A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 546 Atonement for Tuli Khan

dawn.

Jieli came to Beishan Pass.

Fighting fiercely overnight, he lost his mind and succeeded in attacking the mountain another thousand steps.

Now they were twelve hundred paces from the summit,

But these [-] steps made it impossible for people to reach. Looking at the road paved with corpses on the mountain, Jie Li's face was as gloomy as water,

The narrow and steep mountain road is densely covered with countless corpses, and there are many corpses piled up on the road every step forward. After the north wind blows violently overnight, it has been frozen into ice sculptures.

I can't see clearly at night, but at this early morning, I can see the lifelike face of the ice sculpture, which is so painful and desperate.

Even many wounded soldiers, too dark to be treated, were hardened by the cold.

Ten stop road has climbed six stops,

But he lost his mind and knelt in the ice and snow, and asked Xieli Dahan not to attack again.

"This is a death trap. Every time I feel that Tang Jun will collapse in the next moment, we will win, but we are always one step away, and we are led step by step into the abyss like this.

Profusely, you can't attack anymore, the casualties are too great. "

Fires were set up in the passes of Yehuling at night, and smoke was lit during the day, but there was still a column of smoke. This meant that Xieli's strategy of raiding various places last night and blooming more flowers failed.

Not only did Badger's mouth suffer heavy casualties, but so did other places.

Jieli thought that Wu Huaiyu's division of guards was a big deal, but he divided his troops into multiple ways to attack, which was also a big taboo for military strategists.

If you can't focus on breaking Badger's mouth at one point, how can you attack the rest of it.

It's just an increase in casualties.

The most painful thing for Zhishili was the main battlefield of Badger's mouth last night. Not only were the casualties such as Xiqi Sod and the Tuli Jiangzhong, but also the loss of many elites including the Zhishi Department.

One day and one night, after dozens of battles, they still stopped halfway up the mountain.

It looks like it's within reach, but it's really out of reach.

It was gloomy.

There seems to be a bigger snowstorm brewing.

In this kind of weather, let alone continuing to attack with all our strength, it would be difficult to insist on setting up camp, especially for many wounded soldiers who were difficult to get medical treatment.

"Zhao Deyan, all the ministries attacked the mountain last night, please report the casualties."

Xieli tried his best to suppress his anger.

Zhao Deyan carefully reported numbers one by one in a low voice. Everywhere reported that the night attack had made progress, but none of them had been taken down. The so-called progress was just like before him. More than 1 casualties were paid, but it was just climbing up. A thousand steps.

But as long as the mountain pass is not taken down, what is the point of taking [-] steps or [-] steps?

"Great Khan, what happened today, I think of the siege of Han Gaozu Baideng, and the siege of Yanmen in the past by Shibi Dahan. That Wu Huaiyu is extremely cunning. Our intelligence was wrong, and he fell for him."

Zhi Shili also said bluntly, "Khan, the Tang army still has enough strength, and it has not been exhausted, especially because they have enough arrows. Taking advantage of this danger, they use shields, spears, bows and arrows to block the attack. We lack offensive equipment, and the weather is bad. Can't attack anymore."

If you continue to attack, you will be hitting a stone with an egg. No matter how many eggs there are, you will not be able to touch the stone.

They would not know that in the history of the battle between Tang and Tubo in Shibaocheng, there were only a few hundred Tubo defenders in a small Shibaocheng. Fort, occupying the main military route on the front line of Tangtu,

Tubo occupied the fort, and the Tang army was in the throat. Although Wang Zhongsi strongly opposed the strong attack, Tang Xuanzong finally ordered Ge Shuhan to gather more than [-] people to attack the fort.

In the end, the Tang army fought hard at all costs, and finally took the fort, taking more than [-] people alive, but the Tang army paid tens of thousands of casualties. The entire battle of the stone fort lasted no more than ten days, with thousands of casualties every day.

This kind of battle, I am afraid that Ge Shuhan, who is known as the God of War in the Northwest, can't understand it. After all, Shibao City was originally built by Tubo, but later the Tang army captured it and perfected it. Gai Jiayun fell and fell to Tubo , Tubo tried their best to strengthen it, but who would have thought that a small stone fortress could hang tens of thousands of horses in a few days.

But such battles are countless in military history.

Just like in history, the Jin army assembled more than [-] people in Yehuling to block more than [-] Mongolian horses, but the result was that the Jin army was defeated by more than [-] people.

Another example is the Battle of Taigu in the eighth year of Wude. The Tang army sent troops from five directions. As a result, in the last ten days of bloody battle, more than 7 troops were wiped out in Taigu.

Field battles often have few casualties, even if it is a large corps battle, after the defeat, only the prisoners are left, but the battles of fortifications and city sieges are often real meat grinders.

In the Battle of Huaiyang, the city defenders were able to eat up the whole city.

Huang Chao was even more ruthless. During the siege of Chenzhou, while besieging the city, he sent people to collect food and grass everywhere. The world was hungry and there was no food to collect, so he arrested people everywhere. minced meat.

