Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 661 Competing in the Central Plains (95)

Seven years later

Summer of Republic 460 (670)
The Tang Dynasty had just conquered the Cuan clan in the southwest and regained the lost homeland of Liang State in the Southern Dynasty. When the subjects of the Tang Empire were immersed in the joy of expanding the territory, Emperor Li Zhi once again confirmed the goal of expanding the territory.

Zhou Guo, the nominal ally, suddenly sent troops to attack the Tuyuhun Kingdom a year ago and occupied the Hehuang Valley.

In the summer of this year, that is, a month ago, Zhou Guo sent troops to capture the Western Regions and seized a large area of ​​land south of the Tianshan Mountains.

Since the Tuyuhun Kingdom has been attached to Datang, it belongs to the territory of Datang.

Zhou Guo's behavior is undoubtedly invading the territory of Datang.

Moreover, the Snowy Zhou State also used the military technology sent from the Central Plains such as Yuan Shen Cannon.

Use the military technology of the Central Plains Dynasty to attack the Central Plains Dynasty.

What's more serious is that as the Snowy Zhou Kingdom invaded the Western Regions Protectorate/Boxi Protectorate south of the Tianshan Mountains, the Western Turks, which had already been subjugated, took the opportunity to restore their country and are attacking the Anxi Protectorate of the Tang Dynasty north of the Tianshan Mountains Area.

In just a few years, Datang lost most of the land west of Gaochang.

"The people of Zhou are capricious. They marry my princess and use my craftsman, but now they still come to harass my Tang Dynasty!"

"I want to destroy Zhou to deter the ugly people, who can lead the army?"

In the past ten years, Emperor Li Zhi destroyed the group of powerful ministers headed by Changsun Wuji, regained the homeland of the Southwest, destroyed the Turks belonging to Yan, forced the Xiren to surrender to the Tang Dynasty, and captured the Tocharian area. The Persian Governor's Mansion was established in the south of Fire Luo.

Today's Tang Dynasty is rich in the country and strong in the people, suppressing all dissatisfaction.

However, many of the old generals of the Tang Dynasty died of old age, and only a few are still alive.

After thinking about it again and again, it was finally decided to send Xue Rengui to the expedition.

Although Xue Rengui had a disastrous defeat in Lieshuihe, after that, Xue Rengui took part in the battle to destroy the Western Turks, conquered Tocharia, defeated the Cuan clan, and surrendered the Xi people.

Therefore, Xue Rengui's ability is unquestionable. It is only because Tang Jun is not familiar with the geographical environment of Yan State, and because Empress Yan is a military genius second only to Tang Taizong Li Shimin, Lieshuihe suffered a disastrous defeat.

Based on the above reasons, Emperor Li Zhi still trusted Xue Rengui very much, and planned to let Xue Rengui be the coach to attack Zhou Guo in one fell swoop.

Yes, Li Zhi has been expanding and destroying the country frantically in recent years, and he has regarded the destruction of other countries as simple as eating and drinking.

In this war with Zhou State, he not only wanted to recover the Hehuang Valley, but also directly destroyed Zhou State and brought the Snowy Plateau under the rule of Tang Dynasty.

He appointed Xue Rengui as the "General Manager of the Haojing Road Marching", which meant that Xue Rengui would fight all the way to Haojing, the capital of the Snowy Zhou Kingdom.

There were only [-] soldiers in the Snowy Zhou Kingdom, and most of them were strong soldiers, while the [-] troops that Li Zhi handed over to Xue Rengui were all elite armored soldiers, and each of them could stand up to ten.

"After the state of Zhou is destroyed, our Tang Dynasty will concentrate on building a new invincible fleet, which will definitely wipe out the state of Yan in one fell swoop!"

Li Zhi's idea is that after the Xueyu Zhou Kingdom is destroyed, he will spend ten years recuperating and building an invincible fleet, and ten years later, the Yan Kingdom will be completely destroyed.

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A few months later
Autumn of Republic 460 (670)
Xue Rengui's [-] troops arrived in the Hehuang Valley and arrived at Dafeichuan.

Xue Rengui asked Deputy General Guo Daifeng to stay in Dafeichuan to build defensive facilities and protect the logistics supplies of the Tang army.

However, Guo Daifeng was very dissatisfied with Xue Rengui becoming his coach.

"Xue Rengui lost 20 soldiers in the battle against Yan, and in the battle to put down the rebellion of the Western Regions, he burned, killed and looted excessively, which triggered the second rebellion of the Western Regions. It took the lives of my Tang soldiers!"

"How can such a person be qualified to be my coach?!"

The military discipline of the Tang army was comparable to that of Liu Xiu's Han army. They often burned, killed and looted, especially when attacking the countries in the Western Regions, they slaughtered wherever they went.

