Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 640 A Weak Country Without Diplomacy (Part [-])

Chapter 53 A Weak Country Without Diplomacy (Second Update)
The bandits saw that this situation was wrong. They were able to escape the encirclement and suppression by the Sui and Tang officials several times, not because of their ability to fight, but because of their mass base.

Yes, mass base.In fact, the bandits in the Luliang mountain area have formed a dense network of relationships. Some are inquiring about information, some are in charge of tipping off the news, some are in charge of setting up ambush and robbery, and some are in charge of selling stolen goods.Regardless of 21, Chen Ying first removed all the villagers from remote mountain villages in the Luliang Mountains without screening or interrogating them.

In this way, half of the bandits in the Luliang Mountains were destroyed before the battle. They lost their keen sense of smell and their natural cover.

What's even more shameless is that the Beiwei army didn't fight the bandits openly at all, instead of pretending to be a big fat sheep with a lot of property to attract bandits to rob. When the bandits happily surrounded the fat sheep, the Beiwei army At the beginning, the fangs were exposed, and the bandits were routed by a flurry of arrows, and then rushed up, like a tiger like a herd of sheep, chopping the bandits to pieces.

Either take advantage of the dark night and high winds to sneak into the bandit's camp, beat them with sap, pour sweat medicine, or set a trap, and then rush in and have a fat beating, tie them up, load them on a boat, and take them to the Western Regions to farm.All kinds of tricks and means emerged one after another, and this set of continuous combination punches stunned the bandits in the Luliang mountain area.

All the bandits want to see without tears, who is the bandit?
I have been cheated several times in a row, and found that every time the looting was pretended by the Beiwei army, not to mention not taking advantage, but suffered heavy losses.Because the Beiwei army is all on a pair of iron feet, they move extremely fast. Tomorrow, they will still be basking in the sun at Qingfengling, Daning. At night, they will go to Heifengzhai, Xixian County, more than 100 miles away, and uproot Heifengzhai. rise.

The speed of the Beiwei army is not fast. Three or two strongholds will be pulled out today, and another three or five will be destroyed tomorrow. Although there are not one thousand bandit strongholds in Luliang Mountain, there will be eight hundred. Unable to complete the task assigned by Chen Ying.

However, the bandits panicked. They knew the situation was serious, and if they let the Beiwei army go on like this, they would all be finished.They joined forces and launched repeated attacks on the Beiwei army stationed in Qingfengling, Daning. Qingfengling was originally the largest bandit den in Daning County. It was led by the bandit leader Liu Aqi who followed Li Shanfei. It is about four hundred steps long and about five hundred steps long, but it is built with strips of stone and filled with glutinous rice juice. Let alone poorly equipped bandits, even well-equipped officers and soldiers came to attack the city. The fortress of the city will also collapse a few big teeth.

The effect of the offensive is very obvious: they successfully reduced the bandits in the Luliang Mountains by half.As for their broken bows and arrows, they can't even pierce the armor of the back Wei army, let alone a strong fortress.What's even worse is that once the battle is stalemate, on the slope of Qingfeng Ridge, the Beiwei army will immediately drop dozens of hundreds of stone balls. It hurts when you touch it, as long as the stone ball rolls down the hillside, there will be a bloody storm in the bandit formation, smashing the bandits to the ground... Not to mention this gang of mobs, even the Turkic elite, facing the defense of the Weiwei army The offensive can only be watched and sighed, as far as it goes.

After suffering a few losses, the bandits have also learned to be good, and they will never take the initiative to attack the Beiwei army.It's a pity that the food doesn't have long legs, and they won't take the initiative to run up the mountain to find them, so in order to eat, they must take the initiative to attack the Beiwei army, otherwise they will starve to death.They couldn't attack life and death, and Beiwei was still elusive, destroying two or three cottages today, and destroying a few more the day after tomorrow... The bandits are almost driven crazy by this way of fighting, just want to cry: "Master, we Admit it, don't fight, okay?"

However, Bei Weijun said that absolutely not.

Before completing General Chen's order and dispatching 10 people to defend the border, the bandit suppression must not stop.

The bandits in Luliang Mountain saw that this was not the way to go, they couldn't fight and fight, and they couldn't run.

