On the eighth day of November, the Qin mission sent by Chang'an arrived in Dingxiang.This time, the Qincha team had two tasks, one was to appease Yang Zhengdao and take them to Chang'an; The second is to leave a part of the manpower to take over Dingxiang City.On the same day, Li Jing, Yang Zhengdao, and their subordinate officials listened to the Qincha read out Li Shimin's holy decree in the "palace".In the holy decree, Li Shimin praised Yang Zhengdao's behavior of abandoning the secret and surrendering to the Tang Dynasty, saying that he understood the righteousness and made great contributions to the country.Li Shimin named Yang Zhengdao as the prince of Dingxiang County, with 800 households.The civil and military officials of Dingxiang City also have their own rewards.The holy decree stated that Yang Zhengdao and Li Jing would negotiate that except for some of the civil and military officials who were originally scheduled to Xiangcheng, they would continue to assist the officials sent to Dingxiang by Chang'an to govern Dingxiang, and the rest of the civil and military officials would follow Yang Zhengdao to Chang'an.At the same time, Li Shimin also affirmed the exploits of Li Jingzhong's route army and the peaceful restoration of Xiangcheng.It is clear that after the end of the war, they will be rewarded together.Three days later, Yang Zhengdao led some of his subordinate officials to follow Qincha to leave Dingxiang City and rush to Chang'an.The next day, Li Jing's army also left Chang'an and continued to march north.After Dingxiang was restored, the rest of the Fifth Route Army soon received Li Shimin's will and launched an attack on the Turks in accordance with their respective tasks.On November 15, Li Daozong, the head of the Great Passage March, led his troops to fight with the Turkic army in Lingzhou, and the Turks were defeated.Seventeen, Li Ji, the head of the march of Tonghan Road, went out and merged with the state, attacked the Turkic border defenders in the north, fought a battle, destroyed 3,000 enemies, captured 2,000, and did not count the ordnance and horses.On the same day, Chai Shao, the head of the Jinhe Road march, and Qin Qiong, the deputy head of the Jinhe Road, led their troops to march north along the Yellow River, and encountered 3,000 Turkic troops.On November 18, Xue Wanche, the head of the Changwudao march, did not listen to the bitter advice of the deputy general Duan Zhixuan, and only led 50 personal guards to the tent of the Turki Khan to negotiate with the Turki Khan.Duan Zhixuan led 5,000 troops, approached the tent of the Tuli Khan, and responded to Xue Wanche.Two days later, Xue Wanche left the Tuli tent with a happy face, and his subordinates sent more than ten miles.The next day, the Tuli Khan sent a message to Li Shimin in Chang'an City through Xue Wanche.On the second day of December, Tuli's Shun Table was sent to Li Shimin.Li Shimin said to the ministers: "In the past, for the benefit of the people of the Tang Dynasty, the Emperor Taishang endured humiliation and proclaimed himself a vassal to the Turks.I have often been saddened by this matter, and now that Tuli has returned to the imperial court, this can somewhat wash away the shame of the past. ”The armies of the Tang Dynasty from all walks of life were like a bamboo, and the Turkic armies deployed to the border to meet the Tang Army kept shrinking and retreating.Dingxiangcheng Yang Zhengdao's sudden backlash made Jie Li vomit blood three liters.Who knows, after the armies of the Tang Dynasty launched an attack together, the battle reports received by the Turkic Jieli were not even good news, all the news of defeat and retreat.Jieli's mood is even worse.The war between Datang and the Turks not only affected the hearts of the soldiers and civilians on both sides of the war, but even some foreign races around Datang were also watching the progress of this war.Soon, the prestige of the Tang army on the battlefield received a chain effect.On December 12, the Yushu Division, a tribe that had originally attached itself to the Turks, returned to the Tang Dynasty.On December 24, Xie Yuanshen, the chief of the eastern Xie chieftain of the southern barbarians, and Xie Qiang, the chief of the southern Xie, came to the court.expressed his willingness to submit to the Tang Dynasty.On the second day of the twelfth month of the leap