After returning from the obsessive loss of mental strength, Jieli has been staying in the tent and not coming out, and he has almost thought clearly about the meaning that Li Shimin conveyed to him, he will fight if he wants to fight, and he will withdraw if he wants to, and it can be seen that Li Shimin does not want to drag it out.

But Jieli wants to continue to drag on, his army hasn't come back yet, only Changshengtian knows which tribes have gone where, and he Jieli has long broken off contact with Changshengtian, no, he has never been contacted.

Now there are still around him in addition to his own people and horses is a stubborn mind, less than 50,000 people, and the number of people on the opposite side is about the same, if you really want to fight, who wins or loses, even if he wins, his little family background is gone, there is no need to return to the grassland, here those small tribes can do it for him, what is he like in the hearts of the people below, he is still a khan.

This thought was just one night, and Jieli couldn't remember the last time he stayed awake all night, when he first won the Khan position? Time is too far away, who would want to experience this feeling of restlessness again today.

Until noon on the 29th, the scattered soldiers rushed back one after another, which was one of the few good news, followed by even more troublesome bad news:

The horse grass is completely gone, most of the grass in the Central Plains is not suitable for eating, hundreds of thousands of horses, only the grassland grass can feed, stepping out of the grassland, losing the protection of immortality, this is not a problem, many tribes are full of loads, grain cloth, iron pot farm tools, are valuable things, with these are enough for them to live a stable year.

It would be better if there was horse grass, Jieli thought secretly.

Judging from the current situation, Li Shimin has a great advantage, the back road is blocked by Wei Chi Jingde's 100,000 soldiers, and the Tang troops stationed in various places dare to come on the front road, and there are only more than 10,000 people standing there yesterday, but today the number of people has expanded by four or five times, and the black and oppressive crowd with the blades shining with cold light has cooled Jieli's heart.

I can't hold on any longer, it's okay if the horse doesn't eat for a day or two, but if you don't eat for three days, you won't have the slightest strength, and then you won't be able to run if you want to.

Jieli immediately sent an envoy to Li Shimin to beg for surrender, yes, not to negotiate peace, he was worried that the joint talks would drag on for a few days, which would make him reveal his true form, and he would not stop doing it, and begging directly, it was best to finish this matter today, and tomorrow he would pull the army back to the grassland, and he was looking for some forage or something along the way, and he could return to the grassland if he insisted on persisting.

When the envoy arrived in Chang'an, he was hung up by Duan Zan with a bottomless hanging basket, and put down a sentence You are waiting here and went to the palace in person.

Li Shimin was still discussing with the ministers how to make the Turks retreat, so it was not easy to disturb, Duan Zan simply went to the East Palace next to him to ask for a drink.

"Your Highness, the Turkic dog can't hold on, now send someone to beg to surrender, I used a bottomless broken hanging basket to hang him up, didn't you see him scared, holding the hanging basket to death, the urine scared him out, and now wearing wet pants blowing wind on the city tower, it's really a bad breath" Duan Zan picked up a pot of water and grunted into his mouth, touched his mouth before he told Li Chengyang about the beautiful thing he had just done.

Li Chengyang thought about the picture depicted in the small paragraph, and the corners of his mouth hooked a good-looking arc: "Okay, it's useless to make a small fight, it's almost over, wait, my father said that if you don't hold this hatred, you won't be a person, it is estimated that we will be able to fight back in a few years, and when the time comes, we will add Xiao Cheng, and lead a team to be a pioneer officer, and run after Jieli, and we won't come back if we don't capture him."

"Yes, Your Highness, you are out of the limelight, now the Manchu Dynasty civil and military ones don't give you a thumbs up, I heard my father say, no matter how you can toss, it's still no problem to keep this Tang Dynasty, my father rarely praises people so much, wait for my turn in the future, see how I suppress you from the limelight, quack quack" said and said without knowing what to think, Duan Zan let out a quack laugh.

"You? It's far away, you have the ability to break the bridge for me, but the spread is also a bit exaggerated, I also took the lives of more than 300 people, why is the credit now attributed to me, by the way, aren't you here to deliver the message, what are you doing here? ”。

Duan Zan pouted: "Your Majesty and our uncles are discussing matters, what do you say that my junior recklessly broke in, like that, and we are not in a hurry now, let the messenger wait, I don't think anything will delay him for three or four days."

Li Chengyang got up from the rocking chair and gave Xiao Duan a kick: "Military affairs can't be delayed, go, I'll take a look with you, think less about this matter in the future, it's still three or four days, don't you don't know what the situation is in the Turks, it's really a dog jumping over the wall with a real knife and a real gun, and we can stop it with fifty or sixty thousand people?" ”。

After the two went out, Li Chengyang couldn't stop chattering: "Besides, even if they don't have the courage to run away, the scattered Turks run faster than rabbits, and more than 200,000 people scatter to drill into the deep mountains and old forests, you go to find it?" ”。

Duan Zan thought about the scene where the Turks were scattered like ants, and made a clever move: "Okay, okay, I'm not right, you will enter the council hall in a while, and you will be beaten first, how can those uncles not kill you, the prince."

"Prince, when I use it, I remember that I am the prince, you talk about you, can you usually give me a little respect, I now wonder whether you are the prince or I am the prince, how can this prince be like a joke."

