Chapter 20: The Destruction of the Turks (3)

In the Evil Yang Ridge, Li Jing only had 10,000 cavalry entered, but Jieli Khan did not dare to fight Li Jing. The reason is that Li Jing did not bring a large army to come, how could he dare to go deep alone? Either it is the army with an open hanging, unlimited crossbow arrows, or there must be Li Yuan's 400,000 waiting behind. Jieli Khan hurriedly withdrew the tooth tent to the moraine, Li Jing continued to advance, Jieli Khan continued to lead his troops to retreat to Yinshan, but met the Cheng Biting Jin army that came up on the side of the Hunhe River, and fought once, but could not break Xu Qing's formation, and went north in a hurry, not daring to stay. In addition, Jieli Khan also sent Korqin to Li Yuan's tent to ask for peace.

Li Yuan avoided it, saying that he had already returned to Chang'an, and if there was anything, you should go to Chang'an and say it. Li Yuan's move is nothing more than a waste of time, the Turks have now suffered a big blow, but they still have a strong force. If Li Yuan forced him to jump over the wall in a hurry, it would not be a useful thing for Datang. The rest of the battle has to be handed over to the allies to fight, and Li Yuan has an important matter to deal with.

Li Yuan wants to go to Cangzhou to have a look.

In the past, Hebei Liu Heimin rebelled, and Li Yuan also knew that it was the bad intentions of those clans. However, at that time, wasn't the Shandong Shimin clan Li Shimin's sphere of influence, so let Li Shimin clean up the portal by himself, but he didn't expect that Li Shimin only killed Liu Heimin in order to keep his own power, and did not deal with the real traitor.

Li Yuan has a grudge, and he wants to tour the east this time.

The 400,000 army gradually divided, and those in Youzhou went back, but Li Jing and Cheng Yanjin and others were still stationed in the desert.

A few days later, Li Yuan arrived in Cangzhou and saw this rumored bustling city, a paradise on earth.

And Chang'an, once again ushered in Horqin's mission, the last time he came to Chang'an with high spirits, he was stumped by Xu Qing's three questions, and returned to the grassland. But this time, he could only enter the city honestly.

After entering the court, Korqin knew that he had been deceived, but now he was in a weak position and was not qualified to refute at all. It's just that Li Jiancheng now has the power to deal with such foreign affairs, and he first sent Xu Qing to meet with Horqin.

When Xu Qing learned that his old opponent was coming, he was also willing to stop being lazy, and took a group of civil and military ministers to warmly receive the Horqin mission. Horqin looked at Xu Qing deeply: "Lord Xu, after the ministers returned to the grassland, they worked hard and studied every day, and now they feel that they are not Wuxia Ameng." If Lord Xu doesn't dislike it, can you take the next question again to see if there is any progress in the next question. ”

Still not honest? Want to win some face on this, so that you can have confidence later? Okay, well, Xu Qing sneered in his heart, and then said to Horqin: "Okay, Your Excellency has this heart to work hard, which shows that there are still talents in the grassland." However, it has been thousands of years since China led the progress of the world, and the culture that has been precipitated and accumulated is too rich. You still have to be humble, don't think that a short period of time can defeat my Datang. ”

Horqin shook his hand and said, "Lord Xu, please ask the question......"

Xu Qing knew that he didn't like to hear what he said, so he returned: "Lord Messenger, dare to ask if there are sheep in the grassland?" ”

"Oh?" Korqin's eyes lit up and said, "Yes, is it possible that Lord Xu wants to ......."

Xu Qing stretched out his hand to stop it; "Ahem, your grassland sheep have grown okay in the past few years, right?"

Horqin didn't know what to say: "Why does Lord Xu care about this?" ”

Xu Qing said with a sigh: "I didn't say anything, just ask, this sheep is not bad, right?" ”

"It's okay, it's not good, it's not bad, dare to ask Lord Xu to teach this question?"

"No, no, no, I'll just ask, my question is, how many sheep do you have in the whole Turks?"

"Hiss......" Korqin gasped, how many sheep are in the grassland, then who knows, but Xu Qing asked this question, then there must be an answer, but how could Xu Qing know how many sheep there are in the Turks, could it be that the spy of the Tang Dynasty is already so developed. Korqin pondered for a while, and took the initiative to give up, today is not as good as it was at the beginning, and the current situation is that he came as a door-to-door begging character. So he said: "Lord Xu, the subordinates don't know ......."

Xu Qing smiled and said, his eyes were full of contempt, as if to say, look, I'll just say that you Turks can't compare to the Tang Dynasty. Xu Qingdao: "I said, you Turks have two sheep, a ram and a ewe, hehehe......"

