Qin Qiong glanced at the person behind Li Ke, and Li Ke smiled and said, "But it doesn't matter."
"Yes, Your Highness." Qin Qiong became serious at this moment.
"When General Mo and three other people were ordered to arrive here, the Gaochang Kingdom united the countries and tribes in the Western Regions, gathered 100,000 troops, and destroyed Yiwu. King Yiwu refused to surrender, and all 3,000 troops died in the battle..."
Li Ke's expression changed drastically and he said angrily: "Qu Wentai is seeking death!"
Yiwu was a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty, but it was actually surrounded by Xue Yantuo and Gaochang, and only part of its territory bordered the Tang Dynasty.
Years ago, King Yiwu sent people to the Tang Dynasty to complain, saying that Xue Yantuo and Gaochang bullied their tribe and took away their cattle, sheep and women.
For this reason, Li Shimin also wrote a special letter of credence, scolding Xue Yantuo and Gao Chang, not to bully others too much, otherwise the Tang Dynasty would take action for Yiwu.
Li Shimin also gave King Yiwu a lot of gold, silver and food.
At Li Ke's wedding, King Yiwu personally came to Chang'an to attend and presented a pair of jade Buddhas, two boxes of gold and silver, and a horse.
At that time, Li Ke personally met King Yiwu and told him not to be afraid. In a few months, he would come to deal with Gao Chang, the traitor.
Just when he arrived in Liangzhou, King Yiwu sent someone to ask for help, saying that Gaochang State had sent countless spies in Yiwu territory, assassinating many of their tribesmen's leaders, and forcing him to defect to Gaochang.
At that time, Li Ke focused all his attention on the heads of many families in Hexi. He just told King Yiwu that if Gaochang dared to attack Yiwu, he would surrender and wait until he took care of Tuyuhun before he came to take care of Gaochang.
Unexpectedly, King Yiwu did not do what he said, and all three thousand people died in Yiwu City.
Perhaps King Yiwu misunderstood his meaning, so he would rather die than obey.
"Go on..."
Qin Qiong was very angry when he saw Li Ke. He had never seen Li Ke so serious before, and continued: "After Qu Wentai, the leader of Gaochang, captured Yiwu, he immediately attacked Yumen Pass. After the soldiers of Yumen Pass defended for a day, all 1,500 people fought. die……"
"They hung the head of King Yiwu on the tower of Yumen Pass and threw the corpses of the soldiers guarding Yumen Pass into the desert to feed the wolves."
Li Ke's hand trembled slightly, which he didn't expect, and said coldly: "Go on!"
Qin Qiong was startled, gulped, and said: "After they broke through Yumen Pass, they stopped taking a step forward and began to defend Yumen Pass."
"On the contrary, Tuyuhun's son Dayanmangjiebo claimed himself to be the new Khan of Tuyuhun half a month ago and ascended the throne in Shanshan City. He then summoned Qiemo, Shanshan and other tribes to form an army of 80,000, and marched north along the Qiemo River to attack My Yangguan of the Tang Dynasty."
"Yangguan is the only place to pass when leaving the Western Regions in the west. It has just been repaired a few years ago. The pass is strong. After two thousand soldiers of our army defended it for two days, they were cut off from water and all died in the battle."
"After Dayan Mangjiebo occupied Yangguan, he went all the way north to attack Shazhou. Upon hearing this, the Shazhou governor immediately sent soldiers to Suzhou and Ganzhou for help, and met us on the way."
"After the three of us gathered together, we divided our troops into three groups and attacked Dayanmang's 80,000-strong army."
"Under the strong attack of our army, more than 40,000 people of Tuyuhun Dayanmangjiebo were killed and 3,000 were captured. The remaining troops were led by Dayanmangjiebo to Yangguan and refused to defend."
"The three of us didn't have time to inform His Highness, so we led the army to attack Yangguan, but we were still a step late. Dayan Mangjiebo only left five thousand slave troops in Yangguan, and ran away with his people."
"Subsequently, we occupied Yangguan, and then launched an attack on Yumen Pass occupied by Gaochang Kingdom. However, when Qu Wentai, the leader of Gaochang Kingdom, saw that our army had defeated the Tuyuhun army, he immediately retreated to the west of the Qiemo River outside Yumen Pass."
Li Ke was very puzzled by the actions of Qu Wentai, the leader of the Gaochang Kingdom. According to Qin Qiong, after Tuyuhun reached Yanmangjiebo and opened Yangguan, they should unite their forces and jointly capture the sandbank, and then attack Suzhou, Ganzhou...
But Qu Wentai, the leader of the Gaochang Kingdom, did not do this. Instead, after encountering reinforcements from the Tang Dynasty at Dayan Mangjiebo, he took the initiative to retreat. Qu Wentai had 100,000 cavalry!
