Back to Tang Dynasty to be Emperor

The team of more than 800 people worked hard, and finally left the Yinshan Mountain before dark.Qianniuwei deserves to be the most powerful guard in Datang.Each of them is a veteran of many battles, so they moved extremely quickly when choosing a station and setting up a tent, which gave Li Ke and the black guard a good feel of what it means to march in the wild.

When resting at night, Li Ke deliberately went to Chen Qi's tent to look at his injuries. Seeing blood oozing from the gauze wrapped around his body, Li Ke personally put on Chen Qi's ointment, which moved Chen Qi deeply.

The night is very quiet, the sky is very blue, the grassland night is less warm but more vast.Therefore, Li Ke didn't feel sleepy, and under the escort of Chen Qi, he walked out of the station and came to the stream not far away.

"Following this king, I'm sorry for you." After a moment of silence, Li Ke said to Chen Qi calmly, "This time you have made great contributions to the Tang Dynasty, and this king will definitely reward you heavily when you go back."

"Your Highness,..." Chen Qi was about to speak when he heard Li Ke continue to say, "This king's merits and demerits are clear, so you don't need to say more, and you will follow me when you are on the road tomorrow, and leave the matter at hand to you." Hou Hu and Meng Shan." At this point, Li Ke turned around and patted Chen Qi on the shoulder, "Take care of your injury and don't suffer from any illness. This king will still need you in the future."

"Your Highness,..." At this time, Chen Qi, a man of seven feet, spoke with a choked voice.

"After leaving Yinshan Mountain, the king's mood is restless, and he always feels that something will happen." Li Ke said lightly, "I hope I'm overdoing it. Tonight's patrol will send more people, let Hou Hu and Meng Shan be in charge, Don't take it lightly."

"Nuo" Chen Qi showed his military style when Li Ke gave the order.

Li Ke and Chen Qi stood by the stream for nearly a stick of incense before returning to the station, and then Chen Qi arranged for the patrol, but he chatted with Di Zhixun who came to see him for a long time. After Di Zhixun left, He took out his own sword, Yuan Hong, and remained silent for a long time.Schroeder's words, "Li Ke, you will pay for what you did today." And Ashinayun's words, "You have to be careful, with Schroeder's character, he will not let it go." Constantly lingering in his ears.

Li Ke found that this trip to the grassland changed a lot of his thoughts, especially after meeting Xieli, he felt even more touched.He didn't know what kind of person he was before, but after seeing Xieli, seeing Xieli's eyes, that kind of arrogance that despised everything and his obsession with power, he really understood who he was. What do you need?I realized that I am the same kind of person as Xieli, the only difference is that one is like a wolf on the prairie, born bloodthirsty;

At the same time, Li Ke thought of Xieli's attitude towards him, "He actually understands himself very well, and he understands what he thinks very well. Otherwise, how could his attitude towards him change so much after the peace talks?" Li Ke thought, Only for his enemies, Xieli will treat him with an equal attitude, because this is the respect for the enemy, as well as the respect for himself.Li Ke sighed, "Did Jieli regard himself as his real enemy? Is this happiness or misfortune?"

The next morning, Li Ke still ordered the troops to march faster, he didn't want to waste time on the road.However, when they circled a small hillside, their eyes suddenly opened up, and then they were facing thousands of Turkic cavalry.

Li Ke was stunned for a moment, then he gathered himself together, and then he looked directly at the chief general of the Turkic cavalry in front of him, who was dressed the same as the commander Sutu, but looked more sturdy than Sutu.The man's expression seemed hesitant, his heart seemed to be struggling, and his face was changing, while an old man in his 50s next to him kept giving him winks and whispering something in his ear at the same time.

"Your Turkic tribe? Under whose order did you dare to prevent the envoys of the Tang Dynasty from returning to the country?" Di Zhixun rode forward angrily at this moment, "Is this how your Jieli Khan manages the army? "Di Zhixun's words were very skillful, he was sent by Xieli who was testing the Turks.If so, they would refute him confidently.If not, they will be silent or sophistry.

When Li Ke saw the Turkic cavalry in front of him, he immediately understood his uneasiness last night. At the same time, he also knew that these cavalry might be sent by Schroeder to chase and kill him.Therefore, he whispered to Chen Qidao behind him, "If nothing changes, as long as they dare to attack, you will shoot the commander first."

Chen Qi nodded to express his understanding.

Then, I heard Di Zhixun's stern voice shouting, "Your Turkic warriors, your loyal and brave warriors of Jieli Khan, have not received the order of their own Khan today, so they are instigated by others to stop them." Envoy of the Tang Dynasty, is this how you show your loyalty to the Great Khan?" Di Zhixun saw the behavior of the 50-year-old man, and knew that most of these people were motivated by him to chase and kill his party.He didn't understand why, but he knew how to talk to them.

