Li Ye took out another stack of documents and put them on the table, "This is the previous declaration of invalidity of the abolition of slavery. There are nineteen copies in total from nineteen states. There are ninety-eight officials who signed it, from the governor of one state to the next.
I have signed all the books to the first county clerk. This is to stand in line. I have no intention of exaggerating, but I also don’t want to settle the matter. Therefore, the liquidation of Bashu officialdom will be based on this declaration. All signatures on it shall prevail.
All officials will be investigated and punished for participating in rebellion!"
Wei Jiansu took the declaration and nodded, "I will obey your Majesty's decree!"
Bai Xiaode said from the side: "Your Majesty, there are nearly 100,000 rebels, and we have to be careful of sneak attacks by the Zhiren. The Jiannan Army only has 50,000 troops. Isn't it a little less? Wei Chen suggests adding another 30,000 troops to Jiannan!"
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Li Ye smiled slightly and said: "Actually, there are still 20,000 troops stationed in Yunnan. I have ordered 20,000 troops to go north. 70,000 troops are enough!"
Bai Xiaode suddenly understood and laughed quickly: "Weichen ignored the 20,000 garrison troops in Yunnan, now Weichen is relieved!"
Wang Jin, the Minister of Rites, said: "Your Majesty, is there any news about the Hu people?"
Li Ye said slowly: "Wang Wei, the observation envoy of Jiannan Road, has sent a special envoy to negotiate with the Huren tribe, asking them to understand the current situation and hand over Jia Xiu's uncle and nephew. If they don't hand over Jia Xiu's uncle and nephew, then the friendship of more than a hundred years will be gone.
What awaits them will be war, and I hope that King Xi can understand the current situation and not fight against the Tang Dynasty."
Wang Jin added: "Actually, I am worried that if the Tibetans defect to Tubo at this time, there will be trouble."
Wang Jin spoke very implicitly, just to remind the emperor that the Tibetan people would defect to Tibet, so they could not use force but could only negotiate.
Li Ye smiled faintly, "Wang Shangshu doesn't have to worry about the Yi people surrendering to Tubo. I can guarantee that once the Yi people refuse to hand over Jia's uncle and nephew, they will be completely finished before they even have time to consider whether to surrender to Tibet."
The Xue people are an ethnic minority in the western part of Bashu. They are actually the Qiang people, but there are many branches of the Qiang people. The Xue people are one of them, and they live in the Maozhou and Yazhou areas.
Like the Tang Dynasty, they were wary and on guard against Tibet, and they had been working with the Tang Dynasty to resist the eastward expansion of the Tibetan army.
The Yi people have been allies of the Tang Dynasty for many years, but the strength of the Tibetan army has declined over the years. They have also changed their tough tactics and begun to implement a differentiation strategy. On the one hand, they are hostile to the Tang Dynasty, and on the other hand, they win over the Yi people and give them many promises.
Some of the promises were fulfilled. For example, when the Tubo invaded Bashu, they did not harm the Qi tribe.
It is precisely because of the Tubo people's win over that the Qiang people have not worked as hard as before in recent years, and the number of Qiang horses supplied to the Tang army has also been greatly reduced. However, in order to appease them, the Tang Dynasty still provided them with various welfare subsidies. This is
The King of Pigs began to feel arrogant.
The envoy sent by Wang Wei of Jiannan Dao to negotiate with King Liu returned missing. King Liu not only rejected the Tang Dynasty's request to hand over Jia's uncle and nephew, but also accused the Tang Dynasty of killing Jia's family and threatened the Tang Dynasty not to confiscate it.
The Jia family's salt well, otherwise they will send troops to protect the salt well.
Li Sheng was furious and personally led 20,000 cavalry to attack Maozhou.
At this time, the new soldiers recruited by the Guo family in the south were still training. Li Sheng took this opportunity to send troops to Maozhou to solve the problems left by the Jia family.
Emperor Li Ye had told him before that once the Xue people refused to hand over Jia's uncle and nephew, there would be no need to persuade him, and he would directly use force to punish the Xu people and teach him a lesson for his arrogance in recent years.
The Yi people are more than one tribe. They are composed of many tribes, such as Penglu, Jiang, Shu, Ge, Ta, Wu, Zhan, Da, Lang, Pi and so on. The largest tribe is the Penglu tribe, and their leader is King of the wolf.
Of course, "King of the Pig" is just a title, and it does not mean that he can control the entire pig people.
In fact, when I heard that King Ru wanted to fight against the Tang Dynasty for the Jia family, other tribes did not want to wade into this muddy water. The reason was very simple. The Penglu tribe could obtain a large amount of salt profits from the Jia family every year, and other tribes not only had no benefits. , and have to bear the high price of salt sold to them by the Penglu Department.
Peng Lu has taken all the benefits, but now he wants everyone to bear the risks with him. How is this possible?
