Love Affairs in Chang'an - Chapter 406

Chapter 406 Great Desert Eagle Raising

The Turkic envoy, Bilei, was really beaten up badly. His left eye was swollen and there was only a slit left. His lips were broken and a few teeth were knocked out. It was as if two ribs had been broken.

When he was brought in, he, a soldier who had experienced battle formations, almost fainted and couldn’t get up.

Upon hearing Qin Mubai’s order, the sergeants left and right could only tie Yuwen Hongtai up and bring him to the hall.

Yuwen Hongtai was tied up tightly, but his body was completely devoid of the bandits’ anger and anger from before. Instead, he smiled foolishly and said, “Hey, hey hey! Major Marshal, I’ve violated the military rules. I know I was wrong! If you want to cut off your head and hit the board, just say hello!”

“You know what you’re doing!” Qin Mubai shouted angrily, “Someone, drag him down and execute the military law according to the Thirteen Slashes Order!”

“Ah? Are you really going to chop me down?” Yuwen Hongtai was a little dumbfounded. He stared at Qin Mubai blankly and said, “Why don’t we discuss it and let me die on the array? It’s not worth it to die under the saber and axe of our own people!”

“Don’t disturb me. Enforce the military law!”

Just as the generals and Li Daozong were about to plead for mercy, Bi Le got up from the ground. While covering his swollen face, he said, “Lieutenant General, please calm down! But for the sake of the two countries and the alliance, please don’t kill General Yuwen.”

“This person has no military law and knows how to offend him. If I don’t kill him, what will I use to order the three armies in the future?” Qin Mubai said with a cold face, “Your Excellency, please don’t say anything else. This is a family matter in our army.”

“Major Marshal’s impartiality is admirable, but …” Biller hesitated for a moment and said, “If we kill a Great General of the Tang army because of such a trivial matter, it will certainly cast a shadow over the friendly relations between the two countries. General Yuwen once followed Old Marshal Qin to guard Gao Chang and experienced the turmoil. He has great hatred and personal resentment towards us Northerners. This … I can understand, and I don’t blame him. Please rest assured, Major Marshal. After returning, I will definitely put the overall situation first and will not inform Great Khan of this matter. ”

“Yes, Mubai. The two kingdoms and the alliance are not suitable to see a bloody light. Especially now that a great war is imminent, how can we destroy the Great General first? General Yuwen is indeed an unforgivable sin, but please spare his life for the sake of the Turkic envoy and the two kingdoms and the alliance.”

The crowd came out to persuade. Qin Mubai pondered for a while before snorting coldly, “Since there are envoys who guarantee with His Highness and the generals, Yuwen Hongtai, I will temporarily send you your head. If you dare to violate my military rules, even if the imperial decree of the Heavenly Court is issued, I will not spare you!”

“Ah? Yes, yes, yes, hehe, thank you Major Marshal, thank you Major Marshal!” Yuwen Hongtai knew how to be obedient even if he got a bargain. He hurriedly knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

“The death penalty is avoidable, but the living will not be spared!” Qin Mubai shouted, “Drag it down and beat a hundred batons as an example!”

This time, the crowd was no longer able to persuade him. Yuwen Hongtai felt a chill in his heart. He had no choice but to forcefully drag his head into the corner room and prepare to execute his sentence.

Biller narrowed his eyes and grinned. His expression was really painful, and he couldn’t complain. He could only sigh, “I’ve long heard that Commander Qin rules the army strictly like a mountain. Today, Major Marshal’s law enforcement is as easy as a mountain. Such a well-ordered army must be a lion of tigers and wolves!”

“I’m flattering you.”

At this time, a thunderous bang came from the side room, along with Yuwen Hongtai’s miserable screams. Everyone’s hearts went cold when they heard this. If these 100 batons were to be heavily beaten down, the lightest would be crippled, and even if they were to be beaten alive, it would still be possible!

Qin Mubai glanced at everyone in the hall and preemptively said, “Whoever dares to plead for forgiveness and beg for protection will be guilty as well!”

Everyone was speechless. As a result, many people inadvertently provoked Biller and the others, and countless malicious gazes fell on him, making him feel as if he was sitting on needles, so he had to hurriedly bid farewell and left in a dejected manner.

“Stop fighting, stop fighting! Billy’s gone!” A soldier sneaked back from the window.

“No, we have to finish!” Yuwen Hongtai shouted, “Military orders are like a mountain. You guys favor me privately. Who will obey Major Marshal’s orders in the future?”

“Then can we … play softly? General Yuwen, you can scream loudly, scream miserably, okay?”

“Hehe, this line, this line!”

Qin Mubai and the others were still discussing in the main hall, but they heard waves of pitiful roars coming from the punishment room, causing everyone to tremble in fear. It was already nightfall, and almost everyone in the Governor’s Mansion was alarmed. They were all confused and worried, thinking that a ghost had appeared.

However, after listening for a long time, Qin Mubai and the others secretly laughed. Blackie, this fool, clearly wouldn’t fake it. At first glance, it sounded like he was being beaten up and screaming miserably, but it was clearly not a bit miserable. He was just pretending to be at the top of his voice!

Late into the night, the Governor’s Mansion’s meeting was over. Dao Sect Li invited Qin Mubai to have some tea and rest in Xingyuan. Qin Mubai thought for a moment and declined his kindness. She brought some wine and snacks out of the Governor’s Mansion and headed towards Yuwen Hongtai’s house.

Yuwen Hongtai had no parents and no family. He was left alone with the army and had always lived in the army. However, after returning from Gao Chang this time, he had been in an unstable mood, crying and acting wild for a long time, so it was inconvenient to live in the military camp. So Qin Mubai sent someone to take him outside the barracks, find a house to settle him down, and temporarily live there.

Originally, Qin Mubai had even sent two soldiers to serve this wild man. But he was accustomed to being wild by himself, and could not be served. In less than a day or two, he had actually blasted her away, leaving her alone in peace and quiet. Therefore, his home was always in a mess.

But when Qin Mubai pushed open the door of his house today, he saw that the yard used to be full of weeds. The clothes hangers were still neatly dripping with the laundry that had just been starched. He could even smell the fragrance of wine and vegetables.

“Strange, strange. Could this stupid black be returning to the Golden Room to conceal its beauty?” Qin Mubai couldn’t help but laugh. Just as he was about to walk towards his bedroom with the lights on, he heard Yuwen Hongtai cursing loudly.

“You stupid bitch, don’t speak ill of my third brother!” Yuwen Hongtai cursed loudly, “I went to ask for a beating myself, not to do anything else! Military law is like a mountain, do you understand?”

“I don’t understand! I only know that he actually knocked down his own brother for an outsider. This is hypocrisy and heartless!”

“Say it again? Do you still believe that I will tear your mouth apart!”

“You unconscionable fool, Black! I won’t serve you anymore!”

“Horn!” A crisp sound came from the sound of the dishes falling to the ground.

“Let’s go. Hurry up and leave. Don’t be too slow!” Yuwen Hongtai wasn’t anxious at all. Instead, he smiled happily and said, “I didn’t call you here! Leave early and be quiet. I don’t want you to serve me like a stupid bitch!”

“You! You stupid, hopelessly stupid Black! I really owe you a debt in my previous life!-Take off your pants and let me apply medicine to you!”

“Ah, bah! You bitch, do you just want to see my butt? My butt is really that good-looking. It’s not enough to see it countless times a day?”

“… Do you believe that I will cripple you with a single needle?”

“Hahaha! If you have the guts, cripple me! Cripple the silence, cripple the trouble! If you cripple the old bitch, you won’t bother me all day long!”

Qin Mubai almost couldn’t help but laugh-obediently, Blackie is really hiding in the Golden Room! Isn’t this Su Lianqing? When did she hook up with Yuwen Hongtai?

The lights in the room were suddenly blown out, and then there was a burst of giggling sounds.

Qin Mubai burst into laughter, so he placed the wine and meat under the eaves steps, walked out of the courtyard gently, and carefully closed the door.

The sky was filled with starlight. It should be a bright sunny day tomorrow. Qin Mubai looked up at the starry sky and couldn’t help but think of Xue Rengui.

