Zhuangda Tang Juvenile Lang

Chapter 418 Raiders
"Nephew, how did you see through all this!" Li Jing was very curious. This was the conclusion he and Li Ji reached after careful consideration based on the current situation, and the premise of this plan was that the Eastern and Western Route Army must be in the shortest possible time. At that time, Qin Feng, who is good at fighting tough battles, came to Dingxiang to assist Li Jing, while Li Ji skipped Dingxiang and went directly to Wuyuan to cut off Jieli's back road. Qin Feng only passed Li Jibing Entering Wuyuan, he can see through everything, which really surprised him.

"Hey!" Qin Feng scratched his head and said, "Actually, when uncle asked me to let Jie Li go, I felt something was wrong. It was just that I was going to be on the battlefield at that time, so I didn't think deeply about it. The battle report only gave me a hint, and I was finally convinced of my suspicions. Although Jieli Khan is a lost dog and is in constant fear, the emaciated camel is bigger than a horse. Xue Yantuo's army is currently disabled by Jieli Khan Yi Nan is injured, and even if Xue Yantuo once again united with Tiele's ministries to block it in the northwest direction, without the personal command of the prestigious Yi Nan, the Tiele coalition forces could not be twisted together. They are fighting on their own, and they can't stop this mourning army. Jieli Khan is my great enemy of the Tang Dynasty, but he is indeed amazing. If he insists on fleeing to Khan Court, Tie Le will never be able to succeed , This is the first; the second is to analyze from the grievances and hatreds between my Tang Dynasty and Jieli Khan. If Jieli Khan is allowed to escape to Khan Court successfully, they will gather together and evacuate to the extreme north. If so, it is impossible for us to completely eliminate this worry in this icy and snowy land. Jieli Khan is also considered a British lord for the Turks. The cavalry is the number one force in the world. When the Central Plains was in chaos, Jieli Khan imitated the Central Plains’ tribute system and asked the Central Plains princes adjacent to the Turkic border to pay them tribute. To put it bluntly, it was to pay protection fees. Then sent troops to snatch it."

As a grassland nation, the Turks have wolf-like habits, and they will never confront you head-on. They are often in groups of thousands of people, and when they encounter weak annihilation or flee from a large army, they specialize in ransacking villages, burning, killing, and looting.Make all the princes and tyrants next to the Turks helpless.

Whether it is Li Tang, Liu Wuzhou, Xue Ju or Dou Jiande, who rule the roost, they all have to obediently pay the protection fee.Not to mention Gao Kaidao, Yuan Junzhang, and Liang Shi are all small princes with Turkic thugs. They almost recognize Jieli as their father, and they will fight wherever the Turks point.

This is also a helpless thing. Even though powerful men like Li Tang and Dou Jiande are not weak, they are really powerless against the Turkic cavalry.The Turks slaughtered a village today, and looted two counties tomorrow. Who can bear it in the long run? They can't let all the people live in the city without farming or working.

Instead of the Turkic robbing, it is better to obediently pay the protection fee, so as to avoid the casualties of the common people, and the loss is not so serious.

But the most important thing is to pay the protection fee, so they can have extra troops to expand their territories.Take Li Tang as an example, if they don't obediently give gifts to the Turks, what will they use to attack Guanzhong?Those tens of thousands of recruits are thankful for being able to defend against the Turks, and there is no such thing as a Tang Dynasty.

Under this mechanism, the Turks obtained a lot of wealth without a single soldier, and the prestige of Jieli Khan also increased.

"What you said is not wrong, but how does this have anything to do with our strategy?" Li Jing continued to ask with a smile.

After thinking for a while, Qin Feng continued to Li Jing: "Jieli Khan is an outstanding person, he sees it very clearly. He knows that the richness of our Central Plains is not suitable for their Turks. The richness of our Central Plains is due to the farming culture, and farming is the basic of the Central Plains. But the Turks are rooted in animal husbandry, and the food that our land is rich in is not horse grass. If Xieli had taken a fancy to my land in the Central Plains, the army could have gone south as early as the end of the Sui Dynasty when the turmoil was in turmoil. At that time, there were [-] Turkic cavalry, which one? Can the princes resist it?"

Li Jing nodded and said nothing.

Back then, when Li Yuan raised troops against the Sui Dynasty in Taiyuan, he formed a clique with less than [-] recruits. If he really encountered [-] Turkic cavalry in the wild, it would definitely end up being taken away by a wave.After all, Li Tang belonged to an aristocratic family, and Li Yuan himself had a certain status and influence. The capital of the Li family was the same. Liu Wuzhou and Dou Jiande, the powerful northerners with lower backgrounds, were even more bleak.

At that time, if the Turkic army really happened to go south, there would be no other way but to hide in the city.It is also because of this that Li Yuan had the cheek to ask Liu Wenjing to go to Turkic as an envoy and pay protection fees, and then he took out his troops to attack Guanzhong, and Li Tang officially gained a foothold in the late Sui Dynasty.

