The first month has not ended, maybe the wind in Luoyang has become softer, the clouds have become lighter, and the city of Shuozhou is still cold. When you first come to Shuozhou, you will feel that the wind outside the plug at this moment is not the wind, but the knife, slowly blowing on the face.

The opening of the curtain did not start from the sound of the knife on the Tianjin Bridge, but from Shuozhou City.

As the sky grew brighter and the morning breeze cleared, the door of Ashina's True Mansion opened, and the servants were surprised to see a letter stuffed behind the crack in the door. On the envelope was written a neat line, a letter from an anonymous person dedicated to the governor of Daozhen.

The servants wrinkled, this is a bit dereliction of duty, the situation in Shuozhou City is complicated, and the Ashina Daozhen Mansion is heavily guarded, even if it is not easy to stuff the letter into the crack of the door. I didn't dare to slack off, so I picked up the letter and handed it to Dao Ding

Dao Zhen opened it and saw that the words on it were very short, and the bones were full of troops, intending to go south, and the governor would bear the brunt of it.

Nothing else.

Dozhen called Shoche, who was his nephew. Chuluo Khan has two sons, the second son Ashina Sheer, the eldest son Ashina touch, died very early, leaving a son named Ashina Beshi, the official residence Lang General, but also died, and then to Ashina Beshi's son Ashina Zhe, the official worship Zuo Xiaowei Xufu Zhonglang General, once served as the deputy envoy of Youzhou Daojing, although there is not much difference with Ashina Daozhen, but the prestige and qualifications are not as good as Ashina Daozhen.

Ashina Daozhen came to Yunshuo and brought this old Luzi with him.

After quickly reading this sentence, Zhe said: "Uncle, I'd rather believe in it than believe in it." ”

"Yes."

Immediately send scouts to Yinshan to investigate. This is relatively easy to inquire, Gu Lu recorded the dispatch of 200,000 troops, which is almost the maximum limit of his people, and such a large-scale conscription will make a lot of noise. When the scouts heard this, they hurried back and reported the news.

The letter was sent by Li Wei in advance.

Kong Zhengfang either doesn't work, that will be very troublesome, this and the possibility is very small, Li Wei also arranged other back-ups. Either it works, and Gu Lulu will inevitably send a large army south. It doesn't matter if the clouds are erosive. Because of the Tang Dynasty's Hu policy, from Lingzhou to Xiazhou to Fengzhou, and then to Shengzhou and Yunshuo, almost all of them were Hu people. Including Liaodong, at this time, in addition to a few places along the coast where there were Han soldiers and immigrants, Liaodong was also mostly Hu people, but they were replaced by Goryeo, Jin, Khitan, and Xi people.

Therefore, Yunshuo can be eroded, but it cannot hurt the rear.

The Wulu clan came up with a bad idea, but it was also an effective idea, and it pointed directly at the hearts of the people. However, specific steps, especially military steps, require Li Wei to discuss slowly with Heizhi Changzhi. For example, release that, rumors, rumors directly say that Li Wei died in battle, not to mention that life and death are unknown, let smart people guess. Since he died in battle, the Qinling will be happy, and the generals such as Hei Zhi Changzhi will also obediently hand over their military power and wait for the court to fall.

It can't be said that he survived, and there will be no drama and singing when he is responsible.

There are a lot of details, all of which have to be sorted out one by one, and if one step is wrong, the consequences are very serious. After all, the emperor's trick to death seems to have never appeared in history, and there are many risks.

There is also the move of Yunshuo, the cards are revealed, oh, I see. But before it was revealed, who could have guessed? Then all of them have become Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang in history definitely didn't have such great skills.

The acquisition of a great deal of wealth from Khorasan and Sindh is also the most important thing. Without the reward of wealth, the morale of the army is unstable, and great things will happen. And with wealth, you can win over all the ethnic groups in the Western Regions. In fact, there were not many Tang troops in Li Wei's hands, from Qinghai to Broken Leaf City, there were only a few hundred thousand people. Intermittent wars with heavy casualties. This battle made Li Wei very painful. With the number of Tang troops in his hands, he could not play a shocking role. The Persian soldiers of Khorasan could not be drawn, and neither could the Tocharian soldiers. If the troops are not drawn and the troops are not empty, the Qinling will not make up its mind. With a draw, the Qinling Tomb may be coming again. After all, he continues to hold the power in his hands. Also, to support Persia.

The army south of the Tianshan Mountains should also not be drawn too much.

But if the countries in the river and the northern parts of the Tianshan Mountains can be drawn, how many men and horses will be drawn? In addition, there are also iron-bone tribesmen such as Hui Huan, especially the Hui people, and the chief Bisu and Li Wei also had a close relationship.

Therefore, there is no Tuyuhun in Hexi, also because of the lack of troops. But it must be crippled so that they cannot pose a threat to Hedong, so that the main forces of Qinghai can be extracted.

