There is no other way, Li Qianzhong decided to give it a try, if Zhang Xuanyu doesn't agree, then come hard!

To Li Qianzhong's great surprise, Zhang Xuanyu, the commander of the "Twenty-eight Generals' Army" of the Wu Zhou Dynasty, did not reject him, and signed his name on the military plaque very neatly.

When the commanders of the Tang Dynasty, Yan Bandit Shi and Zong Huaichang, received the military plan, they did not dare to slack off, and ordered the army to march to Yingzhou at the fastest speed, day and night, without food for men and horses......

After all, if you go late, you have to lose your head.

Historical data describe it as: "Day and night, not to mention sleep and food, the horses are tired" - this is the result of Li Duzhong's want.

There is no suspense in the ending: "The Khitan ambush was invited by the middle road, and the whole army was gone"

The whole army is gone!

Wu Zetian's "Twenty-Eight General Army" of the Wu Zhou Dynasty ended in complete defeat! In the battle of Huanglu Valley, the "Twenty-Eight General Army" that Wu Zetian had high hopes for was completely annihilated, which is unacceptable to anyone, not to mention that Wu Zetian has always thought that he is stronger than men.

Wu Zetian's self-confidence is well-founded, borrowing Sister Feng's words, "Three hundred years in the first place, three hundred years in the future, within six hundred years, no one (woman) can surpass me." "There are more than Sister Feng, as many as cow hair; But surpassing Wu Zetian, I'm afraid there really isn't, not only not in six hundred years, I'm afraid there won't be one in 1,600 years, in terms of the number of people killed in order to eliminate dissidents, no woman can surpass it!

The defeat of the army is a small matter, but the face is a big matter!

The battle of Huangji Valley was undoubtedly a resounding slap in the face from Li Qianzhong to Wu Zetian.

Women are not to be messed with!

Wu Zetian, who was ashamed and angry, issued a "Tianxia Order": all the prisoners in the country and the brave and powerful domestic slaves of the officials and people were all conscripted into the army, and the ransom money was paid by the government at the market price and sent to the front line to attack the Khitan; In addition, all the states east of the Kunshan Mountains near the border areas were ordered to set up armed cavalry regiments, and Wu Youyi, the general of the Tongzhou Assassin Shi and the Right Wu Weiwei, was the general of the Qingbian Road march and led the army to attack the Khitan.

Although historical sources do not give a specific number of people for this army, we can guess that its size is no less than the previous "Twenty-Eight General Army." "Therefore, it is necessary for us to get to know the supreme commander of this army, Wu Youyi.

Wu Youyi, the origin is very big. The grandson of the elder brother of the founding hero of the Tang Dynasty, Wu Shi Jean (彟音yuē), and the nephew of the current saint Wu Zetian. is an absolute relative of the emperor and a high-ranking official of the imperial court, but unfortunately, this person's ability is inversely proportional to his status. For the military. That's seven tricks, six tricks - none of them.

You may have to ask, since he is such a good person, why does Wu Zetian still want him to be the coach? Is it because he is Wu Zetian's nephew? Yes! Just because he is Wu Zetian's nephew!

Are there no generals in the country? Yes! Lou Shide and Wang Xiaojie, which one of them is a talent worthy of a general. Why not use these two? Because eight months ago, these two brothers lost the battle against Tibet. was demoted, and Lou Shide was demoted to Yuanzhou as a foreign Sima, that is, the chief of staff of a small military subdivision, and it was not in the establishment; Wang Xiaojie was even more straightforward, and was directly promoted as a "concubine" from the Ministry of War.

Let such a person serve as the commander of the army, and the result can be imagined. However, it is gratifying that Wu Youyi also made a big gain this time, but. Not in the military aspect, but in the literary aspect - although the harvester is not Wu Youyi, Wu Youyi is an indirect contributing factor!

The commander of the army is so unbearable, but the few deputies that Wu Zetian allocated to Wu Youyi are still quite powerful.

The first deputy, Zhang Jiujie, the deputy head of the Qingbian Road March. Zhang Jiujie, there is no biography in history. There are only a few words about his person, but we will wait and see if he is indeed a very powerful and intelligent person.

The second deputy. is even more powerful, Chen Ziang, who was the right picker (similar to a speech official) at the time.

(Ziang) is bound to be the Wenzong of the sea

Chen Ziang, whose name is Boyu, is a native of Shehong County, Sichuan. The history books say that "the capital is impatient, but the light wealth is good to give, and the friends are good", and the history books are also called "eighteen unknown books, with the rich family, still angry." Yi Bo is free. ”

From these two sentences, it can be seen that Chen Ziang's character is a person: he was born in a large family, he did not learn and did not know how to do it since he was a child, and he was still illiterate at the age of eighteen, but he liked to dance with guns and sticks. As for people, he has a narrow-minded and impetuous personality, but he is light on money and charitable, has a chivalrous demeanor, and attaches great importance to affection. A double personality;

Chen Ziang's childhood, childhood, and youth have been playing until one day when he was 18 years old, occasionally passing by a village school, and seeing other children (adults to be exact) shaking their heads and reading, this benevolent brother felt that he could not play anymore. Suddenly, I realized that I had to study hard.

