Chapter 343: Decades (3)

Li Wei is discussing with Heiya Changzhi, Li Jingxuan and others.

The idea was conceived by Tsuneyuki Kurofa.

None of Su Hegui's men could escape, but that night, there were many merchants in Shancheng, and of course, they did not dare to move, so they also climbed to the top of the city and watched from the wall. It's chilling to watch, so the old saying says that grace and power are used together. You can't blindly use power and violence, under the backlog, don't say that these unruly Hu people and Fan people, even the Central Plains people will rise up. You can't blindly give grace and grace, these Hu people don't know how to do it. Therefore, in the process of grace, thunder was mixed with means, like Xue Rengui buried Tiele alive, and appeared in the Turks a few decades later, and the Turks dismounted one by one and begged for mercy, which is exactly the reason. Or like the Tubo people, such tyranny, the Tuyuhun people are like good grandsons.

That day, Shancheng's methods were transmitted back to Tuyuhun through these people, and Tuyuhun gasped for it. This time, the Tang Dynasty was furious.

It was very lucky in the past, for example, Xue Rengui went to Tuyuhun and did not fight him, and Xue Rengui continued to appease the people and nobles, wanting to win over the hearts of the people. Anyway, if the Tang Dynasty doesn't kill, I will do the opposite. But the prince's indifference and iron-blooded in Shancheng made them smell an uneasy atmosphere.

But here's the opportunity.

The Tang Army has been reorganized to the present and has basically become an army. You can gather the army in Beihuang Road and Chiling Avenue to make a detailed attack, and then secretly send an elite army to infiltrate Kuozhou and capture the entire Jiuqu.

Quxi was occupied by the Tubo people, in fact, the Tuyuhun people, and there were also some party members. The party members don't need to worry, mainly Tuyuhun's army. In addition, there is a military camp of the Tubo people in the south of Dajishi Mountain, which radiates the entire north of Jishi Mountain, controls the party members, and refers to Jiuqu from afar, and even Taozhou on the east side.

If the scale of this war is arranged, it will not be too large. As long as the troops arrived smoothly in advance, the camp was set down, and it turned into a war of attrition, and the Tang Dynasty army occupied favorable terrain and held on, and the Tubo people had to be discouraged. If the news leaked, the Tubo people were prepared, and in turn occupied the favorable terrain in advance, turning it into a battle and an encounter. Then the form is bad.

Jiuqu, later generations often don't understand, thinking that it is the big and small elm valley, but in fact it is not. The Yellow River goes to the south of the big stones, because of the mountain blockage, it bends to the northwest along the mountain, then folds, folds to the northeast, and turns to the east in the area of today's Gonghe County. The Yellow River in the west of Gonghe County has many twists and turns, so it is called the land of nine curves, and the scope is very wide. It turned out that when Tuyuhun was sincerely served, it was under the jurisdiction of Tuyuhun and the place where the Tang Dynasty was bound. Later, after the defeat of Dafeichuan, the two sides had a war, the scale was not large, tacitly with the river as the boundary, most of the east of the river belonged to the Tang realm, and the west of the river belonged to the Tubo realm.

Tuyuhun is mainly used for animal husbandry, but it can also be cultivated, with the help of the Yellow River, its tributary and the water of the snow-capped mountains, to grow cold-tolerant barley, beans, millet and barley. Quxi is also the most important agricultural base of Tuyuhun sound. Of course, if it is in Qudong, Li Wei does not need to be so careful. This time he was very ambitious and wanted to eat the entire Jiuqu, including Quxi. Then in Quxi and Jiuqu dangerous places, such as Dushan, Hongji Bridge, Baigu City, Heixia River and other places to build castles, several large cities, as well as a number of small cities, with the help of terrain, and advanced weapons, this large area was truly owned by the Tang Dynasty.

