The Turkic envoy Bile was really beaten badly. The left eye was bruised and only a slit was squinted, and the lips were cracked, and several teeth were knocked out, as if two ribs had been broken.

When he was carried in, he, a soldier who had also experienced the battle array, was about to faint and couldn't get up.

The left and right sergeants listened to Qin Mubai's order, so they had no choice but to tie Yuwen Hongtai and bring him to the hall.

Yuwen Hongtai was tied up firmly, but his body was completely devoid of his previous gangsterism and anger, but he was straight with a smirk, "Hey, hey, hey!" Young marshal, I violated military regulations, I know it's wrong! If you want to cut off your head, you have to hit the board, just say hello! ”

"You're knowingly committing a crime!" Qin Mubai was furious, and shouted loudly, "Come on, drag me down, and enforce the military law according to the thirteen orders!" ”

"Huh? Really cut me? Yuwen Hongtai was a little dumbfounded, and looked at Qin Mubai in a daze, "Do you want to discuss it anymore, it's okay to let me die in the battle?" It's not worth it to die under the sword and axe of your own people like this! ”

"Hudro, enforce military law!"

The officials and Li Daozong were about to come forward to ask for mercy, but Bile got up from the ground. While covering his swollen face like a pig's head, he said: "Most of the governors are angry! But for the sake of the overall situation of the peace alliance between the two countries, please don't behead General Yuwen. ”

"This person has no military law and knowingly violates it, if he is not beheaded, what will this commander use to order the three armies in the future?" Qin Mubai said with a cold face, "Your envoy, please don't say much, this is a family matter in our army." ”

"The young marshal enforces the law impartially, which is admirable, but ......," Biler hesitated for a moment, and said, "If the Tang Army general is beheaded because of such a trivial matter, it will inevitably cast a shadow on the friendly relations between the two countries." General Yuwen once followed Qin Laoshuai to sit in Gaochang and experienced that period of turmoil. He has great hatred and personal grudges against us Beiting people, this ...... It's understandable at the bottom, and I don't blame him. Young marshal, please rest assured, after you go back, you will definitely focus on the overall situation and will not inform the Great Khan of such things. ”

Li Daozong also stood up and said: "Yes, Mubai, the two countries are in peace, and it is not appropriate to see blood." Especially now that the war is imminent, how can you lose the general first? General Yuwen is indeed an unforgivable crime, but for the sake of the Turkic envoy and the overall situation of the peace alliance between the two countries, it is okay to spare his life for the time being, and order him to make meritorious contributions. ”

And all the generals came out together to exhort him. Qin Mubai pondered for a long time, and snorted coldly: "Since the envoy is guaranteed by the prince and the generals, Yuwen Hongtai, I will temporarily send your head." If you dare to violate my military regulations, even if it is a decree from the Heavenly Court, I will not spare you! ”

"Huh? Yes yes yes yes hey, thank you young marshal, thank you young marshal! Yuwen Hongtai got cheap, but he also knew how to behave, so he hurriedly knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

"The death penalty can be avoided, but the living are unforgivable!" Qin Mubai shouted, "Drag it down, beat a hundred military sticks, to set an example!" ”

Now everyone is not good to persuade them anymore, Yuwen Hongtai felt a chill in his heart, and he had to be dragged to the corner house to prepare for execution.

Bile squinted his eyes and grinned, his expression was really painful, and he couldn't complain, so he had to sigh and said: "I have heard for a long time that the old marshal Qin is strict in governing the army, and now the young marshal is like a mountain in law enforcement. Such a well-ordered army must be a lion of tigers and wolves! ”

"It's over."

At this time, there was already a thumping blow and Yuwen Hongtai's screams in the side room. When everyone heard this, they all felt a chill. If these 100 military sticks are beaten heavily, the light ones will be disabled if their skin is open and the flesh will be heavy, and it is possible to be beaten to death!

Qin Mubai glanced at everyone in the hall and preemptively said, "Whoever dares to speak out and beg for mercy will be guilty of the same crime!" ”

Everyone was speechless. As a result, many people were inadvertently angry with Bile and others, and countless vicious eyes fell directly on him, making him feel like he was on pins and needles, so he had to hurriedly say goodbye and leave.

