Chapter 25: A Difficult Choice (2nd Update)

Dingxiang is located in the Xinding Basin, surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the four rivers run through the territory. The Xinding Basin is from east to west, dustpan-shaped, flat terrain, fertile land, mild climate, and is the main grain producing area of Xinzhou.

It was not only the southern court of the Eastern Turkic Khan, but also the seat of the small court of the Sui Dynasty. In February of the third year of Wude (620), Luo Khan, the Eastern Turk Khan, sent an envoy to Dou Jiande, welcomed Empress Xiao and Yang Zhengdao to the Eastern Turks, supported Yang Zhengdao as the king of Sui, and assigned all the officials and people of the Central Plains who remained in the territory of the Eastern Turks to Yang Zhengdao to govern, and restored the "Great Sui" regime, known as the Later Sui in history. Yang Zhengdao set up hundreds of officials, all of whom lived in Dingxiang County during the Sui Dynasty in accordance with the Sui Dynasty system, and had more than 10,000 subordinates.

Don't look at Yang Zhengdao, there are only more than 10,000 people, but relying on the Xinding Basin, more than 10,000 people, Princess Yicheng then sent more than 30,000 Han slaves who were captured by the Turks, relying on these more than 40,000 people, Hou Sui in the Dingxin Basin, in just one spring, reclaimed 1.6 million acres of land, all planted with sorghum.

The sorghum planted in early spring is about to mature, more than 1.6 million mu of sorghum, each mu can be harvested between one stone and five buckets or one stone and eight buckets, according to the estimation of the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Great Sui, at most half a month later, the Great Sui can harvest at least three million stone sorghum.

The imperial meeting of the Sui Dynasty was attended by Empress Xiao holding Yang Zhengdao, who was just five years old at the time (two years old for men and one year old for women) sitting on the throne, but like a needle felt, swaying left and right, very restless.

Empress Xiao's grandfather and queen regent, while coaxing Yang Zhengdao, listened to the ministers' reports. In fact, the Great Sui Dynasty now only has two counties left in the Dingxin Basin, a place that is a little bigger. There is no major event every day, if you want to say a big thing, in fact, with the influx of 300,000 Turkic troops into the Dingxin Basin, the grass at the foot of Yin Mountain has already been eaten up, and even the grass roots have been eaten by sheep, and whether the grass can grow in the coming year is also a problem.

The most common problem in the current state politics of the Sui Dynasty is that either the grain fields here have been gnawed by the Turkic war horses, or they have been spoiled by the Turks.

In fact, there is simply no way to fix these things. The so-called Sui Dynasty was a puppet of the Eastern Turkic Khanate, and finally got the end of the court meeting, Empress Xiao and the Ministry of Civil Affairs Shangshu Chen Zhang discussed, and finally a major event happened in the Turks.

After the death of Luo Khan in the Eastern Turkic Division, his younger brother Ashina Dubi became Jieli Khan, and his stepmother Princess Yicheng of the Sui Dynasty was his wife. Jieli Khan inherited the foundation of his father and brother at the beginning, and led 300,000 soldiers to control the strings, ready to personally break through the customs and destroy the Tang Dynasty, like the Xianbei Tuoba Department, enter the Central Plains, and drink the Yellow River.

However, as the war between the Tang Dynasty and the Xia Kingdom soon entered a white heat, especially Dou Jiande and Li Yuan invariably started to unite the world and fight against the Turkic banner, which made Jieli Khan feel embarrassed.

Although the Turks are ferocious, but carefully calculated, since the founding of the Great Sui, Northern Yang Jian, Yang Wen, Yang Su, and the three northern expeditions, fought without temper, in fact, the Turks have a strong fear of the Central Plains, threshing grass, looting on the border of the north, the Turks have no opinion, but once they move seriously, they want to destroy China and annex the Central Plains, they do not have this confidence.

The population is equally hard wounded. Although the Turks spanned more than 17,000 li, more than 7,000 li from north to south, and had such a huge territory, their population was only more than 1.2 million (the death of Jieli, under which they either went to Xue Yantuo or entered the Western Regions, and there were more than 100,000 people who came and fell. At that age, more than 1.2 million Chinese were returned to the prefectures and counties of Saiwai and Kaisiyi. Don't look at the more than 300,000 soldiers and horses under the command of Jieli Khan, in fact, more than 200,000 of them are soldiers and horses of various ethnic groups who surrender to the Turkic tent, such as Xue Yantuo, Tiele, Tiefo, Xi, Khitan and other departments.

In the end, Ashina fell for Li Tang's trick and decided to sit on the mountain to watch the tiger fight, and then go south to the Central Plains when the Tang Dynasty and the Xia Kingdom were both defeated. But the change was too fast, just when the Turks were grazing in the north and south of Yinshan, the battle of Tang and Xia ended, and Dou Jiande, who had 300,000 soldiers, did not insist for three months, and was defeated and surrendered, and the land of 39 states in Hebei also surrendered to Li Tang.

