Li Shimin was anxious when he heard that Li Chengqian was surrounded by Xue Yantuo's 200,000 troops, so he hurriedly summoned everyone to discuss the imperial conquest.

But after Li Daozong and Hou Junji asked for battle, Li Shimin calmed down, the more at this time, the more the court inside and outside the court more and more need for stability and balance, he and Li Chengqian are not in Chang'an City, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military with whom to keep who must be carefully weighed.

However, these can be delayed for a while, and Li Shimin must arrange the first batch of troops first.

Half an hour later, the ministers in the side hall were summoned into the Liangyi Hall by Li Shimin.

As soon as Li Daozong and Hou Junji entered the main hall, they saw that Li Shimin had regained his calm, but his eyes were still bloodshot, thinking that it was caused by anger.

The hall was also cleaned up, and Li Shiji stood in the hall and waited for the ministers to come in and salute Li Shimin and return to their seats.

As soon as everyone sat down, they saw Hou Junji walk to the center of the main hall and ask Li Shimin to fight again: "The ministers and Hou Junji originally intended to lead the troops into the wilderness to crusade against the unministers, please give your majesty an edict." ”

Li Shimin said expressionlessly when he heard this: "I already have a strategy for the conquest and destruction of Xue Yantuo. With that, he turned back and motioned to the chamberlain to announce the decree.

The inner attendant hurriedly took out a roll of colored satin and solemnly tore it open and announced loudly: "The edict said: The ancient emperors, there is a conquest. Yao Zhan Danpu, Shun Fa Youmiao, Wen Wang Jili, Cheng Tang Zhengge. These four monarchs, how can they be happy to bathe in the wind and rain and work tiredly? I thought that if we didn't punish the murderous, we wouldn't be harmful, and we wouldn't riot and people would be uneasy. Xue Yantuo was originally a barbarian in Mobei, and the Tang Dynasty destroyed the Turks and established it as the chief of all the people, but the heart of the devil and the nature of the beast did not want to repay the favor of the Tang Dynasty, but wanted to be the trouble of China.

The year before last, he sent troops to attack Monan, and then humbly offered Jin to seek peace, I couldn't bear to raise troops at the beginning of the world, and responded to the people, and specially descended to heaven, and allowed to marry the princess to comfort his heart.

The crown prince Chengqian went to Lingzhou with the country as his main priority, and summoned the barbarian chieftains to make morality.

Unexpectedly, the jackal's nature was fierce and stubborn, and the soldiers surrounded him, wanting to threaten the Tang Dynasty. Such evil deeds have aroused the wrath of the gods and the gods, and they will be forsaken by heaven and earth.

I am ordered by heaven not to punish such fierce people, and to destroy the tribe of birds and beasts, and I will be sent by heaven in the future. Therefore, I decided to personally conquer Xue Yantuo, and now I have sent several generals of the DPRK and China to ask for help.

ordered the cavalry of Zhang Jianshuai, the governor of Yingzhou Prefecture, and Xi, Xi, and Khitan to press the eastern border of Xue Yantuo; ordered Li Shixian, the secretary of the Ministry of Soldiers, to be the head of the march of Shuozhou Road, with 60,000 soldiers and 1,200 cavalry, galloping to aid Changze; Li Daliang, the general of the right guard, was the head of the march of Lingzhou Road, with 40,000 soldiers and 5,000 cavalry, galloping to aid Changze; Zhang Shigui, the general of the Right Tun Guard, had 17,000 soldiers, and was the head of the march of Gyeongju Road. Li Xi, the governor of Liangzhou, was known as the head of the march of Liangzhou Road, and went out of its western border. ”

After the chamberlain recited Li Shimin's holy decree, the ministers were stunned for a moment, then got up and bowed solemnly, and said loudly: "My emperor is Shengming." ”

This is just that behind the advance force, Li Shimin will inevitably send out more soldiers and horses, so the generals who were not ordered to lead the troops are not in a hurry.

This time, Li Shimin's five-way army came out together, and there were three routes from Chang'an, namely Li Shiji, Li Daliang and Zhang Shigui.

Although the three of them are all in charge of the march, Li Shiji is the secretary of the military department, and he still respects Li Shiji in case of trouble, but the three of them also understand that Li Shimin did not arrange Li Daliang and Zhang Shigui as deputy generals, and they must all be directly under the direct command of Li Shimin.

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In Chang'an City, Li Shimin arranged an array and vowed to destroy Xue Yantuo in one fell swoop, which made the world shake.