But this area is very large, the farthest Quxi is nearly 300 miles away from the Jishi Army, 420 miles away from Dahua County, and 450 miles away from Kuozhou. Once it becomes a tough battle or an encounter, the consequences are unimaginable. It is Hongji Bridge, which is very close to Tugu Hun Heavy City, Mantou City and Shudun City. And Quxi and Hongji Bridge both faintly point to Dafeichuan, and there are roads to reach.

Now that Jiuqu has been won, there are many favorable conditions, Tuyuhun has been newly defeated, and the morale of the Tang Dynasty is high.

The party members secretly defected, and once the Quxi War was fought, Tubo would inevitably recruit party soldiers, which became a trend that was beneficial to the Tang Dynasty.

Summer did not pass, and at this time the battle had an advantage over the Tang Dynasty army in terms of temperature.

On Qinling has not come back so soon, and on Zanpo's command ability is slightly weaker than that of Non Qinling, this is another opportunity. Under the new defeat, Tuyuhun lost his important general, Su and Gui, and he would also be suspicious of Qin Po. This suspicion will make the army unstable, or hesitate to delay, and the fighter plane will once again be beneficial to the Tang army.

If the real war spreads to Quxi, the entire Tuyuhun will be shaken, and it can also be fully explained to the imperial court.

Not only that, if it is successful, Li Wei will see countless benefits, as long as he successfully takes down these cities. Then a few crossings in Dabadou Valley, Shicheng Mountain, Chengfeng Ridge and Changning Gorge were sealed. The Tubo people had to fight the Tang Dynasty army from Jiuqu. However, the Tang army itself was able to attack Tuyuhun from six or seven avenues in the north. Then the Tibetans were forced to divide their troops to defend. Hugh said that it was about Qinling, even if his grandson was alive, and there was nothing he could do about it.

can even wait for an opportunity to harass Tuyuhun. Tubo and Tugu Hun are herdsmen and soldiers in wartime, and this policy is easy to recruit soldiers. But the time of the army cannot last long, and once it lasts for a long time, it must be supplied in large quantities. With the national strength of Tibet, it is possible to feed tens of thousands of permanent soldiers, and it can support more than 100,000 permanent soldiers, what will be the situation?

From Quxi to the south, waiting for the opportunity, the party members were encircled at once, and tens of thousands of party soldiers were obtained, while Tubo was missing tens of thousands of party soldiers, what was the situation?

Heartbeat, heartbeat!

He summoned everyone to discuss, but when he looked at the map, he was silent. The strategy is good, and the timing is good, but how can the vast area of more than 200 miles from Wansu City to Quxi be quickly captured? It is not in Shancheng, but in the rear is Tuyuhun Shudun City, Mantou City, Dafeichuan, and Chihai. The army of the Tang Dynasty became a lone army, and there were even many checkpoints and important roads controlled by Tubo, and Tuyuhun was able to quickly dispatch countless large armies.

Once entangled, the return of Qinling will be very unfavorable to the Tang army.

Li Jingxuan and others were excluded, but Li Jinxing, including the implementation of the proposed Black Tooth Changzhi to the details, all frowned, and there was no good plan.

At this time, the scouts outside came in to report, saying that it was on the Zanpo army, not to attack Chiling, but to cross the Yellow River, and set up a stone bridge on the Yellow River, named Camel Bridge, a city was being built in the east of the bridge, the garrison was called the Jiuqu Army, and an army was stationed in Dushan in the south, called the Dushan Army. This army was drawn from Jishi Mountain. Then the Tuyuhun people crossed the river at Hongji Bridge again, garrisoned in Wansu City, and built a castle in Baigu called Baigu City. It echoes with the two armies of Tubo Jiuqu Dushan. (Historically, the Tubo Qushui Military Bridge is not a camel bridge, in the south of the camel bridge, the camel bridge is because of the princess Tang Mu of Jincheng and erected, this road has many deserts leading to Tuyuhun, and more camels are used to transport goods, so it is named)

"General Black Tooth, the hero sees the same thing," Li Wei smiled bitterly and said: "This plan should be canceled, according to the original plan, launch a campaign from Daba Dougu, where to supply conveniently, and spend a year or two with Tubo, so that the Tubo people can understand the difficulties and run Quxi." ”

Helpless, although he won a big victory, he couldn't underestimate this argument about Zanpo, otherwise he would become a vegetarian and expensive in turn. But I thought of a headache again, on Zanpo is like this, on Qinling coming, what will happen?

