Chapter 805 The former army was annihilated, and the Khans raised their troops
At the foot of the Yin Mountains, the sky is like a dome, covering the fields. The sky is vast and the wilderness is vast, and the wind blows the grass and sees cattle and sheep.
In the second year of Kaihuang in the Sui Dynasty, the Turkic Shaboluo Khan sent 400,000 troops to move south. Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian sent troops to fight back and defeated the Turks in Baidao. The following year, the Turks had severe internal strife, with Jinshan as the boundary, split into the east and west Turks. In addition, the grassland was severely drought at that time, and a large number of livestock died. The Eastern Turks, headed by Shaboluo Khan, surrendered to the Sui Dynasty, passed through Baidao and stationed in the Hohhot area. The Chilechuan was thus called Baidaochuan.
After the death of Shaboluo Khan, his nephew Tuli Khan led his people to herd in Baidaochuan and successively married Princess Anyi of the Sui Dynasty, Princess Yicheng as his concubine. Emperor Wen of Sui named him "Eli Zhendou Qimin Khan" and built Dali City in Helingernan to serve as the tent of the Qimin Khan. During the northern tour of Sui, Emperor Yang of Sui also went to Dali City to comfort Qimin Khan. During the period of Qimin Khan, the frontier was peaceful, the tribe lived and worked in peace, and the animal husbandry industry developed rapidly. Cattle and sheep filled the valley, presenting a stable and prosperous scene.
From the beginning of Daye to this time, the three years of Shenlong, in just over ten years, the Chilechuan at the foot of Yinshan Mountain was no longer as prosperous as it was. Since Bi Khan conquered 400,000 cavalry south to the Central Plains forever, the Turkic grassland north of Yinshan and east of Jinshan has since fallen into the melee of tribes and has never been calmed down. The tribes fought each other, and the tribes fought each other, plundered, killed, revenge, and died...
The entire prairie was like being immersed in a terrible nightmare. There were no more scattered cattle and sheep on the fertile grassland, only countless galloping horses and iron hooves. The herders no longer grazed cattle and sheep. The tribes fought and joined forces. All men who were above the wheel became warriors, picked up scimitars, bows and arrows, and swept the grassland like locusts. The weak women all became slaves after the tribe was defeated. The tents like white clouds on the grassland turned into rising flowers of flames.
War and natural disasters. The Eastern Turkic tribes that were invincible in the past, in a blink of an eye, became a passing cloud. On the vast grassland, the Tielite people, the Xi people, the Wu people, and even the Chen people became the masters of coming and going. The Ashina tribe, the owner of the grassland, had already died and wounded, and the last Ashina family was said to be the formerly superior Khan such as Shibi Khan, Jie Li Khan, Tuli Khan, etc. who were imprisoned in the Chen Dynasty in the Central Plains.
The decline of the Eastern Turks did not give the Tiel people the opportunity to replace them. Although they expanded a lot of grasslands, a year ago, the Western Turks west of Jinshan finally came back. At that time, the Turkic Khan's brother, Shi Dianmi, led his army to the west to fight, and successively conquered and served the Tiel tribes of the Western Regions, Gelulu, Basimir and other tribes. Shi Dianmi later joined forces with Persia to eliminate the White Xiongnu, and later formed an alliance with Byzantine to attack Persia. It expanded a huge territory for the Turkic Empire to the west. After Shi Dianmi's death, Datou Khan, who succeeded to the throne, took advantage of the death of the Turkic Khan Tabo Khan, and joined forces with the Sui Dynasty to rebel against the Turkic Khan Shabolukhan. Finally, it divided the Turkic Khan and established the Western Turkic Khan.
Forty-five years have passed, and the orthodox Eastern Turks of the former lord of the Turkic Khanate have been completely destroyed, but the Western Turks, which rebelled and independent in the Western Regions, have become increasingly powerful. After 45 years, they finally returned. Two hundred thousand Western Turkic cavalry crossed the Jinshan Mountains and entered the Eastern Turkic grasslands in one fell swoop.
In less than a year, Tongyehu defeated the Tiel Khanate and successively, with the Tsui tribes, Xi tribe, Qi Gu tribe and other tribes, and finally unified the grasslands in one fell swoop. For more than 40 years, the East and West Turks fought each other in order to unify the other. In addition to the three small Khanate countries of Tiel Khanate, Xi tribe and the Tsui tribe, the entire Turkic Khanate went to the West Sea countries and the Khitan countries in the east, and the grasslands they belonged to were tens of thousands of miles away from east to west.
According to the territory, the grasslands governed by the Yehu Khan at this time were several times larger than the Central Plains. In terms of population, the Turkic Khanate, which owns the Western Regions countries and the grassland tribes, was not much worse than the Dachen at this time.
At the foot of Yin Mountain and on the Chilechuan grassland, there were tents like white clouds everywhere. Among the continuous tents, a huge golden wolf tent was in the tent. The Khan of the unified Turkic Khanate, Tongyehu Khan, was sitting on a large chair covered with white wolf skin, and used an exquisite dagger to peel a roasted golden fat lamb leg.
Tongye Hu held a knife and slowly cut thin lamb from the lamb leg. The lamb fell down, but Tongye Hu Khan didn't even have the pleasure of taking a bite. Under his desk, there were ten large tables on the left and right, and behind each table was a Turkic nobleman. There were many Turkic knights standing behind the ten nobles, each with strong Kong Wu. A Turkic cavalry covered in blood knelt on the ground, panic and did not dare to show up.
