Two days later, in the early morning, Li Duozuo's subordinates captured three enemy soldiers who wanted to escape from the mountain and escorted them to Xue Shao's tent.

When Tang Jun saw these three captives, they all laughed at them. Because they are not only not like soldiers but also refugees, they are like savages at all.

When Xue Shao saw the sad appearance of these three captives, he was secretly happy in his heart - the fire has arrived!

"Get them something to eat and drink, I'm going to ask them myself."

After a short while, the three captives were taken into Xue Shao's tent. Guo An personally brought them drinking water and food. The three captives seemed to be on the verge of madness, desperately fighting for food, and almost choked to death on the spot.

Xue Shao watched quietly until they finished eating, and then said in Turkic: "Guillotine rice, is it delicious?" ”

Since the first time he followed Pei Gong's Northern Expedition, Xue Shao has been constantly dealing with the Turks. To this day, he is able to speak Turkic quite fluently. During his tenure as a diplomatic envoy, Li Dayu said that Xue Shao's Turkic language had a "Ashina" accent, which was very close to the standard of "official dialect" on the grassland.

Hearing Xue Shao's words, the three captives were all stunned on the spot, and looked at Xue Shao with wide eyes in shock.

Xue Shao smiled, "Do you know me?" ”

The three shook their heads in confusion and panic.

"Then introduce yourself, my name is Xue Shao."

As soon as Xue Shao said this, the three of them knelt down and kowtowed.

"Don't kowtow, say a few words to me." Xue Shao said indifferently, "Well said, maybe I will spare you from death." ”

"We ...... Surrender! One of the middle-aged men opened his mouth in a snort.

The other two captives were young men in their twenties, who were about the juniors or subordinates of this middle-aged man, and they also joined them.

"You participated in the battle of Lingzhou, and you all slaughtered our soldiers and people of the Tang Dynasty." Xue Shao's tone sank, "This also means that you can't surrender if you want to!" ”

"Spare your life!!" The three of them kowtowed violently.

Xue Shao said: "If you want to live, you only have one chance. ”

"Whatever you say, we'll do it all!"

Xue Shao smiled slightly, "First of all, tell me all the situation on the mountain truthfully!" ”

……

About an hour later, Xue Shao summoned Li Duozuo and other generals to come to the meeting. He said directly to the mountain, Yi Li Si pulled out the men and horses trapped in the mountain, and the army had already been cut off from water and food, and it was time to surrender them. The specific method was that Xue Shao wanted the two small chiefs of Tongluo who had surrendered at Yinchuan Military Fort to go back with these three captives to meet Yi Li Siba and convey to him the surrender conditions offered by the Tang army.

The conditions were similar to those when the chief of the Tongluo tribe, Shenasi, surrendered.

If he agrees, he will be able to descend the mountain tomorrow and surrender. If they refuse, the Tang army will inevitably launch a fierce attack, and the blood left by the chickens and dogs will wash Yushi Mountain, and avenge the blood hatred for the robes and compatriots who died in Lingxia Erzhou!

The crowd passed unanimously without objection.

Several foreign captives carried Xue Shao's handwritten letter and went up the mountain. On the same day, a white flag was waved on Yushi Mountain - Yi Li sipped and surrendered!

Xue Shao sighed secretly, thinking to himself, if you really want to fight, it is not too difficult to clean up this group of turtles in the urn. If you can successfully surrender, it is the best policy. If nothing else, at least a good group of elite knights can be selected from this group of captives!

Beginning in the early morning of the next day, according to Xue Shao's request, the Turkic enemy troops on Yushi Mountain lined up in a long snake line and walked down the mountain one after another. They dropped their weapons and flags at a fixed location, and then they were given a pot of water and a bowl of porridge with wild vegetables. More than 10,000 captives will be dispersed into six different prisoner-of-war camps, depending on their tribal characteristics. There were three of the prisoner-of-war camps, which were to be used to hold the servants of the Skeleton Division. They are the main body of the army in front of them.

Xue Shao's treatment of the Servant Bone Division's surrender was similar to that of the Tongluo Division. Like Shenasi, he led a thousand men back to the steppe to move their tribe south. Otherwise, all the Tongluo soldiers will be put to death.

Captives of the Turkic tribes were held separately and enjoyed "special treatment". That night, Xue Shao sent people to secretly escort them to the prison city of Shuofang Military Town. How to send it down will be a later story.

The remaining two battalions of captives came from different tribes of different sizes in the steppe, and they were the most vulnerable group to surrender because they were isolated and had little choice. Xue Shao personally took Niu Ben and Duan Feng, and first selected more than 1,300 strong men from among them, and filled them under the command of Tuoban cavalry and Duan Feng.

In the next two or three days, Xue Shao's barracks was very busy. In the Tiger Division's camp separated by half a mountain, there is a cold fire and clear smoke, and everyone is so idle that it hurts.

Wang Xiaojie was not calm again, drank wine, and pointed at Xue Shao across a mountain and scolded, "Little white face, that's my captive!" ”

"Do you regret it?" Ashina Zhongjie sneered on the side again.

Wang Xiaojie slanted to Ashina Zhongjie, "You always can't spit out ivory in your dog's mouth." ”

"Do you have the ability to spit out one for me to see?" Ashina Zhongjie, who was a prisoner in the enemy camp, was much more poisonous than before. At least in front of Wang Xiaojie.

