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Chapter 1207 Development of the Situation (Part )
Just when the King of Qi gathered 200,000 troops to launch a final attack on the Turks, the Turks suddenly shed their shells and used 10,000 to 20,000 cavalry to pretend to be the main force, holding on to the Fanyang area to contain the Tang army. Among them, 70,000 to 80,000 main forces broke through at night and quickly moved south.

This sudden counterattack was too unexpected, and the cities in the rear were careless.

Caught off guard, the Turks captured the two states of Dingheng, which were originally occupied by the Cui family of Boling and had not been conquered.

This great victory greatly excited the Turks.

Afterwards, carrying with him the momentum of a great victory, he marched southwards through secret paths, successively captured Zhaozhou, Xingzhou, and Mingzhou, and entered Xiangwei two states.

This is the ancestral home of the Zhaojun Li family, one of the Five Surnames and Seven Aristocrats.

The Zhaojun Li family is a large family that has been passed down from the Han Dynasty to the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Its most famous ancestor is Li Mu, a famous general of the State of Zhao during the Warring States Period.

Li Mu was one of the "Four Famous Generals of the Warring States Period". He served as Prime Minister of the State of Zhao and was granted the title of Marquis Wu'an.

The Zhaojun Li family has many historical figures, each of whom has a great family tradition and is known as a noble family. Since the beginning of historical records, this family has produced at least 43 prime ministers, two generations of queens, 11 princesses, more than 200 Jinshi, and more than 800 idioms and allusions related to it.

As their descendants multiplied, the Zhaojun Li family established six major branches by the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, namely: Dongzu Branch, Xizu Branch, Nanzu Branch, Hanzhong Branch, Jiangxia Branch, and Liaodong Branch. Its influence spread all over the country and was extremely prosperous.

It is said that you cannot write two Li characters with one stroke. It is said that the Zhaojun Li family and the Longxi Li family had the same ancestor and the same origin in an earlier time. The fall of the Zhaojun Li family shocked the world again, and the court was also in an uproar.

The court was horrified and quickly mobilized troops from all sides to fill Luoyang, and ordered Li You's army to march south to wipe out the Turks.

After all, Xiangzhou and Weizhou were only 300 miles away from Luoyang, separated only by the Yellow River. Once the Turks crossed the Yellow River, with the speed of the Turkic cavalry, they could reach Luoyang in less than a day and lay siege to the city of Dongdu.

After receiving the order, Li You did not hesitate and immediately abandoned the Turkic troops that were besieging Fanyang County and headed south.

However, at this time, the Turkic soldiers abandoned the city and rushed out, not engaging in a field battle with the Tang army, but constantly harassing and hindering Li You's march. As a last resort, Li You had to fight and retreat, engaging in guerrilla warfare with 10,000 to 20,000 Turkic cavalry all the way.

Due to this delay, a journey that was supposed to take only three to five days was stretched to one or two months.

No matter the nobles or the court officials, they all had information channels in the Tang army and knew that the Turks were indeed entangled with the army like a dog-skin plaster. Once Li You ordered his generals to counterattack, the Turks rode away.

When the Tang army gave up the pursuit and was about to march, the Turks began to harass them again.

They would either suddenly charge the Tang army when it was marching normally, or beat drums and gongs outside the camp at night when the army was resting, or they would raid the food supplies from time to time, making the army extremely annoyed but helpless.

But Li You did not dare to divide his troops for fear of being defeated one by one by the Turks.

After all, although the Tang army has a large number of people, they are infantry; although the Turks are small, they are cavalry as fast as the wind. If they suffer another defeat, the situation will become even more serious.

The court had no choice but to order the armies in Hebei and Henan to defend the area tightly and wait for Li You's army to arrive and break the deadlock.

By the time Li You's 200,000 infantrymen slowly arrived at Xiang and Wei in March of the following year, the Turks had already distributed the land in southwestern Hebei during this period, tortured Cui and Li, extorted a huge amount of property, and drove them out of Hebei in disgrace.

By the time the Tang army heading south had set up an encirclement and was ready to fight a desperate battle with the Turks.

The Turks, however, did not have the courage of the two great battles between Gong Gao and Ande. They avoided fighting and found a weak point to break through the siege. Then they went north along the Yellow River, crossed the Yellow River at the Jeju Ferry, and entered Qizhou at lightning speed.

At this point, the Turks escaped the pursuit of Li You's army and entered Qizhou, which was short of troops.

But Li You stopped at this point, because the specific position he was appointed by the court to be the general of the Hebei Road was the general commander of the Hebei Road. His duties were limited to Hebei. Crossing the border to pursue the enemy required re-authorization from the court, otherwise he would be suspected of treason.

Li Yan had no choice but to call together the important officials in the court. After discussion, they felt that Li You still had a way to deal with the Turks. At least since he took over the army, the Turks have been hiding. The Tang army did not suffer any major losses, so it would be better to let him continue to lead the army for the time being.

As a result, the court abolished the post of the commander-in-chief of the Hebei Province and reassigned Li You as the general of the expedition to the east, allowing him to lead troops to pursue and suppress the enemy in the prefectures and counties east of Tongguan until all the Turks were wiped out.

