In the end, it was Li Jidian, who was escorted by Cheng Yanjin to send Tang Jian to the Western Turks, and the Xuanjia army and the 10,000 money army retreated.In this way, there is no need to attack Gaochang, the casualties will be too great, so the 100,000 army will continue to maintain the confrontation, and wait until the deal with the Western Turks is negotiated, and there will be time to waste time with Gaochang as a lonely city.And now the Tang army has occupied half of the Gaochang territory, plus more than 300,000 yuan of money and grain, it can be said that the strength is strong, even if winter comes, there is no need to retreat, and some are cities to settle down people.In the tent of the king of the Western Turks, Khan Yibi Lulu would never have thought that the war between the Tang Dynasty and Gaochang was at a critical juncture, and someone would come to envoy the Western Turks."
So, the envoy of the Tang Dynasty has come to my Western Turks to ask for help?"
Hearing that it was to buy sheep for military rations, Yibi Lulu groaned, and a small idea was made in his heart.How experienced is Tang Jian, a diplomat?
I don't know what the other party will think.smiled faintly and said: "It's not a request for help, it's just a transaction, our Datang didn't come to the Western Turks to buy sheep and raise troops because they were too poor to afford military rations."
On the contrary, we have come because the treasury is full and we want to feed our soldiers and, of course, consume our abundant wealth. ”The confidence on his face when he talked about his money can be said to be showing off openly, and no one can bear that expression when he sees it, so he came here to show off his wealth?
Cheng Yanjin behind him poked Tang Jian and whispered: "Zhengzhi, how can you show your wealth when you go out?"
”Tang Jian didn't think about it, and continued: "A battle was originally enough for 100,000 copper coins, but the imperial court and the support of the people actually gave an extra 300,000 yuan, so there was this transaction.In a word, it is because of the friendship between our two countries that we handed over this trade to your country, otherwise, my Datang also sits on a large grassland in the north, and the people have countless cattle and sheep in their hands, and they can make enough sheep to eat in the country. ”A general of the Western Turks was unconvinced and said: "It sounds good, you are in a tight war with Gaochang, everyone knows that you can't afford it, and the Tang envoy should not treat us steppe people as fools, if there is a benefit, who will not take it by himself, and will give it to others?"
”Yi Bi Lu did not stop his subordinates, but looked at Tang Jian scrutinically, to see how he answered.Tang Jian laughed: "The war is tight?
Joke, in front of my Tang Heavenly Soldiers, does Gao Chang have the slightest resistance?
General Cheng, you might as well leak some of our military secrets to our Western Turkic friends, lest people look down on us. ”Cheng bit the golden dragon and walked to the middle, and his whole body was full of momentum, and he said loudly: "The 100,000 troops of the Tang Dynasty occupied half of the land of Gaochang in three days, and now the king of Gaochang has reduced the strength of the whole country, barely enough 100,000 uneven miscellaneous soldiers, and confronted us with their capital.If you use a strong attack, the other party is just a lonely city, there is no danger to defend, and it will be broken in two days!
Considering that it will increase unnecessary casualties, the coach decided to rely on the captured city as the defense, and slowly consume with the other party, Gaochang is weak, and sooner or later we will be consumed to death, and then it will collapse without a fight, and even my Datang can not lose a single soldier. ”After Cheng Cheng finished biting Jin, the Western Turkic generals took a breath together, this Tang army is too powerful.Lay down half of Gaochang in three days?
This is shocking enough, and now you still want to break through the Gaochang Royal City without losing a single soldier?
This, this, after thinking about it for a long time, Khan Yibi Lu could only sigh that this time the Tang Dynasty coach cherished his soldiers too much.I am afraid that only the commander of the Tang Dynasty in the world is still calm in the face of such a great achievement of destroying the country, and he will also consider the issue of protecting the soldiers, and put it on others, no matter how many soldiers are killed or injured, they only know that they have destroyed the country and robbed the merit.After thinking for a while, Yibi Lulu sighed and said: "Your envoy also knows that my Western Turks are located in the grassland, although they are rich in cattle, sheep and horses, but the people also feed on it, although there are many sheep, it is the food that saves life in winter, if it is distributed too much to the Tang Dynasty, I am afraid that it will affect the rations of our people for the winter, so" Tang Jian heard this, stood up and said: "This way?
Forget it, we are here with sincerity and good intentions, not to cause trouble to our neighbors.Since this transaction has affected the survival of the people of your country, it is not my wish, so the matter is abandoned, and we take our leave. ”Well??
This, no, how can you just say go?
Your front-line army is not eating?
