Chapter 31: Into the Prairie Again

Li Kuan took the opportunity to hypnotize Ashnadur when he was shocked by the brutality of the Turks themselves, and then began to talk. Speaking of which, this is also because Ashinadur, the Turkic prince, is not as brutal as the rest of the Turks, so he will be broken by this kind of thing, although he has heard of these things done by these Turks close to the border of the Tang Dynasty, but he has never seen it in person, and even the grassland army has not participated in it before the Tang Dynasty plundered him, don't look at him is already in his twenties, but he has never been far away from the surrounding area of the Turkic king's tent on the steppe. This time with Jieli on the expedition, it was the first time he had left the sacred water of the sacred mountain so far.

"What's your name?" Li Kuan began to ask, starting with the simplest question, so as not to touch the taboo in the heart of the Turkic man and make him sober up. So this kind of deep layer will make him sink deeper and deeper, and in the end he will be able to get out all the secrets he knows.

"Ashinadur!" The Turks responded to Li Kuan's questions as if muttering to themselves.

"What's your relationship with Jieli?" Li Kuan then asked, these questions are simple, but they are an indispensable part of hypnotizing Ashinadur at a deeper level.

"Jieli is my cousin!" Ashinadur's eyes gradually became silent, no longer moving, like a puppet.

"How many troops did you come this time?" When Li Kuan saw his expression, he knew that he could get an answer to any question now, because the person in front of him had been deeply hypnotized, and he knew everything about others.

"A total of 80,000 troops came, all of whom were the most warlike warriors of the Turks!"

"Where are these people now? Where will they go next? Li Kuan then asked.

"There is only one destination. That is the Datang border, we are ready to break it into pieces, infiltrate the Datang border and assemble! Ashinadur's mechanical voice delivered an important message.

"And where is the rally point?" Li Kuan asked eagerly.

"This ...... The assembly location ...... "Ashnadur began to struggle. It seems to be about to start waking up.

"Where is the area where the army is infiltrated?" Li Kuan saw that the previous question made the Turkic prince start to struggle, and immediately knew that he was too anxious, this assembly location was the most core secret, and Ashinadur had a strong sense of defense against this location. Suddenly changed to a less confidential question, and sure enough, Ashinadur stopped struggling.

"Our Turkic army is ready to go to Dingxiang City, not far from the border of the Tang Dynasty, and then divide into countless small groups of cavalry to infiltrate along that section of the border."

Li Kuan was relieved when he saw that this question had a result. With the news of the Turkic infiltration of the territory, it was much easier to do, than to defend the long border. What is this section around Orientation City? It's much easier to be prepared.

"In addition to the movement of the army, where are the tribes on the steppe generally located?" Li Kuan then asked, such information is not confidential, so Ashinaduri happily sued Li Kuan. Even the location of the Turkic king's tent was stated. In this way, Li Kuan was prevented from scurrying around on the grassland like a headless fly, trying their luck. With a specific goal, you can go straight to the Yellow Dragon.

"Someone, pull him down and tie him up, his mouth is blocked, and send someone to send a report to Chief Manager Li Jing, immediately!" Li Kuan walked into a nearby felt tent and began to write a recital. The information that will come out of Ashinadur's mouth will only be Li Jing's voice. Although Li Kuan also vaguely remembered that Li Jing sent troops to attack Dingxiang and defeated the Turks in one fell swoop. And there seems to be a minister named Tang Jian among them who has made great contributions in it. I don't remember exactly, but it's always necessary to send someone to let you know. Although he and the others had decided to go back to rest and recuperate, after conquering this small settlement, Li Kuan changed his mind, and he saw the atrocities of the Turks, and his heart was even more determined to make these beast-like peoples disappear from history.

Therefore, before Li Kuan entered the felt tent to write a report, he quietly put a large pile of grain into a felt tent passing by, which seemed to have no one to enter yet, because there were no Turks there to resist, so the Tang soldiers did not rush in to check, and first went to suppress those places where there was resistance.

The newspaper was written, and when the ink had dried, it was ready to be delivered, and the soldiers who had come to accept the task of delivering the letter were already waiting outside the tent.

"Report ...... Captain, I found a lot of food in a felt tent over there! A Xuanjia guard soldier shouted loudly and rushed towards Li Kuan's side, the heavy armor on his body now seemed to have no weight, and it couldn't slow him down in the slightest.

"Oh! How could there be food in this Turkic camp? Li Kuan asked pretending to be surprised.

"Because it should have been these Turks who went to the countryside on the border of my Tang Dynasty to loot it! The same goes for the women! Liu Wei didn't know when he appeared outside the account, and explained in a low voice.

"What's going on over there? Have you taken care of it? "Li Kuan asked Liu Wei to deal with the affairs of those women, now that Liu Wei is here, what should I do over there?

