Chapter 1451 The troops are divided into three groups
In the imperial study, Li Ye looked at Qingzhou and Yuanzhou on the sand table.
On the other side stood Wei Jiansu and Guo Ziyi.
Li Ye pondered for a long time and asked: "Who do you think it would be better for the Privy Council to send to exterminate the party?"
Guo Ziyi had already made up his mind and said calmly: "Li Sheng is the only one who can go out to conquer the party!"
Li Ye nodded, he was also thinking of Li Sheng.
At this time, Wei Jiansu asked: "How does your Majesty plan to deal with the party members?"
Li Ye sighed and said: "If you are not of my race, your heart must be different. Back then, the Southern Huns were attached to the territory, and the Eastern Han Dynasty was too kind to them, leaving hidden dangers. Later, Cao Cao divided the Southern Xiongnu into five tribes: left, right, south, north, and middle, and placed them in the pass respectively.
, Hedong and Hebei and other places, their nobles are the commanders. This is the root of the Wuhu chaos in China.
The Dangxiang and Wuhu at this time are so similar. When we are strong, we can despise these alien races, but when we unfortunately become weak in the future, what will these alien races bring to our descendants?
Wei Xiangguo, if you don’t plan for eternity, you can’t plan for one game!”
Wei Jiansu was deeply moved and stroked his beard and said: "Your Majesty is right, I fully support the destruction of Dang Xiang!"
In the afternoon, Li Ye met with General Li Sheng.
Li Ye performed extremely prominently in the war to pacify Nanzhao, creating a model for Li Ye to check and balance small countries, destroying them but not destroying them.
Some small countries cannot be destroyed, such as Nanzhao, Nanzhao and various small ethnic groups in the south are numerous and complex, and the court does not have so much energy to take care of them.
Leaving Nanzhao as an agent and letting it manage it saved the court a lot of trouble. The same goes for the Shi Kingdom. It is one of the nine Sogdian kingdoms. If it is completely destroyed, the other eight Sogdian kingdoms will be completely pushed to Dashi.
, the Tang Dynasty could not gain a foothold in the Hezhong area, so the Nanzhao model was the best solution, using garrison to control the Shi Kingdom and share its resources, while not interfering in the internal affairs of the Shi Kingdom, and using marriage to appease the Shi Kingdom.
This was the foundation laid by the Nanzhao model, and it was for this reason that Li Ye valued Li Sheng very much.
"I am here to see you, Your Majesty!" Li Sheng bowed and saluted.
Li Sheng is now serving as General Youwei and Minister of Military Affairs. His position is a sinecure. If the emperor thinks of you and uses you, you can immediately mount your horse and go to war. If the emperor does not remember you or does not want to use you, you can go to war.
I can only idle for the rest of my life.
For example, Li Ye would no longer use Gao Xiuyan, the general of Zuowei. He was already over sixty years old, so Li Ye made him the general of Zuowei, acting as the Duke of the country, just to let him enjoy his old age.
But Li Sheng is different. He is only in his early forties and in the prime of life.
Although Li Sheng's expedition to Nanzhao was successful, he was on the wrong team after all, so he was still quite uneasy.
This time the emperor decided to use him to fight against the party, and he was particularly excited.
Li Ye pointed to the Yuan Qing and other prefecture roads on the sand table: "General, you must know about Dangxiang's rebellion!"
"I read the Xun issue of Tang Dynasty yesterday and I already know it."
Li Ye pointed at Yanzhou with a wooden pole and said: "Now that Dangxiang is besieging Yanzhou, how should we rescue it?"
Li Sheng pondered for a moment and said: "Your Majesty, I believe that what Dangxiang really wants to attack is not Yanzhou, but Lingzhou!"
"How can I see it?"
"Your Majesty, Dangxiang is different from other nomads. They are half herders and half farmers. Their population has reached the critical point of 500,000. If they can exceed 500,000, they will soon advance to 1 million. As
The nobles of Dangxiang definitely hope that the population will exceed 500,000, but if they want to exceed 500,000, they must have sufficient food. Near Qingzhou and Yuanzhou, the largest grain-producing area is the Hetao. Once they occupy the Lingzhou Hetao, Dangxiang will have
demand for an independent country.”
I have to say that Li Sheng's inference is still very convincing. Historically, Dangxiang officially established the Xixia Kingdom after taking control of the Lingzhou Hetao, and it has always been the thorn in the side of the Song Dynasty.
