Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 611 A Difficult Choice (Part [-])
Chapter 25 Difficult choice (two more)
Dingxiang is located in the Xinding Basin, surrounded by mountains on three sides, and flows through the territory.Xinding Basin is dustpan-shaped from east to west, with flat terrain, fertile land and mild climate. It is the main grain producing area of ​​Xinzhou.

This is not only the Southern King's Court of the Eastern Turkic Khan, but also the seat of the small court of the Sui Dynasty.In February of the third year of Wude (620), Luo Khan from the East Turkic Khan sent envoys to Dou Jiande to welcome Empress Xiao and Yang Zhengdao to East Turkic, supported Yang Zhengdao as King of the Sui Dynasty, and kept Yang Zhengdao in the East Turkic territory. All the officials and common people in the Central Plains were allocated to Yang Zhengdao to rule, and the "Great Sui" regime was restored, known as the Later Sui Dynasty in history.Yang Zhengdao set up hundreds of officials, all in accordance with the system of the Sui Dynasty, living in Dingxiang County in the Sui Dynasty, with more than 1 people.

Regardless of the fact that Yang Zhengdao only has more than 160 trilogy, but relying on the Xinding Basin, these more than [-] people are added, and Princess Yicheng then sent more than [-] Han slaves who were captured by the Turks. More than [-] people, in the Dingxin Basin in the later Sui Dynasty, [-] million mu of land was reclaimed in just one spring, and all of them were planted with sorghum.

The sorghum planted in early spring is about to mature. There are more than 160 million mu of sorghum, and each mu can harvest between one stone and five buckets or one stone. Thousands of stones and high beams.

The imperial meeting of the Sui Dynasty was attended by Empress Xiao holding Yang Zhengdao in her arms. Yang Zhengdao, who was just five years old at the time (two years old for men in ancient times, and one year old for women), sat on the imperial throne, shaking left and right like a needle felt Put it on, very restless.

Empress Xiao, the grandfather and queen regent, coaxed Yang Zhengdao while listening to the ministers' reports.In fact, there are only two counties left in the Sui Dynasty, which is a little bigger than the Dingxin Basin.There is no major event every day. If you want to talk about major events, in fact, with the 30 Turkic troops pouring into the Dingxin Basin, the pasture at the foot of the Yin Mountain has long been eaten up, and even the roots of the grass have been eaten by sheep. Whether the grass will grow in the coming year is also a problem. .

The current state affairs of the Sui Dynasty, the most problem is that either the grain fields here are gnawed by the Turkic war horses, or the Turkic people ruin there.

In fact, there is simply no way around these things.The so-called Sui Dynasty was a puppet of the Eastern Turkic Khanate, and finally got the end of the court meeting. Empress Xiao was discussing with Minister of Civil Affairs Chen Yan, and finally a major event happened in Turkic.

After Luo Khan died of illness in the East Turkic region, his younger brother Ashina Dubi became Jieli Khan, and he took his stepmother, Princess Yicheng of the Sui Dynasty, as his wife.Jieli Khan first inherited the foundation of his father and brother, with strong troops and horses, and led 30 string-controlling men, preparing to personally break through and destroy the Tang Dynasty. Like the Tuoba tribe of Xianbei, he entered the Central Plains and drank horses from the Yellow River.

However, as the war between the Tang Dynasty and the Xia Kingdom quickly became intense, especially when Dou Jiande and Li Yuan fought together to unite the world and fight against the Turkic banner, Jieli Khan felt embarrassed.

Although the Turks are ferocious by nature, but after careful calculation, since the founding of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Jian, Yang Wen, and Yang Su, the Northern Expeditions three times, have no temper. In fact, the Turks have a strong fear of the Central Plains. The Turkic people have no objection to looting on the northern border, but if they really want to destroy China and annex the Central Plains, they will have no confidence.

Population is also flawed.Although the Turks spanned more than 120 miles, more than 20 miles from north to south, and had such a huge territory, their population was only about [-] million (after the death of Jieli, they either went to Xue Yantuo, or entered the Western Regions, and even ten people who came here came here. More than [-]. At this age, there are more than [-] million Chinese who belonged to the prefectures and counties outside the Great Wall and opened Siyi.) Don’t look at the fact that Jieli Khan controls more than [-] soldiers and horses, in fact, more than [-] of them They are all soldiers and horses of various ethnic groups who surrendered outside the Turkic tent, including Xue Yantuo, Tiele, Tiefo, Xi, Khitan and other tribes.

In the end, Ashina fell into Li Tang's tricks and decided to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight, and then went south to the Central Plains when Datang and Xia were both in danger.But the changes were too fast. When the Turks were grazing leisurely in the north and south of the Yinshan Mountains, the Tangxia War ended. Dou Jiande, who had 30 soldiers, did not persist for three months. He was defeated and surrendered. The land also surrendered to Li Tang.

