The sixth year of martial arts, the fourth year of innovation in February.

The land of Shuofang, thousands of miles across the mountains.

Hengshan is a place where many ethnic groups live together, when the Xiongnu Helian built ten thousand cities here, the water and grass here are abundant and beautiful, it is a place where many nomads live. Nowadays, there are Tiefu tribes, Jihu tribes, Dangxiang tribes belonging to other Xiongnu tribes, and some Turkic people.

So the Qianli Hengshan tribe is complicated, and at the moment, Xue Wanjun, Zhang Changxun, Yuan Junzhang and other generals of the Zhao army are standing on the side with a man in a leather jacket, looking at the Tang army formation under the mountain. This man in a leather jacket was the Dadu Viga Khan of that year, and he established himself as the Liang Shidu of the Emperor of Liang.

Liang Shidu's family has been an eagle and a general in Shuofang County for generations, and when the Sui Dynasty was in turmoil, he took advantage of the chaos to raise troops, which belonged to the warlord type. After the army, he surrendered to the Turks along with Guo Zi and Liu Wu, and was named Khan by the Turks.

The fate of these three people in the future is not the same, Liu Wuzhou has already been defeated by Li Chongjiu and died in defeat, Guo Zihe is demoted to Li Tang, the governor of Yunzhou, and is the Duke of Yunguo.

Liang Shidu has always been at a disadvantage in the battle with Li Tang, in fact, Li Tang did not put much strength against Liang Shidu, a large reason is because he is afraid of the Turks. But even so, Li Tang is winning one after another.

Under the guard of Duan Decao, the governor of Yanzhou, Li Jiancheng's henchman, Liang Shi was defeated in a series of battles, and in the second year of Wude, Liang Shi was defeated in the battle with Duan Decao, and as a result, his generals Zhang Ju and Liu Min surrendered to Tang. Li Chongjiu sent Yuan Junzhang to persuade Liang Shidu to surrender, and the Liang army was defeated by Li Tang again, and the Liang army generals He Sui and Suo Zhou offered land to surrender to Tang, and even Shuo Fang was almost defeated by Duan Decao.

Therefore, Yuan Junzhang came to persuade him to surrender, but Liang Shi couldn't ask for it. immediately changed the court and surrendered Zhao Guo, and at the same time immediately asked Zhao Guo for help. Otherwise, he will really destroy the country. Li Chongjiu believes that Shuofang is a strategic place, with abundant water and plants. In history, when Western Xia occupied this place, it repeatedly threatened Guanzhong, and if it occupied here, it could lengthen Li Tang's defense line.

Therefore, Li Chongjiu first crowned Liang Shidu as the king of Shuofang County, in order to strengthen his heart, and on the other hand, he worshiped Zhang Changxun as the head of the march of North Shaanxi Province, and led 10,000 horses to directly cross the river from Yangshan to reinforce Liang Shidu. Later, I heard that Duan Decao's offensive was fierce, and Li Chongjiu was worried that Zhang Changxun would not be able to hold it. So he sent Xue Wanche's younger brother Xue Wanjun to lead 3,000 elite Zhao troops to Shuofang to stabilize the situation.

Li Chongjiu sent so many men and horses to arrive in a row, first, to stabilize the local situation, and second, to recruit all local ethnic groups.

After defeating the Turks, the prestige of Zhao has radiated to all parts of the grassland, for the Tiefu tribe living on the Hengshan Mountain. As far as the Jihu Department and the Dangxiang clan are concerned, the Zhao State is a big country that is too powerful to provoke them.

Now with the Zhao army entering Shuofang. The local ethnic groups couldn't sit still, and came to Zhang Changxun in Shuo one after another. Xue Wanjun expressed his loyalty, and some offered hostages. Some offered a little specialty from within the tribe to show their obedience to the Zhao State.

Zhang Changxun is also very clever. For these active requests attached to the ministry are kind words to appease, Zhao national policy has always been very successful, Zhao army just arrived on the front foot, Huai Huang, the merchants from the second town of Yuyi, the back foot arrived in Shuofang.

