Chapter 93 It’s a pity that a good tooth is missing

"What we lack the most now is time!" Li Jiancheng sighed.

The Tang Dynasty had just defeated the Eastern Turks and accepted more than 1.3 million tribes of the Eastern Turks. Although these populations were subject to disruption and dispersion in accordance with the opinions of the Provincial Government Affairs Hall of the Menxia Provincial Government.

However, these Turks did not really return home. They needed more than 200,000 Tang soldiers to be on guard at all times. Even if Li Jiancheng wanted to fight, he had no strength.

"Your Majesty means...ready to accept it?" Wei Zheng looked at Li Jiancheng and asked.

In fact, temporary peace is more in line with the benefits of the Tang Dynasty. However, Li Jiancheng's daughter was sacrificed, so Wei Zheng did not express their opinions.

Li Jiancheng smiled bitterly and said, "The Tubo envoy was called a marriage proposal, but in fact it was a threat. He used the Tang Dynasty and Tubo for 47 border states and 159 cities as a threat!"

Speaking of this, Li Jiancheng's face was as gloomy as water, and he said with a murderous look: "Our Tang Dynasty should ride a horse and whip it and sweep it across the world! Now that the army and horses have not moved, they will go to Tubo to send the princess to beg for peace. What's the matter! No! Absolutely not!"

Fang Xuanling said with emotion: "The food and grass are not yet ready, and the armor is not yet complete. More importantly, we are not ready to use troops to Tubo. Using troops at this time is contrary to the art of military affairs."

Wei Zheng also said: "Your Majesty, governing a big country is like cooking a small freshman. You cannot just be light and strong. But in the affairs of the world, you should be brave and diligent when you should be brave and diligent, and when you should be patient and compromise, you cannot always sweep the world with just a sense of pride. When motivating morale, you can speak passionately, but when you really need to do things, you still have to put it into practice."

Li Jiancheng looked at Wei Zheng and said, "You are wrong!"

Then, Li Jiancheng pointed at Fang Xuanling and said, "You are wrong, you are all wrong!"

Wei Zheng was stunned.

Fang Xuanling was puzzled.

Both of them are smart people, and I really don’t understand where Li Jiancheng is wrong about them.

After all, the Tang Dynasty is now on the surface and is actually very weak. The Tang Dynasty needs time to digest the fruits of victory over the Eastern Turks.

Once the time is enough, the Tang Dynasty has completely digested the population of more than 1.3 million of the Eastern Turks, and Tubo will face a Tang Dynasty that is three times stronger than it is now.

Li Jiancheng said: "Since the beginning of Wude, our Tang Dynasty was established, Tubo invaded the Tang Dynasty 153 times, and killed no less than 200,000 subjects of our Tang Dynasty."

Wei Zheng and Fang Xuanling were also silent.

The Tang and Tubo can be regarded as a feud. As early as the first year of Wude, the Tang Dynasty conquered Xue Ju and led Qin, Liang, He, Sha, Gan, Su and other prefectures, and directly bordered Tubo, Tubo began to start from Longyou, Bashu, and Jiannandao...

Li Jiancheng continued: "Do we have relatives between our Tang Dynasty and Tubo?"

In fact, the Tang Dynasty court knew very well that Tubo and the Tang Dynasty had no relatives and had a grudge.

Fang Xuanling pondered: "Maybe... the Tubo people were worried when they saw us destroying the Eastern Turks..."

"If they were worried that the Tang Dynasty would take the opportunity to defeat Tubo, they would not come to Chang'an to beg for peace with the arrogance of the Tubo people!"

Fang Xuanling asked, "What is Your Majesty doubting?"

"I suspect that the other party proposed such a condition and seemed to have plotted against our Tang Dynasty!" Li Jiancheng pondered: "They calculated accurately, and we will definitely agree, because this is the most beneficial to our Tang Dynasty. But why would the Tubo people help us consider the problem? I don't believe that these Hu people will come to imagine it for us! So in the end, I can only think of two points, either, the Tubo people themselves have a mess, or there is another conspiracy behind their actions!"

"Conspiracy? What conspiracy?" Wei Zheng asked.

"I don't know either!" Li Jiancheng said frankly: "I just feel something is wrong!"

Li Jiancheng thought while returning to Tai Chi Palace.

Li Jiancheng was naturally a very smart person, and he was considering the real intention of Tubo to do so.

With a arrogant and threatening attitude, he came to Chang'an to propose marriage.

There are only two results.

Agree or not.

If you agree, will the Tang Dynasty lose a princess?

No, for the sake of the country and the people of the world, Li Jiancheng is really not worried about losing a princess.

Even like the Sui Dynasty, he married a princess to Tubo, carried a precious dowry, a thousand dowry maids, servants, two hundred palace maids, eunuchs, and tens of thousands of stagnants of money and food.

These things really don't matter.

Just when Li Jiancheng and Fang Xuanling walked to the Xuanwu Gate of Tai Chi Palace, Li Jiancheng sorted out the words in his heart and said, "Just just now, I have to calculate another account here: that is, if we negotiate peace with Tubo, what will we lose!"

"What are you losing?" Wei Zheng asked nervously.

Li Jiancheng did not answer Wei Zheng's words, but turned to Li Anyan and said, "Li Anyan, what will we lose if we accept the Tubo people's peace talks and marriage proposals?"

Li Anyan thought for a while, suddenly looking at the Xuanwu Gate wall, a Yuan Sui Imperial Army soldier yawning.

Li Anyan suddenly realized and said, "Your Majesty, Fang Xiang, Wei Xiang, the last general understands!"