Ever since he stepped into the official career, Qin Mubai had not really made many close friends and hepatobiliary brothers. Yuwen Hongtai had followed King Wu for the longest time, and Yin Yang was accompanying him in Youzhou. However, he was already Li Ke’s man, so he was somewhat estranged. Only Xue Rengui was left.

Now, Xue Rengui led a brigade of lonely soldiers without a trace, and even the Turkic envoys could not say (or hide) what they were doing.

Qin Mubai felt that he was still a little weak, mainly due to the lack of competent helpers around him, as he was about to fight against Garqin Mausoleum.

‘”If only Rengui was here!” He had outstanding intelligence and tacit understanding with me. In comparison, Yuwen Hongtai could only be a vanguard general, Dafei Chuan Guard General Xue Wanjun was brave and seldom plotted, and he was not my confidant. Hou Junji was ambitious and obedient … Only Rengui was my perfect right-hand man! ”

At the end of summer and the beginning of autumn, the grass defeated the eagle and its prey had nowhere to hide. Every time this happened, it was the season for the herders of the grasslands to ride their fat horses and chase after their prey with the eagles in the sky.

It was always the golden season for the Hu cavalry in the north to play the eagle flute and plunder the Central Plains in the south.

Xue Rengui and his ten thousand plus Tang army soldiers had obtained a few hard days of rest, and their vitality and spirit had completely rejuvenated.

Today, Chief Huihe spat out to Xue Rengui that after Xue Yantuo received his letter, Khan Yinan had really come to an appointment to listen to the “Heavenly Dynasty Envoy” ‘s lecture.

Naturally, Yi Nan would not be so obedient. Just the words “messenger of the Heavenly Dynasty” from the Great Tang were not enough to frighten him-he also brought with him 100,000 Xue Yantuo cavalry!

The Xueyantuo tribe was one of the nine Tiele tribes in the grasslands, consisting of Xue and Yantuo tribes. They had nomadic in the early Jinshan area, under the command of the Turkic Khaganate. During the Great Tang’s northern expedition to the Turks, Xue Yantuo had sent troops to assist the Great Tang, and since then he had quietly risen. Amongst the grassland tribes, the current Xueyantuo tribe’s strength had already caused people to turn pale, because their powerful Qibei cavalry was not something any tribe could contend against!

Nowadays, Yi Nan’s ambition to unify the grasslands and reshape the Khaganate with more than 200,000 elite cavalry that had gone through hundreds of battles was already clear!

Hearing that Yi Nan had led 100,000 cavalry south to Qibei to “answer” Xue Rengui, the entire Huihe tribe was in a panic-wasn’t this a calamity of extermination?

In this regard, Xue Rengui did not say a word. He only ordered his Tang army to prepare for battle. How could they fight Yi Nan a while ago?

Now that things had come to this point, Tu Mudu had no choice but to forcibly recruit more than 40,000 cavalry from the Huihe tribe and send troops northward with Xue Rengui to the agreed location-the northern bank of the Erhun River!

Among the nine clans of the grasslands, Huihe could be considered a large tribe. The people of their tribe were different from the Turks of the past and the present. They did not like to fight and were good at raising livestock and horses. As a result, the Huihe tribe is the richest tribe on the grassland, with a large number of fat cattle, sheep and horses, and the tea horse trade with the Central Plains is also the most active. As a result, Huihe people thrive economically and become wealthy.

Compared to Xue Yantuo, the Huihe tribal clan had far more robust men and horses that could be used as warhorses. However, the Huihe people did not like to fight. To say that it sounded better was peace-loving, but to say that it sounded ugly was a bit weak. It wasn’t difficult for such a large tribe to gather a hundred thousand troops. However, Xue Rengui was a little unhappy that he had only brought forty thousand cavalry with him, but the guest followed the host, so he made up his mind secretly.

Arriving at the Erhun River, this was an important grassland in Mobei. The plentiful water grass was flat, and it was a good place for nomads to settle in spring and summer. In autumn and winter, it was a good hunting ground-and a good battlefield!