Korqin was stunned for a moment, and was about to refute, when a eunuch shouted: "Xuan Turkic envoys enter the palace!" ”

Immediately, Korqin closed his mouth and led the envoy into the temple.

Pei Lin was also there, and he made a long list of conditions for the Turks. First, after the Turkic war, 30,000 cattle and sheep and 10,000 horses were to be tributed, and every year after that, 3,000 horses were to be tributed. second, south of the desert, the Turks can only survive, but the governance there has to be handed over to the Tang Dynasty; Third, the successor of the Turkic Great Khan needs to be sent to Chang'an to learn * Tang Yayin, Tang etiquette.

Korqin came here with the intention of a delaying tactic, in order to minimize the promises that need to be fulfilled immediately, and the promises that need to be paid in the future can be raised as high as possible. Therefore, in this first matter, the cattle, sheep and horses were all pressed to less than 5,000 by him. However, Pei Lin also knew that this negotiation was like a fart and was not credible at all. The Dahe clan in the north and the Bohai State in Liaodong were ready to send troops not long ago, and this negotiation was just to get something more in your Turkic hands.

So, Pei Lin said that he would not give up half a penny. Horqin was helpless, delaying time was not his hope, he thought, cattle and sheep or something, they can still be reborn, but the inheritance of the khan cannot be placed in the hands of the Tang Dynasty, if it is controlled by the Tang Dynasty, it will have become a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty. That's not good, after the wolf god, how can it be...... As a result, Korqin proposed to repeal Article 3.

"Hmph, are you still qualified to talk to Lone about terms now?" Li Jiancheng snorted coldly and stood up, he pointed at Horqin and said: "Thirty years ago or forty years ago, maybe you Turks could still compete with my Central Plains, but now, your east and west are divided, and my Tang Dynasty is unified in the north and south, do you still have that qualification?" The current Jieli Khan, do you still think it was the situation forty years ago? The current Turks can only be beaten, and I, Datang, can beat you Turks, for one year, two years, three years, five years, and ten years, and even destroy the Turks, and it is not impossible to destroy the Turks. ”

Li Jiancheng was almost hoarse: "As long as you don't admit defeat, Lone can rub your Turks at will." So, please listen well, ask your son to come to my Tang Dynasty to learn Yayin etiquette, come to the Tang Dynasty royal family to lead the horse, serve tea and pour water, not tearing your Turkic face, that is growing your Turkic face! Otherwise, the Turks will die, and where will you put your Turkic faces! ”

As soon as these words came out, Horqin was stunned on the spot as if he was hit by five thunderbolts. Xu Qing also secretly applauded, this is the legendary king's qi leakage.

An hour later, the Turkic envoy Korqin refused on the grounds that the matter was too small for him to agree. But a brief armistice was signed, but as everyone knows, this armistice, as soon as you are given money and not given me rights, you want me to make a truce, and it is almost non-binding.

But in fact, during the period when Horqin came to Chang'an, the Dahe clan and the Bohai State had already begun to pack up the Turks, but the oranges had to be peeled first, and the tribes around the Turks of the Hui, Bayegu, and Tongluo vassals were the first to be attacked by the Dahe clan and the Bohai State.

The Dahe clan sent 200,000 troops, and the Bohai Kingdom was a little less, but there were also generals who knew a simplified version of Xu Qing's formation, only 50,000 horses.

In August, snow flies, and in November, heavy snow has begun to sweep the grassland. Li Yuan came back from Cangzhou, he was fascinated, he had never seen such a prosperous city, and Chang'an could not be compared. The prosperity of Chang'an, that is because there are so many officials, when it was popular to give gifts in the past, what national wine, what things are expensive, now there are regulations, strict, what wine, smoke, no alcohol price reduction. Chang'an is the same, there are so many big officials, naturally everything is expensive. But Li Yuan didn't expect that Cangzhou attached so much importance to commerce, but agricultural production was not delayed at all, and the scholar's style of study was also very positive, and he didn't want to be a place of heavy profit at all.

In the end, Li Yuan directly sat in Jizhou, and the Qinghe Chamber of Commerce directly became a branch of the Cangzhou Chamber of Commerce, of course, after removing those families. Those private soldiers of the clan were all exterminated by Li Yuan's bandits. The clan also has no money to build new troops, and even less power in their hands. Not to mention the forces outside of Hebei, even the clans in this part of Hebei are also facing disintegration.

