As the color gradually fell, more and more of the Turks of the Tiele and Uighurs resisted on the city wall collapsed with the destruction of the Tiefutu, and the Tiele and Uighurs finally took the city wall completely, and they began to kill the remaining Turkic defenders of the city gate, and after nightfall, they opened the tall city gate that had blocked them for nearly two months.

Nancheng, Ashina Yunlie looked at his nephew who was riding on a horse in front of him, and handed him his sword, "Go to Zhishi and Sang Ruo, take them and the rest of the army to the north, and remember, as long as the king is there and the people are there, the Turks will not perish." ”

"Don't stop learning their culture just because Great Qin has broken through our capital." Ashina Yunlie commanded quietly, and he always believed that it was the Great Qin who had broken through their capital, not the humble Tiele and Uighurs.

"Uncle's words, I will definitely remember!" Taking Ashina Yunlie's knife, Ashina Chengqing's throat was a little choked, "Uncle, come with us, I need your teachings." ”

"I have witnessed the steppe trembling and prostrate under the iron hooves and butcher's knife of Great Qin, and I have also watched my father grovel to make our Turks from a small tribe to a big country." Thinking back on what he had done over the years, Ashina Yunlie laughed self-deprecatingly, "But until today, I didn't know that in fact, I had always been afraid of Great Qin in my heart, if I wasn't so afraid of Great Qin, I attacked Great Qin with the strength of the whole country three years ago, maybe the current ending would not be like this." ”

"Alright, don't be in the posture of my nasty daughter, let's go. Take the rest of our people to the north and stay strong. Looking at the darkness, my nephew's eyes glistened with tears. Ashina Yunlie said quietly, and then slapped his palm on the buttocks of the war horse.

In the neighing sound, Ashina Chengqing took five hundred young nobles and galloped out of the city gate on horseback and galloped into the distance in the darkness.

Ashina Yunlie turned around and looked at the fire rising from the other side of the city. He looked at the subordinates in front of him who were reluctant to leave, and smiled, "Let's go back to the royal court." As he spoke, he stepped into the darkness.

The whole city was wailing and weeping, and the Tile and Uighurs who entered the city vented their frustration these days**, sneering and doing whatever they wanted, looting, killing people, and raping women.

"Is this the true side of human nature, or is it the ugly side?" Ride on a horse. Li Ang and Chen Qingzhi walked side by side, looking at the city illuminated by the firelight and asked.

"For these barbarians who have no cultural heritage. This is the real side of their humanity. Chen Qingzhi looked at the city in the distance, his eyes were full of regret, "The environment in which they live makes them have to be like beasts." ”

"Do you think our army will become like this?" Li Ang suddenly looked at Chen Qingzhi beside him, and his question made Chen Qingzhi stunned until a long time passed. Chen Qingzhi replied.

"I remember that Emperor Taizu once said that military discipline cannot be indulged, as long as one indulgence, an army can be ruined." Chen Qingzhi lowered his head, "In the military regulations of the Great Qin Land, raping women, abusing and killing enemies, and robbing property are all crimes that cannot be forgiven. ”

"But the slaughter was not among them." Chen Qingzhi raised his head, "Because of this." Many Confucian scholars thought that Emperor Taizu was a cruel man, but they did not understand. For soldiers who strictly abide by military rules and are always hovering on the edge of life and death, they need to have a way to vent. ”

"Slaughter with a righteous heart." Li Ang muttered to himself, this sentence in his mouth was said by Zhao Yun, the Duke of Zhennan, in various accounts, Zhao Yun, the Duke of Zhennan, was a gentle person, and he could not connect him with the word cold-blooded, but during the Western Expedition, the number of heads killed by the troops under his command was the most, and there was nothing left alive in almost every battle.

"Kill with a righteous heart." Chen Qingzhi also groaned, and then he looked at the dark night sky, "Soldiers can only believe in the justice of the country, and what Zhennan Gong wants to express should be this." ”

Li Ang and Chen Qingzhi were silent together, when they were fighting, they could make the most ruthless decisions, cold-blooded to the point that they had no humanity, but when the dust settled, they would still reflect on their own actions in their hearts, which may sound hypocritical, but this is the case, people are complex and contradictory.

