Chapter 351: smashing drums
Chapter 351 Breaking the Drum and Disrupting People
"In the seventh year of Wude, Li Yuan, whom I forced, almost moved his capital to Shannan and gave up Chang'an. In the ninth year of Wude, I even commanded 300,000 cavalry to march against the city of Chang'an!"
The wind howled and whimpered outside the Golden Wolf tent.
Jeli Khan Ashina Duobi held the golden wolf-headed sword at his waist with his hand, his face was flushed red. His eyes were as red as blood, and he was extremely angry.
Li Gaoqian, Li Dayen, Gao Manzheng, Lin Mo, Zhang Jin, the governors and governors of the northern regions of the Tang Dynasty were defeated by him one after another.
But now, Qin Lang is only a seventeen-year-old brat, and he actually came to give him the best ultimatum, limiting him to lead his troops back to Mobei within three months, and asking him to send the former Sui Empress Xiao and Sui King Yang Zhengdao and others handed it over to Tang Guo.
Deceive too much.
"There is only one champion in this world, and Qin Sanlang is not the champion!"
Jie Li gritted his teeth and growled.
It is difficult for Xieli to accept the fact that it is now.
From his elder brother Shibi Khan to Luo Khan everywhere, and then to his succession, in the past ten years, their Turkic cavalry can go from Shanyutai to Taiyuan, to Youzhou, and even go directly to the vicinity of Luoyang, Lingliangjing The original Guanzhong prefectures can go there whenever they want, and they can even come to the city of Chang'an.
As for Shengzhou Fengzhou, it was trampled by their iron hooves, and no Tang people could gain a foothold.
When, how did the situation change overnight?
What the **** happened?
Last year he rode iron horses to drink the Weihe River and marched to the city of Chang'an. Why did the Tang people force him to move back to Mobei this year?
How did the Tang people become so powerful overnight?
Xie Li didn’t believe it, he thought the Tang people were bluffing.
"As long as we **** them hard once, their hypocrisy will be exposed, and they will submit to my Turkic cavalry again."
Zhi Shili said worriedly, "I heard that since Li Shimin took the throne as emperor, he has actively reformed and implemented new policies for more than a year. In a short period of time, the treasury has been filled. Read, reform the tax system, increase taxes by more than 10 million guan a year, increase grain by millions of shi, and Li Shimin selected elites to form the Beiya Forbidden Army."
"This time when Qin Lang went north, he brought with him 3,600 elite Forbidden Army from the Beiya."
"Besides, in the name of opening up the border market, the Tang people exchanged a large amount of fur livestock in the hands of our herdsmen. Now Fengshengdai and Youding and other border states have stored a large amount of milk, meat and grain, so the frontier army of the Tang people has sufficient food. , well-armed, and there is no shortage of horse mounts and pack horses and camels.”
"They have been actively preparing for war for more than a year, and they have been preparing for war with us for a long time, but we are still unprepared. However, this summer, the grain harvests in the Central Plains are abundant, and the granaries are full. Since we entered autumn, it has been early frost and early snow. The pastures of the tribes died early, and countless cattle and sheep died of freezing and starvation."
The understatement of Zhishuisi's words is that the Tang people are not bluffing. They have indeed been completely reborn over the past year.
They have unified the Central Plains, and they no longer have to worry about the future. Now they can concentrate on dealing with the Turks.
Now is no longer the era of Wude. At that time, the main energy of the Tang Dynasty was the unification of the Central Plains. There were frequent wars and natural disasters, so life was difficult and the people were in poverty. They did not have enough money and food to support the war in the north.
But it is different now, especially after they passed the reform and the New Deal, now they want money and people, and their borders are not like a few years ago, where Turks come and go, but deep ditches and barriers, with elite frontier troops.
"A Fuluo, I understand. Although he is a little crazy, he does have the ability to be crazy. Although he was defeated last time, although there were reasons for underestimating the enemy, but after careful analysis, even if he was given twice or three times more troops, But in the ice and snow, facing thousands of elite Tang troops guarding against the ice city, they are not short of food or clothing, and they will not be afraid of us, unless we have ten times or twenty times the strength to attack them!"
That's exactly the problem.
Qin Lang has now assembled more than 10,000 troops in Dongshoujiang City, not counting the many herdsmen, but if you really count it, there are more than 20,000 people.
Ten times twenty times, that would require 100,000 or 200,000 people to besiege, but in what season it is, Monan simply can't gather so many people, and Mobei Tiele's tribes have been dissatisfied with Jieli since they went south last year. The little Tuli Khan, who ruled the Khitan and Xi tribes in the east, had many conflicts with Jieli.
Yu Sheshe in the west has surrendered to Tang again, and now Yuan Junzhang has surrendered to Tang again.
Jieli has long been besieged on all sides, and this profuse sweat can be said to be the most aggrieved time.
At this time, where did Jieli send 200,000 riders to encircle Qin Lang?
Because of the real tune, he didn't dare to go, after all, Tang Jun had already captured Yunshuo, and he was close to Shan Yutai.
"I think, if you don't give Empress Xiao and Yang Zhengdao to the people of Tang first, they won't be of much use anyway." Zhi Si said weakly.
Jieli said angrily, "Do you want me to surrender to Li Shimin too?"
"Khan, take the time to slow down the troops. We really can't fight right now. If we want to fight, we have to wait until the beginning of next spring. We must first find a way to unite the various ministries so that they can unite and send troops together to fight."
Xie Li couldn't listen at all.
"Our Turkic advantage lies in the cavalry, which comes and goes like the wind. We can't be as stupid as Aduro Luo to surround the city of the Tang people. That's not our strength." Jie Li pointed at the sheepskin map and smashed his fists. , you have to win a battle before talking, otherwise, what qualifications do you have to make a request?"
