Hou Junji left Li Erma's study in despair, people who saw Hou Junji along the way felt very strange, no matter when he saw General Hou in the past, General Hou always held his head high, held his waist straight, and his air was magnificent, and he was arrogant to say, so his popularity was not very good no matter where he was, people were afraid of him, so he never got close to him, and he himself had no awareness of this, until he came up with the idea of wanting to be the prime minister, and it changed.

Studying, studying, making up for the lack of early years, determined to become a national minister who will enter the prime minister, and then become a famous figure in history, so that thousands of people admire, let future generations remember, but now a qiē has become a bubble, Li Er Majesty was furious and ordered to reduce his second-class dukedom, demoted to a third-class duke, cut down 300 households, fined three years, cut off the post of chief of staff headquarters, returned home and thought about it, and then decided to deal with it in the future!

This is the first time that Li Erma's old courtiers who have followed him and participated in the Xuanwumen Revolution since Zhenguan have been ruthless, and Li Erma's Xià will tolerate the arrogance of these meritorious old ministers in the past, but this time, he cleaned up Hou Junji, who was regarded as a confidant, and pushed it to the end, did not leave the position at all, and directly took away the official position, and then cut the title and food, and strictly ordered Hou Junji to think about it behind closed doors, and he was not allowed to leave the house without a call.

And that's not all, the four generals who spoke for Hou Junji were demoted by three ranks, stripped of their titles, and beaten back to their original form, and the four Wenchen who accepted Hou Junji's gifts and spoke for him were also demoted by three ranks, and were severely warned by Li Er's majesty. As for the five people who did not speak for Hou Junji but reminded Li Erma to pay attention to Hou Junji, including Suning, they were not punished, let alone mentioned, this is a reward.

Clear-eyed people can see that since the fall of the Shandong Shi clan, the civil power has declined greatly, and the military force that Li Er Majesty vigorously supported in order to fight against the Shandong Shi clan was a little too strong, so that when the civil officials were extremely weak, there were generals who directly started the idea of civilian positions. At the time of the formation of the General Staff Headquarters. Li Ermajesty made it clear that from now on, Wen will not be in charge of the military and will not interfere in politics, and the two will have nothing to do with each other, and the military and government will be separated. But at the juncture of the imbalance of civil and military forces. There are still people who have the idea of interfering in politics. took the rules set by Li Ermaxi as a deaf ear.

If this were someone else, he probably wouldn't make Li Ermaxi so angry, but this person is the supreme commander of the Tang Dynasty army from Li Ermaxi below, and Hou Junji, chief of staff of the General Staff Headquarters. He also gathered a few generals and civil servants to write letters to ask for war, intending to obtain military merits and be rewarded with the position of prime minister, so that it was not only challenging the just-established principle of separating military and political affairs, but also challenging the authority of Li Erma, and challenging the bottom line that the Zhenguan Dynasty had no friends.

How can Li Ermajesty not be annoyed?

Under this annoyance, many people were unlucky, Li Er took this opportunity to beat the military hard, although the Tang Dynasty needs you, but it is not for you to interfere in politics, the rights that belong to you cannot be taken away by civil officials, and you don't want to touch the rights that belong to civilian officials! The military is a little stronger, and once it is strong, there will be some thoughts that should not be had......

Li Er's Majesty determined that the general direction of the policy in the next stage was to support the literature and suppress the military, and when this rule was not fully rooted in the hearts of the people, he would impose the most severe punishment on anyone who dared to challenge this rule, even if that person was the emperor's henchman! To punish Hou Junji is to kill the chicken and show it to the monkey, and to sue all the warriors and literati, no matter who it is, even if you are as noble as Hou Junji, you will still clean it up!

Li Ermajesty did his best to maintain the authority of the fragile rules that had just been established, Li Shiji was also doing his best to deal with Tuyuhun, facing the offensive of the Tang Empire, Tuyuhun was full of pessimism and despair, at the beginning, many people advocated not resisting, fleeing from here, going further west to survive, or simply surrendering, anyway, there is nothing bad about being a Tang Dynasty man in this year.

