Man Tanghong

So as long as Li Shimin is here, Yu Chigong's old department will not be considered leaderless, nor will it become a headless fly.

When Li Jiancheng heard this, he immediately understood the meaning of the words, and his face turned pale.

Li Yuanji smiled faintly, and rode his horse after him without saying anything more.

Half an hour later, they chased to a plain just north of Maling City.

There are traces of field ridges everywhere on the plain, but the crops in the fields have long since been wiped out by misfortune. Either they were harvested here and there like dogs digging, or they were burned to scorched earth by fire and covered by snow. A thick quilt.

If it wasn't for the short distance, and the fact that the mud and crops were brought out when the army was rampant, it wouldn't be obvious that the crops here were all in trouble.

Yu Chigong's old troops fought head-to-head with the Turks at one end of the plain more than a dozen times. After losing more than 600 people, they successfully forced the Turks to the battlefield preset by Li Shimin.

After the rest of the Tang Dynasty soldiers surrounded the plain in the form of a pocket formation, the Turkic people knew that their doomsday had come and it was impossible to escape.

So Ye Huda, who commanded the army, made a rather humiliating decision.

Surrender by fighting.

Although surrendering directly will save trouble and reduce a lot of battle damage, Datang has already assumed a hunting posture. As prey, if they cannot let Datang enjoy themselves, surrendering will also be abused, and even be punished. kill.

"kill!"

Heda abandoned all tactics and formations, and launched a charge in a very primitive and direct way.

After riding his horse to catch up with Li Shimin, Li Yuanji saw that the Turkic people charged without any formation and no rules at all, so he couldn't help but said, "Is this inviting us to hunt?"

Li Shimin nodded slowly.

Li Yuanji couldn't help but said again: "They can surrender directly..."

Li Shimin said with a strange expression: "They thought we were going to hunt them, so they took the initiative to attack. We can't send someone up to explain to them, right?"

Li Yuanji laughed and said, "That's true..."

They have already launched a charge, and there is no time to listen to your explanation. We can only talk after the fight is over.

"Beat the drum! Change the formation! Order the two wings to encircle and strangle, the sword and shield soldiers are in the front, the spearmen are in the rear, the horse-cutting soldiers and the long-sword army are ready, and the archers and crossbowmen withdraw from the battlefield!"

Li Shimin issued many orders in one go.

The flag officer didn't bother to talk anymore, and after arching his hands, he began to wave the flag frantically.

As the flags continued to flutter, Datang's army formation began to change rapidly.

In the battlefield where the two wings are encircled and the Turks are invited to enter the urn, the crossbowmen can't exert much advantage, and they are easily injured by the Turks who rushed into the encirclement quickly. Therefore, Li Shimin decisively let them withdraw from the battlefield and started shooting at the edge of the battlefield. Kill the Turks.

After the Turks rushed into the encirclement, they fought fiercely against the sword and shield soldiers, pike soldiers, horse-cutting soldiers, and long-sword soldiers.

After the horses were strangled by the sword and shield soldiers, the horse-cutting soldiers, and the long-sword soldiers, they abandoned their horses and continued to charge forward on foot.

Li Shimin ordered again, "Keep the head of the enemy!"

After Li Shimin issued the order, Li Yuanji did not ask why he gave such an order, but Li Shimin took the initiative to explain: "After the Tang Dynasty quelled the civil strife and recuperated, we must conquer the Turks. We must recover some Turks for our use.

Only in this way can we accurately understand everything about Turks and make accurate deployments.

Since the stepping forces are the royal branch of the Western Turks, they should have a very clear understanding of the Turks.

If we can recover its leader and treat him favorably, it will definitely be a great help to my Tang Dynasty.

When necessary, we can also support him and let him fight Tong Yehu and Jieli, and we can reap the benefits. "

Li Yuanji nodded slowly.

I have to admit that Li Shimin is indeed a qualified emperor. He started to plan the Turks when the Tang Dynasty just ruled the world, and he thought deeply and often used it.

He seems to have done the same in history, and successfully conquered the Turks and conquered most of the places where the soldiers and horses of the Tang Dynasty could go.

The only difference is that in history, he married many princesses in exchange for the short-term stability of the border of the Tang Dynasty.

He didn't mention it now, but Li Yuanji is sure that when the war is over, if Li Shimin regains a certain right to speak, he will definitely make this suggestion.

So for the sake of the happiness of those younger sisters, he had to be locked up after returning.

Li Shimin did not have any psychological burden for making such a suggestion and doing such a thing, because in his opinion, as a heir of the royal family, it is right to dedicate oneself to the royal family.

After all, the clan provides you with a noble status that cannot be more noble, and also provides you, your parents, and your children with a superior life that cannot be more superior, so you have to pay for the clan.

Not only the royal family is like this, but most of the big families are like this.

So when all the clans are doing this kind of thing, as a person from a wealthy family, as a pure Tang, Li Shimin will not have any burden to make this suggestion and do this kind of thing.

But Li Yuanji has.

Li Yuanji always felt that trading a woman for peace was a slap in the face of all men.

If the married princess laughed at Datang Wunan like Mrs. Huarui, then the men of Datang would not be able to survive at all, and would be ashamed to live.

After all, the warlike Tang Dynasty was not the peace-loving Houshu.

If there is a woman who can't bear the humiliation and writes a "Poem on the Fall of the Country", then the men of the Tang Dynasty will be so ashamed that they commit suicide.

"General Tang! Am I brave?!"

When Li Yuanji decided to imprison Li Shimin again for the sake of the happiness of his sisters, Xida had already led the Turkic soldiers with only 5000 people left to the hundred feet in front of Shuaiqi.

