Chapter 80: The Eight Emperors' Anger (I)

What the envoys of the countries and ministries saw just now was infantry tactics. To think that this is the most elite infantry of the Tang Dynasty is wrong again. The best at this Tang army is light cavalry and horsemanship! Even the medics, they have good riding skills.

It also includes the five thousand troops brought from Luoyang.

There are many of them who came to gild, and the emperor personally enlisted, and almost all the children of the nobles all asked to participate in it. But you don't want to participate, you can, you must have a skilled bow and horse skills. In order to prevent some incompetent soldiers from entering, Li Wei personally selected the allotment, and no one wanted to go through the back door. Maybe he went to the battlefield and lacked actual combat experience, or maybe he lacked the kind of bloodiness in the Qinghai army, only in terms of riding skills, none of them were bad.

Thousands of cavalry split into two lines, and the battlefield in the middle was covered with thistles and could not pass. It was necessary to go on a detour for several miles, detouring down the pursuit from both sides. This problem is not big, the first batch of pursuing Tang Dynasty troops stepped almost the best war horses in the army, and they were recuperated and able to make up for this gap.

The fluency of the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty army once again made the various envoys realize the strength of the Tang army.

These two teams of Tang troops not only pursued the enemy, but also had an important mission, killing the pharyngeal face. Pei Xingjian captured Ashina Duzhi and Li Shaluo and obtained a lot of treasures, but his policy was mainly to appease, and the people's grain, cattle, horses, and sheep were not moved, which left a foundation for Ashina's rebellion. I also know that it is not easy to move, and a move is contrary to the policy of the entire Tang Dynasty, which will cause bad consequences. Wang Fangyi barely touched the treasure, waiting for Li Wei to come and deal with it.

Pharyngeal noodles are a large part of the Turkic people, and over the years, they have a lot of savings, not only a large amount of money, but also many cattle, horses, sheep and sheep in the tribe, as well as a small amount of grain. This is what Li Wei needs most. Poor, poorer than the noodle swallower.

After the two wars, including the battle of Wang Fangyi, the imperial court has not yet issued awards. Tens of thousands of troops arrived, and they had to eat, drink, and wear. It costs a lot of money. Not counting yet, I don't know how many refugees will come over from Qinghai. Now we are starting to start tuntian, and the harvest will not be until next year. What about refugees for more than a year? It's all in charge.

In order to reward the various tribes that participated in Wang Fangyi's rebellion, Li Wei promised to let them divide up their pharyngeal faces. It was also a small adjustment to the policy of the previous Tang Dynasty. The tribes were ecstatic and sharpened their knives one by one. Not to mention wealth, the more people there are, the stronger the tribe will be. People are also an asset.

Li Wei forced the throat to rebel again, and when the war came, he stopped preparing for the partition. The news of the defeat spread quickly, and if it was only a little late, the wealth would fall into the hands of these tribes. Do you ask for it from them?

The first wave of the Don army left, and gradually more and more noodle swallowers began to flee on the battlefield.

Xue Ne and Yeqi Mingchuan led 5,000 people to withdraw from the front of the car formation, stepped on the war horse again, and attacked in two directions. Hunt down the enemy, and also plan the first army.

Then, Xi Fenglei and Liu Dezheng led 5,000 troops to attack, which was the real killing of the enemy and the capture of prisoners of war.

The rest of the men began to clean up the battlefield. The movements of the entire army are smooth and free, and they are pleasing to the eye. The sun had not yet set, and the war was essentially over.

The evening breeze blew, Li Wei rode on a horse, standing under the flag, the banner made the evening wind blow rattling, and Li Wei didn't move. Most of the envoys were very happy, such a mighty emperor and such a powerful army were their own strong guarantees. There are also people who, on the contrary, from beginning to end, this battle made them see that the entire Tang Dynasty army was not an army, but a well-functioning mega killing machine. I was in a cold sweat when I saw it. There are many people who have this idea.

Li Wei swept over them, and when he saw that it was now, he was first afraid, then shocked, and had not yet come back to his senses. Li Wei dismounted his horse and walked among the wounded soldiers. Wu Qi sucked pus for the soldiers, he couldn't do it anyway, but his attitude towards the soldiers was very friendly from the time of Nanzhao. And he is clearly aware that this is his foundation. What kind of friendship tribute, it is fought by strong force, without the heroic performance of this group of soldiers, there would be no surrender of this group of Hu people.

The Tang Dynasty also began to make progress on this point.

Originally, there were medical soldiers in the army, but the number was small, but after Li Wei arrived in the army, he discovered this problem, so he hired doctors and taught medical skills. At least some simple medical skills are taught, such as bandaging wounds, pulling arrows, cowardice, and so on. These soldiers also fight, and treating the wounded is part-time, but the number is large enough to alleviate the shortage of medical soldiers. In addition, there is a distilled high degree of liquor, and I can't figure out how many degrees of distillation it is, but if I have tasted it, it is equivalent to an alcohol content of about 50 degrees. It is even more unclear that edible alcohol at this degree can play a multi-bactericidal effect. However, these measures, which can reduce the number of non-combat attrition, are more humane measures.

