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Chapter 226 Forming the Qiang Army

As one hundred explosive packs were thrown into the Yeli clan's village by a catapult, the door of the Yeli clan's village opened without any attack, and Yeli Xiongfei and his confidants walked out of the village to surrender.

Li Chengqian sat on the throne on the platform and watched Ye Lixiong flying with his dark and strong upper body, carrying a bundle of thorns on his back, kneeling on the ground and shaking slightly.

I couldn't help but think of Li Shimin's evaluation of these people: barbarians and beasts are afraid of power but not virtue.

Then, Li Chengqian turned his head and looked at the Qiang tribe leaders kneeling on the side with expressionless expression, and said to Liu Kui: "Ask him why he betrayed the Tang Dynasty?"

Liu Kui knew at this time when he was showing off his might and when he was pretending to be honest. When he looked at Li Chengqian's eyes, he knew that this was already a dead person.

So Liu Kui walked forward a few times, looked at Yelixiong, and said in a long voice: "Yelixiongfei, Your Highness the Prince asked you why you collude with rebellion?"

"I am confused and offended the power of heaven for a moment and do not redeem it. I ask His Highness the Crown Prince to punish him, wuwu...wuwu"

Norio flew and actually lay on the ground and cried bitterly and never looked up again.

Li Chengqian looked at a big and thick man who was performing and cried bitterly. He felt disgusted. He raised his hand to point Nori Xiongfei and his confidant behind him and said coldly: "First fight for forty military sticks and leave them to Wang Qun for careful interrogation."

"Your Highness the Crown Prince, please spare me!"

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"Smack it..."

Amid the shouts of Yelixiongfei and his confidants, Lu Hong walked forward with a team of guards wearing bright light armor and drove the people not far away to fight military sticks.

Here, Li Chengqian reached out and pointed to the Qiang leader who was kneeling beside him and said, "Xuan them come forward!"

Liu Kui turned around and looked at the Qiang leader, and said in a long voice: "Your Highness the Prince announced you to meet Jin."

The Qiang leader had not recovered from shock just now, but his face was still pale. He heard that he didn't even dare to climb to the ground and knelt towards Li Chengqian in front of him.

"Bang bang..."

“Ahhh…”

The sound of Noritsuki and his confidant being beaten was heard from a distance.

The leader of the Fei Ting family, Fei Ting Gu Yue, was frightened and forgot to lead everyone to kowtow to Li Chengqian.

After a while, I suddenly felt someone on my head looking at me. When I looked up, I saw that the handsome Prince was staring at me and others without expression.

He hurriedly kowtowed to Li Chengqian "bang bang" and shouted: "I will meet the prince!"

Li Chengqian waited for them to kowtow for a while before saying lightly: "No gift!"

After Liu Kui stood in front of the stage and recounted loudly, when everyone stopped, Li Chengqian looked at the leaders of the Taiwan area indifferently and said, "Da Tang is not good to you?"

Fei Ting Gu Yue was so scared that his face changed drastically when he heard this. He hurriedly kowtowed again and said loudly: "The kindness of the great deeds of the Emperor Tian Khan of the Tang Dynasty and the Prince of the Crown Prince, only those who were so heartless and cruel to the people of Yeli were ungrateful and betrayed the Tang Dynasty."

Li Chengqian's face remained unchanged and his voice was still cold, "So you are loyal to the Tang Dynasty?"

"My heart can be bright and clear to the sun and the moon..." Fei Ting Gu Yue said, lying on the ground and kowtowed again.

Seeing that it was almost done, Li Chengqian waved his hand and said to Liu Kui: "Let them watch it aside first."

Then he turned back to Qie Heli, who had been protecting him today, and said: "General Qie's punishment for the Yeli clan is in accordance with the old rules of the Lanshan tribe. However, there are nearly 30,000 people in the Yeli clan village, so if you want to kill one thousand more, the general will pick out all the people you should kill."

Even though Qi Bi Heli was born in the grassland to kill and fight, he was shocked when he heard Li Chengqian's words and was about to behead two thousand people. He thought for a while and bowed, saying, "Your Highness, the Crown Prince, Ye Li, should be punished severely when rebelling against the Tang Dynasty, but it would be useless to kill them all. It would be better to demote them all to slaves and send them to Jiannan to cut wood forever. What does the Crown Prince think?"

