People in the early Tang Dynasty: I compete with Wu Zhao for the throne

Chapter 557 Go back, or die?

The Gu River is less than ten meters wide. It flows down from the Qinling Mountains on the east side and flows straight into Ning County on the east side. The water is so fast that it is difficult to cross it.

A wooden bridge for two horses to run side by side appeared on the upper Guhe River tens of meters away.

On the other side of the Gu River, more than 30 horses stopped on the other side of the small bridge.

The first one was a Turkic aristocrat wearing a blue robe, dressed like a Han, but with a felt hat on his head and a machete on his waist. The surrounding soldiers faintly protected him in the center.

Ashina Fuwu, the nephew of the ancestor of Ashina Gana who has passed countless generations, the little khan of a grassland tribe.

Now, it came here quietly.

"Fuwu, is it safe along the way?" Ashina Gana stood on the other side of the river, suppressing his excitement and asking with concern.

On the other side, Ashina Fuwu nodded, and while leading the people upstream, he turned his head and said, "Uncle, don't worry, we have killed all the Han people we met along the way."

"Okay, okay!" Ashina Gana said hello three times, his expression was full of excitement, and at the same time he walked quickly towards the wooden bridge.

Behind him, his daughter Ashinaduo was leading two horses and followed closely, followed by more than a dozen entourage guards, while listening to his father and clan brothers talking about the changes of the various tribes on the grassland today.

During the chat, Ashina Gana unknowingly came to the other side of the wooden bridge. Just when he was about to cross the bridge and meet Ashina Fuwu, a rush of horseshoes suddenly came from Came from the other side downstream.

Ashina Gana couldn't help but pause, subconsciously looked at Ashina Fuwu, and asked vigilantly: "Fuwu, how many people are under your command?"

"That's not my man." Ashina Fuwu's face was awkward for a while, he listened to the sound of the horse's hooves with his ears sideways, his face changed suddenly, and he said suddenly: "That's a Hexi horse, a Han horse. Uncle, the Han chased it." Come up, hurry across the river."

"Han people?" Ashina Gana couldn't help changing his face, and hurried up the wooden bridge. At this moment, a whole team of warriors in blue clothes and gold armor rushed out of the dense forest quickly, with long spears in their hands. The lance has been raised slightly.

The head lieutenant had a ferocious expression on his face, holding a long lance in his hand, and a pair of pumpkin hammers hanging around his neck.

The gourd hammer hangs down, just blocking the position of the heart.

The moment his eyes flickered, a handful of arrows flew up behind him, and with a buzzing sound, they landed on the prairie warrior on the opposite side.

As more arrow rain continued to fall, the number of Turkic fighters on the opposite side was reduced by half in an instant.

No, they are not dead, they are more hidden under the belly of the horse.

Although the Jinwu Guard's crossbow arrows were sharp, the warriors of the grassland tribes were not so easy to kill.

The word "nation on horseback" already shows their strength.

However, they are not running at this moment.

Although the crossbow only killed a few people, more of them fell on the horses that were caught off guard.

In a blink of an eye, the horses fell to the ground bleeding, and several soldiers were accidentally crushed directly on top of the horses.

The Jinwu Guard came roaring, and the Turkic warriors had no time to lift their bows, and they were rushed into the formation, the sharp blades directly tore the body, and blood bloomed.

The sharp scimitar slashed against Jin Wuwei's battle armor, but only cut a shallow blade on the golden armor, and his head flew high.

Cui Ding's ferocious face showed a frenzied killing, and the long spear was unstoppable for a moment.

"Uncle, hurry across the river. Together, we will kill them all." Ashina Fuwu was at the end, and the sudden attack did not make him completely flustered. He directed his men to resist while looking towards the opposite bank Ashina Gana's eyes were full of expectation.

As long as the two parties meet, they will definitely be able to counter-kill the Jinwu Guard.

……

The corner of Ashina Gana's mouth twitched slightly, watching Cui Ding's crazy slaughter on the other side, his heart was already cold.

"Fuwu, you have been discovered." After Ashina Gana finished speaking, he immediately turned around and left, ignoring the bloody killing that was going on on the other side. Ashina Fuwu was dumbfounded when he saw this scene.

As soon as Ashina Gana turned around, all his subordinates turned around and left without any hesitation at all.

However, they hadn't made any progress yet, and a dozen crossbow arrows had already sprung out from the dense forest in front of them, and then poured them into the throats of Ashina Gana's soldiers with incomparable precision, without missing a single one.

The three figures stood in front of Ashina Gana and Ashina Duo in an instant, with the Tang knife in their hands standing on their bodies, and looked vigilantly at the opposite dense forest, Ashina Gana behind him. Na and Ashina Duo had already felt chills in their hearts.

"Da da da" a slight sound of horseshoes sounded from behind.

Immediately, a general wearing a silver battle armor and a rhinoceros horn helmet slowly came out from behind. The long lance that was resting on the horse's belly had been removed, and the sharp lance blade fell to the ground seemingly at random, bringing up There are shallow trenches.

When they saw the face of this young general, Ashina Gana and Ashina Do were stunned.

"King of Nanchang, when did you become the general of the Jinwu Guard?" Ashina Duo couldn't help asking.

"Thanks to the two of you, this king, who was supposed to be on a wedding vacation, was just dismissed from the position of inspector Qianniuwei Zhonglang, and was immediately appointed as inspector Jinwuwei Zhonglang. It's really hard work!" Li Xuan sighed softly, raised her head, looked at Ashina and his daughter with half-smiles, and said softly, "Would you two put down your weapons and go back with me, or should I beat you all to the ground and tie you back?"

