Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

Chapter 567 Mutiny
"You don't have to worry, as long as you stick to it for another four or five days, Ashina Daozhen will lead the former army back!" Xue Rengui patted Wang Zhaotang on the shoulder: "You have contributed the most to this matter, don't worry, I will definitely write a letter The imperial court, report your affairs to the Son of Heaven, and reward you heavily!"

"Thank you, Chief Manager!" Wang Zhaotang hurriedly thanked him. He also knew that Xue Rengui would not be able to protect himself after such a big defeat, but it was better to have such an expression than nothing.

"Okay, you step back first!" Xue Rengui comforted Wang Zhaotang a few more words, returned to the case, and began to consider how to give the imperial court a memorial.What he said just now had the elements of drawing big cakes for Wang Zhaotang, but most of them were sincere.In the final analysis, after I trusted Guo Daifeng, a guy like Guo Daifeng who failed to achieve success and failed to succeed, he still had a foothold, all because Wang Zhaotang forcibly left these thousands of sick soldiers at that time, as long as Ashina Daozhen can bring back the former army, and Qinling's eldest son, Gong Ren, makes a comeback unlikely, but it is still possible to lose less and win more.

Xue Rengui wrote four or five beginnings, but after writing two lines, he couldn't write any more. He crumpled up and threw it on the ground. Finally, he had to put down the brush and sighed. It's a pity that the commonly used document is not there, otherwise there is no need for it. Do it yourself, but you can't just find someone to grab the knife for such a letter, you can only hold it here by yourself.

"Boss, Boss?"

"Who? What's the matter?" Xue Rengui pretended to be majestic and calm. His mentality is now a frightened bird. A slight change makes his stomach feel like a mess, as if all his intestines are entangled.

"It's me, Wang Zhaotang!"

"Wang Sima? Come in and talk!"

Wang Zhaotang walked into the tent. His face was as pale as death, and his eyes were in a daze, like a wandering ghost. Xue Rengui suppressed his bad premonition and said with a smile, "Sit down and talk! Sit down and talk!"

Wang Zhaotang did not sit down, and said in a strange tone: "The Turks have rebelled!"

"What?" Xue Rengui was taken aback: "What Turkic people? Wang Sima, please explain clearly!"

"There is a group of Turkic cavalry outside, holding a wolf-headed banner. They claim to be the former Turkic followers of the former army. They have embraced Ashina Daozhen as the new Khan and formed an alliance with Tubo!"

"What?" Xue Rengui felt his brain explode. The news Wang Zhaotang brought was much worse than the worst he had imagined. If it was true, it would not only be the end of the former army.After the Tang Dynasty destroyed the Eastern Turkic Khanate in the Zhenguan period, the four prefectures of Shun, You, Hua, and Chang were established in the old place of the Tuli Khan, and the Dingxiang and Yunzhong were set up in the old place of the Jieli Khan.In the first year of Yonghui (650), Tang Ping Turkic Chebi Khan said that "all the Turkic tribes are the ministers of the frontier", so he set up the Hanhai Duhufu in his land, leading the Langshan, Yunzhong, and Sangqian Dudufu. Sunong and other 24 states.

This piece of land probably includes today's Inner Mongolia, Outer Mongolia, and the upper reaches of the Yenisei River in Russia and the area around Lake Baikal. If this is true, then the Turkic tribes on this vast land are likely to respond to their call. Raise a mutiny and fight for independence.Longyou Dao will be in a situation where he is under attack from both sides.

"Boss, those Turks are outside, come out and have a look!" Wang Zhaotang said.

"Okay, I'll come out right away!" Xue Rengui stood up quickly, followed Wang Zhaotang and walked out. Soon they arrived at a watchtower, and saw dozens of Turkic cavalry galloping back and forth on the river beach at the foot of the mountain, speaking in Turkic language. He Han shouted loudly at the camp, a wolf head flag was fluttering in the wind on the mound on the other side of the small river, and hundreds of horses were lined up on it, and the costumes were all Turkic cavalry originally attached to the Tang Army.

"Where is Ashina Taozhen? Let Ashina Taozhen come out to see me!" Xue Rengui shouted loudly.

