Yi Mu Xun was bent on luring the enemy deep and encircling and annihilating the army led by Li Sheng, but he did not take any precautions against the rear from beginning to end, let alone expected that the Tang army would dare to sneak attack his own formation around the rear!

Therefore, as soon as the Tang army detoured to the left flank from its rear appeared, the Southern Zhao army was inevitably in turmoil, and at this time, Li Sheng sent the Mo sword army to kill from the left flank, and cooperated with Han Min's men and horses to attack inside and outside, and immediately caught the Southern Zhao army by surprise.

Before the friendly Zanpu garrison sent by Yi Mu Xun arrived for reinforcements, the soldiers and horses on the left were already crushed.

Between the light of the sword and the shadow of the sword, the stumps and broken weapons flew down in all directions, and the screams and wails resounded through the sky.

The Tang army's counteroffensive was like a raging wind, and Yi Mu Xun was already in a hurry in the formation, but he was helpless.

Since ancient times, there are a few people who can command 100,000 soldiers, advance and retreat freely in the battle array, and attack and defend in an orderly manner, Li Sheng may not be able to reach this realm, let alone Yi Mu Xun, who grew up in the deep palace?

Seeing the Tang Army's Modao Army slaughtering their own soldiers and horses like chopping melons and vegetables, Yi Mu Xun didn't know what to do for a while.

In the end, it was the general Duan Fuke who made the decision for him.

"The Tang thief has been planning for a long time, and he can't fall in love with war! The king leads the Yiyu hundred officials to go first, and the end will be broken! ”

Duan Fuke knew that the soldiers and horses on the left had collapsed, and it was impossible to rely on the middle army and the right army to turn defeat into victory.

At this time, Yi Mu Xun was indeed the owner of the six gods, and he only hesitated a little when he heard the words, and then agreed.

"Take care, general, if you can't do anything, you can abandon the army and leave."

"The last will know."

Duan Fuke said, and then joined the Chinese army that was barely supporting.

Because there were two elite soldiers of Luo Thozi and the negative platoon at the front, the Chinese army of the Nanzhao army still had the remaining strength, although it was not enough to completely stop the pursuit of the Tang army, but it delayed for some time, allowing the Yiyu composed of the king of Nanzhao, the hundred officials and a group of Qingping disciples to escape from the battlefield.

After Guo Ying, Hao Yu and others broke through the left army of the Nanzhao army, they took horses from the camp and chased them with their ranks, but because it was too late and the Nanzhao horse army was blocking layer by layer, they did not catch up with Yimu Xun and his Yiyu team.

On the way back to the army, he encountered the fleeing Nanzhao army, beheaded nearly a thousand, beheaded the ancestor Meng Chengjin, captured his uncle Meng Asi, and captured Daxu.

In this battle, the Tang army won a complete victory, and there were 6,000 people in the battle alone.

In the following days, the Tang army pursued under the command of Li Sheng, and the army moved to 200 miles until Yong'an City in the territory of Wangzhou before relinquishing.

In the pursuit of the Tang army for several days, the Nanzhao army fell into the valley and river in a panic, or was trapped in the mountains, forests, and wilderness, and as many as 80,000 or 90,000 died of starvation.

Li Sheng followed the example of Nanzhao after defeating the Tang army that year, collected the corpses of Tang soldiers and set up the "Tang Tianbao Warrior Tomb", collected the remains of Nanzhao soldiers and set up "Yunnan Soldier Tomb", and called the secretary of the army to write an inscription, counting the crimes of Nanzhao Wang Yimu Xun.

After hearing about this, Yi Mu Xun, who fled back to Taihe City, the capital of Nanzhao Kingdom, heard that Dafan Zanpu Chisong Dezan intended to make peace with Tang, killed his envoys who had asked Dafan to send troops before, and demoted him to the king of Ridong, and couldn't help but feel sad.

You must know that the king of Ridong does not mean the king of the rising sun or the king of the east of Tibet, but a demeaning title, which means "Jiangxi is cheap" in the Tibetan language.

In other words, the two countries were brother countries before, and this time Tubo named himself the king of Ridong, obviously not as a brother country, but as a vassal country.

How can this not make Yimu seek resentment and inexplicable!

Thinking of the high spirits when he went north that day, the momentum of the 100,000 army was like a rainbow across the Dadu River, and there was a great tendency to sweep through Jiannan and level Shuzhong, but now there are less than 10,000 soldiers and horses returning, and he became an abandoned son for Tubo.

