Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1361 Kneeling Snow
Those who can escape from the moraine are all powerful Tiele tribe.

Facing the vast wind and snow, in the boundless desert, although they are familiar with the road and will not get lost, all logistics, supplies, etc. have been left behind.Leader Ba Yegu looked back at the 2 horses under his command, feeling dazed and fearful.

Along the way, they killed horses to satisfy their hunger and snow water to quench their thirst.

A light cavalry caught up.

The report said that the Qin people were following.

Qu Lishi lamented that before sending out troops, his father, who could no longer walk on his legs, once warned him not to follow the mud and invade the south, saying that he would fail, but he didn't believe it.

His father invaded the South with Shibi in his early years, and was later defeated by the Qin army. He was sent back alive. After returning to Mobei, he joined forces with Yi Shibo and others to fight against the Turks. But now I don't obey my father's order and follow the mud to invade the south, and now I am defeated, and the wolf-like Qin army is still behind me.

You will bring disaster back to the grasslands, these are the words of the father.

"I'm going to see Yi Nan and apologize."

Qu Lishu's words shocked everyone.

"Going to see Yi Nan now, wouldn't it be sent to his door for him to kill?"

"Yinan has already killed Nishi. As long as I sincerely plead guilty, he will not kill me. After this battle, there will be no Xueyantuo Khanate in Mobei, but there is still a Huihe. At the beginning, the emperor didn't want Xueyantuo's family to be in charge alone. Mobei, that's why we separated Tie Le and supported Huihe. Now that the Xueyantuo Khanate is defeated, if we are killed again, then we will definitely go to Huihe, or let Huihe swallow us, causing Huihe to dominate Mobei. Not worthy of the imperial court's plan."

Qu Lishi spoke seriously at this moment.

In front of Ba Yegu, there are only a few roads left.

In this way, he was demoted and fled back to the tribe, and then either waited for the Qin army to encircle and suppress, or Huihe came to encircle and suppress. In the end, he was either destroyed or surrendered to the court or Huihe. Compared with these results, it is obvious that there may be a little hope for surrendering to the court.

"But will the Son of Heaven allow us?"

"We will definitely not let us go easily. We will definitely pay a heavy price. For example, the children of us chiefs will be sent to Luoyang as hostages, and our daughters will be required to be sent to Daqin, and then the emperor will give us a marriage. Shizong princes. Or we, Tie Le, will be like Xi Qi in the future. The court will delineate the border, set up counties, and even send officials, etc. In the future, we may have to pay tribute every year and go to Beijing to worship, but these are not important. "

The important thing is that paying these prices may make them skinless, but it will allow them to survive.

Survive, that's the most important thing.

As for other hostages for contributions, acceptance of canonization, respect for Confucianism, enforcement of Chinese and Qin laws, etc., it is not important.

"Father, let your son go to see Yi Nan instead of his father."

Qu Lishi's son asked.

"No, since it's an apology, I have to go in person, and it's best to go with the leaders of all ministries, so as to show sincerity."

The leaders of the various ministries accompanying the army hesitated.

They also knew that after this defeat, Xue Yantuo was finished, and they wanted to plead guilty and seek peace earlier, but they were afraid that Yi Nan would take the opportunity to kill them. After all, this Yi Nan even killed his own uncle, chasing him all the way, the real black wolf.

"I don't force you, go if you want to go, and wait for the news if you don't want to go. If I am killed, you can return to Mobei with your followers, and then ask Huihe Khan Bodhisattva to join you."

Everyone hesitated for a long time, but in the end they were willing to follow Qu Li to lose the Qin camp, after all, Huihe still had to listen to the Emperor of Qin.

Qu Lishi turned around and headed south with a group of tribal leaders and a small number of guards.

After walking for three days, he met Qin Jun's forward Ranger, explained his purpose, and was brought to Rockyong.

"The commander-in-chief is inside, you wait here first." A personal guard told Qu Lishi and the others, and then ignored them.

Qu Lishi and more than [-] Ba Yegu leaders, big and small, stood in the snow.

At dusk, the Qin army set up camp.

The soldiers set up their tents and began to eat.

There was not enough firewood, and the frozen horse meat could not be melted, so they simply killed the horses to eat raw meat and drink horse blood, and everyone shared a horse.Three hundred horses were slaughtered at one time in the camp, and the blood was so bloody.

When killing horses, the government soldiers draw lots to decide, and whoever is drawn will kill their horses.The mansion soldier who was drawn turned his head and walked to the side and squatted on the ground, but there was no way to fight this battle well.

In the desert, it was snowing heavily, and I couldn’t even find any grass that could be burned. The raw horse meat I carried was as frozen as a stone, and it couldn’t be melted at all. Drinking this kind of ice water all the time is also extremely harmful to the body.

Helpless, can only kill the horse.

War horses are the second life of the soldiers, but now they can only be slaughtered according to the order. Although Luo Keyong also promised the soldiers, the killed spare horses will be replaced by two when they hit Mobei. Waiting for the Mobei horse.

But it still made the soldiers feel bad.

Qu Lishi and his group stood in front of Rock's tent, and a row of Qin soldiers stood there with spears, motionless.

No one came to greet them, and no one gave them food and drink.

it's dark.

Qu Lishi and the others who had stood there for an hour were still standing there, no one paid any attention to them.

There were guards going in and out of the big tent, and even generals of the Qin Army, but they didn't seem to see them when they passed by.

Qu Lishi knew that this was intentionally showing himself off, and he didn't dare to neglect him in the slightest.

"Bayegu Qulishu pleaded guilty to Daqin!"

The wind was strong and the sky was very cold. Qu Lishi felt that he was going to freeze. Seeing that no one paid any attention to him, he could only apologize loudly, and then knelt down.

in the big tent.

Rock didn't turn on a small stove, neither lit a fire nor cooked in the tent, and he also ate raw horse meat, holding a horse heart and gnawing on it.

He turned a deaf ear to the loud pleas outside.

"Under the festival, a group of people from the Ba Ye Gu Department came to plead guilty, and it has been frozen outside for so long, why don't we let them in?"

Rock shook his head.

"How can betrayal be easily forgiven?"

"But·····"

"General Yuchi, don't care about these people's life and death, this commander has his own measure."

It snowed all night.

Early the next morning, Rocky woke up.

"Where is Qu Lishi waiting for someone?"

"Back to Commander, he's still kneeling outside the tent. He's already turned into a snowman. I'm afraid he's frozen."

"It's not that easy to die. This Ba Yegu is nomadic around the North Sea. Which leader is not a strong warrior in the tribe?"

Rock got up and came to the tent, Qu Lishi and others were already there like a snowman.

"Get up."

Qu Lishu blinked his eyes a few times, moved his body, but couldn't get up.

That night, people who were frozen were stiff.

In the end, it was Rock's personal soldiers who carried the frozen leaders directly into the big tent.

(End of this chapter)