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There were either fear or dodging eyes, only her second elder brother anxiously shook her head to signal her not to say any more, she finally looked back in disappointment at her father, who bowed down to the eldest princess of Chu Dynasty, and blushed slightly. eyes, but held back the tears.

Later, when Gao Qiao, who was beside Li Qi, recalled this brave and childish little princess, he felt that if the little princess was older and experienced enough setbacks, she would know that if she made good use of such humiliation, she could urge her subjects to unite. , Waiting for the time to come to revenge.But she is too young, there is no room for sand in her bright eyes, no room for ink to be painted on her white heart, and no room for her hard and straight shoulders to bend by herself.She wishfully thought that her father's kneeling was for survival, she thought that all the good men in Khotan had died in the battle, and she thought that there was no one in this world who could understand her persistence.

But maybe some tragedies in this world happen here, Gao Qiao thought calmly, and then he saw the little princess raised her childish face slightly, crossed her arms and said slowly: "My father called me Li Langgan , saying that it is the fairy tree recorded in your Han classics, but my Khotan name is Phoebe."

Everyone in the hall didn't understand what she meant, Li Qi frowned, seeing a prince behind her walked up with some anxiety, stood beside her and patted her on the shoulder, saying: "Langgan... ..."

Before finishing his sentence, Li Langgan stretched out one hand to push him away as if in surprise, and with the other hand took out a gorgeous and exquisite dagger decorated with beads, and stabbed the dagger with his backhand without waiting for anyone to react. Into his heart, he said sharply: "I die for Khotan!"

The king of Khotan was stunned, and it took him a long time to let out a roar of grief. Before he could stand up from the ground, he crawled to Li Langgan's side, and hugged her into his arms. It was Li Qiye who spoke. The Khotan dialect that others cannot understand.

Li Langgan was dying, he responded in a low voice with Khotanese words, he swallowed his breath before he could say a word, Gao Qiao vaguely saw the tears that the King of Khotan was falling on the little princess's hair.At this point, all the subjects of Khotan were silent, bowing their heads and waiting for the next order from the King of Khotan.

King Khotan was crying silently while hugging Li Langgan, Li Qi signaled his subordinates to wait quietly with his eyes.After a long time, the King of Khotan stood up holding Phoebe, put her body in the arms of the prince who had been pushed away by her before, and said in a low voice: "Blindfold Langgan first, and carry her away later. .”

When the prince answered, the king of Khotan turned around and walked towards Li Qi, knelt down again, his voice was much weaker, but he still insisted: "The little girl is young, and now she has lost her life. I beg the eldest princess to forgive me and help me." Let's go to Chang'an together."

Hearing this, Li Qi stared at the King of Khotan for a moment, then smiled slowly, made way for him and said, "Please, my subordinates will help the king go to Chang'an safely."

The news that the King of Khotan left the city safely came quickly, and Li Qi sat on the throne of the King of Khotan and smiled lightly when he heard the news: "Let's go too."

The Chu army withdrew in an orderly manner. It was already the night of the second day when the Tubo invaded Xicheng, and when they realized something was wrong, they were already surrounded by the Chu army who had joined forces with Yu Yannian's army. In just three days, the offensive and defensive sides changed sides.

Yu Yannian had a soldier talisman in his hand, but before he could show it, he heard an envoy coming to find him to enter the king's account.He thought to himself not to offend King Xiang, and he was also more polite to Li Qi.After the guests and hosts were seated, Li Qi said with a smile, "General Yu doesn't need to make tricks. He can capture the Tubo army when it runs out of food."

Yu Yannian pondered for a moment, recalled the scene he had seen, and nodded in agreement.At this moment, a soldier came to report that the Han Chinese envoys captured by Tubo had come to negotiate peace.Upon hearing this, Li Qi said, "Please come in."

The Han Chinese envoy looked at him and looked like he had read books. Li Qi smiled and said: "General Gu and Yu are not good at military affairs, but they are just bluffing. If you go to General Gao's tent, we will be what General Gao says." .”

The envoy who obeyed the order went to Gao Qiao's marching tent under the guidance of Li Qi's soldiers, but was told by the soldiers stationed in the guarding tent that Gao Qiao was not there. The soldier on the left side of the tent asked in a low voice, "Where did General Gao go?"

The soldier immediately came forward with a friendly smile on his face, presumably because he was very familiar with the soldier who led the way, so he didn't care about opening his mouth, and whispered: "General Gao got up early and rode to a distant town. I didn't want to touch the woman in the army camp, and I couldn't bear it after a long drought, so I paid the bill."

"Nonsense." The older soldier couldn't help but cursed with a smile, "You can't bear it, even if you are General Gao, you should restrain yourself when you are an envoy from outside."

Only then did the young soldier stop laughing, put down the rifle in his hand and saluted the envoy with fists in his hands, then laughed and said: "Brothers who can't read and write, can't read as much as your literati, classics and history, and have no ink in their stomachs." , talking about meat and vegetables, don’t take offense when you come here.”

At first glance, he was also extremely young, just now he blushed by the young soldier's words, now seeing him confessing his crimes, he quickly smiled and said: "It's all right."

Seeing him like this, the young soldier couldn't help being happy, looked at him and smiled courteously: "Is there anything important for the envoy? If it's not something important, why don't you tell me, General Gao will be back in about a while." .”

That came to make Wen Yan blushed, and refused to say that he was entrusted by the Tubo people, so he said casually: "It's not something important, it's just that a certain person was ordered by the eldest princess to tell General Gao You can only go back after you say it, so you can't accept the little brother's kindness."

Then the envoy could see that the young soldier couldn't help laughing on his face, he turned his head to the soldier guarding the tent on the right and said, "I'll make a five-coin bet with you, our Eldest Princess must have started making fun of General Gao again."

The soldier on the right was much more stable than him. Hearing this, he only slightly bent his lips, then immediately pursed his lips and said calmly: "No betting, I guess so."

Seeing this, the envoy couldn't help wondering: "Why, does the eldest princess often make fun of General Gao?"

The old soldier leading the way coughed heavily, and reprimanded the soldiers guarding the tent on the left: "You dare to chew the tongue of the eldest princess and General Gao behind your back, I think you are getting more courageous now."

The soldier sighed and said, "Oh, I have been standing still for a long time, and finally decided to pull out the army to leave the western city of Khotan, but I am standing still. If I can't tell some naughty jokes, I will really be bored to death."

The old soldier chuckled, then turned sullen and spat at him, saying: "You heartless little bastard, what do you know, if you don't move, you will be at peace anyway, is it your first time to go to the battlefield? Still talking, the one who fought last time When the drums beat, the shit will come out of you, so what kind of a hero are you here?"

The young soldier blushed immediately after hearing this, opened his mouth but couldn't argue.Thinking about this incident made him very ashamed, after a while, he said bitterly: "If this time is like last time, I will never go home to see my mother."

The envoy smiled and smoothed things over and said, "Little brother, why should you say such a thing? A sage also has three fears in governing the country, let alone you and me."

"Oh?" The young soldier asked curiously, "Are we saints also afraid of fighting?"

The envoy was trying to appease him casually, thinking that this young soldier was really an uneducated Bai Ding, and he didn't understand what he meant by the three fears, which were "one is fear of being in an honorable position and not being ignorant of his faults, the other is fear of arrogance when one succeeds Three times, he heard the world's best Tao and feared that he would not be able to do it." The king of Ming was afraid three times, not what the soldier thought he was afraid of fighting, but he was inconvenient to correct him, so he just smiled at the soldier, and then stood in the tent with the old soldier. Waiting for Gao Qiao to come back.

But he didn't wait for Gao Qiao to come back in the end.

[Pick up] Only see Qingling Terrace

On November 23, the second year of Jushe, the Tubo people in the west city had reached the point of killing horses.It was Li Xuan who felt that something was wrong at first, but no one cared because of this.The Tubo army has not been good at defending the city since its inception. Originally, Qinling made the decision to capture the west city because the army had no food to fight against the Chu army, and could not be surrounded or retreated. Therefore, as soon as the Chu army left the city, they immediately entered the city. He wanted to enter the city to plunder food and grass and then come out, but he didn't want Li Qi to see through his details first, and dared to give up his luggage and light cavalry to block the attack but surrounded him without attacking.Now that the situation is over, Qin Ling looked at the thin horse mourning and neighing before the butcher's knife fell in the east of the city, and his heart suddenly softened.

"My Eunuch raised this horse." The Tubo soldier who dropped the butcher's knife laughed and said to his companion, "I hope Eunuch won't scold me when I go back, and I don't want to either."

"Let's talk about it when we go back. If you can't do it, I'll hunt you a fox and hang its tail outside your tent." His companion teased him with a smile.

The two talked with happy smiles on their faces, and then stopped laughing when they saw Qinling standing not far away, and the horse killer turned around and asked, "Will this horse meat be sent to the Khotan Palace?"

His companion shrugged: "Of course."

Then the two silently picked up the dead horse. Anger was gathering in Qin Ling's eyes, but he suddenly turned and left.

Besieged by the Chu army for a long time, the Tubo soldiers gradually began to vent their anger on the Khotanese and the Chu people in the city. At first they only robbed food and grass, and later they began to rape and plunder. Nowhere to vent.And Li Xuan, who was a princess of the Chu Dynasty, was also doomed. Qinling's subordinates repeatedly asked to execute the princess married to the Chu Dynasty, but he forcibly held them down.After Qin Ling ignored another undercurrent of turbulent restlessness from his subordinates, he suddenly wanted to take another look at Li Xuan.

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