Li Chengqian's actions towards the Qiang people soon spread in the prairie, and all the tribes on the prairie immediately became endangered.

If Li Chengqian only attacked one or a few tribes, no matter how cruel his methods were, it would be acceptable, but it was unacceptable for him to draw out the young men and women of more than a dozen Qiang tribes to form an army.

This made many tribes think about other things, such as at this time, in the largest tent in the Turkic Lu Zhi village, Lu Zhiping retreated everyone, and there were only two people in the tent, him and Li Simo.

Li Simo sat on the main seat and glanced at Lu Zhi and said, "Say it!" ”

Lu Zhi looked at Li Simo and said complainingly: "Great Khan——, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty seems to have a different view of the Northland tribes than the Heavenly Khan?"

Li Simo sighed when he heard this, and a wry smile appeared on his face, of course he knew that Li Chengqian had a different view on the entire northern land, and he knew very well that Chang'an City had long been rumored that Li Chengqian was the reincarnation of Qin Shi Huang in China.

He also asked people about Qin Shi Huang's exploits, and now looking at Li Chengqian's practice, he can guess that Li Chengqian is implementing the county system in the north.

But what could he do?

You can't blame the Tang Dynasty and the Heavenly Khan for rebelling against Li Chengqian, which is not something that the current Turkic tribes can afford.

Seeing that Li Simo didn't speak, Lu Zhi hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Now there is a heaven-sent opportunity to hoe this His Royal Highness the Crown Prince away, and there is no need to worry about the retaliation of the Heavenly Khan." ”

Li Simo's eyes lit up when he heard this, and then he quickly hidden, looked at Lu Zhi and said, "Don't play with fire." ”

Lu Zhi couldn't help but laugh when he saw Li Simo's expression: "Don't worry, Great Khan, we will let Xue Yantuo do this matter." ”

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At the end of September and the beginning of October, although there is no snow in the Hetao area, it has also entered a cold winter.

Li Chengqian and his soldiers have already changed into winter clothes.

In order to let the people here live a warm winter, Li Chengqian ordered Xuanzang to teach them to use mud to build a fire kang, which made the people who suffer from severe cold every year very grateful to Xuanzang and Li Chengqian.

Li Chengqian's body has been exercised for a year, and it is much stronger than when he first crossed over, and even in the cold late autumn, he can get up at the same time with the soldiers who have gone out for morning exercises.

Of course, he doesn't have to do morning exercises, but every day after breakfast, he will take the people around him for a walk outside Baiquan County.

Looking at the withered yellow barren grass wrapped in white frost flowers, a large white expanse swayed with the wind, which reminded Li Chengqian of the famous chapter in the "Book of Songs", "The leaves are pale, and the white dew is frost." ……”

Because he looked back at the crowd: "I don't know what happened to Your Majesty when the lonely king came out for so long?"

Wei Chigong, Su Dingfang and others smiled bitterly when they heard this.

What else could it be?

Wait to go back and confess your sins.

"Woo-"

A cold wind blew, Liu Kui stretched out his arm to block the dust for Li Chengqian, Li Chengqian tightened the fox fur on his body, and saw a few helpless hay on the side of the road because they were frozen and brittle, and the wind blew and broke off.

I can't help but secretly say that this is really: the north wind swept the ground and the white grass folded.

Xu Jingzong seemed to think of something, and slowly said to Li Chengqian: "Your Majesty didn't say anything to our side, but he was very dissatisfied with General Qiu, who quelled the rebellion in Xiazhou......

Li Chengqian has been training troops in Baiquan County for nearly two months, and several thousand recruits have already been trained in good shape, and they can be deployed to Lingzhou at any time.

However, Qiu Xinggong in Xiazhou has not been able to completely destroy Liu Lan's rebels, and because more and more Qiang people in the vicinity have come forward to support Liu Lan, Liu Lan has a tendency to become bigger and bigger.

Many officials in the north understood that this was because Li Chengqian had done too much to the Qiang people in Baiquan County, which made the tribes feel cold, so they wanted to use Liu Lan to drive away the Tang army.

This is, of course, wishful thinking.

It's just that this matter involves Li Chengqian, and no one dares to easily poke the problem to Chang'an, so Li Shimin has a lot of complaints about Qiu Xinggong.

But Li Shimin was born in martial arts and knew Qiu Xinggong's ability, so although he thought that he had not caught Liu Lan for a long time, he neither changed generals nor quelled the rebellion within a time limit, so he hung like this.

Qiu Xinggong and the other officials in the north were waiting for Li Chengqian to take action to eliminate Liu Lan.

Of course, Li Chengqian himself was very aware of this, and these things happened in his expectation, because only when more Qiang people were involved in the rebellion could he kill the killer.

