"Sure enough." Brother Ma looked as expected, stretched out his hand to touch Hai Dongqing gently, and said, "Xiong Kulu has made great contributions."
Hai Dongqing made a "coo" sound impatiently, but compared to the previous eagle call, it was very docile.
"Where is the Tang army?"
"Colemu Mountain is five miles ahead."
"how many people?"
While asking this question, Ma Gelu and Li Dehui looked at each other, meaning that now they can see whether the Tang army in front has broken or ambushed.
Just listen to the detective horse reply: "Looking at the traces, there should be only more than a hundred riders."
The busy brother smiled, turned to Li Dehui, and asked: "That was the main force that the father personally conquered and defeated Li Xia. Did any of the defeated troops flee here?"
Li Dehui shook his head and said, "Your Highness, do you think there is something fishy about this matter?"
"Weird?"
These two words are a bit difficult for Mang Ge La.
"This is a desert, how could the defeated Tang army escape so far?" Li Dehui said: "If it is said that they were chased all the way here by the Yuan soldiers and horses, we did not receive any news at all."
"Is it possible that they are lost?"
"It's possible to get lost, but you won't go this far west. The enemy general can still gather more than a hundred people after being defeated. Can't he even distinguish the east and west directions?"
"What does Wang Xiang mean?"
Li Dehui was also unsure and thought deeply: "It may be an ambush, or there may be other reasons that we haven't thought of yet that brought the Tang army here."
"Defeat them, take a few prisoners and ask them. We will know."
Mang Ge La then recruited the commander of thousands, Cheche Tuhai, and ordered him to lead his troops to pursue and serve as the vanguard to clear the way.
Li Dehui repeatedly reminded: "We must be cautious. These more than a hundred Tang troops are most likely to be bait. Send more scouting horses. Don't let them eat our thousand-man team..."
To be honest, Ma Gela felt that Li Dehui was too cautious, but after thinking about it again, after all, he still didn't know how many troops the Tang Army had, so he should be cautious.
On this day, they stopped marching to prevent the soldiers and horses from being too tired and being attacked by the Tang army. The army camped in the stronghold, just waiting for the battle report from the front.
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King Anxi's tent was also very large and did not need to be dismantled during the march. It was installed on a huge wooden wheel and was pulled by twenty-four oxen during the march.
It can be seen that although he traveled thousands of miles during this Western Expedition, Mang Gelu did not suffer too much from having to eat and sleep in the open.
If he is willing, he can spend most of his time in the tent warming himself by the fire, drinking wine, and doing some military affairs. He can also often enjoy entertainment with his wife and concubines.
Mongolian women can fight when mounted, and shepherd sheep when dismounted. The Mongolian army often takes their wives and children with them when they go on an expedition, and the same goes for Mangela.
His wife's name is Ye Rihan, who comes from the Texue Chan family of the Hongji La tribe. Her family has been married to the Jin family for generations, and their daughters are queens and their sons are princesses.
Although Ye Rihan is a woman, she has a very strong character, which is completely opposite to Zhen Jin's wife Kuo Kuo Zhen.
For example, Kuokuozhen always served Chabi carefully and was often praised by Kublai Khan; but Yerihan dared to make requests to Kublai Khan for more power and wealth.
Privately, Maunge La said, "That means I married Ye Rihan, a woman who is like a tiger. If it were my weak brother, he would have been beaten to death by her long ago."
The couple really fought.
That afternoon, Brother Ma returned to his tent and saw that Ye Rihan was also there, whipping a beautiful girl he had brought back from the Western Regions with a whip.
This Mei Ji was one of the maids he selected from the palace of Gaochang when he conquered Gaochang. She was a very beautiful Uighur. Since she did not have a tent belonging to her, she stayed in Mungola's tent during the march.
On the contrary, Ye Rihan owns a small tent pulled by twelve oxen. He has not seen Maunge La for many days. Today he finally got angry and came to the big tent to make a scene.
"Snapped!"
The whip hit Meiji hard on her buttocks, which obviously hurt her, but she didn't dare to cry. She said "woo" and tried to hold back her voice, while tears rolled down her face.
Maunge La was furious and shouted to Ye Rihan: "Stop! You uncivilized barbaric woman, get out of my tent!"
Not to be outdone, Ye Rihan cracked his whip again and shouted: "If you don't drive this slutty woman out today, I'll beat her to death!"
"Exiute."
Busty brother stepped forward to snatch the whip from Ye Rihan's hand, but was hit when he passed.
He was very shocked, glared at his wife and said, "You dare to hit me?"
"If I hit you, I'll hit you!"
Ye Rihan simply swung his whip directly at Mung Ge La. After Mung Ge La was hit for the second time, he rushed forward to fight with her.
The surrounding attendants did not dare to help, and had already become accustomed to the strange situation, so they quickly closed the curtains.
"Huh...huh..."
With great difficulty, Mang Ge La La finally held Ye Rihan down, but he was still panting from exhaustion.
