Fifteen years of Zhenguan.

It was a particularly difficult and frightening year for the countries surrounding Datang.

Because in this year, the Tang Dynasty, which had just destroyed the countries of the Western Regions, did not hesitate at all, and decisively fought back against the Xue Yantuo people who dared to send troops to attack the Tang Grassland Territory.

And developed a counterattack into a war of annihilation, and the huge Xue Yantuo only lasted less than half a year before it reached the point of collapse and destruction.

At the same time, the Tang Dynasty also launched a rebellion war in the eastern Liaodong region.

For the vassal states that do not respect the suzerain, the Tang Dynasty has always been mostly Huairou, but this time the Tang Dynasty's temperament changed greatly, and it directly sent troops to fight, and the first crusade was to deal with the powerful Goguryeo and the less powerful Baekje.

These two countries have always been allies of each other, and now they have all become the targets of Datang.

It's actually nothing if Datang just started a war on multiple sides, but when Datang fought on many sides and won a big victory, and almost all the three countries attacked by Datang were about to die, the surrounding countries were completely frightened.

Among these three countries, not to mention the powerful Xue Yantuo or Goguryeo, even Baekje is not comparable to the ordinary small surrounding countries, such three countries will be destroyed at the same time, so what if the Tang Dynasty wants to do something to its own country?

The people of these small countries, as well as the ruling class, shudder.

I can't be afraid, I'm afraid that my country will follow in the footsteps of the three countries, but I don't have that capital to resist.

Thinking about it, these countries decided to hurry up and curry favor with Datang, be obedient, be obedient, pay more tribute, and give as few return gifts as possible, as long as the decision of the suzerain, no matter how difficult it is, listen honestly and do it, don't make a stumble, and give the suzerain's reason to send troops.

Almost all the small countries around the Tang Dynasty have this idea, so since October, tributary teams from various countries have set foot on the territory of the Tang Dynasty and marched towards Chang'an or Luoyang, the eastern capital.

Those who are close to Chang'an will go to Chang'an, and those who are close to Luoyang will go to Luoyang.

All nations come to the dynasty, the real all nations come to the dynasty, and it is much stronger than the lineup when those tribal leaders flattered Li Shimin as the heavenly khan after defeating the Eastern Turks.

There are not only the nomadic people in the north who are not under the control of the Tang Dynasty, there are small desert countries further west, there are small countries left in the southern barbarians on the south side of Lingnan, and there are Ryukyu in the east, and even smaller island lords with only one small island have sent envoys to the Tang Dynasty to pay tribute.

I don't know what the mood of His Majesty the Emperor who is far away in Luoyang is, but Wu Yuanqing knows that Li Chengqian's smiling face has stiffened in the past few days.

The New Year is approaching, and the Luoyang side has not yet sent back the emperor's intention to return to Chang'an, Wu Yuanqing estimated that the emperor is not worried about the war in Liaodong, and is ready to sit in Luoyang and wait for Liaodong Baekje, all the wars in Silla are over, and everything will return to Chang'an after the dust settles.

It's good that the emperor doesn't come back, Wu Yuanqing is secretly happy in his heart, because once the emperor comes back, then he will inevitably be punished, although it is likely that the merits will be offset, but at least a board is indispensable.

The later the Emperor returns, the better, and it's best to count the fact that he has forgotten about it by the time he returns.

"Yuanqing, there have been more tributary envoys in the past few days, and I spend most of my time receiving them every day." As soon as Wu Yuanqing entered the palace, Li Chengqian was busy grabbing him to complain.

"Honglu Temple is an ornament? Let them choose to come, those envoys from countries that are too small to receive from Honglu Temple are enough to meet, where you need to meet them all, you only need to meet with the envoys of some relatively large countries." Wu Yuanqing said speechlessly.

"Hey, what can you say, I found that Honglu Temple is now an ornament, and what they seem to be able to do is to pass on the requests of the envoys of various countries to me as a microphone, and then pass my meaning back to the envoys of various countries, and they can't do anything else besides these." Li Chengqian said angrily.

"Haha, since the resentment is so big, you hurry up and write a recital to your father, and ask him to quickly replace all the Qing and Shaoqing of Honglu Temple." Wu Yuanqing chuckled jokingly.

"Hey, don't say it, I think your idea is reliable, you can send a letter to my father to try it, just say that Yuanqing you are not willing to be full of talent but useless, complain about Honglu Temple, Shaoqing's corpse is vegetarian, and strongly demand that the official position of Honglu Temple Shaoqing be restored to display his ambitions." Li Chengqian clapped his hands and said with a smile.

"Get out, don't hurt me, when did I say this, it's hard to be unofficial now, if you pit me in again, I'll tell you, I'm not done with you kid." Wu Yuanqing scolded angrily.

"Haha." Looking at Wu Yuanqing's angry appearance, Li Chengqian smiled happily.

Just when the envoys of many countries gathered in the eastern and western capitals, Xue Yantuo's envoys were forced to stay in the Honglu Temple, hoping that the Tang Emperor would reply as soon as possible.

Unfortunately, he counted day after day on his fingers, from one to five, from five to ten.

Every day is full of anticipation and anticipation, waiting and praying, but every day ends in disappointment.

Then the next day we continued to get up with anticipation, hope, hope, hope.

Hopeful and hopeful, counted from ten to fifteen, and then there was still no news back.

The envoy Xue Yantuo didn't understand why it was only Luoyang, which was only six or seven hundred miles, and why it took so long for no news to send it back.

At this moment, he was extremely remorseful, why did he not go directly to Luoyang to meet the Tang Emperor, but chose to stay in Chang'an, stay in Honglu Temple and wait for the news.

Just as Xue Yantuo's envoy was about to start counting from fifteen to twenty with his fingers, news came back to Chang'an.

However, it was not the news that the Tang Emperor he had been waiting for for a long time to accept Xue Yantuo's request for peace, but a thunderbolt from the sky that made him feel like a lightning strike.

He can wait in Chang'an and Honglu Temple, but his country can't wait.

Xue Yantuo was destroyed.

The Xue Yantuo people, who had not been able to wait for the envoy to send back the good news, waited for the forage of the Datang logistics troops to be delivered to the front line, and after the front-line military horses had sufficient forage, Li Ji, Xue Wanche, Cheng Yanjin and other tripartite men and horses finally changed from encirclement to attack formation.

The second snow, seeing that the second snow is about to fall.

Although the people of Xue Yantuo will freeze to death and suffer more frostbite after the second snowfall, the army of the Tang Dynasty will also be greatly affected, and then the people of Xue Yantuo will inevitably win a chance to survive.

But it's a pity that the people of Xue Yantuo were unlucky, and the forage from Datang was delivered before the second snow fell.

Then the end of the Sheyantas came.

The three armies of 200,000 men and horses, still besieging Xue Yantuo's tooth tent with sufficient grain and grass, did not leave any chance and hope for Xue Yantuo's people at all.

In the last battle, Xue Yantuoyi Nan Khan and his son Tu Lishu were all captured alive, and the rest, whether herdsmen or soldiers, were either killed or captured, and not a single one escaped.