Everything that happened at the foot of Yin Mountain was not reported back to the Tang Dynasty until mid-June.
Everyone in the Tang Dynasty was stunned.
Li Jing personally led more than 4,000 troops, hiding day and night, and ran for nearly a thousand miles. He raided Jieli's Golden Wolf tent and defeated tens of thousands of soldiers including the Golden Wolf Guards, Ashina tribe, Geshu tribe, and Pugu tribe in one fell swoop.
The horse forced Jie Li to escape Yinshan alone, which is simply unbelievable.
Li Shiji received the news from the first family and forwarded all the battle reports sent back by Li Jing to Lingzhou intact.
After forwarding the battle report, Li Shiji quickly sent people to negotiate with the Shi Huoba tribe and told the news to the chieftain of Shi Huoba tribe.
When Chief Shi Huoba was overwhelmed by the news, Li Shiji mobilized all his troops and raided Shi Huoba's pasture overnight, killing more than 10,000 of Shi Huoba's troops.
More than 30,000 people were captured, and more than 80,000 old, weak, women and children were captured, more than 50,000 Han people were rescued, and nearly 300,000 horses, cattle and sheep were confiscated.
It can be said to be a great victory and a great harvest.
But compared to Li Jing's gains at the foot of Yin Mountain, they are still inferior, just like grains of rice and pearls.
After all, not many people care about who defeated the Turkic tribe, how many military exploits and trophies they gained, but they touched the back of the Turkic leader's butt, stabbed the Turkic leader hard, and forced the Turkic leader to escape alone.
, the whole country will care.
This is the law of the battlefield.
No matter how great the gains are, no matter how high the military exploits are, killing the enemy leader is more eye-catching than killing the general and capturing the flag.
Although Li Jing did not succeed in beheading Jie Li this time, Jie Li abandoned all his tribesmen and all his subordinates at the critical moment and ran away. He has lost the hearts of the people and will never be taken away by anyone on the grassland again.
He thought he was a Khan.
From a strategic perspective, Li Jing has completed the beheading tactic.
Because Jieli's role in the Turks had been eliminated by Li Jing, Jieli could no longer lead the Turkic tribes to fight against the Tang Dynasty as before.
But now the Turks are leaderless, fighting on their own and in chaos.
Datang launched a massive attack, and no matter how it was fought, it would be many times easier than before.
The Turks no longer posed any threat to the Tang Dynasty.
After Li Shiji led his army to defeat Shi Huoba's tribe, Yin Kaishan, Xie Shufang, Li Junxian, Hou Junji and other generals also launched a campaign against various Turkic tribes.
To be precise, it should be an encirclement and suppression.
Because in the process of conquering various Turkic tribes, several people subconsciously cooperated with each other instead of causing obstacles for each other in order to speed up and grab more merits.
With this kind of cooperation, when one person is conquering a Turkic tribe, the other person does not rush to take credit from him, but chooses to conquer the Turkic tribe next to him. Firstly, he helps him contain the reinforcements, and secondly, he also
He used him to contain the enemy's reinforcements.
With the cooperation of two compartments, three compartments, and even multiple compartments, several people made rapid progress. Their offensive was like wildfire, quickly burning through the entire grassland from Lingzhou to the north of Shizhou, and quickly spreading further north.
Every day, new battle reports are sent to Lingzhou; every day, new gains appear.
The number of enemy heads is increasing day by day, and the number of captured horses, cattle and sheep is also increasing exponentially.
Just a few days ago, more than 10,000 enemy heads were beheaded, and hundreds of thousands of horses, cattle and sheep were captured. In a few days, the number turned into hundreds of thousands and millions.
A large number of horses, cattle and sheep, driven by the captives, gathered at several designated storage points along the line from Lingzhou to Shizhou.
In half a month, just half a month, several storage points have already exploded.
Although the cattle, sheep and horses driven to several storage points are still on the road and have not yet entered the storage points, the numbers reported to various storage points have already exploded.
Temporary camp in Lingzhou City.
After reading all the battle reports and various documents, Li Shimin rubbed his eyebrows and said: "I have known that Li Jing is very powerful, but I didn't expect to be so powerful. He has turned the current situation around with his own efforts."
The reversal of the situation in Li Shimin's words is not a situation between victory and defeat, but a situation in which the two armies confront each other and slowly advance to a unilateral and wanton beating.
As Li Shimin said, Li Jing did single-handedly reverse the entire occupation, turning the war between the Tang Dynasty and the Turks from a confrontation between the two armies at the beginning, to the current situation where the Tang Dynasty was unilaterally beating the Turks.
The root cause of all this was Li Jing's Battle of Yinshan.
Li Jing's battle defeated the Turks' faith (not ghosts and gods, but leaders), and also defeated the Turks' ridges, making the Turks no longer qualified and courageous to become enemies of the Tang Dynasty.
This allowed Li Shiji, Yin Kaishan, Xie Shufang, Li Junxian, Hou Junji and others to march in large numbers, frantically attack the city, plunder the land, and capture cattle and sheep.
