873 Pacify the Eight Desolations

From the beginning of the tenth year of Zhenguan began a series of wars, to the beginning of the eleventh year of Zhenguan only ended the first stage, the Tang Dynasty unprecedented sweep away since ancient times around the Central Plains for a lot of harm foreign enemies, Tongguò Pingxi Turkic Battle and Xue Yantuo Battle, 200,000 troops spent more than half a year to pacify the prairie, reproduced the feat of Huo Quai's illness and wolf Juxu, the strength and prestige of the Central Plains Dynasty rose sharply for a time.

But this is only the beginning of a series of major battles, Zhenguan ten years in February, 200,000 troops just north to start the battle of pacifying the grassland, the east of Goguryeo sent troops to begin to provoke Goguryeo - the peninsula battle, the other army of the Tang Dynasty was pinned down by the Goguryeo battlefield, the two wars lasted for a month, there was a turnaround, not to mention the grassland, all the way forward, The Battle of Goguryeo was due to the unexpected actions of Suning, the deputy governor of the march, and Goguryeo quickly lost its threat to the Tang Dynasty.

After that, Goguryeo's old enemy Silla sent troops to attack Goguryeo, the battle of the peninsula began, and the Goguryeo Civil War broke out at the same time, and the whole peninsula was plunged into a war.

Just when the plague was raging, the westernmost part of the Tang Dynasty, a large-scale rebellion war also broke out in the Western Regions, and the countries of the Western Regions got the information that the Tang Dynasty was waging wars in the north and east at the same time, so they decided that the Tang Dynasty could not support the third war at the same time, so they were very relieved to set off a rebellion war - the Western Regions Counterinsurgency Campaign.

What they didn't expect was. Datang did not intend to coexist peacefully with them from the beginning, first of all, to form alliances, make friends, and then to control commerce, economic lifelines and food, Datang has the ability to cut off the war resources and war capabilities of the armies of the Western Regions countries at any time, in this case, the Western Regions countries launched a joint rebellion, then it is a pure act of death, if you don't die, we can continue to play for a while, you die. Then I'm sorry.

Du He, the head of the cavalry of the Anxi Protectorate. The famous mad general Du He led the elite troops of the Tang Dynasty to attack the rebels' lair for a long distance at the fastest speed, and when Guo Xiaoke, the protector of the Anxi Prefecture, arrived with 40,000 main troops, the war was over, and all they had to do was to capture the prisoners and take care of the aftermath. Covered in blood, Duho has completed his mission. He succeeded in putting down the rebellion. Let the blood of the enemy stain his whole person red.

After this war passed, things still did not stop, the west of the Western Regions. The envoys of the Sassanid Dynasty of Persia, which officially bordered the Tang Dynasty, came to the Tang Dynasty and asked the Tang Dynasty to send troops to support the Persian Empire to help the Persian Empire fight against the powerful emerging Arab Empire, the ancient and aging Persian Empire was not the opponent of the Arab Empire at all, and was beaten badly by them, just when the reinforcements departed, the Persian Empire was defeated in the important Battle of Qadisia, and the 300,000 troops were defeated.

Fortunately, at this time, the Northern War has been basically pacified, and the next step is to occupy, and then to distribute the grassland to the herdsmen, so that a part of the landless Han people in the Central Plains can go to the grassland to graze and raise horses, to provide enough meat for the people, and to provide enough war horses for the army.

The eastern battlefield was led by Xue Wanche to 50,000 elite soldiers to Yingzhou to support, and the western battlefield was led by Chai Shao to lead 50,000 elite soldiers to the rendezvous expeditionary force, and the eastern and western battlefields plus the navy Datang is still a war operation of 200,000 people, whether it is the beginning of military expenses or food costs, etc., it is a large amount of expenditure, but fortunately, the Persians will help Datang buy half of the order, and Datang only needs to bear the expenses on the battlefield on the eastern peninsula.

Because the strength of the three peninsulas was weakened by Yan zhòng, the Tang army did not have much strength to take the entire territory of Goguryeo, and then when Suning and Qin Qiong met on the north bank of the Datong River, Qin Qiong asked Suning what he planned to do next, and Suning pointed to the south bank of the Datong River without hesitation: "Silla and Baekje can be destroyed!" ”

So the second phase of the battle of the Tang Peninsula was launched, Qin Qiong's thoughts were the same as Suning's, the reason why he asked was also to fancy Suning's ideas, and Suning also had a lot of ideas about destroying Silla and Baekje, so it was good to destroy it, the Tang army crossed the Datong River south and began to advance, at first there was no resistance and too many people, because they had just experienced the plague, both Silla and Baekje put medicine to cure the disease at the southernmost tip of their land, and they didn't have time to restore the territory, and the Tang Dynasty took this opportunity to march to their homeland.

It is no surprise that many infected Silla and Baekje people have not been treated, and the efficiency of the royal families of the two countries is not generally low, which is also cheap for Datang, while treating diseases while occupying local military fortresses, etc., under the premise of no defense force, Datang quickly occupied two-thirds of the territory of the Korean Peninsula, and then when advancing, it encountered the Silla army and the Baekje army, the Baekje army has nothing to say, fight directly, and it is not an ally, as for the Silla army......

Framing blame is also one of the reasons for starting a war, so after killing all the other party's advance team, Suning decisively ordered to draft a declaration of war, using bloody facts and a handful of snot and tears to accuse the Silla advance army of killing 83 soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, and killing 83 Tang soldiers under the premise that the Tang soldiers did not have any defense, the idea of the Tang soldiers was just to help Silla treat those infected people, but they never wanted to be kindly treated as donkey liver and lungs!

