Love Affairs in Chang'an - Chapter 408

Chapter 408 Wang Shi of the Great Tang Dynasty

The 180-mile Erhun River prairie was covered in mountains of corpses and rivers of blood!

One hundred thousand elite cavalry of Xue Yantuo were defeated like mountains and falling stars and scattered clouds. They were expelled and killed by a frantic and domineering army of the Tang Dynasty, and they hurriedly retreated back to Qibei!

The battle began at noon and lasted for six hours.

The smell of blood floated in the air, and people who were still breathing could be seen rolling and twitching on the ground. Even the eyes of the scattered warhorses were filled with fear of killing and bloodshed as they fled aimlessly.

Xue Rengui carried Fang Tian’s painting halberd and rode on a half-red and half-white BMW. Behind him, the proud Tang army flag was still flying. Thousands of soldiers followed behind him and retreated back.

This was an unbelievable and unimaginable victory.

However, Xue Rengui’s expression did not contain the slightest bit of joy or excitement. Along the way, he saw the corpses of countless Xue Yantuo, Great Tang, and Huihe people, and his expression became tense.

“General Xue” A lieutenant general beside him called out in a hoarse voice. Xue Rengui came back to her senses and asked him what was the matter.

After such a long battle, once he calmed down, his spirit and stamina had already been severely overdrawn. At this moment, his exhaustion began to show, and he didn’t even have the strength to speak.

“General, look …” The deputy general pointed not far away and said, “There’s a small group of Huihe cavalry over there. They’ve been following us for miles.”

Xue Rengui glanced over there. There was a Huihe cavalry following them. They could not see clearly in the night, only recognizing their traditional white battle hats and flags. There were about one or two hundred of them.

In this battle just now, Xue Rengui had always been at the forefront of the charge. Xue Yantuo’s army had been annihilated by Yi Nan because of the death of the thirteen fierce generals, so the Tang army and Huihe army had killed them together. However, the only one who had followed closely behind Xue Rengui to the front was his 3,000 plus elite cavalry from the Central Army, Qin Mubai, who had pulled out his elite troops from the brigade earlier. The other Tang army generals were all rushing through the formation to kill them. As for the Huihe people, they were mostly busy taking advantage of the fire to rob the prisoners and snatch their weapons and horses.

It was with these three thousand elite soldiers that Xue Rengui drove Xue Yantuo’s hundred thousand troops nearly 180 miles away, killing countless enemies and returning home!

Earlier, he really hadn’t noticed that there was a small Ba’er Huihe cavalry following closely behind him to kill the enemy.

“Since they are friendly troops, please invite them to come and drive together! They are few in number, afraid of meeting Xue Yantuo’s remnants on the way.” Xue Rengui said.

The deputy general promised and went over to invite him. Soon, the Huihe army drove over.

They couldn’t see each other clearly in the night, and everyone was exhausted. Hence, Xue Rengui didn’t say anything else and continued to command the troops forward. But four or five of the Huihe cavalry came to the Central Army.

“General Xue, may I ask if there are any healing and hemostasis medicines in your army? I have a brother who is bleeding from his wounds. He is on the verge of death. Please help me, General!”

Everyone was shocked by the other general’s words.

First, she speaks Chinese like a native Han Chinese; Moreover, it was a female voice, and it was a very pleasant female voice!

“Woman?” Xue Rengui couldn’t help but be stunned.

“Yes.” The general on the other side, like everyone else, was covered in blood and had a ferocious expression. She could not see her face clearly in the night. “My name is Ashner Xue Lian. It’s not the snow from the Golden Mountain Snow Lotus, but this kind of blood,” she said.

After saying that, she lightly put up her hat brim, stained with blood.

“Ashner Xue Lian” Xue Rengui chanted and smiled. “Are you from the Ashner family?”

“Yes.” Xue Lian said, “The Ashner Clan’s Clan Chief is my father.”

“Are you Heluohu Khan’s daughter?” Xue Rengui asked in surprise.

He Luohu’s father, Tuli, was once a Turkic Khan, and He Luohu inherited the title and official position bestowed upon his father by the Great Tang. He was the spiritual leader among the various tribes in the grassland, so people were used to address He Luohu as “Khan”, but it was no longer the actual Khan in the past, it was only out of courtesy.

‘”That’s right” Xue Lian took a deep breath and spat out his killing intent and anger. “Yi Nan bullied the weak and unfaithfully annihilated my race and killed my father. I can’t live with him!” The chief of the Huihe tribe, Tu Mudu, is my half-sister’s biological uncle. “If it weren’t for my sister and I visiting my uncle in the Huihe Tribe a few days ago, we would probably have been killed by Yi Nan as well!”

“Oh … I see!” Xue Rengui pondered for a moment after hearing this. This interpersonal relationship seemed to be quite complicated.

