Rule the Roost in the Tang Dynasty

He is born with memories of his previous nine lives. In this life, he is a prince of the Tang Dynasty. He thinks to himself, “I finally get to enjoy my life for the first time. Goodbye, days of s...

Chapter 206 Journey

Lu Dongzan was so shocked that he didn't know how to describe his shock. This young man was too cold-blooded, ruthless and decisive!

Looking at Chisang Yangton's open mouth being pierced by an arrow, he opened his eyes wide, unable to believe what was happening to him.

Chisang Yangdun stretched out his arm and pointed at Li Hong. His throat was pierced by an arrow and he could not make any sound. The hatred in his eyes seemed as if he wanted to eat Li Hong alive.

The sound of breaking air was heard again, and another arrow hit Chisang Yangdun's left chest.

Arrows were shot one after another, and no arrow was wasted. All hit Chisang Yangdon's chest, until the last arrow hit the center of his eyebrows. The rain of arrows stopped abruptly, as if the fatal arrow had never appeared in this night.

"Do you have anything else to say?" Li Hong drew his sword out of its scabbard, the cold blade flashing with murderous intent.

"Who are you? What is your purpose next?" Lu Dongzan accepted his fate. He never thought that he would die here.

He felt a strong murderous intent in the boy's eyes. Although the flag was raised, the boy obviously had no intention of letting him go. He was obviously confident that he could wipe out all of his more than 2,000 men.

"The goal of the Crown Prince Li Hong of the Tang Dynasty is to advance into Tubo and kill them back and forth." Li Hong said calmly.

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With a wave of his hand and a slash of his knife, Lu Dongzan's head with his eyes closed slowly rolled towards the fire amid the shouts and screams of the Tibetan caravan. His gray hair caught fire.

"Kill without mercy." Li Hong sheathed his sword, picked up the crossbow on the right, and led the charge towards the Tibetans who were rushing towards him.

I don't know when the moonlight hid behind the white clouds again, as if it was unwilling to witness such a one-sided bloody massacre!

The donated blood splashed onto Li Hong's face, the sword in his hand brought out handfuls of blood, and most of the white fur coat on his body was stained crimson.

Quan Yi, who was originally following him, has now rushed into the enemy group.

Hua Meng, Mang Zhong, Ban Mei and Xun Lan protected Li Hong from all sides. The swords in their hands seemed to be life-thirsty devils, and every sword would take away a life.

To catch a thief, you must first catch the leader. The death of Lu Dongzan instantly collapsed the strong will of the Tubo warriors. The head next to the fire was engulfed by the fire carried by the mountain wind and was roasted beyond recognition!

Fresh donated blood spread in the night sky. The mountain eagles and other scavenger birds that had already returned to their nests were awakened by the wolf howling of Bai Qi and his gang. They stood by their nests on the cliffs and watched indifferently the humans killing each other.

The bodies of more than 2,000 people soon covered the narrow path, and the gullies nearby and the bushes on the Gobi Desert were also filled with corpses.

"My Lord...someone escaped." Hua Meng had sharp eyes and watched a black shadow quickly pass by the valley entrance, raising a slight cloud of dust.

"Catch him and kill him. Never let anyone escape." Li Hong said coldly as he chopped off the neck of the Tibetan man who was cornered by Banmei and had no power to fight back.

Hua Meng looked at the battle situation, then obeyed the order and quickly chased after the figure.

Hua Meng had just left when a black shadow suddenly rushed out from the side and chased after Hua Meng.

"Master, Bai Qi has passed by."

"Don't pay attention to it." The fighting was coming to an end, and Li Hong had begun pacing on the battlefield.

This battle made him feel as if he had found the days in that life when he followed Bai Qi to fight.

Dawn gradually emerged from the deep and tired night, with a hint of reluctance and hesitation, slowly dragging the rising sun in the east and hanging in the air again.

The choking smell of blood still lingered on both sides of the valley entrance after midnight. The corpses were frozen by the cold overnight and the camel caravan was trapped together.

All the goods on his body were strictly checked, and the cement was still among them.

Li Hong, with bloodshot eyes, was very angry. He kept shaking his head, muttering and cursing!

Who is this person? Why is his presence in the White Arab Empire and why is his presence still in Tibet?

As he walked to the two camels that Lu Dongzan was riding, he saw that the soldiers around him were concentrating and holding their breath, watching Li Hong coming over, each of them looking nervous.

"What did you find?" Li Hong had a bad feeling.

"The great governor, calm down..."

"Speak." Li Hong took a deep breath, and there was a hint of unpleasant smell of blood in his chest.

"We found a few things in the medicinal food room." Mangzhong lowered his head and said softly.

"Swish..." Li Hong drew out his sword and slashed at Mangzhong's neck.

The sword was only a millimeter away from his neck, and the still sharp blade was enough to make Mangzhong's hair stand on end. A creepy murderous intent seeped into his heart from the blade.

