Chapter 53: Weak country has no diplomacy (second update)

When the bandits saw that the situation was wrong, they could escape the several encirclements and suppression of the Sui and Tang dynasties. They did not rely on how capable they were to fight, but on their mass base.

Yes, mass base. In fact, the bandits in the Luliang Mountains have formed a dense network of relationships. Some people inquire about information, some are responsible for venting and reporting, some are responsible for setting up ambush and robbery, and some are responsible for selling stolen goods. Chen Ying did not care about it, and first did not identify or interrogate the villagers in the remote mountain villages in the Luliang Mountains, and migrated them all.

In this way, the bandits in the Luliang Mountains have abolished half of them before the battle, and they have lost their keen sense of smell and natural cover.

What's even more shameless is that the Beiwei Army did not fight with the bandits openly at all, nor did it pretend to be a big fat sheep and bring a lot of money to attract the bandits to rob. When the bandits happily surrounded the fat sheep, the Beiwei Army began to show its fangs, and a burst of arrows broke the bandits' army, and then rushed forward, like a flock of tigers like sheep, chopping the bandits into pieces.

Either you can get into the bandit camp while the night is dark and windy, hit the bandits, get a stick, get sweat medicine, or set up a trap, then rush in and beat them up, tie them up and put them on a boat, and take them to the Western Regions to farm. Various strategies and methods are emerging one after another. This set of continuous combination of punches can shock the bandits in the Luliang Mountains.

The bandits were crying. Who is the bandit?

After several times of continuation, I found that every robbery was pretended by the Beiwei Army. Not only did I not get any advantage, I suffered heavy losses. Because the Beiwei Army was full of iron feet and moved very fast, I was still basking in the sun in Qingfengling, Daning tomorrow, and at night, I ran to Heifeng Village, Xi County, more than 100 miles away, uprooting Heifeng Village.

The Beiwei Army was not fast. Today, three or two camps were pulled out and another three or five will be taken out tomorrow. Although there are not a thousand bandits in the Luliang Mountains and eight hundred, at this speed, the Beiwei Army will definitely not complete the task assigned by Chen Ying within three months of the year.

However, the bandits panicked. They knew that the situation was serious, and if they continued to do this, they would be finished. They united and launched repeated attacks on the Beiwei Army stationed in Qingfeng Ridge in Daning. Qingfeng Ridge was originally the largest bandit nest in Daning County. It was led by Liu Aqi, the leader of the bandit leader who followed Lishanfei. The entire village was about 400 steps wide and about 500 steps long, but it was built with stones and glutinous rice juice. Not to mention the poorly equipped bandits, even if the well-equipped official army came to attack the city, such a fortress would have to collapse a few big teeth.

The effect of the attack was very obvious: they successfully reduced the bandits in the Luliang Mountains by half. With their broken bows and arrows, they could not even shoot through the armor of the Beiwei Army, let alone the solid fortress. What's even more hateful is that once the battle is stalemate, the Beiwei Army will immediately put down dozens or hundreds of stone balls on the slope of Qingfeng Ridge, which weighs about eight or nine hundred kilograms. They will die if they touch it, and get injured if they touch it. As long as the stone ball rolls down from the hillside, a bloody storm will set off in the bandit formation, smashing the bandits to the back of the horse... Not to mention these mobs, even the elite Turkic troops, facing the defensive offensive of the Beiwei Army, they can only sigh and roll as far as they can.

After suffering a few losses, the bandits learned their lessons and would never take the initiative to attack the Beiwei Army. Unfortunately, the food was not long and they would not take the initiative to run up the mountain to find them. So in order to have a meal, they must take the initiative to attack the Beiwei Army, otherwise they would starve to death. They could not conquer them even if they could live or die, and Beiwei was still elusive. They destroyed two or three mountain villages today and a few more the day after tomorrow... The bandits were almost driving this fighting style crazy, and they just wanted to whine: "Uncle, we have admitted our conscience, can we stop fighting?"

However, the Beiwei Army said that it would definitely not work.

Before General Chen's order was completed and the task of 100,000 people were issued to guard the border, the bandit suppression operation must not be stopped.

