Traveling through the early Tang Dynasty starts with hanging

Chapter 1448 Finale

Zhenguan five years.

In the imperial city, many people on Chengtianmen Street looked curiously at Li Shan, who was slowly approaching. This Wei Siwang had lived in seclusion since he returned to Beijing after the great victory of Daizhou five years ago. Apart from rarely going out in the morning, he also rarely went out. Only a few close friends come to visit me occasionally, but I didn't expect that they would come today as well.

Of course, this is reasonable.

The news has spread a long time ago. The Turks have been destroyed and the grasslands have surrendered. Yesterday, dozens of tribal leaders came to the capital to pay their respects. Today, His Majesty held a banquet in Lingyan Pavilion to count the achievements of all the generals.

Li Shan walked slowly, only occasionally saying hello to a few old acquaintances, thinking that everything was finally on track.

Speaking of the past three or four years, although the situation was much better than in the original time and space, Li Shimin still had a hard time. First, there was a severe drought that spread across Guanzhong and Hedong, and then spread to Jingzhao, Jingzhou, Ningzhou, Qizhou, and Huazhou. There were locust plagues in Zhouzhou and Fangzhou, and finally there was a flood in Jingzhao. The Baiqu was lost, causing the refugees in Jingzhao to scatter.

However, Li Shan didn't care about these. At most, he built a waterwheel in the first year and promoted it. At the end of the first year of Zhenguan, he resigned from Zong Zhengqing. After several times, Li Shimin nodded but added the empty title of Sikong.

In October of the fourth year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin, who had been fighting for four years, finally started to take action. Xue Yantuo and Tujue also fought on the grassland for two or three years, and the two sides were evenly matched.

The West Route Army has Zhang Zhongjian, the commander-in-chief of the Lingzhou Road March, as the main general, and Zhang Shigui and Xue Wanche as deputy generals. The East Route Army has Zhao Guogong Su Dingfang as the main general, and Li Shiji and Duan Zhixuan as deputy generals. The Middle Route Army has Dai Guogong Li Jing as the main general, and Zhang Gongjin and Qin Qiong as deputy generals.

Among the three armies, the East Route Army had the largest number of troops in Hedong and was also the main force. Su Dingfang sent Duan Zhixuan as the vanguard to defeat the enemy in Yunzhou first. He personally led 3,000 cavalry to attack Xiangcheng with lightning speed, capturing and killing them. Princess Yicheng and the new Turkic Khan who has only been in power for less than a year.

However, the biggest result of this battle was won by Su Dingfang, and the most dazzling one was Dai Guogong Li Jing. This famous general who destroyed DTZ in history showed his unparalleled strategy and courage in this battle.

Li Jing sent troops from Yanzhou, crossed the Hetao, and crossed the Yellow River. When the Turks were in chaos, he personally led thousands of cavalry to take advantage of the chaos. From the end of October to the end of November, he won eight battles and eight victories. His troops reached as far as the Yinshan Mountains and captured Su Dingfang. Left behind.

After the Great Khan was beheaded, the Turks had no organizational structure. Facing the attack of the Tang army, the remaining Turks had no choice but to submit to Xue Yantuo. Yi Nan wanted to force the Tang army to retreat and regain the tribe, which revealed his ambition.

Li Yaoshi started the war at the slightest disagreement. Thousands of Tang cavalry defeated 30,000 Xue Yantuo cavalry, beheading more than 10,000 people. Yi Nan's eldest son was captured. Yi Nan himself fled for two hundred miles, and was so embarrassed that he only had a few hundred people around him.

Li Jing refused to give up and pursued Xue Yantuo all the way to Yudujun Mountain, his home base. Later, Su Dingfang and Zhang Zhongjian also arrived with their troops. The Tang army showed off its power and made everyone on the grassland fearful. This forced the grassland tribes to come to Beijing to pay homage and bow their heads.

Therefore, Lingyan Pavilion was extremely lively today, with generals praising their achievements, Li Yuan playing the piano, and Li Shimin getting up to dance in person. But even so, the most dazzling one was still the taciturn Wei Siwang Li Shan sitting at the front on the left.

It's not because of Li Shan's words, "Why don't you take Wu Gou and collect the fifty states in Guanshan? Please go to Lingyan Pavilion for a while, like a scholar with ten thousand households?"

But everyone present knew very well who was the biggest contributor to the fact that the Turks were so easily wiped out and the grasslands were dominated in this battle.