Chapter 65 There are not many opportunities left for the Turks

The idea of the Heavenly Empire and the central country has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people since ancient times. Including a smart person like Wei Zheng, he always believes that Datang is the center of the world and the whole of the world.

However, since Wei Zheng looked at the huge map that was six feet long and three feet long and two feet and four feet wide in Chen Ying's study, he found that the Tang Dynasty only occupied a small corner of the world.

This map of the world is based on Chen Ying's fragmentary memories of later generations, combined with the information of this era, as well as the information obtained by the Tiger Yi, and the places where the business passed.

It can be said that the closer to the Tang Dynasty, such as Goguryeo, Buyeo, Silla, and Baekje in the eastern part of Liaodong, there is almost no surprise, including Tubo and Tuyuhun on the plateau, as well as the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, and the Broken Leaf Town that Chen Ying fancies, which are also very detailed.

However, the Sassanid Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the Great Eclipse, and the Gupta Empire (India) in the southwest, as well as Luzon, Luyapoti (present-day Guawa), and Jinzhou (Sumatra), are supplemented by trivial records and Chen Ying's memories.

When Wei Zheng first saw this huge map, he also thought that this was something that Chen Ying had made up indiscriminately. Later, Wei Zheng consulted a large number of classics under the supervision of the secretary.

At this time, there was no "Tang Dynasty Western Regions Chronicles", but there was "Buddha Record" reformed by the Eastern Jin Dynasty monk Fa Xian. There is a detailed record of the Gupta Empire: fifty miles west of the city, there is a yi, the name of the capital, and there are the ruins of the Kaye Rulai. Twelve by the southeast line, to Na Bi Jiayi, there are the relics of the Qin Buddha of the detention building. From this north, less than one by the extension, there are the relics of the Buddha of Kannasimuni. From there, they traveled eastward, and arrived at the Acropolis of Gavero.

After comparison.

Wei Zheng was surprised to find that the map in Chen Ying's study was the same as that recorded in the "Buddha Record". Although the conclusion is a bit one-sided, Wei Zheng believes that Chen Ying will never fake.

From this, Wei Zheng can see that there are hundreds of countries around the Tang Dynasty, some large and some small, such as the Sassanid Empire, the Byzantine Empire and the Great Food Empire......

Wei Zheng looked at Fang Xuanling and sighed: "Xuanling, our defeat of the Eastern Turks has actually just begun!" ”

Fang Xuanling looked at Wei Zheng and smiled: "Xuancheng, are you drunk?" ”

Wei Zheng shook his head and said: "I'm not drunk, I have seen a huge map of the world in General Chen's study, and this map is different from what we have seen!" ”

Fang Xuanling got up and said, "It's a pity that Princess Pingyang has already left Chang'an, I'm afraid we won't be able to see this map!" ”

Wei Zheng got up, pulled Fang Xuanling and said: "Although Wei Zheng doesn't have the ability to forget, he thinks that he can't forget what he has seen for an hour." ”

Fang Xuanling said: "You said, you recorded this picture?" ”

Wei Zheng nodded.

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In the Furong Garden, Li Jiancheng picked up the wine jug and poured wine for Li Yuan.

Li Jiancheng poured wine while venting his complaints: "Daddy, you have been too leisurely in the past few years, hiding in the harem all day long, asking women to give birth, and I don't know how hard my son is busy outside." ”

Li Yuan suddenly leaned back with a smile.

Li Jiancheng said, "Daddy is still smiling...... Daddy, you still help the children, don't hide on the side. ”

Li Yuan shook his head with a smile and said, "Da Lang, you have been an emperor for three years, and you are still talking about children, Daddy can't help you now......"

Li Yuan was drunk and hazy, laughing.

Li Yuan knew very well, don't look at Li Jiancheng to say it easily. In fact, for him, isn't it a temptation?

When Li Yuan said something that couldn't help you. Li Jiancheng was visibly relieved.

Li Jiancheng drank all the wine in the cup and said: "Daddy, I want to give the position of the prime minister of the three provinces who want to move, and I plan to let Xiao Yu and Chen Shuda, these old ministers, go back to the political hall to participate in national politics, I don't know what Daddy suggests."

Li Yuan frowned, and said lightly: "How many people know about the matter of using Xiao Yu?" ”

Since Li Jiancheng dared to use the elders of the Wude Dynasty, it means that he has completely mastered the imperial court. is not afraid of Xiao Yu and Chen Shuda, these old ministers singing against him.

