Tang Dynasty still controlled the Western Regions, and expanded again.

After the Battle of Talas, the overall level of the Tang Dynasty and its influence in the Western Regions were not shaken, and the Tang Army in the Western Regions quickly recovered. Only two years later, Feng Changqing, who had been promoted to the observer of Anxi, attacked the Great Bolu controlled by the Tubo State in the twelfth year of Tianbao (753), breaking the enemy and attracting the locals. The strength of the Anxi Protectorate has long been largely restored.

Feng Changqing led the Tang army to expand again, and it was not until the An Lushan Rebellion that the competition for Central Asia was suspended.

Both sides of the Battle of Talas Tang Xuanzong's reigning Tang Dynasty commander Gao Xianzhiji scattered losses, deputy general Li Siye, and don't general Duan Xiushi. The main reason for the defeat was the disparity in the strength of the two sides.

The two sides of the war were the Anxi Protectorate of the Tang Dynasty and the army of Muzhong Hongslin of the Arab Empire. It was due to the relatively weak strength of the Tang Dynasty's State Chun Army, coupled with the fact that the Tang Dynasty did not find the shortcomings of the other party and did not take precautions in time, so it led to the defeat.

Because the land expanded by the Tang Dynasty at that time was relatively large, it would consume a lot of manpower and financial resources, and the terrain there was not particularly good.

It was because the power of the Tang Dynasty at that time was also disintegrated, there was a situation of decline, and the military development was not good, so it failed.

Because the Tang Dynasty's control over the Western Regions weakened, and the Tang Dynasty's military development became worse and worse, it would fail.

Mainly because the Tang Dynasty has always implemented some relatively bad policies, and it is also because the Tang Dynasty felt that it was particularly powerful at that time, so it underestimated the enemy.

Because of the disparity in the strength of the two sides and the fact that the Tang Army fought alone, the deployment of the army was not effective.

Because of the disparity in the strength of the two sides, Gao Xianzhi's deployment was problematic and there were many loopholes.

Although the Arab army was defeated by the Tang army at that time, it was only after the Arabs learned the art of papermaking from the papermakers captured by the Tang army. To a certain extent, the Arabs recouped their losses, which led to the rapid development of Western civilization becoming advanced, so later generations only remember the small defeat of Hengrus.

Because some believe that it was precisely because of that military defeat that the Arabs were able to learn the art of making round sedan paper from one of the Tang prisoners. And the reason for this is that the Arabs learned the art of papermaking, which also played a positive role in the development of Western civilization.

Because this battle was fought in the Tang Dynasty, many people remember this battle and have been repeatedly talked about by people, so they remember this battle.

Because although this line of war was lost, the combat effectiveness of the Tang army was very surprising, so it was valued by people.