I opened a tavern in Datang/Datang: My peerless talent was exposed

Well, it's not just Li Shimin who spoke alone, almost all the civil servants and generals accompanying the army greeted them, bustling around Cao Xing with one sentence, it doesn't matter whether you are dead or not, but if His Royal Highness King Qin loses one You don't have to come back, even if you come back, you will be killed.

In the end, Cao Xing was so frightened that he didn't dare to drive the car. After all, there may be problems with driving. When he was learning to drive, he crashed several times with His Majesty. Although there were no casualties, but Once the speed is up, once the car crashes, bumps and bumps are inevitable.

If the driving caused some injuries to His Royal Highness King Qin, he might not have to go back, but just find a place to dig a hole and bury himself first, maybe he can die with more dignity this way.

After all, the crimes committed by the gangsters in the main camp seem to be the most minor crimes. If he can dig a hole to bury himself, it is considered a good thing.

However, even though Cao Xing was already panicked, he still followed Zhang Nuo out of the camp gate.

After all, he also knew in his heart that although it was a great fear to follow Zhang Nuo, it would be a great credit if he went out.

Chapter 668 The Disappearing Turks

Recently, Cao Xing has been driving around with Zhang Nuo.

And what they have to do every day is to study the map in the camp based on the detected information, where is the Turkic king's tent, where is the main force, how strong is the main force, and so on.

But it's so hard to die, it's been half a month, and I've gone around a lot of places, but I can't find a trace of Turkic.

A lot of scattered tribes were found, but no serious cavalry brigade was found.

Moreover, Zhang Nuo also discovered a very scary thing, that is, among all the tribes that he saw from afar on the road, there were very few young and middle-aged people.

And this situation can only explain one problem, that is, all the young and middle-aged men of the tribe have been transferred away long ago. Only in this way can we explain why there are no young and middle-aged men in the tribe.

But it was precisely this situation that gave Zhang Nuo a headache.

The Turks are famous for their cavalry brigade that comes and goes like the wind. Looking at this posture now, it is obvious that the Turks have already prepared and recruited the young and middle-aged men in the tribe in advance, and their goal need not be known, it must be Datang ah.

So the question is, where did these people go?

This problem now makes Zhang Nuo scratch his head, and he can't even sleep well.

It's not his fault that he was worried. In fact, although he hadn't returned to the main camp, he knew that Li Shimin, who was hanging far behind at this time, might not be able to sleep either.

The Turks are not like the Tang Dynasty. For a farming civilization like the Tang Dynasty, land, food, and homes are all things that cannot be easily given up.

Other ethnic groups can't understand the local concept of the Tang people. For the Turkic people, they are nomadic people. The only things they can't lose are cattle and sheep. Their life is on horseback.

As long as there are grasslands, they can continue to reproduce and live happily.

Therefore, Datang's army is approaching the Turkic border. For them, they really don't feel much. Is there any danger here?

That line, a whistle to call the clansmen, pack the tents and other things, put them on the horse's back, and drive the cattle and sheep away.

Even for the Turks, this kind of life of living by water and grass is the norm in their lives, and they have no concept of native land at all.

As long as the water and grass are still abundant, cattle and sheep can be fed, and they can continue to graze, then they can live happily.

But they were happy, Zhang Nuo's teeth were swollen when he became angry these days.

This damn group of people belong to rats, where did they go?

Zhang Nuo and a group of investigators who were almost dumbfounded by the cold wind blowing in the sky every day, squatted in the camp at this time, their brains were almost boiling.

Where did these Turkic bastards go?

At this moment, not only was he suffering from headaches, but Li Shimin and others in the rear were also suffering from headaches in the Chinese army tent.

It has been a month since they came out, and now it is autumn, and the grassland is completely yellow. It stands to reason that even if the herdsmen migrate at this time, there are only a few places with abundant water and grass. As long as you look slowly, you can always find them. of.

But this year is strange, the tribes have gone to places with abundant water and grass, but according to the information provided by Zhang Nuo, there are only old, young, women and children in those places, and there are no young and middle-aged people. See, it is obvious that the army has been assembled to prepare for the officer.

