Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 943
Chapter 65 leaves little chance for the Turks

The idea of ​​the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the center has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people since ancient times.Including smart people like Wei Zheng, he always believed that the Tang Dynasty was the center of the world and the whole of the world.

However, ever since Wei Zheng looked at the huge map that was six feet three feet long and two feet four feet wide in Chen Ying's study, he discovered that the Tang Dynasty only occupied a mere corner of the world.

This world map is based on Chen Ying's fragmentary memories of later generations, combined with the knowledge of this era, and the information obtained by Tiger Yicong, as well as the places where the company passed.

It can be said that places closer to the Tang Dynasty, such as Goguryeo, Buyeo, Silla, and Baekje in the east of Liaodong, are hardly surprising, including Tubo, Tuyuhun, and Anxi Duhufu on the plateau, which were favored by Chen Ying. Ye Zhen, these are also very detailed.

However, for the Sasanian Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the Dashi, and the Gupta Empire (India) in the southwest, as well as Luzon, Luyepati (now Java), and Jinzhou (Sumatra), these are all based on Some trivial records, and Chen Ying's memory are supplemented.

When Wei Zheng saw this huge map for the first time, he also thought that it was something that Chen Ying had messed up.Later, Wei Zheng consulted a large number of classics in the secretary's prison.

At this time, there was no "Da Tang Western Regions", but there was "Buddha Records" reformed by the eminent monk Fa Xian of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.There is a section in it that records the scene of the Gupta Empire in detail: fifty miles west of the city, there is a town named Duwei, where there is the relic of Kasyapa Tathagata.Going southeast for twelve yoyans, to Napijiayi, there is the relic of Kulou Qin Buddha.Going northward from here, within less than one yoyan, there is the relic of Kanasamuni Buddha.From then on, traveling eastward, less than one yoyan, we arrived at the Acropolis of Gavilo.

After comparison.

Wei Zheng was surprised to find that the maps in Chen Ying's study were exactly the same as those recorded in "Buddha Records".Although the conclusion is a bit one-sided, Wei Zheng believes that Chen Ying will never make a fake.

From this, Wei Zheng can know that there are hundreds of countries around the Tang Dynasty, some big and some small, the big ones are the Sasanian Empire, the Byzantine Empire, and the Dashi Empire...

Wei Zheng looked at Fang Xuanling and sighed, "Xuanling, we have just begun to defeat the Eastern Turks!"

Fang Xuanling looked at Wei Zheng and said with a smile, "Xuancheng, are you drunk?"

Wei Zheng shook his head and said, "I'm not drunk. I saw a huge map of the world in General Chen's study. This map is different from what we saw!"

Fang Xuanling got up and said: "Unfortunately, Princess Pingyang has left Chang'an, we may not see this map anymore!"

Wei Zheng got up, pulled Fang Xuanling and said, "Although Wei Zheng doesn't have the ability of photographic memory, he believes that he will never forget something that he has seen for an hour."

Fang Xuanling said: "You said, you recorded this picture?"

Wei Zheng nodded.

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In the Nuan Pavilion of Ting Yuxuan in Furong Garden, Li Jiancheng picked up the jug and poured wine for Li Yuan.

While pouring wine, Li Jiancheng vented his grievances: "Father, you have been too leisurely these past few years. You have been hiding in the harem all day, procuring women to have children, and you don't even know how hard your son is working outside."

Li Yuan laughed all of a sudden.

Li Jiancheng said, "Father is still laughing... Father, you should help the child, don't just sit around and idle."

Li Yuan smiled and shook his head again and again: "Da Lang, you have been the emperor for three years, and you are still talking about children. Father, I can't help you now..."

Li Yuan was drunk and hazy, laughing loudly.

Li Yuan is very clear, don't look at what Li Jiancheng said easily.In fact, for him, is it not a temptation?
When Li Yuan said something that couldn't help you.Li Jiancheng was obviously relieved.

Li Jiancheng drank the wine in his glass and said: "Father, I want to give the positions of prime ministers who want to move the three provinces, and I plan to let veteran officials like Xiao Yu and Chen Shuda go back to the political affairs hall to participate in state affairs. I don't know what suggestions my father has.

Li Yuan frowned, and said lightly: "How many people know about the activation of Xiao Yu?"

