The crossing starts from the Datang Shuanglong

Chapter 308

The news of Bi Xuan's death spread like a thunderbolt.

Although in the past hundred years, the Turks have been the overlords on the grasslands, making the Khitan, Huihe, Tuyuhun, Tiele and other grassland peoples all bow their heads, and they are the largest power on the grasslands, but in essence, today's Turks It has become a bit strong on the outside and capable on the inside, which is not to be tolerated in the past.

This is not only because Turkic has been split once, so that the original huge Turkic Khanate has now been divided into two parts, East Turkic and Western Turkic, fighting endlessly with each other, but also because of the , there are also splits.

Over the years, the reason why the Turks have been able to maintain unity on the surface, Bi Xuan's existence can be regarded as a great contribution. If he hadn't used his own prestige and prestige to forcibly bridge the contradictions within the Turks, otherwise the Turks would have been born a long time ago. Civil strife, he fought with himself.

But today, Bi Xuan is dead.

His death seemed to announce the end of a grassland era, which caused no matter whether it was the Khitan people, the Huihe people, the Tuyuhun people, or the Tiele people, there were some thoughts that should not have been born, and there was a feeling that they were just about to move.

For a moment, the eyes of the entire prairie turned to Shanhaiguan, to the pass that was originally regarded by the Han as their first line of defense against the prairie, and to the next actions of the Turkic people. There is no doubt that if The Turks couldn't give the Central Plains a reward when Chu Tianxiu beheaded Bi Xuan and slapped the Turks hard on the face, so whether the Turks can maintain their status as the overlord of the grassland? But it's hard to say.

Because of this, the next action of the Turkic people is not only to avenge Bi Xuan, but also to use the bloodiest and cruelest method to give a response, let other grassland peoples take a look and let them know , even without Bi Xuan, today's Turks are still powerful, and they are still the well-deserved overlords on the grasslands.

This was actually what Chu Tianxiu wanted to see.

After Chu Tianxiu took Luoyang, he could have sent his troops westward, toward Guanzhong, and directly attacked the Li Clan, but in the end he didn't choose to do that, because there was actually a huge ulterior motive in his heart. The hidden worry is that if he persecutes him too much, will that old fox Li Yuan follow the example of that "child emperor" Shi Jingtang and directly lure the Turkic people into the pass, giving Chu Tianxiu a great surprise?

If the host of the Li faction was Li Shimin, then Chu Tianxiu would not be worried. After all, the bottom line of that Tang Taizong might be relatively low, but he would never allow others to enter his job.

But the current emperor of the Tang Dynasty is not Li Shimin, but Li Yuan.

So on this matter, Chu Tianxiu is really not sure. After all, the Li family in Guanlong is a Sinicized barbarian. Just like the Han Dynasty attacked the Huns, they forced the Huns to subdue them. Instead, they accepted the Turkic separatist forces—Xueyantuo Khan and Tuli Khan—by relying on their help. To deal with Jieli Khan, who is regarded as the orthodox Khan of East Turkistan.

Under such circumstances, whether the Li family would join forces with the Turkic people under pressure is really something that no one can say for sure.Therefore, if Chu Tianxiu could get rid of the Turkic people before leading his troops to attack Chang'an, it would naturally save him a lot of trouble.

Even Chu Tianxiu knew in his heart that although the strength of his subordinates was not weak, before he unified the Central Plains, it was impossible for him to have the ability to directly eliminate Turkic, the No. Get rid of the Turks, but you can find a way to tie the hands and feet of the Turks!
Counting the days, Shibi Khan, the king of the Eastern Turks, should be dying soon. After his death, the Turks will fall into a state of political instability. His two younger brothers, Chuluo Khan and Jie Li Khan and his son Tuli Khan fought repeatedly to inherit his Khan position, and even led troops to fight each other, fighting to the death.

In the original plot, after Kou Zhong entered the prairie, he intervened in the fight between Tuli Khan and Jieli Khan, and then helped Tuli Khan defeat Jieli Khan, so that if Bi Xuan did not come forward later, Forcing Tuli to surrender to Jieli bridged the conflict between the two, otherwise the Khan position in the grassland would change hands because of this.

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Li Jing is very human.

After Chu Tianxiu handed over Shanhaiguan to him and asked him to be responsible for guarding the city, he quickly marched in the city, recruiting merchants and people from the rivers and lakes in the city, temporarily organizing them into the militia, and expelling the prairie people in the city, so as not to They became the internal support of the Turks, and then arranged for the militiamen to continuously demolish the houses in the city and break down a large number of bricks and tiles to repair the city wall of Shanhaiguan.

Three days, but three days of effort.

Li Jing immediately transformed Shanhaiguan, which looked more like a frontier market, into a military fortress that was armed to the teeth.

Although Chu Tianxiu asked Monk Daoxin to hold a waterway meeting out of kindness to save Bi Xuan's soul, but he did not treat Bi Xuan's body kindly because of this, but directly cut him off. head, hanging above the city wall.