Yibi Lu was dumbfounded, he just wanted to raise the price, and he didn't say that he wouldn't sell it.This new monarch who has just unified the Western Turks for only a year, where is Tang Jian, the opponent of the old fox, Tang Jian is a character who has broken his wrist with the Eastern Turkic overlord Jieli and the original Western Turkic overlord Mo He.Moreover, the strength of the Western Turks now is far less strong than when Mo Helu was in the past, so whether it is speaking or doing things, there is a lack of confidence."
Great Khan, how can you refuse the envoy of the Tang Dynasty?
Not to mention that our sheep are eaten in winter, a large part of them will be frozen to death by ice and snow, why not sell them to Datang to make a profit, so that our tribe can have a better life. ”One of the ministers couldn't help but suggest.Yi Bi Lu was embarrassed for a while, and seeing that Tang Jian and the others were about to walk out of the big tent, he hurriedly shouted: "Your envoy is slow, this king didn't say that he wouldn't trade, and asked your envoy to come back, and I asked my subordinates to negotiate the price." ”Tang Jian turned around at the door and asked knowingly, "Oh?
Wouldn't this be too embarrassing for Khan?
It won't harm the livelihood of the people of your country, right?
”"Of course not, our Western Turkic people are very friendly and worship Datang, and I heard that it is a transaction with Datang, and the people are absolutely enthusiastic."
In the end, Tang Jian and his entourage bought 100,000 sheep from the Western Turks in advance at the price of 21 sheep, after all, 100,000 sheep in an army of 100,000 are enough to eat for a while.Moreover, the Tang Dynasty soldiers are not from the Western Turkic steppe, and they can't eat mutton purely without other things.Cheng Yanjin saw the whole process of this mission, and all the way back said that Tang Jian, this old guy, is cunning, two hundred and one sheep?
There are four hundred in the country, and this bargaining price is too ruthless, and the monarchs and ministers of the Western Turks were eaten to death.As a result, Tang Jian said another sentence, which made Cheng Yanjin dumbfounded."
If it weren't for the fact that they were too poor, I would have wanted to offer a hundred pieces, anyway, they were in a hurry to sell it to us, and they had no place to sell it except for us.And even if the two hundred are temporarily stored in their hands, sooner or later they will have to return them. ”"What?
Didn't you see that your old man Tang is also doing underworld work?
Do you still want to eat black with others, but you can't get the money back?
This kind of thing, I'm embarrassed to do it, it's too bad. ”Tang Jian scolded with a smile: "Black eats black?
If you Lao Cheng is still a general of the Tang Dynasty, how can you lose your identity between countries.What I said was that in the future, they will definitely take the money to buy things from our Datang again, salt, tea, etc., and the tea and salt we sell to foreign countries are more than twice as expensive as those in China.Inside and out, we have earned more than this star. ”This is too bad, although Cheng Yanjin doesn't have a good impression of these grassland aliens, he still can't help but sympathize with those people at this time, pointing at Tang Jian and scolding: "You shouldn't be a Honglu Siqing to envoy to other countries, now it seems that you are purely a profiteer, yes, a profiteer!"
”"Hahahaha, don't talk about me when you say profiteers, these things were jointly set by a group of people from the household department and Du Juma, and I'm just an executor."
Tang Jian said the reason.In fact, these are just from the perspective of Datang, which is indeed a little too ruthless.But if you look at it from the perspective of the Western Turks, it's a different story.When they saw that Datang had a war of 100,000 people, they had already made 300,000 yuan in money, and they were already drooling with envy, Datang was so rich, so rich that people really wanted to rob it.Of course, thinking of his military strength, he was also glad that the Western Turks did not offend the Tang Dynasty, so they found good things.In exchange for a large sum of money, a group of sheep that were damaged in winter can be used to buy the necessities of grassland life with Datang in the future, which is simply a big pie falling from the sky.Therefore, the Western Turkic monarchs and ministers were all excited and happy, and some even suggested that such a transaction could continue to be done with Datang in the future?
If it can be sold to them for a long time, then the Western Turks will also prosper a lot.Cheng Biting Jin and his entourage went out in less than ten days, and they came back with 100,000 sheep, which can be said to be unbelievably smooth, when the 100,000 army saw the white flock of sheep, the excitement, the eyes were red.In the big tent of the Chinese army, Cheng Yanjin was describing the wonderful scene of the envoy in a colorful way, and the generals laughed loudly when they heard it, which was really wonderful.Everyone no longer has any contempt for Tang Jian, the secretary of Honglu Temple, and now it seems that doing a good job in diplomacy can really be a big help.Wei Chigong said: "The current war is almost incomprehensible, it seems that there is such a convenience, you don't need to bring grain and grass to go out, you can buy it directly from neighboring countries on the spot, and the method of Du Horse is really worry-free."
