Datang: What's wrong with my fief being a billion points larger?

Chapter 306: Li Er destroys Tuyuhun again, a major battle that determines the fate of the entire Western Regions
After staying in Pibao City for one day, Li Yuanji led the army to continue marching towards Lhasa City.

The news that the Qiang Man had been defeated in the battle with Li Yuanji and almost completely lost their entire army quickly reached the ears of Yang Tong, Western Turks, Subi, and the Tang army led by Niu Jinda.

Outside Qitou City, Niu Jinda listened to the news with a gloomy face.

He had already known in advance that Li Yuanji was leading his troops here in person, otherwise Li Er would not have sent an additional 20,000 troops here, and brought cannons and muskets.

What Niu Jinda didn't expect was that these Qiang barbarians were really too useless. They had been attacking Pibao City for more than three months without success. Niu Jinda didn't even want to say anything about this.

However, now he knew that the Qiang Man had an army of more than 200,000. Just like that, they were defeated in Yuji City, then in Chawarong, and finally they were defeated by Li Yuanji in one battle on the plain between Zelagang and Woka.

Niu Jinda really couldn’t imagine it, more than 200,000 people, are they pigs?

The army in the east could be said to be the largest, but now not even a wave was made. Niu Jinda didn't know for a moment whether Li Yuanji was too strong or those Qiang barbarians were too weak.

In this case, how did these people dare to spy on the Tang Dynasty from time to time before?
Now, hearing that Li Yuanji's army had set out from Pibao City and headed towards Lhasa City, Niu Jinda did not care about anything else. He first sent an urgent military report to Li Erchuan, and then summoned the King of Yangtong and the main general of the Western Turkic Khanate to discuss how to deal with Li Yuanji's army.

After an hour of heated debate, an agreement was finally reached. Niu Jinda then began to mobilize troops and assembled all the Subi troops in the north of Lhasa City.

From then on, the coalition forces of Yangtong, Western Turks, Subi, and Niu Jinda's Tang army, totaling 180,000 troops, all gathered towards Lazi.

As for Qi Tou, Niu Jinda gave up directly. He attacked the city for seven consecutive days. He had firearms, and the defenders of Qi Tou also had firearms. They fought to the death, but there was no progress at all.

Now that Li Yuanji is leading the army here, he must also start preparing for the upcoming major battle.

This battle will completely determine the ownership of Yangtong, Tubo, Subi, and even Dongnuguo and Dangxiang. Whoever wins will be able to occupy such a large area.

And Li Er, who was in Subi near the border of Tuyuhun, was constantly looking at the map.

"This Tuyuhun is getting restless. I don't know whether he wants to join the battle in Tubo or come after me and capture me. He has gathered 60,000 troops here. He is really courageous."

Li Er looked at the map with more and more excitement. He was not worried at all about Tuyuhun gathering a large army to attack him directly. Instead, he was full of fighting spirit.

Li Er had experienced countless battles, big and small, and the movement of Tuyuhun could not scare him at all.

"Where is Li Jing and his army? When can they be deployed?"

Next to Li Er, Li Junxian quickly found Li Jing's location on the map.

"Your Majesty, Li Jing and his men have already passed Lingzhou and can be in place in twenty days!"

Upon hearing this, Li Er immediately became serious.

“Twenty days, so I have to start preparing.

Send a message to Li Jing, after the army arrives, launch an attack as quickly as possible, and make sure to win a quick victory and directly capture the Tuyuhun capital!

Go down now and call Yuchi Gong over."

Li Er looked at Tuyuhun on the map, his eyes full of passion.

“Before the Tang Dynasty was fully recovering, you continued to expand your territory, which brought you countless benefits. Now I am here to tell you that it took you several years to expand your territory, but I only needed less than a year to conquer a territory that far exceeds yours.

You are only destroying some small countries. I will teach you how to destroy those powerful countries and absorb their territories into the territory of the Tang Dynasty!"

Looking at the map, Li Er was filled with smiles when he saw the vast territory of Eastern Turkestan and Tuyuhun combined.

Over the past two years, only he himself knew how much he had endured. This time, by first destroying the Eastern Turks and then the Tuyuhun, he can finally hold his head high.

After occupying these Tibetan areas, the army will press towards Li Yuanji's fiefdom. Li Er wants to see how Li Yuanji will resist.

Just then, Li Junxian hurried in.

"Your Majesty, urgent military report!"

Li Er quickly took it and took a look. He was so angry that he threw the military newspaper on the ground and couldn't help stepping on it.

"Useless! These Qiang barbarians are really useless. No wonder they are declining. First, the Suobei Kingdom was destroyed, and now the Dongnu Kingdom and the Dangxiang Kingdom are also starting to fail. It turns out that these Qiang barbarians have problems!"

