Yuan Mujue shook his head and said, "I don't know either." I had never seen this thing in the Tang Dynasty, and it must have been introduced by the Great Demon Kingdom later. But we don't have to be afraid, there is the wall of Wuliu City in front of us, and the enemy can't come in. ”

"Boom!" The earth was trembling, and the front of the Tang army was filled with gunsmoke. "What demon spell?" Yuan Mujue and Li Tianchang just had this idea in their hearts; I felt an explosion in my ears, and Wuliucheng was trembling.

Then the clapper was broken, sawdust flew sideways, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and the flames soared into the sky; Scraps of flesh were splattered everywhere.

Yuan Mujue wiped the blood on his face, turned his head to look, and saw that the dense formation under his men had become like a vegetable field running through a group of war horses, and it was chaotic.

Yuan Mujue and Li Tianchang glanced at each other, and they both saw the horror on each other's faces. At this moment, there was another roar outside the city; Yuan Mujue shouted hysterically: "Get out of the way!" Get out of the way! The soldiers under his command were already frightened, and when they shouted, they ran around with their heads in their hands.

After several rounds of shelling, Cheng Zhijie shouted: "Siege!" The Tang army surged up like a tide. Yuan Mujue had already discovered the shortcomings of the lightning cannon at this time, that is, their lethality was much lower after they dispersed.

But his subordinates have been frightened, and the people have run away, and it is more difficult to rectify them. The Tang army swarmed up with a ladder on his shoulder, and almost a charge went up to Wuliu City.

"Is this heaven going to kill me?" Yuan Mujue looked up to the sky and sighed, and he was about to commit suicide when he pulled out his sword. Li Tianchang hurriedly took his hand and said, "Big brother Hugh can't think about it, let's take care of our bodies and fight the enemy to the death again, and avenge the third brother." Yuan Mujue felt justified when he heard it, and he and Li Tianchang rode on war horses and ran out of the west gate.

The Tang army, which rushed in, opened the city gate, and then the army followed into Wuliu City. Cheng Zhijie arranged for people to go out to Anmin, and then said to the generals: "The tribes of the Western Regions covet my Tang Dynasty and frequently create incidents on our Silk Road. This time, our 200,000 troops came to conquer the battle, just to close the miraculous battle.

It just so happened that the generals of Gaochang, Tuyuhun and Xue Yantuo dared to go against the sky and help the Western Turks resist the king's division; Is it tolerable or unbearable, I intend to sweep away the countries of the Western Regions in one fell swoop, what do you think? ”

Everyone looked at each other and said, "I would like to listen to the chief steward." ”

Cheng Zhinode nodded and said, "Okay!" Since everyone agrees, then I intend to divide the army into three ways. The first route was Li Jing as the head of the Jiaohe Road march, Su Dingfang, Hou Junji, Xue Wanjun, Qibi He Li, and Xue Rengui as auxiliaries, leading an army of 50,000 to attack Gaochang and Tuyuhun.

The second route was led by Li Shiji, leading Li Daozong, Zhi Zhi Sili, Ashinadur, Guo Xiaoge, Li Su, Gao Kan, and Heizhi Changzhi to lead the army of 5 kings to attack Xue Yantuo.

I myself will lead the rest of the men to attack the Western Turks, and we will attack the enemy in one fell swoop and pacify the countries of the Western Regions. ”

"Yes! We will obey the orders of the Governor! Li Jing and Li Shiji stood up and bowed.

The next day, Li Jing and Cheng Zhijie took their leave and led the army straight to Gaochang. Ju Wentai, the king of Gaochang, thought that Tang was 7,000 miles away from Gaochang, the sand moraine was about 2,000 miles wide, there was no water and grass, the climate was abnormal, and the Tang Dynasty was still fighting against the Western Turks, so it would definitely not be added with large soldiers.

When the Tang army arrived at the moraine under the guidance of Qibi He Li, who was familiar with the local terrain, Lu Wentai was so frightened that he couldn't afford to fall ill, and he died within a few days, and his son Lu Zhisheng took the throne.

