Chapter 26: The Alliance of Weishui (2)
The Mingde Gate of Chang'an is no longer closed, and this giant city standing in the wilderness is like a tall giant beast, anyone standing in front of it can only feel small, and the Tang Dynasty troops swarming out are wearing bright iron armor and holding the sharpest blades in their hands, and the Vermilion Bird Street, which can be used for eight carriages to travel side by side, is even a little narrow.
The black clouds crush the city and want to destroy it, and the armor light opens to the sun!
Jieli Khan looked at Li Shimin, who was looking at each other across the Wei River, and felt a chill behind him, just by leading seven ministers, he dared to come to the south bank of Weishui, and the Tang army hundreds of steps away behind him was in full formation, as fast as thunder, and he had no doubt that the Tang Emperor in front of him would give an order to the entire Tang Dynasty to engulf the Turks like a war beast.
With such a majestic figure, he thought of a person, a man who made the whole Turkic tremble!
That's the sage Khan Yang Jian!
During the Sui Dynasty, the reason why the Turkic Qimin Khan was able to establish a state and survive in the mutual attack of the Turkic tribes was mainly due to the support of the Sui Dynasty, of course, this was Yang Jian's strategy to send Changsun Sheng to split the Turks, and the Turks of the Northern and Southern Dynasties were too strong, and the Northern Zhou and Gaoqi were both vassals to the Turks.
It can be said that without the support of the Sui Dynasty, the Qimin Khan would not have been able to establish a state. Therefore, Qimin Khan was very grateful to the Sui Dynasty, and once came to Daxing City several times to meet the emperor of the Sui Dynasty, and gave Emperor Wen of Sui the honorific title of "Sage Khan".
After the death of Qimin Khan, his eldest son Shibi Khan succeeded to the throne, and his disobedience was gradually revealed, and he kept disturbing the north, and the border pass was restless from then on. Among the three sons of Qimin Khan, Mohe Khan (that is, the later Jieli Khan) is the most talented and ambitious, and he wants to enter the Central Plains and be the lord of the Central Plains.
During his reign, Jieli Khan made full use of the civil strife in the Central Plains at the end of the Sui Dynasty to regather the Turkic forces that had been greatly injured by the Sui Dynasty, and achieved unprecedented success in the Central Plains in the service, surpassing any Khan in Turkic history.
Although he finally became the king of the dead country and was captured alive by the Tang Dynasty, he could not deny this. Jieli Khan took advantage of the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty to force Li Yuan, Liu Wuzhou, Xue Ju, and Liang Shi to all become vassals. He seized the opportunity to take advantage of the civil strife in the Central Plains to invade the border on a large scale and seized a large number of people and goods. Jieli Khan was not satisfied with the plunder, and was ambitious and wanted to occupy the Central Plains.
And this opportunity, Jieli Khan now sees, that is, Li Shimin, who has just ascended the throne, has not yet consolidated his power!
However, Jieli Khan underestimated this future Heavenly Khan.
"Great Khan, there is a battle report from the rear, Ashdewu was captured and killed by Wei Chi Jingde in Gaoling, and the Tang army in Gaoling heard that the Great Khan had arrived in Chang'an, and they had already returned to help."
"What?" Jieli Khan was furious and scolded: "Ashdewu didn't quit this waste, Ben Da Khan gave him 10,000 grassland men, and this was given to the Tang army, how many Tang troops are there in Gaoling?"
The Turkic cavalry who reported the news turned pale with fright, and the hot breath dripping with round cold sweat, his tongue knotted: "About five thousand, but... The Tang army is fierce, and I can't help it, it's too strong..."
"The defeated have the face to live!" With a fierce face, Jieli Khan drew a golden sword from his waist and killed the cavalryman who reported the news, and rolled his head in a few circles on the ground.
Jieli Khan, who had been violently going south to Chang'an, also beat a drum in his heart at this time, and he also led 100,000 Turkic cavalry to invade Taiyuan last year, but was repelled by Li Jing in Bingzhou led more than 10,000 Jianghuai soldiers, and the routine defeat of the grass valley failed.
Like history, Jieli Khan saw that the Tang army was waiting for battle, and he knew that he could not take advantage of it, and under Li Shimin's bluff, the psychological shadow that was repeatedly beaten by Li Jing played a role, and Li Shimin's prestige as the king of Qin was not in vain.
If you are not afraid of death, why should the generals be afraid of death?
Not to mention that what made the Turks ashamed was those coercive miscellaneous hus who looked at Li Shimin's figure kneeling on the ground and shouting words like "Long live King Qin", and the army's morale suddenly dropped to the freezing point.
"Zizhi Tongjian" records that the Turks at this time "controlled the strings and millions, Rong Di was blazing strong, and there was no ancient one!" The largest Xiongnu Empire before was only able to send 500,000 Hun cavalry, and only the Mongol Iron Cavalry of the Mongol Empire could be compared with the Turkic Empire.
This kind of majesty far surpasses that of the Khitan, which only occupies Liaoxi and Youyun, and what is the performance of Song Zhenzong in the Tanyuan Alliance?
To cite one of the biggest examples, the Weishui Alliance was regarded by Li Shimin as a lifelong shame, while Song Ru was complacent and thought that the Tanyuan Alliance was a victory.
"Jieli Khan, you and I used to form an alliance with each other about a brotherly state, and gave gold silk, which is not counted, but Jieli, you betrayed the alliance today and led troops to Weishui, do you want to fight with a certain Tang Dynasty?" Li Shimin sat on horseback, inhaled cold air in his mouth, the wind was chaotic, and he couldn't open his eyes a little, but he waved the horsewhip again, and he couldn't retreat at this time.
"Although you are Rongdi, you also have people's hearts, why do you forget the kindness of the past? Although the Turks have 100,000 iron cavalry, the Tang Dynasty has more than a million male soldiers! ”
As soon as Li Shimin's voice fell, the tens of thousands of Tang Army dancers who were waiting for the battle held their shields, raised their swords, and shouted: "Kill!" Kill! Kill! ”
Jieli Khan saw the 'interested' Tang army in front of him, and was so frightened that he almost fell off his horse, and the number of people exceeded 10,000, and the shouts of tens of thousands of troops can be imagined?
These Tiance troops that originally belonged to the Qin Wangfu were the elite troops galloping across the field, and in the late Sui Dynasty, they had been on the battlefield for a long time, and they were not afraid of war, nor were they afraid of war!
The wheel of history rolled forward, and Jieli Khan, who was regarded as the British lord, feared the prestige of the Tang army, and sent envoys to the south bank to sue for peace, declaring that he would retreat to Mobei and would not commit any offence against the Central Plains in the future.
However, both sides knew that this was a fool, and Jieli Khan had to go south almost every year since the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, and every time he would plunder the population and loot the materials for the winter.
This seemingly victorious peace negotiation was a shame for Li Shimin, because the northern part of Guanzhong was looted, hundreds of people were displaced, and nearly 10,000 people were plundered and became slaves of the Turks, not to mention that the Tang Dynasty had to pay a sum of money to satisfy the greedy Turkic nobles.
This time the Turks went south, it was a routine grass valley, robbing the Central Plains people's materials and population, and the soldiers in Chang'an was just a leisure safari for the Turks.
Jieli Khan didn't know what kind of people he had provoked and what kind of dynasty he had met? In this dynasty of Zhenguan Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, which is dormant in four years, will really show its fangs, but tens of thousands of soldiers and horses will destroy this invincible Turkic Empire!
But Li Yuan, who is in the imperial palace Da'an Palace, has a restless and restless heart, looking at Datang with eyes that do not belong to this world!