Chapter 226: Yes! Or not!
"The buyers of these ordnance and armor may have something to do with the safety of Yan Kingdom?" The spirit of the Emperor Taishang, who had been calm, suddenly tensed. Error-free updates @
"It's likely that it will be related, but it's still all the minister's inference, and the minister doesn't have absolute evidence yet......"
"It's not important to speculate!"
"When the minister was in the Uighurs, he heard that one of the Uighurs, the ancient tribe of Baye, was unusually rich!"
"Bayegu, isn't that the tribe of your steppe princess's concubine?"
"Your Majesty Shengming!"
"Are you suspicious?"
"Your Majesty, in fact, this is not a suspicion, in the past, the eldest princess's guard captain She Yungu has been in the Bayegu tribe for more than ten years, and he has vaguely mentioned to the minister that Bayegu has a relatively stable source of ordnance, but at that time, the time was urgent, and the minister was in a hurry to return to Chang'an, so he didn't care too much."
"But at this time, if you think about it carefully, you have the ability to spend a lot of gold and silver to buy a large amount of ordnance at once, I'm afraid that the only one who values commerce and trade the most is Bayegu, and the minister has seen that the cavalry of the Bayegu tribe is indeed different from other Uighur cavalry, and it is indeed fully armored, and there are a lot of standard weapons of my Tang Dynasty!"
"If the minister's guess is correct, one end of this is the Hedong army that set up this Huai'an Fort with the desire for profit in front of him, and the other end is the ancient tribe of the Uighur land."
"Bayegu seems to be one of the three major tribes that support the Uighur tent, and it is also the core force that supports the Yan Kingdom, and now the situation in the Yan Kingdom is not good, if Bayegu suddenly makes a move behind his back, ......"
"Your Majesty, what the minister is talking about is not Baye Gu itself!"
"Huh?"
"She Yungu has lived in the Baye Gu tribe for more than ten years, so the entire Baye Gu is relatively friendly to the Tang Dynasty, and the possibility of doing something to the eldest princess behind her back is very small."
"However, the minister guessed another possibility, Bayegu is the most business-loving among the Uighur tribes, and the Hedong Army-Bayegu's smuggling of ordnance has existed for more than two years, and Bayegu does not want to dominate the grassland, how can he use so many weapons and armor!"
"You mean, some of the weapons smuggled by the Baye Ancient Tribe are used for their own use, and the other part is used for foreign traffic?"
"Your Majesty is wise, according to the accurate information that Pei Zhi obtained from Liu Runlong this time, there are a total of 300 sets of armor, 200 sets of chain mail, 300 sets of leather armor, 10 horse lances, 300 spears, 600 short spears, 30,000 iron bows and arrows, and 100,000 milled rice.
"Bayegu himself would never choose such a batch of weapons, so the minister boldly speculated that someone customized it through Bayegu's channels, and if it was the Liaodong tribes, then Lu Long might encounter a crisis."
"If it is a tribe in the steppe, then the object of the minister's suspicion is likely to be the Yaogelo tribe who covet the Uighur throne!"
"The Yao Ge Luo Department is now the tribe that mainly threatens the eldest princess, if it is the Yao Ge Luo tribe that purchases armaments, armor, and food this time, so the minister has reason to believe that the Yao Ge Luo tribe is likely to have the confidence, or have the certainty, and is ready to take action against the Uighur tooth tent mastered by the eldest princess!"
"Is there any basis for this?"
"The reason why the minister said it was speculation is because there is no direct evidence, but Your Majesty can recall how Li Shigu was defeated!"
Guo Rong did not put forward any evidence, but the moment Li Shigu said three words, the moment he spoke, the Emperor Li Yu's color changed.
The situation in the entire steppe has been in a confrontation between the old Uighur aristocratic alliance of Yaoge Luo and the camp of Ya Tent, Qibi, Sijie, and Bayegu in the hands of Princess Li Xuan since the Great War between Tibet and the Uighurs.
After the death of Waishin Khan, his two sons defected and colluded with the Yaogaro tribes, and the two sides were at odds.
If, at such times, an elite cavalry armed to the teeth raided the Uighur tents......