When the bandits in Luliang Mountain saw that this was not a solution, they could not fight and could not run away. The bandits who were good at climbing mountains and wading water raced with the soldiers of the Beiwei Army and were often chased to the sky without a way out and no way to enter the ground.

The bandits in the Luliang Mountains of Putian County, Daning, and Xi County seemed to have disappeared. The bandits who had been entrenched here for more than ten or even for dozens or hundreds of years were said to be able to celebrate these local officials, but soon they realized something was wrong.

Take Putian County as an example. Putian County was originally a county with a population of tens of thousands, but with the extermination of the bandits, the population dropped sharply by 60%. Now it is less than 4,000 households. Of course, it is impossible for Putian County to be more than 60% of all bandits. The key is that the good people in very remote mountainous areas were also fooled by Chen Ying.

Chen Ying used his personal credit as a guarantee and promised the people that he would migrate to Lingzhou to divide 100 acres of land, and a family of five to divide a cattle and a house. This is too tempting for poor and innocent people. The key is that Hedong has been fighting almost every year for three years, but it has caused ordinary people to do so much, and they have had enough.

Li Rui was quite stunned. His population dropped sharply by 60%, and he, a county magistrate, could not afford to take advantage of it. So more than 50 county magistrates in the Luliang Mountains of Hedong, as well as Mingzhou, Xiangzhou, Weizhou, and even Beizhou in Hebei Province wrote letters to Li Yuan to impeach Chen Ying.

However, all these impeachment memorials were muddy and there was no reaction at all.

Li Yuan knew the ups and downs caused by Chen Ying in Hedong and Hebei. Of course, the most important thing was that Chen Ying's memorial touched Li Yuan's heart. Chen Ying wrote in a secret memorial to Li Yuan: "As long as he is given 100,000 people, he will farm 100,000 in the Western Regions next year, so that the Western Regions will become the granary of the Tang Dynasty. The Western Regions will be familiar with the world."

Li Yuan had his own conspiracy. The young and strong people in Hebei and the young and strong people in Hedong were swept away, which could just weaken the strength of the aristocratic families of Hedong and Hebei. This was a killing of two birds with one stone. Even if Dou Jiande's subordinates wanted to rebel, they would not have the capital to rebel. Do they have to rely on the elderly, weak, sick and disabled?

It is inappropriate to say that the movements made by Chen Ying in the Luliang Mountains have no effect. At least when the leader of the "Falcon" Ashina Suni, still did not change his self-righteous nature. He hurriedly wrote to Ashina Duo: "Dear Khan, your most loyal servant Ashina Suni, reported to you. According to reliable information, Chen Ying is currently suppressing bandits in Hedong and Hebei, and is in line with your servant's previous speculation. There is a saying in the Han Dynasty that it is said that foreign resistance must be first.

Annei, Chen Ying's move must be to confront the Great Turkic Khan in the future and clear the rear. Some of these bandits were the old subordinates of Dou Jiande and "Dingyang Khan". They and Li Tang remained unstoppable. Once the Khan needed them, they could raise an army at any time to support the Khan. This was the most unstable factor in Li Tang. However, it was a pity that these soldiers who could have become internal forces in the Great Turkic Khan were also lost because of the mistakes of their servants. Chen Ying went to Hedong, and his servant suggested that the Khan's tent move northward..."

Asina Duo took the secret letter and thought for a long time. He still brought the secret letter to Princess Yicheng's den. Asina Suni handed the secret letter to Princess Yicheng, and then sighed with his hands: "It seems that old Li Yuan and Ben Khan are on the way!"

"I dare to go north even if I only have more than 30,000 soldiers and horses. I am so brave!" Princess Yicheng smiled coldly after reading the secret letter, "My Khan, aren't you afraid of him?"

When he heard this, Jie Lihe Khan jumped up like a rabbit stepping on his tail, and shouted with a stern look, "Without the courage and courage of a horse and a corpse, what is Xiongjie? How could I, Ashina Duo, be afraid of him, Huangkouzi?"

If Asina Duo's legs did not tremble and his hands did not tremble, Princess Yicheng really believed Asina Duo's words, but Asina Duo's performance betrayed his heart.

Princess Yicheng looked at Ashina Duo, feeling very regretful. Ashina Duo must not be so unbearable like the son of Qimin Khan?

