Chapter 202: Bonfire

"First of all, let me introduce, this king Li Daoxuan is the younger brother of His Majesty today, and he is the king of Huaiyang!" When Li Daoxuan said this to the tribal leaders, the leaders of the large and small tribes in the field were shocked again.

Let's not talk about anything else, the identity of this prince alone can't help but make people feel a lot of pressure.

Na Yi Nan and the Bodhisattva looked at Li Daoxuan, and finally said: "It turned out that the prince personally came to pardon him, Xiao Khan is really honored!" ”

Li Daoxuan smiled "hehe": "Don't be polite to the two Great Khans, but this king is going to trouble the Pearl Great Khan!" ”

Yi Nan hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Where is it, the prince can come, Xiao Khan is too late to be happy, how can he say that it is troublesome!" As he spoke, he asked cautiously, "Envoy, I don't know what you just said." ”

Li Daoxuan pointed to the south and said: "The land of Mo Nan has a population of hundreds of thousands, don't you leaders want to?" As he spoke, he glanced at the leaders present on the side.

The leaders and the two Great Khans glanced at each other and were silent for a moment.

Li Daoxuan smiled again: "This time I came to Mobei, this king came with sincerity, leaders, it depends on your decision!" ”

Suddenly, all eyes were focused on Yi Nan and the Bodhisattva.

"Dare to ask the envoy, if we wait for the troops, I wonder if the Tang Dynasty will also send troops to echo us?" Yi Nan asked cautiously.

"Of course!" Li Daoxuan said in a categorical tone, "This year is the third year of Zhenguan, and Your Majesty has decided to launch a full-scale war against the Turks this year, and when the time comes, our Tang army will sweep away Mo Nan with one blow. And your army only needs to contain the Turkic Hu army stationed in the north, and prevent Jieli from fleeing north. ”

After listening to this rough arrangement, the Yi man immediately said: "That is the case, that little sweat is dry!" That Jieli deceived me too much, Xiao Khan already wanted to fight him a few more times! ”

The Bodhisattva also snorted and said, "The Turkic army is vulnerable!" Back then, Xiao Khan could break his 100,000 people with 5,000 elite horses, and today Datang is in charge of the main attack, is it still afraid! ”

As soon as the two spoke, the rest of the small tribal leaders immediately responded.

Li Daoxuan pressed his hands, and the big tent suddenly fell silent. He said with a smile: "Seeing that everyone can work together so much, this king is deeply grateful!" As for how to contain the Turks and block the way back, let us discuss it later! The king will stay here until the end of the war. So, if you have any questions, come to me! ”

Hearing Li Daoxuan's words, all the leaders nodded in unison, while the Bodhisattva looked at Yi Nan with a strange look, as if blaming the latter for not telling Li Daoxuan about leaving him in Xue Yantuo.

Yi Nan smiled bitterly, even he only found out about this just now, how could he greet these people in advance!

At this time, Li Daoxuan had already said everything he could say. He smiled and bowed to Yi Nan and the Bodhisattva, and then stepped aside. Zhang Yunwen secretly gave a thumbs up below. Anti-customer-oriented, this trick is used very well.

Yi Nan stood in the center of the big tent, looking at the leaders, and didn't know what to say. Then Li Daoxuan has already said everything that can be said, and I am afraid that what cannot be said will not be said until later. Finally, he held back a sentence: "In order to welcome the arrival of the envoys and leaders of the Tang Dynasty, Ben Khan decided to kill sheep and cattle tonight to celebrate!" ”

Becoming a khan in front of all the leaders, the pride in Yi Nan's heart is beyond words. He had the golden drum erected in a prominent position in the tent and hung it on the wall behind the throne.

After leaving the big tent, the tribal leaders either stayed in the tent, or contacted the two new khans, and of course, some leaders went to the Tang mission, hoping to get a chance to be crowned khan.

For these leaders, Li Daoxuan and Zhang Yunwen directly dragged out the officials of the Ministry of Rites to block them, and hid to the side.

Due to the large number of people, the slaughter of sheep and cattle began in the afternoon. The spacious camp was filled with the mournful sounds of cattle and sheep from time to time.

Since the morning, there has not been a single rain or snow in the sky, and a clear blue sky with white clouds has shrouded the whole earth.

As twilight fell, three bonfires were erected in a zigzag shape over the clearing.

It was covered with a thick woolen carpet and a curtain made of soft leather to shield it from the cold wind blowing from the north. Yi Nan, the Bodhisattva and a group of Tang envoys entered this large circle surrounded by a curtain first.

Sitting on the thick and soft wool blanket, I didn't feel the cold coming from the ground at all. Three bonfires were blazing, and the flames fluttered in all directions under the cold wind.

After the leaders of the tribes and the nobles of Xue Yantuo sat down, an old man of the nobles of Xue Yantuo stood up, and his mouth was like reciting a long poem, chanting the Turkic dialect that he could not understand. Later, however, Lord Xu privately told the mission that the old man was reciting only poems praising the sky and the grassland. The old man looked solemn and chanted loudly in a loud voice. The leaders of the Tiele tribes also bowed their heads and muttered in their mouths.

