Others may not know about military rations, but Li Simo himself knows it very well, so he did not hesitate to choose to go out of the camp to fight after receiving the order.

Fortunately, although Xue Yantuo's soldiers were not afraid of death, most of them had no weapons, and they had been hungry for a day, at first because they were angry when they saw Dumo Zhi being killed, and they tore up with Lu Zhi and others, and then they were guided to attack Li Simo's camp, but they wanted to grab some food.

However, as Li Simo led the Turkic elite out of the camp, the morale of these people was quickly eroded, and finally it was really pacified by Li Simo at dawn.

Li Simo rode on his horse and watched the lifeless Xue Yantuo's servants squatting numbly on the snow, knowing that they would definitely die, and the final forced investigation might not be as strong as those lying on the crimson snow.

In this battle, Xue Yantuo suffered heavy casualties, and the Turks also paid the price of more than 2,000 casualties.

When Li Simo came to the Tang Army camp, he realized that Li Chengqian was not in the camp at all last night and had not returned yet.

Standing on the snow in front of the tent, Li Simo felt sad in his heart, looking up to the sky and sighing.

After Li Chengqian returned to the camp, he did not ask why Xue Yantuo's soldiers rebelled, and said that Li Simo's counterinsurgency was meritorious, and finally ordered all Xue Yantuo's soldiers to be moved to Bingcheng to be detained.

In order to show his submission, Li Simo personally escorted Xue Yantuo's soldiers to the ice city on the other side of the river, and saw that the Tang general who was responsible for receiving Xue Yantuo's soldiers was Cheng Wuting.

Li Simo looked at Cheng Wuting immediately in front of the crystal tall ice city, and hurriedly stepped forward and hugged his fists on the horse and said, "There is General Lao Cheng waiting for a long time." ”

Cheng Wuting rode on his horse and hugged his fist at Li Simo and said, "It's hard General Li!"

A group of Tang Army veterans walked out from behind Cheng Wuting, these people were all from the Lingzhou Governor's Mansion and could speak a few words of Xue Yantuo.

These people walked up to Xue Yantuo and shouted repeatedly in Chinese and Xue Yantuo:

"Go in well, I'll give you something to eat when you're all in."

"There is food in the ice city."

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When the half-dead Xue Yantuo heard that there was something to eat, his spirit was lifted unconsciously, and there was a commotion in the lifeless team, and then he quickened his pace and walked towards the ice city.

Li Simo saw that Cheng Wuting never meant to get off the horse, so he didn't get off the horse, and immediately watched Xue Yantuo descend into the ice city by the side of the road.

The tent at the gate of the ice city was not demolished, and Li Chengqian removed everything inside when he left, and now he only takes an empty tent.

Xue Yantuo's pawn entered the tent and entered the ice city through the back door, standing at the gate of the ice city, he couldn't see the situation inside the ice city.

More than 20,000 Xue Yantuo soldiers lined up in a long line, and 20,000 people walked for nearly two hours before all entered the ice city, and the people who went first lined up to stand in the innermost part of the ice city, looking at the long brigade behind, anxiously looking forward to the food sent by the Tang army.

Seeing that Xue Yantuo's pawns finally walked into the ice city, Li Simo thought that his task had been completed, so he bowed his hand to Cheng Wuting and said: "General Cheng, Xue Yantuo's pawns have all entered the city, and the general will leave." ”

"General, please!"

Li Simo turned his horse's head and walked back when he heard this, and just after taking two steps, he heard Cheng Wuting say loudly: "Seal the city!" ”

Li Simo's heart couldn't help but look back, only to see many Tang Army soldiers running out from both sides of the ice city leading cattle and horses, and behind the cows and horses were dragging all the big stones into squares on the ice.

When they dragged the stones to the gate of the ice city, some people began to build walls with water and stones.

Here in the ice city, it is more than ten degrees below zero, a stone is paved and a basin of steaming water is poured on it, and then a layer of stones is quickly paved, and after the water freezes, the two stones are frozen and solid.

Li Simo's heart sank, knowing that Li Chengqian was going to freeze these people to death in this ice city, so he didn't look back and hurried back to the side of the river.

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In the afternoon, when the sun was at its warmest, Li Chengqian rode a tall horse, surrounded by a group of civil and military ministers and guards, and slowly came to the ice city that had been sealed.

At this time, the gate of the ice city has been completely sealed, and more than ten arrow towers have been erected with giant trees around the ice city, and there are archers standing on them who closely watch the movement of the ice city.

Li Chengqian and the others came to the ice city, and Cheng Wu was very busy stepping forward to salute.

"See His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

"Excuse me!" Li Chengqian dismounted and walked to Cheng Wuting's side and asked, "Xue Yantuo's traitor is still safe?"

Everyone behind him turned black when they heard the words, how can they settle down when they know that they will die?

Cheng Wuting replied seriously: "The traitors in the ice city made a fuss for a while in the morning as soon as they knew that the ice city was sealed, but as all the people who approached the ice wall were shot to death, they gradually quieted down.

Every once in a while, people would go crazy and throw themselves at the ice wall, but the number of people was small, and they were usually shot to death quickly. ”

Li Chengqian nodded when he heard this: "Okay, these people didn't eat yesterday and tore up all night, and now they are freezing in this ice and snow, and most of them won't have the strength to make trouble anymore after tonight." ”

Behind him, Xu Jingzong sighed in his heart when he heard this, and most of the people were probably dead after tonight.

After Li Chengqian said this, he turned to look at the few people behind him: "Since we are here, we will also go up to these Xue Yantuo traitors!" ”

Li Chengqian was annoyed by these people and had no choice, so he brought him here.

Since Li Chengqian had decided to kill these people openly, he naturally summoned the leaders of the nearby tribes to watch his exploits.

However, when he first spoke out of this idea, he was immediately opposed, and almost everyone believed that the killing of these men was justified because they had rebelled.

But if the leaders of the small tribes in the vicinity are summoned to threaten them, it will inevitably cause a psychological shadow on these people, and it will be impossible for Datang to get the hearts of the people here in the future.

This time, not only Xu Jingzong and Su Dingfang resolutely opposed it, but even Wei Chigong, who had never spoken much, said that this matter should be decided by His Majesty.

Li Chengqian found that except for Wang Fangyi, who wanted to speak but didn't dare to speak, Qiu Xinggong was the only one who supported him.

So Li Chengqian decided to bring these people here, let them see the Xue Yantuo people who were waiting to die, and then persuade them.

In order to monitor the movement inside the ice city, Cheng Wuting also built a relatively large arrow tower at the entrance of the original ice city.

It's just that when he was building, he never thought that Li Chengqian would climb the arrow tower in person, so the construction was extremely simple, and people had to use both hands and feet to go up.

Li Chengqian had an injury on his foot and could only stand in the hanging basket and be pulled up by the soldiers, so Wang Fangyi and Wang Qun climbed up first, and then put down the hanging basket to pull Li Chengqian up.

Cheng Wuting watched Li Chengqian standing in the hanging basket and helping Liu Kui to rise slowly, his eyes were red, he looked back at Su Dingfang and the others who had always respected him, and said angrily: "In your eyes, are those barbarians more important than His Royal Highness the Prince?"

"Huh?"

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