Everything went as planned. The last tight curse was lifted. Li You was greatly encouraged. He mobilized his troops without stopping, crossed the Yellow River and chased into Qi.

Just with all this going on, the court discussing it, and the various parties struggling, another month or two passed.

After such a long time, the Turks had already completed all the work in Qi.

The noble families and local tycoons in Qi were swept away, and all the land was redistributed and given to ordinary people. When Li You led his army to chase them, the Turks went south again and entered the Jianghuai area. It was still the same old routine, under the pretext of dividing the land, they attacked the city and plundered the noble families, and then used a small number of cavalry to contain Li You's pursuit army.

The remaining main force was divided into several small teams, which went deep into the towns and villages and distributed the land to each household.

Of course, relying solely on the Turks was not enough during this period, so Shi Luodie gathered the 15,000 captives he had captured under the city of Ande, as well as some soldiers from poor families who he had recruited along the way south, and gathered a total of 50,000 people and handed them over to Cheng Yaojin to command.

Later, the main force for distributing the land had become the Tang army led by Cheng Yaojin.

These people were the beneficiaries of the land distribution by the Turks. They were also afraid that one day the Turks would be defeated and the court would overturn the Turks' policies and take back the land and hand it over to the nobles. They thought that the law should not punish the masses, so they tried to let as many people as possible enjoy the benefits of the land distribution.

After observing Shi Luodie for several months, Cheng Yaojin decided to use it boldly.

The Turks had only two tasks when they went south. Between leading the troops to attack the city and leading the troops to divide the land, Cheng Yaojin thought again and again and decided to choose the one that was less confrontational, which was to divide the land.

During the process of dividing the land, the Turks, due to language barriers and violent temperaments, often killed innocent people and mistreat women. Cheng Yaojin could not bear to see ordinary people suffer.

Since it is impossible to stop the Turks from dividing the land, it is better to take over this task. On the one hand, it can allow the Turks to concentrate on dealing with Li You's army. On the other hand, it can also minimize the harm to the people of the Tang Dynasty in the process of dividing the land.

All this was exactly as Shi Luodie had expected. After offending the Guanlong nobles, Cheng Yaojin set out to offend nobles all over the world. His implementation of the Turkic people's land distribution policy had already made him hated by nobles all over the world.

At this point, Cheng Yaojin can only follow the Turks to the end.

However, all the way south, although the people of the Tang Dynasty were still very wary of the Turks, they had great trust in Cheng Yaojin, the Duke of Lu. He was thanked profusely by the people from all over the country, and Cheng Yaojin also received a lot of comfort.

At the same time, after personally going deep into the people, he had a deeper understanding of the exploitation of local tyrants and the hardships of the lives of the lower-class people. Although he still had hostility towards the Turks, he no longer resisted their policies.

Even actively cooperate.

In this way, by July of the first year of Kaiyuan, the Turks had wiped out all the noble families in the entire Hebei Province, the eastern part of Henan Province, Huainan Province north of the Yangtze River, and Jingxiang area in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and drove them to Chang'an.

The redistribution of land has been completed in the small half of the Tang Dynasty's territory east of Tongguan.

At this time, in the Chengqing Hall of Taiji Palace, a discussion among the important officials of the central government was slowly unfolding.
"Your Majesty, now all the wealthy families in Shandong's prefectures, counties and districts have gathered in Chang'an, which has brought great pressure to the capital."

Cen Wenben reported: "These people were not noticeable when they were scattered everywhere, but now they are all gathered in Chang'an. According to the data reported by the Jingzhao prefect, the number of these local wealthy families, plus their servants and guards, has reached 100,000 or 200,000 people."

"Chang'an's grain prices have been rising recently, and housing prices have also been rising, causing the people to complain and be very dissatisfied."

"And the number is still increasing. Can the court not deal with it?"

Xiao Yu shook his head and asked, "How should we deal with them? They are all civilians of our Tang Dynasty. The Turks are plundering everywhere, and they cannot survive in the local area. The Turkic bandits have completely different attitudes towards ordinary people and aristocratic families."

"If they don't leave, they will be exterminated by the Turks. They have no choice but to come to the capital. Now that they are here, we can't just ignore them."

When mentioning the Turks, the seven important officials of the central government all rubbed their foreheads with a headache.

Since the two world wars, these Turks have basically avoided fighting the Tang army and adopted the behavior of bandits, roaming around in Tang territory.

If the cities in various places are easy to attack, they will take the cities and rest for a while.

If they could not conquer the enemy, they would ignore them and go directly to the countryside to distribute the land. The Turks' move won the enthusiastic support of the grassroots people. In addition, their numbers were not large, and not only did they accumulate a lot of wealth, but they also had no shortage of food and grass.

What was even more difficult was that the people were very happy about this, and they had the intention of misleading the Tang army and informing the Turks, so that Li You's 200,000-man army could only follow the Turks and eat dust. The Turks relied on their cavalry to fight weak enemies and flee when they encountered strong enemies.

He treated the Central Plains as Princess Iron Fan's belly and traveled back and forth freely.

The ministers were speechless about Li You, who had never been defeated and was constantly maneuvering. The Turks never stationed in one place. They would withdraw after fighting and dividing the land. Li You, who came later, would "recover the lost territory."

(End of this chapter)