In the fourth year of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty destroyed the Eastern Turks and completely took over the territory of the Eastern Turks. From then on, the northernmost part of the Tang Dynasty was no longer the Yunzhou Great Wall, but the vast grassland.

Emperor Li Er left the famous general Li Ji to guard the northern grasslands.

Different from the previous rules, in the past, after the Central Plains countries captured other territories, they set up a Protectorate, which only governed local military and political affairs, which was different from the management of various states and roads in China. For example, the powerful Han Dynasty destroyed the Xiongnu and the Western Regions Protectorate. However, after the decline of the powerful Han Dynasty, the Protectorate was in name only, and was eventually rebelled and independent by a small country.

During the prosperous Tang Dynasty in history, it swept across the world and established six protectors including Anxi, Anbei, Annan, Andong, Beiting, and Shanyu, in order to govern the surrounding small alien countries.

But the Tang Dynasty in this life is different. Since there is a perfect governance method, naturally, it will no longer use the Protectorate Palace and directly plan it as its own prefecture territory.

According to the geographical location of the Eastern Turks, Li Ji spent two years building three heroic cities on the northern grassland, the northern city in the north, the Xiping city in the west, and the Dongping city in the east. The three cities were distributed in a triangle in the center of the northern grassland, which was also to strengthen the rule of the grassland.

At the same time, the city building plan was planned by a group of architects in the Tang Dynasty. The three cities are no less than Chang'an City, and it is no problem to accommodate millions of soldiers and civilians.

The reason why the northern grasslands are all nomadic people is that herders must live with grass, and people and animals need water sources to survive. Therefore, constantly choosing areas with lush water and grass to grazing is the survival habit of the northern grasslands.

Therefore, except for the grassland royal court, there are basically no cities on the grassland. Even the Eastern Turkic royal court was just a large number of camps and no soil was built to make a city.

Now that the Tang Dynasty wants to build a city and stick to it, the first thing that needs to be solved is the water source problem. Fortunately, the grassland ecology in this era was very well maintained, without desertification at all, and there was no shortage of water. Before the Tang Dynasty built the city, it chose a suitable place to drill wells manually. Many places were water sources below ten meters, and water could be produced at the deepest thirty meters deep.

Once the water source problem is solved, building cities and gathering people is no longer a problem. For the construction of these three northern cities, half of the large merchants in the Tang Dynasty have been circulating various materials to the north in the past two years, which has led to the three solid cities today.

Four months ago, the people on the grasslands entered the city of Maodong, four months ago, and this was a strict order. All the people within 500 miles of the Great Wall retreated into the Great Wall to arrange for relocation. All the people 500 miles north of the Great Wall all contracted to the three main cities. If any person does not follow, they will be regarded as rebeling from the Tang Dynasty and will be expelled from then on.

The people of the grassland have lived with the grassland for generations, and many people are not used to living in the city at all, but this does not affect their yearning and envy for the lives of the people in the Tang Dynasty. Now, the imperial court encourages them to live in the city and take care of all living resources. Where can I find such a good thing? So the relocation is very smooth.

Time flies, and as the New Year Festival passes, spring begins immediately. On the fifth day of spring plowing in the north of the Tang Dynasty, a dense army appeared fifty miles outside the northern city. Li Ji stood at the top of the city and observed it with a telescope of the Mileage Eyes, and smiled slightly: They are here.

The first army to arrive was the 200,000 army of the Western Turks and the Uighurs. After all, these two countries are closest to each other and are both elite riders.

The northern grassland countries have never been in the beginning of spring, because in history, the grasslands sent troops south to plunder, and the best time for plunder is to the people of the Central Plains in the south after the autumn harvest. At this time, the people of the Central Plains have money and food. On the contrary, if it is spring, then after just after winter, the family has almost consumed almost everything and they can't plunder anything good.

Of course, it is also because the plants and trees have just sprouted in spring, and the winter has just passed, and the grass is not lush and the horse is not fat. It is actually a great loss to choose to fight in early spring.

However, after the alliance discussion was over, the best time for attack was missed, because there was no way to fight in winter, so I could only choose the spring plowing time of the Tang Dynasty.

With 500,000 alliance troops in hand, both the Northwest and Northeast participants were full of confidence.

After the Western Turks and others arrived, they camped five miles away and did not come up to attack and talk. After waiting for seven or eight days, the Northeast army led by Goguryeo arrived. After all, at this time, the northeast direction was still ice and snow that had not yet been transformed.

Five hundred thousand troops gathered together, Yuan Gaisuwen was elected as the leader of the alliance, and Western Turkic Mo Hedu was elected as the deputy leader.

Under the northern city, Yuan Gai Suwen stepped forward and talked to Li Ji: "Who is the defender? Our alliance army is 500,000 to break the city and attack Tang. If you don't want to be slaughtered, please persuade me to open the city and beg for surrender."

Li Ji was dressed in military uniform and walked out with his personal guards, standing at the top of the city and laughing: "A 500,000 army? How ridiculous? Just 500,000 remaining soldiers were trying to destroy my Tang Dynasty city? How ignorant is the barbarian?

This general is Li Ji, the general of the Tang Dynasty. You and the barbarians are attacking for no reason. This is the way to die. I advise you to put down your weapons and pray for forgiveness from the Tang Dynasty. Otherwise, when my Tang Dynasty heavenly soldiers arrive, you will not be left with 500,000 remaining soldiers."

OK, both sides are more ruthless than the other, and they are just ruthless.

When Yuan Gai Suwen saw that it was Li Ji, a famous general of the Tang Dynasty. This man was so powerful that he would personally guard a city in the Tang Dynasty?

When he saw that it was Li Ji, Yuan Gai Suwen knew that it was impossible to persuade him to surrender, so he had to attack hard.

He sent his horse back to the camp and began to arrange siege. Regarding the siege battle, only Goguryeo was good at present, and the others were all grassland barbarians, only knowing cavalry battle formations, and not good at attacking tough situations.

"The city in front of you is called Beifang City, which was built by the Tang Dynasty in the past two years. Its scale is even no less than that of the Tang Dynasty Chang'an City. Although it is extremely solid, it also has its shortcomings.

That is, the city is large and the number of people is insufficient. We have to siege the city. I can't stand the 20,000 soldiers in the city, and the maximum number of troops in the city is no more than 50,000. Therefore, we can launch a 100,000 army to attack and take three days to go."

Yuan Gaisuwen spoke and decided on a siege strategy. Everyone was confused and knew that the city had been broken in three days. They didn’t understand the rest and didn’t need to be too clear. Anyway, it was just a fight.

"There is no moat in the northern city, so we can directly use siege cars and ladders to fight. This first battle is the first battle to boost morale. The warriors need to step forward. Shi Wei and the Martial Army have combined 120,000, leaving 20,000, and selected 100,000 elite troops to attack the city head-on tomorrow. The remaining troops are divided into four routes and stationed around the northern city to prevent the enemy from breaking through the city and escaping."

"promise!"

Shi Wei and the Mariner tribes were very happy and used us in the first battle. Obviously, they were interested in our abilities. They must fight hard and strive for success in one battle.
Chapter completed!