To be a famous general, one of the necessary conditions is to know how to measure!
Whether it is measuring military strength or measuring gains and losses, it is the most important test of a general's wisdom.
The news that Tang Jian left Shuofang to negotiate peace with Jie Li was already known to Li Jing through messengers.
Although Xiao Han came here, he never mentioned to him that Tang Jian was prepared to sacrifice himself during this trip!
But Li Jing still relied on his keen intuition to realize that Tang Jian's move to the Turks was a golden opportunity for him and the Tang Dynasty!
He could even imagine that the uneasy Jie Li would be overjoyed when he saw Tang Jian, the Duke of the Tang Dynasty, personally visiting and bringing the news of Li Shimin's peace.
He decided that with these two trump cards in hand, he no longer had to worry about the Tang people chasing him around the world.
By that time, the Turkic King Qin’s army, which had been formed in a hurry, will definitely relax greatly and even disband the Hui tribes!
And I can take advantage of this opportunity, lead a surprise attack in one fell swoop, completely eliminate him, and never give him a chance to settle his scores!
There is no doubt that Li Jing's judgment is correct, and from this point alone, we can see the difference between Li Jing and Xiao Han!
If Xiao Han was sitting in Li Jing's position at this time, then he would never think about it, nor would he want to think about whether he could take this opportunity to kill Jie Li!
With Xiao Han's character, he would just calculate back and forth to see if he could find a way to get the best of both worlds: he could kill Jie Li, but also prevent Tang Jian from being killed by Jie Li!
But, how can there be so many best of both worlds in this world?
If you want to get the best of both worlds, the biggest possibility is that while you are still thinking about it, the opportunity has quietly disappeared.
In the end, Xiao Han, who was left empty-handed, could only raise his head to the sky and cry out in sorrow.
However, Li Jing is different!
As the military god of the Tang Dynasty, he was always calm and rational!
Perhaps in his opinion, if he could really take this opportunity to eliminate the Turks, the biggest scourge of the Tang Dynasty, then let alone Tang Jian, the Duke of Ju, even if it cost his life, he would not hesitate!
As for Dingxiang City compared with these two, it is nothing!
Since Xiao Han volunteered to manage it for him, he simply went along with the flow! He also used this period of time to plan everything next!
When Army Sima Zhao Zhi and Shi Shiran walked out of the commander's tent with a look of understanding on their faces, the night outside had become darker and darker.
There is silence in the vast sky and earth, and only when the snowflakes accumulate, there will be a slight rustling sound.
In Dingxiang City, the newly minted City Lord Xiao was sitting beside a bed, greeting a man on the bed whose arms were covered with bandages.
The man's face turned red, and he seemed to be neither lying nor sitting on the bed. He was quite uncomfortable with this kind of special treatment, and it took him a long time to choke out a few words.
There was no doubt that the person lying on the bed was the guard who blocked the knife for him with his arm.
And now, Xiao Han has figured out the whole story.
It turned out that a few days ago, Li Jing led 3,000 elites to raid Dingxiang. Jieli Khan ignored the people in the city and was the first to take advantage of the chaos and escape!
Later, Li Jing pursued Jie Li to no avail, and because Qingqi rode straight in, he was afraid of causing problems, so he could only temporarily return to Dingxiangcheng to live.
Now that you have decided to live in Dingxiang, you must first ensure your own safety!
Li Jing, who knew this well, adopted the simplest and crudest method: strong suppression!
First, people were sent to confiscate the knives, bows and arrows of the Turks in the city, leaving only a knife for cutting meat with them to prevent them from rebelling.
Immediately afterwards, some people were sneaked out from the city, taken to the streets and chopped up in public, acting as a warning to the remaining Turks to let the remaining Turks know how powerful they were!
I have to say that Li Jing's method was indeed effective. After such a set of procedures, the Turks in the city immediately became more honest. When the conflict first started, there were three troubles a day.
However, as a famous saying from later generations puts it well: Where there is oppression, there is resistance!
Under Li Jing's high-pressure policy, there are still many undercurrents surging under the calm appearance of Dingxiang City.
That's why the guards assigned by Li Jing to Xiao Han were so fierce that they almost killed Xiaodong and Lengzi as thieves!
As for the Abala who assassinated him in the afternoon, Xiao Han also interrogated him. The reason was very simple and very old-fashioned.
His family members were the same ones who were picked out and slaughtered by monkeys.
In order to avenge his family, Abala, who slipped through the net, hangs around the gate of the city lord's mansion these days when he has nothing to do.
Today, Abala on the street accidentally saw Xiao Han being protected by everyone out of the city lord's mansion, and immediately recognized him as a big shot among the Tang Dynasty!
Just at this time, Xiao Han had a conflict with those who were protecting him, so Abala became cruel on the spot, which led to the subsequent assassination incident.
The right time, the right place, the right people!
Abala almost had all of these favorable factors when facing Xiao Han.
It’s just that he never expected that the guard who was scolded bloody one second would be able to block the knife for the Tang man without hesitation the next! What is this? Is it the self-cultivation of the guard?
Abala was stunned, and he also failed.
After being kicked hard, he was dragged to the city lord's mansion like a dead dog.
After being tortured and tortured to extract a confession, Xiao Han, who learned the reason, expressed his high respect for his "brave behavior".
In order to express his respect, Xiao Han decided to find a place with great scenery for him to heal his injuries.
For example, the back garden of the City Lord's Mansion is great!
He looked there and saw a large withered flower bush, which was also a bush of peonies! Didn't the ancients say that if you die under peonies, you will be a ghost?
Therefore, Xiao Han ordered people to send Abra there for treatment, hoping that he could be cured of the problem of being born in the wrong child and strive to have a good child in his next life.
Perhaps, next year, the peonies in the garden will also feel Xiao Han's thoughts and bloom even more brilliantly.
I don't know why, but after coming to the grassland, Xiao Han now feels that his temperament has changed a lot.
On the one hand, it continues to be as warm as the spring breeze to its own people, but on the other hand, it is as cold as the cold winter to the foreigners. However, if anyone offends them, they will be killed to avoid future troubles.
That night, after visiting the injured guards, Xiao Han went to the rooms of the remaining guards, sincerely apologized to these people for what happened during the day, and asked Xiaodong and Lengzi to bring a large amount of property and spirits as rewards.
them.
This move greatly changed the impression of several guards on him! If he originally wanted to go back to Li Jing, he couldn't say it out loud!
It's no wonder that, with Xiao Han's nickname of Pixiu, how can someone who has really come to his place be allowed to go back again?
Didn't you see that even when Li Jing left, he didn't say that he would take those guards away with him?
