Sure enough, the skin and flesh on his left arm were gone. A large piece of white bone was exposed as if it had been gnawed by something.
He vaguely remembered that he did not have anything to defend himself against the powerful blast of air just now, so he subconsciously raised his left arm. That was what he got in return. The pain was unbearable.
He subconsciously touched his side and a piece of cloth appeared in his hand. He clenched his teeth and pulled with his right arm, but the cloth did not move at all. He had no choice but to use more strength. Although he was injured, the grassland men had always been brave. This problem did not stop him. The cloth was slowly pulled apart, and an ear-piercing sound was heard. If it was under normal circumstances, he might have found it pleasant to hear. After all, he had once pulled the clothes of a Han woman like this. But now, he felt that it was ear-piercing. The cloth was finally pulled apart.
He tried hard to open his burned eyes, trying to find his injured left arm.
However, all he saw was a gray sky. Around him were minced meat, corpses, wood chips, fire, and so on. The smell of death flowed into his body through the tip of his nose.
The unpleasant smell made him cough twice. However, these two coughs caused him to cough up blood and foam.
He could not care less. He turned his head and bit the cloth. His right arm was twisted back and forth. Waves of pain came and he kept howling. Finally, after twisting for a long time, he was done.
He clenched his teeth and tried to sit up with his right hand on the ground.
However, waves of pain came from his abdomen, making him feel as if he was being torn apart.
In the end, he gave up. He could only lie down and glance at the surroundings.
With just one glance, he saw death, blood, and sacrifice.
The whole camp was razed to the ground. Fire, burning tents, and minced meat were everywhere. He felt a little nauseous.
However, there was nothing in his stomach. He could not vomit, so he could only dry heave.
Waves of wailing came from not far away. It sounded like the screams of ghosts from hell, but also like the cries of people who were about to die.
The whole Sheng Prefecture was shrouded in panic.
At this moment, the neighs of war horses came.
Tuli turned his head and glanced in the direction of the sound.
He saw a group of people rushing over. They were the people of various Turkic tribes.
"Khan …"
"Little Khan …"
The people who came kept shouting.
It was as if Tuli heard his savior. With great difficulty, he raised his right arm to signal for help.
Those sharp-eyed men and horses quickly realized what was going on. They hastily stepped forward to support Tuli.
"Little Khan, how are you?"
The one who spoke was a big man with a full beard. Tuli had an impression of this man; he was his subordinate.
Although he was his subordinate, he could not say anything at all. He could only point into the distance. The place he was pointing at was the grassland.
This big man was quite smart. He immediately understood Tuli's intention and said, "Little Khan, do you mean to return to the prairie immediately?"
Tuli still didn't say anything. Instead, he nodded slightly in response.
The burly man nodded in response. Then, he glanced at the crowd and shouted, "Get a group of people to make a stretcher and escort Little Khan back to the grasslands. The rest of you, follow me to find Khan."
After saying that, he carefully placed Tuli on the ground. After giving him a meaningful glance, he turned around and left.
However, from beginning to end, Tuli's arm did not lower, as if he still had something to say, but that big man had already disappeared.
A moment later, that big man found Xieli in the same way. Surprisingly, Xieli and Tuli said the same thing. They also wanted to return to the grasslands.
Therefore, the uninjured Turkic soldiers made several stretchers and escorted Xieli and Tuli back to the grasslands.
At the same time, in Shengzhou City.
Ever since Jin Sheng, the provincial governor of Shengzhou, received the news that the Turkic people were coming to the Tang Dynasty to plunder, he had been training his troops every day.
He knew that he was no match for the Turkic people. Therefore, while training, he asked the imperial court for reinforcements.
However, something strange happened.
The war had not started yet, but the Turkic people had already started fighting among themselves?
To be more precise, the heavenly thunder struck over the Turkic people and a fire broke out overnight. Did they withdraw their troops overnight?
Not a single soldier was left behind. This made Jin Sheng a little confused.
Why would the heavenly thunder strike where the Turkic people were stationed without any reason?
Taking a step back, even if there was a heavenly thunder, why didn't these Turkic people know to avoid it?
Moreover, the Turkic people claimed to have 200,000 troops this time. No matter how powerful the heavenly thunder was, it was impossible to annihilate 200,000 troops overnight.
Strange.
Judging from these signs, some of them were strange.
They had no reason to give up going south.
Did the Turkic people not plan to plunder anymore?
That was impossible.
Based on his years of experience in guarding Shengzhou, this was simply impossible.
First of all, the Turkic people would run out of food in winter. Half of their cattle and sheep would be killed or injured. Moreover, the Turkic people lived by herding. Without cattle and sheep, what would they eat?
Moreover, the Turkic people and the Tang Dynasty had always been enemies. Going south to plunder seemed to be engraved in their bones and had become a tradition. They would do it every year. It was even more impossible to cancel it this year.
All these were true. Could it be that the Turkic people were plotting something?
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