Jieli was beaten by Li Jing and ran all the way to the moraine, but Li Shiyun, who was ambushed in the clouds, was crazy again. Jieli betrayed his relatives and divorced, and was continuously ravaged by the Tang army, and was completely convinced. Hurriedly sent Zhi Zhi Sili to see Li Shimin to ask for peace, and was willing to attach himself to the country, and this Zhi Zhi Sili was the envoy who was detained by Li Shimin last time.

This time, Li Shimin saw that Jieli had been completely convinced by himself, and also agreed to the peace talks, and sent Tang Jian and An Xiuren to appease Jieli's little heart that had been seriously created. At the same time, the edict was passed to Li Jing and asked him to welcome Jieli.

Li Jing chased Jieli and was about to beat the water dog, when he received Li Shimin's edict to stop, he was very unwilling, so he discussed with his deputy Zhang Gongjin, "The battle has reached this level, it's a pity to stop." There are still a lot of Jieli people, so it is better to take advantage of the opportunity of the peace talks that he is not prepared for, raid him, and seize him.

Although Zhang Gongjin is very capable of fighting, he is not very good at engaging in conspiracy, and said to Li Jing: "The emperor has agreed to Jieli's surrender, and the envoys have all gone to Jieli, if we steal the dragon and attack them again, won't we kill the envoys?" "Zhang Gongjin's idea is very in line with the public psychology, our people are all negotiating with people in the Turkic military camp, you made a surprise attack, and the Turks are not allowed to break the envoy into pieces?

Li Jing didn't think so, he was thinking of fleeting fighters, and it was not a matter if one or two messengers died, it was a big deal to let the emperor send a few more. It happened that Li Shiyun also led the troops to arrive, and he also agreed with Li Jing's opinion. So Li Jing was in front and Li Shiyun was behind, secretly moving in the direction of the main Turkic force.

Along the way, they encountered Turkic patrols, and they were arrested and used as guides. Jieli was celebrating the happy cooperation with Tang Jian and others, and suddenly there was a report, "The Tang army has come closer, less than ten miles away." ”

Jieli was a little dazed, looked at the detective report, and then looked at Tang Jian, "What's the situation?" Didn't you say that you wouldn't fight? Why is it here again? Are you also untrustworthy in this way? He didn't expect that his usual tricks were learned by Tang Jun.

Tang Jian immediately realized that he was very dangerous, and he had to scold Li Jing's ancestor for the eighteenth generation in his heart, but he said very calmly on the surface: "Misunderstanding! It must have been a misunderstanding! It may be that Li Jing has not yet received the edict, so he led the army to arrive, and when I go to explain the misunderstanding, they will naturally retreat. Another envoy, An Xiuren, also felt that it was dangerous here, and followed Tang Jian to see Li Jing.

Jieli waited in the tooth tent, and his heart was like fifteen buckets of water, which was seven up and eight down. It's easy to look forward to the news, but Li Jing's army is getting closer and closer. Jieli was cunning and abnormal, he saw the banner of the Tang Army from a distance, knew that peace talks were impossible, shouted that he was fooled, and it was too late to organize resistance, so he hurriedly rode his war horse and began to flee with his subordinates.

Li Jing led the army all the way in, and as soon as Jieli fled, the army lost its backbone. The Tang army slaughtered the Turkic army as if it were in a no-man's land, chopping melons and chopping vegetables.

In the midst of the chaos, the Tang army suddenly found a gorgeously dressed woman trembling with a child in the Turkic camp. When I asked carefully, it was the son of Princess Yicheng and Jieli of the Sui Dynasty. In this raid, Jieli's tooth tent was razed to the ground by the Tang army, and no less than tens of thousands of Turkic men and women were captured.

This princess Yicheng married a total of four husbands, the first was Qimin Khan, and the last three were the sons of Qimin Khan, Shibi Khan, Chuluo Khan and Jieli Khan. The Turkic custom is that the father's wife can be succeeded by the son, so this princess Yicheng became the wife of the four khans.

Li Jing captured Khan's wife, but killed her for her shamelessness. In fact, Li Jing's work is a bit unauthentic, Princess Yicheng, as a woman, married to the Turks, is a political pawn at the mercy of others. Moreover, the Turks have the custom of sons stepping fathers and wives, so what is shameless and shameless.

