Chapter 112 What's the use of giving a face and not asking for a head?

Dingxiang territory is surrounded by mountains on three sides, the central and western part of Pingchuan (Xinding Basin) is shaped like a dustpan, the north is adjacent to Yuanping and Wutai County with the remaining veins of Wutai Mountain of General Mountain, and the southeast is bordered by Wenshan and Zhoushan and Yuxian and Yangqu County. If you think about it from the perspective of a soldier, this is almost an easy place to defend and difficult to attack.

Of course, if the west side is blocked, it's a huge pocket. In history, Li Jing sent troops from the western plains, and Jieli Khan thought that the main force of the Tang army was in the west, so he mistakenly chose to break through from the northeast of Qikou, and was beaten by Li Shiji and lost his armor.

If the cart is turned upside down. When the eldest grandson Wuji heard a series of bad news, he hurriedly persuaded Li Shimin: "Your Royal Highness the King of Qin, hurry up and retreat from the west while the Turks have not yet closed the siege!" ”

Hou Junji also let out a long sigh, now the Turks know their marching route and troop deployment well, and the opportunity has been lost, and they have lost this battle.

Fang Xuanling saw that Li Shimin was unwilling.

In fact, not only Li Shimin is unwilling, including Hou Junji, Duan Zhixuan, Lei Yongji and other generals, who of them will be willing? However, the situation is stronger than people, and I have to bow my head.

Fang Xuanling was about to speak, watching Du Ruhui shake his head at him. Fang Xuanling understood that Du Ruhui meant not to let him persuade Li Shimin to withdraw from the army.

Li Shimin's temperament is strong, and it can be said that there is a kind of reluctance in the strength. At this time, if Fang Xuanling persuades again, it will undoubtedly add fuel to the fire, Li Shimin will not retreat, but will abandon his strengths and weaknesses, give up the cavalry mobility advantage of the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry, and fight a passive offensive and defensive battle with the Turks!

After thinking about it for a while, Fang Xuanling came up with a clever plan, he bowed to Li Shimin and saluted: "Your Royal Highness the King of Qin, now our best policy is to retreat immediately and retreat to Taiyuan before the Turks are encircled, so as to plan for the future!" ”

However, Li Shimin closed his eyes and did not say a word. But his face was so black that he was about to wring out the water.

Fang Xuanling was helpless and continued: "The middle strategy is to order General Qin Qiong and General Cheng Zhijie to return immediately, and while we are blocked in Dingxiang, let Qin Cheng's second department carry out a counter-encirclement outside Dingxiang......"

Speaking of this, Li Shimin suddenly opened his eyes, muttered for a long time, and suddenly raised his voice an octave: "No, Qin Cheng's second division not only can't retreat, but will continue to attack, and take this opportunity to take Fengzhou Beach (today's Ulaanbaatar grassland) for me!" ”

The eldest grandson Wuji is not a military novice, and as soon as he heard this, he understood Li Shimin's intentions.

The eldest grandson Wuji's face changed greatly, and he said anxiously: "His Royal Highness King Qin, don't do it!" ”

Li Shimin's move was to exchange sons with the Turks, so as to attract the attention of the Turks by himself, and let Qin Qiong and Cheng Zhijie attack Guzhoutan and Eilechuan respectively. It's a way of playing together. Once the Turks capture Dingxiang, then Li Shimin will definitely be in a catastrophe, but the Eastern Turkic Jieli Khan will definitely not be easy, because once Qin Qiong and Cheng Zhijie break through Fengzhou Beach and Eilechuan, the Turks will definitely suffer heavy losses, especially now that the weather is dry, and if the fire goes down, the Turks will probably not recover for three or five years.

Fang Xuanling was also taken aback, and persuaded loudly: "His Royal Highness King Qin must not!" ”

Li Shimin snorted and laughed: "What are you afraid of?" Afraid that this king will be captured by the Turks? Or are you afraid that Yingzhou will be conquered by the Turks? ”

Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui were about to speak out to persuade Li Shimin, but they saw Hou Junji and said: "His Royal Highness the King of Qin has a clever plan!" ”

"It's still Junji who understands this king!" Li Shimin stepped forward and patted Hou Junji's shoulder, his handsome face was full of murderous aura, and he gritted his teeth and said, "You want to play with this king to encircle and send reinforcements, right?" You want to rely on mobility to lead the king by the nose, so that the king can take care of one thing and lose the other, right? This king wants to see if these Turks have the ability to smash and quickly take Yingzhou and other fortified cities, and this king wants to see if they have the determination to hit their heads and bleed in Dingxiang City. ”

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In the valley of Tiemen Mountain, a huge valley separated from a mountain in Dingxiang, a large area of Turkic cavalry in Wuyang and Wuyang is densely gathered, in order to hide such a huge cavalry, Jieli Khan has taken great pains, he has already sent people to cut alfalfa grass for green fodder two months ago, hundreds of thousands of people, and they have been busy for more than two months, which is enough to store enough forage for nearly 300,000 war horses to consume for three months.

Of course, these forages are still seriously insufficient, if there is not enough bean feed, the war horses will also lose fat, affecting combat effectiveness, fortunately, with the help of Wang Renbiao, the Taiyuan Wang family transferred 100,000 stone grain to Jieli Khan.

However, when the scout gathered the news in front of Jieli Khan, he was embarrassed.

Qin Qiong's ten Zhichong Mansion Tang troops moved northwest at a speed of eighty miles a day. As for the ten Tang Army soldiers under the command of Cheng Zhijie, they were rushing towards the Eilechuan at the same speed of eighty miles a day.