Since Li Jiancheng dared to use Wu De Dynasty as the elder, it shows that he has completely controlled the court.He is not afraid of old ministers like Xiao Yu and Chen Shuda singing opposite dramas to him.

Li Jiancheng thought about it: "My son just wants to talk to Xiao Yu and Chen Shuda, two old ministers, and tried it out, but he hasn't discussed with Fang Xuanling and Wei Zheng yet.

Li Yuan shook his head with a smile and said, "Da Lang, you've done something wrong, you can't hire someone just based on their qualifications."

Li Jiancheng frowned and listened carefully.

Li Yuan said with a smile: "Xiao Yu is not a bad person, but his temper is too arrogant, and he doesn't get on well with his colleagues. Xiao Yu's errand of offending people like the Yushi doctor is okay, and he is in charge of the Minister of Finance. There must be something wrong..."

Li Jiancheng nodded.

Li Yuandao: "There is another person, Yuwen Shiji, who is down-winded and less persistent when things happen. This kind of person is fine as a Zhongshuling, but if he is put under the door as a servant, I am afraid that he will not be able to guard anything. "

Li Jiancheng lowered his head and speculated about the words.

Li Yuan patted Li Jiancheng's shoulder and said: "Da Lang, you can't keep thinking about using those obedient ministers. To be emperor, you must not do what you want!"

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Li Jing led three thousand cavalry to trek through the mountains in the snow.

These cavalrymen were equipped with thick down sleeping bags, leather boots, cotton-padded jackets, and cotton trousers, and their gait was bloated, making them look extremely slow.

While walking, a scout rushed to Li Jing, bowed and said, "Commander, there are a group of Turkic scouts camping behind the hillside."

Li Jing pondered: "Order, the whole army stops advancing and prepares for battle."

A few flag-carrying juniors beside Li Jing ran away.

Li Jing looked at the scouts again and said, "How many Turkic scouts are there?"

The scout bowed and said, "Ten tents, about a hundred people."

Li Jing walked slowly towards the mountain break, and looked at the ten tents in the leeward valley behind the mountain, with fire lights shining.

Li Jing showed a murderous look on his face and said, "Not one of them can be let go."

Li Jing is a person who is good at learning. After Chen Ying used white cotton cloth as a snow camouflage, Li Jing also learned it well.

At Li Jing's order, dozens of Tang army soldiers, wearing white cloaks and white clothes, crawled in the snowdrifts, and slowly moved towards the Turkic scout camp in the mountain depression.

The howling cold wind perfectly concealed the sound of Tang Jun's specific actions.

As a large group of Tang soldiers surrounded the camp of the Turkic scouts, a short and fierce battle broke out between the two sides.

Li Jing walked into the tent.

A vanguard officer came up to salute with fists in his hands.

Pioneer official said: "Marshal Qi, one hundred and three Turkic scouts, none of them escaped."

Li Jing nodded and said: "The whole army rests for an hour, and leaves immediately after an hour."

The vanguard officer hesitated and said: "Marshal, it's time for a son..."

Li Jing said: "Soldiers are precious and fast, we can't let Jieli notice."

An hour later, Li Jing's [-] cavalrymen of the Tang Army quietly crossed over the tie boat, and Dingxiang City was in sight.

Li Jing climbed up the hillside and looked down at the East Turkic camp that stretched for tens of miles.

Although Turks are all soldiers, they are not all cavalry troops.Jieli Khan's Chinese army did not build a wall on the southern highland outside Dingxiang City. Instead, they dug many ravines with almost no rules. The ravines were deep and shallow, long and short.There are wide and narrow, and there are many large and small mounds of earth and ice between and behind the gullies.

Li Jing could imagine that there were Turkic archers hiding behind these seemingly dotted and irregular mounds of dirt and snow.Li Jing also knew.In this seemingly messy and disorderly defensive position, there must be hidden murderous intentions that he does not know.

Li Jing was just a little strange.Such a complex setting can certainly enhance the defense, but at the same time it will also bring great trouble to the defenders' counterattack.

He looked at it for a long time, but he didn't see any signpost-like setting on this position. The formation is so complicated that it's not just creating difficulties for the enemy. Could it be said that Xieli didn't think of fighting back at all?
If not.It is understandable that Tang Junbing came forward to attack the formation, but I am Li Jing and Li Pharmacist.

