Li Liangqin led an army of 5,000 troops to the east, and he ordered the crown prince Li Boyu to be the rear army, and the governor to reward the army with grain, grass, baggage and treasures.

When he came to Shule Mountain, the earth-shattering shouts of killing suddenly sounded.

"Kill !!"

On both sides of the mountain range, the arrows flew sideways, Li Liang dodged in panic, looking at the Great Sui soldiers who had rushed out on both sides, his face was pale, there were actually Sui Dynasty ambushes here?

"What's going on?" Li Liang looked at the dense surroundings, thousands of Sui troops, and shouted in shock.

"Li Rail, you're done today." Wang Fubao stood on a hillside, loudly announcing Li Liang's death, without the slightest emotion in his voice, with an astonishing evil aura.

"Wang Fubao?"

"It's despicable!"

"King, we have been tricked, and there are Sui troops in front and back." A subordinate general reported to Li Liang in horror.

When Li Liang heard this, he was silent for a while, and suddenly smiled desolately, and said, "I understand, you used the Turks to deceive Yumen City, and then deliberately deceived us to come here to die. ”

"Not too stupid."

"Even if so-and-so dies, you should not be proud." Li Liang looked at the rain of arrows that were constantly falling, and while holding a gun to block, he said sharply: "Kill me out." ”

"Put!" After Wang Fubao stretched out his hand gently, he pressed down violently, and instantly became a famous archer

"Boom!" I heard a loud bang, like a thunderous explosion, and one after another crossbow arrows were fired at Li Liang's cavalry like raindrops, and before the cavalry could react, they had already fallen down with arrows, like cutting seedlings, and they were wiped out in pieces.

Wang Fubao looked at Li Liang, who tried to rush out, but was indeed blocked by layers of elite soldiers, and the command flag in his hand danced, and the rain of arrows in the sky suddenly poured down in this direction.

In an instant, the originally peaceful Shule Mountain became a Shura purgatory, the corpses of thousands of people blocked the official road, the corpses piled up like a mountain, and the thieves ran backwards on the corpses of their companions, only screams and cries were heard, and everything was as terrifying and chaotic as madness.

But they couldn't escape far, so they ran into the encirclement formed by Su Dingfang, Niu Jinda, and Xue Wanjun's 30,000 cavalry, and the rebels were all killed, and only more than a thousand desperate thieves knelt on the ground and kowtowed and begged for mercy.

In this battle, Li Rail's entire army was annihilated, and the Great Liang Emperor Li Rail, the crown prince Li Boyu, and the Jin King Li Zhongyan all died in the chaos.

Niu Jinda looked at the corpses of Li Rail's father and son, and admired him: "Li Rail is still prescient. ”

"How so?" Su Dingfang was very curious

"Call the country name Da Liang, no, it's cool enough." Niu Jinda was covered in the corpses of Li Rail's father and son, and he was troubled.

Xue Wanjun smiled: "What about you, what is an old cow running into?" ”

"An old cow ran into the prairie and traveled thousands of miles; Xue Wanjun has 10,000 catties of blood. ”

"Not really."

"You have ten thousand catties of blood, and your life is hard and auspicious! Be satisfied! ”

Xue Wanjun: "......"

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Soon after, the Sui army slaughtered the city of Jinchang, sent the Li father and son into the city, and then took the city bloodlessly.

Li Liang's father and son all died in the mountains and forests of Shule Mountain, Wei Yunqi sent a small army to recruit all parts of Dunhuang, and he discussed the follow-up with Wenwu in Jinchang City.

"The recovery of Dunhuang is extraordinary, firstly, the land of the Great Sui will be protected, and secondly, as long as the two counties of Yiwu and Shanshan are recovered, the Silk Road will be reopened. Looking a little further, with Yiwu as the logistics center, our Great Sui will have no worries about confronting the Western Turks, instead of taking the territory of the Eastern/Turkic regions, and face the risk of cutting off the grain route; At the same time, with Yiwu and Shanshan as logistics centers, you can conquer the Western Regions and expand your land. ”

Wei Yunqi, who was full of interest, said this, looked at the excited group of Great Sui rookies, sighed and said: "I am old, in the future, the strategy of the Western Regions of the Great Sui will have to be realized by your Highness one by one, I only hope that in my lifetime, I will see the Great Sui re-dominate the world, and then drive the Western Turks to the west of the Green Mountains, and establish ten or one hundred counties in the Western Regions!" ”

