Chapter 352: Crazy Thoughts

Ashina's wife looked at Li Shimin's eyes calmly and plainly, and there seemed to be no fear or uneasiness on her face. If she still had an irrepressible panic when Ashina's territory was first breached, she was afraid of the uncertainty of her own fate and the uncertainty of her son's fate, then after these twenty days, she has regained her calm. This woman, who has seen a lot of joys and sorrows on the grassland, and has seen a lot of ups and downs, has given up struggling and resisting, so she did not have a trace of shock after seeing Li Shimin slaughter the people and horses in Youzhou.

She looked at Li Shimin without even a trace of worry and fear. Because she clearly figured out one thing, she and her son Ashinabto were now a bargaining chip, a bargaining chip used to blackmail her husband Ashina to go to the hoof, so before reaching Yanmen Pass, no matter who she and her son fell into, there would be no danger.

"Are you angry?"

Li Shimin looked at her and asked.

Yang Xiuzhen, who had almost forgotten her Han name, shook her head slowly, she looked at Li Shimin's handsome face and said in a flat tone: "If you have something important to ask me, please ask quickly." My children and I have been running around for twenty days with the general you killed, and we are tired and need to rest. If you're just asking me if I'm angry fear fear fear such a boring question, then I'm sorry, I'm going to sleep now. ”

Li Shimin was slightly stunned, he didn't expect this woman to calmly accept the fact that hundreds of people were slaughtered in front of her.

"You go to sleep."

Li Shimin smiled and said: "If you are really Ashina's wife, and that young man is really Ashina's son, then I don't have any problem." ”

"Thank you."

Yang Xiuzhen didn't look at Li Shimin again, and turned to walk towards her son.

Ashinabto was guarded by two Taiyuan cavalrymen, and it was difficult to hide the panic in his eyes.

"Don't be afraid."

Yang Xiuzhen smiled at Ashinabtuo and said, "They are going to take your mother and you to see your father, don't worry, they won't hurt you." ”

"They're Han?"

Ashnabuto asked with a trembling voice.

"Yes, they are Han."

"Those who were killed before were also Han Chinese."

Ashinabto was a little puzzled: "Obviously they are all Han Chinese, why do they kill each other?" ”

Yang Xiuzhen was slightly stunned by her son's question, she thought about it for a long time and didn't come up with the most appropriate words and reasons. Seeing her son's panicked and curious eyes, she felt that she should not deceive him.

"There are many kinds of Han people."

Yang Xiuzhen finally found a good reason: "For example, on our grassland, there are Xi people, Khitan people, Murwei people, and our Turkic people. The previous General Lu and the current General Li are from different tribes, so there is no friendship between them. ”

"I see."

Ashinabtuo said childishly and seriously: "They regarded my mother and me as prey, and in order to compete for prey, one wolf bit the other to death. ”

He looked into his mother's eyes and suddenly laughed: "Mother, I am very happy." ”

"Why?"

"Two enemies are fighting for us, and it seems that our situation has not changed, but at the very least, we have eliminated one of them, haven't we? We didn't waste a little effort, and so many people have already died. So I'm happy, very happy. If only one more enemy appeared, then these Han people might soon die in front of us. My father once said that it was a pleasure to watch the enemies fall in front of him one by one. ”

Yang Xiuzhen was stunned, and she was panicked for no reason.

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A large tribe of more than 100,000 people, after being ravaged twice by Li Xian and Luo Shixin's men and horses, can already be declared extinct, because this is the grassland, and it is the most straightforward place in the world where the weak and the strong are manifested. Even if Ashina goes to Huhu and returns, because the losses of the tribe are too heavy and he has no strength, he will have no choice but to withdraw from the competition for the throne.

What's more, it is still unknown whether Ashina will be able to come back alive, so even if there is still about half of the population left in this tribe, it will be difficult to escape the end of being annexed by Shibi Khan.

The massacre began around early in the morning, because this time the Turks were defeated more completely than the last time, so Li Xian and Luo Shixin did not rush to lead the army to evacuate. Until the sun rose, the Han cavalry galloped back and forth in the camp, cutting down the Turks who dared to appear in front of the horses' hooves.

By the time Li Xian ordered the soldiers to assemble, the huge camp had already been burned to the ground.

At least 30,000 people were killed in the raid, and nearly 100,000 of the tribe's herders fell to their knees on the grass, their heads bowed and panicked. No one dared to raise their heads and look directly at the Han cavalry covered in blood, the steppe people respected the strong, and the Han people proved their strength with two killings.

The steppe people have a very strange character, whether it is the Xi people, the Khitans, or the Turkic people who rule the steppe, they all have a common character, which can also be said to be habits. When their tribe is defeated and their knights are defeated, they willingly admit their slavery.

When the war ended, if the steppe warriors were defeated and chose to surrender, the victors would unconditionally obey if they ordered the surrendered warriors to attack their own tribes.

And they will not be merciful when they kill people, they will celebrate their victory with the victors.

This special habit is difficult for the Han people to accept.

However, Li Xian knew that many years later, when faced with foreign invasions, there were also a large number of such people among the Han people in the Central Plains, who willingly helped the foreigners slaughter their compatriots after surrendering, and even did not have a sense of guilt in their conscience. This kind of human nature, if you think about it carefully, makes people shudder.