Regardless of the bandits in Puxian, Daning, and Xixian's Luliang Mountains, they seem to have disappeared.To eliminate the bandits who have been entrenched here for more than ten years, or even tens of hundreds of years, these local officials can usually celebrate with each other, but they soon realized that something was wrong.

Take Pu County as an example. Pu County was originally a county with a population of tens of thousands of households. However, as the bandits were wiped out, the population dropped sharply by [-]%, and now it is less than [-] households. The bandits, the key is the good people in the remote mountainous area, and they were also fooled by Chen Ying.

Using his personal credit as a guarantee, Chen Ying promised the people that he would move to Lingzhou and share [-] acres of land, a family of five would share a cow, and a house.For the poor and white people, the temptation is too great. The key is that in the past three years, Hedong has been fighting almost every year, but ordinary people have been tossed so hard that they have had enough.

Li Rui was dumbfounded. The population dropped by [-]%, and he, a county magistrate, couldn't afford to walk around.So more than [-] county magistrates from more than [-] counties in the Luliang mountainous area of ​​​​Hedong, as well as Mingzhou, Xiangzhou, Weizhou, and even Beizhou in Hebei wrote a letter to Li Yuan to impeach Chen Ying.

However, all these impeachment memorials have been thrown into the sea, and there is no response at all.

Li Yuan is also well aware of the ups and downs that Chen Ying caused in Hedong and Hebei.Of course, the most important thing is that Chen Ying's memorial moved Li Yuan's heart. Chen Ying wrote in the memorial to Li Yuan: "As long as you give him [-] people, he will spend [-] people in the Western Regions in the coming year, making the Western Regions a great Tang dynasty." The granary. Cooked in the Western Regions, the world is full."

Li Yuan had his own calculations. Hebei Qingzhuang and Hedong Qingzhuang were swept away, which could just weaken the strength of Hedong and Hebei's aristocratic clans, which killed two birds with one stone.Even if Dou Jiande's followers want to rebel again, they don't have the capital to rebel. Do they have to rely on the old, weak, sick and disabled?

It is inappropriate to say that the movement made by Chen Ying in the Luliang Mountains had no effect. At least when Ashina Suni, the leader of the "Falcon Eye", got the news, he still did not change his cleverness. Ashina Dubi wrote: "Dear Khan, your most loyal servant Ashina Suni has reported to you that according to reliable information, Chen Ying is currently suppressing bandits in Hedong and Hebei, and he is upholding justice. It coincides with your servant's previous speculation. There is a saying in the Han people, that is, to fight against the outside world, you must first secure the inside. Chen Ying's move must be for the future confrontation with the Great Turkic Khanate and to clear the rear. Some of these bandits are Dou Jiande and " They are the old department of "Ding Yang Khan", they and Li Tang are immortal, once the Khan needs them, they can raise troops at any time to support the Khan. This is the most unstable factor for Li Tang. However, it is a pity that these could have become the Great Turkic Nei Ying's soldiers and horses were all lost due to the mistakes of the servants. Chen Ying went to Hedong, and the servants suggested that Khan move his tent north..."

Ashina Duobi got the secret letter and thought about it for a long time.Still brought the secret letter to Princess Yicheng's tooth tent.Ashina Sunis handed the secret letter to Princess Yicheng, and then sighed with his hands behind his back: "It seems that old man Li Yuan is married to Ben Khan!"

"There are more than [-] soldiers and horses in the area, and they dare to go north. It's really brave!" Princess Yicheng read the secret letter and said with a cold smile: "My Khan, aren't you afraid of him?"

Hearing this, Jie Lihe Khan jumped up like a rabbit stepping on its tail, and roared fiercely, "What is a hero without a little bit of courage and courage in a horse leather shroud? How could I, Ashina Dobi?" Afraid of him, a yellow-mouthed child?"

If Ashina Doubi's legs didn't tremble, and his hands didn't tremble, Princess Yicheng really believed Ashina Doubi's words, but Ashina Doubi's performance betrayed his heart.

Princess Yicheng looked at Ashina Dubi, feeling very regretful in her heart, Ashina Dubi must not be so worthless as the son of Qimin Khan?
If he had known the result earlier, he would never have supported him to ascend the position of Khan.

