In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, the politics were clear, the ministers were united, and Li Shimin's actions were correct, so the prime ministers unanimously passed it, and the three provinces stamped it, issued an edict, and promulgated the Tang Dynasty.

"The grace of King Mengsu, the blessed one of the apocalypse, the son of heaven of all the people of Xia, and the emperor of the Tang Empire, said:

The emperor blessed China, Ze was the Quartet Zhuxia, and the Tang Dynasty was ordered to live in the world. I made an alliance with the Turkic Jieli, and Jieli reneged on the covenant, invaded our borders, plundered our people, invaded our land, and was rebellious and unbearable.

Jie Li is extravagant, the internal affairs are disordered, and the relatives are lucky, resulting in discord in diplomatic relations and disagreement between the upper and lower levels. Ignoring the past favors and wantonly plundering, it is really a loss of conscience.

I am a martial artist in the Tang Dynasty, respecting etiquette and music, so I am a righteous teacher. Whoever is attached to the Turks, repents, returns to sincerity and obedience, and forgives their sins; If they are still obsessed, those who stubbornly resist to the end will be regarded as Kou Yun and will inevitably be trampled through the iron hooves.

I respectfully tell the Quartet, work together to fight the troubles of Yidi, to calm the world, to protect the people, and to promote the king.

Li Jing, the secretary of the school and the secretary of the military department, was the general manager of the march of Dingxiang Road and led the Chinese army. ”

Li Jing was appointed as the chief governor of the conquest of the Turks, and all other governors were subject to his control.

Tang Ting requisitioned a total of six route armies, and most of the generals selected were not Li Shimin's old troops, such as Wei Chigong and others had never gone on the expedition, not to mention Luo Xuanye.

This was deliberately done by Li Shimin.

There is only one exception, that is Luo Xuanling, the general of Zuo Qianniuwei, as Li Shimin's confidant, he was still able to lead the army and become the director of the road, anyone can see that Li Shimin has higher expectations for Luo Xuanling.

As for the reason, that's too simple.

Luo Xuanling is relatively young, and he is one of the generals of the new generation of the Tang Dynasty.

He was the only person in the court who had a close relationship with Li Shimin and Empress Changsun, and Li Shimin also promised him that he would give his son a princess later, although Luo Xuanling's son had not yet been born.

To Luo Xuanling, Luo Xuanye had nothing to explain, but to Luo Xuanyun, before leaving, Luo Xuanye called Luo Xuanyun to the mansion.

Luo Xuanye said earnestly: "Seventh brother, you followed King Dou before, and you missed a lot, now you have to seize the opportunity, the war against the Winter Turks will make countless people increase their ranks."

You follow Li Jing, you don't need to think too much, you just need to kill the enemy fiercely, if you have the opportunity, you keep an eye on those nobles of the Turks, especially the nobles of the royal court, preferably Jieli Khan.

As long as you make great contributions on the front line, you can give you credit for your brother, you don't need to worry about your credit being coveted, it doesn't matter if you don't have an inch of merit now, there are more opportunities to make meritorious contributions in the future.

In addition, you must pay attention to safety, after all, the sword has no eyes on the battlefield, and ten thousand enemies will fold in it, and your kid's force is not so outrageously strong. ”

Luo Xuanyun nodded solemnly and said, "Fifth brother, don't worry, I understand, my only purpose now is to add glory to the family and not embarrass the Luo family." ”

……

In the Qin and Han dynasties, the Central Plains was not very familiar with the grassland, and the war with the grassland at that time was quite difficult, but now the Central Plains and the grassland have been tugging for hundreds of years, and the general situation on the grassland is clear.

For example, some major mountain and river directions, especially the integration of Xianbei, are quite easy to draft.

With the issuance of the edict, the war machine prepared by the Tang Dynasty began to operate.

Outside the city of Chang'an.

Thousands of knights rode on horses, boundless at a glance, and the roar of war horses was everywhere, this was the most elite cavalry in the entire Tang Dynasty.

The military system of the Tang Dynasty is a bit similar to the Liangjiazi of the Han Dynasty, but it is very different.

In the Han Dynasty, it was usually the elite who set out from Chang'an, and then went all the way, along the way, there were other good families who joined the military column.

