Chapter 309 The King of Han’s Thoughts - Killing Prisoners

It was several moments since the war ended. Li Ke and Tuli were raising their glasses in the king's tent and drinking. When they saw the personal soldiers outside the door report to Tuli, saying that Su Dingfang was asking for a meeting outside the tent. Tuli ordered his personal soldiers to receive Su Dingfang from the tent. Su Dingfang came to the tent and first saluted Li Ke and Tuli, then he reported to Li Ke, "Report to Your Highness, the Turkic defeated soldiers have been rushed to the predetermined position by the last general. What should you do next? Please ask Your Highness to instruct him."

"Dingfang, this matter is not in a hurry. Today we fought against the Turks, and the Turkish spirit cavalry were scared by us. They are now trapped in the army and will definitely not make any big waves. You are also very hardworking. Let's have a meal at Tuli Erkhan first, and we will chat after the meal." Li Ke said with a smile.

"No——" Su Dingfang understood Li Ke's intentions and knew that Li Ke didn't want to discuss this issue at this time, so he refused and sat next to the desk in the big tent and started eating and drinking.

When Tuli saw Li Ke say this, he knew what Li Ke meant very well. However, he didn't blame Li Ke. After all, the current war is no longer a war between Ashina and Jie Li, but a war between the Tang Dynasty and the Turks. He has not officially surrendered to Li Shimin and surrendered to the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, he naturally understands Li Ke's actions.

"Your Highness the King of Han is indeed a brave general! I really admire Your Highness's ability to identify people and employ people!" Tuli smiled a little and said to Li Ke, "In today's battle, the generals of Your Highness the King of Han, Chen Qi and Sun Erlang, can take the heads of the army from the throne, and I really admire me. When the war is over, I must treat them with the highest etiquette of my Ashin."

"Tuli and Khan are polite. They are all soldiers of the Tang Dynasty. It is their responsibility and obligation to be able to fight for the Tang Dynasty!" Li Ke said modestly. Everyone likes to be able to be praised by his subordinates and be praised by others, and Li Ke is no exception. The fact is that Chen Qi and Sun Erlang are indeed worthy of Tuli's praise. If Chen Qi killed Zhishili today, the Turkic army would not have been defeated. If Sun Erlang had not killed Fu Zhen, the Turkic cavalry would not have been defeated so easily and fled so quickly.

"Your Highness—please!" Turi raised his glass.

"Two Sweats-please" Li Ke also raised his glass.

When Li Ke and Su Dingfang came out of Tuli's tent and returned to the Tang army's camp, Li Ke ordered Wang Zhongchang to summon all the Tang army generals to the tent to discuss matters.

Not long after Wang Zhongchang went out, he summoned all the generals to the tent.

Su Dingfang, Sun Erlang, Chen Qi, Guo Shifeng, Xu Jingzong and Meng Shan and others.

"Dingfang, please report on our army's losses today!" Li Ke said lightly.

"Your Highness, in today's battle, the Youzhou Army was responsible for the right wing defense line. Did he lose about 10,000 people? There were 30,000 troops left. On the way to pursue the defeat of the Turks, the Bingzhou Army, the Youzhou Army and the Black Guard did not lose too much, and probably only lost less than 1,000 people." Su Dingfang replied seriously.

"Then how many soldiers we can occupy now?" Li Ke continued to ask.

"In the battle today, forty thousand Turkic war horses were seized. If we use these 40,000 war horses to form cavalry, the cavalry we can fight will be about 80,000, and the infantry will have about 20,000 troops." Su Dingfang replied cautiously.

"Yeah!" Li Ke nodded. He was very satisfied with the results of today. He lost more than 10,000 troops on his side and defeated the 100,000 Turkic army and killed 40,000 war horses. This is definitely a shocking battle. Such a battle is also an unprecedented achievement in the entire Tang Dynasty.

"Your Highness, then will we report our military achievements to the court?" Xu Jingzong asked in a low voice. He knew that such military achievements would definitely reach two or one heights for Li Ke's reputation and would increase his bargaining chips for him to see the position of crown prince in the future.

"Yan tribe, let's postpone the matter reported to the court!" Li Ke said with a smile, "When Liu Rengui takes over Dingxiang City, you are summarizing the military achievements of all the generals participating in the war and reporting them to the court."

"No——" Xu Jingzong bowed and accepted the order.

Li Ke did not look at everyone and continued to say to Su Dingfang, "Now, Li Mengchang has 40,000 troops, Zhang Gongjin and Du Junchuo also have 40,000 to 50,000 troops. I will give you another 20,000 troops. It will be enough for you to eliminate the trapped Turks in your three sides."

"Well--I am giving you ten thousand cavalry so that you can wait for an opportunity to act and not be too passive when facing Turkic deserters." Li Ke continued.

"What does Your Highness mean?" Su Dingfang asked in confusion.

"Su Lie——" Li Ke ordered.

"The last one is here--" Su Dingfang put out his entire armor.

"I will give you 20,000 infantry and 10,000 cavalry, and order you to be fully responsible for the battle situation in the Youbei Grassland." Li Ke said sternly, "Also, Li Mengchang, Zhang Gongjin, Du Junchuo and Liu Rengui will be controlled by you. When you capture Dingxiang City in one fell swoop and annihilate the besieged Turkic defeated soldiers, you, Li Ke, lead the army to support me."

"No" Su Dingfang took the order.

"I want to meet Jie Li - this hero on the grassland!" Li Ke said to himself, and then he said, "Sun Erlang, Chen Qi, and Guo Shifeng you can go and rectify the troops quickly. We will leave Yinshan early tomorrow morning."

"No——" Chen Qi, Sun Erlang and Guo Shifeng took the order to leave.

Seeing the three of them leaving, Su Dingfang stepped forward and said, "Your Highness, don't you know how to deal with these Turkic soldiers?"

"Dingfang, how did Xiang Yu deal with the 200,000 Qin troops back then?" Li Ke asked with a smile.

"I will understand!" Su Dingfang replied.

Although Li Ke did not answer Su Dingfang's question directly, he used Xiang Yu's example to tell Su Dingfang what to do. At that time, Xiang Yu annihilated more than 200,000 Great Qin Great Wall Legion, and in order to prevent surrendered soldiers from being killed, Li Ke used this example to tell Su Dingfang that he could do the same. He told Su Dingfang that his request was very simple, that is, after the mission was completed, all the besieged Turkic cavalry were killed.

At the same time, it was because of this reason that Li Ke and Tuli discussed the joint attack in the king's tent. Zhi Shili and Fuzhen agreed to Tuli's request, that was, Tuli did not want the elite cavalry of Ashi's troops to chase and kill the defeated Turkic soldiers. The reason why Li Ke agreed to Tuli was very simple, that was, he did not want Tuli to see him killing tens of thousands of Turkic soldiers with his own eyes. After all, as a Turkic man, if Tuli saw Li Ke's subordinates killing so many Turkic soldiers with his own eyes, Tuli would have a grudge in his heart even if he didn't dare to say it.

At the same time, because Tuli's proposal gave Li Ke a deeper understanding of Tuli and a deeper understanding of Jie Li. That is the difference between Tuli and Jie Li. Li Ke now knows very well why Tuli and Jie Li, who had the same strength, eventually became the Khan of the Turks and the real king of the grassland nation, while Tuli was just the king of a tribe, and could only be convinced by Jie Li.
Chapter completed!