At this time, he bowed slightly to Li Shimin: "Five years ago, the ministers fought against the Turks, and the people of the Han Dynasty went out for thousands of miles, and they never killed a single person, and they also inherited the teachings of the previous generation of Ming Jun, and they were just sincere and public, how dare they be the praise of Your Majesty's 'Wen' and 'Wu'!" ”

This dialogue between his monarch and ministers can be seen in "Li Weigong Asks Right. Volume. Fourteenth.

When Li Shimin heard this, he was overjoyed and said: "'The people of the total Han Dynasty are out of the plug for thousands of miles', which is good! Wonderful! ”

At that time, the chieftain of the Khibi tribe, Khibi He Li, had led his troops to the Tang Dynasty, and the emperor immediately ordered to lead the Turkic soldiers with the power of obsession, and to lead the Khibi soldiers with Khibi He Li, and to return to Li Yaoshi Jiedu, and go out to Tuyuhun together.

This was the first attempt by the Tang Dynasty to participate in a large-scale military operation with surrendered foreign legions.

At this time, the emperor closed the performance presented by Pharmacist Li, handed it back to him, and said with a smile: "My brother, five years ago, I made an edict: 'All military affairs and festivals are paid to the public, and I will not be governed by the middle.'" Not a little changed now. ”

Those who can be like this when the monarch and the minister are not moving!

The two strategies of Hou Junji and Li Daozong are actually not much different, but Hou Junji is more active and decisive, while Li Daozong is better than Zhou Yan and meticulous.

Pharmacist Li once again summoned the two of them to discuss the military plane, and they were both rare good generals in history, and compared with these differences, they couldn't help but secretly admire and admire each other.

Both discussed the influence of the Tuyuhun topography on the march, which was divided into two aspects, one was the test of the soldiers' physical fitness on the glacial plateau, and the other was the obstruction of the trek route by the majestic mountains.

Regarding the former, after settling in the Central Plains, Datang looked at the northwest and already understood that the quality of individual sergeants, physical fitness or strength was more important than strength, so he increased his training for a long time.

It was the night attack on Yinshan five years ago, and the Tang army could not sleep for several days.

However, a few months ago, Duan Zhixuan went deep into Tuguhun and was still unable to overcome the impact of the plateau's topography.

Therefore, Hou Junji and Li Daozong both put this at the top of their strategies, and also put forward ways to deal with it.

The traffic between Datang and Tuyuhun is not closed.

In the Han Dynasty, Zhang Qian passed through the Western Regions, opened up the Silk Road, and went out of Yumen Pass from Chang'an through the four counties of Hexi, which was called "Hexi Road" in later generations.

However, after the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the long-term war in Hexi was extremely unfavorable to the passage of caravans.

Therefore, in the south of this road, in the territory of Tuyuhun, another "Qinghai Road" was opened up to facilitate the return of merchants.

Merchants can choose a time to rest in the process of climbing, and continue to move forward after adapting, but not on the march.

Therefore, Hou Junji and Li Daozong both suggested that after the soldiers and horses of each province were assembled, they should first choose a place to climb high to gradually adapt to the terrain.

Pharmacist Li has even obtained the sedum Wujia decoction prescription from Sun Simiao.

Drinking this soup before climbing helps the Tang army quickly adapt to the terrain of the plateau.

With regard to the latter, the march was oriented, according to the position of the sun during the day and the stars at night.

However, if it is rainy, windy and snowy, the sky is hazy, or the mountains are winding, and the smoke and fog are misty, it is inevitable that you will get lost.

Four years ago, Su Dingfang had learned the method of "waving the light of the sky" from Pharmacist Li, and explored among a variety of spars, roughly clarifying the rules of identifying the direction with spars.

At this time, although there are not many generals in Datang who can use this method, it is not difficult to teach it.

However, there is a fundamental difference between being able to identify the direction and being able to detect the way to escape after the defeat of the Tuyuhun monarchs.

A few months ago, the trace of the enemy army disappeared between the vast world and the towering mountains, making Duan Zhixuan look up to the sky and sigh.

