Liangzhou is not a prosperous city. Most of the villages outside Liangzhou have been looted by the Western Turks, let alone prosperous.

To put it bluntly, outside Liangzhou City, there is desolation for dozens of miles in radius.

Niu Jinda rushed out of the city gate with three thousand cavalry and headed straight for Liangye Valley.

I hope His Royal Highness the King of Chu can hold on. It would be ugly if a dignified prince of the Tang Dynasty was captured by the Western Turks.

As the instigator, Li Kuan started the return journey with some of his guards.

Just after I came out of the valley, I didn't even have time to burn incense when I ran into Niu Jinda who was coming at a high speed.

"My lord, are you okay?" Niu Jinda breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Li Kuan appeared in front of him with all his limbs intact.

What can happen to me?

Didn’t everyone tell you that after defeating the Western Turks, the Liangzhou garrison came to clean up the battlefield?

"General Niu, everything is well with me!"

"Didn't you meet the Western Turks? Didn't you say that the Western Turks were in Liangye Valley ahead?"

Li Kuan looked at Niu Jinda in confusion, "I met them. Twenty thousand Western Turks have settled in Liangye Valley during this period."

Niu Jinda: "Then...could it be...could it be that the Western Turks released you?"

Li Kuan finally understood what Niu Jinda was thinking, and his expression suddenly dropped.

Until now, you still don’t believe that this king can destroy the Western Turks.

"General Niu, go to Liangye Valley and have a look. I'll leave that place to you."

After Li Kuan finished speaking, he didn't bother to pay attention to Niu Jinda anymore, and went back with his guards. At the same time, he didn't forget to ask someone to inform the guards who were still in Liangye Valley to hurry back to the city.

It seems that there is no need for me to stay in Liangzhou City any longer.

However, Liangzhou is also his own fiefdom, and it would be a pity to leave the great resources on the grassland unused. Let Wang Fugui establish the Chu Prince's caravan in Liangzhou City first, and then think of a way to see it himself.

Can we develop the process of wool weaving?

Although the elite of the Western Turks have been wiped out today, we cannot kill all the grassland peoples. The key is to control them economically and completely tie their interests to the Tang Dynasty. Naturally, there is no need to worry about them rebelling again.

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Not to mention that the guards of the Chu Palace returned to the city happily, Niu Jinda led the cavalry towards Liangye Valley. Before they reached the entrance of the valley, they smelled a special aroma of meat.

"Wow, the smell of barbecue is so strong. After traveling for more than an hour, I suddenly feel very hungry."

"Why are there so many vultures in the sky? It's a bit strange."

"How much meat must be grilled to have such a strong flavor? Are these vultures attracted by the smell of meat?"

"Look, there is a pack of wolves over there. It seems like something big must have happened nearby, otherwise the wolves wouldn't have come so quickly."

"Why do I feel that there is a smell of blood in this meaty aroma?"

"Everyone, please stop talking there and just go into the valley and have a look."

"Hey, there is a corpse of a Western Turk there."

"There seems to be one there too."

The closer they got to the mouth of the valley, the more various sounds came from Niu Jinda's team.

Many people have already felt that something is wrong in the atmosphere. Something big is definitely happening nearby.

Niu Jinda naturally realized this, clamped his feet on the horse's belly, and galloped towards the front.

The view inside the valley is very good, all the grass is burnt smooth, and the view is naturally very good.

The further inside, the quieter the team became.

In the team of three thousand people, except for the occasional neighing of the horses, no one spoke.

Everyone was shocked.

No matter how sharp your eyesight is, you can still see what is happening in the valley.

Many remaining tents and flags, as well as corpses and horses that were burned like black coals, all prove that a tragic fire has just occurred here.

From the looks of things, the Western Turks are in serious trouble.

Although I don’t know if everything was damaged here, the vitality is definitely severely damaged.

"General, I did some research. Based on the size of the tents and horse corpses, there were at least 20,000 people stationed here before. I made a rough estimate. Just being able to tell that they were human corpses is more than 20,000 people."

Five thousand, plus some may have been burned, or were difficult to identify for a while, the general believes that the Western Turks lost at least 10,000 elites."

Although he had already made an estimate in his mind, Niu Jinda was still shocked when he heard the report from his subordinates.

His Highness the King of Chu said that he would go out of the city to destroy the Western Turks. Wasn't it a joke?

How did he accomplish it?

Are the Western Turks stupid, just standing there and letting the guards of the Chu Palace set fire to them?

I can’t figure it out!

It shouldn’t be!

But facts speak louder than words.

"Send people back to Liangzhou City and bring half of the infantry to clean up the battlefield. In addition, bring more stretchers and carriages and horses. There are many horses here. If you bring them back, you can also provide extra food for the people of Liangzhou."

If Li Kuan was with Niu Jinda at this time, he would probably not want to eat meat in the next few days.

Many horses and Western Turk corpses were dumped together. Such horse meat...

Can I still eat it?

Anyway, Li Kuan felt sick to his stomach just thinking about it.

However, for the people who have suffered from the scourge of the Western Turks, it may be a different feeling.

"Send someone another eight hundred miles to hurry up and deliver a message to Chang'an City, saying that Liangzhou is a great victory! I will send someone to deliver the memorial later after I have made a clear inventory."

The situation in Liangzhou was very worrying for the court, as Niu Jinda knew very well.

Although the results of this fire are not yet clear, but thinking about His Royal Highness the King of Chu's leisurely return to the city, the Western Turks must have been in bad luck, right?

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At the Liangzhou City Tower, Lieutenant General Zhang Quan looked nervously at the team slowly approaching from a distance.

"General Niu followed the guards of the Chu Palace out of the city to rescue the prince, but now this team is obviously the guards of the Chu Palace. Without his own general's troops, could it be that the general encountered the Western Turks?"

Zhang Quan watched the team getting closer and closer with a worried look on his face.

"General Zhang, open the city gate!"

Xue Li saw that the gate of Liangzhou City was closed tightly, so he quickly arrived at the city gate first.

Zhang Quan was confused.

When Niu Jinda left, he said that no one was allowed to leave the city unless he came back in person or an imperial edict arrived.

Now that the prince is back and the general is not here, should he open the city gate or not?

It is obviously impossible not to open it. The general only said that he could not leave the city, so I greeted the prince at the city gate. Doesn't it count as a violation of military orders?

Li Kuan was the legitimate master of Liangzhou City, and no matter how much Zhang Quan struggled, he would not dare to let him in.

Soon, the city gate opened.

The news that the guards of the Chu Palace had destroyed the Western Turkic army immediately spread to the defenders of Liangzhou City along with the big-mouthed guards, and then spread throughout Liangzhou City!
Chapter completed!