In the city, the Tiele and Uighurs flocked to the Turkic court, greedily snatching every item of money inside, raping the women inside, and many more rushing to the main hall where the Turkic khans were located, each of whom wanted to sit in that seat.

Touching the throne, Ashina Yunlie looked out of the noisy temple, where he had never looked at the Tiele and Uighurs, who were now venting their bestial desires in the Turkic capital.

"Master, here we go." At the foot of the steps of the throne, the nameless half hundred old men knelt in front of Ashina Yunlie, they were the old men who followed Ashina Yunlie, watching Ashina Yunlie single-handedly make the Turks strong, and now they want to accompany Ashina Yunlie to witness the end of this strength.

The five old men drew their long knives from their waists and slew at the influx of the Tile and Uighurs, who had been fierce warriors of a hundred men, but now they were all old, but the lions were old, but their claws were still sharp and sharp.

The five old men soon collapsed in pools of blood, and although they were once strong lions, they could not escape their fate in the face of hordes of hyenas. They were held at gunpoint by the Tiele and Uighurs, and could not even retain their dignity after death.

Ashina Yunlie had been quietly watching the scene before him, and he had never left his throne, but soon the Tiele and Uighurs noticed him, and they rushed towards the Turkic who looked like a Han Chinese, and his rich brocade clothes made them red.

"The savage is always the savage!" Ashina Yunlie looked at the Tiele and Uighurs who rushed in front of him, his eyes were full of greed, he straightened his clothes, pulled out the thin sword at his waist with his left hand, and the sword light was vertical and horizontal, and the three Tiele people who pounced on him fell.

Inside the main hall, Ashina Yunlie held the sword in his left hand, looked at the Tiele and Uighurs who were still pouring in outside the hall, and looked at his right arm. He remembered Leon, who had wasted one of his arms. Let the whole Turkic fall into a desperate situation young people.

"I really want to be born thirty years later and compete with you." Muttering to himself, Ashina Yunlie threw away the sword in his left hand,

It was filled with whale oil dungeon lamps, and soon the fire engulfed the entire hall.

Staggering to the throne, Ashina Yunlie laughed. In the past, he had always been behind the scenes, and now let him sit here, watching the destruction of the era he created, sitting on the throne, Ashina Yunlie did not have any unwillingness in his heart, his failure was that his own heart was not strong enough, he thought that he was not afraid of Daqin, but in fact, he was afraid to death! "Father, I'm here to see you!" In the firelight, Ashina Yunlie vaguely saw the past. A burning beam fell, and the age of one man was over.

Winter is over. The grass in the new green area emerged from the melting snow, and Li Ang returned to Wanzhou with his men, and it was not until February that he learned what had happened after he left the Turkic capital: at Dingxiang, the Turkic army of 350,000 did not take advantage of anything, and Murong Longcheng and Hou Junji held Dingxiang with 30,000 men. The tiger and leopard cavalry and the other 5,000 Turkic Tiefu Tu fought three battles outside the city, beheaded 2,000, and lost 800 themselves.

Then the Turkic army knew that the capital was breached, and they withdrew overnight, but Hou Junji led the tiger and leopard cavalry to pursue them for hundreds of miles, and countless heavy grain and grass were abandoned. When the Turkic army returned to the capital, the Tiele and Uighurs who had not withdrawn were slaughtered by the red-eyed Turks, and the Turkic army was only 200,000.

In Wanzhou Zhichong Mansion, Li Ang met the chief and learned the above news. "Did the Turks really move to the north?" Listen to what the chief has to say. Leon frowned.

"The capital of the Turks has been razed to ruins by your army, and their army has been badly damaged. The tribes that had subjugated them began to stand on their own, and the current steppe returned to the way it was thirty years ago almost overnight. The chief looked at Leon, not knowing how to describe this young man, who always did crazy things that everyone didn't expect, and he succeeded in all of them.

