Chapter 265: Turkic Disintegration!
60,000 young people, even if the current Turks are overturned, they can't draw 60,000 young people!
Li Simo didn't know that this was Li Chengqian's deception, he thought it was really Li Shimin's order, and he couldn't help but feel a little bitter in his heart.
At this time, Li Simo thought of the injuries he had suffered in the battles he had fought for Li Shimin, but he forgot the rewards he received after each meritorious service and what he had done to Li Chengqian.
Li Chengqian's eyes were fixed on Li Simo, waiting for his reaction and that of the other Turkic leaders.
When Li Simo was still sad about Li Shimin's "ruthlessness" towards him and the Turks, he couldn't help it, and went out to salute Li Cheng: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, I don't have so many young men and horses in all Turkic departments combined, so can I send fewer soldiers and horses." ”
Li Chengqian's heart blossomed when he saw this, but he deliberately shouted with a calm face: "Presumptuous! You are just Li Simo's house slave, and you dare to speak in front of the lonely king! ”
As soon as these words came out, the guards on both sides took a step forward in unison, and if they didn't agree with each other, they were put on a stand, and several Turkic leaders were shocked when they saw this, and they didn't dare to move.
No, he was rude to Li Chengqian, and he couldn't help but wonder how they became Li Simo's house slaves?
Although the Ashina clan is a Turkic royal family, the relationship between the various tribes is not that of master and slave.
However, looking at what Li Chengqian said as a matter of course, and his expression was natural, it was obvious that Li Chengqian had always thought so.
Why does Li Chengqian have such an understanding, Li Simo told him.
This also can't complain about the stupidity of the leaders of the Turkic tribes, but Li Chengqian's performance today is too disguised, which is completely in line with the image of a gentleman who doesn't know the world, and these people even think that the Tang Dynasty wants 60,000 young people It is also Li Simo's initiative to curry favor with Li Shimin.
Thinking of this, several people couldn't help but glared at Li Simo angrily.
Li Simo felt the unkind eyes of several people around him, so he wanted to explain a few words to everyone.
When Li Chengqian saw that Li Simo wanted to explain, he suddenly stood up angrily and said loudly to everyone: "The surname Zhaowu Jiu has already voted for the Lone King, and these 60,000 young people from your tribe have come out." Then, without waiting for the crowd to speak, he turned around and walked away to the back tent in anger.
Seeing Li Chengqian go away in anger, everyone had to come out angrily.
"Ashnashimo, what are you going to exchange the lives of my tribesmen for?" As soon as he walked out of Li Chengqian's camp, he stopped Li Simo and asked loudly.
Li Simo's face turned blue when he heard this, he was given the Tang Dynasty surname "Li" by Li Shimin after he surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, and he was also named the Khan of Yimi Ni, and today he was called and questioned by a subordinate in front of him, and he was really angry.
"Humph!" Li Simo looked at Zhi Qihui with burning eyes, and shouted to the guards beside him: "Tie him up for me." ”
When Li Simo's personal guard heard this, he stepped forward to tie up Zhi Qihui, and when he saw this, he immediately took the initiative to meet Li Simo's personal guard without waiting for Zhi Qihui's order.
Zhi Yuqi took a step back and pointed at Li Simo and said loudly: "Ashina Simo, do you really regard us as your slaves?"
As soon as Zhi Yuqi's voice fell, the others were not calm, and the leaders of the Turkic tribes, including Sununweile, stepped forward and stood between the two facing Li Simo.
Li Simo originally withdrew from the north of the Yellow River to Henan because of his lack of ability and prestige, and he was unable to control the various departments, and later he came to the Hetao with Li Chengqian, and the reason why he was able to mobilize the young and strong of all the departments was that he borrowed Li Chengqian's tiger skin, and the second was that Lu Zhi promised all parties at that time to preserve their strength for the Turks.
Now that everyone has seen his status in front of Li Chengqian, there is nothing to be feared about him.
Li Simo saw that the leaders of the various departments treated him like this, how could he not understand the reason.
It's just that he hasn't figured out whether the Tang Dynasty's levy of 60,000 young men and 40,000 war horses from the Turkic tribes is Li Shimin's intention or Li Chengqian's meaning, so he doesn't dare to promise anything to everyone easily.
At that moment, he only felt that everyone could not understand him, so he left very angrily, and returned to the big tent of the Chinese army to write a note to Li Shimin to ask for more recruitment from the Turkic departments.
But the people from the other Turkic tribes didn't know what was going on, not to mention that there were Li Chengqian and Zhaowu Jiu who were watching from the side, how could he succeed.
So on the second day, it was rumored in the camps that the surname Zhaowu Jiu had long known that because of Li Simo's disloyalty, the Tang Dynasty Khan wanted to severely punish the Turkic tribes, and the conquest of Ding and horses was just the beginning, and there may be more severe measures waiting for them later.
After hearing this, all the departments were frightened and panicked, and now they have only more than 30,000 young and strong people in each department, but there are 40,000 or 50,000 people in Li Chengqian's camp alone on the Tang side, and I heard that there is also a kind of god thunder and heavenly power in Li Chengqian's camp that can generally kill people.
