The more than a thousand Tang troops who were surrounded put up a defensive formation. Tian Liuan squinted his eyes and looked at the back of Li Shan who was gradually retreating, feeling anxious.
Liu Jun, who was full of hope, whispered: "The King of Huaiyang once said that this person is observant of details and has quick talents. He will definitely be able to..."
The words suddenly stopped in the middle of the sentence. Liu Jun could only huff and almost raised his hands to cover his face.
There were more than a thousand Tang troops and more than ten thousand Turks. In full view of the crowd, Li Shan was riding on a white horse. His body was a little crooked, and he accidentally fell off the horse.
At first, Su Dingfang thought it was the Turkic soldiers who fired arrows...but then he saw Li Shan rolling on the ground and quickly getting up, trying to climb on the horse's back in an extremely ugly posture.
But now that Guo Pu and Su Dingfang were not around, Li Shan tried twice but failed to climb up. The inner thighs were still burning.
In the end, Li Shan was dumbfounded as he watched the white horse neigh and run away!
The two armies faced off, life and death, and the tense atmosphere suddenly disappeared without a trace. Tens of thousands of pairs of eyes were watching, watching Li Shan run wildly with outstretched hands to chase the white horse that was running faster and faster.
When Li Shan and Zhou Zhao rode a horse together in front of the Turkic formation, they couldn't help laughing when they saw many Turkic soldiers...
This atmosphere is conducive to negotiations... Li Shan can only persuade himself this way. If possible, he really hopes that the atmosphere will remain tense, at least he will not be so embarrassed.
But Li Shan still kept a calm mind, saluted, and quickly glanced at the Turkic man in the front. This man was standing under the banner, and he should be the leader of the Turks. He looked very young, and although he was full of beard, he was only in his twenties. Many years old.
Zhou Zhao on the side looked at Li Shan with admiration, not knowing whether to admire his calmness in the face of danger or his thickness of face.
The Turkic leader looked at the leather hat and scimitar that were presented, nodded slightly, and said a few words.
Zhou Zhao listened carefully and translated in a low voice, "Hand over that person and let him go."
"The people are in Guantao City." Li Shan said simply: "They want to go first into the city."
Several Turkic generals chattered a lot. Li Shan looked sideways, and Zhou Zhao shook his head, "I'm scolding you, do you want to listen?"
"No."
The Turkic leader raised his hand, and the noise suddenly disappeared, and he pointed at Li Shan.
"Ask who you are."
Li Shan took a step forward, cupped his hands and said, "I am Li Shan, a native of Lingnan. He moved to Zaocheng, Jizhou three years ago and makes a living by practicing medicine. Ten days ago, he was taken south by the Tang army."
This time there was no need for Zhou Zhao to translate. A middle-aged general walked up to the Turkic leader and translated in a low voice. His clothes and hair bun showed that he was a Han.
The reason why I chose this identity is very simple... sea merchants do not dare to kill monks, and grassland tribes do not want to kill doctors.
The middle-aged general smiled and said, "Since you are a doctor, do you recognize Zhang Jixing, a famous doctor in Zaocheng?"
Li Shan looked solemn and said, "My teacher is Qi Jixing, a famous doctor in Zaocheng."
The middle-aged general looked relieved, and Zhou Zhao secretly cursed... Then you don't accept Qi Jixing's apprenticeship, and you insist on being a disciple? !
The Turkic leader looked at Li Shan with squinted eyes, suddenly whispered a few words, and waved his hand to have the two injured people carried out.
Li Shan was also speechless. We are here to negotiate. Why are you staring at me?
While everyone was looking at the injured, Li Shan also took a look at the Turkic leader. He was in his twenties. Although he was dressed in typical Turkic clothing, a closer look revealed that he did not have the temperament of an ordinary arrogant prairie man.
Zhou Zhao vaguely guessed something... How many people can be so calm and composed in front of tens of thousands of Turkic troops?
However, Zhou Zhao no longer cared about that. He glanced at the first injured person and his face turned pale.
It was the prisoner who was interrogated by him and had a soldier chop him before leaving...
Li Shan naturally discovered it too. He coughed twice, took off the baggage from the white horse that was brought back by the Turks, and took out the dagger, cloth strips, medicinal powder and other items from it. He shook the wine glass again, and there was still some left.
The injured person obviously also noticed it. Aren't these the two people who interrogated him?
Lying on the ground, his body was twitching. The wounded man stared at Li Shan with his eyes fixed on him. He tried hard to raise his right hand and blood foam appeared at the corner of his mouth.
Li Shan smiled gently at the Turkic leader, squatted down, and used a dagger to cut open the wound on the injured man's chest. He tilted his hand slightly... I'm sorry, I cut the artery.
Zhou Zhao's face is getting paler. You really dare to take action. Are you really not afraid of death?
"It's good to have some blood..." Li Shan probed his neck. Well, it must be hopeless.
The middle-aged general scolded: "Are you really a doctor?"
Li Shan said nothing and quickly moved to the second injured person. This was an unlucky guy who was stabbed in the ribs and hit by an arrow in the shoulder.
This time, Li Shanyun's knife was flying like flying. He first cut open the flesh with extremely fast techniques, took out the arrow, took out a small amount of wine, washed it, applied medicine to bandage, and then treated the rib injury... As long as the main organs were not injured, it would be difficult to treat. Not big.
"He is really a doctor." The middle-aged general who stepped forward to check muttered a few words, "Why did Tang Jun take you?"
"There was a Turkic...Turkic nobleman in the Tang army. He was injured, so he kidnapped me." Li Shan spread his hands, "Just now, the leader of the Tang army gave me the leather hat and asked me to send a message..."
