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Chapter 917: The Army Attacks the Yi Nan
The current Turkic upper class is actually controlled by Li Yan's personal talents and the system's cheating. Once Li Yan is missing, they will immediately fall apart. Isn't this the result that Li Yan wants?
The real rise of nomadic peoples in history was when the Xianbei moved southwards. In order to control the Central Plains, they carried out large-scale sinicization during the reign of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty and intermarried with the Han people in the Central Plains, which enabled them to gain a foothold in the Central Plains.

With this precedent, the grassland peoples that rose later already knew the influence of cultural ideas on governance.

The upper nobility of the Turks, as well as the Tubo and Tuyuhun in the plateau areas, and the countries in the Western Regions all began to contact the Tang Dynasty, sending their children to Chang'an to study, and developing culture through marriage alliances.

In the 12th year of Zhenguan, Tubo Songtsen Gampo launched a large-scale invasion of Tuyuhun, Dangxiang, and Bailang Qiang, and marched straight to Songzhou of the Tang Dynasty in order to force the Tang Dynasty to make peace with him.

After the Tang Dynasty agreed, it did not hesitate to send the great minister Xue Ludongzan to propose marriage with 5,000 taels of gold and a large amount of treasures.

In exchange for knowledge of medicine, mathematics, craftsmanship, etc., and to absorb Han culture and advanced production technology.

Songtsen Gampo sent noble children to Chang'an many times to study Chinese classics, and vigorously developed Tubo through these advanced ideas. During Songtsen Gampo's reign, Tubo developed from a primitive and pure serfdom society to an advanced semi-slave and semi-feudal society.

Its politics, economy and culture developed rapidly, and its ties with neighboring ethnic groups were strengthened, laying a solid foundation for the large-scale invasion of the Tang Dynasty by future generations.

Who says these backward natives don't know how to open their eyes and see the world? As long as one is a human being, he will think. One Qin Shihuang made the kings of later generations unremittingly pursue the unification of the world; and a successful Xianbei entering the Central Plains made countless barbarians see the possibility of replacing the Han people.

Songtsen Gampo was willing to give up gold and silver in pursuit of culture. Was it in order to allow the Tang Dynasty to erode him faster?
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His intention was to prepare higher-level weapons and then replace the Tang Dynasty.

The Tang Dynasty wanted to export its culture, but more importantly, it wanted to export the values ​​and ideas of the Central Plains, rather than a large number of core skills, medicine, and mathematics that represented science and technology.

After Songtsen obtained these things, he fully accepted the technologies of making weapons, farm tools and increasing land production, but he turned his nose up at Confucianism and the Three Bonds and Five Constant Virtues that promoted Han culture and discarded them like worn-out shoes.

Those kings, princes, generals and ministers who made such treasonous remarks were eliminated before they even entered Tubo.

Even the characters were changed into symbols unique to the plateau.

These are all aimed at shielding them from cultural influences, artificially creating barriers and differences, promoting the Tang Dynasty threat theory in the country, and guiding ordinary people to be hostile to the Han people in the Central Plains.

Li Yan later realized that cultural influence must be coordinated with the rule of the upper echelons, and it would be more effective to first conquer the territory and then carry out targeted promotion.

For example, the one on the Liaodong Peninsula was an experiment of Li Yan, and Li Yan was also very concerned about its subsequent development.

After the Turks destroyed the upper echelons of the Three Kingdoms with absolute force and swept away their homes, they abolished the unique writing and language of the Three Kingdoms. The Tang government and scholars then guided the people to follow the Chinese system, and within only half a year, significant results were seen.

In addition, a large number of Han people were relocated there, and local people were prohibited from marrying each other, so they could only marry Han people. Although this was a bit cruel and overbearing, as Changsun Wuji said, it was like cutting pork with the skin on with a sharp knife.

Clean and crisp, without any mess.

If we persist in this way, I believe that in just one or two generations, the Liaodong Peninsula will be completely incorporated into the Central Plains.

This gave Li Yan new insights and understandings about his cultural war, and also provided him with more advanced experience on how the Tang Dynasty would control the West in the future.

In the feudal era, the family-based system was in place. The strength of the country was not institutionally guaranteed, and it could not maintain long-term stable development. It could only fluctuate with the wisdom or stupidity of the monarch, even if the previous generation of emperors were as wise as the Qin Emperor and Han Emperor.

If the heir is not worthy, the huge empire will collapse in an instant.

Faced with this situation, we can no longer expect a long time to come when it comes to ruling and assimilating the surrounding ethnic minorities. Instead, we must cut the Gordian knot and use the short period of time when a wise monarch is in power to carry out drastic changes.

Good policies must also be in line with specific actual conditions to find more appropriate ways of implementation.

This gave Li Yan a new understanding and insight into problem solving. Li Yan was extremely pleased with the gains from practice.

Realizing that Li Yan hadn't spoken for a long time, Gu Rentu raised his head and saw that Li Yan's eyes were wandering and absent-minded. Gu Rentu knelt on the ground with a look of grievance as if he had eaten shit on his face.

Seeing Li Yan's expression, he knew that his king was distracted again, and hurriedly called out: "King. King!"

