Anxi’s Prodigy: From Death Row Inmate to Great Tang War God’s Fragment

At the age of twenty, Gao Xianzhi was still an obscure deputy protector-general of Anxi.

He led twenty thousand men over the Congling Mountains, captured Lianyun Fort, and crushed Lesser Bolü, making the seventy-two kingdoms of the Western Regions pay tribute to Chang’an once more. When people asked how he did it, he said, “Wherever our horses tread, there is the Great Tang.”

But winning a battle did not mean winning everything.

At the Battle of Talas, the allied forces switched sides in the middle of the fight, and more than half of Anxi’s twenty thousand elite soldiers were killed or wounded. He retreated to Shule with the remnants of his army, and before he could even tend to his wounds, the An Lushan Rebellion erupted. Rebels pressed in, treacherous men whispered slander, and the emperor sent an edict ordering his execution.

He had won countless victories in his life, yet he nearly died by the hands of his own people.

Thankfully, this time was different.

Three thousand brothers stood with him to defend Tong Pass. Lady Su managed grain supplies and treated the wounded in the rear. And a man named Li Siyè always stood by his side. When Bian Lingcheng arrived bearing the imperial edict, Gao Xianzhi chose a path never recorded in the history books.

From that day on, a new monument stood on the map of the Great Tang.

It bore just six words: Wherever our horses tread, there is the Great Tang.

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