Hankyung.
In the Privy Council, the Privy Council of the Tang Dynasty, the Military Department, the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, the Third Army, the Tenth Army of the North Ya, the Sixteenth Guard of the South Ya, the Fourth Fleet of the Navy, and dozens of generals and commanders of various departments were all present.
Famous generals will gather and the stars will shine.
In the first row, they are all Wenchen in purple robes.
Prime Minister Zhang Chao sat in the center, with Ma Zhou, the president of Hanlin on the left, and Wei Zheng, the president of the aristocracy of the parliament, on the right.
Then on both sides are the cabinet, the Hanlin Yuan, the Goshidai, and the six senators of the Diet.
The emperor did not come.
Zhang Chao's gaze swept over the generals, and everyone was very quiet.
The reform of the army is from the top down, and the generals and commanders of the military guards first draw it up, then the officers at all levels below, then the non-commissioned officers, and then the garrisons of the various military guards.
As the year approaches, the weather is getting colder and colder.
It snowed several times in a row, and it was white outside.
Zhang Chao's eyes met Li Ji, the secretary of the military department below, he smiled slightly, but Li Ji lowered his head.
Li Ji wanted to book another family affair with the Zhang family for his second son, but Zhang Chao refused without hesitation.
Later, Li Ji asked Shan Xiongxin to help spread the word, saying that he was willing to marry a daughter to Zhang Chao's son, but Zhang Chao still refused.
There is no need to rely on this way to make up for the relationship between the two families.
Zhang Chao's repeated refusal undoubtedly gave Li Ji a different idea.
He later turned to marry the eldest grandson Wuji, and Li Erlang was engaged to the girl of the eldest grandson's family.
Regarding this news, after Zhang Chao heard it, he just smiled and put it aside.
This is not a big deal, what about the eldest grandson Wuji and Li Ji.
It is also not easy to gather the military generals today.
If it weren't for the end of the year, how could they have gathered so well, at least four of the governors of the five armies were in the south and north of the world, and only one of the governors of the Chinese army was stationed in Xiangyang, 200 miles away, and could occasionally enter Beijing to participate in deliberations.
The generals of the Fourth Fleet are also to be stationed in various places, and the navy is different from the army and is more professional.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the Privy Council Staff Office has received information that Xue Yantuo Zhenzhu Khan Yinan is plotting against the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty will never tolerate this matter.
Your Majesty has decided to destroy Xue Yantuo and capture the man."
Xue Yantuo was one of the more powerful Tielers, and during the Sui period, he used to rebel against the Turks.
Wavering in the Eastern and Western Turks, he was later co-opted by the Tang to unite to destroy the Turks.
After the fall of the Turks, the Tang Dynasty controlled the southern and western regions, and the northern region was handed over to Xue Yantuo.
Xue Yantuo was a vassal of the Tang Dynasty and was a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty.
The steppe was deprived of the powerful tribe of the Turks, and the Tiele people rapidly expanded their power.
In recent years, they moved the tooth tent from Yudu Military Mountain to the south of the Duluo River in the north of Weijie Mountain.
Up to now, with 200,000 string-controlled cavalry, it can be regarded as entering its heyday.
Now Xue Yantuo dominates the Tiele tribes, ruling a vast area from Murowei in the east, Jinshan in the west, Monan in the south, and Hanhai in the north.
Xue Yantuo ruled over the Hui tribes, Fugu, Tongluo, Baye, Aqiu, and Xia.
At the beginning, the Tang Dynasty exterminated the Turks and classified Monan as direct control, and many Turkic tribes moved to the interior and were dispersed.
The land of Monan, including the fertile Hetao, Yinshan Baidaochuan and other places, has become the territory directly under the jurisdiction of the Tang Dynasty.
Mobei gave it directly to Xue Yantuo.
At the beginning, Xue Yantuo was full of awe of Datang.
The powerful Eastern and Western Turks were completely destroyed by the Tang Dynasty.
Xue Yantuo couldn't even defeat the Turks at the beginning, so how could he dare to compete with the Tang Dynasty.
