Chapter 25: Gag

Luo Shixin and they arrived in Gyeongju safely, but they left behind a mess, a barren Ashina tribe and a sticky tribe with heavy casualties, as well as a place of terror.

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 exclaimed that evil spirits were coming. Douole "has stretched out its sharp claws and ferocious spirits to them, intent on swallowing 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 Luo Shixin from attacking again.

Luo Shixin'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, and he is waiting for the time to come and annihilate Tuli, the anti-bone boy, in one fell swoop.

At this critical time, one after another stimulus came.

First, he was rescued by Liang Shidu, saying that Luo Shixin was training troops on the border and intended to attack Shuofang.

Shuofang is rich in water and grass, and it is also the gateway of the Tang Dynasty, which is also of extremely important strategic significance to the Turks and cannot be lost. I was thinking about whether Datang really intended to forcibly take Shuofang, and whether to send a force of soldiers and horses to support it, so as not to let Datang take Shuofang, a military important place.

Before he could figure out why, Luo Shixin's troops attacked the Sticky Tribe. The news of the destruction of Ashina's camp reached him.

Immediately after that, he received requests for help from several tribes, and the letter was not to transfer the tribe's warriors back to prevent Luo Shixin from attacking again.

A flurry of bad news came. directly made the complacent Jieli dumbfounded, and scolded angrily and unwillingly, "Luo Shixin, 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 was a new force. The forces were far inferior to him, so they planned to force the victory this time. specially mobilized the troops of various tribes, but he didn't want Luo Shixin to drill into control. attacked their rear and brought them great panic, it was really a recipe for stealing chickens. The thought of it made him almost vomit blood.

"King Khan. Congli Khan, Sue Khan, Umo Khan...... Ask for a meeting as well. ”

Outside the tent came the voices of cronies. He reported the names of six khans in a row, just like the letters he had received from the tribes asking for help.

Jieli shook his head and smiled bitterly, sighed and said, "Let them in." ”

As soon as they were allowed, Ashina Congli, Sticky Suddenly, Wu Mo and others poured in one after another.

"King Khan, you have to make decisions for me!" Ashina Congli is the most tragic, his son died in the previous battle first, thinking about avenging his son this time, at the instigation of Jieli. In one go, all the Tujie and guard soldiers under his command were mobilized, and only a small number of string control personnel were left to protect the territory. In order to avenge his son. His generals were the hardest at all, and the ones suffered the heaviest losses. As a result, this side has not yet won, but the rear has been destroyed by Luo Shixin in one fell swoop, and cattle, sheep and horses have become the trophies of the other party. Thinking of his years of hard work, almost half of his loss is a heart, a fifty-year-old man, tears are flowing down.

Looking at his uncle, Jieli also felt sympathy, gritted his teeth and said: "Uncle, don't worry, I don't share the sky with Luo Shixin 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 fought with him to the death. He deliberately mentioned Ashina Congli's dead child, just to arouse his hatred of the same enemy and keep him to continue to fight the enemy.

Ashina Congli shook his head miserably and said: "The tribe has been destroyed, and the people who have been killed have nowhere to live, exposing the corpses to the wilderness, and becoming the flesh of birds and beasts. Those who were lucky enough to flee were homeless, scattered, or robbed by horse thieves or taken captive by other tribes, all because of my desire for revenge. This is a big mistake, and I will not go back to make up for it. How do I deal with Daddy who passed the Khan throne to me? With the approval of King Wanghan, Ashina Congli withdrew his troops and went back to gather the scattered tribesmen to make preparations for this winter. "The nest has been kicked and the Ashina tribe has suffered heavy losses in economic and material resources, and it will definitely not be able to survive this winter, so he can only prepare early and resign himself to fate.

Jieli shook his head and sighed, so he had to say: "Uncle be careful all the way, you also suffered this loss for my Turks." I will compensate you to help you survive this winter. ”

After Ashina's cong ceremony, the Turkic khans such as Sticky and Umo also said goodbye one after another, saying that they were threatened by Luo Shixin.

