Chapter 717: Three Missions (6)
After all, he was a popular man in front of Li Longji, and if something happened to him, Li Longji's dissatisfaction with the three tribes under his command would very likely use this as an excuse to launch an expedition against the Later Turkic Khanate, so as to completely wipe the Turks off the map. Although it sounds incredible, Wang Zhongsi knows very well that even if the world wants peace, and Li Longji looks like he is sending three envoys to seek peace, but in his heart he is still trying to sweep away the Turks, not for anything else, just to complete the cause that his ancestors failed to complete, which is enough to make him famous in the history of the Tang Dynasty.
If he, Li Longji, can eradicate the Turks, doesn't that mean that he has done something that even Taizong has not been able to do? Not to mention that now Li Longji is in his twilight, and he is anxious to do something that can go down in history, and this is also the reason why he changed his year to Tianbao and set off another wave of expansion of the Tang Dynasty. Even when he was young, if he had the opportunity to annihilate the Turks, he would spare no effort to do it, but the people would not support it, and even the Tang Army probably didn't want to launch the next big battle so soon, after all, because he was reusing talents according to his ability, there were a lot of Hu generals and Hu soldiers in the Tang Army, and if they used troops against the Later Turks, they would also be a hidden danger that should not be underestimated.
So he needed an excuse, although this was Wang Zhonghe's guess, but he thought that he should guess eight or nine. He was raised by Li Longji, and he has mastered the psychology of this old ghost to a certain extent, so he doesn't dare to say anything else, as far as Li Longji wants to destroy the post-Turkic Khanate, it should be right.
That's why he sent such an embarrassing person as Ni Fuguo to represent him to envoy the three Turkic tribes to find out their intentions, but he couldn't make the Later Turks the main master, which made people unclear. The reason why it is Ni Fuguo is because he is enough to represent himself and let people know that this is his own meaning, but at the same time, Ni Fuguo is just a eunuch who is more trusted by himself, and he is not a real power figure.
Since he Li Longji did not blatantly say that he wanted to fight the Turks, if he had brought about peace, he would not have found an excuse to rectify himself, and he would not have to reward himself if he did not turn around.
Guli Feiluo is right, even if he really sent a thousand people to guard Ni Fuguo, not only is it very eye-catching, but if Li Longji really has some tricks in this, these people who are mixed with him among the 1,000 people will kill Ni Fuguo by the chaotic army, threatening to be killed by the Turks, wouldn't it really create an excuse to attack the Turks. On the contrary, if there are only a few of them protected by Ye Tingcheng, not only is the target small and not easy to be discovered, but there will definitely be no problem, Ni Fuguo, who is protected by Ye Tingcheng, is afraid that he can be kept safe and sound among the ten thousand armies, and he still trusts Ye Tingcheng very much.
After that, he was handed over to Hui Hui to be responsible for the safety of the envoy team, and he also thought that there should be no problem, after all, the strength of Hui Hui was there, and they were Beiyi, so there should not be such estrangement and hostility between Tang and Hu and other tribes, and besides, even if Li Longji could arrange for people to lurk in the Tang army and wait for an opportunity to kill Ni Fuguo, but what about the Hui army? It is impossible for him to arrange for spies among the Hui people, and before this, Hui Hui basically did not interact with the Tang Dynasty, so he can rule out this kind of worry.
So, under the arrangement of many parties, on the afternoon of the day when Ye Chengcheng and the three of them returned, a group of more than 20 people left the Tang army camp through a secret passage that Ye Chengcheng had already ordered Wang Zhongsi to dig without anyone except some high-ranking officials knowing that they were leaving, and went all the way to the north.
The tooth tent of the Hui people is located next to the Kusubo where the tributary of the Suolingshui River flows, and from the geographical point of view, it is located in the northwest direction of the Turkic Ya Tent Han Erbali, and it is hundreds of miles away from the location of the Tang army's camp. But now they are not going to war or hurrying, there is a eunuch and some of his retinue in the team, so the journey is not much faster, and they did not use the carriage when they set off in order not to attract attention, so the experience of riding horses along the way made Ni Fuguo, who had always enjoyed it in Chang'an, feel miserable. But he just complained, which made Ye Tingcheng's impression of him change, after all, Ni Fuguo had also lurked in the logistics force of the United Tang Army for a while, which showed that he still had some gap with those really incompetent eunuchs, and he could endure some hardships, but after all, he was only a city man with fine skin and tender meat, and he couldn't stand the toss. Helplessly, they slowed down the speed of their journey, the reason was that they didn't encounter any danger along the way, just encountered the attack of the wolves in the middle of the night, Ye Chengcheng They haven't made a move, the hunting experience Guli Feiluo and his guards drove these wolves away, so that they opened their eyes, if it were them, I don't know the habits of the wolves, I'm afraid that the wolves will have to be annihilated, in that case, I don't know how much more effort will be done, and it may also cause someone to be injured.
The most surprising thing for Guli Feiluo was that when they first set off, they encountered a cavalry patrol of the Turks on the road, so they were quite careful along the way back, but they did not encounter a single figure, which surprised them. In this regard, Huan Chenyu's personal opinion is that the current strength of the post-Turks is not much, and most of them should be deployed to the south of Han'er Bali to deal with the current Tang army, and the rest should also be deployed to a slightly westerly place, after all, Ba Ximi has already established himself as a khan, and in the case of not knowing their movements, Usumish Khan must be wary of them. As for their return to Hui, because they have always been low-key, people have not taken much precautions against them, so since then, the focus of the Turkic defense has never considered their return.