Landlord of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 468 Destruction of Turks (3)

Li Jing's only 40 cavalry entered Eyang Ridge, but Jieli Khan did not dare to fight Li Jing.The reason is, Li Jing didn't bring a large army, how could he dare to go deep alone?Either it was the army with unlimited crossbows and arrows, or there must be Li Yuan's [-] troops waiting behind.Jieli Khan hurriedly withdrew the tooth tent to Qikou, Li Jing continued to advance, Jieli Khan continued to lead his troops to retreat to Yinshan Mountain, but met Cheng Yaojin's army who had touched it by the Hun River, fought once, but could not break Xu Qing's formation went north in a hurry, not daring to stay any longer.Moreover, Jieli Khan also sent Horqin to Li Yuan's tent to ask for peace.

Li Yuan avoided seeing him, saying that he had already returned to Chang'an, and if there was anything, you should go to Chang'an and talk about it.Li Yuan's move was nothing more than wasting time. Turkic has already suffered a lot, but it still has a strong influence.If Li Yuan forced him to jump over the wall in a hurry, it would not be a useful thing for Datang.The rest of the battle had to be handed over to the allies, and Li Yuan had an important matter to deal with.

Li Yuan is going to Cangzhou to take a look.

In the past, when Liu Heita in Hebei rebelled, Li Yuan also knew that it was the bad intentions of those aristocratic families.However, at that time, the Shandong family was not in Li Shimin's sphere of influence. Well, let Li Shimin clean up the family by himself, but he didn't expect that Li Shimin only killed Liu Heitai in order to maintain his own power, and did not deal with the real traitor.

Li Yuan holds grudges, and he is going to tour the East this time.

The 40 troops were gradually divided, and those in Youzhou returned, but Li Jing, Cheng Yaojin and others were still stationed in the desert.

A few days later, Li Yuan arrived in Cangzhou, and saw this rumored bustling city, a paradise on earth.

And Chang'an once again welcomed Horqin's mission. The last time he came to Chang'an arrogantly, he was stumped by Xu Qing's three questions, and returned to the grassland in despair.But this time, they could only enter the city honestly.

After entering the court, Horqin knew that he had been cheated, but now he was in a weak position and had no right to refute.However, Li Jiancheng now has the power to handle such foreign affairs, so he first sent Xu Qing to meet Horqin.

When Xu Qing learned that his old opponent was coming, he was also willing to stop being lazy, and led a group of civil and military ministers to warmly receive the Horqin Mission.Horqin looked deeply at Xu Qingdao: "Master Xu, after returning to the grassland, I have worked hard and studied every day, and now I feel that I am not Wuxia Ameng. If Master Xu does not dislike it, can you take the next question and see Let's see if there is any progress."

Still not honest?Want to win some face on this, so that you can have confidence later?Okay, okay, Xu Qing sneered in his heart, and then said to Horqin: "Okay, Your Excellency has this kind of hardworking heart, which shows that there are still talents in the grassland. However, China has been leading the progress of the world for thousands of years. , The accumulated and accumulated culture is too rich. You should be more humble, don’t think that you can defeat me in Tang Dynasty in a short period of time.”

Horqin shook his hand and said, "Master Xu, please come up with a question..."

Xu Qing knew that he didn't like to listen to what he said, so he replied: "Master Messenger, do you dare to ask if there are sheep in the grassland?"

"Oh?" Horqin's eyes brightened and he said, "Yes, maybe Mr. Xu wants to..."

Xu Qing stretched out his hand to stop it; "Ahem, the sheep in your grassland have grown well in recent years, right?"

Horqin didn't know what to say: "Why does Mr. Xu care about this?"

Xu Qing snorted and said, "I didn't say anything, I just asked, is this sheep growing well?"

"It's not bad, it's not good, it's not bad, I dare to ask Mr. Xu just to teach this question?"

"No, no, no, let me ask. My question is, how many sheep do you have in total for the entire Turks?"

"Hiss..." Horqin gasped, who knows how many sheep are there in the grassland, but if Xu Qing asks this question, there must be an answer, but how could Xu Qing know how many sheep there are in Turkic? Tang's espionage has been so developed.Horqin pondered for a while, and gave up voluntarily. Today is not the same as before. The current situation is that he came here as a door-to-door beggar.So he said: "Master Xu, I don't know..."

Xu Qing smiled and said, his eyes were full of contempt, as if to say, look, I said that you Turks are no match for Datang.Xu Qingdao: "Let me tell you, you Turks have two sheep, one ram and one ewe, hehehe..."

Horqin froze for a moment, and was about to refute, a eunuch shouted: "Announce the Turkic envoys enter the palace!"