"There is no difference." Ashina Gana gritted his teeth and pulled out the golden scimitar from his waist.

Several Turkic warriors made a fighting posture at the same time.

Li Xuan shook her head lightly, and said disdainfully: "There is still a difference here, the difference is that if this king does something and brings back, it is very likely to be the heads of the two."

Li Xuan's voice suddenly became cold and chilling, and even his eyes became cold.

Ashina Gana and Ashina Duo looked at each other, and their eyes fell from Li Xuan's body to the depths of the dense forest behind, where there seemed to be several figures flickering non-stop.

The sharp crossbow shone coldly in the woods, as if Li Xuan could kill them all with a single command.

Ashina Gana lowered his half-raised hand slightly, because at this time, the fighting sounds behind him had gradually stopped.

The people Ashina Fuwu brought from the grassland have also been killed.

The current Jinwu Guards are not young soldiers, they are all elites assassinated from the battlefields of the Western Regions and Silla.

Especially Cui Ding, who has dozens of heads under his tent.

Longyou Cui Ding's prestige is also resounding throughout the Western Regions.

Feeling the sound of horseshoes sounding behind them again, the faces of Ashina Gana and his daughter were extremely embarrassing.

"Let's go back to Chang'an." Ashina Duo turned to look at his father, and Ashina Gana finally nodded seriously.

The three soldiers in front of them threw the long knife in their hands to the ground without any hesitation.

"That's good, you and I don't have to fight desperately with each other." Li Xuan replied lightly, riding forward slowly, his eyes fell on the opposite bank, the Jin Wuwei charged in full force, and the lethality was already astonishing.

These Turkic people came thousands of miles away. Although they rested for a while and recovered their physical strength, they didn't wear decent armor at all because they had to run a long distance.

Cui Ding was very brave, he didn't care about the opponent's blade standing on his body at all, he just pierced the throats one by one with the sharp lance blade, and the extremely skillful lance technique made the Turks fall down in a blink of an eye.

However, it was Li Xuan's appearance that really made the Turkic people lose their fighting spirit.

The appearance of Li Xuan on the other side of the river shows that the number of Tang troops killed is far more than the current ones, and it is hard to say that the entire border counties of the Tang Dynasty have all been mobilized. With Ashnagana and Ashina Do return to the grassland, this time the plan failed.

Ashina Fuwu did not hesitate to leave a wave of dead soldiers to stop the pursuers, and he himself took a few guards, turned around and retreated quickly to the north, as long as he could return to the grassland, then this time the failure would be all right. Failed.

Li Xuan pushed the horse forward slowly, and unconsciously came to the side of Ashnagana and Ashina Duo. At this moment, Ashnagana suddenly shouted: "Do it!"

However, before Ashinagana's voice fell to the ground and the three guards on the ground didn't even react, the sharp long lance had already crossed their throats extremely quickly.

A red line appeared in the center of the neck, and immediately, blood spattered out with a "bang".

"Bang bang bang" three times, three figures fell to the ground, one of their hands was inserted into the waist at the same time, and the blade was only pulled out less than halfway.

……

"It turns out that you didn't intend to keep them at all." Ashinagana's face was extremely embarrassing, how could he not see it with his old-fashioned eyes, even if they didn't do it, Li Xuan would kill them all.

It was precisely because he was already prepared to make a move that he was able to kill people so neatly.

"I don't need any prisoners." Li Xuan's calm and cold words directly made Ashnagana's father and daughter's faces turn pale, and they both held the dagger hidden in their waists at the same time.

Li Xuan smiled lightly, and said: "The others are captives, but you two are not, you two are our honored guests, how can you die."

Ashina was stunned for a moment, unable to understand the meaning of Li Xuan's words, but Ashnagana on the other side instantly became embarrassed.

"Come here, wash up for both of you, and then I'll go back to Chang'an together." Li Xuan glanced back, Li Zhu came out quickly with black-clothed guards a few meters tall, and then brought Ashinagana and his daughter. When they reached the river, they began to wash their faces.

Li Xuan rode slowly across the other bank, but Cui Ding was nowhere to be seen on the other bank, and he had already led his men to hunt down Ashina Fuwu.

Few of the grassland warriors who dared to come to Chang'an were willing to give up Chiguoguo's military achievements.

"Send the order, cut off the head, deal with the lime, pile it on the carriage, and take it back to Chang'an." Li Xuan looked into the distance, and shouted bluntly: "Send Cui Ding, let him kill Ashina as soon as possible. Fu Wu, this king only wants his head, others can let it go temporarily."

"Here!" A Jinwu guard rushed towards the dense forest without the slightest hesitation.

Not long after, Cui Ding with a ferocious face returned to the Gu River with Ashina Fuwu's head full of excitement.

Throwing Ashina Fuwu's head on the ground, Cui Ding grinned and cupped his hands to Li Xuan: "Your Majesty."

"En!" Li Xuan nodded lightly, looking at Ashina Fuwu's head, and said in a low voice: "This head is enough, for others, let them bring the news back to the grassland. "

Cui Ding was confused and didn't know what Li Xuan meant.

Li Xuan chuckled, and then shouted: "Command! Get up and go to Chang'an immediately. This king will bring these two back to Chang'an at the time when the city gate opens tomorrow."

"Here!" Everyone in the Jinwu Guard suddenly agreed.

(End of this chapter)