There is an old Chinese saying that "distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors", but the Eastern Turks, a neighbor, really troubled the newly established Tang Dynasty. The Khan of the Eastern Turks was the Jieli Khan who was twice intimidated by Li Shimin's words. This Turkic leader is very dishonest, he has nothing to do or go to Lao Li's house to steal some food, or grab some local products, and occasionally harass the hostess, which makes Li Shimin, the boss of the Li family, hate this neighbor so much. And this neighbor is very undignified, he can grab a handful, once the other party is angry, pick up the board and want to slap him, he immediately admits cowardice and kneels to beg for mercy. This kind of capricious rogue behavior is very similar to that of a certain country now, which has turned a war of aggression into a war of defense of the capital.

After repeated accommodations, in exchange for more unscrupulous destruction, Li Shimin finally couldn't bear this Indian Ahsan anymore, and decided to set fire to his house and make his whole family disappear completely.

When Li Shimin took over, the original territory of the Great Sui Dynasty had basically been included in the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and only Shuofang was occupied by the Liang division. Li Shimin is an excellent man who pursues perfection, how can he tolerate one less piece of his puzzle toy? In order to get back this piece of the puzzle, he sent his brother-in-law Chai Shao to take the Xue Wanjun brothers to find trouble with Liang Shidu.

Liang Shidu weighed his own catties, and estimated that it would be difficult to refuse Chai Shao, so he hurriedly sent a letter to his backstage boss Jieli and asked him to come over to help support the scene. Jieli was bent on finding trouble with Li Shimin, and as soon as he heard that he was going to fight with the Tang Dynasty, he rushed over with swords and guns, but he didn't expect that as soon as he fought, he was defeated by the Tang army.

Jieli has always lost a battle, and he runs away. After running a long distance, I remembered that my little brother Liang Shi was still in Shuofang? Hurriedly organized people to go back to rescue Liang Shidu.

Facts have proved that this Jieli is a person who only remembers to eat but not to fight, obviously he can't do it to the Tang Army, but he was stunned to hit the knife with his neck, and this time he was beaten by the Tang Army again.

Shuofang this place, the weather is cold, the Turkic cattle and sheep have been cold to death countless times, Jieli suffered another defeat, so he threw down Liang Shidu without hesitation and went home. Although Jieli's act of abandoning his friends is shameful, fortunately, the Turks have no shame and do treacherous things.

The Turks are afraid of the cold, in fact, the Tang army is also afraid of cold. Shuofang City was fortified, and the Tang army attacked for several days without any gain, so some people started to retreat and suggested to Chai Shao to withdraw and return to the court. At this time, Xue Wanjun stood up, pointed to Shuofang City in the distance and said to Tang Jun: "Look there! What do you see? ”

Everyone looked at the sky above the city that Xue Wanjun pointed to, except for a few crows flying by, Mao didn't see it. Everyone was surprised, and Xue Wanjun said loudly: "Didn't you see that Shuofang City was already covered in black? This is the sign of the destruction of the capital of Liangshi? What are you waiting for, rush with me! ”

All the Tang troops actually didn't see anything, but these people were very superstitious, they thought they were ordinary people and couldn't see the signs of God, but they believed that people with magical powers could see. Xue Wanjun was that kind of person, and everyone followed Xue Wanjun and rushed to Shuofang City.

The Tang army thought that there was a god protecting themselves, so they were all extremely brave, Shuofang City was under the onslaught of the Tang army, seeing that it could not be defended, Liang Shidu's cousin, killed him, and surrendered the city.

It is also a superstition, and if used in the right place, it can be transformed into an invincible and earth-shattering force. And if you use it in the wrong place, it will become a disaster in a different place.

Among the heroes at the end of the Sui Dynasty, this Liang Shidu regime existed for the longest time, lasting 12 years. At this point, Li Shimin finally completed the reunification of the whole country.

In the first battle of Shuofang, Jieli's vitality was greatly damaged, and the tribes such as Xue Yantuo and Hui Hui, who were originally attached to him, all rebelled against the Turks and established themselves as khans. This series of news continued to spread to Chang'an, and Zheng Yuanxuan, Hongluqing, persuaded Li Shimin, "The time has come for the Turks to perish, not only will all the ministries have objections, but also there will be a catastrophe, people and animals will not have enough to eat, and it will be finished in two or three years." ”

Li Shimin also thought so, and the ministers advised him to seize this opportunity to annihilate the Turks in one fell swoop. Li Shimin said: "I have made an alliance with the Turks, if I break the contract in the past, it will be discredited, and when they come to find trouble again, and then ask for them, then the teacher will be famous." ”

Even the Turks are considered to have brought about their own destruction. Just after Xue Yantuo, Hui and other troops rebelled one after another, Jieli asked Tuli, that is, his nephew, to lead the crowd to attack. Tuli was defeated in successive battles, and his territory was occupied by other tribes. Tuli ran back to Jieli's tent, and when Jieli saw that he was beaten so badly, he beat him again and locked him up for more than ten days before letting him go back.

