"I think it's not the time to recuperate. As far as the minister knows, at this time, Yelu Taiji, the puppet emperor of Liao, was engaged in large-scale construction, and both economy and culture had a tendency to move closer to the Central Plains. We recuperate for ten years, and they also recuperate for ten years, instead of raising tigers for trouble, it is better to take advantage of Yelu Taiji's unstable foothold at this time, kill it, and cut the grass and eradicate the roots. ”

Kong is not afraid of power by nature, and he is not afraid of the Empress Dowager Tang, who has a monopoly on military and political power, and openly contradicts the Empress Dowager in the court.

Tang Qi didn't have an attack immediately, but just asked the other ministers if they had any objections, but no one answered, and the Queen Mother dispersed, and there was no resolution in the court.

After the dispersal of the dynasty, Tang Yuan came to Kong Xi angrily, and said angrily: "Are you crazy?" If you want to die yourself, don't bother me, okay? ”

Kong Xian said dissatisfiedly: "Why did I bother you? ”

"What you said in the court, I told Tang Qi before!!"

"You said that?"

"Just three days ago, she didn't agree at the time."

"I don't know." Kong Xian was still not convinced.

Tang Yuan gritted his teeth and said, "You are still an official from my Flying Tiger Army, and now you actually said my words again, this is too coincidental, right?" ”

Kong Xiang smiled bitterly and did not speak.

Just as Tang Yuan and Kong Xi were talking, Gonggong Huang came over and said, "The Queen Mother invites the two adults into the apse to discuss matters. ”

After speaking, Huang Gonggong was about to leave.

"Hey, hey, Huang Gonggong." Tang Yuan stretched out his hand and grabbed Huang Gonggong.

"If you have something to say, Tang Shuai don't pull and pull, the old slave's old bones can't help but be torn up, and it's going to fall apart." Huang Gonggong looked disgusted.

Tang Yuan narrowed his eyes, "Who else did you invite besides the two of us?" ”

"Hey, how do I know who the Queen Mother wants to invite, is it necessary to tell the old slave? Oh, that's interesting. Oh, you guys hurry up, the queen is in a hurry, and she will be angry if she goes late. ”

Tang Yuan took out ten taels of silver and stuffed them into his father-in-law's sleeve.

Huang Gonggong pinched his sleeve with one hand, and said with a smile: "I don't think the Queen Mother's face is very good, you will go in later, you must be careful when you speak." Oh yes, Prince Mu, Prime Minister Wu and Punishment Bai Ke are also coming, you have something to discuss, I'll go first, hehe. ”

"This old slippery head!" Huang Gonggong walked away, Tang Yuan said angrily, glared at Kong Xian, and the two walked towards the apse together.

When I came to the apse, I felt that the atmosphere was wrong.

Several ministers stood there, their heads bowed, as if they were confessing.

"This ......, what's going on?" Tang Yuan beat the drum in his heart.

As soon as Tang Yuankong walked in, Tang Qi asked, "What if we send troops to Shanhaiguan now?" ”

No one spoke, and at this time, the queen was furious, she didn't scold Kong Xian, but she counted Tang Yuan down.

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Three days later, Tang Qi ordered Tang Yuan, the general of the Flying Tiger, to lead 200,000 troops to the east to conquer Shanhaiguan, Qi Cheng as the supervising army, Chen Bao as the deputy marshal, Zhao Min as the grain supervisor, Nalan Xin as the general staff general, and Kong Xian accompanied the expedition as the expeditionary supervisor of the military department.

General Dian Xiao of Hexi led 100,000 horses to follow closely behind, supporting the Flying Tiger Army at all times, forming a strategic depth.

Kong carries this position, which is a thankless position, if he wins, he has nothing to do, and if he loses, he will be severely punished if he does not supervise effectively.

But Kong Xian didn't look sad, he was in a high mood all day long, talking and laughing everywhere.

Tang Yuan's face was gloomy, and he called Kong Qian to his side and asked, "To be honest, is this a conspiracy between you and the Queen Mother?" Deliberately pushed me into the fire pit so that I could bring troops to fight? ”

Kong said: "Don't guess, don't guess, there's nothing." ”

Tang Yuan narrowed his eyes and said, "Then you explain to me, why is it so coincidental that what you said in the court is exactly the same as my words?" Even if you misuse two words, I'd like to believe it's just a coincidence. ”

No matter how Tang Yuan deceived Kong Xian, Kong Xian didn't tell the truth.

Actually, Tang Yuan's guess was correct.

At this time, the whole country has been basically unified, and it is easy to show that the soldiers are lazy and unwilling to fight, so please make it difficult, it is better to turn a corner and let Tang Yuan lead the troops out to fight.

How difficult it is to attack Shanhaiguan.

Tang Yuan looked at the tall city wall, and was speechless for a while, planning for several days without attacking the city.

The Liao soldiers standing at the head of the city were a little impatient, called some Han people, and scolded the city.

