The Great Grandson of the Tang Dynasty: The beginning of the slaughter of General Tiance's mans

Chapter 485 A two-pronged approach

After Li Rui became the governor of Tianzhu, Li Jing handed over full power of Tianzhu to Li Rui and led his troops to station in Nyberg City. This is the western border of Tianzhu, only more than 200 miles away from the city of Tucson in the Arab Empire.

This is also a necessary place for exchanges and business between India and Arabia, which is really important.

Stationing in this city is equivalent to cutting off the communication between Arabia and Tianzhu.

To the north of Nyberg City are various small countries and tribal peoples.

In order for Li Rui to maintain long-term stability in Tianzhu, Li Jing ordered to cancel the independence of each tribe and merge it into the Tang Dynasty within a time limit.

On the one hand, he ordered all small countries to surrender within three months.

These state-owned areas are easy to deal with, but the most difficult thing to deal with is the tribes, who wander around without a fixed settlement and are the most arrogant.

That's the saying, if you hit him you won't find him, but he will hit you when you say he's coming. Those who are barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes.

In response to this situation, Li Jing suggested that Li Rui implement a policy of clearing the border and not allow anyone in Tianzhu to make any transactions with non-residents, let alone finance. Once discovered, they would all be considered guilty of collaborating with the enemy.

Chai Shao was then ordered to lead 6,000 cavalry to the north. One of the king's subordinates was to force the small kingdoms to surrender. The other purpose was to have no purpose. As soon as they found small tribes, they would immediately subdue them and kill them all.

To avoid any further trouble, Li Jing did all this for the sake of Tianzhu's tranquility.

It will become the rear area for his future western expedition.

Chai Shao led the army northward, conquering countless tribes along the way, and later even entered the territory of today's Maozi. During the Tang Dynasty, Maozi had no country at all. All the tribes lived a primitive life in the eyes of the Tang Dynasty, and were quite backward.

After Chai Shao arrived in Maozi territory, he felt like a fish in water. He didn't encounter any strong enemies, but only a pile of loose sand.

Not to mention that Chai Shao has been active in the north all year round.

After Li Jing sent Chai Shao, he prepared to eat part of the Arabs in Tucson before the Byzantine army joined forces with the Arabs.

At this time, he was equipped with Li Chengdao's newly improved three-bow crossbow with gunpowder and individual crossbow.

The soldiers affectionately called this weapon "Destruction Fire" and the individual crossbow "Assassin"

Various military services reported to the central military tent and learned that the Arabs just couldn't hold on, which also confirmed Li Jing's guess that they were waiting for Byzantium.

The unanimous opinion of all the generals was to launch a surprise attack before Byzantium arrived.

If an attack is launched, it will be a war against the Arab Empire. Without His Majesty's will, Li Jing does not have the right and would not dare to do such a big thing.

But he could, under the orders of Li Rui, the Commander-in-Chief of Tianzhu, launch troops against Arabia in order to protect his country from threats.

Li Jing was waiting for Li Rui's intention today. As soon as Li Rui's order came, he would immediately march to attack the city.

Li Rui's order did not arrive, but His Majesty's secret order came.

Let him make peace with Arabia and deal with Byzantium together.

Li Jing sat in the middle hall, summoned all the generals and said, "Everyone understands what His Majesty means. Let us all share our opinions!"

Li Daozong first said: "Since His Majesty has a decree, then we can only act in accordance with the decree. Why do you need to ask again!"

Li Jing didn't answer.

Xue Wanche said: "There are many ways to make peace, and we soldiers have our own way to make peace!"

Li Jing nodded and looked at Su Dingfang.

Su Dingfang said: "General! General Wei also thinks that what General Xue said is right. Even if you want to make peace, you must have a fight first. Only in this way can you have a foundation for making peace. If you don't fight, who will make peace with you?"

"Aren't you afraid of disobeying the order?" Xue Wanche asked cautiously.

