Chapter 26: Decisive Win (2)

"Mengdan?" Mei Yingchun was shocked. With a wrong eye, Mengdan had already run to the side of Tuqishi and suddenly strangled the mount in front of her brother. Her beautiful and charming face was flashing like a golden star. She said in a Turkic tone: "Brother! Li Yuanfang came to take care of us after you left, and told you not to be enemies with the Great Zhou court. He said that Lord Di Renjie had come to Longyou Road, and we must wait patiently. Lord Di will let the truth be revealed to the world!" Mei Yingchun was surprised and happy: "Dige" was both surprised and happy.

Longyou Road is old?" Meng Dan pointed his head heavily and lowered his voice, "Brother, I have found out that Lord Di has arrived in Yizhou, a stone's throw from Tingzhou!" "What about Li Yuanfang? How is he?" Meng Dan's cheeks were red with anxiety: "I don't know either. The night before yesterday, Xiao Bin'er sneaked out of our hiding place to find his brother. Jing Hui and I found out in the morning and chased him to Tingzhou City. Only then did he hear that Li Yuanfang had already returned to the governor's mansion at noon yesterday and was missing! Oh, it seems that Bin'er is with him!"

Mei Yingchun sighed and raised his head to think quietly. After a while, he turned back his horse's head, swept his calm and resolute eyes over the cavalry team, then turned around, slowly urged the horse to approach the side of Han Navy, turned over and fell off, bowed deeply to Wu Chonggui, and said loudly: "Wu Zhile has just offended him, so please forgive me." Seeing Wu Chonggui staring at him with suspicion, he smiled slightly and said in a whisper: "Mr. Imperial Commander, all the actions of Wu Zhile under the jurisdiction of the Great Zhou Dynasty were not done without authorization. Of course, the inside story here is quite complicated, and it cannot be explained clearly in a few words. As for Qian Guinan and Li Yuanfang, they were officials appointed by the Great Zhou court, and the rebellious crimes that the Imperial Commander were charged with, it had nothing to do with Wu Zhile. At this moment, Wu Zhile only wanted to declare his mind to the Imperial Commander, and he would never dare to be an enemy of the Great Zhou!"

Wu Chonggui was stunned. The situation that was just tense suddenly turned a big turn. He was a little unsure and was worried that Mei Yingchun was playing tricks. After thinking about it, he said arrogantly: "Oh? You said this, it seems that I am an imperial envoy who wronged you?" "I dare not. It's just that there is something inside. I hope the imperial envoy can wait a while and do some investigations before making a conclusion." Wu Chonggui sneered: "Wu Zhile, you are afraid that you can't beat us, so you have to take this delaying plan?" Mei Yingchun showed an unexpected smile and said seriously: "Mr. I have already said that Wu Zhile will never be an enemy of the Great Zhou, so how can there be no chance of defeating?" After pausing, he raised his voice and said solemnly: "To prove his sincerity, Wu Zhile ordered the troops to disarm and let the imperial envoy of the Great Zhou deal with it!"

After the words came, Mei Yingchun raised her left hand and made a gesture to the Iron Cavalry troops. Her movements were slow but resolute. The squirting waves in the Tuqi Shi army were calmed down in an instant. All the soldiers threw down their weapons and fell to the ground, leaving their hands silent. Wu Chonggui was beyond expectations. He hesitated for a moment before he said with a gloomy face: "Very good, if you want to die, you can't blame others. Come here, immediately surrounded these thieves from Tuqi Shi! Kill me!"

Han Haijun was holding a gun and holding a sword, and was about to rush forward. A horse suddenly jumped out from the direction where Meng Dan had just arrived, and also rushed straight to the two armies with lightning speed. The horseman was wearing a gray robe, Shi Ran nodded to Mei Yingchun, and then spoke to Wu Chonggui casually: "Hey, why is the imperial envoy of the Great Zhou so ungraceful? They have all been disarmed. Even if you kill all these unarmed people, you are not capable, right?!"

