"You don't know," Zong Lu learned the etiquette of the Central Plains and said: "The ancestor of this Gong Juezan is the uncle of Chinian Songzan, and he is a noble family in Tibet. If they are allowed to see me, if one of them escapes and returns, our family will surely be wiped out. ”

Li Siye nodded and said, "Then you just get out of the way, Kubani, you keep an eye on him, don't let people run away."

Zong Lu Qianen bowed down again, and admonished with palpitations: "There are seven of them, remember to kill them cleanly, and don't let one of them run back."

Li Siye turned around and pursed his lips and snorted, sure enough, the hatred between the classes is the real hatred, and as for any other national hatred, it should give way to the side.

He immediately arranged an ambush and ordered nine men to stand on both sides of the valley and wait patiently against the harsh sun.

After waiting for two hours, Tian Zhen's heart was so anxious that he was carrying a knife and shouting to go down to Zong Lu to settle accounts. Li Siye pulled him down and prostrated on the stone mound to gaze into the distance.

"Don't worry, it's coming."

Gong Juezan and his party appeared at the corner of the valley, each riding or leading a horse, all of them in a state of exhaustion and tiredness. In order to save their strength, they took off their heavy chain mail, folded and fastened it to the horse's back, and wobbly with only a leather robe wrapped around their bodies.

Li Siye and his soldiers wound their bows and crossbows, loaded them with arrows, and each aimed at their targets.

Gong Juezan and the others were not guarded, but just walked along the stream with their heads down. When they walked within thirty steps, Li Siye took the lead in striking the bow and crossbow, and everyone pulled their hair one after another, and the crossbow strings hummed.

Gong Juezan suddenly turned over and fell off the horse, his left shoulder was hit by an arrow, the two Gui archers on the left and right fell down holding their throats, Ge Rilang leaned over the horse, and actually avoided the arrow, and one person was hit by an arrow in the right cheek, and lay on the ground and roared after covering his cheeks, and the other two fell behind, the arrow pierced the horse, and the horse neighed and broke free from the reins and ran away.

Li Siye and the others quickly tumbled down the hillside, jumped on their horses, held Mo knives and spears, and blocked them on both sides of the river.

Gong Juezan's eyes were quick, and he dragged Gayan's daughter Aranda from the horse with pain, grabbed her thin shoulders as a meat shield in front of her, and hunched over the other with a short knife, the blade of which lay across Aranda's neck.

The other archer did the same, pulling Gayan off her horse and holding her back with a short blade.

Li Siye rode on his horse and ordered: "Shoot the one without a shield first!"

When Ge Rilang heard this, he pounced decisively, pushed and kicked the Gui shooter who was holding the Yan clan hostage, and grabbed the hostage in front of him. This Gui archer fell unlucky in a blink of an eye, and was shot in the face by three feather arrows, his skin and flesh were bloody and hideous, and he fell straight back to the ground.

The other person hurriedly squatted behind Ge Rilang, he didn't dare to take the hostage from Mr. Bai, he just bowed like a chicken and grabbed the belt behind Ge Rilang.

Ge Rilang turned his head slightly, glared at the shooter viciously, and bared his teeth angrily: "Spread your hands away!"

The shooter humbly replied: "I'm sorry, five hundred, I won't let go."

Ge Rilang arched his nose viciously, desperately wanting to kill the oil bottle behind him, but at this time, his own people fought to kill, which would only make the Tang army succeed, in short, save his life.

The atmosphere in the entire valley froze, only the whining wind blew between them, Li Siye frowned and rode on his horse without saying a word, and the rest of the Tang army only stared at his face, waiting for him to give the next order.

Two weak women were lying between the enemy and us, Ruoluo choked with tears in her eyes and almost shouted, but was stopped by Li Siye's eyes.

Relatives are on the side, care is chaos, only by giving up family affection, pretending to be indifferent, can we not let the holder have some fear.

Li Siye recited the sentence solemnly on the horse, as if he was reciting an official document:

"Tang Law has a text, and those who hold the quality will attack with the quality. After the brothers returned, they had to prove in front of the envoys of Duhu and Shule that it was not that the official did not save him, but that the situation was in crisis at that time, and the Tibetan thieves were arrogant and arrogant, and they wanted to live and die together with the hostages. Then let them live and die with the hostages. ”

Li Siye ordered: "String the bow and crossbow!"