Everyone was infected by Wei Yunqi's pride and ambition, and Fang Xuanling said with a smile: "I, the Great Sui, have the command of His Royal Highness, and the Green Ridge is by no means the boundary of the Great Sui. ”

Fang Xuanling's words made Wei Yunqi's eyes light up, and he sighed leisurely: "If there is really that day, I will have no regrets when Wei Yunqi dies!" ”

After a sigh, Wei Yunqi's thoughts returned to reality, "Let's not talk about this, let's talk about how to help His Highness open the deadlock in the south, right?" ”

"Yiwu County is the territory of General Xue Shixiong, does General Xue know anything about Yiwu?" Wei Yunqi didn't have much hope in his heart, but when he talked about Yiwu, he had to mention Xue Shixiong, so he asked casually.

"It's been too long, and Igo doesn't know what kind of situation Igo is now...... However, the last general knew very well about Emperor Wu's intention to attack Yiwu! Xue Wanjun said.

Wei Yunqi still showed a trace of regret on his face at first, but when he heard it, his eyes lit up at the end: "What is the intention of Emperor Wu?" Say it and maybe refer to it.! ”

It can be known that Yang Guang's strategy in the Western Regions will definitely have a thousand benefits for the present.

It's just that when Yang Guang attacked the Western Regions, Wei Yunqi was a dispensable marginal person, and he was not qualified to know and participate in the decision-making at that time. Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and others are all small characters, let alone know. Therefore, Xue Wanjun's words were definitely an unexpected surprise.

"Speaking of which, it was very similar to what it is now."

When everyone heard this, they were even more happy.

Seeing that Xue Wanjun's face showed a look of memory and thought, no one dared to disturb him.

"Emperor Wen adopted the strategy of the late Sun Sheng, the general of the Right Xiaowei, to attack the Turks from afar and at close range, and to unite the strong and the weak, constantly dividing and luring, sowing discord among their chieftains, and making them unique, and at the same time constantly exerting armed strikes, so that the prestige of the Great Sui in the Western Regions reached its peak. After Emperor Wu succeeded to the throne, the Silk Road was restarted, and the countries of the Western Regions went to Zhangye one after another to trade with the Central Plains, and Pei Ju was ordered to supervise the mutual market. Pei Ju is too good to Hu Shang in the Western Regions, in order to let them come to the Central Plains, not only to take care of food and housing, but also to let them make money! Wei Shangshu should know about this, right? Xue Wanjun asked.

Wei Yun nodded and said: "I know this, the government and the opposition were very critical at that time. Could it be something else? ”

"Yes!" Xue Wanjun nodded and said: "Pei Ju is good to Hu merchants in the Western Regions, and has two intentions: first, to lure the Hu merchants of the Western Regions and pry open their mouths, so as to obtain the customs, mountains and rivers, weather and other conditions of the Western Regions, and to prepare for entering the Western Regions and expanding the land for thousands of miles. ”

"Second, the Hu Shang of the Western Regions is actually the nobles of the Western Regions, the Turks are mean to the Hu Shang of the Western Regions, that is, to the nobles of the Western Regions, the Great Sui gives them benefits with leniency, so that they feel that the Great Sui is profitable, so as to refuse the Turkic pull, once the Great Sui marches to the west, these people will cheer in the middle of the road, so as to clear the way for the Great Sui to encroach on the Western Regions, and when the Great Sui gain a firm foothold in the Western Regions, they will be killed as pigs, and the money they earn from the Great Sui will eventually be returned with interest."

Everyone was amazed when they heard it, they were kind to the merchants of the Western Regions, and they actually had such sinister intentions, but this kind of gradual and gentle means was indeed easier to achieve than an iron and bloody hand.

