Chapter 26: The Weishui Alliance (2)
The Mingde Gate in Chang'an is no longer closed. The giant city standing on the field is like a tall giant beast. Anyone who stands in front of it can only feel insignificant. The Tang army swarms out of it is wearing bright iron armor and holding the sharpest blade in their hands. The Zhuque Street, which can be driven side by side by side by side by side, is even a little narrow.
The black clouds are pressing against the city and are about to destroy it, and the armor light opens toward the sun and golden scales!
Jie Li Khan looked at Li Shimin who was looking at each other across the Wei River, and felt a chill behind him. He only led seven civil officials to come to the south bank of the Wei River. The Tang army hundreds of steps behind him was ready to fight, as fast as thunder. He had no doubt that the Tang emperor in front of him would swallow the Turks like a war beast.
He thought of someone who made the whole Turkic tremble with such a majestic figure!
That is the saint Khan Yang Jian!
During the Sui Dynasty, the reason why the Qimin Khan of the Turks was able to establish a country was that they could survive the mutual attacks and killing of each other was mainly due to the support of the Sui Dynasty. Of course, this was Yang Jian's plan to send Changsun Sheng to split the Turks. The Turks of the Southern and Northern Dynasties were too powerful, and both the Northern Zhou and Gao Qi were vassals to the Turks.
It can be said that without the support of the Sui Dynasty, the Khan of Qimin would not have established a country. Therefore, the Khan of Qimin was quite grateful to the Sui Dynasty. He had come to Daxing City several times to meet the Emperor of the Sui Dynasty and gave Emperor Wen of Sui the title of "Saint Khan".
After the death of Qimin Khan, his eldest son Shibi Khan succeeded to the throne. His unjust intentions became increasingly revealed, and he could not help but disturb the northern part. The border was uneasy from then on. Shibi Khan, Shilifusai and Mohedusai. Among the three sons of Qimin Khan, Mohedusai (who later Jie Li Khan) had the highest talent and the greatest ambition, and he was determined to enter the Central Plains and become the leader of the Central Plains.
When Jie Li Khan was in power, he made full use of the civil turmoil in the Central Plains at the end of the Sui Dynasty and quickly gathered the Turkic forces that were severely damaged by the Sui Dynasty. He also achieved unprecedented success in the operation of the Central Plains, surpassing any Khan in Turkic history.
Although he eventually became the king of the country and was captured alive by the Tang Dynasty, this point cannot be denied. Jie Li Khan took advantage of the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty and forced Li Yuan, Liu Wuzhou, Xue Ju, and Liang Shi to be the minister. He seized the opportunity and took advantage of the civil turmoil in the Central Plains to invade the border and seized a large number of people and wealth. Jie Li Khan was not satisfied with the plunder and was ambitious and wanted to occupy the Central Plains.
And Jie Li Khan saw this opportunity now, that is, Li Shimin, who had just ascended the throne, has not yet consolidated his power!
But Jie Li Khan underestimated this future Tian Khan.
"Khan, war reports came from the rear. Ashidewu was captured and killed by Yuchi Jingde in Gaoling. The Tang army in Gaoling heard that the Khan arrived in Chang'an and had returned to the rescue."
"What?" Jie Li Khan was extremely furious and cursed: "Ashidewu did not stop this waste. My Khan gave him ten thousand grassland men. This is for the Tang army. How many Tang army in Gaoling are there?"
The Turkic cavalry who reported the news was so scared that their faces were pale. The hot air flowed in the round and cold sweat. The tongue was knotted: "There are about five thousand, but... the Tang army's elite soldiers were so powerful that we could not help. It was too strong..."
"How can the defeated person have the face to survive!" Jie Li Khan showed a ferocious face, pulled out a golden sword from his waist and killed the cavalry who reported the news, and rolled several circles on the ground with his head.
Jie Li Khan, who was originally turbulent in Chang'an, was also worried at this time. Last year, he led 100,000 Turkic cavalry to invade Taiyuan, but he was repelled by Li Jing in Bingzhou, leading more than 10,000 Jianghuai soldiers, and failed to fight Caogu.
Like history, Jie Li Khan saw that the Tang army was ready and knew that he could not take advantage of it. Under Li Shimin's bluff, he was repeatedly played a role in the psychological shadows that Li Jing repeatedly played. In addition, Li Shimin's great reputation as the King of Qin was not in vain.
If you are not afraid of death, why should generals and soldiers be afraid of death?
Not to mention that what shamed the Turks was that the straitors looked at Li Shimin's figure kneeling on the ground and shouting "Long live the King of Qin", and the morale of the army suddenly dropped to freezing point.
"Zizhi Tongjian" records that the Turks at this time "controlled the strings with millions, and the Rongdi was strong, which was never found in ancient times!" The largest Hun Empire before could only send 500,000 Hun cavalry. In later generations, only the Mongol cavalry of the Mongol Empire could be compared with the Turkic Empire.
This kind of power far exceeds the Khitan, which only occupied western Liaoning and Youyun. What is the manifestation of Song Zhenzong in the Tanyuan Alliance?
To give the biggest example, the Weishui Alliance was regarded as a lifelong shame by Li Shimin, while the Song Rus were complacent and believed that the Tanyuan Alliance was a victory.
"Jie Li Khan, you and I have formed an alliance with each other as a brother's country, giving gold and silk, and it is inconclusive. But Jie Li, you betray the alliance today and lead troops to the Wei River. Are you going to fight with a certain Tang Dynasty?" Li Shimin sat on the back of a horse, took a breath of air conditioning in his mouth. The wind was shaking, making him unable to open his eyes, but he waved the whip again, and he could not retreat at this time.
"Even if you are Rong Di, you have someone's heart. How can you forget your past kindness? Although the Turks had 100,000 cavalry, my Tang Dynasty had millions of heroic soldiers!"
As soon as Li Shimin finished speaking, tens of thousands of Tang army dancers who were waiting for battle held up their shields, raised their swords and shouted: "Kill! Kill! Kill!"
When Jie Li Khan saw the Tang army in front of him, he was so frightened that he almost fell off his horse. There were more than ten thousand people and crowds. Can you imagine the shouts of tens of thousands of troops?
These Tiance Army, which originally belonged to the Qin Palace, were originally elite troops galloping on the battlefield. In the late Sui Dynasty, they had been through the battlefield for more than ten years, and were not afraid of fighting or afraid of fighting!
The wheel of history rolled forward. Jie Li Khan, who was regarded as the king of the British, feared the prestige of the Tang army and sent envoys to the south bank to seek peace, declaring that he would retreat to the north of the Mo to the north and not be infringed on the Central Plains in the future.
But both sides knew that this was fooling around. Jie Li Khan had to go south almost every year since the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, and he would plunder the population and plunder the winter supplies every time.
This seemingly victorious peace talk was a shame for Li Shimin, because the northern part of Guanzhong was robbed, countless people were displaced, and nearly ten thousand people were plundered and became slaves to the Turks, not to mention that the Tang Dynasty had to pay some money to satisfy the greedy Turkic nobles.
This time the Turks went south to routinely hunt grass valleys and seize the supplies and populations of the people of the Central Plains. The arrival of troops to Chang'an was just a casual hunt for the Turks. Seeing their prey exposed sharp minions, the hunters restrained their bows and arrows, but who is really dead?
Jie Li Khan didn't know what kind of person he provoked and what kind of dynasty he met? In this dynasty where many powerful generals of the Zhenguan dynasty emerged, the dormant Tang Dynasty would truly reveal his fangs four years later, but tens of thousands of soldiers destroyed the arrogant Turkic Empire!
Chapter completed!