Li Er of the Tang Dynasty: Ancestor Xie is here!

Chapter 140 Your Grandpa Tang Jun is here!
Seeing that Tang Jun was asking for a fight to the death, Li Qing, who had been silent all the time, suddenly said: "Actually, there is no need to fight to the death like this. I have an idea. I wonder if Captain Yang is willing to listen to it?"

It's good to have a way. Yang De immediately asked seriously: "Please teach me, Master!"

Even if there is a glimmer of hope, he is willing to take a gamble.

Li Qing turned around, pointed to the trees on the side and said: "There are two poplar trees here. Cut the branches and tie them to the tails of the horses, so that a few brothers who can ride horses can drive the horses back and forth behind the slope. The galloping stirs up dust as a stratagem for doubting soldiers.”

This trick was something he came up with on the spur of the moment... and borrowed it from Zhang Fei's Changbanpo.

Hearing this method, Yang De's eyes lit up.Among the wounded, there were a few who could ride horses.He immediately asked people to cut down the trees and tied the tails of the horses and camels to branches according to Li Qing's words. As they ran back and forth, the sky was filled with dust.

"Just do it like this!" Seeing that the effect was good, Yang De couldn't help but feel happy.

Yuchi Gong and Li Shimin mounted the only two remaining horses and prepared to go to the battle.Li Qing stepped forward and patted Yuchi Gong: "Old Hei, are you tired?"

"Killing is such a joyful thing, why do you feel tired?" Yu Chigong asked in reply, but Li Qing couldn't help it.

That's true, you, the old man, will be a doorkeeper in the future, and killing a few vicious brats is just an appetizer for you.

It's just that in reality, Yu Chigong used a horse spear instead of a double whip.

He turned to look at Li Shimin again. Li Shimin laughed and said nothing.

To be honest, Li Qing really regrets it now.If I had known there would be so many fierce battles, I would have brought not only Yu Chigong but also Cheng Yaojin.If possible, take Li Yuanfang with you, then why not worry about going to Qiuci?
Unfortunately, there was no place to buy the medicine. He was currently on a limited mission and could not return to other dimensions until he reached Kucha City.

Li Qing sternly rejected Li Shimin's suggestion to wait in the camp, and Li Qing followed the Tang army carrying a long spear.

The Tibetan people outside the village had long seen the smoke and dust rising here. They were frightened and immediately entered the village to report to the leader.

When the leader heard his exaggerated description, he didn't dare to be negligent. He immediately followed him outside, ignoring the mutton stewed in the pot.As soon as they reached the entrance of the village, they saw two horses galloping down the hillside, followed by an unclear number of Tang troops.

Just as he was about to warn others, an arrow flew from a distance, pierced his left eye, and shot out from the back of his head.

The leader's face still showed disbelief and astonishment, and he fell to the ground.

The Tibetan man next to him was at a loss. He shouted and ran towards the village. He only wished that his parents had lost two legs.

"Your Grandpa Tang Jun is here!" Yuchi Gong galloped on his horse, carrying a horse spur and charging like a tiger, roaring loudly.

"Kill——!" Tang Jun behind him also shouted loudly.

The Tubo army didn't know what was true and they ran out of the house in panic one by one. The first thing they saw was smoke and dust rising in the distance.They didn't know how many people from the Tang army came. The Anxi army still had great power, and the leader was dead, so they were even more at a loss.Seeing that Li Shimin's arrows were accurate, some even ran to the east of the village where Ding Zhuang was tied up, trying to use the common people as shields.

Some Tibetan soldiers wanted to resist, but they were unable to muster combat power in a hurry.With the flawless cooperation between the Tang troops, they could only drink in anger on the spot.

Li Qing followed the group of Tang soldiers and seized the opportunity to shoot.He didn't stab the vital points, but stabbed in places like legs or feet that people wouldn't pay attention to.After the Tibetan soldiers were unconsciously distracted by the pain, they were immediately beheaded by the Tang army in the front row.

The Tubo people don't wear armor, so this wretched style of fighting is most suitable.

As the saying goes, the boxer is afraid of the young and the stick is afraid of the old man. The gun is also a kind of stick weapon.Even though the Anxi Army is older, they are still every inch longer and stronger. They have practiced for many years in battle formations. Not only are their marksmanship superb, but their cooperation is also extremely tacit.In addition, they were wearing heavy armor, while the Tubo people were lightly armed. In their panic, they were unable to cause any harm to them.