The Xia Kingdom perished, but Li Tang didn't seem to be injured, not only did he not hurt his vitality, but his strength seemed to have increased a lot, which made Jieli Khan very depressed. Especially in the battle of Hebei, the soldiers and horses led by Chen Ying showed great combat effectiveness and brought a great shock to Jieli Khan.

The soldiers of the Xia Army were killed in front of the hook and sickle lancer wall of the Xiao cavalry under Chen Ying, and the fresh lives were fused with the earth together with thousands of grass mustards. The desperate wails and painful screams of the soldiers of the Xia army, as well as the battle more than a year ago, Chen Ying had become a dream demon in the heart of Jieli Khan.

How many people were killed and wounded by the soldiers of the Xia army under Chen Ying's hook and sickle lancers, Jieli Khan naturally didn't have the kung fu to care, just he sent to Liu Heimin's army to observe the battle of Tang Xia, and the elite who were familiar with the tactics of the Tang army were actually frightened crazy by more than a dozen people.

These people are all outstanding sons of the Ashina family or the Anade family, they are all proud sons of the sky, and they are all good at it, but they are frightened crazy.

Jieli Khan finally realized that this time was different. In the past, he didn't have to fight at all, as long as he put on a posture that Lao Tzu wanted to fight in the pass, he could get what he wanted outside the battlefield, and the era is gone.

If you want to drink the Yellow River, it is estimated that it is hanging. If you want to drink the Yellow River, you must destroy the Li Tang court, not to mention the Tang Dynasty's Sixteen Wei Army, which is Chen Ying's Xiao cavalry army, which is enough to give you a headache.

After dinner, Jieli Khan faced his stepmother, sister-in-law, and now Princess Kedun Yicheng, but admitted very frankly and honestly: "The strength of the Tang State is far stronger than we calculated, this time we miscalculated, Dou Jiande's 300,000 army did not last for three months at all, our 300,000 soldiers and horses...... I'm afraid I won't be able to take advantage of it! ”

Princess Yicheng smiled bitterly: "This time it was too careless, in the shoes of Li Yuan, the Tang Kingdom is not like the past, they are not like the Liang State of Liang Shidu, the Qin State of Xue Ju, and the Tianxing Kingdom of Liu Wuzhou." Li Tang will definitely not bow down to our Turkic Khan like them, we underestimated the shamelessness of Li Yuan's old horseman, and also underestimated Chen Ying's ability, we were wrong from the beginning, we should not have been afraid of losses, we should have entered Guanzhong at all costs......"

"Alas...... What's the use of you saying that now? Jielihe Khan sighed and said, "The most important thing now is, what should we do?" If we defeat this time, Ben Khan will definitely not be able to explain to the nobles of the Khanate......"

"There is no other way to think of it, but to go all out!" Princess Yicheng's eyes were full of anger, and she roared murderously: "The whole army is going south and beating Li Tang's arrogance down, otherwise when Li Tang gains a firm foothold, our interests in the Central Plains will definitely be greatly affected." ”

Jieli Khan and Princess Yicheng finally reached a consensus, there is no way, who makes Princess Yicheng this Kedun not a simple Kedun? The Eastern Turks have four major leaves to protect the twelve Khans, and Princess Yicheng controls one-third, without the support of Princess Yicheng, if Jieli Khan wants to play a big move, there is no chance at all, and there is no possibility.

At this time, more than 300,000 troops gathered in Dingxiang, only a line away from Taiyuan, Shuozhou and Yanmen in the south.

Just when Jieli Khan was in high spirits and was ready to be the second Emperor Daowu of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

"Kill ......"

A fierce killing cry came from outside Dingxiang City, and in the dark night, a fire dragon swept from the northwest to Dingxiang City. After a brief period of surprise, Jieli Khan reacted and hurriedly sent someone to see what was going on.

But the result made Jieli Khan cry and laugh.

The son of the Khan of Chuluo, his eldest nephew Ashinao Shooting actually led the soldiers and horses to rebel, Ao Shooting is one of the twelve Turkic Khans, mastering more than 16,000 elite soldiers in the headquarters, Ao Shooting is dissatisfied with Princess Yicheng to assist Dubi, and is unwilling to assist him, he has long been resentful, so he took advantage of the Turkic people's fear of the Tang Army, and spread among the Turks that "the Tang people are invincible, and they want to borrow the knife of the Tang Dynasty to kill the strangers." It was inevitable that he would be killed by Dubi, but it was not known who the next unlucky person would be.

Under the bewitchment of the Aoji, some Turkic tribes who did not know the truth also joined the Aojishi camp and challenged the Jieli Khan.

The battle began abruptly and ended quickly, and the Austrian shooting set up a preemptive strike, which indeed brought a certain amount of chaos to Xiangcheng, and in this chaotic battle between the two sides, at least 30,000 horses were killed and wounded, of which almost ninety percent were Turkic headquarters men and horses, but vassal tribes.

Jieli Khan was very angry, but he was not stunned after all, he found that Jingao shot such a trouble, the whole Turkic people's hearts fluctuated, to fight or not to fight, this is a very difficult choice.

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