On the second day after Li Yuan returned to the palace, the refugees pouring in Chang'an City became more and more tired, and the wind and wind were on the rise and fall of Chang'an City.

That is, on August 14, 2018, just a few days after Li Shimin ascended the throne, a sudden report from Gaoling that 100,000 Turkic wolf cavalry went south, and was led by Jie Li Khan himself. Once the news came, the people in Chang'an court were in an uproar.

Gaoling is located in the north of Chang'an, less than 30 miles away from Chang'an. The Turkish cavalry can see the sunset in Chang'an in one day. Li Shimin immediately ordered Yuchi Jingde to be the general manager of the Jingzhou marching, and arrived in Jingyang County to resist the Turkic cavalry.

Yuchi Jingde captured the enemy general Ashidewu alive and killed more than 1,000 Turkic cavalry, but it was still useless. Jie Li Khan led the Turkic cavalry to bypass Gaoling and to the north bank of the Wei River, facing the river in Chang'an.

The people in Chang'an City were panic, and the markets were in a slump. The houses on the street were closed with doors and windows. The Vermilion Bird door was no longer closed. The commanders riding fast horses kept pouring into the administrative center of the Tang Dynasty.

Liangyi Hall.

Li Shimin rubbed his forehead and from sending Yuchi Jingde to Gaoling to resist the Turks until now, he has not had a rest for a moment. Even if the good news of Yuchi Jingde coming to capture the enemy general, he was not happy.

Because the news is broken now, the garrison forces in Chang'an City are empty, with less than 20,000 defenders, and 5,000 of them are also taken to Gaoling by Yuchi Jingde.

As the capital of the Tang Dynasty, the Chang'an garrison was no less than 100,000, but during the Xuanwu Gate Incident, the East Palace Liusu was killed by him and disbanded. He did not believe the original garrison, so he re-drawn troops from various places.

Now is the replacement period for the army, but Jie Li Khan is here!

He deeply understood the power of the Turkic Empire. Twelve years ago, that is, the eleventh year of Daye, Emperor Yang of Sui was trapped in Yanmen Pass. At that time, he was sixteen years old. He found the general of the garrison, Yun Dingxing, and used military tactics to bluff and scared Shibi Khan away.

But it was just a bluff! The Turkic cavalrymen were strong and the horses were strong. Jie Li Khan once proudly said when he formed an alliance with Li Yuan in Taiyuan: "The children born to the Turks can ride horses and shoot arrows, and we Turks can all raise millions of Turkic wolf riders."

At the end of the Sui Dynasty, all kinds of rebels rose up, and the Turks supported Xue Ju, Liu Wuzhou, Wang Shichong, Kou Jiande and others. When Li Shimin attacked Wang Shichong, he could not conquer him for a long time. Not only was the city of Luoyang, but the threat from the Turks behind him.

"Your Majesty, you can't hesitate anymore!" Fang Xuanling stood up and bowed to Li Shimin and said, "I ask Your Majesty to issue an order to recruit three weapons from Chang'an soldiers, Sanfu Treasury, Chang'an County, and Wannian County. The people of Chang'an have a million, and at least 50,000 elite soldiers can be summoned."

"I and others agree that this method is feasible." The ministers knelt in unison.

"No!" Xiao Yu opposed it with all his might, "Your Majesty has just ascended to the great treasure, and his foundation is unstable. If you recruit soldiers from Chang'an, you will not be able to maintain the risk of mutiny!"

As soon as these words were said, the ministers' eyes of Xiao Yu changed slightly. As the prince of Nanliang, they had a good relationship with Yang Guang, but they still became prime minister in the Wude Dynasty. When they arrived at the Zhenguan Dynasty, they were still as stable as Mount Tai and stood firm.

Look at the attitude of others, you can hug them wherever your standard thighs are.

Who else can Chang'an soldiers and warriors make for?

In the simple thoughts of the people of the Tang Dynasty, they sympathized with Li Shimin's brother Li Jiancheng. Killing brothers with brothers is definitely a ruthless person in Confucianism, and this is even more so in Guanzhong, which has a deep foundation in Confucianism!

