Li Ke and Di Zhixun's mission came out of Chengtian Gate, and came to Mingde Gate through Zhuque Street. Along the way, Li Ke felt the support and expectations of the people on both sides of Zhuque Street. Li Ke could see the arrogance in the bones of the Tang people that they did not allow their country to redeem the people with money. Therefore, they stood silently on both sides of the street, supporting Li Ke with firm eyes, and supporting Li Ke with their unyielding bodies. I hope Li Ke can use his actions to prove the indomitable Tang Dynasty and the honor of the Tang Dynasty.

As the deputy envoy, Di Zhixun also felt this belief in the people of Chang'an. Therefore, he remained silent and followed Li Ke quietly. He knew that Li Ke had a heavy responsibility and his own responsibilities were even more heavy.

Similarly, the guards Chen Qi, Hou Hu, Meng Shan and the fifty eagle guards, three hundred and thousands of Niu Wei, also understood the meaning in the eyes of the people of Chang'an. Therefore, each of them had a serious expression and wanted to express their determination in this way. Only Liu Er and Liu Liu, among the six Taibaos who followed Li Ke, had no change in their expressions, and followed him without looking around like two ice sculptures.

Li Shimin attached great importance to the security of Li Ke's mission to the Turks, so he sent him five hundred and thousands of cavalry soldiers to protect his safety. It can be seen that he also loved his son in all kinds of love. Generally, the missions to other countries were as many as three hundred and as few as one hundred soldiers. However, Li Ke's guards were more than twice as many as them, and these guards were Li Shimin's personal guard Qianniu Guards.

At the same time, Li Ke also valued his own safety very much. In addition to Chen Qi, he also brought Hou Hu and Mengshan, two subordinates who were called "Black-clothed Wolves" by the Black Guard and fifty Eagle Guards, Liu Er and Liu Wu, among the Six Taishang Guards. Liu Wen also remembered the names given by the Six Taishang Guards very well, and he did not forcibly arrange the difficult name Liu Liu to anyone. Therefore, when the Six Taishang Guards arrived at Liu Wu, he jumped directly to the name Liu Qi.

Yang En, Ma Zhou and others firmly asked Li Ke to bring all the six Taibaos and the double wolfs and double evil spirits. This suggestion was rejected by Li Ke. He felt that the Turks were not as dangerous as they thought, and the Turks would not cause war between the two countries to kill a prince. Therefore, he brought Hou Hu and Mengshan with mainly for the needs of intelligence. The Black Eagle Guard has now been divided into two parts. Zhu Tong and Wang Zhongchang are in the inner side, monitoring the ministers and princes who are against him in the court. The main task is to collect domestic intelligence. Hou Hu and Mengshan are external, and Li Ke asked them to infiltrate their strength in advance to Tuyuhun, Tubo and Goguryeo, which will confront the Tang Dynasty in the future. The purpose of bringing the two people with this trip is to increase their knowledge and understand the characteristics of the nomadic people in the grassland in order to better infiltrate their strength into the northern part of the world.

The team slowly left Mingde Gate, and Li Ke quickly whipped the team and accelerated the speed. The people of Suzhou in the hands of the Turks could not afford to wait.

Di Zhixun's riding skills were not bad either. Li Ke was the first to run in front of him, and he could actually follow Li Ke steadily. Li Ke looked back at Di Zhixun with a hint of admiration in his eyes. At the same time, the atmosphere of the prosperous martial arts in the Tang Dynasty made him feel a lot of emotion.

I don’t know when there was a saying, “There is a scholar who has no use for nothing.” “Scholars have no power to tie up a chicken.” Now look at the scholars of the Tang Dynasty and civil officials of the Tang Dynasty, are they still people who have no power to tie up a chicken? Although they cannot pull a three-stone hard bow, and they cannot carry guns to fight on the battlefield. However, now the civil officials of the Tang Dynasty can ride horses and shoot arrows, and scholars can be proud of practicing martial arts. This is the most precious and most valuable spirit of the Tang Dynasty. This spirit is the backbone of a nation, which has aroused the pride of the people of the Tang Dynasty. Unlike the later dynasties, scholars have no power to tie up a chicken, and have absurd words, which has lost all the faces of scholars, and finally lost the unyielding character of the Han people.

Li Ke's team rushed to the Wei River and suddenly stopped. Because there was a carriage parked by the Wei River, and a girl stood next to the carriage.

Li Ke recognized who she was from a distance. The light green dress made the woman look unique and desolate by the Wei River where the withered plants and trees are frozen in the river. It was a kind of loneliness that was independent of the world, loneliness that was insoluble in the sky, and purity that was untainted from the mud.

The woman in green was not someone else, but Hou Ruoyi. She almost fainted when she heard that Li Ke was going to go on a mission to the Turks. Following her father Hou Junji, she heard a lot about the Turks massacre of the people of the Tang Dynasty. So, she couldn't figure out why Li Ke was on the risk of serving the Turks. However, when she heard what Li Ke said in the Taiji Hall again from others, "Play our power and save my people." Although she did not understand the meaning of this sentence to Li Ke, she was still deeply attracted by Li Ke's words. She knew that she could not do anything for him, except to see her farewell to the Weishui River on the day he was on the Turks. So she came to the Weishui River early to wait for Li Ke's team.

"Your Highness." Ruoyi shouted. Li Ke today is no different from what she had seen in the past. He was wearing a black-clothed royal robe, a sable brocade cloak, and the Yuanhong sword at his waist set off his heroic power. Unlike in the past, he immediately had a silver spear, a three-stone hard bow, and a pot of military tooth arrows. Ruoyi looked at everyone again. Except for Di Zhixun, everyone had this piece of equipment, spear, sword, hard bow and tooth arrow.

