It is 800 miles away from the north of Loufuguan.
In the north of Yinshan Mountain, Tongye Hu is pulling out the camp.
These days, tribal leaders still come with men and horses every day, but he doesn't plan to wait any longer.
The camp has gathered nearly 300,000 horses, and many tribes have directly come from the entire tribe, men, women, and children, making it like a transition.
Although the large number of people is overwhelming, it also means that he is being recognized in the east.
But there were too many people, and there was a lot of trouble, and the whole camp was a mess.
Supplies are also a problem, and there are more people than they can talk about.
What's more, Tuli had been going south for a long time, and the two troops and horses he had placed on the other two sides had been coming over to ask when to attack.
"It's time to strike."
The tall Tong Ye Protector was proud.
"Tuli is estimated to have passed the Yanmen Pass, we have to hurry, otherwise, he will rob all the good things, haha."
Tong Ye Hu smiled with the chiefs who were named Jie Lifa, Tutun Fa, Tong Lifa and other officials by him.
No one doubted Tong Yehu's words.
The last time they received the news was that Li Jing cunningly ambushed Tuli's 5,000 Khitan forwards, and then Tuli led his army to pursue, and Li Jing fled all the way south.
"I hope Tuli can slow down, if he enters Taiyuan directly, then the good things in Taiyuan City will definitely not have our share."
Ashina Sheer said.
"Let's go" The army pulled out the camp, but because there were too many people and horses in the camp, especially many tribes came with their entire tribes, and even brought their livestock tents, etc., the grain and grass brought by each department were also a small amount of jerky, plus a large herd of live cattle and sheep, so the horn sounded, and the speed was slow.
Tong Ye said that he was worried that Tuli would fight too fast, but in fact, he was not in a hurry at all, and even deliberately slowed down, and he even looked forward to Li Jing fighting more battles with Tuli, and it was best to let Tuli lose more.
It's best to let Tuli suffer a big loss, so that he, the Great Khan, can defeat Li Jing again, then it will naturally be better.
"Sheer.
You say, this time we will go south, where is it appropriate to stop fighting" Tong Ye Hu asked Ashina Sheer, this brother of Yu She, Jie Li's nephew, is very appreciated by Tong Ye Hu.
"Of course, it is to hit the Yellow River, to Chang'an and Luoyang."
Tong Ye Hu smiled and shook his head.
"We can say the same with the people in the following departments, but we have to know it ourselves."
Although it has only been more than three years since Tong Yehu took over the position of Khan of the Western Turks from his brother, he has always led the army to fight in the Western Regions.
Tong Yehu has always attached great importance to Li Tang.
"If it weren't for the catastrophe in the Central Plains this time, the Turks would not have had a chance to unify the east and the west.
Speaking of which, Li Tang is very powerful, they don't seem to have made any moves in the north, but they successfully let Jieli and you attack each other, and instigated the Tiele people to make a rebellion, and almost the Tang people got the entire south of Yinshan. ” Ashina Sheer is young, but he has a smart brain, and he just deliberately behaved in front of Tong Ye Hu.
"How did the Great Khan plan it?"
"I'm going to make peace with the Tang people."
"Yihe" Ashina Sheer was really surprised, and even Yu Sheshe, who had not spoken on the side, couldn't help but exclaim, "Why, our situation is so good now" Tong Ye Hu smiled.
"Of course, it's not to negotiate peace now, and the Tang people still can't be underestimated.
This time we have a good opportunity, I plan to enter the Great Wall first, and rob Hedong, Hebei, Shuofang, Longyou, Hexi and other places, mainly to rob the population near the Great Wall in the north.
In the past two years, the Tang people have made great moves, from the Central Plains and the south and other places, to the northern border pass to immigrate a large number of people, they are very ambitious, immigrating to the real border, this is to expand to the north, if they have a firm foothold, they will continue to immigrate to the north little by little, constantly encroaching and squeezing us, and even continue to build the Great Wall and fortress to the north, turning our pastures into their fields. ” Tong Yehu's vision is very long-term, and the overall situation is also good.
He saw the potential of the Tang Dynasty, the Central Plains was unified, and the Tang Dynasty would inevitably expand to the north, and the Tang people would stretch their hands all the way to the foot of the Yin Mountain.
This is not allowed by the Tongye Protector.
Whoever controls the Yinshan Mountain Range will be able to gain the upper hand in the confrontation between the Central Plains and the grasslands.
Moreover, the two sides of Yinshan, especially the south of Yinshan, are the most fertile pastures, occupying this place, entering the south to sweep the Central Plains, retreating to guard the south and north of the desert, how can Tong Yehu let go.
He didn't think about occupying the Central Plains and entering Luoyang and Chang'an or anything, what he wanted was to use the Great Wall as the actual line of control, and this time he wanted to beat the Tang people hard, let them sign this treaty with him, and let them recognize the Great Wall as the border between the two sides.
Taiyuan, Youzhou, and Chang'an are not easy to fight, and Tong Yehu doesn't want to bother to fight these cities, but this time he crossed the Great Wall, plundered the northern part of the Tang Dynasty, hit the Tang people hard, and dug up a few pieces of meat for them, which is a must.
But we must grasp this line and not forget the goal.