He said: "Disperse, disperse, or act according to the original plan." ”

So continue to build cities, many cities have been built, in fact, many people in the court do not understand, as long as these cities are built, they can effectively buffer the impact of Tibet on the inland in the future. Of course, if there is discord in internal affairs, the soldiers are cowardly, and even if it is a solid pond, they will not be able to hold it.

But at least Li Wei is here, and he won't lose it.

With the help of these cities, many fields have been cultivated, but the hundred valleys of Jiuqu and the large and small elm valleys further south should not be thought about for the time being.

Then wait for the decree of the imperial court. The holy decree was not issued, but two people came, Tuyuhun's original Khan Nuo Hao Bowl and Princess Honghua.

Li Wei didn't dare to be rude, Nuo Haobo and his father Murong Shun were very close to the Tang Dynasty, although Princess Honghua was only a disciple of the clan, she did a lot of work to stabilize Tuyuhun. More than 30 years ago, the prime minister of Tuyuhun wanted to rob Nuo Haobo and go to Tubo, so that the princess noticed it, and took Nuo Haobo to ride on a horse overnight, galloped into Shancheng, and let Shancheng assassin Shi Du Fengju crush this rebellion. A very legendary woman. At least it's better than the famous Princess Wencheng who stayed in Luoshu City.

In the third year of Yonghui, Li Honggang was born in the nunnery, the husband and wife entered Beijing, Li Zhi received them ceremoniously, and also married the daughter of the clan to Murong Zhong, the eldest son of Nuo Haobo, in the name of the county lord of Jincheng. In fact, when Tubo swallowed Bailanqiang, Tuyuhun asked for help many times, and the Sui and Tang dynasties repeatedly conscripted, Tuyuhun was indeed disabled, and he was not the opponent of the Tubo people. But the Tang Dynasty has not paid attention to it. In the end, Tuyuhun was destroyed, and the Tang Dynasty reacted, but it was too late, and first settled Nuo Haobo in the south of the Great Snow Mountain (Qilian Mountain), and was ready to recover his homeland for him. After Xue Rengui's defeat, there was no hope, and Xuan moved to the Gemen River, and in the end, Nuo Haobo was still not at ease and settled in Lingzhou.

After seeing the ceremony, Li Wei asked the guards to serve tea, and then asked, "I wonder why the Khan and the princess are here?" ”

Nuo Haobo said: "I heard that His Highness has won a great victory in Shancheng, first of all, I would like to congratulate Your Highness. ”

"Don't dare, this is just a small war, and it may not be known whether the war will be won or lost later."

"Your Highness said this, I am relieved, the Tubo people should not be underestimated. At the beginning, General Xue was careless and underestimated the enemy, otherwise the war would not have been corrupted. ”

"Don't worry," Li Wei smiled. If we talk about the importance of the Tibetan people, there is no one in the world who attaches great importance to me. The decline of the Tang Dynasty was due to the fact that Tubo would not contain so many heavy armies, and An Lushan would not have succeeded. The second is An Lushan and Shi Siming. In fact, in the year after Tianbao, although the people were not as good as the beginning of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, they could still survive. Or in the long run, the integrity of the Han people, since the Anshi Rebellion, has been lost. When fighting with foreign tribes, there are many losses and many victories. The Han and Tang dynasties have become a distant dream.

"In addition, I have a small request, I heard that His Highness still has thousands of captives under his command, can you let me bring them to Lingzhou. They are only a people, and they are my people. ”

"Well," Li Wei couldn't help but groan. It's not that if Nuo Haobo has these three or four thousand hands, he will be able to endanger Lingzhou immediately, Lingzhou doesn't know how many Hu people there are, and three or four thousand people don't care. Guan Jian, these thousands of people are easy to use in their hands, repair cities, roads, and water conservancy in Tuntian, some places are very sinister, and they don't want to sacrifice soldiers in vain, and prisoners of war can be on top. I don't know how many years this repair is, but even if it is repaired, it can be transferred to the Central Plains.

