Chapter 471 Jade Burning

Yuwen Hongtai was covered with four quilts, and three altars of fire were roasted around him, still trembling all over. The already dark face has long been purple, and his eyes are a little straight.

Qin Mubai saw him, which was very similar to the scene when he ran back to Danzhou from the Magic Moon Valley that day. Moreover, Yuwen Hongtai ran farther, and now the ice and snow are colder. It can be seen that this man is indeed about to freeze to death.

"Third, third brother, I, I'm coming again..." Yuwen Hongtai was a little excited when he saw Qin Mubai, but he really couldn't move, just his eyes were connected.

"Why do you want to say 'and' again'?" Qin Mubai's heart was blocked, and he frowned and said, "What happened?"

Yuwen Hongtai grinned with a wry smile and said, "As soon as I come, there must be no good thing! I'm such an ominous person. I should have died early!"

"Don't talk nonsense, where's the military newspaper!" Qin Mubai became more and more annoyed, and he couldn't help raising his voice and shouting.

"In... here..." Yuwen Hongtai motioned with his eyes in his close-fitting clothes.

Qin Mubai personally opened the thick quilt on his body and saw that the man's neck was frozen purple and swollen. From his clothes, he found a small package tightly wrapped in oily paper and cotton cloth and hurriedly opened it.

Xue Rengui and Su Dingfang stood next to him, daring to breathe, and looked at Qin Mubai seriously.

A very detailed military newspaper is obviously the handwriting of Li Daozong, the king of Jiangxia. Maybe Li Daozong was afraid that Yuwen Hongtai could not explain it clearly, so he wrote in great detail what the East Attack of the Chaling and Hou Junji did in Dafeichuan.

There are also three letters written by Hou Junji. It was written to Qin Mubai, Li Shimin, and his wife respectively.

After reading the military newspaper and the letters written to him by Hou Junji, Qin Mubai's expression froze for three minutes. Xue Rengui, Su Dingfang and Yuwen Hongtai all looked at him in confusion and did not dare to shout.

After a long time, Qin Mubai finally moved, and the general handed it to Su Dingfang, "Look at it for yourself!"

After reading it, Su and Xue were actually the same as Qin Mubai, and their expressions froze.

Is it hatred? Is it worry? Is it anger? Is it urgent?

I blocked my heart together.

"Mu Bai, you must make a decision and return to Lan!" Su Dingfang said firmly, "Hou Junji is crazy and left Da Feichuan to kill on the plateau. Dafeichuan, the place where the throat of the river, is unexpectedly guarded without soldiers! If the arrival of a brigade of people suddenly arrives, the whole game will be lost!"

"If we still need to save Dafeichuan, then Helong is really over." Qin Mubai was unexpectedly calm, but his eyebrows were deeply locked. He said, "Li Daozong, the king of Jiangxia, must have taken over and rebuilt the defense of Dafeichuan at the first time."

"Uh-huh, uh-huh!!" Yuwen Hongtai nodded vigorously and squeaked in his mouth to show that Qin Mubai was right.

"But in the hands of King Jiangxia, there are only a few new recruits from Lanzhou. If the enemy troops kill, there is no resistance at all. Su Dingfang said, "Anyway, Lanzhou is already empty, and there is an urgent need for help at this time."

"I'm not busy!" Qin Mubai raised his hand and said, "Think clearly before you act. At this time, any of our measures is the key to determining life and death. To be honest, I was as anxious as if my buttocks had been burned, and the anger in my heart was beyond words. However, the more you are at this time, the more you should not panic to engage in chaos. Let's all analyze and think about it carefully. Why did Hou Junji do this? What will happen if he does this? If we are ourselves in the Chalqin Mausoleum, what are we most likely to do now?

As soon as Qin Mubai said this, it was like pouring a bucket of ice water on the head and a dose of tranquilizer for everyone present. Su Dingfang and Xue Rengui looked at each other, and their eyes showed appreciation and approval, and then said, "It's reasonable!"

"Come on, sit down!" Qin Mubai waved his hand and motioned Su and Xue to sit next to Yuwen Hongtai by the stove, and then asked the pawn to prepare tea to serve.

Su Xue and his wife were secretly impressed. They thought that after so many strong winds and waves, Qin Mubai was about to practice to the realm of collapse. Originally, he was still in the years of youth and frivolity, but it is really not easy to maintain such an extraordinary calmness at such a critical moment. Now they finally understand why so many famous ministers and generals in the court are not used, but the emperor gave half of the west side of the country to Qin Mubai, a weak son.

