Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 945 Prepare for the next national war
Chapter 67 Prepare for the next national war
Chang'an City, Taiji Palace Royal Inner Court.The huge imperial inner garden is covered with snow at this time.

Li Jiancheng was wearing a heavy armor, holding a cold horse spear, carrying a thick marching sleeping bag, with a water bottle, a wrap, and a bag of dry food hanging on his waist.

Stepping on the thick snow, Li Jiancheng walked up to the "Yin Mountain", from the foot of the mountain to the top of the Yin Mountain. In fact, it was only more than [-] steps, and Li Jiancheng felt a little hard.

Li Jiancheng turned his head to look at Li Anyan and said with a smile: "I have only walked less than a thousand steps, and I am a bit overwhelmed. I am recruiting soldiers from the north, and everyone has worked so hard like me!"

Li Anyan smiled wryly: "Your Majesty, the soldiers will work harder!"

Don't look at Li Jiancheng is also fully armed, but the soldiers of the Northern Expedition Army have to carry two pairs of boots and two sets of cotton padded clothes. The actual load far exceeds Li Jiancheng's load. In fact, it exceeds two-thirds of Li Jiancheng's load, which is nearly [-] catties.

Li Jiancheng stood on the top of the narrow slope, looking down at the snow-capped rolling hills.

Li Anyan looked around, then pointed to a place and said, "Your Majesty, that should be Bai Dao."

Li Jiancheng nodded.

Li Anyan turned around and pointed to another place: "Li Jing is currently stationed in Dingxiang. According to the news from the Ministry of War, Dingxiang leads to Baidao. There is a road. Jieli must send heavy troops to guard it."

Li Jiancheng said suspiciously: "Tang Jian is in Jieli Camp."

Li Anyan was stunned for a moment, then nodded.

Li Jiancheng said: "If there is an opportunity to gather the scattered tribes around, Xieli will not retreat north immediately."

Li Anyan smiled wryly and said: "It depends on whether Li Jing can seize the opportunity. It is easy to defeat Turkic again, but it is too difficult to capture Xieli."

Li Jiancheng said: "Do you still remember how Li Jing took down Nanliang and Xiao Xian during the Battle of Luoyang?"

Li Anyan thought for a while and said, "Why don't you remember? At that time, the imperial court planned four armies to go south to attack Xiao Xian, and planned to destroy him in three months. In the end, Li Jing persuaded Li Xiaogong to lead the army out of the Three Gorges when the Yangtze River was flooded. In less than a month, Jiangling was conquered and Xiao Mian was captured alive."

Li Jiancheng smiled and said: "Xiao Xian prepared a fleet for escape, but he never expected that Li Jing would rush under his nose so quickly. At that time, Li Jing was only Li Xiaogong's deputy."

Li Anyan smiled wryly: "Jieli is not Xiao Xian, he is the overlord of the grassland, a cunning old wolf who sleeps with one eye open, it is too difficult to capture him..."

Li Jiancheng sighed and said, "That's right, even if I personally conquered Mobei, I wouldn't dare to say that I will definitely capture Jieli and wipe out most of the Turkic forces, which is enough to be worthy of the forbearance of the Tang Dynasty in these years."

Li Anyan said unmoved: "Your Majesty..."

Li Jiancheng smiled bitterly and said, "An Yan, am I too greedy? I always think that I will solve the great enemy of Mobei once and for all in one battle, and that enemy has threatened the Central Plains for hundreds of years."

Li Anyan sighed and did not answer.

The monarch and his ministers stood motionless on the top of the slope for a long time.

Suddenly, Li Jiancheng looked at Li Anyan and said, "How many days ago was the last time the Ministry of War received news from General Chen?"

Li Anyan thought about it carefully and said: "Your Majesty, it should be a month ago, three days after Li Jing's army just set off!"

Li Jiancheng's heart suddenly moved, and he looked around the inner court.

Li Jiancheng looked at Li Anyan and said, "Tell me, where will General Chen be?"

"This...General Chen led the Lingzhou Dingyuan Army and Lingwu Army a month ago, suddenly went north, and disappeared since then..."

