Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 702
Chapter [-] Li Shimin who is not expected
The most abundant thing in Jinmancheng is neither gold nor steel, but food.More than two-thirds of the 75 mu of grain that Chen Ying reclaimed was harvested, and nearly one million stones were stored in Jinmancheng.The other third is stored in Huaergou.

What Hua'ergou is fighting for is steel, which is hard power, but the competition for Jinmancheng is for food.Whoever owns food in the Western Regions has the capital to dominate the Western Regions.

With steel, everyone knows that weapons can be made, and with weapons, the army can be armed. For the Western Regions, where all the people are soldiers, if there is enough steel and food, it is really not a problem to pull up an army of 30 to [-].

As for the population of the Western Regions, there has never been a detailed statistics.As for the population recorded in the Han Shu, it is simply a joke.There may be a country of a thousand people.But the country of a thousand people, a medium-sized horse thief, can easily overthrow it.But no matter how powerful a horse thief is, he cannot deal with any country in the Western Regions at will.

Although Gaochang State had a population of more than 33 people, Chen Ying successfully took in more than 10 people, plus more than [-] people who had been relocated, and other ethnic groups.Datang has a population of more than [-] in Xizhou Road.However, after Murong Fuyun came to the Western Regions, Qu Wentai recruited another [-] people, and no one knew where these people came from.

Of course, none of this matters.The most important thing is that Murong Fuyun didn't even say hello, and directly led the Tuyuhun troops to Jinmancheng overnight.

When Qu Wentai found out that the Tuyuhun camp was empty, he no longer had the strength to curse Murong Fuyun, no matter how stupid he was now, he could figure out that something was wrong.

Because, counting the time, even if Chen Ying crawled, he should have climbed back to Jinmancheng.Qu Boya, Xue Yingxiong, and Qu Wentai looked at the earth wall that had already turned black and purple, and the eyes of the three met in the air.

Qu Wentai sighed for a long time and said: "Father, it seems that we have to retreat. We joined forces with the Tuyuhun Khanate, but we are not Chen Ying's opponent. Now that Murong Fuyun has retreated, we must find another way out! "

Qu Boya's eyes showed deep despair: "The world is so big, where is there room for our father and son?"

Speaking of this, Qu Boya couldn't help regretting.If he doesn't run away now, and follow the Tang army to Chang'an honestly, the Li Tang court will definitely give him the treatment of a rich man in order to reassure other tribes.Now, I am afraid that even this opportunity is gone.

Thinking of this, Qu Boya's eyes turned red, and he choked up and said, "Wen Tai, we can't beat Datang, we might as well surrender!"

"Surrender!" Qu Wentai shook his head and said with a cold smile: "Father, we have no chance and no turning back. Chen Ying will not let our father and son go, he will definitely send us father and son and Qu The whole family was slaughtered..."

At this moment, Qu Wentai's face was covered with a layer of dead gray. No one can describe the discouragement and even despair in his heart at this moment, but this time, his will has been experienced beyond human ability. As he struggled, Qu Wentai still found that his expression was normal: "Father, don't let your imagination run wild. Chen should not let us go. Even if we surrender now, we are just humiliating ourselves!"

When Qu Boya heard this, he was even more bewildered.

Xue Yingxiong smiled wryly: "Looking at what the Crown Prince means, he must have already made up his mind. I don't know what the Crown Prince thinks?"

Qu Wentai said: "I don't have any clever plan, the only thing I can do is save my life from death. Let's go to the Yilie River Valley and join the Western Turkic Khanate!"

Qu Boya nodded.

This is not a bad idea.

After all, the distance from Jinman County to the Yilie River Valley in the far west is about [-] miles.There is still a need to jump over the Tianshan Mountains. As long as Chen Ying can allow them to go westward for three hundred miles and enter the Tianshan Mountains, Chen Ying will never have the chance to chase them down.After all, at this time, Tianshan Mountain was already covered with snow and ice, without a familiar guide to guide the way, it was impossible for Chen Ying to find them!

