First Minister of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 11 Captain Huang Ziying

In the early morning of the next day, the sky was dark and the convoy had not yet assembled. Gao Chong, who was dressing, suddenly heard Jiang Song shouting: "There is a situation, meet the enemy quickly."

Gao Chong was shocked when he heard this, he didn't dare to delay, hurriedly picked up his mace and rushed out.

I saw that Li Shimin also came out of the tent in a hurry, while fastening his armor, he shouted: "Formation".

This time, Li Shimin escorted [-] soldiers under Liu Hongji's command to escort them to Turks.

Gao Chong got on his horse, surrounded by several members of the Gao family who were close to each other.

Jiang Song tightened his spear and came to the front, "Just now I led the scouts to explore the road, and came across a group of cavalry two or three miles away from the northwest, running towards here, about a hundred cavalry."

"Do you have a banner?" Li Shimin asked.

As soon as the words fell, everyone's eyes were attracted by the smoke and dust rising from the northwest. Li Shimin set up a pergola to take a look, "If you don't fight the banner, who is it?"

Liu Hongji held the long spear in his hand, "I'm going to meet for a while."

"Who is coming? Hurry up and stop," Liu Hongji shouted loudly when he was two hundred paces away.

The leader waved his hand when he heard the words, and immediately reined in his horse, and more than a hundred cavalrymen stopped slowly.

"Elite cavalry", Li Shimin nodded in praise of the order.

"Ahead is Li Yuan's convoy paying tribute to the Turks?" The leader is wearing a common crotch armor made of fish scale-shaped armor, and the hem is made of lotus leaf-shaped armor in a circular arc to strengthen the waist below This kind of double crotch armor is always in the Sui army, and the general captains and captains wear this kind of armor. Of course, it is far less protective than Gao Chong's Yanling chain mail.

"A tribute?" Gao Chong frowned slightly when he heard this, "It's not a good person."
This mission is at most a peace talk with the Turks, not a tribute, only a vassal can be considered a tribute, just like Liu Wuzhou.

Liu Hongji is also a smart person, "Who are you? This is a private gift for Shibi Khan, how dare you covet it?"

"Private gift?" The man laughed after hearing this, "If you pay tribute, you will pay tribute. What kind of private gift are you talking about? I am Huang Ziying, the captain of Dingyang Khan. Just give me the gift. Your kindness, Khan received".

Hearing this, Li Shimin couldn't help it anymore, "Khan Dingyang? When did Turkic have a Khan Dingyang?"

"How dare you pretend to be so brave. Believe it or not, my five hundred cavalry will charge and turn you into ashes." Gao Chong also stepped forward and drew out his mace. Khan is now Liu Wuzhou, but at this time Liu Wuzhou was named Dingyang Khan by Shibi Khan not long ago, and the news has not yet spread, but at this time the momentum cannot be lost, and the name of paying tribute cannot be recognized.

Hearing Gao Chong's threat, Huang Ziying dismissed it, and said with a smile: "Khan Dingyang was canonized by Khan Shibi the day before yesterday, and he is the former Mayi prefect Liu Gong."

"The prefect of Mayi is Wang Rengong, and Liu Wuzhou is just a traitor." Li Shimin also sneered when he heard the words. After all, Li Shimin was still a courtier of the Sui Dynasty. It's not like Liu Wuzhou killed officials and rebelled. Therefore, Liu Wuzhou must be reprimanded righteously.

This sentence angered Huang Ziying, glared at Li Shimin, and was about to refute.

Seeing this, Gao Chong shouted loudly: "This gift was given to Turkic Shibi Khan. Your master is just a dog under Shibi Khan's command. Are you sure your master dares to accept it? Even if I give it to you, how dare you give it to me?" take it?"

Huang Ziying's eyes were dark when he heard these words, he stared at Gao Chong again and again, gnashing his teeth, Gao Chong's words just hit his weakness, Gao Chong's loud voice also made the soldiers behind Huang Ziying hear it clearly, and whispered one after another.

Because after Liu Wuzhou heard that Li Yuan gave gifts to Shibi Khan, on the one hand he coveted this batch of rich treasures. Khan hit the line.

After all, the current Turkic is his biggest backer. If Turkic wants to support the warlord's separatist regime, no matter how you look at it, the dignified Tang Guogong Li Yuan is more worthy of investment than him, a small captain.

As for Huang Ziying, Liu Wuzhou's subordinate was quite wise and scheming, he was treacherous and treacherous, so he wanted to send Huang Ziying here to see if he could pretend to be a tiger and take the opportunity to seize this batch of treasures.

But right now, Huang Ziying saw that Li Shimin's side had a large number of people, and Gao Chong brought out Shibi Khan to scare him. He really didn't dare to act rashly. Deshibi Khan is not happy, but Huang Ziying has no good fruit to eat.

Huang Ziying stared straight at Gao Chong, without any hint of viciousness in his eyes, "Very good, who are you?"

"Bohai High Chong".

"See you in Jingle City." After saying that, Huang Ziying gave Gao Chong a hard look, turned around and left.

Gao Chong touched his nose, "Why does this guy look at me like that?"

"Maybe it's because of your handsomeness," Li Shimin laughed when he saw the crisis was resolved, "After all, Youzhi scared people away with a few words."

Jiang Song looked serious, "This person looks sinister and spicy, I'm afraid it's not easy to get along with him, and he will hate him today, you should be careful when you arrive in Jingle City."

Gao Chong laughed in surprise when he heard the words: "Brother Baoyi is so afraid of him? This is not your style, no problem, soldiers come and cover up with water and earth."

Li Shimin also nodded and echoed: "It is necessary to guard against others. Jingle City is their territory, and villains are hard to guard against. Once you enter Jingle City, you should live with Baoyi, so you can take care of them." .

Before Gao Chong could speak, Jiang Song nodded and said, "Very good."

In fact, if Gao Chong's later generations studied the history of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, they might know Jiang Song's fear.

Because in the original trajectory, the reason why Jiang Song’s reputation was not well-known after the founding of the Tang Dynasty was that in the second year of Wude, he was officially worshiped as General Youwuwei, named Yong’an County Duke, and led troops to conquer Liu Wuzhou. As a result, he was defeated by Huang Ziying in Fenzhou Designed to be captured alive, and then he would rather die than surrender, and was brutally killed. He died young before he could show his demeanor in the prosperous age of Zhenguan.

Jiang Song patted Gao Chong on the shoulder, "Don't worry, I'm here to keep you safe", and then walked away.

Gao Chong was startled and confused when he heard the words, Li Shimin came to the side, looked at Jiang Song's back with a blank face, and murmured: "Isn't Jiang Baoyi here to protect me?" He said and stared at Gao Chong Big eyes puzzled: "He never said that to me, why does he treat you like this?"

"Uh...this", Gao Chong was speechless, pointing to himself, "Could it be that I'm so weak?"

Li Shimin was stunned, looked at the pair of iron maces in Gao Chong's hand, and walked away silently.

(End of this chapter)