Regarding such news, to be honest, Li Shimin and others were quite happy when they first heard it.

After all, they are not afraid of fighting, let alone a decisive battle, but they are afraid that they will not be able to find anyone. If the Turks want to complete their work in one battle, it will be great for them, and it will save effort.

But slowly, as Zhang Nuo expanded his search area, some bad premonitions gradually emerged in everyone's mind. Where did this group of people go?

There is no way to not panic, this is not a joke, according to the situation guessed by Li Shimin and the generals, if the Turks devote all their strength, they can gather a full 30 troops.

But at this time, the entire Tang Dynasty sent out only 20 troops to fight the Turkic decisive battle. If the Turkic came down unprepared and ruthless, then the Tang Dynasty might fall to the end.

It was precisely because of worry that after going around, the pressure returned to Zhang Nuo. As long as Zhang Nuo can find Jieli's large team, then everything is easy to talk about. Come face to face, and the job will be over. up.

But now, Zhuan has turned to many places, but what should I do if I can't find anyone.

Zhang Nuo was lying in the tent right now, looking at the map in front of him and frowning, feeling extremely headache.

I have to say that Zhang Nuo regretted it a bit at this time, he still underestimated the heroes of the world.

I saw records in the history that the Tang army captured Jieli Khan alive. In fact, it is just a short passage in the history books. Even in our history books, it is basically a passing character.

After all, our history is too rich, about 5000 years, it would be nice to let Li Shimin add such a short record.

But the point is, history belongs to history, and when it comes to reality, do both the enemy and us have to follow the script?

There is no director here to arrange it!

Of course, if a director really came out to make such an arrangement, he would probably be killed by Jieli Khan as soon as he went up to speak. After all, the scenes there must be fatal.

People are alive. The Tang Dynasty is flourishing and changing with each passing day. Jieli Khan is not a fool. So many caravans and spies have already discovered it. Does he have to cover his ears and pretend not to hear?

Therefore, it is not difficult to understand that Xieli Khan made preparations in advance.

At this time, Zhang Nuo was having a headache because he had already found out the marching route of the Turkic War recorded in the historical materials that he had found with great difficulty.

But in fact, it doesn't match up at all!

It's not that there is a problem with the historical data. Zhang Nuo can be sure that this is the most accurate data in the study of Tang history in later generations. The real problem is that Jieli Khan who heard the news and slipped away immediately.

But the biggest question now is, how far did Xieli run before he could not be found everywhere?

Zhang Nuo couldn't even figure out where Jieli Khan could take such a large group of people. You must know that it is not just a few people, but several hundred thousand people.

Even if the Turkic cavalry can lead their mares to drink mare's milk and eat cheese, and the cattle and sheep driving the carts can also be used as military rations, but after all, let's not say anything else, they must have grass, otherwise what do these livestock eat?

After much deliberation, Zhang Nuo couldn't think of a reasonable explanation!

Just when Zhang Nuo was about to lift the table angrily, he suddenly realized that there seemed to be a Datang residence in front of him, and there seemed to be a talent there!

Chapter 669 The twisted Li Jing

Li Jing, whose name is pharmacist, was from Longxi. Although he had become an official in the Sui Dynasty, after Jinyang raised troops, he followed the old Li's family to work.

In fact, as a veteran, his qualifications are very scary. He just followed the old Li's family, and then followed Qin Wang Li Shimin to attack Wang Shichong.

In the third year of Wude, he also assisted Li Xiaogong, the king of Zhao Jun, in Nanping Xiao Mi and Gong Er, and recruited all the tribes in the South of the Five Ridges.

In the eighth year of Wude, he even led troops to resist the invasion of Eastern Turks in northern Xinjiang.

Judging from these qualifications, Li Jing is undoubtedly one of the most outstanding heroes and veterans of the old Li family, and even Li Shimin should be a great hero.

But in fact, even though Li Jing is good at fighting, he is simply a fool when it comes to dealing with people and being an official. Even Cheng Yaojin's stick is much better than him.