Immediately, Horqin closed his mouth and led the envoys into the palace.

Pei Ji was also there, and he made a long list of requirements for the Turkic people.First, after the war, the Turks had to pay tribute to [-] cattle and sheep, and [-] horses, and every year thereafter, they had to pay tribute to [-] horses; second, in the south of the desert, the Turks could only survive, but the people there Governance must be handed over to Datang; thirdly, the successor of the Turkic Khan needs to be sent to Chang'an to learn the elegant sounds of the Tang Dynasty and the etiquette of the Tang Dynasty.

When Horqin came here, he wanted to come up with a plan to delay the attack. The purpose was to minimize the promises that need to be fulfilled immediately, and to raise the promises that need to be paid in the future as high as possible.Therefore, for the first thing, he suppressed the cattle, sheep and horses to less than [-].However, Pei Ji also knew that this negotiation was a fart, and it was not credible at all.The Dahe family in the north and the Bohai state in Liaodong have been ready to send troops not long ago. This negotiation is just to get more things from your Turkic hands.

Therefore, Pei Ji refused to give up half a cent no matter what.Horqin was helpless, procrastination was not his hope. He thought that cattle and sheep could still be regenerated, but Khan’s inheritance could not be placed in Datang’s hands. If Datang controlled the inheritance, wouldn’t it be It has become a vassal state of Datang.That's not allowed, after the wolf god, how can it be... So, Horqin proposed to abolish the third article.

"Hmph, are you still qualified to negotiate conditions with Gu?" Li Jiancheng snorted coldly and stood up. He pointed to Horqin and said, "Thirty years ago and forty years ago, maybe you Turks could compete with me in the Central Plains. But now, you are divided from east to west, and my Great Tang unified the north and the south. Do you still have the qualifications? The current Jieli Khan, do you still think that the situation was 30 years ago? The current Turkic people can only be beaten. My Tang Dynasty It is possible to beat you Turks every year, two years, three years, five years and ten years, and it is not impossible to even destroy Turks."

Li Jiancheng was almost hoarse: "As long as you don't admit defeat, Gu can rub your Turks at will. So, please listen carefully, and ask your sons to come to my Tang Dynasty to learn elegant etiquette, and to lead the horses and pedals for the Tang royal family." , Serving tea and pouring water is not tearing your Turkic face, it is growing your Turkic face! Otherwise, Turkic death will also be dead, where else will you put your Turkic face!"

As soon as these words came out, Horqin froze on the spot as if struck by five thunders.Xu Qing also applauded secretly, this must be the leakage of the legendary domineering aura.

An hour later, the Turkic envoy Horqin refused on the grounds that the matter was too big and his authority was too small to agree.However, a brief truce agreement was signed. However, everyone knows that this truce agreement, as soon as you are given money but not power, you want me to cease the war. It is almost non-binding.

But in fact, during the period when Horqin came to Chang'an, the Dahe clan and the Bohai Kingdom had already begun to clean up the Turkic people. However, you had to peel the oranges before eating them. The tribe was the first to be attacked by the Dahe clan and the Bohai state.

The Dahe clan sent 20 troops, and the Bohai Kingdom had a little less, but there were also generals who understood the simplified version of Xu Qing's formation, with only 5 troops.

Hu Tian has snowfall in August, and heavy snow has already begun to sweep across the grasslands in November.When Li Yuan came back from Cangzhou, he had a great time. He had never seen such a prosperous city, and even Chang'an couldn't compare it.The prosperity of Chang'an is because there are so many high-ranking officials. When it was popular to give gifts in the past, what kind of national wine and what were expensive?The same goes for Chang'an, with so many high officials, everything is naturally expensive.But Li Yuan didn't expect that Cangzhou attached so much importance to commerce, but there was no delay in agricultural production. Moreover, the literati's style of study was also very upright, and they didn't want to be a place that valued profits at all.

In the end, Li Yuan directly settled in Jizhou, and the Qinghe Chamber of Commerce directly became a branch of the Cangzhou Chamber of Commerce. Of course, after removing those aristocratic families.Those private soldiers of the aristocratic clan were all wiped out by Li Yuan's suppression of the bandits.The aristocratic clan also lost the money to build new troops, and even less power in their hands.Not to mention controlling forces outside of Hebei, even the aristocratic families in Hebei are facing disintegration.

