The heavens start from saving Daming

Chapter 511 Sweeping the Prairie

The Khitan of this era is not yet the Liao Kingdom that will span thousands of miles in the future.

Its strength may not even be much stronger than Xi Ren.

Li Yunze said he was here to attack Khitan Xiren, but in fact it was just an excuse, his main purpose was to cut down the feudal clan.

But the battle is still to be fought.

All the tribes on the grassland must be flattened before there is an irrefutable reason to cut down the feudal clan.

The opponents are gone, so why keep the feudal town?

This is the root cause of so many self-respecting things in history.

Li Yunze has long been accustomed to such things as fighting, and he is also familiar with commanding.

He knew very well that when dealing with grassland tribes like the Khitan Xi people, the most important thing was not to defeat their opponents on the battlefield, but to find them.

The strength of Datang's army is a real coercion all over the world.

Facing the Emperor Tang personally bringing the main force of the Tang army to kill, the Khitan people, Xi people and other tribes all chose to escape very wisely.

Li Yunze didn't choose to chase after him, but gathered all the tribes on the grassland who were willing to listen to the Tang Dynasty.

After gathering the chiefs, khans, nobles, etc. of these tribes, Li Yunze very kindly conveyed to them his strategy of reducing the population on the prairie.

As soon as this remark came out, the nobles were all numb.

"I will determine the amount of reductions based on the loyalty and contributions of each tribe to Datang."

Li Yunze, with a friendly smile, said with a calm and breezy attitude, "Those who are not satisfied with the Tang Dynasty don't need to be reduced, just let them be annihilated in the garbage dump of history."

Facing the mighty Datang, the various tribes were angry, frightened and begged.

But it's useless to say anything, Li Yunze will never give them a chance.

In history, Li Yunze had personally experienced the massacres and disasters brought about by the grassland tribes' continuous southward entry, and there was no possibility of any compromise in this regard.

"If you are not convinced."

Li Yunze looked around at everyone, "You can go find Khitan Xiren and fight against the Tang Dynasty together."

Everyone is speechless.

The Khitan and Xi people who opposed the Great Tang were already doomed to die in the face of the 20 elite crusade led by the Tang emperor.

Whoever is crazy will go to be buried with them in partnership.

"If you are willing to work for Datang."

The stick has been swung down, and the monkey that scares you chickens has also been selected.

At this time, in order to catch the monkey, Li Yunze didn't mind throwing some sweet-looking candies out.

"Whoever can find Khitan Xiren's old camp first in this battle will be exempted from Ding's plan!"

Make great contributions and eliminate the strategy of reducing Ding.

And if other tribes are continuously reduced, then one's own tribe can continue to grow.

A hundred years later, when the Great Tang declines, it will be able to annex other weak tribes to dominate the grasslands, and there may even be a chance to go south to dominate the Central Plains!
With such a beautiful prospect in front of them, the nobles of various tribes were not fools, and immediately beamed with joy.

This idea is definitely correct, the only problem is that they are not fools to see this, but Li Yunze is not a fool either.

As the emperor of Tang, he would naturally not break his promise, and if he said that he would not lose weight, he would definitely not lose weight.

But Li Yunze was able to order his tribe to migrate to the Western Regions to fight with the Tang army as cannon fodder.

Basically, if you fight, the tribe will be gone.

Moreover, Li Yunze didn't pay anything from the beginning to the end, he just let them rush to fight Khitan Xiren.

The reason why this can be achieved is based on Datang's national power and prestige that dominates the world.

To put it bluntly, Tang Jun typed it out abruptly.

In this era of the weak and the strong, only tyrannical force is the cornerstone of protecting the people of the country.

You can see the damage and influence caused by such things as a gentleman's style, education, and scholars, just by reading history books.

The people of the Middle-Earth Dynasty should not suffer the pain that should not be suffered by them.

It may be difficult for Tang Jun to find the old camp of the Khitan and Xi people on the vast prairie.

But for those tribes on the grassland, this is not a difficult task.

Everyone lives on this land, and no one knows who.

With so many people and livestock in the old camp, at the very least, they must find a place with sufficient water and pasture to survive.

However, there are not many such places on the prairie, or such places that have reached a certain scale, so it is enough to send people to investigate.

The first unlucky one was Xi Ren. They thought they hid well and Tang Jun would never find them.

But I never thought that the location would be sold by a nearby tribe.

Twenty days later, when King Xi was waiting leisurely for the Tang army to retreat due to lack of food and grass, more than [-] Tang army cavalry appeared within a hundred miles of his king's tent.

When the news came, King Xi didn't believe it at all.

It is thousands of miles away from Youzhou, and the location is extremely secret, how could Tang Jun find it.

But the reality is like this, Tang Jun not only found him, but also sent a large army.

The distance of a hundred miles, in terms of the mobility of the cavalry, is just a day's time to rush over regardless.

But for King Xi, this was a catastrophe.

One day is enough for him to run on horseback without being caught up.

Even, it was enough for him to gather and prepare, and take some bodyguards and even a group of girls with him.

But the problem is that Xi Ren's camp can't escape, the nearly [-] men, women, and children here can't escape, and the countless livestock can't escape either.

