The word "side by side" king of the Tang Dynasty

After the Persian Empire and Goguryeo were captured, Li Changqing divided these two places into two domains and seven states. He appointed two state governors and seven governors to manage them, and each had an army of 100,000 troops.

As for other matters such as implementing the laws of the Tang Dynasty and unifying writing and language, which could not be accomplished overnight, Li Changqing left it to Fang Xuanling to arrange.

The army was divided into 200,000 troops to guard the two places, and the number of available troops was suddenly reduced by one-third. After discussing with Li Xiuning, Li Changqing finally decided to recruit troops from the civilian population.

As soon as the recruitment notice was issued, countless young men and women across the country rushed to sign up, fearing that they would fall behind.

Conscription was not compulsory but voluntary, but the number of people who responded greatly exceeded the number of troops needed.

In the Tang Dynasty, where martial arts and literary styles flourished, it was the dream of all men to join the army and become a member of the Tang Dynasty's cavalry. Even scholars were willing to join the army and become Confucian generals.

In just about half a month, the quota of 400,000 troops recruited by the Ministry of War was full, but there were still many young men willing to join the army.

However, there were only so many places. Although those who were not selected were unwilling to give in, they could only sigh and blame themselves for being slow.

On the other hand, after a month's rest, Su Dingcong led an army of 200,000 to the expedition to the Great Food Country to start the third battle.

The real name of the Big Food Country is the Arab Empire. At its peak in history, it was a huge country spanning Asia, Africa and Europe, but today it is naturally not as powerful as it was at its peak.

During the Five Kingdoms' campaign against the Tang Dynasty, the Shi Kingdom lost 200,000 elite troops and suffered heavy losses. Then, when Su Dingfang conquered Goguryeo, he sent 300,000 troops, hoping to keep the Tang army out of the country and shrink the battlefield to Goguryeo. within the territory.

The Great Food Country had a good plan, but they seriously underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Tang army.

The 300,000-strong army was directly destroyed in Gaoguli and never came back.

Today's Dashi Country has almost no domestic troops. It only took advantage of the one month period when the Tang army was resting to hurriedly recruit 100,000 young and strong people as an army.

They say they are an army, but they are actually just a group of ordinary people wearing armor and holding weapons. They have not received any training, let alone cooperation.

The war in the Great Food Country was even much smoother than the wars in the previous two countries. In just half a month, Su Dingfang led the army to easily break through the border of the Great Food Country and penetrate deep into the territory. Those so-called armies were no match at all. He was killed terribly.

However, what is different from the previous two countries is that the resistance of the citizens of the Great Shi Country is extremely strong and they are very hostile to invaders like them. The

Great Shi Country highly advocates religious beliefs, so the rulers of the Great Shi Country exaggerate the image of the Tang army. He became the enemy of the true God and a terrible demon, thus stimulating the people's revolt.

I have to say that religious belief is indeed a terrible thing. Countless fanatical believers are willing to sacrifice their lives to fight against the Tang army.

The Tang army, on the other hand, strictly observed military discipline and did not take action against ordinary people. As a result, many soldiers were attacked by fanatical believers pretending to be civilians, causing considerable losses.

Tang Jun, commander in chief.

After listening to the casualties reported by his generals, Su Dingfang's face suddenly darkened.

The number of soldiers injured by those believers in Dashi Kingdom was actually several times more than those injured in the battle with the army of Dashi Kingdom!

Su Dingfang simply cannot accept this kind of damage.

"General, the soldiers can no longer suffer such meaningless casualties, and must find a countermeasure."

Yuan Gaisuwen stood out from among the many generals and said to Su Dingfang.

He is now a member of Su Dingfang's command. He took the initiative to participate in the war in Dashi Country this time because he must show his ability in order to be more capable. Well integrated into the Tang army.

After hearing Yuan Gaisuwen's words, Su Dingfang also began to think carefully. When he thought of the number of casualties among his soldiers, the last trace of womanly kindness in his heart was completely abandoned.

"Following the order, all civilians in the Dashi Kingdom who dare to approach the military camp or within ten feet of the army will be regarded as enemies and will be killed without mercy!"

"After capturing the city, if more than half of the rebels resist, massacre the city!"

The general order full of murderous intent came from Su Dingfang's mouth. These two orders were unprecedentedly harsh. The

Tang army will not kill innocent people indiscriminately, but this must not be a reason for the army to lose soldiers!

For those unrepentant citizens of the Food Kingdom , he can only use the most brutal killing to make them feel fearful to the core!

For this reason, he, Su Dingfang, does not mind carrying the reputation of brutality and indiscriminate killing.

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With these two orders from Su Dingfang, Tang Jun was like a wild beast that had been freed from its confinement, truly showing its fangs to the Food Kingdom!

They are no longer merciful to the citizens of the Big Food Country. Anyone who approaches on their own initiative will be killed mercilessly. Moreover, every time they capture a city, they will kill all those who dare to resist.

If more than half of the people in the entire city choose to resist, the army will withdraw and then directly drop gunpowder barrels to blow up the entire city.

Under such bloody and brutal methods, the resistance met by the Tang Army was greatly reduced wherever they went. Part of the reason was that the Shadow Guards spread the news in Dashi that the Tang Army was actually a messenger of divine punishment on behalf of the true God, coming to punish the country. Such remarks by rulers.

Many people believed this statement because they couldn't understand how Tang Jun caused those explosions. It was like a miracle, an ability that could only be possessed by gods!

All in all, the Tang army's progress in conquering the Kingdom of Dashi more than doubled after that, and finally the army came to the capital of the Kingdom of Dashi.

The rulers of the Dashi Country were forced into a desperate situation, and they originally wanted to fight to the death, but what was ridiculous was that the only remaining army under their command rebelled, and they rioted directly at night, killing them all, and then He left the city and surrendered to the Tang army, praying for his life.

In the face of life and death, human nature is the thing that cannot stand the test most.

At this point, the entire Dashi Kingdom was declared to have fallen, and it took the Tang army less than three months to capture the entire country.