Xia Guo was destroyed, but Li Tang's vitality seemed to be intact. Instead of hurting his vitality, it seemed that his strength had increased a lot, which made Jieli Khan very depressed.Especially in the Battle of Hebei, the combat effectiveness of the soldiers and horses led by Chen Ying shocked Jieli Khan greatly.

The generals of the Xia army were slaughtered in front of the wall of the hooked cavalry, sickle, spear and cavalry under Chen Ying's command. Those fresh lives, together with thousands of grasses, merged with the earth.The desperate wails and painful screams of the soldiers of the Xia Army, as well as the battle more than a year ago, Chen Ying has become a dream monster that is hard to get rid of in Jieli Khan's heart.

How many soldiers of the Xia army were killed or injured under Chen Ying's horseshoes with hooks, sickles, spears, and cavalry? Of course, Jieli Khan didn't have the time to take care of them. The elite of the law actually drove a dozen people crazy by being frightened.

These people are all outstanding children of the Ashina family or the Anade family. They are all the favored children of heaven, and there is no one in a million masters, but they are frightened crazy.

Jieli Khan finally realized that this time was different.In the past, he didn't have to fight at all, he just had to put on the posture that I was going to enter the pass, and he could get what he wanted outside the battlefield. The era is gone forever.

If you want to drink horses from the Yellow River, it is estimated that you will hang up.If you want to drink the horses of the Yellow River, you must destroy the Li Tang court, not to mention the sixteen guards of the Tang Dynasty, even Chen Ying's cavalry army is enough to cause headaches.

After dinner, Jieli Khan faced his stepmother, sister-in-law, and the current Princess Kedun Yicheng, and admitted very frankly: "The strength of the Tang Dynasty is far stronger than we calculated. This time we Miscalculation, Dou Jiande's 30 troops didn't last for three months at all, and our 30 troops...I'm afraid we can't take advantage of it!"

Princess Yicheng smiled wryly and said: "This time I was too careless. I fell into the trap of Li Yuan. The Tang Kingdom is not like before. They are not like the Liang Kingdom of Liangshidu, the Qin Kingdom of Xue Ju, and the Tianxing Kingdom of Liu Wuzhou. Tang will never bow to us Turkic Khan like them, and take whatever we want. We underestimated the shamelessness of old man Li Yuan, and also underestimated Chen Ying's ability. We were wrong from the beginning. We should not be afraid of losses. At all costs, enter the pass..."

"Hey... what's the use of you talking about this now?" Jielihe Khan sighed and said, "The most important thing now is, what should we do? If we are defeated this time, Ben Khan will definitely have no way to appeal to the Khanate. The nobles explain..."

"There is no other way to think about it, I can only go all out!" Princess Yicheng roared with murderous eyes full of hostility: "The whole army goes south and beat Li Tang's arrogance down, or wait for Li Tang to gain a firm foothold!" , our interests in the Central Plains will definitely be greatly affected."

Jieli Khan and Princess Yicheng finally reached a consensus. There is no way, who made Princess Yicheng's Ketun not just Ketun?Among the four major leaf guardians of the Eastern Turks, Princess Yicheng controls one-third of the Khans. Without the support of Princess Yicheng, if Jieli Khan wants to make big moves, he has no chance or possibility.

At this time, more than [-] troops gathered in Dingxiang, which was only a thin line away from Taiyuan, Shuozhou, and Yanmen in the south. If Li Tang's troops left behind in Shuozhou and Taiyuan wanted to block the Turkic invasion, there would definitely be no way. Chance.

Just when Jieli Khan was in high spirits and was preparing to become the second emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

"kill……"

A burst of fierce killing cries came from outside Dingxiang City, and in the dark night, a fire dragon swept towards Dingxiang City from the northwest.Jieli Khan reacted after a brief moment of surprise, and quickly sent someone to check what was going on.

But the result made Jieli Khan dumbfounded.

The son of Chuluo Khan, his great nephew Ashina Ao Sheshe actually led the army to rebel. Ao Sheshe was one of the Twelve Turkic Khans, and he mastered more than [-] elite soldiers in the headquarters. He was dissatisfied with Princess Yicheng's assisted Aobi, and was unwilling to assist him. He had long held a grudge, so he took advantage of the Turkic people's fear of the Tang army, and spread among the Turkic people that "the Tang people are invincible, and Aobi wants to use Datang's army to help him." It is inevitable that he will be killed by Kaobi, but he does not know who the next unlucky person will be.

Bewitched by Ausheshe, some Turkic tribes who didn't know the truth also joined Ausheshe's camp and challenged Jieli Khan.

The battle started suddenly and ended quickly. The Austrian Sheshe preemptive strikes did bring some chaos to Xiangcheng. In this melee, at least 3 horses were killed or injured, and almost [-]% of them were from the Turkic headquarters. Centaurs, not vassal tribes.

Jieli Khan was very angry, but he was not stupefied after all. He found that the whole Turkic people's hearts were fluctuating after such a disturbance by the Austrian shooting. It was a very difficult choice to fight or not to fight.

(End of this chapter)