Chen Ziang is a talent in the end, he only studied for seven years, took the imperial examination, won the Jinshi, and embarked on the road of politics. If this guy studied when he was a child, maybe there would be one more supernatural power in Chinese history, and there would be one more person who was enough to stun Fan Jin again!

At the beginning, Chen Ziang directly sought an official position in the central government, right? It's not powerful, the so-called Lintai orthography, although it is a department directly under the central government, has a big name. In fact, it is a small text proofreader in the Central Secretariat, responsible for some text proofreading work issued by the central government, looking for typos, looking for grammatical errors, etc.

However, Chen Ziang is Chen Ziang, he is not satisfied with the status quo, although he is in the secretariat, he has the world in mind. In view of the current politics, he often wrote to the emperor to express his own unique views.

The number of times he has written the book, coupled with the fact that his views are not only unique, but also very constructive, has attracted Wu Zetian's attention, and he has been personally received by Wu Zetian several times, and has exchanged views with him on the current general trend.

Slowly, Chen Ziang was promoted to the right.

Chen Ziang was not the protagonist in this expedition to the Khitan, but his personal experience aroused my interest, so I was verbose and gave some more pen and ink. There is only one purpose, that is, I want to tell everyone that if you want to do something, if you have any ideals, then hurry up and put it into practice, and never worry about your ability because of your age.

The ancients did it, and we did it even more!

On this expedition to the Khitan, Chen Ziang was appointed as the staff officer of the Wu Youyi Governor's Office, the governor of Qingbian Province. Before setting out for the expedition, Chen Ziang wrote to Wu Zetian again and raised his concerns about Wu Zetian's "Heavenly Order".

Chen Ziang thinks: You use prisoners and temporary ransom to form a conquest army, first of all, this is a rush to seek medical treatment, not only is the number of prisoners and domestic slaves now very small, but also these people are mostly cowardly and cowardly, "not enough to use". Secondly. It sounds good to call it a large army, but in fact it is all a rabble, and it is a shame to take it out. Losing the country is "damaging the country in general".

Chen Ziang knew that if he presented the music to Wu Zetian like this, he would definitely anger this woman. After expressing concern (which was actually criticism), Chen Ziang put forward his opinion: "Today, I am a loyal minister and a warrior. One of them is useless, the Khitan is a small sin, and he is waiting to be executed. "The gist of it is that less than one-in-10,000 of the loyal ministers and righteous people in the country are serving the country, and as long as the imperial court orders these people to be gathered, they can destroy the Khitan.

It's a pity that Wu Zetian, who was furious, ignored Chen Ziang's recital.

The commander is incompetent, and the soldiers are mixed.

This army is marching to the front!

To our great surprise to all of us, this army won the first battle!

A.D. 696. Datang, Danzhou

Hearing that Wu Youyi was coming with an army, Sun Wanrong planned to give Wu Youyi a surprise - to attack Danzhou at night, taking advantage of the Tang Army's unstable foothold!

Sun Wanrong led tens of thousands of elite soldiers, under the cover of night, rushed to attack, and the careless Tang army was in chaos - one soldier was in a nest. With a coach like Wu Youyi, it's no wonder if it's not messy.

When the Tang army was about to collapse, Zhang Jiujie, the deputy governor, stepped forward.

There will be brave men under the reward!

Zhang Jiujie recruited hundreds of daredevils on the spot.

In a group of prisoners and house slaves. It shouldn't be difficult to recruit hundreds of dead soldiers, these people have nothing else to ask for, anyway, if the opportunity is good. You can also get a large bounty if you survive.

Lao Tzu didn't want his life for the sake of rewarding money, and he was still afraid of you? The Tang Army daredevils counterattacked!

At this point, money is everything, and at least there's no better way to make these rabble explode superpowers.

Sun Wanrong, who was in sight of victory, was overturned, and the Khitan army was defeated and fled.

Exactly. The Khitan was not defeated in the hands of the Tang Army, nor in the hands of Zhang Jiujie, but in the hands of money!

Money, what a good thing!

Sun Wanrong, this defeat in Danzhou is just the beginning, and next, you will also receive surprises, surprises that are bigger than the surprises you gave to Wu Youyi, you will definitely not be surprised!

October 22, 696 (five months after the Khitan rebellion against the Tang Dynasty)

Li Quanzhong died.