Putting his attention on it, Qu Wentai took out five or six thousand old, weak, sick and disabled from the army, and then sorted out their family members.

These old, weak, sick and disabled, as well as more than [-] wounded soldiers looked at Qu Wentai anxiously.

Qu Wentai said without hesitation: "Now you know the situation, we have already lost, we have lost nothing, and now I am bringing in the young and strong, the last value of you is to buy us some precious time , Do it or not, it's all up to you!"

If Qu Wentai said these words in the Central Plains, he would definitely be cast aside and called a beast.However, in the Western Regions, this practice is the most common thing.

Whenever there is a natural disaster or a man-made disaster, all ethnic groups in the Western Regions are the first to abandon the old, weak, sick and disabled, leaving the young and strong.Especially whenever they encounter ice and snow disasters, usually one tribe after another, all freeze to death.Looking at their dead faces, one will be surprised to find that the outermost ones are often the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, followed by women and children, thirdly young children, and the innermost ones are young adults.

Taking advantage of the night, Qu Wentai left Hua'ergou with the young and strong main force of Gaochang Kingdom and other ethnic groups, and rushed westward all the way.Looking at the wounded soldiers and the old, weak, sick and disabled who were abandoned by others, these old, weak, sick and disabled howled in despair, and then took their weapons and attacked the Hua'ergou Tang army camp.

This was a desperate attack like a moth throwing a flame, and it was also like the last madness.

Duan Zhigan was awakened under such circumstances. After waking up, he hurriedly climbed up the watchtower.

Standing high and seeing far away, a fire dragon is retreating rapidly in the distant night.

Duan Zhigan sneered: "Since they have already seen through, there is no need to hide anything. Pass the order of the general, immediately counterattack with all your strength, and prepare to pursue!"

At this time, the trebuchet that Tang Jun ambushed behind the earthen wall began to speak first.What they hurled was not stone bombs, but tinder cans.

A kerosene tank can hold fifty catties of refined kerosene.

With the sound of short-sounding short passwords, rows of trebuchets were pulled down by soldiers.These trebuchets are the original kind of trebuchets, but counterweight trebuchets.The iron block weighing four thousand catties fell from a height of more than four feet, and the projectile arm smashed stone bullets weighing fifty catties into the enemy group.

As more than [-] catties of counterweight iron fell to the ground, it made a dull sound when it hit the ground.At the same time, those fuel tanks also fell into the enemy group one after another.

Then the Tang Army archers shot out densely packed rockets like shooting stars.Falling into the enemy group, it immediately burned into a big fire.

Five or six thousand Gaochang rebels and soldiers of the Gaochang army who rolled and crawled, gritted their teeth and charged, ready to pull a back, all fell into a sea of ​​flames.

More than [-] kerosene tanks, with a total of [-] jin of kerosene, formed a wall of fire about [-] steps wide and more than ten miles long.

Five or six thousand Burning Men screamed in the sea of ​​flames.

Duan Zhigan galloped his horse around the wall of fire, chopped down a rebel soldier of the Gaochang Army, and shouted fiercely: "The fifth and seventh folds rushed to the mansion and left to clean up the battlefield. The others will follow me!"

Just when Duan Zhigan led the soldiers of the Hebei New Army to pursue Qu Wentai's remnants, Li Yuan, who was located in the Wude Hall of Chang'an Taiji Palace, also received an urgent report from Hedong Li Shimin.

In Li Shimin's urgent report, Li Shimin tearfully denounced the Hedong family for betraying Datang, betraying him, and selling his marching formation and detailed information on troop mobilization to the East Turks.Now the Eastern Turks are attacking the empty Yingzhou, Linzhou, Shenmu, Shanyin and other places. Yingzhou, which has the most troops in these places, has only one Zhechong Mansion with a mere [-] people. Facing the attack of tens of thousands of Turks, Certainly not for long.

