Chang'an City.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, good news, good news." In the imperial study, Pei Qian, who had been summoned, had a happy face, and said to Liu He: "Xinjiang battle report, General Xue Rengui, three arrows to determine the Tianshan Mountain, forced Tiele to surrender, and achieved an unprecedented victory!" ”

"What? What did you say? Xue Rengui has already forced Tiele to surrender? Liu He was also overjoyed when he heard this, and said with an incredulous face: "How long has it been?" In less than two months, if you count the time when Xue Rengui needs to reorganize his troops and horses, assemble his team, and go to Tiele's lair, plus the time it takes for the news to reach Chang'an, it means that Xue Rengui won this big victory, and it only took three days at most? This, that's too fast, right? I've heard that there are still forty or fifty thousand people in Tieler. ”

Pei Qian was also excited, and said with a smile: "Where did you use it for three days?" Your Majesty, Generalissimo Xue has already ended the battle with less than a cup of tea. ”

"Huh? Less than a cup of tea? This, how is this possible? What's going on here? Pei Aiqing, tell me about it quickly? The situation Pei Qian said was beyond Liu He's imagination, so Liu He naturally couldn't wait to know the truth and hurriedly asked.

I saw Pei Qian said: "Here's the thing, when Generalissimo Xue led the army to the Tianshan camp of Tiele's nest, the leader of Tiele Sulu relied on his strong soldiers and horses, and occupied a favorable location, ready to rely on the numerical advantage to launch a pit attack on our army, and later he was even more confident that there were three brave generals under his command, and the five great immortal masters were in charge, threatening to fight with the Han army soldiers alone, but he didn't expect that Generalissimo Xue fired three arrows in a row, shooting their three brave generals, Deputy Marshal Fan sacrificed a flying knife and killed the enemy's five immortal divisions, so Tiele was frightened, the army was scattered, and Sulu was greedy for life and afraid of death, Surrender to my great man in terror. ”

"Oh? Is there such a thing? Haha, this is really good, General Xue is so brave, he made such a great achievement as soon as he fought, and he really lived up to my expectations, and ordered to go down and reward the Western Army, with a reward of one billion dollars, one hundred thousand silk horses, Xue Rengui was promoted to the position of General Anxi, Fan Lihua was promoted to General Pingxi, Xue Dingshan was promoted to General Fenwei, and other meritorious soldiers were also rewarded for their merits......"

Liu He was happy in his heart, and naturally he couldn't forget the truth that meritorious service must be rewarded, so he immediately rewarded him.

Unexpectedly, three days later, Pei Qian walked into the imperial study again and said to Liu He: "Your Majesty, news has come from the front line, the generalissimo of the Western Expedition, Xue Rengui, will kill all the Tiele soldiers who surrendered, and the woman of Tiele will be the concubine, which makes many foreign soldiers who are ready to surrender to my Han around them flee one after another......."

"Humph! What's there? Our army has long had a convention for dealing with foreign races, so what's the pity of killing them? As for Qiang Na Tiele as a concubine, this is not to be reported, this is the blessing of that Tiele woman, if it weren't for Generalissimo Xue Qiangna, she would probably be taken into slavery and live an inhuman life, Pei Aiqing, there is no need to report things like this in the future. ”

"But Your Majesty, Generalissimo Xue did this, but it caused those aliens to flee, which is not conducive to our rapid pacification of the western frontier," Pei Qian knew that Liu He was unhappy in his heart, but he still insisted: "What's more, although our army has a precedent for dealing with foreign races, it is the first time that the main general has privately selected prisoners of war. ”

Liu He thought for a moment when he heard this, nodded and said: "What you said is not unreasonable, so let's do it, you send a few capable subordinates to Generalissimo Xue's army, secretly investigate in the name of comfort, and be careful not to disturb Generalissimo Xue's normal battle, if there is really a problem, I will naturally not forgive, but if the problem is not big, you can also allow him to atone for the crime." Hehe, I believe that Xue Aiqing is by no means this kind of rampant person, there must be some misunderstanding here. ”

"Let's hope so." Pei Qian nodded and retreated silently, he naturally heard Liu He's protection of Xue Rengui, but he secretly decided in his heart that no matter who it was, he must enforce the law impartially, if Xue Rengui was really wronged this time, it would be fine, but if he was not wronged, he must ask for the law to go abroad, severely sanction, and never tolerate and connive!

A month later, Pei Qian came to the imperial study again, and as soon as he entered the door, he said to Liu He with a happy face: "Your Majesty, great news, a great victory on the Western Front, the Qiang Yao Chang Department could not support it under the onslaught of my Han soldiers, and after only three days of defense, he gave up resistance and committed suicide, because our army was besieged on all sides, and the Qiang soldiers had no way to escape, so they all had to surrender, and then they were killed by Generalissimo Xue again. At present, our Han has a total of nearly one million Qiang people, including 500,000 women, Chinese New Year's Eve fewer people, and 200,000 children, which has solved the marriage problem for 400,000 old singles of our Han Dynasty and reorganized hundreds of thousands of families......."

"In addition, we have also investigated the matter of Generalissimo Xue's Qiangna Tiele woman as a concubine", Pei Qian said with a guilty face: "After a thorough investigation, Generalissimo Xue was really wronged, that Tiele woman was originally an old acquaintance of Generalissimo Xue, her real name is Fan Jining, and she once saved Generalissimo Xue's life, the woman fell in love with Generalissimo Xue and was willing to marry him as a concubine, but at that time, Generalissimo Xue did not make a career, and he was still Han, so he was strongly opposed by his family, and Generalissimo Xue was angry about it, Only then did he break into Fan's house after breaking Tiele and forcibly accepted Fan's gold ingots. ”

"Haha, I'll just say, Xue Aiqing has just taken charge of the military, how can she be so bold and dare to violate military discipline? Now it seems that everything is a misunderstanding, and now that Xue Aiqing's grievances have been clarified, I can reward him, right? Seeing that Pei Qian no longer objected, Liu He pondered for a moment, and then said: "Pass the order to go down and reward the soldiers of the Western Expeditionary Army, Xue Aiqing will be the Pavilion Marquis of Yicheng, and the general of Zuo Wuwei will enter the left, and the other meritorious soldiers will be rewarded for their meritorious deeds in turn......"

Hearing the news, Liu He was overjoyed in his heart and rewarded Xue Rengui for his promotion again.

After another month, Pei Qian came to the imperial study again, and said to Liu He with an excited face: "Your Majesty, thousands of joys, Xue Rengui, the general of Zuo Wuwei, led the army to be invincible in the western battlefield, not only annihilated the Eastern Turks, killed the Eastern Turks Jieli Khan and his general Ge Shuhan and 30,000 soldiers under his command, and then swept through the Western Turks with a thunderous momentum, killing the Western Turks Yehu Khan and more than 50,000 soldiers put together, so to speak, at present, the western frontier has been completely flattened, and our army has reached the southern end of the Xiongnu Daxia Department, forcing the leader of the Daxia Department, Helian Bobo, to lead the army back to defense. Even Tocharo, which was further west, sent envoys to meet Generalissimo Xue to congratulate Generalissimo Xue on his great achievements, in addition, Tocharian was already on the way to Chang'an, discussing matters related to the reopening of the Silk Road, hehe, from the beginning of Generalissimo Xue's expedition to the present, my Han Dynasty has opened up a total of 2,000 miles, obtained millions of people, tens of millions of livestock, 100,000 horses, and countless other materials. ”