However, anyone who can become a leader in a country that is not sufficiently developed in civilization will not be too bad in terms of civil and military strategy, because it is not practical for a semi-agricultural and semi-nomadic people who are not fully maintained by law and justice to establish their status purely by blood relations, and only by relying on the army in their hands and their own su zhì can they ensure their leadership position, and from time to time pay attention to whether there are some rebellious people among their subordinates, which often appears in these tribes.

It's like Jieli Khan, the Great Khan who is now studying dance skills in the deep palace of Chang'an, or the Western Turkic Khan who has died, none of the Khans is a straw bag, but they failed, not for other reasons, but because they were born at the wrong time, they met the strongest emperor of the Second Chinese Empire, Li Shimin, whose rank was far higher than them.

Suning felt that even if Genghis Khan met Li Shimin, he could only obediently hide on the grassland and sleep in the open, because there were many historical coincidences why Genghis Khan achieved great success, such as the second Chinese empire was in the weakest Song Dynasty, and under the national policy of emphasizing literature over military force for more than a hundred years, the courage of the Han nation was gone, and a group of stupid civilian officials who did not know soldiers were in charge of the Song army, which could have fought against the Mongol army.

The nomadic peoples who could compete with it in the north declined one after another, Europe was in the darkest hour of the Middle Ages, the Great Plague destroyed more than half of their population, and there was no unified empire in Central Asia that could stop the Mongols from conquering westward like the Kushan and Anxi Empires, plus they had acquired the advanced siege skills of the Han Chinese. Thus, an unprecedented super empire was born.

However, the steppe empire born in a coincidence could not last, without the matching cultural maintenance and economic strength, this great empire could only go to division and decline, and even in the most declining period of the Chinese Second Empire, Genghis Khan still could not eliminate it, and even the Mongol Empire paid the price of a great khan, and it was the death of this Möngke Khan that directly led to the decline and division of the Mongol Empire, and when Kublai Khan reorganized his army and went south to destroy the Song Dynasty. Genghis Khan's Mongol Empire was already divided.

That's why the times make heroes. Luck is also a kind of strength, and after Kublai Khan, the luck of the Mongols in East Asia was almost exhausted, and they began to decline. The Han people, who fought back, were driven back to their hometown. And the Mongols in the region of West Asia and Europe. Attila was their last luck, and after Attila's death, the Mongols did not achieve anything great. Just like the Tuyuhun and the Turks at this moment, it is not that they are not strong, but that they have encountered a Chinese empire that is stronger than them.

The strongest Chinese empire under the leadership of the strongest emperor, how can it tolerate this group of barbarians jumping around and biting two bites from time to time, the civilization of the Tang Dynasty is the most advanced civilization in the world, and the force is also the strongest in the world, and the conquest of barbarism by civilization is the correct development, and the civilization that is swallowed by barbarism can only be said to be self-defeating, and the civilization itself has a problem.

Datang does not have this kind of problem, the time and place are favorable, all of them are concentrated on Li Erma, Li Ermaxi stomped his feet, and the whole of East Asia had to tremble, of course, this is not enough, Suning feels that only when Li Eryi stomps his feet and the whole earth has to tremble three times, then it is really powerful, and now, a Tuyuhun with a population of 300,000 dares to go against Datang, if he is not cleaned up, Datang will be very faceless.

So when he learned the news, Li Erqi Xià felt quite surprised, the Zongheng Division was really a sharp blade, so he found an excellent excuse to send troops, now no one will hinder him from sending troops, and foreign countries will not either, Tuyuhun not only robbed and killed the caravan of the Tang Dynasty, but also did not let go of the caravan of the Western Regions, and the countries of the Western Regions were very dissatisfied with this, but they were afraid of the strength of Tuyuhun's soldiers and horses, and they couldn't beat it, especially a general named Chi Yun, who was quite violent.

However, Li Er's majesty released the news, and specially sent an envoy to send a letter to reprimand Fu Yun Khan for doing this!

At the same time, the countries of the Western Regions learned the news that Tuyuhun robbed and killed the Datang caravan and killed hundreds of people, and suddenly realized that the Datang was going to attack Tuyuhun, and there was no way to find the murderer when the Datang caravan was robbed in the past, but this time, Datang actually found the murderer, it is said that the escort of the Datang caravan fought to the death, only two people escaped, and they were seriously injured, but they still escaped and reported the situation to the Western Turkic Datang garrison.

When the Tang garrison learned about it, they immediately rushed to the place of the incident, only to see a place of blood and dead bodies of the guards everywhere, originally the Tang Dynasty could not be sure that this matter was done by Tuyuhun, if it was dead in the past, there was no evidence, Tuyuhun did not admit it, but this time it was really a big deal, because this time the caravan goods had a full fifty boxes of gold that the Tang Emperor used to help the victims of the Western Regions!

The reason why I didn't say it before was because I was worried that the news leak would bring disaster, but the caravan was robbed without announcing it!

As soon as this incident came out, the countries of the Western Regions were in an uproar, and Tuyuhun still refused to admit it, but the countries of the Western Regions were obviously enraged, and they all said that they wanted Tuyuhun to give them an explanation, otherwise this matter would never be reconciled, and the countries faintly formed a posture of crusading against the coalition, which was just a small fight before, but this time it made the countries of the Western Regions really angry, this is gold, fifty boxes of relief gold, how much does it have to be!

When it comes to their own interests, the countries of the Western Regions really can't bear it anymore, if they can bear it in the past, this time they can't bear it, and they have sent it to the Tang Emperor, asking His Majesty the Tang Emperor to send troops to conquer Tuyuhun, and said that if the Tang Dynasty sends troops to fight, they will do their best to help each other and attack Tuyuhun on both sides! At this time, the Western Turks also took a kick, saying that if the Tang Dynasty sent troops, the Western Turks would also impulsively attack Tuyuhun from the north with elite iron cavalry!

Three-sided attack!

Tuyuhun is still making the final struggle, saying that this is a non-existent thing, it has never happened at all, what gold, Tuyuhun has never known, Datang should not rely on the strength of the country to slander people, this is naked slander!

As soon as their news was announced, news came from the Tang Dynasty that they were devastated—a merchant surnamed Liu claimed to be a merchant in the caravan that had been hijacked by Tuyuhun before, and was abducted to Tuyuhun as a slave. This time, when Tuyuhun Junchen was reveling all night because he had hijacked a large amount of gold, he sneaked into the vault and got a piece of gold, and then escaped at night, trekking through mountains and rivers to Lanzhou to get the protection of the Datang official, and the gold ingot in his hand from Tuyuhun but marked with the official seal of the Datang Dynasty became ironclad evidence.

The Tang Emperor Li Shimin was furious and issued an edict to denounce Tuyuhun as "unkind and unjust", "the country of villains", "simply hateful" and the like, and then announced to all surrounding countries that the Tang Dynasty had entered a state of war with Tuyuhun from this time on, and quickly mobilized troops and horses. Prepare to raise 40,000 troops to conquer Tuyuhun. Under the edict, the Western Turks and the Western Regions prepared troops and horses, and sent troops together with the Tang Dynasty to attack from three sides to completely destroy Tuyuhun. Avenge the suffering of innocent people!

That's it. It's a foregone conclusion.

The 60,000 allied forces of several countries in the Western Regions were established. Jointly elected the first Gaochang king who had a tributary relationship with the Tang Dynasty, Lu Wentai, as the commander of the army, obeyed the orders of the Tang Dynasty, and the Western Turks also announced that 30,000 cavalry would be sent to the north to wait for the orders of the Tang Dynasty. As long as Datang gives an order, he will immediately send troops.

On the Tang side, Li Erma ordered Li Shiji, the left deputy chief of the staff headquarters, to be the commander-in-chief, and appointed him as the chief of the Xihaidao march, the commander of General Zuo Wuwei, the general of the Jishi Road march, Su Dingfang, the head of the criminal department, the Shangshu of the Criminal Department, Li Daozong, the head of the Shanshan Road march, Li Daliang, the governor of Liangzhou and the head of the last road march, Li Daoyan, the governor of Minzhou and the head of the Chishui Road march, Gao Yongsheng, the head of the Lizhou Thorn Shi and the Yanze Road march, and the Guitang Eastern Turks and Qibi He Li and other armies attacked Tuyuhun, with a total of 40,000 Ma Bu troops.

