Chapter 53: Weak Countries Have No Diplomacy (2nd Update)

The bandits saw that this situation was not right, and they could evade the encirclement and suppression of the Sui and Tang Dynasty officials and troops several times, relying not on how capable they were, but on their mass base.

Yes, the mass base. As a matter of fact, the bandits in the Luliang Mountains have formed a dense network of relations, some of them are responsible for inquiring for information, some are responsible for reporting information, some are responsible for setting up ambushes and robberies, and some are responsible for selling stolen goods. Chen Ying ignored 3721 and first relocated all the villagers in remote mountain villages in the Luliang Mountains without screening or interrogation.

In this way, half of the bandits in the Luliang Mountains were wiped out without a fight, and they lost their keen sense of smell and natural cover.

What's even more shameless is that the Beiwei army is not fighting with the bandits openly at all, not pretending to be a big fat sheep, carrying a large amount of property, attracting bandits to rob, when the bandits happily surround this fat sheep, the Beiwei army began to show its fangs, and a burst of random arrows and arrows made the bandits crushed, and then rushed up, like a fierce tiger like a flock of sheep, cutting the bandits to pieces.

Either they took advantage of the dark night and high wind, touched the bandits' camps, beat stuffy sticks, put sweat medicine, or set up traps, and then rushed in and beat them up, tied them up and loaded them on the boat, and dragged them to the Western Regions to farm. All kinds of schemes and various means emerge one after another, and this set of continuous combination punches can stun the bandits in the Luliang Mountains.

The bandits want to be without tears, who are the bandits?

After going on several times in a row, I found that every raid was pretended to be a backswain army, and I couldn't take advantage of it, but suffered heavy losses. Because the Beiwei army is a pair of iron feet and moves very fast, tomorrow they will still be basking in the sun in Daning Qingfeng Ridge, and they will run to Heifeng Village in Xi County, more than 100 miles away, at night, and uproot Heifeng Village.

The speed of the Beiwei army is not fast, today pull out three or two villages, tomorrow touch the other three or five, although the bandit cottage in Luliang Mountain is not a thousand but also eight hundred, according to this speed, the Beiwei army will not be able to complete the task that Chen should explain within three months at the end of the year.

However, the bandits panicked, they knew that the situation was serious, and if they let the Beiwei army continue like this, they would be finished. They united and launched an attack again and again on the Beiwei army stationed in Daning Qingfeng Ridge, Qingfeng Ridge was originally the largest bandit nest in Daning County, led by Liu Aqi, the leader of the bandits who followed Lishan Feiming, the whole cottage is about 400 steps wide and about 500 steps long, but it is built with a stone barrier, glutinous rice juice and cracks, not to mention the poorly equipped bandits, even if the well-equipped officers and soldiers come to attack the city, such a fortress will collapse a few big teeth.

The effect of the offensive was very obvious: they succeeded in reducing the bandits in the Luliang Mountains by half. Even their broken bows and arrows could not penetrate the armor of the backy army, let alone a strong fortress. What's even more odious is that once the battle situation is stalemate, on the slope of Qingfeng Ridge, the Beiwei army will immediately put down dozens or hundreds of stone balls, these stone balls weigh about eight or nine hundred catties, that is if you are touched, you will die, and if you touch it, you will be injured, as long as the stone balls roll down from the hillside, a bloody storm will be set off in the bandit formation, and the bandits will be smashed on their backs...... Not to mention this rabble, even if it is the Turkic elite, in the face of the defensive offensive of the Beiwei army, they can only sigh with admiration, how far and how far they roll.

After suffering several losses, the bandits also learned to be obedient and definitely did not take the initiative to attack the Beiwei army. It's a pity that the food doesn't have long legs, and they won't take the initiative to run up the mountain to find them, so in order to eat, they must take the initiative to attack the Beiwei army, otherwise they will starve to death. They can't be attacked alive or dead, and Beiwei is still elusive, destroying two or three cottages today, and a few more the day after tomorrow...... The bandits are about to drive this style of play crazy, and they just want to scream: "Uncle, we admit it, don't fight?" ”

However, Beiweijun said that absolutely not.

Before General Chen's order was completed and 100,000 people were assigned to garrison the border, the anti-bandit operation must not be stopped.

The bandits of Luliang Mountain saw that it was not a way to go on like this, they couldn't fight and fight, and they couldn't run, and the bandits who were good at climbing mountains and wading through rivers were often chased to the sky and had no way to go to the ground.