But just like what Zhuge Liang said when Cao Cao persuaded Eastern Wu to surrender, others can surrender, but only Sun Quan cannot, King Tianzhu used this Han allusion to admonish Fuyun Khan, anyone can surrender, but he Fuyun Khan can't surrender, once he surrenders, he will definitely lose all the power he has now, others are harmless, but it is a change of nationality, it is a big deal to pay a little price, but Fuyun Khan has surrendered, and it is estimated that he will go to study dance skills with Jieli Khan of the Eastern Turks.

The Tianzhu King still muttered in his heart, except for you, I can't surrender, otherwise once I surrender, someone will definitely shake out the things that he has pushed Tuyuhun to do over the years, and Fu Yun will not die at that time, but he is very likely to die, so as long as there is a glimmer of life, he can't let it go! Even if all the men in Tuyuhun are pushed to a dead end for this reason!

If it was placed in the past, it is estimated that they still have the retreat route of the Western Regions, but now the countries of the Western Regions have united to cut off their retreat, they have no other way to retreat except to meet the Tang army head-on, and the 30,000 elite soldiers of Tubo in exchange for one-third of the land resources and population do not know if it can come in handy, anyway, they have requisitioned 120,000 troops in the country, counting the 30,000 troops of Tubo, there are 150,000 troops together, and the attacking army includes 40,000 troops of the Tang Army headquarters, 30,000 cavalry of the Western Turks and 60,000 troops of the Western Regions Alliance, a total of 130,000 people, the number is less than that of Tuyuhun.

But neither Fuyun Khan nor the King of Tianzhu thought that this was an easy war, because they believed that the enemy they faced could not be defeated by relying on the numerical advantage of only 20,000 people, even if the other party really only had an army of 40,000 people, it should not be underestimated, since the founding of the Tang Army, when it fought with foreign countries, there was no time that it did not win more miracles with less, and the most time it only sent 120,000 troops, but the opponent was 300,000 troops of the Eastern Turks.

The result is self-evident, was beaten by the Tang army to cry dad and mother, and finally the 30,000 formed army was burned clean by a young general named Suning led by 500 iron cavalry, and the Eastern Turks perished.

Therefore, no matter how many Tang troops there were, they did not dare to underestimate the Tang army, and as for the reinforcements of the Tibetans, they did not dare to have much hope, because they had fought with the Tibetans. The Tubo people were fierce and did not want to die when they started a battle, but compared to the well-trained and well-equipped Tang army, they had a deep understanding every time they attacked Lanzhou, and if they fought face to face, the Tubo army was not necessarily the opponent of the Tang army.

That should be in the absence of altitude sickness.

The terrain of Gansu and Qinghai is much lower than that of Tibet, so the army will not be affected by it if they go up on foot, but if it is Tibet, the impact is really not small. That's why there is a saying that people living on the plains can't go directly to Tibet by plane. Otherwise, it will be uncomfortable for many days to recover, and there is too little oxygen.

One of the main reasons for the defeat of the Tang army and the Tibetan army was altitude sickness, and the Tang army lost more and won less on the plateau, while the Tang army won more battles on the plain. However, the Tibetan army was still not weak. Descended to the plateau. The average combat effectiveness of the Tibetan people has increased by 30%.

It's just that no one pays attention to it in this era, but when Suning comes, this kind of thing will not happen. Suning has decided to set up an army specifically for the Tubo people, pull up to the plateau for adaptive training, and only after adapting can they fight against the Tubo people, otherwise they will definitely suffer, for this, Suning has also prepared a lot of rhetoric about altitude sickness to persuade Li Erma, to make up for this scientific blindness.

However, if you fight in Qinghai and Gansu, with the strong combat effectiveness of the government soldiers and the central garrison in the Lanzhou area, there is nothing to fear, so after Li Shiji led the army to replenish and reorganize the army in Lanzhou, he slaughtered Tuyuhun with great momentum, and at the same time sent people to send people to order the Western Turkic soldiers and horses to attack the hinterland of Tuyuhun from north to south to contain its rapidly mobile cavalry army, the focus is to avoid a large-scale cavalry decisive battle with it, but to make full use of the cavalry mobility to contain more of its troops, and reduce the pressure on the frontal Tang army attack.