Seeing this, Li Yuan became anxious. In today's Tang Dynasty, Guanzhong is still the most heavily defended. The sixteen guards, with a total of nearly 20 soldiers and horses, are stationed around Chang'an.All the troops that Hedong could use were used.However, Li Shimin is now trapped in Dingxiang, surrounded by tens of thousands of Eastern Turkic soldiers.

Seeing this, Li Yuan's eyes almost fell off.

Li Shimin is over!
Does Li Yuan want the white-haired man to send the black-haired man again?

Pei Ji was also dumbfounded when he saw this urgent report.

Li Shimin's record is obvious to all.

The first official appearance was in the 11th year of Daye, when Yang Guang's Yanmen Pass was besieged by the Eastern Turks. On August 24, Li Shimin served as an errand for Sui general Yun Dingxing.He offered advice to Yun Dingxing: "We are going to rescue His Majesty, but our troops are too small to use force directly. We should bluff the flag and beat drums at night, so that the Turks will mistakenly think that our reinforcements are coming and scare him away." Yun Ding Xing accepted.

Later historians often only talked about this, and avoided the subsequent records, making people mistakenly think that this strategy successfully rescued Yang Guang, so they admired Li Shimin, a young general.However, "Zizhi Tongjian" did not say that this plan was successful, and ended the whole paragraph directly, changing a paragraph to explain the real reason for the Turkic retreat: the emperor sent an envoy to ask for help from Princess Yicheng, and the princess sent an envoy to tell the end Yun: "There is an emergency in the north." Reinforcements from Dongdu and other counties also arrived at Xinkou; "

Li Shimin's first appearance was actually a failure.

The second battle was after Li Yuan raised his troops. From July to November of the 13th year of Daye, Li Shimin led the army to attack Huoyi.

Of course, the battle of Huoyi was fought by Li Yuan, Li Jiancheng, and Li Shimin's father and son. The plan at the time was that Li Yuan lacked the tools to attack the city, so he brought his eldest son to show weakness at the east gate and lure Song Laosheng to fight away from the city wall.The second son lay in ambush on the high ground outside the south gate, and when Song Laosheng fell for it, he rushed over, appeared behind Song Laosheng, and flanked him with his father and brother back and forth.Kill Song Laosheng outside the city before conquering Huoyi.

"Old students can't get in, people in the city lead them with ropes, and old students climb the rope to go up to Zhangyu." "Zi Zhi Tong Jian Sui Ji Eight", when Li Shimin performed such an ambush mission, he actually failed.Song Laosheng broke through Li Shimin's siege and climbed onto the city wall.

In "Old Tang Book·Liu Hongji Biography": "The old man led the crowd outside the city, Hongji attacked him from Emperor Taizong, the old man was defeated, abandoned his horse and threw himself into a ditch, Hongji beheaded his head, and worshiped Dr. You Guanglu."

Pei Ji knows Li Shimin's ability, his greatest ability is to mess up the best situation.

Pei Ji said anxiously: "Your Majesty, we must organize an army as soon as possible to rescue His Highness Qin Jun!"

Li Yuan pondered.There was no immediate answer.

In fact, he also had a headache. The key point was that although there was an army in Guanzhong, the army could not fly. Guanzhong was more than a thousand miles away from the east of the river, and there was a Yellow River across it.

Not only are Li Yuan and Pei Ji not optimistic about Li Shimin, but even Li Jiancheng and Li Xiuning are not optimistic about Li Shimin.

Even Jieli Khan, who is far outside the city of Dingxiang, is also not optimistic about Li Shimin.

He believes that Li Shimin should be a dish on his plate, and he can easily grab it.In order to capture Li Shimin alive and quickly end the battle, Jieli Khan issued the Khan Golden Arrow Order, ordering all the Eastern Turkic ministries to reward Li Shimin with a thousand horses and special service! "

However, Jieli Khan didn't know that this time he was really wrong!

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