Li Jiancheng nodded with satisfaction.

Fang Xuanling asked: "What will we lose?"

"We will lose our Tang Dynasty's ambitions!" Li Anyan didn't think of the reason at first, but when he saw Xuanwu Gate, he finally understood.

Four years ago, in front of Xuanwu Gate, blood flowed into a river and corpses were like mountains. Three years ago, it almost caused a shocking bloody case in this place.

However, after three years, the Yuansui Imperial Army soldiers stationed on the Xuanwu Gate Gate Tower had a fat waist and were no longer as brave as they were. Seeing that their hips were so big that they could not squeeze into the saddle, and seeing that their armor could no longer fit their big belly, Li Anyan finally figured out the question.

Under the expectation of Fang Xuanling and Wei Zheng, Li Anyan blurted out: "Your Majesty, this Tubo peace proposal is actually a test. We may be able to get temporary peace, but we may lose the domineering spirit of competing with Tubo from now on! When we lower our heads to the Tubo people once, if the Tubo people propose the second condition to us, would we think that anyway, it is okay to endure it again. Then, there will be the third, fourth, and fifth... When our spirit is exhausted by their gradually approaching pace, if their iron hooves suddenly come again, will we still have the courage to pick up the sword against them?"

Wei Zheng thought about it carefully, it was not impossible for Li Anyan to say anything.

Although this is just An Yan's wishful thinking, he can't come up with real evidence.

But, why is Li Anyan's words unreasonable?

If Tubo really intends to propose marriage, he lowers his attitude and is humble, he will not be able to do what he wants.

...

War is not the only way to solve the problem. However, Chen Ying, as the Great Protector of Anxi of the Tang Dynasty and the General of the Cavalry, felt that only war can be worthy of the word "Caval".

Otherwise, it would insult Huo Piqi's reputation.

Chen Ying led more than 10,000 Anxi cavalry to the south and arrived very quickly on the north side of Kunlun Mountain.

Ma Zhou looked at Chen Ying in confusion, and he thought Chen Ying was just acting. However, he was about to enter the Tubo territory as he crossed the Kunlun Mountains.

Ma Zhou said with some concern: "Master, Tubo is full of mountains, and our hook and sickle cavalry can't exert the combat effectiveness of our hook and sickle cavalry cavalry, so we may not be able to deal with more than five million Tubo people!"

Tubo is different from the Central Plains. In Tubo, the area of ​​more than 10,000 acres of flat land is very rare.

"I have a way to deal with them!"

Chen Yingke actually asked Zhang Shigui and Duan Zhigan to lead a unit of Anxi Army to attack Tubo from Zhaloup, deliberately creating a stance of underestimating the enemy and advancing rashly.

The main purpose is to attract the Tubo people to take the initiative.

The Tubo Plateau is very large and has many mountains.

The more troops there are, the more stress on logistics will be.

Wars were never a matter of relying on population to win, although Chen Ying had only more than 10,000 troops under his command, which was less than one-thirty of the total Tubo army.

Chen Ying looked at Ma Zhou and smiled relaxedly: "Although we only have more than 10,000 troops, supply is still a very big problem. As long as you are responsible for the logistics of the entire army, I will deal with the Tubo people!"

Chen Ying had clear and comprehensive considerations about his expedition to Tubo this time.

Chen Ying ordered Luo Shixin to be the vanguard of the entire army to lead two Zhechong Prefectures, a total of 3,000 cavalrymen to advance quickly, and strive to arrive at Sangdankang as soon as possible.

Chen Ying had two purposes for this. The first was to watch Chen Ying "slightly underestimate the enemy" in Anxi, and the second was to give the Tubo people confidence and courage to fight bravely.

Being famous too early may not be a good thing.

After all, it is impossible for Chen Ying to pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger now.

Even if the Tubo people are remote, even if the news of the Tubo people is blocked.

However, Yu Wen, who became the national teacher of Tubo, would never underestimate Chen Ying.

A bloody lesson is in front of you, and anyone who despises Chen Ying will die miserably.

Just in line with that sentence, at any time, plans will never keep up with changes.

Just as Luo Shixin's troops were just browsing through Kunlun Mountain, the horse's hooves suddenly sounded loudly in the valley opposite.

"Get good..."

Listening to the sound of horse hooves, Luo Shixin raised his hand. The cavalrymen behind him immediately took the hook and sickle spear and lined up in thirty cavalry, blocking the entire valley tightly.

Finally, the end of sight.

Dozens of cavalry raised a large amount of dust and smoke.

There was an arrow away from the distance, and the knight immediately raised his hand and shouted: "General Luo, urgent military information, take me to see General Chen!"

This Beiwei Army soldier was drawn from the original soldiers of the Dingyuan Army. He once saw Luo Shixin's troops at a glance.

Although Luo Shixin did not know this soldier, he could call out his name accurately, and he should be his own person. Because Luo Shixin was unable to escape death under the gun.

Luo Shixin looked at the miserable messenger and said, "What's going on? Where is Liu Tongjun?"

It didn't take long, and the messenger arrived in front of Chen Ying.

The messenger reported to Chen Ying: "Report to General Chen, the 5,000 troops of Liu Tongjun were surrounded in Kangyanju City!"

"What?" Chen Ying suddenly felt nervous and said anxiously: "Say in detail!"

The messenger bowed and said, "Suviru was already the sphere of influence of our Beiwei Army. Suvinazhen led the Suvi's troops to surrender to our Tang Dynasty. Three months ago, Suvinazhen asked Deputy General Xun for help. Xun decisively led three thousand troops to rescue Kangyanju City!"
To be continued...