In the end, Li Jidian general, Cheng Yaojin escorted Tang Jian to the Western Turks, and the Xuanjia Army and the 10,000-yuan army sent money retreated.

In this way, there is no need to force the attack on Gaochang, as there will be too many casualties, so the 100,000 troops will continue to confront each other. When the deal with the Western Turks is completed, there will be some time to spend with Gaochang in an isolated city.

Moreover, the Tang army has occupied half of Gaochang territory, and with more than 300,000 jin of money and grain, it can be said that it is strong. Even if winter comes, there is no need to withdraw troops. Some cities come to capture people.

In the tent of the Western Turkic King, Khan Yibidulu would never have thought that the war between the Tang Dynasty and Gaochang was at a critical moment, and someone would come to the Western Turkic King.

"So, did the Tang Dynasty envoy come to our Western Turks for help?" Hearing that he was buying sheep as military rations, Yipi Dulu pondered and had a small idea in his heart.

How experienced is Tang Jian a diplomat? Why don’t you know what the other party will make?

He smiled faintly and said, "It's not asking for help, it's just a transaction. Our Tang Dynasty did not come to the Western Turks to buy sheep and raise soldiers because we were so poor that we couldn't afford military rations."

On the contrary, we came because the national treasury is full and we wanted to give the soldiers a better meal. Of course, we had to consume our wealth."

This person's face was full of confidence when he was rich. It can be said that he was showing off his expression clearly. No one could bear it anymore. He came here to show off his wealth?

Cheng Yaojin behind him gusted Tang Jian and whispered: "Just sender, how can you show your wealth when you go out?"

Tang Jian didn't care and continued, "Originally, 100,000 guan of copper coins were enough for a war, but the court was generous and the people supported it, so he actually gave an extra 300,000 guan, so this transaction was made.

In a word, it was because of the friendship between our two countries that we handed over this trade to your country. Otherwise, our Tang Dynasty would also have a large area of ​​grassland in the north, and the people had countless cattle and sheep in their hands, so they could make enough food to eat in the country."

A general of the Western Turkic Republic was dissatisfied and said: "It sounds nice. You are in a difficult battle with Gaochang. Everyone knows that you can't afford it. Don't treat us grassland people as fools. If there is any benefit, who will not take it yourself, and you will give it to others?"

Yipi Dulu did not stop his subordinates, but instead looked at Tang Jian to see how he answered.

Tang Jian laughed: "The war is tight? A joke, does Gao Chang have the slightest resistance in front of my Tang Dynasty soldiers?

General Cheng, why not reveal some of our military secrets to the Western Turkic friendly countries so that they will not underestimate us."

Cheng Yaojin walked to the middle, his aura was released, and he said loudly: "The 100,000 troops of the Tang Dynasty occupied half of the land in Gaochang in three days. Now the King of Gaochang has reduced his national strength and has barely collected 100,000 uneven miscellaneous soldiers to protect their city and confront us.

If you use strong attack, the opponent is just an isolated city, and there is no danger to defend, and you will be defeated in two days!

Considering that unnecessary casualties would be increased, the head coach decided to follow the captured city as the back defense and slowly consumed with the opponent. Gaochang's national strength was weak and we would sooner or later die. Then he would collapse without fighting. Even our Tang Dynasty would not lose one soldier or one soldier."

hiss……

After Cheng Yaojin finished speaking, the Western Turkic generals took a breath. The Tang army was too powerful.

Half of Gaochang was won in three days?

This is already shocking enough. I still want to break through the Gaochang royal city without losing one soldier?

After thinking about this for a long time, Khan Yipi Dulu could only sigh that the commander of the Tang Dynasty was too concerned about the soldiers this time.

I'm afraid that the only commander of the Tang Dynasty in the world was calm in the face of such great achievements in destroying the country. He would also consider the issue of preserving the soldiers. If others were to take care of the number of soldiers' casualties, they would only know that the country would seize the merits.

After thinking for a while, Yipi Dulu sighed and said, "The envoy also knows that our Western Turks are located in the grassland. Although they are rich in cattle, sheep and horses, the people also feed on them. Although there are too many sheep, they are food for life for winter. If they are distributed too much to the Tang Dynasty, it will probably affect our people's food for winter, so..."

When Tang Jian heard this, he stood up and said, "That's it? Otherwise, let's forget it. We came with sincerity and kindness, not to cause trouble to the neighboring countries.

Since this transaction has affected the survival of the people of your country and it is not my wish, I will give up this matter and we will say goodbye."

Um??

This is not right, how can you just leave?

Your front-line army is no longer eating?