"Is it Director Xue?" A Turkic knight on the river bank responded loudly: "What's the matter with you? Do you want to see my Khan?"

"Bah!" Xue Rengui spat: "How could Ashina really betray the court and be the Khan of you bastards? He must have been plotted by you bastards, and he used his name to deceive people!"

"Hahaha!" The Turkic knight laughed: "That's right, Ashina really refused to recite Tang, he was still thinking about the glory and wealth of his princess daughter-in-law and Chang'an, but he forgot the glory of Ashina's descendants! But we didn't kill him, we just put him under house arrest. He forgot his noble blood, but we won't forget it!"

Xue Rengui heaved a sigh of relief when he heard that Ashina Dao was not dead. He suddenly remembered the scene of the Turkic-Tibetan covenant he discovered when he was in Shanzhou. , no wonder—”

"That's right!" The Turkic knight laughed: "Director Xue really has good eyesight. Yes, we discussed the alliance with General Qinling a few years ago. He knows very well that sooner or later Tubo will have a battle with Datang. If With the strength of the Tubo people, sooner or later they will be conquered by the Tang people like the Turks, Xueyantuo people, and Tiele people. Without the help of the Tubo people, we Turkic people will only be your slaves of the Tang people forever—"

"Shut up!" Xue Rengui said angrily: "I, Emperor Taizong Wen, gave you food and clothing, and treated you so generously. How are you acting like a beast?"

"Emperor Taizongwen did treat me generously, but that happened decades ago!" The Turkic knight replied: "Every time the Tang Dynasty sent troops, they drove me Turkic people as the pioneers. They did not fight every year, and there were many casualties. All the rewards I received were given to the children of the noble chieftains who stayed in Chang'an. How much do we people who live in the grasslands get? Daozhen, how is it different from your Tang people? Our Turkic Khan is the wolf on the grassland. He led us Turkic people to conquer the west to expand our Turkic khanate, not forcing us to work for you Tang people !"

Hearing this, Xue Rengui was completely awake. He compared the whole story and the whole story, and immediately discovered the doubts: "No, Ashina Tao is really not going to your old place to deal with the people who have colluded with Tubo. How could it be of any use? nothing?"

"It's not easy? Let's put this matter on a few guys who are usually unpleasant, and report it to Ashina! He is in Chang'an all year round, and he doesn't even know the genealogy of the chiefs on the grassland. , the time is running out, what else can he do? Anyway, as long as the incident happens, he can only let us arrange it!"

At this time, Xue Rengui fully understood that his expedition had been completely caught in a huge net. That Qinling really deserved to be the No.1 general of Tubo. The relationship between the two countries has always been good, so when Tubo completely conquered Tuyuhun in 663 AD, Tang still adopted mediation instead of sending troops to attack directly. One reason is that Tang did not regard Tubo as an official enemy at that time, and regarded the war between Tubo and Tuyuhun as a conflict between two vassals.

After that, as the Tubo people's power in Qinghai continued to increase and began to gradually threaten the safety of Longyou and the commercial routes in the Western Regions, Tang began to gradually change his views on them and prepared to use military means to solve them.And Qinling realized the importance of the Turkic people to the Tang Empire very early on. As the last grassland overlord, after the Turkic people were conquered by the Tang Empire, due to the perennial peace, the livestock population multiplied, and their strength was stronger than that of the early Tang Dynasty. time is increased.

The people of Tang adopted the method of recruiting their chiefs, setting up officials and subordinates to govern them, and recruiting their elites to help in the battle, which greatly improved their own military strength.If they can instigate their independence, firstly, they can weaken the military strength of the Tang people, and secondly, they can disperse their strength, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.It should be said that Qinling's instigation has gained huge rewards. The Turkic rebellion not only directly led to the destruction of the former Tang army in Dafeichuan, but also set off a terrible storm when they returned to their original place, involving the entire Tang Empire .

"Dog thing!" Xue Rengui suddenly snatched his horn bow from the hands of the soldiers, quickly opened the bow and set an arrow, and shot at the Turkic cavalry at the foot of the mountain. Although the distance between the two sides was about two hundred steps, it had already surpassed most of the soldiers However, Xue Rengui's arrow still hit the Turkic knight's shoulder, and the knight immediately fell off his horse. The Turkic knight next to him hurriedly picked him up and ran to the other side of the river. But it was too late.

