Chapter 1219: Tang Qi stepped on
Chapter 1219 Tang Qi stepped through
Yibi Shekui Khan also completely turned against Datang at this time and sent troops to support Kucha.
The Tang army assembled heavy troops in the Western Regions. Guo Xiaoke guarded Yanqi and was in charge of the supplies. He Lu was the forward.
Tang Jun always assembled 100,000 horses.
King Helibu Shibi of Kucha, Prime Minister Nali, and General Jie Liedian also gathered 50,000 people to resist.
General Zuo Xiaowei, Governor of Yizhou, Yiwu Army Envoy Han Wei led a thousand cavalry to lead the battle, and General Right Xiaowei Cao Jishu led his troops to join the battle.
Thirty miles away, Han Wei and Cao Jishu joined forces and returned to fight back.
As a result, Mishe and Buzhen were ambushed and defeated halfway.
Yipi Shekui Khan sent troops to help, and he was defeated in an ambush for Helu.
Sheer led the army to the capital of Kucha, and He Libu lost the city and fled, and the king's city fell. She'er led the army to pursue for six hundred miles, and then broke through Bahuancheng. Both Helibu Shibi and Jie Liedian were captured, but the prime minister Nali escaped. Nali fled to Yipi Shekui Khan and led more than ten thousand troops to attack the King City of Kucha. Unexpectedly, Guo Xiaoke, who was stationed here, had already taken precautions.
Pretending to be defenseless, lured the Western Turkic Army into the city, then closed the city gates and beat the dogs.
Fighting fiercely overnight, three thousand beheaded, and the rest surrendered.
After the war, the Tang army marched out several routes and quickly swept away the cities of Kucha, including five big cities and more than 700 small cities. The whole country of Kucha surrendered. military.
The Kucha Kingdom was destroyed and ceased to exist.
Khotan, Shule, Anguo and other countries were shaken, rushing to deliver camels, horses and rations to the Tang army as condolences.
Yipishekui Khan also beheaded Nali, sent the head to Tangying, and sent envoys to Luoyang to plead guilty.
When the fighting was fierce in the Western Regions, Xue Yantuo Khan Yinan on the Mobei side was unwilling to be lonely, and prepared to recruit soldiers and horses to join the battle group, but suddenly died suddenly before the soldiers and horses arrived.
There are rumors that Yi Nan died of an assassination, or that he died suddenly.
After Yi Nan's death, his legitimate son Ba Zhuo kept the funeral in secret, and summoned his concubine brother Yimang to come here under the guise of Yi Nan's name and false order. When Ye Mang arrived at the Khan Court, Ba Zhuo was officially mourned. After the funeral, Zhuo Mang left suddenly, wanting to escape back to the fiefdom. Ba Zhuo had taken precautions and sent his guards to hunt him down. Jieli Juli Xuesha Duomi Khan.
After Ba Zhuo claimed to be Khan, he still decided to continue his father Yi Nan's plan to attack the Tang Dynasty. All the tribal chiefs and nobles who opposed sending troops were killed.
Then forcefully ordered troops to be dispatched.
When Xue Yantuo's army went south, the Tang army deliberately withdrew the guards at the Monan border, and let Xue Yantuo's army cross Yinshan Mountain, all the way to the foot of the Great Wall. Just when Bazhuo was proud, Li Daozong, Xue Wanche, Li Sili, Qin Guozhong, Cheng Yaojin and other generals gathered on the road Soldiers and horses marched side by side, besieging Xue Yantuo's army.
Bazhuo was unable to attack under the Great Wall and suffered heavy casualties. When he found that the Tang army was attacking from all directions, he had to retreat in a hurry, but it was too late. Bazhuo was defeated by the Tang army who was chasing him at the foot of the Yin Mountain. .
Bazhuo crossed the desert, but was ambushed by Huihe. Huihe killed Bazhuo and killed most of the Xueyantuo nobles accompanying the army, and then quickly attacked the Xueyantuo tribe, seizing a large number of Xueyantuo's territory and livestock population.
