Chapter 575 It’s all the fault of the big cannibal
"Linghu gave up everything, but took these books and albums with her."
"This Linghu family is really evil and trying to rise again!"
"And they must have gone to the west to join the Western Turks."
"If we let them go, in a few years we, the Tang Dynasty, will face a very formidable enemy."
"If nothing else, have you seen the power of artillery in Liaodong?"
"If it falls into the hands of the Western Turks..."
The captain clasped his fists and said: "The general will not understand what he means, but the soldiers are really..."
"Besides, we are in Yiwu territory ahead. The Western Turkic rebels are raging there. Once we encounter them, we are in danger of being annihilated."
Cheng Yaojin said loudly: "Soldiers, I, Old Cheng, know that everyone is exhausted!"
"But if we don't annihilate the enemies in front of us, it will bring endless troubles to the Tang Dynasty in the future!"
"I, Old Cheng, don't ask much of you, as long as you follow me to the Zheluoman Pass!"
After boosting his morale, Cheng Yaojin ordered:
"One thousand people will stay, and the other two thousand will throw away their armor and bring only three days of dry food and one light weapon. Follow me to the Luoman Pass and then return!"
When Cheng Yaojin led two thousand people in pursuit to the Zheluoman Pass, they passed directly through the canyon, but found no trace of the Linghu family.
Cheng Yaojin sat down on the ground and gasped: "Nana's fault! Let these rebels run away!"
"Report! Report...general, there is a large group of people fighting!"
A soldier on perimeter alert came back panting to report.
Cheng Yaojin immediately lay down on the ground with one ear against the ground:
"Sure enough, there was the sound of gunpowder bombs exploding!"
“Go check it out!”
Cheng Yaojin quietly walked forward for a while, found a high ground, and observed with a telescope.
"They are my army from the Tang Dynasty!"
"We are fighting with the Western Turks. It seems that the Turks are about to die!"
"As expected, the Linghu clan rebels are also here!"
"Um?
Isn't that that big gangster Hou Junji?"
Cheng Yaojin was delighted: "Brothers, get ready and help the brothers in front!"
The captain was a little embarrassed: "General, in our current state, how can we help?"
Cheng Yaojin said angrily: "Idiot! Just go to the side and roar a few times!"
"We have worked so hard for so many days and our legs are almost broken. We can't let Mr. Hou gather a gangster to take all the credit!"
Everyone agreed upon hearing this, they couldn't let others take away all the credit!
Cheng Yaojin led his subordinates towards the battlefield, and when they reached the edge of a stone's throw, they shouted in unison: "We must not let a rebel escape!"
The Turks were already being suppressed and beaten by Hou Junji, but suddenly they saw a Tang army rushing out from behind. They were immediately thrown into chaos and began to flee one after another!
Cheng Yaojin snatched a war horse, rushed not far from Hou Junji, and shouted: "Hou Junji, we must not let go of a Linghu rebel!"
Hou Junji had already discovered Cheng Yaojin, but he didn't understand why he came here.
Isn't this rogue in Liangzhou?
It’s more than a thousand miles away from here!
Hou Junji came here just to intercept the Linghu family, but he didn't expect to meet the Turks who came to meet the Linghu family here!
Now Hou Junji was convinced that Linghu's rebellion was really important to the Turks and cannibals!
Of course I won’t let it go!
After a great battle, the Turks fled in all directions.
"Hou Junji, you idiot, you let the rebels escape so much!"
Cheng Yaojin pointed at Hou Junji and shouted.
"Hmph! Don't point your fingers in front of me! It's you who failed to stop the rebels in Xiakou Mountain. How dare you blame me?"
The two have already explained to each other the reasons for coming here, and now they are starting to argue.
After all, Linghu took advantage of the chaos and ran away with dozens of them just now!
Even with the horses given by the Turks and the Turks risking their lives to protect them, Hou Junji could not annihilate them all.
"Fortunately, this old guy didn't run away!"
Hou Junji had Linghuyu tied to a horse and prepared to take him back to ask for merit.
The leader of the Linghu clan was unlucky enough. When he was escaping just now, his mount was shot in the crotch by a stray gun, and he fell off the horse.
Cheng Yaojin found a printing manual from a Linghu disciple and threw it to Hou Junji:
"Catching that old man is of no use. The key is these things. What if those rebels take away so many of them?"
Hou Junji finally understood why the Linghu family was so valuable to the cannibals. It wasn't the Linghu family that was valuable, but these books!
"Old rogue! You need to report this matter to His Majesty immediately! The big cannibal has stolen a lot of technologies from our Datang this time!"
Hou Junji frowned and said.
"A giant cannibal?"
Cheng Yaojin was stunned!
"Do you think the Turks can build cannons with these things just based on their brains?"
"All this is planned behind the cannibal."
Cheng Yaojin was shocked when he heard this: "You just said that the Western Turks besieged Yiwu to support the Linghu clan's rebellion?
Is this big cannibal so capable of making Turks obedient?"
Hou Junji said: "I don't know what's going on, but I heard that the cannibal army has arrived in the river!"
"ah!"
Cheng Yaojin was shocked again!
"I originally wanted to arrest two big cannibals for interrogation, but they ran away when we saw them and couldn't catch up!"
"Have you encountered the giant cannibal?"
Cheng Yaojin was surprised a lot today.
"Well, there were about a dozen of them with the Turks just now. They probably came to pick up the Linghu family. Unfortunately, when they saw me coming, they ran away immediately!"
Cheng Yaojin knew that this time the matter was serious, and said to Hou Junji: "Then why are you lingering? Go back and report to His Majesty!"
Cheng Yaojin returned to Dunhuang with Hou Junji, and after learning some specific situations, he immediately rushed to Liangzhou.
At this time, in Liangzhou City, Du Ruhui was arranging his rituals and preparing to leave for Chang'an!
"Du Xiang, are you not going to Dunhuang?"
Li Daliang came in and asked.
"No need to go! I came to Hexi just to see what conspiracy there is here. Now that the mystery has been solved, there is no need to continue heading west."
Seeing that Du Ruhui told the truth, Li Daliang also started talking about serious matters:
"Tanma has returned. Just as Du Xiang expected, Xue Yantuo's tribe is robbing and migrating northwest along Jinshan Mountain."
"But this doesn't make sense. Our Tang Dynasty is not very harsh on the grassland tribes. Why do they take such risks and move westward?"
Du Ruhui shook his head and said: "We know too little about the Big Eaters. Who knows what promises the Big Eaters gave them to make them so desperate!"
Li Daliang sighed and said: "I only heard about this giant cannibal a little bit before. I thought it was far away. Unexpectedly, it started to look at me, the Tang Dynasty!"
Du Ruhui also had a face full of emotion and said in his heart: It's not just you, the entire Tang Dynasty is probably like this!
