Chapter 272 Victory
"Great victory! Tuyuhun's victory!" A cavalry ran past the city gate, waved the flag in his hand, and kept shouting for the victory that made the streets dodge, because everyone knew that this was a great news for thousands of miles, and no one could stop it, otherwise even if he was hit and killed, it would be in vain.
The cavalry who reported the victory ran along Zhuque Street and rushed into the imperial city before stopping. At this time, there were special people coming forward to greet him, but the knight plunged from the horse. But even so, he still struggled to take a paint box from behind and said, "Great victory, send it to the imperial front!"
After saying that, the cavalry fainted and he fainted. In order to rush forward, he had almost not closed his eyes for several days. His physical strength had reached its limit. Thanks to the fact that he was still breathing when he entered Beijing, he rushed all the way into the imperial city. Now that the good news has been handed over, he can finally relax.
The person who received the news did not dare to neglect it, and immediately ran to Daming Palace with a lacquer box. It was a coincidence that Li Zhi had not been to court for many days because of the capital moving, but today he had a whim and actually summoned all the ministers to discuss matters. Even Li Hong came to participate in the court meeting. However, at the beginning of the court meeting, the court had a quarrel again because of the capital moving, and Li Zhi was so angry that he almost fell ill again.
However, at this moment, an eunuch trotted in from outside the hall, then held the lacquer box in his hands and said, "Tuyuhun is a great victory, please give Your Majesty a visit!"
"Tuyuhun's victory?" When most of the ministers in the court heard the news, they all showed a confused expression, because they had never heard of any news in advance, and they didn't know when the fight in Tuyuhun started?
However, in comparison, some of the important officials standing in the front row all showed an excited look at this time. The other ministers were too low, so they didn't know that Tuyuhun was normal, but they all participated in the previous combat plan. Although many people opposed it, under Li Zhi's will, they could only cooperate.
"Come on!" Li Zhi was excited and stood up suddenly when he heard that it was a document that was reported to him.
The war against Tubo has always been kept secret. Not to mention ordinary people in the country, even many ministers were kept in the dark. In order to cooperate with the army to achieve the effect of a sudden attack, there was no news before the war, and even he didn't even know what the situation was going on on the front line?
Li Hong was also very excited at this time. He personally went up to pick up the paint box, checked that the lid of the paint box was sealed with fire paint, and then he submitted it to Li Zhi with confidence. Then someone took the special key and opened the paint box.
This kind of lacquer box is specially used for documentary communications in the military, with excellent sealing properties. There are two keys in total, one in the hands of the generals of the former army and the other in the headquarters of Feinusi. When the lacquer box is delivered, Feinusi will take the key. The lock is also specially made and cannot be opened by outsiders unless it is violent destruction.
Li Zhi took out the documents in the lacquer box and opened them to watch them. His expression became more and more excited. This was a document written by Xue Rengui himself. Just a month ago, Xue Rengui had just arrived in Yazhou for only ten days, and then led a large army to raid the Tubo army stationed in the Tuyuhun area. He captured ten cities in a row within one day and killed the unprepared Tubo people and defeated them in a crushing defeat.
The Tubo people who failed the game first were not willing to accept it, especially the one who led the Tubo army was Gong Ren's father Lu Qinling. Last time he defeated Xue Rengui, so in the face of Xue Rengui's fierce attack, he immediately gathered the army to prepare for a counterattack.
On the fifth day of Xue Rengui's raid, Lun Qinling finally gathered 150,000 troops, and the two sides launched a decisive battle outside Wuhai City. However, Lun Qinling still underestimated Xue Rengui too much. The last time he could win before was mainly because Xue Rengui's army lost supplies, which led to insufficient military supplies and not even enough food to eat, so he was defeated by the other party.
But this time Xue Rengui came prepared. Not only was the army sufficient supplies, but he also prepared for this revenge battle for many years, so he did not give Lun Qinling any chance. At the beginning of the decisive battle, the Tang army gained the upper hand, and the 50,000 Tang army actually killed 150,000 Tubo troops and retreated step by step.
However, Lun Qinling was a famous Tubo general after all. Faced with this unfavorable situation, he also came to the battle formation and commanded his own army to break through the left wing of the Tang army, and finally got back some situations.
However, at this moment, Xue Rengui, who was over 60 years old, actually put on armor and led a cavalry to rush out with a long spear in hand, cutting off the Tubo central army in one fell swoop. The Tubo army was difficult to respond to, and Xue Rengui also seized the opportunity to attack the Tubo central army, which finally led to the defeat of the Tubo army, and even Lun Qinling was almost captured by the Tang army.
The 150,000 Tubo army was defeated, and the Tang army also chased for many days. Every time the Tubo people were about to stop and organize troops to fight back, they were killed and dispersed by the Tang army that caught up. This also caused the Tubo army to suffer extremely heavy losses. Xue Rengui also wrote this document of victory on the way to chase the Tubo army.
Although the war has not ended, Tubo actually has no possibility of turning the tables. Because the main force stationed in Tuyuhun has been eliminated. Although Tubo still has some troops in the local area, due to the limitations of the terrain, they have no way to send reinforcements in a short period of time, so Lun Qinling can only retreat to Tubo.
In addition, Tuyuhun was ruled by the Tang Dynasty for so many years and was already quite close to the Tang Dynasty, so there was no rejection of the Tang army that had been killed. Even the local tribes organized people to send food and food to welcome the return of the Tang army. It can be said that the overall situation in Tuyuhun has been decided. Even if the Tubo people want to kill them, they will probably have to prepare for three to five years. By then, the Tang Dynasty's rule in Tuyuhun would have been stabilized.
"Hahahaha~, please feel free! Xue Qing really lives up to my high expectations!" After reading Xue Rengui's document on reporting the victory, Li Zhi also said happily, and then handed over the document to Li Hong, asking him to pass it on to each other with the ministers.
After seeing this good news, Li Hong and others were all excited. After all, the defeat of Dafeichuan at the time had a great blow to the Tang Dynasty. They even lost the four Anxi towns. If they went further, they might lose the entire Western Regions rule. Although they were slowly taken back, it still made the Tang Dynasty feel very difficult, especially Tubo became stronger and stronger, which made the southwest of the Tang Dynasty very unstable.
Chapter completed!