This is also the most uncontrollable place for the grassland peoples, although each tribe will serve one person as the master, but they all put their own tribe first. For the sake of his own tribe, he was able to ignore and disobey the Turkic Khan.

Jieli also saw the disadvantage of this system to his power, and specially reused Zhao Deyan, Luo Yi and other Han people as officials, thinking that the Central Plains would be used on them, change the Turkic situation, and establish a Turkic state like the Han dynasty. It's just that so far, few of the Turkic tribes have eaten his set.

Jieli allowed Ashina Congli to leave, and there was no reason to refuse them, and it was useless to persuade them, so he could only let go.

Jieli, who originally had an absolute advantage, walked several tribes sideways at once, but his strength showed a slight disadvantage, which was not as good as Tuli.

Jieli's original form of victory suddenly became subtle.

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The Turks were so sad that the Tang Dynasty in Guanzhong was overjoyed to get the news.

Li Shimin also couldn't have imagined that Luo Shixin would be so smooth, and that rich results made him, the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty and the real principal of the entire dynasty, look blushing.

"20,000 sheep, more than 3,000 cattle, and more than 10,000 horses......" Li Shimin looked at this amount, and regretted it in his heart, he just wished that he could take a regret medicine, eat what he had said before, and stuff it in his stomach.

Luo Shixin and Li Shimin secretly had an agreement, why better motivate the border soldiers, and the looted materials should be handled by him with full authority.

Li Shimin was thinking at the time that the border soldiers were weak, so they would select top-notch brave men from among them, and the number was also limited. The steppe is the world of the nomadic Turks, and Luo Shixin uses the tactics of fighting guerrillas to feed the war and carry out looting, and 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 Luo Shixin would launch an offensive during the battle between Jieli and Tuli, he didn't know that Ashina Congli would transfer all the warriors in the tribe, so that Luo Shixin 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.

"What do you think is the way for my brother-in-law to spit out what he has in his hands?" Li Shimin glanced at Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and the eldest grandson Wuji 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.

Fang Xuanling was a little embarrassed, and said Cancan: "This is not good, after all, the general and His Highness have an agreement, and now when he sees that the general has gained a lot, he wants to regret it, and it is not good for His Highness'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? More than 3,000 head of cattle were classified as official cattle and 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's milk and mare's milk can be produced, and how many lambs and foals can be born."

"Your Highness, arrange for me to send an envoy to Gyeongju, and my subordinates have a plan to make the general willingly hand over the cattle and sheep, as for the horses, it depends on the situation." The eldest grandson Wuji squinted and smiled, with a scheming look.

Li Shimin was overjoyed and said with a smile: "Or is it still the auxiliary machine with a good plan...... he was about to give an order, but learned that an official document came from Gyeongju?

Li Shimin first put down the appointment and asked people to send the official documents.

I was willing to endure the ugly words for the sake of it, but I found that the handwriting in the official document was extremely beautiful, stroke by stroke, and I couldn't help but say: "Good words!" ”

Looking at the content of the official document, Li Shimin suddenly laughed "haha", "I don't need to go to the auxiliary plane this time, my brother-in-law looks a little coarse, but in fact, it is still very related to national affairs." Knowing that my Datang needs cattle and sheep, I specially gave all the remaining cattle and sheep to Datang, which is still very good. ”

The eldest grandson Wuji was stunned, and said with a wry smile: "The general is so generous, I'm afraid that His Royal Highness is not asking him for a horse!" ”

Li Shimin's heart was suddenly shocked.

Fang Xuanling couldn't help but smile: "I'm afraid that the general has already expected that His Highness will snatch food, and specially sealed His Highness's mouth with cattle and sheep that they don't need, so as to leave the war horses they need." (To be continued......)

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