It was finally time to return, but the road back to Beijing was more difficult than imagined.
As compensation, the Tuyuhun Khanate temporarily mobilized a group of 1,000 prairie sheep to accompany the team to Chang'an City.
A group of prominent figures in the Tang Dynasty became herders when they left the grassland.
In the early morning of the next day, a group of people looked at the vast field of sheep, feeling a little confused and helpless.
Sheep were only part of the compensation, as well as several carts of animal skins and bone products from the grassland.
Only these live sheep are very troublesome.
Because the Tuyuhun Khanate really couldn't produce anything decent.
Yesterday, in front of Fu Yun, Bai Song showed off his dignity and showed no mercy at all. He compensated as he should.
But after actually seeing the compensation, I felt a little regretful.
Who among a group of soldiers would care about this?
Not to mention having to cross a small desert halfway.
Finally, a few grassland herdsmen were mixed into the team, and they walked through the desert with stops and starts and returned to the front line.
The troops in the barracks were still waiting for the general to return. When they saw the general returning safely, the troops began to regroup and return to the court.
Many sheep died while crossing the desert.
His death should be regarded as a reward for the 20,000 defenders who stayed on the front line.
Bai Song's reputation in the army has indeed improved significantly. In this battle, Bai Song can be regarded as the most dazzling person. No matter he is the first Turkic warrior, he has sent food and grass, or he has gone deep into the enemy's country to rescue him.
A great general is something worthy of praise.
More importantly, the Bai Song Dynasty also brought the amazing Shenwu Cannon.
Shrouded in the fog of the Battle of Chengdu, the secret of God's Punishment has finally been revealed.
One hundred thousand troops saw with their own eyes the power of the Shenwu cannon.
Because the emergence of the Shenwu Cannon directly had the final say, this war, which would have lasted for at least three months, was demerited in just one month.
Moreover, the reputation of the Shenwu Cannon will spread to further places to intimidate the countries surrounding the Tang Dynasty.
In addition, the potatoes cultivated and planted by the soldiers in Lukou Mountain became the seeds sown by the Tang Dynasty forces in the border grasslands. In the future, they will become an outpost connecting the Tang Dynasty to the Tuyuhun Khanate and become a hub of economic and trade between the two countries.
hub.
A year later, Lukou Mountain would be renamed Lushan City. In order to commemorate what the Bai Song Dynasty had done here, there were even fanatical grassland people who built statues for the Han Turkic patriarch and had them worshiped.
Of course, these are all things for later, and Bai Song did not know about them either.
If he had known about it, with Bai Song's temperament, he would have directly demolished the statue and severely beaten those who worshiped him.
He doesn't need to be admired by others, as that would make him appear to have died prematurely.
On the way back from the grassland, we followed the last group of troops evacuating the grassland.
Every night, Bai Song could always hear women crying.
Bai Song thought he was hearing things because he had this feeling since he came out of the Tuyuhun Khanate.
If you don't listen carefully, you really won't pay much attention.
After several days, Bai Song finally couldn't bear it anymore. He knocked on the wheel of the black bamboo carriage and asked inside: "Is someone crying?"
Mo Zhu's injury has not healed and he has been recuperating, and he has not followed Bai Song through the desert.
Mo Zhu is sleeping deeply now, making no sound.
With Mo Zhu was the maid Lan Ting who also stayed in the military camp waiting for Bai Song.
Lan Ting was just an ordinary little maid, whose perception was not as good as Bai Song's. She listened carefully and shook her head to express that she had not heard anything.
On the other hand, Liu'er, who was on the other side of the carriage, rode forward a few steps faster to make himself appear in Bai Song's field of vision, and then said softly: "Over there..."
Liu'er raised his hand and pointed to another carriage behind the team.
There were very few carriages in the army, and two carriages were separated by forty or fifty meters.
If the sound came from a carriage behind, no wonder it would be unpredictable.
In the carriage behind is...
Bai Song thought for a while and then realized that the two princesses were brought from the Tyuhun Khanate and entered the capital together with the army as hostages.
The cries of the two Turkic princesses are easy to understand.
King Fu Yun said that he was sent to the capital for marriage, but in fact he was still a hostage, and a hostage that was not favored.
Sent to Chang'an, maybe the emperor felt that the two women were not worthy enough, and it would not be an exaggeration to kill them in a rage.
Even if they really accept the conditions of changing from prince to princess, the future life of these two princesses will definitely be very bad.
The princess of the lower country was sent to the Tang Dynasty for marriage. This status was not worthy of being a royal concubine. The best result would be to give it to a certain prince.
I heard that the two princesses combined were not as old as Bai Song. The elder was fourteen and the younger was only ten years old. They knew nothing and were treated as political victims.
No matter who it is, from the perspective of the two of them, can they not cry?
Bai Song had never even seen what the two princesses looked like.
Bai Song felt that these two women had nothing to do with him. No matter how pitiful they were, he could only accept their fate.
Everything is arranged by God. Although Bai Song has a kind heart, this kindness cannot be used on the two princesses.
Bai Song always remembered that they were his enemies, and being kind to them was disrespectful to his dead brothers.
Bai Song looked at the carriage from a distance and could only shake his head helplessly.
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In addition to the two princesses, there was also a woman in the car.
Badu felt the same experiences of the two princesses.
There is no other reason than that she was once a Turkic princess and a princess of the Aji tribe.
Having once been a prisoner of the Tang Army, she knew what it felt like to be frightened and have no hope for the future.
And these two little princesses seem to be in a more difficult situation than they were back then.
They are younger and have to be sent to farther places.
When Baduo was captured, he could still hope that his tribe would save him, but these two little princesses had no hope.
Although they were born in the grasslands, they were too young and far less strong than Batu.
Watching the two little princesses crying together, Baduo felt a mixture of emotions.
Along the way, Batuo ignored Bai Song and stayed with the two little princesses from beginning to end.
Try to explain and comfort as much as possible, hoping to make the two little princesses feel better.
"Can we see my sister again when we get to Chang'an City?"
"Yes, I definitely can!" Baduo said seriously, holding the little hands of the two girls.
"But I heard that a princess who becomes a Han Chinese can no longer be seen in public."
"It's okay, sister will go find you."
"But I heard that the princes of the Han people are all old men... I don't like old men..."
"I...I don't like it either..."
Bai Song expressed his judgment and believed that the two little girls had the greatest possibility of becoming princesses.
Badu had already conveyed this message earlier.
The two princesses had also read about the Tang Dynasty in the grassland, and knew that the people who could be crowned princes were all old men in their seventies or eighties, older than their father.
How can this be reassuring?
As they talked, the two girls cried again.
Seeing the tears of the two girls, Badu's heart was broken. She made up her mind and gritted her teeth and said: "Stop crying. My sister will make the decision for you and will definitely find a good home for you!"