He was originally a Fuli, and Fuli in Turkic words means guards, meaning wolf soldiers. In the Turkic language, the Asina clan was a royal family, and Asina also means wolf soldiers. Fuli is a guard who is specially guarded by Khan or Asina's royal family, that is, wolf soldiers. These wolf soldiers are of the highest level among Turkic soldiers and have higher status than ordinary soldiers. In addition to serving as guards of various Khans and royal families, these wolf soldiers will be transferred to the army to serve as middle and lower-level officers after making contributions.
This wolf soldier was a centurion in the Turkic vanguard army heading to Dingxiang. A few days ago, Tongye Hu Khan sent a vanguard of about 5,000 cavalry to invade Dingxiang of the Central Plains. He led his hundred cavalry to follow the vanguard troops all the way across Yinshan, and finally entered the Dali County of Dingxiang. There was no soldier or soldier, and even a commoner in the Central Plains had not seen them. They did not dare to continue to go deeper and temporarily stationed in Dali County, preparing to wait for Tongye Hu Khan's next order. Unexpectedly, in the middle of the night last night, in the darkness and late night, countless shouts of killing sounded, and countless Dachen cavalry rushed into the camp of the Turkic vanguard.
The five thousand forwards who were attacked in their sleep were defeated shortly after they insisted. The centurion fought to the death and fled out of the war horse. He galloped all night to report to Yinshan.
The tent was silent for a long time, and Tongye Hu Khan slowly peeled the lamb's legs until the last bit of meat was cut off. Tongye Hu Khan suddenly inserted the dagger in his hand into the wooden board on the table and roared fiercely: "It's nonsense! There are only 20,000 soldiers and horses in Yanmen Pass, and less than 10,000 cavalry. Even if they have summoned all the soldiers in Hedong in the past few days, it is only 50,000. Moreover, the news received by the Khan, the Chen Dynasty had voluntarily given up the two counties of Dingxiang and Mayi, and moved all the soldiers and people into Yanmen Pass. When they saw the eagles on our grasslands, they were all scared into the geese like turtles.
In the turtle shell of the gate city, they didn't have time to see our iron cavalry hiding. How could they suddenly pass through Mayi quietly and raid you in Dingxiang Dali City? And you have five thousand troops and in Dali City, how could you be defeated in one fell swoop? Until now, Ben Khan has only seen less than a hundred defeated soldiers fleeing back. Do you want to tell Ben Khan that the five thousand vanguards have been swallowed by the Chen army who fell from the sky? After the defeat, he dares to disturb the morale of the army. He dragged them out for me and showed them to the public!" Amid the pleading of the centurion, several guards stepped forward and dragged them out.
Tongye Hu stood up and paced in the tent, and said as he paused: "It seems that the Chen army is not as turtle as Liu Wuzhou said. I originally thought that when they heard our hundreds of thousands of iron hooves heading south, they were all scared to retreat to Yanmen Pass. Unexpectedly, the five thousand iron cavalry of the Khan were swallowed up by them all at once. These were the five thousand iron cavalry, and they didn't even hold on for a night. It seemed that the number of this Chen army cavalry was not small and should not be underestimated."
Then he said to himself: "At this time, Chen Jun dared to take the initiative. It seems that Chen Pojun may have been wary of us. They must have transferred troops from other places." Tong Ye Hu turned to Yili Xiao Khan and said: "How long will our rear army arrive?"
When Yili Xiao Khan helped the commander Ye Hu to win the throne of Western Turkic Khan, Ye Hu treated him very favorably. Now Yili Xiao Khan is under the Turkic Khan, and is above ten thousand people. He heard the question from the commander Ye Hu, and he hurriedly said: "The soldiers of Zhaowu led by Mohedu Khan, the nine soldiers of Zhaowu led by Nishu Khan are still in Gaochang. The five soldiers of Dulu led by Tong'e Khan have just arrived in Gandujin Mountain. In addition, your eldest son Siye Teller led the nine soldiers of Tieler have already arrived at Kent Mountain. He wrote that it was difficult to move through the sand and sea, and it is estimated that it will take some time to arrive."
Tongye Hu snorted, "My son is the farthest, but he comes the fastest. Ben Khan knew they wouldn't come so happily. Now the nearest Siyetler is still three days away. The farthest Ashina Nishu Khan is still far away in the Western Regions and it is difficult to reach it for not a month. Haven't they received the command arrow from Ben Khan?"
The commander of the Geril tribe, Mai Yahu, said, "Khan, I don't think we have to wait for them anymore. We have 200,000 cavalry, all of whom are brave prairie knights. Let's do it directly, break through Yanmen and rush into Luoyang."
Tong Ye Hu shook his head: "No, wait until they arrive before attacking. The Nishu Khan, who was still in Gaochang, did not have to arrive at Yinshan. He asked him to directly lead the five troops of Nushubi to attack the Central Plains from Hexi, let them cross Hexi, from Hexi to Xiaoguan, the northwest gateway of Guanlong, and there, Dingyang Khan Liu Wuzhou will open the Guancheng for him and welcome them into Longshan. After entering Longshan, he led his troops through the Loess Plateau and rushed to the front line of the Yellow River, approaching the west side of Loufanlishi and other counties in Hedong. After Mo Jiadu, Tong'e and Siye and other troops approached our troops, the Khan personally led his troops to break through Yanmen and kill Luoyang." After saying that, Tong Ye Hu turned around and left the tent, leaving the generals looking at each other.
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