They pay tribute every year, are very polite to Datang, and even ask to marry the princess of Datang and send their son to Datang to learn culture, in fact, they are sent to Datang as hostages.
Datang used troops several times, and Xue Yantuo also actively deployed troops to participate.
In the major wars of the Western Turks, Goguryeo, and even Tuyuhun, Xue Yantuo also sent troops to assist.
More than ten years have passed, Mobei is stable, there is no war, and the trade with the Central Plains is smooth, and Xue Yantuo's strength has also skyrocketed in recent years.
With 200,000 elite cavalry, it can be said that it is powerful.
In the Tang Dynasty's Protectorate War last year, Xue Yantuo accepted Li Shimin's edict and led his troops south.
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As a result, as soon as they arrived in Monan, the war ended.
Yi Nan was shocked that Tian Khan had lost the world so quickly, and at the same time had doubts about the strength of Datang.
Especially after seeing the richness and emptiness of Monan, he was reluctant to return to the bitter cold land of Mobei.
Yi Nan had several talks with the Murowei, Xi, Qi and other ministries, and he was able to attract a few ambitious allies.
Yi Nan believes that if they send troops south in the name of returning our heavenly khan, triggering the second civil war of the Tang Dynasty, then they can take advantage of the opportunity to make profits.
Yi Nan's target is Mo Nan, and even Hetao.
Zhang Chao is in the name of a Qing monarch to protect the new law, and he can win in half a year, could it be that they Xue Yantuo and Xi Qi Wei Fei and other departments, 300,000 iron horsemen, and the name of returning my heavenly khan, they can't win Yi Nan believed that there must be many people in the Tang Dynasty who were dissatisfied with Cheng Qian and Zhang Chao, and they would definitely be able to get the support of many Central Plains nobles when they went south.
When the war is chaotic, it is a good time to fish in troubled waters.
If you have strength, you will inevitably have ambitions.
After ten years of recuperation, Yi Nan has 200,000 male soldiers, and it is normal to swell.
But after he shouted out the sentence "Return my heavenly khan", Cheng Qian was the first to kill him.
A vassal state actually dares to interfere in the internal affairs of the suzerain, especially this kind of imperial power issue, isn't this looking for death Originally, in that part of Mobei, the imperial court was beyond the reach of the whip, barren and distant, and the Tang Dynasty was handed over to the Tiele people for grazing, and the imperial court traded with them, which was also very good.
But now that Xue Yantuo is dead, he can only change to a khan.
"I think that Xue Yantuo can be saluted first and then soldiers, and it will be no good for Datang to start fighting as soon as he comes up.
Especially now that we have just carried out military reform, and there are many places where Datang uses soldiers.
It is not cost-effective to have an all-out war with the Tielers.
If it can be solved by means, it is naturally the best. ” Wei Zheng has always been the kind of person who opposes war, no matter what kind of war.
He believed that warlike people would die, and that fighting a war would cost money and food, and that it would cost people a lot.
The eldest grandson, Wuji, also thinks that there is no benefit in starting a war with the Hu people at the moment.
"I heard that the Hui power has gradually grown, and now it is on the Tula River, although it is still attached to Xue Yantuo, but its strength is not weak.
There was also the Khambi Department, whose leader and Yi Nan jointly built the Tiele Khanate, rebelled against the Western Turks, and called Khan together.
Now the Qibi Department is nomadic in the north of Ganliang, and its strength is not weak. ” "The imperial court can give the Hui chieftain Yaoge Tumidu as the Hui Khan, and give the Qibi brother as the Tiele Khan, and let them build the Hui Khanate and the Tiele Khanate, so as to split Xue Yantuo."
When the eldest grandson Wuji's father, Sun Sheng, was an expert on Turkic issues in the Sui Dynasty, he made many envoys to the Turkic steppe, which can be described as quite powerful.
Although the eldest grandson Wuji has never been to the grassland, he also understands the strategy of differentiation.