If I had known this result, I would never have supported him to ascend to the Khan position.

Seeing Princess Yicheng's sarcastic look, Asina Duo said embarrassedly: "Ko Dun doesn't know that Ben Khan is not afraid of Chen Ying, but the two tigers will fight, and one will be injured. Once Ben Khan and Chen Ying suffer heavy losses in the duel, they will be in vain. I can't go to this, otherwise it will bring shame to millions of Turkic people!"

Princess Yicheng sneered: "Khan, what are you going to do?"

Asina Duo thought for a while and said, "Ben Khan decided to meet the envoy of Tang in Princess Yicheng's den!"

Tang Jian was one of Li Yuan's counselors. When Li Yuan raised an army in Taiyuan, Tang Jian participated in the planning. In the first year of Wude (618), he was promoted to the Secretariat of the Secretariat. In the second year of Wude (619), Tang Jian learned that Dugu Huaien was going to rebel. Dugu Huaien was stationed in Puzhou, and Tang Jian sent people to expose Dugu Huaien's rebellion. After Chen Ying defeated Liu Wuzhou, Tang Jian was appointed as the Minister of Rites for his merits.

This time he recommended himself to go on a mission to the Turks, and wanted to rely on his eloquence, which made the Turks speechless and forced the Turks to withdraw their troops.

It’s just a pity that Tang Jian didn’t know a very famous saying in later generations: “A weak country has no diplomacy!”

Tang Jian arrived in Dingxiang all the way, and before he even saw Jie Li Khan, he was detained by the Turks. Dozens of people in the entire Tang delegation were all locked in a sheep pen.

As a diplomatic ambassador of a country, it was a shame and humiliation to be treated like this. Tang Jian had a bit of Ah Q's spirit. He believed that the Turks were barbaric and vulgar, and did not know etiquette at all, so Tang Jian was also a general Turkish person.

However, the Turks deliberately wanted to humiliate Tang Jian. Not only did they not give him a place to live, but they even ate spoiled mutton and also brought green-headed flies.

A bowl of water a day, a piece of spoiled mutton. After three days, Tang Jian was so hungry that his heart was pressed against his back. Fortunately, at this time, the Turkic people told Tang Jian that Jie Li Khan was about to see him. Tang Jian was overjoyed and hurriedly used the saved water to clean his hands and face, comb his hair, tidy up his clothes and avoid being rude.

Tang Jian wore a beam crown and a public uniform, neither humble nor arrogant, bowed to Jie Li Khan and Princess Yicheng: "Tang Jian, the Minister of Rites under His Majesty, will pay homage to Khan and the princess."

The faces of the Turkic ministers suddenly became gloomy, and Princess Yicheng was also a little surprised. He looked at Tang Jian, wondering what he was selling in the gourd.

Asina Duo's eyebrows moved, but did not immediately occur, but just nodded lightly.

Bu Lugen stepped forward and shouted: "The Southern Barbarians are so rude. Even if Li Yuan comes in person, he will pay a tribute to us Khan. What's more, you are a minister of a small country and you still ask for your own pride. Why?"

Tang Jian looked up at Bu Lugen and said lightly: "Is there no one in the Turks? Let an ignorant villain be in the court class, the saint's history, have you read the dog's belly?"

Bu Lugen's face turned red with one sentence, and he was furious: "The concubine's son is bold, how dare he insult the ministers of the Great Turks?"

The Turkic ministers pulled out their knives one after another. They were indeed inferior to Tang Jian in terms of eloquence, but they all had swords. More than a dozen scimitars were aimed at Tang Jian. As long as Jie Li Khan gave the order, they would tear Tang Jian to pieces.

However, Jie Li Khan did not issue this order for a long time. Jie Li Khan waved his hand and said, "Everything is withdrawn!"

Jie Li Khan cannot avenge his grudges now because he originally wanted to take advantage of it, but he did not expect that Li Yuan would come up and be a pair of kings, and directly sent Chen Ying, the killing god. Now Chen Ying is only seven or eight days away from Dingxiang. Facing Chen Ying, the killing god, Jie Li Khan has no confidence in his heart.

But as Jie Li Khan's voice came out, all the Turkic ministers had goose bumps all over the floor.
Chapter completed!