It is easy to say that he sees the opportunity to act, but Ju Wentai's heart is full of anger and unwillingness.
In good conscience, he is actually a person who is a little rich and secure, guarding the Silk Road, the transportation artery connecting the Tang Dynasty and the Western Regions, and he is satisfied with collecting a little money and deducting a little material.
As for the hegemony of the world or something, it is the business of the heroes, and it has nothing to do with him, the lord of a small kingdom.
But people are sitting at home, disaster comes from heaven, and the Western Turks come to the door with immortality, threatening him with force to send troops to the Tang Dynasty.
In desperation, Ju Wentai led 20,000 troops from all over the country and joined forces with the 150,000 Western Turkic army.
But what I never expected was that the Western Turks were also very silver-like wax spearheads, and 50,000 people had never done 20,000 people, and they were slaughtered by 30,000 or 40,000 people in one go, not to mention that in the end, even the head was arrested.
Now, the Tang Dynasty soldiers are pointing at Gaochang, and the Western Turkic dragons are leaderless and only want to flee for their lives, how can the 20,000 stragglers in the Western Regions under his command be able to withstand the 100,000 army.
The Tuyuhun people have been guarding the Black Rock City, they are waiting and watching, if the Tang army does not resist the Western Turks this time, then they will join forces with the Western Turks and set foot on the Central Plains again.
But what frightened them was that the Tang Dynasty soldiers were so fierce that the 50,000 Western Turkic army couldn't even delay their advance, and in one night, the 50,000 troops were almost wiped out, and the Tang Dynasty soldiers had already directed themselves to the Western Regions.
Withdraw, must be withdrawn, the vanguard of the 20,000 Tang Army already has such combat strength, and it is not clear how the combat strength of the main forces behind it is.
And I heard that this time it was the murderous demon Hou Junji of Datang who led the army, if he was targeted by this old killer, it is estimated that Tuyuhun would not be enough for him to stuff his teeth.
Compared with the Western Turks and Tuyuhun, the Tubo people are much smarter, and with the lessons of Songzhou, people are not involved in such things at all.
Not even just not to mix, Songtsen Gampo also took this opportunity to marry the princess of the Nibhara and go home, and then, together with the Nibhara, swallowed the country of Zhangxiong.
Songtsen Gampo is a guy with ambition and brains, he knows that he can't do the Tang Dynasty with the strength of Tubo now, and the intrusion of small fights will not have any effect, not to mention, it will make the already unstable political situation in Tubo change again.
So he put away his minions in front of Datang, turned into a tame kitten, and then made some small moves at the right time to test Datang's attitude.
When the news of the Tang army's victory came back to Chang'an, Li Shimin did not show any overly excited performance.
The army of 150,000 is not enough for the monarch of the Tang Empire to face it squarely, and even if it weren't for Li Muyun's belief that Gaochang was a country that was very necessary to occupy, the Tang Emperor would most likely send only one middle-level general over.
It's just that when I saw what the war report said, 10,000 mines directly wiped out 20,000 Western Turkic cavalry regiments, which aroused the interest of His Majesty the Emperor, and personally ordered the general to increase the production of gunpowder, and at the same time produce more gunpowder weapons.
Li Jing had some complaints about this, and found Li Shimin afterwards: "Your Majesty, the old minister thinks that although this gunpowder weapon is good, it has a drawback. ” Although he felt a little disappointed, Li Shimin didn't show it, but asked with interest: "Oh, I don't know what the disadvantages are, can the pharmacist elaborate." ” "Your Majesty, didn't you really see anything from the battle report?"
asked Li Jing with some uncertainty.
Seeing something, Li Shimin looked at the battle report again, and after putting it down, his brows furrowed slightly.
After Li Jing's reminder, this time he looked very seriously, and at the same time found the drawbacks.
"Your Majesty, the power of those gunpowder weapons is indeed not small, but the requirements for logistics are also very high, just like the 20,000 pioneers led by Li Muyun now, if they only have gunpowder weapons, they should have lost their combat power by now."
Li Jing interjected at the right time to clarify his own views.
Gunpowder is indeed a good thing, but good things can't be used too much, just like ginseng is a good thing, but eating too much will also kill people.
Li Shimin nodded, and asked a little depressedly: "Then pharmacist, do you think that gunpowder should not be produced anymore?"
"No, what the minister means is that gunpowder and cold weapons can complement each other, and logistics support is not easy to solve, but we can use gunpowder weapons to defend the city, so that we can ensure the supply of logistics."
I have to say that although Li Jing saw the defects of gunpowder weapons, he did not see through them, and he still did not have a correct seriousness about how much gunpowder would be consumed in a war.
Li Shimin also did not have such an understanding, and after listening to Li Jing's suggestion, he also thought it was very reasonable.
As a result, this pair of monarchs and ministers made a very strange decision, gunpowder weapons are only used to defend the city pass, not to attack.
Li Muyun, who was in the Western Regions, didn't know Li Shimin's decision, he just wanted to end the battle quickly now and go home to live his peaceful life.
But the sky in the Western Regions is like a child's face, it changes when it is said, the sun is still shining just now, and it is cloudy in the blink of an eye.
The march is no longer a march, although the march in the heavy rain is magnificent, but in case of gonorrhea a few, it is not a good thing to have non-combat attrition.
Set up a large camp, the whole army was on alert, and the horses were released for thirty miles, Li Muyun ran to the main camp of Hou Junji in his robes: "Uncle Hou, it's been ten days, and the march is less than five hundred miles, you can't think of a way, when can you get to Gaochang if you go on like this?"
Hou Junji wore a pair of reading glasses, holding the Romance of the Three Kingdoms with relish, and when he saw Li Muyun coming in, he replied without looking back: "What's the hurry, the army is out on the march, and you can't be sloppy at all, besides, we are not familiar with life here in the Western Regions, what should we do if we are ambushed by someone if we go fast, but you still wrote the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and you don't even understand such simple military common sense." ” Li Muyun blinked, looked for a place to sit dejectedly, and complained: "Your old man is really patient, and you still have the heart to watch the Three Kingdoms." ” "This book is good, you kid has a good set of stories, and some of the use of the art of war in it is also very good, just" "Just what" "It's just that you haven't thought about it, if the art of war in this is passed on?"
"Stop, Uncle Hou, let me go, I'll go right away, I'll go right away."
The Art of War, Lao Tzu knows the art of war, this book is obviously whether Lao Tzu copied it well or not, it has been said several times, why no one believes it.
"Come back" Looking at Li Muyun who was about to walk out of the tent, Hou Junji put the book in his hand aside, stared at him and asked, "Do you know why you came to the Western Regions":