Another fierce man in the late Tang Dynasty, the flying tiger son Li Keyong, conquered Tianchang, killed tens of thousands of enemy troops, and directly made the enemy's corpses into preserved meat, which was carried with the army as military rations.

The end of the war can no longer be described as tragic.

Historically, at the beginning of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, although the government soldiers were elite, by the time of Emperor Gaozong, they had often lost battles. For example, it was called the first real disastrous defeat since the founding of the Tang Dynasty. The entire army was wiped out. Later, Wu Zetian attacked Khitan and conquered Khitan three times.

In the history of the Tang Dynasty, it was said that the emperor escaped nine times and the capital fell six times. Although Li Shimin created the rule of Zhenguan and the Khan of the Heaven came to the dynasty, he was often defeated in foreign wars in history. Khitan, Silla, Baekje, as well as Tubo, Western Turkic, Tuyuhun, Xueyantuo, Later Turkic, and even Nanzhao, Bohai, etc., even the island countries dared to cross the sea to shout at the Tang army.

These surrounding countries were wiped out by the entire army beaten by Tang Jun in their childhood, and they dare not make any noise in the future, and the rest have been defeated by Tang Jun.

Datang was once very powerful in history, but he was also beaten miserably. It belongs to a very special era. His strength is unmatched, but his weakness is also the weakness of jumping off a cliff.

In the battle of Xiangji Temple, 30 million people from the two armies attacked each other, and 10,000+ people were killed in a few hours. It is a miracle in the history of war.

But today, a small mountain pass blocked the 3 Turkic army here, and they still smashed here for a day and a night, killing more than [-] people.

I didn't feel anything when I was fighting, but now when the casualties are counted, everyone is shocked.

There are more than 3 people, if the disabled are counted, it is equivalent to the loss of many tribes on the grassland, and a small khan who only controls one side may only have tens of thousands of tents.

And these more than 3 people are all young and strong.

In the eighth year of Wude, during the battle of Taigu, Jieli used more than 7 soldiers and horses to attack more than 7 Tang troops, and finally wiped out these [-] horses, and his own casualties were not so many.

It can be said that since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, or since Qimin Khan Rangan surrendered to the Sui Dynasty and robbed his elder brother of the Great Khan, the Khan position of their family has been passed down for four generations, and there has not been a single incident. There were so many casualties in the battle.

In the ninth year of Wude's fight to the Weishui River, although Li Shimin was in the dark and suffered many defeats, the total casualties were not so great.

At first, Xieli and the others thought that the statisticians had made a mistake, but they confirmed their calculations again and again, and it was true that there were so many casualties.

There were more than 3 casualties, and nothing was gained.

Now not only are people like Zhisasili, Ashina Simo, and Zhao Deyan who don't want to attack again, but none of the leaders of the other ministries want to continue like this.

What's the difference between this and directly attacking Chang'an City?
If they besiege Chang'an, they can also plunder the Guanzhong Plain, but outside of this icy and snowy fortress, what else is there besides the fierce northwest wind and this vast expanse of white ice and snow?
Oh, and tens of thousands of war dead bodies frozen into ice sculptures.

Jieli looked up at the mountain.

Next to the flag of the Qingyi Army, in addition to the flag of the Guangning Army, several more flags were added.

Some subordinates recognized that the newly added banner was the flag of Wu Huaiyu, the governor of Youzhou, and there were also flags of Youzhou Yabing, Jinglue, Lulong, Jingsai, Huaihuang, Yuyi and other armies.

If there are thousands of troops in one army, then several new troops will be added at once, at least 3 to [-] reinforcements.

Xieli didn't believe it.

He pointed to the mountain, "Planting a few flags, just want to bluff? Ben Khan dares to say that the Tang army is at the end of its rope,"

But now all the Turkic nobles don't want to fight anymore,

Not to mention King Xi Kedu, Khitan Khan Dahe Mohui, and the Sogdian Dagan, none of them wanted to send their followers up in vain to be strangled and left on the hillside to be frozen into ice corpses.

The morale of the army has been vented.

No one is willing to respond to what Ren Jieli said.

"Damn Khan, we failed to capture Badger's Mouth or other mountain passes last night. We have already missed the opportunity. Trying to capture it now will be as difficult as climbing the sky,"

"Big Khan, there is an old saying in the Central Plains, as long as the green hills remain, we don't have to worry about running out of firewood. We don't need to die here. We will make a comeback next time!"

Jie Li's face became darker and darker.

He suddenly raised his horsewhip, and slapped Zhao Deyan, who had always been favored and trusted, fiercely, "You are a Han, and you have to eat inside and out. Could it be that you have taken advantage of King Tang, and you have betrayed Ben Khan?"

Zhao Deyan was stunned by the sudden lash of the whip, and quickly defended, "Khan, my loyalty to you can be learned from heaven and earth."

Jieli slapped him hard, Zhao Deyan's clothes were torn and his face was bruised.

He pointed at Zhao Deyan on the ground with a whip, and looked around at the noble leaders, "Who still objects?"

No one said a word.

"Bring Tuli."

Tuli Khan was brought up, with scars from the previous whipping and even frostbite.