The bandits in the Luliang Mountains of Puxian, Daning, and Xi seem to have disappeared. Eliminate the bandits who have been entrenched here for more than ten years, or even tens or even hundreds of years, and these local officials can supposedly celebrate with their crowns, but they soon realize that something is wrong.

Taking Puxian County as an example, Puxian County was originally a county with a population of tens of thousands of households, but with the extermination of bandits, the population plummeted by sixty percent, and now there are less than 4,000 households.

Chen Ying used his personal credit as a guarantee and promised the people that the relocation of Lingzhou would be divided into 100 acres of land, and a family of five would be divided into one cow and one house. The key is that Hedong has been fighting almost every year for the past three years, but the ordinary people have been tossed a lot, and they have all had enough.

Li Rui was dumbfounded, the population had plummeted by sixty percent, and he, a county official, couldn't eat and walk around. As a result, more than 50 county officials from more than a dozen counties in the Luliang Mountains of Hedong, as well as in Hebei's Zhaozhou, Xiangzhou, Weizhou, and even Beizhou, wrote to Li Yuan to impeach Chen Ying.

However, these impeachment proceedings were all thrown into the sea, and there was no reaction at all.

Li Yuan is also well aware of the ups and downs that Chen Ying has done in Hedong and Hebei. Of course, the most important thing is that Chen Ying's performance touched Li Yuan's heart, and Chen Ying wrote in his secret recital to Li Yuan: "As long as you give him 100,000 people, he will dump 100,000 in the Western Regions in the coming year, so that the Western Regions will become the granary of the Tang Dynasty." The Western Regions are ripe, and the world is full. ”

Li Yuan has his own calculations, Hebei Qingzhuang and Hedong Qingzhuang were swept away, which can just weaken the strength of Hedong and Hebei Shiclan gate valves, which kills two birds with one stone. Even if Dou Jiande's subordinates want to rebel again, they don't have the capital to rebel, do they have to rely on those old, weak, sick and disabled?

It would be inappropriate to say that Chen Ying's movements in the Luliang Mountains had no effect, at least when the leader of the "Falcon" Ashina Suni lost the news, he still did not change his self-righteous disposition, and he hurriedly wrote to Ashina Dubi: "Respected Khan, your most loyal servant Ashina Suni lost reported to you, according to reliable information, Chen Ying is currently suppressing bandits in Hedong and Hebei, and is secretly in line with your servant's previous speculation, the Han people have a saying, called "If you go outside, you must first be inside, Chen Ying's move must have been for the purpose of confronting the Great Turkic Khanate in the future and clearing the rear. Some of these bandits are the old subordinates of Dou Jiande and the "Dingyang Khan", they and Li Tang are endless, once the Khan needs it, they can raise troops at any time to respond to the Khan. This is the most unstable factor for Li Tang. However, it is a pity that these soldiers and horses that could have become the internal response of the Great Turks were also lost due to the mistakes of the servants, Chen Ying went to Hedong, and the servants advised the Khan to move the Khan's tent north......"

Ashina Dubi got the secret letter and pondered it for a long time. still came to Princess Yicheng's tooth tent with the secret letter. Ashina Suni handed the secret letter to Princess Yicheng, and then sighed with his hands: "It seems that Li Yuan'er is in love with this Khan!" ”

"With more than 30,000 soldiers and horses, they dare to go north, it's really daring!" After reading the secret letter, Princess Yicheng smiled coldly: "My Khan, aren't you afraid of him?" ”

As soon as he heard this, Jielihe Khan was like a rabbit stepping on his tail, he jumped up all of a sudden, and roared inwardly, "Without the bravery and courage of a horse leather shroud, what is a hero?" How could I, Ashina Dubi, be afraid of him, a yellow-mouthed? ”

If Ashina Dubi's legs didn't tremble and his hands didn't tremble, Princess Yicheng really believed Ashina Dubi's words, but Ashina Dubi's performance betrayed his heart.

Princess Yicheng looked at Ashina Dubi, and felt very remorseful in her heart, Ashina Dubi must not be like the son of Qimin Khan, so seedless?

Knowing such a result, he would never have supported him to ascend to the throne of Khan at the beginning.

