Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Latent Problem
On the land of Tuyuhun, large and small tribes are distributed on the grassland of this plateau, this small country established in the two Jin Dynasty has lasted for hundreds of years, and has been on the border of the Western Regions of the Central Plains Dynasty for disaster border defense. But the Central Plains Dynasty either suppressed it or appeased it, and never regarded this scabies disease as a major disaster. Even in the pre-Sui period, the royal princess was married to this small country, which in Li Kuan's opinion was simply a loss of power and humiliation of the country, but at the peak of this feudal dynasty, it was a very common thing to use women and relatives. In particular, the emperor was reluctant to give up his daughter, so he took the daughter of the clan as a princess to marry the indigenous kings of the surrounding small countries, and then waited until the country was strong, regardless of the fact that these women brought decades of peace to his empire, and fought with these countries.
But he didn't dare to say these thoughts, because Li Er would do these things, but it hadn't happened yet, remembering that Zhenguan used two clan daughters and kissed Tuyuhun and Tubo in the twelfth and fourteenth years of Zhenguan, and his Chinese princess into Tubo made this country on the plateau stronger, and the majestic Potala Palace began to be built at this time. Li Kuan now has some capital, and he wants to stop these things from happening, so now he is here. In short, he has a lot of messy ideas in his heart, he does it when he thinks of it, he does it to the best, and if he doesn't succeed, he has no regrets because he has worked hard.
When I came here, of course, the first thing was to find food and armor, and the iron armor was not extravagant, and Li Kuan was not ready to get it. Because this was suspicious, he prepared leather armor. The food doesn't matter, not long ago, Tuyuhun came back from the autumn wind in Datang. The source of the food was over, so they headed for a small Tuyuhun tribe that they had first discovered, and the sound of horses' hooves echoed across the grassland like spring thunder. For the upcoming killing, those soldiers are used to it, and Li Kuan doesn't care, he is an out-and-out emperor and Han element, as long as he is not a Han Chinese, then no matter how many deaths he has, he will not feel the slightest distress. He wished that all these aliens were dead.
A small tribe of Tuyuhun, with a small number, only one or two thousand, who lived on water and grass and are now waiting for the arrival of spring on the plateau, when the snow melts and the grass on the grassland begins to grow, and they can continue grazing. And the warriors of the tribe in the past went to the Tang Dynasty under the mountain with their king and brought back enough food to support the arrival of spring, so now the Tuyuhun people are nesting in tents and drinking delicious barley wine. It's just that they didn't expect to be attacked at this time. And the mighty men of their tribe went to the royal capital, and rejoiced with the great king.
Li Kuan and the others were lucky, the first tribe they encountered was only left with some old, weak, sick and disabled, and after the young and strong brought back the grain, they went to the royal capital to wait for the distribution of slaves. This time they went to Datang and saw those white and tender women in Datang, compared to those women with reddish-brown skin in their own family, these Datang women are immortals. It is the best gift from the gods. Therefore, these Tuyuhun warriors were reluctant to take this great opportunity to go to the royal capital to distribute these beautiful women. Strive to take home a few more.
Under such circumstances, Li Kuan's first battle in Tuyuhun was very smooth and he took it. They rode war horses. Wielding a spear and a horse lance in his hand, or stepping into this almost undefended Tuyuhun tribe with a horizontal sword, the weapon in his hand begins to reap life. The neighing of the war horse smashed the tents, and the spear in his hand did not know how many Tuyuhun people had stabbed to death, only that the blood on the tip of the spear had never dried up.
The Tuyuhun people are also a nation of all soldiers, so even if the young and strong of the tribe are not in the tribe, there are still some people who spontaneously resist, this is certain, no matter which nationality, in the face of the threat of death, will rise up to resist, so a group of Tuyuhun people also rode on war horses, waving a handle of the horse lance rushed up, they are mostly some old Tuyuhun men, in the past they were also warriors in the tribe, all of them have been on the battlefield, belonging to their era in the pre-Sui era, At that time, they rode horses and galloped along the borders of the Sui Dynasty, and from time to time they entered the rich capital and looted grain and women. Although they are old now, their blood is still there, and they are caught off guard by these sudden enemies, but they still organize a resistance.
One by one, the old Tuyuhun people kept rushing forward, they were already old, and the strength in their hands was far less than that of the year, but the exquisite riding skills they had practiced in their lives were still not reduced at all. Therefore, the force they exerted should not be underestimated, and the power that erupted at the moment of life and death made Li Kuan and them hurriedly suppress it, these old guys were still very powerful when they launched a ruthless attack, but they met Li Kuan, an elite army that was also considered an elite army in the Tang Dynasty, and the number of people still had an advantage, so they could only be urged to be expensive.
Li Kuan shook his hand, and the spear was like a dragon, shaking off a drop of blood in the air, falling to the ground and shattering into several petals. The spear blocked the horse lance stabbed by an old Tuyuhun man at once, and then the spear in his hand flipped over, and the horse lance was deflected under the shock, and the tip of the spear pierced the air into the opponent's body, and the old Tuyuhun was pierced through the body by the tip of the spear. Then he hung on the tip of the spear, like a dead fish dried in the air, twitched twice in the cold wind, and then said goodbye to this world completely. Li Kuan threw the corpse aside, and then pounced on another person, chasing clouds under his crotch and following his master's wishes, he rushed forward, and the hooves of the horse's hooves the size of the sea bowl stepped on the ground of this camp, and the corpses and snow on the ground could not stop its footsteps in the slightest. It was taller than the average horse, and it had a violent temperament, staring at the horseshoe on the horse's hooves, and stepping on it would trample the stomach of a corpse, and then the internal organs squirted out, mixed with blood, and some bodily fluids in the human body, splattered everywhere.