The Xuanjia Iron Cavalry under the command of Li Shimin ran back and forth every day along the way of twenty miles east and twenty miles west of Dingxiang City.

Jieli Khan combined the information of Li Shimin's department and found that the most Xuanjia Iron Cavalry was actually practicing the art of foot combat and frantically fortifying the city. Precious rice soup, accompanied by boiled soil, crazy to fix the city wall of Xiangcheng, especially the whole army soldiers are mostly eight-foot strong men, after all, the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry is a hoplite, each set of Mingguang armor is not an ordinary thin soldier can be draped, these strong men are strengthening the city wall at an astonishing speed every day.

The most ruthless thing is that Li Shimin ignored the opposition and complaints of the people and forcibly moved the people in the Dingxin Basin to Taiyuan.

Combining all kinds of intelligence, it is easy to draw a conclusion. Li Shimin saw through his plan.

The Eastern Turks' Four Leaf Protector Khans, the Twelve Shekhans, and many spies looked at Jieli Khan with inquiring eyes.

"Daddy Bird!" Jieli Khan's thick eyebrows lifted, and he said categorically: "Since they are not fooled, we should not waste time in the mountains!" We attacked Dingxiang, and then set up an ambush halfway, and if they came to help, we would kill them all; If they don't come to help, we will break through Dingxiang City and capture Li Shimin alive, I want to see if Li Yuan'er still has this son. According to our Turkic rules, if Li Yuan wants to exchange his son for his son, if he doesn't give us 100,000 gold, we won't change it for him! ”

According to the rules of the Turkic steppe, there is a ransom. However, each person has a different status and a different price, such as the son of a tribal leader, who needs gold equal to his weight, plus the goods of a hundred camels. Now Jieli Khan thinks very clearly, Li Tang Ke is much stronger than a large Turkic tribe, Li Shimin's importance is self-evident, and 100,000 gold will definitely make Li Yuan fall into great passivity.

What's more, he has another trick, Wang Renbiao asked for Li Shimin's head, and offered a price of 100,000 yuan. As long as Li Shimin is captured, he can still eat with a mouth full of oil.

Jieli Khan's proposal was approved by the Turkic nobles. Li Shimin has only a cavalry of more than 20,000 people, and it is also a new army that has been formed for less than a year, so he can definitely win easily.

The Turkic cavalry began to leave the Tiemen Mountain valley and headed northwest, preparing to make a detour to Dingxiang and capture Li Shimin alive.

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When it was just dawn, Chen Ying received the information transmitted by Guo Luo. In Guo Luo's intelligence, the tribes and people who participated in Murong Fuyun's rebellion were listed in detail. What made Chen Ying extremely sad was that among the six clansmen surnamed Xue, Ma, Zhang, He, Liu, and Liu among the remnants of the Han people in Gaochang State, except for Ma Mengming, who took refuge in Chen Ying and joined the army as Chen Ying's record, and did not follow the rebellion of Lu Wentai's father and son, the other Xue, Zhang, He, Liu, and Liu all participated in the rebellion.

However, the Shi clan and Haoqiang are both the same, and they have both children who have taken refuge in Chen Ying, and some of whom have followed Lu Wentai.

Chen Ying took a deep breath and shouted coldly: "Su Dingfang, Guo Xiaoke!" ”

After a while, Su Dingfang and Guo Xiaoke came in and said, "The end will be!" ”

Chen Ying divided the tribes and tribes on the information in his hand into two parts and handed them to Su Dingfang and Guo Xiaoke: "The two of you will lead the left and right armies of the Yue cavalry respectively, and according to the tribes on this paper, all of them will be wiped out!" ”

"Annihilation?" Su Dingfang looked at Chen Ying suspiciously.

He naturally knows what the so-called annihilation means, which can be said to mean that the chicken and dog are not left. However, Su Dingfang needed to confirm this order again and again.

Chen Ying slapped the case a few times, and said angrily: "Annihilation, that is, annihilation, your ears are stuffed with donkey hair?" Don't want to go? If you don't want to hand it over, give up your position and go to the confinement room yourself! ”

Hearing this, Su Dingfang hurriedly shuddered.

After all, he was able to do General Zuo Wuwei (the third in the sixteenth guard) to conquer the Western Turks, Pinglingling, Yi Baekje, and Goguryeo, "destroying the Three Kingdoms before and after, and capturing their masters alive", unprecedentedly expanding the territory of the Tang Dynasty westward to the Aral Sea in Central Asia, reaching Persia and extending eastward to the southern part of the Korean Peninsula. Su Dingfang will not have the kindness of a woman.

Su Dingfang ordered loudly: "The last general will obey the order!" ”

With Chen Ying's order, all the ethnic groups in the Western Regions will definitely be killed. Now the rebels of all ethnic groups are young and strong with Murong Fuyun, and those who are left in the tribe are just a group of old and weak.

Chen Ying didn't have that much patience anymore.

The so-called benevolence and righteousness are actually just who kills many people. The Mongols destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty and killed thousands of Han Chinese, so they occupied the so-called Spring and Autumn Righteousness. The Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs and killed the same corpses like a mountain, stealing from the Chinese Zhengshuo. In Chen Ying's view, the so-called righteousness is ruthless.

As long as it is ruthless enough, as long as it maintains continuous military victories, any opposition will cease abruptly.

Even if you don't have a face, what's the use of having a head? Chen Ying decided to take the attitude of a conqueror and occupy the Western Regions!

In fact, some people are like this, that is, the so-called slut is hypocritical. Chen Ying gave them a chance, but they thought that Chen Ying was weak and could be bullied, so now, their fate has entered the countdown!