Shudun City.

Firewood was burning under the hanging pot in the tent, and the mutton soup in the hanging pot was boiling over.

The firewood burned with a crackling sound, and Li Ji held an edict in his hand, and rolled it up after reading it.

At this time, Wei Yu and Chang Kun walked in one after another, "Master Li, I heard that an edict came from Qianjing?" How so? ”

Li Ji got up and made a gesture to invite the two of them to sit down, scooped two bowls of mutton soup with a spoon for the two of them, and said: "Your Majesty summoned me to return to Beijing to report on my work. ”

"What's wrong? Show me! Chang Kun said and took the edict from Li Ji's hand, opened it, looked at it, and looked up; There are no words of reprimand in this edict, just let you go back to Beijing, you think too much, right? ”

"No!" Li Ji shook his head, "The edict didn't even mention a word about the war, this is not normal!" I suspect that the matter of the promise we made to the party members in the name of His Majesty without asking for instructions was known to His Majesty! ”

"No, only a few of us know about this, who will report to Your Majesty?" The lieutenant was a little unconvinced.

Li Ji glanced at Wei Wei: "General Wei, you are too naïve, I dare to say that there are many eyes and ears of His Majesty in the army, but we don't know!" ”

The three of them were silent for a while, and Chang Kun said: "I will carry this matter, and I will immediately write to His Majesty to confess the whole story!" ”

Li Ji shook his head: "This is the crime of bullying the king!" I came up with the idea, and I will naturally bear the blame! ”

The lieutenant said: "You can't say that, you are just an envoy, the battle of the unified army is the business of me and General Chang, and any problems must be borne by me and General Chang, this matter has nothing to do with you, it is me and Lao Chang who asked you for help, this pot can't be carried by you anyway!" Chang, please write it and let me sign it! ”

While the three of them were talking, a shout came from the camp: "Report - urgent news!" ”

When Wei Dependent, Chang Kun, and Li Ji heard this, they immediately got up and walked out of the tent, and when Wei Dependent saw that it was the horse sentry he had sent out, he immediately raised his hand and shouted: "Here!" ”

The sentry ran over to report: "General Qiyu, I have received news from the party and the Tuyuhun people!" After speaking, he handed over a small bamboo tube.

Wei Jun took the small bamboo tube and opened it, took out a small paper roll from it, unfolded the paper roll, which was full of small words, he quickly finished reading, looked up and said to Li Ji and Chang Kun: "The party is finished, and the Tuyuhun people are almost wiped out!" ”

Li Ji immediately took the paper roll from Wei Wei's hand and looked at it carefully, and after reading it, he took a long breath and handed the paper roll to Chang Kun.

After Chang Kun read the news on the note, he said to the two: "It seems that the good news and the recital of the petition can be combined." Master Li, you should be completely ignorant of that matter, if Your Majesty really wants to investigate, it will be carried by General Wei and me, with the military exploits of the two of us, even if Your Majesty wants to investigate, we will be dismissed from the military at most, and it will be a big deal to return to our hometown! ”

Li Ji opened his mouth, and the lieutenant rushed in front of him and said, "We can't let Master Li make up ideas for us but let you be punished with us, my old lieutenant can't do it!" ”

In view of the success of this strategy to make the party and the Tuyuhun people fight for defeat, it is already a great victory, Wei and Chang Kun respectively ordered to reward the army, the army killed cattle and sheep, and the wine and meat were enough, and the officers and men of the two armies were full of wine and food that night.

The noisy noise of the soldiers in the camp toasting and punching each other was incessant, and the big tent was very quiet.

Li Ji said to Wei and Chang Kun: "I thought that the two generals could temporarily hold their troops, on the one hand, so that the soldiers had more time to adapt to the climate of the plateau area, and on the other hand, the Tuyuhun people could have more time to do what they wanted!" ”

Chang Kun was a little puzzled: "I understand that the soldiers have more time to adapt to the terrain of the plateau, but what does it mean to let the Tuyuhun people have more time to do what they want to do?" What do they want to do? ”

Wei Su was also a little puzzled, and looked at Li Ji with a puzzled face.

Li Ji said with a smile: "The two generals think about it, before the party members beat the Tuyuhun people so badly, the Tuyuhun people were bullied and curled up in the city and shivered, and now the party members first lost their own internal strife, and then they were annihilated by the Tuyuhun people All the soldiers and horses, and only the old, weak, sick and disabled, women and children are left in their territory, will the Tuyuhun people still let the party members develop and rise again?" I heard that the party members are very vindictive, and the Tuyuhun people are not good stubble, right? ”

"Got it!" Wei Jun and Chang Kun glanced at each other.

The next day, Li Ji packed his luggage and set off with his entourage to return to the capital.

Wei and Chang Kun followed Li Ji's advice and still stood still in Shudun City.

Within two months, the remaining Tuyuhun people, under the command and command of Shiyin, carried out a frenzied revenge massacre and plundering of the territory of the Dangxiang people, all the old, weak, sick and disabled people were killed, and the Tuyuhun people robbed all the women and livestock of appropriate age, and the Dangxiang people disappeared.

On the eighth day of the eighth month of August, after discussing with Chang Kun, Chang Kun led the troops to guard Shudun City and Fu Qi City soldiers to spread to the surrounding areas, absorbing the local barbarians, and wrote to the imperial court to request that officials be sent to establish an official government to govern and provide stable logistics supplies for the Wei family's army.