The Tang army took advantage of the domestic turmoil in Gaochang to capture Tiandi City and capture more than 7,000 men and women. Li Jing ordered Hou Junji to be the striker and went straight to Gaochang City.

Koji led his army to meet the battle, and after being defeated, he retreated to the capital. Hou Jun set his troops to fill in the trenches and attack the city, and built a height of 5 zhang to overlook the nest car in the city, and knew the movements in the city well.

Lu Zhisheng hurriedly summoned the troops who had gone to the Western Turks, but these troops who were ordered to come were ambushed by Su Dingfang and killed countless people; Fearing the might of the Tang army, they surrendered in the city of Khan Futu.

Seeing the destruction of the reinforcements, Koji Zhisheng knew that the general trend had gone, and was forced to open the door and surrender on the eighth day of the first month. Li Jing continued to divide his troops and conquered 3 counties, 5 counties, and 22 cities, with 8,046 households, a population of 37,700, and 4,300 horses, covering an area of 800 li from east to west and 500 li from north to south. Then he placed Xizhou in its land and Tingzhou in Khan Futu City, and completely occupied Gaochang State.

Tuyuhun Murong Fuyun was already old, and when he heard that Li Jing had sent troops to destroy Gaochang Kingdom, he hurriedly ordered King Tianzhu to withdraw his troops. Li Jing led the army straight into and through the plateau; Defeat the Tuyuhun army at Kushan.

After winning the first battle, Li Jing decisively divided his troops into two routes, north and south, and pursued and annihilated the enemy along the north and south banks of Qinghai Lake. Li Jingqin led part of his troops to take the northern road of Qinghai Lake, cut off the retreat route from Tuyuhun to Qilian Mountain, and detoured back to the capital of Tuyuhun - Fuqi City. In addition, a part of the army was sent under the leadership of Su Dingfang to pursue the inescapable Tuyuhun army from the south to form an iron pincer attack.

The Tang army marched thousands of miles and fought dozens of times along the way, carrying out an unprecedented long-distance pursuit and annihilation operation; Chasing the Tuyuhun army directly to the vast plateau Gobi Desert, Murong Fuyun, the Khan of Tuyuhun, died in panic on the way to escape, and his son Murong Shun led his troops to submit to the Tang Dynasty.

Li Shimin named him Khan, King of Xiping County, and lived in Chang'an's mansion. The entire territory of Tuyuhun was included in the territory of the Tang Empire.

Li Shiji led the army into Xue Yantuo, and Yinan Khan hurriedly asked his eldest son Dadu to set up a backhand to resist. However, Dadu was set up in Wuliucheng, and the battle had already been wiped out by Luo Cheng with his main infantry.

He led his alien cavalry to hurriedly run back, and was ambushed by Li Daozong, killing most of them, and when he returned to Xue Yantuo's hand, there were not many available soldiers.

Yi Nan Khan's second son Ba Zhuo was jealous of the merit and prestige of his eldest brother's magnanimous set, and took advantage of the trap of the institution, Yi Nan Khan is no longer the original cautious Xue Yantuo Khan, he can't listen to the words of the contrary ear now, so he is also a little dissatisfied with the generosity born of the upright side room.

Ba Zhuo is by his father's side every day, and the sweet-talking Yi Nan Khan trusts; So he listened to Ba Zhuo's words and killed Da Du She, and asked Ba Zhuo to succeed Da Du She's position to lead troops to resist the Tang army.

Bazhuo thought that Dadu was too careful and insulted Xue Yantuo's bravery, so he decided to lead the army to attack the Tang army's camp at night.

However, Li Shiji expected Xue Yantuo's sudden attack, and ordered Zhi Sili to lead a part of the elite troops to defend the Xiazhou camp left behind. Bazhuo attacked, he and Guo Xiaoge, Gao Kan and others set traps and did a good job of ambushing.

