Chapter 278: Reactions from all sides
Qin Feng and the others arrived in Gyeongju safely, and the three states under the rule of the Gyeongju Governor's Mansion were full of joy, but they left behind a mess, a barren Ashina tribe and some small tribes that were easily solved on the way, as well as a place of panic. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Because this attack, which no one expected, caused an uproar in the Turks.
In particular, the Turkic tribes close to the borders of Qing, Sui, and Yan prefectures were all exclaiming that wolves were coming, and the Central Plains had stretched out their sharp claws to them, and the murderous Han people intended to swallow them up one by one.
While asking for help from the previous Jieli, they intended to recall the tribal warriors who fought with Jieli, and at the same time strengthened martial law several times to prevent Qin Feng from attacking again.
Qin Feng's powerful blow also gave the Turks a taste of fear and threat.
Jieli has been rampant on the grassland for many years, and his strength is ultimately better than Tuli. After half a year of recuperation. In this new round of fighting, he has already achieved an initial advantage, so he is waiting for the time to come, and in one fell swoop, he will annihilate the two embarrassed anti-bone boys.
At this critical time, one after another stimulus came.
First, the Xi people let the Tang Dynasty annihilate, the Xia people surrendered and were forced to move into the interior, and the southern Khitan territory was occupied by the Tang Dynasty, and now it is said that the Tang Dynasty Chen soldiers trained troops on the border and intended to attack Dingxiang and stab him in the eye.
Dingxiang and Shuofang are rich in water and grass, and they also hold the gateway of the Tang Dynasty, which is also of extremely important strategic significance for the Turks, first Shuofang was lost, if it wasn't for the outbreak of the civil war, he would have forcibly taken Shuofang, and now, Qin Feng, who didn't know where to come out, actually wiped out his most powerful supporter, the Ashina Zanhan tribe, and the tribe was destroyed He could accept it, but the news that the prestige of Ashina Zhan Han hung up, made Jieli very uncomfortable, just because Ashina Zanhan was not only his most loyal follower, Moreover, he is also the only supporter of the unification of military power in the Turks, and the loss of Ashina Tamhan is undoubtedly a broken arm for Jieli.
Jieli Khan and the Tang Dynasty have a deep enmity like the sea, therefore, Jieli Khan did not send people to sue for peace, because a divided Turk is in the interests of the Tang Dynasty, he knows that once he fails, the Turks and Yi Nan will fight each other, just because there can only be one king on the steppe. After that, Datang will play the way of balance and let the two fight bloody. That's what Jieli Khan did.
Now, he has a way to deal with the Tuli and Yinan coalition forces, but before the war has started, Qin Feng's troops attacked the Ashina Zanhan tribe, and the news of Ashina Zanhan's death reached him.
Immediately afterwards, he received requests for help from several tribes, and the letter was not to transfer the tribe's warriors back to prevent Qin Feng from attacking again.
A series of bad news came, which directly made the complacent Jieli dumbfounded, and he scolded angrily and unwillingly for a long time, "Qin Feng, this animal, is bad for me everywhere, is it Lao Tzu's nemesis!" He was furious, and at the same time secretly hated in his heart: he was really self-defeating, and Tuli, as a new force, was far inferior to him, so he planned to force the victory this time. specially mobilized the forces of various tribes, but he didn't want Qin Feng to take control of them and attacked their rear, which brought them great panic. The thought of it made him almost vomit blood.
"King Khan, the eldest son of Ashina Zanhan, Muroya asks to see."
Jieli shook his head and smiled bitterly, sighed and said, "Let him in." ”
As soon as he was allowed, Ashina Meroya walked in.
"King Khan, you have to make decisions for me!" Ashina Moroya was very miserable, he was wounded and walked in with the support of the guards, their father and son had a clear division of labor, Ashina Ranhan led the elite soldiers to serve on the front line, and Ashina Meroya was in charge of the rear. Originally, a large tribe of 130,000 people, under the instigation of Jieli, mobilized all the pioneers and guards under its command in one go, and only a small part of the string control men were left to protect the territory. In order to support Jieli, even if Ashina Zhanhan went back to the headquarters to inspect, he only brought a limited number of elites back, who would have thought that the front line had not yet started, but the rear was destroyed by Qin Feng in one fell swoop, the father and son were killed and seriously injured, and the cattle, sheep and horses became the trophies of the other party. Thinking of the hard work of his father and son for many years, the loss is almost as high as eighty percent, a heart is pulling out the cold, a thirty-year-old man, tears are flowing down.
Looking at his nephew, Jieli also felt sympathy, gritted his teeth and said: "Don't worry, nephew, I don't share the sky with Qin Feng and Tuli, and your hatred is my hatred." I will definitely cut off their heads and paint them for you, especially my brother, who died a miserable death. Once I won this time, I would fight with Li Tang endlessly. However, all of this is caused by Tuli and Yi Nan, if it weren't for their rebellion, even if Li Shimin was given a hundred dares, he would not dare to provoke us, in order to avoid the tragedy from happening again, I would defeat Tuli and Hu Nan as soon as possible" He deliberately mentioned that Tuli and Yi Nan were the main reasons for the invasion of the Tang Dynasty, and the purpose was naturally to let Ashina Moroya deal with Tuli and Yi Nan with him with one heart and one mind, you must know that there are nearly 40,000 elite soldiers in the hands of Ashina Meroya, and it is already the main force of more than one percent and nearly two percent of Jieli.
