In the fourth year of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty destroyed the Eastern Turks and completely took over the territory of the Eastern Turks, and from then on, the northernmost part of the Tang Dynasty was no longer the Great Wall of Yunzhou, but the vast steppe.

Emperor Li Er left the famous general Li Ji to guard the northern prairie.

Different from the previous rules, in the past, after the Central Plains countries laid down other territories, they all set up the capital protectorate, only governed the local military and government, and the management of the domestic state roads was not the same, such as the strong Han to destroy the Xiongnu, and set up the Western Regions Protectorate, but after the decline of the strong Han, the capital protectorate existed in name only, and was finally rebelled and became independent by small countries.

When the Tang Dynasty was at its peak in history, it swept across the Quartet, and at the same time established six capitals, including Anxi, Anbei, Annan, Andong, Beiting, and Shan Yu, in order to govern the surrounding small foreign countries.

But the Tang Dynasty in this life is different, since there is a perfect way of governance, it is natural that it will no longer use the capital protectorate, and directly plan it as its own state territory.

According to the geographical location of the Eastern Turks, Li Ji spent two years building three male cities on the northern steppe, the northern city in the north, the Xiping city in the west, and the Dongping city in the east, and the three cities were distributed in the center of the northern steppe in a regular triangle, which was also to strengthen the rule of the steppe.

At the same time, the city construction plan is planned by a group of architects in the Tang Dynasty, and the size of the three cities is no less than that of Chang'an City, and it is not a problem to accommodate millions of soldiers and civilians.

The reason why the northern grasslands are all nomads is because the herdsmen must live in the grass, and people and animals need water sources to survive, so it is the survival habit of the northern grasslands to constantly choose areas with abundant water and grass for grazing.

Therefore, except for the royal court of the grassland, there are basically no cities built on the grassland, even if it was the royal court of the Eastern Turks Jieli back then, it was just a large number of camp tents, and there was no land for the city.

Now Datang wants to build a city and stick to it, the first thing that needs to be solved is the problem of water source, fortunately, the grassland ecology in this era is maintained very well, there is no desertification at all, and there is no shortage of water at all.

As soon as the water source problem is solved, it is no longer a problem to build a city and gather people, for the construction of these three northern cities, half of the big merchants in Datang have been circulating various materials to the north in the past two years, which is why there are three strong cities today.

Four months ago, after receiving an order from the Tang Emperor, the people of the grassland entered the city of Maodong, which was a strict order, and the people within 500 miles from the Great Wall all retreated into the Great Wall to arrange relocation, and the people 500 miles north of the Great Wall were all shrunk to the three main cities.

The people of the grassland have lived with the grassland for generations, and many people are not used to living in the city at all, but this does not affect their yearning and envy for the life of the people in the Tang Dynasty. So the relocation went very smoothly.

Time flies, as soon as the New Year passes, it is immediately spring, on the fifth day of spring ploughing in the north of the Tang Dynasty, fifty miles outside the northern city, there is a dense army, Li Ji stood at the head of the city and has been observing with a clairvoyant telescope, and smiled slightly: They are coming.

The first armies to arrive were the 200,000-strong armies of the Western Turks and the Uighurs, who were the closest and both elite riders.

The northern grassland countries have always been wars that will not be placed in the beginning of spring, because in history, the grasslands sent troops south to plunder, and the best time to plunder is after the autumn harvest of the Central Plains people in the south, at this time the Central Plains people have money and grain in their hands, on the contrary, if it is spring, then just after the winter, the family is basically consumed, and there is no good thing to loot.

Of course, it is also because the grass and trees have just sprouted in the spring, and the winter has just passed, and the grass is not lush and the horses are not fertile, so it is actually a great loss to choose the early spring battle.

However, after the alliance negotiations, the best opportunity to attack had been missed, because there was no way to fight in winter, and the Tang Dynasty could only be chosen for spring ploughing.

With half a million alliance troops in hand, the participants in both the northwest and northeast are full of confidence.

After the Western Turks and others led the team to arrive, they camped five miles away, and did not come up to attack and talk, and waited for seven or eight days before the Northeast Army led by Goguryeo was about to arrive, after all, at this time, the Northeast was still icy and snowy.

The 500,000 army gathered, and Yuangai Suwen was elected as the leader of the main alliance, and the Western Turk Mohelu was elected as the deputy leader of the alliance.

Under the northern city, Yuangai Suwen stepped forward to talk to Li Ji: "Who is the guard?" The army of our alliance of 500,000 came to break the city and attack Tang, if you don't want to be slaughtered, persuade you to open the city as soon as possible and beg to surrender. ”

Li Ji was dressed in military uniform, flashed out with his personal guards, and stood at the head of the city laughing: "500,000 troops? How ridiculous? Just 500,000 remnants of the soldiers want to break my Tang City? How ignorant are the barbarians?

This general is the Tang Dynasty general Li Ji is also, you and other barbarians come to commit for no reason, it is the way to die, I advise you to lay down your arms and pray for the forgiveness of the Tang Dynasty, otherwise, as soon as my Tang Heavenly Soldiers arrive, none of your 500,000 remnants will be left. ”

Okay, one of the two parties is more ruthless than the other, and they talk ruthlessly.

Yuangai Suwen looked at it, it turned out to be Li Ji, a famous general of the Tang Dynasty, this person is powerful, and he will personally guard a city in the Tang Dynasty?

Seeing that it was Li Ji, Yuan Gai Suwen knew that it was impossible to persuade him to surrender, only a hard attack.

Dial the horse back to the camp and begin to arrange siege matters, on the siege battle, only Goguryeo is good at the scene, the others are grassland barbarians, only cavalry battle formation, not good at attacking fortifications.

"The city in front of me is called the Northern City, which was built by the Tang Dynasty in the past two years, and its scale is even no less than the Chang'an City of the Tang Dynasty, although it is strong and abnormal, but it also has its shortcomings.

That is, there are few people in the city, and the troops needed for defense are insufficient, and we are besieging the city together, and I can't see more than 20,000 soldiers in the city defense, and the city is no more than 50,000 troops at most, so we will send 100,000 troops to attack hard, and we can go down in three days. ”

Yuangai Suwen opened his mouth and set a siege strategy, everyone listened ignorantly, they only knew that the city would be broken in three days, and the others didn't understand, and they didn't need to be too clear, anyway, it was a fight.

"There is no moat in the northern city, so we can directly use siege engines and ladders to fight, this first battle is the first battle to boost morale, and the warriors need to step forward, the army of Murowei and Jin Ya is 120,000, leaving 20,000, and selecting 100,000 elites to attack the city head-on tomorrow, and the rest of the army, divided into four roads, are stationed around the northern city to prevent the enemy from breaking the city and escaping."

"No!"

The two tribes of Muwei and Yan were overjoyed, and they used us in the first battle, obviously because they took a fancy to our ability, and they must fight hard and strive for success in the first battle.

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