Chapter 363: The Western Turks Fall
The Western Turks, who had previously expressed great confidence in the war against the Tang Dynasty, were shocked by the whole army for the first time after hearing the news, and they didn't know why the imposing Tubo people ended the battle in such a hurry.
Just when the Western Turks guessed what was going on, the appearance of a person surprised them again, Guo Xiaoke, who was good at raiding, didn't know where he came out, and the huge impact on the Western Turkic soldiers who were robbing everywhere made the Western Turkic army hurt their bones and bones all of a sudden, and they no longer dared to get caught on the border of the Tang Dynasty, and hurriedly retreated.
At the same time, they finally knew why the Tubo people chose to surrender, after seeing the huge power of gunpowder, not to mention that the Tubo would choose to surrender, even many tribes in the Western Turks are planning to surrender, this kind of battle is really impossible to fight, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty can not be killed, but their own people are blurred by the flesh and blood of the gunpowder explosion, not to mention the serious damage to morale, just the casualties, so that the various tribes of the Western Turks have the heart of retreat.
It has to be said that the Turks are naturally fond of infighting, especially when there is a headwind on the battlefield, and the infighting will become more serious.
The previous demise of the Eastern Turks was because of internal strife, which led to the capture of the Jieli Khan, and now the Western Turks have started internal strife again, the ruling Khan was killed, and the already not very good Turkic army fell apart in an instant, Guo Xiaoke originally wanted to have a few more battles to show the national prestige of the Tang Dynasty, but when he saw that the Western Turks began to surrender to him little by little, he knew that this battle, he had no chance to show off.
Although he was a little depressed, he had to quickly accept the surrender of the Turkic tribes, and occupied the territory of the Turks as quickly as possible, officially included in the territory of the Tang Dynasty.
In just a few months, the territory of Tibet and the Western Turks became the land of the Tang Dynasty, such an outcome made no one expect, many people expressed their incomprehension of this, but when they learned that the Tang Dynasty had weapons that could influence the war, they immediately closed their mouths, this most advanced weapon is still in the secret stage, if they don't want to die, it is better not to bring this kind of news to the surface.
The army that was ready to fight two tough battles ended the battle hastily, although their military exploits have become very rich after accepting the surrender of the Tibetans and the Turks, but the battle was not enjoyable, which has to be said to be a pity for them.
Just when Niu Jinda and Guo Xiaoke were about to return to Beijing to resume their lives, they received Li Er's order again, and they turned out to be left with enough people to form the Tang Dynasty to govern the newly acquired territory.
This news made Niu Jinda and Guo Xiaoke a little confused, I don't understand what Li Er thinks, you must know that there are not many opponents in the Tang Dynasty now, and the only ones who still have some ability are Xue Yantuo in the north and Goguryeo in the Liaodong region, Xue Yantuo is still an ally of the Tang Dynasty, does Li Er want to attack Goguryeo?
This idea is terrible, the former Sui raised the strength of the whole country, and could only hold a grudge on the battlefield of Liaodong, even if the current Li Er His Majesty has super combat power, it is definitely not a good idea to attack Goguryeo, and the people who guessed Li Er's idea are not only Niu Jinda and Guo Xiaoke, but many civil officials in Chang'an City also smelled a little smell, and many ministers began to ask to see Li Er at the first time.
"Your Majesty, although my Datang has won two huge victories at the moment, after all, it is still an eventful season, the soldiers need to rest, the people need to breathe, it is better not to act in vain with murderous thoughts."
Wei Zheng didn't know what Li Er's idea was, but he knew that as long as the Tang Dynasty sent troops and horses, regardless of whether it was victory or defeat, it would cost a very huge amount, although Jia Yi got a lot of things from Lingnan every year, but after it was really exchanged for silver two, under these three battles, it was already seventy-seven, eighty-eight, and if he wanted to start a war against Goguryeo again, he would inevitably need to collect a lot of wealth from the people, which was definitely not what Wei Zheng wanted to see, so after guessing Li Er's thoughts, he risked death to meet him as soon as possible.
Li Erlao was depressed, he didn't know what these officials thought, he was not a fool, whether he had money in hand or not, whether he was enough to start a war with Goguryeo, he still didn't know why there were always so many people who thought they were smart would choose to stand up and tell them their self-righteous ideas.
"Wei Qing, you are too worried, I never thought of going to war with Goguryeo, and I can't do the stupid thing of overdrawing the national strength."
"Then Your Majesty, this is ......"
