Chapter Seventy-Five: Ambition (Subscription!) )

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The big hall was empty, the original tables and chairs, the wall decorations and even the lamps had been cleaned. Zhu Xie was reclining on a wide chair, holding a glass of wine in his hand, tasting it slowly, looking at this place where he had lived for many years with nostalgia. This is the old Zhangye City of Ganzhou, the base camp of Shatuo.

Zhu Xie Zhiyi walked into the hall, his leather boots stomped on the ground, Zhu Xie raised his eyes and looked at his eldest son, and said

"What's wrong, didn't you talk about it?"

Zhu Xie Zhiyi said:

"Yes, Father. Uncle and they were accustomed to a stable life, and even if the Tibetans drove them to war every year, they were reluctant to leave Ganzhou. He was afraid that the Tang people would remember our betrayal, and that we would be killed by the Tang people if we worked hard to escape. ”

"You killed them all? Don't tell me you didn't, the blood on your body tells me what you did. ”

"Yes. My uncle was worried that we would implicate them, and I knew that he would definitely report to the Tibetans, so I took people around and touched them while it was dark, and killed them all. Not a single one ran away. ”

Zhu Xie is loyal:

"You're doing a good job, how many of your people have died?"

"Six."

"Did you send a gift to the Tibetan Theory?"

"It should be there today. Our tribe has gathered 30,000 people, father, how many days do we have to wait? ”

Zhu Xie stood up and said:

"Don't wait. The front army was ordered to immediately take cattle, sheep, women and children along the Wudejian Mountain to the east. Your uncle's place is close to the Tubo people, and a Tibetan patrol passes through there every ten days, so we can get to the Tang Dynasty safely by hurrying these ten days. ”

Zhu Xie Zhiyi asked worriedly;

"Father, will Don accept us? Send an envoy to the Tang Dynasty, what if we arrive in the Tang Dynasty and they kill us all? ”

Zhu Xie is loyal:

"Envoy, I don't think I can catch up. The Tibetan army is gathering, and when the envoys return, we are afraid that they will have become a pile of bones. You can rest assured. If Tang likes to kill all those who surrender, the current grassland desert is only afraid of Han people. When we reattached ourselves to the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty had one more force to deal with the Tibetan Uighurs, and it was too late for the Tang to be happy. I'm afraid that before we reach the Tang realm, Tang's border generals will come out to greet us. The Tang Dynasty will not only not kill us, but will also give us food. Put away the surrender document written by the Han man I found and my big treatise seal, Tang values this the most. ”

After a pause, Zhu Xie looked at the empty hall and said to Zhu Xie:

"Since the Great Turks were defeated by the Tang Dynasty, we Shatuo people have always been like dogs raised by people, we have no place of our own, fighting for the Tang people, fighting for the Uighurs, fighting for the Tubo people, the men of Shatuo should die on the battlefield, but the blood of the Shatuo warriors should not be watered on other people's land. This time to descend to the Tang Dynasty, we must use the power of the Tang Dynasty to open up our own Shatuo people's own world. I heard that although the current Son of Heaven in the Tang Dynasty is disabled, he has great ambitions, and our Shatuo people are brave and unparalleled, he will definitely use ours, as long as we make great contributions, when the time comes, we will ask for the largest grassland as the territory of our Shatuo people for generations, like the Tiele people. This is how our Shatuo people came to be in the first land. In a few years, we Shatuo people will also have our own city, and we will have the most cattle and sheep! ”

With that, he turned and walked out of the hall. Zhu Xie Zhiyi pursed his lips, looked at his father's back, and thought to himself:

"Father, is your ambition so small?"

In the hot weather, the originally calm pasture people shouted and neighed, and one after another people came out of the city and outside the city, in the houses and tents, driving cattle and sheep, driving carts, gathering on the main road, and marching towards the Udgandshan not far away. In a large open space outside the city, tens of thousands of Shatuo young and strong people rode a horse under their crotch, holding a few horses in their hands, and the horses were full of dry food and drinking weapons, and they were talking and laughing loudly as if no one was around. Zhu Xie was very satisfied with the horseback riding out of the city, knowing that the soldiers who disregarded life and death were like this before the great war. As soon as his legs clamped the horse's belly, the horse galloped, and after a week around the field, there was no sound among the Shatuo soldiers.

"Shatuo warriors, we Shatuo people help the Tubo people to seize the North Court, help the Tubo people attack the Tang Dynasty, the Uighurs, but the Tubo people want to kill all our Shatuo people, rob our women, cattle and sheep, can you bear to watch your women lie under the Tubo people, and your cattle and sheep stew in the iron pot of the Tubo people?"

"Can't, can't!"

The roar of the Shatuo warriors sounded like thunder, and looking at the winding Wudejian Mountain, Zhu Xie smiled loyally.

At the other end of the Oudjian Mountains, in a dead camp, corpses were strewn and rivers of blood flowed, the mutton in the pot had been stewed dry, and the smell of mushy was exuded, and a corner of a tent had been added by the sparks blown by the wind, and a man crushed between the corpses had a nose fluttering, breathing greedily for air. After a long time, he struggled to break free from the corpse and staggered towards a horse that had lost its owner not far away.

Two days later, the Tubo cavalry of the brigade rushed into the ancient city of Zhangye with a whining and screaming, but the ancient city was empty, and the ground was full of broken pottery and the remains of broken wood, as well as many burned things.

"Damn, Shatuo, there's nothing left for us."

A Tibetan general shouted angrily and slashed the bull's head with a knife.

"No, he left us this."

Da Lun jumped off his horse, pushed his mask, poked the cow dung on the ground with his horsewhip, and said:

"It's still wet inside, Tripa Gyaltsen, take your cavalry, no one has two horses. Chasing east along the Wudejian Mountain, I can't think of three days, you will see the banner of Zhu Xie's loyalty. ”

Chang'an, Daming Palace, Zichen Palace, the prince, Li Jing, Li Wei and the prime ministers sat around, and Li Yu said in a deep voice:

"The Han Dynasty defeated the Xiongnu and allowed the Hu people to annex it, which resulted in the Wuhu Chaohua. Taizong defeated the Turks, did not listen to Wei Zheng's advice, but listened to the words of the eldest grandson Wuji, regarded the Turks as his own people, and helped the Turks who were in a food shortage, and as a result, the Turks threatened Anxi again during the time of Gaozong. The current Tang Dynasty has lost Anxi and Beiting, and even Hehuang has been lost, not to mention the martial arts against the Tibetan Uighur Shatuo, and my talent is far inferior to that of Taizong Gaozong, so I don't want the false name of benevolence. Shata is capricious, and I don't want to trust them. I can accept them, but what I want to accept is a desperate, missing arms and legs, and grateful to Datang. An edict was issued to Fan Xichao and asked him to prepare to accept Shatuo. Then he made a secret edict and told him what to do. ”