Li Er was really angry. This military report stated that nearly 200,000 Qiang barbarians were defeated by Li Yuanji in one battle. Although there were not many casualties, only 20,000 to 30,000, 120,000 people were captured by Li Yuanji.

Li Er also saw that there were people like the Qiang and Man in fighting. They didn't know how to form military formations and could only charge recklessly and then die.

The key is that these people are really too weak and can't even charge forward recklessly.

It's not that Li Er couldn't accept the defeat of Qiang Man. Li Yuanji personally led the army here. Facing the current Li Yuanji, Li Er never thought that Qiang Man could win, but in his opinion, they could at least delay Li Yuanji for a month or two.

You have to know that he provided tens of thousands of sets of military equipment to these Qiang barbarians. Although these were bought by the Qiang barbarians, they were provided by him after all, and they could at least enhance the combat effectiveness of the army.

As a result, it broke at the slightest touch, and Li Er was so angry that he was speechless.

Li Er then looked at Li Junxian.

"Send an urgent message to Niu Jinda. Do as he wishes. He will be in full control of Tubo!"

Li Er had no other choice now. The most important thing for him now was to destroy Tuyuhun. He could not take care of the affairs in Tubo for the time being.

Moreover, it was too late for him to do anything. By the time he gave instructions and passed them to Niu Jinda, it was too late for Niu Jinda to mobilize troops.

Now all Li Er can do is to delegate full power to Niu Jinda and fully trust him. Apart from this, there is nothing else he can do.

Li Er could only believe that Niu Jinda could stop Li Yuanji. Even though Niu Jinda had more soldiers and even though firearms were sent to Niu Jinda, the number of firearms sent was not much. He only hoped that Niu Jinda could hold on until he destroyed Tuyuhun. Then he would lead the army south and destroy Li Yuanji by a pincer attack!
Li Er was worried, but he quickly adjusted his mentality and focused his energy on destroying Tuyuhun again.

After a while, Yuchi Gong came over.

"See Your Majesty."

Li Er didn't look back, but waved to Yuchi Gong to come to the map.

“Now that Li Jing and his men have passed Lingzhou, they can be in position in 20 days to launch an attack on Tuyuhun.

We can't sit idle here either. I plan to go out for inspection myself tomorrow. Please have someone send in a small number of Tuyuhun scouts and have them pass this news back.

When Tuyuhun gets the news, they will surely send out troops. I will come here during my inspection, and if Tuyuhun wants to attack, they will surely come from the northwest side of Jishishan. Now our army is deployed along the east and west sides.

Therefore, you must lead the army in advance, hide secretly in Jishishan, and wait for the Tuyuhun army to arrive, and then you can break out.

I will personally lead an army and serve as bait to attract the Tuyuhun army, while at the same time keeping the Tuyuhun army firmly pinned down here.

Your mission is to wipe out all of Tuyuhun's troops, if not, at least annihilate most of them!"

Li Er placed his finger on the small town of Doma, and his meaning was very clear.

Yuchi Gong looked at the map and listened to Li Er's words, and suddenly became anxious.

"Your Majesty! I disagree! How can you go there in person to lure the enemy? Your safety concerns the foundation of the Tang Dynasty. There must not be the slightest mistake. I absolutely disagree!"

Yuchi Gong looked at Li Er with a determined face, not afraid at all that Li Er would stop him. In his eyes, this method was fundamentally unfeasible, simply because it required Li Er to act as bait himself.

Li Er looked at Yuchi Gong's determined look and was not annoyed. It could be said that among all the generals under his command, he trusted Yuchi Gong the most.

Anyone in the world might betray him in the end, but Yuchi Gong would never do that.

Li Er knew that Yuchi Gong was doing this for his own good, but now Li Er had no choice but to convince Yuchi Gong.

"Why are you so stubborn? Let me make it clear to you. Li Jing's army is about to arrive. If I attract the attention of Tuyuhun here, Li Jing and his men can march straight in and capture the capital of Tuyuhun without any effort.

I have another piece of news to tell you. The King of Qi, with an army of 100,000 soldiers, has defeated an army of 200,000 Qiang barbarians and captured more than 100,000 Qiang barbarians. He is now marching towards the city of Luoshui.

Tuyuhun must be dealt with quickly, and then the troops should march south to attack the King of Qi together with Niu Jinda and destroy him here directly!
Do you understand the importance of this now?"

"I must attract Tuyuhun's attention and make them lower their defenses against other places, thus creating an opportunity for Li Jing to successfully destroy the country.