The war horses are also fighting with each other, and Chasing Yun is undoubtedly a good war horse, with a full body, and he rarely loses in the collision with other war horses, so in this Li Kuan rampage, he is invincible in this small camp.
The battle did not last very long, except for the spontaneous resistance of the old Tuyuhun people. The rest was more or less a massacre, but only for a moment. The battle was over, and the small camp had hundreds of tents. Spread out on this small flat land, like a gray stone wrapped in the earth, surrounded by a circle of stables, the horses raised by the Tuyuhun people must also be tethered, otherwise they will run around. There are also cattle and sheepfolds. This small tribe has one or two thousand people, but it raises a lot of livestock, and after a winter, many cattle and sheep are slaughtered. But there are still nearly 10,000 heads. There are also a lot of war horses, although most of them are not as good as the horses that Li Kuan and them sit on, but they are still a huge wealth. However, Li Kuan and the others really couldn't take these things away, they had just arrived on this grassland, and they hadn't thought about going back yet, so the only way to deal with these things was to kill them.
This time it took more time to kill the animals than to kill them, because they had no bows and arrows, and had to use their hand-to-hand blades. And when the cattle and sheep saw their kind being slaughtered, they blew up the pot, ran out one by one, and broke the sturdy cattle and sheep pen, and then there was no more. Li Kuan: It is impossible for them to chase after these livestock, and now what they urgently need is food, and they can't take these cattle and sheep with them. Ran and ran. In addition to food, they needed armor and bows and arrows, and this time they did not bring bows and arrows. If it weren't for the surprise attack and the tribe's light absence, there wouldn't have been too many casualties, otherwise it might have cost you. Of course, this is also a decision made by Li Kuan and his spies after quietly approaching and finding out some details. Otherwise, they will only come to attack in the middle of the night, and they will also carry out a surprise attack without revealing the grass.
In this era, bows and arrows are long-range weapons of destruction, and without bows and arrows, you have to risk being shot by the other side to rush forward and fight them in close combat, which is a great loss. And the Tuyuhun people are a nomadic people, and the favorite thing for such a people is riding and shooting, so there may be no other weapons, but there will never be a shortage of bows and arrows, so Li Kuan and their search finally made a discovery.
In this camp, they found many tents with longbows and arrows, and to their surprise, in two tents there were large sacks of food and piles of leather armor, which they desperately needed, and they did not expect to get them. And it didn't cost too much, of course, what these soldiers didn't know, in the previous two tents, there were actually only half of the tents stacked with food, as for how other things came from, Li Kuan didn't say that they would only use them as their own trophies. Put on their armor, and then each of them brought some grain, and each of them went to ripen it so that it could be eaten at any time, and then put it in a sack, so that when he was hungry, he did not have to cook it. For these soldiers, who dared to eat even raw rat meat not long ago, these directly cooked grains are already delicious. After setting off from Chang'an for more than half a month, these soldiers were very resentful, running all the way, being chased all the way, and having no food to see and what to eat. They are obviously heroes who go out for the empire, but they have become horse thieves that everyone shouts and beats, who can stand this kind of depression?
But they found that their leader, His Royal Highness Li Kuan, King of Chu, actually accepted it calmly, so they could only swallow their grievances into their stomachs, and this time a battle with the Tuyuhun people was also a kind of venting.
After most of the hour, everyone mounted their horses, followed by an idle horse dragging two bags of grain, and then left in the other direction.
On the grassland, Li Kuan realized that he had actually made a mistake, that is, there were too many of them, how could more than a thousand people hide their tracks and lurk in this grassland, it was really a headache, and how could a group of them hide more than 2,000 horses with two war horses each? Li Kuan couldn't help but think of something that he hadn't thought of for a long time, that is, why those special forces were only about 100 people at most, or even a dozen people, and there were only a few people in a team. It's not unreasonable, but it's too late to regret it now. So I can only learn that Huo Qu is sick, running thousands of miles, never falling in love with war, and changing places with one shot. I don't dare to fight hard with others, but after thinking about it, Li Kuan feels that in fact, if this matter is resolved, it is not impossible to erase this Tuyuhun from history, but this will expose a lot of things, there are a lot of unstable factors in his team, that is the people who have been inserted by all parties, but they have not had a seizure, Li Kuan doesn't know who they are, but he believes that there will be such two or five boys in this team. With these people here, Li Kuan didn't want to expose too many secrets, but if he didn't expose these things, his purpose this time would definitely not be able to be accomplished. This is a dilemma, Li Kuan is a little uncertain, but he, a time-traveler with a golden finger, has always hesitated, and he is decisive in dealing with foreign races, but he is ruthless to his own people.
After thinking about it, I really came up with a way for him! So he dismounted again and headed for the camp of Tuyuhun that was about to depart behind him. (To be continued......)