Chapter 206 The official is promoted to worship the prince

Since the death of the Western Turkic Khan Tongye Hu, the news has spread to the Western Regions. Civil strife immediately broke out in the Western Turkic Khanate, and Ashina Buzhen was proclaimed as the Great Khan of the Eastern Turks, but his sphere of influence was nominally bounded by the Ile River in the east, Qiuzi, Dushan, Jimo, Tocharo, Yanqi, Shi, He, Mu, and Kang.

If it is said that when he was a little khan, Ashina really didn't have much ambition, but as he was proclaimed as a great khan, his ambition began to grow like the grass after the rain.

In terms of bloodline, he was originally the Western Turk Khan, the fifth grandson of the Murodian Mi Khan, and the brother of Mohe Luye to protect Ashina Miji. But he is the heir of the golden bloodline. However, Ashina Buzhen was very unlucky, and when he encountered the rise of the Tang Dynasty, he inevitably had irreconcilable contradictions with the Tang Dynasty's Western Regions Protector Chen.

Ashina Buzhen originally wanted to fight Chen Ying to the death, but he never thought that before Ashina Buzhen gathered the tribes, he was led by He Luo Shisi, who was in the east of the Tuqi Shihai, to surrender to Chen Ying. This makes Ashina really angry, the tiger is not powerful, when I am a sick cat? In fact, although the eastern part of the Turkish Shihai is a large tribe of tens of thousands of people, in the eyes of Ashina Buzhen, even if the five sipes of the Turkish are added together, they are completely sandbags of the Western Turks, beating two punches when they are in a good mood and kicking two feet when they are in a bad mood.

However, this sandbag actually changed the court, which is really unbearable for uncles and aunts.

Ashina Buzhen, who was frightened by Chen Ying's 100,000 Anxi army, completely vented his anger on Haidong, and he gathered Tushi to ride the other four sips, known as the 100,000 army, and slaughtered Yilulu City (now the ancient city of Pilang in the eastern suburbs of Kuqa, Xinjiang).

The Turks were originally blacksmiths of the Rouran Khanate, and even the meaning of "Turkic" is the meaning of helmets, and the city of Ilulu is another important steel smelting base of the Western Turks second only to the Altun Mountains, in fact, as early as the Eastern Han Dynasty, Ban Chaoding the Western Regions, set up the Western Regions Protectorate here, opened canals, and prospered in agriculture and economic development. Digging ditches and setting up beacon towers is exactly where the Han soldiers reclaimed and resisted the Xiongnu. Li Daoyuan once recorded the grand occasion of smelting here in his "Notes on the Book of Water": "There are mountains in the north of Quci (that is, Qiuzi) 200 miles north, and the night is fire, and the day is smoke. People take this mountain stone; Smelt this mountain iron, Hengchong 36 countries. ”

Ashina Buzhen is not a fool, as soon as he makes a move, he goes straight to the vital point of He Luoshi, Haidong supplies his iron tools and blades, and loses Haidong, and Ashina Buzhen can only rely on the wooden stick in his hand to fight. In this city of Elolu, Herosch also left more than 10,000 soldiers to defend.

It's just a pity that Ashina Buzhen led an army of 100,000 to rush over, and the more than 10,000 soldiers in the eastern part of the sea resisted for less than half an hour, and they were defeated by Ashina Buzhen. But now it's different, he has a new master, that is Chen Ying.

He Luoshi also suffered a lot along the way, the steppe is always hostile, the vassal tribe of the Western Turkic Ashina Buzhen wants to use his head to ask for credit to Ashinabu, the neutral tribes have taken a fancy to their people and livestock, and they pounced on them and bit them when they saw the opportunity, and in the process of crossing the Harasa Desert, he lost a lot of people, and when he stumbled to Shule, he had already survived not human.

However, seeing the tens of thousands of people outside Shule City sweating and harvesting wheat, and watching the four-wheeled carriages transporting them to the threshing field, He Luoshi made a judgment: "Not directly sending troops to resist Chen Ying was one of the few correct choices he made in his life!"

It is not that there is no agriculture in the Western Regions, like the original Gaochangguo, Jinman, including Yiwu, Qingjue, Loulan, Cheshi, Qiuzi, Wensu, and Shule all have agriculture, but the number is not much, far from enough for the people in the entire Western Regions to eat, such as the fields outside Shule City, about 60,000 or 70,000 acres, however, the army under Chen Ying has already defeated the Western Turks, and they did not even give them the opportunity to set fire, and directly seized the fields outside the city overnight, and took the harvested crops as owned.

A tall man beside him, dressed in a dirty ratskin coat, looked greedily at the long dragon formed by the four-wheeled carriage full of golden wheat, licked his lips, his eyes glowed green, and said, "What a lot of food...... If we send troops to defeat Shule, this food will be enough for our entire tribe to eat for two years! ”

The big man's words were agreed by the Tuqi soldiers, and Heluo Shi shouted: "Kasur, don't always think about grabbing, use your brain!" How powerful the Gaoche people in the Shule Plain are, the Tang army can even defeat the powerful Gaoche people, and rob their territory, what is the difference between looking for death! ”

Kasur said helplessly: "But what can we do if you don't rob us?" We don't know how to grow food, and we have very few livestock, and if the Tang people refuse to sell us food, we will starve to death......"