Wu Chonggui was furious: "Who? How dare you talk to me like this?!" The man nodded: "Don't be anxious, I haven't finished it yet! I think the war in Hebei Province was the comforting envoy who was the imperial envoy and my father. Lord Wu wouldn't want the old thing to be repeated, right?" Wu Chonggui gasped and asked: "You... are Di Jinghui?" "It's the sinner." Di Jinghui said this very arrogantly. Meng Dan couldn't help but see Thiel. That is, he, being able to do everything so much but not being tired of life.

Wu Chonggui was not in the mood to appreciate Di Jinghui's demeanor. His actions of killing and surrendering the enemy and good people during the war in Hebei Road were severely criticized by Di Renjie and sued the court. Although the matter was finally left unresolved due to the protection of Emperor Wu, he was forced to swear in private in front of the empress and never commit it again. Although Di Jinghui's words did not expose the window paper and gave him face in front of everyone, Wu Chonggui had to think that Di Renjie

Following closely, he had already forced his confidant forward captain away, and he had to deal with him more carefully with his son who had committed suicide. Otherwise, who would know what medicine would Di Renjie go to the emperor to give him? Wu Chonggui never thought he had the ability to defeat Di Renjie, but he wanted to find some opportunities to attack Di Renjie, which made him feel heartbroken and angry. Therefore, Wu Chonggui was really a headache when facing Di Jinghui.

He raised his head and saw Di Jinghui looking at him meaningfully. His handsome and proud appearance seemed to be the imperial envoy, but he became a prisoner. Wu Chonggui was so amused that he finally said: "Di Jinghui, why are you getting along with these Turkic thieves?" Di Jinghui shrugged: "Because someone is going to be unfavorable to me, Tuqiu protects my safety. They are friends and neighbors of the Great Zhou, but I didn't realize that they were thieves... Why? The imperial envoy also wanted to accuse Di of treason and surrender to the enemy? Oh, when you come to Tingzhou, why did the entire Tingzhou rebel and surrender to the enemy? This is a coincidence!" "You!" Wu Chonggui was speechless.

Di Jinghui ignored him and continued to scold Fang Qiu: "I said to the imperial envoy, just listen to Di's advice. In such a hot day, guarding a large desert, and fighting is tense and exhausting! It's better to be a little bit easier. Since the sudden cavalry and slaughtering people are scared of your authority and have surrendered, you might as well surround them here first, so that they have no weapons and cannot act freely, and rebellion and attack have become empty talk. You can free up your hands to ask the case carefully, and then arrest the fugitive Li Yuanfang, not to mention... Hehe, my father is about to arrive, and Di also has some inside information here, and they are all written in a letter to him. At that time, you two adults sit down and make a conclusion, and the truth will be revealed, and the world will be peaceful!"

Wu Chonggui rolled his eyes frequently, and Di Jinghui's meaning was very obvious. If he killed Tuqi Shiren himself, he would definitely inform Di Renjie. He had already sent a letter to Di Renjie. In this way, if he wanted to set up a plan to kill Di Jinghui and then blame Tuqi Shiren, he would probably be able to see through Di Renjie's old fox, let alone his precious son... No, no, Wu Chonggui felt that it was not reckless, so he should be careful. So he wiped his sweat and said with the flow: "Well, your words make some sense. With the majesty of my Heavenly Dynasty, how could he take the mobs of Tuqi Shi seriously? Well, Wu Zhile, you should gather your troops and be controlled by the Hanhai Army from now on until the case is cleared, and then bend as appropriate."

Mei Yingchun bowed deeply: "Wu Zhile is obeying the imperial order of the Great Zhou imperial envoy." Wu Chonggui raised his horse whip to Di Jinghui again: "You, as an exiled criminal, how can you wander around without supervision? It's too unreasonable! You should not go back to the governor's office immediately with this imperial envoy!" Di Jinghui curled his lips: "This is not possible. I want to be with Tuqi Shiren. Otherwise, you have a sudden idea and burn the camp at night. Wouldn't they die? Besides, this

The village was surrounded by Han Navy, and I was under supervision, no different from being locked up in the governor's mansion!" Wu Chonggui was angry and paused, then gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, very good. Everyone here has seen it clearly. You are going to stay with Tuqi Shiren. If something goes wrong, Master Di must not come to trouble me with the imperial envoy." Di Jinghui smiled freely and easily: "Don't worry, Lord of the imperial envoy, my father knows it very well!"

