The next day, Ashina and Russia led a large army to attack the city gate, and when the battle was raging, Zhang Shougui led an ambush to kill and divide the Turkic army into two sections. At this time, Ashina and Russia led the vanguard troops, was attacking the city, seeing that the war was unfavorable, wanted to retreat, but Guo Qianqian also led a large army from the city gate at this time, the Turkic front army was caught off guard, defeated, Ashina and Russia died in the chaos.

The general Shi Abibi led the rear army, seeing that the war was unfavorable, so he led the army to retreat for dozens of miles, stopped to gather soldiers and horses, and Ashina did not return to the team, Shi Abibi thought that he was captured by the Tang army, so he offered heavy grain to the Tang army, hoping to exchange for the Khan's son. Unexpectedly, the Tang army told them that Ashina and Russia had been killed, and the Turkic army had no choice but to lead the army away after crying under the city.

The Eastern Turkic army not only failed in this battle, but also lost the Khan's son. Ashinamo's brutality is famous, and the general Shi Abi does not dare to return to China. In desperation, Shi Abibi defected to the Tang Dynasty with his wife, and the Eastern Turks lost one of their generals.

The Tang army won a great victory, Guo Qianqian wrote to the imperial court to reward meritorious generals, Zhang Shougui was crowned a guerrilla general, and was transferred to Youzhou (now Beijing) to serve as Liangshe Fu Guoyi, leading the local troops (government soldiers).

The main enemy of Youzhou at this time was not the Turks, but the Khitan and Xi tribes.

The Khitan had already surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, but its leaders Li Quanzhong and Sun Wanrong could not stand the oppression of Zhao Wenhui, the governor of Yingzhou (now Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province), and rebelled and killed Zhao Wenhui in 696 AD (Southern Zhou period). Although the turmoil was later pacified, the vicinity of Yingzhou was already dilapidated, and the former governor's mansion was moved to Yuyang City (now Jixian County, Tianjin) in the east of Youzhou.

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In the second year of Kaiyuan (714 AD), Xue Ne, the ambassador of Herong and Dawu (near Dai County, Shanxi Province), the governor of Bingzhou (Taiyuan, Shanxi), wrote a letter requesting to attack the Khitan tribe and rebuild Yingzhou. Li Longji had just ascended the throne at this time, and he also wanted to establish a meritorious career, so he agreed, but the ministers of the DPRK and China, such as Yao Chong, were opposed, and Li Longji wanted to stop everyone's mouth. So Xue Ne's official position was promoted, and he was also the position of prime minister (the same as Ziwei Huangmen Sanpin), now everyone knows the emperor's determination, and they will not say more.

Who is this Xenne? It's a big name. His father is the general Xue Rengui, and the actor of "Xue Dingshan Expedition to the West" is based on him. However, at this time, Xue Rengui had already passed away, and Xue Ne was also a veteran (sixty-four years old this year).

Xue Ne formed the Northern Army, leading the generals of the Left Prison Guard, Du Bin, and Cui Xuandao, the assassin of Dingzhou (now Dingzhou City, Hebei Province) and other generals. and an army of 60,000, which set out from Danzhou (Miyun County, Beijing), to attack the Khitan.

At this time, the general Du Guest warned Xue Ne:

"The weather is hot, the soldiers wear armor, carry weapons in their hands, and have to carry food and grass to carry heavy loads, and it is difficult to succeed in penetrating deep into the enemy's borders."

Xue Ne replied: "The weather is hot, and the grass is luxuriant. The livestock of the Khitan tribe are multiplying in large numbers, and we can get food from them, and we can destroy them with one sortie. Don't miss this opportunity. So he marched in.

But Xue Wei didn't know that the Khitans' intelligence collection was extremely sensitive, and they had prepared traps waiting for the Tang army to enter

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When the army marched north and arrived at the Luanshui River Valley, suddenly, a large number of Khitans appeared on the mountains on both sides of the river valley. They dropped a lot of rolling wood and rocks from the mountain, cut off the retreat, and then attacked from the mountain. The main army of the Don army suffered heavy casualties and was cut into several pieces. It is not possible to rescue each other. Xue Ne led more than a dozen cavalry to break through and finally escaped with his life. In order to ridicule Xue Ne and hit the morale of the Tang army, the Khitans claimed that they had defeated "Granny Xue". And Cui Xuandao led the rear army, and after hearing the rout of the main force, he hurriedly led the army to retreat.

This time it failed. It was really a big slap in the face to Li Longji. The emperor's face is gloomy, and the people below are naturally not having a good time, as a result of settling accounts, the eight generals below Xue Ne were all beheaded in Youzhou, and Xue Ne should have been executed, but he put the responsibility on the heads of the dead, so he was exempted from death, removed from all official positions, and demoted to civilians. Du was pardoned and acquitted because he did not want to march lightly.

After this defeat, the Tang army was unable to launch another attack, so it first took a defensive position and waited to see what happened.

In terms of opponents, although the Khitan won a big victory, because of internal strife, they could not free up their hands to attack the Tang army, and the border showed a relatively calm situation.

