The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 170 Three Lights

In Mobei, the wind is howling, the sheepskin curtains are wide open, and the unkempt snowflakes are falling from the curtains and the top of the head. The flames in the firepit are flickering and dimming. Yang Tong picked up a few pieces of dried cow and sheep dung and threw them into the firepit. Watch the flames devour them.

"Your Highness, Concubine Li, Concubine Wu and the generals are all here..." Yin Mingyue's cold voice sounded outside the tent.

"Invite them in."

Then there was a sound of footsteps stepping on the ice and snow, and then Shui Tianji, Qin Qiong, Luo Shixin, Niu Jinda, and Yu Chigong walked in.

Like a warm and hospitable herdsman, Yang Tong greeted everyone: "Come on, it's cold outside the tent, drink a cup of warm milk wine to warm up... eat something..."

When everyone gathered together, the female guards quickly brought up warm milk wine and barbecue, and Yang Tong warmly greeted everyone to eat and drink.

"Is it fun to kill these days?" Yang Tong asked after eating.

"Not fun!" Everyone replied in unison.

"It's really not fun." Yang Tong laughed, massacring some of the string control people and herdsmen who defended the tribe with the best of the [-] elites, it really didn't feel any sense of accomplishment.Although the man who controls the strings has certain combat power, he is still not an orthodox soldier.Tuojie and Fuli are Turkic warriors with full experience and battles.

"In the next step, our goal is the Tiele tribe east of Kent Mountain and north of the Ulji River. From west to east, there are nine surnames such as Huihe, Sijie, Tongluo, Pugu, and Bayegu. These Tiele tribes After nearly a year of conquest in Chuluo, the strength has not been as good as before. According to our information, during the period when Yixi Khan Yi Shibo became self-reliant, the total population of Tiele was 68, but after the conquest of Chuluo, it has dropped to 40 There are about 20 people, based on the characteristics of all the people of the grassland people, Tie Le said there are more than [-] people who can fight."

"Although Tie Le once again surrendered to the Turks headed by Xieli, the hatred between them is not so easy to eliminate. At the same time, because Shibi Khan had massacred them in Mayi, so it is also against Xieli. Be careful! They have assembled less than 5 troops at Yudujin Mountain. That is to say, there are still more than 15 soldiers left behind in Tiele, plus the troops who can fight, we will face a five-fold Lots of enemies."

After hearing Yang Tong's words, everyone looked serious.

"It's just that although Tie Le is regarded as a whole by everyone, its essence is still a tribal alliance headed by nine surnames. Each of them has their own interests and demands. When facing life and death decisions, they will consider themselves. Therefore, everyone should Think of them as tribes and tribes, not as a whole, so we're still one-on-one."

Everyone: "..."

Yang Tong continued: "Tie Le is different from Turkic! The methods are also different."

Qin Qiong asked: "Your Highness wants to recruit them?"

"Tie Le is a fool. If they are recruited, they will be an Eastern Turk again more than ten years later. We can no longer suffer from this kind of loss. I mean to consume their war potential."

In history, Tie Le, headed by Xue Yantuo, was able to rise rapidly after Li Shimin wiped out the Turks. One of the reasons was that they had a large population and strong combat power. Becoming a powerful steppe khanate is just a change of master.After the death of the first Khan Yinan of the newborn Xueyan Khanate, his son immediately challenged Li Tang.This is simply a turning point for the Eastern Turks. It can be seen that Li Shimin did not learn the lessons of the Sui Dynasty in his foreign policy.This time, Yang Tong intends to destroy Tie Le's war potential.

"What is war potential?" Yang Tong asked himself and answered: "Population is the greatest war potential. As long as we destroy it, Tie Le will not threaten us for decades or hundreds of years. Therefore, to deal with Tie Le The looted materials will be the main ones, and those that cannot be taken away will be burned, including tents, bedding, clothes and other winter shelter items, anyway, only corpses and ruins will be left for them.”