At the same time, 20,000 cavalry led by the lieutenant to march to the Bailan area.

Upon hearing the news of the large-scale attack of the cadres, Shiyin asked his younger brother Fuyang to take 5,000 people to escort the people out of Bailan and migrate westward, and he personally led 10,000 horses to meet the army of Wei and his family.

On August 21, the armies of the two sides met on the bank of the Bailan River, and in a bloody battle, Shiyin and his Tuyuhun army were all annihilated, and the army of Wei and his family also suffered considerable losses.

After resting for a few days, the captain led the army to pursue to the west again, and the Fuyang army with more than 100,000 Tuyuhun people and the old and weak marched too slowly, and it only took five days for the captain to lead the army to catch up with the Tuyuhun people.

The Tuyuhun people were so frightened that they abandoned all their livestock and baggage, and hurried desperately with only some warm clothing, food, and tents.

In the process of escaping for their lives, more and more Tuyuhun were tired and weak and died on the way.

In order to prevent everyone from being caught up by the cadres, Fuyang had to send his subordinate general Banu with 3,000 men and horses to stay behind.

When the lieutenant and the army caught up, Banu and 3,000 Tuyuhun cavalry launched a decisive charge against the lieutenant's army, and the captain, who had been prepared, calmly commanded Banu and the 3,000 Tuyuhun cavalry to surround and annihilate in a valley.

Two days later, the lieutenant again led his army to catch up with the Tuyuhun people, and Fuyang had lost the capital for the final decisive battle with the Qianjun, so he had to select sturdy young men and women from among all the tribesmen, let them ride horses, bring enough food, clothing, and tents to follow his remaining 2,000 cavalry to the west.

100,000 Tuyuhun old and sick were abandoned by Fuyang on the way, the captain led the army to catch up and robbed them of their food and then continued to pursue westward, a few days later, these 100,000 Tuyuhun had no food, no weapons, the old and weak, the sick and the disabled all starved to death and froze to death nearby.

The army pursued westward along the route taken by the remnants of more than 10,000 Tuyuhun led by Fuyang, passing through the Gobi, deserts, deserts, valleys, hills, rivers, lakes, plateaus, and saline-alkali lands on the way.

On the fourth day of the ninth month, the army of the lieutenants came to a large lake, the edge of which was covered with grass, and in front of it was a high mountain range, which ran northeast and southwest, and there was no end in sight.

The lieutenant ordered to camp by the lake and sent people to find the locals to inquire.

Soon the sentry cavalry returned to report: "General, the local Qiang herdsmen say that the other side of the mountain is the Western Regions!" ”

He then summoned his generals and said: "According to the information we have received, the leader of the Tuyuhun people is Fuyang, the younger brother of Shiyin, and there should have been more than 10,000 young men and women when they abandoned the old and weak. ”

"Now our supply is already very difficult, and the climate, terrain and situation in the Western Regions are very complicated, we can't chase it anymore, so General Ben decided to lead the army back, but leave a soldier here to build a fort to defend before the division!"

A few days later, a large fort was built by the lake, and the soldiers who remained here would need to plant some fields and raise some cattle and sheep for rations, and the armor, bows, crossbows and arrows of the ordnance would be transported from the West Sea.

On the ninth day of the ninth month of September, the lieutenant led the army back and returned all the way through the Qaidam Basin to Fuqi City.

However, it is said that Fuyang took less than 8,000 young men and women of Tuyuhun over the Altun Mountains all the way through the desert to Khotan, and on the way exhausted, starved to death, died of thirst, were swallowed up by quicksand, and were swept away by the sand city, and there were less than 3,000 people when they arrived in Khotan.

Later, no one knew what happened to this Tuyuhun people, they disappeared, maybe they died in the desert after failing to attack Khotan, or maybe they were scattered in the Western Regions and gradually merged with the locals.

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Qianjing.

The time for moving the capital was imminent, and the joint good news and petition of Wei and Chang Kun arrived in Qianjing City before Li Ji.

When Li Ji arrived in Qianjing, it was already early August, and Zhao Junsheng received him at the Qinzheng Palace.

When facing the saint, Li Jixian reported to Zhao Junsheng about the process of attacking Tuyuhun, Zhao Junsheng did not make a sound throughout the whole process, listened quietly, and waited until he finished speaking: "Wei and Chang Kun pleaded guilty at the end of the good news, saying that the reason why they were able to win a big victory this time and solve Tuyuhun and the party people in one fell swoop was because they promised the party people in the name of fake Jiezhen that whoever could get Mu Liyan's head would be crowned the king of the party. ”

Li Ji replied cautiously: "Your Majesty, this plan was made by the minister, and it was also announced by the minister himself to the leaders of the various party departments. ”

Zhao Junsheng took out the confession of Wei and Chang Kun and flipped it over, and threw it on the table, "These two people are out on the expedition, thinking that I can't do anything to them if they have a little military exploits, so they took the initiative to bear all the responsibility, but they are also wronged by the responsibility, after all, they are the main commanders of this operation, you are actually just equivalent to the identity of a military advisor, if I want to be held responsible, the object of punishment is mainly them, and you are secondary!" This time, the matter will be put aside for the time being, and after the lieutenant and Chang Kun lead the army back, I will deal with it again! ”

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