It was really as Li Zhi expected, sending troops at this time could reap miraculous results.

Zhang Xiaosong, the governor of Liangzhou, arranged a suspicious formation, secretly covering the main force of the 450,000 Tang army out of Yumen Pass, dividing the troops into five routes, Qibi He Li out of Xizhou, Tang Xiujing out of Guazhou, Wang Xiaojiao out of Shazhou, Gao Kan went straight to Jiaohe City, and all the way to the eldest grandson Wuji went north to Tingzhou, but it was a convergence of 120,000 Western Turkic troops and attacked south from the Tianshan Mountains.

In the past, the sworn enemy of the Western Turkic Khanate, which had disturbed the Silk Road, was now also impacted by the surging migration of ethnic groups, and several nomadic steppe peoples from West Asia had gone upstream, although they were beaten back by the Turks, but there were still many grasslands occupied by the newly arrived tribes, and the Western Turkic Khan Yibi Zhuolu also knew that with his own strength, he could not repel this wave of millions of great migrations no matter what, and it happened that the eldest grandson Wuji sent an envoy to Tingzhou, and the two immediately hit it off.

Coupled with the Turkic cavalry, more than 500,000 Tang troops grabbed from the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains like a slap, and there has never been such a large-scale military decisive battle in the Western Regions for centuries.

Only in the middle of the road Gao Kan more than 50,000 Yunzhong Heshuo soldiers, beheaded more than 5,000 levels, forced landing more than 120,000 people in more than 10 tribes, Tang Xiujing even broke the Khan Vesutiva more than 80,000 soldiers and horses, captured more than 30 tribes of the Huns.

It's just that Tang Taizong's results in destroying the Turks were even better, and when Li Zhi's main force rushed from Liangzhou to Xizhou, he was also taken aback by the situation in front of him.

A full 500,000 people of various ethnic groups set up tents densely around Xizhou City, the Tang army guarding was extremely nervous, everyone's weapons, bows and arrows, and even war horses were seized by the Tang army, tens of thousands of people patrolled day and night among the captives, and the grazing cattle and sheep ate up everything with hair near Xizhou.

Seeing the results of this scene, Li Zhi was simply ecstatic, and hurriedly placed the army, and immediately took a large number of guards into Xizhou, this time Li Zhi really spared no expense, a large number of rewards, cattle and sheep, cloth, and copper coins were directly carried into the barracks, so that the meritorious soldiers made a windfall on the spot, and the low morale of the original Tang Army suddenly increased a lot because of the reward.

However, when the excited Li Zhi rushed to the Xizhou Governor's Mansion, he was greeted by the sorrowful eldest grandson Wuji, Gao Kan, Tang Xiujing, Xin Yunjing, Qibi He Li and other generals who had just made meritorious contributions, and they were also worried, and hurriedly knelt down to Li Zhi.

In fact, it is not surprising that the Tang army achieved this result, which was completely different from the unified Turkic Khanate of the year, and the barbarian armies of Central Asia, North Asia, Eastern Europe and Western Europe that invaded the Western Regions did not have a unified leadership at all, and each department was completely independent, and when it came to a big war, it didn't want to fight to the death at all, all they wanted was to flee quickly.

As a result, it evolved from 500,000 Tang troops against more than 1 million migratory barbarians to Tang troops against hundreds of scattered tribes of different sizes, and some tribes did not want to fight with the Tang army at all.

Interestingly, many migrating barbarians hated the Min and Tang dynasties far more than the Tang Dynasty, who let Li Jie be the culprit who drove them out of their homeland?

"Isn't that great?" Listening to the report of the eldest grandson Wuji, Li Zhi was really quite stunned, and asked puzzledly: "Since these tribes who came from Xiban admire my Tang **** and are eager to naturalize, then take them in and let the Fujian thieves steal chickens and rice, isn't it a good thing?"

"Your Majesty, the problem is that we simply don't have enough land to take them in! The land that can be grazed by the 36 countries of the Western Regions basically has the owner, if we divide the land of Gaochang, Shule, Loulan, and Cheshi to these outsiders, how do the Western Regions countries that are still fighting for the Tang Dynasty think of ****? And the Western Turks, who had just sworn an oath with ****, immediately felt uneasy, and even had the possibility of betraying the alliance! ”

With a bitter face, the eldest grandson Wuji personally turned out the field book and pointed it out to Li Zhi for further explanation.

"The territory of the Western Regions is enough to house more than 30 tribes and 200,000 people at most, if these people are allowed to enter Tuyuhun and graze Qinghai, the remaining 300,000 tribes captured now will be settled, but this will definitely cause the fear of Tubo!"

"According to the news from Luo City, Li Jin, the prince of Fujian thieves, has gathered 50,000 elite soldiers in the northern province of thieves, if Tubo colludes with it, while my army is outside, and overthrows Guanzhong in one fell swoop, my Tang Dynasty is in danger!"