The thing that Li Shimin and his confidantes hate most about Li Jing is that he always likes to pretend, maybe it is to maintain his style as a Confucian general, or he really looks down on other people.

So every time Li Jing talks to other people, he always likes to talk with his neck held high, even with a bit of yin and yang.

Forget it once or twice, the key is that this grandson has always been like this, so who can stand it!

Not to mention Li Shimin who is the emperor, although you, Li Jing, have excellent military achievements, but the others are not bad. You, Li Jing, are indeed literary and martial arts, but you are also serving as a courtier for the Tang Dynasty.

Besides, I don't know who taught Li Jing, so he always feels alienated like a literati. He is obviously a general who holds military power, but he stays away from disputes like a literati.

Li Shimin and Li Jiancheng fight, but he does not help each other.

Li Shimin rebelled against Li Yuan, but he still didn't help each other.

It seems that you have escaped all the troubles like this, but in fact, your uncle, you are a wage earner working for Lao Li's family. No matter which boss you stand for, you have to stand for one. You don't stand for anyone, what do you want? what?Are you going to be your own boss?

Perhaps Li Jing thought he was avoiding suspicion and being upright, but in the eyes of the royal family, even Li Yuan, who had already retired, Li Jing was a thoughtful character.

Unlike Cheng Yaojin's unscrupulous naive criticism, and Hou Junji's stubborn desire for power, the two emperors, Li Yuan and Li Shimin, seemed to have no idea what Li Jing wanted.

This is difficult!

Everyone has seen the final outcome. It is obvious that he is the real No.1 in the Tang military. Both in terms of military merit and military quality, he is the highest.

Even Cheng Yaojin and others had made the Duke of the State early, but Li Jing, who was definitely not young, had not been able to get the position of Duke of the State.

In history, Li Jing was granted the title of Duke only after he destroyed the Turks and captured Jieli Khan alive in the third year of Zhenguan.

This is undoubtedly a bit unfair to a great general who has devoted himself to the old Li's family from the very beginning and has made outstanding achievements in battle. However, in Li Jing's view, this is because he has been involved in too many things, so he becomes more and more arrogant up.

In order to avoid suspicion, he even kept the door of his house closed all year round, and he even removed the screen wall that blocked his view. As long as you pass by the door of his house, you can directly see the central hall.

At the same time, he, who had a good relationship with many generals in the military, gradually cut off contact.In Li Jing's view, this is to show his innocence and position.

But in the eyes of others, this person has become a special kind of person who has deep thoughts and doesn't know what he is thinking, let alone what he is going to do.

However, it was the second year of Zhenguan. Although Li Jing had a bad reputation, his relationship with Li Shimin hadn't deteriorated to the extent it was later.

After all, according to historical records, when Li Shimin personally conquered Goryeo, when Li Chengqian was instigated by Hou Junji to rebel, Li Jing had been watching from the sidelines.

Although this kind of behavior seems very reasonable, after all, if you participate in the affairs of the royal family rashly, you will cause trouble for nothing.

However, some things are not about reason but about reason. You, Li Jing, as Li Shimin's subject, stayed in Chang'an when Li Shimin went out to fight. Li Chengqian was pulled by Hou Junji to rebel. As the general who stayed behind, shouldn't you suppress it immediately? .

It was Li Jing's inaction this time that made him completely lose points with Li Shimin. Even if he still won the position of Duke, he eventually became one of the 24 virtuous ministers of Lingyan Pavilion.But in fact, he was really just a courtier with Li Shimin.

After pondering over Li Jing's particularly twisted information, Zhang Nuo also sighed. He can care whether Li Jing lives or dies in the future, after all, he has no friendship with Li Jing.

For him, after coming to Datang, he just wanted to be a rich man and live a comfortable life, but he happened to meet Li Shimin and was promoted to such a high position, so he had to do it for Datang. If you order something, you will not be in vain to come to Datang for a walk.

However, don't regard Zhang Nuo as some sort of saint or savior, Zhang Nuo kept telling himself this point, and also repeatedly warned himself.