In this almost religiously pious opening, the Datang people felt very uncomfortable. Zhang Yunwen looks at his nose with his eyes, his nose looks at his heart, and he is an old monk. And Li Daoxuan scratched his ears and cheeks, and his eyes kept sweeping.

Finally, when the old man finished chanting, he let out a loud voice and announced the beginning of the bonfire.

More than a dozen Turkic men carried a prepared cow and sheep into the room, set up around three bonfires, and began to roast. After a while, grease came out of the cattle and sheep, dripping onto the firewood and making a "squeaking" sound. A charming smell of meat fills the air.

At this time, Yi Nan raised the golden wine cup, stood up, and recited a long passage in Turkic first, and then in Chinese: "My dear brothers, today is a day to be happy. The envoys from the rich and powerful Tang Dynasty, after a long journey, came to my Xue Yantuo Department, and pardoned me in the name of the emperor, your brother, the leader of Xue Yantuo is Zhenzhu Khan; Our brother, the chief of the Hui tribe, is the Hui Khan. From now on, we Tiele will rise in Mobei! ”

"For the rise of Tieler, we drink this cup full!" Yi Nan drank the milk wine in the wine cup in his hand first.

When Li Daoxuan heard this toast, he secretly pursed his lips, and then read aloud in Chinese: "For the prosperity and strength of the Tang Dynasty!" ”

The members of the mission and the soldiers also raised their wine cups: "For the prosperity and strength of the Tang Dynasty!" ”

After drinking, a group of Tiele maidens dressed in red costumes walked into the arena lightly, first bowed to the four directions, and then danced to the accompaniment of the rhythmic sound of the piano. They all had silver bells hanging on their wrists and ankles, and between their gestures, the silver bells rang and the melodious and bright sound of the piano.

Looking at the dancing posture of these Tiele girls, Zhang Yunwen remembered the situation when he was in the Turkic tent, especially the Turkic girl who was lying on the bed at night.

Don't wait a minute, these Tiele girls are going to climb into bed too? Thinking of this, Zhang Yunwen couldn't help but move his gaze to Li Daoxuan, who was looking at the Tiele girl dancing by the flames with all his body, if that kind of eyes were staring at the eldest girl of a certain family in Chang'an City, she would definitely be taken away by Jin Wuwei as a disciple.

After singing and dancing, the Tiele maidens saluted again, and then withdrew from the field.

At this time, the cattle and sheep that had been roasted at the beginning were almost six ripe at this moment, and the rich aroma of meat wafted throughout the camp. I saw that those barbecue Tiele men always took out a silver bamboo tube-sized silver cylinder from the leather bag next to him, opened it carefully, gently sprinkled the powder inside, fell on the barbecue, and then kept turning. After a while, the aroma of the roasted meat intensified. Then came another silver cylinder. It wasn't until five kinds of seasonings were sprinkled on the barbecue meat in succession that those men stopped and carefully roasted the slightly golden cattle and sheep.

Seeing that Zhang Yunwen was fascinated, the Bodhisattva sitting next to him couldn't help but smile and said, "The envoy is looking at the silver cylinders in the hands of those cooks?" That's their unique secret barbecue seasoning, which is added to make it taste more fragrant and softer! ”

Zhang Yunwen also smiled: "I'm just curious, why is the fragrance even stronger when these powders are sprinkled!" In fact, he smelled a familiar smell in the scent - cumin.

As he was talking, Yi Nan raised the wine cup again, stood up and toasted a glass of milk wine.

Li Daoxuan drank the milk wine in one gulp, leaned over and whispered to Zhang Yunwen: "His grandmother's, this milk wine really doesn't taste like a taste, except for a smell of milk, where is the smell of wine?" It's still the fairy drunk and delicious that you sell! ”

Zhang Yunwen rolled his eyes, the immortal drunk is a high degree of wine of fifty or sixty degrees, which can be compared to this kind of milk wine.

At this time, I saw two teams of men with big shoulders and round waists walking into the field wearing strong suits. Although they didn't carry any weapons in their hands, the fierce aura emanating from their bodies made the reconnaissance battalion soldiers hold the horizontal knives in their hands tightly for the first time.

Yi Nan smiled and said to Li Daoxuan: "Lord Envoy, these are the most powerful warriors in my Tiele, now let them perform for Lord Envoy." So that the Envoy can see the demeanor of my Tiele Warriors! ”

I saw two teams of Turkic men roaring in unison, quickly divided into two teams and stood opposite each other, and at the same time made a posture ready to fight. They were half-crouching, their arms raised, and then they let out a loud roar at the same time, and the two groups of men collided with each other like two herds of bison, slamming into each other, scuffling and fighting.

In Zhang Yunwen's view, their fighting style is clearly wrestling, but it is a little different, while wrestling, it is also mixed with punching, leg kicking and other fighting techniques. It didn't take long for only half of the two teams of Tiele men to remain. And this half of the people quickly divided into two teams and began to fight again.

Zhang Yunwen saw that one of these men was extremely conspicuous, and almost every time he fought with someone, he was always the first to defeat the other party. Even in the third round, he even single-handedly threw a big man into the air. Therefore, Zhang Yunwen is almost certain that if the fight continues, this big man will be the final winner.

As expected, when Dahan lifted the last opponent high with one hand, Yi Nan directly announced the victory of this Dahan.