Chastity Layman

"In the seventh year of Wude, Li Yuan, who 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 troops to the city of Chang'an!"

The wind howled and whimpered outside the Golden Wolf's tent.

Jieli Khan Ashina pressed his hand on the golden wolf-headed sword at his waist, his face 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, and his Turkic wolf riders stepped through the northern gate of the Central Plains again and again, as if entering a land without people.

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.

Too much deception.

"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 at present.

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 hell is going on here?

Last year he rode iron horses drinking the Weihe River and approached 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?

Xieli didn't believe it, he thought the Tang people were bluffing.

"As long as we fuck them hard once, their hypocrisy will be exposed, and they will submit to my Turkic cavalry again."

Zhishili 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 Imperial Guards 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 implication of Zhisuosi's words is that the Tang people are not bluffing. They have indeed been completely reborn over the past year.

They have already unified the Central Plains and no longer have to worry about the future. Now they can concentrate on dealing with the Turks.

Now it 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. Therefore, 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’s different now, especially after they reformed the New Deal, they now want money and people, and their borders are not where Turkic people come and go as they did a few years ago, 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!"

This is exactly the problem.

Qin Lang has assembled more than 10,000 troops in Dongshou surrendered 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 descended to Tang again, and now Yuan Junzhang has descended 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?

He didn't dare to go, after all, Tang Jun had already captured Yunshuo and was close to Shan Yutai.

"In my opinion, if we don't give Empress Xiao and Yang Zhengdao to the people of Tang first, they won't be of much use anyway." Zhisi said weakly.

Jieli said angrily, "Do you want me to surrender to Li Shimin too?"

"Khan, let's delay our troops first. We really can't fight right now. If we want to fight, we have to wait until the spring of next year. First, we have to find a way to unite all the ministries so that they can fight together and send troops together."

Jieli 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 play a game.

"Qin Lang's cities are only those few. At this time of year, he can only hide in the cities, so we can ignore his cities."

Lost in thought, he asked in confusion, "But Qin Lang's soldiers and horses are all in the city, and 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 weak persimmons first, and send troops to attack the various tribes who were attached to the Tang people.

First wipe out the tribes belonging to the Tang Dynasty in the Dongshoujiang City area. If it goes well, then go to fight Yushe and set up tribes. 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 wolf cavalry elite 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 also arrived, and the banner of Yanran Dufu was flying in Dongshoucheng.

The leaders of the miscellaneous beards and the 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 .

However, the emperor's edict is still very effective, at least these people have more respect for the court and the Tang Dynasty.

There is still a gap between Qin Lang's words and Tang Tianzi's words.

Cheng Chumo was also awarded by the emperor as a guerrilla general because of his meritorious service. This is from the fifth rank, and Cheng Chumo has finally officially entered the ranks of officials in the scarlet robe, and he can be regarded as a senior 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 granted the title of Baron of Dong'e County, which is also a false title, but after all, he earned it with his own real swords and guns.

After receiving the imperial decree, Cheng Chumo quietly walked aside, and then wept.

A man does not flick his tears lightly. 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 Chumo wiped away his tears and looked at Qin Lang.

"You are a fucking important minister of the empire, you are a new star in the military, and the seventeen-year-old Yan Ran is the 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, chop off the wolf's head and capture Jieli Khan, this credit should be enough for me to be promoted to another two ranks, or be made 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 just 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?"

"The Shuodai two states were won without a fight, and this is also our credit."

Qin Lang told Cheng Chumo an important news, "It was a good move to launch a mutiny against Yuan Xiaozheng and force Yuan Junzhang to surrender to the Tang Dynasty. 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.

And right now, 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 mutiny of the Liang army.

"Let's 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 pushes the wall down, and beats the drum by thousands of people. It just so happens that Yang Guang also visited 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 with an itchy heart.

"How about I lead my troops south to meet them?"

"Hmph, your duty is to lead the Zhenwu Army and defend the Dongshou surrendered city!"

"Isn't there no war now, idle is idle."

"That's not OK!"