Traveling through the early Tang Dynasty starts with hanging

October 11th.

In the central tent of the Tang Army's camp, Li Shan felt a little restless and looked outside from time to time, as if waiting for something.

"Back then, you and Ashina She'er met for the first time outside Guantao City, and we felt like old friends at first sight." Ma Zhou said in his customary tone of voice, "Now it's like three autumns after not seeing each other for one day?"

The corner of Li Shan's mouth moved. He really wanted to pick up the inkstone at hand and give this guy a hard slap!

Su Xu on the side looked a little strange. King Wei Si had been waiting for the scouts to report back since early in the morning, but the combined forces of Turks and Xue Yantuo never went south, and did not even reach Yi County, and still stayed in the Qishan area.

At first, the Wei Siwang was quite satisfied. After all, the enemy's slow speed meant that his side had bought more time... The Tang army of about 20,000 was not empty-handed, but it really had to wait. Reinforcements.

But gradually, gradually, as time went by, Li Huairen became impatient and impatient... Why don't you come?

Su Xu reluctantly persuaded: "Huairen, maybe he was defeated in both battles, and the entire army was almost wiped out in both battles, so Hu Qi was afraid..."

"How is that possible?!" Ma Zhou sneered: "Dub Khan wished he could be quartered by five horses... He couldn't forgive his hatred even if he was quartered by five horses. How could he be so timid that he could not move forward!"

Li Shan lamented: "That's true, that's why I can't figure out what the other party wants to do..."

On the battlefield, the most basic principle is to confirm what the other party wants to do... Li Shan really can't see clearly now.

The truth is not as complicated as Li Shan imagined. The reason is very simple. Although Dubu Khan was killed the day before yesterday and lost his armor and escaped with his life, he was never willing to accept it. But Yi Nan, the leader of Xue Yantuo, was a little timid... The two There is no internal strife between people, but there are quite a few differences.

Yi Nan had no grudges against Li Huairen, the heir to the Wei Dynasty in the Tang Dynasty whose reputation spread throughout the grassland. During the battle at Guji Town, he led his troops to the west, which was considered a small favor unintentionally.

Regarding Dubu Khan's defeat the day before yesterday, Yi Nan felt a little gloating about the misfortune while being wary of the Tang army... But he did not expect that the same experience would befall his own generals.

More than four thousand cavalry were almost wiped out, and the Huihe leader Tu Mifen was beheaded... This made Yi Nan feel terrified.

Like the Turks, Tiele is also the collective name of many tribes. There are fifteen tribes in total, among which nine tribes are the most powerful and are called the Nine Tiele Tribes.

Yi Nan was originally the leader of the Xue tribe. Later, he annexed Yantuo and merged into Xue Yantuo. He was officially elected as the leader of Tiele. Among the nine tribes of Tiele, the Uighur tribe was second only to Xue Yantuo in strength.

The leader was so easily killed by the Tang army on the spot. How could the Tang army's combat power not frighten Yi Nan?

And now that Huihe surrendered to Xue Yantuo, he lost more than 4,000 soldiers in the first battle, which also made Yi Nan's heart bleed. Now, among the many tribes under his command, he can only choose between 50,000 and 60,000 soldiers. This time, he led 40,000 soldiers. The cavalry went south and successfully broke through the Longyou Road. However, they lost 10% of their troops in the first battle after entering the Guannai Road.

This was Yi Nan's hard work... and it was used to fight against the Turks. Yi Nan had to suspect that Dubu Khan was planning to kill two birds with one stone this time.

It was necessary not only to force the Tang Dynasty to bow its head and hand over Li Huairen, the successor king of Wei, but also to weaken the strength of Tiele tribes and ensure the dominance of the Turks in the grassland.

If his vitality is seriously damaged in this battle, even if Dubu Khan promises Xue Yantuo to found a country, Yi Nan will not be able to hold on to this foundation.

On the grassland, keeping promises is very important, but the basic principle is that the weak should eat the strong.

Of course, Yi Nan would not fall out with Dubu Khan, and the reasons he gave were impeccable... After entering Longzhou, a large number of Hu cavalry scattered and looted. Although it was difficult to break through the city, it was easy to loot the countryside. Easily.

In just one or two days, although Longzhou, Qizhou, and Jingzhou summoned their troops and tried their best to fortify the walls and clear the country, it was too late, and there were still a large number of people scattered outside the city.

Dub Khan's march south had a very strong political purpose, but looting property and food was the instinct of all steppe cavalry... Not only the Tiele cavalry, but also a large number of Turkic cavalry were also scattered and looting. It was not until the afternoon that Dubu Khan had to make a promise... In this battle, the Turks were the vanguard, and Yi Nan relaxed.

Dubu Khan had great ambitions. If he could conquer Chang'an, the Tang Dynasty would suffer an unprecedented heavy blow, and it would be difficult to recover for quite some time.

In this case, on whom will the anger of the unrecovered Tang Dynasty be vented?

Is it the Turks who have been defeated repeatedly but finally defeated the Tang Dynasty and became powerful again, or is it Xue Yantuo who took advantage of the situation and sent his army south at the critical moment?

"Finally here." Li Shan let out a long sigh of relief in the Tang Army camp a hundred miles away.

Although it came late and slowly, and additional scouts were sent out on the way to investigate, which seemed cautious, it still came after all.

At this time, Li Shan had already vaguely realized that there might be an internal problem in the enemy's army... This is normal. At this time in history, Xue Yantuo was almost establishing his country.

Ma Zhou asked tentatively: "How is it?"

"It's already dusk, let's have another fight." Li Shan said bluntly: "Let's talk tomorrow."

Well, it took a lot of effort for Dubu Khan and Yi Nan to gather their scattered and looting subordinates. It was already dusk when they passed Yi County and arrived at the border of Jingzhao.

Well, when passing through Yi County, both Yi Nan and Dubu Khan were very careful. After all, here, all four thousand of Dubu Khan's elite troops were wiped out. The army was wiped out, and his own head became Yu Chigong's military exploits.

Therefore, the Turkic vanguard, who was careful not to encounter any accidents along the way, was attacked again by Tang Qi after entering Jingzhao.

Of course, this time the Turks' main force was used, and Su Dingfang's attack was nothing more than heavy thunder and small raindrops, with only a small amount of power.

The two sides struggled until nightfall, when Su Dingfang withdrew his troops and returned to camp, while the joint forces of Tujue and Xue Yantuo camped twenty miles away from Wugong County.

Chang'an Imperial City, inside the Ganlu Hall.

"Huairen is so brave!" Li Yuan said with a smile: "Erlang, you have quite a bit of your demeanor back then."

Li Shimin also smiled, "Huairen seems to be taking risks, but in fact he is cautious..."

Li Shimin's fingers slid back and forth in the air, "Xiegu River, Weishui... This battle was really exciting. Of course, Su Dingfang and Yuchi Gong also contributed a lot."

"Erlang's hands are itchy." Li Yuan laughed and said, "Tomorrow is the 12th. As long as Huairen holds on for another day or two, reinforcements from Hedong should have arrived."

Li Shimin nodded in agreement, "The third brother-in-law has gathered thousands of soldiers from Fangzhou and Tongzhou in Xinfeng, but..."

Li Yuan suppressed the smile on his face. Logically speaking, Yanzhou's reinforcement vanguard should have arrived... The cavalry went south along the Qinzhi Road and could reach it in one day and night. However, there is no news from Li Jing so far, and even the messenger has not returned.

What happened in Yanzhou?

Did the Turks divide their forces to attack Xiazhou and Yanzhou?

Hey, at this time, Li Jing was leading his horse hard in Liupan Mountain.