In the Tang army camp in the distance, the light points of torches burning are vaguely floating, like a ghost shrouded in a sea of clouds, mountains and fog.

Because of the rebellion of the Western Turks, the Western Turks once again fell into a huge passivity, and when Zhuoya put his younger brother on the throne, he was already doomed to everything after the Western Turks.

After everyone reorganized the army, in addition to the original 60,000 Tang iron cavalry, the remaining 200,000 cavalry on Li Chengqian's side were all soldiers and horses on the grassland.

All of them are veterans of long-term battles, and in a few days, after the initial run-in, some preliminary strategic directions have been determined.

And Wang Xuance and his entourage, who went to Tibet, also brought good news.

Songtsen Gampo, the lord of the Tibetan state, had already integrated the entire Tubo last year, and after obtaining the origin of the Tang envoys, he sent the great minister Lu Dongzan and 30,000 Tubo elites to cooperate with the Tang army to jointly attack at the southern foot of Altun Mountain and Qilian Mountain.

And Tuyuhun is still frantically marching towards the Longyou generation to Tang Kuo and Lanzhou, trying to cut off the Tang Dynasty's reinforcements to the Western Regions, and wants to use the hands of the Western Turks to eliminate the power in the Tang Dynasty.

But to Tuyuhun's surprise, Ashina married with the Tang Dynasty and sent 60,000 troops together with the 80,000 allied troops of the Tiele Department to turn the entire Western Regions upside down in an instant.

Li Chengqian wore armor, rode on a horse, and the soldiers who stretched for 20 miles behind him were like long dragons, marching towards the distance in a mighty way, and after a month's march, everyone finally arrived at Khotan, the northern gateway connecting Tuyuhun and the Western Regions, on the third day of the second month.

After three days of repairs, Li Chengqian ordered people to start a fierce siege battle.

The offensive was as continuous as a raging wave, but each wave of offensive was sometimes strong and sometimes weak, and the 150,000 coalition troops under his command were at least the elite of the world at this time, and their combat effectiveness was still far superior to that of the Tuyuhun army in the city.

If it weren't for the fact that Tuyuhun had already discovered the strategy of the Tang Dynasty, with sufficient manpower and cold weather, I am afraid that the Tang Dynasty would have to find an opportunity to tear open the rift on the city wall several times.

Therefore, even if the besieging army has stopped attacking, the defense on the city still has not slackened in the slightest, and no one knows when the Tang army will launch the next wave of attacks.

It was still a strategy of surrounding, Tuyuhun's 50,000 soldiers and horses were surrounded in the city, and at this time everyone knew the meaning of the Tang people, besieging the city and annihilating them all, which also inspired the ferocity in the bones of Tuyuhun's guards.

Hold on!

The Tang Army barracks a mile away have been surrounded by rejected horses at this time, with long fences and high arrow towers, and the horizontal and vertical barracks inside, as if they have been surrounded into a cottage.

To say that such a guard is to defend against the Tuyuhun army outside the city, no one believes it, since several coalition troops were stationed together, Li Chengqian ordered to make such a layer of things outside.

Many people know who this thing is guarding against, but this is human nature, even if everyone knows it in their hearts, they can't say anything.

After the arrival of these armies one after another, Li Chengqian began to besiege Khotan with the old strategy After a loud bang, the city wall of Khotan fell in response, and Yu Nan made meritorious contributions, and at the moment when the wall fell, the iron cavalry of the 100,000 Tiele Department instantly pressed into the city.

At the beginning, as the Tuyuhun people reacted, this iron cavalry suffered an unprecedented counterattack, and later Yu Nan turned back halfway, and the number of dead soldiers left in the city had reached nearly 10,000.

Li Chengqian did not reprimand Yu Nan, but let Yu Nan cultivate well, and ordered Niu Jinda to lead the Tang army into the palace in turn, and was harassed by the cavalry of the coalition forces around him, and finally took it down in Khotan half a month later.

The desperate counterattack of the Tuyuhun people caused heavy casualties among the tribes, but after the siege, the shortcomings of the coalition army also broke out, and the entire Khotan was almost slaughtered.

“…… Your Highness Turkic people do such a tiger and wolf thing, Your Highness should discipline it more...... If so, it will go out...... I am afraid that there is a connivance under the bottom line. ”

"Intentional connivance?" Li Chengqian smiled slightly, then sighed and said, "Recruit a few generals to come to the army." ”

The people on the side frowned when they heard this, thought for a while, and then said: "The Turks have always been loose, if they are forcibly disciplined, I am afraid that disaster is coming......

"Discipline? Why should I discipline, plundering is the nature of the steppe people. They can't control it, what can I do, it's just this plundered thing, but I can't let them take it back for no reason, now our army is short of food and grass, this Turk can't be too selfish, right?"

"What does Your Highness mean? Want to pull out your teeth...... Those people are greedy, and I am afraid that they will not obey easily, especially Yu Nan, after losing nearly 10,000 tribes. Recently, I've been fighting, and I'm getting more and more lazy......"

The lamp flickered slightly, and there were a few fierce quarrels in the room, occasionally silent, and after a while, they started arguing again, and when they looked closely, it was Li Chengqian and Yu Nan who were holding a note and looking carefully.

Although they quarreled fiercely, it sounded like lack had little to do with plunder.

"Cattle and sheep for food! You can change the wine, but you can't change the horses. ”

"Hmm...... Three catties of salt for sheep, ten catties for cattle, and twenty catties for horses, this price cannot be more, if the leader still does not agree. Li Chengqian put the note in his hand on the table: "Then you better drag it back and raise it yourself, and then see if you can change it." You also know that the cattle on the grassland do not return to the fields, buy them back, the price is much cheaper, not to mention that there will be more cattle and sheep in the future, how can you let me sell them? Smashed into the hand? ”

Yu Nan was slightly stunned, but he didn't expect Li Chengqian to be able to suppress the price so much, so he gasped a little indignantly and said, "What about the money and grain in the city?" I remember that the salt of Chang'an has always been a bucket of money, but now it is converted into a bucket of money. Your Highness is not a little black-hearted! ”

"The Khan still knows a lot about these things, but I want so much money to do when I'm out on a campaign...... It's better to buy a few more cattle and sheep, if the Khan is willing, the Tang army also seized a lot of money when the city was broken, and the Khan is willing to sell the cattle and sheep to me? How to ...... two dollars for a sheep, eight dollars for a cow, and fifteen dollars for a horse"

"I ...... Who would do this kind of loss-making trade, it's too cheap anyway......"

"Oh~ I forgot to say, now there are a number of salt in Datang, anyway, if you don't change it now, when the price of cattle and sheep drops in the future, don't say that the palace is black-hearted!"

"What...... What the? How will it fall? Yu Nan was stunned.

"Uh...... What do you think? Datang is not short of cattle everywhere, when there are more cattle, it will naturally be priced, this matter is not in a hurry, talk about your business...... Uh, I'm just asking anyway...... Of course, if you don't agree...... You keep it for yourself, buy wine, and buy cloth for you. ”

“…… I brought so much money back to do something. As he spoke, he sat in his position a little depressed and was silent for a while.