Li You's Tang Dynasty

Chapter 784 Destroy the Turks
After Wu Zetian learned that one of his sister and niece had been canonized as Zhaoyi and the other was canonized as Jieyu, his mood was extremely bad. At this time, Wu Zetian hated Li You to the extreme.

Wu Zetian also knew clearly at this time that if he wanted to gain more power, then Li You must be the biggest stumbling block, so this stumbling block must be removed.

Since then, Wu Zetian began to change his high-profile to underground, and his original arrogance has also subsided. In any case, Wu Zetian is still a difficult opponent.

It was the fifth year of Xianqing, and on that day in October, Li Zhi had a sudden attack of wind and dizziness. He was unable to deal with state affairs, and then Li Zhi wrote an imperial decree on this day and left it behind the dragon chair. I don't know what the content of the imperial decree is.

On the contrary, Li You seemed at a loss when facing his younger brother's wind disease, because at this time Li You could no longer go to modern times, and Li You's system had lost its function.

Li You didn't know the reason for the system's loss of function. He only knew that when he woke up one morning, a voice sounded in Li You's head: the test body failed, the future was not changed, and the earth was destroyed again!
After this voice, everything in Li You's system was over. At this time, Li You also knew that he was left in the Tang Dynasty in this time and space, and the modern Li You would never go back.

In fact, Li You has no longing for Hyundai, but the only regret is that if Hyundai is unable to go, then Hyundai medicine cannot be brought back, just like Li Zhi's wind attack now, Li You has no way to treat it.

It may be because of the guilt towards his younger brother. After Li Zhi recovered from his illness, Li You decided to take his younger brother Li Zhi to Dengzhou to go to sea for about six months.

The Tang Dynasty at this time will be handed over to Wu Zetian, Changsun Wuji, and Shangguanyi for joint management.

Li Zhi was very happy when he heard the news, he could finally leave the palace and go to the endless sea, and Wu Zetian finally got the chance to deal with state affairs.

And Wu Zetian will use this half year to train his own half year, and crucify Li You by the way.

This trip was really great. Li Zhi boarded the treasure ship and traveled to many places. He saw the sunset on the sea, saw dolphins, encountered islands, went to Treasure Island, went to Ryukyu, and went to Champa. I saw many brothers, Li You, Li Zhi, Li Mingda and their brothers drinking together in a foreign country, reminiscing about childhood together.

These games seemed to make Li Zhi's wind disease a lot better. Li Zhi had a very happy time, really happy.

About half a year later, Li You, Li Zhi, and Li Mingda returned to Chang'an. This time, after Li Zhi returned to Chang'an, he directly changed the year name again, from Xianqing to Longshuo. After the number, a happy event spread to Chang'an.

Western Turks were wiped out.

This Western Turkic is a part of Turkic. It was about 583 when the Eastern and Western Turks split. The Western Turkic Shekui Khan expanded his territory. From the east to today’s Shanxi to the West Sea, all countries are under his rule. The Khan Court was built in the north of Kucha. Sanmi Mountain.His younger brother Yehu Khan moved the khan court to Qianquan in the north of Shiguo (now Tashkent, Uzbekistan), and sent Tutun stationed in various countries in the Western Regions to collect taxes and control the Silk Road. The heyday sphere of influence stretched from Dunhuang in the east to the Caspian Sea in the west , This is the most powerful period of Western Turks.

In the spring of 651 (the second year of Yonghui), He Yun, the son of He Lu who served as the general of Youxiaowei Zhonglang in the Tang Dynasty, persuaded his father to lead his troops to go west against the Tang Dynasty, defeated Yipi Shekui Khan, and annexed his tribe.He Lu set up tooth tents in Shuanghe (now Bole, Wenquan County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region) and Qianquan, calling himself Shaboluo Khan.Dulu Wuchu, Nushibi Wuqijin, Chuyue, Chumi and the Western Regions all belonged to him.He Lu took Xi Yun as Mo He Du Ye Hu.

In the autumn and July of that year, He Lu entered Kouting Prefecture, captured Jinling City and Pulei County, and killed thousands of people.