"Ah, what's the matter?" Li Yan was stunned and then reacted.

Gu Rentu was speechless about his own king's unreliability, not to mention that he could scold him like a god.

"Forget it, get up. Be sure to be careful next time." Li Yan then recalled the conversation just now and coughed twice awkwardly.

He gave a few words of scolding with much noise but little rain, which suppressed Gu Rentu's somewhat proud mood due to the series of victories during this period.

Li Yan then asked, "Gu Rentu, do you know why I went south with such a fuss even though I knew about Yi Nan's trick?" Seeing that Li Yan was not really angry, Gu Rentu smiled and said, "How wise the king is, how could I guess? Anyway, so many people came to the doorstep of Datang, they can't just hang around for nothing, they must do something."

"Either we fight Datang, or we fight that bastard Yi Nan?"

Li Yan's eyelids jumped, looking at the simpleton in front of him. Being simple-minded does have its advantages. Using the most direct way of thinking can bypass the battle of wits and courage between the two sides and the complicated situation, and get to the essence directly.

"Well, that's good. You guessed it right."

Li Yan analyzed: "The Tang Dynasty is strong, with a large number of troops and cities everywhere. The north is not so bad, with only a few large rivers. When the rivers freeze in winter, our cavalry can walk on the ice and bypass the strong cities and mountains."

"But the south is full of dangerous passes, rivers and cities. Cavalry trapped in them is like being stuck in a swamp. No matter how strong their fighting power is, they can't exert it. They can only be slowly eaten away by them."

"So, the Tang Dynasty is not something that the Turks can easily defeat. I let Hou Junji go back just to get some resources from the Tang Dynasty to replenish the shortage of the army."

"But Yi Nan is different. He occupies the western part of the grassland. With the support of the Tang Dynasty, he is like an arm of the Tang Dynasty extending into the grassland. This time, I took advantage of the situation and went south to cut off this arm and unify the grassland."

Gu Rentu thought that Yinan had been acting for him before and playing him for a fool. He almost misled the Right Wise King and caused the army to fall into an irretrievable disaster. He had already hated Yinan to the core.

Now, when he heard that the Right Wise King was going to capture this beast, he immediately became excited: "Your Majesty, I went to see it yesterday. The terrain west of the Yellow River is similar to our grasslands, with grasslands, deserts and Gobi everywhere. The Yi Nan camp is also camped in the wilderness outside Lingzhou City. There is no dangerous place."

"They only have 300,000 men, while we have 800,000. Once our army arrives, Xueyantuo will surely be wiped out."

Li Yan nodded, then shook his head. Seeing Gu Rentu's puzzled expression, he smiled slightly and said, "This is a great opportunity. I won't show up. You will fight this battle alone."

"what?"

Gu Rentu looked a little flustered: "My king, I'm afraid without you here."

"What are you afraid of?"

Li Yan's face turned serious and he said, "In the past, our Turkic Khanate was isolated in a corner, with a maximum of 100,000 soldiers under its command. But now it has occupied most of the grasslands, with an army of millions at any time. Can I command it all by myself?"

"Gu Rentu, you have to grow up soon and be able to handle things on your own. Otherwise, even if I have three heads and six arms, I still won't be able to handle it."

"It's settled this time. Yi Nan has 300,000 men, and I'll give you 500,000. I don't ask you to completely destroy him, just defeat him."

Gu Rentu thought about it, and seeing that Li Yan had made up his mind, and thinking that Lingzhou was only 600 miles away from Yinshan Mountain, and could be reached in one day by fast horse, he nodded happily: "Okay, in this case, leave it to me to deal with Yi Nan this time."

"Without further delay, my king, I will set off now."

"Wait, there are some rules for how to fight this battle."

Li Yan stopped Gu Rentu who was about to leave and said, "Let me tell you how you should fight this battle against the Yinan camp and defense situation."

"When the time comes, that's it."

Li Yan carefully analyzed Gu Rentu's plan for deploying troops and responding to battle situations, and finally decided on a strategy as Gu Rentu's expression kept changing.

Before long, the quiet Turk camp quickly began to boil, just like a bucket of water poured into a boiling oil pan. First, several teams of soldiers and horses were dispatched to disperse in all directions. Among them, a team of 1,200 cavalrymen quickly ran southward along the west bank of the Yellow River.

The Turkic army was fully mobilized, and teams of soldiers continuously left the camp and began to gather in the wilderness on the north bank of the Yellow River.

The Tang army in Yongfeng City and Fengzhou City also began to get nervous, constantly transferring troops from the city to the top of the city walls and began preparing to defend the city.

Millions of troops on both sides of the Yellow River began to get agitated.

The rumbling of war drums, the neighing of horses, the orders of generals urging their soldiers on, and the noise that comes one after another blend into a shocking symphony of vision and hearing.

At this time, on a hidden hill west of the Turkic camp, a dozen Xueyantuo scouts were hiding in the grass and happened to see this scene.

One of the young soldiers, who was on the battlefield for the first time, saw the cavalry of more than a thousand people heading south from the foot of the mountain, and asked nervously: "Uncle, why are the Turkic soldiers heading south? Should we go back and report it?"

(End of this chapter)