He Da held a scimitar soaked in blood, covered in blood, and began to cry out in grief and indignation.

Li Shimin tactfully rode his horse back a step.

Li Yuanji rode his horse forward slowly, and said calmly: "Be brave!"

Yu Wenbao and other guards at the side shouted in unison.

"Courage!"

He Da shouted again: "Can you be a pawn of the Tang Dynasty?"

Li Yuanji took a deep breath and said, "Yun!"

Yu Wenbao and other guards shouted at the top of their voices: "Qi Wangzhao! Allow!"

The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty standing in front of Canda and the others, who were ready to attack at any time, all took a step back with a bang, from being ready to attack at any time, to a realm.

Heda didn't know what was wrong, so he burst into tears, crying very loudly, very wronged, very unwilling, and some people who heard it were in a mess.

Perhaps it was because they felt that when they were in the Western Regions, they would be bullied by Tong Yehu, and after they arrived in the Eastern Turks, they would still be bullied by the Eastern Turks, and they would also be beaten to death by the Tang Dynasty. They felt that God was unfair to them and did not give them peace. Joyful way of life, so very wronged, very unwilling.

"Take away their weapons and let their leader speak up!"

After Li Yuanji accepted Xida's surrender, he gave Yuwenbao orders lightly.

He didn't feel anything about Xanda crying miserably, crying to the point of heartbreak.

This is the case between countries and between nations.

In order to compete for territory and for various resources, the only law is the law of the jungle and no mercy.

He Da felt that he was wronged, and he was very unwilling. Then those soldiers of the Tang Dynasty who he killed on the way south, were they wronged or unwilling?

Therefore, any grievances and unwillingness of Yanda are not worthy of sympathy, even if he cried earth-shatteringly, his heart was broken, and he even cried out in June Feixue, it was not worthy of sympathy.

"Disarm!"

Yu Wenbao rushed to the place where the two armies faced each other on horseback, and shouted loudly.

All the Turkic people looked at Xi Da in unison, without any reaction.

Until Yu Wenbao frowned and shouted: "If you don't put down your weapon within three breaths, you will be killed!"

When Canda threw down the blood-stained scimitar in grief, all the Turks put down their weapons in unison, and then looked at the Tang soldiers who confiscated their weapons with a vigilant, timid, and at a loss look.

The vast majority of Turkic weapons are scimitars, horn bows, and bone arrows, and the number of iron arrows is very small.

There are no armors that you can see, most of them are leather armors, only one or two people with status have one or two iron armors.

When Yu Wenbao confiscated the weapon, he also confiscated the iron armor.

The iron armor on Xida's body was soaked in blood and stuck to his body, and it was Yu Wenbao who asked his followers to peel it off for him.

Yu Wenbao also let him take a bath, saying that he would take him to meet the most honorable person in the world.

This was the end of Da Da's life. It was freezing cold, and he was on the battlefield, and it was impossible to boil a bucket of hot water to wash him, so he had to use snow to dry him.

He Dazhi refused to follow, Yu Wenbao directly said, "You have scared the nobles, you will die even if you surrender", and successfully frightened him.

In the end, Da Da took a snow bath in the biting cold wind while shivering, and when he was brought in front of Shuai Qi, his body began to turn blue.

Li Shimin kindly asked someone to bring him a fur and asked him to wear it.

Li Shimin seems to like people who can help Datang fight and are a bit stubborn.

Whether it is a Han general or a Tibetan general, he will treat him generously.

Li Yuanji used to think that the reason why Li Shimin got close to the generals was because of the Hu blood in his body, which made him get close to the Hu people naturally.

But after really understanding the situation of the Tang Dynasty, I realized that Li Shimin had no choice but to let the generals treat them favorably.

There are only 60 million households in the Tang Dynasty. After years of wars, the number of young adults who can go to the battlefield has dropped sharply, and the new generation has not grown up. Therefore, if the generals are not recovered or appointed, many battles will be lost. Fill it with the lives of Datang's own people.

Datang, with 60 million households, simply cannot fill all the battlefields.

The enemy will not let you develop steadily, nor will they wait for you.

Therefore, it is also a helpless move to appoint foreign generals and treat them favorably.

Everyone knows that people who are not of my race have different hearts, but you don’t have enough people of your own, and you don’t want to let your own people fill the bottomless pit of the Western Regions where you kill me today and I kill you tomorrow. , What do you use if you don’t use Fan generals and Fan people?
Let the generals and the people of the Western Regions consume each other endlessly with the local forces in the Western Regions, is it better than the Tang Dynasty shaking its foundation and filling that bottomless pit?

This is a decision that will inevitably be made at a time of helplessness.

Moreover, Li Shimin seems to like this strategy of using someone to rule someone. Historically, during his reign, he not only appointed generals to rule the vassals, but also appointed bad people to rule evil.

Bad people are actually not as grand as they are portrayed in later film and television dramas. They are just a group of gangsters who cause trouble everywhere on the street.

They are the ones who know the methods of the gangsters best, and they also know how to punish these gangsters.

The gangsters of Datang were greatly restrained under their punishment.

However, this method can easily turn evil into great evil. When the gangsters are restrained, they are no longer causing trouble, and they are no longer oppressing the good, the bad people will become troublemakers and oppress the good. Will be worse by gangsters.

The same is true for the Tibetan generals. After becoming the ruler of a place with the support of the Tang Dynasty, they will gradually betray the Tang Dynasty and become the great enemy of the Tang Dynasty and even the Central Plains.

For example, Anlu Mountain, which is famous for its claws in ancient and modern times...