Chapter 326 of the report into the capital

　　Because of Li Chengqian’s own sins, in the next nearly a month’s time, he can only take his daughter-in-law, in the East Palace of the major halls back and forth, even the Lantern Festival, he did not dare to show up, but and his daughter-in-law in the Lihua Hall to spend.

　　Although Li Chengqian is hiding in the east day, but everything that happens in the outside world he understands clearly through the Mingwei.

　　He also knows that with Li Wei’s commercial efforts and Li Shimin’s policies, the entire Great Tang is like a huge machine, running at full speed, making the Great Tang quietly change every day.

　　Especially some of the things that were passed out from the Eastern Palace were favored by countless princes and nobles and rich and powerful gentry, of course the most obsessive thing was the novelty of the clothes.

　　Now in Chang’an city, especially those noblewomen, there is nothing they like more than three things, holding a mirror produced by the Royal Workshop, wearing clothes from the Royal Dressmaking Workshop, sitting in the Royal Patisserie, ordering a favorite pastry, chatting with their girlfriends there, which has become a crowd of fashion.

　　The men, on the other hand, were more often found in groups eating all kinds of delicacies and drinking the mellow wine in the royal restaurants.

　　This kind of life has been continuously staged in Chang’an City, and therefore with the increase of demand, let the income of countless people of the bottom raw materials slowly increase.

　　However, relative to the Chang’an city are changes and good, in the northern grasslands of the Jie Li Khan days are not so good, in a few days ago, his Turkic army and Li Jing led by the army in the battle of Tietun Mountain, was Li Jing front routed, so that the Jie Li Khan direct loss of nearly one hundred thousand with armored soldiers.

　　Jie Li Khan, who thought he had the support of the Tang Dynasty, had to retreat to the grassland in the north, and gave up his ambition to continue his journey southward, and instead thought of retreating deeper into the grassland to recuperate and prepare for another war in the coming year.

　　However, the army of the Great Tang did not want to let him go just like that, as well as the nearly 200,000 Turkic iron horsemen under his command.

　　After realizing that Jie Li had escaped, Li Jing let his lieutenant Su Dingfang lead 2000 men to bite Jie Li’s army to death.

　　At the same time, Xue Rengui, who had long been attacking grassland tribes all over the eastern grasslands, had also gotten Li Jing’s order to ambush Jie Li on the road he must take to escape north, just waiting for Jie Li to arrive.

　　”No.1, do you think the marshal’s judgment could be wrong, we’ve been waiting in this shithole for three days now, and we still haven’t seen anyone come over, could they have taken a different road” No.4, who had already waited impatiently, stood behind Xue Rengui and complained loudly.

　　”Take another road, impossible, the terrain here and you do not know, in addition to this road under the mountain, the other places are no man’s land, and there is no big water source, Jie Li go there looking for death, so we just need to wait here on the line, by the way, I asked you to prepare the things ready or not” Xue Rengui looked at the distant creek to No. 4 said to.

　　”There are already brothers with laxatives to the upstream position, but this can really work, that is living water, just our little laxatives, can play a big role ah” No. 4 very puzzled to ask Xue Rengui.

　　”As long as the timing is right, when they are stationed in a drop, more or less will be a little effect, and we do not want to use this way to let all of them lose combat power, after all, they have nearly 200,000 people, OK, you go to rest first, I’ll stay here for a while” said Xue Rengui, letting No.4 go back first.

　　When No.4 left, Xue Rengui stood on top of this unknown hill, looking at the grassland that had gradually become green, his mood was very complicated.

　　From the time he received the order from Li Jing, the marshal, he had led his men on a field trip around the area, and finally chose this place as the place for this battle, he could think that after a few days, this depressed but vibrant place would be covered by a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, although there was an intolerance, he also knew that this was the mission of the soldiers, and if things went well, after this battle, the northern grassland would not have any forces that could threaten the existence of Great Tang. After this battle, if things go well, there won’t be any forces that can threaten the existence of the Great Tang, and this huge grassland will also be included in the territory of the Great Tang.

　　In this way, the time passed quietly in the long wait, a few days or not wait for the arrival of Jie Li Khan’s army.

　　This day Xue Rengui went to the front as usual to check, suddenly there was a burst of loud hoofbeats in the distance, he knew it was coming.

　　He hurriedly told people to inform down, everything according to the plan, while he continued to hide in that small mountain above to observe.

　　Sure enough, an hour later, a continuous army sailed in, stopping dozens of miles away from them to prepare to set up camp, while several pairs of cavalry scattered in all directions to scout into the distance.

　　”King, we will rest here today, wait for tomorrow in the line to catch up, when we cross here, we can divert to the Yinshan Mountain, along the way in the collection of other scattered tribes, and so on we develop again, we must let the Tang people know that we’re powerful” in a just built up the felt room, JieLi Khan’s one of the staff is sitting above to the Jie Li Khan, who was sitting on top of it, said.

　　”Alas, how many people can there be, those who fled to the clan also said that in the grassland there is a devilish army, attacking those tribes in all directions, many tribes who were unwilling to submit before have been swept away by that army, in this grassland, those who can still be assembled together, except for us, so the clansmen beyond the further north, so I decided not to go to the Yinshan Mountain, and continue to the north, I want to collect those people and also the clansmen. I want to go to collect those people, also in order to avoid those Tang army, right has been biting us that pair of Tang army solved yet” Jie Li Khan sighed after a sigh of breath, to the subordinate of the staff said to.

　　”The Tang army is still following us, the king wants me to say, why don’t we send the army to destroy them, in that they attack like this, the back of the horsemen will not be able to bear it, this Tang army, every day is not attack, is a sudden attack, no matter whether there is no result of the battle to retreat immediately, so that our warriors can’t take a good rest”. The staff looked at Jie Li and reported to him.

　　”you so say, that is really a trouble, must solve them, otherwise let them always follow is not good, these days if they still come to attack the camp, let Poltu rate 20,000 army destroyed them, and sent to Chang’an to surrender people, set off or not” Jie Li is now some of the heart exhausted to say.

　　”People have already left, just do not know the Tang emperor will not agree, the king you still do not think so much, you are a few days have not rested properly, today will rest early tomorrow to think about the next intention” Jie Li’s staff looked at the tired Jie Li, to him to persuade.

　　”Okay, this king first rest a little, this camping thing, on your more attentive, can’t make any mistakes” finished Jie Li waved his hand to let them go down.