Li Jiancheng pondered and said: "My son just wants to talk to Xiao Yu and Chen Shuda, the two old ministers, and he has tested his tone for a while, and he hasn't discussed it with Fang Xuanling and Wei Zheng yet.

Li Yuan shook his head with a smile and said, "Da Lang, you didn't do this right, you can't just look at seniority." ”

Li Jiancheng frowned and listened carefully.

Li Yuan said with a smile: "Xiao Yu is not a bad person, but his temper is too arrogant, and he has a bad relationship with his colleagues, Xiao Yu is okay as an offending doctor, and he is in charge of Shangshu Province, so he has to ......go wrong."

Li Jiancheng nodded.

Li Yuan said: "There is another person, Yu Wenshi and, this person is a downwind, less insistent in case of trouble, this kind of person, it is okay to do the Chinese book order, put it in the province to be a servant, I am afraid that I can't keep anything." ”

Li Jiancheng lowered his head and speculated on the words.

Li Yuan patted Li Jiancheng on the shoulder and said, "Da Lang, you can't always think about using those obedient ministers to be the emperor, you have to do things that are not happy!" ”

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Li Jing led 3,000 cavalry and trekked through the mountains in the snow.

These cavalrymen were armed with thick down sleeping bags, leather boots, cotton clothes, cotton trousers, and their gait was extremely slow.

Just as he was walking, a scout rushed to Li Jing, bowed down and said, "Master Qiqi, behind the hillside, there is a group of Turkic scouts camping. ”

Li Jing muttered: "Order, the whole army stops advancing and prepares for battle." ”

Several flag-carrying colonels around Li Jing rushed away.

Li Jing looked at the scouts again and said, "How many Turkic scouts are there?" ”

The scout bowed and said, "Ten tents, about a hundred people." ”

Li Jing walked slowly towards the mountain, looking at the leeward col behind the mountain, ten tents flickering with fire.

Li Jing said with a murderous look on his face: "None of them can be let go." ”

Li Jing is a person who is good at learning, and after Chen Ying used the white cotton cloth as a snow camouflage, Li Jing also learned well.

At the sound of Li Jing's order, dozens of Tang soldiers, wearing white cloaks and white clothes, crawled in the snowdrifts and slowly touched the Turkic scout camp in the mountain col.

The cold wind howled, which was an excellent disguise for the sound of the Tang Army's specific actions.

With a large group of Tang army soldiers surrounding the camp of the Turkic scouts, a brief and fierce battle broke out between the two sides.

Li Jing walked into the tent.

A vanguard officer came up and clasped his fists in salute.

The vanguard officer said: "Commander Qiyu, one hundred and thirteen Turkic scouts, none of them ran away. ”

Li Jing nodded and said, "The whole army rests for an hour, and then sets off immediately after an hour." ”

The pioneer officer hesitated a little and said: "Dashuai, it's time to see that the sky is going to ......."

Li Jing said: "The soldiers are fast, we can't let Jieli notice." ”

An hour later, the 3,000 cavalry of the Tang Army under Li Jing quietly crossed the boat, and Dingxiang City was in sight.

Li Jing climbed the hillside and looked down at the Eastern Turkic camp that stretched for dozens of miles.

Although the Turks were all soldiers, they were not all cavalry troops. On the southern high ground outside Dingxiang City, the Chinese army of Jieli Khan's Chinese army, did not build a wall, but instead dug out many ravines that were almost irregular, and the ditches were deep and shallow, long and short. Some are wide and some are narrow, and there are many large mounds of earth and ice between and behind the ravines.

Li Jing could imagine that behind these seemingly irregular mounds of earth and snowdrifts, there were Turkic archers hiding behind them. Li Jing also knows. In this seemingly chaotic and disorganized defensive position, there must be a murderous opportunity that he does not know.

Li Jing was just a little strange. Such a complex setup can certainly enhance the defense, but at the same time, it will also cause great trouble for the defenders' counterattack.

He looked at it for a long time, but he didn't see any signpost-style settings on this position, the formation was so complex that it was not just creating difficulties for the enemy, his own soldiers were afraid that it would be difficult for his own soldiers to move freely through this area, could it be that Jieli didn't think of counterattacking at all?

If it's something else. The Tang army soldiers came to attack the formation, and it was forgivable, but he was Li Jing and Li Yaoshi.

