And on the second day after Li Yuan returned to the palace, the influx of displaced people in Chang'an City became more and more tired, and there was a lot of noise in Chang'an City.

That is, on August 14 of the ninth year of Wude, only a few days before Li Shimin ascended the throne, there was a sudden news from Gaoling that 100,000 Turkic wolves rode south, and it was led by Jieli Khan himself.

Gaoling is located in the north of Chang'an, less than 30 miles away from Chang'an, the Turkic cavalry can glimpse the sunset of Chang'an in one day, Li Shimin immediately ordered to send Wei Chi Jingde as the head of the Jingzhou march, arrived in Jingyang County, to resist the Turkic cavalry.

Wei Chi Jingdesheng captured the enemy's general Ashdewu did not drop out, killed more than 1,000 Turkic cavalry, but still to no avail, Jieli Khan led the Turkic cavalry to bypass Gaoling, directly to the north bank of Weishui, and Chang'an a river.

The people in Chang'an City were panicked, the markets were depressed, the doors and windows of the houses on the street were closed, the Suzaku Gate was no longer closed, and the heralds on fast horses continued to pour into the administrative center of the Tang Dynasty.

Liangyi Palace.

Li Shimin rubbed his head, from the time he sent Yu Chi Jingde to Gaoling to resist the Turks to the whole day and night now, he did not rest for a moment, even if Yu Chi Jingde came to the good news of capturing the enemy general, he was not happy.

Because the news is so bad now, the garrison in Chang'an City is empty, and there are less than 20,000 defenders, of which 5,000 defenders were taken to Gaoling by Wei Chi Jingde.

As the capital of the Tang Dynasty, the garrison of Chang'an was originally not less than 100,000, but during the Xuanwu Gate Change, the East Palace was killed by him, and the disbanded was disbanded, and he did not believe in the original garrison, so he transferred troops from all over the world.

Now is the period of change of armies, but Jieli Khan is coming!

He deeply realized the strength of the Turkic Empire, twelve years ago, that is, in the eleventh year of the Great Cause, Emperor Yang of Sui was trapped in Yanmen Pass, when he was sixteen years old, he found the general Yun Dingxing, and used the art of war to bluff to scare away Shibi Khan.

But it's just a bluff! The Turkic cavalry were strong and strong, and Jieli Khan once proudly said when he formed an alliance with Li Yuan in Taiyuan: "The children born in the Turks can ride horses and shoot arrows, and our Turks can ride millions of Turkic wolves." ”

At the end of the Sui Dynasty, various anti-kings rose up, and the Turks supported Xue Ju, Liu Wuzhou, Wang Shichong, Kou Jiande and others. When Li Shimin crusaded against Wang Shichong, he could not attack for a long time, not only the city of Luoyang was strong, but there was also a threat from the Turks behind him.

"Your Majesty, you can't hesitate any longer!" Fang Xuanling stood up, bowed to Li Shimin and said: "Your Majesty please issue an edict to recruit Chang'an soldiers, Sanfu Treasury, Chang'an County Ya, Wannian County Ya three weapons, Chang'an people have millions, at least 50,000 elite soldiers can be summoned." ”

"The ministers seconded it, this law is feasible." The ministers knelt down in unison.

"No!" Xiao Yu tried his best to object, "Your Majesty has first ascended to the Great Treasure, and the foundation is unstable, if you recruit Chang'an soldiers, it will be difficult to ensure the risk of mutiny!" ”

As soon as these words came out, the eyes of the ministers looked at Xiao Yu faintly, as the prince of Nanliang, he had a very good relationship with Yang Guang, but he still became the prime minister in the Wude Dynasty, and he was still as stable as Mount Tai and stood tall in the Zhenguan Dynasty.

Look at people's attitude, proper, where the standard thighs are, hug them.

Who else can Chang'an soldiers mutiny?

In the simple thinking of the people of the Tang Dynasty, they sympathize with Li Shimin's brother Li Jiancheng, and killing his brother with his brother is definitely a great rebellion in Confucianism, and it is even more so in Guanzhong, where Confucianism has a deep foundation!