"Do you think they are pretending to attack Yanzhou?"
"No, Wei Chen thinks that they still want to plunder Yanzhou's fire oil, but not Yanzhou's land. Wei Chen read the ten-day magazine. It said that the party has been attacking Yanzhou for several days, and your majesty has not yet received information about the loss of Yanzhou.
The news shows that they are besieging but not attacking, luring our main force to rescue Yanzhou and buy time for Lingzhou. Once our main force reaches Yanzhou, they will immediately start to snatch the kerosene and then retreat quickly."
Li Ye nodded, "If I give you 50,000 troops, how will you deal with Dang Xiang?"
"Reporting to Your Majesty, if Wei Chen is given 50,000 troops, Wei Chen will ask for Chang'an's 30,000 troops and Yunzhou's 20,000 troops. Chang'an's 30,000 troops will march northward, and Yunzhou's 20,000 cavalry will be divided into two.
One team will rush to support Lingzhou, and the other team will rush to support Yanzhou."
Li Ye nodded with satisfaction, "As you wish!"
Li Ye immediately appointed Li Sheng as the Yushi doctor and the defense envoy within the pass, and led an army of 30,000 to rescue Yanzhou.
At the same time, an urgent letter was sent to Zhang Guangsheng, the governor of Yunzhou, ordering his 20,000 troops to be divided into two groups, one to rush to rescue Lingzhou, and the other to Yanzhou to stop the party members from plundering kerosene.
Ying's letter came quickly. Zhang Guangsheng received Ying's letter at dusk. He sent troops overnight and ordered General Lu Yan to lead 10,000 cavalry to Lingzhou. He himself led 10,000 troops to Yanzhou.
At the same time, another eagle letter from Li Ye also arrived in Taiyuan, ordering Taiyuan's three-city defense envoy Xin Jingmin to lead five thousand troops to rush north to temporarily take over Yunzhou's defense.
Just as Li Ye was dispatching troops and generals to prepare for action against Dang Xiang.
Some subtle changes have also occurred in western Liaoning.
On a vast grassland, a migration team is slowly heading west.
This is a small tribe in Xishiwei, with a population of only more than a thousand. More than a thousand carts are loaded with tents, other furniture and various daily necessities. Women and children are sitting on the carts, while men are riding horses. On both sides of the fleet,
Follow the large herds of cattle and sheep.
The procession marched eastward in mighty force.
Since Shiwei's 30,000 troops were completely annihilated, and the little Khan Bayegu who was close to Shiwei was eliminated, the nobles of Shiwei finally felt that the crisis was coming.
They finally began to consider their retreat, and this small tribe was their migration trial.
The migration team cannot go through the territory of the Kuluobo tribe. This is one of the conditions for the Kuluobo tribe to send troops. If Shiwei's migration team enters their pasture, they will withdraw immediately.
The Shiwei tribe did not want to lose this only ally, so they had no choice but to migrate along the south bank of the Onen River. The Onen River was the dividing line between the Kurobo tribe and the Banyegu tribe. In fact, they were along the border of the two tribes.
Erxing, on this side of Ba Yegu.
The team had been walking for four days, and they were very nervous. Once they were captured by Ba Ye Gubu, they would probably become slaves.
The slave households are actually similar to the lowest-level herdsmen in the Beyegu tribe, except that the taxes paid to the nobles are higher. Of course, it is still discrimination.
But if they surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, the change would only be in their name, and the title of Shiwei people would no longer exist. They would become people of the Tang Dynasty, and their household registration would be Liaoxi. After a few generations, they would become Han people.
Now the imperial court is not planning to move them to the interior, but will keep them in Liaodong to farm, transforming them from a nomadic people into a farming people, and gradually becoming Hanized.
This experimental tribe that migrated westward was unfortunate. In the afternoon, a group of thousands of ancient Bareye cavalry came and surrounded more than a thousand large vehicles. Faced with the ferocious shouts of the cavalry, the men did not dare to resist and started to fight.
Kneeling on the ground, the woman held her child and cried in the car.
The nobles of various grassland tribes are quite welcoming to the population, which means they will get more tax sheep.
The ancient Ba Ye cavalry collected all their weapons and ordered the team to turn south to the royal land of Ba Ye Gu. Their fate would be decided by Dada Khan.
Generally, it is divided equally among the eight tribes and becomes the slave households of the Beye Ancient Tribe.