"If you prevented the envoys from the Tang Dynasty from returning to the Tang Dynasty today and destroyed the peaceful relationship between the Tang Dynasty and the Turks, don't you want to provoke a war between the two countries that you Khan doesn't want to see? Now you wantonly stop us like this, don't you? Don’t you want the grain and silk that Tang Dynasty gave you? Don’t you just act stupidly because you were deceived by others today, just like letting your own people not get the grain from Tang Dynasty and starve to death?”

Di Zhixun said this, and continued, "I don't know what the name of this general is?"

"Vice Envoy Di, Your Highness the King of Han, my name is Sang De, although I don't understand your words very well, but I understand what you mean, I don't want to be a sinner of the Turks." After finishing speaking, he glanced behind, "Let's go .” Then the old man who was winking at him, ignoring him, disappeared before Li Ke’s eyes.

When Di Zhixun returned to Li Ke, Li Ke saw that his forehead was sweating in the cold weather, which showed how much pressure he was just now. "Your Highness, this is just a stopgap measure. We still have to set off immediately to avoid encountering Turkic pursuers again. I observed carefully just now, and the old man next to Sander is the mastermind who instigated these people. Let me look at Sander Not the old man's opponent, sooner or later they will catch up."

"Hey! At least there are more than 500 people. We are no match for them," he said to himself, and then he heard him shout, "Let's go!" 800 people continued to come towards Datang again.

Along the way, he told Di Zhixun his guess, and Di Zhixun agreed with Li Ke's explanation after thinking for a long time.These people were not sent by Xieli, nor were they sent by a certain tribal leader, but the cavalry secretly sent by Schroeder to hunt down Li Ke.It's just that they chose the most powerful cavalry around Xieli, but they failed to choose a good general to lead the army.Otherwise, with the more than 500 people in front of them, the 800 people behind Li Ke are not their opponents at all.

Li Ke and Di Zhixun did not speak, and it was difficult for them to open their mouths as they drove against the wind.After a while, Li Ke stopped suddenly.Everyone didn't know why he stopped suddenly, but when everyone was wondering, Li Ke suddenly shouted, "Waiting Tiger Mengshan."

"The last general is here." The two appeared in front of Li Ke on horseback at the same time.

"Lead your own troops to escort Deputy Envoy Di back to Chang'an, and I will lead the pursuers away later." Li Ke's firm gaze did not wait for Hu and Meng Shan to resist.

"No" for a while, and the two finally took the order.

During this period, Di Zhixun wanted to speak, but Li Ke stopped him with his hands. Seeing Hou Hu and Meng Shan taking orders, Li Ke said, "Tonghuai, if this is Schroeder's personal idea, then our peace talks will be decided." It has always been effective, I hope you can return to Chang'an as soon as possible, and then negotiate with the Turks."

Just as Di Zhixun was about to speak, Li Ke continued, "The people of Suzhou are still waiting for us. Don't refuse. Houhu and Mengshan will protect you along the way. Let me have fun with these thousand cavalry !” Li Ke said this, with a long-lost domineering look on his face.His gaze was icy cold, which made Di Zhixun shiver involuntarily.

After all, Di Zhixun didn't argue with Li Ke, but Li Ke saw the tears in his eyes when he left.Di Zhixun knew that with the 500 Tang troops and more than [-] Turkic cavalry, Li Ke basically had no chance of winning.But what can he do?With Li Ke's personality, he would not let himself stay and hold back the Turkic cavalry and go back by himself.Therefore, he left decisively, hoping to return to Yunzhou as soon as possible, so that Datang would send troops to help Li Ke.

Di Zhixun left, Hou Hu and Meng Shan took away twenty Yingwei and fifty Qianniuwei.Li Ke looked at the remaining 800 people in front of him, and suddenly smiled, "Are you afraid?"

"Not afraid"

"Speak up, are you afraid?" Li Ke roared.

"Don't be afraid," more than 800 people shouted at the same time. Although it was an empty grassland, the momentum was completely mobilized by Li Ke.

"Do you know what you are facing?" Li Ke roared.

"Turks" all the soldiers shouted in unison.

"Then do you know what they are going to do?" Li Ke said.

Everyone was silent, but their eyes were full of fire, they knew what they should do and what to do.

"Should we fight with the blade in the bone?" Li Ke asked again.

"war"

"Yes, we have to fight the blade." Li Ke roared.

"Battle" on the open grassland, 800 people were murderous.

"Chen Qi, send scouts to investigate the news of the Turkic people. The rest of the people dismounted and rested on the spot, ready to fight." Li Ke shouted, he knew that he and Schroeder had to fight, they could only fight.