At this time, the aforementioned Eastern Turkic Khan Ashina Mosi, after being defeated by the Tang Army, lost face, and out of compensation psychology, he went to find a "soft persimmon" to pinch it to vent his anger. In the fourth year of Kaiyuan (716 A.D.), Ashinamo picked the Baguye tribe located in the north of his country, so he raised a large army to attack Baguye, broke the Baguye army in Duleshui, and returned triumphantly.

Joy and sorrow, Ashinamo sipped that he thought that the enemy had no combat effectiveness at all, so he was not on guard at all on the way back, but this time he was wrong, although the "soft persimmon" is easy to pinch, but sometimes there are sequelae. On the way back triumphantly of the Great Khan, the warriors of Baguye had already been ambushed in a willow forest on the side of the road, and when the Great Khan entered the willow forest, he encountered a rain of arrows, and the Great Khan fell off his horse on the spot, and was slightly beheaded by the soldiers of Baguye, and his head was cut off and taken away.

Liang Wanqing saw that Zhang Shougui came back unharmed, and he was elated, and he only felt angry at the moment, so he said to the people below: "I just asked Zhang Shougui to lead a horse, he actually broke his uniform, and he definitely didn't know where to run and mess around." Left and right, tie this kid up and beat me! ”

In this way, Zhang Shougui was whipped dozens of times.

Zhang Shougui felt both aggrieved and angry. He worked so hard to help the leader, not only did he not get any reward, but he also received an indiscriminate beating.

He found that no matter how good his worksheet is, as long as he can't climb up, he will always be ridden on the head by those who are inferior to you in ability, martial arts, and morality. It makes no sense to continue to stay in this county, you are a martial artist, why should you wronged yourself!

It's time to leave, Zhang Shougui originally wanted to arrest the director and beat him up before leaving; Later, I thought about it, I am a man, I don't need to do this kind of stealing things, and I don't need to get along with the director for small grievances. Big husband, you can afford to mention it, you can put it down!

After Zhang Shougui figured it out, he packed his bags that night and left the county seat. Run to join the army.

Being a soldier is naturally very hard, and I follow the army every day to fight in the east and west, and change places every day. But the army is also a relatively easy place to get ahead, and Zhang Shougui is good because of his physical condition. Emphasis on righteousness, riding and archery kung fu (strong posture, generosity and righteousness, good riding and shooting), so he quickly became famous. When the Pingle Mansion will not be the general (Pingle Mansion is in today's Guangxi Autonomous Region).

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At this time, the imperial court was recruiting troops to go to the Western Regions, Zhang Shougui thought that the Western Regions was a frontier and often fought, and I would definitely have more opportunities to make meritorious contributions there, so I volunteered to participate and followed the army to the Beiting Protectorate to report. Their immediate boss is the right Xiaowei general, Beiting Duhu (stationed in Jimsar County, Xinjiang) Guo Qianjun.

The area under the jurisdiction of the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate was mainly the Zungar Basin (Northern Xinjiang) and the Kazakh Plateau in present-day Xinjiang, and the southern part of Xinjiang was under the jurisdiction of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, which was stationed in Qiuci (present-day Kucha).

Then. The nineteenth Great Khan of the Eastern Turkic Khanate, Ashina Mosi, sent troops to attack Luntai (near present-day Urumqi, Xinjiang), the jurisdiction of the Tang Army's Beiting Protectorate, Guo Qianqian ordered Zhang Shougui to lead troops to rescue, but encountered the Turkic army halfway, Zhang Shougui took the lead, bravely killed the enemy, killed more than 1,000 enemies, and captured Jiejin (that is, the tribal leader) alone, and the enemy was shocked. Zhang Shougui led reinforcements to Luntai and cooperated with the defenders to flank the Turkic army. The Turkic army was outnumbered and retreated. Guo Qianqian was deeply impressed by Zhang Shougui's first independent leadership of the army, and decided to reuse it.

This Ashina Mo Sip can be said to be a demon king of the mixed world. Since he succeeded to the position of his brother Great Khan in the first year of Yanzai (694 AD), he has been causing problems for the Tang Dynasty, constantly invading the frontiers, and at its peak its armed forces, it is said that the number of soldiers reached 400,000.

During the Wu Zetian period, the Eastern Turks invaded from time to time. The female emperor decided to implement the strategy of harmony, and the heroine was in charge of the country, and the shot was really different, in the past, she was a princess, but this time, she sent a handsome guy.

Who is this handsome guy? He is the son of Wu Chenghei - Wu Yanxiu, Wu Zetian was open-minded and sent a man to make peace, which can be regarded as a record in the history of peace.