After crying, he began to examine the diplomatic strategy of his grandfather Ge Luofeng, and gradually understood why Dameng had clearly defeated the Tang army, but he still had to be a vassal and accept the title of Yunnan King from the Tang Emperor.

So, the reaction of Yi Mu Xun did two things.

The first one, the city of Yang Tho, was built and the capital was moved here.

The second was to appoint his teacher, the Han Zheng Hui, as the official of Qingping, and secretly sent an envoy to the Tang Dynasty to ask for guilt.

……

"Southern Xinjiang is settled!"

When Zheng Hui, the envoy of the Southern Zhao Dynasty, stepped into the gate of the Tang Army with the letter of the Nanzhao King Yimu Xun handwriting to ask for the guilt, Li Sheng happily laughed and almost cried with joy.

He'd been waiting for this moment for a long time.

Since the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang army has not had such a big victory for more than ten years, although Nanzhao is not as big as Tubo Huifu, but it is also the same level of existence as Bohai, Khitan, Xi, and Yao, this time he can be beaten to the bottom of his head, kneeling to ask for peace, Li Shengyan can not be happy?

Of course, Li Sheng would not have known that Tubo and Nanzhao had secretly quarreled, but only thought that it was a strange Mu seeking knowledge of current affairs, and knew that the Tang Dynasty was irresistible, so he would ask for peace with the Tang Dynasty.

Either way, the war is over.

"Ordered the ten generals Guo Ying, good students to protect Zheng Jun, and all the applications were requested by him, and in addition, he quickly sent someone to inform the Beijing division and invite the army class."

The army must be invited to the imperial court, and then the imperial court will notify the states and counties along the way, if it is an unauthorized division, then there is a suspicion of taking advantage of the victory to raise troops to rebel, Li Sheng is a smart and well-behaved person, and he does not want to commit this taboo.

So the army was temporarily stationed in Chengdu Mansion.

And just when Li Sheng was waiting for the will of the imperial court, the sergeants who had been sent to report the victory also rushed to Chang'an City through the heavy post station.

"Great victory, great victory, great victory in Jiannan!"

The knight of the victory held high the talisman, rampaged, straight through the Vermilion Bird Street, and passed several squares, to one of the four gates in front of the Daming Palace, and dismounted at the Danfeng Gate of the Hanyuan Hall in the outer court.

Wuhou (Jin Wuwei guard) who was on duty at the gate of Daming Palace saw that he was carrying the order flag, holding a talisman in his hand, knowing that there must be a military intelligence report, and did not dare to slack off, so he hurriedly reported to the palace attendants.

In just a moment, there was a small chamberlain who trotted all the way to Danfeng Gate, took the newspaper in the hands of the sergeant, and sent it to the Zichen Hall of the Inner Dynasty.

Zichen Hall is the place of the inner court, but also the emperor's life and living of the inner palace nature of the palace, because it is the emperor's living place, so here to summon the right, ask the government, more casual, the minister can enter the Zichen Palace, deliberations, called "into the cabinet", is an extremely glorious thing.

There are no ministers in Zichen Hall today, and Li Shi is dealing with political affairs, so when the little chamberlain handed him the document of Jiannan's victory, he suddenly felt that his eyes lit up a little.

He desperately needed a victory to deter the feudal towns, change the appeasement and connivance of the feudal towns when the previous emperor, and open the curtain on the cutting of the feudal towns.

Li Shi is different from his father Daizong Li Yu, Li Yu was driven out of Chang'an City by Tubo that year, causing him to almost die in the rebellion, and he has always had a painful pain for Tubo, so he has always been focused on preparing for Tubo during his reign, and he has taken gentle measures for the feudal town.

And Li Shi did not have so much resentment towards Tubo, but he was even more hostile to the Hui people who had humiliated him in his early years, and he always believed that Tubo was a disease of mustard and that the town was a problem for his henchmen.

Truth be told, there is some truth to this.

Geographically speaking, the twenty states of Helong that were captured by Tubo were all poor states, and even if they were recaptured, they would not be beneficial to the center, and they even needed the imperial court to cut blood and send troops to defend them.

And Henan and Hebei are different, if the four rebel feudal domains of Heshuo Three Towns and Ziqing Town can be cut off, the population and wealth of the imperial court will increase by five or six percent, how can it be like now.