It took less than two years to destroy Bashu, and unscrupulously wiped out the Liang State, and the Liang State with 400,000 land and water troops was wiped out in World War I.

The military system of the Turks is actually the same as that of the Tang Dynasty. The most elite troops are the subordinate troops under the command of Jieli Khan, and the others are the people who control the strings.

The so-called people who control the strings are actually the militia. If you want to bypass the heavy troops and miscellaneous soldiers who are attacking the rear of the Turkic battalion from the flank, you can easily tear apart the enemy's disposition, as long as you disrupt the enemy's formation, all that remains is a one-sided massacre, and the cavalry without formation and formation command will be as vulnerable as a piece of paper in front of the formed cavalry.

The complex formation may not be useful, and the Turkic army spent nearly ten days setting up such a position, which is actually very thankless. It is stupid and naïve to confront the cavalry on the plains and try to take advantage of positional warfare.

What's more, the layout of the position is still arranged by the Turks who are not good at positional warfare, it can be seen that during these times, Chen Ying has already knocked the Eastern Turks out of the shadow in his heart, so that the Eastern Turks subconsciously adopted positional warfare to protect themselves.

The winter nights were long, and Li Jing stood at the mountain pass, quietly looking at the Turkic camp under the mountain.

Li Jing quietly looked at the sky and found that there were still two and a half hours left in the morning.

Li Jing ordered the troops to move slowly north. Less than three miles away from the main camp of the Turkic army, the officers and men of the Tang army used white cotton cloth to disguise themselves as snow bags.

In such snow bags, the officers and men of the Tang Army began to rest, drank broth, and ate fried noodles and jerky.

Li Jing ordered his cavalry to rest for two hours until there was still half an hour before dawn. The whole army began to rise up and prepare for the storm.

This time was the darkest time before dawn and the time when the Turks were most unguarded. The Turks had always focused their vigilance on the south, but Li Jing launched an attack from the north to the south from the direction of Tiemen Mountain.

The first wave of blows was not a bow and arrow. Nor knives and guns, but more than 3,000 fierce fire oil tanks.

These canisters are not too big, about a pound and a half. Among them, the clay pot weighs only four taels, and one catty and two taels of refined fierce fire oil.

At the mouth of these clay pots, about two inches in size, a stopper made of cotton cloth is used to plug the mouth.

More than a thousand fierce fire oil canisters were thrown at the Turkic camp at the same time. Soon the Turkic camp caused a sea of fire.

Tents of the Turks, in order to protect them from the rain. It was smeared with butter, which was actually flammable, and the fire soon became a sky-high fire, sweeping away the Turkic tents in the south.

Killings erupted inside and outside the Turkic camp. As Li Jing expected, the chaotic camp of the Turks, the counterattack dragged down the reaction of the Turks, and the cavalry of the Tang Army rushed into the Turkic camp, setting fire to the fierce oil canisters, while wielding horizontal knives, wantonly slashing and killing the chaotic Turks.

The terrible screams and wails of the Turks alarmed Jieli in his sleep, and Jieli walked out of the tent in his nightgown and shouted, "What's the matter? Someone sneak attacked? ”

The guard standing at the door said with a blank face: "Qiyu Khan, I don't know why, it suddenly became chaotic." ”

A Turkic agent rushed over and said, "Oh no, Khan, it's the Tang Army!" ”

The Turks, under the attack of the cavalry of the Don army, scattered and fled.

Li Jing's goal was very clear, he took the shortest straight line attack route between two points and the shortest distance, and went straight to the largest Jieli tooth tent in the camp.

In history, there was also a stunned Su Dingfang under Li Jing's command that could be used, and Li Jing only gave Su Dingfang 200 cavalry, so that Su Dingfang could successfully break through before the Jieli Tooth Tent.

It's a pity that now Su Dingfang has become Chen Ying's general.

Li Jing had no one available, so he could only personally lead 3,000 cavalry and take the Jieli tooth tent directly.

Li Jing doesn't look like a handsome person, but in fact, his martial arts are still very powerful. Zhang Zhongjian can defeat Li Jing, but Zhang Chuchen and Li Jing join forces, and Zhang Zhongjian can't take advantage.

The Turks who were running in all directions were surprised to find that Li Jing's target was not them at all, but Jieli.

At this time, some Turks reacted. "Protect the Khan......"

