The Tang Dynasty established its country by force. Since the founding of the country, whether it was Li Yuan or Li Shimin, wars have never ended.
For the same reason, it was easy for strong and brave people to appear both in the Tang Dynasty's court and among the people.
I remember someone said that if that person in the temple of the Tang Dynasty had not destroyed several countries, he would not even have a chance to be praised by Li Shimin personally.
This may be considered a joke by others.
But this is indeed the case.
Take Li Chongyi as an example. Although he went to the Xi tribe under the arrangement of Li Chengqian.
But he destroyed the Xi tribe on his own.
But after returning to the court, Li Shimin only praised him a few words and gave him a fifth-rank official position.
Although this is regarded as recognition of Li Chongyi, it also shows how high the threshold for military commanders in the Tang Dynasty was.
Such a high threshold forces military commanders to evolve, and while learning the art of war and tactics, they must also study their own force.
Therefore, this dynasty of the Tang Dynasty was different from the past.
There were very few pure Confucian generals in this era, and even civil servants could ride their horses and wield their swords to fight the enemy.
Therefore, although the soldiers of the Western Turks were taller and taller than the Tang people, they were also more fierce in nature than the Tang people.
However, after losing their food and grass and demoralizing the army, they were defeated steadily by the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty led by Li Ji and Li Jing.
Especially after the five thousand cavalry led by Li Jing entered the enemy's camp, they turned the enemy's camp upside down.
Throughout the entire Turkic camp, there were flames soaring into the sky, and there were soul-shuddering explosions everywhere.
The Sky Fire Thunder invented by Li Chengqian is really easy to use.
It is especially suitable to be equipped on cavalry for fast running attacks.
I saw a Tang cavalryman holding a torch in one hand and a sky fire thunder in the other.
He ignited the sky fire thunder while riding his horse, and then threw it into the enemy's camp.
The next moment, flames shot into the sky, and the shock wave generated by the explosion overturned the entire camp. Li Ji, who was standing at the rear and watching the entire battlefield situation, couldn't help but feel emotional.
Li Chengqian said he was unwilling to go to the battlefield.
But after he went to the battlefield, he gave the world a big surprise.
Still remember, that day, when he was only ten years old and dressed in a prince's robe, he single-handedly killed three of Tuyuhun's strong generals at the source of the Tyuhun River.
I still remember that at that time he took over the command baton of the army and dispatched the three armies to attack the Northeast Third Army.
At the beginning, the Northeastern Third Division was able to fight back and forth with Datang, but after Li Chengqian took over the baton, it was obvious that the Northeastern Third Division fell directly into an irreversible defeat.
Li Chengqian said that he did not like war but liked peace.
But after he knew that the war must be ended with war, he developed large-scale weapons for the Tang Dynasty, ranging from siege and defense to small weapons such as armor and swords.
To be honest, Li Ji didn't take this Tian Huo Lei seriously at first.
But at this moment, when he saw the firelight shining everywhere in the camp, he couldn't help but sigh: "My apprentice is really worthy of the words 'if you don't make a sound, you will be a blockbuster'..." …”
Look at the battlefield again.
A confrontation between hundreds of thousands of people is completely different from a confrontation between thousands of people.
It is said that if there are more than ten thousand people, there is no limit, and if there are more than one hundred thousand people, the earth will connect to the sky, let alone the confrontation of more than two hundred thousand people?
At this moment, on the entire plain outside Hecang City, there were soldiers from the two soldiers fighting at the risk of their lives everywhere.
The roars and screams almost pierced the sky.
In such a war, even the most elite soldiers cannot guarantee that they will survive the war.
And at this moment.
The group of Tang soldiers led by Li Chongyi also came back.
They first found a relatively safe place to eat some dry food, rest for a while, and recover their physical strength.
Then, they picked up their respective weapons and followed Li Chongyi, the Western Turks agreed, and went to kill them.
It was as if they were addicted to setting fires. After they came in, they set fires in addition to killing people.
Although there were only a few dozen people, the fire burned very fiercely due to the dry weather in the northwest.
Afterwards, Li Chongyi organized a defense line to kill those Western Turk soldiers who came to put out the fire.
At this moment, Li Chongyi and the soldiers he brought back were like butchers with red eyes.
They seemed to have turned into killing machines. At this moment, they seemed to be tireless, their arms waving the weapons in their hands mechanically.
Those Western Turkic soldiers who came to seek fire were cut down piece by piece like grass.
No one put out the raging fire, so that the tents behind the Western Turk camp soon turned into a sea of flames.
Thick black smoke and raging fires have shot straight into the sky. .??.
The soldiers of the Western Turks who were still fighting with the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty were shocked when they saw that their camp was on fire again.
People didn't know whether they should continue to resist the Yan army or retreat to put out the fire.
At this moment, they were looking back and forth, left and right, not knowing what to do.
Seeing the chaos in the Western Turks' rear camp, Li Ji, who was leading the rear army in formation, couldn't help but laugh out loud.
"God helps the Tang Dynasty, brothers, let me kill these Wu dogs without leaving a single piece of armor behind!"
Following his shout, the last 20,000 main troops of the Tang Dynasty also joined the battlefield.
These soldiers were full of physical strength, and the ferocity in their bodies was aroused by the fighting in front of them.
After they entered the battlefield, they entered a fighting state instantly.
With just one charge, the Western Turks built up with their lives The second line of defense completely collapsed.
As a result, the fiercely fighting front advanced again by more than a hundred steps.
At this time, the Western Turkic general Humiluo was completely panicked.
To be honest, at the beginning this group of Western Turkic generals fought in a grab-and-run kind of war, and rarely experienced this kind of positional warfare.
With the massive rout on the front line and the fire in the rear camp, he was at a loss.
Finally, he had no choice but to issue a retreat order.
Afterwards, he abandoned the front army, led the rear army and the center army, abandoned everything he could, and fled in embarrassment.
Seeing that the rear army and the central army had withdrawn, the remaining generals of the Western Turkic front army had no intention of continuing to fight.
They abandoned their weapons and fled in all directions.
By the end of this war, it had turned into a pursuit battle.
Everywhere you can see soldiers of the Tang Dynasty chasing the deserters of the Western Turks with Bi Qingqi.
You can see the surrendered soldiers of the Western Turks kneeling down to the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty everywhere...
In this battle, the Western Turks lost, and so did Zhao Youlin.
On this day, Li Ji and Li Jingzhi led their troops to pursue the defeated Western Turks for thirty miles and regained the land previously occupied by the Western Turks in one fell swoop.
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Inside the Tai Chi Hall.
Received battle report from northwest.
Li Shimin was so excited that his whole body was shaking.
He faced the civil and military affairs of the Chaoman Dynasty directly: "Battle reports came from the front line. Our army defeated the Western Turks outside Hecang City."
"In this battle, our army captured a total of more than 8,300 Western Turkic soldiers and beheaded more than 20,000 enemies!"
He raised the corner of his mouth and looked at those who disagreed with him about starting a war on two fronts.
"Let's see how brave we men of the Tang Dynasty are without fear of death in order to defend our hometown."
"All the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty are like this, so how can we who sit in the court have reason to be afraid?"