A snowstorm came unexpectedly, and the grassland in the north of the country was covered in silver overnight. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The eldest grandson Wuji sat in a cowhide tent and grilled a fire, and also grilled mutton skewers by the way. Hang a pot on the brazier, warm the pot of wine in the brazier, eat the hanging pot, grilled skewers, and warm the wine, but it is very comfortable.

"There are so many of us, just give such a little meat, this Turkic is really rude." A member of the mission sprinkled cumin on the skewers with dissatisfaction.

"It seems that the Turkic people don't have much food and grass, and it snows heavily, this is the beauty of God, God helps me Datang." The eldest grandson Wuji took a sip of wine and said with a smile. He was covered with a mink, and it was not cold to hide in the tent and not go out, and in fact he couldn't go out if he wanted to.

Since talking to Tong Ye Hu on the day of the fight, Tong Ye Hu has opened the condition of Li Chao's head, they have not seen each other again, and Tong Ye Hu will not let them out of the account.

The Turks had not moved for three days, and now it was snowing heavily, and the snow was knee-deep overnight, and the Turks could not walk. The eldest grandson, Wuji, predicted that the Turks were likely to withdraw their troops, and negotiations would become inevitable.

"The Turkic soldiers are strong and strong, and besides, Tong Yehu is not very angry, how can he withdraw now?"

"What if he doesn't retreat?" The eldest grandson Wuji took another sip of wine. Originally, the Tang army had been prepared, but now the Tang army has basically withdrawn to the fortress near the Great Wall, and when it went south, it has not forgotten to engage in the strategy of clearing the wilderness and scorching the earth.

From the Great Wall to the foot of Yinshan Mountain, Hetao, Daibei and other 800 miles deep, there are no people at all, let alone livestock. Tuli's death is largely because of this, without local supplies, they can only go to attack the fortified city, and carelessly, they are played to death by Li Chao.

Now there are more soldiers and horses in Tongye, and they are divided into three roads, but each road is more than 100,000 people. Although there are many people, the need for food and grass is also greater. Tong Yehu did bring a lot of cattle and sheep, and they all marched together with the herd.

But a snowstorm has almost frozen all the livestock in Tongye to death.

Their war horses can't even eat any grassroots, so they have to rely on their own forage.

Even if the frozen cattle and sheep are still eaten, carrying the beef and mutton and driving the cattle and sheep are two different things, and this transportation is also a problem.

Moreover, after such a big snowstorm, the march will be very difficult. Besides, this sudden snowstorm not only froze cattle and sheep to death, but also had a great impact on the Turkic people, many of whom were unable to freeze, and many of them suffered from frostbite.

"Tong Yehu is difficult to ride a tiger now, he must want to continue to go south, but under the current conditions, he can't go south anymore. Eight hundred miles, this distance, plus this weather, he can't cross the eight hundred miles of non-supply area, so Tong Yehu can only negotiate peace with us now. ”

The judgment of the eldest grandson Wuji is very accurate.

Tong Yehu stayed quietly in his golden wolf tent, his expression was in a trance, and his face was blue.

For a few days, the plan he conceived for the southern expedition was ruthlessly torn apart by a snowstorm. The people around him have been kicked out by him.

He just wants to be alone now.

Tianwei is irresistible.

This blizzard was unexpected, and the size was amazing.

He needed time to rethink the big picture.

In the current situation, even if he still has 400,000 people, it will be difficult to cross the distance of 800 miles and reach the foot of the Great Wall. Even then, with today's food, grass and morale, how can they attack those strong fortresses?

He can't be like Tuli, who was depleted of food and grass under the fortress of the Tang people, and then failed.

But now that he is retreating, he is very unwilling.

Not long ago, he was still in the Western Regions, and when he marched eastward, he never imagined that he would rule the eastern steppes so easily, become the Great Khan of the entire Turks, and reunify the Turkic Khanate.

When he became the khan of all the Turks, he did get a little carried away, and he planned a southern expedition to teach the Tang people a hard lesson and push the border under the Great Wall.

But now, he's been hit in the head.

Dream, woke up.

He did unify the steppes and the khanate, with strong soldiers and horses, and a large number of people. But the Tang people were also even more powerful, they came to a strong wall and cleared the wilderness, and moved the people and animals from Yinshan to the Great Wall, within 800 miles.

Plug is different from the Central Plains, here is also grazing-based, there are no cities, villages and towns, the Tang people moved decisively and cleanly, except for the vast grassland, there is nothing left, and even the Tang people burned the grass when they left.

Tong Yehu has a strong army, but the area that cannot be supplied on the spot for 800 miles has become the most powerful defense of the Tang army.

Eight hundred miles south is the Great Wall.

Now, there is another blizzard.

He had a headache, as if he had ice water in his head. He looked up at the empty tent, which was empty, but it was warm, but he knew that the army outside was still suffering from the cold.

The sudden arrival of this snowstorm made them not even have enough fuel, the army could not march, and there was no firewood to burn, which was not like when the tribe was grazing on the grassland, there would be a lot of dry manure that was usually prepared for fuel.

This battle can't go on.

"Someone!" Tong Yehu shouted and called in the guards and told him to inform the Turkic generals in the camp to come.

