I, the military god of the Tang Dynasty, have risen since I destroyed the Turks

Chapter 706: The Illusion of Victory

Ajige said: "Your Majesty, this time the Tatars have united, we dare not disobey, and we have no choice but to disobey Your Majesty. I hope Your Majesty can understand."

Li Zheng finally understood that this person was a fence-sitter. He said that he didn't mean it, but when the city was breached, he was more efficient than anyone else in grabbing the spoils.

Shu Di'angfang and Li Kan looked at each other, and it was obvious that Nyonya had the same idea as Li Zheng.

Liu Sheng and Liu Lin stood on both sides with weapons in their hands. They would not try to guess what Li Zheng meant, but if Li Zheng asked them to kill the Khorchin Jurchens in front of them, they would do it without hesitation.

Li Zheng waved his hand, motioning them to stand aside, then looked at Ajige and said, "In that case, I'll spare you first. If you want to retreat and recuperate, I will send a doctor to treat you."

Ajige and Yuetuo breathed a sigh of relief and then expressed their gratitude.

Li Zheng continued, "As for your families, I allow them to immigrate to the Tang Kingdom. In addition, each household will be subsidized with five stones of grain and given money according to their household registration. I have already instructed Lord Su to do this. The new policy will be promulgated soon. By then, your relatives will definitely have the opportunity to go to the Tang Kingdom."

Li Zheng's words made the two of them very relieved.

This kind of treatment is what they have always dreamed of.

Although they lived a good life when they first took refuge with him, they were still controlled by others. Now that Li Zheng has promised to give his relatives more benefits, they are naturally very happy.

However, the two did not forget their mission. Yue Tuo asked respectfully, "Your Majesty, what should we do now?
"Oh."

Li Zheng suddenly realized that he wanted to ask this question. Li Zheng thought for a moment and said, "Since the various Tartar tribes have already fled, there is no need to worry about the threat of the Tartar army. You can just be responsible for sorting out these escaped Qing prisoners."

"According to the order."

Li Zheng gave another order: "Remember, these prisoners cannot be left alone. They must be strictly guarded. If they change their minds, kill them directly."

These Qing troops had surrendered, so Li Zheng naturally could not keep them.

These surrendered Qing troops were basically the elite of the Qing army. If left alone, they would pose a huge hidden danger to the Tang army.

Upon hearing this, Yuetuo and Ajige could not help but gasp, thinking that this emperor was more vicious than they had imagined.

After Li Zheng gave the order, he began to patrol the escaped Qing troops to see if they could collect any useful information.

"Marshal, I noticed something is wrong here."

Li Zheng turned his head and saw Su Dingfang pointing at an empty space, wondering, "What's wrong?"

Su Dingfang shook his head: "I am not sure either."

"Then stop talking and go take a look!" Li Zheng said.

Su Dingfang responded after hearing this and followed Li Zheng.

Soon, the two came to the so-called wrong place.

"Your Majesty, this place seems a little strange, like a valley."

This is indeed a valley-like place, surrounded by steep and rugged cliffs.

After hesitating for a moment, Su Dingfang walked cautiously towards the depths of the canyon. As soon as he dared to step into the canyon, suddenly thick smoke emerged from the top of the canyon.

Seeing this, Su Dingfang immediately shouted: "Enemy attack, protect the emperor."

"Shhhhhh!"

"Bang bang bang!"

Dense rockets, darts and crossbows instantly fell beside Li Zheng, but they were all perfectly blocked by Li Zheng's body protective energy and no protection was needed at all.

"Your Majesty, be careful."

Shu Diang swallowed the words that were about to come out of his mouth.

"Boom."

There was a deafening explosion, and then the whole valley shook.

Li Zheng's face turned pale as he hid behind a pile of rocks. He then shouted, "The enemy is in ambush. Everyone, rush out." "Boom!"

Following a violent explosion, Li Zheng felt the mountain beneath his feet tremble a few times, followed by a burst of flint rolling down.

Then Oboi suddenly appeared with tens of thousands of Qing troops, and Li Zheng realized that he had fallen into Oboi's ambush.

"Your Majesty, let's retreat quickly. We can't bring our artillery in. It will be dangerous here."

Su Dingfang immediately advised.

But Li Zheng thought for a moment and asked, "How many troops do we have?"

Su Dingfang replied: "There are only 3,000 imperial guards here now, and with the scattered soldiers, there should be only about 5,000 troops."

Five thousand versus fifty thousand, isn't that easy?"

Li Zheng thought it was his turn to take action, but when he thought about how Oboi's defeated troops were just remnants and could be easily dealt with by the three thousand imperial guards, he decided to just stay put.

Li Zheng seemed to see Oboi's smug face even from such a distance.

He really wanted to see what kind of expression Oboi would have when he was overturned, and whether it would be as ugly as if he had eaten nine-turn large intestine.

"His Majesty."

"I have made up my mind. The terrain here is narrow, and the enemy cannot use large-scale thermal weapons. With their martial arts attainments, my guards can kill everyone here."

Li Zheng waved his hand and shouted in a deep voice: "Pass the order, the whole army will attack and capture Aobai alive."

"promise."

Su Dingfang and Li Kan looked at the portraits, then sighed helplessly, and led his men to rush towards the mouth of the canyon, ready to fight a desperate battle with Oboi.

This place was only a hundred steps away from the entrance of the valley, and the two sides quickly engaged in hand-to-hand combat.

From a distance, Aobai noticed that Li Zheng remained calm in the face of chaos, which made him even angrier.

"Hahahaha... Li Zheng, I will kill you today!"

Aobai laughed arrogantly, then urged the warhorse under his crotch to charge towards Li Zheng.

Relying on the advantage in numbers, Oboi was only two hundred steps away from Li Zheng for a while.

"Haha, Li Zheng, this time I have lost hundreds of thousands of troops and carefully designed a trap. You are definitely going to fall into this trap."

Aobai laughed loudly, as if there was no one in this world he cared about anymore. His eyes were bloodshot and his braids were scattered behind him, as if he had gone mad.

Li Zheng remained calm and stood with his hands behind his back.

Although the 3,000 guards in front of him were temporarily suppressed, they were not at a disadvantage at all.

On average, for every imperial guard who fell, forty or fifty Qing soldiers would die.

Oboi was blind to all this; all he saw was the illusion of victory.

At this time, the commander of the Imperial Guard, Shen Kui, came running over, half kneeling and reporting: "Your Majesty, everything is ready."

"Go ahead. I want to defeat all 50,000 Qing troops within an hour."

If Li Zheng's words reached Aoba's ears, the latter might vomit blood.

But that is the fact. As soon as Li Zheng finished speaking, the Tang army's battle formation suddenly became extremely ferocious.

The Imperial Guards began to use a three-person formation, coordinating and covering each other. Once the formation was formed, they could kill hundreds of Qing troops without even taking a breath.

Then hidden weapons and bows and crossbows fell into the Qing army camp like raindrops.

In an instant, there were ghostly howls and wolves howled, and the Qing soldiers in the Qing camp were shot dead one after another.

(End of this chapter)