Mid-October.
Under the Yin Mountain, the Eile River, the sky is like the sky, covering the four fields.
This is a fertile grassland, which the Han people call Qiantao, and also the most fertile part of the Hetao Pingtao Plain.
It is formed by the water of the Yellow River for millions of years, and it is flat and mountainless, and the water source is abundant.
The land is fertile, arable and pastureable, and the Yellow River is rich and harmful.
Since the time of Emperor Wen of Sui, the Eastern Turks moved south to the Khan's court and moved to the Qiantao Plain under the Yin Mountain in Monan.
After Qimin, Shibi, and Chuluo, Jieli Khan was the fourth Eastern Turk Great Khan to be called Khan here.
From here to the south, is the land of Daibei, since the Sui Rebellion, Liu Wuzhou raised troops, occupied Daibei, after the defeat, its old Yuan Junzhang took refuge in the Turks, occupied Daibei, until Yanmen closed.
Yuan Junzhang in Daibei also became a buffer between the Turks and the Tang Dynasty.
However, not long ago, General Li Jing and Li Jier each led 5,000 elite cavalry out of Yanmen Pass and Jundu Pass, recovering the three prefectures of Yun, Shuo and Wei in one fell swoop, recovering the land of Daibei, and also breaking the buffer land of Tang and the Turks.
In the sixth year of Wude, in mid-October.
In the early hours of the morning, the sky was dark, the night was dark, and the north wind was howling.
Suddenly, on the outer Great Wall line in the north of Yunzhou, cavalry rushed out one after another.
To the east of the river, there are two Great Walls.
It is built and strengthened successively when the Northern Wei Dynasty to the Northern Qi Dynasty, one is the inner Great Wall, between Shuozhou and Daizhou, Yanmen Pass, Loufu Pass, is the most dangerous city on the Inner Great Wall.
Further north, there is another Great Wall, which is in the west of Shuozhou and the north of Yunzhou, which is longer.
At the time when Yuan Junzhang was entrenched in the north of the Dynasty, the northern border of the Tang Dynasty was actually the Great Wall of China, and Yanmen Pass was an important gateway to the north.
And the Outer Great Wall, for the Turks, has long been not a fortress.
They went in and out of Daibei Yunshuo, and they went in and out as they wanted, and they did not fortify them at all.
However, after Li Jing and Li Ji invaded Daibei, the Tang army pushed the border defense line to the outer Great Wall.
Now, the Hedong cavalry led by Li Jing sent troops from the front line of the Great Wall west of Shuozhou, and the Hebei cavalry led by Li Ji marched from the front line of the Great Wall north of Yunzhou to the Eilechuan.
The two marches at the same time, led by 10,000 cavalry, stormed the plains occupied by the Turks.
And in the rear, there are 20,000 cavalry as follow-up troops, which are following in.
In Hedong and Hebei, 50,000 soldiers and horses attacked.
This is no longer the last cut-and-go prelude.
This time, Er Li's actions were approved by the imperial court and the emperor, and even the battle plan was said to have come from the hands of Li Chao, the god of war.
The praying mantis catches the cicada, and the yellow finch is behind.
At this time, Er Li led the Tang army to send troops in the name of crusading against Jieli and supporting Tuli and Yu Shot.
The name of the interference is that when Luo Khan Eliver was dying, he had asked his brother Shibi Khan's son Tuli to succeed to the throne, but he was usurped by Jieli.
Now the Tang Dynasty wants to pull out the chaos and support the Tuli Khan to regain the Khan throne.
The Tang Dynasty did not take advantage of the fire to rob, but came to uphold justice for the Turks, the friends of the Tang Dynasty.
At present, Jieli is strong, Tuli and Yu Shot are weak and difficult to support, and Datang certainly sent troops in line with the principle of justice.
Between countries, there has always been such an entanglement of interests.
Jieli had just married the princess of the Tang Dynasty before, and he was still a relative of the current Tang Emperor, so he wanted to call the Tang Emperor a brother-in-law.
But so what, if you destroy Jieli, you may give Tuli a princess at that time, or when the Tang Emperor directly incorporates Tuli's sister into the palace, it's the same, if you don't have a sister, then Tuli will always have a daughter.
If you don't have a daughter, then it's the same to recognize a daughter, anyway, all you want is an identity, and the Tang Dynasty gave Jieli to the Tang princess is not a real princess.
Like many wars, the Battle of Daibei was a premeditated war.
Prior to this, at least a year ago, the Turks were still powerful and could go south at any time to rob the existence of Datang, and they could go south whenever they wanted.
But just six months later, the situation has changed dramatically.
The Tang Emperor, who had a very good relationship with the Turks, was replaced.
Replaced by a younger, more impulsive and more belligerent emperor.
I thought that such a young emperor would be easy to deal with, but this was not the case.
The young emperor used his younger retainer Li Chao to easily attract more Fan countries as allies in the southwest, and even directly turned several Fan countries into internal vassal states of the Tang Dynasty.
Tuyuhun, which they used to contain the Tang people, was also wilted by Li Chao.
And after Li Chao cleaned up Tuyuhun, when he used it more quickly, he quickly cleaned up Liang Shidao and seized Shuofang.
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Coupled with the defeat of Liu Heimin and Gao Kaidao before, the situation changed abruptly.
The most unprepared was the rebellion of Tuli and Yu Shot, and the rebellion of the Tiele people in the north, which made Jieli anxious, and the powerful Eastern Turks actually fell into civil strife.