"stop fighting……"
"Let me go, Mang Ge La. I gave you two sons. Do you dare to bully me? I'll tell the Great Khan."
"Don't fight...I gave her to someone else...Don't fight..."
Ye Rihan calmed down, took out his hand, gave Brother Mung a blow, reached out to untie his armor, and said, "All of you, get down."
"Stop moving, it's still daytime."
"You asked the team to stop during the day. Why don't you want to go back to the tent and have fun with the lustful woman?"
"Is that what you think?" Brother Ma was surprised and said, "There's a war."
"There is no enemy in this desert, who are you fighting with?"
"Tang Jun."
Although the couple often quarreled and fought, they still had the same interests after all, and if anything happened, they would discuss it with Ye Rihan.
"My father personally defeated the Tang army, and the Tang army appeared in front."
Upon hearing this, Ye Rihan asked: "Looking for real gold?"
"Real gold?"
"Didn't you say that he disappeared? He said that he disappeared in the desert in the south, so the Tang army came to find him, right?"
Mang Ge Lai narrowed his eyes slightly and said in deep thought: "I don't know."
"Do you remember what you came back to do?" Ye Rihan hit him again and reminded: "Even if there is a slight possibility, send a team of people to search quickly."
When she said this, she pulled Brother Ma down, leaned into his ear, and whispered: "Send a trustworthy person to kill him after he finds the real gold..."
"You crazy woman, it's not necessarily true. Wang Xiang said that it's possible that the Tang army was ambushing."
"Do you believe in the Han people?!"
Ye Rihan's eyes widened, as if he wanted to slap Brother Ma, and said again: "Can you believe the lies told by the Han people? Can you not know that the king of yours prefers you or gold? He gave you
After analyzing so much, why didn't he guess that Tang Jun was looking for real gold? Even if it wasn't, he should have guessed it."
Busty Brother frowned.
Intellectually speaking, he knows that his wife is brainless and has no qualifications to compare with Li Dehui in terms of wisdom. But he also understands that when it comes time to choose, Li Dehui will definitely choose real gold, and only No Rihan will be firm.
choose him.
Therefore, Ye Rihan's words were like a seed that fell into Mang Ge La's heart and sprouted quietly.
But he said: "You don't have to think so much, Zhenjin is already dead."
"I want you to be a Great Khan." Ye Rihan stroked Mang Ge La's face and said, "You should be a Great Khan. Compared to your Han-like brother, you are a hero."
Brother Ma smiled and allowed her to take off his armor...
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In the evening, Cheche Tuhai returned to the camp and asked to see Mang Ge La.
"Your Majesty, I defeated the Tang army and captured their camp."
At this point, he unconsciously lowered his voice and said, "We have brought back some prisoners. Do you want to see them, Your Majesty?"
The busy brother suddenly realized something and nodded.
After a while, several Mongolians dressed as old herdsmen were brought over.
This made Maunge La a little angry, and he gave Cheche Tuhai a cold look, thinking that this Qianhu was just catching some random people to fool him for military exploits.
Cheche Tuhai quickly interrogated and asked: "You told the king, why did the Tang army arrest you?"
"Your Majesty, we are herdsmen from the Dalatu tribe, not the Tang army... We were also captured by the Tang army." When a bolder old herdsman said this, he thought of the question asked by the other party and said quickly: "
They captured us and used us as guides to lead them to find people."
The busy brother raised his hand and ordered people to guard outside the tent, and then continued to ask: "Who are you looking for?"
"Looking for the Mongols... looking for the Mongol warriors who were defeated in the southern desert a few months ago..."
The things these old herdsmen said were vague and confusing, which made Ma Ge La very upset.
Seeing that he was impatient, Cheche Tuhai quickly took out a snow-white fox fur and said, "Tang Jun is looking for the owner of this fox fur."
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"The general of the Tang Army named Yang Ben defeated Dong Wenbing at Chala Lake in the Tengger Desert. At that time, Yang Ben did not know that the real gold was in Dong Wenbing's army and did not pursue the defeated troops. Most of the defeated troops could not have walked out alive.
Tengger Desert, dying of thirst and starvation."
"But there are still broken troops crossing the desert?"
"have."
"Did Zhenjin come out alive?" Ye Rihan asked again.
"Later, the Tang army knew that the real gold had escaped, and sent a thousand men to chase it. They found this fox fur in a small tribe, and a young man exchanged it for two camels and food."
"Real gold?"
"I don't know. The Tang army took away people from this tribe and used them as guides when they met people." After the words reached this point, Maunge's voice deepened and he continued: "They seem to have found real gold."
"where?"
"Just south of us."
That night, when the couple talked about this, Ye Rihan stood up, took two steps, and said to Brother Mang: "You can't be weak. From Ogedai Khan to Brother Ali, if you are weak, you will die."
, you still don’t understand.”
"I understand." Brother Ma said, "I'm not a weak person. I've already ordered someone to do it."
"good."
Ye Rihan thought for a while and then said, "You can't tell Li Dehui about this."