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Chapter 251 Tuyuhun
Li Zhen did not agree with Li Shimin's policy towards ethnic minorities. Li Shimin was not interested in the territories of the surrounding ethnic minorities and only focused on the core areas of the Tang Dynasty. However, this policy had drawbacks and would indeed have an impact when the country was strong. It has a very good effect. When all nations come to court, there will be peace all around.
However, once the Tang Dynasty declined, the surrounding ethnic minority regimes would rise up and constantly challenge the authority of the Tang Dynasty.
In another time and space, the Tang Dynasty came to an end due to internal and external troubles, especially the enemies of Tubo, who fell in love and killed each other for more than a hundred years, and finally came to an end almost at the same time.
Therefore, Li Zhen will never allow such a thing to happen. He will eliminate such hidden dangers, directly bring Xue Yantuo's territory under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, eliminate the disobedient Xue Yantuo people, and assimilate the obedient ones. In this way, it will not take dozens of In the year, Xue Yantuo will completely become a part of the Tang Dynasty. In this way, it will also eliminate a lot of trouble for future generations.
After Xue Yantuo was eliminated, Li Zhen prepared to lead his troops back to Beijing.
This time the expedition to Xue Yantuo was nominally involving 200,000 troops, but in reality, only the 40,000-strong Central Army of the Tang Dynasty led by Li Zhen fought. In this way, a large amount of money and food were saved and the burden on the people was reduced. .
Just when Li Zhen was about to leave, Cheng Chuli broke into Li Zhen's tent covered in blood.
Seeing Cheng Chuli like this, everyone was shocked. Li Zhen hurriedly asked Cheng Chuli what happened.
Cheng Chuli knelt on the ground with a plop and cried: "Your Highness, you must avenge your dead brothers!"
"what is going on?"
Cheng Chuli wiped away his tears and recounted his experience.
It turns out that Cheng Chuli followed Li Zhen's orders and led three thousand soldiers to pursue Xue Yantuo's remnants, heading west and expanding the territory thousands of miles away.
However, unexpectedly, they were attacked by a mysterious army.
Due to the haste of the incident, Cheng Chuli was unable to take precautions and suffered heavy losses. More than 500 people were killed in the battle. Cheng Chuli fought desperately before breaking through the encirclement and escaping with his men.
When Li Zhen heard this, he was furious and said: "Who are they? How dare they attack our army of the Tang Dynasty!"
Cheng Chuli said: "Your Highness, this is Tuyuhun's army!"
"What? Is it Tuyuhun?" Li Zhen couldn't help being surprised.
The Tuyuhun Kingdom has been established in northwest China for more than 300 years. During the Sui Dynasty, they attacked Tuyuhun and defeated Tuyuhun Fuyun. Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty established counties such as Xihai and Heyuan. However, except for a very short period of control over the smallest Heyuan County in the east, several other counties were combined. Uncontrolled by the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty sent Fu Shun to manage the remaining people. As soon as they arrived at Xiping, they were unable to advance and had to return.
A few years later, Tuyuhun Fuyun not only recovered all the lost territory, but also attacked Heyou of the Sui Dynasty and broke with the Central Plains Dynasty.
In June of the ninth year of Zhenguan, the Tang Dynasty sent Duan Zhixuan, the general of Zuo Xiaowei, to lead his army to attack Tuyuhun. Fu Yun and his troops fled far away, and the Tang army pursued them as far as Qinghai Lake.
On the third day of December, Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, appointed Li Jing as the general manager of the march to Xihai Road. He commanded the Minister of War, Hou Junji, the general manager of Jishi Road march, the Minister of Punishment as the king of the city, Li Daozong, the general manager of Shanshan Road march, the governor of Liangzhou, and the general manager of Qiemo Road march. Li Daliang, the governor of Minzhou, Li Daoyan, the general manager of the Chishui Road March, Gao Zhengsheng, the general manager of the Yanze Road March, the governor of Lizhou, and the Turks and Qibi Heli who returned to the Tang Dynasty and other troops attacked Tuyuhun.
