The battle of Iron Mountain has come to an end.

By noon, the most sporadic battles were over.

The sky was clear, but the wind was blowing, and the snow was red in front of me.

The former Turkic Tieshan Khan Court has been broken by the Zhao army. The Turkic Khan Jieli fled in terror, leaving his men behind. Li Chongjiu walked according to the reins, but saw that the ground was full of burned dome tents, and most of the camps were burned. Many Turkic civilians, as well as captured Turkic soldiers, were imprisoned by the Zhao army, and many were crying.

The soldiers of Zhao were happily scattered the battlefield, and countless cattle, sheep and horses were gathered together, as well as the gold, silver and jewelry collected by the Turks for many years, including the last time Huaihuang Town and Yuyi Town were attacked, and the Turks looted them.

This time, it can really be said that I got it back with interest. Seeing Li Chongjiu arriving on horseback, countless Zhao soldiers and soldiers after the victory, as well as soldiers from all departments, shouted long live to Li Chongjiu. As for the Turkic people, when they heard Li Chongjiu's name, their eyes were full of fear.

"Your Majesty, Zhao Deyan was captured, and he said he wanted to see His Majesty."

Li Chongjiu walked halfway, and Zhang Xuansu on the side said to Li Chongjiu.

"Bring him."

Soon, Zhao Deyan, who was wearing a Hu man's robe, was brought by the soldiers. He himself was full of flowers, but his expression was calm, and there was still a sneer on the corner of his mouth.

But after Zhao Deyan saw Li Chongjiu, he slowly knelt down in front of the horse and said: "Sinner Zhao Deyan, see Your Majesty!" ”

Ji Chuan looked at Zhao Deyan, and first said, "Zhao Deyan, you are a Han." But he served the Turks, and in the past ten years, he has advised several generations of Turkic khans. Attack the Central Plains and plunder the people. It can be said that it is aiding and abusive, and it is full of evil. Did you come to see Your Majesty today to beg for your life? ”

Zhao Deyan looked up to the sky and laughed, glanced at Ji Chuan and snorted: "This is Ji Shilang, I heard that Your Excellency is jealous and hateful, of course you can't get used to a traitor like me." People like me are not worthy to speak with you, please. ”

Ji Chuan sneered: "You and other people who are greedy for wealth and nobility, are you really not for yourself? Please cut this person with a thousand knives. ”

Zhao Deyan shook his head and said, "Ji Shilang, you underestimate me too much. ”

At that moment, Zhao Deyan said to Li Chongjiu: "Your Majesty." A certain self-aware of his death, here I just want to ask His Majesty one thing, the Turkic Khan's court has been breached, and the former overlord of the steppe has disappeared. Which of the following will replace the Turks? Is it the Turkic Western Khan, who is partial to the Western Regions and has constant civil strife, or the Mobei Tiele people, or the Murde Xi who defeated the Turks? ”

Listening to Zhao Deyan's words, Ying Hefu on the side said angrily: "You dog thief, what do you mean." The top and bottom of my room have to work for His Majesty, so only His Majesty can dominate the grassland, you say so. What is the meaning? ”

Zhao Deyan glanced at Ying Hefu and said with a smile: "Maybe in the future, the Han people will dominate the grassland, but not now." There are hundreds of tribes of the size of the grassland, and the folk customs are different. And the area is vast, and there is a vast desert like the sea. If the county system is imposed, it will be counterproductive, and the only way to do this is to allow the ministries to be autonomous. ”

"When the Han Dynasty unified the grassland, it was only for a while, and when the Central Plains weakened, all the grasslands in the Western Regions were lost. The former car can be learned, the teacher of the future, His Majesty Xià is the second Han to conquer the grassland after the Han Wu. I, Zhao Deyan, admire you, and I think that it is just around the corner to unify the Central Plains in the future. ”

Li Chongjiu said lightly: "Thank you for saying that, if you think that if you think that you can spare my life by giving me some advice, then you are wrong." ”

Zhao Deyan always smiled on his face, and said: "Your Majesty, even if you want to kill me in the next moment, I still have to say it at this moment, but I have been in the grassland for many years, and I really don't want to see the Hu and Han families fight again, so that the lives will be ruined. This is one of the shortcomings, and I implore His Majesty xià Mingjian. ”

"Nonsense!" Ying He said, "Your Majesty, such a person should be killed immediately, so as not to stay here and deceive others." ”

Zhao Deyan said to Yinghefu: "Everything I want to say has been said, and there are no regrets." After speaking, Zhao Deyan really didn't say a word again.

Li Chongjiu nodded when he heard this, and didn't say anything, but he already understood the meaning of Zhao Deyan's words. Left and right escorted Zhao Deyan down. On the side, the generals of the Zhao army, the soldiers glared at Zhao Deyan angrily, and frequently scolded him as a dog thief.

Zhao Deyan was escorted by the soldiers and left slowly.