Five years ago, Pharmacist Li was able to accurately predict the route of Jieli Khan's northward run, because the Turkic tent and outside had already been densely populated with intelligence personnel from the Tang Dynasty.

The situation of Tuyuhun today is very different from that of the Turks in those years.

If you want to understand the thinking patterns and behavior mechanisms within Tuyuhun, you must rely on the party at this time.

In the early Tang Dynasty, there were eight large tribes such as the fine seal clan, the Fei Ting clan, the Xiang Li clan, the Po Chao clan, the Ye Ci clan, the Fang Dang clan, the Mi Bao clan, and the Tuoba clan, which were the "eight departments of the party item", and did not belong to each other, among which the Tuoba clan was the strongest.

In the third year of Zhenguan, under the invitation of Zheng Yuanxuan, the chief of the fine Feng clan, the fine seal Bu Lai Ju was attached and received a rich reward, so the other tribes surrendered.

The Tang Dynasty set up four prefectures in its place, including Wei, Feng, Yan and Yuan, all of which were in the area of Songpan in today's Sichuan, and worshiped the leaders of the party departments as the history of assassination.

In the fifth year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin sent an envoy to set up a state in the place where the Dangxiang River meandered, and more than 300,000 people moved inward.

However, after the Turks were pacified, the relationship between Tuyuhun and the Tang Dynasty took a sharp turn for the worse, the key of which was that the situation in the four counties of Hexi was calm, and the Silk Road in Hexi was restored to unimpeded.

Especially after Li Daliang appeased Yiwu, merchants from the Western Regions could go straight to Yumen Pass from Yiwu and lead all the way to Chang'an.

This makes the advantages of the Qinghai Silk Road much less than before, and can only attract merchants between Khotan and Jiannan, which has a huge impact on the economic interests of Tuyuhun.

The party is the same as Tuyuhun, the ruling class is Xianbei, and the common people are mainly Qiang.

The two are not only similar in ethnicity and culture, but also located on the way to Qinghai Road, so they have common economic interests.

When the Tang Dynasty gathered soldiers, horses, and grain and actively prepared for war for several months, Tuyuhun paid generous bribes to various party departments.

made them break away from the Tang Dynasty one after another and turn to Tuyuhun.

Therefore, at this time, Pharmacist Li had to pay more generous money in order to obtain the intelligence that the Tang Army urgently needed from the Party Department.

The Tang Dynasty Wei Jingwu Gong pacified the Turks, which undoubtedly had a significant and far-reaching impact on world history.

However, if we talk about the grandeur of the war process, the battle of Tuyuhun is still excessive.

In the late spring of the ninth year of Zhenguan, the weather began to warm.

However, in Tuyuhun, the so-called "warming" is just that the ice and snow in the mountain streams at the bottom of the valley are no longer tightly sealed, and there are signs of melting.

At this time, the Tang army was already well prepared for battle, and advanced to the glacial plateau of Tuyuhun in separate ways.

In mid-March, Li Daoyan and Gao Yongsheng Erdao in the south were the first to encounter resistance.

Li Daoyan marched south from Minzhou to Taoshui and entered the eastern part of Taozhou.

Gao Yongsheng traced the Qiangshui from Lizhou, which is today's Bailongjiang, and marched northwest into the south of Taozhou.

The local Qiang people, who were originally attached to the Tang Dynasty, attacked and killed the Taozhou Assassin Shi under the generous bribes of Tuguhun, and Gao Yongsheng broke it.

At this time, the chieftain of the Dangxiang Tuoba clan, Tuoba Chici, led his troops to come to support the Qiang people, and defended the Wolf Dao Gorge in the upper reaches of Taoshui and Qiangshui.

The area is the pass of the Minshan Mountain Range, with cliffs on both sides and a canyon about 100 feet wide.

When Li Daoyan came here, it was difficult to move forward, so he sent an envoy to try to bribe the goods, in exchange for allowing Tang Shi to pass.

Unexpectedly, Tuoba Chici had reconciled with Tuyuhun and refused to back down.

Seeing that there was no hope for peace, the Tang envoy led his elite troops to defeat the people on the outskirts of the party and captured 6,000 head of livestock.