Looking at Princess Yicheng's sarcastic face, Ashina Dubi said in a sneering manner: "Ke Dun doesn't know, Ben Khan is not afraid of Chen Ying, but the two tigers are fighting, there will be an injury, once Ben Khan and Chen Ying suffer heavy losses in the duel, they will be cheap to protect the Khan, this is not for me, otherwise it will disgrace millions of Turkic people!" ”

Princess Yicheng sneered: "Khan, what are you going to do?" ”

Ashina Dubi thought for a while and said, "Ben Khan has decided to meet the Tang envoy in Princess Yicheng's tooth tent!" ”

Tang Jian was one of Li Yuan's advisers, and when Li Yuan raised troops in Taiyuan, Tang Jian participated in the planning. In the first year of Wude (618), he was promoted to Zhongshu Shilang. In the second year of Wude (619), Tang Jian learned that Dugu Huaien was going to rebel. Dugu Huaien was stationed in Puzhou, and Tang Jian sent people to expose Dugu Huai'en for rebellion. After Chen Ying defeated Liu Wuzhou, Tang Jian was appointed as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites for his merits.

This time, he proposed himself to be an envoy to the Turks, hoping to rely on his sharp teeth to make the Turks speechless and force the Turks to retreat.

It's just a pity that Tang Jian didn't know a very famous quote in later generations: "A weak country has no diplomacy!" ”

Tang Jian drove all the way to Dingxiang, and he didn't even see the face of Jieli Khan, but he was detained by the Turks, and dozens of people in the entire Tang delegation were all locked up in the sheepfold.

It is said that as a diplomatic ambassador of a country, it is also a great shame to be treated in this way. Tang Jian has a bit of the spirit of Ah Q, he thinks that the Turks are barbaric and rude, and they don't know etiquette at all, so Tang Jian is also full of Turkic knowledge.

But the Turks wanted to humiliate Tang Jian, not only did they not give him a place to live, but even they ate spoiled mutton with green-headed flies.

A bowl of water a day, a piece of spoiled mutton, after three days, Tang Jian was so hungry that his heart was close to his back. Fortunately, at this time, the Turks told Tang Jian that Jieli Khan was ready to see him. Tang Jian was overjoyed in his heart, and hurriedly used the saved water to clean his hands and face, comb his hair, and tidy up his clothes to avoid rudeness.

Tang Jian wore a beam crown on his head, wore official clothes, was neither humble nor arrogant, and bowed to Jieli Khan and Princess Yicheng: "Tang Jian, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites under His Majesty My Emperor, meet the Khan, meet the princess." ”

The faces of the Turkic ministers suddenly became gloomy, and Princess Yicheng was also a little surprised, he looked at Tang Jian, not knowing what kind of medicine he was selling in his gourd.

Ashina Dubi's eyebrows moved, but he didn't have an immediate attack, just nodded lightly.

Bu Lugen stepped forward and shouted: "The Southern Barbarian is rude, even if Li Yuan comes in person, he will pay a great gift to our Khan, not to mention that Er is a minister of a small country, and he trusts himself to be big, what is the reason?" ”

Tang Jian glanced up at Bu Lugen, and said lightly: "Is there no one in the Turks?" Let a villain who doesn't learn and have no skills rank in the courtclass, the history of the sage, have you read it all into the dog's belly? ”

A sentence asked, Delu Gen's face was flushed, and he was furious: "The concubine is bold, and he dares to insult the ministers of the Great Turks?" ”

All the Turkic ministers pulled out their knives one after another, and they were indeed inferior to Tang Jian in terms of eloquence, but they all had knives. More than a dozen scimitars were aimed at Tang Jian, and as long as Jieli Khan gave an order, they would break Tang Jian's body into thousands of pieces.

However, this order was not given by Jieli Khan for a long time. Jieli Khan waved his hand and said, "All stand down!" ”

Jieli Khan can't be happy now, because he originally wanted to take advantage, but he didn't expect Li Yuan to come up as a pair of heavenly kings, and directly sent Chen Ying, the killing god, and now Chen Ying is only seven or eight days away from Dingxiang, facing Chen Ying, the killing god, Jieli Khan has no bottom in his heart.

But as soon as Jieli Khan's words came out, goosebumps fell to the ground for all the Turkic ministers.

I saw Jieli Khan: "Tang envoy, I think there is some misunderstanding between our Turks and the Tang Dynasty, our two countries are clothed with water, and don't hurt the peace." ”