As for the Western Regions Coalition Army, Li Shiji did not hold out too much hope, but just ordered them to advance slowly in a group, destroy them when they encounter small-scale resistance, confront them when they encounter large-scale resistance, and do not recklessly engage them with large corps, otherwise they are likely to suffer; Then Li Shiji sent people to the local Qiang area to find the Dangxiang Qiang people as a guide to the army, and as Suning estimated, the local Dangxiang Qiang leader Tuoba Chici personally came to negotiate with Li Shiji.

The content of the negotiations was also similar to what was expected, about the former Sui's dishonesty and their distrust of the Tang army, which made Li Shiji surprised by Suning's predictive ability, this is the legendary decisive victory thousands of miles away? Therefore, Li Shiji paid more attention to Suning's worries, watched Li Daoyan to death, and did not give him the right to command the army alone, but only let him lead the army to follow his own Chinese army, and at the same time made a bloody alliance with Tuoba Chici, and won Tuoba Chici's trust.

Tuoba Chici showed friendly kindness to the Tang army, provided some food and forage for the Tang army, and sent people who were familiar with mountain roads and paths to guide the Tang army.

According to the research, the terrain in this area is high in the west and low in the east, that is to say, the Tang army seems to be walking a gentle road, in fact, it is an uphill road, in terms of the art of war, this is not a good battlefield for the Tang army, the Tuyuhun people are condescending but more advantageous, and the Tang army needs to pay a greater price for attacking on the back, Li Shiji began to devote himself to finding a small road and the fortification of the Tuyuhun people, hoping to pass through the defense line of the Tuyuhun people and raid it, so as to reduce casualties.

Tuyuhun is also quite wary of the Tang army, after sending 30,000 cavalry north to meet the 30,000 cavalry of the Western Turks, Tuyuhun concentrated 50,000 elite troops to the east, ready to find the Tang army to fight a decisive battle, the commander of the army is Tuyuhun's first fierce general Chi Yun, and the Western Regions coalition army behind is led by the king of Tianzhu 20,000 troops and 30,000 Tubo reinforcements to deal with, Fuyun Khan led 20,000 elite to stay in the capital, support or escape at any time.

This strategy is still good, but in the face of such a famous general as Li Shiji, this lineup is not too luxurious, Chi Yun is indeed a brave and invincible general who fights all over Tuguhun, but Datang is not without generals who can fight well, and Fu Yun Khan underestimates Li Shiji, Li Shiji's martial arts may not be too powerful, but his resourcefulness and strategy, Chi Yun is not able to beat the horse.

Tuyuhun's resistance was doomed from the start.

On the third day of December in the seventh year of Zhenguan, Li Shiji led the army in Kushan and Chi Yun led the Tuyuhun 50,000 elite to meet, the two sides launched a fierce battle, in the battle, Tang general Su Dingfang was eye-catching, personally led a thousand horses and horses to rush into the Tuyuhun defense circle, stirred it up to pieces, several times close to Chi Yun's army, Chi Yun was afraid, the wolf bèi fled, but was killed by Su Dingfang with an arrow to sit down the horse, causing chaos, Li Shiji seized the opportunity to press the army, and defeated the resistance of Tuyuhun in one fell swoop.

In the first battle, the Tang army won a complete victory, beheaded more than 8,000 people, captured more than 6,000, Su Dingfang beheaded thirteen enemy generals, Chi Yun escaped his life by luck, led the defeated army to retreat dozens of miles, camped according to the terrain, and no longer went to war, Li Shiji led the army to pursue, seeing that the terrain was unfavorable, he did not launch a strong attack, so he set up camp, waited for the fighters, and at the same time sent people to report the victory of the battle to Li Er.

It's just that what happened next was a little unexpected by Li Shiji. (To be continued......)