The enemy can still bear to fight himself, after all, his skills are not as good as others, but when he returned home, he was beaten by his own uncle, and the more Tuli thought about it, the more angry he became, and he couldn't swallow this breath, so he decided to change the boss and no longer mix with Jieli.

Jieli didn't know that Tuli had a different heart and recruited troops from Tuli, but Tuli did not agree to him, but sent a letter to Li Shimin to surrender to the Tang Dynasty. When Jieli heard that Tuli was going to collude with the Tang Dynasty, he was furious and immediately sent troops to attack Tuli. Although Jieli's strength is not as good as before, he is also a camel when he is skinny! It's still bigger than Tuli's skinny horse. Since you recognize the boss again, let's ask the new boss for help.

Li Shimin received a letter asking for help and said to the ministers: "I bowed to Tuli, and I will definitely pull him at this time." But I have a covenant with Jieli, what can I do? Du Ruhui replied, "What is the reason to talk to a group of barbarians, it's over!" ”

As he spoke, he didn't want Jieli to be cheap again, and he didn't know whether he was alive or dead to harass the border again. This is really sleepy, but Jieli sent a pillow. Li Shimin finally found a reason to clean up his profits, "It is necessary for him to re-understand himself." ”

Li Shimin hit Jieli's weakness with his shot, and he canonized the chief of the Xue Yantuo tribe, Yi Nan, as the true pearl Biga Khan. Yi Nan kicked off Jieli and planned to fly solo, but the biggest problem was that he had no name, he was operating without a license, and he could be banned by the joint inspection team of urban management and industry and commerce at any time. Li Shimin's canonization is equivalent to issuing him a permanent business license, which is undoubtedly a relief in disguise.

Li Shimin's hands-on business was inherited from Li Yuan. The cost of a piece of paper has set up a strong opponent for Jieli. Yi Nan immediately reciprocated Li and sent his younger brother to Chang'an to worship Li Shimin. Li Shimin gave him a treasure knife and a whip, and said to Yi Nan, "If there is a small mistake in your gang, whip him." Whoever commits a great mistake, cut him. ”

Yi Nan was very happy to receive the gift from Li Shimin. In order to repay Li Shimin's gift, he organized all the tribes that rebelled against Jieli, intending to besiege Jieli.

Jieli felt that he had gone too far this time, and the fate of the betrayal made him panic. However, he also has a final trump card, this trick has been tried and tested, and he has never missed, that is, he can't beat and immediately make peace.

Unexpectedly, this time Li Shimin stopped eating his set, and informed Jieli, "If you want to save your life, you must come to see you!" ”

In the third year of Zhenguan, in November 629 AD, Li Shimin sent Li Shichang to be the head of the march of Tonghan Road, Li Jing to be the head of the march of Dingxiang Road, Chai Shao to be the head of the march of Jinhe Road, and Xue Wanche to be the head of the march of Changwu Road, a total of more than 100,000 troops, marching by different routes to encircle and annihilate the Turks.

Li Shimin said to his subordinates: "I think that when my father raised an army against the Sui, he had to pay tribute to the Turks. I often feel guilty about this. Today, you can finally be ashamed! ”

In the spring of the second year, Li Shimin received good news, Li Jing took 3,000 horsemen, broke the decision, Xiangerzhou, Jieli fled in a hurry, and his subordinates offered Emperor Yang of Sui's wife Empress Xiao and Yang Zhengdao to surrender to the Tang army.

The last queen of the Sui Dynasty, who had many hands, finally fell into the hands of Li Shimin.

Rumor has it that Empress Xiao had six men in her lifetime. The first is Yang Guang, the second is Yu Wenhuayu, the third is Dou Jiande, the fourth is Chu Luo Khan, the fifth is Jieli Khan, and the last one is Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty. But this statement is more interpretive and not true.

Xiao Hou was born in 567 A.D. and died in 647 A.D., living to be eighty-one years old. In 618 AD, when the Sui Dynasty fell, she was already in her fifties, even if she was a stunning beauty when she was young, she was still old and yellow in her fifties. After Yu Wenhua and killed Emperor Yang Guang of Sui, he did occupy his concubines of the Sixth Palace, but if he was interested in an old woman in her fifties, then Yu Wenhua's taste was also quite heavy. Later, it fell into the hands of Dou Jiande, and Dou Jiande was very respectful to him. When Empress Xiao saw Li Shimin, she was already in her sixties, and it was even more impossible for Li Shimin to accept her as a concubine. In the end, after the death of Empress Xiao, she was buried with Emperor Yang of Sui.