Chapter 216 Li Er is back

"Come in!" Li Chengqian said.

After hearing this, the two people outside the big tent immediately went in and saluted to Li Chengqian, saying, "I am wearing armor and it is inconvenient to perform the formal ceremony. Please forgive me, Your Highness."

"It's okay. How was the pursuit of Bazhuo this time?" Li Chengqian asked.

He glanced at the thing in Xue Wanche's hand, which was wrapped in a piece of rough cloth and exuded a strange smell.

It should be the head of Bazhuo. Bazhuo was also pitiful. If he had surrendered directly instead of running away, he would not have ended up with his head and body separated and his body not intact.

"Your Highness! The bandit leader Bazhuo was killed by the chieftain of the Uighur tribe, Yaoluoge Tumidu, who was willing to lead the Uighur tribe to submit to the Tang Dynasty." Xue Wanche said, pushing the head in his hand forward and said, "This is Bazhuo's head, please have a look, Your Highness."

A pungent smell came, with a faint smell of blood. Li Chengqian pinched his nose and said, "Wanche, you did a good job! I won't look at the head, you can deal with it yourself!"

"Yes!" Xue Wanche took back Bazhuo's head and responded.

"Your Highness! What should we do next? Should we continue to send troops to Mobei and wipe out the remnants of Xueyantuo in one fell swoop?" Cheng Wuting asked.

He didn't make much contribution in this pursuit of Bazhuo, so he thought of simply killing Xueyantuo in their lair and completely destroying their manpower, so that Xueyantuo couldn't revive.

It would be great if he could also make achievements at the same time.

Li Chengqian didn't agree and directly refused, "No need! We will return to Wantong City, and what happens next has nothing to do with us."

With the death of Bazhuo, the Xueyantuo tribe was greatly weakened. How could other tribes miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity?

Especially the Uighur tribe, which had always wanted to replace the Xueyantuo tribe and become the leader, would not let the Xueyantuo tribe go easily.

Mobei must be in a mess now, and Li Chengqian felt that they really didn't need to go to the Hunshui River.

Instead of going to Hunshui, it is better to go back and wait for the Uighurs and other tribes to send gifts and beg for submission to the Tang Dynasty.

"Although we will not go deeper, I still decided to send someone to the frontier to check the situation just in case." Li Chengqian said.

Although Bazhuo was dead and Xueyantuo was seriously injured, they still have the possibility of revival, so they must be completely eradicated.

"Who does your highness plan to send?" Xue Wanche asked, he planned to recommend himself.

But Li Chengqian already had a candidate in mind, so he naturally would not appoint Xue Wanche to go to the frontier.

The finishing work outside the frontier must naturally be sent to the direct line of the East Palace.

"Leave this matter to Wang Fangyi!" Li Chengqian said.

"Fang Yi stays, the rest of you leave!"

"Yes!" Everyone took the order and left. They knew that the prince wanted to tell Wang Fangyi something secretly, and they shouldn't hear it.

"This time you go to the frontier, you must act according to circumstances and be careful. I will let Bo Cheng cooperate with you. There are people from the Jinyiwei outside the frontier." "When you

go to the frontier, you will recruit the nine surnames of Tiele in the name of the court and station them at Yu Dujun Mountain. In order to be on the safe side, I will allocate 10,000 soldiers and horses for you to take to the frontier together." Li Chengqian said.

"I obey your command!" Wang Fangyi said.

He did not completely obey Li Chengqian's words. Wang Fangyi did not recruit the nine surnames in the name of the court, but in the name of the prince who supervised the country.

Then he stationed his troops at Yu Dujun Mountain, ready to attack at any time, vowing to completely solve the Xueyantuo problem before His Majesty Li II returned.

Let those scoundrels who intend to challenge the authority of the Tang Dynasty see this is the end.

"Then you set off immediately. This is a fish token for mobilizing 10,000 troops." Li Chengqian handed a fish token to Wang Fangyi.

Wang Fangyi stretched out his hands, respectfully took the fish token and said, "I'm leaving!"

Wang Fangyi left with 10,000 troops and went to Mobei.

Li Chengqian sent a letter to Long Zhi by flying pigeons, asking him to assist Wang Fangyi to completely solve the remaining problems of Xueyantuo.

That day, Li Chengqian led the army back to Wantong City in Xiazhou.

Soon after returning to Wantong City, Li Chengqian was escorted back to Chang'an by three generals, Song Junming, Ashina She'er, and Xue Guwu.

Once Li Chengqian left Chang'an, he had been gone for more than half a year. If it weren't for the ministers such as Fang Xuanling and Gao Shilian in Chang'an,

Chang'an might have been in chaos.

Meanwhile, a fierce battle was going on in Mobei, where the tribes divided their forces to attack the Xueyantuo tribe, which suffered heavy losses.

Finally, the 70,000 Xueyantuo tribesmen, who were leaderless, gathered together and decided to jointly nominate Dumozhi, the nephew of the former Khan Yinan, as their new leader.

With the support of his tribe, Dumozhi sat on the Khan's throne, which he had never dared to imagine.

Not long after Wang Fangyi stationed his troops at Yu Dujun Mountain, a chieftain named Tizhen Daguan of the Xueyantuo tribe led his people to submit to the Tang Dynasty.

Wang Fangyi ordered his people to properly arrange his people, and invited Tizhen Daguan to ask him about the internal situation of the Xueyantuo. Tizhen

Daguan told Wang Fangyi that although Dumozhi was supported as the new Khan within the Xueyantuo tribe, his prestige was not enough.

If Dumozhi was not the nephew of the former Khan Yinan and the last bloodline of the Xueyantuo royal family, it would not have been his turn to become Khan.

Tizhen Daguan told Wang Fangyi that Dumozhi could be won over. Although he had no prestige, he still had the blood of the Xueyantuo royal family flowing in his body, and many tribesmen would still recognize him in their hearts.

In this way, some of the Xueyantuo people will follow Dumozhi, the new Xueyantuo Khan.

As long as Dumozhi surrenders, a large part of Xueyantuo's power can be solved. If

the rest are disobedient, there is no need to be polite to him, just send troops to suppress them.

Wang Fangyi asked Longzhi to comfort Dumozhi. After Longzhi's eloquence, Dumozhi finally agreed to submit to the Tang Dynasty.

Just after Dumozhi came to Yu Dujun Mountain to surrender to Wang Fangyi and led his troops to submit to the Tang Dynasty, Wang Fangyi ordered the foreign soldiers to attack the remaining Xueyantuo who were trying to get away with it.

In this battle, the Tang army won a great victory, beheaded more than 5,000 people, and captured more than 30,000 people. Dumozhi, the last Khan of Xueyantuo, was sent to Chang'an by Wang Fangyi.

Xueyantuo was officially extinct.

Wang Fangyi stayed in Xueyantuo's old place for two months. Seeing that everything was going smoothly and no one would rebel, he returned to the court.

Since returning to Chang'an, Li Chengqian has been much more honest and no longer wandered around. After

all, His Majesty Li II was about to return, and the prince dared not be so presumptuous, lest the emperor be angry, so the prince settled down.

After a long time, His Majesty Li II finally returned to Chang'an in September this year.

On the way back, someone had already reported to His Majesty Li II about the recent situation of Xueyantuo, and he had a clear understanding of what the prince had done during this period.