Li Yuan issued another imperial decree in Hebei, saying that the current black households in Hebei will be subsidized by the imperial court for those who come out to establish a household within one month.Those subsidies, at the current grain price in Hebei, can live for two full months.In the spring of next year, the government will organize everyone to open up wasteland, and there will be wages. The wasteland opened is counted as black households, but the government will charge a little more tax.This time, the aristocratic clan lost its black households, and then the government organized to clean up the extra land of the aristocratic clan.

rebel?It doesn't exist. Although Li Yuan didn't bring many soldiers, he has [-] troops stationed on the edge of Hebei.This winter, many old guys couldn't make it through.

After Li Yuan finished these, he inscribed a plaque for the Cangzhou Chamber of Commerce, and the Cangzhou Chamber of Commerce also promised to distribute how much money to the government every year, how much supplies to provide, and how many supplies to help the court deliver.With the imperial plaque, Cangzhou can now not only do business generously, but also open branches in various parts of the world in a formal capacity.A license plate of the "Cangzhou Chamber of Commerce" was snatched by businessmen all over the world.

This is a favor sold to Xu Qing, I hope the boy can serve the country faithfully.After this, Li Yuan led his troops to join the prefecture, and upon hearing the latest information, he realized that the Dahe Clan and the Bohai Kingdom had already dispatched troops.Then we can't stay here now, we have to watch when we grab the loot.

The army went north to Baidao and joined Li Jing.

Although Jieli Khan was defeated, he still had a lot of troops, and the tribe did not collapse. If they walked west across the desert and got the protection of Tiele, and the Turks of the East and the West were perfectly matched, it would be difficult to catch up.Moreover, the weather was getting colder and colder, and it was becoming more and more unsuitable for the soldiers of Datang to fight, so Li Jing decided to start the final decisive battle immediately.

History will change, but history also has inertia. For example, although the result of Xuanwu Gate has changed, but Li Shimin rebelled against Li Jiancheng and defended the ring, this role will not change.Similarly, in the real history, it was Li Jing who destroyed the Turks. This time, it was still Li Jing who destroyed the Turks.

Li Jing led [-] fine cavalry to march northward, and Li Yuan led the army to march in the back step by step. They braved the snow to Yinshan Mountain and encountered more than a thousand Turkic camps. So Li Jing ordered to capture them. It turned out that they were all Turkic women and children. Because of the heavy snow, they could not go beyond Yinshan Mountain in time In the north, there were not many soldiers in the camp, and they were all captured within a short period of time.

Historical records: All the prisoners were captured to accompany the army.

The tents of Turkic women and children were discovered, so the large Turkic troops were not far away. Li Jing sent troops to reconnaissance and found that they were not far away.But on this day, suddenly there was a heavy fog.

Li Jing thought that this was a good time for a surprise attack, but Jieli Khan had been driven crazy by the days of fleeing, and he didn't have the slightest vigilance.Li Yuan ordered Su Dingfang to lead 99 cavalry as a forward, and under the cover of [-]-level dense fog, he advanced quickly.

When Jieli Khan's tooth tent was only three miles away, he was discovered by the Turks. Su Dingfang drove straight in and captured the Turkic Jieli Khan's tooth tent. Jieli was about to flee westward on a thousand-mile horse.Li Jing had already expected that [-] troops were waiting on the road that Jieli Khan must pass.Li Yuan also marched northward with hundreds of thousands of troops, and the Turks were defeated. After the first battle, more than [-] people were wiped out, and all the remaining Turkic people were captured.

Dieluoshi, the son of Jieli Khan, was also planning to seek refuge in the Western Turks, or outside the Gaochang Kingdom. However, during the process of advancing westward, he was captured by Li Yuanji, who was out hunting, and it was a big gift for Li Yuanji. gift bag.Beside the son, a bunch of famous grassland generals, the Turkic general Zhi Shili, Ashnadur, Ashina Simo and Qibi Heli all surrendered.

But Jieli Khan, the father of Deluo Shi, was not so lucky, or the general who caught him was not so lucky.Most of the generals around Jieli Khan were khans from other tribes. Seeing that Jieli Khan could not follow, they defected one after another.Those who defected were considered benevolent, and one of them, in order to save his own life, united with the rest and captured Jieli Khan alive.On the way, they met Li Daozong who had been waiting for them for a long time.

Jieli Khan was sent to Li Yuan's tent, but Li Yuan didn't kill him. What are you talking about, you may be the last enemy I defeated. In my later years, I still need to keep you by my side to show off.Therefore, Feng Jieli Khan became King Guiyi, "General Youwuwei", by the way, half a rank lower than Xu Qing's "General Zuowuwei", and moved to Chang'an to live.His son, Dieluoshi, was the king of Guishan, commanding the headquarters of Jieli Khan and a very small piece of grassland.

(End of this chapter)