month, the chief of Ke, Xie Nengyu and Chongzhou, paid tribute; The chieftain of the party is finely sealed, and he comes down.According to the statistics of the Ministry of Households, after the Tang Dynasty declared war on the Turks, the population of the Tang Dynasty who voluntarily surrendered and surrendered to the Tang Dynasty reached 1.2 million within three months.The Chinese New Year is coming soon, the war on the front line is going well, the good news is continuous, and the officials and people in the rear are also jubilant.The yamen of the imperial court have begun the year-end sweeping work.Li Shimin, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, is also particularly comfortable this year.Pray for the arrival of the new year.The rear can be relaxed, but at the front, the fighting continues.Jieli also moved the tooth tent to a place not far from the border and personally supervised the battle.However, the successive defeats of the Turkic army, especially the loss of the bridgehead of Dingxiang City, made him frightened.In a hurry, Jieli withdrew the tooth tent to the moraine.However, the advance speed of the Tang army was too fast, and it would take at most half a month to reach the moraine, and the moraine was about to become a front line again.At the same time, Jieli also knew about Tuli's return to the Tang Dynasty.This time, he didn't even feel angry.He still can't take care of it, where does he care about Tuli's affairs Now Jieli has long lost the courage to personally rush and kill with a prancing horse whip, so he has to retreat the tooth tent again.Where to retreat, it is naturally his Yinshan lair.Don't look at Jieli's fast running, the speed of the Tang army's march is not slower than the speed at which he escapes.On the fifth day of the twelfth month of the leap month, when Jieli retreated to the edge of the Hunhe River, he was overtaken by Chai Shao and Qin Qiong's Jinhe army.After a big battle between the two sides, Jieli left more than 1,000 corpses behind and fled north in a hurry.Just two days after running, Jieli encountered a volley from the Tonghan Dao army led by Li Ji, Zhang Gongjin, and Gao Yongsheng in the white road.Jieli suffered another defeat and continued to flee north.On the eleventh day of the twelfth month of the leap month, Jieli fled to Tieshan, and the Tang army did not catch up for a while, so he could finally kick his breath.Jieli stationed in Tuntieshan, and counted the remnants of the remnants of the troops from all sides, and after the defeat, he only had 40,000 soldiers and horses.At the beginning of the war, he gathered 120,000 troops to meet the Tang army.In just two months, the 120,000 army, including those who fled with losses, plus those who took the initiative to surrender to the Tang Dynasty, went to nearly seventy percent.Jieli knew that he could not confront the Tang Dynasty, so he sent Zhi Sili as a special envoy and rushed to Chang'an to ask Li Shimin for his guilt and expressed his willingness to attach himself to the country.He lost his thinking and went to the clouds first and met with Li Jing, the generalissimo of the Tang Army.After Li Jing heard that Jieli was going to return to the Tang Dynasty, he immediately ordered all the armies to suspend the attack on the Turks.At this point, the war came to an end for the time being.Does Jieli really want to return to Datang, and the answer is no.Jieli's real purpose was just to stabilize Datang first, so as to give him time to shift his position.His real idea was to retreat to Mobei and look forward to a comeback.This purpose is naturally known to the obsessive thinking force of Jieli's special envoy.Otherwise, he would not have been able to go to Chang'an.However, I don't know what the purpose of the obsession is to lose his thinking, when he met with Li Jing, he revealed the real purpose of Jiang Jieli in a roundabout way, and revealed a trace to Li Jing.How smart Li Jing is, even if he doesn't leak the news to him, he won't believe that Jieli is truly obedient to the Tang Dynasty.However, since Ren Jieli has raised his hand to surrender, no matter whether he really surrenders or fakes surrender, this battle cannot be fought anymore.As a result, Li Jing stopped the march of the armies from all walks of life and waited for the will of the imperial court
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