Datang is definitely not a pig, cow and sheep to be slaughtered, Datang wants to fight back and seek justice for those soldiers who were killed! So not long after the proclamation was sent, the Tang army began a full-scale attack, frantically seizing the cities and important strongholds of Silla, and quickly establishing a wartime management system to ensure that there would be no other uprisings in Silla, and the diseases of those Silla people were cured by the medicine of the Tang Dynasty. It's too late to thank you!

They looked at Datang with a complicated attitude, but the people of Baekje did not have such a good attitude, although many of the Baekje people were also treated, but there were few people in Baekje, either they ran to the sea with them, or they died, and very few remained in the local area, and the love of Datang was not spread enough, and the land of Baekje was also small, and the speed of the royal family was relatively fast. Therefore, the resistance of the Baekje people was fierce. It didn't matter, the main force of the Datang Navy was operating along the coast of Baekje, and Baekje's resistance was quickly extinguished.

Under the high-flying attacks of the Tang armies on both fronts, the national order of Silla and Baekje, which had just been restored from the trauma of the plague, was shattered. Datang has established an updated wartime control system. These lands were directly placed under the control of the Tang Dynasty. Silla and Baekje almost didn't have time to react, and they wouldn't have thought that Datang would change his face so quickly. Especially in Silla, when Queen Seondeok received the declaration of war from the Tang Dynasty and learned that most of the country was occupied by the Tang Dynasty, she suddenly fell to the ground, scaring the people around her.

Baekje's resistance was very weak, and it didn't take long for it to be killed, and the royal family was mainly still stranded on the ship, worried that they would be infected if they went ashore, so they had to postpone it, so they gave the Tang Navy an excellent opportunity, Zhang Liang outflanked the back road of the Baekje royal family's ships with the fastest speed, and wiped out the Baekje royal family in one net, and destroyed the Baekje country very easily.

As for Silla's slight resistance, it was that Jin Yuxin, although he was cut off a qiē position before and went home to reflect, but in the end he was still of high status and noble blood, and he was released not long after, although there was no official reinstatement, but it was almost the same, Queen Seondeok took him to flee for his life, after the declaration of war of the Tang Dynasty was issued, Jin Yuxin was the calmest and accurately analyzed that the Tang Dynasty was clearly a plan to unload the mill and kill the donkey, just to give a reason, in fact, it doesn't matter whether this happened or not!

Yes, that's it, it doesn't matter in the first place, if you sincerely want an explanation, you should wait for a statement after the declaration of war is sent and then decide whether to launch an attack, and Datang directly fights while issuing a notice, obviously this is an excuse, he wants to fight, with the last strength and Datang to fight to the death, no matter what he says at this time, it is useless, Datang will not talk about it at all, it is already like this, unless the Tang Emperor personally orders, and the Tang Emperor is crazy.

This is obviously impossible, so there is only one way to fight to the death, Jin Yuxin was appointed as a general in danger, and commanded the only remaining 50,000 soldiers and horses of Silla to go north and fight to the death with the Tang Dynasty, but was destroyed by Suning's artillery team, there was no close combat at all, and attacking the city so quickly was also the practice of either surrendering or using artillery bombardment, surrendering can naturally enjoy the national treatment of the Tang Dynasty, and those who were bombarded with artillery can only ask for more blessings.

Jin Yuxin's army was destroyed by artillery and Datang's long-range strike weapons, almost without the power to fight back, when the iron cavalry charged, Jin Yuxin was still immersed in shock, the last military force of Silla collapsed like this, Jin Yuxin died in the chaos, was shot in the throat by an arrow, pierced the throat and died, there was no room for resistance.

Silla's resistance was ended, the Silla royal family retreated to the last mountain, and was forced to a dead end by the Tang army, and the navy that eliminated Baekje had blocked the sea route, captured all the ships of the Silla naval division, and completely trapped the Silla royal family there, so under the cold sea breeze, the Silla royal family led by Queen Seondeok cried and cried en masse, and presented the Silla people's roster and surrender table to the Tang Dynasty commander Qin Qiong, presented the national seal, and officially surrendered.

Silla is destroyed!

From February of the 11th year of Zhenguan to the end of March of the 11th year of Zhenguan, but in a little more than a month, the three countries of the peninsula perished one after another, in the process, the plague made an indelible contribution, although this kind of credit is what everyone does not want to see, and everyone is cursing it in the hope that it will not appear again, but in this special period, only the Tang Dynasty is the final victor.

From March of the tenth year of Zhenguan to the end of March of the eleventh year of Zhenguan, from Qin Qiong and Suning led the army north until the destruction of Silla, the peninsula was officially occupied by the Tang Dynasty, and for a whole year, the Liaodong Front Army started with an extremely strict disadvantage, reversed the situation step by step, and got the support of the navy after strengthening the wings of a tiger, and crippled Goguryeo, although the outbreak of the plague was unexpected, but at this time, who would pursue the plague?

Qin Qiong smiled very happily, as the commander of the Tang Army, he successively presided over the large-scale battles of exterminating the two tribes, expanding the land of Liaodong for thousands of miles, and eliminating the three kingdoms of Goguryeo, Silla, and Baekje, and captured more than 300,000 effective prisoners before and after, and obtained countless trophies such as materials, money, land, and population, especially a large piece of territory east of Yingzhou in Liaodong that originally belonged to the Yan people was captured by Su Dingfang, plus the peninsula and the Liaodong Peninsula, all of which originally did not belong to the Tang Dynasty, were also occupied by the Tang Dynasty.

The entire territory of Liaodong officially belongs to the Tang Dynasty, and the last of the eight wildernesses in the world has finally been taken! (To be continued......)