Chapter 230: The Beginning of the Road to Conquest There are a lot of things in the country, Li Zhen can be said to be anxious during this time, and the daily twists and turns are almost piled up in the entire imperial case, and these are all major matters that need to be dealt with urgently, and the small things have been filtered down by the prime ministers of the three provinces.
Li Zhen really didn't expect that the family would infiltrate the Tang Dynasty to this point, and after he uprooted several big families, there would be so many vacancies.
Fortunately, Li Zhen has not neglected the cultivation of talents over the years, filling in the students who graduated from Wentian Shuyuan, and after transferring some generals from the youth army to fill the army, he finally stabilized the domestic situation and did not have too much turmoil, which can be regarded as a blessing in misfortune.
In addition to domestic affairs, foreign news also came in, and it was also good news - Li Jingxuan and Zhang Wenqian really planned it, ostensibly pretending to agree to the family's purchase, but in fact they spread the news to the rear, and formulated a plan to close the door and beat the dog.
So on an agreed day, the two armies went to a remote place to train in unison.
And Da Shi and the Turks were really fooled, and each sent 100,000 troops into the territory of Datang to try, but they were made dumplings by Li Jingxuan and Zhang Wenqian and the army in the rear.
In the face of powerful thermal weapons, the enemy's 100,000 army had no resistance at all and was easily eaten.
Seeing that the Tang Dynasty was prepared, Da Shi and the Western Turks were immediately startled, and regardless of the 100,000 troops who were besieged, they immediately led the rest of the army to flee away.
For the enemy to know each other so well, Li Jingxuan and Zhang Wenqian did not pursue.
It's not that they don't want to eat more enemies, it's just that they don't have enough power.
You must know that whether it is Da Shi or the Western Turks, the elite cavalry sent this time is super powerful.
As border guards, the nature of the two armies of Li Jingxuan and Zhang Wenqian is mainly defensive, but their respective 100,000 troops are mainly infantry, and they cannot catch up at all.
And when the cavalry in the rear was brought up, the enemy had already run away, and the two could only sigh at this, and withdrew the army very unwillingly.
But the Tang Dynasty did not let them go, in the spring of the second year, that is, in 650 AD, the first year of the Tang Dynasty's Zhengwu, Li Zhen immediately brought up the old matter after just stabilizing the domestic situation, and sent 300,000 troops to march into the Western Turks.
At that time, the Western Turks were in the reign of the Khan of Yibi Shooting, and when they learned that the Tang Dynasty was attacking, they immediately gathered a million troops to meet them, but at this time, the Tang Dynasty had been equipped with machine guns on a large scale, and there were large-scale mobile cavalry, in the face of such a Tang Dynasty, the Western Turks had no chance of winning - the Western Turkic million army had not yet rushed to the Tang position, and was blinded by the dense bullets, and quickly retreated, but could not escape the pursuit of the Tang cavalry, and finally the million army was all buried in the vast land of the Western Regions.
The battle started quickly, and ended quickly, but in less than half a month, Muyang City (the capital of the Western Turks) was breached, and there were only 10,000 elite escorts left around the Khan of Yibi, intending to flee westward to Dashi, but on the way he was betrayed and killed by his cronies, and his head was in front of the Suding phalanx.
In the autumn of the first year of Zhengwu, the Western Turks were wiped out for less than half a year, the Great Food sent 600,000 troops to invade Tianzhu again, and the Tianzhu Protectorate raised up to meet the enemy, and the two sides fought a decisive battle on the border line.
And Da Shi immediately sent 400,000 troops to support the border.
On the Tang side, Li Zhen also sent Xue Rengui as the commander, leading 300,000 and 200,000 bereaved love, a total of 500,000 troops, and Da Shi launched a decisive battle to the death - so far, the most famous and largest Tang Dynasty war in the history of the Tang Dynasty to destroy Da Shi began.
The difficulty of this battle was beyond the expectations of Li Zhen and the Manchu civil and military forces, in the calculations of Li Zhen and the Manchu civil and military forces, even if the Great Food was stronger than the Western Turks, it was only a little stronger, but in the face of the Tang Dynasty's hot weapons, it should not be able to resist for long.
However, the facts gave Li Zhen a hard slap, Da Shi didn't know where to get Datang's cement and gunpowder formula, and also researched cement and simple thermal weapons, and built a large number of fortifications at the junction of Tang and Da Shi.
Although the quality of these fortifications is not as good as Datang's, it can be regarded as having the strength to wrestle with Datang, at least it is no problem to have dealings, and Datang, who was caught off guard, suddenly hit the copper wall and suffered a lot in front of these fortifications, and the soldiers who died in battle because of these fortifications alone are enough for thousands of people.
Li Zhen, who learned the news, was furious and conducted a thorough investigation of the empire, and found that the Tang Empire at this time was simply a sieve, full of spies who were bought by the enemy country or simply inserted into the Tang Dynasty by the enemy country, and the highest position had even achieved the high position of Dasi Nong, this position was no worse than the six Shangshu, and then it was the prime minister, and I don't know how much intelligence was leaked to the enemy over the years.
This discovery made Li Zhen almost faint with anger, and Li Shimin, who had abdicated, was even more angry and fell ill, and he was almost not saved.
Li Zhen showed no mercy to his subordinates this time, and directly killed all the traitors by thunderous means, and all the nine clans were expelled from their nationality and nationality, expelled from the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and they could no longer claim to be Tang people - but these people were torn to pieces by the families of the soldiers who died in the war before they left the border of the Tang Dynasty.
It's just that although Li Zhen has dealt with the moths in the country, this does not seem to be of much help to the current war situation, after all, Da Shi has already obtained the formula of cement and gunpowder, as long as they want, they can continue to produce more cement and gunpowder, bringing countless casualties to the advance of the army of Datang.
In this case, Li Zhen had to use his killer weapon - a super special army selected from the youth army and selected from the best, called the Wolf Tooth Special Combat Team.
The number of the wolf's tooth special combat team is not large, only 300 people, but if it is used properly, the role played by these 300 people is even more important than that of 10,000 young soldiers.
The Youth Army is the elite of the world, and this wolf's tooth special combat team is selected from the Youth Army, each of them is the elite of the elite, the ace of the trump card, especially good at special operations, if they really want to, even if it is Li Zhen's guards, they may not be their opponents, and it is likely that they will quietly touch in and capture Li Zhensheng alive.