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Chapter 179 Invincible in the world
For Wang Dong, who often travels to other historical time and space and is used to the politeness of Han people being bullied by ethnic minorities, his first reaction was that he felt quite strange when he saw this situation. Seeing that none of the three had any reaction, Cao Zhenggeng rolled up his arms and sleeves instead, laughing as he watched the Turkic soldier being beaten.

It was only then that Wang Dong realized that in front of the current group of Tang troops, these vassal states could really be manipulated at will.

The great reputation of the Tang army was earned. Not only did Wang Dong fail to adapt, even many ethnic forces around the Tang Dynasty at the same time did not adapt to the rapid rise of the Tang Dynasty at this point in time.

For example, when the Jieli Khan and Tuli Khan of the Eastern Turks dared to go forty miles outside Chang'an to plunder and force Li Shimin to swear an oath on a white horse, they were clearly putting themselves in the same league as the Huns of the Han Dynasty, the Hu people of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and the Xianbei people. In terms of status, I want to play with the Tang Dynasty in a traditional northern and southern imperial system. The Tang Dynasty will develop well and farm well, and then they will go south to plunder from time to time and make a fortune.

But the combat power of the Tang Dynasty was completely unaccustomed to their problem.

In 626, the Eastern Turks robbed the Tang Dynasty, and cartloads of treasures were brought home, and the longing for a better life gradually began.But what they didn't expect was that the style of Datang seemed to be a little different from the Han Dynasty they were familiar with before. In 626, Datang was persuaded because Li Shimin was also in an embarrassing situation at that time. Li Shimin just killed his elder brother with kindness and filial piety, and supported his father. A lot of major events in the world have not been settled. In the next 627 and 628 years, there will be droughts and locust plagues. The entire Tang Dynasty has just been established for ten years. , a lot of thorny problems have not been resolved, and even in 628 Li Shimin ordered the states and counties to seize the time to get the corpses of those who were hacked to death in the late Sui Dynasty and bury them in the soil. Scary, it can be seen the situation of Datang at that time.

At this time, Datang obviously had a lot of problems. Li Shimin himself couldn't take care of the affairs in the customs, so how could he still have the ability to manage the East Turks?

But Datang's tough style is also here. As long as the problems in the pass are resolved, in November 629, three years later, Datang began to send troops to officially attack the East Turks.

If it is said that Datang’s courage lies in daring to go out to attack the Eastern Turks as soon as the problem has been sorted out, then what happened next clearly shows that Datang’s strength is different from other dynasties.

Since ancient times, the dynasties of the Central Plains have fought these ethnic minorities sparsely, like pulling their pants. The wars have often lasted for more than ten or 20 years, and they are entangled. It's not clear whether the war turned into a bad one, or even an entire warlord group.Even during the Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty, although there was such a wise and powerful leader as Zhu Di, who could almost sweep the hole, but after returning, the Mongols in the north saw that Ming had left, and after they cleaned up by themselves, they were able to reproduce prosperously on the grassland. In two years, you can get a Wala to enter the customs and give you a civil fort. Who can bear it?

Compared with the bad wars of these dynasties, the Great Tang’s conquest of the Eastern Turks was not in the same dimension. General Li Jing’s restraint, the Sixth Route Army’s Northern Expedition, soldiers were called from November of the lunar calendar in 629, and the official war started in the Spring Festival of 630. .In the first battle, Li Jing directly led 3000 people to Dingxiang City, where the East Turkic Jieli Khan was located, and continued to win consecutively.

Li Jing and Li Ji, two veterans of the Tang Dynasty, led a group of founding celestial groups of the Tang Dynasty, and played a trick with Jieli Khan, making Jieli Khan want to die.

The battle started on January 630st of the lunar calendar in 30. On April [-]th of the lunar calendar, Jieli Khan was escorted to Chang'an. In less than five months, the Eastern Turks were destroyed, and the entire Monan land of hundreds of thousands of square kilometers was included in the Great Tang territory.

