"How useless. Even if it's an evil ghost eating people, you're so scared that you can't even speak clearly." Xieli pulled out his waist knife. He was obviously furious and wanted to hack someone.
"Khan, I didn't say anything wrong." The scout was so terrified that tears and snot flowed down his face. He kowtowed again and again. "That Tang soldier directly tied up that evil spirit with chains and dragged it away. Then, he ate it. The two of us saw it with our own eyes."
"That's right, Khan, the two of us really wanted to see it with our own eyes!" The other scout also wailed.
"Enough! You're spouting nonsense! Preposterous! " A hint of baleful aura appeared on Xieli's face. He walked up and directly hacked these two people to death with one strike each.
Before they died, the two of them were still wailing.
They kept saying that the Tang soldier ate ghosts.
This made Xieli even more irritated. Although he could not believe such a ridiculous thing, he could not help but feel terrified.
It was mainly because of that evil ghost.
The people of the grassland had their own faith, and that was Longevity Heaven.
Therefore, they respected ghosts and gods even more.
The wails and howls last night had scared Xieli half to death.
Longevity Heaven above, he could not stay in this place any longer.
"Men, invite King Sui, Empress Xiao, and my wife," he shouted.
However, only his wife came in the end.
She was the Sui Dynasty's Princess Yicheng.
Princess Yicheng was the daughter of the Sui Dynasty's imperial family. She was already over 40 years old, but she was still charming. Most importantly, she did not have much of the color of the Central Plains. Instead, she was filled with the ruthlessness of the Turks.
After all, since she married Qiming Khan in her teens, she had married four Turk Khans. From father to son, from elder brother to younger brother … She had stayed in the Turks for 30 years.
At this moment, Princess Yicheng's face was filled with ruthlessness.
"Khan, Empress Xiao and King Sui's room is empty."
"What?" Xieli was shocked.
"My sister-in-law probably saw that the situation was not good and left." Princess Yicheng clenched her fists and even cursed, "Such a cowardly person is not worthy of being the Empress of Great Sui. However, she should not have taken King Sui with her!"
"Preposterous!" Xieli was similarly furious to the extreme.
The Turkic Khaganate had protected Empress Xiao and King of Sui for more than ten years without showing any disrespect. They had even handed the vow to King of Sui.
But now, Empress Xiao had left without a sound?
But in this situation, he had no time to be angry.
"Madam, please do not be angry. The most important thing right now is for us to leave first." Xieli comforted her. He trusted this princess of the Sui Dynasty very much.
He had even been advised by this lady to attack the Great Tang several times.
The Eastern Turks were only able to survive because of the Sui Dynasty, so they naturally should be loyal to the Sui Dynasty.
The Great Tang, on the other hand, was nothing more than a traitor.
Even now, Princess Yi Cheng still thought the same.
In fact, she was also the one who begged the Khan to borrow the strength of the Turkic army to bring Empress Xiao and Yang Zhengdao, who were trapped in the hands of Dou Jiande, to the Turkic Empire. She also made Yang Zhengdao the King of Sui. It could be said that she did her best for the Sui Dynasty and loved it deeply.
But it was because of this.
Empress Xiao's departure without saying goodbye made her so angry. Looking around, other than her, no one in the huge Sui Dynasty cared about it.
Even Empress Xiao and King of Sui had been easily abandoned.
This anger was the anger of someone who loved being betrayed.
"Since you want to leave, then don't retreat." Princess Yi Cheng sternly said. "If you retreat, without the vow, you will only be pushed back by the Tang traitors. Why don't you go all out and fight back. While they are unprepared, you can seize Bingzhou."
"This …"
Xieli thought for a while and was somewhat tempted.
Although the Tang army had come with great momentum, it was precisely because of this that retreating was not much better than advancing.
But at this moment …
A commotion came from outside the door.
Xieli immediately became angry.
What was going on today?
Did they really think that he, the Khan, had no dignity at all?
"Who is making a ruckus?" Xieli rushed out with his saber. Then, he saw a large number of Turkic soldiers retreating in panic. Several of them even stumbled over, their faces filled with fear.
"It's the Tang! It's the Tang! "
"The Tang? How many are there? "Xieli was startled.
Had the Tang already come knocking on their door?
"Khan, there are only a dozen or so," the Turkic cried out. He was already terrified to the extreme.
"A dozen or so? What are you afraid of?! "
Xieli's face turned pale as he roared with all his might.
What was going on today?
Since the appearance of the evil ghost last night, everything had been strange.
It made one's mind in a mess.
"Khan, there are ghosts around that Tang!" the Turkic shouted again, tears and snot flowing down his face.
"Ghosts?" Xieli's pupils abruptly contracted. An unprecedented chill suddenly surged up. His mind uncontrollably recalled the words of those two people from before.
The Tang had eaten the evil ghost!
At first, he did not believe it at all.
But now, could it be that those Tang who had eaten the evil ghost were right in front of him?
Xieli could not help but take two steps back and shout, "No, impossible!"
All of a sudden.
A shrill howl suddenly resounded. It seemed to go straight into one's bones and was extremely frightening. There was also a bone-chilling coldness surging up with this shrill howl, causing one to shiver uncontrollably.
It was the same as the ghostly howl that had come from Xieyang Ridge last night!
But even more frightening was …
This ghostly howl was no longer coming from Xieyang Ridge.
It was coming from not far away!
These Turkic warriors who should have been brave and fearless of death were now rolling and crawling, tears and snot flowing down their faces as they shouted for the blessings of the heavens. They were clearly terrified to the extreme.
But at this time, Xieli could no longer berate them.
Because he was also terrified.
His entire body was trembling.
Ghosts. The evil ghost that had devoured nearly two hundred of his Turkic warriors had now come to the city, to him.
Xieli's mind could not help but recall the miserable scenes that those scouts had described.
Their flesh and blood were being devoured bit by bit. They howled in pain and turned into dried corpses.
"No, no!" Xieli retreated again.
"Panicking like this, where are your manners!" On the other hand, Princess Yicheng stepped forward. Although her face was also ghastly pale, she was even more ruthless. She pulled out a long saber from the waist of a guard at her side and harshly shouted, "Anyone who retreats will be killed without mercy!"
Although women had a low status among the Turks.
She had still been the Khagan's woman for thirty years.
The Khans had changed one after another, but she had always been there.
Now that she had harshly shouted, quite a few people actually felt fear and stopped fleeing.
But at this moment …
A voice came from the distance.
"As expected of Princess Yicheng."
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