Sure enough, it was his aunt, although he didn't have any feelings psychologically, but the other party could say this, Xiao Rui was still moved.

"Aunt don't worry, my nephew has already calculated. He will be able to return to the Central Plains unharmed. It's just that your grandson Yang Zhengdao needs you to discipline him well and don't let him have any twists and turns. Otherwise......"

Empress Xiao glared at her nephew and reprimanded, "What? What else can you do to a child? Let him follow me, and he won't provoke you. ”

Xiao Rui sneered, went out and arranged to go on the road, those with enough identity were tied up as prisoners, and those with insufficient identity were all killed, and staying was a scourge, and their whereabouts would definitely be revealed.

"General Su, you lead Huaidao, Huaimo, and Baolin, and divide a thousand soldiers and horses to guard Empress Xiao and a group of prisoners, and march westward, scattering more scouts along the way, avoiding battles as much as possible, and hiding your whereabouts."

When Su Lie and the others heard this, they immediately objected: "No, we already have insufficient troops, and it will be even more dangerous to divide our troops again." Changshi, do you want to lead away the pursuers alone? Absolutely not, if you want to go, you will go. ”

"I'll go!"

"I'll go!"

Qin Huaidao and others, several deputy generals spoke one after another.

Xiao Rui waved his hand to stop the quarrel of several people, and said calmly: "Don't worry, I'm not going to die." You first marched west for two days, and I went south for a while, and I did enough to mislead Jieli's pursuers, and then I quietly caught up with you to the west. ”

Su Lie asked in a low voice: "Changshi, we have achieved our goal, we should go south and return to Chang'an together, while the pursuers have not caught up." Why go west? ”

Xiao Rui glanced south and sighed: "Alas, I also know that Xiang Nan is home closely." But we killed all the way, and there were more and more chasing soldiers behind us, calculating the time, Jieli was afraid that he was already on the way back. If we don't reach the Datang border now, we will be blocked by Jieli, and we won't be able to run away at that time. ”

"I just heard that the Western Turks are in civil strife, and the tribe of 70,000 people we met on the road is from the Western Turks. To the west is the weak area of Jieli's rule, we hide our whereabouts and quietly touch the past, take advantage of the Western Turkic section, and finally take Lingwu from Yumen Pass back to the Tang Dynasty. I can't guess it. ”

After listening to it, everyone agreed, it is worthy of a long history, and it is right to listen to him this way.

After a while, a plan was made, and Su Lie and the others reluctantly watched Xiao Rui divide his troops south. They took a group of captives and escorted Empress Xiao and quietly headed west.

A day later, the Yi Nan pursuers of the 70,000 tribes rushed to the royal court and were completely stunned when they saw the tragic scene of the royal court.

Yi Nan couldn't help but smack his tongue, these Tang cavalry are really ruthless! Jieli came back and saw this, I don't know if he will be angry?

"Patriarch, there is the sound of horses' hooves, coming from the north."

Everyone looked back and immediately became vigilant, it was the 50,000 cavalry of the Tiele tribe, led by the Hui clan.

Because Yi Nan was returned from the Western Turks, he couldn't be fully trusted, and now the tragic image of the royal court, and Yi Nan happened to be here, and he was almost misunderstood for his hand. The loss is yesterday's results, and there is no trace of fighting on the Yi male cavalry, otherwise this basin may be wrong. The two sides almost didn't fight.

The scouts reported that the tribe south of the royal court was attacked not long after, indicating that the Tang cavalry had run south and wanted to return to Chang'an. So the two tribes were put together, and a hundred thousand men pursued them south.

Xiao Rui took nearly 2,000 cavalry and killed all the way in the direction of Chang'an. After each attack on a tribe, Xiao Rui would let a hundred cavalry leave the team and flee pretending to be a rout, in fact, to prevent anyone from discovering the true intention based on the traces.

It wasn't until two days later that Xiao Rui wiped out a total of ten small tribes, and there were less than a thousand people left around him, so he quietly led people to chase west.