Therefore, the countries in the Western Regions have always hated Datang very much, but they did not dare to resist because of the great power of the Tang Dynasty. They rebelled one after another and joined Zhou's alliance.

The boss is used to bullying the younger brothers, and the younger brothers dare not resist. Suddenly, one day, a person came to challenge the boss in an open and honest manner, and also caused the boss to suffer a lot. Then, those younger brothers who were unwilling to resign, naturally rebelled one after another.

For this kind of thing, as long as you put down your narrow national prejudices, put down your proud head, don't think how civilized I am, you shouldn't rebel, you should support me unconditionally, and treat me as a vassal country unconditionally, but simply regard it as International conflicts of interest, you will find that this kind of thing happens, it is very normal.

Xue Rengui, as a standard Great Tang general, naturally burned, killed, looted and massacred cities in the Western Regions, forcibly abducted Western Region women as military prostitutes, forced the princesses and princesses of the Western Regions to provide services to his soldiers, and so on.

The difference between the barbaric Hu people and the civilized Han people is that the barbaric Hu people can't write history books, so when they slaughtered the Central Plains, their crimes were recorded by the Central Plains historians and condemned by future generations.

And civilized Han people can write history books, so when the Han people go to slaughter the grassland, they often only record what kind of victory they have won, and the surrender of Wanyi, etc., and it is impossible to say too much about their burning, killing and looting on the grassland clear.

In this era, everyone slaughters each other, the strong survive and the weak perish!

The only difference is that if the Hu people are slaughtered, they will be hated by future generations. Generally, no one will know about the slaughter of the Han people, and no one will care if they know it.

If one day, the barbarians enter the Central Plains, the reason why they can succeed is not because they are barbaric, but because the Central Plains dynasty itself is too decadent, because in this era, there is no civilization that is not barbaric, and all civilizations slaughter each other Butcher.

Tang Jun wanted to destroy Zhou Guo in one battle, so Zhou Guo naturally couldn't be captured without a fight.

The 54-year-old Ji Fa VI personally commanded an army of [-].

After learning that there was a conflict between Tang Jun's coach Xue Rengui and his deputy Guo Daifeng, Ji Fa VI acted decisively and defeated Tang Jun one by one.

"Abandon Wuhai and let Xue Rengui occupy it. All of us will attack Guo Daifeng. As long as Guo Daifeng is eliminated and Xue Rengui's logistics is cut off, Xue Rengui will be defeated!"

"Although we gave up a part of Wuhai, we were able to win the whole of Hehuang in the end."

Under such a strategic thinking, Zhou Jun abandoned Wuhai, and watched Xue Rengui's main Tang army attack the surrounding areas of Wuhai, and all the main forces ran to attack Guo Daifeng who was leaving the defense facility of Dafeichuan.

Half a month later
The [-] army collided head-on with the Guo Daifeng army who was heading south.

Guo Daifeng did not obey Xue Rengui's command, did not stay in Dafeichuan to protect the logistics supplies, but insisted on going south, wanting to compete with Xue Rengui for the credit for destroying Zhou.

Guo Daifeng's [-] Tang troops were besieged by the [-] Zhou army, and were wiped out soon after. Guo Daifeng himself was captured by the Zhou army.

Xue Rengui, who was in the process of attacking Wuhai and preparing to go south to attack Haojing, stopped the attack plan when he heard that Guo Daifeng had suffered a disastrous defeat, and hurriedly withdrew his troops, intending to retreat back to Hehuang.

However, when passing through Dafeichuan, the Xue Rengui Tang army who had no food and grass began to bomb camps.

Time seems to have returned to more than ten years ago, back to the Lieshui River Valley.

Last time, Tang Jun, who was victorious in all battles, also suffered a disastrous defeat because of lack of food.

This time, Tang Jun suffered a disastrous defeat due to lack of food.

When the Tang army deserted and bombed the camp due to insufficient food and grass, the main force of the Zhou army came, and in Dafeichuan, the panicked and low morale Tang army was defeated and returned.

The son-in-law of the Tang Empire, the husband of Princess Wencheng, Ji Fa VI, the handsome and handsome young emperor, after 30 years of sneaking and growing up, wiped out one hundred thousand elites of the Tang army in the First World War, and completely drove the Tang Empire out of the snow. domain plateau.

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If the rise of the empire on which the sun never sets cut off the Tang Empire’s Maritime Silk Road, then the rise of the Snowy Zhou Kingdom cut off the Tang Empire’s Land Silk Road.

The Tang Empire, which lost its commercial and trade routes, began to experience various internal crises in the face of external failures, such as the disintegration of the military system, the intensified power struggle among the upper echelons, and so on. ——"General History of the World Song Dynasty Li Qingzhao"

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