Chapter 533: Encountering a villain on the road

There are three parts of Qarluq, one is called plotting, one is blazing, and the other is stepping on strength.

In the sixteenth year of Kaiyuan, when Li Huaitang swept the territory of the Tuqi Shi people with 3,000 iron cavalry, he had an intersection with one of them, the Mouluo Division. Until now, the leader of his department, Ye Humou Luoyuci is still angry with Li Huaitang, because of the trap he set, the entire three surnamed Gelulu tribes fought several battles with the Tuqi Shi people for no reason, and when the two sides calmed down and confronted each other, the matter was cleared up, and the loss was irreparable.

The information was not a secret to Li Huaitang, and he could imagine the anger and hatred of the Qarluqs. However, he did not expect that the eastern expeditionary army had trampled through half of the territory of the Qarluqs all the way, but he could not see them come to harass them, and the tribes he encountered were like small prey on the steppe, and fled in panic.

The Qarlu tribe surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, under the nose of Bianling City, Li Huaitang was not easy to start, and besides, he was in a hurry, and he didn't have time to pay attention to these herdsmen, and it was a complete coincidence to destroy the stepping power in the Yefu Valley.

It stands to reason that since Qarluq chose the Yev Valley as a stronghold, why did they only send a few hundred people to guard it, and where did all their soldiers go? This is the doubt in Li Huaitang's heart.

No, not in his position, not in his politics. There was not the slightest worry on Bian Lingcheng's face, he was busy counting the wealth that was easily harvested, and he suddenly understood Li Huaitang's family history, it turned out that he could get rich quickly by fighting!

However, Li Huaitang's order stunned him.

"What? General, this, these are all treasures, throw them all away? Bian Lingcheng looked at the loser in his eyes distressedly.

Li Huaitang thought for a while and said, "If the chief manager likes it, just pick three, and three is limited!" ”

After determining Li Huaitang's attitude, Bian Lingcheng almost didn't jump up and scold, he held back, his thief's eyes looked around, and his eyes stopped at the several carriages that were slowly passing in the distance.

"General, those carriages are full of miscellaneous items, I wonder if they have thrown them away and loaded them with these treasures?"

Li Huaitang knew what Bian Lingcheng was referring to, and turned to follow the guidance: "Compared with the Khitans, the Qarluq people can only be regarded as Huazi. Why does the chief careless about all these possessions? If you slow down for this reason and get a cheap return, I'm afraid you will lose a lot because of a small loss! ”

Bian Lingcheng thought thoughtfully, gritted his teeth and nodded, painfully and with great difficulty, he picked out three jade pendants from the pile of wealth.

Li Huaitang sneered in his heart, disdainfully ignoring this miser, and moved his gaze to the several carriages that Bian Lingcheng said. A total of five carriages, because one of them was vacated for Bianling City, and the remaining four carriages were forced to fill up. The things on the carriage are no different from garbage in the eyes of Bian Lingcheng, but the owner of these garbage, Zhuge Xing, regards them as rare treasures.

The carriage drove by, and Li Huaitang could see Zhuge Xing's gaze and nodded to him.

Through the Ev Valley, the Eastern Expeditionary Army marched eastward along the foot of the Golden Mountain.

Surrounded by a verdant ocean, the Jinshan mountainside is the traditional pasture of the Qarluqs, but apart from a few herders and cattle and sheep, there are few Qarluq cavalry, if any.

Are all the young men of Qarlu dead?

Li Huaitang wondered.

Are they setting up an ambush ahead?

Li Huaitang had another doubt, but he couldn't ask for it.

No matter what, until he left the boundary of the Jinshan Mountain Range, which spanned thousands of miles, Li Huaitang never saw the shadow of the Qarlu army.

The depths of the desert are staggeringly desolate, mostly gray sand and gravel worlds, with occasional bits of striking green. Here, only fresh water is the only precious, the rest are floating clouds. Here, the rivers are completely extinct, and the only way to cross the arid desert is to find the springs, so the role of the guide is revealed.

Led by more than a dozen guides, the Eastern Expeditionary Army came to the first group of springs.

The springs in the desert are rarely patronized, and most of the surrounding areas are usually traces left by animals, Li Huaitang is lucky, and rarely meets a large number of people with horseshoe prints, and quite a lot of horseshoe is iron hooves!

Judging by experience, the traces of the rest of the unknown army were left at least three days ago.

Continuing to the east, a similar situation could be found near every spring, and before exiting the vast arid area, Ning Yuan's iron cavalry almost caught up with the other party, and Li Huaitang felt that he could even smell the breath of the other party.

Sure enough, the white jade claw confirmed his judgment, there were people dozens of miles ahead, a large number of people.

Then, the Eagle Scouts captured two live "tongues".

The answer unraveled the mystery in Li Huaitang's heart, the army in front was the Qarluqs, with 30,000 troops, who were invited by the Hui people to go to the front line to fight against the Khitans.

Apparently, the Qarluqs did not realize that behind them was a deadly army, which was twice as large as their opponents, but could not make up for the huge disparity in combat effectiveness.

Li Huaitang wanted to take the opportunity to kill the Qarluq people once and for all, but he was blocked by Bianling City.

"Since he is dealing with the allies of the Khitans at the same time, how can the general use his troops in vain?"

Bian Lingcheng has a word.

Ally? Li Huaitang feels more like seeking skin with a tiger.

The Qarluqs were insidious and reinforcing, and he had already learned about them, but thanks to the hounds that accompanied him at the time, he was able to see through their evil schemes. If that time was the old hatred of the Qarluqs, then the battle of the Yev Pass more than ten days ago was a new hatred. Li Huaitang didn't dare to expect that the Qarluq people would be generous enough to meet each other and smile at each other, even if the sun rose in the west, he would not.

In fact, the Qarluqs are synonymous with repeated villains. According to the trajectory of history, more than ten years later, under the city of Talas, the Tang coalition led by Gao Xianzhi was defeated by the Qarluq people because of the sudden defection of the Qarluqs. Not only that, the lands of the Western Regions could not satisfy their good appetite, and decades later, they colluded with the Tubo people to jointly attack the northern court of the Tang Dynasty, occupy the land of the old master, rob the property of the old master, and enslave the people of the old master.

Compared with the Hui who they later took refuge in and integrated into it, the old lord of the Tang Dynasty never levied a tax on them for a sheep and a cow, and gave them a lot of protection, however, their final choice was that they would rather pay taxes to the Hui people, rather assimilate and annex the Hui people, and would rather be free citizens of the Tang Dynasty. For such a lowly tribe, there is no other way but to naturalize to the soil with scimitars and iron hooves.

Of course, you can't make any fuss with Bian Lingcheng. However, thanks to the obstruction of the border city, in less than an hour, tens of thousands of horsemen from the north appeared to join forces with the Qarluqs.

Guli Peiluo is here, bringing nearly 60,000 Tiele coalition troops!