Chapter 115 Li Shimin

The most common thing in Jinmancheng is not gold or steel, but grain. Chen Ying's harvest of 750,000 mu of grain was stored in Jinmancheng for more than two-thirds, and nearly one million stones were stored in Jinmancheng. The other third was stored in Huaergou.

Huaergou is only fighting for steel, which is hard power, but the competition for Jinmancheng is for food. Whoever owns food in the Western Regions has the capital to dominate the Western Regions.

With steel, everyone knows that weapons can be built. With weapons, we can arm the army. For the Western Regions, a region where the whole people are soldiers, if there is enough steel and food, it is really not a problem to raise an army of 200,000 to 300,000 troops.

As for the population of the Western Regions, it has never been counted in detail. As for the population recorded in the Han Book, it is simply a joke. There may be a country of thousands of people. However, a country of thousands of people, a medium-sized horse thief can be easily subverted. However, no matter how powerful the horse thief is, it cannot deal with any country in the Western Regions at will.

Although Gaochang State had a population of more than 300,000, Chen Ying successfully collected more than 330,000 people, plus more than 50,000 migrated people, as well as other ethnic groups. The Tang Dynasty had a population of more than 500,000 on Xizhou Road. However, after Murong Fuyun came to the Western Regions, Qu Wentai pulled up another 100,000 people, and no one knew where these people came from.

Of course, this is not important. What is important is that Murong Fuyun didn't even call him, and rushed to Jinman City with Tuyuhun's troops overnight.

When Qu Wentai found out that the Tuyuhun Camp was empty, he no longer had the strength to curse Murong Fuyun. No matter how stupid he was now, he still figured out something was wrong.

Because, calculating the time, even if Chen Ying climbed, he should climb back to Jinman City. Qu Boya, Xue Yingxiong, and Qu Wentai looked at the earth wall that had already turned black and purple, and the eyes of the three people touched the air.

Qu Wentai sighed long and said, "Father, it seems we have to retreat. We join forces with the Tuyuhun Khanate and are not Chen Ying's opponents. Now that Murong Fuyun has retreated, we must also find another way out!"

Qu Boya's eyes showed a deep despair: "The world is so great, where can we have a place for our father and son?"

Speaking of this, Qu Boya couldn't help but regret it. If she didn't escape now and followed the Tang army to Chang'an honestly, the Li Tang court would definitely have promised him the treatment of a rich man in order to calm the hearts of other tribes. Now, I'm afraid there will be no chance.

Thinking of this, Qu Boya's eyes turned red and she choked and said, "Wen Tai, we can't fight against the Tang Dynasty, so it's better to surrender!"

"Surrender!" Qu Wentai shook his head and smiled coldly: "Father, we have no chance and no turn around. Chen Ying'er will not let us go. He will definitely kill our father and son and the Qu family..."

At this time, Qu Wentai's face was covered with a layer of dead gray. No one could describe his discouragement or even despair at this moment. However, this time, his mind was trained to be beyond the reach of others. He struggled on the edge of the cliff of despair. Qu Wentai still found his expression as usual: "Father, don't expect that the sky will be brighter. Chen Ying will not let us go. Even if we surrender now, we will just humiliate ourselves!"

When Qu Boya heard this, she felt even more indifferent.

Xue Yingxiong smiled bitterly: "Looking at the prince's meaning, I guess he has made a decision. I wonder what the prince's intention is?"

Qu Wentai said: "I have no clever plan, I can only save myself from death. Let's go to the Iri River Valley to join the Western Turkic Khanate!"

Qu Boya nodded.

This is a clever plan.

After all, the distance from Jinman County to the Yili River Valley in the west is almost 1,600 miles. You still need to climb over the Tianshan Mountains. As long as Chen Ying can allow them to move westward and enter Tianshan Mountains, Chen Ying will always lose the opportunity to pursue them. After all, at this time, the Tianshan Mountains have been frozen by snow. Without a familiar guide, Chen Ying will never find them!