"Your Majesty!" As soon as the eldest grandson Wuji finished speaking, the governor of Yunzhong, and Gao Kan, the guard of the left prison, stood up from his seat with a solemn face, and bowed to Li Zhi with his fist: "When the minister fought with the Hulu in Jiaohe City, he once encountered such a Hulu army, four thousand blonde hair and blue eyes fought in a formation like a monkey, relying on a flying axe and even defeated the two mansions of our Yunzhong army, or after the minister defeated those grassland tribes, he returned to the division and used cavalry to rush them a few times before they were scattered."

"There is also a team, about 800 barbarians are even more bloodthirsty than these barbarians, they are armed with axes, shields or, spears, tall figures, snow-white skin like demons, war-hungry like crazy, even if they are trapped under Jiaohe City, they still refuse to surrender, and we fought for four hours before they were all taken, our army suffered eight hundred casualties in the first battle, and six hundred died in battle with them!"

"Oh? Who are these people? Li Zhi was also interested, frowned and asked, but Gao Kan shook his head in embarrassment: "They don't understand the ghost words at all, and asked some Central Asian tribes who surrendered, they don't know the origin of these ghosts, they only know that they are allies of Min and Tang, and suddenly they killed on the Black Sea steppe in one day, killing all the original tribes, or driving them out, if they don't need these ghost heavy infantry to help attack the city, they themselves have to fight first."

Originally, listening to Gao Kan's bravery, Li Zhi was also tempted to recruit some of these murderers, but when he heard that they were Li Jie's allies, Li Zhi snorted in disgust: "Good kill!" These ghosts are stubborn, dare to assist the thieves, the crime deserves death, General Gao has made such a military exploit, I am very relieved, this merit is recorded, I should be rewarded after returning to the dynasty! ”

"Your Majesty, the minister is not an inviter!" As soon as he heard this, Gao Kan hurriedly waved his arm with heavy armor, and in the rumbling of the nail leaves, Gao Kan explained with a solemn expression: "Such ghosts, I don't know how many of those barbarians who occupy the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, and the most important thing is that there is no trace of the army of Fujian thieves until now!"

Li Zhi is not clever when he says this, yes! The current situation is so tricky, all the way to the extreme west, and how terrible should the Mintang army that expelled so many barbarians from their homeland be? Thinking of this, Li Zhi was full of urgency and asked what Qi Bi was doing.

"Qi Biqing, what is a good coping strategy for the military department?"

At this meeting, the veteran general of the Taizong era, the old Turkic general who has always been known for his bravery and good at fighting, bowed his head and was silent, and the two military squires Pang Tongshan Zheng Rentai were also silent, which made Li Zhi look around in astonishment, and his face quickly became gloomy.

"Is there nothing I can do with a little thief in the Tang Dynasty? Are you still the pillars of the country? Full of anger, Li Zhi waved his hand again and roared, listening to his roar, everyone lowered their heads.

It's not a little Min thief, it's the Min Tang Dynasty who drove millions of people who controlled the strings and killed them from the westernmost point of the world!

Li Zhi roared angrily for a while, and the eldest grandson Wuji stood out of the queue helplessly, clasped his fists and prayed again.

"Back to Your Majesty, the best result of the prime ministers' discussion is to withdraw from the army!"

"While Qiuzi Town is still insisting, collect the soldiers and civilians of Gua, Xi, Sha, and Ting Prefectures and retreat to the east of Yumen Pass, and seal these captured leaders as khans on the spot, cede Tingzhou to the Western Turks, and cede Anxi to Tubo, and use these barbarians to resist the barbarian army rolling in from the west......"

The eldest grandson Wuji didn't wait for him to finish speaking, and the eunuch Li Fuguo, who seized the opportunity, immediately shouted at the eldest grandson Wuji with mockery: "It turns out that my plan against the eldest grandson is to escape!" You want Your Majesty to escape in front of the thieves and barbarians, and you want me to sweep away the prestige of the Tang Dynasty! ”

"What do you know about military affairs? Avoiding the real and attacking the virtual is the most reasonable thing for the soldiers! Old man, this is to preserve the strength of Datang! ”

The eldest grandson Wuji immediately shouted angrily, although he took over a peaceful and prosperous era from Emperor Taizong, but with a vampire like Li Jie, the overall strength of the Tang Dynasty has not increased much over the years, and the total number of troops in the country is only about 800,000, excluding the strength of the town guarding the huge country, sending 500,000 troops is already a dangerous ratio.

Even if the Tang Army has such brilliant results now, the eldest grandson Wuji still does not approve of the gambler's method of governing the country by putting the country's national fortunes in World War I.

A eunuch sentence just hit Li Fuguo's sore spot, making the eunuch in power scream angrily: "Save the strength of the Tang Dynasty? Is it true that the eldest grandson Sikong attacked His Majesty's prestige? Once Your Majesty retires now, how should the Guan Sergeant clan evaluate Your Majesty, and how will the family in the world view Your Majesty? ”

"Tsk." Yin and Yang shook his head angrily, Li Fuguo smiled gloomily: "By the way, the old slave has forgotten that Princess Min is the eldest grandson's beloved daughter, and the eldest grandson Sikong is really far-sighted, so soon he is paving the way for King Min to enter the main pass!"

