Great Master of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 224 236 The Demise of the Ashina Empire
On the day when the general went to war years ago, many people saw him off, and some young girls even promised to be his concubine when he came back from the battle.

At that moment, he just felt that the eyes of the whole world were focused on him, making him float away.He has even seen the scene of his glorious return, playing countless beauties and treasures.

Especially the envious and jealous gazes of those of his own age, he was greatly benefited from it.

The speed of the cavalry was extremely fast, and they were marching in a hurry. What's more, Datang didn't seem to have even placed a scout, so it only took him three days to approach Fengzhou City all the way.

It was an earthen city built entirely of loess. It was already cracked and looked fragile. Even the moat was almost dry.

Seeing the open gate from a distance, the general from years ago was really overjoyed. He felt that he had brought too many of these 3000 people. He felt that he could take down a ruined city like this with only 1000 people.

Ever since, with full of enthusiasm, the young general commanded the army and rushed towards Tucheng by surprise.

They suddenly appeared from behind a pile of mounds, and they felt that those Tang people must have had no time to close the city gate.Of course, it doesn't matter even if they shut it down, they can break through such a dilapidated city wall with a single kick of a horse's hoof.

The facts were just as they expected, those Tang soldiers seemed to be really panicked, they all stayed where they were without any movement, only the two Tang soldiers at the gate of the city ran into the city quickly, dodging his shot arrow.

It's just that those two guys seem to have forgotten to close the door.

Seeing that the city gate was getting closer, the young general laughed excitedly, and the soldiers around him also screamed strangely, all of them were very excited.

The Tang people were unprepared, there was not even a single archer on the city wall, and they felt that they were invincible when they entered the city.

In such a small city, there are only a thousand defenders at most, and three thousand are against one thousand, so what is there to be afraid of?
Only this time, they guessed wrong. There were not even a thousand defenders in Fengzhou City, and there were only more than 200 people including the people on the city wall.

Seeing that there were so few people in the city, they became even more excited, and immediately rushed over to kill those Tang soldiers, but at this moment, the two nearest Tang soldiers suddenly picked up two big and thick The pipe, and then spouted a large stream of river water.

As the river approached, those cavalrymen fell to the ground and convulsed!
"Asshole, lower the voltage, I'm not wearing protective clothing!"

Seeing the sparks flickering on their mountain, one of the officers and soldiers of the Tang Army who was not wearing a raincoat immediately yelled and cursed.This also became the last human voice that the young general heard in his life!

Seeing this scene, the cavalry behind immediately withdrew as if they had seen a ghost, but at this moment, Tang Jun, who had been staying on the city wall and doing nothing, suddenly picked up one after another. pipe, and artificially created a torrential rain.

It's just that after the rain, they all lost consciousness one after another!

Fengzhou City captured [-] Ashina soldiers. If it was in the past, they would definitely be sent to the inland as slaves, but now that Li Shimin has spoken, their fate is naturally much more miserable.

It took only six days for these [-] heads to be thrown into the imperial city of the Ashina Empire by a team of Tang troops in a hot air balloon, and evenly thrown into their meeting hall.

Watching those Tang's hot air balloons leave in arrogance, those veterans all sighed deeply.As for the fate of the young general, they smiled sarcastically but also felt a little sad.

His death was certainly due to his ignorance and arrogance, but Datang's strength also made their scalps tingle.

Of the three thousand cavalry, none of them escaped, and they all returned dead as soon as they left. They even wondered if the battle had started.

"Now, no one wants to fight! I will agree!"

With a miserable smile, Po Run kicked the young general's head aside, and then spoke to the crowd with a maniacal smile.

At this moment, the entire hall was eerily quiet.They didn't see the battle with their own eyes, but the [-] heads scattered here already explained everything.

"No more? No one left? Hahahaha! Warriors! These are the warriors of my Uyghur clan! Either ignorant or courageless! Good! Very good!

With a tacit understanding, pass on my imperial order, and the whole country will travel eastward tomorrow.Li Shimin won't make it easy for me, and I can't make it easy for him either. I'm going to the west of the Irtysh River to connect with Persia. I'll let him have this grassland for the time being, but one day, I will come back!When that time comes, I will get back what I lost with interest! "

Seeing that no one responded to him, everyone bowed their heads silently, and a trace of unwillingness flashed in Po Run's eyes.