Li Chengqian looked at him with a cold face. Seeing that Qi Bi Heli looked solemn, he slowly said to him: "Human ambition is like the weeds on this grassland. 'The wildfire cannot be burned out, and the spring breeze will grow again.' The general is loyal to our Tang Dynasty, but he should also protect the Tie Le Chi Bi clan, right?"

Qi Bi He Li was stunned when he heard this, thinking that Li Chengqian said he was unfaithful and said hurriedly: "My heart for the Tang Dynasty can be seen in the sky!"

Li Chengqian stood up and raised his hand and gently stroked his shoulder and said, "The general misunderstood. The Lone King did not doubt the general's loyalty. He just thought that the competition between the north and south of the desert was almost a fixed number. The general did not want to lay the foundation for the Tiel clan's long-lasting prosperity?"

Qi Xin He Lijiu naturally understood some of China's history in Chang'an, and knew that China had inherited the world from Pangu to the present, while the grasslands were transformed like flowing waters in various tribes.

As the Khan of the Tiel clan, he certainly wanted to lay the foundation for the Tiel clan's long-lasting prosperity. Looking at Li Chengqian, he couldn't help but say with hope: "Crown Prince has a good law and a minister?"

Li Chengqian nodded lightly after hearing this, saying, "Although China has changed from thousands of years of rise and fall, it has never been cut off. Why don't the general be loyal to the Tang Dynasty lead the Tielle clan to completely join our Tang Dynasty?"

When Qibi Heli heard this, he was right. If the powerful Tieler clan of the Tang Dynasty joined the Tang Dynasty, even if it could not maintain a thousand-year-old prosperity, it could also ensure a hundred-year prosperity.

At this time, other ethnic groups except China do not have stupid ideas such as preferring to be a phoenix tail, or protecting traditional national culture.

"Qi Bi He Li was busy with Taoist ministers, so I was determined to help the great battle to destroy Xue Yantuo..."

Li Chengqian nodded with satisfaction and sighed again: "But even if Xue Yantuo is destroyed, the remaining Turkic tribes will easily let you into the south of the desert?"

These Qiang tribe leaders who are lip service will also make things difficult for you on your way to Chang'an to exchange food with cattle and sheep."

When Qi Bi Heli heard this, a fierce light flashed in his eyes, but when he saw the Qiang people thinking that Li Chengqian might have killed all these, he was also frightened and hesitantly said, "But Your Highness killed all these people..."

Li Chengqian shook his head and smiled when he heard this, "The general misunderstood that the Lone King is not a bloodthirsty person. He has been born in ten years and has been educated for ten years, and only a new generation will be replaced by an old person. Twenty years later, people here will think that they are born from the Tang Dynasty. The Lone King just wants to clean up the people who may jump out of destruction in the past twenty years."

Qi Bi Heli thought about it and said solemnly: "Your Highness the Crown Prince is far-sighted, and I am very impressed by it. I will do what Your Highness said."

Li Chengqian looked at Qi Bi Heli turning to Yeli's troops to select the target of tomorrow's beheading, and then drove back to the military camp of the Tang Dynasty.

On the afternoon of the same day, Wang Qun interrogated Yeli Xiongfei and his confidant, and Qiheli selected all the men who had some prestige or strongness among the Yeli surrendered people.

Except for Su Dingfang, the other generals led their troops to stay in the Yeli village, Yuchi Gong led his troops to patrol nearby. Xue Rengui, Wang Fangyi, and Cheng Wuting all followed Li Chengqian to prepare a set of regulations for training the new army in the Tang army's camp.

When the Qiang leader went back and discussed, he thought Li Chengqian ordered them to come just to let them see the power of the Tang army, so he ignored them.

I felt relieved, but I also secretly warned myself: The Tang Dynasty had the magical art of thunder and thunder, and I would never be able to be disobedient from now on.

But on the second day, they saw with their own eyes that Qibing Heli lined up to behead the young and strong Yeli family selected yesterday, and their fear was like the weeds on the grassland growing wildly.

After beheading two thousand people, Li Chengqian summoned the Qiang leader to the front in front of rows of neatly lodged corpses.

