Having had enough fun, Li Mu's smile faded, and the generals immediately became serious and looked at Tong'e coldly. Tong'e was suddenly covered in cold sweat and groaned, not daring to speak any more.
"Tong'e, when you are in Kucha City, have you thought about sparing the lives of the people in the city?" Li Mu asked coldly.
"I..." Just as Tong'e was about to quibble, Li Mu interrupted him and said, "I heard that you once ordered that after Qiuci is captured, the city will be massacred for three days!"
"What else do you have to say?!" Li Mu looked at Tong'e coldly, as if he was about to be pushed out and chopped down in the next moment.
Tong'e suddenly raised his hand and slapped his own ears open, hitting him left and right, very hard, as if the face was not his own. As he slapped him, he said with tears streaming down his face: "It's all the little old man who ate the pig."
I am so blinded that I dare to overestimate my own abilities. Even if the Marquis chops me into pieces and feeds me to the dogs, I will still deserve my punishment."
"Oh, I've never heard of anyone making such a request. So good, I'll grant your wish, chop it into pieces and feed it to the dog." Li Mu said lightly.
"No!" Tong'e screamed immediately and wanted to go forward and hug Li Mu's legs, but was held down by the soldiers. Tong'e could only be heard howling silently: "Little old man, this time
I am completely convinced and willing to be the slave of the Marquis! Please spare my life for the sake of my usefulness, Lord Marquis!"
Although he begged, Li Mu kept shaking his head slightly. Tong'e thought that Li Mu was determined to kill her, so she collapsed on the ground like mud in fear.
Just when Tong'e felt that the sky was falling, the earth was sinking, and the newborn lamb was without its mother, she heard Li Mu faintly say: "What do I want you to do as a slave? All you have to do is follow my instructions and do one thing."
If you do, I will spare your life."
When Tong'e heard that there was still a way to survive, no matter what the request was, she shouted: "As long as Lord Marquis spares my life, I can do anything you want!"
Tong'e looked at Li Mu with excitement on her face, and said respectfully and obediently: "Just tell me, little old man, I will go up to the mountain of swords and down to the sea of fire. I will definitely do it."
"I want you to continue fighting with me..." Li Mu said softly.
"Ah?!" Tong'e was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly waved her hands and said, "I don't dare! You won't do it even if you kill me!"
"If you don't fight me, you will die." Li Mu said calmly: "Someone, let the dogs out."
"No!" Tong'e cried: "I can't even fight...if I fight, I'll fight as you say..."
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Outside Qiuci City, 50,000 cavalry rolled forward, stretching for several miles. The cavalry on horseback carried scimitars on their waists and bows on their backs. They all looked fierce and looked like they were not kind. These were Xue Yantuo's cavalry.
, the main force of Xue Yantuo's southward march. Although they are called 150,000 people, one hundred thousand of them are the remnants of the Turks who have gathered in recent years. These people can do it by waving flags and shouting, but they cannot fight a tough battle. Yi Nan, the leader of Xue Yantuo, will not
Let the fat meat be eaten by foreigners.
The 50,000 troops were divided into three groups: the middle army led by Yi Nan himself, the left guard led by his eldest son Bazhuo, and the right guard led by his second son Yemang.
At this moment, the three tribes gathered in the center of the army. Yi Nan was a majestic man with a beard, with a pair of tiger eyes looking at Zixiong.
His eldest son Bazhuo, with a lean figure and half-closed eyes, looked inconspicuous, but was very cunning.
Ye Mang is young, but his martial arts is the best among all tribes, and he is known as Xue Yantuo's best warrior.
Xue Yantuo mobilized all his troops and wiped out the Tang army's grain transport team without any effort. However, it took some effort, but faced Dingxiang City and fell into a hard battle. The reason was that Li Xiaogong adopted turtle shell tactics. No matter how you scolded him,
I just didn't leave the city. Xue Yantuo had no siege equipment and had never attacked the city. There was nothing they could do for a while. They had no choice but to turn around and attack Gaochang. As a result, Gaochang also copied Dingxiang's tactics and fought for several days in vain.
We managed to defeat Kucha, but we were tricked and managed to break into the city. They were bombed to pieces and killed thousands of people. However, the people and supplies in the city had long since disappeared.
The secret tunnel was transported away, and the Xueyantuo people chased it for a while. A sandstorm came, erasing all traces, and nothing could be seen.
We had escaped from the sandstorm in Qiuci and had almost eaten the food we had robbed. When we were hesitating whether to bypass Dingxiang and head south directly, a scout came to report that more than 10,000 troops had left the desert and were heading this way.
Approach slowly!
