Li Shimin could even tolerate Yang Guang's son, so naturally he would not care about having another Queen Xiao or Yang Zhengdao, which made Queen Xiao completely relieved. Li Xiu finally told the marriage of Princess Guanghua and Ma Master. As a result, Queen Xiao was silent for a moment after hearing this, and finally expressed her blessing. After all, Princess Guanghua is different from her. With Princess Guanghua's age, she should not live so lonely for the rest of her life.

In addition, Empress Xiao also inquired about the situation of Hener and his brother. When she learned that Princess Guanghua's son was adopted by someone else in Luoyang and Princess Guanghua had never dared to recognize each other, she couldn't help but sigh, but she could understand it. Moreover, when the Tang Dynasty eliminated the powerful enemy of the Turks this time, Li Shimin's reputation would reach one, and no one could shake his throne at that time, and Princess Guanghua and his son could be reunited, and she could also take a good look at the child.

A few days later, Li Xiu arranged the manpower and sent Empress Xiao, Yang Zhengdao and his party back to Chang'an, but Zhao Deyan stayed. First, he was most familiar with the matter on the grassland, and second, there were tens of thousands of former Sui remnants in Dingxiang City. Li Xiu could not find a suitable candidate for the time being, so he asked him to continue to manage the affairs of Dingxiang City.

As Li Xiu arrived in Dingxiang, the materials from the rear were also transported here continuously. In fact, after the three armies entered the grassland, it was already a bit inconvenient in Shuozhou, so Li Xiu simply transferred the materials to Dingxiang, and there were heavy troops around him. Every once in a while, the army on the front line would send escort teams to receive various materials.

At the same time, Jie Li, who had experienced the defeat of Hunhe, was like a stray dog, fleeing north in a hurry. However, Qin Qiong's army kept biting it tightly, and attacked from time to time when Jie Li was relaxing, which made Jie Li both angry and hated.

Just as Jie Li's army had just fled to Baidao, it was about to reach the Yinshan Mountains, but at this moment, it suddenly encountered Li Ji's army who was out of the clouds. Compared with Qin Qiong's elite cavalry, Li Ji led the army mainly in infantry and carried more firearms. He set up a formation on Baidao and directly faced Jie Li's army head-on.

Jie Li's army was originally above Li Ji, but it had been killed by Qin Qiong before. In addition, the materials were burned down, which greatly reduced the combat effectiveness of the Turkic army. Therefore, when fighting with Li Ji's army, the Turks did not gain any advantage. At the beginning, the two armies were in a stalemate.

However, at this critical moment, Qin Qiong's cavalry finally arrived from behind Jie Li. As a result, under the attack of the two armies, the Turkic army was defeated. Tens of thousands of people were killed by the Tang army and fled in scattered ways. Jie Li could not control the situation at that time. In the end, he had no choice but to lead the personal guards around him to escape.

The battle of Baidao marked the official defeat of the core forces of the Turks. Jie Li finally fled to the near the Yinshan Mountains, a place called Tieshan, and then began to collect the fleeing Turks. In the end, there were only more than 50,000 people left, most of them were old and young women, and there were less than 20,000 people who could fight, and there were extremely scarce supplies.

Faced with this situation, Li Ji and Qin Qiong were going to pursue the victory, but suddenly received a military order from Li Jing, ordering them to stand on the spot and never send troops without authorization. As a result, this caused a lot of curses among Li Ji and Qin Qiong's army. Many people said that Li Jing was afraid that Li Ji and Qin Qiong would eliminate Jie Lizhen, so Li Jing's middle army would not be able to seize any credit, so he stopped their pursuit.

The battle reports on the front line are continuously sent to Chang'an, but they need to pass through Li Xiu's transit on the road. Some urgent information needs to be transmitted by Feinusi. However, no matter which channel is used, Li Xiu can understand the trends on the front line as soon as possible.

Others scolded Li Jing for being greedy for merit, so he did not let Qin Qiong and Li Ji pursue him. However, Li Xiu knew that Li Jing might have some selfish intentions when doing this, but what he was more afraid of was to scare Jie Li, and then really cross the Yinshan Mountain to Mobei. At that time, they probably wouldn't want to catch Jie Li again. Therefore, he ordered Li Ji and Qin Qiong not to pursue him. In fact, he wanted to give Jie Li a breath, so as not to scare Jie Li to the north of Mobei. Even if the environment in Mobei was harsh, Jie Li might not die in Mobei. As long as he did not die, it would be a huge threat to the Tang Dynasty.

Of course, Li Xiu could think of the above, and I'm afraid Li Ji and Qin Qiong could think of it, but they both knew very well and did not help Li Jing defend themselves. First, they might be afraid of leaving and revealing the news, and second, they might have some resentment towards Li Jing. After all, they could catch Jie Li, but they were suppressed. Even if they knew the reason, they would definitely feel uncomfortable, so they were happy to see Li Jing being criticized by the soldiers in the army.

However, although he was criticized by many people, Li Jing's plan still worked. After Jie Li temporarily stationed in Tieshan, the Tang army did not chase him, which made him finally relieved. Moreover, he knew that the troops in his hands were definitely not a match for the Tang army, so he immediately sent Zhishisili to Li Jing's camp to beg for peace from the Tang Dynasty, and even willing to surrender to the Tang Dynasty, just to let him go.

Of course, Jie Li would not really surrender to the Tang Dynasty. He just hoped to temporarily withdraw the Tang Dynasty and then seize the time to restore its strength. After all, a real man can bend and stretch. When he recovers his strength in the future, he will find another opportunity to save his shame today!

Faced with Jie Li's request for peace, Li Jing showed great enthusiasm on the surface, so he used this to paralyze Jie Li. He also temporarily delayed Jie Li's request for peace on the grounds that he had no right to negotiate and needed to ask Li Shimin in Chang'an, and secretly looked for a fighter opportunity to annihilate Jie Li in one fell swoop.

However, Jie Li was already a frightened bird at this time and was always ready to flee north, which made Li Jing not dare to attack for a while because he was not sure that he could catch Jie Li in one fell swoop. In this way, the battle situation was temporarily stalemate.

Li Xiu from Dingxiang City also quickly received news of a stalemate on the front line, which made him look a little worried. Compared with the war on the front line, he was actually more worried about another thing, that is, as time goes by, the weather is getting colder and colder. The winter on the grassland came earlier than Chang'an. Therefore, if Li Xiu was worried about snow during this period, it would probably cause great difficulties in the transportation of materials. If there was a heavy snow disaster like last year, Li Jing and others on the front line would be even more dangerous.

At this critical moment, a person who can solve the overall situation in front of him suddenly came from Chang'an and first came to Dingxiang to meet Li Xiu! 8
Chapter completed!