When Du Xian led his army into the city, he saw houses and tents burning everywhere, and terrified Turks huddled in all corners, and countless people were slaughtered by the rebels. At this time, the cavalry unit that pursued the defeated Turkic army also returned, and it was obviously very difficult to completely annihilate the enemy's horse team in the vast steppe without the conditions to arrange an outflanking and encirclement in advance. After thinking about it for a while, Du Xian ordered his subordinates to restrain his subordinates and ordered them to be peaceful.

The front-line generals will do this kind of thing, and it will not be enough to ask for the guilt, but Du Xian feels that it is not beneficial to do this and harm his reputation, so it is better to report to the Xue Chongxun shogunate and let those literati decide. However, after the capture of Black Sand City, it was inevitable to plunder wealth and levy heavy taxes on local tribes, and eating the enemy was something that the Tang army generals liked to see. Although this practice is oppressive, it is obviously much more civilized than killing people and directly robbing the light.

Later, the generals led their troops to besiege the sweat tent and various large mansions, confiscated the totemic tokens and flags in the sweat tent as trophies, and captured many nobles and family members to invite merit.

Among these captives, Du Xian soon noticed the outstanding-looking Ashina Zhuo. The living environment of the Turkic people is not as warm and stable as in the country, and even the wives and daughters of the royal family and ministers do not look very good, at least in the aesthetics of the Tang people, so Ashinazo is very outstanding among them. After Du Xian inquired, he learned that it was a Turkic princess, and he suddenly had a plan in his heart.

Ashina Zhuo opened his mouth and said a word of Chinese, which made Du Xian overjoyed, it turned out that this princess actually spoke fluent Chinese, and he immediately nodded: "Not bad, not bad." ”

But seeing this little lady's wheat-colored complexion is full of vitality, black hair, exotic charming eyes, high nose and red lips, like a free-range pony, she has a wild and aura. Although Du Xian usually calls himself a righteous man and a gentleman, it is obviously not good for a scholar to not know how to evaluate women. At this time, he could see at a glance that this little lady was the best of the best, and with her noble blood, if she sent it back, it would definitely be more valuable than sending a thousand-mile horse...... Come and don't be rude, since Xue Chongxun sent the sword, it is understandable for Du Xian to send some loot back.

At this time, Ashinazhuo's eyes were a little melancholy, and she was naturally not happy to be a prisoner, but a beautiful woman was very fascinated by both happiness and sorrow, and there seemed to be endless worries in her eyes.

Ashinado said coldly: "The Turkic Khanate has lost the battle, we have been captured, what else is there to say?" ”

Du Xian hurriedly said: "The war naturally cannot avoid casualties, but after the battle is over, I have restrained my subordinates to calm the people, even if some taxes are levied, what is there to criticize us as the victors?" We didn't slaughter innocent people either, so the princess didn't have to hold a grudge for it. Think that when your father Khan attacked Hebei, slaughtered the city at every turn, and killed and injured hundreds of thousands of displaced people, and today my Tang cavalry captured the Turkic slaughter and did not kill the city, this is a kind of heavenly mind, don't you think? ”

Ashina Zhuo's expression eased after hearing this, plus he already had a good impression of the Han people, and he liked Li Shizhi very much, so at this time, he didn't have much disgust with the harmonious Confucian general in front of him.

Du Xian didn't know what she was thinking, and took the opportunity to instill "bad" things: "The Turkic man lost the battle and left his female dependents and ran away, which had to be replaced by a Han general, and he would lose his head when he went back, and he could only live and die with the city." ”

Ashina Zhuo was speechless, she really hoped that Li Shizhi could save her.

After Du Xian said a few words, he asked his subordinates to settle Ashina Zhuo, not to be rude. When the aftermath of Black Sand City was clear, he sent a team of soldiers and horses to escort Ashina Zhuo to the south, and at the same time reported to Xue Chongxun's Chinese army.

On the way, Ashina Zhuo found that he was the only one who had been taken away, and the other captives were not accompanied by him, and he also felt a little strange, and a sense of foreboding arose in his heart.