King Yi was called Penglu Anji, and he was the chief of the Penglu tribe. He did not hesitate to confront the Tang Dynasty for the Jia family. It was not without reason. First, Jia Yuan was Penglu Anji's cousin, his in-laws, and his son-in-law. Jia Wen and his daughter have been living in Maozhou, and they have a deep relationship with Peng Lu Anji. When he heard that the Jia family was exterminated by the Tang army, Peng Lu Anji had the idea of revenge for the Jia family.
The second is profit. The profit from the Jia family salt well must be divided into 20% to the Penglu tribe every year. At the same time, a batch of salt is sold to the Penglu tribe at a price of ten cents per bucket, and then the Penglu tribe increases the price by fifty times and sells it to other oxen. tribe of people.
Once the Jia family is completely ruined and their annual profit of at least 200,000 yuan is gone, Penglu Anji will certainly try his best to save the Jia family, hoping that the Tang Dynasty will give them face and let the Jia family go.
Another more hidden reason is the Tang Army's discrimination against the Xun soldiers. The discrimination is reflected in two aspects. One is equipment. The Tang Army has always given the worst equipment to the Xun soldiers. For example, the Tang army's advanced firearms have been used by the Xun soldiers. Less than.
Another example is military rations. The supplies for Tang army soldiers were provided by the court, including rice, meat, vegetables, oil, etc., as well as military salary.
However, the Xue soldiers did not have food and military salary provided by the imperial court. Everything was borne by their own tribes. However, it was not that the imperial court did not provide them with food and military salary. It was because the imperial court gave it to the tribes in the form of subsidies. Naturally, it did not care about the Xun soldiers' food and military salary.
But the annual court subsidies are divided up by the nobles and are never given to the Xun soldiers. Therefore, the Xun soldiers have nothing and they will definitely feel it is very unfair. They will not think it is the fault of their own tribe, but will blame the contradictions of dissatisfaction. Point to the court.
Penglu Anji heard that Li Sheng had sent 20,000 troops to kill him. On the one hand, he sent his eldest son Penglu Anbo and Jia Xiu to lead 20,000 Xue soldiers to fight. On the other hand, he sent people to various tribes to ask them to send troops to support him.
As soon as 20,000 cavalry entered Maozhou, Li Sheng received news from the scouts that about 20,000 horsemen were spotted thirty miles ahead.
At this time, the Tang army was marching in a long valley, which was at least twenty miles long. If the Tang army rushed directly, they would probably be blocked in the valley by the hornets.
Li Sheng pondered for a moment and said to General Yu Jianliang: "You lead a thousand cavalrymen holding heavy crossbows to the entrance of the valley. If the hornets block the entrance of the valley, you can use arrows and thunder to shoot them from a distance!"
"Follow the order!"
Yu Jianliang immediately led a thousand soldiers and rushed towards the mouth of the valley carrying a thousand heavy crossbows.
The reason why a thousand men were sent was mainly because they were small and flexible, so even if they encountered an ambush, the losses would not be large, and the lethality of a thousand arrows and thunder was not trivial.
Li Sheng immediately led the army to follow from a distance.
In less than an hour, a thousand cavalrymen of the Tang Army gradually arrived at the mouth of the valley. The mouth of the valley was about five or six miles wide and relatively open. However, 20,000 horseback soldiers had already placed obstacles such as large rocks and trees to block the entrance of the valley. The 20,000 horseback soldiers held
Bow and arrow standing behind obstacles.
This is of course Jia Xiu's suggestion. He has been a military envoy of Yazhou for more than ten years and has rich experience.
But he didn't know about the firearms of the Tang Army. After the Yongwang Army was destroyed, Jia Xiu was liquidated, and the firearms of the Tang Army had not yet come out at that time.
When Yu Jianliang saw the concentration of soldiers at the entrance of the valley, he immediately said to a thousand soldiers: "Launch from about 250 steps away!"
Thousands of Tang troops marched forward slowly, about 250 steps apart, and Yu Jianliang shouted, "Shoot an arrow!"
A thousand Tang Army cavalry raised their crossbows at the same time, lit the match ropes, and a thousand arrows and thunderbolts rose into the sky and shot at the mouth of the valley intensively.
The soldiers at Taniguchi yelled to dodge. You must know that this is an arrow thunder. Its lethality has nothing to do with whether it is hit or not. A thousand arrow thunders exploded in a series, and dense quenched iron particles flew in all directions, and there was a sudden sound.
There was a sound of wailing and crying.
The heavy crossbow of the Thousand Tang Army was not the ten-stone big yellow crossbow, but only the three-stone heavy crossbow. It could be loaded with stirrups while riding on a horse. It was also called a hard horse crossbow.
Soon, the Tang army fired a second round of arrows, which continued to fall into the group of Xun soldiers who had not yet reacted, severely damaging the Xun soldiers again.
At this moment, the wolf soldiers finally reacted. Without waiting for the general's order, the terrified wolf soldiers turned around and ran wildly, leaving behind countless soldiers and injured soldiers.
Li Sheng, who was watching the battle two miles behind, waved his sword and said, "Charge out!"
Twenty thousand cavalry were launched, rushing out of the valley like a flash flood.