Li Yuan issued another holy decree in Hebei, saying that the current black households in Hebei will be subsidized by the imperial court if they come out to establish a household registration within a month. Those subsidies, at the current grain price in Hebei, can live for two months. In the spring of next year, the government organizes everyone to open up the wasteland, and there is also a salary, and the wasteland opened is considered a black household, but the government charges a little more tax. This time, the clan lost the black households, and then the government organized to clean up the extra land of the clan, which was good, and the whole Hebei fought for a month.

Rebel? No, although Li Yuan didn't bring many soldiers, he had 100,000 troops stationed on the north side of the river. This winter, several old guys didn't make it through.

After Li Yuan did this, he inscribed a plaque to the Cangzhou Chamber of Commerce, and the Cangzhou Chamber of Commerce also promised to distribute how much money to the government every year, how many materials to provide, and how many materials to help the imperial court transport. With the imperial plaque, Cangzhou can not only do business generously, but also hold branches in various places in the world with a formal identity. The license plate of a "Cangzhou Chamber of Commerce" was robbed crazy by businessmen all over the world.

This is a favor sold to Xu Qing, hoping that the kid can serve the country loyally. After this, Li Yuan led troops to merge with the state, and as soon as he heard the latest information, he had to send troops to the Dahe clan and the Bohai Kingdom. Then we can't stay there now, and when we grab the loot, we have to watch.

The army went north to Baidao to join Li Jing.

Although Jieli Khan suffered a defeated battle, but there were still many men and horses, and the tribe did not collapse, if they walked west through the desert, were protected by Tiele, and the Eastern and Western Turks were combined, it would be difficult to catch up. Moreover, the weather was getting colder and colder, and he was becoming more and more unsuitable for the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty to fight, so Li Jing decided to start the final decisive battle immediately.

History will change, but history also has inertia, for example, although the result of the Xuanwu Gate has changed, Li Shimin rebelled against Li Jiancheng and guarded, and this role will not change. Similarly, in that real history, it was Li Jing who had to destroy the Turks, and this time, it was still Li Jing who had to destroy the Turks.

Li Jing led 30,000 fine horsemen to the north, Li Yuan led the army to camp step by step in the back, braved the snow to Yinshan, encountered more than 1,000 Turkic camp tents, so Li Jing ordered the capture, it turned out that all the Turks had women and children because of the heavy snow, they could not run to the north of Yinshan in time, there were not many soldiers in the camp tents, and they were all taken prisoner after not long.

History: Take prisoners to accompany the army.

The Turkic women's and children's tents were discovered, so the Turkic army was not far away, Li Jing sent troops to reconnoitre, and sure enough, it was found that it was not far away. But on this day, suddenly there was a heavy fog.

Li Jing thought that this was a good time for a surprise attack, and Jieli Khan had been driven crazy by the fleeing for days, and he did not have the slightest vigilance. Li Yuan's general Su Dingfang led 500 cavalry as the vanguard, and under the cover of the ninety-ninth level of dense fog, he rushed forward.

When the tooth tent of Jieli Khan was only three miles, it was discovered by the Turks, and Su Dingfang drove straight into capture the tooth tent of the Turkic Jieli Khan, and Jieli was preparing to flee west by a thousand miles of horses. Li Jing had already expected that the 30,000-strong army was waiting on the road that Jieli Khan had to pass. Li Yuan also marched north with hundreds of thousands of troops, but the Turks collapsed, and after a battle, more than 10,000 people were annihilated, and the remaining Turkic people were all captured.

Jieli Khan's son Dialuo Shi was also ready to take refuge in the Western Turks, or the Gaochang Kingdom, but in the process of westward expansion, he was captured by Li Yuanji, who was out of the fortress for hunting, and it was like a big gift package for Li Yuanji. Around the prince, a bunch of famous generals of the grassland, the Turkic generals Zhi Lost Sili, Ashina Dur, Ashina Simo and Qibi He Li all surrendered.

And the father of Dieroshi, Jieli Khan, was not so lucky, or the general who caught him was not so lucky. Most of the generals around Jieli Khan were khans from other tribes, and when they saw that Jieli Khan couldn't keep up, they defected one after another. The defectors were quite benevolent, and one of them, in order to save his own life, united with the rest of the people and captured Jieli Khan alive. On the way, they met Li Daozong, who had been waiting for them for a long time.

Jieli Khan was sent to Li Yuan's tent, but Li Yuan didn't kill him, what do you say, you may be the last enemy I defeated, I still need to keep you by my side to show off in my old age. So, Feng Jieli Khan was the king of Guiyi, the "Right Wuwei General", by the way, and Xu Qing's "Left Wuwei General" was half a level lower and moved into Chang'an to live. His son, Dieluoshi, was the king of Guishan, and commanded the headquarters of Jieli Khan and a very small piece of grassland.