Xue Wanjun said: "In the third year of the Great Cause, the Silk Road outside Dunhuang was extremely unstable, and the merchants who traveled to and from the Silk Road were robbed by powerful horse thieves and suffered heavy losses, which directly affected the business exchanges between our Great Sui and the countries of the Western Regions. In just three months, the losses are innumerable, and the situation is getting more and more intense. According to investigation, the so-called horse thieves are actually Tuyuhun's army, and they are guarded by Tuyuhun people. Tuyuhun also secretly allied with the Western Turks to jointly deal with the Great Sui, and after defeating the Great Sui, the Tiele tribes in the Western Regions were owned by the Western Turks, and the Hexi Corridor was owned by Tuyuhun. Therefore, the first emperor decided to completely destroy Tuyuhun and extend the territory of the Great Sui to the west. ”

"At that time, the state of Yiwu, which was located between the Western Turks and Tuyuhun, was subject to the Western Turks, so if you want to attack Tuyuhun, you must capture the Iwu country, so as to sever the connection between the Western Turks and Tuyuhun. The first emperor appointed his father as the general of Yumen Daoxing, and joined forces with Qimin Khan to attack the Yiwu Kingdom. The ancestor led the army out of the Jade Gate, but the Khan of Qimin was delayed. The ancestor simply led a lone army across the desert, and the Yiwu people didn't know that my Great Sui was coming, so they didn't take precautions, and when they heard that the army had crossed the desert, they surrendered directly, which is the origin of Yiwu County. In the following year, the first emperor drove his own expedition and slaughtered Tuyuhun by bloody means, and the countries of the Western Regions submitted to the Great Sui one after another, and twenty-nine kings of the Western Regions wore gold and jade and brocade clothes, and collectively worshiped at the feet of the first emperor. At that time, the last general, his eldest brother and second brother experienced by his father's side and witnessed the glory of my Great Sui. ”

Everyone listened leisurely, and their hearts were even more indescribably happy, and secretly thought: It turned out that Emperor Wu beat Tuyuhun, not Tuyuhun threatened the Silk Road, but had caused substantial damage to the Silk Road. I am afraid that the time was ripe to invade the Western Regions at that time. It was only at that time that Goguryeo was more threatening, and Emperor Wu planned to solve it first, but in the end, for various reasons, the Great Sui Dynasty fell apart and fell apart. It's a pity.

It's just that the effect of being good for Hu Shang in the Western Regions has shown its power in Yiwu, because after Yiwu was merged into the Great Sui, he really did not betray, and Li Liang can only be regarded as a brotherly dispute. In a sense, Emperor Wu's strategy for the Western Regions was actually successful.

"The image of benevolence and righteousness of the Great Sui is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in the Western Regions. The Turks are a people who only know brutal plunder, and their image in the Western Regions is not good. If our Great Sui comes forward to kill the Western Turkic garrison, the countries of the Western Regions are estimated to be secretly cooperating, and if they are afraid that the Western Turks will pursue them, they can push them on my Great Sui. We don't care about that anyway. In the end, Xue Wanjun said his own suggestion.

Wei Yunqi, Fang Xuanling, and Du Ruhui looked at me with a look of ecstasy at the same time.

The countries of the Western Regions are now under the rule of the Western Turks, and with the Pixiu nature of the Turks who eat hard and do not vomit, the countries of the Western Regions must have a hard time, and they must be full of complaints, so as to think of the good of the Great Sui. This also provided the foundation for the Great Sui to enter the Western Regions again. And all of this is the cause of Yang Guang's planting, which really responds to the saying that the predecessors planted trees and the later people rested.

"The troops went out of Yiwu County, threatened the retreat of the army of Tongye Hu from the southwest, and then broke into the countries of the Western Regions with a small force, and the countries were in turmoil, and Tongye Hu could not return to the army. And this is the opportunity to break the enemy. ”

Wei Yunqi clapped his hands and said.

Once the general direction is determined, the next thing will be easy. The Sui army rested for one night and immediately dispersed its operations, and the main force marched into Yiwu to threaten the Western Turks proper; Divided into small groups of elite soldiers to attack Gaochang, Qiuzi, Yanqi, and Khotan...... Shake the colonial system of the Western Turks.

Li Rail's father and son were killed, and the Great Sui soldiers did not take over to recover the two counties of Yiwu and Shanshan, and three days later, the army broke through to the Jinshan Mountains and converged in the direction of Yang Tong.

Su Dingfang's task was to annihilate the 20,000 Western Turkic garrisons in Gaochang, so as to prevent the other side from attacking Yiwu and cutting off the grain route of the Great Sui.

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