After listening to Xu Jingzong's words, he smiled and said, "General Qiu has received it on behalf of King Gu. Then he turned his head to look at Wang Qun who was following him and said, "How many Qiang tribes have rebelled with Liu Lan over there?"

Wang Qun, who was walking behind, heard the words and hurriedly walked to Li Chengqian's side and said, "Back to the tens of thousands of Qiang people under the jurisdiction of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the Xiazhou Governor's Mansion have now voted for Liu Lan. ”

Li Chengqian was very happy when he heard this, and said in high spirits: "Since this is the case, I will send troops to the Xiazhou Governor's Mansion tomorrow." ”

Hearing this, Wang Qun hurriedly reminded Li Chengqian: "It's just that His Royal Highness the Prince, the Xiazhou Governor's Mansion is located on the border of Shuofang County, and there are several Governor's Mansions where they are all Turkic tribes. ”

Li Chengqian's face turned straight when he heard this: "How many Turks are there?" ”

Wang Qun said with a solemn face: "In addition to the 30,000 people in Yuanzhou, the rest of the more than 100,000 people in the Turkic headquarters are there. ”

Li Chengqian listened to it and thought for a while and said: "Spread the order of King Gu and order Li Simo to lead the army to garrison Lingzhou. ”

On the third day of October, Li Chengqian led his army north.

Li Chengqian's car drove straight to Shuofang in the sound of a high-pitched horn, facing the howling north wind.

The forward general is still Xue Rengui, and the Chinese army is presided over by Su Dingfang, and the other generals are all riding horses and following Li Chengqian's car.

An army of more than 10,000 men marched mightily across the yellow grasslands to meet them for the first real battle out of the pass.

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In the Mongolian steppe, there is a Gobi Desert about 200 miles long from north to south, and there is no water, no grass, not even insects.

It was this Gobi that divided the steppe into Monan and Mobei, which were later called Inner and Outer Mongolia, and then ......

At this time, there is a large white tent in the northern part of the desert, like a piece of white clouds floating on the bitter yellow prairie.

In the middle of this tent, there is a large huge tent hanging in front of the yak tail made of a large man, and the tent under the big tent is the tooth tent of Xue Yantuo Zhenzhu Khan of the Mobei Khanate.

Zhenzhu Khan Yinan led the crowd to the edge of the desert at this time to prepare to go to Lingzhou to meet Li Chengqian, the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty, and at the same time marry the princess of the Tang Dynasty.

Xue Yantuo ruled the Mobei grassland after the Eastern Turks, and Yi Nan was the first khan of Xue Yantuo, but he was unlucky to be at the same time as Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty.

Yi Nan had seen the great military power of the Tang Dynasty when it destroyed the Eastern Turks, so he had been dealing with the Tang Dynasty carefully and trying not to have a head-on conflict with the Tang Dynasty.

However, Li Shimin was always wary of Xue Yantuo, first asked Li Simo to lead the people to establish a tooth tent in Monan, and later supported the Hui Qibi and other tribes who submitted to him.

It made Xue Yantuo's rule precarious, and also made Yi Nan and his henchmen very annoyed, so in the fifteenth year of Zhenguan, Yi Nan ordered his son Bazhuo to lead troops across the desert to attack Li Simo's Turkic department.

Although the army led by Bazhuo defeated Li Simo, they were beaten by Li Shiji and Xue Wanche, who came to help.

After the defeat, Yi Nan sent people to Li Shimin to sacrifice horses, cattle and sheep to apologize, and asked to marry the princess of the Tang Dynasty.

He did all this just in the hope of dissuading Li Shimin's defense against him, and stop supporting the Turkic remnants and those small tribes under him.

In the summer, he received a decree from Li Shimin, Li Shimin married the princess to Xue Yantuo, but Yi Nan personally went to Lingzhou to meet the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty to welcome him.

Now Yi Nan is relieved, if Li Shimin comes to Lingzhou in person, he still thinks about whether there is fraud here, but can a crippled crown prince be disadvantageous to him?

In Yi Nan's mind, this may be Li Shimin entrusting him to let the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty contact him in advance, and if the crown prince can't suppress the Tang Dynasty and the surrounding areas after ascending the throne, he can borrow troops from Xue Yantuo.

This idea made Yi Nan happy and couldn't sleep for several nights, while sending people to collect cattle, sheep and horses everywhere, while personally leading people to hunt.

In addition to the dowry originally scheduled for Datang, he also had a generous gift for Li Chengqian.

Finally prepared all kinds of gifts, Yi Nan excitedly took people to Lingzhou to marry the princess, but received news from the Turks on the edge of this desert.

This news made Yi Nan feel uneasy, and he didn't know whether to see Li Chengqian or not.

(End of chapter)