Man Tanghong

Chapter 954
What happened at the foot of Yin Mountain was not reported back to Datang until mid-June.

Everyone in Datang was stunned.

Li Jing personally led more than 4000 horses, who came out at night and day, and ran for nearly a thousand miles. They raided Xieli's Golden Wolf Tent and defeated tens of thousands of soldiers and horses including the Golden Wolf Guard, Ashina, Geshu, and Pugu in one fell swoop. , forcing Xie Li to escape from the Yin Mountain alone, it is unbelievable.

As soon as Li Shiji got the news, he forwarded all the battle reports sent back by Li Jing to Lingzhou intact.

After submitting the battle report, Li Shiji quickly sent someone to negotiate with the people of Shi Huoba's department, and told the news to the chief of Shi Huoba's department.

When the chief of the Shi Huoba tribe was overwhelmed by the news, Li Shiji mobilized all his soldiers and horses to raid the grassland of the Shi Huoba tribe overnight, beheading more than 30 soldiers and horses of the Shi Huoba tribe. More than [-] people were captured, and more than [-] old and weak women and children were captured. More than [-] Han people were rescued, and nearly [-] horses, cattle and sheep were confiscated.

It can be said to be a big victory and a bumper harvest.

But compared to Li Jing's gains at the foot of the Yin Mountain, it is still inferior, just like rice grains and bright pearls.

After all, not many people care about who defeated the Turkic tribe, how many military exploits and spoils they gained, but they touched the back of the Turkic leader, stabbed the Turkic leader fiercely, and forced the Turkic leader to escape alone , the whole country will care.

This is the law on the battlefield.

No matter how great the harvest is, no matter how high the military exploits are, there is no beating the general to capture the flag, and killing the enemy leader is even more eye-catching.

Although Li Jing did not succeed in beheading Xieli's head this time, Xieli left all his clansmen and all his subordinates and ran away at a critical moment. He looked like a khan.

From a strategic point of view, Li Jing has already completed the beheading tactic.

Because Xieli's role in the Turks has been eliminated by Li Jing, Xieli can no longer lead the Turks to fight against the Tang Dynasty as before.

But now the Turkic dragons have no leader, they are fighting on their own, and they are in a mess.

Datang aggressively attacked, no matter how he fought, it would be several times easier than before.

Turks no longer pose any threat to Datang.

After Li Shiji led the army to defeat Shi Huoba's tribe, Yin Kaishan, Xie Shufang, Li Junxian, Hou Junji and other generals also launched a conquest against various Turkic tribes.

To be precise, it should be encirclement and suppression.

Because in the process of conquering the Turkic ministries, in order to speed up and snatch more meritorious service, several people subconsciously cooperated with each other instead of stumbling each other.

With this kind of cooperation, when one person conquers a Turkic tribe, the other person does not rush up to take credit with him, but chooses to conquer the Turkic tribe next to him. Through him he restrained the enemy's reinforcements.

With the cooperation of two compartments, three compartments, and even multiple compartments, several people made rapid progress, and the offensive was like wildfire, quickly burning throughout the grasslands from Lingzhou to the north of Shizhou, and quickly spreading further north.

Every day, new battle reports are sent to Lingzhou; every day, new gains appear.

The number of enemy heads is increasing day by day, and the number of captured horses, cattle and sheep is also increasing exponentially.

Only a few days ago, more than 1 enemy heads were captured, and hundreds of thousands of horses, cattle and sheep were captured. After a few days, it became tens of thousands, millions.

A large number of horses, cattle and sheep, driven by the captives, gathered at several designated hoarding points along the line from Lingzhou to Shizhou.

Half a month, just half a month, several hoarding points have already exploded.

Although the cattle, sheep, and horses driven to several hoarding points are still on the way and have not yet entered the hoarding point, the numbers reported to each hoarding point have exploded.

A temporary camp in Lingzhou City.

After reading all the battle reports and various documents, Li Shimin rubbed his brows and said, "I knew that Li Jing is very powerful, but I didn't expect to be so powerful. With my own strength, I turned the current situation around."

The reversal of the situation in Li Shimin's mouth is not about the situation between victory and defeat, but the situation where the two armies are confronting each other, advancing slowly, and then unilaterally fighting wantonly.

As Li Shimin said, Li Jing did reverse the entire occupation with his own power, turning the war between the Tang Dynasty and the Turks from the confrontation between the two armies at the beginning to the current Tang Dynasty unilaterally beating the Turks.

The root cause of all this is Li Jing's Battle of Yinshan.

The first battle of Li Jing defeated the belief of the Turkic people (not ghosts and gods, but the leader), and also defeated the backbone of the Turkic people, making the Turkic people no longer have the qualifications and courage to fight against the Tang Dynasty.

This enabled Li Shiji, Yin Kaishan, Xie Shufang, Li Junxian, Hou Junji and others to march in large-scale, attack cities and land frantically, and capture cattle and sheep.

Without Li Jing's battle, if the Tang Dynasty wanted to conquer the Turks, it would have to go from place to place, from tribe to tribe, and plan bit by bit.