"Nonsense!" These words also stabbed the weakness of the eldest grandson Wuji, and in anger, the eldest grandson Wuji held his fist and rushed straight to the sky, and said angrily: "My eldest grandson Wuji's loyalty can be seen by the sun and the moon!" Don't you let your gelding bark like this again! ”

"Enough!"

Seeing that Li Fuguo was about to scold angrily, Li Zhi roared coldly, but everyone present trembled, hurriedly knelt down, and looked at his ministers with a gloomy face.

"I will never turn around and flee in front of the thieves, I have made up my mind, fight to the death with the thieves, and knock his lackeys out of the Western Regions! The Ministry of Household began to settle the captive tribes, the Ministry of Rites came up with a list, divided the tribes into seals, and the best scouts of the Ministry of War were all sent out, so it was necessary to figure out where the main force of the Fujian thieves was? ”

Back then, knowing that he was risking the loss of the country, Emperor Yang of Sui still wanted to attack Goguryeo for the second and third time, and sometimes the dignity of the emperor even exceeded the importance of the country to the emperor, and now Li Zhi is the same, Li Jie is like a shadow in his heart, so that Li Zhi is breathless, the two are not together, it's over, if you don't kill Li Jie one day, one day Li Zhi's encouragement will not be smooth.

Seeing Li Zhi turn around and leave, the eldest grandson Wuji raised his hand anxiously: "But Your Majesty, we don't have enough land and supplies to accommodate these captives?"

"Let 100,000 people enter Qinghai, and the rest will be placed in Guanzhong! All prefectures and counties have set aside a part of the land, and my Datang is rich all over the world, and I can't eat hundreds of thousands of barbarians? ”

Li Zhi didn't look back and threw down a sentence, but it made the faces of all the ministers present twitch violently.

The land is like a cake, there is so much, cut a piece less than a piece, now the families are multiplying, Guanzhong is especially crowded, and some states can no longer even take out the average land to distribute to the new population, and then fill in 200,000 Central Asian barbarians? Every cent of land occupied is the hard work of the Guan Long family.

Besides, will these horseback herders obediently put down their hoes and plough the fields? Part of the reason for the Anshi Rebellion of the Tang Dynasty in later generations was that the Tang Dynasty placed too many Hu people in Hebei, and even some places changed from Sinicization to Huhua, and the sharp ******** formed the basis of the An Lushan Rebellion!

No one wants to be neighbors with these steppe peoples! Even the Xianbei people who have integrated into China!

Just when the eldest grandson Wuji's face was cloudy, Li Fuguo's voice sounded again.

"This world is Your Majesty's world, and Your Majesty can settle it as you want! If some people have bad intentions? The old slave is staring at you! ”

Coldly staring at the ministers present like a poisonous snake, Li Fuguo arrogantly straightened his collar, and also followed Li Zhi out of the door with a meteor.

"Gelding!"

Li Fuguo walked for a long time before someone scolded angrily, the ministers were not angry and discussed, and Liu Xiangdao, the head of the household department, also came over with an ugly face, and asked the eldest grandson Wuji in a low voice: "Sikong, what should I do now?"

"What else can I do?" The eldest grandson Wuji sighed, and waved his hand helplessly: "Do what Your Majesty says!"

"But!"

"No, but, didn't Gonggong Li say it just now? The world, Your Majesty's world! ”

After speaking, the eldest grandson Wuji also went out irritably, but the eldest grandson Wuji, who was in a belly, did not notice that the ministers of the Guanlong family behind him, looking at his back, suddenly became unfamiliar, no longer as before, the leader of Guanlong, responded to every call.

However, Li Zhi's order was still carried out to the letter, and now the power of the eunuchs has increased, and under the supervision of hundreds of eunuchs, the ministers can't do it even if they want to be passive.

In the next half a month, the migratory army from the west seemed to know that there was an extra strong Tang main force in the east, except for some Central Asian tribes who came to surrender, the remaining stronger tribes did not take a step further east, using this time, the Tang army stepped up to digest the results of the first stage.

Divided the grassland on the spot and settled a part of the tribes, moved into a part of the Qinghai grassland, and finally many were placed in Guanzhong, many Central Asian tribes who left their homeland could get such preferential treatment, and indeed attracted many people, so that the Tang Dynasty added more than 70,000 barbarian infantry cavalry.

However, Li Fuguo obviously took advantage of this opportunity to suppress the Guan Long family, placed the Xilai tribe to focus on the inherent territory of the Guan Long family, and also took the opportunity to seize the land of the family, which caused constant complaints in the court.

However, on the whole, the Tang army is still developing towards a reasonable situation, accumulating strength little by little.

However, half a month later, hundreds of ragged Anxi knights broke into the ancient city of Gaochang in Xizhou, but this peace was broken.

After more than two months of hard work, the town of Qiuzi was still captured!