It took less than two years to wipe out Bashu, and it was wiped out from Liang Guo unscrupulously. In World War I, Liang Guo, which had an army of 40 land and water, was wiped out.

The Turkic military system is actually the same as that of the Tang Dynasty.They all adopt weak branches and strong stems. The most elite troops are the attached troops under the command of Jieli Khan, and the others are string control people.

The so-called string control people are actually militiamen.If you want to go around and attack the heavy soldiers and miscellaneous soldiers behind the Turkic camp from the flanks, you can easily tear apart the enemy's deployment. As long as the enemy's organizational system is disrupted, all that is left is a unilateral massacre without formation. The cavalry under the command of the establishment is as fragile as a piece of paper in front of the cavalry under the establishment.

A complex formation may not be useful. The Turkic army spent nearly ten days setting up such a position, which is actually very thankless.It is foolish and naive to fight against cavalry on the plain and rely on positional warfare to take advantage.

What's more, the positions were arranged by the Turkic people who were not good at positional warfare. It can be seen that Chen Ying had cast a shadow over the Eastern Turks during these times, and made the Eastern Turkic people subconsciously adopt positional warfare to protect themselves.

The days and nights of winter were long, and Li Jing stood at the mountain pass, quietly looking at the Turkic camp at the foot of the mountain.

Li Jing quietly looked at the sky, and found that there were still two and a half hours before dawn.

Li Jing ordered the troops to slowly move north.Less than three miles away from the Turkic army camp, the Tang army officers and soldiers used white cotton cloth to disguise themselves as snow bags.

In such a snow pack, the soldiers of the Tang army began to rest, drinking broth, eating fried noodles and jerky.

Li Jing ordered the cavalry under his command to rest for two hours until half an hour before dawn.The whole army began to stand up, ready to attack.

This time is the darkest moment before dawn, and it is also the moment when the Turks are most relaxed.The Turks have always focused their vigilance on the south, but Li Jing launched an attack from north to south from the direction of Tiemen Mountain.

The first wave of blows was not bows and arrows.Not knives and guns, but more than 3000 fierce fire oil tanks.

These fierce fire oil tanks are not too big, about a catty and a half.Among them, the pottery pot weighs only four taels, and one catty is two taels of refined fire oil.

At the mouth of these pottery pots, there are about two inches, and a stopper made of cotton cloth is used to plug the mouth of the bottle.

More than 1000 fire tanks were thrown at the Turkic camp at the same time.Soon the Turkic camp caused a sea of ​​flames.

Turkic tents, in order to keep out the rain.Butter was smeared on it, but it was actually flammable. The fire quickly turned into a skyrocketing fire and swept towards the Turkic tents in the south.

There were killing sounds inside and outside the Turkic camp.Just as Li Jing expected, the Turkic camp was in chaos, and the counterattack dragged down the Turkic people's reaction. The cavalry of the Tang Army rushed into the Turkic camp, setting fire to the Turkic camp, while waving horizontal knives, wantonly hacking and killing the chaotic Turkic camp. people.

The screams and wailing of the Turkic people alarmed Xieli in his sleep. Xieli walked out of the tent in his nightgown and shouted, "What's going on? Someone sneaked up?"

The guard standing at the door said with a blank face: "Qi Khan, for some reason, there is a sudden chaos."

A Turkic spy rushed over and said, "It's not good, Khan, it's Tang Jun!"

The Turks fled in all directions under the attack of the Tang cavalry.

Li Jing's goal was very clear. He took the shortest straight-line attack route between two points, and went straight to the largest Xieli Yazhang in the camp.

Historically, Li Jing still had a foolish man named Su Dingfang who could use him. Li Jing only gave Su Dingfang [-] cavalry, allowing Su Dingfang to successfully break into Jieli Yazhang.

Unfortunately, now Su Dingfang has become Chen Ying's general.

Li Jing had no one to use, so he had to personally lead [-] cavalry to take the Jieli Yazhang.

Don't think Li Jing is a handsome man, but his martial arts are actually very powerful.Zhang Zhongjian could defeat Li Jing, but Zhang Chuchen and Li Jing joined forces, Zhang Zhongjian could not take advantage of it.

The Turkic people running around were surprised to find that Li Jing's target was not them at all, but Xieli.

At this time, some Turkic people reacted.Shouted loudly: "Protect Khan..."