After deciding to pay attention, Qu Wentai took out five or six thousand old, weak, sick and disabled people from the army, and then picked out their families.

These old, weak, sick and disabled, as well as more than 10,000 wounded soldiers looked at Qu Wentai nervously.

Qu Wentai said without hesitation: "You know the situation now. We have lost, we have lost nothing. I am now bringing the young and strong. Your final value is to win us some precious time. Whether to do it or not is all up to you!"

If Qu Wentai said this in the Central Plains, he would definitely be despised and scolded as a beast. However, in the Western Regions, this practice is the most common thing.

Whenever they encounter natural disasters or man-made disasters, all ethnic groups in the Western Regions are the first to abandon the elderly, weak, sick and disabled, leaving behind young and strong. Especially whenever they encounter ice and snow disasters, each tribe usually freezes to death. Looking at their deaths, they will definitely be surprised to find that the ones on the outermost are often the elderly, the weak, the sick and the disabled, followed by women and children, and the boys are the young and middle-aged.

Taking advantage of the night, Qu Wentai led Gaochang Kingdom and other young and strong forces from various ethnic groups to leave Huaergou and rushed westward. Looking at the abandoned wounded soldiers and the elderly, weak, sick and disabled, these elderly, weak, sick and disabled howled in despair, and then took the weapons and launched an attack on the Tang Army camp of Huaergou.

This is a desperate attack like a moth throws into a fire, and it also looks like the last madness.

Duan Zhigan was awakened under this situation. After waking up, he hurriedly climbed up the watchtower.

Standing high and looking far, a fire dragon was rapidly retreating in the distance.

Duan Zhigan sneered: "Since they have seen through it, there is no need to hide anything anymore. I passed the order of this general and immediately fight back with all my might and prepare to pursue!"

At this time, the trencher that Tang Jun ambushed behind the earth wall began to speak first. What they projected was not stone bombs, but turbulent tanks.

A tin can hold fifty kilograms of refined tincture oil.

As a burst of rapid short-tongued commands sounded, rows of trenchers were pulled off by the soldiers. These trenchers were the original trenchers, but counterweight trenchers. Iron blocks weighing 4,000 kilograms fell from an altitude of more than four feet high, and the ejection arm smashed the 50 kilograms of stone bullets into the enemy group.

As more than 4,000 kilograms of counterweight iron fell to the ground, the ground made a dull sound. At the same time, the turbulent oil tanks also fell into the enemy group one after another.

Then the Tang army archers shot out dense rockets like meteors. They landed in the enemy's crowd and immediately burned a fire.

Five or six thousand Gaochang rebels and crawling, gritting their teeth and charging forward, preparing to pull a cushion, all of whom were trapped in the sea of ​​fire.

More than 1,300 tinned oil tanks, a total of 65,000 kilograms of tinned oil, formed a fire wall of about 500 steps wide and deep and more than ten miles long.

Five or six thousand firemen screamed in the sea of ​​fire.

Duan Zhigan rode his horse around the fire wall, slashed a rebel soldier in Gaochang Army with one knife, and shouted: "Fifth, the seventh, the Zhe Chong Mansion stayed to clean the battlefield, and the others chased me!"

Just as Duan Zhigan led the Hebei New Army soldiers to pursue Qu Wentai's remnants, Li Yuan, located in the Wude Hall of Tai Chi Palace in Chang'an, also received an urgent report from Li Shimin from Hedong.

In Li Shimin's urgent report, Li Shimin criedly denounced the Hedong clans for betraying the Tang Dynasty, betrayed him, and sold his marching and formations and detailed information on the mobilization of the troops to the Eastern Turks. Now the Eastern Turks are attacking the empty Yingzhou, Linzhou, Shenmu, Shanyin and other places. There is only one Zhechong Prefecture in Yingzhou, which has the largest number of troops in these places, with only 1,500 people. Facing the attack of tens of thousands of Turks, it will definitely not last long.