Ashina Muroya also knew that he was powerless to take revenge on the Tang Dynasty, he thought for a long time, gritted his teeth and said: "Please rest assured that King Khan, Muroya is willing to stay and serve King Khan." ”
Jieli Khan's heart was overjoyed, and he said earnestly: "Nephew, take care of your injuries, I rely on you in many places, and you can just open your mouth if the army needs." "Jieli has accumulated countless wealth in the Central Plains Rebellion, and he is very generous to this Ashina Meroya, who is equivalent to having no roots. Ashina Meroya has no financial resources, and the only way is to be completely loyal to Jieli and become a sharp blade in Jieli's hands.
Ashina Zhanhan's position in the Turks is extremely detached, his death shook the entire steppe, compared to Jieli and Mo Ruoya, the Turks and Yinan who received the news were overjoyed, and thought that the Tang Dynasty had begun to repeatedly make a covenant and stabbed Jieli in the back. In order to let Datang continue to contribute, as soon as the two discussed, they jointly donated a large number of cattle, sheep and war horses to Li Shimin, and at the same time sent an additional 5,000 war horses and 5,000 sheep to the Gyeongju Governor's Office.
In contrast to all kinds of sorrow and joy of the Turks, the Tang Dynasty in Guanzhong was overjoyed when they got the news.
"Good boy! A hundred times more powerful than in my phenomenon. Li Shimin also didn't expect Qin Feng to be so smooth, he cut off Qin Feng's supply, nothing more than to force him to exert his amazing talent, this force, Gyeongju let him govern well, especially the free trade, grassland tourism greatly improved the overall economy of Gyeongju, not only to feed the local army, but also to increase a lot of taxes to the Tang Dynasty. After that, he went deep into the steppe and silently killed one of the big tribes in the Turks, the Ashina Zanhan tribe.
That rich result made him, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, look blushing.
"115,270 sheep and 84,560 horses, including 60,840 war horses and 843 cattle......" Li Shimin looked at this amount, and he was so cool in his heart that he couldn't wait to praise Qin Feng fiercely.
Li Shimin was thinking at that time that even if Qin Feng went to the grassland to rob, the number would be limited. Just because the steppe is the world of the nomadic Turks, and similarly, they have no fixed residence, even if Qin Feng uses guerrilla tactics to nourish the war and carry out looting, the materials obtained will never be very large.
Just as the Turks invaded them, the Turks swept around and then let them fight back, counting the losses everywhere, as long as they could win, the losses were not as great as they imagined.
Li Shimin miscalculated here.
Although he expected that Qin Feng would launch an offensive during the battle between Jieli and Tuli, he didn't know that Ashina Zhanhan would transfer all the warriors in the tribe, so that Qin Feng was cheapened for nothing. In addition, since the Tang Dynasty became a dominant family, the Turks invaded almost year after year, and every late summer and early autumn, the border must listen to the Turks.
The people living on the border have long been accustomed to it, and they have also developed the habit of guarding against the Turks. At the end of summer, they hide or sort out valuable things. As soon as they heard the news of the Turkic attack, they either hid in the city or fled to the mountains with their valuables. This hiding Turks has already escaped experience, and it is naturally impossible for the Turks to get a bumper harvest.
Since the fall of the Sui Dynasty, the Turks have been strong, overwhelming the Central Plains, and have never had the experience of being robbed by the Central Plains, without any precautions, and they have suffered heavy losses, making Qin Feng earn a lot of money.
"What do you think is the way to let my son-in-law spit out what he has in his hands?" Li Shimin glanced at Li Chengqian, Fang Xuanling, and Du Ruhui left and right, and said seriously, thinking about the rich harvest, he didn't care about being embarrassed, anyway, the three of them were the people he trusted the most, and he was not afraid of them spreading it.
This is the result of statistics, and there is naturally no information given by Qin Feng on it
Fang Xuanling was a little embarrassed, and said: "This is not very good, after all, Your Majesty had an agreement with General Xiao Qin to let him provide for himself, and now when he sees that General Xiao Qin has gained a lot, he wants to regret it, and it is not good for His Majesty's reputation to spread it." ”
"Of course I do."
Li Shimin said shamelessly: "So you need to think of a way to let him hand it over without complaint." If it weren't for my money, who would want to go back on my word? In particular, these 840-odd cattle are classified as official cattle and are rented to the people for farming. It is enough to reclaim more than 10,000 acres of land, so that the grain tax of a city can more than triple. There are also sheep and horses, carefully cultivated, how much goat milk and mare's milk can be abundant, and how many lambs and foals can be born. There are also war horses, which are what Li Jing and Li Ji need the most. ”
"Father, whether to arrange for the son-in-law to send an envoy to Gyeongju, the son-in-law has a plan to make the brother-in-law willingly hand over the cattle and sheep, it depends on the situation." Li Chengqian looked like a scheming man.
"Your brother-in-law is neither greedy for money nor in love with power," Li Shimin squinted his eyes and asked, "What is the prince's plan?" ”
Li Chengqian said confidently: "It is precisely because my brother-in-law is not greedy for money that things are very easy to do." ”
Li Shimin was overjoyed and said with a smile: "Well said, I believe that the prince can complete the task......" He was about to give an order, but learned that another official document came from Gyeongju.
Li Shimin first put down the appointment and asked people to send the official documents. Looking at the content of the official document, Li Shimin suddenly laughed "haha", "You don't have to go to the prince this time, your brother-in-law, I didn't miss him." Knowing that my Tang Dynasty needs cattle and sheep, in addition to rewarding the soldiers who went to war, I specially sent all the cattle and sheep to the imperial court, which is still very good. In addition to the 10,000 horses left by himself, the rest were also sent. ”
(To be continued.) )