Chapter 525: Descending General Anggultai
After staying in the post station for one night, Li Xiang finally met Xue Yantuo's Zuo Commander Anggultai the next day.
"I have seen the Great Heavenly Khan of the Tang Dynasty......"
Listening to the other party's rambling title, Li Xiang frowned beside him, the major nomads in the north regard Li Shimin as the Heavenly Khan, and he is Li Shimin's grandson, so he also has a bunch of messy titles.
But these titles are just titles, and they don't have much practical effect, these people treat Li Shimin as a heavenly khan when they are fine, and they are useless when they really have something, they still live according to their own set.
Take this invasion of the Turks as an example, they know that this is Li Shimin's territory, if they really regard Li Shimin as the co-lord of the world, then do they dare to invade here? So these honorary titles are of no use at all.
"Okay, okay, whether these things are useful or not, you know better than me, I am a very pragmatic person, we don't need to work on these things, I want to know the actual situation there now."
Li Xiang interrupted this guy's words of praise, if it weren't for the fact that you came to surrender voluntarily, we would have locked you up a long time ago, in the records of the lobby, you people are all chaotic ministers and thieves.
Anggultai was a little embarrassed, originally wanted to say these words, I heard that the high-ranking officials of the Han people like to make people pat on the back, Anggultai went to school all the way for a long time, but he didn't expect to meet someone like Li Xiang, and he didn't say anything about sycophants or do business first.
"Back to Your Highness, we have suffered a snowstorm that has not been seen in a century, a large number of livestock have frozen to death, and the remaining food is not enough to support more than ten days, and the entire regime is in a state of collapse......
Angurtai reported the actual situation of Xue Yantuo, and now their resources have been reduced to the lowest point, if there are no other measures, I am afraid that a third of the people will starve to death this winter.
Li Xiang listened to these important data and was also thinking about how he should deal with it, if he continued to wait here, then there would be a war next year, if he took advantage of this opportunity to travel thousands of miles, then some things might be completely different, of course, the price paid for this was not small.
"How many people have you lost along the way?"
The blizzard has stopped, so the most dangerous moment has passed, and Angultai has come at the most dangerous time, and if we want to go over, it will definitely be much better than the environment they are facing.
"More than a third."
When he said these words, Angultai's eyes were already moist, these are his own people, although there have been wars in the past, but there is absolutely no loss of so much, only the punishment of nature will make them lose so much, of course, even so, he has no regrets, at least the rest of the people can survive, if they stay in Xue Yantuo, the death toll will be more than half.
All the resources of Xue Yantuo were concentrated in the hands of the Khan, and the other tribes could not get much resources at all, so Angurtai would turn against Xue Yantuo and take his men to the Tang Dynasty.
"Why did you come to this king? Do you think that if you come to this king, this king will be able to take you in? We had a very hot fight before, you must know that many people in Datang died at your hands, did you ever think that I would drive you people back? ”
Li Xiang's words made this Zuo Dadu Lieutenant stupid, he never thought that Li Xiang would bomb him back, you must know that when they came, they had destroyed all the places they could live in, and did not leave anything to Xue Yantuo Khan, it can be said that they had already torn their faces.
If they are allowed to go back now, it is estimated that all the people will be beheaded for public display, not only the Central Plains Dynasty is ruthless to the rebels, but the regimes everywhere are very heinous crimes against the rebels, their entire tribe surrenders to the Tang Dynasty, no matter how the Tang Dynasty treats you, it will definitely be worse than here.
"Your Highness, I beg you to forgive us, it was our fault before, whether you turned us into slaves or hard labor, we all admit it, I only hope that Your Highness will not drive us back."
Captain Anggultai knelt beside Li Xiang, he had no other thoughts at the moment, he only hoped that Li Xiang could give them a bite to eat, after the whole team had traveled a long way, the food in the team was pitiful, if Li Xiang didn't take them in, then the rest of the people could only starve to death here, and their tribe would be gone.
"I'm afraid this won't work, the Turkic steppe has also experienced a snowstorm, our surplus food has been used to relieve the victims, you came to let us give you food, we didn't have such preparations before, so I can't accept your surrender."
After Li Xiang's words were finished, the surrounding generals all felt strange, when they were at the post station last night, Li Xiang didn't say that, Li Xiang said that he should treat these people well, and set an example for the remaining people, so that the rest of Xue Yantuo continued to surrender, but how did it change today?
The reason why Li Xiang changed his mind was also because he learned about the specific situation there, except for the people under Xue Yantuo Khan, the other people basically had no way to live, we had to take this opportunity to fight quickly, Li Xiang didn't want to stay in such a place for two or three years, if this was the case, he would miss a lot of wonderful moments, especially the things in Chang'an City.
Anggultai and his men immediately panicked after hearing this, their surrender to the Tang Dynasty was actually a battle against the water, they had no way to retreat, the pursuers behind chased them to the border and camped there, if they went back, those pursuers would slaughter them all.
Li Xiang didn't pay attention to these kneeling and pleading, Li Xiang is now waking them up, you have to be a useful person, not all people come to me, I will give food, you have to let me see your useful places, otherwise this food will not be given to you.
Li Xiang left the tent without hesitation, and gave Su Dingfang a look when he left, we have to sing white face and black face alone, you have to do something that needs to be done.
I thought that Captain Zuo would understand by himself, but I didn't expect this guy's brain to be half a beat slow, and he didn't know how to respond to Li Xiang until now, he only knew that he knelt down and kowtowed, this is a fart?