Tang Yuan didn't want to fight hard, because it was too troublesome to fight like that, he suddenly changed his strategy and decided not to fight Shanhaiguan, and let the Dianxiao garrison the city, but he wanted to leave here, he said: "Go north from Tanzhou, detour the grassland, sneak attack Raole, turn back to Yingzhou, seize the White Wolf Mountain, and finally encircle Shanhaiguan with Dianxiao." I will cut off their grain routes and starve 100,000 soldiers of the Liao Kingdom to death in Shanhaiguan! ”

"Will this work?" The superintendent Qi Cheng looked at the map, thinking about Tang Yuan's grand plan, and always felt that this matter was unreliable: "I still have to pass through the territory of the Donghu people, what if I attract the Donghu people?" ”

"Donghu King Zahehan, I know that person, he is a person who is unprofitable and cannot afford to be early." Tang Yuan said: "If he is short of money and things, he will take the initiative to grab it." But he also has to look at the target, if it is a fat sheep, he must be happy to rob it, but if it is a tiger, do you think he will still come to rob it? ”

Nalan said: "I don't think it's accurate, the Donghu people dare to do anything, and when it comes to the horseback people, there is no wilder than them." ”

"him then!" Tang Hu raised his arms and said. Book every day

"It's easy to say." Qi Cheng said: "If you say you will fight, will we fight it?" Fighting Liao on the one hand, and Donghu on the other? How many of us are there? Besides, once we cross Tanzhou, our grain route will be cut off. ”

Tang Yuan didn't speak.

The others fell silent.

After a while, Kong said, "I think it's okay." The food problem is not a problem at all. Give the soldiers the food they have available, and take away the food from the wardens. Let each soldier carry it with him. They are in the gate, and they are fine if they are hungry for two days. And we get this food, we can fight for a month. As long as the White Wolf Mountain is seized within this month and the enemy's food route is cut off, the enemy's grain can be snatched to eat. The enemy was forced to hurry, and I thought that the soldiers of Shanhaiguan would be killed, and at this time, the warden attacked Shanhaiguan. At that time, it will depend on whether we can withstand the attacks of Yingzhou and Shanhaiguan, and also on the speed of the raiders. ”

"I think it's still dangerous." Qi Chengdao.

"Let's still vote by show of hands and support the detour." Tang Yuan said.

In June of the second year of Datong, the Flying Tiger Army raided Rao Le successfully, and at the end of June, it seized the White Wolf Mountain, cut off the enemy's supply line, robbed the enemy's food, and harassed Yingzhou from time to time, showing a false impression to the Liao State, and the Liang army planned to attack Shengjing directly.

The Liao army really hit the plan, immediately abandoned Shanhaiguan, moved closer to Yingzhou, and planned to encircle Tang Yuan in White Wolf Mountain. The pawn took the opportunity to take Shanhaiguan, supported Tang Yuan non-stop, broke through the enemy's three blockade lines in a row, and the two armies echoed and launched a counteroffensive. In the first battle, 110,000 enemy troops were killed, and the main force was disabled, and all of them retreated eastward.

In July of the second year of the Great Unification, the Flying Tiger Army took Yingzhou, and then broke through the three towns of Ruluo, Wulu and Huaiyuan, and the army approached Shengjing.

Seeing that the general trend had gone, Yelu Taiji, the emperor of Liao, surrendered the city.

Tang Yuan surrendered 10,000 Youlu cavalry, 30,000 infantry, Shengjing City had a population of 280,000, and Liao had a total of 5 million people, expanding the territory of Daliang by 1,000 li from east to west and 3,000 from north to south.

In August of the second year of the Great Unification, the Liang army entered Shengjing City and established the Andong Protectorate. Because Yelu Taiji has no heirs, the first heir to the throne of the Right Law King is the former Liao Young Emperor Yelu Xiaobao, Tang Qi asked to send Yelu Xiaobao to Luoyang, accompany the prince to study, and the Empress Dowager Xiao accompanied him into Beijing. A month later, Yelu Taiji was asked to enter Beijing as well.

Yelu Taiji was very arrogant, and he came to the capital without any scruples, Tang Qi gave him an annex, and issued a monthly salary, but unfortunately it was not enough for him to squander, every time he was drunk, he ran to the gate of the palace and shouted for money, and was driven away by the Imperial Forest Army, so he ran to the household department to make trouble, in order not to let him make trouble, the household staff gave him some money and sent him away, but he had to inch in, saying that he wanted to enter the palace to chat with the Empress Dowager Tang.

The civil officials couldn't do anything about him, and the matter spread to the military department, which angered Zhang Xiaoyang, the general of the Imperial Forest Army, and ordered someone to push the drunk Yelu Taiji into the Luohe River and drown. Afterwards, Zhang Xiaoyang took the initiative to find Tang Qi to confess, but Tang Qi was only fined for half a year, and the matter was over.