"Shibobi, how long do you think Tang Jun can hold on?"

Tuli also knew that Jieli's attack was not going well, and tens of thousands of people were killed or injured. Among them, more than ten thousand people were his followers. He was very heartbroken, but he felt a bit of revenge. They sent people to negotiate peace, but they made such arrangements in secret, which caused Xieli to suffer such a big loss.

"The Great Khan commanded the Turks, and he controlled hundreds of thousands of strings. Since he inherited the position of the Great Khan, he has conquered the north and the south without defeat. Think about the battle of Taigu in the eighth year of Wude. However, Da Khan quickly assembled his troops and wiped out more than [-] enemy main forces before Taigu, and then repelled Li Jing and Li Ji, and returned to Monan easily.

In the ninth year of Wude, he re-entered Guanzhong and drank horses from the Weihe River. Li Shimin also had to slaughter the white horse, form an alliance under the city, and pay tribute to seek peace.

Now that Wu Huaiyu is the governor of Youzhou, how many people can he have under his command?The total sum is [-] or [-]. In this rush, he probably gathered [-] to [-] at most, and most of them are training from the township army. How long can they last when they go out to guard the mountain and the weather is freezing?

I'm afraid that at this moment, there is no one on the mountain, so I planted a few flags for Da Khan and staged an empty city plan. "

Jieli felt very comfortable listening to Tuli's words. In his opinion, this was a sign of Tuli's submission to him, and it also revealed the reality of Tang Jun.

After hearing this, Zhi Shili couldn't help but whispered to Xieli, "Khan, don't listen to the traitor's nonsense, he is trying to kill someone with a knife, please cut Tuli, and then withdraw the troops."

Jieli looked at Tuli for a long time, "Shibobi, you are my nephew and a son of my noble blue Turkic Ashina family. Now I am willing to prove to you again that I am against the Turks and the Ashina family. A chance to be loyal to me, the Great Khan."

He pointed his whip at the mountain.

"You personally command your troops, as well as Xi Qiqi, the Sogdian Hus, I will give you a day, and you take down this mountain and pull down Wu Huaiyu's banner for me,"

"As long as you do it, this Great Khan will pardon you for all your previous crimes, and will still entrust you as the Eastern Little Khan of the Turkic Khanate, continue to rule the eastern region, and escort Xi Qiqian Moheshi Wei Zhuhu."

Tuli bowed his head, knelt at Jieli's feet, and kissed his boots.

"Thank you, Great Khan, for your forgiveness!"

"Go, don't let me down!" Jieli said coldly, looking at his bowed nephew.

"Blow the ox horn, beat the cowhide war drum, and cheer for Tuli Little Khan!"

King Xi Keduzhe, Khitan Khan Dahe Mohui and other chiefs had no choice but to accept orders and followed Tuli to order troops to attack.

I lost my mind and waited for no more persuasion.

They can also see that Da Khan's move can be advanced or retreated. It can be used as a chance to try again, or it can be regarded as borrowing Tang Jun's sword to cut Tuli, Xi Qidan, etc., and by the way, it can also consume Tang Jun. .

If you really want to retreat, it is necessary to cut Tuli, Xiqi, etc. now.

"Sili, call back all the troops who attacked the other mountain passes."

Jieli said coldly.

The gambler Xieli has also realized that he might be fooled, but he still has some luck, but he is also starting to prepare.

Just let Tuli attack for another day.

Success or failure is today.

On the mountain.

Wu Huaiyu's eyes were red, and she almost didn't sleep last night. Now she will drink milk tea to refresh her spirits. Standing under the banner and seeing the Turkic army at the foot of the mountain with the sound of horns, they start to form their team again.
Many Turkic troops on the hillside also moved,

Wu Huaiyu didn't panic at all, and there was a long-lost smile on his lips.

Xieli is really a gambler who loses his eyes,

But he likes it.

Let this Yehuling badger's mouth become the stone castle of the Turkic Khanate.

Su Lie strode over.

"Captain, our Qingyi army has [-] light cavalry, ready to attack at any time."

"Well, don't worry, Jieli hasn't stopped yet, let's play with him for a while, and the Qingyi army will continue to stand by."

Su Lie looked at the Turkic army preparing to attack at the foot of the mountain, and couldn't figure it out, "Xieli really lost his mind, how could a battle be fought like this."

"Hahaha, if Xieli really has the ability, he won't lose so badly in the Nine Years of Wude."

In the Ninth Year of Wude, tomorrow and the opening game, two kings, four twos, and three points.

Although he is a Turkic Khan and has hundreds of thousands of string-controlling knights, he is similar to Yang Guang. Tie Le's loss of control is enough to show that this person is just a prodigal son.

So in history, it is not surprising that he was captured alive by Li Jingting at the beginning of Zhenguan.

Su Lie bowed his hands to Huaiyu, "Congratulations to the governor, if you make another contribution, after this battle, you will be famous all over the world."

"Hahaha!"

Wu Huaiyu smiled happily, the situation is clear, and the chances of victory are in his hands!

(End of this chapter)