The Khitan of this era is not the Liao State that spans thousands of miles in the future.

Its strength is not even much stronger than that of Xi Ren.

Li Yunze said that he was here to attack the Khitan Xi people, but in fact, this was just an excuse, and his main purpose was to cut down the domain.

But the battle still has to be fought.

The tribes on the steppe must be leveled in order to have irrefutable reasons to cut the feudal domain.

The opponents are gone, so why do you keep the feudal town?

This is the root of so many self-respecting things in history.

For Li Yunze, this kind of thing has long been accustomed to fighting, and he is also familiar with command.

He knew very well that the most important thing in dealing with a steppe tribe like the Khitan Xi people was not to defeat their opponents on the battlefield, but to find them.

The strength of the Tang Dynasty army is truly overwhelming.

In the face of the Tang Emperor personally leading the main force of the Tang army to kill, the Khitans and Xi tribes all chose to flee very wisely.

Li Yunze did not choose to chase after his ass, but gathered all the tribes on the grassland who were willing to listen to the Tang Dynasty.

After gathering the chiefs, khans, nobles, and so on of these tribes, Li Yunze very benevolently conveyed to them his strategy of reducing the number of dings on the steppe.

As soon as these words came out, the nobles were all numb.

"I will determine the amount of reduction according to the loyalty and merits of each tribe to the Tang Dynasty."

Li Yunze, who smiled kindly, said with a light and breezy attitude, "If you are not convinced by the Tang Dynasty, you don't need to reduce it, just let it disappear in the garbage heap of history." ”

In the face of the powerful Tang Dynasty, the tribes were angry, frightened and pleaded.

It's useless to say anything, Li Yunze will never give them a chance.

In history, Li Yunze had personally experienced the killings and disasters brought about by the steppe tribes constantly moving south into the customs, and there was no possibility of compromise in this regard.

"If you are not convinced."

Li Yunze's eyes looked around at everyone, "You can go to find the Khitan Xi people and fight against the Tang Dynasty together." ”

Everyone was speechless.

The Khitan and Xi people, who were against the Tang Dynasty, were already doomed to death in the face of the 200,000 elite crusade led by the Tang Emperor at this time.

Who is crazy to go to the funeral with them.

"If you are willing to work for Datang."

The stick has been waved, and the monkey that scares the chickens has been selected.

At this time, in order to catch the monkey, Li Yunze didn't mind throwing some seemingly sweet candy out.

"In this battle, whoever can find the old camp of the Khitan Xi people first can avoid the strategy of reducing Ding!"

Make a great contribution and eliminate the strategy of reducing the number of dings.

And if other tribes are constantly reduced, then their own tribes can continue to grow.

A hundred years later, when the Tang Dynasty declines, it will be able to annex other weak tribes to dominate the grassland, and there will even be a chance to go south to dominate the Central Plains!

Such a beautiful prospect was placed in front of them, and the nobles of various tribes were not fools, and they immediately showed joy.

This idea must be correct, the only problem is that they are not fools to see this, but Li Yunze is not a fool either.

As the Tang Emperor, he naturally will not break his word, and if he says that he will not reduce Ding, he will definitely not reduce it.

But Li Yunze was able to order his tribe to migrate and migrate to the Western Regions to follow the Tang army to fight as cannon fodder.

Basically, the tribe is gone.

And Li Yunze didn't pay anything from beginning to end, just let them rush to fight the Khitan Xi people by themselves.

The reason why this can be done lies in the national strength of Datang and the prestige that dominates the world.

To put it bluntly, it was Tang Jun who fought hard.

In this era of the jungle, only strong force is the cornerstone of protecting the people of the country.

The destruction and impact caused by these things can be found by looking at the history books.

The people of Middle-earth should not have suffered as they should have suffered.

It may not be easy for the Tang army to find the old camps of the Khitans and Xi people in the vast grassland.

But for the tribes of the steppe, this is not a difficult thing.

Everyone lives in this land, and who doesn't know who.

With so many people and livestock in the old camp, at least they had to find a place with sufficient water and pasture to survive.

And there are not many such places on the prairie, or such places that have reached a certain scale, just send people to investigate.

The first to be unlucky was the Xi people, who thought that they had hidden it well, and the Tang Army would definitely not be able to find themselves.

But he never thought about it, but he was sold by the nearby tribe.

More than 20 days later, when King Xi was leisurely waiting for the Tang army to retreat due to lack of food and grass, more than 20,000 Tang army iron horsemen appeared within 100 miles of his royal tent.

When the news came, King Xi didn't believe it at all.

This place is thousands of miles away from Youzhou, and the location is extremely secret, how can the Tang army find it.

But the reality is like this, the Tang army not only found him, but also sent a large army.

The distance of a hundred miles, in terms of the mobility of the cavalry, regardless of the rush, is just a day's time.

For King Xi, this is a catastrophe.

One day is enough time for him to ride a horse and run on his own, and basically he will not be overtaken.

Even, it was enough for him to gather and prepare, and take some of his personal guards and even a group of girls with him.

But the problem is that the camp of the Xi people can't run, the nearly 100,000 men, women, and children here can't run, and the countless livestock can't run.

