Chapter 71: The Tibetan Mission 7
The black-armored cavalry guard faced the Tubo cavalry, and the two murderous auras collided together, which aroused a murderous aura.
"Pap-"
The sound of the horse's hooves of the Tibetan cavalry on the official road seemed to knock on the hearts of the cavalry guards, giving them heavy pressure. Li Duoqi knew that the other party was using power to oppress people, so he took a deep breath and shouted loudly, "Is the Tibetan Mission ahead?" ”
Being shouted by Li Duoqi, six hundred Tubo elite horsemen restrained the war horse, separated a road, galloped out alone, and slowly stepped forward and said, "We are the Tubo Mission, may I ask who you are?" ”
"The crown prince's personal guard Li Duoqi is specially ordered by His Royal Highness to greet the noble envoy." Li Duoqi replied loudly.
The Tubo people on the horse looked surprised, obviously he didn't expect that the prince of the Tang Dynasty would send his own personal guards to meet them, does this mean that the prince of the Tang Dynasty is also not far ahead?
Thinking of this, he said to Li Duoqi, "Wait a minute! ”
With that, he rode back to his team.
Suddenly, I saw more than ten horsemen galloping out, walking in the middle was an old man who thought he was over fifty years old, his left was a burly strong man, and his right was a woman, and the three of them slowly stepped forward under the escort of more than ten horsemen.
"Tubo Ambassador An Lai, thank you for coming to greet the general, the general, please-!" The old man said.
"Please!" Li Duoqi said the same. Riding back to the original road, An Lai and the more than ten horsemen around him closely followed the pace of Li Duoqi, then six hundred Tibetan cavalry, and then one thousand Xiao cavalry guards.
Li Duoqi led the way in front, and the impact on An Lai was very good, because in this round, the Tubo mission at least did not give Datang a look.
In fact, Li Duoqi thought too well about An Lai. According to the previous plan, An Lai put the six hundred elite cavalry at the front of the team, just to overwhelm people with power and give the Tang officials who greeted him a dismount. But he didn't expect Li Hong to be even more desperate, he sent out six hundred iron horses, and Li Hong actually sent one thousand iron horses. The combat effectiveness of this thousand iron cavalry is not weak, coupled with the advantage in numbers, it has steadily suppressed the arrogance of the six hundred iron cavalry of Tubo.
Moreover, An Lai heard that the prince's personal guard appeared here, so the prince must be in front, and the prince appeared here, how could there be no guards by his side? Thinking about it this way, his side is even worse than Datang in terms of the number of cavalry, and if he is arrogant, he may be slapped by Datang.
Therefore, An Lai will be cordial all of a sudden.
No matter what time it is, no matter what country it is, it's everyone's nature. If you want to be respected, you have to have strong strength to make the other party jealous.
Li Hong's arrangement this time was like this, he used his strong strength to teach An Lai a hard lesson, and let him know that arrogance comes at a price.
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As the prince of the Tang Dynasty, being able to go out of the city to greet the Tubo delegation is already the highest standard treatment of the Tang Dynasty to the leading states, so it naturally will not run to the bank of the Weishui River.
Outside Chang'an City, Li Hong was sitting in a makeshift shed and was drinking with Le Yanwei, Liu Xiangdao and Zhao Renji, when he saw a fast horse galloping towards him and reported to him, "Your Royal Highness the Prince, the Tibetan mission has arrived. ”
"Lone knows, you go down." Li Hong said lightly. After drinking the wine in the cup, he got up and walked to a war horse and turned over. Le Yanwei, Liu Xiangdao, and Zhao Renji also got on the horse.
Li Hong raised his whip lightly, and the war horse trotted forward. Le Yanwei, Liu Xiangdao, and Zhao Renji followed closely. Chen Gong and three hundred guards were on both sides at any time. After trotting forward a hundred meters, he saw an iron horse appear on the official road in front of him, Li Duoqi was in front, the Tubo people followed behind him, and then there was a small cavalry guarding the iron horse.
