Shuozhou, the Han Dynasty for Shuofang, built to resist the Xiongnu city, after hundreds of years of wind and rain encroachment, Shuozhou has long been dilapidated.

At the end of the Sui Dynasty, Ying Yanglang killed the Liang division to kill Tang Shizong, called the Great Prime Minister, and then colluded with the Turks to oppose the Sui Dynasty, and established himself as the emperor, with the country name Liang.

The Tang army had conquered the Liang division several times, but because the Turks sent troops to aid in time, the Tang army could only return again and again without success.

And the Liang division is occupied by Diaoyin, Honghua, Yan'an and other places are all important in the north, waving troops to the south, and you can directly threaten Chang'an in a few days.

Liang Shidu himself did not have any grand strategy, wanted to occupy the Central Plains and called the emperor, but always pinned his hopes on the Turks, today's Liang Shidu is no longer the Liang Shidu of the year, after several defeats, his generals surrendered to the Tang Dynasty one after another, and the military strength of Liang Shidu has been further weakened a lot.

"Your Majesty, the Tang Dynasty has sent an envoy to ask for a meeting!"

In the city of Shuozhou, although the city is broken, the heart is not old, Liang Shidu stays in Shuozhou these days but is very comfortable, every day occasionally to sort out the government, the rest of the time is not used to spoil the harem, or to taste the fine tea bought from Chang'an.

"Envoy? Who's coming? Liang Shidu glanced at him with great disdain and asked.

"Back to Your Majesty, it's Tang Jian!"

"Tang Jian? Hmph, this is the envoy sent by Li Shimin, right? Liang Shidu snorted coldly, and the mockery on his face was not at all disdainful of concealment.

"Your Majesty, put him in prison directly? Let them talk about it themselves? ”

"I would like to hear what conditions Li Shimin has given me?" Liang Shidu's heart turned, and he couldn't help but change his mind.

Li Yuanji is not in Beijing, Li Shimin's head is also clearly active a lot, with the continuous news in the army, Li Shimin also gradually realized that this northern expedition to the Turks may really succeed, but whether it is successful or not, as the imperial court, Li Shimin feels that he must do something.

As a result, there was Tang Jian's envoy to Liang Shidu.

Tang Jian's ability is naturally not to say, the loyalty to the Tang Dynasty is also impeccable, Taiyuan raised troops when they made suggestions, once exposed the lonely Huai'en rebellion, saved Li Yuan's life, Li Shimin usurped the throne, Tang Jian is still cautious, always put his mind on political affairs, and does not listen to things outside the window, which has won Li Shimin's attention.

Tang Jian, who is nearly fifty years old, does not have the kind of desolate appearance he imagined, he is dressed in neat clothes and has a straight waist, and the whole person is standing there, and there is a momentum on his body that can't help but come.

Compared with the foreign ministers on his side, Liang Shidu had an urge to pull Tang Jian to his side.

"Tsk, King Liang Jun? What a title! I'm a little moved! Listening to Tang Jian's short and capable diplomatic rhetoric, Liang Shidu smiled, and couldn't help but deliberately raise his tone, paying special attention to saying the word.

"Although the title is reduced, the future life of the county king will be much better, and there is no need to look at the faces of the Turks, you can govern Liang Di with peace of mind, and display the great talents and strategies of the county king." Tang Jian calmly analyzed the pros and cons, and his words were just right, not mentioning the fact that Liang Shidu took the initiative to collude with the Turks, but summarized it as being forced by the Turks.

"I don't have the heart to be a bullshit king!" Liang Shidu continued to speak sarcastically, and even his patience to listen seemed to have disappeared, and he waved his hand to the audience: "Go meet your old acquaintance!" ”

Tang Jian was stunned in his heart, an old acquaintance? Which acquaintance of your own is here?

With full doubts, Tang Jian was sent to Shuozhou Prison, and then, Tang Jian didn't know how many times he had been imprisoned.

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"What? You said that the Tang army left the country? Jieli Khan was taken aback, looking at the Tuli Khan's personal soldiers under his tent and stunned, his face full of disbelief.

"Yes, the Great Khan, the Khan has already regretted it, he was deceived by the lies of the Tang people before, so he was dissatisfied with the Great Khan and opposed the Great Khan everywhere. Ben first agreed with the Tang people about 10,000 horses of silk, 10,000 catties of tea, as well as food and other benefits, but the Khan waited for several months and did not wait, and sent people to urge, but he didn't expect that it was the Tang army who came. The prince of Qi led 200,000 troops to the city of Fengzhou, but the Khan only had tens of thousands of troops in Fengzhou, and he was unable to fight, so he had to temporarily withdraw from Fengzhou. ”

"Two hundred thousand troops?" Jieli Khan frowned tightly.

200,000 Tang troops is not a small number, and Jieli himself can't take out 200,000 troops to resist, if you want to resist this wave of attacks by the Tang army, you can only unite a few units, or avoid fighting.

If you just avoid a fight......

"It's 200,000, the leader is the King of Qi, the deputy general is Li Jing, Li Daozong from Lingzhou also led the army out, and Zhang Gongjin from Daizhou, the direction of their march seems to be to meet in Fengzhou. The Khan has thoroughly seen the ugly face of the Tang people, and is willing to remove the position of the Khan, return to the command of the Great Khan, and always be loyal to the Great Khan. ”

"Khan, send troops!" An old man in the tent who had never looked up drank half a bowl of spirits in one gulp and said gently.