Without the camp and without the livestock, it would be useless for him to run away with a group of people.

There are only two ends to that.

One was beheaded by his subordinates and taken to Datang in exchange for a reward.

The other is to be slaughtered by other tribes, or to take their own heads in exchange for rewards.

Because in this prairie, only interests are emphasized, and everything else is nonsense.

If you give up the tribe and run away on your own, it is a big fat meat, and everyone who sees it wants to eat it.

When you can't run, you can only fight hard.

The Xi people, who were urgently mobilized, fought a fierce battle with the Tang cavalry on the grassland outside the old camp.

Behind them was the old camp, where the old and weak, women and children, and livestock and property were all there, and there was no way not to fight hard.

The fierce battle lasted from morning to afternoon, and the Xi people, who desperately resisted, were defeated without accident.

Xi Ren, who used scimitars and arrows, couldn't beat the armored Tang army iron cavalry no matter what.

Their weapons fell on the armor of the Tang army and were of little use.

And the attacks of the Tang army were fatal every time.

Because the emperor had clear rewards and punishments, the Tang army had a strong will to fight.

They succeeded in defeating the Xiren's blockade and crushing their main force.

In despair, King Xi had to flee from the battlefield in order to survive.

But the result was that he was chased by a Tang army for hundreds of miles, and after defeating the guards, King Xi was captured alive.

Seeing the generals of the Tang Army who led the team, King Xi shouted in disbelief, "Li Guangbi?!" You are a Khitan, why do you have to work for Datang? ”

"Fart!"

Li Guangbi angrily scolded: "A certain person is from the Tang Dynasty!" Tie it up and take it away! ”

His ancestors were indeed Khitans, and Li Guangbi's father was even a Khitan chieftain, but he came to surrender during the Wu Zhou period.

Not only did he become the deputy envoy of the festival, but he was even named the prince of the country.

Li Guangbi joined the Tang Army when he was young and served as the general of Zuo Lang of the Left Guard's Mansion.

In his opinion, he is an out-and-out Tang man, where can he be considered a Khitan.

Moreover, the Khitan people are almost no different from the Tang people in terms of physical appearance, unlike Kunlun Nu or the kind with high eyebrows and deep eyes, and the sense of identity is naturally stronger.

After breaking through the old camp of the Xi people and capturing the king of Xi alive, the Tang army didn't even have time to bring the prisoners and booty back to Youzhou, and the location where the old camp of the Khitans was found was received here.

The Khitan people hide in a location close to the mountains and dense forests in the northeast.

They may go into the mountains and forests at any time to take refuge, and then it will be very difficult to chase and kill.

Li Yunze himself sat in Youzhou, and the front line was led by Zhang Shouqi.

After receiving the news, he did not hesitate, and immediately left some people to take care of the captured booty, and then waited for more than 10,000 Tang army iron horsemen, and went straight to the old camp of the Khitans.

The combat effectiveness of the Khitan people is much stronger than that of the Xi people, and their will to fight is also firm when guarding the old camp.

Fortunately, Zhang Shouqi recruited many tribes along the way, as long as they could ride horses, they were all coerced over, and brought more than 10,000 cannon fodder to the battlefield, which greatly offset the numerical advantage of the Khitans.

No surprises, there is another big war on both sides.

The Tang army still won the victory, and Li Guangbi, An Lushan, Shi Siming and others made great achievements.

However, the losses of the Tang army were not small.

In addition to the losses of the vassals who came with it, many people of the Tang army failed to get out in order to pursue the remnants of the Khitan who fled into the deep mountains and old forests.

Successively extinguished Xi Ren and Khitan, which can only be regarded as an appetizer for Li Yunze.

Because his real goal was the post-Turkic Khanate.

After the Turks were wiped out, they were bent on restoring their country.

As early as the time of Tang Gaozong, he had rebelled against the Tang Dynasty and rebuilt the Turks, which was called the Post-Turks.

Because the Later Turks mainly operated in Mobei, the distance was too far.

Wu Zhou sent a large army to crusade, and felt that the gains outweighed the losses, so he made his lord a khan and accepted him as a vassal.

The Later Turks, who had been recuperating for many years, continued to cross the Hanhai Sea and move southward over the years, and even invaded the Western Regions, which greatly affected the border security of the Tang Dynasty.

After sweeping away the grasslands, Li Yunze finally expressed his attitude to everyone that he wanted to pacify the Later Turks.

This time, he finally set off from Youzhou.

In addition to bringing a large number of Tang troops, he also swept away the strong men of various tribes on the grassland, and requisitioned cattle, sheep and horses to send troops with the army.

These strong men, Li Yunze basically didn't plan to let them come back.

Even if it's the first time to reduce the number of dings.

The guide led the army and crossed the Hanhai Sea along the oasis along the way, and finally arrived at the land of Mobei.

Tang Jun has been here in Mobei, but he can't stay too long and leave every time.

And Li Yunze came here this time with the determination to make Mobei unable to recover within a hundred years once and for all.

This battle will not only bring down the Later Turks, but also make them never able to turn over and rebel again!

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