Datang is prosperous and prosperous, and its grace and grace are still remembered by the Chinese people. The impression of later generations on Datang seems to stay only in its prosperity, openness and inclusiveness, and few people know its experience of foreign conquest. Throughout the ages, no matter which dynasty, launching a war is bound to consume most of the national strength, but Datang seems to be more and more prosperous, more and more rich, and from today's war, Datang began to gradually enter the prosperity and prosperity.
This war was a battle against the Turks. The Turks were a people living near present-day Altai Mountains, and legend has it that they were descendants of the Huns, had Hun blood, and the legends that originated from them were related to wolves, so wolves were the totem of their people, representing fierceness and bravery.
At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the Eastern Turks often invaded the Tang border from the south, and the separatist forces in the north often colluded with them to oppose the Tang. Beginning with Gao Zu, Datang actively campaigned against it. During the reign of Emperor Taizong, the Eastern Turks attacked again, and the border guards went to conquest, and he used the terrain and effective formations to drive back the Eastern Turk soldiers who had come to harass. This small-scale battle reached the ears of the current general Zhang Gongjin, who immediately played to Emperor Taizong, listing six reasons why he must attack the Turks, and Emperor Taizong felt that it was very reasonable after reading it, so he sent troops to him, ordering the famous general Li Jing to serve as the front general, and Zhang Gongjin as the deputy general to assist Li Jing in breaking the enemy.
At that time, Li Jing only took three thousand men and horses to the Turks, but the Turks did not dare to fight, they thought that a large number of men and horses must be ambushed in the rear, so they attacked with defense. The war was in a bottleneck, but at this time Li Jing came up with a way to surrender. They used counter-tactics to provoke relations between the khan and the generals, so gradually, some Turkic generals led their troops to surrender, and at this time the khan was completely confused and fled to the Yinshan region.
The Turks then gathered tens of thousands of troops and prepared to resist. But this time the Khan learned to be clever, and he first pretended to show the Tang Emperor that he was willing to surrender, but he secretly moved and continued to recruit troops. Li Jing understood his careful thinking, and the emperor also understood, so the emperor ostensibly promised him to surrender, but did not prevent Li Jing from taking military action.
The Khan thought that he had deceived the emperor and was ready to recuperate for a while and recuperate, but he did not expect to be suddenly attacked by Li Jing's troops, and finally all the living forces of the Turks were wiped out, and the Khan was also separated from his son, and finally captured by the Tang army.
Emperor Taizong did not dispose of the khan because he was nominally a Turkic king who voluntarily surrendered, and Emperor Taizong gave him a useless official position and then put him under house arrest. As a result, the Eastern Turks were wiped out.
With the destruction of the Eastern Turks, the small countries in the western region began to move, most of them said that they were willing to submit to the Tang Dynasty, and successive generations claimed to be subjects, but only the Western Turks were still stubbornly resisting. But soon, the Tang also conquered the Western Turks, and at this point, the two lines of the Turkic state were completely destroyed.