Yi Nan is a hero. It was under his leadership that Xueyantuo tribe, a branch of Tieler, replaced the Eastern Turks and became the overlord of the northern desert grasslands.

When Li Shimin personally led a large army to conquer Goguryeo, he once said to the envoy sent by Xue Yantuo in a provocative tone: My sixth son and I want to use troops to Goguryeo. If Yi Nan thinks this is an opportunity, then I welcome him! However, Yi Nan was very scared after hearing this. Not only did he send an envoy to Li Shimin that he had no intention of going south, but he even hoped to send troops to assist the Tang Dynasty in attacking Goguryeo, but Li Shimin refused.

It was precisely because of Yi Nan's character that he repeatedly tolerated the Tang Dynasty's actions to erode the Northeast grasslands. Unfortunately, he had to gather a large army in the end and started a war with the Tang Dynasty for survival. Unfortunately, the 300,000 troops went away forever, and most of them became prisoners of the Tang Dynasty. Zhang Jian was even more ungrateful to the country, burned, killed, looted and committed all kinds of evil. As a result, Yi Nan could not accept this blow and died of anger and illness.

After Yi Nan died, Xue Yantuo was in chaos, and the two sons had a dispute over the inheritance of the Khan throne. At this time, the Tiel tribes of Uighurs, Pugu, Tongluo and others who were attached to Xue Yantuo also began to lose confidence in Xue Yantuo. Among them, Tu Midu, the leader of the Uighur tribe, took the lead in starting a fight. Taking advantage of Xue Yantuo's civil strife, he secretly contacted Zhang Jian. The two of them joined forces and suddenly attacked the Xue Yantuo royal court on the Tula River. As a result, Yi Nan's two sons were killed, and all members of the royal family were slaughtered by Tu Midu. Xue Yantuo was officially destroyed.

The powerful Xueyantuo was destroyed by the Tang Dynasty. This result greatly shocked the countries in the Western Regions. Especially the Western Turks in the chaos, they were even more shocked. Among them, Yibidulu Khan and Yibisa Bolu Yehu Khan, who were attacking each other, wrote letters to the Tang Dynasty, expressing their intention to surrender and ensure the smooth flow of the Silk Road on the land, and never dared to make any small moves in the secret. The Great Lord

Xue Yantuo was destroyed, and the largest weixie in the northern grasslands of the Tang Dynasty was finally destroyed. Originally, after Xue Yantuo was destroyed, the Uighurs took over most of the forces of the Xue Yantuo people. Although the Uighurs had always had good friendships with the Tang Dynasty, there were also many frictions in the middle. Later, it was destroyed by the Kias, and the northern grasslands began a new round of power replacement. Later, the powerful Mongols rose up, bringing endless disasters to the Central Plains dynasty.

However, the Tang Dynasty has already formulated a plan to annex Mobei and is preparing to solve the largest Weixie in the north in one fell swoop. Therefore, after Xue Yantuo's demise, Li Ji and various armies advanced together and controlled most of Xue Yantuo's areas in one fell swoop. All tribes that dared to resist were all bloody suppressed by them. In order to achieve the purpose of deterrence, and there was no extra food, they did not leave any prisoners when they suppressed, and all the rebels were exterminated.

Under this iron-blooded method, everyone in Xueyantuo was in danger, and no one dared to resist anymore, and this coincided with the saying. The grassland people feared power but did not have virtue. The bloody your methods were. The more they were, the more afraid they were. Only by beating them or killing them. These grassland people would be more honest in the future.

The bloody methods of Li Ji and others also made Xue Yantuo's subordinate tribes such as the Uighurs feel awe. It is precisely because of this that they all unanimously expressed their support for the Tang Dynasty's subsequent actions, for fear that they would accidentally cause the disaster of extermination.

After receiving the news that Xue Yantuo had been initially pacified, Li Shimin immediately dispatched officials, divided Xue Yantuo into eleven states, and established the Anbei Protectorate Office, which was in charge of the military and political affairs of the eleven states, and temporarily regarded Li Ji as the Protectorate. After all, there is only a preliminary decision, and a military general with a strong position is needed to guard it. Li Ji, who destroyed Xue Yantuo this time, was undoubtedly the best candidate.

After the establishment of the Anbei Protectorate, a large number of Xueyantuo's tribes were demoted to slaves. In addition, due to the influence of the snow disaster, the Uighur tribes were very poor, so they all sought help from the Tang Dynasty. However, under the influence of Li Yan, Li Shimin would no longer do any losses. He promised to provide food for each tribe, but these tribes needed to produce certain young and strong men every year. These men needed to serve the Tang Dynasty for ten years, or join the army or enter the inland work. Anyway, everything had to be followed by the arrangements of the Tang Dynasty.

It is also worth mentioning that the Battle of Xueyantuo provided a large number of prisoners of war for the Tang Dynasty. In addition to the more than 200,000 prisoners of war captured in the war, the Tang army entered the Xueyantuo Khanate and demoted some of the Xueyantuo nobles and subordinate tribes to slaves. The number of these slaves was huge and filled the slave market of the Tang Dynasty for a time, and some slaves were even transported to Taiwan, Luzon and other places.