You don't have to guess, Li Qianzhong did not die at the hands of Wu Zetian, nor did he die at the hands of the Tang Army, but died of natural causes and old age.

So the Khitan elected Sun Wanrong as the new leader to continue their anti-Tang cause.

Ordered in danger.

Sun Wanrong will live up to expectations, and he will use his strength to prove that he can bear such a heavy burden!

It's just that the addition of a third-party force caught Sun Wanrong off guard.

Third Force: Post-Turkic.

The sandpiper clam competes with the fisherman for profit, the sandpiper is the Tang and Khitan, and the fisherman is the post-Turkic.

Just when Wu Zetian was tortured by the Khitan, the Later Turks appeared.

Before the post-Turkic intervention is concerned, it is necessary for us to understand the disposition of the Turks, which is conducive to our understanding of what they are doing, otherwise, you will be confused by the second monk.

Taizong Li Shimin once said: "Turkic ,...... Monarchs and ministers only regard profit. ”

Taizong Li Shimin also said: "(Turkic) and my neighbor abandon faith and disturb the border......"

Cai Guogong Du Ruhui once said: "Yi Di has no faith, although I am as promised, he is often ,......"

Zheng Guogong Wei Zheng is more comprehensive, which can be used as a "self-evaluation" of the Turks: "The Turkic world is the enemy of China,......。 The ambition of birds and beasts is not my race, and if it is weak, it will be subdued, and if it is strong, it will be rebellious, and its nature is also. ”

The Turks have such a temperament, although Tang Shi is suspected of slandering others, but it is not complete slander!

The Khan of the Later Turks at this time was the Mursi Khan, whose surname was Ashina, whose name was Huan, and whose full name was Ashinahuan, and this person was introduced very simply - very representative - typical Turkic people: capricious.

Only by understanding this character trait of Silent Si will we not wonder what he does next.

Let's take a look at it step by step.

First appearance: Led the crowd to Koubian

Three years ago (696 AD), Mo Si's elder brother, the old Khan of the Later Turks, Gu Lulu, died of illness, and Mo Si bullied his nephew at a young age and established himself as Khan. As soon as Dongyue sat on the throne of the Khan, Layue led his troops to attack Lingzhou (near present-day Lingwu, Ningxia).

As mentioned earlier, women are not easy to bully, not to mention that this woman is Wu Zetian.

Wu Zetian was also not polite, and directly sent Li Duozuo, the general of the Right Eagle Yangwei, to counterattack, and Li Duozuo did not fail in his mission and defeated Mo Si.

Silent sip stabbed the hornet's nest.

After Mo Si was defeated, Wu Zetian was still angry, and in the following 694 AD, he sent the "Eighteen General Army" with a lineup second only to the "Twenty-Eight General Army".

The momentum is very huge, and the coach is Wu Zetian's little lover and Jianghu merchant Xue Huaiyi. There are several well-known among these eighteen generals, such as Qi Ming (the son of the one-eared general Qi Bi He Li), Sha Zha Zhongyi (who worked with Hei Zhi Changzhi to repel Su Dingfang), Li Duozuo, the Yuxiong of the hundred battles, Wang Xiaojie, the secretary of the military department, and the Anxi Duhutian became famous, etc., etc., either giving the Tubo a headache, or making the Turks have nightmares, and any one of them is a master who can fight well - except for the commander Xue Huaiyi.

It was said before that if a sheep leads a pack of wolves, then the wolves become sheep.

When a sheep meets a wolf (Turkic), the consequences can be imagined.

Fortunately, Xue Huaiyi did not disappoint his old friend Wu Zetian, and actually returned from the Turkic division without suffering any losses.

The merchant is so powerful?

Definitely! Because he went out for a spin and didn't touch Mo Si at all (I don't see the captive, yet).

Wu Zetian refused to give up, and in 695 A.D., he again sent Wang Xiaojie, the secretary of the military department, to garrison the border to guard against the Turks and wait for an opportunity to attack.

Second appearance: Lead the crowd to surrender

Without warning, at the end of that year (695 A.D.), Mursi sent an envoy to surrender.

Third appearance: led the crowd to rebel against Tang

(Next, the silent expression xiàn will make you understand why he is said to be a typical Turkic - capricious)

Less than a year after the surrender, Mo Si suddenly betrayed his treachery - "Turkic Kouliangzhou"

There is a small episode here, which cannot be omitted.

At that time, Xu Qinming, the governor of Liangzhou, was working in parallax outside the city, and without any warning in advance, tens of thousands of Turkic troops suddenly came to the city and surrounded Liangzhou (now Wuwei, Gansu). In this siege, Xu Qinming outside the city couldn't enter.

On the end is a good man, Xu Qinming led a few followers directly into the enemy formation, and was finally captured because he was outnumbered. (To be continued.) )