We only have to face the 60,000 Tuyuhun troops here. Even if Tuyuhun sends troops, it will take time. Later, Li Jing and his army will also arrive. Those who come to support here must either surrender or die!
Whether I will be in danger this time depends on whether you can quickly deal with the Tuyuhun army that is attacking Duma.

If you solve it quickly, nothing will happen to me!"

"I have fought in the battlefield for more than ten years and have experienced countless battles, big and small. I have fought all kinds of fierce battles. Today, I am only fighting Tuyuhun and some Western barbarians. Why should I be afraid?"

Li Er was in high spirits. Although this time it sounded dangerous, Li Er knew very well that he was not in much danger at all.

Moreover, war itself is a dangerous thing. When he was the King of Qin, he was fearless. Now that he is the Emperor of Tang, he is in his prime and he, Li Er, is also brave enough to fight!

Yuchi Gong looked at Li Er in front of him, feeling the aura and temperament emanating from Li Er. Yuchi Gong had an illusion that the King of Qin who had led them to battle and was invincible in the past had reappeared.

At the same time, Yuchi Gong felt heavy-hearted. Li Er had told him this and explained the cause and effect. He was also very clear about the importance of the length of time it would take to destroy Tuyuhun.

Because in Tubo, there is a Li Yuanji waiting for them, and there are only Niu Jinda and a few others there, and it is unknown whether they can stabilize the situation.

Yuchi Gong struggled for a long time. He knew very well that as Li Er said, Li Er's safety almost depended on him. As long as he killed the Tuyuhun army fast enough, Li Er would not be in any danger.

After a while, Yuchi Gong looked at Li Er firmly.

"Your Majesty, please give the order. I will destroy the Tuyuhun army in the shortest possible time! I will not let Your Majesty make any mistakes!"

Yuchi Gong made this decision with great determination, and he had to do it later, which was to completely defeat the Tuyuhun army as soon as possible.

Li Er also nodded in agreement with satisfaction.

Li Er then began to act. Under Li Er's personal enticement, Tuyuhun fell into the trap. 50,000 of the 60,000 troops gathered towards Doma.

Yuchi Gong led 30,000 troops to lurk in Jishishan, watching the Tuyuhun army passing by below, and firmly restrained the urge to attack.

The 50,000-strong Tuyuhun army took their positions one after another and immediately launched a fierce attack on Doma.

For three consecutive days, Tuyuhun's offensive did not stop, but in a wooden house in Doma City, Li Er was drinking tea leisurely, without any worries.

"Li Junxian, don't be nervous. Tuyuhun can't get in. I have 10,000 Tang warriors here. Tuyuhun's 50,000 troops are not enough."

Li Junxian looked at the indifferent Li Er and could only smile bitterly. Li Er had a good mentality, but he was not good at all. He was worried all the time. If the city was broken by Tuyuhun, it would be a big trouble.

Another three days passed, and there were only two days left before the scheduled time. Li Er then looked at Li Junxian.

"We didn't allow the army to use firearms before. Go down and prepare immediately. We will start using firearms the day after tomorrow!"

Two days later, Li Er personally came to the top of the city and began to bombard Tuyuhun with artillery. Yuchi Gong, who was lurking in Jishishan, led a large army to attack from behind. Under the cover of artillery fire, Tuyuhun was defeated.

Li Er watched the battle outside the city but did not rush in to fight. The situation was different now. There was no need for him to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy himself.

"Tuyuhun? Nothing special. I gave you a chance, but you are useless!"

Li Er was full of sarcasm. For eight whole days, Dolma was just a small city, and the 50,000 Tuyuhun soldiers could not even climb to the top of the city. Li Er could not think of anything else except the food.

When the news from here reached Tuyuhun, the king of Tuyuhun was horrified and sent another 50,000 troops here.

However, in the process of message transmission, twenty days passed quietly. Without Tuyuhun's knowledge, he led an army of 100,000 and directly attacked Tuyuhun. Tuyuhun was caught off guard and was conquered by Li Jing one after another.

In five days, Li Jing's army of 100,000 arrived at the capital of Tuyuhun.

After more than an hour, Li Yuanji finally arrived at the city of Lhasa.

Looking at Xie Shufang and Songtsen Gampo, Li Yuanji didn't say anything, and then asked the two to start assembling the army.

When Li Yuanji learned the news about Pari Zhongfan and Yu Dingyan, he became extremely angry.

"One day, I will wipe you out completely!"

When Li Yuanji learned that most of the 100,000 troops of the Harsha Dynasty had to retreat hastily due to an outbreak of plague and had to be evacuated, he was immediately amazed.

Li Yuanji then devoted all his energy to assembling the army.

He had already received the news that Niu Jinda was assembling a large army, and now Li Yuanji wanted a major battle to decide the ownership of the Western Regions.

(End of this chapter)