Hearing that Porun was going to relocate the whole country, all the ministers immediately exploded.

"Your Majesty! No! If you withdraw before fighting, the various tribes will rebel!"

"That's right! Besides, that Persian wolf is ambitious, and cooperating with him is no different from seeking skin from a tiger. Think twice, Your Majesty!"

"Think twice? What do you make me think twice? We are really going to fight Datang, do you think we still have a chance to evacuate? As for Persia! No matter how bad it is, it's time to surrender to them. At least they won't want it like Li Shimin did." Our fate! You have heard what Li Shimin said. No matter how we ask for peace this time, he will not agree, and he will not live! Don’t you understand the meaning of not living? It is to destroy our country and species! I don’t want to Those who leave, those who still have the hope of avatars, I will not stop you, you can go to Fengzhou and surrender."

With a cold smile, the mother-in-law said hysterically.And when it came to the end, he sat on the throne with a tired face.

His biggest mistake was to offend both the emperor and the prince of the Tang Dynasty.

He destroyed the Turkic North Court that Li Chengqian and Li Ke had been running for several years, and even destroyed the Anbei Governor's Mansion. It would be a ghost for Li Chengqian to let him go.

He didn't know how much manpower and material resources Li Chengqian and Immediately invested in Beiting, but from the strength of Beiting, he could guess roughly.

Such a large loss, coupled with the delay in time, is definitely a huge injury to a king—especially a king who is determined to pacify the Quartet.

A person's time is limited after all, Li Chengqian spent one tenth of his life on Turks, but he interrupted his progress, which is no different from murder.At least in Li Chengqian's eyes.

Porun's words once again made all the ministers and generals speechless, but some people's expressions flickered.

Apparently, those people were already thinking about surrendering.

Po Run was right. Many people in the empire were unwilling to leave the grassland. They felt that as long as they had enough wealth, they could always impress Li Shimin and Li Chengqian.

After all, killing them is nothing more than a sigh of relief, but if you let them go, you can get many unimaginable benefits.

Gold and silver, livestock, women, and slaves, isn't that what war is for?Since you can get it at your fingertips, why bother to kill?
However, they still underestimated the wealth of Datang after all.Now many students of Gewu College have graduated, and countless gold and silver minerals have been surveyed by them.

Now the gold, silver and jewels gathered in Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty have begun to be measured in tons, and the small cabinet of the East Palace of Prince Li Chengqian even built an entire room with pure gold!

How can such a wealthy and extravagant father and son value the garbage of those nomads?As for women, with the three beauties manufacturing camps of Silla, Baekje and Dongying, will they lack beauties?
Besides, the women in the Tang Dynasty are not bad. With the increase of the population of the Tang Dynasty and the improvement of living conditions, the girls in every household are now beautiful. If he is willing, Li Chengqian can find thousands of beauties overnight. .

Finally, there are slaves. To be honest, Datang, which is busy building now, really needs a lot of slaves, but if there are so many more slaves, the expenditure of the inner government will be even greater. After all, all the slaves who are busy building, eat All of them are royal fans, and the ministers headed by Changsun Wuji in the small cabinet do not allow Li Chengqian to use the treasury to raise those slaves.

In order to save a little money for his family, Li Chengqian only accepted the surrender of half of the Ashina people, and most of these people are women. After all, according to their thinking, women cannot continue their blood, as long as they kill their men , the children they had with Tang were naturally Tang people.

As for the other half, they were sent by him to dig coal mines.On the surface, it is said that they will be freed after ten years, but with the current mining conditions, there are not many who can survive ten years.

Many people died of illness after staying in the mine for less than half a year, and some even died directly under the collapse of the mine.

And the Ashina Empire, which has lost a large number of people, is also a tragedy. Many people died on the way, and the living people stopped directly at the east of the green hill, losing the courage to move on. .

The reason for this is really because Po Run was seriously ill when passing by Jianhe and died in the tent.As soon as the mother-in-law died, his ten sons became a mess and attacked their brothers one after another.

Ten people killed each other, some succeeded and some missed, but no matter who they were, they didn't get any benefits.The most important thing is that because of this, many tribes were completely disappointed with the empire. Instead of continuing to advance westward, they scattered in all directions and stood up at the foot of the green hills.

The Ashina Empire collapsed.

And from the founding of the Ashina Empire to its subjugation, it was only a short period of fourteen springs and autumns...

(End of this chapter)