Jieli Khan is not a single man, he does not understand that unity can unite, win over the majority, and then go to fight a small minority.

He could not unite the Turkic tribes, but he was greedy for pleasure, and could not suppress the rebellious tribes in time. This made other Khitan tribes see his weakness.

But Jieli Khan didn't know that he felt that he had asked the Emperor of the Central Plains to send him a large amount of money and grain, and his prestige had already resounded in the grassland.

As a result, the Turks were separated from Germany, and his nephew, the Turki Khan, secretly contacted the Tang Dynasty, while the Xue Yantuo, Hui and other tribes began to rebel again.

In just two years, the once-powerful Turks seem to be gone.

And Jieli Khan, who was intoxicated with arrogance and lasciviousness, did not realize it. But Li Shimin had already seen the weakness of the Turks.

In Hexi, after Wang Xuanji subdued many powerful people in Hexi, he began to recruit soldiers and war horses from these powerful people.

The Haoqiang here have many war horses, Wang Xuanji recruited 5,000 war horses, plus their original 2,000 war horses, a total of 7,000 war horses.

The elite of the Tang army drew out 2,000 people, one of whom was equipped with three horses. A thousand horses were left for the rest of the Don army.

To fight the steppe Hu people, you must have enough war horses. The grassland Hu people usually have one person and two horses, and take turns to ride, such as those elites who have one person and three horses.

Rely on your feet to chase, and you can't catch up with you when you're tired.

If Wang Xuanji wants to outflank the Turks, he must have enough war horses. At the same time, this group of elites began to practice riding hard.

These people selected by Wang Xuanji have good riding skills, and some of them are even drawn from the Xuanjia Army. He needs to familiarize these people with the scenery of the grassland as soon as possible, and how to fight in the grassland.

Time unconsciously came to Zhenguan for three years, after two years of recuperation, the victims of Hexi and Hehuang have gained a firm foothold after passing through Tuntian.

Although there is not much food production and no taxes, it is possible to be self-sufficient.

The resettlement of victims in other places has also been properly resolved.

Although they haven't seen this year's tax revenue yet, the important ministers of the court are also relieved. At least next year, the imperial court's taxes will rise sharply.

Although Li Shimin did not use force against DTZ, he also sent a large number of scouts to collect intelligence, and at the same time, after Hui and Xue Yantuo rebelled against the Turks, they were afraid of Turkic retaliation, so they sent envoys to the Central Plains to contact.

In this world, if there is any country that can defeat the Turks, it is the Tang Dynasty.

Xue Yantuo, Hui and other tribes came to surrender to the Central Plains court, asked Li Shimin to canonize him, and asked the Tang Dynasty to send troops to deal with DTZ together.

Li Shimin then canonized the leader of Xue Yantuo as "Zhenzhu Viga Khan".

After receiving the canonization of the Tang Dynasty, Xue Yantuo immediately began to call himself Khan, which made the relationship between DTZ and Xue Yantuo even more hostile.

At the same time, Li Shimin felt that it was time to make a move on the DTZ.

Li Shimin immediately issued an edict to mobilize troops against the Turks.

Li Jing was appointed as the chief governor of the conquest of the Turks, and all other governors were subject to his control. After Li Jing voted for Li Tang, although he was not treated well by Li Yuan, and was even almost killed by Li Yuan, after following Li Shimin, he was invincible and invincible.

is already the most valued handsome talent by Li Shimin, and when he himself cannot lead the army to attack DTZ, sending Li Jing is the best choice.

Tang Ting directly requisitioned the Sixth Route Army to attack the Turks, and all the generals selected were old generals of Tiance Mansion. Li Jing was the governor of Dingxiang Road, Wang Xuanji was the governor of Hexi, and Xu Shiji was the governor of the East Road, leading the main force to attack the hinterland of DTZ, and Li Daozong, the king of Chengjun County, was the commander of the Great Companion Army

The six-way army came out together, cooperated with each other, and wanted the Turks to take care of one and lose the other, and the end could not echo, and the DTZ was destroyed in a battle.

The grassland has never been the home of the Central Plains army, and the Central Plains army has always been very cautious in attacking the grassland.

Because of the geographical environment, it is easy to get lost in the grassland, so the imperial court collected a lot of information and drew a map for this war.

The edict departed from Chang'an and soon spread all over the world. From Chang'an to Youyun in the east and Hexi in the west, on a frontline of thousands of miles, a large number of Zhichong Prefecture began to recruit government soldiers.

Among them, the Guanzhong area is the most numerous.

The imperial edict was issued, and the soldiers of Zhichong Mansion immediately brought their own armor, weapons, and war horses to various places to converge.

Because in the past two years, the imperial court began to set up warehouses in various places to store various materials such as grain, so all kinds of military supplies were quickly prepared.

The government soldier system of the Tang Dynasty is very similar to the peasant and soldier system of the Great Cadres back then. At this time, the government soldiers were at their most elite.

After receiving the edict, Wang Xuanji immediately ordered the assembly of 5,000 troops, and at the same time, he recruited thousands of local powerful soldiers as auxiliaries.

Wang Xuanji has been operating in Hexi and Hehuang for several years, and he has been waiting for today. It took him the shortest time to get everything ready, and then he led his army out on the march.

He commanded the army and pointed to the land in front of him and said: "During the Great Dry Period, our ancestors fought bloodily and took this Hexi from the hands of the Xiongnu, and from then on, this land is our Zhuxia, and now we want to follow the ancestors, go out from here to destroy the Turks!" ”

"The Turkic Jieli is perverse, many of their subordinates have rebelled, they can't be governed, now it's time for them to pay off their debts!"

Wang Xuanji led a large army to the grassland, although the grassland seemed to be flat from a distance, but in fact it was a large number of undulating hills.

Wang Xuanji in Hexi three years, and the Turks here fought a lot of battles, the Turks with the help of war horses looting, Wang Xuanji prepared more beacons, and then with cavalry to chase and intercept, the Turks did not take the slightest advantage, but also suffered a lot of losses.

Because of his precautions against the Turks, the terrain here has long been imprinted in his mind.

The time for Datang to send troops is not good, because it is already winter at this time, and the grassland in winter is very cold, and it is very risky to send troops at this time.

But at this time, the Turks would never have thought of sending troops.

What's more, at this time, the Turks were also stockpiling grain and grass for the winter, and they simply could not move quickly.

This gave the imperial court the possibility of annihilating the Turks in a war.

As the chief of the march, Li Jing had made all kinds of preparations before the war, and had already issued various arrangements when he set off.

This time, Li Jing led the main force to the north and directly attacked the Hetao, Wang Xuanji led the army out of Hexi to outflank the Turks, and Xu Shiji led the east road to attack from the other side.

Li Jing knew very well that if the Turks were not defeated in a war, it was very likely that they would fall into a tug-of-war, which was not a good thing for the nascent Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, to destroy the enemy to the greatest extent, winter is the best helper.

(End of chapter)