However, when they rushed up to a unit, it was like throwing a stone into the sea, which couldn't stir up a wave at all.

Seeing the killing cries getting closer, Jieli Khan looked at the less than [-] troops around him. In the dark night, Jieli couldn't see how many Tang troops had come.

I only feel that the Tang army can make a surprise attack from the north, and I am afraid that they have already formed a comprehensive siege on Dingxiang.

Dingxiang is not too big, and he is not too small.If the Tang army wanted to include a large camp with 35 Turkic people, I am afraid it would be impossible without 50 million people.

What's more, it is based on Ashinasheer's intelligence, in order to deal with the Turks.The Tang army can gather more than 50% of the country's government soldiers, no less than [-] horses.

At this moment, he couldn't resist at all.

When Li Jing's subordinates were still two or three miles away from the Yazhang, Jie Li gritted his teeth and roared, "Let's retreat!"

If Jieli Khan does not retreat, the victory must belong to the Turks.

After all, Li Jing only had three thousand cavalry under his command.Even if they stand still and let them kill, they will all die of exhaustion.

However, Jieli Khan ran away at the most critical moment.

At this time, the sky is getting brighter.

As Jieli Khan's wolf tail moved back, all Turkic people have seen it.

At this time, Li Jing shouted even louder: "Xieli has escaped, and the Turks have lost!"

This time the Turks were even more flustered.

Seeing the retreating figure of Jieli Khan, Li Jing finally breathed a sigh of relief.

These Turkic troops who are fleeing desperately are no longer willing to think about it. They have abandoned all pride and self-confidence, and only care about fleeing. The crowd, forgetting that they still have bows, arrows and sabers in their hands to resist, they only care about running, running, running, the farther the better.

Ashinasheer sent several troops to try to stop the Tang army, but in an instant these troops were smashed by Li Jing's cavalry.

There were thousands of bloody and bloody heads on the horse necks of the cavalrymen of the Tang Army.

Such a desperate situation made veteran generals like Ashinasheer despair, and gave way to resourceful people like Lugen who dared not think about fighting back, so they could only urge the troops to retreat quickly.

However, Dingxiang is a basin, surrounded by three mountains, like a dustpan.

Escaping is not so easy.

Perhaps in Xieli's view, although the Turks suffered heavy losses in this battle, the main force is still there. As long as they can hold their ground and find the Tang army's weakness, they have a chance to come back.

However, Xieli didn't know that the opportunities left to them and the Turks by God were running out.

The sky was bright, and the Turkic army was still panicking and fled to the north. The flags, food and grass were thrown all over the ground, and the wounded soldiers were abandoned on the side of the road. Watching the master disappear into the cloud of smoke and dust with blank eyes, let out a pathetic hiss.

The scene of such a defeat made everyone who survived this bloody battle suffer from the shame of life and death for the rest of their lives, unable to lift their heads.

Since the Tumen uprising in Ashina, the Turkic people have trod across the white mountains and black waters, annihilating the Rouran people, the Wei army, the Northern Zhou army, and the Sui army countless times at a negligible cost of thousands, tens of thousands, tens of thousands, or even 10,000+. Tang Jun, a small tribe with a population of less than one million, suppressed the four behemoths of the Western Wei, Northern Qi, Northern Zhou and Sui. Never had they tried such a disastrous defeat!
This kind of shock that all self-confidence was shattered in one day, this kind of fright that the myth was shattered, was in itself more serious than the loss of a hundred thousand elite soldiers, leaving their minds blank and at a loss!
The cavalry of the Tang army followed closely behind them, and those cavalry of the Tang army were also exhausted, and there were not many of them. The Turkic army could defeat them with just a single Khan, but there was no one who turned around to face them The enemy only wanted to escape, and the farther the better, let the chasing cavalry leech bite behind them, capture the abandoned wounded soldiers, and collect the abandoned horses.These wounded soldiers will be sent to Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Empire. Those who are lucky will be eunuchs and then enter the palace as eunuchs. Those who are unlucky will not even have the chance to be eunuchs. Build a Beijing view.

Having fought against the Tang Dynasty for so many years, the Turkic soldiers are of course well aware of the consequences of being captured, but no one has the leisure to care about those wounded soldiers. It is important to escape!

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(End of this chapter)