"Damn it, you dare to ambush me!" Yemang thought it was the evacuees from Kucha who came out. Hearing this, he jumped up and shouted: "Bring my horse over quickly! I will kill them all!"
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"Can you be more careful?" Bazhuo always looked down upon his younger brother, so he rolled his eyes at him and said, "That's more than 10,000 people?" He paused and said, "We have to find out the situation."
"Well, your brother is right. Stay calm and see what skills they have." Yi Nan made up his mind.
That being said, the Xue Yantuo people were still waiting in full formation, and the three Yi men were looking ahead closely, waiting for the scout's return...
After dinner, the scout reported back again: "The people who came are not Tang troops, but Turks..."
"Let me talk again." Ba Zhuo stroked his beard and said triumphantly: "Don't be anxious, why are you anxious? Are they stupid, hiding in the desert? It should be that old guy Tong'e, they should be the only ones left.
It seems that more than 10,000 people are here."
"What does this old guy want to do?" Yi Nan frowned, confused.
"Whatever he is doing, why don't you just call him over and ask?" He was both reckless and anxious.
"Well, that's the truth." Yi Nan nodded and ordered the scout: "Go and tell Tong'e to station the army ten miles away, and then invite him to come over for a drink."
Although Tujue and Xue Yantuo are said to be still in an alliance, they still have old grudges between them, and they cannot eliminate their wariness and hostility. Therefore, before the situation is understood, Xue Yantuo will not relax his guard at all.
Faintly strengthened.
After a while, the scout came back again and said that Tong'e did not agree to meet in the army and invited the three Yi men to drink with the Turkic army.
"This old boy is still so cowardly." Yi Nan cursed, and naturally refused to agree to meet with the Turkic army.
The two sides refused to give in to each other and sent messages through the air, only to suffer from the scouts who sent messages back and forth. Finally, they reached a compromise. They did not go to the other party's camp, but met at the midpoint in front of the two armies. Each could only bring ten soldiers.
Guard Ye Mang is a warrior as strong as ten, so naturally he is not afraid, so he just made up his mind.
Under the sunset, under the protection of ten warriors on each side, both sides arrived in the middle of the two armies. Everyone looked very nervous and looked around with wide eyes, fearing that the other side had set up an ambush...
"Here we come!" I heard someone shout, and then I saw a gray-faced guy, surrounded by about ten people, speeding from the opposite side.
"It's the old fox!" Ba Zhuo recognized Tong'e at a glance, and then he breathed a sigh of relief, "This old fox is most afraid of death and will never take the risk of using himself as bait."
Knowing that the person who came was indeed the rightful owner, Yi Nan felt relieved, reined in the horse, stopped in place and waited for Tong'e to come forward. In this way, he would have the feeling that his status was higher than that of Tong'e. Xue Yantuo had been enslaved by the Turks
, very concerned about such details..
Tong'e saw through their little thoughts at a glance.
But even though he suffered a series of misfortunes, his situation was still much bigger than that of Xue Yantuo. He had no intention of competing with Yi Nan and ran in front of them. Then he stopped, clasped his fists on the horse and laughed and said: "Thank you a lot.
The Turks are very grateful for coming to help us out of righteousness!"
"Easy to say, easy to say..." Seeing Tong'e's magnanimity, Yi Nan felt a little embarrassed. After all, when he should have been righteous, he didn't. He watched the Turks being beaten like dogs in water and didn't care until they all entered.
Da Mo, I just went out to pick peaches. I felt guilty and my attitude was a little better. "We were relieved to see that the Khan still looked like the same." He paused and said, "I just don't know where the Khan is going?"
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"I came out of the desert and was about to rush to Dingxiang to avenge my grievances. Unfortunately, I was hit repeatedly and my troops were stretched thin. I didn't dare to attack rashly!" Tong'e said with a sad look on her face.
"Oh?" Yi Nan and Bazhuo looked at each other, and the latter asked: "So, Li Mu was taken care of by the Khan?"
"That's natural!" Tong'e said, "This grassland desert is the territory of our Turks. Li Mu overestimated his capabilities and dared to chase into the desert. When the sandstorm came, most of them were buried in the sea of sand! Only the remaining
There are two or three thousand people, and Li Mu is among them. I am chasing him!" After saying that, Tong'e asked again: "Why are you here? After conquering Dingxiang, why don't you go south?"
"Hey, it's a long story." Yemang ignored his father and brother's obstruction and said angrily: "The Tang army can't leave the city, and we can't fight in either. We just keep going like this. We have no choice but to turn around and attack Kucha. Who knows?
The people got the news and ran away early, and also set traps that killed thousands of our troops. Then a sandstorm came, and we had to hide for a while."