Seeing that they were unable to resist, the Tubo people had no choice but to abandon the group of captive people and fled in a hurry.

The Tang army did not choose to pursue them. After killing the injured Tibetans rolling on the ground and wailing one by one, they walked together to the group of bound people.

Seeing the familiar Tang Army armor, the two old men in the front row plopped down and knelt on the ground.

"I dare to ask Master Jun, is it me, the Tang Dynasty, who has returned?"

The old man's voice trembled. In addition to the anticipation for Master Wang's arrival, there was also the joy of surviving the disaster.

You must know that the Tubo people don't even want hard labor for old people like them, and they basically kill them on the spot.

After hearing the words of the two old men, the others quickly knelt down.

"We are subordinates of the Anxi Protectorate." Yang De beat his chest and saluted.

All the soldiers with helmets and armor behind them beat their chests and saluted.

"It's good that it's Tang Jun, it's good that it's Tang Jun..." The old man's eyes were full of tears, "I haven't seen Tang Jun for so many years. Even if I die, it's worth it!"

The Tang soldiers immediately stepped forward to untie the bound villagers.

Slightly different from the Japs entering the village, when the Tubo people enter the village, if the villagers cooperate and do not resist, they will basically not kill at the beginning, but choose to burn and loot first.

After the village is completely destroyed and everything they can steal is taken away, they will be divided into groups according to age and gender. The old and the weak will be killed directly, and the rest will be taken back, burned with slave brands on their faces, and sold directly to various parts of the Western Region. ——For example, Dashi, Uighur, Tuyuhun old land, etc.

The Tubo people also frequently looted local Han women, nominally for marriage, but in fact they used them as slaves.People at that time recorded this: "From the east of Hanhai, Shenwu, Dunhuang, Zhangye, and Jiuquan, to Jincheng and Huining in the east, to Shanggui and Qingshui in the southeast, all fifty counties, six formations, and fifteen armies are descendants of the Tang Dynasty. They were born as slaves in the army, working in fields, herding, and farming, or living together in cities and towns, or scattered in wild swamps. When frost and dew fell, I thought that when I was old, I would look eastward and cry."

*Rage value from Li Shimin +10000
After hearing the villagers' reports of the Tibetan atrocities, Li Shimin couldn't help but become angry.

He wished he could go back to the Zhenguan period and send troops to this time and space to wipe out the Tubo country that wantonly abused the people of the Tang Dynasty.

It was a pity that he could not go back until he arrived in Qiuci. Li Shimin made a mental note for the time being, and waited until he returned as fast as lightning to give the Tibetan people a surprise.

In order to prevent any omissions, under Li Qing's suggestion, the Tang army was divided into groups and searched house to house to prevent any fish that slipped through the net and were hidden in the house.

As expected by Li Qing, more than ten Tibetan rice dumplings were found hidden in various houses.

When he was caught, there was a fan who was feasting on the edge of the pot and didn't even notice the shouts of death outside.

"I never thought that my dear brother could be a military strategist." Li Shimin marveled at the men who were tied up and about to be beheaded.

Li Qing did not speak, but looked at those Tubo fans angrily.

It wasn't until their heads rolled all over the floor that Li Qing felt better.After this battle, Tang Jun was completely convinced by Li Qing.

After all, in this era, intellectuals are hard to find, and it is even harder to find intellectuals who know all kinds of strategies and are thoughtful.If it weren't for Li Qing's strategy, they might still be fighting the Tubo people now.

Thinking of this, Yang Decai was suddenly shocked.I was so focused on appeasing the folks in the village that I forgot to send someone back to inform them.

But Li Qing blushed a little. In fact, he learned this method from Zhang Fei in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. It is not considered original to him...

But plagiarism is shameful, as long as it is useful, not to mention that what he copied is something to save lives.

At the kind invitation of the villagers, Anxijun decided to go to the village to rest for a night.That night, Li Qingqing finally had his first human meal in the past few days.

Although it's still a little fishy, ​​it has a salty taste, so it's not that hard to swallow.

As the saying goes, the most important thing is salty. If there is no salty taste, even if you add flowers, the broth will have no soul.

"I feel like I'm alive again." He sent a message to Li Xiuning.

Li Shimin glanced at him and said nothing, but his expression clearly meant "Why are you staring at your cell phone?"

"Brother Li, I swear, when we go back, I will have a good meal!" Li Qing leaned against Yu Chigong and said, "And brother Jingde, we must have a good drink."