"The biggest enemy of the northern nomads has never been our Central Plains dynasty, but the harsh environment and climate. Any disasters such as white disasters, black disasters, and yellow disasters will cut off the livelihood of the herdsmen. When the cold wave comes, the grasslands are covered with snow and frozen for thousands of miles. Nomads It is impossible to graze, and the livestock can only be fed with hay. If the snow falls too much and lasts for a long time, the livestock will have to starve to death or freeze to death. If the grassland is flat, sandstorms and tornadoes can easily sweep across the land, and even people and livestock are dangerous. This is the yellow disaster. Therefore, grassland people often invade the Central Plains, not only because they Being barbaric and plundering is their way of life, and if they don’t come to rob, they might not be able to survive.”

"It's the coldest season of the year, and it will last for about two months. If they don't have tents, clothes, bedding, food, and don't go crazy and loot other tribes, they won't be able to survive Cold winter and spring. And we have the Great Wall standing firm, so they can only rob themselves. After a month or two of this robbing, the population is getting smaller and smaller, and of course the hatred between each other is getting bigger and bigger, but for me The threat of Da Sui is naturally getting smaller and smaller."

Everyone took a deep breath, this tactic of drawing wages from the bottom of the pot was too ruthless.

"Once they fight each other and snatch supplies, they don't have time to defend us. At that time, if we have spare energy, we can just wipe it out in one fell swoop. If there is no time, it's better to let them kill themselves."

To be honest, Yang Tong never thought of fighting against Xieli's main force, because historical facts have proved that simply annihilating the enemy's combat troops will not achieve the effect of destroying the country at all.

Li Mu, a famous general of the Warring States Period, wiped out more than 20 Huns in the first battle, and knocked the Huns down for a while, but this kind of victory in annihilating the main battle force can only deter the Huns for a while, and cannot completely solve the Xiongnu problem.Because Li Mu killed only the adult men of the Huns, their children still lived safely on the grasslands. After more than ten or twenty years, these bear children could ride war horses and invade the Central Plains again when they grew up.

However, Li Mu's tactics are the most resource-saving tactics, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also wanted to adopt this style of tactics, which led to the incident of Mayi's plan, but unfortunately, Mayi's plan ended in failure.So Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty adopted the second plan: take the initiative to attack.Relying on their strong national power, the Han army ran long distances and continuously attacked the hinterland of the Huns. After the Huns escaped, they would capture livestock and burn their luggage that they had no time to take away.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's "Three Lights" policy deprived the Huns of survival resources, and they could only migrate to the bitter cold land in Mobei. The harsh environment and the shortage of living supplies caused a large number of Huns to die of hunger and cold.

And now Yang Tong is going to adopt the plan of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and use the cold weather to force the Turks to take the road of civil war.If it was the beginning of the Khan’s period, he could suppress the civil war with his strong prestige, but the current Turkic Khan is the new king of Jieli, who has no achievements and no prestige, and he will not divide his resources equally among the ministries. And the grassland is a place where the weak prey on the strong, so the melee between various ministries is very likely to reappear on the grassland due to Yang Tong's attack.

After setting the plan to destroy the supplies, Yang Tong gave the order to fight.The target is the Bayegu tribe in the east and the Bugu tribe west of Bayegu.

These two ministries are both in the Ulji River Basin, less than 150 miles apart. If they fight one by one, it is very likely to arouse the vigilance of the other ministries, thus bringing unnecessary troubles to the war.Yang Tong simply divided the army into two, with Qin Qiong as the main general and Niu Jinda as the deputy general in the East Route Army. The two led the Nu Tao and Kuang Lan armies to attack the easternmost Bayegu tribe, and the West Route Army led by Yang Tong mainly attacked the Pugu tribe. .

"The Bayegu tribe is the easternmost tribe of the Turks. If you attack from the west, they can only flee to Nanshiwei in the east, or the north, so that they won't cause trouble for me. Similarly, I also attack from west to east The purpose is to prevent the defeated army from fleeing to Tongluo and Xue Yantuo in the west. After you complete the task, quickly return to the army and attack Xue Yantuo in the northeast of Tongluo, and Tongluo will be handed over to me. Let's go!"

(End of this chapter)