Jieli Khan looked embarrassed, he didn't want to send troops, at least not now.

"Go down first!" The old man smiled at the tent, and when there were only two people left in the tent, the old man turned his head to look at Jieli Khan and said, "This is a great time for the Khan to unify the grassland. ”

"But now is the time for the war horse to lose fat, and it can't run fast on the battlefield at all, and this season, we can't even guarantee the food and grass for the war horse." Jieli voiced the worries in his heart.

The grassland is icy and snowy, the grass has not yet grown, it is bare, at this time, what do the war horses eat? What do cattle and sheep eat? And what did the fighters eat?

"Those who become kings must have great righteousness in their hearts!" The old man said calmly.

The grassland peoples will generally choose to fight in the south after autumn and before the winter, this time period the horsepower of the war horse is the strongest, and the grassland will also spend a difficult winter, in the grassland, every winter is like a disaster, so they must go south before the winter to grab enough supplies to survive this winter.

Except for this season, the other three seasons were not suitable for conquest, but when the Tang army came, they had no choice.

Crisis is also an opportunity, and we must see how to make trade-offs.

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On February 19, nine days after Li Yuanji led his troops into Fengzhou, Li Daozong, a sect who had traveled a little farther, led less than 20,000 troops to Fengzhou with difficulty, and as early as three days ago, Zhang Gongjin, the governor of Daizhou, led more than 30,000 troops to Fengzhou, and the two divisions met smoothly.

There are more troops than imagined, there are more than 14,000 soldiers in his hands, and the 50,000 troops brought by Zhang Gongjin and Li Daozong are all soldiers, and they don't bring any logistics gods and horses at all.

Coupled with the troops left in Lingzhou and Daizhou, together, they barely had enough 80,000 soldiers.

And the only ones who are really under his own command and can command and move are the less than 20,000 people brought by Zhang Gongjin and the less than 24,000 troops of the Chinese army, which are 4,000 people.

"Come on! The best thing for this ghost weather is to eat hot pot! Li Yuanji once again put out his hot pot and invited several generals to sit together, without any unhappy expression on his face, which made people unable to see good and evil.

Li Jing has long been accustomed to Li Yuanji's routine, Zhang Gongjin has seen hot pot, but he has never eaten it, and Li Daozong, who has been guarding in Lingzhou, is completely dumbfounded.

However, in a blink of an eye, Li Daozong completely integrated into it, and shouted again and again that it was too cool, and he must bring some back to Lingzhou after this battle.

Li Yuanji, who was half-full after three rounds of food and wine, and was accustomed to talking about things at the dinner table, slowly asked: "How many cavalry are there in your second division?" ”

"I have four thousand!" Li Daozong responded truthfully, he couldn't hide this matter if he wanted to, the troops were all here, and he didn't have to hide it at all.

"I have five thousand!" Zhang Gongjin also responded.

"Where's the soldiers and horses of the headquarters?" Li Yuanji continued to ask.

"There are 4,000 soldiers, horses, cavalry and 12,000 infantry. There are 2,000 soldiers and horses to replenish His Highness! Li Daozong's old face was a little red, he was also a clan, but he always felt a little blushing when he did this by himself, and when he got here, it was impossible for Li Shimin to complete the things he arranged, and he didn't have that opportunity at all.

"I have 5,000 cavalry and 8,000 infantry here, and the remaining 16,000 infantry are for His Highness." Zhang Gongjin didn't have too much psychological burden, he received too many troops from Hebei, and those were Li Yuanji's old troops.

"There are less than 15,000 cavalry and nearly 50,000 infantry, yes, this little force is still enough to fight the Turks!" Li Yuanji mocked quietly, and secretly said that Li Shimin is really his good brother, and he will never forget to give himself a set.

But it's a pity that the king of Chang'an wants to see your face, but here, these henchmen of yours have to look at the face of the king.

"From now on, each of you will command your own army and horses, and the king's 25,000 men will be commanded by the king himself. Other...... From now on, the three of you don't need cavalry, all the war horses are handed over to the king, and the cavalry composed of the soldiers and horses of the king's headquarters serves as the front army, and the rest of the soldiers and horses of the headquarters are the middle army, General Li is the general of the left army, Zhang Dudu is the general of the right army, and Vice General Li is the general of the rear army. ”

"This ......" Li Daozong hesitated a little, he had no opinion on handing over the cavalry to Li Yuanji, he was the commander, how could he beat him, but what was going on with only handing over horses and not people? This is a war, not a child's play, can your little infantry be a cavalry?

"Your Highness, the cavalry is quite special, and it is not up to those who have been trained for a long time, and this battle is very important, is this too hasty?" Zhang Gongjin was shocked in his heart, and hurriedly persuaded him.

"Sloppy?" Li Yuanji snorted coldly in his heart, what does it mean to be sloppy? Aren't you just worried that this king will use you as cannon fodder? This king has not done what you did.

Showing a faint smile, Li Yuanji said calmly: "You don't need to worry about the cavalry, this king has his own solution, you just need to follow the order, rest for three days, and after three days, the army will go north......"