Tuyuhun is destroyed! Li Xiu couldn't help but show an expression of disbelief when he heard the news, after all, Tuyushen is not a small country, but a big country that can be compared with Goguryeo, plus they have their backs to the plateau, facing Bashu, the territory is mountainous, and they occupy a favorable geographical situation, it can be said that it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it has always been a big trouble in the southwest of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin has always wanted to use troops against Tuyuhun, but he has never been able to make up his mind, but who would have thought that Tuyuhun would be destroyed so suddenly?

"What the hell is going on?" Li Xiu frowned and said to himself as he walked, suddenly receiving this shocking news, he had no intention of staying in the yamen of the Ministry of Agriculture anymore, and even wanted to go directly to the palace to see Li Shimin, but he stopped again after just taking two steps, because he thought that he didn't want to be involved in the affairs of the court anymore, why did he take the initiative to jump in now?

Thinking of the above, Li Xiu no longer entered the palace, and returned home to wait for the news, after all, the sudden demise of Tuyuhun was too weird, there was no warning in advance, not even a little news, and as a result, such a big country died like this, and even made people wonder if this was fake news?

As a result, on the same night, Ma Ye suddenly found Li Xiu, and without even taking a sip of tea, he immediately spoke: "The news is accurate, Tuyuhun has indeed surrendered to our Tang Dynasty, and this southwestern power has died like this!" ”

"What the hell is going on, didn't I hear some time ago that Tuyuhun had repeatedly violated my Datang border, why did he suddenly lose the country like this?" Li Xiu also asked very puzzled at this time. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The current king of Tuyuhun is named Murong Fuyun, this person is also a man of great talent, when the former Sui, Tuyuhun was defeated by Yang Guang, and most of the territory was occupied by the former Sui, but later the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Murong Fuyun took the opportunity to recover the lost territory, so that Tuyuhun's national strength quickly recovered, and became a powerful country in the southwest.

After the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, the relationship between Tuyuhun and the Tang Dynasty was not very harmonious, and Murong Fuyun was very arrogant, and repeatedly sent troops to invade the border of the Tang Dynasty, which also led to continuous war in the southwest of the Tang Dynasty.

In addition, Li Xiu also knew that according to the original history, it was not until the year of Li Yuan's death that Li Shimin decided to send troops to attack Tuyuhun, and this time it was still Li Jing who led the troops, and there were also generals such as Hou Junji and Li Daozong to assist, although this battle was not as famous as the destruction of the Turks, but the forces of the Tang Dynasty were not less than when the Turks were destroyed, and after this battle, Tuyuhun was completely disabled and became a subject country of the Tang Dynasty.

But now that Li Yuan is still alive, Li Shimin has not sent troops to attack Tuyuhun, but it surrendered so suddenly, which is a little unbelievable.

"Hehe, when I first heard the news, I also doubted whether it was true, so I immediately asked people to find out the details, but now Hou Junji's good news has been sent to His Majesty's desk, and Murong Fuyun's head is about to be sent to Chang'an, which makes me have to believe it!" Ma Ye suddenly smiled at this time.

"Hou Junji? Does this matter have anything to do with him? Li Xiu couldn't help but be surprised when he heard Ma Ye's words, but then he suddenly thought that Hou Junji was one of the generals guarding the southwest, and Tuyuhun had come to attack several times before, but he had beaten him back.

"It's not just Hou Junji, but also Cheng Zhijie, who killed the embryo, you may not believe it, this time it was the two of them who joined forces, taking advantage of the opportunity for Tuyuhun to send troops to attack, and actually pushed all the way back and directly occupied Tuyuhun's royal city, Murong Fuyun was cut off by Cheng Zhijie himself!" Ma Ye said another name that shocked Li Xiu at this time, if he remembered correctly, Cheng Yanjin was also one of the guards in the southwest.

"What the hell is going on, even if Hou Junji and Cheng Zhijie have heavy troops in their hands, but with only the troops in their hands, it is impossible to destroy Tuyuhun in such a short period of time, right?" Li Xiu also asked a little anxiously at this time, he always felt that Tuyuhun was simply too weird.

"Hehe, speaking of which, Hou Junji and Cheng Zhijie were able to destroy Tuyuhun, thank you very much!" Ma Ye smiled again at this time, and pointed at Li Xiu at the end.

"What? Thank me? Li Xiu was even more confused when he heard this.

Seeing Li Xiu's inexplicable expression, Ma Ye couldn't help but laugh again, and then told Hou Junji and Cheng Zhijie about how Tuyuhun was destroyed.

It turned out that on Li Xiu's way back to Chang'an, Murong Fuyun, who had always been restless, raised 100,000 troops to attack the Tang Dynasty again, and Li Shimin had never made up his mind to destroy Tuyuhun, so the southwest has been on the defensive, with generals such as Hou Junji and Cheng Yanjin guarding it, and it is generally enough to repel the Tuyuhun army that came to attack.

However, this time there was an accident, Hou Junji confronted Tuyuhun's army, but took advantage of the chaos to throw some corpses into Tuyuhun's army, and as a result, within a few days, Tuyuhun's army fell ill, and then Hou Junji and Cheng Yanjin marched in two ways, and did not attack the city when they encountered it, but threw corpses directly into the city, resulting in the plague rampant in the city, and it was self-defeating after a few days.

"Smallpox!" Without waiting for Ma Ye to finish speaking, Li Xiu understood Hou Junji's methods, and couldn't help muttering to himself with a complicated face.

"Yes, it's smallpox, speaking of which Hou Junji is really ruthless, he actually took advantage of the outbreak of smallpox in the southwest to collect many corpses that died of smallpox, the soldiers in his army have been planted with cowpox, and they are not afraid of smallpox at all, and then he opened the way with smallpox, no matter how strong the city is, no matter how powerful the army is, it is vulnerable in front of smallpox, which also makes them kill all the way to the royal city, and destroy Tuyuhun in just two months!" Ma Ye continued to explain at this time.

"What a ruthless method, but if he does this, I'm afraid it will cause a big storm in the court, right?" Li Xiu spoke again at this time, although he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart about the use of smallpox, a biological weapon, but he was not particularly disgusted, after all, war was originally to do everything, and there was no essential difference between dying from the plague and dying from a sword.

However, after all, the Central Plains is a place deeply influenced by Confucianism, and the benevolence and righteousness of Confucianism are also deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so Hou Junji's use of the plague in the war will definitely cause many people to resent, and the ministers of the court will definitely take this opportunity to impeach him, so even if he has the merit of destroying the country, it is really hard to say whether it is a blessing or a curse this time?

"Hehe, not to mention the big turmoil, I guess Your Majesty is also having a headache about this matter, because if you don't handle it well, it will even affect the foundation of Datang!" Ma Ye spoke again at this time, he was in charge of the Fei Nu Division, and he was a military general, and sometimes he could see more far-reaching than Li Xiu.