"Then who is this person?"
Li Shan shook his head blankly, "I don't know him."
Zhou Zhao cursed in his heart, "In Zhou Zhao, a native of Bozhou, settled in Guantao. Because he was good at arithmetic, he was recruited by the Tang army. Because he knew some Turkic language, he accompanied the doctor here."
The middle-aged general turned around and asked a few questions, then turned around and asked Li Shan what the young Turk looked like, how injured he was, etc.
"The army retreated thirty miles, and you and others entered the city and handed over the people."
Zhou Zhao felt relieved, but Li Shan rubbed his hands in embarrassment, "This general, I can't make the decision. As for the Tang Army..."
"Um?"
"They want to replace...General, I'm just passing on the message, don't express your anger." Li Shan said with a bitter face: "They said they wanted...to..."
"Replace?" The middle-aged general sneered, "Who should I replace?"
Zhou Zhao was already furious. Isn't it enough to retreat thirty miles before surrendering?
Do you have to make your own decisions to add drama?
Li Shanyi lowered his head and murmured: "They want to replace Liu...er, King Dong of Han."
Zhou Zhao was speechless. When did you, Li Shan, become so naive?
Exchange a Turkic nobleman for Liu Heita?
Even if the Turks were willing, Liu Heita would not!
It is said that Liu Heita is a dog raised by the Turks...but he is already making dog meat hot pot. Do you think that because you raised him, he will not dare to bite you?
Without saying a word, the middle-aged general drew his sword and slashed at him. What a joke!
"Cang!"
With a crisp sound, a Turkic general drew his sword and separated the middle-aged general's sword. Li Shan was determined.
This proved that his inference was correct. The identity of the Turkic young man must be very, very extraordinary... To be able to send tens of thousands of Turkic soldiers south across Beizhou and kill Weizhou to rob people, he must have an extraordinary identity. You must know that Liu Heitai I definitely don’t want to see this scene.
Proposing Liu Heitao was just a test, and of course, it was also to pave the way for the next step... The request to exchange Liu Heitao may be too much, so why not change it to a head office that is not too much?
Li Shan was wondering whether Huaiyang King Li Daoxuan was killed in battle or captured... It seemed inappropriate for him as a doctor to ask this question.
But at this time, the Turkic leader suddenly raised his hand, and the middle-aged general walked away angrily.
"This person is Liu Shishan, brother of King Dong of Han Dynasty."
Li Shan snorted, "Why the hell do you speak Chinese... You were just pretending, you were acting like the same thing!"
The Turkic leader walked over, "Of course the King of Han Dong can't do it. What they want is... no, what you want is the King of Huaiyang."
Li Shan took a deep breath, looked up, and his eyes met the Turkic leader.
After a moment of silence, Li Shan said softly: "I am indeed a doctor..."
"You dare to make the decision without permission?" The Turkic leader chuckled, "Your Excellency is so elegant and speaks and behaves like a family. It is hard to believe that you are just a doctor."
Li Shan felt a little regretful. He noticed the other party's thoughts and felt that the Turkic young man was a rare commodity, so he temporarily proposed the conditions for exchanging hostages... Unexpectedly, he revealed his secret.
The Turkic leader opposite had an extraordinary temperament before when he only spoke Turkic. But when he switched to Chinese, he showed an extraordinary demeanor, and he was also meticulous and observant... he was by no means an ordinary general.
Li Shan wondered in his mind whether it might be the Tuli Khan who later participated in the Weishui Alliance.
"It's settled." The Turkic leader said loudly: "Retreat fifty miles. After an hour, the three hundred cavalry will be replaced by the King of Huaiyang."
"good."
Li Shan's first reaction was not that Li Daoxuan was really not dead, but that for an hour... this proved that the Turks actually took Li Daoxuan with them in the army.
The Turkic army went south, from Jizhou to Xingzhou, then into Beizhou and Weizhou, and actually took Li Daoxuan with them...
It should be the night attack that night, or the clues exposed in the attack in Wucheng County... Maybe the other party also inquired about the manors and villages along the way, so they took Li Daoxuan with them. If they failed to snatch anyone, they would exchange the hostages with Li Daoxuan.
In fact, this was just because Li Shan didn't know about it.
The relationship between the Turks and Li Tang was quite complicated. In the early stage, Li Yuan raised troops, showed kindness to the Turks and gave them jewelry.
After Li Tang established the country, Turkic soldiers often went south to plunder, and supported Liu Wuzhou, Yuan Junzhang, and Liu Heita behind the scenes.
War or peace happened almost once or twice a year, so Turk and Li Tang often exchanged hostages. This process... both sides were very familiar with it.
In the fourth year of Wude, Jieli Khan led his troops to attack Yanmen to no avail, and detained the Tang Dynasty envoy Hanyang Gong Su Gui, Taichang Qing Zheng Yuanxuan, and Zuo Xiaowei General Sun Shunde.
The Tang Dynasty also detained a considerable number of envoys such as Turk Tel Rehan, and finally made peace and exchanged hostages.
Jieli Khan presented isinglass as a gift, saying it was used to cement the reconciliation between the two countries, and Li Yuan also gave him a generous gift.
Therefore, Li Shan felt it was a bit strange, but for the Turkic leader, it was just a normal operation.
After giving the order, the Turkic soldiers rolled back to the north. The Turkic leader stared at the two cavalry slowly heading south in the opposite direction, and sighed: "The army is calm and composed. The Central Plains is really full of outstanding people and talented people."
As soon as he finished speaking, the Turkic leader realized that he had said his praise too early... The unlucky Li Shan fell down again.
He obviously doesn't know how to ride a horse, so how can he be calm and composed!
