Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 2041

Really stupid, the act of exposing the guard will not help the matter, but it is equivalent to forcing the guard to kill himself, otherwise, if it is leaked, it will be a great crime for the barbarians!

Xiao Siye regretted it in his heart, thinking of ways to escape.

Now the guard probably got dizzy from the Turkic people who entered the customs and forgot about himself for a while, and when he remembered himself, he would definitely send someone to execute him and kill him.

He also held great power in Dingxiang City, and he understood that in a military-controlled place like the frontier, the general's order is like an imperial decree, and the commander has an order, and his subordinates will execute it without hesitation.It is not too easy to kill a lot of people in the wild and chaotic land. Afterwards, if you push it on the Hu tribe or the horse bandits, there will be no proof and no flaws.

How can I, a dignified descendant of the Xiao family, bear the injustice and die here?
Xiao Siye's strong desire to survive cheered him up, endured the pain all over his body, and moved to the window like a long insect, where there was an angular stone...

It was not until both wrists were worn bloody that the hemp rope binding the wrists was broken.

With trembling hands, he untied the rope on his feet, sweating profusely from the pain.

After taking a breath, he stood up and moved his numb hands and feet, then moved to the dilapidated window, and followed the torn window paper to observe the situation outside.

A soldier was holding the handle of a waist knife and was guarding the door. There was a mess in the distance. There were soldiers of the Tang army, Turkic women and children, and groups of cattle, sheep and livestock...

After thinking about it, Xiao Siye lifted his foot on a pillar in the house, and with a "bang", he dodged and hid at the door.

The soldiers outside the house were very vigilant, when they heard the noise, they immediately pulled out their waist knives, opened the door and walked in.

Xiao Siye, who was behind the door, rushed up and strangled his neck with one arm from behind, clenched his other hand into a fist, and hammered hard on the soldier's temple, and at the same time hooked one foot to close the door.

His punch was very powerful, and it hit the temple and other vital parts, the soldier groaned and fainted immediately, Xiao Siye let go, and fell limp to the ground.

Lie behind the window and looked outside, no one noticed the movement here, Xiao Siye heaved a sigh of relief, then squatted down, cleaned the soldier inside and out, then took off his clothes, and put on the soldier's clothes Clothes and leather armor, he finally took off the horizontal knife and hung it on his waist.

After tidying up, he stuffed the soldiers and his own clothes into a pile of sundries under the back gable wall, clapped his hands, opened the door and walked out.

None of the Tang soldiers who came and went found Xiao Siye who was dressed as a soldier...

Xiao Siye was determined, but he knew that he had to leave Yanmen Pass quickly, otherwise when the guard remembered that he had sent someone to check, it would be a big disaster.

As the long history of Shanyu's Dufu Mansion, he has lived in Dingxiang City for many years, so he is no stranger to Yanmen Pass, which is also an important border town.Xiao Siye shuttled among the chaotic crowd, turning all the way south, trying to find a place with weak troops to sneak out of the pass, and then return to Chang'an to impeach Fang Jun for being good at provoking border disputes, and even more so to arrest the Yanmen pass guard His face is exposed, so that he will die without a place to bury him!
However, when he waited for a long time, and when the sky was getting dark, he walked around a mountain depression. He only needed to climb over the mountain ridge in front of him to leave the boundary of Yanmen Pass, enter Daijun, and then head south all the way to Chang'an.

Xiao Siye hesitated again...

Return to Chang'an just like this?

What if Fang Jun is impeached?
As the son-in-law of the emperor, an important minister of the imperial court, and the son of Fang Xuanling, even if he was decreed or even demoted, Fang Jun was still Fang Jun, and his enmity with him was completely settled. , the family is quite afraid of flattering him, will his life be better in the future?
Heading to Dingxiang City?
It has already been abandoned by Ashina Simo. It is estimated that Xue Yantuo's army and Tang Junda have arrived together at this moment. What's the use of his long history?

And that guard, even if the imperial court charges him with treason, and even exterminates the three clans, so what?
I'm still panicking like a lost dog...

Xiao Siye looked up at the dark and gloomy sky, the north wind was blowing bitingly, the dark clouds were like falling lead, the world was vast, and there was no place where he could settle down and realize his ambition...

How to do?
Should he go back to Guanzhong and be a man with his tail between his legs from then on, tremblingly avoiding Fang Jun's revenge?
Or...

In Xiao Siye's heart, heaven and man were at war, anger, sadness, unwillingness, fear...all kinds of feelings lingered in his heart.

After a long time, he looked north again.

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*****
"Sir, this junior has been hurt by you!"

