210. The Weishui Alliance (II)

"What then? Great Khan, did we spend so much effort to finally fight all the way to Chang'an City, and just retreat like this? This general was quite unconvinced.

"It's naturally impossible to retreat like this, since Li Shimin personally ran to the bridge, he must have come to negotiate with me, and he has no certainty of victory in his heart, let alone his imperial city being beaten to pieces."

"When I think about it, how to knock him well, so as not to be in vain." Jieli twisted two lush miscellaneous eyebrows.

"Great Khan, in the opinion of the ministers, let's fight directly, this Li Shimin has always been cunning, maybe there are suspicious soldiers in the city, even if they are not suspicious soldiers, I don't believe that their people can really block our soldiers."

The general who followed Jieli was ten belligerents and did not approve of Jieli Khan's peace talks.

"I'm afraid that if we fight all the way, the other tribes will not be able to make a contribution, and when we fight in the end, our main force will be almost defeated, but the result will be cheaper for them, wouldn't that be too cost-effective?" Jieli squinted.

The general was silent for a while, and then he continued: "Li Shimin, you don't have to play that trick on me, to put it bluntly, you are not sure to block my soldiers now."

"Otherwise, I wouldn't have chosen this time to bring such a few people out to negotiate with me. Say, what are you going to talk about? ”

"The Khan is right, I am not sure of victory against the Khan, and in the same way, does the Khan have the certainty of victory against the Khan? Since we don't have a shake with each other, let's sit down and have a good talk. ”

"It's not early now, tomorrow, the Khan will send envoys to my palace to talk, or I will send envoys to your camp to talk, what does the Khan think?" Li Shimin said.

"Okay, that's it, tomorrow you can send someone to my sweat tent to talk, and at the same time I have a request, when your people come, bring me back the stubbornness."

Jieli pondered for a while, feeling that Li Shimin was too cunning, and sent people to the Tang Palace for fear that he would not be able to bargain, so he decided to put the negotiation location in his sweat tent.

"I lost my thinking power and made a lot of nonsense in my palace, arrogant and unreasonable, I didn't kill him immediately for the sake of the Khan's face, as for whether to release him, let's discuss it after we finish talking." Li Shimin shook his head and refused.

Jieli frowned and didn't speak again, not long after Li Shimin left, Ash Nasimo, the first general under Jieli, returned.

As soon as he returned to the camp, he said to Jieli: "Great Khan, I heard that you are not going to attack Chang'an, but are preparing to negotiate peace with Li Shimin?" ”

"Not bad." Jieli glanced up at him and said.

Why is that? We have worked so hard to come here, and we finally have such an opportunity to conquer Chang'an in one fell swoop, if we give up in vain...... "Ashina Simo looked stunned.

"You have seen the confrontation between the left and right flanks of our army and the Tang Army today, right? Have we ever gotten a favor from the Tang Army? Jieli did not answer the rhetorical question.

"I really didn't ask for benefits, not only did I not ask for benefits, but I also suffered a lot of losses, especially on the right side, the black armor army led by Hou Junji caused a lot of casualties to our army." Ashina Simo Dao.

Ashina Shimo's brother was killed by Jieli for making a mistake before the expedition, and although Jieli brought Ashina Simo with him when he went on the expedition, he was quite defensive of him and did not give him much command.

The important strategic defensive place did not have his share, Jieli put him by his side, and served as the duty of a firefighter, that is, where the war was tight, he asked him to help, and today, it was the right side that was tight, so he hurried to the rescue.

"Now that you've seen the results, why do you bother to ask me about the peace talks? We took the army and quietly ran all the way to Chang'an, thinking that Li Shimin had just taken the throne, the regime was unstable, and the defense of Chang'an City was empty, so we went to Chang'an with all our anger. ”

"But now our idea is obviously wrong, Li Shimin's defense is far from being as weak as we thought, Chang'an City is easy to defend and difficult to attack, if we fight for too long, the follow-up supplies can't keep up, and when the Datang reinforcements arrive, the consequences will be unimaginable." Jieli Road.

"But, Great Khan, we can't just try without trying, just ......" Ashnasi had yet to say.

In his opinion, no matter whether it can be attacked or not, the 200,000 army has come outside Chang'an City, and he must launch one or two attacks in an all-round way.

"Alright, I've made up my mind, no more talk." It's a pity that Ashina Simo didn't finish his words before he was interrupted by Jieli,

Don't talk about the hearts of Jieli and others, but after Li Shimin left from the bridge and returned to the palace unharmed, the hearts of the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty were put down.

"Your Majesty, I didn't expect Jie Li to be really frightened by you, the minister thinks that he is not a brave person, but just on the bridge, he really sweated in his heart." After entering the imperial city, Fang Xuanling quietly wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead and said with a frightened face.

"Jieli is indeed a hero, he is not necessarily completely frightened by me, but he has some worries in his heart, one is that he does not allow my pulse, and the other is that he does not trust his subordinates, and he is worried that once the fight is not able to attack for a long time, it will be unfavorable to him."

"But even if we don't fight, tomorrow's negotiations, he will probably not make us feel better, by the way, what is the outcome of today's war?" Li Shimin asked.

"General Hou's side has achieved good results, killing nearly 10,000 enemy troops, and the enemy's right flank was almost crushed, but after Ashina Simo rushed over, their defense line was quickly stabilized, and the casualties of our army were not small."

"General Hou brought 10,000 people to attack, and less than 4,000 survived, and the 2,000 people brought out by Feng Li were only a few hundred left." Du Ruhui hurried over and said.

"I know, Xuan Ling, the negotiation that you understand will go with Xiao Yu and Feng Deyi, how to talk about it, I believe you know in your heart, we really can't afford to fight this battle." After listening to this, Li Shimin was silent for a long time before answering such a sentence.

This result obviously made him unhappy, not only him, but none of the courtiers present were happy.

At first glance, the enemy's casualties were above our army, and our army almost broke the enemy's defensive line, which was obviously a great victory.

In fact, this is not the case, the Tang army attacked today all elite troops, and the two flanks of the Turkic army were mostly people from other tribes.

Their leaders were afraid of being beaten by Jieli's way, and when they fought, they mostly did not make contributions, and as a result, the difference in casualties between the two sides was not large, and the most important thing was that the enemy had 200,000 people, while the Tang army only had more than 30,000 people.

On August 29, Li Shimin sent Fang Xuanling, Xiao Yu, Feng Deyi and others to the Jieli Tent to discuss peace.

On the 30th, Tang Taizong and Jieli Khan met in the bridge, slaughtered the horse and blood, and handed him a large amount of gold silk, known as the Weishui Alliance, which was also regarded by Li Shimin as the biggest shame in his life.