Chapter 19: Destruction of the Turks (2)

In September, the Marquis of Bingzhou ushered in His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty and the 250,000 soldiers brought by His Majesty the Emperor, and all the Turkic soldiers and horses south of Taiyuan retreated. It's a pity that there are 300,000 Turkic soldiers, and Li Yuan, plus the soldiers and horses of the state, is only 300,000. 300,000 Datang fought against 300,000 Turkic iron cavalry, and the victory or defeat was still between 37, so Datang confronted the Turks according to the city wall of the state and county.

But rumor has it that the Turks do not seem to have any intention of going back, but instead settled down in the Hetao area, which they had already occupied. What's even more odious is that Empress Xiao, Zheng Rentai and Du Junqiu each led a small county town and established their own regime. Empress Xiao proclaimed herself the Empress Dowager of the Great Sui and appointed Yang Guang's grandson Yang Zheng as the Emperor of the Great Sui. Zheng Rentai and Du Jun were nicknamed "Qing Jun's side", and they each subordinated to the Tianlong generals, and ruled the region under this name, collecting troops and horses.

If you don't look at the strength of these three small courts themselves, you can look at the influence of these three small courts on the outside world, which is very bad. If the Turks have the intention of staying for a long time, it will lead to a state of separation, and once the territory is incomplete, the army in the country will need to be mobilized for a long time and be held back by others. Li Yuan began to worry about whether the prince would be able to suppress those ghosts after he had been away from the capital for a long time.

Now, Li Yuan still has two armies in his hands that can be used. The first is the army of more than 100,000 stationed in Yingzhou, commanded by Li Yuanji. The second is the hundreds of thousands of troops stationed in Youzhou, commanded by Li Jing. In addition, it is either necessary to mobilize the Zhichong Prefecture in dozens of nearby prefectures and counties, and to gather the soldiers of the government who work as farmers, or to cobble together tens of thousands of people. The quality of these tens of thousands of people can be guaranteed, but there is no general in his hands who can lead the troops.

Li Yuanji in Yingzhou actually couldn't leave, because the army that came this time belonged to the * Turks, and the Western Turks did not appear. Last year, the relationship between the Western Turks and the Turks was very ambiguous, and now, it is not known whether the Western Turks will participate in the war or not. Li Yuanji stayed in Yingzhou, also to prevent the Turks from stabbing him. No, a knife has already been stabbed here in Bingzhou, and if it is stabbed a few more times, Datang's blood will slowly drain.

And the soldiers and horses in Youzhou can't make a big move. Because the clan in Hebei originally had a black spot of uniting with Liu Heimin, and Liu Heimin uniting with the Turks to rebel, once Li Yuan's army left, maybe there would be some trouble with Li Heimin and Wang Heimin. However, Li Yuan also got a letter, saying that those clans in Hebei had been greatly injured by several of Xu Qing's students, and it seemed that they were dying now.

In fact, the so-called family in Hebei is indeed already strong in the outside. The original clan was able to twist its own power into a rope, so it appeared to be powerful. However, there is a very important prerequisite for being able to twist into a rope, that is, a group has enough centripetal force, that is, the person at the core of the group must have strong strength, so that the scattered but large forces around him are concentrated around themselves.

Today's situation is that the family has no economy, and in the officialdom, their own descendants have also become declining, and as soon as King Qin falls, the entire Shandong family will be shorter, not to mention your single Hebei family. Therefore, now the appeal of the Hebei clan and the control of their own forces are much worse than before. In addition, the price of grain has plummeted, the prices of various products have also fallen, merchants have become popular, and the common people know that they can live and work in peace and contentment. It's not like before, in order to have something to eat, I rebelled with you with my head bowed.

After weighing left and right, Li Yuan decided to let Li Jing lead 200,000 troops to attack the Turks from the right, and it was best to capture that Empress Xiao in one fell swoop.

Of course, if you want to destroy the Turks, the most important thing is to unite the Dahe clan and the Bohai Kingdom. Relying on his own army of hundreds of thousands, it is no problem to defeat the 300,000 of Jieli Khan, but if you want to completely end the scourge of the Turks, you will not be able to do it. Because, Jieli Khan can retreat to Mobei and escape to other places, and after three or five years, he can raise more than 100,000 troops to the south. Besides, even defeating the 300,000 in front of you is not an easy matter.

The current thing is to hold off the 300,000 and let the envoy of the Dahe clan and the envoy of the Bohai Kingdom go back to have enough time to dispatch troops after telling the situation here. However, when it drags on, it is necessary to weaken the power of the Turks.

So far, the only thing that can be called fortunate is that there is an abundance of food and grass.

At the end of September, Li Yuan ordered that Marquis Junji, the governor of the Tongmo Road, lead 30,000 horses from the west to bypass the place where the Turks were stationed, and directly attack the hinterland of the Turks. Chai Shao, the husband of Princess Pingyang, was the head of the Jinhe Road march, led 30,000 cavalry, and also took the western route, but advanced along the Yellow River to attack the Turks stationed in the Hetao Plain.