"General Xue shot brilliantly, I have seen it today!" The Turkic knight was quite bold. He gasped for a while on the other side, then got on his horse and came to the river and shouted: "But if it was ten years in the morning, I would have died, right? The general has gray hair, and the hero is getting old!" At this point, there was a lot of laughter by the river.

"This dog is too rampant!" Seeing this, Xue Rengui's soldiers were furious: "General, let me take people out and show these Turkic dogs some color!"

"That's all!" Xue Rengui sighed: "He is right, I am indeed old, and I did shoot his chest with the arrow just now!"

"General—"

"The current situation is like this, what difference does it make to kill one more person or one less?" Xue Rengui sighed: "It would be good to have one more person guarding the camp, besides, who knows that they are not lying in wait for you? "

"Then, what should we do then?"

"Persevere, persevere!" Xue Rengui said.

"Persistence?" The leader of the guards was stunned: "Yes, but the former army is also finished? We only have a lone army now, so what's the use of holding on?"

"I don't know!" Xue Rengui shook his head: "But now this is the only thing I can do. One hundred thousand athletes followed me to the east, and now there are only a few thousand people left in this battalion. Take them back one by one!"

As time passed, more and more troops appeared beside the camp of the Tang army. They wore brand-new armor, many of them were in the style of the Tang army. The Tubo people began to repair dams on the upper reaches of the small river to divert the river. In order to cut off the water source of the Tang army camp.

"Fortunately, there are only a few thousand people in the camp, and you have dug a reservoir, otherwise there is no need to fight, and we will die of thirst soon!" Xue Rengui sighed.

"I didn't expect it to be like this!" Wang Zhaotang said with a wry smile, "If I had known it earlier, I would have dug deeper!"

"No matter how deep it is, the food is only enough for three months. Even if there is water at that time, there is nothing to eat!" Xue Rengui looked at the sky: "Is it the beginning of May now? It will be August in three months." It's been a month, so can Longyou send reinforcements to save the siege?" At this point, he suddenly laughed dumbfounded and shook his head: "This is not something you should worry about!"

"Yes!" Wang Zhaotang nodded. Regarding this point, he is as pessimistic as Xue Rengui. Although Longyou is known as the most powerful town in the world, after pulling out [-] elite soldiers, the remaining troops may guard everywhere. Wubao is not bad, even if he is transferred from the east of Guannei, it will take time to reorganize the new army.Not to mention that if the Turkic rebellion occurs, the time to calm down the Turkic homeland will be calculated in years.

"Forget it, at least we still have Gong Ren in our hands. I hope Qin Ling will still be scruples about this eldest son who falls into our hands?"

If Xue Rengui still had a bargaining chip in his hand, it would be Gong Ren. The only thing he is lucky about now is that he brought this important prisoner with him when he came to Dafeiling, otherwise it would be completely over.

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Tubo camp.

On the hills of the Tang army camp, a long table made of original pine wood was set up, on which was spread the fine linen tablecloth of Shendu (India).The big tent of Qinling is right next to the table, and the big red and white flag flutters on the long pole, and it is here that he himself had dinner with his generals and other important figures.

Ashina Daozhen was the latest to come. Although in name he was the Great Khan of the New Turkic Khanate and could rival Qin Ling, he knew exactly what he was actually—a puppet held hostage by his subordinates , a prisoner of a defeated army, maybe when these traitors find a better puppet, he will be dealt with. Thinking of this, he is angry and afraid at the same time.So he planned to get drunk and use alcohol to dispel his fear. It was already dusk, and the sky was full of fireflies, as if they were alive.

Tonight's main course has been set on the table, the roasted calf stuffed with mushrooms, chestnuts and various dried fruits. Get more loot.

"Without us, our Turkic cavalry, you Tibetans would never have won so easily!" A Turkic chief shouted: "The elite of the Tang people are all in the front army. These are veterans who have experienced many battles. Their strong bows are hard In front of the crossbow, I don't know how many warriors have fallen!"

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