Li Hong threw down the sword in his hand and walked quickly towards the two camels, only to see a tightly sealed wooden box there.

And another identical wooden box has been opened.

Comparing the two boxes of things, Li Hong, who was originally very troubled, relaxed a little. These were just some auxiliary materials for gunpowder, and they could not even be called explosives. Moreover, they were missing a lot of key substances.

And they have not been prepared yet. I guess Lu Dongzan only knows that these things are important, but doesn't know how to use them. He probably wants to take them back to study them.

But how did all this get out? The power of that mysterious person is getting stronger and stronger. Is he the same person who sent the cement to the white-clothed people?

Li Hong fell into deep contemplation. Who was causing trouble for him in Chang'an? Who was disturbing his mind in the Western Regions?

The entire battlefield has been cleared. In addition to the food needed for the journey, the camel caravan also had some cement and black gunpowder, as well as more tea, silk, soap, and other items.

Glass products are very expensive and fragile, so the Tubo caravans carefully separated them with furs and stored them. It is easy to imagine how precious these things are in Tubo.

Quan Yi's men had only a hundred or so wounded and no deaths. In any case, this was a complete victory and a one-sided massacre.

"The wounded will return to Khotan, and the others will continue south to Tubo." Li Hong glanced at the team of more than 2,000 people and said coldly.

"The Grand Protector..." Quan Yi felt that his heart was about to jump out of his mouth. The Grand Protector was going to attack Huanglong directly!

"Don't disobey. Time waits for no one, we must seize every moment. Yuan Shuji has probably already started to move south to Dayuechuan. If we can't rush over from here, Yuan Shuji will be killed." Li Hong has been planning for almost two years, and now it's time to reap some rewards.

"Grand Protector, we are too few in number. I think it is not advisable to move forward..." Quan Yi picked up the sword that Li Hong had thrown away on the ground, with the handle facing Li Hong.

The intention is very clear. If you want to set off immediately, you can just kill me first.

Li Hong refused to take the sword, rubbing his hands back and forth and asked, "Where are your other five thousand men?"

"Pishan." Quan Yi answered with his head down.

"Lawless has already reached Pishan. It won't even take him half a day to get here. Order everyone to go to Dabolü immediately."

Li Hong walked forward without looking back. Quan Yi was the one Yi Yang had his eyes on, so how could he not understand that the reason why they dared to disobey his orders was not only because they had too few people, but also because they could not guarantee their own safety.

Of course, there was also Yi Yang's instructions when he went to the Western Regions. Otherwise, even if he had ten times the courage, he would not dare to disobey.

To enter Tubo, one had to pass through many small countries that were dependent on Tubo, such as Dabolü and Xiaobolü. However, these small countries, because of the Tang Dynasty's out of reach, could only be controlled and suppressed by Tubo, and indoctrinated with Tubo's culture.

Two thousand troops are enough for Li Hong to cross these small countries.

If he wanted to enter Tubo as soon as possible to create greater chaos after killing Lu Dongzan when the domestic situation in Tubo was in chaos, he had to do it quickly.

What's more, up to now, Quan Yi's 7,000 men have been rotating back and forth in the desert disguised as thieves, while Lawless has been guarding Khotan for more than a year.

Together with Xue Rengui and Heichi Changzhi of Shule and Suiye, they formed an unshakable line of defense.

But over the past year or so, Li Hong's Iron Pagoda seemed to have disappeared from the face of the earth, without a sound or trace, and no one knew where they had gone.

The difficult and mountainous roads leading to Tubo, especially the Silk Road as the only route for trade, have unimaginable beauty and tranquility.

It also makes people more expectant about the purity of the geographical environment and the purity of human thought it fosters.

The population of Bolor was very small, so small that it could be compared with the nomadic peoples in the Pamir Mountains to the north. Naturally, it could not cause adverse effects on regimes such as Tubo.

But in the eyes of the Tibetans, especially in the eyes of Lu Dongzan, the actual ruler of Tibet, their existence was like a watchdog at their door. Their only use was to serve as eyes to monitor the large number of Tang troops coming in and out.

When Wang Xuance was sent as an envoy to India, he took this seemingly roadless road. Wang Xuance was in another country, and after his other companions were killed, his feat of destroying an entire country alone also led to the demise of Sri Lanka.

In this way, it can be seen that the Tang Dynasty never had absolute control over Tubo and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. It had to fight a gamble-like war for its influence as an equal country relying on its resourcefulness.

Therefore, for Wang Xuance, destroying a small country, a foreign country much smaller than Nepal, was an easy task.

But the chain reaction of this incident was that it made India and Tibet at that time notice the existence of a powerful neighboring country, Nepal.

In order to avoid repeating the same mistakes and to avoid being used by the Tang Dynasty, it was reasonable for Tubo and India to destroy Nepal.

And this naturally became the place where Li Hong stayed today. The creed of Xiaobolü was: If you gods in heaven fight with each other, don’t involve our small country.