Chapter 30: The Turning Point

Last time, it was mentioned that on the third day after Li Kuan broke through into the steppe, he encountered a Turkic cavalry of 500 men, and the two sides fought. With the help of the steppe wolves, after paying the lives of more than 60 Tang soldiers, they successfully annihilated the enemy. Captured the Turkic prince Ashnadur alive. After Xue Wanche and Liu Wei proposed to him to return to the camp to rest, Li Kuan hesitated.

Most of the soldiers around him were wounded, and it was really not suitable for this bone-chilling grassland, and it could snow heavily again at any time on this gloomy day, and if they didn't deal with it in time, they were afraid that it would cause infection, and they only brought a few days of food and grass when they came out, and there was not much food. This made Li Kuan feel the need to go back, but if he went back like this, the time was delayed, and he was a little unwilling. Although Li Kuan really wanted to directly exchange what he needed from the system, he couldn't trust these Xuanjia guards sent by Li Er, and other things could be trusted by them without reservation, but this system was his biggest secret, and it could never be known to outsiders.

Just when Li Kuan hesitated, the scouts in front came with the news, although they were heading in the direction of Datang, they also deviated from the original direction of entering the grassland, and there was a small Turkic settlement not far ahead. There are only about 100 households, and a felt canopy stands like a mushroom on a flat grassland. Some sturdy herders were packing their belongings, and it seemed that they were Turks who had not been able to evacuate in time. Perhaps it was the sound of Li Kuan's fight that alarmed them before, and now they are thinking about evacuating this border land and returning to the depths of the grassland.

"Serve it!" Li Kuan gave the order to beat the rabbit with grass. Idleness is also idle, and things that can still be done by the way.

"No!" The soldiers responded with a bang and entered the battle mode, although they had just fought with the Turkic soldiers. But Ashinadur led by Ashinadur can be regarded as the most elite part of the Turkic troops, compared to these herdsmen in front, the combat effectiveness is not known to be several levels stronger, although these herdsmen can also get on the horse and shoot the bow, but for the Xuanjia army can only be regarded as a piece of cake. The horses neighed, the horses' hooves clanged, and the snow on the ground was broken. Swept ahead. The dark armor was like a torrent in this snowy world, rushing in.

"Put up the banner of this king, this time not like the previous one. Fight for a single assault to crush these Turks! Li Kuanhong said.

"Yes, obey!" A Xuanjia guard soldier behind Li Kuan took out the military flag he had been carrying, unfolded it, and inserted it with the pole of the horse lance. In this way, a big banner was simply erected. Although there is no flagpole. But for a small force like theirs, it was enough.

The word 'Li' in the big bucket is on the light gray linen flag, which looks like a dragon flying and a phoenix dancing. With the wind blowing in the grassland, the hunt sounded.

"Kill!" Li Kuan shouted violently, and the team of more than 200 people rushed forward, like a tiger coming out to hunt for food, with a tragic killing aura, impacting this small Turkic settlement.

Although this settlement is small, this is only in the eyes of Li Kuan and others. I have seen the prosperous Chang'an, where 800,000 people live, a small village-like settlement of more than 100 families. It's really small, but such a settlement on the grassland can be called medium-sized, and many herdsmen are only three or five households walking together, with the migration of water and grass, constantly running around the grassland, without a fixed residence. This is the difference between ethnic groups, there are many such medium-sized settlements on the grassland, and they can make up more than 100 young and strong men to form a protective force that is not weak.

Hearing the shouts of killing, these Turkic young men reacted quickly, and they hurriedly put down the things they were packing, brought their longbows, and rode out on their horses to meet the enemy. But just as they were ready, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty had already rushed to the front, and it was too late to shoot bows and arrows at this distance. It's already at the point of hand-to-hand combat.

The Tang soldiers were menacing, and the horses were galloping, and the horse lance with the help of horsepower and blood stains had already stabbed at these Turks, and one by one they rushed into this chaotic camp, with the horse lance in their hands and the horizontal knife bringing up a wave of blood. One by one, the Turks were stabbed through the throat and beheaded in shock. Red blood spurted out, staining their felt tents. After that, it was a completely one-sided massacre, and there were three or four hundred people in this small settlement, except for the sporadic resistance at the beginning, but they were also directly suppressed by the Xuanjia Guard.

"You can kill, you can rob, but you can't abuse women! Violators are killed! Li Kuan shouted, although Xuanjiawei is disciplined, but it is not necessarily that there are no scum, if someone can't control the thing in the crotch, then this army will completely lose the meaning of saving zĂ i. Li Kuan has always believed that the war between the two countries can be tolerated by any means, and burning, killing, and plundering can all be tolerated, but only adultery cannot be tolerated, even if the city is slaughtered, it cannot be compared.

So one by one the Turks were killed directly, Xuanjiawei killed people when he saw them, and the Turks in the entire camp were killed, in addition to Qingzhuang, there were many women, children and children here, but those eyes with hatred, like wild wolves on the grassland, let Li Kuan know that these people could not stay. Although there was a trace of guilt in my heart, until ......

"Report to the captain, it's not the Turks in that felt tent, it's my Tang people!" A soldier rode up to Li Kuan's side.

"How can there be my Tang people in this Turkic settlement? Check it out! Said to Xue Wanche beside him, Li Kuance stepped forward immediately, and Xue Wanche followed closely.

When he came to the felt tent that the soldier said, Li Kuan heard a crying voice, is it a woman? Li Kuan had a bad premonition in his heart, hoping that it was not what he imagined, but reason told him that it must be like that.

Lifting the curtain of the door, the sight that imprinted into his eyes made the fire of anger in his chest burn to his head at once, and inside were dozens of poorly clothed women, and cow dung was burning in the center of the felt tent, and the smell was unpleasant. But it makes this felt canopy very warm. And the women, all of whom were almost defenseless, saw someone come in. Some clasped their hands on their knees to shield themselves from the exposed spring light, while more lay just like that, letting their bodies be exposed to the air, and staring at the top of the felt canopy with numb eyes. There were traces of black or dark purple on their bodies, and their lower bodies were in a mess. Li Kuan glanced at it and turned his head, not daring to look again.

These women are slender and fair-skinned, and they are definitely not Turkic women, so where else would they be women in this place close to the border of Datang? And their appearance shows that this is just a small Turkic settlement of about 100 households, and there are so many Han women killed, so big? The long border is full of loopholes, and this small cavalry team of two hundred people is enough to quietly infiltrate the border of the Tang Dynasty, and return safely after plundering.

"Chop all those Turks into minced meat! These brutes! Li Kuan withdrew from the felt canopy, the anger in his eyes was blazing, and when he saw the corpse of the Turkic lying on the ground, he suddenly became angry and ordered loudly. Then he looked at Ashnadur, who was trapped on horseback, the Turkic prince who was tied like a rice dumpling and whose mouth was gagged, and who was looking at the Turkic child lying on the ground in amazement.

"How can you pity these wolf cubs?" Li Kuan's voice sounded beside him. A handful of ripped off the rag that blocked his mouth and looked at him.

"You are a demon, you will be punished, you will not let go of such a child!" Ashinadur stared closely at the corpse of the four or five-year-old child on the ground, and shouted at Li Kuan in Chinese.

"Am I a demon? Retribution for killing your Turkic wolf cubs? You come down for me! Li Kuan tore him off his horse and dragged him to the felt tent where the poor women were kept.

"Look at it, it's my Datang woman, it's the sister of our gang, it's the Han family woman who has the same blood as our gang, what have they become now? This is the sin of you beast-like people, and those children who grow up seeing such a scene will be good people in the future? Don't say I don't believe it, do you believe it? Li Kuan listened to the crying inside, and felt a pang of annoyance in his heart, he didn't want to see these things again, let alone the Turkic prince to see them, this was a loss of face for the Han nation, Li Kuan thought so. Let Ashinadur see it just let him take advantage, how can he show it?

"This ......" The Turkic prince stopped talking, what kind of virtue the Turks knew better than Li Kuan, these women were locked up in felt tents, or alive, so what else would it be besides sex slaves?

"Stop talking? You also heard my order just now, the adulterer is beheaded, although my Tang army is not a benevolent and righteous army, but it has a bottom line, what about you Turkic? This kind of thing is very common in your Turks, isn't it? Have you ever experienced it? Pretty fun, right? Is it very pleasant to insult my Datang woman? Li Kuan's voice became weird and low, as if he was in that dream-like situation, ethereal and uncertain, and it made people fall into it.

This is Li Kuan's hypnosis, this skill Li Kuan found that it was very chicken, unless a large amount of energy points were spent for deep hypnosis, otherwise it could only allow the target to take advantage of the situation when there were violent fluctuations. Li Kuan had experimented on Turkic soldiers before, even if they had just been defeated and surrendered, they could not be directly hypnotized, and the Turkic soldiers who grew up in iron and blood in this era had very strong willpower, even if Ashinadur ordered them to surrender, which made them very depressed. Li Kuan's hypnotism could not break through the barrier of their will in this situation, which shows how strong their will is. If there were any white-collar and gold-collar people in later generations, Li Kuan would have hypnotized them a hundred and eighty times, and there are people with strong willpower in the flashy and restless era, but they will never be as common as in this era.

"This prince has not participated in any activities to insult the women of the Tang Dynasty, and I am deeply ashamed of this!" Ashnadur subconsciously retorted. It's just that the sound is starting to become mechanical, and this is a trick.

"It's finally time to talk to you, it's really not easy to break your will, if you can't do this, you can only be killed! It seems that you still have a little conscience, so I'll spare your life first! Li Kuan wiped the sweat from his forehead, this hypnosis is also a physical activity! (To be continued......)