Chapter 708: Domination of the World (Part II) (Part 2)
In the "Battle of Panhe", the biggest change was the death of Zao Wou-ki, the king of Xia, and since then, the army of the Western Regions, which lacked the backbone, fell apart, and fled in panic under the pursuit of the Tang army, leaving only corpses everywhere.
The Tang Dynasty continued to take advantage of the victory to pursue, not only recovering all the lost territory, but also pushing the national border to the west for hundreds of miles in one fell swoop. The Dima region, which originally belonged to the eastern frontier of the Xia Kingdom, has completely fallen under the control of the Tang Dynasty.
Due to the long distance, Datang simply did not have the energy to govern the chaotic area of Dima. However, Qin Tianxiong was able to make a big plan and established this place as the Tangxia Trade Zone, so that the two countries that were originally hostile to each other could trade and trade smoothly here.
At first, there was resistance on both sides, but this stalemate changed forever as the first brave caravan set out on the trade route.
The tea, silk, brocade, and food of the Tang Dynasty were simply unseen and unheard of by those people in the Western Regions. And when these things are replaced by cattle and sheep, the Hu people don't mention how happy they are. Datang's caravan exchanged cattle and sheepskins, metals, and mineral deposits at the smallest price, and also got a lot of benefits.
The Dima people, who tasted the sweetness, began to have close contact with the Tang Dynasty, and their lives gradually became richer. At that time, the war in the Western Regions was spreading, and countless Hu people heard that the Dima people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and that the poverty and backwardness that had fought each other had long since ceased to exist, and they rushed here to try to escape the war.
The barren land that no one cared about has become a paradise on earth in the Western Regions.
The city of Dima, which gradually became the core of trade, also had another significance to the Tang Dynasty - those small tribes who were unable to resist the Xiongnu and Tiele chose to contact the Tang here. Under the double oppression of the Xiongnu and Tiele, they could no longer live. Only by finding a bigger backer can we avoid the fate of the destruction of the clan.
For the tribes who came to surrender, Datang had no reason to turn them away. So nominally, they are still a subordinate of the Xia Kingdom, but in fact, they are already attached to the Tang Dynasty.
In a few years, the Tang Dynasty made the situation in Xia extremely chaotic through aid, division, suppression, and co-optation, and the war spread throughout the Western Regions. And the Hu people in the Western Regions also knew that consuming it like this would be a blessing or a curse for the entire Xia Kingdom, but for their own interests, they had no power to stop this fire from burning more and more.
Just when the Hu people were encroaching on each other and trying to recreate the situation of unification of the Western Regions, the recuperating Tang Iron Hoof had already knocked on their door.
Four years later, the Tang Expeditionary Force crusaded against the Xia Kingdom!
The Xiongnu and Tiele were shocked, and for the first time abandoned their previous suspicions and joined forces to defend against foreign enemies. But when they arrived at the battlefield, they found that they were not only facing the army of the Tang Dynasty, but also those small tribes that were inconspicuous in their eyes and only worthy of being slaves!
One tribe may be insignificant, but what about dozens of tribes united?
The Xiongnu and Tiele were indignant, the hateful Tang people, they used despicable means of discord to make the major forces in the Western Regions kill each other, while they secretly recovered their vitality, and then sketched a picture of peace and health for those tribes who could never become the climate, so that they gave up their integrity and dignity, and were willing to become the dogs of the Tang Dynasty!
Unfortunately, by the time they realized this, it was already too late.
The new commander of the Tang Dynasty took the Tang soldiers all the way in, and for the first time in history, he captured the capital of the Xia Kingdom, known as the "Star of the Western Regions".
When the horse entered the city gate, Dai Tianya's excitement was overwhelming. How many years of humiliation, how many years of long-cherished wishes, finally became a reality in him.
He led the Tang Dynasty to conquer this country that had brought them disasters for generations!
When the Tang Dynasty flag was planted in the palace of the Xia Kingdom, the end of a dynasty was announced. Although some people are reluctant to admit this fact, the submission of nearly half of the tribes, the silence of a few tribes, and the defeat of the Xiongnu and Tiele coalition armies have made the loss of the country an indisputable fact.
The Xia Kingdom is dead!
The proud Huns did not give up, they were still trying to resist, fighting against their humiliating fate. As a result, the army led by Dai Tianya drove hundreds of miles westward all the way, paying an extremely painful price.
Knowing that there was no hope of turning the tables around, the Xiongnu Khan was helpless and no longer dared to take the lives of the remnants of his tribe - he could no longer afford to lose.
Thus, the Huns began a long wandering.
The Tilers, on the other hand, were much smarter. Knowing that they could not reverse the tide of history, they wisely gave up their resistance. When King Tiele knelt in front of Dai Tianya, the word "Tiele" became history.
In order to fear a resurgence, Dai Tianya responded to the emperor's order and forcibly divided the originally powerful Tiele into eight divisions, which were distributed to the eight most remote areas of the Xia Kingdom.
When all the 39 tribes of the Western Regions surrendered, the vast Western Regions were all included in the territory of the Tang Dynasty.
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The Xia Kingdom was destroyed, and everyone in the Qi Kingdom in the east was in danger.
The apprehensive ministers began to criticize Li Yu. There is no other reason, a few years ago, it was he who promised the envoy of the Tang Dynasty to send 100,000 troops to support the precarious Tang Dynasty. But after the war, Datang actually said that the 100,000 troops were all "killed on the battlefield"!