A long-lost smile appeared on Li Jiancheng's originally obscure face: "Zhen, it's really unfounded worry!"

Li An was stunned.

Li Jiancheng said with a smile: "With General Chen in Mobei, even if Jieli belongs to a mouse, he can't escape!"

Li Anyan asked suspiciously: "How did Your Majesty know that General Chen went after Jieli Khan?"

"If Chen Ying is cautious enough to wait until I issue an order before using troops, he will not be the mighty General Chen in the west! If he uses troops, he will not take a detour to Dingxiang at the expense of the near and far, but will only control himself and go to the northeast. Cross the Yellow River and copy Xieli's retreat."

……

At night, Li Jiancheng slept extremely peacefully.

However, Li Zhi cried in the middle of the night, and Zheng Guanyin got up to check.

Li Jiancheng also sat up.

Zheng Guanyin came back after comforting Li Zhi, and found Li Jiancheng sitting on the bed in a daze.

Zheng Guanyin asked cautiously: "Is Zhi'er bothering you?"

Li Jiancheng shook his head and said, "Just now I had a dream, dreaming that Jieli ran away."

Zheng Guanyin patted Li Jiancheng's arm comfortingly, and said with a smile, "Don't worry, dreams are always reversed. Li Jing will definitely catch Xieli."

Li Jiancheng didn't feel sleepy at this time, so he got up and got out of bed.

Zheng Guanyin saw that Li Jiancheng was wearing thin clothes, and quickly took a leather robe and put it on Li Jiancheng.

Li Jiancheng's eyes were deep and deep, as if he wanted to penetrate the sky, looking at the northern border.

……

On the Yinshan sheep winding road, tens of thousands of soldiers of the Tang army, leading horses, climbed the steep hillside with difficulty in the wind and snow.

From time to time, horses and soldiers fell off the cliff.

However, apart from the rumbling sound, none of the soldiers and war horses made any sound.

Li Jing followed the team, staggering and climbing, his face covered with frost.

If you observe carefully, you will definitely find that whether it is Tang army generals or war horses, they all have horses with titles.

The so-called horse-biting was used in ancient wars. Troops rode horses and went to steal camps to attack the enemy at night. In order not to let the enemy find out, they wrapped the horse's hooves with cloth and stuffed things in the horse's mouth, so that the horse ran When you get up, you don't make a sound, and if you have something in your mouth, you don't bark, and then pay attention to restraining the horse, and you can quietly approach the enemy's camp.This is called a beam of horses.

Finally, it was difficult to pass the Yin goat winding road.

The generals and soldiers of the Tang army all jumped over the Yin Mountain, and they were still several miles away from the Baidao Jieli Yazhang at the foot of the mountain.

Xiao Nuo's face was full of cold, he walked up to Li Jing and bowed, "To the general, 170 brothers are lost, and there are... 25 brothers who were frostbitten."

Li Jing nodded, and took out the small wooden stick from his mouth, which was instantly frozen into a popsicle.Li Jing threw the popsicle on the ground, and said in a warm voice: "Everyone has worked hard, pass the order, rest for an hour, and then prepare to fight."

Xiao Nuo clasped his fists in salute, then ran out to deliver the order.

……

Mobei Baidao, in the Turkic camp.Outside an inconspicuous small tent, a few Turkic soldiers peeked through the gaps in the tent to detect the movement inside.

In the small tent, Tang Jian and several Turkic nobles were sitting around the fire, talking and laughing.

Ashinasheer came over and kicked the soldier's ass.

The soldiers hurriedly turned around and saluted Ashinasheer.

Ashinasheer tapped the tent with his chin.

The soldier hurriedly replied, "Emissary Tang is drinking and chatting with the elders."

Ashinasheer sneered and said, "Let them talk slowly, and when our people are all together, the Great Khan will naturally settle accounts one by one."

Ashinasheer finished speaking, and left the small tent triumphantly.

Inside the small tent, Tang Jian listened to the footsteps outside the tent, with a confident smile on his face.