For such a large-scale mobilization of troops, if you need money, the court will not provide it, and you must have money in your own hands. The world is bustling, and they are all seeking profit. Without profit, who will listen to you?

This is a shocking step, although there are many imperfections, such as the death of Li Yiyan, and the annihilation of Jiang Sijin's entire army, after years of training, Jiang Sijin is also an excellent general. The country's generals are not talented, Li Jinxing and Qi Xinming are getting old, and Jiang Sijin's death makes Li Wei very heartbroken. However, Qiu Renjie is to be saved, I don't remember much history, but I remember an evaluation that said that the Wuzhou regime almost relied on Qiu Renjie to hold up half of the sky. But in general, so far, there have been no major mistakes.

After receiving the information, Dao Zhen did not dare to slack off, and the whole city was under martial law, and troops were transferred from all over the country.

There were some minor troubles, he was only the new governor of Shuozhou, and the only thing he could mobilize was the army of Shuozhou, and the Turkic army went south, and God knows which place they attacked. Officials and generals in other states and counties refused to give him troops.

But there is also a way, the imperial court killed Wen Bo and Fu Nian, especially Ashina Fu Nian, everyone captured Wen Bo to surrender, almost let the Tang Dynasty soldiers suppress the riot without blood, although there was a great merit, but it was also killed. Therefore, the Turkic tribes were very unconvinced. This also led to a decline in Dozhen's prestige among the ministries.

Of course, if he rebelled against the Tang Dynasty, his prestige would be much higher than that of Ashina.

However, there are still some tribes who continue to be loyal to him, and one after another, nearly 20,000 troops have been drawn and stationed in the city of Shuozhou. A hanging heart was settled. Therefore, this letter came in time, if it was one step later, he would not have this preparation time, and Shuozhou City would be very dangerous. Once the city was broken and Daozhen was captured, Li Wei became a stone to shoot himself in the foot.

As soon as the preparations were completed, Ashina's army marched southward, all the way under the banner of recovering the Tang Dynasty and eliminating the chaos, and went straight to Yunshuo. Daozhen immediately reported the news to Luoyang with a fast horse. There is a time difference, from Shuozhou to Luoyang is not as far as Qinghai, it takes three days and four days to deliver the news, and it takes more time to prepare troops, weapons, materials, grain and grass, and then the army goes north, which takes longer. Fortunately, last year's wind and rain were smooth, and new planting methods appeared, as long as the wind and rain were good, there would be a surplus of grain immediately

In fact, if it weren't for the disasters and the constant wars, the price of grain in the Tang Dynasty would have been terrible. First, the yield is higher, second, rotational tillage is no longer practiced as before, and the vacant fields have become fewer, and third, the emergence of new plows has enabled many fields with large bowls of saucers and bowls in the hilly areas to be cultivated, not only the cultivated land has increased, but the yield per mu has gradually approached three stones per mu.

Speaking of which, people will think it is very funny, even including rotational cultivation and green manure plants, there is an average harvest of one and a half seasons a year, and the yield is only three stones. But what did it mean in the Tang Dynasty? Production has increased by almost fifty percent! More people are close to living on the surface, and the actual population is also increasing, with at least four million more than one million people in the past ten years. But no one can see this, let alone think of it.

Therefore, Li Zhi and Wu Zetian were jealous of Li Wei, and their son's status in the hearts of the people was too high. Not only for the benefit of farmers, but also for craftsmen, and merchants. But the most important beneficiary is the whole country and the imperial court. Even Wu Zetian seems to be benefiting, Jiangnan is in turmoil, and there is still spare money to exempt Henan and Guanzhong from taxes for one year. This time, the treasury did not feel empty. Since the Qinghai War, it has only been a few years since the Qinghai War, and it has recovered so much?

At first, the Turkic soldiers did not point to Shuozhou, Mo Si and Ya, Zhen divided into two roads, Mo Si followed the Yellow River, went straight to Lanzhou, and came again. Yuan Zhen led the army to Yunzhou and also came. These two states were destroyed by the Turks many times, and they were almost in ruins.

Yunzhou and Lanzhou thorn clamped to Daozhen for help.

Daozhen and Zhe are very puzzled, and if someone sends a letter, they can understand. Daozhen also has a great influence in the Turks, maybe a Turkic general who is close to Daozhen in his heart secretly sent someone to send information. However, the intelligence said that the main spearhead of the Turks was against themselves, why did they become Yunzhou and Lanzhou on both sides?

Daozhen called out to General Zhe and asked, "Do you want to send troops to rescue?" ”

Yunzhou and Lanzhou were both Han Chinese, and since the Eastern Turks rebelled many times, the imperial court began to be wary of the Turks. If you don't rescue it, the villain will make trouble, and it is possible that your uncle and nephew will be killed by the queen mother, who is more violent than men.

Ashina Zhe thought for a while and said, "Uncle, let's send a scout to inquire again."

"It's fine."