That's a whole army of 100,000! Could it be that the mountains and rivers are exhausted, and there is no one left?
Such a lie cannot deceive anyone at all. But across the Tang Empire, no one can go to the Western Regions to find out. After a war of words, Daqi had no choice but to give up.
Even if the Tang Dynasty at that time was extremely weak, the Qi State Imperial Court, which was rotten to the bone, did not have the courage to brazenly launch a war, especially since they had just lost 100,000 elites. The ministers and people, who had nowhere to vent their anger, pointed the finger at Li Yu.
Li Yu was extremely depressed. Those ministers who instigated him to send troops and the people who praised his benevolence and righteousness did not bear any responsibility in the face of difficulties, but put all the blame on his head, and there was no one up and down who did not call him "the first faint monarch in the history of Qi State"!
With this hat, Li Yu was angry. In his opinion, he had made a wise decision and wanted to send someone to the battlefield to find out. It was these blind courtiers and ignorant people who constantly put pressure on themselves and instigated themselves to give orders in a hurry. But to whom did he tell these truths?
Others don't care about the process, let alone explore the traction, they only care about the result. In the eyes of all Qi people, the final order came from Li Yu's instructions, and that was enough.
Li Yu was originally cowardly, and after being scolded by the whole country, he became more cautious in every decision.
The incompetence of the monarch made the courtiers even more unscrupulous greedy for ink. Under the control of a group of traitorous ministers led by Liu Gong, the decay of the Qi State reached the highest point in history, the entire court was in a miasma, and the common people became more and more miserable.
At this time, Datang finally came.
In recent years, Datang, which has opened up the bridge to the Western Regions, has recovered rapidly. After Qin Tian asked himself that he had the strength to dominate the world, he finally ended his long wait.
He ordered someone to find a very ridiculous reason: to let Qi Guo hand over a non-existent "Datang felon".
This person himself was fabricated out of thin air, where did Qi Guo go to find someone? The ministers watched coldly as Li Yu stupidly sent someone to turn Daqi upside down, and finally couldn't help but remind him: Your Majesty, Datang wants to end the era of the Three Kingdoms standing side by side. The so-called human offenders are just an excuse to send troops to the army.
Li Yu finally came to his senses.
No one was willing to give up the wealth in their hands, but when they wanted to resist, they found that the army and people they had given up had actually given up on them.
In the eastern expedition to the Qi State, the Tang Dynasty only sent 150,000 troops. And the 100,000 Qi troops who had barely gathered together saw that the local murderous spirit was like a rainbow, and they lost their fighting spirit before they could start fighting. Before the Tang army launched the first round of charges, the Qi army ran clean.
Zhong Langxian, who is a military advisor, sat in a sedan chair, listening to the sound of chickens flying and dogs jumping behind the opposite city wall, snorted lightly with thick disdain in his gray-white eyes, and said coldly: "The dog who lost his family, why do you need to work so hard!" ”
All the way east, Datang did not even encounter decent resistance. What made the Tang army feel even more ridiculous was that they originally thought that the Qi army retreated to preserve their strength, and relied on the easy defense and difficult attack of Linzi, the first male city of the dignified Qi, to make the final deal with the Tang army. Unexpectedly, when I arrived at Linzi City, I found that the gate had been opened by the hungry people.
Li Yu, who knew that a catastrophe was coming, was like a hasty rat, hiding in the underground palace of the palace. In the dark dungeon without five fingers, Li Yu only felt that every second felt like a century had passed.
Fortunately, this depression did not last long. The day after he hid in the dungeon, the secret passage was opened. When he saw the groveling faces of the people who led the Tang army, Li Yu almost went crazy.
It was none other than the good lover who had been in love with him - Liu Gong!
Seeing this person, Li Yu's heart was completely dead. What mountains and seas oath, what the sky and the earth are old, all are false lies!
Feeling betrayed by the person he loved the most, Li Yu no longer cared about the dignity of the emperor, turned his anger into a soft fist, and scuffled with Liu Gong in front of the Tang army like a shrew. And Liu Gong was afraid of leaving a bad impression on these grandfathers of the Tang Dynasty, so he put on a disgusted look, anxious to distance himself from his former "beloved". The indifferent and disgusted face made Li Yu almost crazy.
Zhong Langxian "saw" such a sensational royal secret for the first time, separated the two in disgust, and asked Li Yu, who was wearing a dragon robe, to "voluntarily" give up the jade seal of the country and announce his return to the Tang Dynasty. In return, he gave this loveless person a glass of intestinal poison wine, so that the last faint monarch of the Qi State could leave this world with the "dignity" of the emperor and dignity.
Li Yu drank it all without hesitation, perhaps for him, this world has long been loveless.
As for Liu Gong, a despicable villain who forgets his righteousness, it can only be a disaster to keep it.
Poor Liu Gong was still secretly proud, thinking that leading the Tang army to find the monarch could be regarded as a great achievement. Even if you don't have the status of a prince, at least it's not too miserable, right?
But people are not as good as heaven, he didn't wait for the blind military division's appreciation, but waited for two Tang guards in armor, as well as the cold knives in their hands.
"Ahh
The terrible screams made the neighbors deeply remember the fate of the traitor.
Since then, the state of Qi has fallen.
In 399 years of the park, the Tang Emperor Qin Tian destroyed the Western Xia and Eastern Qi, and finally ended the situation of hundreds of years of "Three Kingdoms", and once again unified the land of China like Qin Shi Huang.
Country name - Datang!