In the torture room, a pawn slipped back from the window and hurriedly said, "Don't fight, don't fight!" Biler is gone! ”

"No, it's over!" Yuwen Hongtai roared, "The military order is like a mountain, you are biased against me in private, who will obey the young marshal's orders in the future?" ”

"Shall we ...... Is it okay to hit the tap? General Yuwen, you just scream loudly, scream a little miserable, okay? ”

"Hey, this line, this line!"

Qin Mubai and the others were still discussing in the main hall, but they could hear a miserable roar like killing a pig coming from the torture room, which made people tremble. It was already night, and almost all the people in the Governor's Mansion were alarmed, and they were all puzzled and worried, thinking that an evil spirit had been born.

But after listening to it for a long time, Qin Mubai and the others all laughed secretly: Heizi is a fool, and he clearly won't fake. At first glance, it sounds like being beaten and screaming, but it's clearly not half miserable, it's just pretending with a loud voice!

Until late at night, the governor's palace was deliberated. Li Daozong invited Qin Mubai to have some refreshments together, and then rested in Xingyuan. Qin Mubai thought about it for a while, politely rejected his kindness, took some drinks and snacks out of the Governor's Mansion, and went straight to Yuwen Hongtai's house.

Yuwen Hongtai has no father, no mother, no family, and is a lonely person who walks with the army, and has always lived in the army. But this time, after he came back from Gaochang, he has been in a bad mood and has been crying and wild for a while, and it is inconvenient to live in the barracks. So Qin Mubai sent him outside the barracks, found a private house to settle him, and stayed temporarily.

Originally, Qin Mubai also sent two military men to serve this wild man. But he is used to being wild alone, but he can't stand the service and persistence of others. Within a day or two, he blew people away, and one person was at ease. Therefore, his home is often messy and sloppy.

But today, when Qin Mubai opened the door of his courtyard, he saw that the courtyard overgrown with weeds in the past was clean and orderly, and the clothes that had just been washed were still dripping on the hangers, and he even smelled the fragrance of some wine and food.

"It's weird, is this stupid black still a golden house?" Qin Mubai couldn't help but laugh, and was about to walk towards his bedroom with the lights on, but he heard Yuwen Hongtai's scolding coming from inside.

"You stupid girl, don't speak ill of my third brother!" Yuwen Hongtai scolded, "I went to beg for a beating by myself, don't do anything else!" Military law is like a mountain, do you understand? ”

"The old lady doesn't understand! The old lady only knows that he actually beat his brother down for an outsider, which is hypocrisy and conscience! ”

"Again? Believe it or not, I tore your mouth! ”

"You stupid black man who doesn't know what to do and has no conscience! The old lady is not waiting for you anymore! ”

The crunch of the "horn" was obviously the sound of the dishes falling to the ground.

"Let's go, you go quickly, don't be half a minute slower!" Yuwen Hongtai was not in a hurry at all, but smiled gloatingly, "I didn't call you here!" Leave early and be quiet early, I don't want you to serve this stupid girl! ”

"You! …… You incorrigibly stupid black! Mother, I really owe you in my last life! - Take off your pants and let the old lady give you the medicine! ”

"Ahh You slut, do you just want to see my ass? …… My ass is really so good-looking, isn't it enough to watch it countless times a day? ”

“…… Believe it or not, the old lady ruined you with a needle? ”

"Hahaha! If you kind of you're going to abolish me! Waste quiet, waste trouble! If you abolish it, you old, you won't bother Lao Tzu all day long! ”

Qin Mubai almost couldn't help laughing-my good girl, Heizi is really a golden house! Isn't this Su Lianqing? When did she hook up with Yuwen Hongtai?

The lights in the room were suddenly blown out, and there was a sound of giggling and grinding.

Qin Mubai smiled dumbly, so he put the wine and meat under the eaves steps, walked out of the courtyard lightly, and carefully brought the door.

The sky is full of stars, and tomorrow must be a sunny day. Qin Mubai looked up at the starry sky, and couldn't help but think of Xue Rengui.