Li Ermajesty ordered that in this battle, only victory is not allowed to lose, and the Tuyuhun country must be wiped out, and the king of Fuyun Khan must be captured alive to enter Chang'an to receive the crime before the task can be completed, and Li Ermajesty Xià secretly summoned Li Shiji and instructed him to pay attention to some problems that must be paid attention to, such as killing and wounding as few Tuyuhun elite soldiers as possible, and capturing as many prisoners as possible.

Li Shiji said that he received the order.

After Tuyuhun learned the news, the whole country was terrified, and hurriedly issued a letter of forgiveness to the countries of the Western Regions, and sent a document of forgiveness to the Western Turks, and at the same time went south to send a document to Tubo asking for help, begging for mercy and help everywhere, the appearance of the unstoppable at that time has now disappeared without a trace, the lord of Tuyuhun Fuyun Khan has not eaten for three days and has not slept for three days, his face is sad all day long, and the whole person has lost a circle, and like him, his subordinate minister Tianzhu King is also similar.

"Khan, the countries of the Western Regions have driven our envoys back, the documents have been burned, and there is no hope of a truce." The King of Tianzhu received a report, opened it, his face changed greatly, and then reported to Fu Yun Khan with a panicked face, Fu Yun Khan slapped the table and said angrily: "These bastards! I'm not afraid of them! I could beat them back then, and I can do it now! ”

As soon as the words fell, another soldier took a document and handed it to the king of Tianzhu, who hurriedly opened it, and when he saw it, he was even more frightened: "Khan, the Western Turk Khan beheaded our messenger and directly said that the battlefield will see ......."

Fu Yun Khan was stunned for a moment, and then smiled bitterly on his face: "Okay, okay, Li Shimin really drove us to a dead end, and now we have no other way than to fight the whole country, where is Tubo?" Is there any news from Tibet? If there is a Tibetan to help us stop the Tang army and buy time, I still have a way to deal with those bastards and the Western Turks, and then turn around and clean up the Tang army, that is our only hope. ”

King Tianzhu lowered his head and said dejectedly: "It's all the minister's fault, it's all the minister's fault, if the minister didn't believe in the damn Han people like that, this kind of thing wouldn't have happened, now it's good, the damn Han people can actually do that kind of thing!" ”

Fu Yun Khan's eyes flashed with some irritation, it has always been this Tianzhu King who instigated himself to rebel against the Tang Dynasty, although he once had the idea of making peace with the Tang Dynasty, but he stopped him, what kind of medicine did he take wrong and the Tang Dynasty was so bad? Now Khan, the three armies of the people are besieging on three sides, if there are no reinforcements, the country will definitely be destroyed!

The matter has come to this point, and now it can't be in turmoil, although the king of Tianzhu is bad, but there is a hand in the war, there are not many generals who can rely on it, except for Chi Yun, it is the king of Tianzhu, so the anger is angry, Fu Yun Khan still appeased the king of Tianzhu: "Don't blame yourself, the matter has come to this point, there are also reasons for this Khan, it's not all your fault, now it's better to think about how to deal with the Tang army!"

The Western Regions Coalition Army is not an opponent, it is very easy to deal with, we can block them with 30,000 troops, as for the Western Turks, their cavalry is very powerful, and they also need 30,000 people to deal with it, the Tang Army has strong combat effectiveness, if there are no 60,000 people, it is estimated that it will be difficult to confront it, but we have an army of 80,000 people in the whole country, and there is a gap of 40,000 people, what should we do? ”

Seeing that Fu Yun Khan did not blame him, the Tianzhu King breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, thought about it carefully, and could only say: "Now there is no news of Tibet, we can only plan for the worst, there are no strong men, the older ones, and the younger ones, as long as they are men, they can also go to the battlefield, send them up to buy time, let the elite army deal with the Tang army, defeat the Tang army, and then turn around and clean up the army of the Western Regions and the Western Turks, at present, it seems that this is the only way!" (To be continued......)