When he first went to the disease, he led the army, chasing the tail of Yelu Tiege's army, and the farther and farther, the more he walked, the more he felt that something was wrong.

"Brother Jeredian seems to be leading me in circles."

Not only is the situation ahead confusing, but even the communication between the rear and the city of Kedun is also suspicious. The people he sent to contact Xiao Tienu directly did not come back, and all he could get was the news that Mu Qin had changed hands.

"If something is unusual, there must be a monster!"

What's even more strange is that after chasing for so long, they never reached the ancient Uighur City, another stronghold of Yelu Tiege. As a result, the disease began to become suspicious of several guides. Many of the soldiers and generals of the Sick Station had a deep understanding of the terrain and climate of Mobei, but for the specific roads west of Kedun City, they relied heavily on a few guides sent by Mu Qin. He was a man who had crawled out of several life and death battles, and his alertness was much higher than Xiao Jun's, chasing the tail of Yelu Tiege's army along the way, and several times he would rather risk chasing down the enemy than let the army enter the depths of the desert, and he was even more cautious about the especially narrow terrain, and this happened before he suspected those guides—at that time, he was worried that the enemy army was playing tricks, and he had not yet considered that there was a problem in his own camp. However, after discovering that the guide might be odd, he immediately acted without hesitation!

On a dark and windy night in the moon, he suddenly isolated and tortured the guides with thunder, three of them committed suicide by poisoning after the incident, and two died without opening their mouths, but finally one could not bear the punishment and confessed - he didn't know much, but admitted that Mu Qin ordered them to gradually bring the Han army to death!

If these guides were lost, the Han army would lose their eyes and ears here, but they couldn't believe them at this time. He ordered all the guides except the confessor to be executed, dealt with a group of generals who might be related to Mu Qin, and then sent people to explore the path according to the laws summarized by the desert terrain.

Not far ahead, there are still some clues left by Yelu Tiege's army, but he decided not to chase after him. If they had made it all the way east, they might have been able to return to the city of Kedun—but that was only a possibility, and who knows where the guides sent by Muqin had taken them!

At this time, I remembered Xiao Tienu's teachings: Fighting in Mobei, don't worry, everything is about surviving! Then he remembered a letter from Yang Yingqi to him: Save your life, your life is more important than an army, because I can afford to pay an army, but I can't afford to pay for a disease!

"Survive first!"

So he no longer looked for a way, whether it was the road to Jerodor or the road back to the city of Kotun, but first looked for water and plants.

In this way, things were much easier, because there were many experienced herdsmen in the army, and the search for aquatic weeds could be inferred from the mountains, the direction of the wind, the water source, and the dryness and wetness of the sandy soil. They became a militarized nomadic tribe again, and soon they found a pasture to replenish their nourishment. They walked after the water and grass, and slowly they went further and further west. Some generals were worried that they would make the mistake of going the other way, but after some hesitation, they decided to continue to implement the principle of giving priority to water and weeds.

"We don't even know where we are now, we have to get the exact news first, including the enemy's news, and also, to figure out our own situation!"

"And what about the Sixth General?"

"The Sixth General's ......" looked to the east from afar: "I believe that he will also live!" ”

After planting the disease and deciding that the water and grass should take precedence over the road, and no longer chasing the tail of the Yelu Tiege army, the group of suspicious people who had been pulling them in front came to find them instead.

He sneered secretly in his heart, he walked around a hundred miles of mountains and deserts for a few days, familiarized himself with the terrain, and then laid a trap and ate this military horse! After this battle, I found that there were less than 1,000 people in this group, and all the traces of the previous were all in the old cloth.

"They're really going to deal with the six generals first!"

There was an impulse to get sick, and he almost wanted to rush to the east to save Xiao Tienu immediately, but in the end he didn't do it.

"It's better to protect yourself first." He felt that only by doing this would he not betray Xiao Tienu - because this was Xiao Tienu's teaching to him, and he believed that Xiao Tienu's teachings were priority over Xiao Tienu's life - even Xiao Tienu himself would agree with this disease.

Another result of this ambush was the capture of many prisoners who knew where the place was. The disease separated the captives who were willing to speak, and asked them for their way, and only when the accounts of several men were consistent did they believe that their words were true.

After this interrogation, it became clear that they had traveled thousands of miles, and now they had reached the vicinity of the border between the Western Xia and the Uighurs, and further west, the Uighur territory of Yizhou, and to the south, if they could successfully cross the desert, they could reach the border of the Western Xia military state of Western Xia. However, neither path is easy. Another captive revealed that Yelu Dashi had ordered the Uighur king Bilgoh to send troops to the east and ambush them if the Han army reached the area.

The news left him in a dilemma, and his army was beginning to look tired, after all, the men were first and foremost an army, not all nomadic tribes, and the nomadic grazing along the way was only a means of delaying the food crisis, not an indefinite supply for the army.

He knew that he had to get new supplies as soon as possible. However, as a tired army from afar, he was not sure that he would be able to defeat his native soldiers in the Uighurs.