"That's no problem, Brother Qin..." Yuchi Gong said.

To be honest, after eating the tasteless meat and cakes for the past two days, my mouth has long faded away.If he hadn't been able to kill people occasionally, Yu Chigong would have found it boring.

Because we were in a village that night, we slept quite comfortably.The next day, under the reluctant eyes of the villagers, the Anxi Army once again set out on its way home.

In their car that originally contained food and grass, the common people secretly stuffed dried meat and dry food.It wasn't until he was very far away that Yang De discovered it.

"I am so ashamed of my fellow villagers..." Yang De, with tears in his eyes, knelt down in the direction of the village.

According to the location marked on the map, we should reach Qiuci after one day's walking.

The environment is getting better and better, it is not as desolate as before, and there are more and more oases.

“If we hold on for one more night, we’ll reach Kucha!”

The wounded soldiers lying on the car hummed a little tune. They always felt that the injury this time was different from what they imagined. They thought that in such a hot weather, they would die from wound inflammation and infection, but in the end they would suffer from unbearable pain in the wound.

I just never expected that it didn't hurt at all.

The wounded soldiers lay on the cart and thanked the gods and Buddhas all over the sky. Even Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, thanked them again.

"You have lived a good life, Brother Li." Li Qing reached out and patted Li Shimin on the shoulder.

"How do you say that?" Li Shimin looked at the group of wounded soldiers and asked softly.

"In this life, a person will experience a total of three deaths." Li Qing stretched out his hand to twist the dust on his clothes, "The first death is the physical death you experience at the moment you die. From this perspective of life, you are death. Lost;"

"The second death is when you are buried. At that moment, all your social relationships will accompany you to the grave. This is the second death."

"The third death is when the last person who knows you in this world dies. At this moment, no one can know you anymore, and you are dead in the true sense."

"And you, Brother Li, are actually still alive in this era."

Li Shimin had a piece of grass in his mouth. He couldn't see his expression because he was looking into the distance: "The living Li Shimin you mentioned...where is he?"

"In Zhaoling, in the annals of history," Li Qing held Li Shimin's shoulders with one hand and beat his chest with the other, "in people's hearts."

Li Shimin breathed a sigh of relief and nodded heavily.

Just as he was about to say something, he saw two people waiting in large packages in front of him.

"What do you do?" Yang De immediately stepped forward and asked.

"Master Jun, we are from a nearby village." The elder of the two immediately stepped forward to reply and moved the package behind him to Yang De: "Master Jun should be from my Anxi Army. I haven't seen you for a long time. Tang Jun... These things are the wishes of the folks in the village, so please accept them."

"This..." Yang De sighed and was about to refuse, but was interrupted again.

"I know the military master doesn't want to take it, but the military masters in the city are still waiting for you to go back." The old man sighed: "Even if these things are left in the village, there is no guarantee that they will be snatched away by the dogs one day. Military master, you still have to wait for you to go back." Keep it, you don’t want to see these things wasted by those dogs, do you?”

"If you say so, I will accept it." Yang De put the spear on the ground and crossed his hands in a salute.

The old man immediately returned the greeting respectfully with the young people beside him.

"In addition, my useless grandson also wants to join the Tang Army, but he has been suffering from nowhere to go." The old man reached out and touched the young man's head with Tubo pigtails: "Ever since this child can remember, I have been warning him, you He is a Tang man, and he should never forget his ancestors...No, when the people in Shigezhuang told us that the military men were heading this way, I thought of letting this kid join the army."

"We are trapped in the city and our lives are at risk. How can we delay your eldest grandson? It's better not to think about surrendering to the army." Yang De persuaded him earnestly. He really wasn't lying. There are three people in the entire Qiuci city. There were four thousand old veterans, and the Tubo offensive was becoming more and more fierce day by day. He didn't know how long he could hold on, so why would he drag this good young man to die with him?
After Yang De's earnest persuasion, the old man finally gave up his idea.

"Old man, just watch." Li Shimin couldn't hide the disappointment in his eyes when he looked at the old man, and couldn't help but advise: "Maybe in a few days, our Heavenly Soldiers of the Tang Dynasty will come back, and then I will let your grandson join the army!"

"Really?" Hope rose in the old man's eyes.

"How could I lie to you? We are the Anxi Army. Of course we know when the court will come back." Yang De immediately followed Li Shimin and said.

He only knew that what Li Shimin told was a white lie, but he never thought that Li Shimin was serious.

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