Without the big camp and the livestock, it would be useless for him to run away with a group of people.

There are only two consequences to doing that.

One was beheaded by his subordinates and taken to Datang in exchange for rewards.

Another one is that they were slaughtered by other tribes, and they still took their own heads in exchange for rewards.

Because on this prairie, only interests are concerned, and everything else is nonsense.

Those who give up the tribe and run away by themselves are a big mouthful of fat, and anyone who sees it wants to eat it.

When you can't run, you can only try your best.

Xi Ren, who was urgently mobilized, fought a fierce battle with the cavalry of the Tang Army on the grassland outside the old camp.

Behind them is the old camp, where the old, weak, women, children, and livestock and property are all there, and there is no way not to work hard.

The fierce battle lasted from morning to afternoon, and Xi Ren, who resisted desperately, was defeated without any surprise.

Xi Ren with a scimitar and arrows could not defeat the armored cavalry of the Tang army no matter what.

Their weapons fell on the armor of the Tang army, and they were almost useless.

However, Tang Jun's attack was fatal every time.

Because the emperor clearly rewards and punishes, the Tang army has a strong will to fight.

They successfully defeated Xi Ren's resistance and defeated their main force.

The desperate King Xi had to flee from the battlefield in order to survive.

But in the end, he was overtaken by a Tang army chasing for hundreds of miles, and after defeating the guards, King Xi was captured alive.

Seeing the general of the Tang Army leading the team, King Xi shouted in disbelief, "Li Guangbi?! You are a Khitan, why do you want to work for the Tang Dynasty?"

"fart!"

Li Guangbi yelled angrily, "Someone is from the Tang Dynasty! Bind it up and take it away!"

His family's ancestors were indeed Khitan people, and Li Guangbi's father was even a Khitan chief, but he came to surrender during the Wu Zhou period.

Not only did he become the deputy envoy of Jiedu, but he was even named the Duke of the State.

Li Guangbi joined the Tang Army when he was young, and served as General Zuo Lang of Zuo Wei's family.

In his opinion, he is an out-and-out Chinese from Tang Dynasty, not a Khitan.

Moreover, Khitan people are almost indistinguishable from Tang people in terms of body, description and appearance. They are not like Kunlun slaves or high-browed and deep-eyed, so the sense of identity is naturally stronger.

After breaking through Xiren's old camp and capturing King Xi alive, the Tang army didn't even have time to bring the captives and spoils back to Youzhou, and here they received the location where they found the Khitan's old camp.

The hidden location of the Khitan people is close to the mountains and dense forests in the northeast.

They may enter the deep mountains and old forests to hide at any time, and then it will be very difficult to hunt them down.

Li Yunze sits in Youzhou by himself, and Zhang Shougui leads the front line.

He didn't hesitate after receiving the news, and immediately left some of his men to guard the prisoners' loot, and then waited for more than ten thousand Tang army cavalry, and went straight to the old camp of the Khitan people.

The combat effectiveness of the Khitan people is much stronger than that of the Xi people, and their fighting will can be regarded as firm when guarding the old camp.

Fortunately, Zhang Shougui recruited many tribesmen along the way, as long as they could ride horses, they were all coerced, and they brought more than ten thousand cannon fodder to the battlefield, which greatly offset the Khitan's numerical advantage.

Not surprisingly, there was another big battle between the two sides.

Tang Jun still won the victory. Li Guangbi, An Lushan, Shi Siming and others made great achievements in battle.

However, Tang Jun's losses were not small.

In addition to the loss of all the vassals who had been coerced, many of the Tang army failed to come out in pursuit of the Khitan remnants who had fled into the deep mountains and old forests.

To Li Yunze, defeating Xi Ren and Khitan one after another was just an appetizer.

Because his real goal is the post-Turkic Khanate.

After the Turks were wiped out, they wanted to restore their country.

As early as Tang Gaozong's period, he rebelled against the Tang Dynasty and rebuilt Turkic, which is called post-Turkic.

Because the post-Turks were mainly active in Mobei, the distance was too far away.

Wu Zhou sent a large army to crusade, and felt that the gain was not worth the loss, so he made his master a khan and made him a vassal.

After recuperating for many years, the Turks have continued to cross the vast sea to the south, and even invaded the Western Regions, which greatly affected the border security of the Tang Dynasty.

After defeating the disobedient ministers in the grassland, Li Yunze finally declared to everyone that he wanted to suppress the post-Turks.

This time, he finally set off from Youzhou.

In addition to bringing a large number of Tang troops, they also wiped out all the strong men from various tribes on the grassland, and recruited cattle, sheep and horses to accompany the army.

Li Yunze basically didn't intend to let these strong men come back.

Even if it's the first time to reduce weight.

The guide led the army, crossed the vast sea along the oasis along the way, and finally arrived at the land of Mobei.

Tang Jun has been here in Mobei, but every time he can't stay for too long before leaving.

And Li Yunze came here this time with the determination to make Mobei unable to recover once and for all.

This battle will not only tie the Turks, but also make them unable to turn around and rebel forever!
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