Li Hong restrained his horse and looked ahead lightly.
An Lai, who was following behind Li Duoqi, also saw Li Hong from a distance, so he sped up to catch up with Li Duoqi and asked in a low voice, "General Li, the person in front of you is His Royal Highness the Prince?" ”
"Yes." Li Duoqi replied.
An Lai nodded slightly, and said no more.
When Li Duoqi and his party rode to a gallop only fifty steps away from Li Hong, An Lai reined in his horse and looked at Li Honglai carefully. He wanted to know what kind of person the prince was who dared to meet him with a thousand iron horsemen and sabotage his plan to overwhelm people.
Li Hong was not interested in An Lai, but just looked at him with a faint smile.
The expressions of the two were cold and hot, forming a stark contrast.
At the same time, neither of them spoke, and the people around them did not dare to interject, and the atmosphere at the scene became a little condensed.
At this moment, several dog barks came from the ranks of the Tibetan mission.
"Want Want - Want Want - " The dog's bark was very loud. When it reached Li Hong's ears, his eyes couldn't help but light up. Because from the barking of this dog, he heard that this dog was definitely not an ordinary product, but a purebred mastiff.
Mastiffs are native to the Tibetan Plateau and were domesticated by humans 6,000 years ago.
Mastiff's unique martial appearance, open chest, huge head, full ferocity, outstanding performance, noble royal temperament, is recognized by the world as the oldest and rarest large dog breed, known as the "Oriental Divine Dog". Like a lion not a lion, like a tiger but not a tiger, fierce and abnormal.
Li Hong likes mastiffs very much.
Now the Tibetan delegation brought a mastiff with him when he came to Chang'an, which made him very strange.
"Come, see His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!" At this moment, it was the Tibetan ambassador An Lai who broke the silence, and he bowed his hand to Li Hongshi.
"Ambassador An, did you bring a mastiff with you in your mission?"
Before An Lai could speak, the eyes of the woman beside him lit up, and she couldn't help but move her gaze to Li Hong, there are not many people who can hear that this is the mastiff of the dog king by the sound of the dog's barking!
"Yes, we did bring a mastiff with us when we came to Datang this time, and we want to dedicate it to Your Majesty and Niangniang." Ann said, and gestured to the men and women on the left and right. The man on his left arched his hand and said, "Tubo Deputy Envoy Sang Ying see His Highness!" ”
"Gesang see His Highness!" The woman on Anlai's right also bowed.
Gesang?
Could it be Mangsong Mangzan's sister?
Thinking like this in his heart, Li Hong couldn't help but move his gaze to Princess Gesang's body. Princess Gesang is dressed in Tibet, but her skin is fair, her eyes are big, her braids are long, her body is straight, and she has a very exotic beauty.
"Deputy Envoy An, Princess Gesang is very polite!" Li Hong said. He only looked at Princess Gesang for a short time, then moved his gaze to An and said, "Can you take a look at your mastiff?" ”
"Your Highness, wait a minute!" An said, and said a few words in Tubo to the deputy envoy Sang Ying, Sang Ying nodded slightly, rode around and left, and when he came back again, he was followed by a carriage, and there was a pure black mastiff in the iron cage on the carriage.
This mastiff is tall and resembles a calf and is an adult mastiff.
Seeing Li Hong, the mastiff pounced half like crazy and barked wildly while pounced.
"Sure enough, it's the king of dogs!" Li Hong couldn't help but admire. Immediately, he withdrew his gaze and said to An Lai, Princess Gesang, and Sang Ying, "I am here to greet your mission on the orders of my father and mother, and I invite Ambassador An Lai, Deputy Envoy Sang Ying, and Princess Gesang to enter the city, and the accompanying guards can be stationed in the Nanya camp." ”
This is a strategy that Li Hong has thought of a long time ago.