"The desert is now under the direct control of the empire, and the grassland is no longer a big threat, I don't know what to say about your achievements this time?" The chief shook his head, then waved away the guards beside him and looked at Li Ang, "Do you know what your next task is?" ”

"Purge the rebels of the six kingdoms of the river." Li Ang was stunned, and then replied, he didn't know what the chief meant by asking like this.

"The six kingdoms in the river are vassal states given by Emperor Taizu in the era, and for one hundred and fifty years, they have all been loyal to Great Qin, and there is nothing wrong with it, but now Great Qin wants to abolish the kings." The chief unfolded the map and pointed to the six national highways in the river, "Cao, Mi, An, these three countries are close to Wanzhou, the deepest sinicization, their royal family promised to be willing to resign from the prince and move to Chang'an, but now something has gone wrong, the old king of the rice country suddenly became seriously ill, and it is very strange, I want you to investigate this matter." ”

"Whoa!" Li Ang replied in a deep voice, for him, there is nothing to do is the saddest.

"By the way, what happened to the four hundred orphans?" The chief suddenly asked the four hundred orphans, "What name do you plan to use for them in the camp of the Hidden Cavalry?" ”

"Break the army." Li Ang replied that he knew that the chief Akari had asked him to name the four hundred orphans, but in fact he was reminding him that his every move was well known to the military hall.

Leon exited the inner hall, and after he had left, the chief looked at the screen in the distance, where the prince had walked out, dressed in a black military uniform, looking no different from an ordinary staff officer.

"Your Highness, you really don't need to come in person." Looking at the land prince who was coming, the chief stood up.

"He is the person chosen by his father for Lone, how can Lone personally confirm that he is worthy of his father's respect for him." The prince sat down and said quietly to the chief.

"Then what does the prince think, does he think His Majesty has lost his eyes?" The chief also sat down, looked at the prince, frowned and asked.

"When I was in Chang'an, I just thought he was a very special person." The prince laughed, "Now, that's four words. ”

"What four words?" The chief asked with some curiosity.

"It's wonderful." The crown prince said these four words, and then said quietly, "Daqin has not produced such a talent for a long time, and my father gave me a big gift. ”

"Now that His Highness has confirmed, is it time to go back to Chang'an?" The chief groaned and looked at the prince.

"Actually, when Lone came out, my father gave Lone a secret decree." The prince pulled out a roll of paper from his sleeve and handed it to the chief.

After receiving the secret decree, the chief spread it out and looked at it, his face couldn't help but change, he looked at the prince and said, "This matter is too dangerous, if Your Highness has a case, how can the minister explain it to Your Majesty." ”

"Are you resisting?" The prince pointed to the secret decree in the commander's hand and asked with a smile.

"Your Highness is involved in the country, and the minister will not let His Highness be in danger no matter what." The chief looked at the prince and said without backing down.

"In fact, being alone in Chang'an is not safe." The crown prince stood up and looked at the sky outside the window, "According to the tradition of Great Qin, Gu should go to Dragon City Jerusalem at the age of fourteen, but because Gu has no brothers, he will give up. ”

"Lone is so big, it's the first time I've left Chang'an, and when my father is as big as Lone, I'm already galloping on the battlefield." The crown prince forced his gaze at the chief in front of him, "Do you want the crown prince of Great Qin to deviate from the martial tradition and ignore Emperor Taizu's ancestral teachings?" ”

"The prince's state of mind, the minister can understand, but after all, the prince is a member of the country..."

"Lone already has a son, you are too worried." The crown prince smiled, "I believe that my father will not be wrong, you should still obey the order!" ”

Listening to the gentle tone of the prince's persuasion, the chief knew that he couldn't change the prince's mind, the prince in front of him was too similar to the emperor, and under the same gentle appearance was a stubborn temperament, and the things he recognized would never change his mind.

"Ordered." The chief finally accepted the secret decree given to him by the emperor, and although he did not agree with it, the will of the crown prince and the emperor was not something he could change.

"Then you'll have to worry a little more." The prince looked at the chief of the order, and after a salute, he also left the inner hall. Looking at his back, the chief couldn't help sighing, he thought that before the prince returned to Chang'an, he would live a trembling life