In Mobei, the wind roared, the sheepskin tent was wide open, the unkempt snowflakes fell from the curtain and overhead, the flames in the fire pit flickered and dimmed, Yang Tong picked up a few pieces of dried cow and sheep dung and threw them into the fire pit, watching the flames devour them.

"Your Royal Highness, Concubine Li, Concubine Wu and the generals are here......" Yin Mingyue's cold voice sounded outside the tent.

"Invite them in."

Then there was a sound of footsteps stepping on ice and snow, and then Shui Tianji, Qin Qiong, Luo Shixin, Niu Jinda, and Wei Chigong walked in.

Yang Tong greeted everyone like a hospitable herdsman: "Come on, it's cold outside the tent, drink a cup of hot milk wine to warm up... Eat a little bit..."

Everyone gathered together, and the female guards hurriedly brought up the hot milk wine and barbecue, and Yang Tong greeted everyone with enthusiasm to eat and drink.

"Are you having fun killing these days?" After eating, Yang Tong asked.

"It's not fun!" Everyone replied in unison.

"It's really not fun." Yang Tong laughed, slaughtering some of the guards and herdsmen of the tribe with the elite of the 45,000 elites, there was really no sense of accomplishment. Although the man who controls the strings has a certain combat power, he is never an orthodox soldier. Tuojie and Detachment are the experienced and battle-hardened warriors of the Turks.

"In the next step, our target is the Tiele tribe east of Kent Mountain and north of the Wuleji River, from west to east, there are nine surnames such as Huifu, Sijie, Tongluo, Fugu, and Bayegu, and these Tiele tribes have been greatly weakened after nearly a year of conquest. According to our intelligence, during the period when Yizha Khan lost his bowl and became independent, the population of Tiele totaled 68, but after the conquest of Chuluo, it has dropped to about 300,000 or 400,000, and according to the characteristics of the grassland people, Tiele also has more than 200,000 warriors. ”

"Although Tiele once again submitted to the Turks led by Jieli, the hatred between each other is not so easy to eliminate, and at the same time, because Shibi Khan once slaughtered them in Mayi, he is also cautious and cautious towards Jieli! The number of troops they have gathered at Yudu Jin Mountain is less than 50,000, that is to say, there are more than 150,000 soldiers left behind in Tiele, and with the troops who can fight, we will face five times as many enemies. ”

After listening to Yang Tong's words, everyone's expressions became a little serious.

It's just that although Tiele is regarded as a whole by everyone, its essence is still a tribal alliance headed by nine surnames, each of them has its own interests, and when faced with life and death decisions, they will consider themselves. So, we should treat them as one tribe after another, not as a whole whole, so that we are still one-on-one. ”

Everyone: "......"

Yang Tong continued: "Tiele is different from the Turks! The means are not the same. ”

Qin Qiong asked, "Your Highness wants to recruit them?" ”

"Tiele is the grass on the wall, if you surrender them, more than ten years later, it will be an Eastern Turk, and we can't eat this kind of loss anymore. I mean to deplete their war potential. ”

In history, Tiele led by Xue Yantuo was able to rise rapidly after Li Shimin annihilated the Turks, one of the reasons was that they had a large population and strong combat power, and after collecting the Turkic tribes, they received the full support of Li Tang, so in just a few years, they became a powerful steppe khanate, but they just changed their masters. After the death of the first khan of the nascent Xue Yan Khanate, Yinan, his son immediately argued with Li Tang. This is simply a flip board for the Eastern Turks, and it can be seen that Li Shimin did not learn the lessons of the Sui Dynasty in his foreign policy. This time, Yang Dong intends to destroy Tieler's war potential.

