Chapter 108: Losing Thoughts is Dying

The whole month of July was one of unusually frequent changes in power. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoIn just a month's interval, the original officials of the Prince's Mansion suddenly became the most powerful people in the country.

Gao Shilian became a servant, and Yu Wenshi became a Zhongshu order. The other Fang Du and the eldest grandson Wuji have all become the heads of the six departments of the three provinces. Li Yuan's rights were basically handed over to Li Shimin at this time, and the way was paved for him. As for the army, after a reward, the generals of all the armies were basically controlled by Li Shimin's people.

The road was paved, and on the ninth day of the eighth month, Li Shimin ascended the throne in a solemn ceremony. In just two months, the deep palace built for Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji's family has been built, and these are all sent there for strict care. And Li Shimin's succession ceremony was officially held in the East Palace.

It stands to reason that this is also a very gratifying and congratulatory thing, and Li Shimin can finally feel at ease when he has the right to do so. But is that really the case?

As the saying goes, if you want to suffer a thousand gold, you must bear the burden, and when he heard the news that the Turks had gathered a large army to attack, Li Shimin couldn't be happy.

Prior to this, Li Shimin had already ordered the troops in various places to take strict precautions. But how can there be a thousand days of anti-thief reasoning, all soldiers and horses are still trained and inspected according to their usual habits. Isn't it just a small group of Turkic soldiers and horses coming to attack and disturb, everyone has seen a lot, and they have been fighting with the Turks in the past few years, so they are all a little relaxed.

Hearing the news that Li Shimin had just succeeded to the throne, Jieli Khan, who had already been prepared, immediately went south with more than 100,000 cavalry. After all, it was a cavalry, and it was a plundering all the way, and it was not affected by the baggage at all, so these more than 100,000 men and horses actually hit Jingzhou in just a few days and advanced to martial arts.

Here, it is not far from Chang'an City, and if it continues like this, people will hit the doorstep.

What to do? The previous way to deal with the Turkic invasions was either to negotiate peace and give something to let the family go home, or to fight head-on until he did not dare to come, or to fight first and then negotiate peace.

At this moment, there was a lot of noise above the court, in order to deal with the menacing Turks.

As the old courtiers of the Wude Dynasty, Xiao Yu and Chen Shuda were naturally quite impressed by the time when Li Daen, the governor of Daizhou, was killed a few years ago, why, the situation at the beginning was much better than now, but at that time, everyone wanted to beat the Turks hard, and then give them something casually to coax them back.

As a result, if it weren't for Zheng Yuanshou, the Tang Dynasty would have been wiped out by the Turks. So these people are resolutely not in agreement with the war.

"Your Majesty, according to the old events of the past years, although my Tang Dynasty has millions of armored soldiers, the Turkic cavalry is flexible and mobile, and Xiang Shao and our army are facing each other, but relying on the swiftness of the cavalry, they are good at gathering large armies to break through our army. On the occasion of His Majesty's first ascension to the great treasure, it is not appropriate to use swords and soldiers without permission, and it is not weak to negotiate peace. Xiao Yu said.

But those generals of the former Qin Palace's mansion are gone. Many of these people have fought with the Turks, and at this time, seeing Xiao Yu exaggerating the strength of the Turks so much and belittling their own prestige, these people will not do it.

"Your Majesty, Hugh wants to listen to this old horseman and his will to destroy our prestige. The Turkic children have been committing crimes every year, and we have given a large amount of money every year. Just like Luo Xiaozi said, what is called cutting and dying, if it goes on like this, sooner or later I will become a grandson of someone else, and I will wait for Wufu to do something. "Wei Chi Jingde was originally a violent temper, but when he heard Xiao Yu say this at this time, how could he bear it, and he immediately came out to rob him.

Wei Chi Jingde was originally a reckless man, and at this time, when he heard that others looked down on the strength of the army, there were no kind words on his lips, so this robbery was generally scolding. However, as a great contributor to the Xuanwumen Incident, even if a speaker impeached him for losing his words in front of the palace, Li Shimin ignored it at all, and Xiao Yu, who was only angry, gasped for a while.

After forcing Wei Chi Jingde to apologize to Xiao Yu, Li Shimin said: "Well, what Luo Yan said is 'the sun cuts the moon and cuts to tend to die', Jingde has a good memory, but I didn't expect to know this." ”

Li Shimin's meaning is very obvious, this is to fight. Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui thought about blocking it, but it was too late, and Li Shimin immediately appointed Wei Chi Jingde as the head of the Jingzhou Road march and went to Jingyang to defend against the Turks. Of course, at this time, it was said to be defense, but in fact, Li Shimin meant to Wei Chi Jingde, didn't he just let him wait for the Turks to come.

Although Wei Chi Jingde said that he was a little reckless, when it came to a war, there was absolutely no ambiguity. After rushing to Jingyang, it happened that the Turkic army also arrived.

Although time is in a hurry, it is precisely in this way that the extraordinary war talent of a general can be displayed. In a short period of time, Wei Chi Jingde organized his troops and immediately launched a counteroffensive. The leader of the army, Ashid Wumersi, knew that the other party's master would be Wei Chi Jingde, and he had to fight a vicious battle with others.