Yipi Dulu was stunned. He just wanted to raise the price and didn't say he wouldn't sell it.

This new monarch who had just been unified with the Western Turks for a year was not the opponent of the old fox Tang Jian. Tang Jian was a person who had fought against the Eastern Turks overlord Jie Li and the former Western Turks overlord Mo Hedu.

Moreover, the strength of the Western Turks is far less powerful than that of Mo Hedu when he was back then, so they lack confidence in whether they speak or do things.

"How can Khan, how can we reject the envoy of the Tang Dynasty? Not to mention eating our sheep in winter, a large part of them will be frozen to death by ice and snow. Why not sell them to the Tang Dynasty to make a profit? This will make our tribe more successful." A minister couldn't help but suggest.

Yipi Dulu was embarrassed. Seeing that Tang Jian and others were about to walk out of the tent, he quickly stopped: "Please wait, I didn't say I won't trade. Please come back. I'll let my subordinates discuss the selling price."

Tang Jian turned around at the door and asked knowingly: "Oh? Will this make things too difficult for Khan? It won't hurt the livelihood of the people of your country?"

"Of course not. Our Western Turkic people are very friendly and worshipping the Tang Dynasty. I heard that they are trading with the Tang Dynasty, and the people are absolutely enthusiastic."

In the end, Tang Jian and his group purchased 100,000 Western Turkic sheep at the price of 200 million per sheep. After all, 100,000 troops of 100,000 sheep were enough to eat for a while. If they bought too much, maybe the war would end before they could finish it.

Moreover, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty were not from the Western Turkic grasslands, and they could not eat mutton without other things.

Cheng Yaojin saw the whole process of this mission. He said along the way back that Tang Jian was cunning, a sheep with two hundred cigars? It was 400 cigars in China. This was too ruthless. The Western Turkic monarchs were eaten tightly.

As a result, Tang Jian said another sentence, which made Cheng Yaojin dumbfounded.

"If it weren't for their poorness, I would like to offer a price of 100 cents per person. Anyway, they are rushing to sell it to us. Except for our strength, they have no place to sell it.

And even if these two hundred essays are temporarily stored in their hands, they will return them sooner or later."

"Why? Didn't you realize that you, Old Man Tang, are also doing gangster work? You still want to get the money back with someone else's money?

I, the old Cheng Jie, was embarrassed to do such a thing, because it was too harmful."

Tang Jian laughed and scolded: "Black is bad for black? You are still a general of the Tang Dynasty. How can you lose your identity between countries?

What I said is that in the future they will definitely use money to go to our Tang Dynasty to buy things, salt, tea, etc., and the tea salt we sell to foreign countries is more than twice as expensive as in China.

We earn more than this little bit inside and outside."

This is too bad. Although Cheng Yaojin had no good feelings for these grassland aliens, he still couldn't help but express sympathy to those people at this time, pointing to Tang Jian and cursing: "You shouldn't be a minister of the Honglu Temple to be sent to another country. Now it seems that you are just a profiteer, yes, a profiteer!"

"Hahahaha, say you're a profiteer, don't talk about me. These things were jointly decided by a group of people from the Ministry of Revenue and Du Fu Ma. I'm just an executor." Tang Jian said the reason.

In fact, these are just from the perspective of the Tang Dynasty, and they are indeed a bit too cruel.

But if we look at it from the perspective of Western Turks, it would be a different scene.

They saw that the Tang Dynasty had spent 300,000 yuan in a war of 100,000 people, and they were already drooling in envy. The Tang Dynasty was so rich that it made people want to rob it.

Of course, when thinking about his military strength, he was also glad that the Western Turks did not offend the Tang Dynasty, so they found good things.

A large amount of money was exchanged for a batch of sheep that were lost in winter. In the future, I could buy essential items for grassland life with the Tang Dynasty. This was simply a big pie that fell from the sky.

Therefore, all the monarchs and ministers of the Western Turks were excited and happy. Some even suggested that such transactions could be continued with the Tang Dynasty in the future? If they could be sold to them for a long time, the Western Turks would prosper a lot.

Cheng Yaojin and his group came back with 100,000 sheep in less than ten days before and after they went out, it was unbelievable that they were so successful that when the 100,000 army saw the vast flock of white sheep, their eyes turned red.

In the central army tent, Cheng Yaojin was vividly describing the wonderful scene of this mission. The generals burst into laughter when they heard it. It was really wonderful.

No one has any contempt for the Minister of the Honglu Temple Tang Jian. Now it seems that doing a good diplomacy can really be a great help.

Yuchi Gong said: "The war now is almost incomprehensible. It seems that there is such convenience. You don't have to bring food and grass to go to war. Just buy it locally from the neighboring countries. Du Fuma's method is really worry-free.