The two sides traded with each other, and each took what he needed, which benefited the local tribes.

Among the eight tribes of the Dangxiang clan, the leader of the most powerful Tuoba tribe, Tuoba Chici took the initiative to go to Shuofang and offered his three sons as hostages. After that, Liu Yuancheng, the head of the Jihu tribe, led a thousand soldiers to Shuofang, and was also willing to join the Zhao State, and hundreds of Tiefu troops also joined.

Now Tuoba Chi Ci, Liu Yi Chengdu is leading his own people, standing at the foot of the mountain, and Liang Shidu confronted Duan Decao, the general of the Tang Army on the opposite side.

Duan Decao, who was arranging a formation at the foot of the mountain, looked at the mountain, and he saw the scene of his old opponent Liang Shidu standing with several generals wearing red robes, and there were many soldiers and horses of the Hu tribe on all sides.

"The manager doesn't need to look at it, Master Liang must have descended to Zhao, otherwise where did he get so many people from." Liu Lan and Duan De said.

Duan Decao glanced at Liu Lan, from the first time he saw him, he didn't like this gloomy reader. But he also knew that such scholars did not use knives to kill.

Duan Decao didn't want to offend Liu Lan, and he was still his own prisoner. Duan Decao said lukewarmly: "It's not just Zhao Jun, but also the Hu people near this Qianli Hengshan. It turned out that Master Liang was beaten by me and shrunk his head, but now he has turned over, which is really unwilling. ”

Liu Lan nodded when he heard this: "This is the general trend, the Zhao State has destroyed the Turks, not only the grassland tribes have been shaken, but even the Hu people in Hengshan have been affected and the Zhao State has been lowered, but I am worried that Chang'an has been shaken, I am afraid that it is even greater than that on the grassland." ”

Duan Decao admitted from the bottom of his heart that Liu Lan's analysis was very reasonable, since Li Yuan Jinyang raised troops to declare himself to the Turks, Li Tang's waist pole against the Turks has never been straightened. Cession of land and vassals can't bring peace, the Turks still fight you, and the two have been repeatedly engaged in small-scale exchanges.

The Turkic warfare was usually based on plunder, but whether the Tang army won or lost, life was not easy. When Li Yuanji was guarding Taiyuan, the Turks invaded. In order to avoid a greater war with the Turks, Li Yuanji privately allowed the Turks to plunder around Taiyuan, and later sent hundreds of Han women to the Turks, and the Turks withdrew.

But now that they were strong for a while, the Turks who had been crisscrossing the steppe for many years were actually destroyed by the Zhao State, and even the Khan was captured alive and taken to Youjing. Duan Decao can imagine that the faces of Li Tang Qunchen in Chang'an must be quite ugly.

Even Duan Decao had to admit at this moment that after annexing the Turks, if Zhao State could digest the forces of the various tribes of the steppe and use them for his own use, then the national strength would overwhelm Li Tang overall.

The general trend has changed overnight, and the speed of the change is beyond anyone's expectations.

"Retire! Taking advantage of the present, the Liang division has been defeated miserably, and the morale is completely lost, and the new arrival of the Zhao army does not know the details, so it will not dare to pursue. Duan Decao said suddenly.

Liu Lan nodded and said, "Manager Duan's words are indeed true, but the prince is a little difficult to explain, but he has always hoped that General Duan, you, can defeat Liang Shidu." You must know that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince urgently needs this victory now to suppress King Qin in the capital. ”

Duan Decao glanced at Liu Lan and said: "Then you have to win the battle, you are a soldier, you must be responsible for the soldiers, if you lose the battle, it will be my brother who has been killed or injured for many years." I, Duan Decao, will not risk the lives of my subordinates. ”

Liu Lan smiled when she heard this: "What Chief Duan said is reasonable, but I will also tell the prince truthfully about this matter, and when the time comes, His Royal Highness the prince will be furious, but I can't keep you." ”

Duan Decao glared at Liu Lan, but walked away with a sneer. (To be continued......)