The tens of thousands of Turks who fell on their knees on the grass have accepted their fate, knowing that from today onwards, they will no longer belong to Ashina to the Hoof, but have a new master.

"What should I do?"

Luo Shixin asked Li Xian with a headache: "There are too many, and it is very troublesome to kill." Why don't we stop and go back to the Central Plains with tens of thousands of captives? If you go back, there are so many captives here, Ashina Jishi will be more or less jealous, right? ”

"You're easily satisfied."

Li Xian smiled and said.

"Look!"

He pointed to the captive who was kneeling on the ground and couldn't see the edge and smiled: "Among them, there are at least more than 10,000 regular wolf riders, and at least 10,000 middle-aged herdsmen who can get on horseback to fight, and if you would rather choose soldiers than short, at least 40,000 people can be selected from them." ”

"What do you mean?"

"Such a powerful force, it would be too wasteful not to use it."

Li Xian smiled and said: "According to the practice on the grassland, they are all our slaves now, and they will do whatever you ask them to do." ”

"That being said, it would be absolutely impossible for you to let them attack the Turkic court."

"What else are you going to do in the royal court?"

Li Xian said: "With our strength, facing a large clan with a population of millions is tantamount to looking for death. Even if Ashina Jishi took most of the wolf cavalry, there were at least 100,000 regular cavalry in the royal court. I'm not interested in leading people to commit suicide en masse, wouldn't you think in a different direction? ”

"Changing directions?"

Luo Shixin asked puzzledly, "Which direction?" ”

Li Xian pointed to the east and said, "There, along the Xilamulun River to the east, do you know what the place is?" ”

"What is it?"

"There is a tribe that believes in swans, if we take these nearly 100,000 Turkic tribes to migrate eastward and let these wolves and white swans grab territory, wouldn't it be a very pleasant thing?"

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I have to say that Li Xian's idea is crazy to the extreme, with a cavalry team of about 8,000 people, watching nearly 100,000 Turks migrate eastward, no matter who this idea is told to, he will be scolded as a madman, a complete madman. But the most speechless thing is that the most important thing in this cavalry on the grassland today is madmen, and there are very few normal people.

That's why Li Xian's crazy idea came out, and he first got Luo Shixin's support. This confident black-faced general never felt that anything could never be done, let alone commanding tens of thousands of Turks to attack the grasslands of the Xi people, it was much easier to think about it than to command tens of thousands of Turks to attack the Turkic royal court.

The second person who echoed was Pei Xingyan, this guy's mind is now simpler and more direct. Li Xian thinks that what he can do can be successful, then he will never think that he can't succeed.

Cheng Zhijie, who is a little older, is not familiar with the temperament of the grassland people, so he gave up the discussion.

The most stable is Pei Renji, he is resolutely opposed, but he has to lose at the level of voting by show of hands, and he is the only one who disagrees and cannot influence the decision. Even if Li Xian proposed a boring show of hands to vote, if he, as a general, gave a strong order, Pei Renji could only accept it.

"Pick out all the Turks who can get on their horses and fight, and I will personally command a thousand elite horsemen. Cheng Zhijie and Pei Xingyan followed me, Pei Renji, after you took the rest of the horses and Shi Xin, you escorted other Turks, with these old and weak women and children, those Turkic men in front did not dare to rebel easily. ”

Li Xian thought for a while and added: "Let those wolves from the royal court ride in the front, and let Ashina's troops go to the hooves to be the overseer team behind." Although they are all Turkic, they don't trust each other! ”

After the discussion, Li Xian walked over to the Turkic captives, and Luo Shixin asked, "What are you going to do?" ”

Li Xian smiled and said, "I'm going to tell a big lie." ”

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Li Xian's big lie is very clumsy and has many loopholes. But those Turks did not doubt his words, and the reason is very simple, because he is now the victor, and he is now the master of those Turks.

Li Xian told the Turks that he was going to take them to build a new homeland. Go and grab the fattest pasture, and then settle there, there will be no more killing, and they will live a stable and peaceful life again. Li Xian told them that Shibi Khan had abandoned them, and now he was their new Khan.

He was going to lead them to lay down a grassland.

"Khan?"

The Turks kneeling on the ground looked at each other, they really did not expect that one day there would be a Han Khan on the steppe, and this person was still ambitious to lay down a steppe.

"You're all my slaves now!"

Li Xian shouted loudly: "However, if you follow me, lay down a grassland, and conquer the Xi people who believe in white swans on the north bank of the Xilamulun River, then you will no longer be slaves, but masters!" Those Xi people will become your slaves, and the Khitan people in the Liao River valley will also become your slaves! Even the Murwei people in the deepest part of the steppe, if you are brave enough, they will become your slaves. ”

"You will have a large area of fertile pasture again, and countless cattle and sheep!"

Li Xian pointed to the east and said, "Let all the people who stand in front of you prostrate at your feet, let them kneel on the ground and kiss your boots." Let them offer the most beautiful woman, the freshest lamb, and the strongest wine! ”

"As long as you follow my orders to fight, you will no longer be slaves!"