Without Li Jing's battle, if the Tang Dynasty wanted to conquer the Turks, it would have to conquer one place after another, conquer one tribe after another, and plan step by step.
It is simply impossible to make a large-scale advance with free hands and feet like now.
It can be said that Li Jing's achievements in this battle are outstanding and of great significance.
Otherwise, Li Shimin would not praise him from the bottom of his heart.
"However, Li Jing brought the Ashina tribe members left by Geshu tribe and Jieli back to the Tang Dynasty, but left the Pugu tribe members at the foot of Yinshan Mountain, and also stayed in contact with Ashina Simo.
You should know what he means by Wang Fuqi's supervision, right?"
After Li Shimin praised Li Jing, he tilted his head and asked.
Li Yuanji put his hands on the ice mirror, feeling the coolness coming from the ice mirror, and nodded, "Li Jing hopes that I will formally surrender Ashina Simo, and hand over the people from the Pugu Department to Ashina
Simo is in charge."
Everything Li Jing did was out in the open, without any cover-up, so it was not difficult to guess what he was thinking.
Li Shimin reached out and took out a small piece of ice from the plate next to the ice mirror and stuffed it into his mouth. He sipped the ice and asked, "Then what are you going to do?"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Li Yuanji did not answer, but asked: "What do you think, second brother?"
Li Shimin curled his lips and said reluctantly: "According to the strategy I wrote, now is not a good time for Ashina Simo to surrender, because Ashina Simo is the one who ensures that our Tang Dynasty will not be defeated.
Important chess piece.
As long as he is a Turkic royal family, he can do a lot of things for us as a Turkic royal family.
No matter what problems we encounter in the process of conquering the Turks, he can come forward to help us solve them.
Once we surrender him, he won't be able to help us solve any problems.
However, since Li Jing has done everything for this purpose, it would be a bit unreasonable if we don't take the opportunity to recruit Ashina Simo and let Ashina Simo take over the Pugu tribe."
Li Yuanji rolled his eyes and said, "So?"
Li Shimin seemed to have said a lot, but what he said was nothing.
Because he didn't make a clear statement.
It was not stated whether Ashina Simo was to be surrendered or not.
Li Shimin stared and said angrily: "You can't use your brain and ask me about everything?!"
Li Yuanji said calmly: "What's wrong with you, who made you my brother? Haven't you heard that the elder brother should do his job when something happens? Haven't you heard that the elder brother has to take care of his younger brother?"
Li Shimin said angrily: "Shit, if you have something to do, your brother will do his job, but if you have something to do, your disciple will do it! Don't misinterpret the holy will. There is no such sentence in the holy word!"
Li Yuanji pretended not to know: "No? Then find someone to add it later!"
Li Shimin was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood, and said angrily: "Who in the Tang Dynasty is qualified to change the saint's slight words and righteousness?!"
Notes from the Tang Dynasty: There are many people who interpret the sage's subtle words and righteousness, and some people also try to change the sage's subtle words and righteousness.
However, it is said to be an annotation and interpretation to the outside world, and no one dares to change the sage's subtle words and great meaning.
Because it will be sprayed to death by the literati in the scholarly community. In more serious cases, the literati will directly use their own energy to trample it into the mud.
Therefore, even the descendants of the saint dare not say anything to change the saint's subtle words and righteousness.
Therefore, no one in the Tang Dynasty could change the saint's subtle words and righteousness.
"What does it matter if we, as sons, change what our father has said? How can father be angry with us, sons?"
Li Yuanji looked at Li Shimin and said with a half-smile.
Li Shimin was so angry that he was about to vomit blood.
I tell you about saints like Confucius and Mencius, but you tell me about being a pilgrim saint.
Although they are both saints, they are completely two kinds of saints, okay?!
However, he could not refute that Li Yuan was not a saint, nor could he refute that what Li Yuan said was not just a small statement.
According to some people who have gained divine favor through flattery, Li Yuan has far surpassed Confucius and Mencius and other saints. He has reached the pinnacle of sainthood and has become the supreme being among saints.
Since no one dares to prove that Li Yuan is not a saint, everything Li Yuan said is just a small statement.
Confucius and Mencius and others had to stand aside in front of him.
In the Tang Dynasty, he was the greatest, and every word he said was more effective than the saint's humble words.
"Can you please have a little face? Can you be reasonable?"
Li Shimin shouted angrily.
Li Yuanji said innocently: "Aren't I trying to reason with you? Do you dare to say that your father is not a saint?"
Li Shimin's chest was a little stuffed by the attack.
Li Yuanji was afraid that Li Shimin would be angry to death if he continued to be angry, so he quickly waved his hands and said: "Okay, let's get down to business. You said that we should stick to our own strategy, but choose the path that Li Jing helped us arrange.
Woolen cloth?"
Li Shimin blew his beard and said with eyes wide open: "I want to go!"
Li Yuanji said with a half-smile, "You really want me to think about it myself?"
Li Shimin was stunned for a moment, then roared angrily: "Cheng Qian just said a few nonsense words, and you used this to tease me, and you still want to hold on to me?!"