Chang'an City has undergone a series of changes, and all the changes were written in a letter by Li Chengqian and sent to the northwest as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, Li Xiang could not receive it now because he had just arrived at the military camp near the capital of the Western Turkic Kingdom.
When Li Xiang arrived here, he could not believe his eyes. King Qi Li You fell down twice and quickly ran to Li Xiang's side. It seemed that this guy had been scared for a while. As the saying goes, to die under the peony flowers is to be a romantic ghost, but when the day of death really comes, I am afraid that most people can't bear it, let alone a young man like King Qi Li You.
The richer a person is, the more he fears death. His father is the emperor, and he has countless money and beauties. Every day he lives is something worth enjoying. If he were to die, he would regret it so much!
"Help the prince in."
Li Xiang looked at the guard next to him with some disgust. "You are so scared now, why did you do that with someone's wife in the first place?" Now he knows he is scared. There are three layers of Turkic cavalry around him.
When Li Xiang came in just now, although he was accompanied by Turkic officials, those people were also full of anger. After all, robbing someone's wife on the grassland is a very disgusting thing. Moreover, you are a prince of the Tang Dynasty. When you do such a thing, your life is not the most important thing. The most important thing is the prestige of the Tang Dynasty.
If it weren't for the country's reputation, Li Xiang would have killed this guy with a single blow. "Don't you have enough women around you?" If you didn't have women in your daily life, you could be forgiven for doing something like this. But when have you ever been short of women? Whether they were brought from the capital or sent by tribal leaders along the way, you've never been short of women.
"Why are there suddenly so many cavalrymen in Western Turkestan? Is there something wrong with our reconnaissance?"
When they arrived at Niu Jinda's tent, Niu Jinda was also embarrassed. Eunuch Han was standing next to them. They both knew that they had caused a big disaster.
"Your Highness, our reconnaissance was flawless, but every member of the Western Turkic tribe is an excellent cavalryman. After hearing about this incident, they spontaneously rode their warhorses and armed themselves with bows and arrows, determined to kill His Highness the Prince of Qi."
Niu Jinda said somewhat depressedly that he had come to the Western Regions to look for trouble, but he could never look for such a thing. You can use all kinds of reasons to start a war, but once such reasons are spread out, will the Tang Dynasty still have the face to fight?
You might as well seize someone else's wife by force. If that's the case, people might say that you have the guts to scold the Right Wise King for not being able to protect his own wife.
But now you are having an affair with someone, which is a very disgusting behavior no matter where you look at it.
Of course, if it happened to ordinary people, they would be thrown into a pig cage directly, but you are a prince of the Tang Dynasty, representing the Tang Dynasty to make friendly visits to the countries in the Western Regions. Now that you have done such a thing, do you not want the reputation of the Tang Dynasty anymore?
After listening to Niu Jinda's words, Li Xiang did not blame the investigators below. This has always been the custom on the grassland. When there is nothing to do, these people will graze everywhere, but if something happens in the country, these people will immediately mount their horses and become soldiers.
Li Xiang also saw it when he came here just now. Many of them are already over 50 years old, which is considered to be a long life among the Turks, but these people still came here on war horses, which shows how disgusting their actions are.
"Your Highness, you must save our prince."
Handesi didn't know what to say at this time. The Turkic Kingdom kept talking about investigation, but there was no result so far. There must be many secrets in it. Handesi also asked the King of Qi, but the King of Qi did not explain it clearly. He just said that he was a little dizzy at the time.
When Li You told this to Han Desi and Niu Jinda, they didn't believe it at all. "How could you faint? You were caught in bed with someone, and now you say you fainted. Do you think they are all fools?"
"Is the defense okay? Have there been any conflicts in the past few days?"
Li Xiang saw two broken carriages in the military camp and guessed that these days were not easy.
"A few days ago, the Turkic cavalry came to provoke us, but the Turkic officials said that it was all the individual actions of the cavalry. They will wait for your arrival before making a judgment. We defeated these people's provocations. The Turkic army did not deploy, but these provocations occur every day."
Niu Jinda answered truthfully, and Li Xiang understood what was going on. This was the Turks testing our strength.
"So how did you do it?"
Li Xiang said with some concern that as long as Niu Jinda showed a little timidity, the Turks would be able to see the strength of the Tang Dynasty, because the Tang Dynasty had too few troops near the border.
"I will strictly follow His Highness's orders and not allow anyone to enter our military camp. We will punish anyone we find. Anyone who shows hostility towards our camp must be eliminated."
Hearing Niu Jinda's answer, Li Xiang beside him also breathed a sigh of relief, and Yuchi Baolin also gave him a thumbs up. This is a general of our Tang Dynasty. He can't suffer losses outside. Although we only have a few thousand people, we are still the strong ones here.
"You must be tired these past few days. Leave the defense here to General Yuchi. You can go down and rest first."
Li Xiang saw that Niu Jinda's eyes were bloodshot, and he could imagine how he had been living these days. The cavalry from all over the Western Turkestan must be making trouble day and night. Although we have enough weapons, we are too few in number after all, so the brothers below may not have had a good rest. If the talks fail, we still have a long way to go, so we must get a good rest.
Niu Jinda also knew that he had reached his limit and now wanted to sleep very much. Including the group of soldiers below, many people only had two or three hours of rest time every day. Now Yuchi Baolin brought people here, and someone happened to open the door for us.
"Then I will go down and rest first. If Your Highness needs anything, please feel free to send someone to find me."
Niu Jinda had been with Li Xiang for a long time, so naturally he would not say anything empty. After bowing to Li Xiang, he immediately went down with Yuchi Baolin to change guard. The soldiers under his command had reached their limit. If Li Xiang did not bring the army, these people would have to continue to hold on.