The Battle of Xueyantuo made the slave merchants of the Tang Dynasty happy and excited, and also made some wool textile factory owners and wool merchants very excited, because with the development of the wool textile industry in recent years, the demand for wool has become increasingly large, while the grasslands in Mobei were controlled by Xueyantuo. If they wanted to import wool from there, they had to pay a lot of taxes to Xueyantuo. Now that Mobei is recovered, they can just pay taxes to the government like in China.

However, compared to those merchants, there were two people in the Tang Dynasty who were happier than anyone else. These two were Li Zhen and Li Yun who were determined to recruit soldiers. Although they recruited a group of students from military academy, these students were all middle and senior officers in their future army, but as for the most ordinary soldiers in the army, it was a big trouble.

Originally, in Li Zhen's vision, he wanted to recruit an army entirely composed of Han people. After all, fighting in places like India where all foreign races were naturally the most trusted of their own races. But soon he found it difficult. Firstly, it was because they had to fight away from their hometowns, which discouraged most people. Secondly, because the Tang Dynasty expanded rapidly in recent years, it also required a large number of troops. When Li Yan formed the army, he was still an army formed by a slave-capturing team. Li Shimin never gave him a soldier, let alone them.

Li Zhen and Li Yun were very worried about the issue of this military source. Li Zhen even proposed to borrow troops from Li Yan, but Li Yun denied it because Li Yun knew that the sixth brother Li Yan had immigrated a large number of people from the Tang Dynasty, which shows that he was extremely short of population. In addition, Li Yan captured Luzon again, and I am afraid that the army in his hands was not enough and there was no way to borrow it.

However, after the Battle of Xue Yantuo's demise, Li Yun, who was more intelligent, suddenly thought of a way, which was to follow Li Yan's approach to the grassland people, recruit some tribes from the grassland, and then transfer these grassland people overseas through Li Yan. At that time, they would recruit soldiers from these grassland people, and then use the Han people in their hands as officers of this army to control the entire army.

In addition, Li Zhen and Li Yun have a second reason for using these grassland people, that is, the terrain of the Indian continent is flat and very suitable for cavalry combat. Moreover, the information provided by Li Yan also said that chariots, cavalry and elephant soldiers are popular there, and chariots are not worth worrying about. The elephant soldiers are already ready to use firearms to restrain them, and the remaining cavalry can only use more elite cavalry to fight the enemy. When it comes to elite cavalry, what cavalry can compare with these grassland people who grew up on horseback?

After Li Yun figured out the details, he immediately shared the idea with Li Zhen. As a result, Li Zhen was overjoyed. Now they already have all the soldiers and generals in their hands, and they are already considered adults. Then, they can truly implement the entire plan. However, before this, they have one last thing to do, which is to obtain the consent of their father Li Shimin.

Li Zhen and Li Yun need to form an army, and it is not for rebellion. They just want to imitate Li Yan and build up a world of their own with their own hands. So there is no need to hide this from Li Shimin. They even have to take the initiative to tell each other in order to get strong support from their father.

In the Liangyi Hall of Tai Chi Palace, Li Shimin stood with his hands behind his back, looking at Li Zhen and Li Yun standing below with calm eyes. As their father and the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, he naturally knew what these two sons were doing during this period, and even he knew that Li Zhen and Li Yun were trying to win over military academy students and prepare to form an army.

"Have you two really thought about it?" Li Shimin asked calmly. When he knew the little movements of his two sons, he initially thought that the two sons were about to rebel, but soon he knew the hidden truth. While he was relieved, he was also reluctant to leave.

"Your father and son minister have already thought about it. Brother Six has set an example for us. As the prince of the Tang Dynasty and the son of the father, we cannot just live a mediocre life. Only by building unparalleled achievements can we not be in vain in this world!" Li Zhen and Li Yun said loudly at the same time.

Li Shimin sighed in his heart. It seemed that these two sons were going to stay away from him, but since they had such ambition, he, the father, could not stop him. Thinking of this, Li Shimin showed a smile of approval on his face and said, "Okay, I agree with your request for you. In a while, someone will be sent to Anbei Protectorate's Mansion. As for how many grassland tribes they can recruit, it depends on yours."

"Thank you, Father!" Li Zhen and Li Yun all replied happily when they heard this. The famine in Anbei Protectorate's Mansion has not yet passed. As long as they take out enough food, they can still recruit as much as they want.

Seeing the happy look of his two sons, Li Shimin told them a few more words, and then suddenly said, "You are all adults, so I won't say much about other fathers, but you don't know when you will be back here, so I'll go to the palace to accompany your mother these days and try to relax them!"

"Yes, my son is leaving!" Li Zhen and Li Yun said with a wry smile at the same time. If their mothers knew about them, they would probably have been too few nagging, and now their ears will suffer again.
Chapter completed!