Chapter 40: A Painful Choice

A few days ago, she watched Feng'an City being broken by her second brother's army, and watched the Sui army break through desperately, and at that moment, her heart seemed to be chopped to pieces

And at this moment, she leaned on a pine tree, silently watching the more than 30,000 cavalry miles away to the west, she knew that it was to reinforce Hekou City, once Hekou City was breached, then the gate to the south would be opened, and the Turkic army would be driven south, could the walls of Lingwu County stop the iron hooves of the Turks?

She seemed to see the city being breached, the Turkic army slaughtered into the city, the fire was soaring, there were corpses everywhere, blood flowed into a river, people cried and fled for their lives, the eldest sister Minqiu ran helplessly on the street with her child in her arms, Bing'er, Ning'er, Jing'er, Sihua, their lovely smiling faces were broken under the iron hooves of the Turkic cavalry.

Asto buried her face in her knees in agony, ashamed of being a Turk, overwhelmed by the sheer guilt she felt like she was about to collapse.

At this moment, a rapid sound of horses' hooves came from not far away, and I faintly heard someone laughing, speaking in Turkic language, Asdo was startled, she picked up her bow and arrows and hid behind the pine tree, and soon, two Turkic cavalrymen appeared on the path not far away, two patrolmen, and they were comparing whose sheep were more, one said that his family had fifty sheep, and the other said that his family had sixty sheep.

Behind the pine trees, Asto had drawn her bow and arrows, aiming them at the neck of one of them, and she could kill them with one arrow, and she could easily kill the other, who had defeated three of her father's guards.

"Uncle Abu, when your lamb is born, who can help you deliver the lamb?"

"Who can help me, I can only rely on the child's mother alone, the child is still young, and I can't help, and the other child is not yet a year old, I really don't know how she can take care of it alone, alas! Jeddah, where is your family? ”

"I'm about the same as you, I only have my elderly parents at home, let them take care of fifty sheep, and they have to herd horses, and my father was sick last year, and he couldn't even ride a horse, so I don't know why he had to fight?"

The two Turkic sentinels said as they slowly walked away, and Asto watched their backs walk away, her bow and arrow hung weakly, her legs weakened, she knelt on the ground, and a thousand feelings poured into her heart at once, she could no longer bear the pressure in her heart, and fell to the ground and cried bitterly.

Two hours later, Asduo rode in front of the Turkic camp outside Dali City, she stared at the golden wolf-headed banner in the distance, bit her lip, she urged her horse to the Turkic camp without hesitation, at this moment, a cavalry of more than 100 people galloped over, surrounded her, and raised their bows at her, "Who are you?" ”

Asto took off his helmet, let the black waterfall-like hair fall down, and said loudly: "I am Ashina Siduo, the third princess of the Turks, I want to see the Khan!" ”

The Turkic cavalry looked at each other, is this the third princess who fled to the Great Sui? They slowly lowered their bows and arrows

The leading centurion put his hand on his chest and saluted her, "Your Highness Princess, please hand us over your weapons, and we will escort you into the camp to meet the Khan." ”

The centurion glanced at Astor's leather boots, he knew that there should be a dagger hidden there, but he hesitated for a moment, then looked at Astor's stubborn eyes, and he sighed in his heart, but finally did not insist.

"Your Royal Highness Princess, please!"

More than 100 cavalry escorted Asduo to the camp of the king's tent, in the king's tent, Shibi Khan Duji was discussing with more than a dozen Qi Jin, Teller, Ye Hu and the head of ten thousand households to attack the inner city of Dali, and a guard soldier reported loudly at the door of the tent, "Khan, Princess Asduo has come to the camp, I want to see the Khan!" ”

"Who?" Duji didn't understand at once.

"Khan, it's Princess Asto!"

A cold smile slowly appeared on his face, and he said to everyone: "My sister who betrayed the Turks is finally here. ”

Siluo Huji, the big chief of the Siluo tribe, the second largest Turkic tribe next to him, said with a smile: "Maybe she is a messenger sent by Yang Yuanqing." ”

Du Ji nodded, and then ordered: "Bring her up!" ”

Soon, the soldiers brought Asduo in, and Ji Ji glanced at her and smiled mockingly: "Should I call you Mrs. Yang, or should I call you Princess Ashina." ”

"It's all right!"

A Siduo said lightly: "Women have to get married, follow their husband's surname, you can call me Mrs. Yang, but my roots are in the Turks, you can also call me Princess Ashina, but I think you should call me Ashdo." ”

Asto and Anuri are both the sisters of Agi, Astor is actually telling him that he should treat her as a sister, Astor thought of his deceased mother, and asked him to take care of his two younger sisters when he was dying, he glanced at Astor again, and thought of the scene when she was a child when she learned to ride a horse with him, his eyes softened slightly, but as soon as he thought about it, he suddenly remembered that Astor rescued Princess Yicheng, and the frost in his eyes that had just eased was condensed.

"Are you sent by Yang Yuanqing?" Duji's tone was extremely cold.