One by one, comforting.

It may seem trivial, but these measures can ensure the morale of the soldiers.

It was finally dark again, and the thistles on the battlefield had been reclaimed, and the soldiers were cleaning the battlefield, retrieving usable weapons and armor, and burying the corpses. In the distance, there was also a steady stream of soldiers bringing back prisoners of war.

Li Wei then ordered to open the pot for cooking. Then he paced back to the Great Tent and summoned the messengers of the tribes.

He will not fight for war, war is just a continuation of politics, and a big victory will bring a lot of benefits, such as the upcoming talks.

This is an unequal battle, the command level of the generals is too different, the gap between the soldiers is too big, don't think that the number is about the same, the morale is low, there are many old people and young people in the middle, this cannot be made up by the number. The victory is not martial, but the victory is so easy, it gives Li Wei some of the spirit of the king, and he has the confidence to talk about the problem again.

First of all, it was said to the envoy with the five surnames.

Repeating the old saying, exchange the territory of the pharyngeal face for the broken leaf river. The water and grass of the Broken Leaf River are abundant, but the ecological environment of the area where the pharyngeal noodles are located is not bad, and the area is large, otherwise the Tang Dynasty would not have set up a restrained pharyngeal state. In terms of values, it is a reciprocal exchange.

But the messengers were full of difficulties.

The first difficulty, the west of the Broken Leaf City is the hometown of the Ten Khans, the base camp of the Western Turks. The second broken leaf river is intertwined, if it is easier to swap one, but it involves various departments, you can't cut your own tribe and let a small number of people move to Zaimian Prefecture. It seems not far on the map, but there is a remnant of Luo Man Mountain (Tianshan Mountain) in the middle. Some of the peaks are so high that you can still see the snow on the peaks all year round.

In short, there are a number of difficulties.

Hearing the end, Li Wei became angry and shouted: "Don't think I don't know those little calculations in your hearts. Are you bent on restoring the glory of your Western Turks? ”

"No," said the Turgish messenger at once.

"No, then why did the Turks twice ***, all of your ministries send troops to participate? Also, there are so many weapons in the pharyngeal face this time! Li Wei suddenly slapped the table.

It is a little difficult, there is no barrier of the Tianshan Mountains, the Broken Leaf River refers to the area around Broken Leaf City, but the territory of the Swallow Side Prefecture is in the east of the Yibo Sea, and it is also separated by a long distance. There are also Tien Shan.

Decades later, a little Zhengtai has not met a crazy woman who grinds a needle with an iron rod, so he only knows how to play every day, and when he is tired of playing this night, he holds his cheeks with his hands, sits on the mound, and looks at the night sky in the north, the moon is bright, and the clouds in the Tianshan Mountains are cloudy. Decades later, when I arrived in the Central Plains, I recalled this night, and wrote that the bright moon rose out of the Tianshan Mountains, and the vast sea of clouds.

The poet used exaggerated techniques, but it is undeniable that although this mountain range is the remnant of the Tianshan Mountains, the mountain is still very tall.

These emissaries complained that there existed, but it was not impossible to exchange, the area of the Erie River was mainly distributed with the sphere of influence of the Turgish, let the Turgish move north, cede the territory of the southwest, and exchange them one by one, and finally this problem could be solved. The exchange is all nomadic people, not like Qiuzi and other countries, not like the river, half ploughing and half nomadic, putting the baggage on the cart, and the cattle and sheep are driven, and they are also migrated. However, the Wulu Department has always been reluctant, because it is afraid that the Tang Dynasty will transfer four or five hundred thousand people at once like Qinghai, and then the Tang Dynasty will be able to mobilize nearly 100,000 troops anytime and anywhere in Broken Leaf City. For these tribes, it is undoubtedly like a man.

This is the truest thought of these messengers.

Their idea is also right, Li Wei's goal is even bigger, he plans to build a Han area along the three counties of Luntai, Jinman, and Pu that were originally called the people of the Tang Dynasty, and then to Xiaye. It was also in Luoyang that he discussed with Pei Xingjian repeatedly, and Li Wei took the leading suggestion. Immigrants can, the Western Regions are different from Qinghai, behind Qinghai is Songzhou, Yaozhou, Lanzhou, and most of them are Han areas. If you go to the Western Regions, if you are scattered together, not only will it not work, but you may become a vulnerable group, and it may not be known if you will eventually be turned into a disadvantaged group. Therefore, Li Shimin repeatedly asked the Hu people to repatriate the original Han people. Only when we get together can we play a powerful role.

The four places are an irregular flat quadrangular shape, if all the immigrants are filled, the Western Regions is desertified, but the environment is still better than that of later generations, all the way to the west, you can see many vibrant oases along the way. In addition, the Han people cultivated to earn a living and had fewer land requirements. Stuff this quadrangular shape and it can hold more than a million people. Properly organized, 200,000 to 300,000 troops can be calmly drawn. Topographically, this quadrangular shape is in the heart of the Western Regions. Control the Jinshan Mountain, look down on the Chi River, connect the river in the east and go to the west, and you can look at the river in the west. If it is coerced by Tibet, there can also be the Tianshan Mountains as a block. The same goes for big foods.

