Great Tang Dynasty

Chapter 799
Li Shimin also felt that Gao Shilian was a little unreasonable.

Indeed, Yang Zhengdao's escape made the matter of destroying the Hou Sui seem less than perfect, but the achievements of destroying the Hou Sui cannot be easily wiped out.

So Gao Shilian asked Qin Tian to be punished, which was really unreasonable.

After the ministers said this, Li Shimin waved his hands and said: "Okay, there is no need to discuss this matter any more. I know it well, and I will talk about it after Qin Tian comes back."

Li Shimin didn't intend to punish Qin Tian, ​​but he wouldn't just refute the matter directly, expressing that he didn't care.

The emperor's mental technique played a role at this time.

Indeed, Qin Tian made contributions, but the more contributions he made, the more he would be afraid of the emperor. Li Shimin had to beat Qin Tian, ​​and the suspicion of releasing Yang Zhengdao privately was something he could use.

Therefore, he will not comment on this matter for the time being, and will talk about it after Qin Tian returns.

Of course, he also wanted to give Gao Shilian some face.

In the end, Gao Shilian was the siege of the Tang Dynasty and the uncle of Empress Changsun. No matter how you say it, he should be given some face.

After Li Shimin said this, the court officials stopped talking.

But Gao Shilian was a little bit reluctant, and said: "Your Majesty, there is one more thing that I want to say. Now that the Later Sui Dynasty and the Liang Kingdom have been destroyed, why not take advantage of the high morale and directly attack the grasslands to destroy them?" Turks, why wait until the spring begins, it would be a waste of food and grass."

When these words came out, the officials looked at each other, and many people also felt strange, since there is a war, they should act vigorously, why wait?

However, after Gao Shilian finished speaking, Li Shimin waved his hands: "What Li Jing and the others did is right."

After all, Li Shimin is the emperor on horseback, he knows how to fight this battle, so he will not be confused by Gao Shilian's words.

"Winter is about to begin, and the weather in the north is even colder than our Chang'an city. Most of my Tang army are people from the hinterland of the Central Plains, and even people from the south. How can they withstand the cold in the north? Weapons, how can we fight this battle?"

After Li Shimin finished speaking like this, the court officials had already understood.

"Your Majesty's words are timely. We can't bear the cold in Chang'an City, let alone border guards. We must wait for this battle to be fought with confidence."

"That's right, that's right, our Datang has a bumper harvest of grain this year, and it's not bad for the grain and grass of those few months."

"That's right, it's best to fight after the beginning of spring."

"........."

All the ministers said this, so Gao Shilian couldn't say anything more. If he said it again, he would be laughed at, saying that he didn't know how to fight, and he just said that Qin Tian didn't know how to fight.

The matter of Chang'an City passed in this way.

It's winter in a blink of an eye.

The winter in the grassland is surprisingly cold, even if it just entered the winter, it is still unbearably cold.

As far as the eye can see, the entire grassland is all withered and yellow. At this time, even the shepherds are gone.

Under normal circumstances, after winter, many herdsmen will settle in one place and raise their cattle and sheep in captivity. Before winter comes, they have already harvested a lot of hay.

We spent the whole winter in this way, until the next spring, the land grew pasture again.

And throughout the winter, what these herdsmen have to do is relatively simple, that is, to rest. Of course, because of the cold weather, many cattle and sheep will freeze to death every winter. These frozen cattle and sheep are eaten.

Winter is the time when they eat the most meat.

The nearest Turkic tribe to Dingxiang City is called the Naiman tribe. It is a tribe with about 4 people. Among the 4 people, more than 1 men are soldiers and horses of this tribe, and the rest are either women. Either children or the elderly.

In their Turks, as long as they are adult men with no major physical problems, they will become the guardians of the tribe, fighting and fighting with others non-stop, which is the basis for their survival.

Originally, the men of their tribe had already assembled and were waiting to start a war with Datang, but they never thought that Datang's speed was too fast, and they directly wiped out the Later Sui and Liang countries, so they could only wait for the initiative to become passive.

However, they didn't know when the Tang army would attack the city, so even though it was already winter, the soldiers here were still paying attention to the movements on the grassland.

And at this moment, Shanmu brought a troop to the grassland, and set his sights on the Naiman tribe.

Monocular is very fast and very direct. He knows that if he stays on the grassland for too long, he will be discovered by the Turkic soldiers soon, and it will not be easy for them to escape.

Therefore, after they entered the grassland, they went straight to the Naiman tribe.

Relatively speaking, the Naiman tribe lived in groups. Of course, their so-called group of lords was quite different from what people in the Tang Dynasty thought of as groups. Because the grassland was sparsely populated, a dozen or so families lived together to form a group. Teams, the distance between each team is about one mile.

They feed too many cattle and sheep. If they are too close together, it is actually not conducive to raising cattle and sheep, and it is easy to cause conflicts between neighbors. It would be better if they are farther apart.

After Shanmu led people into the Naiman Department, he rushed directly into a small team. There were probably dozens of people in this small team. After they found the Tang people, they were very shocked. The nightmare of not long ago seemed to reappear suddenly.

Frightened, frightened, they have nothing but frightened.

They began to flee in all directions, not daring to have the slightest confrontation with Tang Jun.

On the side of Shanmu and the others, they also hacked and killed a few people, but after the others escaped, they did not go after them. Instead, they plundered the team, looted all their belongings, and then After each of them killed a few sheep, they took them and left.

There were 1000 of them, and each of them killed a few sheep and brought them back, and also cleaned up the sheep in this small team.

After leaving in this way, they had no intention of staying in the Naiman tribe at all.

They just want to harass the Turks and make them restless. They will plunder today and come again another day. Anyway, this winter will not let them have a good time, and after they go back, they will have mutton to eat.

The first robbery was particularly smooth, and they didn't encounter the slightest danger, which made Shanmu and the others feel proud and fortunate that they had done something bad but escaped punishment.

This feeling of plundering was very refreshing. Only now did they finally understand why the Turkic people liked to rob them from the Tang Dynasty, because this was the best way to make themselves rich.

You don't have to work, you just need to plunder by force.

This is probably the fastest profitable business in the world.

(End of this chapter)