Seeing Xue Rengui’s doubtful expression, Xue Lian said, “As for my birth mother, she is the imperial princess surnamed Li, who was bestowed by the Tang Dynasty to my father. Therefore, I can speak Chinese and write Chinese characters … General, is there any medicine to save her life? It’s like putting out a fire!”

“Someone, immediately go over and help treat the wounded soldiers of the friendly forces!”

“Yes!–”

Xue Lian heaved a sigh of relief and rode beside Xue Rengui. She looked at Xue Rengui’s invincible Fang Tianhua Halberd with great interest and said, “General Xue is indeed a peerless God General!”

“You flatter me.” Xue Rengui hurriedly said, “In the entire world, there is only one person who can be called ‘Divine General’-he is the Duke of the Great Tang Kingdom, Qin Shubao!”

“But in my opinion, the heroism of the general is better than that of Qin Shubao! He killed hundreds of thousands of troops with his armor and defeated hundreds of thousands of kilometers. Such a feat is beyond the reach of an ancient general!”

‘”Is that so” Xue Rengui replied indifferently without saying anything else.

“The general doesn’t seem happy to have won this great victory?” Xue Lian asked curiously.

Xue Rengui smiled faintly, his eyes especially deep and confused.

“General … why are you showing sadness and sorrow?” Xue Lian was even more curious as she continued to ask.

“I don’t want to create so many killings. I just … want to go home.” Xue Rengui smiled and turned to her. “We, the ten thousand plus people, just want to go home. But there are already many people who can’t go home, including Xue Yantuo and Huihe people.”

Xue Lian’s eyes widened in surprise as she looked at Xue Rengui. She was confused for a long time, and the moonlight illuminated her bright eyes even brighter than the stars of the Ye Clan.

“General … has a great heart of compassion. He is a true hero!” Xue Lian suddenly said.

“Why do you say that?” Xue Rengui couldn’t help but laugh, “I didn’t think so much.” However, he remembered what a friend told me in the past. Although’killing is enough to stop killing ‘, everyone has his relatives and friends, his wife and children leaning against the door … Killing one person is not a crime, but wounding a hundred people is a great sin! “I don’t know how these brothers who died in the Erhun River Prairie will explain to their families when they return!”

The nearby Tang army soldiers burst into tears when they heard this.

“General Xue, you are all true warriors! Your tears will move heavenly deities!” Xue Lian was shocked. “Wait for my uncle and the others to clean up the battlefield, I will ask him to collect and cremate the corpses of the Tang army soldiers and let the south wind send them home, okay?”

“What?” Xue Rengui did not come to her senses for a moment.

“It’s the end of summer now. At most, the south wind is blowing towards the Central Plains, isn’t it?” Xue Lian said, “There is a legend in our Ashna tribe that if someone dies in a foreign land, let his ashes die with the wind, and his soul will find a way to return home and reunite with his family. This is what the Central Plains calls’ Returning to the Root of Fallen Leaves’. I think these days are all winds from the south. How about we send these heroes home tomorrow and the day after tomorrow?”

Xue Rengui pondered for a while before nodding.

Two days later, a raging fire broke out on the banks of the Erhun River and a Tang military song was sung-“The vast ocean, kiss my family. The dust rolls and my acupoint leisurely! Lang Lang, Cosmos, Men’s blood is hot …”

Powerful, distant!

Tragic and solemn, desolate!

The south wind howled on the grassland. The Tang army soldiers sprinkled ashes and shouted the names of their fallen brothers. Their voices were mournful and resolute …

“Zhao Qingshan, Xianyang, Guanzhong, is going home!”

“Luoyang Feng Chengde, go home!”

“Lingnan Zhu Cheng, we’re going home!”

Xue Rengui rode on his horse, his body no longer stained with blood from that day’s intense battle. The white horse was dressed in a silver robe, but his brows were tightly knitted. He looked at the south from afar.

Ah Shi Na Xue Lian changed back into the grassland’s daughter outfit and stood beside Xue Rengui. Her exquisite facial features and slightly wheat-colored skin were exceptionally gentle, yet she did not lose her heroic aura and a trace of wildness.

On the grassland, she and her half-sister were first-rate beauties. It is said that the reason the barbarian man bloodbathed the Ashner tribe this time was to find a reason for “rejection of the proposal”-he wanted to forcibly marry the Xue Lian sisters at the same time, but Heluohu did not agree, thus igniting the flames of war between the two tribes.

Although it was just an excuse, it was enough to see the beauty of the Xue Lian sisters.

“What is the general thinking?”

Xue Lian, who had taken off his uniform, was clearly much more gentle and beautiful than when he first met her on the battlefield that day. But even so, she was very different from most of the gentle and pure women of the Central Plains. She didn’t have the slightest hesitation in getting along with men. Huo Lie’s rectum was unmistakable. He was even more capable of bending his bow and shooting arrows than a man’s. In such a fierce battle, he was actually able to survive and continue to lead a group of men. This was enough to show how outstanding she was.