The population of the Tang Dynasty was still too small. It's not that there is really no land, and many lands have not been cultivated, like the polders in Jiangnan, which was designated as the last in Kyushu in ancient times. Because there was a lot of water and it was all swamps, Wu Zixu crossed the Zhao Pass, and at this time, there were at least a dozen roads for him to go to Wu State. But not at that time, the mountain range south of Zhaoguan is not big, but after turning over the mountain, it is full of swamps, so I have to force it through Zhaoguan.

Even now in the Tang Dynasty, there are still many areas that have not really been developed. Or move overseas, grain production has increased, and there is still a lot of room for this population. Or secretly set up some business, let those big families take a look, don't swallow the land, business money comes faster, like the Song Dynasty, the land crisis can be alleviated. In this way, more space can be moved. Not much, with a population of two or three hundred million, it is not a big problem. If you have a larger population, you will be able to recruit more troops, for example, now, if you transfer a million troops, you will be able to trample on Tuguhun and flatten it. Of course, this is a dream, if there are really two or three hundred million people, the land crisis is resolved, the martial atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty, and the world-leading technology, the whole of Asia can also be held in the palm of your hand, and the big cannibals will also retreat from the seven houses, not to mention Tibet.

It's too slow to rely on fertility, so these prisoners of war were sent to the Central Plains, and the two generations they were used to staying in were all sinicized. Are you used to it, dead or alive, does Li Wei really care?

But it was not easy to refuse, thought about it, and said: "Khan, it's not that I don't agree, you'd better go to my father and ask for it, and it also meets the formalities." ”

In fact, it's not a big problem to really give it, so let's put it off.

Nuo Haobo didn't care, and said, "Can you let me see that Su Hegui?" ”

"Okay." It is a pity to bring Su and Gui up, if Su and Gui are surrendered, the Tuyuhun people will be even more depressed. But it's impossible, unless you ignore Hu Sheng's feelings and hand over that Duan Mingzhen to Su Hegui to deal with. That's it, Su Hegui may not surrender, this is not defeat and surrender, it is to let him really surrender. But Li Wei was embarrassed, he killed Su Hegui at that time, but now it is not easy to kill, he is very prestigious among the Tuyuhun people, if the prisoners of war are killed, it will make some Tuyuhun people arouse the will to die.

This matter is hanging like this, it really can't be done, if there is a movement in the court, it will be sent to the court and let the court deal with it.

Seeing Su Hegui, Nuo Haobo gritted his teeth and said, "General Su He, I didn't expect that after more than ten years, we would meet again. ”

Su and Gui don't answer.

"How Ben Khan treated you back then, I didn't expect you to stick a knife in my chest when I was critical."

At the beginning, the numbness of the Tang Dynasty and the insincerity were the main reasons for the demise of Tuyuhun. In addition, ministers like Su Hegui rebelled and colluded, and under internal and external difficulties, Tuyuhun perished so quickly. Without these traitors, the ministers of the pro-Tang faction at that time were not vulnerable, and as long as Tuyuhun could hold on for a long time, the Tang Dynasty might not have sent troops to rescue him.

Su Hegui still didn't answer.

Nuo Haobo said: "Your Highness, can you reward me with a thin noodle and hand this person over to me to deal with." ”

"Okay." Li Wei replied immediately. It just so happens that this person can't be put away, whether he can't be co-opted, whether he can't be killed, if he can't be killed, let Nuo Haobo kill, that Tuyuhun person will not have an opinion. Suddenly, he had an idea and said, "Khan, I can return the prisoners of war to you, and even in the future, when you fight, other prisoners of war of the Tuyuhun people can also be returned to you." But can you cooperate with me? ”