In my dream of returning to the Tang Dynasty, I snatched Wu Zetian from my lap.

"Listen up, you all! Lay down your weapons, step forward, and consider yourselves subjects of the Tang Dynasty. I will not kill a single one, nor will I hold a single person accountable!"

"But those who follow Adagulie are all rebels, and the Tang army will kill them without mercy!"

The entire translation was done by Qi Senluge.

In an instant, the Ada tribe was in uproar.

The morale of the troops was already low, and this offer of surrender was like hitting a nerve.

Adagulie's face turned ashen as he roared, "Don't listen to the Han people's lies! They just want to seize our pastures and steal our grain!"

"Fight our way out! The Xueyantuo reinforcements are just twenty miles away!"

He mobilized his troops vigorously and even wanted to launch an attack immediately.

"My people over there, you were all once my father's men. Do you really want your tribe to perish?"

Qi Senluge shouted, directly exposing Ada Gulie's true colors.

"He ceded our pastures to the Xueyantuo, gave our daughters to them, betrayed our people, and murdered our relatives. Do you really want to follow such an unfaithful and unfilial man?"

"He was never the chief of the tribe; he was just a ruthless man who would stop at nothing to achieve his goals!"

"He killed my father, and he'll kill many more people in the future!"

"You bitch!!" Adagulie cursed angrily.

"Don't listen to her! She betrayed the tribe! She's having an affair with the Han King of Tang and wants to help outsiders against us!"

"Pour it on!"

He shouted, but only a few people followed his lead.

A small number of people looked at the majority and suddenly hesitated as well.

With the continued attempts by Qisenluge, the former jewel of the tribe, to persuade them to surrender, the eight hundred armed tribesmen were now hesitant.

Ada was furious, and panic surfaced deep in his eyes.

"asshole!"

"don't want!!"

puff……

Adagulie slashed down with his sword, and one of his men fell to the ground, blood splattering everywhere.

"what!"

The people of the Qimeng tribe cried out in alarm and retreated repeatedly.

Adakullie roared, "Those who cower in battle, shall be killed without mercy!"

He wanted to use the demonstration to urge the fight, so that they could break out and find reinforcements, but the result was the opposite. The people of the Qimeng tribe began to retreat, their eyes filled with fear and alienation.

"You beast, come back!"

"What do you want to do?"

"Are we going to rebel?"

Li Yuanchang looked at him with a sneer. He hadn't even put up any effort yet, and this guy had already stabbed him in the back. Who could he blame for this?

He rode forward on his horse, and with a wave of his hand, the Tang army's encirclement quickly opened up.

"Warriors of the tribes, your lives should be devoted to protecting your homes, wives, and children, not to rebelling with this beast!"

"The mighty Tang army has arrived. Resistance is futile. Go find your families, and I will forgive your past transgressions!"

"You have half an incense stick's worth of time to retreat!"

"When the time comes, ruthless slaughter will ensue, and those who live or die will bear the consequences!"

His voice echoed beneath the sacred mountain like a decree, essentially issuing an ultimatum.

The Tang soldiers roared in unison, "We are responsible for our own lives!" The sound waves exploded, and the resulting oppressive feeling directly shattered the last line of defense of these eight hundred armed men.

Clang!

Someone dropped their weapon: "I don't want to die! I don't want to die with him!"

Bang Bang Bang Bang...

Immediately afterwards, the sound of weapons being thrown rose and fell, spreading like a plague.

"We surrender!"

"We don't want to fight the Tang army!"

"Hurry up!"

"..."

Despite Adagulie's constant cursing, scolding, and attempts to stop him, even resorting to murder, he could not prevent his army from collapsing like a house of cards!

He was unpopular, and no one was willing to follow him.

In less than half an incense stick's time, everyone had fled, even his closest confidants abandoned him.

"Chief, I'm sorry, I don't want to die!"

"You, you killed the chieftain, I can't go with you!" With that, the last flag-bearing squad fled.

Adagul, enraged on horseback, coughed up blood: "You bunch of bastards!"

"I'm going to kill you all!"

"You probably won't be able to kill anyone today. You should think about how you're going to die." Li Yuanchang slowly rode his horse out of the army formation.

The encirclement tightened, creating the impression of 100,000 heavenly soldiers surrounding and annihilating one person.

When Xiang Yu arrives, everyone will suffer a great loss!

Adakulye, on horseback, frantically looked around, shouting, "Don't come any closer!"

"Don't come any closer!"

"I am a man of the Xueyantuo. If you dare to touch me, you will be hunted down and killed by the Xueyantuo army!"

Li Yuanchang scoffed: "Xueyantuo?"

"Don't you know that the Tang Dynasty is currently beating them?"

"The main force of the Xueyantuo is trapped in southern Gobi Desert and dares not move south. Do you think we're afraid of you?"

The Tang soldiers all around laughed and joked; in this era, they had never been afraid of anyone's army.

Adagulie's face was ashen, he couldn't utter a single word, and sweat kept dripping from his forehead.

At this moment, Li Yuanchang stopped, then raised his knife and pointed it at Ada Gulie.

"Originally, it wasn't my place to clean house; that was an internal matter for the Qimeng tribe. But since you dared to ally with the Xueyantuo, the number one enemy of the Tang Dynasty, then you have no one to blame but yourself."

"Luge is the old chieftain's only descendant. I will take her place and clean house."

"Don't say that I'm bullying you."

"Defeat me in a one-on-one fight, and you may leave."

At this moment, the Tang army stopped the encirclement and instead left an open space before stopping to form a human wall.

Upon hearing this, Adagulie's eyes lit up.

"You dare swear? You think you can just leave after winning?"

"Swear an oath? What oath?"

"Either fight me or fight my vast army. You choose," Li Yuanchang said calmly.

Ada's face looked as if he had swallowed a dead fly, his eyes cold and indifferent.

"good!"

"I, the chieftain, challenge you to a duel!"

With that, he drew his curved sword in a flash.

In an instant, the atmosphere within the circle surrounded by armor became tense and silent.

Li Yuanchang and Adagulie's warhorses kept neighing anxiously, approaching and circling.

Qi Senluge was anxious and wanted to stop him.

"Miss Luge, don't worry, he's no match for His Highness."

"Yeah, little sister-in-law, if he can't beat us, he'll be a corpse; if he can, a thousand people will gang up on him." Cheng Chuliang grinned.

"what……"

Luge blushed, even though she understood Chinese.

In the blink of an eye, the fighting began within the encirclement.

Adagulie roared and charged forward on his horse.

As the foremost warrior of the nomadic people, he was clearly no mere showman; his speed, skill, and strength far surpassed those of ordinary people, much like a leopard hunting its prey.

A cold glint flashed in Li Yuanchang's eyes. He simply tightened the reins, and Chidian raised its hooves, allowing him to easily dodge. Then, he swung his sword in a backhand strike.

Sizzle!!

Ada Gulie's braid was cut off in half, her hair was disheveled, and she looked extremely disheveled.

Adagulie was furious and attacked again.

boom!

Crack!

The blades clashed, sparks flying.

Qi Senluge, standing on the periphery, was extremely nervous. His amber eyes were filled with worry, and his palms were sweating. "You, you all must go and help His Highness!"