Jieli fled to the territory of his subordinate Suni, and Jieli wanted to take Suni to Tuyuhun with him. Li Jing sent Li Daozong to continue to hunt down Jieli, and Li Daozong lost a letter to Suni, "You obediently send Jieli to me, otherwise, you will bear the consequences!" ”

Jieli got the news, fearing that Suni would lose his grip and surrender to the Tang army, so he fled again. And Suni was afraid that the Tang army would really come to conquer, so he caught up with Jieli and arrested him and sent him to the Tang camp. Since then, the Eastern Turks have been wiped out.

Jieli was escorted back to Chang'an, and the Turkic chieftain who had plagued the Tang Empire for many years was brought to Li Shimin in despair. Li Shimin's mentality at this time should be extremely complicated, the humiliation of surrender, the helpless alliance, the slaughter of the border people, the breaking of the contract of dishonesty, the former overlord of the grassland finally knelt in front of him today. Even Emperor Li Yuan, who didn't care about political affairs, was very relieved when he heard that Jieli had been arrested.

"Thou hast committed the first sin of debauchery and tyranny by the inheritance of thy ancestors. Forming alliances several times and turning your back on it again and again is the second sin you commit. Relying on your strong soldiers and horses to fight everywhere is the third sin you have committed. Trampling on our crops and plundering our people is the fourth sin you have committed. I forgive you for your sins, and you have not destroyed your country, but you have always refused to surrender, which is the fifth sin you have committed. Each of these five is a capital offense. But I won't kill you today, also because you have been more honest in recent years. You have to do it yourself. Li Shimin finally chose to let Jieli go, and appointed him as a servant, and the treatment was very good.

In order to celebrate the victory, Li Shimin specially invited Li Yuan and the princes and ministers to set up a few tables in the Lingyan Pavilion. At the banquet, everyone was almost drunk, Li Yuan suddenly became interested, and played the pipa himself, Li Shimin danced to the song, and the guests and hosts dispersed happily.

The demise of the Eastern Turks relieved Li Shimin of border troubles and was conducive to the long-term peace and stability of the empire, but at the same time it also brought another serious problem to the Tang Empire.

Some of the tribes under the rule of the Eastern Turks defected to Xue Yantuo, some fled west to the Western Regions, and more than 100,000 people surrendered to the Tang Empire. The resettlement of more than 100,000 people has become a very thorny issue.

Within the Tang Dynasty, there were two factions of opinion on how to deal with these more than 100,000 people. One faction is dominated by Wen Yanbo, and the other faction is dominated by Wei Zheng. Wen Yanbo advocated that these people should be resettled in Saixia, so as to preserve their tribes and live according to their original local customs. This fills the empty land and becomes a barrier. Wen Yanbo's idea was a relatively liberal ethnic policy, giving a certain degree of autonomy to the subjugated people.

Wen Yanbo's proposal was strongly opposed by Wei Zheng, who believed that the Turks should not be resettled in the country, but should be allowed to return to their homeland. More than 100,000 people will be resettled in the country, and the number will double after a dozen years, and there will be no way to control the rebellion when the time comes. The five chaotic flowers are still in front of us, and we must guard against the lessons of the past.

There were also those who believed that the Turks should be divided and ruled, with multiple tribal leaders so that they could not be united.

Li Shimin finally adopted Wen Yanbo's advice and placed these descendants on the vast land from Youzhou in the east to Lingzhou in the west. The original territory of Tuli was set up in the four prefectures of Shun, You, Hua and Chang, and the territory of Jieli was divided into six states, with the Dingxiang Prefecture on the left and the Yunzhong Prefecture on the right.

For the Turkic nobles who surrendered, Li Shimin also paid homage to most of them. The brother Tuli was named the king of Beiping County and the governor of Shunzhou. Jie Li was named the general of the right guard, because he was very dishonest before, so he stayed under Li Shimin's nose. Suni lost his grasp of Jieli and was named the governor of Ningzhou. Ashina Simo was named the governor of Huazhou and ruled over the old people of Yuanjieli. From this point of view, the surrendered Turkic peoples were still ruled by the Turkic aristocracy, which is probably an early form of national autonomy.

Li Shimin has always been very generous, and this time he rewarded more than 100 officials with more than five grades, almost half of the courtiers. Therefore, there are nearly 10,000 Turks living in Chang'an.

It's just that I pity Jieli Khan, who was originally an eagle in the grassland, but was locked in the cage of Chang'an, depressed all day long, and became more and more emaciated. In the seventh year of Zhenguan, he died of illness in Chang'an, and according to the customs of the Turks, he was cremated and buried. Tuli later died violently on his way back to the state. Since then, all the original khans of the Eastern Turks have died, and this powerful horseback people has also died out.