Chapter 152: Kill until You Hurt
After more than half an hour, the tribe fell into silence, except for the eldest princess, all the others were killed, including several maids under her command, Li Xiang was not ready to leave a single mouth alive.
"You come to see her on the way, and if something is wrong, you can cut it first."
Li Xiang handed over the eldest princess to Li Si next to him, and then continued to move forward with the team, and the eldest princess also saw it, no wonder they sent several search teams to find Li Xiang, because the speed of Li Xiang's group was too fast, they didn't drag mud and water in any place, and they didn't get fascinated by these cattle, sheep and slaves, everything was to complete the strategic task as quickly as possible, such an army was really terrible.
The people on the grassland most admired speed was speed, it turned out that when they fought with the Tang Army, they could rush to several border cities overnight, which made the Tang Dynasty border full of wolves overnight, and it was not clear where their main force was, so it was as if the entire border area was caught in the war, and the pressure on the Tang Army was great.
But now the Tang army will also play this hand, and it is more slippery than them, take Li Xiang in front of him as an example, he led his army to run for a long distance, and he has killed four tribes along the way, more than 8,000 ordinary people of Tuyuhun have been killed, including more than 3,000 cavalry with combat effectiveness, this is only two days, an average of two tribes a day, if they are allowed to continue to kill at this speed, Tuyuhun will not be able to hold on at all.
In the evening of the next day, Li Xiang finally ordered his army to rest and recuperate, and began to plan the next road.
"Why didn't you interrogate me?"
The eldest princess sat not far from Li Xiang, and in the past two days, the eldest princess tried all her methods, but it was a pity that Li Xiang did not talk to her at all, so whenever such an environment occurred, the eldest princess wanted to communicate with Li Xiang in order to test Li Xiang's heart.
"There's no point in interrogating you, first, you won't tell me the truth, and second, interrogating you will waste my time, so it's better for me to rely on myself honestly, not to mention that this area is a place where your water and grass are abundant, and there is a tribe not far away, so I don't have to interrogate you, and you don't have to worry about this, I won't torture you to extract confessions, I don't beat women."
Li Xiangtou said without raising his head, and he had been drawing lines on the ground that others couldn't understand.
You don't hit women, you only kill women......
The eldest princess silently read this sentence in her heart, in the past two days, they skipped a total of four tribes, as long as there are Han slaves in these four tribes, then regardless of men, women, old and children, all are killed, this is Li Xiang's order.
In the past, when Tuyuhun and Datang were at war, all the losses were the people of Datang, because the army of Datang would not go deep into the grassland, so the people of Tuyuhun did not suffer much damage, even if the soldiers lost too much, but they could be replenished quickly, so any war would not bring too much damage to Tuyuhun.
But now this situation is different, after this person was killed from Liangzhou City, he went all the way to the south and killed all the way to the south, and the army crossed the border without any grass, including some children in the tribe, almost all of them were killed, Tuyuhun's original population was not much, if he followed Li Xiang's way of walking, he would be able to kill one-tenth of their Tuyuhun people after half a month, which was equivalent to killing their species for Tuyuhun.
"I beg you not to continue to kill, our Tuyuhun is no bigger than you, if you continue to kill like this, our Tuyuhun may not be able to pass on, our population is too small, you put me back, I will go to my father Khan, I will let him negotiate with you, you can make any request, if you don't believe me, then I will write a handwritten letter, can you find someone to send it out?"
The eldest princess is telling the truth, in the days with Li Xiang, the eldest princess was really frightened by Li Xiang's men, these people seem to have no feelings every time they go to a place, they burn all the materials that can survive, kill all the young and middle-aged, and leave only some old, weak, sick and disabled, if there are Han slaves in the tribe, even these old, weak, sick and disabled people are not left, Tuyuhun only has so many people, and they can't withstand Li Xiang's destruction from the roots, even if there is a truce now, These tribes may also be wiped out from the grasslands, considering that some of their tribes have survived for hundreds of years.
"Are you taking me for a fool, or are you a fool for your father, now that you've only lost a few tribes, can you Tuyuhun people negotiate with us? The last time I negotiated with you Prime Minister Midu, my request was already spoken, but unfortunately you didn't respect what I said, so I will only give you one chance, so in this case, I must continue to kill until you people are distressed, and no matter what conditions I put forward, maybe you will not say no. ”
What Li Xiang said is also the truth, although he also attacked several tribes last time, but for the huge grassland, the damage they caused was too small, which also caused Prime Minister Midu not to look at them in his eyes, and even felt that his side still had the strength to fight, so Li Xiang had to do something bigger to make you bleed more, so that you Tuguhun could feel the pain.
"Report to Your Highness, I found a torch thirty-five miles ahead, and it was coming towards us."
When the two were talking, their scouts immediately came to report, although it was already night, but there were still our scouts in the sky, they were better at night, in the dark grassland, the firelight could be said to be the best identification, fifteen miles ahead found a torch, it should be the cavalry on the grassland.
"Get into battle right away, shut this woman's mouth, and send her on her way first if you dare to make a little noise later."
Li Xiang took a bite of the beef jerky in his hand, and then poured a sip of cold water down, the eldest princess next to me looked at it, she thought that the members of the Tang royal family were greedy for enjoyment, and it was impossible to stand this crime, after two days of observation, she found that Li Xiang was even more difficult than some of the people on their grassland, no wonder his soldiers supported him so much, this time the grassland was indeed a strong enemy......