Bazhuo led the army to the Tang army's position overnight and found that the Tang army's camp was loosely defended, so he led the army to attack. The stubborn mind was ready for a long time, and the army of Xue Yantuo, who was killed with a bow and arrow and a thunderbolt, was defeated. Ba Zhuo hurriedly retreated under the protection of his men, and soon came into ambush again, killing and wounding most of his soldiers.

When he returned to his camp, as soon as he arrived at the gate of the camp, there was another shouting of killing, and Ashinadur and Li Su had already been ordered to attack his camp. Bazhuo had no way to fight his way out again, and ran back to his lair in a panic.

When Yi Nan Khan heard that Bazhuo was defeated, he regretted killing his son Dadushe, and wanted to arrest Bazhuo and bring him to justice. Bazhuo got the news in advance, and took advantage of the military power in his hands to take the lead in launching a coup d'état to kill the Yinan Khan and establish himself as the Domi Khan.

Irritability, irritability, and suspicion; He didn't use Yi Nan's ministers, he replaced them with his own cronies. This led the nobility to disobey him. He responded by killing a large number of nobles. Xue Yantuo's vassal Hui Hui, its leader Ge Bodhisattva and his servant Gu and Tongluo rebelled and surrendered to the Tang Dynasty.

Li Shiji took the opportunity to lead the army to break through, and Bazhuo ordered his general Awasheth to lead tens of thousands of people to resist. Gao Kan offered a plan and Li Su pretended to go out on a safari as bait to lure the enemy.

Li Shiji agreed to their plan, and Li Su and Gao Kan only brought a few hundred men to lure Aposhe. Abosheth heard that the young man opposite was the prince of the Tang Dynasty, and found that there were not many of them; Knowing that the opportunity could not be missed, he hurriedly brought someone to capture it.

As a result, they were led into Li Shiji's ambush circle, and Li Shiji's army surrounded the enemy with all its might. Then they fought for a day and a night, and killed all of Abosheth's army.

This battle completely shocked the people of Xue Yantuo, and the 8 chiefs of Xue Yantuo's affiliated tribes, such as Bayegu, Duolange, Sijie, Aqiu, Qibi, Shenjie, Hun and Huxue, came to ask for annexation.

Li Shiji agreed to their request and moved all of them to Dao Dingxiang to Chai Shao to deal with, while he led a large army to surround Xue Yantuo's capital.

Seeing that nothing could be done, Bazhuo broke through and left, wanting to go to the northern wilderness to accumulate strength, intending to make a comeback. As a result, halfway through, he encountered the returning army, and Bazhuo was killed by Ge Bodhisattva.

The remaining Xueyantuo people supported Yinan's nephew Tama Zhi as the Khan of Itbelose in an attempt to restore Xueyantuo.

However, the Tang Dynasty did not admit it, and Cheng Zhijie ordered Li Shiji to continue to attack the garrison of Dumozhi, instructing: "If you surrender, you will appease it, and if you rebel, you will ask for it." ”

Li Shiji went to Yu Du Jun Mountain, and the commanders of the Lama branch came to surrender. Secretly plotting to make a comeback. Li Shiji then attacked with an army, killed more than 5,000 people, captured more than 30,000 men and women, and brought the Dumo branch back to Chang'an.

Li Jing and Li Shiji defeated Gaochang, Tuyuhun and Xue Yantuo, and arranged for a large army to be garrisoned, while they led a large army to attack the Western Turks from the north and south.

Cheng Zhijie led the army all the way to the Western Turkic Shepherd City, and at this time, the left wheel had already received a report from Yuan Mujue and Li Tianchang, knowing that the Tang army had an artifact that could spray heavenly thunder and fire, and the city wall could not resist it; So he secretly withdrew from the shepherd city with the people.

Cheng Zhijie led the army to come, and everyone was afraid that there would be an ambush in the city, and no one dared to enter the city silently. Wang Wendu, the old general of the Great Demon Kingdom, asked for an order to lead the army into Shepherd City first.

After they entered Chengcheng, they found that there was no enemy ambush, and Wang Wendu sent someone to inform Cheng Zhijie while rushing into the left wheel of the house and snatching it.