Surrounded by Han Navy, Hasler led the cavalry team to slowly move out of Shatuo and set up camp in the nearby open space. Mei Yingchun drove his horse to Di Jinghui and said enthusiastically: "Jinghui! Thank you today!" Meng Dan leaned over and wiped Di Jinghui's clothes, then pinched his clothes, and said softly: "Why are they soaked?" Di Jinghui sighed and held Meng Dan's hand tightly: "It's hot, it's still scary! You don't know that Wu Chonggui is a well-known unreasonable and moody guy, which is hard to deal with! It's really a risk today, but there is no other way..." A rare expression of worry appeared on his face, looking at Mei Yingchun's brother and sister: "Now we all have no way out. I hope my father can come here soon."

Mei Yingchun lowered her voice and asked, "Jinghui, have you really sent a letter to Mr. Di Ge?" Di Jinghui shook her head: "No, we just heard about my father's arrival in Yizhou, and we didn't have time to send the letter. I just said that it was all to scare Wu Chonggui." "Yes." Mei Yingchun nodded: "It's okay, I'll find a way to send someone out to deliver the letter." After speaking, the three of them were silent at the same time. After a long time, Mei Yingchun raised her deep eyes and said in her heart: "Yuan Fang, we all have entrusted all life, death, honor and grudges to you. What are you doing now? Could it be that you have already gone to Mr. Di Ge? Where are you now?!"

Under the last dune leading to Yibotai, the horse galloping wildly under Li Yuanfang's crotch suddenly became weak in front of him. With a whirlwind of neighing, the horse suddenly fell forward and threw Li Yuanfang on the sand. The gray and yellow dust rose up to the sky, and Li Yuanfang rolled on the thick sand one after another, almost avoiding the horse's falling body. He immediately jumped up, but a large area of ​​darkness came in front of him. Li Yuanfang supported the ground with his hands, and his half-kneeling body trembled slightly, and a few drops of blood fell down the corner of his mouth into the sand in front of him. The fierce hot wind blew, and the yellow sand flew away, and the bright red spots disappeared instantly.

Li Yuanfang waited quietly for a while, and the black mist in front of him finally gradually dissipated. He slowly supported himself, and looked at the head of the horse that fell near him, with white foam all around his mouth. Li Yuanfang reached out and gently pushed away the mane that was stuck to the urethra by sweat. He saw the turbid tears accumulated in the big brown eyes. It was obvious that the horse had reached the limit of his life. Li Yuanfang stroked the horse's hair apologized, pressed down another fishy and salty surging in his chest, and stood up shakingly on the sand.

The scorching sun burned the desert at noon without any cover, stepping on the sand, and the soles of his feet were burned with pain through his boots. The overwhelming yellowness hurt both eyes. In the curling heat, all the scenery was deformed and distorted, making people dizzy. Li Yuanfang took the sheepskin water bag from the horse's back and took a big sip of pain. The smell of blood in his mouth faded. He squatted beside the dying horse and poured all the remaining water in the water bag into the horse's mouth. The dull horse's eye flashed with a slight light and then extinguished. The clear water flowed out of the horse's half-open mouth, and it turned into light smoke as soon as it was touched on the sand.

Although he had experienced too much life and death, he still felt heartbroken every time. He never talked about such heartache with anyone, and only he could only savor it silently. At this moment, Li Yuanfang straightened his body on the sand again, feeling more clearly that he had also come to the edge of the limit. However, he was not nervous or afraid at all. It was limited to him, just like death, just a black painted door, and just stepped over it. This was also great. Between heaven and earth, he was the only one who fought alone, which was his fate. He looked up and sighed, Li Yuanfang carried Lu Jia's hard bow and quiver, and hung the steel knife tightly at his waist, and walked towards Yibotai. His steps became lighter and faster, and he ran on the sand soon.