He is too aware of the dangers of the Holy Mother, it is not only a trap for himself, but even a lot of people have to be pitted together.Therefore, Zhang Nuo only cared about himself and his family, and took care of a few friends by the way.

Li Shimin is Zhang Nuo's friend, so Zhang Nuo can help him more or less. Cheng Yaojin and Qin Qiong are his friends, so Zhang Nuo always likes to recruit them when he has military merits.

But to Zhang Nuo, Li Jing is just a stranger who knows his name, even if he knows that he has a high military literacy, and knows that he has written military classics such as "The Mirror of the Six Armies" and "The Art of War of the Duke of Wei".

But these are of no use to Zhang Nuo, he is just a bastard who helps his relatives and doesn't care about him, how can he think so much.

Therefore, even if he knew that Li Jing was stationed a hundred miles in front of him, Zhang Nuo didn't think about what to do before. After all, Lao Zhang still wanted to save face. Still can't figure it out, that's too embarrassing.

But in the end, it was a bit embarrassing. Comrade Zhang couldn't find anyone, so a large group of Turkic people disappeared miraculously.

This made him embarrassingly express that it seems that he finally has to meet this "magical" Duke of Wei. Find those bastards yourself.

But, thinking about meeting Li Jing, Zhang Nuo stroked his chin with an inexplicable expression, did he have to make some preparations so that he would not be underestimated.

Chapter 670

After resting in the camp for one night, Zhang Nuo rushed to Li Jing's station with all the personnel and vehicles of the reconnaissance force early in the morning.

As the general manager of the Dingxiang Road, Li Jing's command post was naturally on the border. Zhang Nuo took the map compiled by Datang himself, so it was very easy to find it.

Having been in Datang for a long time, especially after being the king of Qin for a long time, Zhang Nuo also gradually learned some rules, so he wouldn't rush over so rashly.

The routine in the novel where the little pawn doesn't know the identity of the protagonist and then actively pretends to slap his face doesn't work here.

As a border military town, unless the emperor's dragon drove to the door, no matter who came, they would be stopped first, asked for their identity, and asked for waist cards, arrows and other formalities.

Therefore, in order not to make things difficult for the guard guards and himself, Zhang Nuo arranged for someone to go there to report the news as soon as he got up, so as to give Li Jing some time to prepare.

Zhang Nuo, who has a system by his side and has no shortage of money, will naturally not be too embarrassed in the wild camp. After letting everyone wash up with a bucket of pure water, Zhang Nuo turned around and got in the car, intending to see Meet the miraculous Lord of the Army.

In the absence of normal roads, the distance of [-] to [-] kilometers, with all the vehicles loaded with people and goods, took two hours to walk.

Therefore, when Zhang Nuo came to this small town that had been eroded beyond recognition by wind and sand, the sun was already hanging high in the sky, like a warm light that warmed people's bodies.

Zhang Nuo was a little distracted at this time, because he suddenly thought that in this weather, if he roasted a whole lamb here, it would be the best kind of tender lamb, and paired with two bottles of cold beer, it would seem to be extra comfortable. .

Well, I'll do it later.

When Li Jing watched Zhang Nuo get off the big iron box, no one could know how upset he was.

Although he was guarding the border far away from the imperial court, he was not an official who was demoted and exiled. As the top general among military generals, the imperial court naturally had to inform the great general of all major events that happened in the imperial court on time.

At the same time, the family also sent messages from time to time to talk about some things in Chang'an City and some of the family's parents.

But after the great change in the ninth year of Wude, Li Jing originally thought that what he heard the most would be the news about His Majesty, but what he never expected was that what he heard the most was a message he had never heard before. The previous name - Zhang Nuo.

Of course, to be precise, it should be His Royal Highness King Qin.

Regarding this new prince who inherited the title of His Majesty, it would be a lie to say that he was not curious, but because Li Jing was at the border, even if he wanted to know something, he could only learn about it through the official documents sent by the court and a few words in the family letter.

But the more he understood, the more creepy Li Jing felt.

This is probably a monster.