"Don't, what you say makes people listen to me, I can't eat and walk around, you say I don't treat you as a prince, then you don't show the appearance of a prince, you look at Your Majesty, every move is not with the momentum of giving up on me, and then look at you, no matter how you look at it, you don't look like a person who does business, as soon as you walk beside you, you can't help but want to squint."

Then Duan Zan quietly approached Li Chengyang and whispered: "I heard that when Your Majesty gets along with that group of uncles, he is not like us anymore, and it is common to scold his mother at every turn."

Li Chengyang thought about the conversation between Li Shimin and Zhi Zhi Sili yesterday, and immediately agreed with Xiao Duan's words, just look at Li Shimin's mouthful and his mother to know what the situation is like for these old men together.

"Okay, even if you say it, don't rush in when we get to the council hall in a while, listen to what they are discussing, and when the matter is almost over, we will go in, and the province will disturb their conversation and clean up for the two of us."

After a while, the two came to the door of the council hall and said hello to the Xuanjia Army guarding the door, and then the two of them lay in front of the door and quietly listened to the movement inside.

"If you want me to say, you should fight, you can't get used to it, isn't it a family, Your Majesty, you hand it over to me Lao Cheng, see if I don't clean them up, what big things can a group of sour people do, put a knife on their necks, I don't believe they dare to make trouble" The first thing I heard was Lao Cheng's loud voice, and I don't know when this old man left the barracks and came back.

"Don't mess around, I want to put the knife on the neck of the people in my dreams, this thing is also easy to do, a thousand Xuanjia troops will not do it, the question is who will work for us after you dispose of them, let you govern the state and county, will you" Li Shimin came out with a half-helpless tone.

Another voice sounded: "Your Majesty is right, this matter still needs to be considered in the long run, the Turkic side can not fight if it can not be fought, Your Majesty has just ascended the throne, the foothold is not stable, the current matter is a mess, it is not appropriate to make waves again."

"This is Uncle Li Shiji," Duan Zan introduced the person who spoke to Li Chengyang.

is worthy of being a commander-in-chief, and Lao Cheng is just a general, his vision is different, look at the pattern of Li Shiji, no wonder he can be a second-in-command in the military.

"Zhixuan, what do you think" Li Shimin's voice sounded again.

"I have no ideas, but at the command of His Majesty".

Li Chengyang gave Duan Zan a thumbs up, it is not unreasonable for Duan Zhixuan to be so trusted, he honestly be a tool man for Li Shimin, and he can fight, it is unreasonable for him not to be taken seriously.

looked at Duan Zan again and pouted, Tiger Father and Dog, how come Duan Zhixuan is a wise man, but he has such an unruly son as Duan Zhan.

Then Li Shimin in it determined the tone of this meeting: "Turkic, unless it is a last resort, don't use the sword soldiers, the days will be long, and when I arrange everything, I will definitely take you back to the Turks, and bring Jieli back for us to dance, I don't know if he has been pampered for so many years, has he forgotten how to dance this dance."

There was a chorus of echoing, then fell silent again, and after waiting for a while, the voice of the eldest grandson Wuji sounded:

"Your Majesty, if we want to negotiate peace, what kind of conditions we have to offer, and what we can get from the Turks, we still have to think about it in the long run."

"After all, I first proposed to talk about it, we will suffer a little loss in this regard, but the problem is not big, Jieli is not a fool, and he is very clear about his own situation, so this is basically an equivalent exchange, let's negotiate peace this time and ask me to bite the cow to death, as long as there are more cattle, we will earn" Li Shimin put forward his idea.

The hall was quiet for a moment, and then there was an instant noise, and finally it was Lao Cheng's voice that occupied the right to speak: "Your Majesty, the cattle on the grassland are used to eat meat, what is the use of not plowing the land and asking them, if they are tamed, they don't know how much effort it takes, is it completely worth the loss."

Li Chengyang smiled, patted Duan Zhan, and pointed at himself: "I did it, it's amazing."

Duan Zan was in a daze, and Li Shimin answered his doubts: "The prince invented an object not long ago, which can make this cow completely obey the command of people, no matter what it is, as long as this cow brings this object, it is no different from the cattle we commonly use, and it is faster to work, now if we have enough cattle, next year's grain output will increase by at least two percent."

There was an uproar in the hall, Li Chengyang waited to hear the shocked and praised voices of the people in the hall, who knew that the voice that came later almost didn't make Duan Zan laugh to death:

"I said how could Your Majesty be confused, it turned out that your little rabbit cub made it, then my old Cheng will be fine."

"Lao Cheng, don't say that, say this in private, it's not appropriate to meet now."

"Hey, Fang Aiqing doesn't have to worry about it, isn't Chengyang just a little rabbit cub, there is nothing wrong with what Zhijie said, in the future, you should say it, you should fight it, this kid didn't let me worry less, I don't have time to care, you can help manage it if you have nothing to do, he is not willing to go to the Guozijian now, if you don't help watch it, then this kid won't turn the sky upside down."

Li Chengyang stopped talking, and he didn't show off, no wonder these uncles didn't take him seriously, it turned out that the root of this was Li Shimin, and each uncle had the obligation and responsibility to educate himself.

Just thinking about it, another person came from behind the two of them, who seemed to be in a hurry, and pushed the door open in a daze, and brought both of them into the conference hall, and then saw this person report:

"Your Majesty, the Turks have all gathered together, and our spies have basically investigated their situation, and the Turks have gained a lot, and they have captured a lot of people from our Tang Dynasty."