Datang: Only by resisting the will can one become stronger

With such a huge hibiscus garden, there are still too many things to purchase and add.

Originally, Li Qiu promised Luo Kexin and Wu Jue to accompany them to go shopping every day, especially to the most prosperous, the starting station/destination of the Silk Road, Chang'an West City.

However, that night, Li Qiu was urgently recruited into the palace, and the important military situation was discussed in the Chengqing Palace.

Before, the military situation of Chai Shao's army, which they were all worried about, finally had changes and the latest news.

Before the 800-mile urgent military order reached the front line, Chai Shao's army was already engaged with the Liang division and the Turkic army.

Originally, according to Li Jing's previous strategy.

Let the governor of Xia, Shi Liu Min and Sima Liu Lancheng, constantly send small groups of cavalry to trample the fields of Liang Shidu.

As a result, there was a shortage of food in Shuofang City, the capital of Liangshi, and the people's hearts were unstable.

At the same time, he constantly put back the captured prisoners, dividing the hearts of the military.

If it is according to the normal development of events, as long as the Turkic side is a little slack and does not rush to support with all their strength, the army of Chai Shao and Xue Wanjun will definitely be able to conquer Shuofang City.

Destroy Liang Shidu.

But as Li Qiu said before, since a big battle on the banks of the Weishui River, Jieli Khan was seriously injured.

The command of the entire Turkic Turks fell into the hands of tribal leaders such as the Turki and the Khibi Holi.

Under the mourning soldiers, this group of Turkic tribes, who were originally detached, were even more united than before.

Seeing that the Tang army attacked Shuofang City and wanted to eliminate the front hooves of this Turkic horse, the thorn in the eye and the thorn in the flesh of the Tang Dynasty, Tuli and others sent an army of tens of thousands headed by Qibi He Li.

Rush to support with all your might.

In the advance arrangement of the Tang Army, it was the deputy general Xue Wanjun who was responsible for the siege of the city.

The general Chai Shao was personally responsible for blocking the possible small reinforcements sent from the Turks.

As a result, the situation on the entire battlefield has evolved in a direction that is extremely unfavorable to Datang.

Chai Shao, who only led 20,000 soldiers and horses, directly encountered Qibi He Li, who led 60,000 or 70,000 Turkic elites.

He Li, who is the first fierce general of the Turks, is brave and strategic.

Under the threefold disparity in strength, Chai Shao's army was defeated.

The general Chai Shao was captured and imprisoned in Shuofang City.

In the Chengqing Palace, the atmosphere was extremely depressing.

Except for the occasional sigh and Du Ruhui's sickly cough, there was no other sound.

Li Shimin, in particular, frowned even more, and his expression was full of worry and sorrow.

Chai Shao, for the entire Tang Dynasty, for him Li Shimin's significance, is really unusual and significant.

He is Li Shimin's brother-in-law, one of the people who have the closest relationship and the deepest feelings.

From the time when Emperor Li Yuan raised troops in Taiyuan, Chai Shao relied on his chivalrous reputation to recruit heroes and rise up.

When Li Shimin became the king of Qin, he accompanied Li Shimin to fight in the east and west, and I don't know how many military exploits he made.

Now, such a great general of the Tang Dynasty has been captured alive and fallen into the hands of the Turks and Liang Shidu, and the hearts of Li Shimin and everyone present are twisted together.

In the following days, the military situation on the front line was like snowflakes, and it continued to enter Chang'an City.

First of all, the Turkic general Qibi He Li took advantage of the victory to pursue, and joined forces with the Liang Shidu army in Shuofang City, and defeated the Tang army led by Xue Wanjun.

Then, just when Xue Wanjun's army was about to disperse, Li Jing's army, which had already obtained the military order for eight hundred miles, arrived in time.

Hold the position, counterattack the Turks, defeat the Qibi He force, stop the loss in time and make a small gain.

Because General Chai Shao was imprisoned in Shuofang City, Li Jing's army repelled the cavalry of Qibi He Li at any cost.

Cut off the city of Shuofang from the Turks.

The army is besieging the city.

On the fourth day, the latest news came that Shuofang City Liang Shi had tied up Chai Shao and hung him in the city tower.

The Tang army threw a rat bogey, coupled with the strong city of Shuofang, the Tang army failed to attack the city in a row and suffered heavy losses.

During these days, Li Qiu's mood has been heavy.

Except for the last dynasty, he has been locking himself in the old house.

On the side of Furong Garden, it was completely handed over to Luo Kexin and Wu Jue to take care of.

If you want to say that in this Chang'an City, the best people for Li Qiu, except for a few people such as the eldest grandson Wuji, the current saint, the queen mother, and the old county king, they must belong to Chai Shao.

The kind of care that comes completely from the elders, and the kind of attitude of patting the chest, giving up on me, and don't want to bully Li Qiu with me, has already warmed Li Qiu's heart.

Chai Shao was a hero in the Tang Dynasty army.

His Luo Cheng brother is no longer there, and his brother's daughter and son-in-law are his own daughter and son-in-law.

That kind of care and affection is the same as he does for his own children.

At the beginning, Li Qiu was troubled by those scholars and the Ministry of Rites in the court, and Chai Shao was even on the Jinluan Palace, pointing at the nose of the waiter of the Ministry of Rites and scolding.

Regardless of it.

Now, when he heard that Chai Shao was captured, he was hung on the city tower and humiliated by the Liang division in front of tens of thousands of Tang troops.

Li Qiu's heart only felt bursts of sourness and endless anger.

The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, who died on the battlefield in battle, and the body of the horse leather shrouded in horse, is called a well-deserved death, and no one will have the slightest complaint.

But such a general who has fought for the Tang Dynasty for half his life, with outstanding achievements and great achievements, was captured and humiliated, and no one can stand this humiliating feeling.

Two days ago, Li Qiu had written a notebook and asked to rush to the front line in person to help Marshal Li Jing attack the city and rescue the general Chai Shao.

However, this recital was directly rejected by Li Shimin, and it sank into the sea.

Li Shimin, who had led his troops to fight for decades, naturally knew the difficulties and dangers of the siege war.

Moreover, in this kind of tough battle, Li Qiu's personal force could not be of much use.

Now that his dearest brother-in-law has been captured, he can no longer watch his son get in.

To put it mildly, even if he is sorry for his brother-in-law who has given too much for himself.

He would rather be an unrighteous person, and he really didn't want anything to happen to Li Qiu again.

In any case, he could not let the last tragedy on the banks of the Weishui River repeat itself.