The Tang army took the opportunity to kill Yuan Junzhang again, and even Yang Zhengdao, the king of Sui who Empress Xiao and they set up, were captured.
Offensive and defensive changes.
When Li Jing and Li Ji attacked, the Turks were busy with the civil war.
The young and strong were all assembled, riding war horses and carrying knives, tearing and chasing each other, and what they left behind in the grassland pastures were their parents, their wives and daughters, and their Han slaves.
Outside the Great Wall.
On the pasture by the Purple River, Wang Yushun, a former descendant of Wutai Mountain in Daizhou, Hedong, was shearing sheep for sheep.
The weather is nice and the sheep have long wool, which is a good time to shear the sheep.
The male owner of the herdsman went out to fight, and brought his eldest teenage son with him.
He was left with his father, his young brother, his mother, his wife, and his children.
In addition to this family, there were five slaves in the family, two women and three men, one of the older men was a Tiele slave, and the other four were all in their twenties and thirties, all from the Central Plains.
Some have been slaves on the grassland for more than ten years, and some have only been in slavery for more than a year.
Wang Yushun was captured during the five years of Turkic raids in Wude, and finally changed hands several times and was bought by the owner of the family.
As a slave, he has slowly become accustomed to life here.
Although he ran away at the beginning, every time he escaped, he was caught and beaten to death.
If it weren't for a few other Han slave compatriots taking care of him, he would have died long ago.
He also understood later that he couldn't run away at all.
In the steppe, if a slave escapes, all the Turks will help capture the slave.
If they were alone, the Turks would capture them when they saw them, and many were even killed when they fled.
In the vast grassland, where to escape.
Now he is no longer running away, and he has accepted his fate.
She herds cattle and horses every day, and although he has no chains on his body, he doesn't run anymore.
After no longer running away, he will not be beaten, in his hometown, his life is average, but when he arrives here, he can eat a full meal every day.
It's just that as a slave, far away from home, and never seeing his parents, wife and children again, he often has a heartache at night.
He often dreamed at night that one day the officials and soldiers of the imperial court could fight on the grassland, and they could rescue him, so that he could return to his hometown again, and see his parents, wives and children in his hometown again.
The knife was sharpened quickly, and Wang Yushun began to catch the sheep.
He is now very familiar with lifting a big sheep with one leg on it, pressing the sheep down easily, and then skillfully cutting the wool with a knife, which can cut the wool quickly and well, and does not hurt the sheep for half a point.
When he cut all the wool of another sheep and sent it to the other side to simply spin it into thick rope for two Han women, he heard a message.
I heard that the Tang army has come out of the pass.
Although the news was uncertain, he felt an inexplicable excitement in his heart, and he was able to realize that the imperial court had really hit the Great Wall, and he might be able to return to his hometown.
On that day, when the wool had not yet been sheared and the sun was still warm in the sky, a dark shadow appeared in the distance.
There were Turkic herders riding horses in front of them and fleeing in a panic The Tang army went out of the Northern Expedition The Turkic masters panicked and went to lead the horses, they didn't care about anything, they were so panicked and frightened that they just wanted to flee immediately, leaving behind the tents, the cattle and horses, the sheep that were still shearing, and their slaves Wang Yushun, who was holding a sharp wool cutting knife, watched the black line get closer and closer, clearer and taller Suddenly, I don't know where the courage came from, Wang Yushun carried the sharp knife and rushed towards the Turkic family who wanted to escape.
Normally, he didn't dare to look up at them, but now, his eyes were full of fire and excitement.
He shouted, he screamed, he held his knife, his blood boiling.
He didn't know why he did it, he just had a hot head, his blood was rushing, and he followed his thoughts.
With a knife, it stabbed into the chest of the old Turk who had just turned around.
"Die, old Turkic dog" This old Turkic man, although he looks thin and thin, has a pair of vicious eyes.
He threw up the whip, ruthless and accurate, and Wang Yushun, who had been beaten several times, died and came back to life.
Even those two Han female compatriots were dragged into the tent by this old dog more than once and defiled.
Blood gushed out.
After seeing the blood, Wang Yushun became more and more excited.
He drew his sword, stabbed again, pulled out, stabbed in. stabbed more than a dozen times in a row, stabbed the old dog to death directly, and then rushed to the next one.
Under the leadership of Wang Yushun, several other slaves also picked up knives and rushed towards the Turkic people, and when the Tang cavalry rushed over, the family was already half dead, and a few were fleeing in panic, and they even forgot to resist.
"Okay, we are soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, now hand them over to us" The officer of the government soldiers wearing the Mingguang armor said to Wang Yushun on his horse, and several government soldiers rushed up, knocked the remaining Turks to the ground with a single shot, and then tied them all up with cowhide ropes.
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"Kill them," Wang Yushun shouted.
"It's a pity to kill them, these people are brought back, and they can be sent to the mine to be mined and sent to open mountains and build roads, and they can't be wasted."
"Are you Han?"
Wang Yushun nodded, looked at the bloodstained knife in his hand, and he threw it down.
"We'll register your identity later, and we'll check it out later.
As long as the identity is true, we will send you back to your hometown."
"Thank you" "You're welcome, we're late."
The government officer said.
After a pause, the officer continued to say to him, "You should know how many cattle and sheep this Turkic people have, where they are grazing, we need your help to get these cattle, sheep, horses, camels, we need these."
Wang Yushun nodded, "I know, I'll take you there" t1706231537: