Chapter 342: Depressed Old Fellows
Compared with Xue Rengui's hearty killing on the grassland, Li Jing and a group of old killers were particularly depressed. Eighty-one? Middle? Text ≥≠≤.≥8≤1=Z=The old people who were full of confidence and planned to do a good job are now the whole grassland cleaner than if it was burned once.
Whether it is Li Daozong in the direction of Lingzhou, or Wei Yongsheng in the direction of Pingzhou, or even the news sent back by Xue Wanche, who sent troops through the Dao Khitan, there is no living thing on the grassland that is bigger than a rabbit.
"Ruthless, pharmacist, these boys are so ruthless!" Yu Chigong picked up a skeleton corpse that had been eaten by vultures with the iron lance in his hand, and sighed loudly.
Li Jing snorted, carefully looked at the bones that were picked up on the tip of the lance, ignored the foul smell coming from it, pointed to the two knife marks on the chest and neck of the corpse bones and said: "The killing is very thorough, and after stabbing to death, I wiped a knife on the neck, these boys are afraid that they have gone crazy." ”
"Remember the first settlement? It's just a one-knife hack there, and when you get here, ......" Wei Chigong pointed his finger around: "These are all two knives, and they clearly don't intend to stay alive." ”
"I don't know what they've gone through and why it's changed so much." Li Jing shook his head.
War is like this, it is always full of variables, even if Li Jing has experienced a hundred battles, he can't estimate what Xue Rengui and the others have gone through, and why they have become so violent from the third gathering point.
They passed through the first slaughtered settlement, and now Xue Rengui and they obviously planned to let go of those old and weak at first, but for some reason they changed their minds later, and chased and slaughtered them all from behind, so the corpses were very scattered.
When they passed through the second settlement, this time Xue Rengui and they showed no mercy, and everyone was slaughtered, regardless of the old and weak, but they were all killed with one sword.
Now it is the third settlement, but here it is two swords, as if it is afraid that the enemy will not die completely.
"Don't think about it, Senior Brother Yao, no matter what these boys have gone through, at least they have matured a lot." Wei Chigong put down the bones on the tip of the lance, and poked the iron lance in the dirt a few times to polish the dirt off it.
"Yes, not only are they mature, but they have also carried out the old man's orders very thoroughly, and have really cleaned up all the things that are in the way." Li Jing sighed, turned around and walked towards his war horse.
There is no way to stay in this place, not to mention the smell is unpleasant, and if you don't get it right, you will get the plague, and no one wants to camp with a large pile of corpses.
"The old man now doubts that they will have taken Dingxiang City down." Yu Chi Gong smiled, his family's eldest lieutenant Chi Baolin was in that team, if he had really taken Dingxiang City, his face would have been a lot brighter.
"Why don't you doubt that they have driven all the Turkic forces to Dingxiang City?" Li Jing said angrily.
Compared with the optimistic Wei Chigong, Li Jing's consideration of the problem is more complicated.
Based on his inference, if Gong Rengui and their killing method were followed, it was estimated that Dingxiang City must have received the news a long time ago, and it was estimated that a large number of herdsmen should also be driven to Dingxiang by them.
The good thing is that a large number of herdsmen will put a certain amount of pressure on Jieli, and if he wants to escape, it will inevitably affect his prestige, and it will take some effort to recruit troops to fight against him in the future.
The bad thing is that if there are too many herdsmen, it will also increase Jieli's strength in disguise, so that he can recruit more warriors.
But it's too early to think about this, no matter what Dingxiang City looks like, he must face it, Li Er's will will must not be changed, and he will flatten it if there is any difficulty in front of him.
After a short stay, the army moved forward, their goal was to rush to the Evil Yang Ridge before nightfall, according to Li Jing's original plan, if there was no big change, then the right Wu Houwei would raid Dingxiang at night.
At the same time, in order to prevent the Turks from fleeing westward, Wei Yongsheng and Cheng Yanjin were circling around a stone stele.
"Old Wei, what is this, what is it written?" In addition to his name, Cheng Yanjin, who couldn't recognize a few words, patted the stone tablet and asked with a grin.
"What do you say? Boundary marker! You know? Wei Yongsheng stood on the other side of the stele with his hands in his hands, and said after glancing at Lao Cheng.
"Boundary monuments? Who set it up? This is written in front of 'Datang', could it be that our people set it up? Cheng Yanjin pointed to the three big characters of 'Tang Realm' in front of the stele and said.
"Of course it was established by our people, and it has just been established." Wei Yongsheng said angrily.
After entering the Turkic realm, I haven't seen a single living thing, and the settlement is still dead except for dead people, I really don't know how the rabbit cubs led by the right guard have the energy to run so far away.
"Hey, tell Lao Cheng what is written behind this!" Wei Yongsheng had a bad temper, and Cheng Yanjin was not much better, and he was also angry with the right guard who entered the Turks in advance, but in the face of a boundary monument that suddenly appeared, he still wanted to know what was written on it.
"The old man will read it to you, listen to it." Wei Yongsheng patted the stele, turned to the back of the stele and pointed to a few rows of small characters and said: "The 'fangs' of the empire hereby swear that all aliens who cross this realm will be killed!" ”
"'Fangs'?" Cheng Yanjin was stunned for a moment, and then thought that it should be the name given to his team by the right guard, and couldn't help but high-five: "Okay, this name is good, the empire's 'fangs', it's really good." Hey, old guard, why didn't we think of this word, or you said that we should call it 'fangs' first. ”
"The old man is not as idle as you, you take a look at this monument by yourself, who knows which side is the Tang Dynasty." Wei Yongsheng felt that he was about to be angry to death, damn the right guard rate, and make an inexplicable stone tablet here, which clearly means that both sides of the monument are Datang.
That is to say, the person who erected this stele was not prepared to leave a way for the Turks to live, and no one could see them if they went further.
Such a stone tablet of the Tang Dynasty Northern Expedition Sixth Route Army, basically every road has seen a piece, and at the same time, the old things feel extremely depressed.
Li Jing and Wei Chigong were also very depressed when they stood outside Dingxiang City, and the stone monument of 'Anyone who crosses this realm will be killed' was in front of them, and it was blocked at the gate of the city.
On the other side of the stele, there were some Turkic people standing, they came to surrender, from their mouths Li Jing and others knew that Jieli had abandoned the city a few days ago, and there were no soldiers here.
However, when Li Jing curiously asked these Turks why they didn't flee with Jieli, he got a ridiculous answer.
Don't dare to cross the stele!
(End of chapter)