"Jieli should send someone to transfer Sunisu and Tuli back to Huai'an..."
After Li Yuanji finished explaining Yu Wenbao and just returned to the Chinese army's tent, Li Shimin greeted him with a deep look on his face.
Li Yuanji also had the same guess, but he was not in a hurry to tell the truth. Instead, he asked: "Why does the second brother think so?"
Li Shimin sneered and said: "With Jieli's temperament, after learning that the royal court was attacked and millions of cattle, sheep, horses, and countless gold, silver and jewels were robbed, he would definitely send someone to Li Jing's house."
They were chased and intercepted on the road.
Although the remaining troops and horses in his hands can fight us, they are far from enough.
So he will definitely ask Sunisu and Tuli to give up their attack on Suizhou, lead their troops back to Huai'an, then clench their fists and give us a hard blow."
Li Yuanji chuckled and said, "Then he is destined to be disappointed..."
The soldiers and horses of the Twelve Guards have arrived in Yanzhou, and in cooperation with the soldiers and horses in Suizhou, they have launched an encirclement against Sunishi and Tuli. With luck, they can keep Sunishi and Tuli in Yanzhou.
If you are unlucky, you can still keep most of Sunishu and Tuli's troops.
So Jieli's hope that Sunishi and Tuli would come back and help him launch a decisive battle in Huai'an City might be in vain.
Li Shimin nodded and said confidently: "He will definitely be disappointed. If the troops of the Twelve Guards, Li Shenfu, Yin Kaishan, Su Dingfang, Luo Shixin, Li Daozong and others lose even Suni and Tuli's men,
If half of the troops and horses cannot be left, then their lives will be in vain."
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Li Yuanji smiled and said: "You might as well say that you have made so many arrangements. If you can't even keep half of Sunisu and Tuli's troops, your life will be in vain."
Li Shimin snorted and said, "That's what I mean."
Li Yuanji nodded and smiled: "Then we will wait and see?"
Li Shimin nodded in agreement and reminded: "You have to send someone to give Li Jing a warning, lest Li Jing fall into an ambush."
Li Yuanji nodded slowly and said: "I have sent people to Xiaoguan, and asked Liu Hongji to send a team of elite cavalry to meet Li Jing and his party outside the pass. At the same time, he brought a message to Li Jing, asking Li Jing to protect himself and the two thousand Xuanmen under his command.
A is the main one.
Once you encounter an ambush by the Turks, kill them all and burn everything they looted from the Turkic royal court. You must not lose your life because of some cattle, sheep, gold, silver and jewelry."
Compared with cattle, sheep, gold, silver and jewelry, people are obviously more valuable.
Many times many people choose to put the cart before the horse.
But for people who do big things, they can easily decide which one to choose when in danger.
Li Jing, An Xinggui, and Ma Sanbao have either done big things or are about to do big things, so they know how to choose.
Li Shimin said: "That's good..."
Just when Li Yuanji and Li Shimin were thinking about Li Jing, Li Jing was leading people on the grassland with difficulty.
Jieli, the heavy snow that Yugu was worried about has begun to fall, and for three days and three nights, the snow accumulated two and a half feet thick.
Li Jing and his party had to clear the snow and rush on their way.
But this is nothing to Li Jing and his party. The real threat to Li Jing and his party is the direction.
Driving on a grassland covered with dozens of quilts is no different from driving in a desert.
The terrain on the front, back, left, and right is basically the same, and there is a vast expanse of white on the front, back, left, and right.
Li Jing and his party got lost when the snow accumulated one and a half feet, but no one dared to say anything for fear of shaking the morale of the army, so only Li Jing, An Xinggui, and Ma Sanbao knew that they had lost their way.
They are now relying on intuition to determine the direction and are on their way.
"Plop..."
After a Xuanjia Army officer fell off his horse due to exhaustion, Li Jing wiped a handful of the snow that had fallen on his eyebrows and beard, and said to Ma Sanbao beside him: "Send the order and rest where you are."
Ma Sanbao nodded and went down to deliver the order.
An Xinggui approached Li Jing at this time and asked in a low voice: "Have you found the direction?"
Li Jing's face darkened slightly and he shook his head slowly.
The excitement that just appeared on An Xinggui's face disappeared in an instant.
"Then you let everyone rest where they are?"
Li Jing glanced at An Xinggui and said, "We have traveled a full fifty miles and it's time to rest."
An Xinggui lowered his face and said: "We can't find the direction, we can't find the way back, and rushing fifty miles is no different from not rushing at all."
Li Jing jumped off the horse, took the water bag handed over by Bu Qu, and after taking a sip of the frozen water, he said in a deep voice: "Although I don't know the specific direction of going back, I know that as long as
If we walk facing the sun every morning and walk with the sun behind our back after noon, we will definitely reach Daizhou.
When we get to Daizhou, we will go back."
An Xinggui opened his mouth, but didn't speak any more. He returned to talk about life and cooking.