This directly annoyed Li You, and Li You personally ordered to send two groups of troops to the West Turks.On the first line, Su Dingfang, the general of Zuo Tunwei, was the general manager of the Yili Road March, leading Yanran Duhu Ren Yaxiang, Deputy Duhu Xiao Siye, Zuo Xiaowei General Hanhai Dudu Huihe leader Porun, etc., as the main force.The other route was Nabuzhen, who was attached to Tang Taizong earlier, as the pacification ambassador of Liusha Road, and recruited his old ministry.

In December of the winter of that year, Su Ding's army arrived in the west of Jinshan (now Altai Mountain), defeated the Mukun tribe, one of the five lands, and surrendered the tribe.Prior to this, one of the five crossbows lost Bi, Nishi tribe, who disobeyed Helu's rule, was attacked by Helu, and the family members of its leader were captured.At this time, Tang Jun found the wife of the leader of the Nishu tribe from some of Helu's defeated soldiers.

General Lang, the leader of the right, suggested that these family members should be returned to the Nishu Ministry, and given property to comfort them, so that they understand that "He Lu is a thief and Datang is his parents".In this case, they will spare no effort to oppose He Lu.Tang Jun followed this practice.The Nishi Department was very grateful after receiving the rescued family members, and asked to follow Tang Jun to attack He Lu.

Su Dingfang led his army to the west of the Yihe River (now the Kara Irtysh River), and He Lu raised [-] cavalry from the Western Turks to resist.Su Dingfang met the enemy with more than ten thousand cavalry from Tang and Huihe.Seeing that Tang's army was small, He Lu marched forward to surround him. He ordered the infantry to guard the high ground in the south and hold their spears outward; he led the cavalry to line up on the north slope.

He Lu's cavalry attacked the Tang infantry three times, but failed to shake the Tang army's position.Su Dingfang took advantage of the situation and launched a cavalry counterattack, and He Lu was defeated.The Tang army continued to pursue the next day, and all five crossbows were lost and all threw themselves into Tang.

Wu Duolu learned that He Lu was defeated, and went to the South Road to join the Tang appeasement ambassador Ashina Buzhen.

Su Dingfang ordered Xiao Siye and Huihe Porun to pursue He Lu.At that time, it was snowing heavily, and the generals asked to march after the snow stopped.Su Dingfang thought that he could take advantage of the snow and attack the enemy by surprise.

So the Tang army marched day and night in the snow.As far as Jinya Mountain, the troops broke He Luya's tent and captured tens of thousands of enemies.He Ludu and Yi Lishui fled westward.Su Dingfang chased him to Suiye Shui and captured Helu's tribe.

He Lu and Ziyun fled to Suduo City in Shiguo (now Tashkent), where the lord Ineda Gan arrested them and sent them to Shiguo.King Shi handed over He Lu and his son to Tang generals Xiao Siye and Ashina Yuanshuang.

At this point, the Western Turkic state fell.

Su Dingfang arranged for the tribes of the Western Turks to return to their original places of residence, open roads, set up post stations, bury the bones of the dead, express condolences to the sufferings of the people, divide pastures, and resume animal husbandry production.

And return the people, livestock and other property looted by He Lu to the ministries.From then on, after a long period of internal strife and wars, the tribes with ten surnames in Western Turkic began to live a life of peace and contentment.

In the first year of Longshuo, it came from Tocharo in the Western Regions.

The Tang Dynasty appointed "Wang Mingyuan as the envoy of the prefectures and counties of Tocharo Road. From the west of Khotan to the east of Persia, in all sixteen countries, the capitals of their kings were the capitals of the governors, and their subordinate departments were the prefectures and counties.

There are 88 in Fanzhou, 26 in counties, [-] in army and government.

These [-] newly established governor's mansions are also under the Anxi Most Protectorate.These places belonged to the sphere of influence of the Western Turks earlier, but now they belonged to the Tang Dynasty.

And just when Pu Tian was happy, a big conspiracy of Wu Zetian began to appear!

(End of this chapter)