The Turkic people have always regarded Bi Xuan as a god of martial arts and spiritual belief, so after his head was hung on the outer city gate, some Turkic people who heard the news immediately, regardless of the power gap between the two sides, even in the absence of Without any preparations, he directly led a group of troops to attack Shanhaiguan, and then these brainless Turks naturally settled quickly under a neat rain of arrows.

On this point, it has to be said that Bi Xuan's appeal is indeed astonishingly strong, so that in the past few days, almost every day, there have been several groups of different sizes, with hundreds of people at most and dozens of people at least. The Turkic troops were all willing to risk their lives and charge towards Shanhaiguan.

In this way, Chu Tianxiu stayed in Shanhaiguan for ten more days, until he sent them to Luo Yi and Liu Heitai separately, and the two men also dispatched troops from the south to the north respectively, before he left the city with [-] cavalry. , and killed in the direction of Ji County.

Although Gao Kaidao is only a small vassal, and his troops are not too many, but no matter what, [-] to [-] troops can still be gathered after all. Although most of them were reorganized by the rebel army, in terms of the quality of the soldiers, they were not necessarily inferior to the elite soldiers under Chu Tianxiu's command, not to mention that he had a city to rely on and defended according to the city.

If Chu Tianxiu wanted to attack forcefully, unless he went into the city alone and captured the thief and the king first, there was no way he would be able to get him.

Simply because Chu Tianxiu sent troops this time, it was not a military account, but a political account, so even if he dispatched fewer soldiers and horses, as long as Gao Kaidao was not confused at this juncture, otherwise he would naturally know where to go. Light, which head is heavy.

So after Chu Tianxiu's troops arrived at Yuyang City, he did not send troops to attack the city foolishly, but sent a letter of persuasion to surrender directly to the city.

Not long after, a dark-skinned, plain-looking middle-aged man, almost no different from an authentic farmer, came out of the door as Gao Kaidao's envoy.It's just that his appearance is ordinary, but just looking at his eyes like lightning, one can tell that this is a master-level master.

""My little brother, Zhang Jinshu, is an assault pawn under King Yan Gao Kaidao, and he has met His Majesty Zhou Huang! "

Gao Kaidao is a vassal in the north, and his reputation is not too great, so Chu Tianxiu didn't know the situation of his "Great Yan Kingdom".However, when Chu Tianxiu was in Shanhaiguan, he specially sent someone to inquire about the news of Gao Kaidao, so that he had a little understanding of the situation under Gao Kaidao's subordinates, and naturally let him know that Zhang Jinshu was Gao Kaidao The number one general under his command almost controlled half of Gao Kaidao's subordinates' belongings.

"General Zhang, you are welcome. My letter has been delivered, but I don't know what Gao Kaidao means? As I said, if he is willing to surrender and offer the city, then I will make him Lord Yuyang and guard Yuyang for generations. If he is not willing to do this, and still wants to be the dog of the Turkic people, then I have nothing to say, I will wait here quietly for the two armies of Luo Yi and Liu Heita to come, attack Yuyang together, and take the life of a traitor That's all."

Even if Gao Kaidao was here in person, it was not worthy of Chu Tianxiu's courtesy, let alone a mere Zhang Jinshu, so when he spoke, he was not polite at all, and he opened the door and asked sharply.

Zhang Jinshu seemed to have a good temper, so that even if Chu Tianxiu said something rude at the moment, he didn't care, and said in a respectful and polite tone:

"You misunderstood! We are all Han Chinese, how can we be willing to be the slaves of the Turkic people? It's just that the four troops in the frontier fortress, whether it is Liu Wuzhou, Guo Zihe, Liang Shidu or our Yan army, the first thing is to survive. If you are guilty The Turkic people, being invaded by them on a large scale, trampled under the iron hooves of the Turkic cavalry, the city will be turned into ruins, and the countryside will be turned into wasteland. Who dares to take this risk? This is why they have to hide under the Turkic banner to barely keep the peace. "

Chu Tianxiu's arguments sound familiar to Chu Tianxiu, but Chu Tianxiu also knows that because of the incompetence of the Jin Dynasty and the chaos of China, the northern region has fallen behind the Hu people several times, so that the worst At that time, he would be ruined by them and turned into a white space, so under such national conditions, the actions of Gao Kaidao and others were not incomprehensible, so he didn't ask the bottom line, he had to ask the previous questions clearly , but directly said:
"Since this is the case, then Gao Kaidao is going to surrender? Help me fight against the Turks and return the Han people to the world?"

Somewhat unexpectedly, after hearing this, Zhang Jinshu did not open his mouth to refute, but said directly:

"This is natural. We are all Han Chinese, so naturally we will not help the evildoers and humiliate our ancestors."

But when he spoke in general, he opened his mouth and said:
"It's just that although my lord is willing to surrender, he still has some hesitation about who to surrender. Three days ago, my lord received an imperial decree from Li Tang, and he was awarded the title of governor of Weizhou, and he was on the pillar." Country, King of Beiping County."

(End of this chapter)