At this moment, in the broken rotten wood wall of Ibertae, Chi Duo Khan, with black helmet and heavy armor, spread his legs and stood steadily in front of the neat and solemn elite soldiers of the cavalry, like the god of dark night, or like a messenger from hell, and the chilling aura emitted from his body. Inside and outside the wall, a large pool of undulating yellow sand was dotted with a large pool of bright red, which was the mark left by the cruel killing that had just ended. Behind the camp, a huge fire had burned to the end, and black embers were flying in the dazzling sunlight, the stench of the layers of scorched corpses mixed with the bloody smell of the yellow sand, spreading endlessly over Ibertae. Here, it has become a veritable purgatory on earth!

How could a child cry in such a terrible and cruel place? It's true! A small figure who was only four or five years old, his clothes were dirty, his face was covered in tears and snot. He sat alone in the shadow of the smallest brick and stone fortress on his head, crying as if no one was around, while shouting in a vague manner: "Mom! Mom!" He ignored the violent eyes of the Turkic man standing in front of him, and turned a blind eye to the soldiers lined up behind him. The child knew nothing and was not interested in anything. He only knew that he had left his mother's arms for a long time. For a long time, he was hot, hungry, thirsty and afraid now, and he wanted his mother!

Chi Duo once again turned his biting eyes to Wang Qian who was shivering aside. Wang Qian quickly lowered his head, but did not touch the child. From yesterday to now, he had tried countless methods, coaxed, deceived, beat and punished him. This idiot child just cried except for eating and sleeping. Until today, the crying became weak and dull. Wang Qian dared not try again. If he accidentally killed the child, everything would be over! An'er was crying too tired and lay down on the sand. Chi Duo Khan stared at the little chick who was helpless. He was about to burst into fire. His fist on the sword was clenched and opened, feeling that his patience was about to be consumed!

At that time, Tieheer's army was inexplicably destroyed in Shatuo's diarrhea, Chi Duo asked Qian Guinan for explanation in anger. The secret letter he sent was like a rock sinking into the sea, but unexpectedly received a letter from Wang Qian's subordinate Qian. In the letter, Wang Qian secretly told Qian Guinan to abandon the alliance and retreated in the face of the battle, and expressed his willingness to assist Chi Duo in completing the remaining offensive plan. Chi Duo did not believe in Wang Qian at first, but he could not swallow the shame of Yibotai's defeat, and he also wanted to use this battle to seize more control of the long-coveted Tingzhou area and the northern section of the Western Regions Commercial Road, and further expand his power in the Western Regions.

What’s important is that when Chi Duo learned about Mei Yingchun’s role in the entire incident, his long-term suspicion and fear of this nephew was finally confirmed. Chi Duo couldn’t sleep or eat, and he was always thinking about how to eliminate Mei Yingchun’s major concern as soon as possible. Therefore, after repeated consideration, Chi Duo Khan decided to personally launch a horse to attack Yibotai. The number of Tuqishi’s army was not large. Apart from the 5,000 iron cavalry collected by Mei Yingchun and the 5,000 troops left behind by Saiye, the remaining 5,000 most elite troops, Chi Duo was all involved in the battle to attack Tingzhou. It was also a desperate bet.

Unexpectedly, Qian Guinan's hypocritical letter helped Chi Duo very much. Mei Yingchun led his team to leave Yibotai, which made Chi Duo only need to face the more than a hundred miscellaneous troops led by Wu Xun. The strength of the two armies was very different. Chi Duo attacked Yibotai without much effort, and then started a massacre, massacring all the prisoners in the off-site team and the underground prison, which was considered anger. But he also knew that the Han Navy had stepped down the net of heaven and earth on the east side of Shatuodis, and with his thousands of troops, he had no chance of winning by attacking. The only thing that could be used was a strange plan that Qian Guinan and Lu Jia offered to the Turks - following the underground river under Shatuodis, and sending strange troops into Tingzhou!
Chapter completed!