A Turkic elder held kumiss and asked cautiously in poor Tang dialect: "Honorable Tang envoy, if our Turks surrender to the Tang Dynasty, can I go to Chang'an for herds?"

Tang Jian laughed out loud as if he had heard a joke.

After a long time, Tang Jian stopped laughing and said, "Elder Osman, there is no grass in Chang'an City. Even if someone plants some flowers and plants in the garden, those flowers and plants are extremely precious. A pot of flowers is much more expensive than a sheep."

Elder Osman asked, "If you don't herd sheep, what will you Tang people eat and drink?"

"We eat snow-white soft steamed buns, white glutinous rice, and golden millet!" Tang Jian said with a smile: "Drinking millet porridge with a plate of salted soybeans in winter, the taste is indescribably beautiful." .”

Osman asked again: "Even if it is a golden mountain, if you sit on it and eat it, it will be eaten up one day. What should you do if you have no money?"

Tang Jian did not answer Elder Osman's question directly, but instead asked: "Elder Osman, how many sheep, how many horses, and how much money do you have?"

When Osman heard this, a smug expression appeared on his face. He thought for a while and said, "I have..."

As he spoke, Osman stretched out one hand, and then stretched out the other hand.

Tang Jian said: "Ten thousand sheep?"

Elder Osman shook his head and said, "15 sheep, [-] cattle, and [-] horses!"

Tang Jian didn't know how the Turkic people's brain circuit was long, why one pair of hands and ten fingers represented 15 sheep, 200 cattle, and more than 15 war horses!However, he still said seriously: "In Chang'an, a sheep can be sold for more than [-] yuan, [-] is [-] guan, a cow can be sold for [-] guan, [-] is [-] guan, plus war horses. If you put the money in Datang Tongli Bank and deposit it with a fixed interest rate for three years, you can earn [-] guan in interest every year. Do you know how much grain you can buy with [-] guan?"

Osman asked puzzledly, "How much?"

Tang Jian said: "Five thousand stones!"

Osman exclaimed: "So much?"

Tang Jian continued: "Actually, you don't have to go to Chang'an. If you go to Taiyuan or Lingzhou, there are branches of Datang Tongli Bank. Go there and sell the cattle and sheep directly, and take the money to Chang'an to enjoy the blessing!"

After Tang Jian flickered.

The elders finally knew that there was a bank in Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty. Even if they didn't know how to do business or herd sheep, as long as they put money in the bank, they could eat and drink without worrying about it.

Of course, Tang Jian didn't tell them these elders.

An inconspicuous house in Chang'an City would start at thousands of guan, and the most common three-entry courtyard, with more than a dozen houses, would cost tens of thousands of guan.

For example, Elder Osman's [-] Guan can only barely buy a large house covering an area of ​​more than ten acres in a remote square like Anhuafang or Qujiangfang in Chang'an City.

Of course, you have to spend a few thousand to buy a smaller house.

However, in Chang'an, not only food, but also meat can be called really expensive.The mutton they are used to eating now costs more than 20 yuan a catty, while the beef costs more than 100 yuan a catty.

One hundred thousand pennies sounds like a lot, but it really doesn't take long to spend seriously.

Tang Jian felt that it was still unknown whether these Turkic elders could live to go to Chang'an, so there was no need to tell them so much.

When it was almost dawn, Tang Jian was woken up by people screaming and neighing outside, wrapped himself in furs, and went to the tent door to have a look.

Tang Jian asked, "What happened?"

The attendant who was watching at the door said blankly: "I don't know, it seems to be our people."

Tang Jian was stunned and said, "How did they come here? Didn't Jieli send tens of thousands of troops to guard the road?"

The attendant shook his head excitedly and said, "Mr. Tang, should we light the fire and remind our troops not to accidentally hurt our family members."

Tang Jian slapped the attendant and shouted angrily, "Get out!"

The attendant covered his face in aggrieved expression.

Tang Jian said again: "Hurry up and hide first, do you want to be chopped into meat by the Turks?"