After that, Li Chongjiu ordered Xue Wanche to lead 10,000 horses to pursue Jieli. Because there are very few soldiers and horses, if you send a large army to pursue it, it is obviously unwise, and 10,000 horses is enough. In the vicinity of Yangshan, Li Chongjiu also sent Wei Chigong to lead a large army to loot. Jieli can run away unless he has wings.

In the court of the Turkic Tieshan Khan, a total of more than 200,000 cattle and sheep were seized, nearly 200,000 Turkic women and children, and more than 30,000 Turkic soldiers and soldiers surrendered. Such a large capture far exceeded any exploits of Yang Su's attack on Saiwai and Wei Huo, and annihilated the main force of the Eastern Turks in one battle.

When night fell, Li Chongjiu's soldiers killed the captured cattle and sheep to reward the three armies, and all the troops who went out with Li Chongjiu were very happy, they had been waiting for a day, and the rewards were very generous in the past to fight with Li Chongjiu, so everyone was willing to serve him.

The Turks have been annihilated, and the forces of the steppe will be redivided, such a large piece of interests, it is impossible for Zhao to occupy them all, for many people, as long as Li Chongjiu shows them a little bit, they can be satisfied. But many people are thinking more, and many people are starting to plan ahead.

But now it was a grand banquet, allowing the soldiers of the various tribes of the steppe to drink heartily. Countless cattle and sheep were put down outside, and the wine was as white as water, and it was as good as water.

After setting up the guard at night, the soldiers of all the departments and the Han army drank happily together, and at the banquet, countless fine wines were dried, and the men on the grassland were all good drinkers, and in the tents outside, many people took off their hats and danced the whirlwind dance of the Western Regions.

As for the inside of the tent, Li Chongjiu set up a banquet to entertain the leaders of the department, and they were relatively much better, but they were not as lively as outside. It's just that each of them has a captured Turkic woman by his side. They also forced a smile and sat beside the generals to accompany the wine.

Li Chongjiu saw that he was present. The generals didn't dare to be too presumptuous, and they retreated immediately.

After Li Chongjiu left. Suddenly, Tuli followed, but saw that Tuli had something to say. Li Chongjiu immediately asked the guards to let him in.

Li Chongjiu said: "Tuli, it's already late at night, if you have anything to say, it's better to say it tomorrow." ”

Tu Li immediately lowered his head and said: "Your Majesty, thanks to your action, I can defeat Jieli and take revenge, so I want to serve Your Majesty." ”

As he spoke, Tuli clapped his hands. At that moment his attendant came carrying two sheepskin sheets.

But seeing that the quilt showed a woman's long silky hair, Tuli smiled at Li Chongjiu and said: "Your Majesty, these two are my Turkic beauties, which can be called national colors, and I am intending to dedicate them to Your Majesty." ”

Seeing Tu Li's behavior, Li Chongjiu turned around and said with a smile: "Tu Li, you have never been with me, why have you changed today." ”

There was a look of embarrassment on Tuli's face. It seems that this person is not accustomed to bending to himself and speaking to others. But Tuli still stubbornly said: "This is to repay His Majesty, and I also want to ask His Majesty to let me stay in Iron Mountain and inherit the position of Turkic Khan." I beg your Majesty's permission. ”

Tuli knelt down. He kowtowed to Li Chongjiu and said: "I didn't do this out of selfishness, Your Majesty Ashina Sheer led 30,000 troops to cross the desert to the north and set up a Khan court in Dujin Mountain. And his elder brother Ashina Mamo is also a major Turkic force. If the two brothers join forces, it is likely that they will control the grassland. So I asked His Majesty for it. The town guards here and oversees the two of them. I, Tuli, am willing to swear to His Majesty that I will always live in harmony with Da Zhao and never betray. ”

Li Chongjiu helped Tuli up and said: "Your request, I know it in my heart, let me think about this matter, and then make a decision after everyone discusses it in the future." ”

Tuli didn't know what to say for a while, and he didn't know if Li Chongjiu agreed. Li Chongjiu smiled and said, "I accepted your beauty." ”

Tuli was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately retreated. Li Chongjiu knew that if he didn't accept it, Tuli would definitely be worried in his heart, but if he did, Tuli would have a lot in his heart. Right now, Jieli has just gone, and on the huge grassland, the power is vacant.

Li Chongjiu is convinced that both Tuli and Ashina want to fight for this position. In fact, it is not only Ashina Momo, but even Ashina Sheer, who led his troops to cross the desert north to Ashina Sheer in Yudujin Mountain.

Mobei's control over the grassland is not trivial, and many tribes on the grassland today rose from Mobei, and then migrated south to cross the desert. This is also the habit of nomadic migration. However, in Li Chongjiu's eyes, Mobei Whip is beyond his reach, this place is too far away from Youjing, and it is not at all what Li Chongjiu can control at present, even if he crosses the desert and defeats Ashina Sheer, there will be a new tribe to replace him.