"We did not violate His Majesty's will. Your Majesty said we would make peace, and we wanted to make peace. However, His Majesty did not say clearly how we would make peace, so we just said our way of making peace. How could we be in any way disobeying the decree!"

Xue Wanche said nothing.

Li Jing said: "Okay! Attack the city first and then make peace! Which general is willing to be the vanguard?" Xue Wanche said: "Since everyone has decided, General Wei is willing to take the lead."

At this time, Li Jing's army, in addition to staying in Tianzhu and giving some to Li Rui, still had an army of 250,000.

At present, Xue Wanche led 50,000 troops to attack Tucson.

Since the Tang Dynasty had no record of fighting against the Arab Empire and did not know the strength of its opponent, Xue Wanche decided to test it first, so he sent troops to burn, kill and loot around Tucson City, doing all kinds of evil, just to lure the Arabs out of the city to fight.

Unexpectedly, the Arab generals did not know the strength of the Tang army, and the Tang army was so powerful that they refused to leave the city easily. They only guarded the city and had no regard for the lives of the people outside the city.

On such a day, Xue Wanche became a little anxious. He could not attract the enemy, so he had to attack the city. The first battle with the Arabs was a tough one.

In order to win the first battle as much as possible, Xue Wanche ordered the entire team to dispatch fire destroyers and shoot rapidly at the top of the city.

The Arab city walls are on the same level as Tianzhu. They are made of earth, not masonry structures. They are not even the slightest bit worse than the Central Plains city walls.

As for the level of architecture, no one in the world can match the level of Datang.

Destruction Fire is Li Chengdao's latest improvement. It has increased the range and uses gunpowder packets for arrows. It explodes as soon as it hits the city wall, just like a modern earth bomb.

Xue Wanche only ordered to attack the east city of Tucson, but did not attack the other three sides.

This also concentrated the firepower and destroyed the fire. The defenders on the Tucheng were dumbfounded. What is this?

Don't touch any of them. Those who are far away will be injured, and some will be shocked to death.

The huge explosion was deafening, and its momentum was even more astonishing.

The Arabs didn't know about gunpowder and thought it was a thunder from the sky. When the Han people used the thunder from the sky, they immediately ran away in fear.

The general guarding the city heard that the Han people had thunder from the sky, and he was immediately confused. How could he fight this battle?

Han people are all heavenly beings!

Fortunately, the army was still there, and the general urgently ordered to withdraw from Tucson first, waiting for orders from above, or there might be a way to deal with Tianlei.

The Arabs were so frightened that they lost Tucson.

Xue Wanche occupied Tucson without any effort.

After the Arab general escaped from Tucson, he rushed to join his main army, while talking about the thunderous siege of the city.

Thunder falls from the sky, the whole city is struck by lightning, heavenly beings come down to earth, etc.

This also removes the blame for fleeing without a fight.

Moreover, he still had merit and no men or horses were lost.

But he was also surprised that the Han people didn't chase after him...

Li Jing didn't expect to capture Tucson so easily. After entering Tucson city, he discussed with the generals how to make peace.

Qin Dongfangbai, the commander of the army, came forward and said to Li Jing: "It depends on the generals to fight the war. My subordinates are willing to do this kind of thing!"

Dongfang Bai was in charge of army logistics and was very eloquent. Li Jingzheng took advantage of his strengths and made Dongfang Bai an envoy to the Tang Dynasty to go to the Arab army.

But when making peace before the battle, it always feels like you think you can't beat them and want to surrender.

In order not to destroy the power of the Tang Dynasty, Li Jing proposed not to use the word "peace" when making peace, but to use the word "Xingtian Dao" instead.

It means that in order for the people not to fall into the disaster of the war, the two sides will reconcile in the way of heaven.

Before Dongfangbai sends an envoy, inform Arabia and send someone with authority and decision-making power to negotiate, otherwise the attack will continue.

This is Weiji's two-pronged approach.

(End of this chapter)