Tiele and Yinan met Jieli Khan, who was returning to support Dingxiang, in the Hetao area.

Jieli was very puzzled, what did he mean by heart? Tiele teamed up with Yi Nan? Raise 100,000 troops here and wait to intercept me? So tens of thousands of people under his command immediately became vigilant, and after several temptations, the misunderstanding was resolved. Jieli summoned the leaders of the two tribes.

"What? You hunted down Xiao Rui so far? So, Xiao Rui has crossed the Yellow River and fled back to Datang? Jieli was very surprised, if that was the case, he would have lost his wife and broken his soldiers, and he would have tossed in vain.

No, don't toss in vain, your old nest royal court has been destroyed.

Yi Nan was embarrassed: "Great Khan, the blame is here, we are only a day away from the enemy, hurry up, follow his trail and dare not relax, they want to cross the river and cannot escape, they will definitely be caught up by us, but, but...... We didn't see a shadow for the past two days, as if they had completely disappeared. ”

The Hui leader also chimed in: "Yes, Great Khan, according to the direction they are traveling, they must have fled in the direction of Chang'an." We can't chase it down, we must have hidden it. ”

Jieli frowned and was silent, and Zhao Deyan, the military advisor next to him, heard that something was wrong, "Two, you are saying that you were only one day away from catching up before, and you were chasing them along their tracks, and then in the past two days, the traces are gone?" Just chasing them along the path they might be taking? ”

The two nodded, and that was it.

Zhao Deyan slapped his thigh: "It's broken!" Xiao Rui must have changed the direction of his march two days ago, and he deliberately diverted you all the way to the south. If I'm not mistaken, he must have fled west. ”

The two retorted loudly: "Impossible! We stared at it and sent out countless scouts, but we didn't find any traces of escape from other directions, and the movement of the three thousand cavalry could not have been without any traces. ”

Zhao Deyan couldn't argue, turned his head to Jieli and said, "Great Khan, please ask for orders, investigate the traces left by Xiao Rui on the spot." ”

Jieli said impatiently: "Military advisor, Dingxiang City has been besieged for many days, and several letters for help have been sent, so let's support Dingxiang first." ”

Zhao Deyan insisted: "Great Khan, if we don't capture Xiao Rui, we will be completely defeated this trip!" ”

Jieli pondered for a moment, nodded and said, "Okay, Ben Khan sent a thousand guards to escort the military division to investigate the scene. Tiele, Yi Nan, Er and others converge with Ben Khan's army, let the Tang Dynasty take a look at the strength of my Turks, if you don't give us an explanation today, Ben Khan will once again come to Chang'an City! ”

After besieging Dingxiang for many days, Li Jing was not unable to capture the Turkic prince, but just because he did not receive Xiao Rui.

Li Jing and Li Ji joined forces, and after discussion, they decided to besiege it for the time being, forcing Jieli to support Dingxiang.

Otherwise, if the eldest prince is captured rashly, Jieli will not support Dingxiang. can only provoke him to chase and kill Xiao Rui with all his might, and then exchange Xiao Rui for the eldest prince, which is not good for Xiao Rui. After reporting to Chang'an, Li Er approved the plan of the two.

But now Li Jing got the news from Xue Li that Xiao Rui was gone, as if the world had evaporated, and he disappeared into the depths of the grassland.

In this way, the Tang Dynasty and the Turks, both sides are very puzzled, how to fight next?

Datang was afraid that Xiao Rui would have an accident in the grassland, so he didn't dare to break the net and let go of the fight. Jieli was also worried that Xiao Rui had secretly returned to Datang and that he would be in vain, so he was looking forward to finding Xiao Rui before arranging the next battle plan.

Of course, Jieli merged Tiele and Yi Nan, and there were many generals, so he directly divided 100,000 to Dingxiang to support, and left 100,000 to find the culprit Xiao Rui in the grassland.

In this way, the pressure on Li Jing and others is great.