Seeing this, Li Yuan was immediately anxious. The current Tang Dynasty is still in Guanzhong. The sixteen guards have nearly 200,000 troops stationed around Chang'an. All the troops that can be used in Hedong have been used. However, Li Shimin is now trapped in Dingxiang, surrounded by tens of thousands of heavy troops from the Eastern Turks.

Seeing this, Li Yuan's eyes almost fell off.

Li Shimin is finished!

Does Li Yuan want a white-haired person to send a black-haired person again?

Pei Ji was also stunned when he saw this urgent report.

Li Shimin's record is obvious to all.

The first official appearance was in the 11th year of Daye. Yang Guang Yanmen Pass was besieged by the Eastern Turks. On August 24, Li Shimin was on duty under the Sui general Yun Dingxing. He offered advice to Yun Dingxing: "We will go to rescue Your Majesty, but our troops are too small to use force directly. We must bluff the flag and beat the drums at night, so that the Turks mistakenly think that our brigade of reinforcements has arrived and scare him away." Yun Dingxing adopted it.

Later historians often only talked about this and avoided the subsequent records, which made people mistakenly believe that this plan successfully rescued Yang Guang, so they praised Li Shimin, a young general. However, "Zizhi Tongjian" did not say that the plan was successful, and directly ended a whole paragraph, changing it to explain the real reason for the Turks' retreat: the emperor sent an envoy to seek help from Princess Yu Yicheng, and the princess sent an envoy to tell Shibi: "There is an emergency in the north." The reinforcements from the eastern capital and the counties also arrived at Xinkou; in September, on Jiachen, Shibi rescued the siege."

Li Shimin's first appearance actually failed.

The second battle was after Li Yuan raised his troops. From July to November of the 13th year of Daye, Li Shimin led his troops to attack Huoyi.

Of course, the battle of Huoyi was fought by Li Yuan, Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin and his son. The plan at that time was that because Li Yuan lacked the equipment to attack the city, he took his eldest son to show weakness at the east gate and lured Song Laosheng away from the city wall to fight. The second son was ambushed in the high ground outside the south gate. When Song Laosheng was trapped, he rushed over and appeared behind Song Laosheng, and attacked him with his father and brother. He killed Song Laosheng outside the city, and then he could conquer Huoyi.

"Old student could not get in. People from the city were pulling the rope down and guiding it. Old student climbed the rope and wanted to get up, and he was more than 2 feet away." "Zizhi Tongjian Sui Ji Eight", when Li Shimin performed such an ambush mission, it was actually a failure. Song Laosheng actually broke through Li Shimin's encirclement and climbed onto the city wall.

In "Old Book of Tang: Biography of Liu Hongji": "Lao Sheng led all the troops outside the city, and Hongji attacked him from Taizong. Lao Sheng was defeated and left, abandoned his horse and threw it into the trench. Hongji beheaded his head and became the right Guanglu Dafu."

Pei Ji knew Li Shimin's ability, and his greatest ability was to mess up the best situation.

Pei Ji said anxiously: "Your Majesty, you must organize a large army as soon as possible to rescue His Highness the Qin army!"

Li Yuan pondered and did not answer immediately.

In fact, he also had a headache. The key is that although there are troops in Guanzhong, the army cannot fly. Guanzhong is more than a thousand miles away from Hedong, and is still separated by a Yellow River. Even if he sends troops immediately, he may not be able to reach Dingxiang within half a month.

Not only Li Yuan, Pei Ji is not optimistic about Li Shimin, but in fact, even Li Jiancheng and Li Xiuning are not optimistic about Li Shimin.

Even Jie Li Khan, who was far away from Dingxiang City, was not optimistic about Li Shimin.

He believed that Li Shimin should be his dish on the plate, and he could capture it with ease. In order to capture Li Shimin alive and end the battle quickly, Jie Li Khan issued the Khan Golden Arrow Order, and ordered all the Eastern Turkic tribes to reward Li Shimin alive with a thousand horses and a special service!"

However, Jie Li Khan didn't know that this time he really misunderstood!
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