Great Master of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 204 Chapter 214
In the winter of the fourth year of the first year of the Yuan Dynasty, Datang launched a protracted battle with Persia and Dashi with all its power.

Prince Li Chengqian led four princes and a group of veterans, with an army of about 90, unexpectedly withstood the pressure of more than 200 million troops from the two western empires.

However, even so, the footsteps of the two empires are still at the foot of Tianshan Mountain!

And the most irritating thing is that at this moment, the Huihe tribe in the north actually betrayed the Tang Dynasty, conquered Jinshan with a strange army, and opened up the road from Yibohai to Turkic Beiting for the two empires!
So far, the entire northwest of the Tianshan Mountains has fallen into the hands of Persia, while the southwest of the Tianshan Mountains has been taken over by Dashi!As for the east of the Jinshan Mountain and the north of the Yinshan Mountain, it became the territory of the Huihe tribe - known as the Ashina Empire in history.

It is also fortunate that there is a natural barrier of the Kunlun Mountains in the south, otherwise, even the Tang Dynasty would not be able to keep the Xirong Road and Tubo.

Such a huge loss had to be reported to Li Shimin. Hearing the news at first, Li Shimin was very calm, and even comforted his eldest son who was already emaciated to the extreme, but when the crowd dispersed, he was full of old blood. out.

This time, not only did he lose the entire land of the Western Turks, but even the land of the Eastern Turks was annexed by Huihe, the white-eyed wolf.Huihe certainly didn't have that ability and appetite. Naturally, there were shadows of the two empires, so he hated these two empires to the bone.

And most importantly, in this war, he lost a son!Jiang Wang Li Yun, who was only 14 years old this year, was caught off guard by the Huihe tribe who went south because of a moment of carelessness, and died on the prairie!And with him, there are more than 5 soldiers of the Tang Dynasty!

Li Yun's death hit Li Shimin very hard, and he didn't say a word for several days.He felt that all of this was caused by himself. If he hadn't been greedy for meritorious deeds and turned a battle that must be won into a massacre that exterminated the nation, Li Jing and those tens of thousands of soldiers would not have died. If they don't die, it's impossible to fight this battle.
However, good luck never comes without double, and misfortune never comes singly. When Li Shimin was immersed in self-blame, another worse news came from the south!

——Liuzhao, Linyi, Lu Zhenla (Wen Danguo) and Piaoguo collectively betrayed Datang!

They also want to learn from Huihe and eat up the difficulties of Tang Dynasty and Lingnan!
It's just that although they have a big appetite, their hearts are not in the same place. Seeing that Liuzhao blocked their way to the east, Piao Kingdom decisively took Liuzhao, which was still a mess at that time, as its target of attack.

The poor kings in the land of the six imperial edicts are still dreaming of the dream of joining the six imperial edicts of Lingnan after they grow stronger, but they don't want to be directly hit by their allies with a fatal blow behind them.

The Pyu Kingdom is really too powerful, with a total of eighteen vassal states, many of which are tribes that are more powerful than the royal family in the Six Edicts. It is undoubtedly the biggest joke to form an alliance with such a force.

Of course, it is not possible for the Pyu country to eat the Six Commandments alone, and Chenla and Linyi in the south are not much weaker than the Pyu country, so they soon joined the encroachment on the land of the Six Commandments.

Faced with the catastrophe, many people in Liuzhao thought of Datang, so they shamelessly asked Jiaozhou for help.

I fought a tough battle with someone just now, and I turned around and asked for help from him. How can there be such a good thing in this world?Jiaozhou Inspector Duan Mingyang and Cao Wang Liming directly rejected their request.

At this time, Duan Mingyang, who had been appointed as the deputy chief of the Jiaonan Marching Army, was even more unscrupulous. Although he didn't send troops to rescue, he sold a lot of grenades to the people in the Liuzhao Land.

Not only them, Pyu, Chenla, and Linyi in the south have also become the targets of his dumping of inferior grenades.

The grenades he sold that were eliminated by Datang were actually the first batch of grenades developed by Datang. They were not very powerful, and it was not easy to kill a person, but even so, they caused heavy losses to all countries.

First of all, in order to buy grenades, they paid a lot of food, grass, treasures and even slaves. Secondly, the grenades they bought were all disposable items. In order to save their lives during the war, many soldiers directly chose to throw away all their grenades. .In the end, the grenades have already revealed their greater ambitions. When they think that their national strength is strong and they must buy more grenades than the other party, a strife has begun between countries!

The chaos started when Lu Zhenla attacked Lin Yi.They thought it would be very convenient to destroy Linyi first if they wanted to conquer the south of the Tang Dynasty, because Linyi was by their side and they were easy to control.

Facing Lu Zhenla's attack, Lin Yi was of course very angry, and launched a fierce counterattack at that time, and at this time, Pyu Kingdom, which had already wiped out the Six Orders and only had the Three Orders left, set its sights on Lu Zhenla territory.

In this way, a battle with the ultimate goal of seizing the Tang Dynasty turned into a private struggle among the southern countries.

The short-sightedness of these people from small countries really surprised Duan Mingyang. Originally, he just wanted to create a little trouble, but he didn't expect to create such a gratifying situation.

At this time, he would not be quiet any longer, so he immediately asked Li Ming to take over the power of the last three of the six imperial edicts, and drive his troops south!
Li Ming is only 12 years old this year, and the first battle had already scared him to death, so at this time, Duan Mingyang was in charge.