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Sure enough, Ashina Mo was not a comrade and was not interested in his friends, but he couldn't say that he wanted a woman and not a man, so he found an excuse, saying that the Zhou Dynasty (Southern Zhou) looked down on him, why didn't he send someone from the royal family surnamed Li, but a boy surnamed Wu. He also said that he would raise troops to fight against the Zhou Dynasty (the name of the country when he was the Empress Wu) for the Tang Dynasty, and restore the world of Li and Tang, in short, it was very noisy. And although our female emperor killed the surnamed Li without mercy, she had no choice but to make Li Xian the crown prince when she encountered this kind of real gun, and Ashina Mo agreed to release Wu Yanxiu.

Wu Yanxiu did not marry a Turkic princess, but after returning to China, she married a princess of the Tang Dynasty, that is, Princess Anle Li Bao'er, but at this time, Princess Anle had just died of her husband, so it was a second marriage, but I heard that buy one get one free, and her mother-in-law "Queen Wei" also gave it.

However, Ashina Mosip did not stop because of this, he either invaded the Tang Frontier or attacked other surrounding tribes.

In the second year of Kaiyuan (714 AD), Ashinamo was unwilling to fail in the last expedition and decided to do it again. This time, he sent his son Ashina Tongo, his brother-in-law Huoba Lifa, and the general Shi Ashibi to form a large army and directly attack the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate.

On the one hand, Guo Qianqian held on to the city, and on the other hand, he sent Zhang Shougui to take the path back to Chang'an to report the news. Zhang Shougui returned to Chang'an with great difficulty, and wrote to the imperial court to summon the garrisons of Puchang (the name of the place is unknown) and Luntai to flank the Turkic army, and the imperial court agreed. (Frankly speaking, I think it's a little strange to write this, why does Guo Qianqian not have the right to directly mobilize the troops in these two places, and he still has to report to the imperial court, which is doubtful?) ）

After Zhang Shougui arrived in Luntai, he submitted an order from the imperial court, so the two places sent reinforcements to follow Zhang Shougui back to Beiting.

Zhang Shougui thought to himself that there were many enemy troops, and even if reinforcements were invested, they would not necessarily be sure of victory, and they must attack at the right opportunity in order to give full play to the maximum role of the reinforcements. Zhang Shougui then led his army to ambush the two flanks of the Turkic army, and held his troops still.

When the Great Khan's army came urgently to reinforce it, the warriors of Baguye had already retreated, only to see a headless corpse still bleeding underground, and the Great Khan, who had been rampant in the desert for more than ten years, died in this way.

After the Eastern Turkic Empire lost its khan, the whole country panicked, and the five nearby tribes that were originally attached to it were transferred to the Tang Dynasty.

At this point, the national strength of the Eastern Turkic Khanate was weak, and the successor Great Khan decided to temporarily recuperate and no longer use force against the Tang Dynasty and the surrounding tribes.

Zhang Shougui came to Youzhou at this time, although he was on the front line, he didn't have too many battles to fight, and his life was quite leisurely. Especially this time, it may be to redress what happened to him when he was young, the boss he met, Youzhou Assassin Shi Lu Qiqing appreciated him very much, and thought that Zhang Shougui's future was limitless, so he often invited him to sit on the same mat as equals, and said to him:

"In a few years, you will definitely become the envoy of Youzhou or Liangzhou, and become a general that the country relies on vigorously, so I will entrust my children and grandchildren to you, how dare you use the etiquette of treating your subordinates to get along?"

Zhang Shougui was in Youzhou for a few years, after all, he couldn't bear the loneliness, he was a person who couldn't be idle, and he didn't seem to have anything to do without fighting, so he left Youzhou as soon as he found an opportunity, and then rose steadily, and by the fifteenth year of Kaiyuan, he was already a general of Jinwu, and served as an envoy to the health army (stationed near Gaotai County, Gansu Province).

The sword will eventually be unsheathed, and while waiting, Zhang Shougui ushered in the opportunity to explode in his life.

As mentioned earlier, since the death of Songgan Zanpo, the Tibetan and Tang dynasties have been in a state of confrontation, and the two sides have continued to fight in the area of Helong (Gansu and Qinghai). After Li Longji ascended the throne, Tubo relied on his own strength, and his correspondence with the Tang Dynasty was all in equal courtesy, and the wording was arrogant and rude. ）。

In the fourteenth year of Kaiyuan (726 AD), after the end of the Zen ceremony, Prime Minister Zhang said that he knew that the emperor had the intention of crusading against Tibet, and in order to avoid the emperor from saying that he wanted to conquer Tibet, he first said to the emperor:

"Tubo is arrogant and rude, and it is not an exaggeration to slaughter the three tribes. However, between us and Tibet, there have been more than ten years of war and disaster, Ganzhou (Zhangye City, Gansu Province), Liangzhou (Wuwei City, Gansu Province), Hezhou (Linxia City, Gansu Province), and Shanzhou (Ledu County, Qinghai Province) are all in tatters, and the people have fled. Recently, I heard that they have a sense of repentance and a desire to reconcile. I hope that the emperor will accept their submission and relieve the suffering of the people in the frontier. “

Li Longji said: "Tubo has always been volatile, it is difficult to guarantee that this time I really want to reconcile, this matter, I will discuss it with Wang Junhuan before making a decision." (To be continued.) )