Why did he watch Dayan Mangjiebo suffer heavy casualties?
Li Ke frowned, and then asked someone to take out the map, and he looked at it carefully.
After a long time, he finally understood what Qu Wentai, the leader of Gaochang Kingdom, was thinking.
This is to let the Tang Dynasty kill Dayan Mangjiebo and completely occupy Shanshan. At the end of the day, in this way, the Tang Dynasty will be encircling Tibet. BIquGe.biz
In this case, Songtsen Gampo of Tubo would definitely not do it!
Tubo will definitely cause trouble, so Gao Changguo can breathe a sigh of relief.
Coupled with Xue Yantuo in the north and the Western Turks in the west of the Western Regions, even if the Tang Dynasty wanted to capture Gaochang, it would have to make careful decisions.
"This Qu Wentai is quite interesting...but I'm not afraid of you joining forces."
Li Ke understood what Qu Wentai wanted to do and stood up immediately.
"Declare war. All countries participating in this attack on Datang's territory will declare war."
"I want them to pay the price. As a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty, it is enough for brothers to kill each other, but they actually bullied me."
"I feel sorry for the thousands of Turkic brothers who guard Yumen Pass and Yang Pass!"
"They died so unjustly."
Qin Qiong: "..."
Qin Qiong's eyes narrowed slightly, and suddenly, she seemed to understand something!
By the way, the soldiers guarding Yumen Pass and Yang Pass are Turks.
Use the lives of the Turks in exchange for the reputation of declaring war, so that the Tang Dynasty can become famous!
No wonder the King of Shu had repeatedly ordered the generals guarding Yumen Pass and Yang Pass to be replaced by Turks, and the Han men followed him to attack Tuyuhun.
It is said that it is too dangerous to fight Tuyuhun. If the son of the Han family dies, he will die, but he cannot let the Turkic brothers die on the battlefield, otherwise he will not be able to explain to the Turkic Khan when he goes back.
It turns out that His Highness had known for a long time that Gaochang and Shanshan King Dayan Mangjiebo would attack here, and deliberately left a few people behind. This was specifically to trap the Turks to death!
Later, they received the military order from His Highness and rushed to Yumen Pass and Yang Pass at all costs.
Your Highness, you are too insidious. Our Turkic brothers are sincerely helping us in Datang's war. They all died in the battle because they refused to surrender.
"Uncle Qin, I am very angry now. Don't think about useless things. Quickly tell General Li Daliang and Prince Consort Chai Shao to declare war, declare war..."
"I want them to pay the price."
"Yes, I will send someone to inform the Prince Consort and General Li Daliang to declare war on Dayan Mangjiebo and Qu Wentai."
Li Ke emphasized: "We are declaring war on all the vassal states of the Tang Dynasty that participated in the rebellion!"
Qin Qiong is confused. There are more than a dozen countries participating this time. You really want to make a hole in the sky. Can't we do it one by one?
But His Highness had already issued an order, and he had no choice but to execute it.
"Go to Yangguan..."
Qin Qiong sent someone to inform Chai Shao and Li Daliang that he would accompany the King of Shu to Yangguan.
"Uncle Qin, how about the food and grass?"
Qin Qiong breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Li Ke with strange eyes. Was His Highness sometimes afraid?
"Don't worry, Your Highness, our army defeated Dayan Mangjiebo and robbed their food and grass. It is enough for an army of 80,000 people to eat for ten days. In ten days, the food and grass from Suzhou, Ganzhou and Liangzhou will be shipped." This way."
Li Ke nodded, turned around and said to Ma Qiu: "Tell those aristocratic families and wealthy businessmen that if you want to make money, come to Sunshine Yumen Pass immediately, and let them remember to bring as much food as they bring when they come, and how much they bring when they go back. Commodities from the Western Region.”
"The king will exchange the money for food and grass for them and give them 80% profit."
Everyone: "..."
Your Highness’s move is really great!
There is no need for a special army to transport food at all!
How much money will this save?
When the businessmen heard the news, they went crazy.
Goods from the Western Regions are very popular in the Central Plains, especially leather, spices, jewelry, various types of dried fruits, gold and silver products, exotic flowers and exotic herbs...
Especially the beauties from the Western Regions were so popular in the Tang Dynasty. A Western Regions concubine could be sold for a thousand guan, while in the Western Regions, three sheep could be exchanged for it.
And that Kunlun slave, how many nobles in Chang'an City want to keep him in captivity and use him as a thug!
With this trick, the army's food and grass don't need to worry at all. Wherever the army attacks, those merchants can transport the food and grass to wherever it goes!
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