Wang Xiaojie sighed heavily, "I do regret it." The more than 10,000 steppe captives were all good cavalry material. Even if you can only recruit one-tenth of it, that's a thousand elite riders! ”

"I thought you had thought of it a long time ago." Ashina Zhongjie pursed his lips and said: "It's not that I eat inside and out, no matter how hard the cavalry in the Central Plains trains, it will be difficult to catch up with the steppe cavalry who take horses as their home." ”

"That's true." This time, Wang Xiaojie did not refute, but said, "I have been in the army for many years, and I have never seen a few cavalry of our dynasty, and I can really compete with the Rongdi cavalry head-on." ”

"I've seen it." Ashina Zhongjie said it really.

Wang Xiaojie smiled, "The Yue cavalry troops of the Anxi Tiger Division? ”

Ashina Zhongjie "hehe" and shook his head.

Wang Xiaojie's face sank, but his tone increased, "Then who else?" ”

"The last elite cavalry unit that Pei Gong personally built before his death was called 'Jumping'." Ashina Zhongjie said.

Wang Xiaojie's face twitched a few times, turned his head, stared angrily at the direction of Xue Shao's camp, and said in an urn voice: "I have heard of it." Xue Chuyu, Xue Rengui's concubine. ”

"Among Xue Rengui's five sons, Xue Chuyu is the only one who has truly inherited his father's mantle." Speaking of this, Ashina Zhongjie shook his head with a sigh, "It's a pity, Xue Chuyu is actually Xue Shao's person again." Or hardcore brothers! ”

"You! ......" Wang Xiaojie was really about to be angry, "Or you just go to Xue Shao's side!" ”

Ashina Zhongjie smiled, and sighed after laughing, "I'm going to go sooner or later." ”

Wang Xiaojie was stunned, "I'm just joking, are you serious?" ”

Ashina Zhongjie shook his head and said, "There is a big account, and Xue Shao hasn't settled it with me yet. You forgot? ”

"With me here, he doesn't dare to do anything to you." Wang Xiaojie sneered, "Didn't you see him that day, did he mention half a sentence?" ”

Ashina Zhongjie smiled slightly bitterly and didn't say anything more, thinking that if Xue Shao really "didn't dare" what to do to me as you said, then he was really not the Xue Shao who was called "human slaughter". To this day, he has not come to me to settle the account of the "Helan fiasco", just to take into account the overall situation and not want to make the relationship with Wang Xiaojie too stiff. But Wang Xiaojie regarded Xue Shao's temporary hiding as "fear...... With Wang Xiaojie's inferior "cultivation", how can he compete with Xue Shao?

In the evening, Xue Shao set up a small banquet to invite the big leader of the Servant Bone Department who had just surrendered, Yi Li Sip.

is also the big leader of the grassland tribe, and compared with the shrewd Shena Silai, the taciturn Yi Li Siba has more military temperament.

In fact, before Ye Hu came to Helong, Yi Li Siba was once the supreme commander of the Turks on the Helong battlefield. It was he who commanded the Battle of the Lingzhou Invasion and the Battle of Helan Mountain. He defeated Wei Zhiwei, struck the Shuofang army, and occupied the thousand-mile territory of Lingxia Erzhou, almost sweeping the entire Helong territory.

Although the entire strategy was planned by Yuan Zhen, the specific tactics were formulated and executed by Yi Li Sipout. If it weren't for the internal contradictions (mainly the struggle for merit and profit with the Luo Division) that led to the chaos of the Turkic formation, and the change of commander on the spot, Xue Shao felt that it would definitely be much more difficult for him to win from Yili Siba.

From this, Xue Shao can also speculate that at this moment, Yi Li Siba's heart must be quite unwilling. Because he lost not to the enemy, but to "pig-like comrades-in-arms".

The broth in the iron pot was already tumbling, and the aroma of cooked mutton was tangy. Xue Shao's part was very large, and a bowl of mutton was placed in front of Yi Li Sip.

He looked at the broth in the bowl and was stunned.

"You're very unwilling." Xue Shao said.

Yi Li Siba glanced at Xue Shao at this time, and said, "I have always been looking forward to being able to compete with Young Marshal Xue on the battlefield. ”

"What if we fought side by side?"

"I didn't think about it."

Xue Shao smiled, this Yi Li sip is straightforward. Most of these people have strong personalities and will not easily admit defeat and will not easily defect. Even if he had surrendered as a prisoner at this moment, it must have been a compromise that was finally made after a fierce ideological struggle.

"You're not afraid of death." Xue Shao said, "You surrendered just so that your people could survive. ”

"Yes." Yi Li Sipat simply confessed, and said, "Now you can kill me, if only you can spare my people." They just do what they are told to do and have no choice. ”

"What about you?" Xue Shao asked, "If you were given another chance, would you be an enemy of Datang?" ”

"Yes."

Xue Shao frowned, "Why?" ”

"Because I was born in the prairie and grew up in the prairie, I had no choice." Yi Li looked at Xue Shao with blazing eyes, and said calmly, "Just like Xue Shaoshuai was born and raised in the Central Plains, you will only choose to fight for the Central Plains!" ”

"Well said." Xue Shao nodded and smiled, "But there is one thing, we are different. ”

"Which point?"

Xue Shao replied: "The grassland people, even if they are captives, can easily integrate into our nation and eventually become the people of the Tang Dynasty. And the people of the Tang Dynasty were taken captive to the grassland, and they could only be slaves and maids, and they were treated like cattle and horses. ”

"......" Yi Li sobbed and gritted his teeth, silent.

"So, you can not only fight for the Turks, but also become a famous general of the Tang Dynasty. Just like many famous generals of different races since the founding of the Tang Dynasty. For example, Ashina Simo, Li Jinxing, and Hei Tooth Changzhi. Xue Shao smiled slightly and said, "And I, Xue Shao, will never betray my country and my nation." Unless ......"

Yi Li Sipluck subconsciously asked, "Unless what?" ”

Xue Shao smiled, "Unless I reincarnate again and become a foreigner." ”