In the next two days, Xue Rengui, who had experienced life and death together, had drunk with her bowl three times, so she almost fell asleep as a brother.

“I miss home.” Xue Rengui’s answer was very simple.

“You miss your wife and children?”

Rengui Xue smiled and looked at Xue Lian. “I have two families. One is Lanzhou City, where my wife and children live. I miss them, but they will be taken good care of there. I’m not worried. What I care about the most is another family …”

“Where?”

“Great Tang, Kansai army.”

“…”

“We are a group of lost children. We all want to go home.” Xue Rengui sighed softly and said, “After we lost Gao Chang, we escaped all the way and crossed the border to kill people for one purpose. But I’m afraid of returning home …”

“Why?” Xue Lian was puzzled.

At this point, Xue Rengui was speechless and her eyes turned red. “I have no face to go back and meet you face to face …”

“Don’t you dare to meet Qin Mubai?” Xue Lian replied and sighed, “I can’t blame you for Duke Yi’s death. You’ve done everything you can to bring these brothers out, walk here, and return to Lanzhou.”

“I let him down. That’s the truth. There’s no reason to refute it.” Xue Rengui tightly pursed her lips, took a deep breath and sighed. “He treated me like a brother and never held back. Before leaving, he told me to serve my father on his behalf, but I …”

“General” Seeing that Xue Rengui’s eyes were tightly shut and he shook his head repeatedly, Xue Lian was somewhat sad. She whispered, “Even though I have never seen Qin Mubai, he must be an amazing figure to be able to make a great hero like you push his heart and heart to the ground. “And even though I’m far away in the grasslands, I’ve heard of his legends … I really want to hear for myself how wonderful the lute he plays is.”

Xue Rengui was speechless, while Xue Lian chanted alone. The soldiers of the Tang army scattered ashes and sang military songs. This scene caused many Huihe people who quietly stopped and watched to quietly shed tears.

“General, I’ll go to Lanzhou with you when the war is over to avenge you.” Xue Lian suddenly said.

“What?” Xue Rengui was stunned. This woman was always somewhat unexpected. He said this not in a soliciting tone, but with a very clear “I’ve decided” attitude.

“My clan is gone, and my family is gone. After revenge, I will go back to my mother’s home to take a look … I often hear from my mother how magnificent Chang’an is, how splendid the Imperial City is, and how prosperous the Central Plains are. However, I left Chang’an in my lifetime and never went back to the grasslands.” Xue Lian said, “Didn’t the general want to return to Lanzhou? I’ll go with you.”

“…” Xue Rengui was speechless for a moment, so he could only say, “Lanzhou is a barren and dangerous military town. It’s not the Central Plains as you imagine. It’s better for you not to go.”

“Do you think I’m the kind of person who is afraid of war?” Xue Lian smiled. His mixed-blood pale blue pupils revealed confidence and mischievousness. He said, “Perhaps I can become a general under your command!”

“Stop spouting nonsense. Why do you need a female general in the army!”

“What, you look down on me?” Xue Lian’s apricot eyes widened and his eyebrows lifted, “Why don’t you fight me for another 300 rounds?”

“Forget it” Xue Rengui couldn’t help but smile bitterly and shake his head.

In the past two days, Xue Rengui had nothing to do with Xue Lian, so she forced Xue Rengui to immediately compete in martial arts. This woman, who had astonishing courage and was not weak in martial arts, It was as if a Turkic encirclement had been branded into her body-the wolf’s imprint was wild, explosive, destructive, and aggressive. Moreover, she would do her utmost in every battle, as if she would fight to the death. She did not know what it meant to stop at one point. She had to wait until Xue Rengui had no choice but to dismount her and completely subdue her before she would admit defeat.

In two days, she had lost eighteen matches in a row, but the more she fought, the more ferocious the battle became.

“Then accompany me to Lanzhou!” Xue Lian took advantage of the victory to chase after him.

Xue Rengui could only shake her head and smile bitterly. Her eyes lit up and she smiled, “Do you want to go to the Central Plains, or do you want to … look at my Third Brother Qin?”

“Everything!” Xue Lian said straightforwardly, “It’s true that I want to go to the Central Plains. I want to see Qin Mubai, who is famous all over the world and deeply impressed you. This is also what I think in my heart. I have nothing to hide.”

“What are you doing seeing him for?” Xue Rengui couldn’t help but laugh.

“I just want to see …” Xue Lian’s face finally flushed red, but her tone was still not soft. “I want to know if he is worthless, or if he is a true genius. Why should a brave general like you treat him like a god?”

‘”You’re mistaken,” Xue Rengui chuckled. “It’s trust and respect.”

