Prosperous Tang Soul

Chapter 381 Li Jing Wins

Three days passed without knowing it.

When Cheng Chumo pushed Jieli Khan back to Yinshan, all the Turkic tribes had already surrounded him, and they had the momentum to directly eat Tang Jun.

Li Jing did not choose to withdraw his troops. Now that Jieli Khan is in his hands, he can use Jieli Khan to divide the Turks and then defeat them one by one.

Capture the thief first and capture the king. Now that he has captured Xieli, half of this battle has been won!

Sure enough, the Turkic tribes were not united. After Xieli was captured, several tribes retreated immediately, and the remaining tribes also belonged to their own masters. They were no match for the Tang army at all, and were soon defeated by Li Jing's army. .

The peoples on the grasslands have always been mercenary. In today's words, there are no eternal friends, only eternal interests. When the Turks were defeated, those tribes that were originally attached to the Turks immediately ran to the Tang Dynasty.

Sandwiched between two big countries, they can only be a fool!
In three days, the news of Li Jing's victory had spread back to Shuofang City. When Zhang Yi heard the news, he was not very happy.

Although Li Jing won the battle, but this time he offended so many people that not many generals in the Tang army were willing to associate with him.

It was also fortunate that Li Jing had offended so many people, otherwise, he would have left Shuofang City, the most important base of the Tang army, and gone to Yinshan Mountain, and this alone would have killed him.

Even if Li Jing joined him at that time, many generals in the Tang army would come out to protect him, especially Tang Peng and his son, not to mention Cheng Chumo and Niu Jinda.

Zhang Yi closed his eyes and squinted for a while, then spoke to Yue Shiyi and Lao Zhong behind him. "This Chief Li won the battle, let's pack up and go back to Chang'an!"

In fact, there are hundreds of thousands of people in his heart who are unwilling to go back. Although Chang'an has Zhangjiazhuang, Li Hui, Zhang Xiang, and many people he cares about, if he goes back, he will have to face a problem that must be faced.

That's what happened between him and the former princess Yang Su.

This matter is inevitable, he has to face it, and now Yang Su is at his residence, and he doesn't look like he intends to leave.

"Headache." Thinking of all these things, Zhang Yi couldn't help rubbing his temples.

Even if he encountered difficult things before, Zhang Yi never felt such a headache.

Now our great His Majesty Li Er, but his father-in-law, he has a beautiful wife at home, and she is still pregnant, so he ran out and messed around. My father-in-law was skinned.

"It's a blessing, not a curse. A disaster can't be avoided. Let's face it calmly!"

It's useless to think about it now, so Zhang Yi simply stopped thinking about it. Anyway, it's still half a month before he returns to Chang'an.

The next thing to think about is how to do a good job of rewarding the army. Li Jing led the victorious army back and guarded Shuofang City in the rear. He must prepare some cattle and sheep to reward the army.

"On the [-]th day of the month, go and make arrangements for Wang Wu and the others to prepare some of the cattle and sheep we caught during this period, and when the army returns, they will slaughter and reward the army immediately!"

After getting the order on the [-]th month, he bowed his hands and left.

But Zhang Yi's eyes were still looking in the direction of Yinshan.

If Li Jing wins this war, he will definitely capture many prisoners. It is not known whether he will kill these prisoners or bring them back.

If Li Jing could bring those captives back, then Zhang Yi would have an excuse to procrastinate here and return to Chang'an later.

And he was not entirely delaying time at the border, those captives would be of great use in his hands, if he handled it well, he could even make His Majesty Li Er happy, and it would not be impossible to absolve himself of the crime!

You must know that these captives are useless in the hands of the Tang army. Not only do they need to spend a lot of money to support them, provide them with food and drink, but also spend a lot of manpower to watch them and serve them. Sometimes they even riot. Some soldiers of the Tang army will die for no reason.

In short, in the hearts of Tang soldiers, these captives were nothing but a complete burden except for their military merits.

Therefore, many Tang soldiers captured the Turkic people and received military merits, and then either killed them or put them back, and then caught a batch of them when they needed military merits in the future.

Especially in the eyes of the officers of the Tang army, these captives are just rice buckets that only consume their food and grass.

But in the hands of Zhang Yi, their role will be great. Once the reform-through-labor system is carried forward, the large number of captives can completely help Datang develop the Hetao area.

You must know that the Hetao area is very fertile. Although it has been fought for years, there is really no land here. Once it is developed, it will definitely be a great thing for Datang.

Now that Li Er is going to implement Zhang Yi's fort system in the Hetao area, it will require a lot of manpower for farming and grazing, and Zhang Yi doesn't want those regular army soldiers to pick up hoes to plow the fields and herd sheep, so these captives are the best choice.

At that time, these captives will be able to farm and support themselves, and even have some savings for Datang, and most importantly, they will be able to develop the Hetao without much effort.

And after doing this, the Tunbao system can be considered to have truly formed a scale. In the future, it will be much more convenient for Datang to penetrate his tentacles into the grassland.

The key to all this depends on the effect Zhang Yi makes.

If Zhang Yi can make this happen, then it's not too much to just ask His Majesty Li Er for a pardon!
Thinking of this, Zhang Yi got up immediately. He needed to go back to his residence to write out all these things, and then list the plans one by one to implement them one by one.

Now this matter is related to his head, so it is impossible for him not to care.

Back at the residence, Zhang Yi couldn't help being startled when he saw Yang Su was starching and washing his clothes, looking like a little wife.

The majestic princess of a country actually has to wash her own clothes!
Although Yang Su's purpose was very clear at the beginning, it seems that since that day, Yang Su never mentioned anything about Taiping essentials, nor did he mention anything about restoring the Sui Dynasty, as if everything had nothing to do with her. Identity, is a little daughter-in-law.

But it was best for Yang Su to do this. In this case, Zhang Yi would have greater confidence in getting Li Er to pardon his crimes.

(End of this chapter)