Li Wei was afraid that he was fighting the big cannibals in the Khorasan region, and once the big cannibals didn't know the height of the sky and came to the Tianshan Mountains, it would be tantamount to looking for death.

Broken Leaf City immigrants are just a ***.

Whether it can succeed or not is not financial resources, financial resources can be guaranteed by the imperial court, it is a big deal sooner or later. It's not force, there are no powerful forces in the north of the Tianshan Mountains, including Ge Luolu, if they rebel, the current strength of the Tang Dynasty can definitely beat them all over the ground.

It's the attitude of the people. The people are unwilling, and the court is not easy to force.

But there has to be a beginning, and there is news about the catastrophe. The catastrophe endangered the people of Guanzhong, but paved the way for large-scale migration.

Several messengers saw it.

But what is the use of seeing? This is also about fists, where were you Turks a few hundred years ago?

Li Wei bent down, stared at the messenger, and asked, "How far is Uzile's tooth tent from here?" ”

And the Khan of the Turgish messenger fell. Uzil was the patriarch of their Turgish, and his tent was on the banks of the water in Eli. However, this time Li Wei came, Wu Zhile pretended to be stupid and crazy, and moved the tooth tent to a swampy area at the mouth of the sea in Yilishui. But it's not far from here, and if it's a light cavalry attack, it's only a two-day journey away.

"Why didn't he come to see me so close?"

The messenger was speechless.

Li Wei turned around and said, "General Li, you lead 5,000 people to the shore of Yibo Sea and invite Wu Zhile for me." ”

"Whoa." Li Jinxing left happily.

"Don't," the envoy of the Turgish was so frightened that his legs weakened, he knelt down, and said in a mournful voice: "Your Majesty, don't, the army of the Celestial Empire has been fighting fiercely until now, and it is getting late, let the ministers go back and report it." ”

Frightened, thinking that Li Wei was going to attack the turquoise cavalry next, five thousand Tang troops were neither more nor less, their own tribe was defenseless, even if they learned that the Tang army was coming, it was very likely that the time to leave preparations would be less than half a day, how to organize a rebellion in this half a day? There's a good chance that the Turkish will also be dead.

Li Wei didn't have this idea, the pharyngeal people can move, but the Turks are not moving, and the Turkic tribes may produce unnecessary speculation. However, the Turgish has become more and more powerful in recent years, and his power among the ten surnames is second to none, so this envoy is also the most wordy in the conversation just now. Leaned over, stared at him and asked, "Is it so easy to take back what I said?" Come, let them go down, rest for a few days, and then consult when Uzil comes. ”

That is, house arrest.

Anyway, immediately talk about the bad ones, it's better to let them reflect on it.

But there has not been a conversation with the messenger in the river yet. It is not enough to have the spirit of the king, and the attitude has been tough, and even the countries in the river will have uneasy emotions. Next is the performance of Huairou's means. Two people were called, one was Tang Xiujing, and the other was Ashina Hu Sero.

It turned out that after the Tang Dynasty pacified the Western Turks, it set up the left and right compartment khans, and Ashina Mi shot as the protector of Kunling, commanding the eastern Turks. Ashina Bu is really the protector of the Mengchi capital, commanding the five Turkic people in the west. But these two people were inferior, and the ten Turks and the other Turks did not obey the command. Coupled with the two attacks of the Great Cannibals and the Tubo people, the Tang Dynasty lost its strength and strengthened. Therefore, the Western Turks rebelled repeatedly.

Li Wei and Wang Fangyi discussed the candidates for the two khans, and Wang Fangyi nominated Touchello. This person is the son of Ashina Buzhen, who is very loyal to the Tang Dynasty, and this time he also led some Turkic soldiers to assist Wang Fangyi. talent is also available, and he appreciates Wang Fangyi very much.

The Khan candidate for the east has not yet been found.

Compared with the Turks in the west, the five catties in the east are more honest, although the Turks in the south of the Tianshan Mountains are ambiguous with the Tubo, after all, they live in the cracks. The force is also small, and it can be delayed. But the khans of the five chambers to the west must be erected immediately.

After Li Wei heard Wang Fangyi's recommendation, he summoned him and talked for a while, which was satisfactory. Therefore, the next step is to establish the authority of Touchelau. For example, in this partition of the pharyngeal noodles, many tribes participated, and they couldn't rush up, and they could all fight in the end. It is also a time to establish authority when people are needed to stop it.

Li Wei called Thuro to give some precautions. Speaking of chaos and governance, the relationship between grace and power, I have also been beaten, and then I have to be gentle.

Tang Xiujing did not participate in the battle, including the final pursuit, which left him with an important task. Ashina Touchthro was very young, and he was afraid that the subordinates would not be satisfied, so he himself did rough things, so he asked him to help Touchthro. This is also a further exercise for Tang Xiujing.

Li Wei, these people, regarded them as the future border generals of the Tang Dynasty, who not only had to fight, but also dealt with. It's a learning.

The two of them received the order, and Li Wei shifted his gaze to the messenger in the river.