If you don’t do it well, the recruited soldiers may really overthrow him!

"I have made up my mind. I could go to Yanmen at the age of sixteen. Today I am the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. I am still afraid that only Jie Li Khan would not succeed? How capable could Jie Li Khan be? With such skills, he still wants to be the second Emperor Tuoba Daowu? "Li Shimin sneered, and his majestic eyes glanced at the ministers below.

The dialogue in front of the palace ended in a hurry. Li Shimin, a military genius of Guanlong nobles, did not follow what Sima Yi said: "If you can fight, you should fight, you should defend, you should leave, you should surrender, you should die."

Instead, he chose another method and personally led six cavalry including Fang Xuanling, Gao Shilian to Chang'an, and confronted Jieli Khan on the south bank of the Wei River.

On the north bank of the Wei River in the distance, the autumn is clear and the crispy yellow reeds are spread all over the river bank. Hundreds of thousands of Turkic cavalry are waiting to go, wearing felt hats on their heads and their hair is knotted into many small braids. When you walk in, you can even see greasy dreadlocks, and a smell of unpleasant sheep.

Unlike the Hun cavalry that galloped across the Mongolian Plateau in the past, although the Turkic cavalry was not as well equipped as the Tang Dynasty, at least each of them had a layer of leather armor, and each ten people were slightly iron sheets filled with iron armor. The arrows were not arrows made of bones in the past, but sharp iron arrows.

But more importantly, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period and even during the Han Dynasty, the Hun cavalry had only simple saddles and one-legged stirrups, but the Turks now had saddles and stirrups in the modern sense.

This seems to be unattracting, but this simple invention made the Turkic cavalry more than one level stronger than the Huns. The Flying General of the Han general Li Guang met tens of thousands of cavalry in the Huns, and he only had a few thousand Han troops, so he dared to fight back, and the Huns could not capture it for a long time. This is because the double-sided stirrups can maintain stability when the cavalry sprints, while the single-sided stirrups are prone to fall to the ground, so the Huns are often jokes when sprints.

The Han people's fear of cavalry was precisely because of the invention of stirrups that the infantry no longer maintained their advantage in the face of cavalry. The scene of a Han army fighting against several Hun cavalry in the past no longer reappeared.

Although there are differences in technology, they are already very small. Fortunately, the Eastern Turks have not yet learned to nail the horses to war horses from the Western Romans.

Among the 100,000 Turkic cavalry, there is a white tent that stretches out to the size of several rooms. The curtains are inlaid with dazzling jewelry. The curtains sewn with thick sheepskin felt are uncovered. In the large tent, it is no less than the size of the Liangyi Hall in Chang'an, and it is more luxurious than that.

The entire tent was decorated with various exquisite patterns carved with gold. The lit oil lamps were also inlaid with jewelry, without any smoke. It was a good whale oil traded by the Persians. The nobles wanted to paint the hot whole roasted lamb with spices, with a strange fragrance.

"Khan, Emperor Tang appeared on the south bank of the Wei River and asked Khan to be with him for a while." A Turkic soldier walked in and said half-kneeling.

Jie Li Khan was a middle-aged fat man. He cut a piece of lamb with a golden dagger. The oil stains stained on his hands reached the chest of a Turkic girl beside him and rubbed them dry. He asked lightly: "That old fox Li Yuan cannot come out, so only his son, Li Shimin, the King of Qin, was left. He killed his brother to ascend the throne. It was so cruel. How many people did he bring?"

The Turkic soldiers were stunned and whispered: "Returning to the Khan, Emperor Tang only brought six people."

"Six people?" Jie Li Khan stood up in shock. The golden dagger in his hand was thrown into the mutton and inserted it deeply. His eyes, which were squeezed by the horizontal meat, narrowed slightly, revealing a vicious look. "Can there be soldiers on the south bank? Forget it, I will go to meet Li Shimin in person!"

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