He Luoshi was even more annoyed and wanted to scold, but thinking of the tragic situation of Yizi eating within the tribe now, he couldn't scold, and finally sighed heavily and said: "That was from the past, remember, forget the identity of Tuqishi, from now on, we are Tang people, Tang people, even if we die, we are also Tang people." ”

In this era, the identity of the Tang people is much more noble than the green card of the later generations of Eagle Sauce. Whether it is the Central Plains or the Western Regions, the Tang people at least do not have slaves, even if they are clan lords, they are all in an employment relationship.

Looking at the Tang soldiers who were nervously repairing Shule City, He Luoshi was a little puzzled. The Tang army actually demolished the four city gates of Shule, and each gate opened a large opening more than 50 zhang wide, and began to set up a camp on this gap.

He Luoshi suddenly realized that Chen Ying was not afraid of the attack of the Western Turks at all, so he dared to do this.

In fact, Horosch was only half right.

As an important commercial town on the Silk Road, the scale of Shule City is too small. A city that can be filled with just 350,000 people definitely does not meet Chen Ying's requirements, and in Chen Ying's mind, Shule City should be a county city at the level of 200,000 or 300,000 people.

Therefore, Chen Ying retained the city wall of Shule City, and the four main roads for the inner city, continued to be built outward, before the arrival of winter, it could accommodate 200,000 soldiers of the Anxi Army, and had 70,000 or 80,000 stone of grain captured in Shule City, Chen Ying could eat a large amount of food with confidence

The beginning of spring next year.

Just when Chen Ying was looking at the materials seized in Shule City with great interest, He Luoshi ran to Chen Ying, hugged Chen Ying's thigh and howled: "Dear General Chen, the big thing is not good, Ashina Buzhen, that dog thief led his troops to kill Yilulu City, and his subordinates were incompetent and lost Yilulu City!" ”

"Elolu?" Chen Ying was stunned.

After a while, Chen Ying remembered that the so-called Yilulu City was a smelting city in the Kuqa Oasis north of Qiuzi, saying that it was a city, but in fact, it was not even a town in the Central Plains, at best, it was a miscellaneous courtyard of a rich man, surrounded by an earthen wall less than a zhang high, so that the city wall was naturally enough to defend against the invasion of wild beasts, but it had almost no effect if it was to act as a defensive city. As long as the Western Turkic cavalry rode on horseback, not even a ladder, they could directly turn over.

Although he doesn't look down on the cities of Ilulu City, as for the steel resources of Ilulu City, Chen Ying will not be too much, after all, steel mining is money.

Hearing that Ashina Buzhen actually moved troops to seize Yilulu City, Chen Ying thought for a moment and immediately ordered: "Zhang Shigui, Luo Shixin!" ”

Before Chen Yingjiang gave the order, Su Dingfang said loudly: "General, why do you need to use a knife to kill chickens, and deal with Ashina Buzhen, the last general is enough!" ”

Zhang Shigui nodded thoughtfully.

Luo Shixin said: "Anyway, if you're idle, I'll go!" ”

Su Dingfang said with a smile: "General Luo, as the mainstay of our Anxi Army, must not be moved lightly, let's go to the last general!" ”

Seeing Luo Shixin arguing with Su Dingfang, Chen Ying waved his hand and said, "Don't fight, Su Dingfang, you lead 30,000 Yue cavalry troops!" ”

Su Dingfang was overjoyed when he heard this.

Luo Shixin looked at Zhang Shigui with a calm face and said, "Why don't you want to go to Yilulu City?" ”

"Not necessary?" Zhang Shigui smiled faintly: "Ashina step should really not be a fool, otherwise he can't be a general to support the establishment of the Great Khan of the East, although he can use light cavalry to raid Yilulu City, but it must be a blow to go, General Su ran to Yilulu City, I'm afraid, Ashina Bu really ran away a long time ago!" ”

Luo Shixin suddenly realized when he heard this.

Chen Ying shook his head and said: "This is really not possible, you must know that people's eyes are black, but gold is yellow, Ashina is really in a short period of time, he will definitely not be able to move more than eight million catties of steel, and he will not give up ...... easily."

When Luo Shixin heard this, his heart became even more anxious.

Chen Yingdao: "You don't have to worry, the Western Turks are divided, but once we defeat Ashina Buzhen, the other Turks will realize that no matter who they are, it is impossible to resist our Tang Dynasty alone, so they will reach an alliance in a short period of time, unanimously with the outside world, and fight ...... battles."

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In the Taiji Hall of Chang'an, Li Yuan sat on the throne, and the civil and military ministers of the Tang Dynasty stood on the left and right. Li Yuan got up, looked at the ministers and said lightly: "Liang Guogong, Captain of the Horse, and General Chen Ying of Zhenguo have been in charge of the Western Regions since they took charge of the Western Regions, and since they took office, they have been conscientious and diligent, comforting the locality, quelling the chaos, and organizing the soldiers to reclaim the fields, carry heavy grain and straw, and be self-sufficient, so that the soldiers on the front line of the Western Regions have no worries. The Western Regions expanded for 3,000 miles, and Liang Guogong made great contributions. In order to commend Liang Guogong's merits, I decided to worship Liang Guogong as Situ ......"

There was an uproar in the court.

There are those who are envious, those who are jealous, and those who gloat.

Li Yuanji's eyes erupted with fire, and he squinted at Li Yuan angrily.