He was more at ease with the six hundred iron horsemen in the Nanya camp. Otherwise, if this group of barbarians were released into the city, something unreasonable might happen.
An Lai frowned a little, he didn't expect Li Hong to make such a harsh request as soon as they met, which he didn't expect. He is an ambassador, and this time he is an envoy to the Tang Dynasty, and there is a more important purpose, so he can't be too reckless, and he must carefully consider the purpose and intention of Li Hong's arrangement before he can reply.
But the deputy envoy Sang Ying next to him stopped doing it, Sang Ying, who had always been arrogant in Tubo, was very uncomfortable when he was frustrated twice today, and now when he heard Li Hong say this, he couldn't help but snort coldly, "His Royal Highness the Prince, are you trying to put us under house arrest?" ”
Li Hong didn't have a good impression of this tall and fierce-looking deputy envoy, so he didn't bother to explain further, but asked rhetorically, "What do you think?" ”
Sang Ying's pupils contracted, and the murderous aura on his body came in an instant, enveloping Li Hong.
"Bold—!" Li Duoqi and Chen Gong shouted at the same time, and the two of them also released the murderous aura on their bodies and met the murderous aura of Sang Ying.
"Bang-"
The two murderous auras collided together, and the atmosphere of the scene suddenly became smashed.
Li Duoqi and Chen Gong are veterans of a hundred battles, and the murderous aura of the two of them suddenly overshadowed Sang Ying's murderous spirit, and Sang Ying only felt that he was distressed and depressed, and felt a little out of breath. He couldn't help but let out a loud roar, followed by a "wow-" sound, and a mouthful of blood gushed out.
Li Hong glanced at Sang Ying and snorted coldly, "Hmph-"
As soon as his voice fell, the three hundred guards behind him pulled out the saber at his waist in unison and prepared for battle.
Dare to be arrogant under the Chang'an City of the Tang Dynasty, you Tubo have eaten the gall of the ambitious leopard, and you have a long posture?
"Qiang-" The six hundred elite horsemen of Tubo also pulled out the scimitar at their waists.
"Qiang-" The cavalry guards who followed behind the six hundred Tubo elite cavalry also drew their swords at their waists and prepared to rush and kill.
In an instant, there was tension outside Chang'an City, and the atmosphere was very gloomy.
An Lai originally wanted Sang Ying to give Li Hong a little color, but seeing that the prince of the Tang Dynasty didn't take Sang Ying and the six hundred elite horses in his eyes, he knew that he had met a strong prince and couldn't be tough, so he said respectfully, "Sang Ying is reckless, and I ask Your Highness to forgive me." ”
"Sang Ying, don't apologize to His Highness soon!" An Lai scolded Sang Ying again.
Although Sang Ying was reluctant, An Lai was an ambassador, and he was very powerful in Tibet, so he couldn't help but listen to An Lai's orders, so he could only reluctantly say, "Sang Ying was a little reckless just now, and I ask Your Highness for forgiveness." ”
Li Hong saw that An Lai had softened, so he didn't mean to force An Lai anymore, but relaxed the conditions and said, "The people in the mission also need the protection of the guards, and your personal guards can enter the city, but the six hundred cavalry must go to Nanya to camp." Also, remember to restrain their behavior, if they violate military discipline in the Nanya camp, they will be dealt with by military law. ”
After speaking, Li Hongli ignored An Lai, and turned his horse's head back to the city.
It's just that he just took two steps, reined in the war horse and turned around and said, "If Sang Ying commits a crime, the rod will be punished sixty, and if he knows that he can change his mistakes, the rod will be thirty, and the execution will be carried out immediately." ”
"Qiang-" Sang Ying was furious, and immediately pulled out the scimitar at his waist, but was stopped by An Lai's cold eyes. Because An Lai found that he had encountered a strong enemy, because he saw a strong fighting spirit in the eyes of the Tang Prince.
When a man has the will to fight, he will not be afraid of everything.