Ashina Simo and others remained silent.
But Xieli is still determined to fight.
"Qin Lang's cities are only those few. At this time, he can only hide in the city, so we can ignore his cities."
Zhi lost his mind and asked in doubt, "But Qin Lang's soldiers and horses are all in the city. If we go around the city, who will we hit?"
"Whoever betrays the white wolf will be beaten!"
Jieli thought about it for a long time, and finally decided to pick the soft persimmons first, and send troops to fight against the various tribes who were attached to the Tang people.
First wipe out the tribes of the Tang Dynasty in Dongshoujiang City. If it goes well, then go to fight Yushe and set up the tribe. You need to use the power of thunder to show the strength of the Turks and scare these traitors.
In this way, it is also an accomplice in cutting off the wings of the Tang people.
"Choose the elite wolf cavalry division to attack, and we must hit these traitors hard!"
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East surrendered city.
Qin Lang received an edict from Chang'an.
The festival bestowed by the emperor has also arrived, and the banner of Yanran Dufu is flying in the city of Dongshoujiang.
All the leaders of the miscellaneous Hu and Turkic tribes also took a bath and burned incense to welcome the imperial edict seriously.
After reading the imperial edict, the envoys from Chang'an gave these Huren leaders Zifei official robes, seals and ribbons, etc. All these guys were very excited, and they all wore robes and ties, just like wearing monkeys and wearing crowns, which looked very awkward .
But the emperor's edict is still very effective, at least these people have more respect for the court and the Tang Dynasty.
Qin Lang's words are still somewhat different from Tang Tianzi's words.
Cheng Chumo was also conferred by the emperor the martial rank of Guerrilla General because of his meritorious service. This is from the fifth rank, and Cheng Chumo has finally officially entered the ranks of scarlet robe officials, and he can be regarded as a high-ranking member of the Tang Dynasty.
He has gone to inspect the word "inspection" of the Zhenwu Army envoy, and officially became the Zhenwu Army envoy. The number of the Zhenwu Army has also been increased, with two thousand infantry, one thousand cavalry, and six thousand fan cavalry regiments, so he This Zhenwu army envoy actually commands nine thousand troops. Of course, Fanqi is not considered a regular force, but at least it is a general who commands 3,000 regular Tang troops.
Cheng Chumo was extremely excited.
Based on his military achievements, he still has to be conferred the title of Baron of Dong'e County.
After receiving the imperial edict, Cheng Chumo quietly walked aside, and then wept.
A man never flicks his tears easily. He was not afraid when the Turkic people besieged the city, but now that he has become famous and has been promoted to a title, he can't hold back his tears.
Qin Lang patted the brother on the shoulder, "Are you happy?"
"I'm just blinded by the wind." Cheng Chumo said.
"I can understand you. Being the eldest son is very stressful, especially if your father is still like this with Widow Cui now. Don't worry, you and I are still young, our future is still very long, and there are many opportunities to make achievements. In the future , maybe your achievement can surpass your father, right? Now you are just a fifth-rank guerrilla general and a false baron, so don’t be so excited!”
Cheng Chu wiped away his tears silently, and looked at Qin Lang.
"You are a **** important minister of the empire, a rising star in the military, and the seventeen-year-old Yanran deputy governor. Damn, I just attacked the general from the fifth rank. Compared with you, I can't be in a hurry?"
Qin Lang chuckled.
"Sanlang, why don't we go to Shanyutai, cut off the wolf's head and capture Jieli Khan, this credit should be enough for me to be promoted to another two ranks, or become a viscount."
"Don't be greedy. As I said, we still have a long future. Let's stay here and wait for Xieli, and go to Shanyutai to find Xieli. It's two different things. Don't be fooled by the official position and rank, and underestimate the enemy. You If life is gone, everything else will be nothing, you know?"
"Then shall we continue to wait here?"
"What's wrong with continuing to wait? You didn't see it because we won the battle and we were nailed here, so Yuan Junzhang also surrendered?"
"Shuo Dai two states won without a fight, this is also our credit."
Qin Lang told Cheng Chumo an important news, "Instigating Yuan Xiaozheng's mutiny and forcing Yuan Junzhang to surrender to the Tang Dynasty was a good move, and now I am planning to do it again."
"Are you planning to turn against the people around Xieli and force Xieli to surrender?"
"Where do you think that Jieli is so easy to be mutinied? I'm talking about Liang Shidu in Shuofang. Liang Shidu's current situation is worse than Yuan Junzhang. Now he has completely become a country within a country. It turns out that there are Yu Sheqi Jieli and Yuan Junzhang behind him, but if you look at the map now, he is surrounded on all sides."
Liang Shidu's life has been worse than Yuan Junzhang's in the past few years, because he is just north of Guanzhong, and the main reason is that the court didn't have the energy to deal with him before, so dealing with him was a small matter, but they also knocked left and right. Liang Shidu has a lot of land, and many of his subordinates were persuaded to surrender by rebellion.
At present, the situation in Liang Shidu is that everyone knows that he is finished, so in this case, the conditions are very favorable to instigate the rebellion of the Liang army.
"Wait for the good news. If it doesn't meet my expectations, there will be drastic changes in Xiazhou within ten days, and Liang Shidu may be bound and surrendered!"
"Who has this ability?"
"Everyone pushed the wall down, and everyone beat the drum. It happened that Yang Guang also joined forces in all directions and let all directions come to court. But in the end, he was also killed by Yu Wenhua and this young master of Chang'an?"
Cheng Chu listened silently, his heart itching.
"Why don't I lead my troops south to meet them?"
"Hmph, your duty is to lead the Zhenwu Army and guard the Dongshou surrendered city!"
"Isn't there no war now, idle is idle."
"That's not OK!"
(end of this chapter)