At this time, a merchant from the army came to ask for an audience, and he told him that if the army reached Yizhou, he would recognize the road: "I know the road from Yizhou to Gaochang, from Gaochang to Dunhuang, and from Dunhuang to Lanzhou." ”

"From Yizhou to Gaochang, it is all in the territory of the Uighurs. From Dunhuang to Lanzhou, it was within the territory of Western Xia. To take these two paths is equivalent to raising troops across the Uighurs and Western Xia! No matter how arrogant I am, I am not so arrogant! ”

The businessman named Toshu said: "I don't understand the war. But we went to the Uighurs, so we didn't have to fight. ”

"If what the captive said is true, it is likely that the Uighur king Bilgoh has received orders from Jerodashi to defend the eastern Uighur frontier. I'm afraid that before we get to Illino, we will have a big fight. ”

Toshu asked, "The order of Jerodashi?" What command? ”

The larger armies of the Han army, most of them have a merchant group with the army, this Tuoshu is the head of the merchant group with the army, and he has gone out several times with the disease, although he is not a soldier, but he is also a very important figure in the army, and he trusts him very much, so he does not hide it, and he says the words of the prisoner.

After hearing this, Tuoshu pondered for a long time and said, "General, I don't think Brother Bile will necessarily listen to Yelu Dashi's words. ”

"Oh?" He asked, "Haven't the Uighurs become vassals of Western Liao?" This news was brought by you. ”

"Yes, the news is so, but in this matter, Biler may not be so obedient." Tuoshu said: "General, think about it, when Yelu Dashi traveled thousands of miles to the west, he borrowed Gaochang. At that time, the Liao State had been destroyed, and Yelu Dashi had no road to the east, and there was no difference between the lost dog, but even so, Nabilge still did not dare to offend, and after receiving Yelu Dashi's letter, he not only obediently lent the road, but also offered thousands of military horses, camels, and countless cattle and sheep. And send the children and grandchildren as hostages, willing to be vassals - how cowardly this man is, you can see from this point! The Han Dynasty treated our Uighur merchants very kindly, and many of our Uighur merchants went to the Western Regions, so the news of the Uighur kingdom was sometimes known by the Han center faster than that of the Western Xia, and under the propaganda of our Uyghul merchants, the prestige of the Great Han Dynasty had already been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in the Uighurs. Liao is destroyed in gold, and gold is destroyed in Han! Brother Bile didn't dare to offend Yelu Dashi like the sunset at the beginning, and now he doesn't dare to offend the big man like the rising sun! If my Han and Xiliao had sent a decree to him at the same time, he would probably have dealt with it at both ends. If you want him to raise troops and embarrass the general, I don't think he will dare to do it! ”

He turned his sorrow into joy and said, "If you say it, what will he do?" ”

"What he will do depends on how the general treats him." Tuoshu said: "If you rely on the strategy of magic, it is better to forge an edict, pretending that we have conquered Mobei, and here is to replace the Han to entitle Brother Bilge." When Brother Biler heard this letter, even if he did not surrender immediately, he would definitely give a good life to entertain our army. Wait until our military resources are sufficient, the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, and both sides of the desert - where to go! ”

He was overjoyed and said, "Wonderful! I will depend on you. As for the edicts, they don't have to be forged, and I have the real edicts in hand. ”

Tuoshu was surprised: "The real edict? Where did the true edict come from? ”

He said with a smile: "Before leaving, Prime Minister Yang Xiangye issued a true edict with the emperor personally stamped the seal!" ”

It turned out that the Han court's policy towards Mobei was to fight and appease, and to appease the officials. The Mobei clans will probably seal a few princes, a few princes, and Yang Yingqi is generally sure, but who should be sealed cannot be decided in Yanjing out of thin air. Therefore, before Xiao Tienu and Chong Qu set off, Yang Yingqi had already asked Han Fang to draw up a number of platinum edict scrolls, vacated the name, and handed them over to Xiao Tienu and Chong Quai, allowing them to act cheaply. Of course, Xiao Tienu and Chong Qu couldn't abuse this power, and what kind of patriarch should be crowned with what kind of throne had already been agreed upon in Gyeonggi. When these patriarchs got this edict scroll, they got a letter of guarantee, and in the future, when they went to Beijing to pay tribute, they could exchange it for a golden edict scroll from the Ministry of Rites—that was the official edict scroll.

This time, the disease went north, and a few small clans were sealed on the spot, but they have not yet been sealed on the heads of the big clans. His power could not have been of such a high rank as the king, and this northern expedition did not expect to come to the Uighurs. However, how to deal with the northwest such as the Uighurs, Western Xia and other countries, Zhi Yanchong and Yang Yingqi both talked to the Uighurs, so they knew the general attitude of the two monarchs towards the Uighurs. He expected that if he took the opportunity to appease a vassal thousands of miles away, it would not only greatly benefit the current situation, but also with the mastery of Zhi Yanchong and Yang Yingqi, most of them would not be guilty, but would be meritorious.

But how did Toshu know the twists and turns in this? was shocked and awe-inspired: "It is said that the prime minister of the unicorn is unpredictable, but it turns out to be true!" ”

I laughed at the disease, and I didn't say anything.

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