The Uighurs, in the chess game in which the deceased Li Mi used the entire continent as a chessboard, were the most important allies of the Tang Dynasty in forming a strategic advantage over Tibet.
The eldest princess Li Xuan took advantage of the death of Huaixin Khan to control half of the Uighurs, which was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the Tang Dynasty.
Even if you can't control the entire grassland, even if you only control half of it, it is equivalent to the Tang Dynasty in East Asia. (This chapter is not finished!) )
Chapter 226: Yes! Or not!
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the Falcon, the Tibetan, and the Tang Dynasty occupied the absolute initiative.
Hetao and Fengzhou were places where the Tang Dynasty had direct contact with the half of the Uighurs under Li Xuan's control, and could not be bypassed in any case.
The garrison of Fengzhou is also the Tiande Army, and the current Fengzhou Defense Envoy, the Tiande Army Military Envoy is Ren Dijian, who once tried to win over Guo Rong as his godson!
To the south of the Tiande Army in Fengzhou, from west to east is the Lingwu Shuofang Jiedu envoy in the west, the Zhenwu Army Jiedu envoy in the middle, and the Hedong Jiedu envoy in the east.
The strength of the three towns of Lingshuo, Zhenwu and Hedong is not comparable to that of Fengzhou's defense envoys, but from the geographical point of view, these three towns are second-line in the defense of the north.
Because of the alliance between the Tang Dynasty and the Uighurs, there has been no large-scale war for nearly two decades, but it is undeniable that it is still an important defensive town in the northern part of the Tang Dynasty. Error-free updates @
Originally, the entire Hetao region had lost its former prosperity due to wars and floods, but with the easing of relations between the Tang Dynasty and the Uighurs in the past two decades, and the development of border trade, Fengzhou had begun to regain its vitality, and the strength of the Tiande army had also begun to expand.
According to Li Yu's understanding of all aspects, when Li Jinglong died mysteriously three years ago, the Tiande army had only 6,000 people, but when Guo Rong returned to Chang'an, the Tiande army, which had only 6,000 troops, had exceeded 10,000 on the surface.
And last year, when the war in Longxi and Longnan ended, when Li Yu and Changying's army returned to Chang'an, the strength of the Tiande army had exceeded 20,000 people, and the strength had steadily overwhelmed the Zhenwu army, and all information showed that Ren Dijian had signaled that his subordinates had begun to infiltrate the Zhenwu army.
Yan Juyuan, who succeeded the previous Zhenwu Army Festival Envoy, was brave and generous, and was quite loved by the soldiers, but he had no other wisdom and strategic talents, and there was no way to face the infiltration of Ren Dijian, who had a seven-trick exquisite heart.
In order to cooperate with Li Xuan's strategy and assist Li Xuan's strategy, Fan Xichao, Yan Juyuan's old boss Fan Xichao, was transferred from Chang'an to Lingshuo and became the current Lingshuo envoy.
The unexpected outbreak of the war in Longxi and Longnan ended with the recovery of Longxi and the forced peace of Tubo in Longnan, which made the Shuofang army and Guanzhong re-establish a solid connection.
The strength of the Lingshuo army, which took over most of the original Jingyuan army and received direct support from Guanzhong, skyrocketed, and at the same time, the pressure on the Tibetan side decreased.
In addition, in order to cooperate with Li Yu's strategy, Fan Xichao began to slowly move his attention and forces northward.
If it weren't for the rat trap, maybe Ren Dijian would have already begun to annex the Zhenwu Army.
How could such a border town, which had colluded with the eunuchs, disobeyed the imperial court, intended to annex other feudal towns, and grew stronger, how could Li Yu rest assured, not to mention that Fengzhou was still the most important node in the link between the Tang Dynasty and the Uighurs.
In fact, from last year, when the situation in the Uighurs had not deteriorated, Li Yu wanted to lead the Changying army to the target of the Hetao, which was located at the northern end of Hedong Province, to be precise, Toyosu!
As a result, the war with the Tibetans was first delayed for a year, and the result was a complete victory in the west, but the situation in the grassland deteriorated.