Starting from Chang'an, countless Guanzhong disciples will follow them along the way.

There are hundreds of Zhechong mansions in Datang, and one-third of them are in Guanzhong alone.

These soldiers were also conscripted, but they were usually on duty in Chang'an before, and whoever had their turn to go out.

Luo Xuanyun followed Li Jing directly out of Dingxiangdao, while Luo Xuanling sent troops from Hexi, which was arranged for him by Luo Xuanye and Li Shimin.

Because if the frontal three-way army can defeat the Winter Turks head-on, then it is impossible for Jieli Khan to go east to join the Turki Khan, who has a conflict with him, and the greatest possibility is to flee west.

At this time, Luo Xuanling, who was guarding the escape of Jieli Khan, could play a great role.

As soon as Luo Xuanling came out of Longxi County, he went not far further, and after entering Hexi, he only felt that there was a vast space between heaven and earth, and with the wind blowing a sense of recklessness, which was very different from Guanzhong.

He pointed to the land west of the river quite excitedly, and said proudly: "This land west of the river was originally taken by my ancestor of the Luo clan, Zhaowu Weigong Luo, from the hands of the Huns, and since then, this land has been owned by my Zhuxia."

The armies should pay tribute to the martyrs of the past in Zhuxia with their fathers, and if they can invite the heroic spirits to return, will there be a reason for invincibility? ”

The soldiers of the Tang army immediately cheered, so Luo Xuanling led the troops to hold a memorial ceremony to boost the morale of the whole army before continuing to march.

Luo Xuanling led an army of tens of thousands, and after owning the Tang Dynasty in Hexi, he finally had his own horse breeding land, and the team was like a long snake, looming in the undulating hills of the grassland.

Luo Xuanling rode on his horse, constantly checking the rough map, and then issued one order after another, and thousands of scouts were divided into dozens of teams and scattered in all directions.

The Winter Turks often invaded Hexi, and the reason for the Tang Dynasty to start the war this time was that Ashina Sheer attacked Hexi.

Therefore, Luo Xuanling must always be on guard against encountering the Turkic army.

When the time for Datang to send troops has gradually entered the winter, this is actually not a very good time, but for Datang, it is no longer important.

The most important thing is that the Turks also did not expect that the Tang Dynasty would send troops at this time.

Jieli Khan's father was a very outstanding leader of the steppe, but Jieli Khan was obviously not that kind of person, he could not unite the steppe tribes, and he was also very naïve in military and political terms, with an inexplicable conceit and pride.

At the beginning, because of Emperor Yang of Sui, the Winter Turks took advantage of the chaos to rise, and they had the strength of the Han princes, but after the unification of the Central Plains, he should have realized that the Central Plains was no longer the original, but he didn't, and still treated the Tang Dynasty in the same way as he once treated the countries.

As the chief administrator, Li Jing set the strategy of raiding Dingxiang at the beginning, and the reason why he chose the tactics of light cavalry and simple obedience was mainly because Li Jing was familiar with the art of war and history.

The current situation between the Tang Dynasty and the Winter Turks is similar to that of the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu at the beginning, and the Turks occupy the land of the Hetao, which is almost the same as the Xiongnu in the early Han Dynasty.

Li Jing held a meeting with the governors of various roads before the war, and said: "At the time of the Han Dynasty, the war with the Xiongnu was first through the battle of Henan, that is, the capture of Hetao, and then the battle of Hexi, seized the current four counties of Hexi, and then contacted the Western Regions, and then the Xiongnu fled to Mobei, and finally after two battles of Mobei, the Xiongnu Khan was killed twice, and finally the Xiongnu Khanate was destroyed.

Now although there is no Hetao in our Tang Dynasty, the four counties of Hexi no longer need to go to war again, so our army can send troops directly from Hexi, and the purpose of our army's battle is the Turkic royal court located in Hetao.

You must keep in mind that as long as you can inflict the greatest damage on the Turks in the Hetao, you must exterminate them south of Yinshan, and if you really let the Turks run to Mobei, the result will be somewhat unpredictable.

His Majesty is not willing to fight a tug-of-war for many years, and if the Turkic army is allowed to flee to Mobei, it will not be able to achieve all the success in the end.