This kind of battle is really too decisive, too beautiful, without the slightest sloppiness, a battle is a victory, and a battle is the result of a battle.

What is surprising is that this is not the only time Datang has shown such strength. Datang's super fighting power is sustainable.

In 635, facing the disobedient Tuyuhun Datang once again played a super powerful battle.

At this time, although everyone saw the rapid destruction of the Eastern Turks, they still didn't quite understand that Datang had recovered from the general weak state of the previous Han dynasty. He was a player of the Age of Empires [-] version, so he thought It's better to play with Datang a little bit of the tricks he used to face the Central Plains Dynasty.

For example, Murong Yun of Tuyuhun tried again and again to separate from Datang, not to mention robbing Shanzhou and Liangzhou, and even detaining the envoys of Datang who went to negotiate. There is probably nothing I can do about the Tuyuhun people on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau at this moment.

But Datang was not used to his problem. In 635, the 64-year-old veteran Li Jing set off again.

In less than four months, Tuyuhun was destroyed.This time, Datang's once again display of combat power was spread among the surrounding tribes and forces, which was simply terrifying.

If we talk about the former East Turks, we can also say that the grandson of Jieli Khan is not very clear about his head. Datang started to lead the Tang army one by one, so everyone felt that it was a bit of a fluke for Datang to win.Attacking Tuyuhun this time seemed to be a weaker opponent, but the situation Datang faced was actually very harsh.

In the process of attacking Tuyuhun, Datang encountered the betrayal of the allies and party members who had promised to provide food and grass. In the middle and late stages, the food and grass were almost completely cut off, and they had to rely on local replenishment to obtain supplies.In the process of chasing the main force of Tuyuhun, they encountered all kinds of complicated terrain and dangerous mountains and rivers.Moreover, in the course of the battle, the actual situation of the battle was completely different from what was expected.

When Hou Junji’s troops crossed the Hankui Mountain, their noses were so cold that the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau froze, and there were no casualties. Tang Jun’s Xue family brothers were besieged by Tuyuhun’s Tianzhu King at the source of the Chishui River, and almost all were killed. The army was annihilated, and Li Jing's central army was attacked by Dangxiang people and lost almost all its food and grass. Tens of thousands of Li Daoyan's Tang troops were beheaded by Dangxiang people.

It is under such circumstances that the supply is unfavorable and the war is extremely harsh.

Tang Jun still achieved a terrifying record, and the facts behind this record are simply unbelievable.For example, when the Tang army ran out of food, Hou Junji directly defeated Tuyuhun's main force on Tianzhu Mountain, and robbed the opponent's thousands of cattle and horses to replenish supplies.The brothers of the Xue family were surrounded by King Tianzhu. General Qibi Heli of the Tang Army led hundreds of cavalry into the encirclement of thousands of people, and beat Tianzhu King away directly.In the end, the main force of Tuyuhun still hoped to escape to the west by relying on its advantage of occupying the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Murong Yun ran all the way to Xinjiang, but the pursuit of the Tang army gave up under extremely bad conditions.

Qibi Heli led the army to chase for two thousand miles, and crossed the Qaidam Basin without supplies. During the process, the water and food were cut off. The soldiers killed the horses and drank the horse's blood as drinking water, and then continued to chase on foot. Ten days later, he reached the edge of the Taklamakan Desert, defeated Murong Yun's thousands of Turkic elites, captured hundreds of thousands of livestock, and then directly drove Murong Yun's main force into the desert, beating the opponent until he collapsed. Finally, Murong Yun His subordinates lifted his head up and walked out of the desert to surrender to the Tang army.

The strength displayed by this group of Tang troops in the battle simply made the eyes of the forces of various countries drop. They won wherever they fought, killed wherever they won, and eaten wherever they went. A united enemy.

In the face of such an army, how can the surrounding ethnic groups have the courage to resist?
As part of the Tang army, Huang Qi, Cao Zheng, and He Luo, the contempt for the surrounding peoples and the glory of their Tang army status are naturally born from their hearts.

(End of this chapter)