As soon as Li Eryi saw Wei Zheng's appearance of breaking the sand pot and asking to the end, he knew that if he didn't make it clear to him today, he was going to send away this mirror, so he had to say what he thought in his heart.
"Although Xue Yantuo is now subjugated to the power of the Tang Dynasty, he is not comforted, and he is always thinking about attacking Baidaochuan where Ashina Simo is located, from this point of view, and judging from the trend of their current development, I feel that in a few years, they will use troops against the Tang Dynasty, in order to strangle this kind of thing in the cradle, I decided to unite the forces of the three-way army and annihilate Xue Yantuo in one fell swoop, I don't know if you Aiqing has any suggestions."
Everyone expressed great shock at the Emperor's thoughts, and no one could have imagined that His Majesty the Emperor would have thought of such a long-term thing.
But it is true that as Li Er said, the future Xue Yantuo will inevitably be a hidden danger at the border of the Tang Dynasty, but the army immediately plunges into another battle after the end of one battle, which is definitely a taboo for soldiers, after all, how much combat power can be under the lack of people and horses, the civil officials don't know, can Li Er still be unclear.
After some simple thinking, Wei Zheng knew that Li Er was carried away by these two simple victories, and he also felt that as long as the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty appeared on the frontal battlefield against Xue Yantuo, they would inevitably make Xue Yantuo disarm and surrender.
But Li Er seems to have ignored one thing, that is, although the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty won two easy battles, and there was not much loss of personnel, but the loss of materials was very serious.
Besides, Niu Jinda and Guo Xiaoke's soldiers' grain and grass have been almost consumed, if they all move to Jia Yi's battlefield, then the two armies will inevitably use Jia Yi's grain and grass without the support of grain and grass, and not only will they not help Jia Yi at that time, but they may also put Jia Yi's battle into a dangerous predicament.
After thinking about these things clearly, the ministers began to persuade Li Erlai word by word, hoping that he could think twice.
Seeing the unified caliber of the ministers, Li Er knew that there was no need to think about the extermination of Xue Yantuo this time, so he had no choice but to revoke the holy decree of the joint army, let Niu Jinda return to Beijing, and let Guo Xiaoke establish the Anxi Protectorate in the Yanyun area, and he was the first governor.
Seeing that Li Er revoked the holy decree, all the ministers couldn't help but let out a sigh, and the tense atmosphere in the entire court suddenly became relaxed, but some of them may understand Li Er's thoughts, but no one is willing to support Li Er, which makes Li Er depressed.
Now Li Er is in his forties, and he is already an old man in his forties in Datang, in fact, he is indeed old, even Li Chengqian's son, his grandson, will be called grandpa, how can he not be in a hurry.
As a Li Er with a strong desire to control, what he wants to see most is that he can turn all the countries around the Tang Dynasty into his territory while he is alive, so that he can inherit the imperial power of the Tang Dynasty without declining.
As long as the emperors in history have some ability, they are all thinking about how to expand the territory under their rule, because they want to become the first emperor of the ages in the history books, even if Li Er is now fully able to become the Ming monarch in history, but he still feels that it is not enough, and he still hopes that history can record him more.
Not now, Li Er doesn't know how many years he can live, I don't know if he can still fulfill his lifelong wish when he is alive, he has a very bad headache a few days ago, he doesn't think that this kind of illness that even Sun Simiao doesn't have a good way to do, how much time can be given to him.
Jia Yi, who had just arrived at the battlefield, didn't know that he was almost going to become a famous general who destroyed Xue Yantuo, and now he was still deploying how to solve Xue Yantuo's men and horses in Baidaochuan, in order to ensure the victory of this battle, in order to avoid the damage of too many Tang soldiers, he mobilized the army he could mobilize to the greatest extent, regardless of whether it was the Turkic army of Ashina Simo or the Khitan army, all of them were turned over by him on the grounds of Li Er's request, and there were originally only 30,000 troops, after uniting these armies together, It turned out to be 100,000, and it was simply not difficult for Xue Yantuo soldiers to swallow 50,000.
It's just that Jia Yi hopes to be able to teach Xue Yantuo a heavy lesson, so he has to make a good deployment, check the topographic map, analyze the comparison of personnel, and the location of Xue Yantuo's soldiers, Jia Yi found all the generals to discuss how to bring this heavy lesson to Xue Yantuo.
It's a pity that Jia Yi overestimated the IQ of these people, as a stick to kill talents, they gave Jia Yi only one suggestion, that is, rush to kill, 100,000 people rushed to kill 50,000, and it was not a hand-to-hand capture, Jia Yi, who heard this kind of advice, directly covered his own face.