I will lead 3,000 light cavalry, straight to the Turkic tooth tent royal court, Jieli Khan is fierce on the outside and inside, he will not dare to fight with me, he will definitely lead his troops to flee, the left army and the right army will follow, chase and kill Jieli, and be sure to let Jieli's corporal lose.

As long as Jieli's loss increases, the rift in the Turks will become bigger and bigger, he is a suspicious person by nature, and there will definitely be a large number of Turkic nobles who betray him, and at that time, Jieli will be gone. ”

……

Li Jing led the light cavalry from Mayi, which was not far from Dingxiang, after all, the Hetao was too close to the Central Plains, and there was nothing to stop along the way.

The most important thing is that Jieli Khan is indeed a very strained monarch, among his subordinates, there are not many people loyal to him, and even his henchmen betrayed him and surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, which is basically equivalent to Luo Xuanye's betrayal of Li Shimin, from here you can see how resentful Jieli is among the Turks.

The moon was dark and the wind was high, and in the cold winter, Jieli Khan never imagined that the Tang army would come at this time.

The same was true when Luo Wuji and Huo Qubing attacked the Xiongnu camp.

No one could have imagined that someone would suddenly attack in such weather, and as for why the Turks did not learn any lessons from the end of the Huns.

It has to be mentioned that it is very difficult for people to learn a lesson.

Moreover, the Turks are uneducated!

Turks don't read!

Taking history as a mirror, we can know the rise and fall, but the Turks do not have the habit of recording history, nor do they have the habit of reading the history of the Han people, so they do not know what happened in history at all.

When many descendants saw that some people in history had made exactly the same mistakes, they couldn't help but sigh, and asked very puzzledly: "Don't they know that so-and-so and such and such is the case?" ”

But in fact, there are very few people in this world who like history, and even fewer people in this world who have read history, and even those powerful people only a small part have read history, so taking history as a mirror is a very small thing that only a few people can do.

Li Jing's tactics were simple, but the execution was not simple, he carefully selected 3,000 light horsemen, and went straight to the Dingxiang Turkic tent.

When he arrived at the tooth tent, Jieli reacted, and when he saw the betrayal of his henchman, he immediately fled with the Turkic guards.

Those Praetorian guards, who were loyal to Jieli, rode tall war horses to launch a charge against the incoming Tang army, and in the encounter on the grassland, there was no time to arrange any obstacles between the two sides.

When you meet on a narrow road, the brave wins!

But in the face of the surprise attack of the Tang light cavalry, many of these Turkic cavalry have not even mounted their horses.

Li Jing shouted loudly: "Capture Jieli!" ”

Luo Xuanyun is under Li Jing, after all, he is the son of Luo, so naturally it is impossible to really start from the big head soldier, and a person with super strength like him can also go directly to another path, he follows Li Jing as a pioneer.

Even though it was a high-speed whistling, Luo Xuanyun could still feel everyone's hideous faces, the breath exhaled between the war horses galloping, and the smell of blood suddenly thrown out.

"Boom!"

The war horses collided with each other, and almost instantly, the two war horses were killed, and the two knights also stepped into the abyss of death, flying high, and then spitting out blood, flesh and blood, and life was gone.

The weapon that Luozi practiced was always the horse lance, an invincible weapon on the horse.

Luo Xuanyun seemed to have returned to his original days in Winterfell.

It seems to have returned to the days when he fought against the Tang Army under Dou Jiande.

His heart was churning.

Seven brothers of his generation, the eldest brother takes care of the family in Winter City, the second brother was instructed by the ancestor to go to the Western Regions to spread the faith of King Su, the third brother leads the brave soldiers, there is a small piece of land in Liaodong, with an independent status, the fourth brother is already the prime minister, or the secretary of the Ministry of Heavenly Officials, not to mention the fifth brother, under one person, the first minister of the dynasty above 10,000 people, so heavy that he can't even go on the expedition, the sixth brother is also the prince of the country, one of the generals of the Sixteen Guards, the head of the road when he goes out, and the elder sister Luo Xuanjing is the wife of Chu State, and she is a feudal official.

Only himself, there seems to be nothing worth mentioning, he also consumes the family's resources, but he has never brought any glory and heritage to the family.

This made Luo Xuanyun a little unacceptable.