As a result, this Ashdewumer sipped that he was captured, and he also lost thousands of cavalry.

A vicious battle played the prestige of the Tang army, but the Tang Dynasty was such a lieutenant Chi Jingde, even if he sent all the old generals of Tiance Mansion, he still couldn't stand the Turkic cavalry and ran away, so he ran away with the tactic of changing routes.

In just three days, Jieli arrived at the bank of the Weishui River with a large army.

But this benevolent brother is not stupid. Wei Chi Jingde fought a battle, not only capturing his own generals alive, but also killing thousands of Turkic children. This time I came to take advantage of the domestic turmoil in Datang and take the opportunity to get benefits, but it was not a battle with others, and then I lost a lot of money inexplicably.

Jieli, who was accustomed to forcing the Tang Dynasty to talk about anything, sent a person who he thought was good at judging the situation and was extremely eloquent to force Li Shimin to surrender.

This person is called Obsessive Thinking Force, and he is standing in the Xiande Hall of the East Palace at this moment, looking at Li Shimin with a smug face. With the confidence of hundreds of thousands of cavalry behind him, he has no respect for Li Shimin at this time. After entering the main hall, he did not salute, and said with a look of victory: "Your Majesty the Tang Emperor, my Khan has led a million soldiers, and he has already been on the banks of the Weishui River. Today, I came on behalf of my Khan, just to ask His Royal Highness the Tang Emperor, do you want to fight or peace? ”

After all, when they hit their own doorstep, although Li Shimin was angry, he still waved his hand to suppress the courtiers who were still angry, and asked, "How is the war?" And how? ”

Zhi Sili smiled proudly, ignoring the gaze of the salvo that wanted to kill him, and said: "If there is a war, my Khan will enter Chang'an today, and drink tea and chat with His Majesty the Tang Emperor in this splendid hall." If you want to make peace, His Majesty the Tang Emperor will write a good letter and table, prepare a large amount of gold and silver treasures, and send someone to have a good talk with my Khan. ”

Seeing that his words became more and more arrogant, in the angry shouts of the courtiers, Li Shimin angrily rebuked: "I once had an alliance with your Khan in person, and I also gave away gold and silver treasures for nothing, and I also worshipped your Khan as a brother. Now you have broken your agreement and invaded blatantly, without the slightest shame, and you have sent a little pawn like you to talk about it. You are rude, righteous and shameless, and you are still so presumptuous in my hall, come here, pull him down and cut him down for me. ”

In the confusion of his lost thinking, two guards came in the Xiande Hall and were about to drag him out of the hall.

Seeing that the knife was about to be on his neck, he was so frightened that he lost his thinking power at this time, how could he still have the aura just now, knelt on the ground, and ignored the disdainful eyes of other people around him, and begged for mercy repeatedly: "Your Majesty Emperor Tang, spare your life." ”

I have to say that this product is indeed a person who can adapt to the situation, and now I finally know that I am soft.

If you lose your thinking power, you should be glad that at this time, Li Shimin and the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu already had the idea of negotiating peace, maybe he was frightened by Li Shimin just now, so he lost his square inch and didn't see it.

I saw Taichangqing Zheng Yuanshou come out, and after the head of the audit, he said to Li Shimin: "Your Majesty, the so-called two countries do not cut off the two countries. Although this Rong Di is arrogant, for the sake of the next smooth action, let him go and let him go back to talk back to Jieli. ”

Finally, when I saw someone pleading for me, I was like grabbing a life-saving straw, and I nodded vigorously, but I didn't dare to say a word more. For fear that he would be too talkative, he was cut down by Li Shimin like this.

On the point of letting go of the stubbornness and losing the power of thought, the views of many courtiers are surprisingly consistent, although they were also killed by the words of this thing just now, but thinking that they would have to face Chen Bing in Weishui next, they also had to dissuade Li Shimin.

The eldest grandson Wuji stood up and said: "After all, we need someone to reply to Jieli to make a decision, in my opinion, it is better to let him go for the time being." The words of the eldest grandson Wuji attracted the support of many courtiers.

But Li Shimin didn't want to just let go of his stubbornness, the words just now were too hateful, even if Li Shimin knew that it was still useful to lose his thinking, but he didn't want to let him go so easily. So he told the courtiers: "The Turks have always respected the strong, and they will not be influenced by our benevolence." If I let him go so easily, Jieli still thinks that I am afraid of him, and I am afraid that in half a day, the army will approach again. You have to be more ruthless than they are when you deal with such people. I can not kill him, but I can't let him go so easily. ”

Li Shimin's words made the courtiers silent for a while. How did the Qimin Khan return to the Sui Dynasty at the beginning, it was nothing more than the Turkic division at that time, which led to a great reduction in strength, and in order not to be attacked by the Sui Dynasty, he became a docile sheep. But within a few years, after the strength grew, the old state sprouted.

So what Li Shimin said is not unreasonable.

After being silent for a long time, these people finally have a way, since this thing can't be killed or released, then they will first lock him up and let him eat in prison for a few days, and then talk about it when the Turkic affairs are dealt with.

As for how to reply to Jieli, Li Shimin asked people to fly arrows to pass the book, which can be regarded as officially giving Jieli the answer. The two sides were on the banks of the Weishui River, discussing peace.