Chapter 55: Finally going back
Jieli was caught, but Li Kuan, who returned to the camp, had a headache, and in the face of the crying Empress Xiao, he really didn't know how to comfort this woman who was suffering from life. This legendary woman's life is too bad, her husband died, her son died, and she was left with a little grandson to accompany her, for the last root and seedling of the Yang family, Queen Xiao suffered and suffered humiliation, but she still ended up with a white-haired person sending a black-haired person. So Li Kuan could only silently watch her cry on the side, not knowing what to say to comfort.
Empress Xiao's sorrow made Princess Yicheng on the side very disdainful, in her opinion, this Yang Zhengdao actually deserved to die, and she couldn't even tell her own enemies, and she actually bit back when the Tang army attacked the camp, which was really stupid. If there is no Turk, perhaps their ancestors and grandchildren have already fallen into the hands of Li Tang, and now they are either imprisoned in the prison of the Tang Dynasty, or they are sent to Yazhou from afar to the kind of poor mountains and bad waters, how can they still enjoy the life of a vassal king for the past ten years.
So the corners of Princess Yicheng's mouth pulled up slightly, revealing a mocking smile: "Don't howl, die cleanly, anyway, my Yang family has been killed by Li Tang's thieves, and this last death can be regarded as a family reunion here." What is there to cry about? ”
Princess Yicheng's words undoubtedly sprinkled a handful of salt on Queen Xiao's bloody wounds, making her even more sad. The humiliation she has suffered over the years has long been unbearable, if she hadn't thought about the last strokes of the Yang family, she would have committed suicide a long time ago, at least she could have preserved her innocence. It was for this little grandson that she wanted to break her mouth full of teeth, endured full of resentment and sorrow, and now ended up with the evaluation of a family reunion. What is this? Empress Xiao turned her head. looked at Princess Yicheng, who was still laughing at her, with tears in the corners of her eyes. No more crying. She stood up and walked tremblingly in front of her sister-in-law: "You can see clearly. That's your nephew, the last bloodline of my Great Sui royal family, and now dead, Great Sui is really dead! "Faith collapsed, and Empress Xiao also faced collapse.
A woman is a strange animal, as long as she has a support, she will become weak, but a woman who has lost her support is the most tenacious representative, stronger than men. As long as there's something for them to hold onto. No matter how hard and tired they are, they don't feel bitter. But as soon as the persistence that made them strong was shattered, they would collapse and despair. Empress Xiao is exactly like this, and her grandson Yang Zhengdao is her last persistence and stubbornness.
Li Kuan looked at the bitter love drama in front of him, and felt that he was not much more worried than those mother-in-law and daughter-in-law sadomasochistic dramas in the eight o'clock file in the later generations. But it's just a look, no more to say, get into their own tent, and let the sister-in-law solve their own family affairs. Let the little gray ash guard the camp gate, Li Kuan began to busy his own business.
The loud sound of the horn sounded as the sky was about to dawn. Bursts of cheers resounded throughout the ruins of the battlefield, which was the cheer of the victors. They have such a right, and the entire city was rummaged through by Li Jing and others, looking for those who did not die. Then kill the mouth and eliminate the trouble. After a night of fighting, in the end, only Datang himself and Li Kuan's four captives were left in the entire city. Perhaps it can only be called three and a half captives now, because Princess Yicheng, who was locked in a prison car, was blown by the cold wind in the middle of the night. Coupled with the big battle between women that Li Kuan didn't see after that, now there is only half a life left.
Empress Xiao, who launched the ruthless attack, was also terrifying. Princess Yicheng, the princess of the Turkic Khan, has now become a beggar's wife. The cloak was scattered, covered with dust and mud, and a pretty face was dirty, except for the whites of one pair of eyes, and the rest was covered with mud. The clothes on his body were also torn to tatters, and the whole person was tired and shivering in the corner of the prisoner car.
Li Kuan got up early in the morning, and when he saw this scene, his heart was shocked, and it was conceivable that Empress Xiao was on the way Li Kuan knew in his eyes that her temperament was the kind of weak and bulliful and obedient type, but he didn't expect to bully Princess Yicheng so badly, which can only be said that Princess Yicheng seemed to have touched the most taboo place in Queen Xiao's heart. Just like a tiger's butt can't be touched, Queen Xiao can tolerate anything else, even when it comes to Yang Guang's fiasco and end, he can bear it softly and weakly, but the last insistence in her heart is her two sons and grandsons. These people can't be touched, and when they touch it, they will go crazy.
The soldiers got up to practice, and Zhang Baoxiang also returned with his booty, and Jieli was tied to a pole with a horse lance, and his hands and feet were tied together, and he was carried back like a pig. Zhang Baoxiang rode the night snow lion and walked in front with high toes, and his armor was obviously carefully wiped by him, and it looked very bright. The bright red cloak behind him is like a flag in the wind. Behind him was a group of knights, dressed the same, except that the armor on their bodies was missing some ornate decorations. The group of people happily carried Jieli around the ruined city, shouting that the surviving comrades would come out to see their booty, and the smug laughter echoed through the ruins and into Li Kuan's camp. Princess Yicheng, who was already half-dead, collapsed in the prisoner car all of a sudden, and her eyes no longer had any sparkle. Maybe she had fantasized that Jieli would be able to escape and make a comeback, but now all her hopes are shattered, and this qiē has come to an end.
In the next two days, Li Jing led the remnants of the soldiers and began to collect the corpses, the corpses of the Tang army were all wearing armor, while the Turks were wearing leather armor, and the remnants of the Sui Dynasty were only wearing cloth clothes, so it was easy to distinguish. Li Jing first collected the corpses of his own people, skillfully put the dead of the Tang Army together, and after incineration, the ashes were put into the Golden Pagoda.
Two days later, Li Shiji led the troops who came to meet him to the line of Dingxiang City. The group was close to 20,000 people, and it was several miles away. After Shun Lì joined the division, he began to clean the battlefield thoroughly, although he had roughly searched before, but after all, there were not many soldiers under Li Jing, and many places could not be collected. After all, when Princess Yicheng went to the Central Plains to pick up Empress Xiao, although the things left by the royal family of the former Sui had been almost divided, some of them were still taken to the grassland, except for Jieli and Yicheng who looted some to the Turkic king's tent. Most of them are still in this Dingxiang City. It is worth mentioning that in this big loot. In a remote part of Dingxiang City, Tang Jian and his party were found. In a deep dry well. More than a dozen people were huddled together, fortunately they brought enough dry food and water when they went down, otherwise they might have starved to death inside, when a soldier found the well, wanted to get some water to boil water to drink, the Tang soldiers on the grassland did not dare to drink water casually, the Turks would throw dead cattle and dead sheep into the water to create a plague. As a result, the rope of the barrel on the list was thrown into the well and smashed on the head of one of them, only to find them.
This well was dug by the people when they first arrived in Dingxiang City, and there was still water at the beginning. But after less than two years, it dried up, so it was abandoned here. Tang Jian and others took advantage of this to hide. He hid during the raid that night, and after that, he listened to the noise outside, because he was too remote and didn't know which side had won, so he didn't call for help, and wanted to quietly send someone out to see the situation in a few days.
When Tang Jian returned, Li Jing was relieved, laughed three times, and then the two old men went to the camp to discuss things together. And Li Shiji led the army to start searching for the spoils of war. Four of Li Kuan's captives were also confiscated, and although Li Kuan's first merit was recorded, they still had to be shared with others. This is also the practice in the army, a war down. There are always some soldiers who fail to go into battle to kill the enemy, is there no military merit? This is obviously impossible, so those who have great achievements in the war will divide part of the credit and tie it out with each other. Of course, Li Kuan's contribution is really inseparable. Because he could not say that only half of the people were captured, he made a note of the capture of the Turkic prince Ashnadur. Find the jade seal of the country and capture the former Empress Xiao of Sui. Princess Yicheng and other great credits, as for the extermination of more than a dozen Turkic tribes large and small on the steppe, even if it is on the heads of others. This is also a decision made by Li Jing and Li Kuan after discussion, after all, Li Kuan's identity is still a little sensitive, if he really does it without notifying, Li Kuan will not look good at it.
After remembering the military merits, you can go back. This expedition to the grassland ended with the capture of Jieli, and it was officially declared a successful conclusion. This vast steppe of the Eastern Turks was officially incorporated into the territory of the Tang Dynasty, even though there were still many Turkic people grazing on it. In the eyes of Li Jing and others, now this grassland, including the cattle and sheep above, and those herdsmen are already the property of Datang, as long as these people honestly herd sheep for Datang, then the Datang army will also protect their lives.
The army sorted out the booty and set up a convoy of oxen, but fortunately there was not much else in the grassland, but there were many cattle, two oxen pulled a cart, filled with the loot captured this time, piled up with old and pointed heads, and pressed deep ruts on the snow. In addition, most of the cattle on the grassland do not know how to pull carts, so the speed of the team is very slow, almost like a human walking on foot.
Li Kuan also drove an ox cart, two big bullocks panting and pulling Li Kuan's car, in the back half of the two cows, a whip mark is clearly visible, this is because these cattle have not pulled the cart before, from time to time to deviate, Li Kuan does not want people in this era to cherish cattle so much, the whip in his hand is not to scare them, but really directly drawn. So the two cows that pulled the cart for him were the worst of all the cows, but they were also the best of all the cows.
On one side of his ox cart, there were several horses, one black and one white, the two horses were the most conspicuous, one was a black and one white, and the other was a snow lion at night. In addition, there are three or four small ponies, all of which are half-sized horses, although they are not yet ridden, but as a gift to a few little girls of their own, as well as a little maid, this kind of half-sized foal has an attribute called 'moe', which is the most suitable for women's affinity plus eighty percent of the anti-heaven Buff effect. Not only horses, but also sheep.
A few white lambs are as white as white clouds in the sky, and they are like little lambs bleating on the top of the mountain, which is very cute. was dutifully driven by the shepherd dog of Little Gray Gray, following Li Kuan's ox cart.
"Finally went back, it's just that this Turk has become a part of the Tang Dynasty, and those coals can't be free!" Li Kuan was very resentful, and he wanted to absorb a few more coal mines for free, but in a blink of an eye, he saw that oil was much better than coal. As long as the oil sits there, because it is flowing, and the distant ones around him will flow over, unlike coal, which has to be accommodated by himself, so Li Kuan decided to bother those coal mines, and he will pick oil in the future! As for the system upgrade, Li Kuan didn't feel any sense of urgency now, so he said slowly. (To be continued......)