The 10th year of Zhenguan seems to be an eventful period for the Tang Dynasty, after five years of rapid development brought about by the Zhenguan reform action that began in the sixth year of Zhenguan, the national strength of the Tang Dynasty has reached a point where it can support both sides of the battle, and it has reached such a peak, all signs indicate that the time has come to wage war against the Western Turks and Xue Yantuo.

At the beginning of the tenth year of Zhenguan, the Tang Empire officially launched the Northern Expedition to the Grassland, sending 200,000 troops to the Northern Expedition to Xue Yantuo and the Western Turks, and the two armies each had 100,000 troops to attack Xue Yantuo and the Western Turks.

Immediately afterwards, in February of the tenth year of Zhenguan, the news that Goguryeo raised 150,000 troops to attack the Tang Dynasty came from the northeast, and Li Er's majesty was furious, so he had no choice but to take Qin Qiong as the main commander and Suning as the deputy commander, and commanded 20,000 troops to go north to support the Beiping Front Army, vowing to organize Goguryeo outside the city of Beiping, and wait until the grassland army returned to help.

After a six-month fierce battle, the Tang Dynasty won a decisive and brilliant victory on the grassland, Xue Yantuo and the two khans of the Western Turks were brought alive one after another, and the tribes either surrendered or died in battle, none of them were spared, the Xue Yantuo Empire and the Western Turkic Empire collapsed, and no longer existed, and its citizens were either enslaved as slaves of the Tang Dynasty, or were sold to various parts of the Tang Dynasty to earn the money of the rich.

At the same time, in the Northeast Battlefield, because of the extraordinary performance of Suning, the genius general of the Tang Dynasty, the situation that was originally very unfavorable to the Tang Dynasty gradually changed, in April, Suning attacked Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo, and blew open the city gate with the mysterious weapon gunpowder, burning the whole city, slaughtering Goguryeo officials and magnates, capturing the Goguryeo king Gao Jianwu and his family, and transporting it back to the Tang Dynasty by sea through the Liaodong Peninsula. Make a great contribution.

Then, at the beginning of May, Suning united with the newly established navy of the Tang Dynasty on the Liaodong Peninsula - the Beihai Navy and the East China Sea Navy, with a total of 40,000 people, and completely annihilated the 100,000 army of Jiang Yishi, the first general of Goguryeo. More than 50 powerful factions of warlords, large and small, began a chaotic war for supremacy.

May, June, July. It was a period of chaos on the Korean Peninsula, and with the exception of the weakened Baekje Kingdom, which did not start a war, the Silla Kingdom and the Tang Empire allied and dispatched no less than 200,000 soldiers and horses. Three Northern Expeditions were launched. Involved in the civil war in Goguryeo. However, due to strength and luck, the three Northern Expeditions ended in failure, and the greatest result of each Northern Expedition was to completely drive the Goguryeo people north of the Daedong River. Three-quarters of the territory south of the Taedong River belonged to the Silla state.

But at the same time, the Silla State lost two commanders and more than 90,000 troops, nearly one-third of the national strength was lost, and the losses were also very severe, so it had no choice but to stop the plan of the Northern Expedition and wholeheartedly digest the dilapidated territory taken from Goguryeo, but Rao is so, the dilapidated territory cannot replenish the national strength lost by the Silla people for a period of time.

After this war, Goguryeo gradually formed a three-legged driving force, controlling the northern territory of General Li Yuenan, the western territory of General Quangai Suwen and the control of the eastern territory of General Jin Sheng, among which Quangai Suwen was the strongest, Li Yuenan was the weakest, Quangai Suwen in order to unify Goguryeo and become the king of Goguryeo, launched four rebellion wars, the results were not satisfactory, but he also achieved many brilliant victories.

The protracted war completely destroyed Goguryeo's production system, and after the food shortage in late July and early August, the Great Plague broke out in Goguryeo, which was rare in a thousand years, and the infected people would die within half a day to five days, and it was extremely contagious, as if the Great Plague swept through the entire Goguryeo overnight, and marched strongly into Silla and Baekje, and the fear of death enveloped the entire Korean Peninsula.

After the victory of Silla and Baekje against the plague in the early stage, under the impact of the Goguryeo mob in the later period, they failed to hold it, resulting in a large number of front-line troops infected with the plague, and after the army was infected with the plague, the country became more chaotic, the infection became more and more severe, and more and more violent, and those mobs who knew that they were going to die and did not care about attacking the army's defense line not only destroyed the base camp of Li Yuenan and Kim Seung, but also destroyed the national defense line of Silla and Baekje.

At the beginning of September of the 10th year of Jeongguan, the plague had caused nearly a million deaths and many more diseases throughout the Korean Peninsula, except for a few lucky people who were able to escape because of their own constitution, the royal families and magnates of Silla and Baekje continued to retreat to the south in an attempt to escape the plague, and the Baekje royal families and magnates even abandoned the already chaotic land by entering the sea by boat, trying to escape the cruel plague.

In such a situation, the Tang Dynasty could not be left alone, the Goguryeo mob attack incident that began in August of the tenth year of Zhenguan, under Suning's thousands of defenses, still led to the death of more than 100 soldiers, and then Suning took the initiative to abandon the Liaodong Peninsula, with all the Han people and materials returned to the mainland of the Tang Dynasty, temporarily settled around Laizhou, Dengzhou, Shandong, and actively studied how to deal with the plague.

And just as the plague intensified and the whole of East Asia fell into extreme unrest, something undesirable broke out on the plateau to the west.