However, they rushed up to an army, like a pebble thrown into the sea, and could not set off a single wave.

Seeing that the killing shouts were getting closer and closer, Jieli Khan looked at the less than 10,000 attached troops around him, and in the dark night, Jieli couldn't see how many Tang troops were coming.

I only feel that the Tang army can surprise from the north, and I am afraid that it has formed a comprehensive encirclement of Dingxiang.

Dingxiang said that it is not big, and it is not small when it is small. If the Tang army wants to include a large battalion with 350,000 Turks, I am afraid that it will not be possible without 350,000 people.

Not to mention the intelligence of Ashina Sheer, in order to deal with the Turks. The Tang army could gather more than seventy percent of the country's government soldiers, no less than 500,000 horses.

At this time, he couldn't resist at all.

Just when Li Jing's command was still two or three miles away from the tooth tent, Jieli gritted his teeth and shouted: "Let's withdraw!" ”

If Jieli Khan did not retreat, the victory would definitely belong to the Turks.

After all, Li Jing only had 3,000 cavalry under his command. Even if they stand still and let them kill, they will all die of exhaustion.

However, Jieli Khan ran away at the most critical moment.

By this time, it was already getting brighter.

As the wolf's tail of Jieli Khan moved back, all the Turks had already seen it.

At this time, Li Jing even shouted: "Jieli has fled, and the Turks have been defeated!" ”

Now the Turks were even more flustered.

Looking at the retreating figure of Jieli Khan, Li Jing finally breathed a sigh of relief.

These Turkic armies who are fleeing for their lives are no longer willing to think about it, they have abandoned all their pride, all their self-confidence, and only care about fleeing in the wilderness, forgetting that they are going to break off, forgetting that the Tang army chasing behind them is only 3,000 people, forgetting that they still have bows, arrows and sabers in their hands to resist, and only care about fleeing, fleeing, fleeing, and fleeing as far as possible.

Ashina Sheer sent several troops to try to stop the Tang army, but in an instant, these troops were crushed by Li Jing's cavalry.

The horses of the Tang cavalry had thousands of bloody heads on their necks.

Such a desperate situation made generals like Ashina Sheer desperate, and also made resourceful people like Bu Lugen dare not think about counterattacking anymore, so they can only repeatedly urge the troops to withdraw quickly.

However, Dingxiang is a basin, surrounded by three mountains, like a dustpan.

It's not that easy to escape.

Perhaps in Jieli's view, although the Turks suffered heavy losses in this battle, the main force is still there, as long as they can stabilize their position and find the flaws of the Tang army, they have a chance to turn the tables.

However, Jieli did not know that there were not many opportunities left by God for them and for the Turks.

The sky was bright, the Turkic army was still fleeing to the north in panic, the banners and grass were thrown to the ground, the wounded soldiers were abandoned on the side of the road in despair, and the horses that could not run were also abandoned, and the wounded soldiers stayed with the wounded soldiers and watched their masters disappear into the clouds of smoke and dust, and let out a mournful neigh.

This scene of defeat made everyone who survived this bloody battle suffer the shame of life worse than death for the rest of their lives, and they could not hold their heads up.

Since the Ashina Tumen army, the iron hooves of the Turks have trampled all over the white mountains and black waters, and countless times at a trivial cost thousands, tens of thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of annihilated the Rouran people, the Wei army, the Northern Zhou army, as well as the Sui army, the Tang army, with a small tribe with a population of less than one million, pressed the four behemoths of the Western Wei, Northern Qi, Northern Zhou and Sui, how could they have tried such a fiasco!

This shock of all self-confidence being shattered at one time, this horror of the shattering of myths, is in itself worse than the loss of 100,000 elite soldiers, leaving their minds blank and at a loss!

The Tang cavalry followed them closely, and those Tang cavalry were also tired like dogs, and there were not many of them, and the Turkic army could defeat them with only one Khan, but not even a single Khan turned around to face their enemy, only thinking about fleeing, fleeing as far as possible, letting the chassars bite behind them like leeches, capturing the abandoned wounded soldiers, and collecting abandoned war horses. These wounded soldiers will be sent to Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Empire, and those who are lucky will be castrated and then enter the palace as eunuchs.

After fighting with the Tang Dynasty for so many years, the Turkic soldiers are of course very aware of the consequences of being captured, but no one has the leisure to care about those wounded soldiers, and it is important to escape!

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