Li Ming, the chief of the Jiaonan Marching Army, delegated power, and Duan Mingyang, the deputy chief, almost became the real chief of the Jiaonan Marching Army. At that moment, he took advantage of his relationship with the Liaozi Department and other ministries to bring Sanzhao, who had become a prodigal dog, into the Tang Dynasty, and sent him to the Tang Dynasty. A death squad named "Nanzhao Army" was formed.

There are a total of 5000 people in this unit, and each of them carries ten grenades. Duan Mingyang gave them the order to plunge into the depths of the enemy regardless of the cost, and then detonate all the grenades!
The grenades here are naturally not those low-quality grenades, but the kind of super powerful grenades that can blow dozens of people away.If so many grenades explode together, their single life can take away tens or even hundreds of enemy lives.

This method of fighting was cruel, even inhumane, but Duan Mingyang didn't care, he even threatened the soldiers' families.

Liuzhao is dead, and he has never seen these remaining people in person. If they don't go, he will really kill their family members.

Those Nanzhao soldiers wanted to see King Tang, and scolded him that he would be severely punished by King Tang for doing so, but he just smiled mockingly.

Don't say that His Royal Highness Tang Wang is currently guarding the Northeast against the Wei Department, even if he is really here, so what?The war in the west of the Tang Dynasty was rotten, and there was another Ashina Empire in the north. If these monkeys in the southern region could not be beaten to death this time, the Great Tang Guozuo would definitely be in jeopardy.I'm afraid that at that time, Tang Wang will be more ruthless and ruthless than him!
To the people of the country, the King of Tang is indeed tolerant and kind, but for the foreign races, His Highness the King of Tang does not have much compassion.

Under Duan Mingyang's high pressure, those Nanzhao soldiers could only choose to obey in despair. They already have no family and no country, and the rest are only those relatives. To them, it is nothing to die for their relatives. No, what's more, Duan Mingyang has already agreed, as long as they implement his military order perfectly enough, their family members will all get a copy of Tang Ren's confession.

With this promise, what's wrong with giving one's life?
The appearance of human bombs immediately changed the direction of the entire war. Duan Mingyang always used death squads to attack the strongest areas of the Three Kingdoms, while his own troops swept up those places that were not well-defended. Suddenly, he was invincible!
When the entire death squad was exhausted, the main enemy, Pyu, had been disabled by him, and Lu Zhenla also suffered heavy losses due to the three-sided attack of Pyu, Linyi, and Datang.The only one who still has some strength is Lin Yi, who is the weakest, but that is also because Duan Mingyang is beyond his reach.

After this battle, most of the Liuzhao and Luzhenla territories east of the Mekong River and north of Linyi became the territory of the Tang Dynasty.Although Pyu swallowed up the land of the Six Commandments west of the Mekong River, compared with the price paid, it was definitely not worth the loss.

The most bitter is Lu Chenla, who lost a large area of ​​territory and population in the north, and Water Chenla in the south took the opportunity to attack them in an attempt to reintegrate the original territory of Chenla.

Seeing that Lu Zhenla was in danger, Lin Yi, Piao Kingdom, and even the Queen Kingdom, which had been silent before, were ready to move.

But at this time, something even more ridiculous happened - Lu Zhenla asked Datang for help!And it's a request for help from the betrayal of national sovereignty!
King Lu Zhenla said that as long as Datang can keep their country, they are willing to merge into Datang as a vassal state!

Li Shimin, who was bedridden, heard the news and smiled coldly, but in the end he sent a message with a hot air balloon to let Duan Mingyang take over Lu Zhenla's military.

Duan Mingyang is not a fool, how dare he directly take over the subordinate army of Chenla?This guy went crazy in business, so he came up with an idea of ​​changing the army. He transported a large number of sergeants from Chenla to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and exchanged a batch of Tubo troops who were like time bombs with Li Zhen who was stationed there. !

The Chenla army would definitely not have any contact with the Tubo people, so Li Zhen managed to control it very smoothly, and the Tubo sergeants on the expedition to Chenla obviously couldn't communicate with the Chenla people, so Duan Mingyang can also rest easy.

Of course, Songtsan Gampo felt uncomfortable.Although it was natural for Tubo to send troops to help Tang at this time, this obvious distrust still hurt him.

It also takes time to transport sergeants, so during this period, Datang's defenders replaced the Chenla army and stationed in Lu Chenla's territory.

Piao Guo and Lin Yi, who were frightened by Datang, naturally chose to give in, but the Queen Kingdom came to the door recklessly, and their queen even gave Duan Mingyang a letter of credence, saying that she and Lu Zhen La has a grudge, and I hope Datang will not intervene.

Upon receiving the letter of credence, Duan Mingyang sneered and tore it to pieces.Now that Lu Zhenla belongs to Datang, any enmity with him is enmity with Datang!There is no need to talk about this matter at all, only after the fight can we speak properly.

Datang guerrilla warfare is not strong, but positional warfare is almost invincible. With the advantages of city walls and artillery, people from the Queen's Kingdom can't fight in at all, and with the arrival of the Tubo army, Lu Zhenla has become an iron bucket same existence.

Of course, the most important thing is that the military strength of the Queen's Kingdom is not strong, and there are not many cavalry.

(End of this chapter)