I don’t know if one day in the future, we will take the opponent without taking action without taking action in the war with other countries?”

Tang Jian said, "At that time, someone had proposed in the Political Affairs Hall that if there was enough money, maybe he could give money to the Western Turks to send troops to help our Tang Dynasty destroy Gaochang, but his Majesty directly denied it in the name of damaging the majesty of our Tang Dynasty."

"Of course we have to deny it. There are countless men in the Tang Dynasty, so we need others to help us fight?

Joke, we can’t do this thing that doesn’t matter if we don’t have any face.” Yuchi Gong shouted.

It's extreme, it's extreme! Many people agree.

"Old Tang, who is so unscrupulous and comes up with such an idea? Tell us." Someone asked curiously.

Of course, Tang Jian couldn't say it anymore. Once this strategy was made, it was to compete for merit with the front-line army. If it was leaked, it would offend people.

Li Ji changed the topic and said: "Henging troops from other countries to help us fight is also a good way to reduce our casualties.

However, this is a big disadvantage and it is not advisable unless it is absolutely necessary.

One is the territory captured. If the Western Turks were allowed to conquer Gaochang, it would be difficult to guarantee that they would not have a second thought.

The second is that once our soldiers are lazy, they will rely on the troops of other countries when there is war. Before long, our soldiers will lose their elite combat power because of their pampering habits. By then, the Tang Dynasty may become a lamb to be slaughtered."

After hearing this, everyone was shocked. This is true. The commander had a unique eye and could see the key point at a glance.

The army of the Tang Dynasty ate a fat mutton feast that day. The scene of a hundred thousand troops cooking sheep was so spectacular, the fragrance spread for ten miles, and it smelled it in Gaochang City opposite.

In just three days, the meat fragrance every day attracted the guards of Gaochang opposite him to the downward morale.

There is no way to disperse. The Tang army is an outsider, but the soldiers who should have been sleeping in the open can eat a full meal every time, and the conditions are extremely superior.

On the other hand, Gaochang side reduced his troops and defended the capital. Because he suddenly gathered 100,000 troops in the capital, the pressure to raise soldiers in a city suddenly increased, and the army's food was getting tense.

With this advance and retreat, these soldiers were not allowed to have different ideas. They were also soldiers. Why is the gap so big?

Through the scout, Li Ji learned that the morale of the opponent had been deteriorated. The delay and consumption tactics that Gaochang wanted to play were now self-defeating and probably won't last long.

So Li Ji added another fire and opened up the road so that the people of Gaochang could pass through without any obstacles. No matter what comes out of the city or goes to the Gaochang royal city from the direction of the Tang Dynasty, they would not stop him.

In this way, the Tang Dynasty had even had messengers to instigate and rebellion. These people took the Tang Dynasty's policy of persuading surrender, not only to surrender but not kill them. If the soldiers of Gaochang were willing to surrender to the Tang Dynasty and join the army, they would be treated the same as those of the Tang Dynasty soldiers.

Just the next sentence made the enemy on the other side feel excited, and many people have already begun to think about how to secretly surrender to the enemy.

At first, the generals above could kill people and establish their authority, but later, the ministers in Gaochang court saw that the situation was hopeless, so they took the initiative to contact the generals on the front line and wanted to instigate them to rebel together.

So after less than seven days, the battle against Gaochang ended in a very dramatic way. Gaochang’s civil and military officials took over Gaochang’s king Ju Wentai’s family, Kaicheng surrendered to the Tang army, and Gaochang’s country was destroyed!

Such a result was unexpected and reasonable, but it made Li Ji and a group of generals who had traveled a long distance disappointed. They thought it was a long-lost battle, but now it seems boring! Ju Wentai is really a waste.

Half a month later, the news of Gaochang's victory came back to Chang'an, and Li Er was no longer as excited as he used to win the country.

In his mind, this destruction of the country was normal. The only thing that made him interested was that the Tang Dynasty's war damage was almost negligible, and the speed of ending the war was unprecedented.

When Gaochang seized the merchants of the Tang Dynasty and cut off the Silk Road in the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty, no one would have thought that Gaochang would die in the hands of the 300,000 chunks of money these merchants paid. I am afraid that the prince Gaochang was still dreaming of making money until his head was cut off.

After taking Gaochang, Li Ji personally led an army of 60,000 to guard Gaochang. This was agreed that Gaochang would have a permanent army of 100,000, and temporarily had 60,000 Tang troops. He would cooperate with the local recruitment of 40,000 new soldiers and then rotate them later.
Chapter completed!