In September of the second year of the Great Unification, the Liao tribe refused to accept and rebelled, and Tang Yuan ordered Chen Bao to lead troops to attack the end of Su and establish the Bohai Governor's Mansion.

The overall situation has been decided, Tang Yuan went to the queen mother's table, and asked to take the Yuyang Peninsula in one go, and the Yuyang people, Fuyu people, and the remnants of the right law could not raise tigers.

Empress Dowager Tang quasi-played.

It was October of that year, and it was already very cold in Liaodong, so Tang Yuan still sent troops to attack.

Qi Cheng was very worried, but Tang Yuan said, we are cold, and they are also cold. Actually, we kind of struck while the iron was hot, so we got a little hotter.

100,000 horses crossed the Taedong River and approached Pyongyang, the capital of the Yuyang Kingdom.

Funnily enough, at this time, Buyeo people were actually attacking Pyongyang. Tang Yuan had a feeling of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, and said to Qi Cheng: "Look, it's time for us to come." Do a good job, and calm the forces of both sides in a war. ”

Li Shixian, the king of the fish and sheep country, led his troops to resist the attack of the Fuyu people, and overheard a report from an orion that he had seen a bright armor in the north. Those people seemed to be wrapped in iron sheets, and they looked invincible.

Hurry up and send an envoy to contact you.

Tang Yuan said to the messenger: "Let us save you, we can, but from now on, we ......"

Before Tang Yuan's words were finished, the envoy said: "Pay tribute every year, call the minister every year, set up the Hantong Mansion in Pyongyang City, and station the Minister of Supervision, and the appointment of the King of Fish and Sheep is decided by Emperor Daliang." ”

Tang Yuan exclaimed: "It seems that you are very familiar with negotiations, since this is the case, it will be easy to trouble." ”

Later, I heard Kong Xian say that the fish and sheep people are actually very good, they are relatively kind, and they also belong to the farming people, and most of them make a living from farming and fishing. As early as the Shang Dynasty, there was a saying that the fish and sheep were the royal family of the Shang Dynasty, and the Jizi was originally a royal family of the Shang Dynasty and was civilized early, so it was not so barbaric and easy to manage. On the contrary, the Buyeo people are barbaric and vicious, and it is not appropriate to stay longer.

"In that case, let's just beat the Buyeo people away."

General Tang gave an order, drove the Buyeyu people out for more than 1,000 miles, and finally pushed them all to the sea, it is said that they had no way to escape, so they took the boat and crossed the sea and went to a certain island in the east.

After pacifying the East, Tang Hu, the general of the Flying Tiger, was idle, and suddenly did not listen to the order, and actually led his soldiers all the way to the north, and it is said that the Tiger General must go to the Arctic to see the scenery.

Tang Yuan was furious and ordered him to come back, but Tang Hu couldn't come back.

He was lost.

Everywhere the ice and snow are vast, smoke and snow, the road is frozen half dead, leading the soldiers to scare away, it is said that he met a lot of red-bearded people, even buy and grab can be regarded as getting some food, and then he accidentally bumped into it, and actually ran to the territory of the Donghu people, and the Donghu people in the ice and snow to dry. robbed the cattle and sheep of the Donghu people to satisfy their hunger.

General Tiger galloped in the grassland desert, and finally angered the king of Donghu, Zahehan, who said: "For many years, we have robbed the Han people, but now what's wrong, they are actually robbing us?" Call me back! ”

Tang Hu led his 30,000 cavalry and fought with Zahehan on the grassland from winter to the beginning of spring of the following year.

At this time, Tang Yuan still thought that Tang Hu was dead, and he was still thinking about how to explain this matter to Tang Mu and Tang Xiaomi after returning to Luoyang.

Suddenly, I received news that General Tiger was surrounded by Julunbo, and he couldn't hold on anymore.

Tang Yuan opened the map, looked for him everywhere, and couldn't help but sigh: "Why did this kid run there?" ”

Chen Bao led his troops to support Tang Hu.

Tang Qi got the news and ordered Tang Yuan, if possible, to continue westward after rescuing Tang Hu, and directly eliminate the Donghu people, and at the same time, I will let the pawn send troops from Hexi, Bai Ke from Datong, and the three people and horses will collectively go north to completely eliminate all the tribes in the desert.

In April of the third year of the Great Unification, as soon as Bai Ke's troops left Datong, they encountered the main force of the enemy, suffered heavy setbacks, and stagnated.

The penal troops drove straight in, crossed the Hunhe Oasis, marched to Dubo, and worked until the former site of the Jiankun Governor's Mansion in the Tang Dynasty for half a year.

Although Bai Ke stagnated, but he attracted a large number of Donghu troops, Tang Yuan took this opportunity to go straight into the hinterland of the enemy, in July of the third year of the Great Unification, came to a towering mountain, asked the guide beside him and learned that this is the famous Wolf Juxu Mountain.