"Hey, I thought you had captured Dingxiang..." Tong'e couldn't hide her frustration and couldn't help but sigh: "This expedition was too embarrassing. More than half of the clan members were lost, and there was nothing left.
Take it." As he spoke, he gritted his teeth and said: "No, we must take down Dingxiang and make up for the losses! Why don't we work together? You can't attack the city, but we can! Let's kill Li Mu first, and then we can attack together.
The city, the city is broken and divided together!"
"What a great idea!" Yi Nan and the other three were naturally unwilling to return without success. They suddenly rolled their eyes and said, "But after the city is defeated, we have to share our efforts according to our efforts!"
"Okay!" The situation was stronger than the others, so Tong'e had to agree even though her body hurt. After a pause, Tong'e said: "Then it shouldn't be delayed, let's leave now?"
Just when Yi Nan was about to agree, Ba Zhuo shook his head: "Don't worry, let's work it out and leave tomorrow morning."
"Then... okay..." Now that Tong'e was begging, she naturally couldn't show off her old arrogance, so she could only say in a low voice: "But you have to hurry up, otherwise Li Mu will run away..."
"As soon as possible, as soon as possible."
After bidding farewell to Tong'e, the three Yi men returned to the army and started discussing.
"Why don't you just leave? What do you think?" Yi Nan looked at Ba Zhuo and asked.
"There's no rush to start, but we have to think about it first." Ba Zhuo twirled his beard, shook his head and said: "Don't you see, there are no people in the Turks anymore? There are only more than ten thousand people, and that old guy Tong'e
, do you want to use our hands to help him get revenge? We can’t be used by him!"
"Yes, yes!" Yi Nan, who trusted his eldest son the most in planning, said, "Then what do you think we should do?"
"Let Tong'e take the lead, and when he is almost exhausted, we can go out to fight again!"
"That's so boring..." Ye Mang suddenly wilted.
The angry Yi Nan slapped her and said, "Why am I angry with you? Listen to your brother!"
Yemang had no choice but to keep his head down and take the beating. When Bazhuo finished his lesson, Yemang continued: "Let Tong'e fight with Li Mu's remnants. That's almost it. Let's eat the Turks and capture Li Mu alive. In terms of siege, Tong'e can't compare.
Li Mu? What's more, he can also make gunpowder. If we had gunpowder, we would have blown up Dingxiang City long ago!"
Yi Nan was a little unsure and said: "What, if we do this, can Tong'e agree?"
"He is begging us now, and we have to agree even if we don't agree!" Ba Zhuo said very firmly.
Sure enough, as Ba Zhuo expected, although Tong'e was very dissatisfied with being asked to fight in the front line, there was nothing he could do about it. The two sides argued all night, and at dawn, Tong'e still had to lead his 10,000 troops out.
Seeing the 10,000 Turks heading east, Yi Nan smiled at Bazhuo, who went to the Turk camp to negotiate in person: "It's really yours. That old fox really agreed."
"What can we do if he doesn't agree? Besides, I saved him face." Bazhuo said proudly: "I told him that we can join forces, but we are helping them, they have to take the lead, and we follow behind.
If he doesn't agree, we will go home and stop talking to him."
"Oh, haha!" Yi Nan laughed with satisfaction and said, "That's good, he has to agree even if he doesn't agree." After that, he asked again: "Do you see clearly? What is the situation of the Turks now?"
"It was quite miserable. They were all in rags, but they were still energetic. I talked with them, and they all held their breath and wanted revenge." Bazhuo recalled what he saw in the Turkic military camp.
The situation and the situation of the Turkic soldiers were exactly as expected. "Tong'e only has these few troops right now, so she shouldn't have any backup plans."
"That's good!" Yi Nan was completely reassured and said with a smile, "Let them fight first, and we can just follow behind and watch the show!"
After the Turks left for an hour, Yi Nan ordered the army to break out of camp and slowly followed them.
In the next few days, the Turks were in front and the Xueyantuo people were behind, and they walked eastward slowly. Tong'e was not a fool. Although he shouted in a hurry, his soldiers were exhausted and had no fighting ability. They had to take their time.
Come and have a rest. Tong'e is not in a hurry, and Xue Yantuo is even less in a hurry. Anyway, we have plenty of time, so just use it up slowly.
On this day, Tong'e's scouts came to report that they had found the place where the Tang army camped the previous day. The three Yi men arrived and saw horse bones everywhere, at least several hundred.
Ba Zhuo was overjoyed when he saw this, picked up a long rib, laughed at Yi Nan and said: "The Tang army has gone crazy with no food and started killing horses to satisfy their hunger!"
"Haha!" Yi Nan was also overjoyed and said: "This is really the way to die!"