Traveling through the Gaowu Tang Dynasty, Li Kuan and Li Shimin became the second sons of the Prince

But after he found King Chu, it seemed that the real nightmare had begun.

This guy actually planned to imitate Xiang Yu and play the game of breaking the cauldron: with tens of thousands of pursuing troops behind him, he led 7,000 men and horses to surprise Dingxiang City.

This is because Dou Shilun was far-sighted and foresighted, and rehearsed all the worst-case scenarios beforehand. Otherwise, even if he had internal intelligence in Dingxiang City that day, he would never have been able to achieve such great results.

And among them, the one that cannot be ignored the most is Li Kuan's retainers.

Although Li Jing still doesn't know the background of these black-armored troops, he is almost certain: these are definitely elite veterans who have experienced hundreds of battles. Even if some of them are young people who have inherited their father's business, they are also extremely experienced in combat. It was carefully trained by the elders of the family, otherwise, it is absolutely impossible to have such amazing combat effectiveness: only 800 cavalry can kill the cavalry vanguard of nearly 10,000 Turks. Afterwards, although more than half of the entire team was damaged, the number of killed was Less than 10%, even in the eyes of a famous general like Li Jing, this is already a rare and brilliant achievement.

Of course, all this is no longer the point now.

What Li Jing is most concerned about now is what Li Kuan wants to do next.

Letting Jie Li escape was Li Kuan's personal order.

Li Jing could actually understand. After all, he and His Majesty Li Er had the same initial views on this war: the enemy's main living force must be eliminated, otherwise he would spend all his efforts to kill a grassland khan. When the army commander returns to the court, the grassland tribes will return. Another Great Khan will be elected, and then he will go south to harm the people of the Central Plains.

This scene was something that even the senior officials of Datang did not want to see.

But Li Jing did not think that this was the starting point when Li Kuan made the decision.

"Your Highness the King of Chu," Li Jing saw that Li Kuan had put the jade seal back into the brocade box. He pursed his lips and suddenly asked, "I want to know what you wanted to do when you let Jie Li run away."

"Uncle Li, do you know how to cook the eagle?" Li Kuan placed the brocade box on the table and planned to put it into the summoning space when he was alone for a while: "When I was a child, I heard my grandmother say that the nomads on the grassland The nation likes to hunt, and falcons are what they consider to be the best hunting assistant. Later, the technique of boiling eagles was also spread to the Central Plains, and the technique of boiling falcons also began to be spread among those aristocratic families. "

When Li Kuan said this, he paused briefly. He raised his head and glanced at Li Jing and Dou Shilun. Seeing that they were still listening patiently, he continued: "This eagle boiling is a technical job, and it is also a piece of work." Things that extremely test your patience: Usually when hunters catch an eagle, they will feed it all at once, and then they will try their best to keep the eagle and humans together without eating or sleeping. When the eagle really can't stand it and wants to sleep, one must wake it up until the eagle can't stand it anymore and recognizes its master.

After recognizing its owner this time, when it is released again, the eagle returns to the sky with meat in its owner's hand, whistles, calls its name, or gestures. It will begin to accept its owner's instructions and slowly start hunting again. But this time the right to distribute the prey will belong to the owner. "

Li Kuan's tent was not big, and his expression seemed very calm when he spoke. But for some reason, Li Jing and Dou Shilun felt cold sweat dripping down their backs after listening to each other's words.

Li Jing just felt dazed now: Over the past few days, he had been reflecting on himself: Why did he underestimate His Highness the King of Chu? But now, Li Jing suddenly felt that it was not his fault, it was the little bastard who caused trouble all the time. No, it's so good to hide the essence of beauty and wisdom on the outside.

Let me tell you, after all, this is the grandson raised by the old lady herself: His majesty will be ashamed of his courage and means of trying to kill the Turkic Khan like an eagle...

"My Royal Highness the King of Chu..." On the other side, unlike Li Jing's shock and emotion, Dou Shilun now wanted to die: "Oh~~ah!... It's started again. Isn't this endless? Isn't it? …”

I accompanied you all this journey with great fear, and finally managed to capture Dingxiang City with all my might. This amazing feat can even be something you can brag about for the rest of your life...

I didn't expect you to come here?

——Li Kuan has made his thoughts very clear: Jieli is the eagle he intends to use to boil him. Li Kuan letting Jieli leave Dingxiang City this time is like feeding the eagle all at once. After they were full of meat, the next step was for His Royal Highness the King of Chu to lead his army to pursue Jieli Khan.

In fact, Li Kuan had already thought about it: this chase was also an obedience test conducted by the Tang Dynasty on the entire grassland tribe.

Any tribe that dares to take in Jieli Khan will be killed without mercy.

At the same time, Li Kuan would not allow the Eighteen Branches of the Grassland to re-elect a new Khan while the Grassland Khan Jieli was being hunted down. Once this happened, the new Khan would also die!

To put it simply, His Royal Highness the King of Chu planned to keep the eagle alive while also ensuring the orthodox status of this "eagle" on the grassland.

Otherwise, if I spend so much effort to get a Xibei product (Xibei Jia Tong is "fake") back to Chang'an, I will be laughed to death?

In fact, Li Kuan also knew that despite his own ideas, His Majesty Li Er would never allow Jieli Khan to control the wind and rain on the grassland again. However, Li Kuan had a different view on this: grassland Khan, in nomadic life In the eyes of the nation, they are the descendants of the Wolf God, the people closest to God, and their prestige and appeal are terrifying.

What Li Kuan will do next is to attack the prestige and appeal of the Turkic Khans in all directions, so that the title "Khan" will completely lose its gold content. Otherwise, in the future, any heroic figure on the grassland will become a grassland Khan. , then what awaits the people of the Central Plains is another catastrophe?

How can the common people deserve this?

If the person who asked this question did not have a weapon in his hand, then even if he stood between heaven and earth when he asked the question, and his voice was like a bell or a bell, it would be nothing more than a tiny mosquito whistle.

Li Kuan now held a weapon in his hand. He thought of the people in the Central Plains who had witnessed the tragic death in front of him, but he did not intend to talk about "why the common people deserved it."

I am the King of Chu of the Tang Dynasty. Now I have a heavy army. My responsibility is to guard the territory and avenge this blood feud for the people of the Central Plains who have suffered so much.

Kill to stop killing, blood for blood, this is what I, a barbarian, want to tell you throughout the grassland!

After the matter finally came to an end, Li Kuan would not care what his father Li Er would do with Jie Li. He would kill him to use it as a threat to the Eighteen Tribes of the Grassland, or take him back to Chang'an. From then on, the Grassland Eagle became a caged bird. Bird, Li Kuan don't care.

What he wants is nothing more than that even after a hundred years of his life, foreigners still dare not look at the Central Plains!

"This matter is not over yet." Li Kuan stopped caring about Dou and Li. After saying this, he turned around and glanced at the rusty hatchet standing on the bedside. I feel like I still have unfinished business.

(Sorry...I deleted a lot of this chapter and re-wrote a few paragraphs. I'm late, sorry...)