At dawn, the morning light is shining.

The sharp lance blade went straight forward, and the next moment, the throat was torn, and blood splattered,

Li Xuan pinched the horse's belly and rushed forward, and his whole person had already rushed out of the Tuyuhun cavalry.

Immediately after, countless black-armored cavalry followed Li Xuan to chisel through the formation of the Tuyuhun cavalry.

Li Xuan rushed forward quickly, leaving countless corpses and blood behind him, but in front of him, a huge city appeared in front of Li Xuan's eyes.

Delingha, the easternmost pearl of the Qaidam Basin.

The city walls are high, and countless Tuyuhun warriors stand on the city gates.

Li Xuan's left hand was slightly raised upward, and the next moment, thousands of war horses had stopped advancing.

A jade river stood between Delingha and Li Xuan.

"This is the Bayin River, which flows down from the high mountains in the north and goes straight to Lake Tosu, and we only need to bypass Lake Tosu to directly enter Delingha from the south." Ming Chongyan quickly caught up from behind and briefed Li Xuan a little about the local situation.

"There's no hurry." Li Xuan calmly turned his head to look at Ming Chongyan, and asked softly: "Real person, don't you need to return to Dunhuang, King Xiang is not safe to stay in Dunhuang alone." ”

Ming Chongyan smiled reluctantly and said, "When the news of the prince's breaking of 30,000 Tubo and Tuyuhun cavalry in Qilian Mountain came back, those people didn't dare to act rashly. ”

"Some people want to do it, but they don't necessarily use any drastic means, just find a family woman and send it to His Royal Highness King Xiang's bed, then it won't be long before King Xiang will have a concubine." Li Xuan looked at Ming Chongyan and said with a faint look in his eyes: "I'm afraid the Dou family won't want to see King Xiang have an extra eldest son before the wedding, and the queen of heaven doesn't want to do it even more." ”

Although many children of princes and nobles will not be able to control their broken bodies before the wedding, once the eldest son of the concubine appears before the mother-in-law's entry, it is definitely a scandal.

Even if it can be suppressed, it must be a hidden danger in the family.

The marriage between Li Dan and the Dou family will take place in less than two months.

At this time, if the Dugu family makes a fuss, and it is still because the concubine is pregnant, it is impossible to say that the concubine of the king will be replaced.

Although the Dugu family has declined, when it comes to the family, it will definitely not lose to the Dou family.

Gaozu Emperor Li Yuan's wife was Empress Taimu Dou, but his mother was Dugu.

To a certain extent, Li Xuan has little to do with the Dou family, but he and the Dugu family still have a bit of blood love.

The corners of Ming Chongyan's mouth twitched slightly, although the Dugu family was in decline, there were definitely many Guanlong nobles around him.

Ming Chongyan was able to appease the Dugu family this time, except that the Tubo people did not invade on a large scale, the key is that he gave a lot of promises to the Dugu family.

If the Dugu family really wants him to play some small moves when he is away, it will definitely be Li Dan who suffers.

Ming Chongyan lowered his head slightly and said: "If you have it, you will have it, the Dugu family is also a big family, if you really want to make trouble with the Dou family, their face will be lost." ”

"Huh?" Li Xuan's eyes widened suddenly, she looked at Ming Chongyan in disbelief, and asked in a low voice, "Real person, can't it already be something?" ”

"It's going to happen, but the child won't have it." Ming Chongyan looked at Li Xuan with a gloomy face and said, "The Dugu family won't say anything more before Princess Dou enters. The prince knows so much, he won't plant anything in Dunhuang, right? ”

Li Xuan's face was still full of disbelief, looked at Ming Chongyan, and slowly shook his head and said, "Real person, this king is just guessing at random...... When the Tubo people can't take advantage of it, they will send one or two family women casually, and try their best to win them over, which is the usual means of the family, if they are ruthless enough, send two concubines......"

Li Xuan suddenly paused and glared at Ming Chongyan: "Real person, you missed!" ”

Someone sent the woman to Li Dan's bed under Ming Chongyan's nose.

"That's not right." Li Xuan paused again, looked at Ming Chongyan and said, "Real person, you won't do it on purpose, right?" ”

The Dugu family sent the woman to Li Dan's bed, so that Li Dan and the Dugu family were completely bound together.

This side has just married the Dou family, and the Dugu family has been wooed over there, Ming Chongyan is really a good means!

"The prince is wrong, Shiyin hasn't done that yet." Ming Chongyan took a deep breath, waved his hand, didn't want to talk about it anymore, and turned to look at the ground behind him.

Half of the five hundred Xitugu Hun soldiers were killed, and the rest did not dare to stay any longer, turned around and ran towards the depths of the grassland in the southwest.

Delingha's topography is peculiar, with snow-capped mountains to the north, desolate deserts to the west, hilly terrain to the southeast, and flat, endless steppes to the southwest.

This is the real golden area of the entire Qaidam Basin.

Ming Chongyan followed Li Xuan from Chai Dan to Delingha.

Along the way, several cavalry of Xituguhun were directly defeated by Li Xuan, and the cavalry of the right guard under him did not even suffer much loss.

Following Li Xuan's side, Ming Chongyan could clearly see that every time he rushed to kill, Li Xuan could accurately find the weakest point of the Tuyuhun cavalry, and then break it in one fell swoop.

The most important thing is that the Tuyuhun people can't understand the mystery here, thinking that Li Xuan has the power of the devil in his body, coupled with all the rumors before, he was quickly defeated by Li Xuan, which only intensified the rumors.