If you don't get it right, the recruited soldiers may really overthrow him!

"I have made up my mind, I can go to Yanmen at the age of sixteen in the past, and today I am the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. How capable can the Khan of Jieli, who stammered in the mouth of a woman? With such skills, you still want to be the second Martial Emperor of Tuoba Dao? Li Shimin sneered, and his majestic gaze swept at the courtiers below.

The conversation in front of the palace ended in a hurry, and Li Shimin, who was a military genius of the Guanlong aristocracy, did not follow what Sima Yi said: "If you can fight, you should fight, if you can't fight, you should defend, if you can't defend, if you can't go, you can't surrender, and if you can't surrender, you can't surrender." ”

Instead, he chose another method, personally led Fang Xuanling, Gao Shilian and other six horses out of Chang'an, and confronted Jieli Khan on the south bank of Weishui.

On the north bank of Weishui in the distance, the autumn air is crisp and crisp, the crisp yellow reed grass is all over the riverbank, and the 100,000 Turkic cavalry are ready to go, with felt hats on their heads, and their hair is knotted into many small braids.

Different from the Hun cavalry that galloped on the Mongolian Plateau in the past, although the Turkic cavalry was not as well-equipped as the Tang Dynasty, at least each person had a layer of leather armor, and every ten people had a little iron piece as iron armor, and the arrows were not arrows made of bones in the past, but sharp iron arrows.

But more importantly, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period and even the Han Dynasty, the Hun cavalry only had a simple saddle and a one-legged stirrup, but the current Turks already have a saddle and stirrups in the modern sense.

This seems to be inconspicuous, but this simple invention is to make the Turkic cavalry stronger than the Xiongnu more than one grade, the Han general Fei general Li Guang met the Xiongnu tens of thousands of cavalry, and he only had a few thousand Han troops, he dared to counterattack, and the Xiongnu could not attack for a long time. This is because the double-sided stirrups are more stable when the cavalry sprints, while the single-sided stirrups are easy to fall to the ground, so it is often a joke when the Huns sprint.

The Han people's fear of cavalry is precisely because of the invention of the stirrup, so that the infantry no longer maintains an advantage in the face of cavalry, and the scene of one Han infantry fighting several Hun cavalry in the Han Dynasty in the past will no longer be repeated.

The differences in technology are small, but they are already small, and thankfully, the current Eastern Turks have not yet learned to nail their horses to horses from the Romans in the West.

Among the 100,000 Turkic cavalry, there was a white tent, stretching the size of several rooms, the curtain was inlaid with brilliant jewels, and the curtain sewn with thick sheepskin felt was uncovered.

The tent was adorned with various fine patterns carved with gold cut-outs, and the lighted oil lamps were also inlaid with jewels, without a trace of oil smoke, which was the finest whale oil traded from the Persians, and the nobles wantonly decorated the whole roasted lamb with spices, and the strange fragrance was in the nose.

"Great Khan, Emperor Tang appeared on the south bank of Weishui and asked the Great Khan to meet him." A Turkic soldier walked in and knelt down.

Jieli Khan was a middle-aged fat man, he cut a piece of fine lamb meat with a golden dagger, and the oil stains on his hands stretched out to the chest of a Turkic girl beside him and rubbed it dry, and asked lightly: "Li Yuan, that old fox can't come out, then his son Li Shimin, the king of Qin, is left, killing his brother and ascending the throne, it's really ruthless, how many people did he bring?" ”

The Turkic soldiers were stunned for a moment, and said in a low voice: "Back to the Great Khan, the Tang Emperor only brought six people. ”

"Six?" Jieli Khan stood up in shock, the golden dagger in his hand was thrown into the mutton and inserted it deeply, and a pair of extremely small eyes squeezed by the horizontal meat narrowed slightly, revealing a cruel gaze, "Are there any soldiers and horses on the south bank?" Forget it, Ben Da Khan will personally go to meet Li Shimin for a while! ”

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