Seeing the sarcasm on Princess Yicheng's face, Ashina Dobi said embarrassingly: "But Dun doesn't know something. Ben Khan is not afraid of Chen Ying. It's just that when two tigers fight, there must be an injury. Once Ben Khan If I suffer heavy losses in the duel with Chen, I will take advantage of Ye Huhan in vain, I can't take that as an excuse, otherwise I will shame millions of Turkic people!"

Princess Yicheng sneered and said, "Khan, what are you going to do?"

Ashina Dubi thought for a while and said, "Ben Khan decided to meet Tang envoy in Princess Yicheng's tooth tent!"

Tang Jian was one of Li Yuan's advisers. When Li Yuan raised troops in Taiyuan, Tang Jian participated in the planning.In the first year of Wude (618), he was promoted to be the Minister of Zhongshu.In the second year of Wude (619), Tang Jian learned that Dugu Huai'en was going to rebel.Dugu Huai'en is stationed in Puzhou, and Tang Jian sends people to expose Dugu Huai'en's rebellion.After Chen Ying defeated Liu Wuzhou, Tang Jian worshiped as Minister of Rites because of his meritorious service.

This time he proposed himself as an envoy to the Turks, hoping to use his eloquent tongue to make the Turks speechless and force the Turks to retreat.

It's just a pity that Tang Jian didn't know a very famous saying in later generations: "Weak countries have no diplomacy!"

Tang Jian traveled all the way to Dingxiang in a light car, and was detained by the Turkic people without even seeing Jieli Khan. Dozens of people from the entire Tang mission were all locked in the sheep pen.

Ordinarily, as a diplomatic ambassador of a country, it is a shame and a shame to be treated like this.Tang Jian had a bit of the spirit of Ah Q. He thought Turkic people were barbaric and vulgar, and they didn't know etiquette at all, so Tang Jian was also knowledgeable like Turkic people.

But Turkic deliberately wanted to humiliate Tang Jian. Not only did he not give him a place to live, but he even ate spoiled mutton with blowflies.

A bowl of water a day, a piece of spoiled mutton, after three days, Tang Jian was so hungry that his chest was pressed against his back.Fortunately, at this time, the Turks told Tang Jian that Jieli Khan was going to see him.Tang Jian was overjoyed, and hurriedly washed his hands and face with the saved water, combed his hair, and tidied up his clothes to avoid being rude.

Wearing a beam crown on his head and official uniform, Tang Jian bowed to Jieli Khan and Princess Yicheng, neither humble nor overbearing: "My Majesty's Minister of Rites, Tang Jian, pays homage to Khan and princess."

The faces of all the Turkic ministers suddenly became gloomy, and Princess Yicheng was also a little surprised. He looked at Tang Jian and wondered what kind of medicine he was selling in his gourd.

Ashina Aggressive's brow ridges moved, but he didn't attack immediately, he just nodded lightly.

Bu Lugen stepped forward and yelled: "The southern barbarians are so rude. Even if Li Yuan came in person, he would have to pay respects to our Khan. What's more, you are a minister of a small country, and you are proud of yourself. What's the reason?"

Tang Jian looked up at Bu Lugen, and said lightly: "Is there no one in Turkic? Let an ignorant villain be in the pilgrimage class, the history of the sage, have you read it all in the stomach of a dog? ?”

One question made Bu Lugen's face flushed, and he flew into a rage: "The concubine is so bold, how dare you insult the minister of the Great Turk?"

All the Turkic ministers pulled out their knives one after another. They were indeed not as good as Tang Jian in terms of eloquence, but they all had knives.A dozen scimitars were aimed at Tang Jian one after another. As long as Jieli Khan gave an order, they would smash Tang Jian's body into thousands of pieces.

However, Jieli Khan did not issue this order for a long time.Jieli Khan waved his hands and said, "Everyone back down!"

Jieli Khan can't be happy now, because he originally wanted to take advantage of it, but he didn't expect Li Yuan to be a pair of heavenly kings, so he directly sent Chen Ying, the god of death, now Chen Ying is only seven years away from Dingxiang. During the eight-day journey, facing Chen Ying, the murderous god, Jieli Khan had no idea.

But as soon as Xieli Khan's words came out, goose bumps fell all over the Turkic ministers.

I saw Jieli Khan: "Tang envoy, I think there is some misunderstanding between us Turks and Tang Dynasty. Our two countries are separated by a strip of water, so don't hurt the peace."

(End of this chapter)