Chastity Layman 2

Chapter 143
At the foot of Mount Saga.

Wu Meiduo asked people to dig out all the headless corpses that had been hastily dug and buried after being beheaded by the Tang army. Although it was autumn at this time, after many days, the buried corpses still began to rot, smell and even grow maggots. .

Thousands of people from Ast waved their flags to summon their souls.

Wu did not take off his shirt, and let the disciples of those who died in the battle come forward one by one, and cut off his braids and hair with one knife at a time.

The Turkic people on the grassland fear the gods and worship wolves. They value their hair very much. Only the defeated will have their hair cut off. It is a great shame to have no hair.

But now, with the scars on his face not yet healed, Wu Mei took the initiative to ask his followers to cut off his hair without leaving a single hair, because he believed that it was his responsibility that the followers died in battle, and he was determined to take revenge.

"One day I don't avenge this revenge, and I won't grow any more hair!"

Countless Ashidites whose fathers, brothers, sons and nephews died in battle also pulled out their knives one after another. They cut off their top hair, then cut their faces with blood streaming down their faces, vowing revenge on the Tianmeng.

Qin Lang and Liu Jiu stood in the distance watching.

"Wu Mei Bu's heart for revenge is very urgent, and the people of Wu Mei Bu are also very urgent, and their hearts are available." Qin Lang said with a smile.

Seeing this, he already had a preliminary plan in mind.

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After the ceremony, Liu Jiu was invited to drink with Wu Mei.

As Liu Jiu's followers, Qin Lang was also invited, and he and Qin Yong sat at the entrance of the big tent.It is still beef and mutton, and the way to eat it is also simple. There are large pieces of boiled beef and directly roasted mutton. There is no seasoning and it is full of fishy smell.

As for the wine, Qin Lang couldn't drink it even more, it was not as good as the two yuan a catty of cooking wine in later generations, which smelled like stagnant water.

People in the Tang Dynasty could not eat beef, and the court also prohibited people from slaughtering cattle privately. Cattle are important production materials, but for Turkic people, cattle are just their food, just like sheep.

With a small knife in hand, each person grabs a few catties of bone-in meat, cuts it directly with the knife, and puts it in his mouth after cutting it off. There is no seasoning, the only seasoning is a handful of salt.

"I don't know why you didn't start crossing the Wei River and laying siege to Chang'an City?" Zhu Xie Jinshan asked impatiently.

Wu didn't know that this brother Zhu Xie was actually Liu Jiu from the guarding department, and he was grateful to treat him as one of his own.

"The Great Khan is still on his way, he hasn't arrived yet, Tuli can't give orders to the leaders of the ministries, no one obeys him, and Tuli doesn't want to besiege Chang'an City at all, he is against going deep this time." Wu Mei did not hide the truth .

"Then we'll just wait here? But I heard that the army doesn't have much food and grass, and our brothers who went out to hunt grass valleys didn't get much."

Wu did not drink heavily, and said irritably, "Those damned Tang people are too afraid to go to war, they only dare to hide in those cities and forts and hide their heads like turtles. They took away all the food and livestock outside the city. We can't clean them up at all." What kind of food and grass?"

If you can't support the war with war, you can supplement it on the spot, just relying on them to drive the cattle and sheep that came with the army from the distant grassland, it won't last long at all, after all, you have to consider the return journey.Even Jieli never thought about coming here and staying away. They just planned to come to the Guanzhong Plain to grab a big one, and then go to the city of Chang'an. He blackmailed him a sum of money and then withdrew to the grassland.

With Wu Wu’s lessons learned from last time, now Tuli and the others dare not divide their troops to plunder easily, nor dare to storm those county towns and military forts that are defended by soldiers and horses. .

Although some people think that there is no need to be too afraid of the Tang people, and think that they should divide their troops to attack the surrounding cities of Chang'an, take down the cities, rob the city of food and grass, and carve up the money, food, livestock and population in the city, but there is no dispute.

Although there are many Turkic troops, they can come from thousands of miles away. Not to mention that they are not good at attacking cities, and they have no attacking equipment at all. Facing those heavily guarded cities, looking at the high walls and wide moats, With so many arrow towers, it is very difficult to easily capture the city.

Everyone is unwilling to fight recklessly with too much loss, and Xieli Dahan has not yet arrived, so the current situation of looseness and stagnation has formed.

Wu didn't want to seek revenge from the Tang people, but now that all the Tang people in the Guanzhong area have hid in castles, or crossed the Wei River and went down to Chang'an City, it would be difficult for him to arrest some of them for revenge.

"Wu didn't sip, there is no way for us to wait like this. People eat horse chews and consume a lot of food every day, and the brothers are eager for revenge."

Wu did not sigh, but in fact there were already many voices of dissatisfaction in the camp. Everyone listened to the call of the Great Khan and assembled tribal soldiers and horses. Ding back, so that this winter can have a comfortable year.

But who would have thought that suffering such a big loss now, 2000 people were lost in the First World War, and now they only consume cattle and sheep fodder, but they have not grabbed anything.

"Wu didn't sip, I just found out a piece of news, and I can charge some interest from the Tang people first."

After a long time, Wu Meichu gritted his teeth and asked, "Really?"

"It is absolutely true that Empress Dou, the wife of Emperor Wude of Tang Dynasty, died early. After Li Yuan proclaimed himself emperor, he named Dou as Empress Mu, moved her to Sanyuan County in the northeast of Chang'an, sealed the soil as a mausoleum, and added rich burial objects. Countless gold, silver and jade objects."