He remembered that some time ago, he went to see King Dou, who was no longer under house arrest now, but there was no place for him in Datang.

My glory, start now!

Luo Xuanyun thought about these things in his heart, he was only in his early twenties, he was the youngest of his brothers, and he still had many years to grow up.

Luo Xuanyun held the horse lance in both hands, rushing left and right in the Turkic army, there was no enemy under his hands, he was really brave and invincible, which made the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty shout one after another.

Li Jing looked at it and was slightly stunned, he had seen Luo Xuanye and Luo Xuanling's inhuman performance on the battlefield, and now it seems that although there is a gap between this Luo Xuanyun and Luo Xuanye, it is no less than Luo Xuanling.

How can this Luo clan fight so well, the most important thing is that Li Jing saw Luo Xuanyun being hit hard with his own eyes, but he didn't care at all with just a muffled cry, and rushed up again.

This Luo's tolerance for pain is really outrageous, and he has no sense of nobility at all, and it is as if he is not going to die when he fights.

Luo Xuanyun only felt that his sweat was steaming out from every pore in his body, and in the cold wind of winter, there was even white gas rising, which was produced by a large amount of exertion in a short period of time.

"Kill!"

Luo Xuanyun's ability, or Luo's ability, is all exercised in life and death, in the ice and snow, they are all people who have once swam in ice water in winter, and now this chill is nothing to Luo Xuanyun.

He roared loudly, thinking back to the mountain lord in the clan, recalling his favorite big cat, really like a tiger in the lower mountain.

There is no doubt that the fierce general was driven on the battlefield, he kept moving forward, and the Tang army's light cavalry moved in unison, and the horses stepped on the mountains and rivers, rushing away.

The already chaotic Turks could not resist the attack of the Tang army, and Jieli Khan led the Tooth Tent army to flee without hesitation.

As for where to flee, it is naturally Yinshan, where the terrain is more complicated, not as simple as Hetao, he is ready to reorganize the army there, and then fight with the Tang army.

But he didn't know that Li Jing had already made arrangements for this situation before the war, and Li Ji and others were specifically waiting for Jieli Khan.

In the hurried retreat process of Jieli Khan, Li Ji appeared halfway, followed by tens of thousands of Tang Dynasty troops, Li Ji was naturally in accordance with Li Jing's order, was ordered to encircle and suppress Jieli Khan, the moment he saw Li Ji's army, Jieli only felt that his scalp was numb, and the Tang army did not give him a chance to breathe at all, and chased him all the way to kill.

He said fiercely: "If Ben Khan can be regrouped, Ben Khan must take revenge and go back, so that the Tang Dynasty will know that Ben Khan is strong and inviolable." ”

Then he continued to change his destination in a hurry, and fled in the other direction of Yinshan, but Li Jing's arrangement was not only this one, and soon Jieli Khan once again encountered another Tang army waiting for him.

He put down his cruel words again, and then continued to escape, all the way to the bottom of Yin Mountain, but the Tang army still did not stop pursuing.

Li Jing and Li Shimin really deserve to be the two most outstanding commanders in the world, the two are very similar in some aspects, when Li Shimin chased and killed the enemy, he did not eat for two days, did not disarm for three days, and chased the enemy to the sky without a way, and there was no way to enter the ground, until the mentality was completely broken, until the army was completely dispersed, it was the end, and now Li Jing pursued and killed Jieli Khan is the same reason, the army around Jieli Khan, after continuous strangulation, there are only tens of thousands of people left.

Compared to the peak, this has been weakened a lot, at least in a short period of time, on the Hetao, Jieli has lost the ability to fight head-on with Datang.

This is all due to Li Jing's completely unrelenting pursuit, so that Jieli did not have time to reorganize the army, resulting in many armies fleeing from the Turks and switching to other tribes, after all, in the grassland, in addition to the Turkic tribes, there are many other tribes.

Many of these tribes have already secretly communicated with the Tang Dynasty, or directly defected to the Tang Dynasty, such as Xue Yantuo, these tribes were all vassals of DTZ at the beginning, but even the Khan was canonized by the Son of Heaven, and the envelopment of the grassland tribes was a major reason for the Tang Dynasty's action against the Winter Turks.

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