On the eighth day of the fourth leap month of the following year, Li Daozong defeated the Tuyuhun army at Kushan near Qinghai Lake.
Tuyuhun Fuyun fled, Xue Wanjun commanded the cavalry to pursue and defeated the remaining Tuyuhun party.
Zhi lost his mind and defeated Tuyuhun. Fushun, the son of King Fuyun of Tuyuhun, led the country to surrender to the Tang army. Fuyun hanged himself and died, and Tuyuhun surrendered to the Tang Dynasty. Fushun was named Khan and Prince of Xiping County, and Tuyuhun became a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty.
In other words, Tuyuhun had become a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty more than ten years ago.
Logically speaking, Tuyuhun should not attack Datang, but now the Tuyuhun people are provoking them. Do they think Datang did not beat them up?
Li Zhen banged the table at that time and said in a cold voice: "Tuyuhun dared to kill my soldiers of the Tang Dynasty. I will take revenge! Chu Li, how many people are there in Tuyuhun and where are they now?"
"About 10,000 people are still roaming in the northwest border area. Judging from their intentions, they want to swallow up the northwest area of ????Xue Yantuo."
"What a beautiful idea! Since they are taking the initiative to attack our Tang Dynasty, then I must destroy them!"
"Rengui, you immediately bring five thousand soldiers to the northwest region. You must defeat all the Tuyuhun troops."?Annihilation! "
"Your Highness, I am going too to avenge the murder of my subordinates!" Cheng Chuli said.
"Okay, take your troops and go with Rengui!" Li Zhen said.
At the moment, Xue Rengui and Cheng Chuli led more than 7,000 horses and galloped toward the northwest.
Li Zhen gathered his troops and prepared to retreat.
About seven or eight days later, Li Zhen received a message from Xue Rengui. Xue Rengui and Cheng Chuli's army encountered an ambush by Tuyuhun's army on the way and lost hundreds of people.
Xue Rengui said in the letter that Tuyuhun was powerful, with at least 20,000 to 30,000 people. The troops of Xue Yangui and Cheng Chuli were surrounded by groups and were struggling to support them. He asked Li Zhen to send reinforcements as soon as possible.
Li Zhen is angry!
It seems that Tuyuhun is going to be the enemy of Datang to the end!
Xue Rengui¡¯s Mo Dao soldiers were the elite of the Tang Dynasty and the main force of the Central Forbidden Army. Now they are surrounded by Tuyuhun. It seems that the troops sent by Tuyuhun this time are indeed very powerful.
Xue Rengui has a very strong personality. If he could support himself, he would not ask for help. Now that he is asking for help, it means that the situation is extremely critical.
He must immediately send troops to assist.
Thinking of this, Li Zhen immediately mobilized more than 30,000 men in his hands and advanced to the northwest with all his strength. He must rescue Xue Rengui and Cheng Chuli!
To the northwest of Xue Yantuo, the sound of killing shook the sky.
Countless feather arrows fell. Although the Tang army was all wearing heavy armor, some people still fell down.
Cheng Chuli fought until there were only a dozen people around him, and the ground was littered with the corpses of Tang and Tuyuhun soldiers who had died in battle.
These Tuyuhun soldiers were all dressed in black with red and yellow edges, and most of them were not wearing armor.
"kill!"
Cheng Chuli slashed a Tuyuhun soldier to death. The next moment, a hidden arrow flew out and hit him in the right shoulder.
Cheng Chuli loosened his grip on the knife, and the big knife fell to the ground.
"Kill! Capture the Tang general alive!"
One by one, Tuyuhun soldiers shouted and rushed towards Cheng Chuli.
Cheng Chuli sighed and thought to himself, is God trying to kill me, Cheng Chuli?
Prince! I'm sorry!
Cheng Chuli pulled out the saber from his waist with his left hand and was about to kill himself with his neck.
"Culi, here I come!"
The next moment, a white-robed general came from a distance holding a Fangtian painted halberd. With the big halberd in his hand, the Tuyuhun troops gave way one after another. It was Xue Rengui who came (remember this website address: www.hlnovel.com