"Those women, except for a small number of women who are willing to accept the property we give us and prepare to return to Datang and go away incognito to start a new life, the vast majority of women have committed suicide!" Liu Wei's tone was heavy, with an indissoluble anger, and when he saw the scene of those naked women resolutely dying one by one in front of his eyes, the Xuanjia Guard Lieutenant, who had cultivated a cold and hard heart after a hundred battles, was also moved. Recalling the scene at that time, Liu Wei was not very embarrassed.

Li Kuan was surprised to hear that most of the women chose to commit suicide, don't these people cherish their lives? Why didn't you kill yourself before, but when you were saved, you had the courage to commit suicide? What kind of logic is this? Why didn't you have such courage when you were humiliated before? Or is it for the sake of the so-called reputation of chastity? I don't know about these Li Kuan, maybe they all have them. After all, in this era, women's chastity is very important, and their reputation is bad, so in addition to being lonely and old, it is too difficult to find another husband who relies on him for life. Where is it like the afterlife, how many men have no vegetables on their heads? Not after marriage, but before marriage!

Anyway, these women can be regarded as having a result, Li Kuan no longer thinks about this, but decides how the future action will be carried out: "Liu Sima, the captain of this school decided to send these women to the border of the Tang Dynasty and then return again. This time, the distribution of tribes on the grassland is clear, and we can plan it! You go and call General Xue Wanche, let's sum it up first! ”

That night, in the felt tent of the Turkic people, the Xuanjia new battalion led by the king of Chu of the Tang Dynasty held its first strategic meeting, discussed various resolutions against the Turks, conducted in-depth discussions and consultations on the expedition to the Turks, and set the strategic goals and combat deployment for the future.

After that, Li Wan began to rush back with the wounded soldiers and the women who were struggling to go to the border of the Tang Dynasty, looking for a place to put the women down, and then distributed some of the goods and food obtained from the Turkic settlements to the women, and then began their journey to the steppe again. Those women knelt on the ground to see off these Tang soldiers, one by one burst into tears, perhaps the original purpose of these soldiers was not to save them, just to eliminate those Turks, but it also really saved their lives, so this kneeling of these women was from the bottom of their hearts.

Li Kuan sat on his horse, another war horse beside him carried grain, and so did the soldiers behind him, which was enough for them not to worry about food for half a month on the grassland, as for the horses, the grass roots buried by snow on the ground, and the stored forage for their cattle and sheep from the Turkic tribes was enough.

Without the worries of food and grass, there is an exact coordinate reference for falling in love at home, and this time it is much more purposeful than the last random run.

What Li Kuan didn't expect was that it was because they sent those women back to the border that they evacuated the warning range of the Turks, and in the past two days, Jie Li was very annoyed because of the disappearance of Ashinadur, who was the son of his cousin, and this cousin was the guard next to the Turkic Taishang, who may not be well-known in the entire Turkic, but in the Turkic tribes, the highest level knows his status. His status was noble, even above the leaders of many large tribes, second only to Jieli and Tuli, two recognized khans of the Turks. Who let the one standing behind him be the closest person to the wolf god in the entire Turkic?

Therefore, his disappearance made Jieli very angry, and sent a search force of 5,000 people to the place and checked, and the result was, of course, countless remnants of corpses were found, but because of the destruction of the wolves, it was impossible to recognize who was who, but those iron armor among them could see where it was not only the Turks who died.

"It must have been done by those Tang Dynasty troops, they encountered Ashinadur's team, and there was a battle between the two sides, but why are there only more than two hundred corpses there? The number is not right! Did the rest be captured alive? Jieli paced in his tent and pondered. Wherever he went, he followed his royal tent, which of course was a marching royal tent, not a formal one. In the depths of the steppe there was a much larger royal tent, where the highest Turkic nobles were located, just like Jieli's wife and children, and the mysterious Turkic Taishang.

"It should be like this, these Tang people captured Ashinadur alive! It will certainly ask us about our strategic deployment, and it seems that we will step up our actions! Wait for the next heavy snowfall, and when those Datang troops are too frozen, we will start the infiltration plan! After thinking about it, Jieli summoned all the commanders and generals in the army and made his decision.

So the Turks began to step up their march, preparing to rush to Dingxiang, and Li Kuan and others happened to avoid the Turks' wanton search, and after they left, they entered the steppe again, and the things in the world were so coincidental that I really didn't know what to say.

On the other side, Li Jing led a large army of the Tang Dynasty to receive Li Kuan's report and learned of the Turkic intentions. However, at this time, Tang Jian proposed to still send an envoy to the Turks to buy time for Li Jing's army and step up the deployment of defenses in the Dingxiang area. Li Jing said goodbye to Tang Jian with tears, I don't know if we can see each other again after we go! (To be continued......)