After analyzing the form, the leaders of the various departments came to the conclusion that they would definitely not be able to defeat the Tang Dynasty, and it was impossible to wait for death, looking at the surname Zhaowu Jiu who was now under the protection of Li Chengqian, it seemed that he could surrender to Li Chengqian.
I heard that Li Chengqian received 10,000 taels of gold from the surname Zhaowu Jiu and came forward to protect the group of house slaves, no matter what he said, these people are more useful than the surname Zhaowu Jiu, and he prepared generous gifts, could Li Chengqian still turn them away.
The next day, Zhi Yuqi returned to the first one to meet Li Chengqian with a generous gift, and Li Chengqian met him in front of a small hill in the camp.
Although the snow has not completely melted, the sun is shining brightly, making people feel that the cold air between their bones is being driven away by the slightest trace after a long winter.
Under the protection of hundreds of helmets and armor, Li Chengqian wore a snow-white fox fur and held a folding fan to give people a sense of standing out from the crowd.
Li Chengqian smiled and looked at the five big and three thick Turkic men in front of him, and slowly raised his face to look into the distance.
Zhi Yuqi looked back at Li Chengqian's posture with disdain, and said secretly: Such a weak chicken-like person turned out to be the heir of a powerful empire like the Tang Dynasty, I really don't know after the death of Tian Khan......
Li Chengqian didn't care what he thought about it, a gust of wind blew and stretched out his hand to pull the white fox fur on his body, and then leisurely waved the folding fan in his hand a few times, pointed to the white snow in the distance and said: "The lonely king has never seen such heavy snow in Chang'an since he was a child, and this year he finally saw the scene of 'thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow drifting' in this northern Xinjiang. ”
Seeing that Li Chengqian was becoming more and more like a sour scholar in Chang'an City, he became more and more disdainful in his heart, and his eyes rolled up, and he didn't praise Li Chengqian's field at all.
Li Chengqian said very blindly: "You Turkic clan have been growing up in northern Xinjiang for many years, so it must be fun every winter, right?"
Zhifu Qihui is just a Tutunfa in Turkic, one level lower than Sunong Weiler's Tong Lifa and one level higher than Lu Zhi's Qu Silu, but because of the loss of thinking and the ability to lead the troops in the Tang Dynasty, he made the assassin history of Zhizhi Prefecture, so that in the Tang Dynasty, he and Sunong Weiler are both a state assassin and the history is at the same level.
Zhi Yuqi listened back and wanted to scold his mother, their Turkic tribe lives in this bitter cold land, what is the good thing about freezing people and livestock to death every winter?
But there was a hypocritical smile on his face: "The Prince's Palace is joking, my Turkic clan freezes to death countless herdsmen and livestock every winter, but in order to guard the border for the Tang Dynasty, we should freeze to death no matter how many people we are, but in this way, there are not so many young people who can go east with the Khan." ”
"You're here to plead with the Lone King today?" Li Chengqian's face sank, and his voice became cold.
Zhi Yuqi regretted it when he heard it, and secretly scolded himself for just thinking about looking down on Li Chengqian, but forgetting the purpose of his coming.
Thinking of this, Zhi Yuqi hurriedly knelt down on his knees and said, "The minister is here to swear allegiance to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince today."
Li Chengqian narrowed his eyes and looked at him and said, "You were originally a courtier of the Tang Dynasty, did you dare to be disloyal to King Gu before?"
Seeing that Li Chengqian was more and more ignorant and ignorant when he heard Li Chengqian say, he hurriedly said with fear: "The minister wants to be loyal to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince like the slaves surnamed Zhaowujiu." ”
Li Chengqian snorted coldly when he heard this: "They are now the house slaves of the lonely king, do you want to be the house slaves of the lonely king?"
Zhi Lost Qi was stunned when he heard this, but they were not the same Turkic nobles as the group of Ashina family slaves surnamed Zhaowu Jiu, and now they want to be Li Chengqian's house slaves......
Seeing this, Li Chengqian didn't wait for him to speak, and shouted directly: "Besides, the family slaves of the surname Zhaowu Jiu are now the lone king, what qualifications do you have to scold them." ”
With Li Chengqian's shout and "poof", dozens of guards pulled out half of the Tang knife on their waists at the same time.
Zhi Lost Qi replied to his heart and hurriedly said: "The Zhi Lost clan is willing to be the house slave of His Royal Highness the Prince." ”
Li Chengqian was unmoved when he heard this, and said with a sneer: "Your Qu Lu of the Lost Department is serving in Li Simo's camp with the soldiers of the Lost Division, and now you are running to say that you want to be the house slave of the Lonely King, do you think the Lonely King will believe it?"
With that, he turned around and left.
Zhi Yuqi looked back in a daze as Li Chengqian walked towards the big tent of the Chinese army surrounded by a group of guards, and suddenly jumped up and ran out of the camp laughing.
In the afternoon, someone reported to Li Chengqian that the ruling department had withdrawn the tribal soldiers from Li Simo's camp and set up camp between Li Chengqian's camp and Li Simo's camp following the example of Zhaowu Jiu.
Li Chengqian breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and the Turks were finally about to disintegrate.