Tuyuhun was destroyed! When Li Xiu heard this news, he couldn't help but show an expression of incredibility. After all, Tuyushen is not a small country, but a big country that can be compared with Goguryeo. In addition, they are backed by the plateau and faced Bashu. They have many mountains in the territory and occupy a territorial power. It can be said that it is easy to defend but difficult to attack. It has always been a major concern in the southwest of the Tang Dynasty. Li Shimin has always wanted to use troops to Tuyuhun, but he has never made up his mind. But who would have thought that Tuyuhun was suddenly destroyed?

"What's going on?" Li Xiu frowned and said to himself as he walked. After suddenly receiving this shocking news, he had no intention of staying in the Ministry of Agriculture anymore, and even wanted to go directly to the palace to meet Li Shimin. However, he stopped again after just two steps, because he thought that he didn't want to get involved in the affairs in the court anymore, so why did he jump in now?

Thinking of the above, Li Xiu no longer entered the palace and returned home to wait for news. After all, the fact that Tuyuhun suddenly perished was too strange. There was no sign in advance, and there was not even any news at all. As a result, such a large country died like this, making people even wonder if this was a fake news?

As a result, that night, Ma Ye suddenly found Li Xiu, and without even taking a sip of tea, he immediately spoke: "The news is accurate, Tuyuhun did surrender to our Tang Dynasty, and this southwestern power was destroyed like this!"

"What's going on? Didn't you hear that Tuyuhun repeatedly infringed on the border of the Tang Dynasty? Why did the country suddenly become destroyed?" Li Xiu asked in confusion at this time.

The current king of Tuyuhun is Murong Fuyun, who is also a talented man. During the former Sui Dynasty, Tuyuhun was defeated by Yang Guang, and most of its territory was occupied by the former Sui Dynasty. However, later, the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Murong Fuyun took the opportunity to recover the lost territory, which quickly restored Tuyuhun's national strength and became a powerful country in the southwest.

After the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the relationship between Tuyuhun and the Tang Dynasty was not very harmonious. Moreover, Murong Fuyun was very arrogant and repeatedly sent troops to invade the borders of the Tang Dynasty, which also led to constant wars in the southwest of the Tang Dynasty. For this reason, Li Shimin had to arrange heavy troops in the southwest, and several generals guarded it in order to beware of Tuyuhun.

In addition, Li Xiu also knew that according to the original history, it was not until the year when Li Yuan died that Li Shimin decided to send troops to attack Tuyuhun. This time, Li Jing was still led by the troops, and there were also generals such as Hou Junji and Li Daozong to assist. Although this battle was not as famous as destroying the Turks, the Tang Dynasty's troops were no less than when destroying the Turks. After this battle, Tuyuhun was completely destroyed and became a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty.

But now Li Yuan is still alive, and Li Shimin has never sent troops to attack Tuyuhun, but it suddenly surrendered, which is simply unbelievable.

"Hehe, when I first heard this news, I also doubted whether it was true, so I immediately asked someone to find out the details. As a result, the good news from Hou Junji has been sent to His Majesty's desk, and Murong Fuyun's head is about to be sent to Chang'an, which makes me believe it!" Ma Master suddenly smiled.

"Hou Junji? This matter is related to him?" Li Xiu couldn't help but say in surprise when he heard Ma Ye's words, but then he suddenly realized that Hou Junji was one of the generals guarding the southwest. He had attacked Tuyuhun several times before, but he was beaten back.

"It's not only Hou Junji, but also Cheng Zhijie, the killer. You may not believe it. This time, they joined forces and took advantage of the opportunity of Tuyuhun's troops to invade, and they actually reversed the line and occupied Tuyuhun's royal city. Murong Fuyun was cut off by Cheng Zhijie's own hands!" At this time, Ma Ye said another name that shocked Li Xiu. If he remembered correctly, Cheng Yaojin was also one of the guards in the southwest.

"What the hell is going on? Even if Hou Junji and Cheng Zhijie have heavy troops in their hands, it is unlikely that they will destroy Tuyuhun in such a short time, right?" Li Xiu asked anxiously at this time. He always felt that Tuyuhun was so weird.

"Hehe, I have to thank you for being able to destroy Tuyuhun when Hou Junji and Cheng Zhijie!" Ma Master smiled again at this time, and at the end he pointed at Li Xiu.

"What? Thank me?" Li Xiu became even more confused when he heard this.

Seeing Li Xiu's inexplicable expression, Ma Master couldn't help laughing again, and then he told the story of Hou Junji and Cheng Zhijie destroying Tuyuhun.

It turned out that on the way back to Chang'an, Murong Fuyun, who had always been restless, raised another 100,000 troops to attack the Tang Dynasty. Li Shimin had never made up his mind to destroy Tuyuhun, so the southwest was always on the defensive. With generals such as Hou Junji and Cheng Yaojin, they usually defeated the invading Tuyuhun army.

However, this time, something happened. When Hou Junji was confronting Tuyuhun's army, he took advantage of the chaos to throw some corpses into Tuyuhun's army. As a result, within a few days, Tuyuhun's army fell ill. Then Hou Junji and Cheng Yaojin marched in two directions. They did not attack the city and threw the corpses directly into the city, causing the plague in the city to rampantly break out after a few days.

"Smallipok!" Before Ma Ye finished speaking, Li Xiu understood Hou Junji's methods, and he couldn't help but say to himself with a complicated expression.

"Yes, it's smallpox. Speaking of which, Hou Junji is really cruel. He took advantage of the explosion of smallpox in the southwest to collect many bodies that died of smallpox. The soldiers in his army have planted cowpox and are not afraid of smallpox at all. Then he uses smallpox all the way. No matter how strong the city is or how powerful the army is, it is vulnerable in front of smallpox. This also allows them to kill all the way to the royal city and destroy Tuyuhun in just two months!" Mr. Ma continued to explain at this time.

"What a cruel method, but if he does this, it will probably cause a big storm in the court, right?" Li Xiu said again at this time. Although he felt a little uncomfortable with the use of smallpox, he was not particularly disgusted. After all, war is to do everything he wants. There is no essential difference between dying from plague and dying from swords.

However, the Central Plains is a place deeply influenced by Confucianism, and the benevolence and righteousness of Confucianism are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Therefore, Hou Junji's use of plague in war will definitely arouse the disgust of many people. The ministers in the court will definitely take this opportunity to impeach him. Therefore, even if he has the merit of destroying the country, it is really hard to say whether it is a blessing or a disaster this time?
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