But he can't promise to agree, he will give Mo Nan to Tuli, Ashina touched the last two, firstly, they are not his henchmen, and secondly, this time to defeat the Turks, the highest merit is the Murod Xi Department, they paid such a big price and won the battle for Li Chongjiu. If Li Chongjiu rewarded this vast steppe to the Turks, it would obviously be unfair to the Murdexi Department.

The elimination of the Turkic steppe was the first step.

Li Chongjiu summed up the following problem, that is, we should eliminate the barriers of transportation, and if we want to truly conquer a region, we must eliminate the barriers between the mountains and rivers in this area. The Grand Canal built by Yang Guang, with Luoyang as the center, connects Youjing, Chang'an, and Jiangdu together. Therefore, the Sui Empire was not the most powerful since the Qin and Han dynasties, but its centralized power far exceeded that of the Qin and Han dynasties.

However, Yang Guang fell on the road of winning over the Jiangnan Gate Valve, wanting to balance the forces of the Guanlong Gate Valve and establish a new interest group. It's not impossible, but he's in a hurry. Yang Xuangan's rebellion was the first time that the Guanlongmen valve resisted Yang Guang, but he did not learn a lesson and still insisted on going his own way.

If you want to truly unify the grassland, one is to eliminate the traffic barrier on the grassland desert, and the other is to establish a new interest group of the Hu and Han people, just as Li Chongjiu fused the scholars, the Hanmen, and the merchants to form a new power group.

Eliminate traffic barriers, because there are no canals in the grassland, Li Chongjiu can only implement trains and railways. This is a matter with a high coefficient of science and technology, and it is difficult to do it because Da Zhao has not yet reached the standard of the industrial revolution. But as long as Li Chongjiu establishes this direction, it can be accomplished in decades, or even a hundred years.

As for the new interest group, this is also a strong guarantee for what Zhao Deyan said to himself. This matter is not something that can be accomplished overnight, and Li Chongjiu does not want to intensify the contradictions between the two sides because of this, but now he has to start doing it.

The next day, Li Chongjiu consulted with the generals, and everyone agreed that all the captured Turkic soldiers should be moved south, and the Turkic Tieshan Khan's court should be burned, and then return south. Li Chongjiu decided to adopt this opinion

At this moment, news also came from Yangshan that Wei Chigong's army had broken through the Turkic Yangshan Gaoque, and went around to the front of Jieli's men and horses, blocking Jieli's way to flee to the west Turks.

Yangshan Gaoque is located in today's Inner Mongolia Hangjin Houqi, when Wei Qing led an army of 40,000 from the clouds, using the tactics of roundabout flank attack, broke through Gaoque, annihilated the Xiongnu Aries King and Lou Fu Wang in the land of Hetao.

The Hetao area is fertile with water and grass, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty built Shuofang City here, set up Shuofang County and Wuyuan County, migrated 100,000 people from the interior to settle there, and also repaired the border fortress and the fortifications along the river built by Meng Tian in the Qin period, and used the Hetao as the forward base for attacking the Xiongnu.

When the news came, Zhang Xuansu said to Li Chongjiujian: "The land of Shuofang County is the capital of Liang Shidu, and now that the Turks have been broken, Liang Shidu is like a lost dog, and facing Li Tang's attack, we might as well surrender Liang Shidu, and he will definitely agree." ”

Li Chongjiu nodded, back then, he went out of Saiyanmen with Li Yuan, and he had fought side by side with Liang Shidu, but at that time, his status was humble, and the other party didn't know him.

Li Chongjiu said: "This is a wonderful strategy!" Who wants to convince Liang Shidu? ”

At that moment, the general Yuan Junzhang stood up and said: "Your Majesty, the last general and Liang Shi both have old days, and they can go to persuade them." ”

Li Chongjiu said: "Yes, after you convince Liang Shidu, it will be a great achievement!" ”

Yuan Junzhang took the order and left immediately.

At the same time, Xue Wanche, who was pursuing, also had news that Jieli was defeated all the way to the west, and sent his son Dieluo Shi to collect the remnants of the army along the way, and recruited the troops east of Tieshan, but also gathered a group of men. After Xue Wanche led the light cavalry to pursue, the two armies clashed one after another, Jieli had no intention of fighting, and did not fight for long, and immediately led the army to flee west. Xue Wanche captured more than 2,000 people from the Jieli tribe.

On the side, Zhang Xuansu said to Li Chongjiu: "Your Majesty, Jieli broke through in a hurry, and the baggage supplies fell on Tieshan, and it is impossible for his troops to cross the desert, and judging from the current map, our military captain Chi Gong's department has already circled behind, intercepted Jieli, and blocked his retreat to the west." Jieli is about to become a turtle in an urn. (To be continued......)