Seeing Zhao Deyan, the guard had a miserable expression on his face, and he opened his mouth to complain.

Repaying a favor is his way of life, but if he almost turned himself into a Turkic spy because of repaying a favor, and even involved his family, he would never do it.

If there is no change, he would rather order these Turkic people to fend for themselves in the closed gate, and be killed one by one by Xue Yantuo, and then be punished by the emperor and condemned by the court, he also admitted it!

Zhao Deyan looked astonished, rubbed his old waist that was almost torn apart by the bumps, and asked curiously: "What does my nephew mean by that?"

The guard sighed, and told what Xiao Siye saw through after receiving his jade pendant.

Zhao Deyan frowned and said: "Confused! How can you be hesitant about such a big matter? Then once Xiao Siye returns to Chang'an, you will have no way out, and you will have to take care of your relatives and brothers! It doesn't matter if he is a child of the Xiao family or a child of the Changsun family. , When it is broken, it is broken!"

The guard was sweating a little, still hesitating...

That Xiao Siye is a descendant of the Xiao family in Lanling, with the Xiao family's prestige in the south of the Yangtze River and Xiao Yu's influence in the court, how could he allow himself to kill Xiao Siye?

If you take this step, there will be no turning back!
Zhao Deyan shook his head and said: "After beheading him, you can put the blame on a few Turkic people, and then shoot the Turkic people on the spot. There is no proof of death afterwards, what can the Xiao family do to you?"

Hearing this, the guard's eyes lit up, he hesitated for a while, then turned his head and said to the person next to him: "Do according to the master's arrangement!"

The confidant didn't know Zhao Deyan, and didn't understand why his general respected and trusted an old Han man who was mixed with Turkic people so much, but he didn't dare to ask further questions, so he immediately took orders and left in a hurry with a few trusted soldiers.

The two stood at the top of the city, looking at the Tang army and Xue Yantuo cavalry who were facing each other in the distance.

The black Xue Yantuo cavalry filled the flat ground between the distant mountain ridges, covering the ground like ants from a distance.

The obviously thin formation of 500 Tang troops is like a grain of rice in front of an ant colony, or a whetstone in front of a raging wave, seemingly crumbling...

"Is this generous setting crazy? Over there, Yi Nan Khan is discussing with His Majesty about a marriage, but here he brazenly invades the territory of the Tang Dynasty. Isn't it against Yi Nan Khan?"

The guard looked angrily.

Dadu attacked the Turkic people irrationally, and the Turkic people even came to Yanmen Pass unreasonably, which caused him to suffer an inexplicable injustice for nothing, what the hell...

Zhao Deyan stroked his beard, smiled without saying a word.

I ran out of fuel and lived outside the Great Wall for most of my life. Before I died, I was able to return to my hometown and bury my bones. I was able to finally make up my mind to injure Xue Yantuo for Datang, making the northern border more stable for more than ten years. Of course, this is an achievement. No one knew, and he didn't intend to publicize it, but he was inevitably a little proud in his heart.

The problem of the Han people is that they are indulging in peace and happiness. As long as the border is stable, they will not think about making progress. They allow the Hu people to recuperate outside the Great Wall and gradually grow stronger until they become strong enough to invade the Central Plains again. , so it goes round and round.

Of course, this is also related to the lack of horses of the farming peoples who are not good at horse warfare...

Now the Han people are aggressive, the kings are ambitious, the empire is prosperous and the army is prosperous, but why are they staring at the poor place of Goguryeo?
In Zhao Deyan's view, a corner of Goguryeo has neither the depth of strategy nor sufficient military resources. The land is barren and the climate is bitter and cold. On the side of the couch, it is absolutely impossible to achieve too high development.

This was the case with Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty in the previous dynasty. His army of millions went straight to this useless place. As a result, the soldiers were lost and morale plummeted, which directly led to the emptiness and political turmoil in the country.

It is embarrassing that the current emperor of the Tang Dynasty is going to follow in the footsteps of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty...

That's why Zhao Deyan planned all of this. Xue Yantuo invaded the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and even wanted to slaughter all the allies of the Tang Dynasty. As long as the lord of the northern border has a little bit of courage and foresight, and takes the initiative to make some contact with Xue Yantuo, the emperor is unwilling to fight this battle. , and must fight.

I just don't know, at this moment, in Mayi City, where a large number of troops are stationed not far to the north, whether the son-in-law of Fang Xuanling and the son-in-law of the Emperor Datang will take any action, dare to defy the emperor's will, and give Dadu the leadership This Xue Yantuo's elite troops were beaten hard?
(End of this chapter)