Originally, the Xue Yantuo Khanate was a khanate united by the Tiele tribes, and Xue Yantuo was only one of the stronger tribes at the beginning, and it was with the full support of the Tang Dynasty that he was able to establish a state in Mobei and grow to this strength.
But the steppe tribes are not as good as the Central Plains, their khanates are tribal alliances, each tribe still retains its own pastures, and even their soldiers are also a combination of warriors of various tribes.
This system makes them particularly susceptible to secession.
Even within the Khan clan, there were often internal strife over the issue of inheritance, and the decline of the powerful Turkic Khanate was not caused by the struggle for succession, and they attacked each other, and finally declined.
The strategy of the eldest grandson Wuji is no problem.
In the Xue Yantuo Khanate, the Hui and the Khibi are now second only to the Xue Yantuo tribe.
Moreover, in that year, Brother Qi and Yi Nan established the Tiele Khanate together, and the two were respected as Khans together.
It was only later that the Turks became stronger, and they were forced to abolish the Khan.
Later, Yi Nan attached himself to the Tang Dynasty, established the Xue Yantuo Khanate, and became the Zhenzhu Khan canonized by the Tang Dynasty.
Fang Xuanling also put forward his own suggestions.
"You can canonize the son of Yi Nan to set up a large degree and lose Tu Li as the little Khan of Xue Yantuo, and each of them will be given strength to divide its momentum."
Mobei was originally a unified Xue Yantuo Khanate, and now he is canonized two more khanates, and two little khans are canonized in Xue Yantuo.
In this way, Mobei formed a situation of three khanates and five khanates.
Zhang Chao said with a smile, "The divisive plan you said is not bad, but right now, Xue Yantuo has already sent soldiers to the south, and he will go south at any time."
At this time, I am afraid that the strategy of differentiation is difficult to do, and there is no need to say much when it is time to fight.
The imperial court must first fight a battle to defeat the prestige and arrogance of Yi Nan, and also let Qi Bi, Hui Hui and others see the strong strength of the Tang Dynasty, and then implement a strategy of differentiation before it can be effective. ” If you can do it, you won't be noisy.
If it doesn't hurt, how can they know that Datang is powerful, and they think that they have a group of herdsmen riding horses, how amazing it is.
The Tang Dynasty and the Han Dynasty are not comparable to those Hu riders, whether it is equipment or military literacy.
Although Li Jing, the privy envoy in his sixties, is old, his ambition is still there.
He objected to the attitude of the eldest grandson Wuji and Fang Xuanling.
"For these arrogant Hu people, they have to be beaten, and if they don't hurt them, they don't know what it means to be powerful.
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King Zhao, Li Jing asked Ying to lead the troops, and the Yi Nan who was set to fight begged for mercy" Li Ji, the secretary of the military department, Qin Qiong, the marshal of the Beiya, and Chi Gong, the deputy envoy of the privy council, all asked for battle.
Zhang Chao did not choose them as the main generals.
"Marshal Su" "The last general" Marshal Su Dingfang of Nanya heard his name and responded loudly with joy.
"A certain recommended to His Majesty that you should lead the northern expedition to Xue Yantuo, and the nobles of the three collars of Monan, Yanbei and Liaobei will lead the soldiers and horses to assist in the battle.
Do you have the confidence to win this battle?"
"If you can't win Xue Yantuo, Yuanfu will take off the head of a certain person when he arrives, and the night pot will be used," Su Dingfang patted his chest and promised.
In the Northern Expedition to Xue Yantuo, the best candidate was Li Jing, but it was actually Li Ji.
But Li Jing was old, and Li Ji and Zhang Chao were not very relieved, so he finally chose Su Dingfang.
Although Su Lie is a rising star, his bravery is not as good as Qin Qiong and Wei Chi Gong, but in terms of command ability, he is still above Qin Qiong and Wei Chi Gong.
What's more, Su Dingfang is still his protégé, let him command the troops, which not only reassures Hechao.
And it also added some prestige to Su Dingfang, and the position of the marshal of the Southern Ya will be more stable in the future. t1706231537: