Chapter 1596 Tragedy at the Border, Anger!

? Chapter 1596

"Master Hou, remember that you asked us to send people to investigate the movements of various countries, especially the withdrawal of their troops and horses?"

Zhang Que said, he hesitated to speak.

"certainly!"

Wang Chong's brows frowned even deeper, and a trace of displeasure flashed between his brows.

During the war between soldiers and Confucians, the Confucian sect agreed with other countries that the Tang Dynasty would disarm the countries together, but Wang Chong still didn't believe it, so he specially organized a well-trained and experienced team to spy on the intelligence of other countries. , At the same time, it is also to supervise whether they have truly abolished their troops in strict accordance with the agreement.

But this is not what Wang Chong cares about. Wang Chong has always been strict with his subordinates. For Zhang Que and the others, Wang Chong has already ordered them to be clean and tidy when it comes to official affairs.

"What happened, tell me!"

"Yes! My lord!"

Zhang Que was suffocated, and quickly said what he knew:

"Not long ago, I received news from the scout team. About a few days ago, when our troops were investigating the movement of the Eastern and Western Turks, they passed a border guarded by the Beiting Dufu Mansion and accidentally discovered a village. When they rushed to In the past, it was found that all 400 people in that village were slaughtered, and the whole village was burned to ashes. At the scene we found the mark of a Turkic horseshoe.”

Having said that, Zhang Que secretly glanced at Wang Chong, hesitated for a while and continued:

"In addition... our people inspected it, and the scene was horrible, and the bodies of many pregnant women and children were all burnt."

boom! Hearing these words, Wang Chong's whole body was shaken, and he raised his head abruptly, a frightening light burst out from his eyes.

"What did you say?"

"My lord, there is no accident. It should be that the Turks broke the agreement and crossed the border to fight the autumn wind."

Having said this, Zhang Que lowered his head even lower.

The room was silent, but even Zhang Que could feel that a terrifying aura was erupting from Wang Chong like a storm. Zhang Que was all too familiar with this scene,

This was the sign before Wang Chong was furious.

"Fight the autumn wind!"

Wang Chong couldn't be more familiar with these words. The Turkic people, apart from grazing, don't do production at all, so if they are rich, it's fine. However, once there is a shortage of food, they will immediately go south, killing and looting everywhere, and robbing food. .

This is called hitting the autumn wind.

In the eyes of the Turkic people, the people of the Central Plains in the south are like a huge fat sheep. Once they are hungry, they will start thinking about it. Later, no matter whether they are hungry or not, they have to search, kill and loot. .

This is also the reason why every dynasty in the Central Plains, once strong, will find a way to actively move northward to resist the Turkic peoples. This dynasty's active expansion of borders has a lot to do with this.

The Confucian School actively negotiated peace with all parties and signed a series of peace agreements. Wang Chong originally thought that even if everyone pretended to be a snake on the surface, at least there was an agreement, and nothing too extreme should happen.

But Wang Chong never expected that the Turks would do such a thing while negotiating peace with Datang.

In fact, Datang negotiated peace with all parties. On the surface, everyone withdrew their troops for hundreds of miles, and then disarmed one after another to show their sincerity. But in private, all kinds of small disputes have never stopped, and the incident of fighting autumn wind has happened in the past, but it has never developed to this point, and there have not been so many people killed or injured.

"Our people were pretty shocked when they found out."

Zhang Que lowered his head and said, his voice getting lower and lower.

The study was as silent as death, and a needle could be heard falling. An uneasy atmosphere permeated the void.

After following Wang Chong for so long, Zhang Que couldn't be more clear. What Wang Chong hated the most were those barbarians who invaded the border, and what he hated more than this was that these barbarians, after looting The people were slaughtered.

This is intolerable to any Tang general.

"Kachacha!"

A crisp sound came into his ears suddenly, Zhang Que raised his head and suddenly realized that Wang Chong's fists were clenched tightly at some point, his knuckles made a crackling sound, and even turned slightly white due to too much force.

Wang Chong raised his head slightly. Although his eyes were tightly closed, Zhang Que could feel a suffocating and terrifying aura emanating from his body.

"Check! Within three days! I want all the detailed information on this matter!"

Wang Chong said in a deep voice, every word has the power of a thousand pounds.

Following Wang Chong's order, countless carrier pigeons flew in all directions. When the youngest and fiercest god of war in Tang Dynasty got angry, the entire land world trembled.

As for the entire northern edge of the Tang Dynasty, countless cavalry swarmed out in an instant. When Wang Chong got angry, the chill could be felt even in the north seven or eight thousand miles away.

Then, one after another, a large number of news gathered from all sides, pouring into Wang Chong's mansion one after another.