Seeing that her brother didn't miss her brother and sister at all, she was very sad in her heart, she became a khan, and her brother's temperament became more and more cold, she bit her lip, shook her head and said: "I wasn't sent by him, my arrival has nothing to do with the Sui army, I came to persuade my brother to withdraw and return to the grassland." ”

Du Ji looked up to the sky and laughed, as if he heard an extremely absurd thing, his laughter suddenly stopped, and he said coldly: "I have killed tens of thousands of horses, and I haven't even plucked a single hair from Fengzhou, you actually want me to withdraw from the army, you are also the princess of the Ashina family, how can you say such childish words?" ”

"Just because there are so many people dead!"

Asto was full of anger, and she also shouted, "The tens of thousands of people who died in the battle outside are our brothers, our uncles, and if they die, what will happen to their wives and children?" ”

Tears rolled down from Asduo's eyes, and he said in a trembling voice: "None of them wants to come to war, their wives and children are still waiting for them to go back to deliver lambs, but they died in a foreign land, maybe they don't even have bones, they don't have a little Turkic dignity, you are a khan, you should think about your people, not for your selfishness, bury all the Turks under the city of Dali." ”

"Did you say enough?" Duji yelled at her.

"Nope!"

Asto shouted: "If you don't repent, 300,000 Turkic troops will be buried at your hands!" ”

'Smack! ,

Duji slapped her in the face, and he almost went crazy with anger, pointing at Asto and shouting, "Pull her down!" ”

Asduo covered her face, she suddenly knelt down in front of other Turkic ministers, and cried: "You are all my uncles, my elders, and my brothers, there must be sober people among you, the Turks belong to the steppe, they should not be ungrateful to come to the Great Sui to attack and plunder, they should not come here to form hatred, Tengger will be angry with us, and the Turks will be destroyed on top of today's hatred sooner or later." ”

At this moment, a Turkic general like a black bear rushed into the tent, his blood-red eyes staring at Asto, and he approached step by step, his mouth letting out a beastly low roar.

"You, are you finally back?" Munda gritted her teeth.

There was a look of fear in Asto's eyes, she had forgotten about this person, and then she suddenly remembered that her father had promised herself to this man, this extremely rude and cruel man, she suddenly pulled out the dagger from her boot and pressed it against her chest, "If you take one step forward, I will die here." ”

Monda glanced back at Duji, as if asking for his promise, Duji's face showed embarrassment, if it was in private, he could have handed over Asto to him, but now in front of so many tribal leaders, Asto is a royal princess after all, and he has to consider the impact.

Asduo had calmed down, she slowly stood up, still holding a sharp dagger against her chest, and said loudly: "I am the wife of Yang Yuanqing, the governor of Fengzhou, if you dare to insult me, Yang Yuanqing will definitely return a hundred times to the Turks, you can't afford it." ”

"I will break Yang Yuanqing's body into ten thousand pieces!" Munda roared.

At this time, the second prince Tong Lifushe, who had not been silent, said coldly: "Asduo is a Turkic princess, if she is guilty, it should be convicted by the royal family, and she is Yang Yuanqing's wife, and she can't be handed over to an irrelevant person at will." ”

He was the brother of Gildy and the brother of Asto, but not a mother, he was a man of great brains who was extremely disgusted by Munda's stupidity and ignorance.

Next to him, Siluo Huji smiled and said: "Princess Asduo also took the initiative to come to the camp to persuade her out of sincerity to the Turks, not to say that she was courteous, but at least not to be too strict, so that the spirit of the old khan will not be peaceful, what do you say?" ”

Du Ji could hear that everyone was more disgusted with Munda, but this person was really stupid, and he even came to ask for people regardless of the occasion, he smiled and said to Munda : "Wait until you capture Dali City, catch Yang Yuanqing and deal with it together!" ”

Meng Da hated it in his heart, knelt down on one knee and said, "Khan, I want to kill Yang Yuanqing with my own hands." ”

Duji nodded, "If you can kill him, according to the Turkic rules, his property and women will be yours." ”

Monda gave Asto a deep look, stood up and walked out quickly, Asto's response to him was only endless contempt in his eyes.

Du Ji glanced at her, snorted coldly, and then ordered his subordinates, "Take her down and treat her as a princess, but keep a close guard." ”

More than a dozen guards stepped forward, and Asduo slowly said to everyone: "I am here for the fate of the Turks, even if I die for this, I am willing!" ”

She turned around and walked out of the big tent, Du Ji looked at her back, shook her head and sighed: "I was as naΓ―ve as a child, I thought she would follow President Yang Yuanqing a little bit, but she became more and more ignorant." ”

Philip also smiled faintly: "I think she is much more sensible than before, at least she cares about the fate of the Turks." ”

Seeing that the Khan's face was ugly, Siluo Huji touched Lifu and said with a smile: "Go on!" The second option we just talked about. ”

Du Ji glared at his brother fiercely, and then nodded: "The second plan we just talked about is to besiege Dali City and attack Hekou City with all your might. ”

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