“Is that what you mean by left and right?” Xue Lian also giggled and said, “Big brother Rengui, I have always been in love with you, so why don’t we swore brothers and sisters?” To tell you the truth, all the daughters of the grasslands admire warriors who can fight well, but I don’t! Because I’m not inferior to those so-called warriors, I don’t care! But I’m willing to go all out with them! –Big Brother Rengui, you are the most valiant warrior I have ever seen. You must be sworn brothers and sisters with me! ”

“Haha! Good!” Xue Rengui couldn’t help but laugh out loud, “Even if you’re sworn brothers, you can still do it!”

“… siblings! It’s siblings!”

That night, the Huihe tribal camp lit countless blazing bonfires. The smell of milk wine, barbecue meat and the sound of Hu Xian singing filled the night sky.

The Huihe people who had suffered a heavy blow to the barbarian man and obtained countless benefits in the first battle were extremely confident. The Great Leader was overjoyed and personally celebrated for Xue Rengui and the rest of the soldiers.

Xue Rengui originally didn’t want to do these things, but the bitterness was so great that the guest followed the host and had no choice but to obey.

At the campfire banquet, Xue Rengui and Blood Lotus knelt together under the Wolf Totem and the Central Plains Dragon Banner, forming a righteous golden orchid and becoming siblings. Only then did Xue Lian tell him that her original name was indeed ‘Snow Lotus’. It was given to her by her grandfather, Tuli Khan, when he was still alive in Chang’an. However, when she grew up, Xue Lian felt that the word’snow ‘was too weak and unsuited to her personality, so she changed her name to the unruly and sharp one. For this reason, her parents were unable to dissuade her, so they could only leave it to her.

Ashna Xiyan, the half sister who grew up with Xue Lian, had a completely different personality from Xue Lian-pure, gentle, kind and diligent, which coincided with the temperament of the traditional women in the Central Plains. In Blood Lotus’ words, her sister was “like a newly born lamb in Uncle Mudu’s pen.”

The two great beauties on the grassland, Xue Lian and Xi Yan, sat side by side with Xue Rengui, one on the left and one on the right. They took turns to hold the cup for him, but they were envious of the Huihe men. However, these Huihe people could only be convinced that beauties loved heroes. This was a tradition in the Central Plains, but it was like an unwritten iron rule in the grasslands!

Of course, the most beautiful beauty could only accompany the bravest warrior!

“Big Brother Rengui, why don’t you marry my sister!” Xue Rengui was surprised to hear Xue Lian spurt out another sentence that was so cold that he almost spat out wine.

“You … stop messing around!” Seeing Xi Yan blushing from the side, Xue Rengui didn’t know what to say. “I already have a wife and children!”

“So what! A good man with many wives is normal.” ‘”Sister, tell Big Brother Rengui the truth! Tell him how much you like him! Other than him, you will never find another man in your life who makes you fall in love with him at first sight!” Xue Lian said nonchalantly. “And I also feel that only Big Brother Rengui is worthy of a beauty like my sister!”

The folk customs of the grasslands were fierce and wild, and the daughters of the grasslands were unrestrained and magnanimous. However, when it came to men and women, other than Xue Lian, most of the women in the world would be a little shy.

Naturally, Xi Yan was no exception. At this moment, he was already speechless as he lowered his head.

“Xue Lian, if you keep talking nonsense, I’ll be angry!” Xue Rengui put the wine glass on the table and said seriously, “Your sister’s beauty is just at her prime, how could she not find a great hero to be her wife? I am an unknown nobody, and I already have a wife and child, and I can humiliate him!”

Just as Xue Lian was about to argue, Xi Yan hurriedly stood up and bowed, “Sister, don’t say anything … Big Brother Rengui, excuse me.”

After saying that, he hurriedly ran away.

Xue Lian was so annoyed that he wanted to chase after her. Xue Rengui held her down and said, “If you want to continue messing around, don’t blame me for turning hostile on the spot!”

‘”Eh!” Xue Lian could only give up, bitten his lips with hatred, and was extremely unwilling to accept it.

The next morning, just as Xue Rengui was about to get out of the yurt and ride his horse to stretch his muscles and bones, he bumped into Xue Lian and rushed over to the chief yurt with a delighted expression. He said, “Brother Rengui, hurry up! Good news, great news!”

“What good news?” Xue Rengui’s heart tightened, and she hurriedly said, “Are you going to make trouble again?”

“No, what good news!” Xue Lian almost cheered and shouted, “The Great Tang King’s Master is coming! The main force of the Governor of Bing Province, Li Ji, is coming! Did you know that the Great Tang King’s Master is coming to quell Xue Yantuo’s rebellion!”

“Great Tang King Master, Li Ji’s main force!!!” Hearing these words, Xue Rengui’s blood boiled!

“Where is it? Take me there–“