"Hong Tai, first of all, why did Hou Junji do this? What was the scene like at that time? Qin Mubai asked.

"I don't know much about it. Before the incident, Hou Junji didn't know whether it was intentional or unintentional. He sent me to the Buha River to repair the dam for more than ten days. Yuwen Hongtai said, "When I hurried back to the barracks when I heard the news, Hou Junji had already killed Qingluoyuan and killed all the prisoners. I quarreled with him, and he tied up a hemp rope and sent it to Danzhou. Later, I heard that he also killed Changsun Huan! This old miscellaneous hair is really cruel!"

The three of them were really stunned after listening to it. Qin Mubai smiled bitterly, "It seems that it is indeed necessary for King Jiangxia to write such a detailed and thick military newspaper."

"What?" Yuwen Hongtai's straight eyeballs.

"If I ask you this, you don't realize what's wrong with Hou Junji?" Qin Mubai said.

"Yes!" Yuwen Hongtai stared at him and said affirmatively, "I can see that he doesn't want to live!" He is going to the plateau to die!"

"In other words, he believes that he is already a mortal person." Su Dingfang answered.

"That should be it..." Qin Mubai sighed slowly, nodded gently, frowned and closed his eyes, and shook his head with a sad expression.

"Hey! ..." Su Dingfang also sighed and said, "Hou Junji is really an unruly and wild bloody man. Whoever committed such a mistake must be thinking about how to remedy and escape. Instead, he went against it. He first condemned himself to death, and then risked his life to do whatever he wanted. I guess he feels that he has put all the courtesy, honor and disgrace aside with all his strength. It's like a drowning man who knows he will die, but he has to drag a person into the water, which is enough.

"To be more precise, he is like a decapitated snake's head. He can still open his mouth and bite people without the snake's body. It's extremely poisonous and dangerous." Qin Mubai said, "In the past, Hou Junji had been suppressing his wildness and arrogance, just like a hungry wolf, with an iron chain around his neck as a watchdog. Now that he has broken off the chain, I don't know how many people will die tragically under him. In the end, he is bound to die.

"What a madman!" Su Dingfang punched heavily and roared angrily and helplessly.

Xue Rengui has never interrupted. At this time, Fang said, "Mu Bai, Ding Fang, this is the case. How should we act? I'm a junior, and I don't know much about things in the court; I don't know much about Hou Junji. However, according to the foolish view, putting aside politics and etiquette, militarily speaking alone, Hou Junji's hand is actually a killing move. Of course, the outcome must be a loss for both sides.

"The jade is burning, which is appropriate." Qin Mubai nodded in recognition and said, "The surprise attack on Taozhou by Garqinling has disturbed my western border of the Tang Dynasty. After that, the Chalqin Mausoleum had to escape and return to the plateau. The purpose of his sudden invasion is nothing more than to create a disaster to win a respite for the defeated Tubo, and at the same time unexpectedly seek a way out of the way to advance and retreat. It is not difficult to imagine that after the defeat of Dafeichuan, the Tubo people were unable to fight again. First, they lost a lot of troops, and second, more importantly, they had no logistical food and fodder. The agriculture in Tibet is not very good, unlike the food we have in the original. In order to fight this battle, they didn't know how long they had stored food and fodder, but they were washed away by Pang Fei's handful of water. In this case, the Chalqin Mausoleum is bound to return to the plateau and not be able to guard it. However, he is worried that we will take advantage of the victory to pursue. So he stabbed us before retreating, so that we were busy with healing and had no time to take care of him. From this point of view, the Chalqinling is indeed old-fashioned and vicious.

"But he didn't expect that there was something more ruthless than him!" Su Dingfang said, "Gar Qinling seems to know our court and political situation very well. He thinks that if Hou Junji let him go, he will definitely be regretful and helpless. At the same time, the young marshal will certainly be more or less implicated. He firmly believed that he swaggered back to the plateau after a disturbance in western Xinjiang, and we did not dare to take the initiative to kill the plateau. Because in the past, this was indeed the case. Our soldiers and horses in the Central Plains have never entered the Tubo mainland. He expected that since our Tang Dynasty could not retaliate against it militarily, the rest would be our own internal accountability. In this way, there is no doubt that Hou Junji will die, and the young commander will also be attacked by political opponents. In the civil strife in the court, Lanzhou collapsed without fighting, and our Tang Dynasty's national policy against Tubo will also change because of this - his goal has been achieved!"