The countries of the Western Regions collectively rebelled, gathered tens of thousands of troops, in order to resist the Tang Dynasty, and played the banner of driving away the Tang people and regaining independence, but the development of things was not satisfactory, the first time the incident happened, the Tang Dynasty's Western Regions Protectorate learned that although Guo Xiaoke, the Western Regions Protector, although there were some shortcomings, but he was definitely not a useless person, he immediately made a decision, and immediately ordered his general Du He to lead 10,000 cavalry as the vanguard, and he led the remaining 10,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry for the rear army to suppress the rebel army of Gaochang State at the forefront of the Western Regions.

The establishment of the Western Regions Protectorate still took some time, but in order to take care of the idea of the Western Regions countries, Li Erma did not let the Western Regions Protectorate be set up in the territory of the Western Regions Countries, but set it up in Guzhou and Hunzhou not far from the northwest.

This time it was the same, the soldiers and horses of Guzhou and Hunzhou learned about the rebellion. Immediately raised troops to support, after gathering 60,000 troops, Guo Xiaoke thought that the soldiers and horses were sufficient, and there was no need for domestic soldiers and horses, so he wrote to Li Erma Xià to express his preparation to quell the rebellion, and then decided to completely wipe out the Western Regions countries according to Du He's construction, lest the Tang Dynasty have to quell the rebellion.

Du He has long been unhappy with these countries, in order to take care of the reputation of the Tang Dynasty in the past, so he did not make a dead move, this time. Yes, don't worry. Moreover, he also knew that the vertical and horizontal department of the Tang Dynasty had been operating in the Western Regions for a long time, and the vertical and horizontal department had always considered what was about to happen from the worst perspective. So for the news of the collective rebellion of the countries of the Western Regions. The vertical and horizontal departments were prepared early in the morning.

Almost overnight. All the grain merchants in the entire Western Regions set fire to the grain, some fed all the grain to pigs, cattle and horses, and some fled from the Western Regions overnight with their own grain. All in all, all the grain that could be sold in the Western Regions was destroyed, and then, all the unharvested grain in the land of the Western Regions was burned, and almost all the grain merchants and wine merchants disappeared, and the next morning, when people checked the news with surprised expressions, they only saw a mess of grain stores and land.

What's worse is that even the land of the military tun has been burned, and the grain that has not had time to be harvested has been destroyed, and the countries of the Western Regions have not much land that can be used to grow grain, and in recent years, the Tang Dynasty has purchased fruits and cash crops from the Western Regions at a high price, and exported a large amount of grain to the countries of the Western Regions, so the grain farmers in the Western Regions have changed the planting of grain to the planting of fruits and other cash crops, so that by the time of Zhenguan ten years, the grain cultivation of the countries of the Western Regions was less than one-tenth of the cultivation of cash crops.

This ancient and ferocious strategy is still useful today, the Western Regions Alliance finally found that all their food is only enough to eat for a month, at this time, they are completely panicked, they look for the grain stores and land in the territory of various countries, as well as the land of the military camp, at this time they realized that they have been tricked, a strategy that the Tang Dynasty has used for many years, without food, they will not be able to fight.

Du He's army soon arrived, this young Tang general, who was known for his ferocity and cruelty and murderous appetite, had no mercy on them, and never showed mercy to the rebellion, they had tried to kill the general before they started a rebellion, but they could not get the exact point of the general anyway, this general always seemed to like to take people around for inspection and training, basically did not stay in his mansion, except for important matters, he generally did not appear.

This feeling is just like Ma Chao, who was called the general of Shenwei Tian by the Qiang people at the beginning, compared to Ma Chao, maybe more powerful, more capable of fighting, although Ma Chao defeated Cao Cao, but soon failed, and after that, there was no record that could be done, and Du He is real, they watched, little by little to fight the record, from the beginning of the little baron, with military merits accumulated to today's real second-class earl, there is no moisture in it.

The rebels who were killed by Du He, I don't know how many, anyway, there are people in every country, there are people killed by Du He, no one doesn't know Du He's prestige, even more powerful than his predecessor, his teacher Su Dingfang is more powerful and murderous, almost everyone saw the black pressure of a cavalry with the word "Du" in front of them, they all felt a little trembling in their bodies, the deterrence brought to them by this killing god and that banner was too great.

This was originally a war without any unexpected ending, but after a month of war, the Tang Empire won a decisive victory, there was a small episode, this episode, maybe it doesn't matter in Du He's opinion, but if it is handed over to the political family to look at, maybe it will be different, the political family thinks that this is a very good opportunity, Li Erma Xià is also keenly aware that this is a good opportunity for the Tang Dynasty's westward strategy.

The deeds of the Tang Empire's three-sided battle broke the historical record, the east defeated Goguryeo, the north eliminated Xue Yantuo and the Western Turks, and the west was pacified a month after the outbreak of the rebellion, and the 60,000 troops of the Western Regions Protectorate marched into the Western Regions and began to conquer the city.

Give face shameless, then completely cancel the country, change to the Western Regions Protectorate directly under the direct jurisdiction, temporarily handed over to the Western Regions Protector Guo Xiaoke to manage, not surprisingly, those people in the city who surrendered to the city have become Tang citizens, have the right to obtain the Tang ID card, and those who resist and then are breached in the city, all of them must be used as slaves, directly used locally, build the land of the Tang Dynasty, and the resisting army is all slaved, The surrendered army that did not resist was directly used as the local standing guard army, and officially became the army of the Tang Dynasty.

When this qiē was in full swing, when Datang was fully enjoying the fruits of several years of hard work, a camel team with a large number of people and goods appeared in front of Duhe's military camp. (To be continued......)

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