As the youngest God of War in the Tang Dynasty, the King of Foreign Lands proclaimed by the Holy Emperor has gathered a huge force under Wang Chong's command, whether it is war or intelligence collection, it has reached an astonishing level.

And relying on the huge amount of compensation he received during the Khorasan battle, Wang Chong even pulled some Turkic people into his scout team.

Soon after careful investigation and various sources, including Turkic internal news, it was basically confirmed that the cavalry team that participated in the operation and wiped out the village had a total of 48 people.

After the killing, the cavalry team brought all the food stored in that village for a year, including gold and silver, back to the team.

According to intelligence, they are currently in a Turkic garrison of 8,000 people, about six or seven hundred miles away from the Beiping Protectorate.

They have tight defenses, and this incident seems to be no secret among the team of more than 8,000 people. For the behavior of this cavalry squad, the Turkic leader above did not blame him at all.

However, the Turkic people have recently increased patrols in the surrounding area, which seems to be worried about Datang's reaction.

The Turkic herdsmen on the grassland were still twenty miles away, and cavalry would come to intercept them before they approached. They were so wary of the Turkic people, let alone the Han people.

During the investigation, Wang Chong's scout team encountered great difficulties, but even so, the scout team successfully completed the task.

More and more detailed information was continuously disclosed, and the number of homing pigeons flying to the capital reached as many as sixty or seventy every day.

All kinds of trivial information were continuously collected, and the information about the 8,000-strong Turkic team became more and more perfect.

This 8,000-strong army was originally a frontier vanguard army. The Tang Dynasty and the Western Turkic Khanate had peace talks, and the two sides "disarmed". "Go down.

The 8,000-strong army left behind is stronger than the previous Turkic cavalry.

In addition, the scout team got news from a Hu businessman in the Turks that among the 8,000 people, there was also a special army of about 3,000 people.

According to spies, this 3,000-strong army seems to have been sent to the frontier by Sabolo Khan of Western Turkic for training. The reason why the Turkic cavalry squad of more than forty people was so courageous and dared to cross the border to kill people also had a lot to do with this.

A considerable part of the food and money they looted was given to the special team of 3,000 people.

Seeing these news, Wang Chong's face became more and more gloomy and ugly.

Under Wang Chong's command, from the capital to the distant Qixi, all the subordinates felt this breath, and the frequent changes made the countries that had been paying attention to Wang Chong feel faintly uneasy.

It's just that Wang Chong's work has always been strict, and even Zhang Qiu Jianqiong was kept in the dark about the picket team, and he didn't know the specific plan. The people around him are still like this, let alone the countries.

And on the tenth day of Wang Chong's operation, an unexpected news exploded in the Northland, causing huge waves.

A group of merchants who specialize in trading in various countries accidentally discovered the tragic situation in the village when they passed by the village. The news first spread among the merchants from all sides, causing great panic.

Subsequently, an uproar was caused throughout the Northland.

When this incident started, many people said that it was ground-breaking and spread rumors.

After all, the grassland was too vast, and the news was not well communicated, but no one could have imagined that a few days later, a woman appeared in the governor's mansion of the Northland to complain and beat the drums, and finally the whole Northland noticed the tragedy.

It turned out that the woman was a member of the village who was killed. She narrowly escaped death because she went home to visit her relatives before the Chinese New Year, and went back to her mother's house to get New Year's goods for the Chinese New Year. It wasn't until she came back from visiting relatives and returned to the village with dried bacon that she discovered the tragic scene.

That woman was also a martyr. More than 400 people were all slaughtered, which greatly stimulated her. The woman let her hair loose, bare hands and feet, and wore a white filial dress. She kowtowed in three steps and knelt down from the village to the governor's mansion step by step. .

When people saw her, she was already covered in thorns and blood, and there was a box on her body that contained the ashes of the villagers.

She kowtowed all the way to the governor's mansion, begging the governor's mansion in the north to uphold justice for her.

This incident caused a huge commotion throughout the north, but everyone who heard the woman's cry would cry for those who heard it.

After listening to Zhang Que's report, the whole study was silent and the atmosphere was extremely oppressive. Everyone looked at Wang Chong behind the desk and didn't dare to breathe.

"Does the Beiting Protectorate know about this matter?"

Wang Chong raised his head, and suddenly spoke for a long time.

"Should know!"

Zhang Que said cautiously.

"What did they say?"

Wang Chong continued.

"For the time being, there has been no movement in Beiting Chief Protector's Mansion, and the Chief Protector, An Sishun, has not yet set an example.

Xu Keyi on the side replied.

Everyone could feel the anger in Wang Chong's heart, and no one knew what Wang Chong would do next.

"Zhang Que, ask An Sishun for me, what is the Great Protector! What is the way to be a general! Even a small village can't be protected, and the Beiting Protectorate's Mansion has 100,000 troops. What use is he!"