Tong Yehu's order was passed down, and soon all the Jieli Fa and Qi Jin came.

After everyone entered the tent, they were all patting the snowflakes on their bodies and rubbing their hands and faces.

"Great Khan, this snowstorm is too big, it is impossible to march in such weather, our soldiers have no firewood, no dry dung to burn, and they can't freeze." Tong Yehu's uncle, Mo Hedu, the little khan, slapped the snow on his body and complained to him.

Mo Helu is Tong Ye Hu's uncle, but he is quite young, in the prime of life, no more than ten years older than Tong Ye Hu, he is the son of Datou Khan. In the time of the Khan, he was already a powerful prince of the Western Turks. Now he is named the Little Khan by Tong Yehu, and he is also a strong soldier in his hands.

After the news of Tuli's death at the hands of Li Chao came, Mo Helu walked around and dragged those Turkic nobles to drink, and Tong Yehu knew that Mo Helu wanted to be the second Khan of the Turks.

"I know." Tong Ye Hu said.

"The blizzard was unexpected, and we weren't prepared. Now stay here, trapped in a blizzard, lack of fuel in the battalion, and many livestock in the army freeze to death・・・・・・'"

He paused, "I thought about it carefully just now, maybe this is a warning from heaven, we should withdraw our troops." ”

"Collect troops?" Mo Helu was surprised.

"I've thought about it, and I'm not in a hurry. Winter has arrived, and this is not a good time to use soldiers. We first negotiated peace with the Tang people and withdrew to spend the winter. ”

He thought that even if he retreated at this time, he would not be a loser. The Tang people have retreated to the Great Wall, he has actually achieved his goal, and now the places outside the Great Wall are all his.

Hetao, Daibei, Yinshan to the Great Wall, 800 miles, the Tang people have all abandoned.

He will go back to spend the winter now, and he can come back to graze next summer, and in a few years, he will be able to gain a firm foothold here, and then, after being fully prepared, he will start a war with the Tang people, and there will be no such 800 miles of no man's land.

"We're just leaving? 100,000 horses in Tuli, and they died in vain? ”

Mo Helu asked loudly.

"Of course it won't be in vain, but now we have to withdraw, uncle, if you want to stay and continue the southern expedition, I won't stop you, if you can conquer Hedong, I will assign Hedong to you as a ranch, if you can conquer Hebei, I will assign Hebei to you as a ranch, how about it?"

Mo Helu touched a nail in front of his nephew and had to keep his mouth shut. Of course, he knew that now was not the time to attack, he just wanted to make trouble with Tongye in public.

"Call the eldest grandson Wuji." Tong Ye Hu no longer paid attention to Mo Helu.

The building is annoying.

The drawbridge was lowered, and Li Jing led a team of cavalry into Guancheng.

Li Chao wore a Lei Feng hat, a military coat, a pair of thick gloves in his hands, a scarf around his neck, and a pair of thick high cotton boots under his feet.

Li Jing jumped off his horse and saluted Li Chao.

"The last general, Li Jing, meet the marshal."

Li Chao was still wearing a big mask on his face, only two eyes were exposed, and he said that General Li had worked hard, but the voice he made was a little buzzing.

Li Jing looked at Li Chao and didn't know what to say. He had come all the way from Mayi, braving the wind and snow, and wearing iron armor, and when he arrived here, his face was frozen and unconscious, and his beard was covered with ice slag.

"Dashuai's body is really warm."

"Keep warm, it's useless, it's still cold, let's hurry into the city and enter the house, I don't want to stay outside for a moment, this day, I just want to lie on the warm kang and can't come down."

Li Chao pulled Li Jing inside, "Actually, you can come by sled, this day, it is more comfortable to sit on the sled, and you can burn a charcoal stove on it, cover it with a quilt, and it will be much more comfortable to come all the way." ”

Li Jing stood there still, looking at the tall snowdrift outside the city, the snowdrift was very high, eight or nine zhang high.

"Could it be that this is the pyramid Jingguan?"

"Well, that's it." Li Chao said casually.

Li Jing took a closer look, although it was covered with snow and looked like an ordinary mountain, but there were hundreds of thousands of Turkic heads piled up underneath.

He stared at it for a while, then turned his head and followed Li Chao inside.

"I'm here to report good news to the marshal, Tong Yehu is willing to talk about peace."

Entering the house, Li Chao directly removed the coat, hat, mask, etc., and then sat on the kang.

The inside of the house is as warm as spring, and the outside of the house is like two worlds.

Sitting on the kang and drinking a cup of hot tea first, Li Chao let out a long breath.

"It's actually to be expected."

Li Jing also sat on the kang, holding a teacup in his hand to warm his frozen hands, "God bless Datang." ”

"Actually, I am not afraid of this snow, General Li's fortified walls and clear fields are in place, and when he goes south, he will face the same embarrassing situation as the original Turki, maybe, we can also borrow the fortified fortresses such as Mayi, Loufu, and Yanmen, and then ruthlessly consume the strength of a wave of Turks."

Speaking of which, Li Chao still looks a little pity.

Li Jing didn't expect it, and he didn't know how to answer for a while.