Xue Yantuo had only 50,000 to 60,000 horses left and fled back to the tribe, but at this time, some of the tribes saw that the situation was over and wanted to surrender to the Tang Dynasty, and some wanted to continue to fight against the Tang Dynasty. against each other.
At this time, the imperial court did not intend to let Xue Yantuo go.
Not only recalled He and Khitan to attack Xue Yantuo in Mobei, but also ordered Li Daozong, Cheng Yaojin, Li Sili and other soldiers to continue northward and penetrate Mobei.
Although the chaotic Xue Yantuo once claimed to have hundreds of thousands of people who controlled strings and ruled Mobei, but this time he was defeated by Tang Qi's multi-way siege.
Many tribes of Xue Yantuo surrendered one after another, and only more than 70,000 people retreated northward.
However, Tumozhi was established, and all the tribes of Mobei Tiele refused to accept it.
Cheng Yaojin led only 200 cavalry to the Nine Surnames of Tie Le.
The chief of Xue Yantuo, Tizhen, led the people to surrender, and Tumozhi went south to the barren valley. Cheng Yaojin sent Xiao Siye and Xue Rengui to comfort him. Tumozhi was poor and surrendered. Jin was furious, and summoned the soldiers and horses of the Hu tribes to attack, beheading more than 5,000 people and taking more than 30,000 prisoners.
Cheng Yaojin escorted Domozhi back to the capital, and Xue Yantuo was destroyed. The imperial court set up thirteen prefectures in Mobei, moved the northern governor's office of Zhenbei to Mobei, and promoted it to the northern governor's office of Zhenbei. The governor, governs and manages these border states. Huihe, Qibi and other tribes are subordinate to it.
The emperor ordered Domozhi to be the general of Youwuwei, who was stationed in the capital and served on the left and right.
The mighty Xue Yantuo destroyed the country in a hurry, and he died in a hurry. Once attached to the Tang Dynasty, he took the initiative to assist the Tang Dynasty in attacking the Eastern Turks. After the war, taking advantage of the vacuum of the grassland, he quickly seized the territory of the Eastern Turks.
Unexpectedly, the court only made a simple plan, which shattered Xue Yantuo's dream of being the overlord of the grassland. Datang supported the Uighur Alliance among the nine surnames Tiele, and contended with the Xueyantuo Khanate, so that Xueyantuo was still unable to unify the tribes of Tiele, let alone order the former Turkic affiliates such as Khitan and Xi in the east.
They missed many years, they have been going around in circles in Mobei, and they were played by Tang Tang several times in the middle, such as asking them to send troops to the Western Regions, or promising to marry the princess, but in the end it was all in vain.
Xue Yantuo failed to become a Turk after all, and he was no match for the Central Plains. Once the Yinan died, the whole Xue Yantuo fell apart, and he couldn't even survive a defeat.
Compared with the ruthlessness and tenacity that the Turks and the Central Plains repeatedly entangled back then, it is undoubtedly too far behind. Especially after Yi Nan, there were no successors. Among them, Bazhuo didn't think about how to unite his tribe in front of the enemy. Instead, he killed his brothers first, and then killed the opposing chiefs. This is also the reason why he was defeated so quickly later.
However, after the demise of the Xueyantuo Khanate, the imperial court did not support another Huihe Khanate. Instead, thirteen prefectures were directly established in Mobei, and the town of Beida Dudufu was built.
Although the thirteen prefectures in Mobei belonged to Jilu Prefecture, the imperial court further delineated the boundaries of Huihe and other tribes and restricted them. A powerful opportunity for unity.
But Huihe has no objection to this, which also shows that Huihe does not have that strength. After these years of internal strife and the blows of the Tang Dynasty, the grassland is no longer the era that could oppress the Central Plains all the time. Although Huihe is the strongest now, Huihe It is only one of the tribes in the grassland, and they have no strength at all to dare to have the ambition to dominate Mobei.
(end of this chapter)