"What is war potential?" Yang Tong asked himself and replied: "Population is the greatest war potential, as long as it is destroyed, Tiele will not threaten us for decades or hundreds of years." Therefore, to deal with Tieler, the main thing will be to loot materials, and if you can't take it away, you will burn it down, including tents, bedding, clothes and other items to avoid the cold in winter, anyway, only leaving them with corpses and ruins. ”

"The biggest enemy of the northern nomads has never been our Central Plains Dynasty, it is the harsh environmental climate. White, black, and yellow plagues will all cut off the herders' livelihood. When the cold wave comes, the grasslands are covered with snow and ice, and the nomads cannot graze their cattle and can only feed their livestock with hay. If the snow falls too much and lasts for a long time, the livestock will starve to death or freeze to death, which is a white disaster. If there is less snow, the grassland lacks water, there will be epidemics, the grass source will be lost, and livestock will die in large numbers, which is a black plague; The grassland terrain is flat, and sandstorms and tornadoes can easily sweep the earth, and even people and livestock are dangerous, which is the yellow plague. Therefore, the grassland people often invade the Central Plains, not only because they are barbaric and like to plunder, but also because they are a way of survival, and they may not survive without robbing. ”

"It's the coldest season of the year, and it's going to last for more than two months, and if they don't have tents, clothes, bedding, food, and don't go crazy and raid other tribes, they won't be able to survive the cold winter and spring. And we have the Great Wall to hold onto, so they can only rob themselves. After a month or two of robbing like this, the population is getting smaller and smaller, and of course the hatred between each other is getting bigger and bigger, and the threat to my Great Sui is naturally getting smaller and smaller. ”

Everyone gasped, this trick was too ruthless.

"Once they fight each other and grab supplies, they don't have time to defend us, and when the time comes, if we have the extra strength, we can just wipe it out in one fell swoop. If there is no free time, it is better to let them kill themselves. ”

To be honest, Yang Tong never thought of fighting with Jieli's main force, because historical facts have proved that only annihilating the enemy's combat troops will not achieve the effect of destroying the country at all.

Li Mu, a famous general of the Warring States Period, annihilated more than 100,000 Xiongnu in the first battle, and once defeated the Xiongnu, but this kind of victory of annihilating the main battle force can only deter for a while, and cannot completely solve the Xiongnu problem. Because Li Mu killed only the adult men of the Huns, their children still live safely on the grassland, and after more than ten or twenty years, these bear children can grow up and ride war horses to invade the Central Plains again.

However, Li Mu's tactics were the most resource-saving tactics, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also wanted to adopt this tactic, so there was the incident of Ma Yi's strategy, but unfortunately Ma Yi's strategy ended in failure. Therefore, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty adopted the second plan: to take the initiative. The Han army relied on its strong national strength to attack the hinterland of the Xiongnu continuously, and after the Huns fled, they would capture and burn the livestock they had too late to take away.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty this three-light policy, so that the Xiongnu lost the resources of survival, they can only migrate to the bitter cold land in the north of the desert, the harsh environment and the shortage of living materials, so that a large number of Xiongnu people died of hunger and cold.

And Yang Tong is now going to adopt the plan of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and use the cold weather to force the Turks to take the road of civil war. If he was in the period of Shibi Khan, he could suppress the civil war with his strong prestige, but the current Turkic Khan is Jieli, a new monarch who has no achievements and no prestige, and will not divide the resources in his hands equally, and the grassland is a place where the weak eat the strong, so it is very likely that the melee of the various tribes will reappear in the grassland due to Yang Dong's attack.

After deciding on the desperate plan to destroy the materials, Yang Tong issued the order to fight. The target is the easternmost tribe of Bayegu and the tribe of servants west of Bayegu.

These two divisions are located in the valley of the Ulji River, less than 150 miles apart, and if they were to fight one another, it would very likely arouse the vigilance of the other division, thus bringing unnecessary trouble to the war. Yang Tong simply divided the army into two, the East Route Army was led by Qin Qiong as the main general, Niu Jinda as the deputy general, and the two led the two armies of Nutao and Raglan to attack the easternmost Bayegu tribe, and the West Route Army led by Yang Tong mainly attacked the Servant Bone Tribe.

"The Bayegu tribe is the easternmost tribe of the Turks, and if you fight from the west, they will have to flee to the south, or to the north, so that they will not cause me trouble. In the same way, I also attacked from west to east, with the aim of preventing the rout from fleeing to Tongluo and Xue Yantuo in the west. After you complete your mission, quickly return to the army and attack Xue Yantuo in the northeast of Tongluo, and Tongluo will be handed over to me. Let's go! ”