Seeing Ming Chongyan's gaze, Li Xuan immediately understood what Ming Chongyan was thinking, his eyes flashed slightly, and then said: "Real person, I don't know if you have found it, I am waiting in this area, I have to adapt more, and my strength can be exerted more, as if the plateau miasma or something does not exist here at all." ”

"Huh?" Ming Chongyan looked up at Li Xuan violently, he had already had a faint feeling before, but saying it so clearly and directly like Li Xuan still shocked him.

Li Xuan followed closely and said: "True person, if our dynasty can occupy this area and enter the Western Regions from this area, then the control of the Western Regions by the DPRK will be incomparably enhanced. ”

Li Xuan looked at Ming Chongyan with bewitchment in his eyes and said: "At that time, you only need to immigrate from Dunhuang and Shazhou, and the entire Qingxi Basin will soon be able to operate, and if you can't say it, you will have another place in Shangzhou." ”

The Land of Upper State.

The four words made Ming Chongyan's breathing suddenly heavy.

After a moment of silence, Ming Chongyan looked up at Li Xuan, then at Delingha in the distance, and finally shook his head and said: "Forget it, Tuyuhun is a big policy, once Tuyuhun is successful, it is impossible for them to allow Datang to immigrate here." ”

Li Xuan also fell silent, although he expressed his disgust for Tuyuhun more than once, even he knew in his heart that it was imperative for Tuyuhun to restore the country.

This is related to the prestige of Datang in the entire Western Regions.

Once successful, although the benefits are not as big as those of Qaidam at the moment, the long-term returns are absolutely high.

"Okay, if you can't immigrate, then you will send the soldiers who have plateau miasma here to recuperate, the terrain here is much better than Shanzhou and Kuozhou." Li Xuan raised his eyes to look at Ming Chongyan, and said tightly: "Tuyuhun won't even agree to this, right?" ”

Ming Chongyan didn't answer directly, Li Xuan just looked at him and shook his head, and said, "I really don't know where Tuyuhun offended the prince, and the prince wants to put them to death?" ”

"There are no personal grudges, just for Datang." After Li Xuan finished speaking, he immediately turned his horse's head and headed towards the southwest.

Ming Chongyan stood in place, savoring Li Xuan's sentence "For the Tang Dynasty", he could feel the sincerity in Li Xuan's heart.

But having said that, in the future court struggle, Li Xuan is still likely to become Li Dan's opponent.

Of course, it is not realistic to attack Li Xuan now, and it will not be good if he is completely pushed to the side of the prince.

Now, it is still necessary to restrict him.

Ming Chongyan raised his eyes to look at Delingha City in the distance, as if he was calculating something.

At this moment, the south gate of Delingha City suddenly opened.

Immediately after, countless cavalry had already rushed out of Delingha City, rushing out like a torrent to the southwest.

Ming Chongyan was directly stunned, he didn't know what was going on.

……

Under the south city gate, Li Xuan rode on a horse and slowly entered the city.

Turning sideways, Li Xuan looked at Ming Chongyan and said, "There are tens of thousands of East Tuguhun cavalry in the east, and there are also countless cavalry in the west, how can they still hold here...... What's more, the Tuyuhun people themselves are not good at defending the city, this city looks magnificent, but there are still many loopholes in it. ”

Li Xuan turned around, looked at the wide grassland to the south, and whispered: "In the grassland battle, the Tuyuhun people are better at it than us, there are smart people!" ”

Giving up a city of little use in exchange for a vast grassland battlefield is a very good deal.

But such a decision is not something that can be made by just one person.

Either it was Dayan Mang's junction, or it was the Tibetan general who was placed by Qinling's side.

There is no doubt that the next war will be even more tragic.

Under the south gate, hundreds of Tuyuhun cavalry fell on both sides, bowing their heads, knocking on the ground, and chanting in a low voice "The Descendant of the Black King".

Li Xuan turned sideways and said: "Pass the order, no one is allowed to embarrass them, if there are any Xituyuhun cavalry who are willing to join the right guard, they will all be accepted." ”

"Whoa!" Yan Tao immediately turned around and went to do it.

Ming Chongyan looked at Li Xuan with some puzzlement, and said, "Does the prince really plan to install some eyeliner here?" ”

"It's not." Li Xuan shook his head slightly, and then said: "What I need to face now is more than 5,000 Tubo cavalry, and 20,000 West Tuyuhun cavalry, but I wait, there are only 10,000 East Tuyuhun cavalry, 2,000 right guard cavalry, 1,000 right guard cavalry, and 1,000 right guard foot soldiers, as well as 6,000 Hangzhou soldiers to rush over, a total of 21,000 people, a big battle, can barely win, but after that, this king has to turn to Xinghai, and after that, there is Wuhai." ”

"Is the prince thinking about the war in Tibet?" Ming Chongyan immediately understood what Li Xuan was thinking.

All the enemies in the entire Qingxi Basin in front of him were not really taken into Li Xuan's eyes, he was really staring at him or Wuhai, and it was the entire Tubo after Wuhai.

In this battle, the Tibetan cavalry used 80,000 people, but after several battles, the main force of the Tubo cavalry was still 50,000 or 60,000.

Datang wants to take Wuhai, but it is still difficult, let alone Tibet.

A plateau miasma has already weakened their own strength by three percent.

If you really want to kill Wuhai, the danger is terrible.

Therefore, the inclusion of the Tuyuhun cavalry in the Tang army sequence is what Li Xuan has been doing.

If you want to defeat Tubo, you can only rely on Tuyuhun soldiers.

As long as the Tuyuhun soldiers, not the Tuyuhun royal family, this is the real reason why Li Xuan has been targeting the Murong clan all along.

Ming Chongyan finally understood now.

(End of chapter)