In December last year, the troops were dispatched and had just arrived in Luoyang, but Hedong Road suffered heavy snowfall.
Detouring from Hebei Province, Li Yu originally just wanted to take the opportunity to extort bamboo poles, but the feudal towns of Hebei and Henan were like facing a great enemy, and as a result, under the leadership of Guo Rong, it turned into a large-scale psychological war against the Shandong feudal towns.
Pinglu was dismembered, Henghai took the initiative to surrender, and Huaixi existed in name only, which was a good result for the imperial court, but this undoubtedly delayed a lot of time, otherwise in June, this forbidden army would have arrived at Hetao a long time ago.
Now, Guo Rong's judgment that Yao Geluo is ready to make a move on Li Xuan, Li Yu really can't keep calm, because although Guo Rong can be called a waste in other aspects, his judgment in the military field is quite accurate, and it is not much worse than veterans such as Fan Xichao and Duan You, and Li Yu himself is much stronger.
Li Xuan's ability to control most of the Uighurs was undoubtedly perfect.
However, if Li Xuan was directly killed by the old Uighur nobles of the Yaogelo tribe before his aid arrived, it would not only represent the loss of an opportunity, but also the failure of Li Xuan's cage policy tailored for Tibet.
It not only means that Li Mi and Datang's plan to contain Tibet for more than 20 years has been shattered, but it also means that Datang has just been revived. (This chapter is not finished!) )
Chapter 226: Yes! Or not!
, will again be caught in the dilemma of being attacked from the north and west in the north.
At that time, the two emperors, Li Yu and Li Chun, according to Guo Rong's world map and the top-down reforms he proposed, would die in the womb.
"Guo Rong, it seems that you have analyzed the situation very clearly, and you also know my purpose, I ask you, what do you think of the situation in front of you now, what do you think now?"
"And call the staff officers and military academy of your Changying Army, I remember that you often conduct deductions before battles!"
Looking at Li Yu with a serious face and a solemn look of expectation, Guo Rong was also very helpless, the current situation is really not good.
After thinking about it for a while, the generals of the Changying Army arrived, but to Guo Rong's surprise, Zhang Jiaxuan, the Taoist master who had not participated in the military discussion, also came.
Although he was a little confused, Guo Rong didn't think much about it, seeing that everyone was there, Guo Rong began to introduce Li Rui and others and analyze the situation in front of him.
"Your Majesty, the Uighur confrontation has been going on for a year, and with the death of Waixin Khan and the defection of his two sons, even the ministers can feel that the eldest princess is getting worse and worse, and Bayegu is the best proof of this!"
"In fact, Datang's equipment is really good, no matter how good Datang's equipment is, it will definitely not be ten times higher under normal circumstances!"
At this point, Liu Yuxi, Bai Juyi, two pure civilian officials, as well as Luo Chinese, Pei Zhi, Li Rui, Yang Xin, Li Erniu and other lieutenant generals and colonels who were observing nodded one after another.
"First, it can be seen as Bayegu taking the opportunity to raise prices and accumulate wealth, and secondly, it can be regarded as a kind of two-headed betting!"
"If it weren't for the feeling that the eldest princess was in an extremely bad situation, otherwise, as an ally of Huaixin Khan, one of the three pillars of the tooth tent, Bai Yegu, would definitely not buy equipment for Yao Ge Luo, even if he was lustful for profit."
"If we were in Toyosu now, everything would have been in time, but now the Uighurs are too far away, and the state of confrontation between the Uighurs will be beyond our reach!"
"As the real goal of His Majesty to lead the army this time, with the right time and place, Ren Dijian, who controls Fengzhou and Tiande Army, has full wings, and it is definitely not a simple matter to take Fengzhou."
"Your Majesty, the minister can only say that it is difficult to help the eldest princess at a critical moment!"
Of course he knew, but after listening to Guo Rong's analysis, Li Yan's face was still pale in the blue.
"Of course I know, I don't need to ask you, I don't need to be difficult now, I only ask you if there is a way! All you have to do is tell me that there is! Or not! βγ @η²Ύε\/Shuge Error-free Debut~~
Chapter 226: Yes! Or not!