I don't know if there will be a day in the future when we can fight a war with other countries and take the other side without us taking a shot?
”Tang Jian opened his mouth and said: "At that time, someone in the Yizheng Hall proposed that if there was enough money, maybe he could pay for the Western Turks to send troops to help our Tang Dynasty destroy Gaochang, but His Majesty directly denied it in the name of damaging the majesty of my Tang Dynasty. ”"Of course, we have to deny it, we have countless men in the Tang Dynasty, and we can use others to help us fight?
Jokes, such shameless things, we can't do it. ”Wei Chigong shouted.Yes, yes, yes!
A lot of people chimed in."
Old Tang, who is so unscrupulous and comes up with such an idea?
You tell us. ”Someone asked curiously.Of course, Tang Jian can't say it, as soon as this strategy comes out, it will be competing with the front-line army, and it will be an offending thing to leak out.Li Ji diverted the topic and said: "Hiring troops from other countries to help us fight is also a good way to reduce our casualties.However, this has great disadvantages and is absolutely undesirable unless it is absolutely necessary.One is the ownership of the territory captured, and if the Western Turks are allowed to conquer Gaochang, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not have two hearts.The second is that once our soldiers are slack, but if there is a war, they will all rely on the soldiers of other countries, and it will not be long before our soldiers will all lose their elite combat power because of pampering, and then Datang may become a lamb to be slaughtered. ”After everyone listened, they were all shocked, it was really this truth, in the end, the handsome man had a unique vision, and he could see the key at a glance.The army of the Tang Dynasty ate a fat mutton feast on the same day, and the scene of 100,000 troops cooking sheep and cooking food was so spectacular, the fragrance floated for ten miles, and it was smelled in the Gaochang city opposite.In just three days, the daily smell of meat discouraged the morale of the guards and soldiers of Gaochang opposite.There is no way not to be scattered, the Tang army is an outsider, but the sergeants who should have been sleeping in the open can have a full meal of meat, and the conditions are extremely superior.On the other hand, on the side of Gaochang, he shrank his troops and defended the capital, not to mention, because he suddenly gathered 100,000 troops in the capital, and the pressure on raising troops in a city increased sharply, and the food of the army was becoming increasingly tight.Under this advance and retreat, these soldiers are not allowed to have other ideas, they are also soldiers, why is the gap so big?
Li Ji learned through the scouts that the army on the other side had been discouraged, and the delaying and attrition tactics that Gao Chang wanted to play were now self-defeating, and I am afraid that they would not last long.Simply Li Ji added another fire, let go of the road, and let the people of Gaochang pass unimpeded, whether they came out of the city or went to the city of Gaochang from the direction of Datang, they were not blocked.In this way, the Tang side even has a strategy against the messengers, and these people have brought the Tang Dynasty's persuasion policy to surrender along the way, not only surrendering without killing, if the soldiers on the Gaochang side are willing to return to the Tang Dynasty to join the army, they will be treated the same as the Tang Dynasty soldiers.Just this last sentence made the hearts of the enemy troops on the opposite side hot, and many people had already begun to think about how to sneak over to the enemy.At first, the generals above could still kill people and establish authority, but later, those ministers above the Gaochang court saw that the general trend had gone, and they took the initiative to secretly contact the front-line generals, wanting to plot against the past together.So less than seven days later, the battle of the Tang Dynasty against Gaochang ended in a very dramatic manner, and the Gaochang military officials took the family of Ju Tai, the king of Gaochang, and the city surrendered to the Tang army, and the Gaochang country was destroyed!
Such a result was unexpected and reasonable, but it made Li Ji and a group of generals who had traveled a long distance a little disappointed, I thought it was a long-lost war, but now it seems that it is boring!
Ju Tai is such a waste.Half a month later, the news of Gaochang's victory came back to Chang'an, and Li Er was no longer as excited about the victory and destruction of the country as usual.In his heart, this destruction of the country is normal, and the only thing that interests him is that Datang's war losses this time are almost negligible, and the speed with which the war ended is unprecedented.When Gaochang seized the Tang Dynasty merchants and cut off the Silk Road in the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty, no one would have thought that Gaochang would die in the hands of the 300,000 yuan of money from these merchants, I am afraid that until his head was cut off, the prince of Gaochang was still dreaming of making a fortune.After taking Gaochang, Li Ji personally led an army of 60,000 to defend Gaochang, which was agreed, Gaochang will have a permanent army of 100,000, and for the time being, it will be 60,000 Tang troops, and cooperate with the local recruitment of 40,000 new soldiers, and then rotate in the future.and Wei Chigong and Cheng Yanjin each brought 20,000 people to Chang'an.