"Although Chang'an Luoyang is good, but it will corrode the ambition of our grassland warriors, how powerful the Xianbei people were back then, but they first set the capital of Hedong, and then moved to Luoyang, and even fully Sinicized, regarded themselves as Han people, put on Han clothes and spoke Han dialect, and took the initiative to forget their true face, as a result, they soon became as weak as the Han people, and finally destroyed the country, and even returned to the grassland.
We can't repeat their mistakes, although the Central Plains is good, it is not a place for our warriors to cherish after all, so just keep the Tang people and let them pay us tribute. ” Taking the Great Wall as the boundary, and then letting the emperor of the Tang Dynasty pay tribute to the Turkic Great Khan, and then pay tribute and make peace, this is the real goal of Tongye Hu.
He never thought of being the emperor of the Central Plains, he was the great khan of the Turks, and he disdained to be the emperor of the Central Plains.
Let Li Shimin continue to be his son of heaven in the Central Plains, he will be the great khan of Li Shimin and the Tang Dynasty, so it will be good.
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"What if Li Shimin refuses to pay tribute to his ministers and refuses to take the Great Wall as the boundary?"
"Then we'll fight until he agrees."
Tong Ye Hu said coldly.
Lou annoys the pass, and the valley of the Hui River.
The Turks fought and lost.
For three whole days, more than 80,000 Turks were full of confidence from the beginning that they would be able to break through, and finally faced the iron wall of Wei Chigong Shan Xiongxin, and the harassment of Luo Shixin Niu Jinda like flies, especially the opening at the north entrance that could only accommodate ten horsemen in parallel, plus the countless trees and stones blocking the valley mouth, as well as the seemingly endless Tang army archers, crossbowmen, and pikemen in the back, they failed.
The worst time has come.
Failure to break through, failure to break through, and three days later, their food and grass were exhausted.
Of the 90,000 troops that entered the valley, less than 80,000 remained at this time.
They have lost more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, and the casualties have reached nearly 20%, the casualties are large, and the food and grass are starved, trapped in the river valley, and the Turks are already panic and despair.
But the Turks did not surrender, they seem to be holding on and waiting.
"Repay the country, the Turks in the valley are killing horses and eating."
When people are hungry, they eat everything, Zhang patrols Suiyang, and even kills the concubines to satisfy the hunger of the soldiers, and eats up the people in a city.
Huangchao is chaotic in the world, and he is even more famous for eating people, and Zhu Cang at the end of the Sui Dynasty is also a man-eating demon king.
The Turks ran out of food, but there were still horses, and there were a lot of horses, and they did not surrender, they were eating horses.
Cheng Chumo scolded on the side, "Damn, these wolf cubs are actually killing grandpa's horses to eat."
In his opinion, the Turks in the valley are all dead, and they are killing horses now, which is the trophy of the Tang army.
"Xiangguo, let me take my brothers to destroy them."
Li Chao shook his head.
"You've seen and eaten wild boars in the mountains and forests, but do you know that the most dangerous time for a wild boar is actually after he is injured.
The injured wild boar is the most savage and ferocious, even the tiger is not afraid, and the tree can be broken.
Clever hunters know that if they fail to kill the boar at once, it is better not to fight the boar when it is injured and mad, but to wait for the boar to be weak.
He said to Su Dingfang on the side, "Send a signal to Luo Shixin to inform them, continue to harass the Turks, don't let them breathe, but don't confront them head-on, we still have time." ” The Turks still have a lot of horses, even if there are no horses, there are still many corpses in the valley, it is a cold winter, and it is not broken, and when the time comes, they can still cut meat and eat.
But Li Chao will not let the Turks hold out until that time, he will use endless attacks to make the Turks uneasy and make their will collapse.
The hunger is not the most terrible, the most terrible is the collapse of the will.
"Do you really not accept the surrender of the Turks?"
"If they are really willing to surrender, of course they can."
Su Dingfang was puzzled, didn't he want these people to die before Li Chao saw his doubts and said with a smile, "You can also kill if you fall." ” He had already made up his mind not to give the Turks a chance to live.
Because if they are captured, then when it comes time to negotiate, Tong Ye Hu will definitely ask for the people to be returned, and only the dead will not be able to go back.
"Killing prisoners is ominous," Li Xiuning said cautiously.
"War is ominous."
Tuli moved south, and more than 20,000 of the 100,000 horses had been killed and wounded, and the Tang army had also suffered more than 4,000 casualties.
War is so cruel that killing prisoners is nothing.
After running out of food, the Turks held out for only three days.
During the three days, the Tang army attacked and harassed them all the time, and what was even more terrifying was that there was no hope of reinforcements to save them, and three days later, a group of Turkic generals finally sent envoys to enter the pass and surrender to Li Chao.
"I promise you the terms of surrender, put down your sword and raise your hands to surrender, you can avoid death and spare your lives."
"No, we can surrender to the Tang army, but to keep our weapons, we ask the Tang army to open the north entrance and let us evacuate."
Li Chao shook his head.
"You have no room to bargain with me, my condition is that you lay down your arms and surrender, and then be imprisoned in a prisoner of war camp, waiting for the protection of the Commander to ransom you back." t1706231537: