Chapter 305: Elders as Witnesses
Let's say, Yelujue hurried to the back of the tent, opened the tent, called his own handwriting, and ordered the organization of men and horses to inspect one by one, and make up a few swords for all the people on the ground, whether dead or alive, to ensure that they died completely and did not leave any hidden dangers. ”
Yelujue agreed, and quickly ordered the herald to go down.
So, the Khitan soldiers searched around, and whenever they saw the corpse, they made up a few swords towards the vital point.
After Yelu Jue finished his order, Lu Jinping said: "There is a Turkic general named Agutao, he is the mastermind of this time, you must kill him, you can confirm whether he is dead." ”
Jeremiah said, "I can be sure that he is dead, because I killed him with my own hands, and I cut off half of his head with a sword, and when we rushed in, he killed several of my soldiers, and I recognized him, and I duel him with my own hands, and as a result of his life, his body is outside his tent, and you can see it later."
Lu Jinping breathed a long sigh of relief and said, "It's this kid who sent someone to murder me, but there should be a more powerful mastermind behind the scenes."
Yelujue took a step forward, looked up at Lu Jinping with a pretty face and said: "Otherwise, I will take some elites to escort you to Black Sand City, and urgently mobilize my subordinates to wait for your orders, if the Turks dare to be unfavorable to you, we will fight with him, anyway, now the main force of the Turkic Khan is not in the capital, and he can't help me if he really wants to turn the world upside down." ”
Lu Jinping smiled and said, "Thank you Madame for being so righteous, but I believe that I can handle this matter, so it's better for you not to show up for the time being." After all, you Khitan are not ready to turn against the Turks, and it is in trouble to let your classmates know that you are helping us. ”
Yelu Jueyao shook her head and said: "I have already thought about it, and my husband has also thought about it, our Khitan is determined to go with the Tang Dynasty, and we will never have two hearts." ”
Lu Jinping smiled secretly in his heart. You say I believe this, but it is difficult to say that people will be uneasy after you die, and they will follow your intentions. The Khitan will be the Great Liao in the future, and it will be the fierce rival of Yue Fei and the Yang family in the Song Dynasty. Of course, that was hundreds of years later, but now, listening to Yelujue say it so categorically, I really believe it in my heart now. At least she and her husband have a genuine intention.
So Lu Jinping nodded and said: "Very good, Madam has this confidence, of course we have this confidence, I hope we will always be united and no longer turn against each other." ”
The sentence "forever tied together" in front of Lu Jinping made a trace of flutter and joy fly in Ye Lujie's eyes, but there was another sentence in the back that he would no longer turn against him, and suddenly, the expression on his face darkened again. Forthwith. He was shocked and admired: "What the prince said is right, this is also our common wish." ”
After a pause, Yelujue said again: "You take me there, I'll go to the capital with you, I don't worry about you going alone, after all, you are my future son-in-law, if something goes wrong, how can I explain to my daughter?" How to explain it to her father? You can rest assured. I would disguise myself so that they would not recognize me, but the Turks would recognize me. That is, some people in the palace, and no one in the people knows about me. But I'll be careful not to mess with you. If you are worried that our Khitan desire to return to Datang is not so firm, then this time I can make a proof, you must take me away and take me with you. ”
Lu Jinping smiled and said, "Since Madame has said so." If I refuse, it will be very unkind. Okay, you send a group of men to follow us, and I need to be guarded along the road. ”
Yelujue didn't expect that Lu Jinping really agreed, and his heart suddenly brightened up, and he jumped happily. Grabbing Lu Jinping's arm and shaking it, he said, "Great, don't worry, I will help you complete this matter successfully." If anyone dares to do anything against you again, I will dismantle him. ”
Lu Jinping was a little stunned, what a graceful and luxurious Khan's wife said, it was clearly a heroine among women.
Lu Jinping said, "You must make sure that you are not recognized by those elders. ”
"This should be fine, I've thought of it. So all the people before were blackened, and those were the only ones who controlled the Elders' tent at that time. I know who it is, and I don't need them, - by the way, what about the princess? Is she okay? ”
"She's fine, I've hid her for fear of being hurt by the sword, and I'll call her and my personal guard out in a little while, and I'll leave tomorrow morning."
After discussion, Yelujue selected fifty elite Khitan warriors, all of whom spoke the Tang language, and after changing into the clothes of the Tang Dynasty soldiers, they pretended to be Tang Dynasty soldiers.
Then, he ordered the remaining Khitan soldiers to start robbing the Turkic military camp and snatching all the valuable things, which was in line with the habits of thieves, of course, Lu Jinping's things did not dare to move......
Lu Jinping then called the princess aside, and after muttering a few words, the princess nodded again and again, of course obeying him.
Then, Lu Jinping took Princess Siyun to the outside of several elders' tents.
These elders had been confined in tents by Khitan warriors pretending to be robbers, and they were terrified and afraid, not knowing what these robbers would do to them.
The Turks had a vast territory and many large and small tribes, and the Turkic khans could only subdue the large tribes, and they were infinitely concerned with some small tribes, so no one cared about them. In order to survive, they often looted other tribes and robbed passing merchants, perhaps unbeknownst to them, they robbed the Turkic princess guards.
Several elders were muttering and discussing how to report to the Queen Mother after they returned, find out which tribe's thieves, and be sure to catch them and deal with them fiercely. But the premise is that the princess is fine. Otherwise, you'll be in big trouble. A few of them are also inseparable.
When he was nervous, suddenly the curtain of the door was lifted, and the princess walked in, looking panicked.
The princess told a few elders in Turkic about the elders, of course, the story that had been discussed with Lu Jinping before, to the effect that the Tang soldiers got drunk and fought each other and killed many people. The Turkic soldiers were also injured a lot in the chaos, and at this time, some robbers who didn't know where they came from, killed all the soldiers, and snatched everything away.
After that, the princess came out with a few elders to check, and saw that the ground was full of dead bodies, things had been plundered, many tents were burning, and all the Khitan soldiers brought by the previous Khitan Aktao were all slaughtered. But there was not a single living mouth, and there were only a few dozen soldiers left in the Tang Dynasty. Many of the children were wounded.
Aktao's head was cut off, and the commander of the Imperial Forest Army of the Tang Dynasty, Commander Liu, also died in the rebellion.
Fortunately, the prince and princess are safe and sound under the desperate protection of the elite guards of the Tang Dynasty.
At that moment, according to the request of Lu Jinping and the princess, several elders hurriedly drafted an urgent official document to report the matter to the queen mother, and asked the two elders to urgently send it back to Heisha City to report to the queen mother, asking for additional troops to come to meet the princess.
At the same time, Lu Jinping personally repaired a letter to the Tang Emperor and the crown prince Li Longji, telling the fabricated story, and at the same time asked several elders to sign it as eyewitness testimony, and then sent the letter back to the Tang Dynasty urgently.
After processing, they piled up all the corpses together and set them on fire, because the cold and snow were very deep, and the land was basically covered with ice, which was harder than steel, and it was impossible to dig up, and there was no way to bury it, and Turkic cremation was more prevalent.
The bodies were burned until dawn the next day. They then regrouped and set off.
Yelujue pretended to be a personal guard, because he was worried that the princess would come out, so he didn't dare to approach Lu Jinping, but stayed far behind the team. He was dressed in the costume of a man's soldier, and his face was covered with some blood and dust, and even if he came to him, he might not recognize her as Yelu Jue, the wife of the Khitan Khan.
Moreover, the fifty Khitan martial artists who pretended to be Tang soldiers did not talk to Princess Siyun and the elders as much as possible, although they could also speak Tang dialect, but they were afraid that they would show their feet if they didn't speak well, but fortunately, the elders didn't have the heart to chat with these soldiers, so they just rushed forward in shock. My heart is heavy, and I don't know how to explain it after I go back.
On the way to the Turks, the wind and snow are getting heavier and heavier.
Along the way, Ye Qingqing took care of Lu Jinping more meticulously, she used to be a dedicated personal maid, but now, she is a little more intimate, like a virtuous wife taking care of her husband. When he saw Lu Jinping, his eyes were still shy.
Yunzi saw the clue and quietly asked Lu Jinping. Lu Jinping pretended to be stupid and said that he didn't know. However, Yun Zi actually has a number in his heart, Ye Qingqing is Lu Jinping's favorite personal maid, such a role will be included in the room sooner or later, if she gives birth to a little prince, maybe she can become the princess.
The relationship between Yunzi and Ye Qingqing was very stiff before, but it gradually got better later, so he did not resist Ye Qingqing.
I marched forward for a few days, the wind and snow were too strong, and the march was very difficult, and it was quite good to be able to walk twenty or thirty miles every day, but fortunately, the Tang soldiers and Turkic soldiers had a lot of horses left. And the robbers from before robbed some of the valuables, but the food remained largely untouched. So they don't have to worry about food along the way. It's just that the wind and snow are too big, the visibility is very low, and I am especially worried about getting lost.
There were endless snowfields everywhere, and there was no way out, so they could only walk in the general direction.
On this day, several elders said to Lu Jinping that they might be lost, because after walking for so many days, according to the direction of travel, they should have reached a market town in front, but they did not encounter this market town that should have appeared in front.
Lu Jinping found that the people in his entourage were getting more and more frostbitten and had already fallen down, so he decided to camp on the spot and send spies to explore the way, find the right way and then move forward.
Several spies worked in pairs, set off in the first few directions, and agreed to return in a few days, whether they could find it or not.
So they waited in their tents with peace of mind. The tent had been swept away by the soldiers and covered with electric mattresses, but there was nothing to make a fire in the wasteland, so they had to hide in the futon to keep warm. (To be continued.) )