Li Jing had already judged Jie after he raided the Turkic royal court, plundered a large number of high-quality horses, some cattle and sheep, and a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry, and set fire to the remaining cattle, sheep and horses.
Li most likely sent people to rob and kill them on their way back to Lingzhou and Liangzhou.
So he decisively chose to cross the Turks and go straight to Daizhou to meet Li Xiaogong.
Anyway, their mission this time is to raid the Turkic Royal Court. Now that the mission has been completed, they can do it easily without having to return the same way.
It is obviously safer to go to Daizhou to meet Li Xiaogong, so I must choose to go to Daizhou.
"Where are Guiren Xiao and Guiren Yang?"
Li Jing habitually looked at the distant terrain and then asked the people around him.
Buqu quickly pointed in some direction. In that direction, there were seven or eight women wrapped in thick furs, surrounded by a group of soldiers selected from the personal guards of Prince Qi's palace.
The women huddled together, tightly protecting the two elderly women between them. One of the women, with a pale face, was holding a box only as big as a fist, and was staring at all the soldiers around her vigilantly.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Li Jing whispered, "You must let His Highness King Qi's people take a good look at Yang Guiren, especially the things in Yang Guiren's arms, whether it is day or night,
Keep it out of their sight."
Bu Qu hesitated for a moment and said with some confusion: "Since that thing is so important, why not just grab it? Anyway, they have already fallen into our hands. Even if we grab things from their hands, they will only
You can obey me obediently."
Li Jing glared at Buqu and said, "What do you know? Although Xiao Yang and Xiao Yang are in trouble, they are still noble people. We can take them back to the Tang Dynasty, but we cannot use violence against them.
Otherwise, if the sage and the King of Qi start to argue, we will not get any good results."
Bu Qu was even more confused and said: "How can the Saint and His Highness the King of Qi make things difficult for us because of two outsiders?"
Li Jing laughed and said: "An outsider? Who is an outsider? In terms of relationships and in-laws, one is the saint's cousin-in-law, and the other is the saint's cousin. His Highness the King of Qi calls them cousin-in-law and cousin-in-law when they meet. Do you think they are
outsider?
Compared with others, we are outsiders."
Bu Qu turned back and glanced at the two surrounded women, not knowing what to say.
Li Jing continued: "In short, we have to take him back respectfully, and we have to take back everything in Yang Guiren's arms intact."
Bu Qu couldn't help but said: "What is that thing in Yang Guiren's arms? I remember when the brothers rushed into her tent and grabbed those priceless treasures, you didn't say anything, but she was holding that thing
Only when we were threatened with death did you stop us.
Is that thing more valuable than a priceless rare treasure?"
Li Jing glanced at Bu Qu and said calmly: "For some people, it is more precious than all the treasures in the world. For some people, it is a life-threatening talisman."
Buqu looked at Li Jing with a puzzled look.
So what exactly is that thing?
At this time, Ma Sanbao had already conveyed the order to rest where he was, and returned to Li Jing, panting and saying: "Manager, brothers have been traveling for days and are almost exhausted.
We must give up some more cattle, sheep, and horses."
At the end of the sentence, Ma Sanbao had a look of pain on his face.
From the time they raided the Turkic royal court to now, the number of cattle, sheep and horses they have given up has exceeded 80,000, which makes me feel sad just thinking about it.
If these more than 80,000 cattle, sheep and horses are transported back to the Tang Dynasty, they will immediately help this group of people get rid of poverty and become rich, and it will also increase the assets of a small group of them by 10%.
even more.
So giving up cattle, sheep and horses is equivalent to giving up money.
The more you give up, the more money you lose.
How could Ma Sanbao not feel pain?
However, even though it was painful, Ma Sanbao would not hesitate when it was time to give up, and would even take the initiative to do so.
Because their first priority now is to save their lives, and saving their lives is more important than anything else.
Li Jing thought deeply for a while and then said: "Abandon all the injured horses. We cannot abandon the cattle and sheep. If we abandon them, we will have nothing to eat on the road."
Ma Sanbao frowned and said, "I agree with abandoning the injured horses, but if we don't abandon some of the cattle and sheep, it will slow down our journey.
Although we seemed to be in an uninhabited country when we raided the Turkic royal court, there were no large numbers of soldiers chasing after us afterwards.
But no one can guarantee that the tribes that are not attached to the royal court will not focus on us and will not gather together to pursue us.
So we have to hurry up and get out of danger when we reach Daizhou."
Li Jing glanced at Ma Sanbao, sighed and said, "Let's wait a little longer. When we come across a place where we can clearly identify the location, we will bury all the valuables we grabbed there.
That way, we can reduce some of the load."
Ma Sanbao pondered for a moment and said decisively: "How about giving up some of your belongings now?"
Li Jing's eyes fell on the soldiers who were drinking An Xinggui and starting to light the fire. He said helplessly: "They are not exhausted yet and can't move. You ask them to give up the gold and silver jewelry they got, and they are still priceless."
Do you think they would be willing to buy gold, silver and jewelry?”