Li Yuan brought his own three armies, the left army marching chief for Rencheng County Wang Li Daozong, the right army Heng'an Road marching commander for the inspection school and the state governor Wei Xiaojie, the left and right armies marched together, after arriving at the war zone, one to the west, united the previous Hou Junji and Chai Shao two armies, and carried out a fierce attack on the military tent of Jieli Khan. However, this army attacking Jieli Khan was a cover. The purpose was to attract the Turkic troops stationed elsewhere for defense, so that Li Yuan would have the opportunity to regain the prefectures and counties south of the Yellow River.

The right army Xiaojie was to capture the western part of Yanyun and hold the pass, trying to gradually subdue the area south of the Great Wall when the Turkic soldiers went to surround Jieli Khan.

There are two purposes of the attack, one is to annihilate the enemy, and the other is to disrupt the enemy, and to annihilate the enemy is to attack what he is not prepared for, so as to achieve the greatest victory with the least loss. To disrupt the enemy, it is necessary to attack and defend it, so that the enemy's army can be mobilized and the enemy's plan can be ruined.

Li Yuan's move is to know this way, if the 100,000 army doesn't fight anything else, he will beat you Jieli Khan, do you dare to save it? It just so happens that it will destroy you in one fell swoop.

Li Yuan, the Chinese army, led 120,000 troops and slowly moved north, with the purpose of always having troops to support him, and he could also hold the recovered land at any time.

At this time, Li Yuan still had 10,000 Xu Qing's Xuanwu army in his hands, and 10,000 when the prince was leaving, Li Yuan had to bring it, the Shenwu Army Iron Cavalry, and the 20,000 troops were not counted in the Chinese army. Li Yuan ordered Cheng Yanjin, Qin Qiong, and Xue Wanshu to jointly control the two troops, from the side of Taihang Mountain, out of the Changwu Road, and attack the Turkic rear from the northeast, while Li Yuan attacked directly from the east from Youzhou.

The Six-Way Army is Li Yuan's open mouth. There was only one place left for the Turks to flee, and that was to the northwest, where Yingzhou troops were stationed. The Turks still could not go south, but could only take a long detour, return to the desert, and find their tribes.

In October, such a battle was set, and Jieli Khan suddenly woke up and scolded whether Datang had been prepared. At this time, he heard the news of the chaos in the rear, because Cheng Yanjin took 20,000 troops and actually defeated them with a full 80,000 troops. Is that still the elite cavalry led by his younger brother Tuli Khan?

"Bastard, did you hear it wrong, is the other party an army of 200,000 or an army of 20,000?"

Jieli Khan kicked the messenger, but the person who took the message still said: "Yes, I saw it with my own eyes, it is 20,000 people." Take 20,000 people and help them as if they were ghosts and gods. ”

Jieli Khan was so shocked that he couldn't speak, and the messenger kept talking: "Tuli Khan found 20,000 people, and he wanted to swallow them in one go." However, when he was charging, he found that * with a heavy crossbow, he was like an evil with a heavy crossbow, and he was able to continuously shoot arrows, and our army suffered heavy losses. When they rushed in front of us, our cavalry was blocked by the big shield like the city wall, and the arrows rained down, but spears and other weapons stretched out from the shield wall, killing our cavalry one by one like harvesting wheat. Tuli Khan was about to escape, but unexpectedly ran into *'s cavalry, and sacrificed his life to escape from the war, but he didn't want to be hit by *'s bed crossbow. ”

"Khan, Khan, terrible! There are a lot of *s in the east, south, and west! ”

Jieli Khan suddenly felt a chill, this huge war seemed to have been defeated. Jieli Khan's intuition is very useful, he has used this intuition to dodge many open guns and arrows, no, retreat. This time, Jieli Khan did not have time to let his army plunder and retreated.

Even so, when the six-way soldiers and horses were launched, they still defeated the Turks. Jieli Khan returned to the desert, with only a hundred thousand people left in his hands, and more than half of them were lost. Moreover, a terrible thing began to circulate in the steppe army, the crossbow arrow of * is a wind-chasing arrow, which will hit with a blow, and the middle will pass through the heart.

Morale plummeted, and Jieli Khan, who usually had a high prestige, failed to suppress the hearts of his tribesmen this time.

In October, in Li Yuan's army, the generals of the Sixth Route Army were overjoyed. In the tent, Zheng Rentai and Du Junqiu knelt below, unkempt, and on the other side was a cold corpse - Empress Xiao. Li Yuan ordered the two to be beheaded for public display, but the body of Empress Xiao was packed and sent to the tomb of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty in Chang'an.

The queen of the Sui Dynasty was buried and praised for her contribution to the continuation of the incense of the old Yang family as a female comrade of the old Yang family. Although, as a female comrade of the old Yang family, Xiao Shi did not see the general trend of the world clearly, but this kind of spirit is still worth learning. The old Yang family was not able to inherit the throne, not because the courtiers in the world did not work hard, but because the emperor was not good. Therefore, now we will change the power of our old Li family.

Moreover, Datang is far superior to the former Sui.

Praise a dead enemy for the victor to be victorious again, and more glorious and revered than the previous one.

In late October, the rested Imperial Driving Army merged Li Jing's 200,000 troops, and there were already 400,000 people, and the army was very strong. At this time, Li Yuan ordered that Li Jing, the governor of Youzhou, lead 10,000 horsemen from Taiyuan and enter the Tun Evil Yang Ridge.