It is simply impossible to march freely like this now.

It can be said that Li Jing made outstanding contributions in this battle, which is of great significance.

Otherwise, Li Shimin would not praise him from the bottom of his heart.

"However, Li Jing brought back the clansmen of the Geshu tribe and the Ashina tribe left behind by Jieli back to the Tang Dynasty, but left the tribe of the Pugu tribe at the foot of Yinshan Mountain, and left behind people who had contact with Ashina Simo. The old Wang Fu was in charge, you should know what he means by that, right?"

After Li Shimin praised Li Jing, he tilted his head and asked.

Li Yuanji put his hands on the ice mirror, feeling the coolness coming from the ice mirror, and nodded, "Li Jing hopes that I will formally recruit Ashina Simo, and hand over the people from the Pugu Department to Ashina Simo is in charge."

Everything Li Jing did was on the bright side, without any cover-up, so it's not hard to guess what Li Jing was thinking.

After Li Shimin reached out his hand to pick up a small piece of ice from the plate next to the ice mirror and stuffed it into his mouth, he sniffed at the ice and asked, "Then what are you going to do?"

Li Yuanji didn't answer, but asked instead: "What does Second Brother think?"

Li Shimin curled his lips, and said reluctantly: "According to the strategy I wrote, now is not a good time for Ashina Simo to surrender, because Ashina Simo is the one to ensure my undefeated Tang Dynasty." important pawn.

As long as he is still a Turkic royal family for one day, he can do many things for us as a Turkic royal family.

No matter what problems we encountered in the process of conquest of Turks, he can come forward to help us solve them.

Once we recruited him, he couldn't help us with anything.

However, since Li Jing has done everything for the sake of this, if we don't take the opportunity to recruit Ashina Simo and let Ashina Simo take over the Pugu Department, it seems a bit unreasonable. "

Li Yuanji rolled his eyes and said, "So?"

Li Shimin seemed to have said a lot, but what he said was like nothing.

Because he didn't make a clear statement.

It was not stated whether to recruit Ashina Simo or not to recruit Ashina Simo.

Li Shimin stared, and said angrily: "You can't use your brain, don't ask me everything?!"

Li Yuanji said nonchalantly: "I'm asking you what's the matter, who made you my brother? Haven't you heard that the elder brother will do his best? Haven't you heard that the elder brother has to take care of the younger brother?"

Li Shimin said angrily: "Brother who has something to do, don't you do what you want? Don't misinterpret the holy meaning, there is no such sentence in the holy words!"

Li Yuanji pretended to be ignorant and said, "Isn't there? Then find someone to add it later!"

Li Shimin was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood, and said indignantly: "Who in my Tang Dynasty has the right to change the saint's humble words and righteousness?!"

There are many people who annotate and interpret the sage's subtle words and great righteousness in the Tang Dynasty, and some people are also engaged in the activities of changing the sage's humble words and great righteousness.

But it is said to be an annotation and interpretation to the outside world, and no one dares to change the saint's subtle words.

Because it will be sprayed to death by the literati in the Confucianism. If it is more serious, the literati will directly use their own energy to step it into the mud.

Therefore, even the descendants of saints dare not say anything to change the saint's humble words and righteousness.

Therefore, no one in the Tang Dynasty can change the saint's subtle words and righteousness.

"What does it matter if we sons change what my father said? How can father be angry with us sons?"

Li Yuanji looked at Li Shimin and said with a half-smile.

Li Shimin was really going to vomit blood from anger now.

I told you a saint like Confucius and Mencius, you told me to be a pilgrim.

Although they are all saints, they are completely two kinds of saints, okay? !
However, he still had no way to refute that Li Yuan was not a saint, let alone refute that what Li Yuan said was not a modest statement.

According to some people who have won the favor by flattery, Li Yuan has far surpassed Confucius and Mencius and other saints, and has reached the pinnacle of saints, becoming the supreme existence among saints.

Under the circumstances that no one dared to prove that Li Yuan was not a saint, everything Li Yuan said was insignificant.

Confucius, Mencius and others had to stand aside in front of him.

Datang is now the oldest, and every word he says is better than the saint's subtle words.

"Can you show some face? Can you be reasonable?"

Li Shimin shouted angrily.

Li Yuanji said with an innocent face: "Aren't I trying to reason with you? Do you dare to say that father is not a saint?"

Li Shimin's chest was a little stuffed.

Li Yuanji was afraid that Li Shimin would kill himself if he got angry again, so he quickly waved his hands and said, "Okay, let's get down to business, you said that we want to stick to our own strategy, but choose the path that Li Jing helped us arrange. Woolen cloth?"

Li Shimin blew his beard and stared: "I want to go!"

Li Yuanji said with a half-smile: "Do you really want me to think for myself?"

Li Shimin was taken aback for a moment, and then roared angrily: "Chengqian just said a few nonsense words, and you have used this to manipulate me, and you still want to hold on to me?!"

(End of this chapter)