It's mainly a matter of ability, if Li Wei is here, he will reuse the scouts, and what news has been returned, so why send scouts after discussion?

The scout inquired for a while, and quickly came back to report, the big thing is not good, there are only 50,000 or 60,000 troops on the east and west roads, and there is a large army in the middle road, more than 100,000 horses, is rushing to Shuozhou.

This was also caused by the policies of the Tang Dynasty.

Originally, under several blows, the Turks were very miserable, but the later policy was too generous, not only vacated Hetao Yunshuo and other places, Antun Turks were demoted, and in the year of disaster, the state also took the initiative to provide food for disaster relief. So after a few decades, the Turkic population swelled rapidly, people. The rate of increase far exceeds that of the Central Plains. Therefore, these riots actually reached three or four hundred thousand troops at the most. You know, even in the current Tang Dynasty, if you transfer 300,000 troops, how difficult is it?

Therefore, between countries, don't take benevolence and righteousness seriously, and if you take it seriously, you will be stupid. Benevolence and righteousness can be used as one, a pretense, a small benevolence and a small righteousness, such as what Li Wei did in the Western Regions, compared to his qualifications, he may not be as good as many people in history, but his pragmatic style is far better than many talents and heroes.

Ash Nadao was really taken aback, and hurriedly sent someone to send a letter to Qin Zhongxian, the assassin of Yunzhou, and Li Shu, the assassin of Lanzhou, I have no way to divide the troops for you, and the Chinese army with hundreds of thousands of bones will come soon, if possible, you should divide the troops for me.

Qin Zhongxian and Uncle Li were helpless, so they had to ask for help from other states.

This time, Wang Liben, the governor of Shengzhou, and Li Chongyi, the governor of Xiazhou, rescued in time, but the two did not dare to divide all the troops. Fengzhou has been eroded, and Shengzhou is the first to bear the brunt, what if the Turks send troops down from Fengzhou again? Not only that, Fengzhou is the Shi Danai Department, and its soldiers are all Turkic elite cavalry, and after being incorporated into the Eastern Turks, it further increased the strength of Gu Dulu. Moreover, these government soldiers were very familiar with the terrain of the north and south of the Shengzhou Hetao in Fengzhou. A lot of bitter water was poured out, and only a small number of reinforcements were sent.

Li Shushu had no choice but to ask for troops everywhere in Ulzhou, Yizhou and Youzhou, the situation was the same, there were also many roads on the east road, so that the Turks could go south smoothly, and the assassins in each state were also afraid in their hearts, and they also sent reinforcements, but the number was very small.

The silent soldiers came to the city of Lanzhou, and the garrison of Lanzhou City plus more than 1,000 reinforcements sent by Xia Sheng Erzhou were full, no more than 7,000 people, Qin Zhongxian was afraid and wanted to abandon the city and flee. At this time, a famous general finally came into people's field of vision again.

Lanzhou barnyard general Yang Xuanji, in history, it was he who fought with Xiren Xincheng, defeated Wanrong, and captured Sun Wanrong's number one henchman He Axiao. As a result, Chop Wanrong had no way to escape and was killed by his subordinates. It's a pity that the credit was snatched away by Wu Chengsi and Wu Youyi.

He grabbed Qin Zhongxian and said, "Envoy, don't." Since more than 100,000 Turkic troops went straight to Shuozhou, Lanzhou must not be the main target of the Turks. Besides, the gods are already sending troops, and as long as we hold out for less than a month, the imperial court reinforcements will come. As soon as we withdraw, the rear and the state will be in danger. If there is something in the state, you and I will not be able to protect our heads. The Turks let the end come to the end. ”

did not dare to go out of the city to fight, and defended the city, and the opponent encountered was very strong. At this time, the Turks invaded Lanzhou the year before last, and Yang Xuanji defeated them, not defeated, but ran away, in short, they had the upper hand and were slightly famous. But he is young, his official position is low, and he has not yet paid attention to it. The same is true of the Mur, whose name would not have been known if it had not been for the invasion of the Western Turks.

The two generals led the army up and down the city to start the battle.

In terms of talent, Mo Si has the upper hand, and the army also has the upper hand, but as Yang Xuanji said, Mo Si does not mean Lanzhou City. Seeing that Lanzhou City would not be able to take it for a while, the soldiers turned around and went straight to the rear of Shuozhou, copying the back road of Daozhen.

On the other side, there is no luck for Tomoshu.

Under the frenzied attack of Ashid Yuanzhen, Yunzhou City was crumbling, Li Shuzhang saw that the situation was not good, and on the night of the fourth day of the Turkic siege, he quietly opened the southern city gate and led his troops to flee south. The city of Yunzhou was lost again.

Ashid Yuanzhen also led his troops westward along the Sanggan River and copied the back road of Shuozhou City.

At this time, he led hundreds of thousands of troops to arrive at the city of Shuozhou, and the three-way army surrounded Shuozhou.