Chapter 152: One Step Late

Wei Chigong broke through the palace of the puppet Sui and captured the puppet Sui emperor Yang Zhengdao alive, a ten-year-old child, and did not kill him on the spot, and was ready to be escorted into Beijing to Emperor Li Er first.

This kind of thing is indeed something to celebrate, the achievement of destroying the country and capturing the enemy chieftain. It's just that the child Yang Zhengdao can't be escorted in a prisoner car. And rummaging through the palace of the pseudo-Sui, Wei Chigong did not find what he wanted.

This is the secret decree that Li Er gave him after he determined that Wei Chigong attacked the pseudo-Sui, and asked him to help him search for something here. What is it? Of course, it's the heirloom jade seal!

As the most important token of the emperor's identity in the Central Plains Dynasty, this thing is something that every emperor must have. After the fall of the former Sui Dynasty, this heirloom jade seal was nowhere to be found.

At that time, the Central Plains was in turmoil, and there was no way to find it, and gradually after Li Tang won the world, he couldn't find it. In the end, it was determined that it should have been taken away by Emperor Yang's empress Xiao.

At that time, Empress Xiao had been welcomed into the grassland by the Turks, and soon after, the news of the establishment of the puppet Sui came out, so Li Er deduced that the jade seal of the country should be in the hands of the puppet Sui emperor.

It's just that this is just an inference, and there is also a possibility that she is still in the Turkic king's tent, after all, Empress Xiao went to the grassland and was included in the harem by Jieli Khan. Empress Xiao may not necessarily take this thing out to the Turks, so Li Er has a double insurance.

Not only did Wei Chigong get Li Er's secret order to search for the whereabouts of the jade seal of the country, but there was another person, that is, Li Jing. Li Jing, as the general manager of the army along the steppe, was the most likely person to go to the Turkic king's tent.

And now that the steppe army is divided into three routes, Li Jing first chose the Turks as his target because of this secret purpose.

The army rushed on the grassland, and the 50,000 cavalry was divided into three routes, Li Jing with 15,000 people, Li Ji was the same, and then Hou Junji with 20,000 people. The main reason is that Xue Yantuo is now the most powerful on the grassland, and he has the most remaining troops.

All in all, in short, the three-way army is now almost invincible in the steppe. Regardless of the tribe, there are no more than 10,000 troops left, and most of them are small armies left behind in those big tribes.

These topping heavens, that is, an army of one or two thousand people, how can they be the opponents of the Tang cavalry, and because the three tribes of the grassland do not have another advantage of the Tang Dynasty now: horseshoes.

It originated relatively early in Europe, around the first century BC, but was introduced to Asia relatively late, also because previous dynasties had little contact with each other.

Even if there were caravans with trade, because the Western Regions was full of yellow sand, horses could not advance in the desert at all, so most of them used camels. As a result, the flow of information was not smooth, so that it did not begin to spread in the Central Plains until the Yuan Dynasty.

But now the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty has horseshoes, but the army of the grassland people lacks this thing, so when the battle is fought, the war horses of the Tang Dynasty do not have to be afraid of the arrows on the battlefield and the blades on the corpses.

As a result, the Tang army does not have to worry about the danger of the horse's hooves being damaged and falling into the horse during the battle, and has the advantage of crushing. In a short period of time, the entire grassland will be turned upside down by the three cavalry of the Tang Dynasty.

Lu Hanyang did not follow the Tang army deep into the grassland, he went directly to the border of the Western Turks, and the Western Turks would not touch it for the time being, because the Tang Dynasty needed to digest the fat of the grassland.

After all, the number of people in the Tang Dynasty is still very small, whether it is immigration to the border or something, it is impossible for the grassland to completely naturalize the Central Plains in a short period of time. So you can't become fat in one bite, and you still don't need to expand anymore.

Of course, in this process, Lu Hanyang also wandered on the grassland, this is the first time to the prairie, the green grassland has spread to the horizon, and the open vision also makes people feel comfortable.

In this Datang, he is invincible, and only by walking around like this can he feel that life is not so boring.

He had planned to take the two children and walk around, but the change on the grassland made him put this plan on hold for the time being, but he himself came to the grassland to see the beautiful scenery.

Sitting on the back of the red-crowned crane, the whole person slowly went west, and saw a lot of grassland tribes' tents along the way, but he didn't go down, after all, this is Turkic, what did he go to see?

The language is not clear, it is better to look around casually, now it is not the hospitality of the steppe people in later generations, most of the Turkic people in this era do not have any good feelings towards the Han people, and are more hateful.

Because of the war, the survival of the nation made the Turks have to go south, and when they want to survive and cannot meet their food needs in winter, they can only transfer their own needs to the people of the southern Tang Dynasty.

There was no sense of urgency all the way, and it slowly flew in the sky. Until a puff of smoke rose from below, attracting his attention.

Below is a grassland tribe, very large, about tens of thousands of people, which can be regarded as a rare large tribe in the entire grassland.

In the center of this large tribe, a tall flagpole was erected, on which a golden wolf flag fluttered in the wind.

"I didn't expect to run so casually, but I actually arrived at the Turkic king's tent!" Seeing the Golden Wolf Banner, Lu Hanyang knew where he had come.

It just made him wonder why the Turkic king's tent was actually burning in a fire, and it could even be said that the smoke was billowing out. It was the smoke that attracted his attention and made him fly in this direction.

"Go down and have a look...... It's not the smoke of cooking on a fire! Lu Hanyang secretly said in his heart, of course he didn't make a fire to cook, after all, he was close now, and he saw that many tents were constantly burning.

Something happened in the steppe, and the whole Turkic tent was set on fire, and there was no one to put out the fire, as if everyone had disappeared.

Send the red-crowned crane aside, this red-crowned crane does not dare to approach now, and further on is the area covered in smoke, and the red-crowned crane will be smoked to death if it enters.

Lu Hanyang landed on the grassland, and as soon as he landed, he smelled a strong smell of blood. This smell of blood made his face change: the Turkic king's tent was afraid that he would be slaughtered.

Quickly came to the Turkic king's tent, and in an instant Lu Hanyang found that there were a lot of corpses here, it is not an exaggeration to say that the corpses are all over the field, it seems that the entire king's tent is dead.

Not only human corpses, but countless wolves.

This scene is like a man-wolf battle, and all the scars on the human body are torn out by wild beasts, and most of them are fatal direct throat locks.

Most of the wounds on the wolf's body are caused by people, such as knife scars, arrow shots, and so on.

Obviously, the entire Turkic king's tent was attacked by a group of wolves, and all the people were bitten to death, this is a guard with thousands of people, how is it possible, this is Lu Hanyang's first thought.