In an inconspicuous valley outside Lingwu City, a large tent stood according to the law of the Five Elements Bagua, and the army led by Li Chengqian quietly came to Lingwu City and stationed here.

The snow had been falling for a few days, and this morning the wind suddenly stopped and the snow stopped and the sun rose, and Li Chengqian wore a fox fur and a hood to inspect the military camp under the bright sun with his generals.

"Did the person sent to see Zhao Daoxing come back yesterday?" Li Chengqian asked as he walked.

Wang Qun, who followed him, hurriedly replied: "Go back to His Royal Highness the Prince, I haven't come back yet, I think it's because there is too much snow on the road and it's hard to walk." ”

Zhao Daoxing is the son of Zhao Cai, the right general of the Sui Dynasty, and now lives in the position of the governor of Lingzhou.

During the Tang Dynasty, the governors of the northern regions were divided into three classes, the large governors were generally located in the border towns, commanding tens of thousands of soldiers, and the central and small governors were generally located in the areas inhabited by ethnic minorities.

The Lingzhou Governor's Mansion is located in Lingwu County, which is the northernmost Governor's Mansion in the Inner Road of the Tang Dynasty, and it is also the Governor's Mansion facing Xue Yantuo.

The Lingzhou Governor's Mansion is under the jurisdiction of the Governor of Lingzhou, which is mainly the Turkic Descending Department, and the original Zhaowu nine surnames in the Turkic Department are all concentrated in Lingzhou after returning to Shun.

Li Chengqian's secret came here to eliminate Li Simo and Yi Nan, but with the soldiers and horses in Li Chengqian's hands, even if both of them were defeated, it would be difficult to gather them and annihilate them.

Therefore, Li Chengqian prepared to mobilize the soldiers and horses of the Lingzhou Governor's Mansion and dispatched together to ensure the elimination of Xue Yantuo and the main force of the Turks.

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A few hundred miles further north from Lingwu County, there is also a valley, and there is also a large tent, which is the main Turkic force led by Li Simo.

Since the news of the siege of Changze County came, Li Simo took off the helmet of the Tang army he had worn from Chang'an and restored his Turkic attire with his cape.

Although it was still snowing heavily outside the tent, the charcoal fire in the tent was burning, and the copper wine jug on it was steaming, Li Simo and Lu Zhi sat opposite each other, holding a wine glass in their hands, but their faces were like ice cubes outside the tent.

But Li Simo and Lu Zhi in the tent both had gloomy faces, as cold as ice.

"Smack"

Li Simo slammed off the wine glass in his hand and asked loudly: "Tian Khan wants to personally send troops to pull out the scorching and extinguish, but Li Chengqian is still safe and secure in Changze City?"

Lu Zhi changed his previous deep and sinister face, and said with a worried face: "Exactly! ”

The more Li Simo thought about it, the more angry he became, and he stood up suddenly and stared at Lu Zhi condescendingly: "That old fox of Yi Nan has also stayed by the river and not coming south?"

Lu Zhi lowered his head and didn't dare to speak.

Li Simo walked back and forth in the tent a few times, closed his eyes, and said resignedly: "Tomorrow, the men of the whole clan will set off to attack Yi Nan's camp." ”

Lu Zhi was frightened when he heard this, knelt on the ground and said with tears in his eyes: "Great Khan, marching in the snow is a taboo, Yi Nan's refusal to go south is obviously to prevent us, if I wait for this time to pass, I will fall into his trap." Turkic ......"

Li Simo saw that he was still playing his own small abacus at this time, and he didn't even bother to look at him, and said coldly: "Tian Khan ordered me to help His Royal Highness the Crown Prince destroy Xue Yantuo, if this achievement is successful, why worry that the Turkic clan has no place to stand?"

You pretend to be smart enough to leak the news to Yi Nan, and then watch Bazhuo besiege the crown prince.

Now that Tian Khan has sent troops, do the Turkic clans still want to watch Yi Nan retreat with his whole body?"

When Lu Zhi heard this, he also understood that once Datang knew that they had betrayed Li Chengqian, then they could only wait to be wiped out by Datang.

Now that they are desperately fighting with Yi Nan, they can still put the blame on Xue Yantuo when the time comes, if they join forces with Datang to destroy Xue Yantuo this time, they may be able to go to Mobei to graze......

It's just that they are not Xue Yantuo's opponents......

(End of chapter)