Seeing the Qiang leader kneeling on the ground and not daring to get up, Li Chengqian smiled and said, "Don't be afraid, the Lone King is just a bit stricter to the rebellious ministers, and is still very tolerant to loyal ministers like you, the Tang Dynasty."

Fei Ting Gu Yue and others were extremely scared when they saw Li Chengqian's smiling appearance, and a smile even worse than crying appeared on their faces: "Your Highness's benevolent ministers and others know very well that they... I swear to be loyal to the Tang Dynasty."

Li Chengqian smiled and nodded and said, "Since you are truly loyal to the Tang Dynasty, now Liu Lan colludes with the Yeli clan and the Pochao clan to cause trouble, should you do some effort?"

"Fei heard Gu Yue's words and said loudly without thinking: "I am willing to let the Crown Prince give orders!"

The others hurriedly followed, "I will let His Highness the Crown Prince give me the order."

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Li Chengqian said with a righteous expression: "Okay, then I'll send someone back to summon all the young and strong tribes. The Lone King needs to train them, and then put them in the Tang army to attack Liu Lan."

The leaders were stunned when they heard this, look at me, look at you, and they all want to know what Li Chengqian wants to do.

Finally, everyone looked at Fei Ting Gu Yue, who was hesitating to say something.

But when he looked up, he saw that Li Chengqian's face had become gloomy. He knew that there was no time to consider, so he hurriedly said, "Since I am a loyal minister of the Tang Dynasty, it is my duty to help the court to combat rebellion. I would like to lead the warriors of this clan to Xiazhou to attack Liu Lan."

Li Chengqian snorted coldly when he heard this, "The Lone King is the young and strong in your tribe who doesn't need you to lead the troops. You think about it first, and then let General Qiezi tell you."

After saying that, he turned around and shook his sleeves, and sat back on the throne angrily.

Qi Bi Heli, who was imprisoned in the audience, walked to the Qiang leader after hearing this, and snorted coldly: "A group of bastards dare to make His Royal Highness angry. Don't you want the lives of the whole clan?"

Fei Ting Gu Yue heard that he was going to be bad and quickly said loudly: "I am willing to summon young and strong people from the clan to serve His Highness the Prince."

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Seeing this, Li Chengqian showed a satisfied smile on his face, and then said to Liu Kui: "Tell General Su that he should arrange a residence for them in the village of Yeli's family and do not let them meet at will.

In addition, tell Xifeng Zhu Jue that the Xifeng clan's vitality will be greatly damaged after one battle. If these people are not honest in summoning the young and strong clans to retain their vitality, the Sifeng clan will also be bullied after the Lone King returns to Chang'an."

These things that sow discord are Liu Kui's strengths. He heard this and hurriedly said in a low voice: "Your Highness, can you tell other Qiang leaders? After all, Xifeng Zhu Jue did not know the reality of all Qiang tribes."

Li Chengqian smiled and nodded and stood up and went back.

The next day, he sent someone to Xiazhou to inform Qiu Xinggong who was suppressing the rebellion in Xiazhou, and suggested that he send troops to destroy Liu Lan's peripheral assistant Pochao family's village.

Then Li Chengqian began to take charge of Baiquan County, and asked Xue Rengui and others to practice to the young and strong Qiang people one after another.

Seeing these young and strong Qiang tribes being trained to lively, Li Chengqian was very happy.

Li Chengqian had no intention of letting them return to his tribe since he forced these people to join the army. While Li Chengqian ordered people to send all the remaining members of the Yeli clan to Jiannan to cut wood, he also sent a message back to the East Palace and ordered Pei Xingjian to find a place near Chang'an where the Qiang family members could be placed.

Once their families were brought out from the original tribe, these people would be cut off from the original tribe, which greatly reduced the combat power of the Qiang tribe on this grassland and reduced a lot of trouble for the later land to transform into soil and flow back.

These Qiang soldiers will become the most loyal guards of the Eastern Palace. Even if one day Li Chengqian and Li Shimin fight, they will follow Li Chengqian.

So Li Chengqian almost pushed back everything else in the next two months, only focusing on the training of the newly recruited thousands of Qiang troops.
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