Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

"The eldest son is going on a western expedition."

Li Shimin was not surprised at first.

He was very familiar with the Turks, and he also knew a lot about the various internal conflicts of the grassland tribes.

They rose and fell, surrendered and rebelled, and they relied only on weapons.

The simplest one was the Xueyantuo Kingdom.

During the Daye period, Yishibo and Qibi Gelen conspired to establish the Tiele Khanate, but they were defeated and surrendered to the Western Turks, but soon rebelled again, fled eastward after being defeated, and defected to Jie Li.

As a result, just one year later, Yishibo's son Yishi Yinan joined forces with the Uighurs and Bayegu to rebel against Jie Li again, and finally sent envoys to the Tang Dynasty to ask for the Tang Dynasty to confer him a title. In the end, Li Shimin thought about it and conferred him the title of Zhenzhu Khan and established the Xueyantuo Kingdom.

As for the Xueyantuo Kingdom...at present, we can only see a little sign of disobedience, but in the history recorded in later generations, it was eventually destroyed by the Tang Dynasty, which shows that it was mostly a relapse of the old ways.

From this point, we can see the customs of the grassland to some extent. I think Mongolia will not change much in five or six hundred years.

But... the eldest son is in charge, the eldest sons of the kings join the expedition, and the generals also send their eldest sons to lead the army to participate. Moreover, it has been pointed out before and after that that the current situation of the Slavic countries in the future is closely related to this Western Expedition. It seems...

"I am afraid that the eldest son will make a lot of achievements in the Western Expedition."

But Li Shimin's unintentional inference sounded like undisguised praise to Li Chenggan, so he also promised on the spot:

"I will lead the army in the future and will not let down my father's reputation as the general of Tiance!"

This made Li Shimin laugh, and he patted his son on the shoulder:

"Let's strengthen our body and martial arts first, and then talk about other things when we can shoot three stone bows!"

[Seriously speaking, the second Western Expedition of Mongolia was unremarkable, because almost all of them were in the strong rise of the Mongolian Empire.

The environment in which they grew up was favorable and the resources of the empire were abundant, which was reflected in the fact that almost every leader of their army had a veteran general who had fought hundreds of battles beside him to guide and assist him, and the first generation of elite cavalry of Mongolia had not yet aged.

Especially Batu's deputy commander Subutai, was a famous Mongolian general who had truly fought side by side with Temujin.

And what enemies did they face?

At that time, the Eastern European region was in the post-Kievan Rus period, and the divided Russian countries had their own ulterior motives and fought each other endlessly.

Facing the coalition of the four princes of Mongolia, the Russian countries symbolically resisted for three years and then became obedient subjects under the rule of Mongolia.

As for Poland, Hungary and other countries in the Danube River Basin in the west, they shouted loudly, but in fact, they basically competed to see who could escape faster.

The famous scholar Dosan criticized it bluntly, saying that the European army was "a small number of knights with heavy armor and countless half-naked villagers, who did not know tactics, did not know how to obey, and had different commanders."

Facing the fortresses in Europe at that time, the Mongolian expeditionary army carried early artillery and various trebuchets, which could basically be regarded as the right medicine for the disease.

Therefore, the eldest son's westward expedition can essentially be regarded as the digestion and plunder of the results of Temujin's first westward expedition.

However, at the critical moment when the Mongolian princes began to plan for Western Europe, the news of the death of the Great Khan of the Mongolian Empire, Ogedei, came from the distant east.

So the Mongolian princes had to put down all the wars at hand and return to the east collectively, some to mourn, some to ascend the throne, and this collective trip of the younger generation also came to an end.

And the cause of Ogedei's death was also very simple, that is, he died of drinking, and it was almost impossible that there was a conspiracy.

Due to the limitation of brewing technology that could not produce high-alcohol liquor, few nobles and kings in the feudal era could realize that alcoholism was a bad habit, but almost a virtue.

The most typical example is that Cao Cao had the habit of drinking and writing poems, and he also wrote them into his prose.

However, although Lao Cao had high blood pressure and drank alcohol, he lived to the age of 66 because he controlled his diet very well.

But Cao Pi, who was brought up with bad habits by his father and inherited the disease, did not have this kind of self-control. He was addicted to sugar, alcohol and fat, and died at the age of 40. 】

It turned out that the unusual thing that defeated him was a cannon!

It turned out that the iron-clad soldier had such inspiration!

Liu Xuande even disdained to use the powerful catapult!

Cao Cao roared silently in his heart, and he saw the scene of the battle between the Mongolian elite cavalry and the European armored knights on the light screen.

The most conspicuous ones were naturally the heavy armored knights, but as the light screen said, there were very few such knights, and the poor people under their command who had nothing were extremely incompatible with this armor.

In contrast, the Mongolian elite cavalry holding small square shields and wearing leather armor had far less defensive power, but they rode horses and ran freely, and each of them carried bows, knives, hand axes, spears, and rope buckles, easily defeating those poor people, and then using the number of people to kill those heavy armored people alive.

In Cao Cao's eyes, these Mongolian elite cavalry even have a different kind of beauty, which truly interprets what war is.

And think about the news sent back from the front, saying that the city defended by Xu Huang was broken, and then he was defeated by the armored soldiers in the fierce battle. I'm afraid that he was bombarded first, and then surrounded by Liu Xuande's heavy armored infantry, and finally lost helplessly.

Such a battle situation is almost equivalent to combining the advantages of both sides on this light curtain into one, no wonder...

Before Cao Cao finished sighing, he suddenly heard his name.

He looked at Liu Bei, and the handsome counselor drew the set of iron armor in a moment and was talking to Xuande.

Then...Cao Cao looked at Zhang Fei beside him, and didn't want to ask, but Zhang Fei seemed to understand what he meant, and couldn't wait to speak:

"If you get it, you're dead."

Dead? Cao Cao repeated it in his mind, and then he was extremely puzzled, muttering:

"My son died suddenly at the age of forty?"

"My disease could be passed on to..."

Zhang Fei nodded, thought for a while and tried to comfort him:

"Cao Pi died early because he couldn't control his mouth, but I remember that Cao Zhi lived for a long time, but he was almost killed by Cao Pi."

"Brothers fighting..."

Cao Cao shook his head again and again, but he couldn't accept it, but soon he remembered:

"So, what you said just now about my grandson dying early, great-grandson..."

"It's all true." Zhang Fei nodded and blinked his eyes very sincerely:

"Why would I lie to you about this?"

Cao Cao felt that his eyes were almost black in front of him.

[Later, it was no secret that the Tang Dynasty loved wine. After all, Li Bai, the benchmark of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, was known as "a hundred poems after drinking wine", and it was also during this period that wine began to enter the Central Plains and became the favorite of the dignitaries. Erfeng, a patient with hypertension, only lived to his fifties, which might have something to do with the introduction of wine.

Similarly, Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi, who loved to enjoy life, left many records of drinking. Alcohol must have aggravated his illness. 】

"Dad!"

Li Chenggan looked at his father immediately.

To him, his invincible father was like a high wall, but this high wall didn't even live to be sixty?

But before he could finish feeling sad, he heard Li Zhi's name and the prefix of Emperor Gaozong, so...

"Dad?"

The same title twice, but the emotions contained were completely different.

Li Shimin was calm:

"Chenggan, I can explain."