Chapter 20: The Iron Emperor's debut

The next day, the battle situation outside the city of Gyeongju began to tense and developed in an unfavorable direction for the Tang army, Liu Heimin in a group of civil and military generals led by the crown prince Li Jiancheng, under the attack of killing and fu, Wude began to lose for five years, and later the army was defeated and fled, in order to save the defeat, Liu Heimin chose to take refuge in the Turks, this northland man has hatred with the steppe wolves for generations, and it is the situation that does not die. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

The pain of Wuhu Chaohua is not far away, as long as it is a man in the north, he will not want to bend his knees in front of the Turks, because that means that he will be a slave for generations, and he may be sacrificed to the immortal heaven at any time, even if he barely survives to the age of thirty, he will be given up by his master, and even the steppe people who can't support the old father will think that he will raise a slave who can't work. Therefore, they will be starved to death on the grassland in their thirties, and those who have a bad life will be sold to a sacrifice and made into ritual vessels, which will never turn over. For the ancients, it was not easy to die if the corpse was made into a ritual weapon, which was much more terrifying than dying of old age, exhaustion and starvation, and even said that it was the first horror of the ancients. (This can be seen from the large number of burials since the Han Dynasty, which shows how much the ancients attached importance to their own posthumous affairs.) )

Under such circumstances, the men in the north directly gave up on Liu Heimin, and a large number of surrenderers and deserters appeared, and even Fan Yuan, Dong Kangmai, Wang Xiaohu and other old generals of Dou Jiande also had two hearts, you must know that they are people who surrendered and rebelled, which shows how unpopular Liu Heimin was at that time.

So in this case, the crown prince Li Jiancheng picked up a big bargain, and the king of Handong, who destroyed half of the Tang Dynasty, was almost destroyed by him.

And if Liu Heimin, the leading dog, is destroyed, the interests of the Turkic master are not in line with it, they are under the leadership of Liu Heimin, don't want it, and the Central Plains is weak, they only have two-legged sheep to use, think about it, when the Central Plains was unified, whether it was Qiang Qin or the Great Han, they beat them to their knees and called Dad. The integration of the chaotic ethnic groups also made the wolves on the grassland understand that only when the Central Plains continued to fight and chaos were they were the strongest, and they could continue to suck blood on the Han people.

In order to keep the Central Plains in turmoil, they did not support the anti-kings at the end of the Sui Dynasty, even when Li Tang started his business, they were not allowed to pay tribute to the Turks from time to time, and they were allowed to continue to plunder in the frontier land.

This time, the Turks were determined to help Liu Heimin share the pressure, and they attacked Guanzhong to implement the plan of encircling Wei to save Zhao, hoping to force the prince's army that pursued Liu Heimin to withdraw, which was also the main reason why Li Xiuning was attacked. However, with the Women's Army as the leader, plus some of the elite soldiers of Tiance Mansion, the unified defenders are not easy to think of.

Li Shimin followed his son's advice and started the military discussion early in the morning, and sent his henchman guard Ying to sneak into the Turki camp with a letter, and sent the brave general Wei Chi Gong with a warrant to notify the generals sent by the Tang Dynasty to resist the Turks to cooperate with the action.

It was night when Duan Dechao and Wei Chigong's army went around the back of the Turks, but just when the killing was everywhere, there was a different scene in the Tuli camp.

After receiving the news of the Tang army's attack, Tuli watched his uncle's camp catch fire everywhere, and looked at the Turkic army in all kinds of panic, Tuli announced that all the troops would gather at the Golden Horde, pack up their tents, gather cattle and sheep, and retreat within half an hour, and go to negotiate with Ying who came with a letter from King Li Tang and Qin.

At night (around 2 o'clock) Ying sneaked into Tuli's golden tent with a mission, and after a pause, Ying ordered the letter written by Li Shimin, and when Tuli only read part of the letter to understand the general situation, there was a shout of killing outside the camp.

In fact, the letter is Li Xiu's meaning, because the approximate attack time can be agreed to hand over the letter to Tuli, so there are only a few sentences in total. Probably this means that your uncle Jieli is a bastard, not only took your sweat position, but also exiled you, and when he finished snatching this vote in the Han land, he can consolidate his position in the grassland, and then he Tuli is not far from death.

In fact, there is no way for Tuli to give such an order, Jieli made him a little khan after seizing the throne of Khan, so this time he brought some tribes in the eastern Turkic region, these tribes are all other tribes that were defeated and expelled at the beginning, or some competing exiles, so the tribes he manages in the east are those poor and poor, and those powerful tribes can be strange to him as a loser.

And this time, there was no big battle before Gyeongju along the way, so Jieli flew all the way to grab money, food, and women in front, and he led a group of beggar soldiers to eat all kinds of ashes in the back, and even military rations have become a big problem, if it weren't for the need for cannon fodder for the siege, Jieli might not even give him that little bit of military rations.

In the face of this situation, Tuli is helpless and powerless, and now he has received an olive branch from the King of Qin of the Tang Dynasty, as a representative of the shadow, as long as Tuli promises to remain neutral when the two armies are fighting, then after the end of the war, the King of Qin promised to form an alliance of interests with Tuli, and when the battle is ongoing, Tuli can send people to contain the cattle and sheep as much as possible, and after the battle, the King of Qin can send someone to let Tuli rob a grain transport team, of course, all this is verbal, but this is enough for the kings of the two sides, isn't it?

And when Jieli was in the midst of the surprise attack, relying on the pro-army to gather thousands of cavalry to prepare for a counterattack but fell into the calculation, the Gyeongju City Gate, which had been prepared for a long time, opened when the Turkic chaos arose, and the Xuanjia Elite Cavalry, which had already been recuperated, began to advance slowly.

The battle-hardened knights and war horses can cooperate well, and the entire army advances step by step unhurriedly under the mobilization of Li Shimin and his generals. When the army around Jieli gathered, they were like a group of lions that had found their target, and under the leadership of the king, they went directly to Jieli Daxu. Formed by Li Shimin himself, led by Qin Qiong, the world's fierce general, the elite cavalry in iron armor rushed straight into the chaotic Turkic army, defending their king, and charging towards the target location that was designated as the prey. This is only selected and supplemented by more than 40,000 cavalry in a hundred battles, and with Li Shimin, the brave last emperor, the elite who must win every battle in the field, is a configuration between light armor and heavy armor, not those equipped with iron cans, nor the light cavalry on the grassland that wears a leather robe and is used as leather armor. It combines tight protection with the load needs of horses, so it is not slow to charge.