Since he stepped into his career, Qin Mubai has not really made many bosom friends and liver brothers. Yuwen Hongtai has followed the longest time, and the other is Yin Yang, who is now far away in Youzhou to accompany King Wu, but he is already Li Ke's people, and he is somewhat estranged. Again, only Xue Rengui remained.

Now, Xue Rengui led a lone brigade of troops who did not know where to go, and even the Turkic envoys could not say (or hid and refused to say) a reason.

is about to fight with Garqinling, Qin Mubai feels that he is still a little weak, mainly because of the lack of effective helpers around him.

"It would be nice if Rengui was here! …… He is very clever and has the best understanding with me, which is enough to stand alone. In contrast, Yuwen Hongtai can only be a vanguard general, Xue Wanjun, the general of Dafei Sichuan, is brave and resourceful and not my henchman, Hou Junji is ambitious and perverse...... Only Rengui is my most perfect right-hand man! ”

In late summer and early autumn, the grass defeats the eagle and flies, and the prey has nothing to hide. At this time, it is the season when the shepherds of the steppe ride fat horses and hunt down their prey with the goshawks in the sky.

It has always been the golden season for the Hu cavalry in the north to blow the eagle flute and plunder the Central Plains in the south.

Xue Rengui and his subordinates of more than 10,000 Tang Army officers and soldiers were given a few days of rest and recuperation, and their spirits were refreshed.

Today, the great leader of the Hui Hui told Xue Rengui that after Xue Yantuo Zhenzhu Khan Yinan received his letter, he really went to the appointment to listen to the "Heavenly Envoy" to listen to the questioning.

Yi Nan naturally wouldn't be so obedient, just with the words "Celestial Envoy" of the Tang Dynasty, he couldn't be frightened - he brought with him 100,000 Xue Yantuo Iron Horsemen!

The Xue Yantuo tribe belongs to one of the "nine surnamed Tiele" tribes in the grassland, and is composed of two tribes, Xue and Yantuo. In the early days, they were nomadic herders in the area of the Golden Mountains and were subordinate to the Turkic Khanate. During the Northern Expedition of the Tang Dynasty to the Turks, Xue Yantuo sent troops to help the Tang Dynasty, and since then it has quietly risen. Among the grassland tribes, the current Xue Yantuo tribe is already strong and strong, which makes people talk about tiger color, because their powerful Mobei Iron Cavalry is not something that any tribe can compete with!

Now, Yi Nan has more than 200,000 elite iron horsemen who have experienced a hundred battles, and his ambition to unify the steppe and reshape the khanate is already obvious!

Hearing that Yi Nan led 100,000 iron horsemen to the south and north to "answer" with Xue Rengui, the Hui tribe was in a panic - isn't this a disaster of extermination!

In this regard, Xue Rengui did not say a word, and only ordered the Tang army under his command to prepare for battle.

At this point, Tumidu had no choice but to bite the bullet, recruit more than 40,000 cavalry from the Hui tribe, and send troops north with Xue Rengui to the agreed place - the north bank of the Orkhon River!

Among the nine surnamed Tiele of the grasslands, the Hui can actually be regarded as a big tribe. The people of their tribe are different from the people of the past Turks and the current Xueyantuo tribe, and they are not very fond of warfare, but are good at raising livestock and horses. Therefore, the Hui tribe is the richest tribe on the grassland, with a large number of cattle, sheep and horses, and the most active tea and horse trade with the Central Plains. As a result, the Hui people prospered and became economically prosperous.

If you really want to count it, there are many more sturdy men and horses that can be used as war horses in the Hui tribe than Xue Yantuo. However, the Uighurs do not like to fight very much, and they are peace-loving when they say it is good, and a little weak when they say it is bad. For such a large tribe, it is not difficult to raise an army of 100,000 at all; However, Tumidu only brought more than 40,000 cavalry to accompany him to the expedition, and Xue Rengui was a little unhappy in his heart, but he didn't want to say much about the guest host, and he secretly made up his mind in his heart.

When you arrive at the Orkhon River, it is an important grassland in Mobei, with abundant water and grass and flat terrain, and it is a good place for nomads to settle in spring and summer. In autumn and winter, it's a good hunting ground – and at the same time, a good battlefield!