The people put their crossbows on their feet, pulled the strings up, and drew arrows from their quivers and installed them.

Gong Juezan's eyes widened in disbelief, all the people who came to pursue were Tang Jun, and there was no one who knew the relatives of the hidden department? These dog-day Han people are really cold-blooded! Audacious, dare not talk about conditions! Do you want to abandon Gayan from his wife and daughter?

He frowned indignantly, grinning and scolding: "Gayan from, Gayan from! This is the consequence of your allegiance to Datang! You are loyal to the Tang King, but they treat your wife and daughter like this! You scum of the Tang Army, if this matter is known to the general, do you think he will be angry with the crown, rebel against the Tang Dynasty and return to Tibet?"

Li Siye replied without being salty or indifferent: "Gayan will not know from the general, everyone here is my cronies. I just need to bring back the bodies of the Yan clan and the daughter of the lord of the country, and tell him the truth about the murder of his wife and daughter by the Tibetan army. The general will only share the sky with the Tubo people in this life, and he will only swear allegiance to the Tang Dynasty. ”

"Ready!" Li Siye first picked up his bow and crossbow and aimed at Aranda, who was in a state of shock.

Her braids were loosely furnished and obscured half of her face, revealing the high bridge of her nose and the jagged long eyelashes in her closed eyes.

Ruo Luo gritted his teeth, but he still couldn't stop them from touching up and down, his body trembling, and he couldn't even hold the bow and crossbow he raised. He couldn't judge, did Li Siye really save Aranda? Or as he said, he wanted to abandon her and her mother.

Emotionally speaking, he didn't want to believe that he was such a person, but Aranda's fragile life was in the hands of Li Siye, and he would not let the Tubo people leave! Whether or not to give up the hostages is only a matter of thought.

He raised his bow and crossbow, but drove the horses back gently, and secretly swore in his heart that as long as Li Siye shot the crossbow arrow at his sister's body, he would not hesitate to shoot him to avenge his sister, even if he was his own superior.

"Wait, wait a minute." Ge Rilang couldn't support it at first, and hurriedly said to Li Siye: "We have no intention of fighting with the Tang Army, this time it is just a misunderstanding, but I ask the official to let me live, and I am willing to give up the hostages." ”

Li Siye's expression moved slightly, but Gong Juezan was highly nervous, and immediately stopped Ge Rilang: "Don't let go of the hostages, Ge Rilang!" Without hostages, you die faster! ”

Li Siye widened the corners of his eyes, raised his chin and looked very frivolous, but his tone was unquestionable: "Hostages are valuable, but some people are more valuable than hostages. Gong Juezan! ”

This shout startled Gong Juezan's shoulders tremble, and he clenched the knife in his hand.

"You are not only the commander of the Tanjuling garrison fort, but also the descendant of the side branch of Songtsen in the red year of Tubo. Your head is worth more than two hostages, no, I want you alive. If news of your capture reaches Lhasa, how much will your family spend to ransom you? ”

His head was confused for a while with Li Siye's words, and everything he had planned in advance was reversed, and he wanted to kidnap Gayan from his wife and daughter, and use them to catch Gayan from the door. But the Tang army came to pursue, turning a deaf ear to the hostage's life, but wanted to capture him alive, the son of a noble family.

Gong Juezan gritted his teeth and scolded hatefully: "Zong Lu, this traitor! He must have betrayed me! ”

What should he do now? Do you want to put a knife at your throat? Forcing Li Siye to retreat, if he dares not to retreat, threaten him with suicide and make him lose a lot of money?

He shook his head vigorously and threw out the ridiculous and stupid logic, the knife that lay across Aranda's neck still refused to let go. It is said that the Han people are treacherous and cunning, who knows which of these people's words is true? Which statement is false?

"I am indeed a collateral descendant of Chinian Zampu, but I am not the head of the family, otherwise I would not have been sent to the border of this small Bolu country, and they definitely would not spend a lot of money to ransom me. Or else? I have accumulated a small amount of gold in Tanju Mountain, and I have released the wife and daughter of Gayan, and if you let us go back, I will give him the money one day. ”

Li Siye breathed a sigh of relief, if this can save Aranda and the Yan family, it can be regarded as the best result, as for this Gong Juezan, he must not be let go back.

Who knew that at this time, Ge Rilang, who was squatting behind the Yan family, actually shouted: "Official! Envoy! He lied! He is the son-in-law of the Gongge family! ”