The servant was at a loss.

Tang Jian hurriedly got into the tent, and then pushed open the firepit with all his strength.

The soil was baked by the firepit and the soil was extremely soft. After a while, Tang Jian dug a big hole that could fit two people.

Then, Tang Jian dragged a horse over and stabbed the horse in the heart. Soon, the horse stopped struggling.The body of this fallen war horse just covered the dug hole.

Finally, under the astonished eyes of the attendants, Tang Jian lit the tent.The tent was burning with scorching flames, and Tang Jian and his attendants hid in the small pit just dug.

The attendant wrapped his mouth with a wet towel, and asked falteringly, "Are we going to be burned to death?"

Tang Jian shook his head and said, "Let's resign ourselves to fate!"

Gradually the movement outside became quieter, until the shouts of killing stopped, and Tang Jian quietly crawled out of the hole.

By this time, it was dawn and the battle was over.Burning tents, luggage and vehicles plunged the entire Baidao into a cloud of white mist.

This battle started when the Turks least expected it, and most of the Turks were routs gathered by Xieli. They had no intention of fighting, and when they encountered Li Jing's surprise army, they immediately surrendered with weapons.

This raid went extremely well.

Under the leadership of Li Jing, the Tang army defeated more than [-] Turkic troops at the cost of less than a hundred casualties, and captured more than [-] of them, as well as a large number of supplies, cattle and sheep.

Tang soldiers brought a Turkic elder over.

Tang Jian looked at it and shook his head.

Li Jing's face was dark and he didn't say a word.

Tang soldiers brought in another Turkic elder.

Tang Jian shook his head again.

Du Fuwei said: "Mr. Tang, ask and see if anyone of them knows Jieli's whereabouts."

Tang Jian turned to face the Turkic elders and said, "Who of you know the whereabouts of Jieli?"

The Turkic elders shook their heads one after another.

Elder Osman said: "He has been with Ashinasheer all along."

Tang Jian said again: "Has any of you seen Ashinasheer?"

Xiao Nuo said: "He seems to be injured and caught."

Tang Jian looked at Li Jing and said, "General, let's go and see those injured Turkic generals. Ashinasheer is inside. He knows the whereabouts of Xieli."

At the provincial political hall under the gate of Chang'an, several soldiers of the forbidden army, accompanied by a Tang army messenger, rushed into the political hall.

The prime ministers who were in a meeting to discuss, all stopped their work.

Soldier A of the Forbidden Army shouted excitedly: "Great victory! Master Wang has won a great victory!"

The soldiers hurriedly took off the military report from the exhausted messenger and handed it to Wei Zheng.Wei Zheng looked three times and two times, and after reading the military newspaper, he was suddenly excited and danced with his hands and feet.

Yuwen Shiji snatched the military newspaper, and after reading it, he also burst out laughing.

Fang Xuanling said: "Quickly tell His Majesty."

A soldier quickly turned and ran out.

In fact, before Li Jiancheng was notified, Li Jiancheng had already received the news and rode towards the Provincial Political Affairs Hall under his door.

Li Jiancheng rode his horse and galloped in front, and a group of imperial soldiers followed behind and ran desperately.

The officials and officials along the way hurriedly dodged to avoid it.

The soldiers of the Imperial Army finally couldn't run anymore, squatting on the ground, gasping for breath.

An official grabbed the soldiers of the Imperial Army and said, "What happened? Why is Your Majesty running wildly in the palace?"

The soldiers of the Forbidden Army said with joy on their faces: "Great victory! Great victory in Mobei!"

The surrounding officials were immediately overjoyed.

After Li Jiancheng finished reading the military newspaper, the joy on his face gradually faded.

Wei Zheng noticed something unusual and asked, "Your Majesty, what's wrong?"

Li Jiancheng sighed, "Xieli has escaped!"

The prime ministers all stopped joking and gathered together.

Li Jiancheng looked at the crowd, with a wry smile on his lips, and said, "After all, we can't count on one battle to decide the world. Everyone, continue to plan for the next national war!"

(End of this chapter)