Chapter 521: Captain Zuo defected to the Tang Dynasty
The nobles on the grassland felt that this Tang prince was different from others, and the others were continuing the old ways, and after the Tang army left, they could be powerful on the grassland again, but what this Tang prince wanted to change was the thinking of the common people on the grassland, which moved their foundation.
For thousands of years, the grassland has continued to live in such a tradition, the master is the master, the slave is the slave, everyone has no other ideas, even if someone wants to stand up and challenge, but it is a matter of a few people, now the Tang people preach a fair life, if they are really learned by these herdsmen, their life will not be easy.
If in the past, who dared to preach heresy here, they would have raised the saber in their hands and killed these people, but now they are all defeated, and there are not many soldiers in the tribe, most of the soldiers are under the control of the Tang army, and some of them were directly sent to Chang'an City to be beheaded, it was a bloody head, and no one thought that the next batch would have themselves.
Although they have realized that the Tang army may subvert their rule, or at least change their rule, none of these people dare to stand up and resist, mainly because Li Xiang's knife was too ruthless a while ago, and directly cut off the courage of these people.
Now they hate Xue Yantuo to death, if they don't follow Xue Yantuo's people to make trouble, why should we do this?
Just as they were scolding Xue Yantuo Khan, at this moment in a tent further north, Xue Yantuo Khan sneezed heavily, not knowing who was thinking about him.
It is not far from the Beihai that the Han people say, you can imagine what the weather is here, the temperature on Li Xiang's side is about minus 15 degrees, and the temperature here has reached minus 30 degrees, it can almost be said that you can freeze when you blow your breath, there are no moving objects outside, and the air is foggy.
Xue Yantuo Khan is in his warm tent, his tent is different from other people's, this is made of precious fur, plus there are several braziers inside, so it is not cold to drink shirtless inside, and it is not good to rely on those soldiers outside, many people's bodies are frostbitten, but they came back from fleeing for their lives from the south this time, and many things were lost on the way, and there was no extra after returning.
The nomads of the north are so poor that they may only have one belonging, and when you lose it, even if you return to the base camp, you can only endure it.
Take a lot of soldiers who went out to fight, they wore fur clothes on their bodies, but when they came back, they threw them everywhere, and now there are no winter clothes, some of their hands and feet are already frozen black, and the partners next to them are sharpening their knives, and they have to cut these frozen black places, if they continue to keep, it will spread to the whole body.
Every winter, they had a worse time here than the people of the Turkic steppes, because their location was further north, which meant they had less food in store and more cattle froze to death.
"Pour wine, hurry up and pour wine for Lao Tzu."
Since Xue Yantuo Khan came back, he has been drinking in his tent, he can't believe his fiasco, although this time he ran back alive, but lost the most elite 20,000 troops on the Hun steppe, that is the foundation of his survival, fortunately now all the tribes have been weakened, if only he has a loss, then the heads of the tribes will come to force the palace.
"Great Khan, you've drunk a lot."
A beautiful woman next to her just said a word, and then she was kicked to the side by Xue Yantuo Khan.
This is his most favored concubine, but at this moment he has lost his mind, no matter who doesn't let him drink, that is, a few days before the fight and killed his own guard, the people around him feel that the khan has lost his mind a little.
"Even you think I'm not good anymore, do you? Isn't it just a losing battle? Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, and when the spring of the next year comes, Lao Tzu will take you to Chang'an. ”
The khan was already unsteady, but he still poured wine into his mouth, if he didn't get drunk, he would close his eyes and see the brothers who followed him on the expedition, only by getting himself drunk every day, would he not remember the tragic everything that day.
As for killing Chang'an, don't say that the people here don't believe it, even the cattle at the door don't believe it, do you know how far away from Chang'an is? Do you know how many Datang's troops there are along the way?
Hearing that the khan had fallen, the ministers outside breathed a sigh of relief, and they were ready to go back, and every day the khan had to gather them, saying that they were going to discuss a plan to deal with them, but there was nothing to do but drink.
If there is no damn blizzard, then they can still organize tens of thousands of troops, if they carry out a few sneak attacks on the grassland, then they still have a chance to win, after all, this is their hometown, no matter how brave and good the Tang army is, it is a little inappropriate in the grassland.
But after this blizzard, all the ideas are useless, in the snowstorm people's eyes can't open, let alone sneak attack others, if you sneak attack others in such weather, it is estimated that you have been frozen on the road.
Xue Yantuo needs a victory too much, and the atmosphere of defeat is permeated from top to bottom, and even many people have already released their words, saying that when the Tang Dynasty army comes in the spring of next year, they will surrender first regardless of it, and save their lives first, as for the so-called grassland honor, it has nothing to do with them, people's lives are gone, what do you want honor for?
"It's not good, it's sweating, it's sweating."
Xue Yantuo Khan was already asleep, but there was an urgent report outside, and this voice raised everyone's hearts to their throats, could it be that the Tang army was coming? In such weather, do those Tang troops still dare to attack?
"Don't you want to die? Don't you know where this is? ”
Yesterday he was broken in, so the khan's personal guard was slaughtered, and today this personal guard grabbed the person in one hand, and he didn't want to be slaughtered again.
"You get out of the way for me, go and report to the Great Khan, Captain Zuo took his people to the Tang Dynasty."
When these words were spoken, the khan's personal guards unnaturally let go, which...