Wu Mei clenched his fists, "Okay, then I will take people to dig Li Shimin's mother's tomb, and take all the gold, silver and jade objects buried with him to reward the people, and also avenge me."

Wu was not moved by Liu Jiu's words. Since he is idle now, he might as well go to Sanyuan to dig Li Shimin's old lady's grave, take out the money inside and reward his subordinates.

"I'm going to report to Tuli Khan."

"Wu Meichuo can't do it. Everyone is free right now, and they don't want to storm the castle. If Wu Meichuo tells Tuli that there is a treasure in the tomb of Li Yuan's wife in Sanyuan, wouldn't he also want to intervene? People have to come to share, and then this treasure will not be much if it falls into Wumai Chuan's hands. Why do we have to spit out the meat that reaches our mouths?"

"Look, the tomb of Empress Mu in Sanyuan County is still separated from Chang'an by the plateau, Tuli in Jingyang and other armies. We don't have to worry about other things. Besides, going to Sanyuan to dig treasures can prevent Chang'an or Longyou The Tang army over there is coming to make a surprise attack."

The more Wu Meichu listened, the more he felt that it made sense. Last time he was defeated by Qin Qiong from Hexi led by Qin Qiong's army. If there were troops from Chang'an or Longyou, it would indeed be unsafe.

"Okay, I'll listen to you."

Weibei.

On the winding road, the 8000 people of Ashi Dewubu began to move eastward, the dust was flying, and it meandered like a dragon.

The tribal cavalry drove cattle and sheep, and treated the fertile land in Weibei as a pasture, and trampled on the land and crops regardless of roads.

As expected, Wu Meichuu did not report the truth to Tuli, but only said that he was going to take his troops to move to the east, and led his troops into action before Tuli could reply. Few of Turkic Qijin, Teqin, and Chushe really listened to him, and Tuli was already used to it and didn't care.

Wu Meichu rode in the middle of the team, and asked his subordinates to keep encouraging the people, telling them that there would be a treasure eighty miles to the east, and everyone would have a share in digging out the treasure.

The crowd's morale was high, and they rushed eastward like a swarm of locusts.

During the dusty march, no one noticed that one of Zhu Xie Jinshan's subordinates was missing.

It is less than a hundred miles from Jingyang Zuo'e Mountain to the tomb of Empress Mu in Sanyuan, but the tomb of Empress Mu is in the north of Sanyuan, and it is nearly a hundred miles away from the location of Tuli Camp in Jingyang.

Compared with the distance between Mount Saga and Tuli Camp, which was only [-] miles away, this is undoubtedly a deadly distance.

Under the night, Yiqi flew into Chang'an.

Qin Qiong personally met Qin Yong who had rushed back, and after listening to Yizi's detailed account, he took Qin Yong to the East Palace to meet Li Shimin.

"The dog is arrogant. He led Wu Meichuo to Empress Mu's Mausoleum without first asking for instructions. Please forgive me!" Qin Qiong pleaded guilty.

"This kid!"

After hearing the news, Li Shimin couldn't help being shocked, it was too much to lead the Turkic army to dig his mother's tomb.But after calming down, Li Shimin had to admit that this was indeed a good strategy to divert the tiger away from the mountain.

He didn't care about blaming Qin Lang, walked to the map, and looked at the map carefully. At this time, there were various marks on the map, and there were collected military information everywhere. Where were the Turkic garrisons and how many were there? , Who is the leader of the army, where is the garrison of the Tang army, where is the storage of grain and grass, etc.

"North of Sanyuan."

Li Shimin is of course very clear about the place where his mother was reburied, and he still visits it every year.

"According to the current distribution of the various Turkic tribes, if the Wubuchu tribe reached Sanyuanbei, it would be obviously out of touch with most of the Turkic tribes. The Turkic army closest to him is also in Gaoling, more than sixty miles away. distance."

The distance of sixty miles is not close or far, but for a famous general who knows how to seize the opportunity, this is a fighting opportunity.

"My lord, please redeem your merits and lead an army there." Qin Qiong asked for a fight.

This battle must be fought, otherwise, if the tomb of Empress Mu is really dug up by the Turkic people, then Qin Lang will be truly guilty.Although the Mausoleum of Empress Mu was sealed with soil, even if a huge mountain of earth was piled up, it is not easy to dig and rob the tomb, and it is impossible to succeed in a short time, but even if it only caused some damage, it would be a great evil .

Thinking back when Li Yuan and his son led troops into Guanzhong, Sui guard General Yin Shishi couldn't win, so he killed Li Yuan's son and family members who stayed in Chang'an, and finally dug up the graves of five generations of Li Yuan's ancestors, which was frustrating. Grey, extremely ruthless.

When Yang Xuangan rebelled back then, Wei Wensheng, who was guarding the pass, led the army to do the same thing. He dug up all the graves of Yang Xuangan's family, leaving them ashes.

Li Shimin thought for a long time, "No, you are the commander-in-chief of Chang'an's defense, how can you leave lightly, I dispatched Wei Chigong, Cheng Yaojin, and Duan Zhixuan to lead the Xuanjia cavalry from Chang'an Dongxinfeng across the Weihe River."

He slammed his fist on the map, "This time, I will definitely kill this cynical cub!"

(End of this chapter)