"Ruoyi, why are you here?" Li Ke rode on the horse, not thinking about dismounting.

"I'll send you off to see Your Highness." Ruoyi said in a low voice, "Is Your Highness just riding on a horse and talking to Ruoyi?"

"Ruoyi, I want to hurry up. The people of Suzhou are bullied by the hands of the Turks. I don't want to waste time." Li Ke said worriedly.

"I know, I know that Your Highness is thinking about the people." Ruoyi spoke very simply this time and his voice increased a lot, "So, Your Highness, you are the great hero, the great hero in Ruoyi's heart. Ruoyi will wait for you to return triumphantly here."

Li Ke glanced at Ruoyi in a daze, sighed slightly in his heart, "Go." The fast horse galloped away with a whip.

Ruoyi looked at Li Ke's figure as he left, and his words and deeds were so arrogant and cold, just like a noble king giving his subjects, making her willing to bear such a gift. But, what was in him that attracted her to fall in love with this man? Ruoyi herself didn't know.

"Your Highness, Miss Hou is very nice to you." After passing the Wei River, Di Zhixun caught up with Li Ke and said in his ear.

"I have been worried about it too much, and the Turks have not yet been destroyed, so how can I get married?" Li Ke said lightly, "Besides, the king will not consider the matter of his children for the time being." After that, he slapped the whip and ran forward.

"Falling flowers are intentional, flowing water is ruthless." Di Zhixun finished speaking, sighed, stopped talking, and followed Li Ke tightly.

Li Ke was somewhat moved by Di Zhixun's words. He was not indifferent to Ruoyi's feelings for him. However, she was Hou Junji's daughter, and her marriage with Hou Junji would cause a lot of trouble to his way to fight for the throne. He gave up too much for the throne. What if he gave up a woman? Thinking of this, his mood suddenly became anxious. He thought of his sworn brothers. He didn't see them when he was in Xuanwu Gate today? They knew that they were on a Turkic mission, so why didn't they come to say goodbye to him?

"Third brother."

"Your Highness."

"Who is blocking the way ahead?"

Just as Li Ke was calming in his emotions, he suddenly heard different voices coming into his ears. He looked up and saw that Qianniuwei beside him was blocking his body, and the ones who were stalemate were his sworn brothers and their family generals.

"Let them come here." Li Ke said in a deep voice.

"No." Qianniuwei's captain agreed, and waved his hand to let the soldiers make way for Qin Huaiyu and others.

Li Ke saw Qin Huaiyu, Cheng Huailiang, Chai Zhewei, Li Zong and Yuchi Jun in front of him, wondering, "Are you guys?"

"The third brother is on the Turkish mission. Although he has guards, the journey is long and the murderer who assassinated you has not been found yet. How can we brothers let you take risks alone?" Chai Zhewei said in a jealous manner, "So, my elder brother, second brother, Li Zong and Xiaojun have already discussed last night and we will accompany you to the Turkish mission together."

Li Ke turned his gaze to Qin Huaiyu and Cheng Hualiang. Seeing the firm expressions in their eyes, he looked at the unyielding expressions in Li Zong and Yuchi Jun's eyes. Li Ke suddenly felt warm and could not speak. What is a brother? This is a brother. He can cry with you, laugh with you, and look down on the heroes with you.

"San brother, Xiaojun remember what you said to Xiaojun during the hunting last year. Xiaojun is now grown up and knows what he should do and what he can do." Yuchi Jun said proudly, "San brother, Xiaojun knows nothing, only has martial arts skills. From today on, let Xiaojun be a sword in the third brother's hand. As long as the third brother's military command points to, it is the place where Xiaojun looks proudly at the heroes."

"San brother, you said that you are brothers in this life and you are brothers in every life. Let Li Zong be your eternal brother and your most loyal brother. As long as the third brother has been to the place, there will be no sign of me, Li Zong." Li Zong said firmly.

After Li Zong finished speaking, Qin Huaiyu, Cheng Huailiang and Chai Zhewei also showed a strong sense of brotherhood in his eyes. They surrounded Li Ke together. Then they stretched out their right hands to put them together. Their eyes were on Li Ke.

Li Ke was silent for a long time before he reached out, put it on it, and said loudly, "Life and die together." Then, he suddenly dismounted and shouted at Chen Qi, "Get wine."

Li Ke dismounted, Qin Huaiyu and others dismounted at the same time as him, standing beside Li Ke. Li Ke took the wine bag handed to him by Chen Qi, held it high, "Do it."

Qin Huaiyu, Cheng Huailiang, Chai Zhewei, Li Zong and Yuchi Jun raised the Eagle Guard and handed them the wine bag, "Do it."

Li Ke only took a sip, "Brother Qin, you have to take care of Uncle Qin at home; Brother Cheng, you will be in Yizhou after the New Year; Zhewei, you need to experience your own industry, and I have a lot of things to do; Brother Zong and Xiaojun, you are still young and need to exercise at home. Brothers, Li Ke is very moved, because you are my brother, my brother who is my Li Ke until death. You can go through fire and water together and live and die together. Therefore, if you still think that I, Li Ke, are your brother, just listen to me and don't go on a mission to the Turks with me. I only took one sip of the wine today, and kept the remaining two sips. When I return triumphantly, we will drink together, and we will not return without getting drunk."

"Set out." After Li Ke finished speaking, he stopped talking, turned around and disappeared from everyone's sight.

"Third brother." Li Zong shouted.

"Third brother." Yuchi Jun shouted.

When Li Ke walked away, Yuchi Jun said angrily, "Brother, why did you pull me? Why didn't you let me go with my third brother?" At the same time, Li Zong said unhappily, "Second brother, are you still my Li Zong's brother? Why are you blocking me and not letting me go with my third brother?"
Chapter completed!