…… The group stopped in Zhongshou City to replenish supplies and continued to the south, because they learned that Xue Chongxun's Chinese army had just passed through the southern desert and had not yet reached the three cities. After walking for two more days, I finally met the Tang Dynasty army, and in the distance I saw the soldiers and horses on the desolate field, and the banner hunting and flying was not spectacular. Originally, after the Mingguang Army left the Chinese army, Xue Chongxun only had the Shence Army and the soldiers and horses left by his side, but seeing that the pomp and circumstance at this time was definitely more than 10,000, it should be that the troops transferred from all over the country had converged one after another, and the number of men and horses had increased to more than 50,000.

At this time, it was already dusk, and the army was busy camping, and the general who acted as a messenger and a few others took Ashina Zhuo to Xue Chongxun's big tent to meet Xue Chongxun. When the good news came to the Chinese army, everyone was happy.

The messenger first verbally said the news of the victory, and the written military report was written in ciphertext, and only after the clerk translated it did Xue Chongxun sit there and read it carefully. This encrypted form of information transmission was still conceived by Xue Chongxun, but the specific measures were handled by Wang Changling and other civilian officials. In Xue Chongxun's concept, an advanced army is not only about organization and equipment, but also about having information superiority.

He read the military report and handed it to the civil official next to him, and then couldn't help but glance at Ashina Zhuo who came in with him, this woman is obviously not Han, how could she walk in with the Tang army messenger Xue Chongxun still hasn't figured it out. The surrounding staff generals were also more curious, but it was inconvenient to ask. This woman was not tied up and walked in, not like a captive, Xue Chongxun said in his heart, could it be a spy of the Tang Army on the grassland?

The messenger was so preoccupied with the victory of the war that he forgot about Ashinado for a while.

At this time, the messenger said: "The general in the army wants to slaughter Heisha City to avenge an arrow, and General Du thinks that he must be ordered by Shangfeng, so he asks the prince to decide." ”

Ashina Zhuo was indignant when he heard this, and immediately said: "Didn't General Du tell me that he would be open-minded and repay his grievances with virtue?" You lied to me! ”

Xue Chongxun asked, "Who is this woman?" ”

The messenger suddenly said: "The Turkic princess Ashinado was captured by us in Black Sand City, and General Du asked her to be escorted back with courtesy. "They followed people into the Chinese army's tent like this, it really didn't look like they were escorted back, and the surrounding civil and military officials were a little surprised for a while, and many people immediately understood that they were tired of it.

Since he was a prisoner, he naturally had no right to speak, so Wang Changling scolded: "In the land of military aircraft, anyone can come in?" Someone comes, take it down and watch. ”

Ashina Zhuo said angrily: "If I don't leave, what do you want to do with the people of Black Sand City?" ”

"The city of the defeated army is just a mermaid!"

Xue Chongxun's shogunate had long been influenced by the "nationalist" mentality, and at this time, despite Ashinazhuo's presence, he made an extreme statement: "Those who are not of our race will have different hearts, and we must try to continuously reduce the population of the northern grasslands to prevent them from having the opportunity to threaten the Central Plains." "The Turks killed my subjects of the Tang Dynasty, and they will return blood to blood and tooth to tooth!"

At this moment, Zhang Jiuling said lightly: "There were Huns in that land before, and they were my confidants. Where are the Huns now? If the Turks also disappeared from the steppe, what tribes would graze there......"

Zhang Jiuling's words reminded Xue Chongxun that he pondered that it was indeed the case, and the Yuan Dynasty that later became the ruler of the Central Plains was not Turkic; Liao, Jin, and Qing were not Mongols. Even if you kill all the people on the grassland, as time goes by, the people there will slowly rise up like the grass withered and the grass grows.

The vicissitudes of the world, is there really a prosperous country for thousands of generations?

Xue Chongxun pondered for a moment and said, "Where there is land, there are people. ”

Everyone was silent for a long time, Zhang Jiuling tasted the meaning of Xue Chongxun's words, and ordered in his place: "The massacre of civilians is not the work of the Tang army, and there is no need to adopt such a barbaric strategy. General Du can be expedient. ”

In short, at this moment, the Tang army was very excited, and the arrival of the victory news made everyone's feelings soar. The impact of two defeats in a row before was also resolved, but it brought out the bravery and good fighting of the Mingguang Army, and the 10,000 cavalry rushed to Black Sand City to break in one day, and Du Xian's reputation continued to rise. G