Chapter 666: Chang'an's Envoy (II)



Ye Tingcheng's words can be regarded as reminding this Ni Fuguo, but what is your identity, but the people present are all deputy envoys or generals of various towns, and today's Datang is not a time when literature is light on martial arts, and the status of martial artists is also quite high, so if it is not necessary, it is not appropriate to offend any general casually, not to mention that there is not only one person sitting here, but a bunch of them.

Of course he understands this, so he has been looking forward to Ye Chengcheng coming quickly since just now, although there is no Ye Chengcheng in the will he wants to convey, but Wang Zhongsi insists on letting Ye Tingcheng also arrive before he can start, he is not easy to object, if you really can't offend, Wang Zhongsi is the most unoffended. After this battle, coupled with his close relationship with Emperor Xuanzong, his position as the number one among the envoys of the festival is stable, and I don't know if this is the meaning of Emperor Xuanzong's arrangement for Wang Zhongsi to serve as the chief general this time.

"What Captain Ye said is, I'm afraid everyone can't wait, what I brought this time is the edict of Emperor Xuanzong, if you win the battle of Sanggan River this time, I will show this edict, and then the Tang army here needs to act according to the edict, if it fails, then I have to dispose of the edict and not fall into the hands of the enemy. ”

As he spoke, he took out Li Longji's dictation from his closet: a piece of paper that looked like silk, and he didn't know what was written on it.

Seeing this scene, everyone stood up one after another, the reason why it was not as if it was a holy decree was because it was just an oracle, not the power of a holy decree, and this family brought a hand edict instead of an oracle, which played a certain role in secrecy, even if there was anyone in the Tang army camp, I am afraid that they would not be able to "hear" the content on the paper.

He walked in front of Wang Zhongsi with a solemn face, and handed him the oracle with both hands, Wang Zhongsi also took it carefully, first quickly browsed it, although he had learned the general content from the messenger, but when he really saw this oracle, he still couldn't help but change his face slightly, and looked at it in detail again, fell into contemplation, and at the same time did not forget to hand the oracle to Ye Chengcheng on the side.

Ye Chengcheng fixed his eyes and saw that it was indeed an edict written by Li Longji himself, and there was not much written on it, but it was said that last month he sent Zuo Yulin's general Sun Laonu to Gelulu, Hui and Ba Ximi, and successfully rebelled against them, and the three tribes took the opportunity to discuss with the suzerain, and booby-trapped Ashina Gudu, and the Turkic Khanate was completely divided and fell into a chaotic situation. In this case, the chief of Basimi set himself up as the Khan of Ish-Khan, and the Hui and Qarlu served as the guardians of the left and right. Originally, this was the situation that Li Longji wanted, but who would have thought that a few days later, the remnants of the Turks would actually set up the son of Que Secret Service as the Khan of Usumish, which was beyond the control of Li Longji, so he asked Wang Zhongji to lead the army to approach Han'er Bali after the Battle of the Sanggan River, to see what attitude the Khan of Usumish had towards the Tang Dynasty, if he didn't really surrender, then he didn't mind Wang Zhonghei suppressing the remnants of the Turks.

To summarize simply, Li Longji needs to figure out the attitude of this Usumish Khan, if he is not willing to surrender, then the Tang Dynasty will completely let him and the remnants of the Turks completely disappear from this world, even if after the Battle of the Sanggan River, the Tang Army is estimated to be only 150,000 cavalry elites, but it is enough to sweep these steppe nomads in the north, unless they will all unite to resist the Tang Dynasty, but under the control of Li Longji, this kind of thing is impossible.

After reading it, Ye Qingcheng also fell into deep thought, and casually handed the edict to a Tang Army general who was a little farther away from him.

What he thinks about is not only his plans after this, but also the future of the Tang army, he needs to make two assumptions, one is that the Usumish Khan is willing to submit to the Tang Dynasty, then Wang Zhongji needs to find out the movements of the three tribes of Ba Ximi, Hui and Qarluq, you must know that the chief of Ba Ximi has established himself as the Ish-Khan of Jiezhui, if he has an independent heart, this is also a threat to the Tang Dynasty, they can make the Turks fall into division today, maybe they will become the next Turks in the future. Isn't it the case that all the northern Yiyi are like this, if one overlord is gone, there will be the next overlord, today the Xiongnu will be hegemonic, tomorrow it will be changed to Xianbei, and then the day after tomorrow it will become Turkic, there will always be an ethnic group that dominates the northern grassland, and what he Li Longji wants is only an ethnic group that is willing to surrender to him, not an ethnic group that surrenders in his mouth but has a different heart in his heart. Then the second assumption is that Usumish Khan is unwilling to surrender to the Tang Dynasty, so it is very simple, naturally there is only one "type" left, but it sounds good, although now the Tang Dynasty more than 200,000 cavalry elite are all there, and they have also supplemented a lot of good horses and equipment from the Xi Qi coalition army, and the combat effectiveness has improved a lot, but the strength of the Turkic cavalry is also obvious to all, coupled with the extreme unity of their Turkic remnants after several great changes, it is obviously a little tricky to face such an opponent. Not to mention that they are very likely to be a backwater battle, if the Khan insists on rebelling and leading the Tang army to attack, the result of failure is nothing more than the beheading of all the men, the women are moved to the Central Plains, and gradually sinicized, and the entire ethnic group is completely wiped out, in such a result, it is obvious that these guys cannot afford to lose.

At this time, Ye Chengcheng understood the reason why Wang Zhongsi had to wait for him, and let himself sit next to him, highlighting the meaning of his status. In such a situation, Wang Zhongsi naturally put the variables on his Ye Chengcheng, if he wanted to achieve complete victory, or minimize casualties, then the strength of his Ye Chengcheng and those two subordinates was indispensable. Of course, this does not mean that you have to rely on the combat effectiveness of the three of them, and being protected by the three of them three times and twice doesn't mean that the Tang army is eating dry food, and this is not conducive to the growth of the Tang army, which is not what the commander-in-chief does not want to see, what he wants is mainly Ye Tingcheng's resourcefulness. Although Ye Chengcheng is not good at military strategy, and his wisdom may not even be as good as the strategists or staff brought by some of the generals present, he can make unrestrained plans and use magic to realize them, everything goes according to his own plan, which these staff and strategists can't do.

No matter how good the plan is, it will be full of variables, but if it is Ye Tingcheng's plan, even if there are variables, he has the ability to eliminate these variables, which is the reason why he Wang Zhonghei needs to show favor to Ye Tingcheng, this is not that he wants to use Ye Tingcheng to soar, it is just the best way he can think of as the commander of the Tang Army for the sake of the Tang Dynasty.