"Besides, under my constant attack and harassment, Jieli Khan decisively gave up the lush Shuobei Grassland. His retreat avoided the situation of being attacked on both sides. He concentrated his strength in one place. In the end, Tuli Khan was completely eliminated. From this, it can be seen that Jieli Khan is a person who knows how to advance and retreat, is sensible, and can bend and stretch." Qin Feng said with high spirits, and finally said with certainty: "Once Jieli Khan He successfully retreated to the extreme north. When he reintegrated the entire Turkic region, it was definitely the time for him to go south again. At that time, the heads of Tiele's tribes headed by Xue Yantuo would bear the brunt, followed by me, Tang Dynasty. I In order to create wealth and improve people's livelihood, Datang has always planned to reopen the famous Silk Road. If the world cannot be determined by a single battle, then our Datang will not be able to deter the countries of the Western Regions. In the future, we will face dozens of countries in the Western Regions. If we fight one by one, even if my Tang Dynasty does not know how to "warrior will die", I will lose the hearts of the people like Yang Guang and be unable to control the world. Therefore, the Turks headed by Jieli Khan must fight in this war. Otherwise, Uncle, I, and General Li Ji will become eternal sinners of the Tang Dynasty and the Chinese nation..."

When he said this, he strengthened his tone: "It is precisely because of the profound significance of this battle that we must win this battle, and it must be a decisive victory! I, a half-teen-year-old boy, can see that I am I don’t believe that Uncle and General Li Ji can’t see it. Since we can see it thoroughly, when the battle has reached this stage, we dare not leave this crucial step to Xue Yantuo.”

Li Jing stared blankly at Qin Feng.

Xue Wanche also looked at Qin Feng blankly.

Cheng Yaojin and Yuchi Jingde looked at each other and saw the shock in each other's eyes.

Li Jing greeted Qin Feng, Xue Wanche, Cheng Yaojin, and Yuchi Jingde to sit down around them, unhurriedly took out a map from his sleeve, spread it on the grass, and pointed to a road in the northwest of the tribes of Tie Le : "This is an uninhabited barren mountain, and the general's cavalry are all hidden here."

Sure enough, as Qin Feng expected, Li Jing really had other arrangements.

"How many people did Uncle ambush there?" Li Jing asked.

"Just two thousand!"

"Just two thousand?" Cheng Yaojin and Yuchi Jingde exclaimed suddenly, their minds became dizzy, what could two thousand soldiers do?
Two thousand soldiers are not enough to fill Jieli Khan's teeth.

"It's only two thousand, there's nothing to use." Cheng Yaojin yelled. This time, Datang sent 13 troops, Qin Feng [-], and Li Shiji [-]. Li Jing is the commander of the three armies and has the most troops. fifty thousand.

13 soldiers seem to be a lot, but apart from Qin Feng's [-] remnants and casualties, the cavalry that can be used, the three armies add up to only about [-], and they are still scattered everywhere.Jieli Khan must have evacuated to the north now, and the vast land north of Dingxiang and south of Wuyuan is almost all relatives of Jieli Khan. Here, Jieli Khan can do it without any effort There are [-] to [-] warriors who can fight, and they are all cavalry at the head of a hundred armies, and this also means that Qin Feng, who is about to go out, will fight with [-] soldiers.
Seventy to eighty thousand or more cavalry smashed to death.I thought Li Jing would ambush an army of [-] or more in front.But now at the critical moment, Li Jing proudly told everyone that he only had two thousand cavalry available, two thousand...

Two thousand cavalry are useless.

What a fool! This is it!
Li Jing understands Cheng Yaojin's temperament, so he doesn't mind his doubts, but just smiled calmly: "The fifty thousand army can't grow wings to fly, how could it be possible to hide it from the eyes and ears of the Turkic and Tie Le tribes? It’s definitely impossible to go there without being discovered. However, it’s much easier to go there with two thousand soldiers, and it’s not difficult to use this desert grassland to hide your tracks and quietly bring soldiers and horses.”

When he said this, he said pointedly: "Don't underestimate my two thousand soldiers. If they are used well, two thousand soldiers are enough to make a big deal and turn things around. In my eyes, these two thousand soldiers are two thousand soldiers. But in Xieli's eyes, he doesn't see it that way. In his eyes, my two thousand is fifty thousand, which is enough to threaten his fifty thousand army."

Reminiscent of Li Jing's glorious achievements in capturing Jieli Khan alive in history, Qin Feng suddenly woke up when he heard this, stood up suddenly, his expression was moved, his eyes were shocked, it was indescribable.

"Old Tang Book" records: Turkic tribes rebelled, the imperial court plans to make progress, in the third year of Zhenguan, Jing was the general manager of the Daizhou Road March; Ma Yi was caught by surprise and went straight to Eyang Ridge to force him.Jieli Khan never expected that the Tang army would come suddenly, and the soldiers and generals looked at each other, all of them were shocked.They judged that if the Tang soldiers did not come here, Li Jing would never go deep alone, so they were "surprised every day".Li Jing found out, and secretly ordered the spies to leave his confidantes, and his relative Kang Sumi to come down.In four years, Jing Jin attacked Dingxiang and broke it. He won Yang Zhengdao, the son of Sui Qi Wang Hao, and Yang Emperor Xiaohou, and sent them to the capital. Khan escaped with his body.Emperor Taizong said: "In the past, Li Ling raised [-] soldiers, and he inevitably surrendered to the Xiongnu. He still got the title of bamboo and silk. Qing went deep into the captive court with [-] light horsemen, conquered Dingxiang, and revitalized Beidi. This is unprecedented in ancient and modern times. The Battle of Weishui."

(End of this chapter)