But if you really think so, it will be too one-sided, just like Li Si opposed the first emperor to attack the Xiongnu, saying "Winning the land is not enough for profit; to win its people, and to keep it without being reconciled".

Let's say, Li Shi opened the document and looked at it carefully, and the more he looked at it, the more surprised he became, and finally he couldn't help laughing out loud, leaning back and laughing.

"Congratulations, congratulations."

Seeing this, several inner servants stepped forward to say goodbye, the emperor was happy, and they were naturally happy to be slaves, after all, these rootless people were no better than the officials of the foreign courts, and they could live well without the emperor, what else could they do without the emperor?

Hearing this, Li Shi stopped laughing, threw the document to the inner chamberlain Dou Wenchang, and informed: "Bachelor Cha Hanlin will copy a few more points of this good document, one to the Jingshi, one to stay in confinement, one to the East Palace, one to the Fenyang Palace, and one to the Fenyang Palace, in addition, Liang Chongyi, Lu Long Zhu Tao, Chengde Li Baochen, Wei Bo Tian Yue, Lu Long Ziqing and Li Zhengji each sent a copy to the five people of Shannan Dongdao. ”

Li Shi's voice was full of irrepressible excitement, and asked Dou Wenchang to wait

People couldn't help but be secretly surprised, although they didn't know the specific battle situation, they could also know by looking at the emperor's expression that it must be a magnificent victory.

Otherwise, the emperor would never be so relaxed, but domineering.

This is like Liu Bang killing Peng Yue and chopping him into meat sauce and giving it to the princes to eat, the meaning of the shock and beating is obvious, if it is not a complete crushing victory, the emperor will never be like this.

Although Li Shi is not the kind of person who is mean and unkind, he is also well versed in the art of imperial power, and most of the time he is not smiling on weekdays, and occasionally grinning with his teeth makes the ministers frightened, lest he anger him, but just now he laughed out loud, and he was particularly unscrupulous.

It can be seen that this big victory is really too crucial for him.

Dou Wenchang sighed secretly.

But what's going on with this good news to Guo Mansion?

Could it be that that kid from the Guo family has really made miraculous achievements?!

And his expression also fell into Li Shi's eyes.

"What is the eunuch thinking?" Li Shi raised his eyebrows and asked with a smile.

Dou Wenchang hurriedly bowed his head: "The slave maid is thinking, everyone specially ordered to copy a good news report to the Fenyang Palace, could it be that Guo Lang has made a miraculous achievement." ”

After he finished speaking, he raised his eyes and peeked at Li Shi, and found that the latter was smiling and looking far away, as if he had seen the direction of the Fenyang Palace.

"Miraculous work, it's counted. This kid really has the style of the old Linggong, first broke out of the front line, forced the Tibetan Chinese army to retreat, and then offered a surprise attack on the Nanzhao army, so that our army broke the Nanzhao, and his troops and horses were overdone, and he beheaded the king of Yunnan Congzu, and captured his uncle, who was a famous general. ”

Dou Wenchang's heart trembled.

This......

"Everyone knows the pearls, thinking that Guo Lang is only eighteen years old, but everyone personally promoted him to the top ten generals of the border army and made him enlist, which shows that everyone has a unique vision and knows that he is extraordinary!"

Dou Wenchang lost no time in clapping his ass.

Li Shi listened, the corners of his mouth outlined a curvature, to be honest, this is really not his discernment, if he had expected Guo Ying to be so powerful, he would have thrown him into the Shence Army a long time ago.

But since Dou Wenchang was so flattering, he naturally wanted to push the boat down.

"Guo Lang, this kid, to be honest, I grew up watching him since he was a child, he is talented, he is knowledgeable, and he knows the art of the army, but he is too sharp and absurd, so I let him go to the frontier to experience, I hope he can become more calm and serious, and now it seems that he has indeed lived up to my expectations, and he is already quite a general."

This is very false, but as he spoke, even Li Shi himself believed it a little, and an inexplicable idea suddenly appeared in his mind.

Tang An's marriage to him is not a grievance, right?

A noble family, the son of a nobleman, can be regarded as a family, right?

Thinking of this, Li Shi suddenly couldn't sit still, stood up and said, "Beiyu, I want to go to the palace of the concubine." ”

Concubine Shu is the biological mother of Princess Tang An, the Wang family who ranks first among all the concubines.