"The fixed-party analysis is reasonable and thorough." Qin Mubai said, "The identity of the Chalqin Mausoleum is different from that of us. He is not only a military commander, but also a powerful minister. He ruled the army and ruled the army, and he poured out his power. Everything he does is not just for the purpose of a simple military strike. You just said a sentence, which coincided with what I thought in my heart - Garqinling, he never expected that there would be more ruthless than him! No matter how resourceful he is, after all, he is not from Tang, let alone in the court. It is impossible for him to fully understand Hou Junji's personality so much - even the people we get along with Hou Junji day and night may not fully understand him. So the Garqinling miscalculated. Hou Junji, this crazy hungry wolf was not afraid and afraid because of his dereliction of duty, but saw his ending in advance with a clear mind, and then made a fight before he died!"

"This time, the garqinling is a typical wise man's worries, and there must be a loss." Su Dingfang said, "As Rengui said, militarily speaking alone, Hou Junji's move is actually not all undescapable. The Chalqin Mausoleum holds half of the troops and horses of Tibet, and the expedition must be empty in foreign countries. Unlike my Tang general, Tubo, half of the soldiers and horses are stationed in Guanzhong Town to garrison the capital. They are tribal scattered. Most of the time, their soldiers are herdsmen and serfs. There are not many soldiers and horses that really shake the city of Weiluo (equivalent to the imperial forest army). Now Hou Junji highlights the killing of strange soldiers. If he can really succeed... Tubo, more than half of them will perish!"

Xue Rengui said, "It is not difficult to imagine that although the Chalqin Mausoleum, which had been noisy in Western Xinjiang for a while, had gained a lot and retreated completely, it must be quite tired. But if he learns that Hou Junji took Qingluoyuan in one fell swoop and then immediately killed Luoxi City, he will be shocked. Then he will lead the army to chase behind Hou Junji and rush back to Luoxi to rescue!" In this way, Hou Junji had no way out, and the whole army broke up and down and sank the boat and fought back - either he would really attack the cities and make great achievements; or the whole army was destroyed, and no one could come back alive!"

"Even if the city is built, no one can come back alive." Qin Mubai's expression sank and he said, "Rengui, if Hou Junji wanted to live again, he would not have taken this step to kill the plateau. The meaning of burning jade is to die with the enemy. Now Hou Junji is to kill one without losing two! - When he is on the plateau, he will definitely start to kill, just like he killed 50,000 prisoners in Dafeichuan, and he is not soft!"

Su Dingfang and Xue Rengui both took a cold breath.

"Hou Junji is using a jade-burning move to cut the grass and eradicate it!" Qin Mubai took a long breath and slowly exhaled, and said, "The population of Tibet is less than two million, and all the people are only known as '600,000 soldiers'. How many young people are there in total? In Dafeichuan, he killed 50,000 people in one breath! Now he has been on the plateau, like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, and I don't know how many Tubo people will be buried under his knife. I dare to assert that he didn't think of making a name for himself, nor did he think of abducting Zong to come back to atone for his sins. He just wants to kill people, just kill people! It was so bad that Tubo's vitality was greatly damaged, and the young and strong population that had plummeted in decades could not recover. This is undoubtedly anti-human, disobedient, almost abnormal cruelty and bloody. It is not difficult to imagine that in the future, whether it is the Tubo people or the Han people, including our descendants, they may condemn him as a cold-blooded butcher executioner. He will carry the shackles of shame and hatred forever and be criticized. But from an objective point of view, if his move can be greatly weakened. Is Tubo a great contribution to my present Tang Dynasty? - This may be his real purpose!"

"If this is the case, it is really a veritable jade burning! The price he sent is not only life, but also fame, personality and dignity!" After listening to Qin Mubai's words, Su Dingfang and Xue Rengui were shocked.

Qin Mubai sighed and said, "His madness is not only to vent, but also to express his shame and regret! Moreover, it is also an indirect and alternative return to the emperor's past kindness to him and my trust in him! - Hou Junji, in anyone's opinion, is a cunning, cruel and ruthless wolf; but in fact, isn't he a really lonely poor man?