On this night, Jieli Khan Ashina Qiuluo unified everyone's thinking and mobilized before the war, because it was getting closer and closer to the Sui land, and there might be a war at any time, so everyone must cheer up.

And choosing to enter Sui from Yulin is also a last resort, because this is the closest southbound road to the holy mountain.

On the other hand, the Turkic royal court did not agree to use troops against the Sui people at this time, especially attacking Li Po, who had been allied with the royal court for many years.

Therefore, this time Ashina Qiuluo led his troops to the south, which was the strategy of the Western Khan alone, and the old road to enter Mayi from the clouds was impassable, even if he went south from Yulin, he was also obstructed by some royal nobles.

Otherwise, the Western Khan, whose prestige is in high esteem, will definitely not recruit only these centaurs.

What annoyed Ashinaqiuro even more was that the Eastern Khan had apparently become very hostile to him, and had strictly ordered his tribes not to move closer to the Western Khan and send warriors to help him fight.

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At night, the moon stars are scarce.

Ashina Qiura did not feel sleepy, and the guide confirmed the route that the army was going to take over and over again, and asked the guide to describe over and over again where there were places that needed to pass and where tens of thousands of troops could stop and rest.

It was too strange for him and for the Turkic generals, and the road was rarely walked, because it was separated by the Gobi Desert, and the road was bumpy and difficult, and it took a long distance to reach the Kansai of the Sui region.

At the same time, he was also thinking about whether he should go to Wuyuan or Ningshuo, and he was more inclined to Wuyuan, because the guide said that Ningshuo needed to cross two mountains to enter the junction of Diaoyin County and Yan'an County.

Although the guide said that the mountain was not very high, enough for war horses to walk on it, and he could take more than 30,000 cavalry to cross the mountains and mountains, Ashina Qiuluo felt that it was like taking a group of lions to fish, which was very unreliable.

Wuyuan is much better, it is very flat, and it is very close to Lingwu County of the Sui people, so that the Liang division can come and join the army and attack Li Po together.

Late at night, the guides all went to rest, and Ashina Qiuluo was also very tired, but he still couldn't sleep, so he simply beckoned the guards out of the house and looked for this Liangu Shu City.

"When I couldn't ride a war horse, I followed my father to meet the emperor Yang Guang of the Sui people, that was really a very majestic person, but my father Khan came back and said that that man loves to talk big, always showing off his exploits to others, but never cares about the life and death of the people around him, and is not a good khan."

The Attachment Commander who followed him was his brother Ashinashakho, a Turkic Primor.

Maybe because the force value is too high, so he doesn't like to think about things with his brain, like many times, he will act as a good listener, in fact, most of the time he doesn't understand what Ashina Jira is saying and thinking.

"At that time, I was thinking about what a good khan should look like. Later I learned that a good khan should lead his warriors to rob others of their wealth, not to defend against them......

You know, I envy Yang Guang, even if he is not a good khan, but he can make both the Sui and the Turks kneel before his horse and offer their loyalty.

Father Khan can't do this, I can't do it, and our Khan King can't do it either......"

Ashinashakho, who had been silent, raised his head at this time and said in a tone of affirmation and faith: "There is nothing that the Khan cannot do, the gods are watching over you, and he will take care of his favorite son." ”

Ashina Qiuluo patted his broad shoulders with satisfaction and laughed, but Ashina Qiuluo was saying in his heart that the gods would have fallen asleep a long time ago, otherwise there would be no whip of the gods.

Not to mention that a Sui person or a woman will ascend to the Turkic throne.

What happened at that little alliance meeting is still so clear to this day, Turkic Kedun used her vicious stratagem to make all the descendants of Ashina she-wolf bow their heads, put the reins on them, and let them be driven, including him, Ashina Saura.

That's a terrible woman, she's probably the darling of the gods...... Ashina Qiura sighed in his heart......

The weather is getting colder and colder, Ashina Qiuluo tightens his leather robes, when can we also use soldiers in spring or summer? The season of late autumn and early winter is really too short and too cold.

"Khan, the generals are asking why you have to go to war with the Sui people......"

Ashina Qiuluo tilted his head and glanced at Ashina Shako, he couldn't see the other party's face clearly in the dark, he turned his head, thinking to himself Is there really a lot of people asking this question? Not necessarily, maybe only the generals cared about this, they were afraid that I would be held back by the wolves like my father Khan.

"The enemy is the enemy, now we don't attack him, sooner or later one day he will attack us like the Khan of the Gun, now the Sui people are not aligned, and they are also fighting each other, and when they have a new Khan, maybe we will kneel in front of the people like the Khan of Qimin."

Visionary Turkic leaders were not uncommon in these years, but the Turks' excessively fierce internal struggles left many people exhausted.

Of course, whether it was with the generals or with his own henchmen, Ashinaqiura's explanation of this southward expedition was too simplistic, and he almost defied the Khan's orders of the Turkic court and carried out this expedition.

The reasons for this must be manifold, and the more important ones are almost impossible to explain to anyone other than his previous statements.

He can tell his subordinates that there are more and more people in the Tuli Khan Ashina, and there are more and more people who speak for him in the royal court.

Once one side sits on the throne, if the other side can't fight against it, then what use does the Khan King want you, the Western Khan?

Victory in war was often a palatable medicine, and the tribes to the west needed large numbers of slaves to replenish the losses of the population......

Listen, is this excuse weighty enough? Can you tell your subordinates directly?

The desolate wilderness in the moonlight, with the occasional neighing of the horses, mingled with the snoring of the warriors one after another, forming a realistic version of the marching map.

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The next morning, the evening mist gradually lifted, the whimpering trumpets sounded, and the warriors began to pack their bags, mounted their horses, and marched south under the leadership of the generals.

They had already come a long way, and it seemed that there was still a long way to go for them, but the Turks fought like this, and with their horses, they were not afraid of such long marches.

Moreover, most of the Western Khan's men had experienced the brutal fighting of more than two years earlier, and they had been fighting a formidable enemy in the steppe for months.

After that kind of training, this little distance is nothing, but unlike that time, they don't seem to have a clear strategic goal, and they don't have enough strong reasons to drive them to fight.

If it is for the army in the south, the Turks have committed a lot of taboos, but for the Turks, these are normal, the steppe tribes from the Xiongnu, Rouran has been adhering to the tactics is to fight if you can, drag if you can, if you can, if you don't win, you will flee, and if you win, you will chase wildly.

Few of their war dictionaries contain such words as a single battle.

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The cavalry of more than 30,000 people, rolling up the smoke and dust in the sky, gradually moved south without hurry in the earth-shaking sound of horses' hooves, stepped across the Balwei River, and left Yulin County and entered Shuofang County.

Not long ago, these places were the land of the Sui people, and it is said that the population of Shuofang County was more than 400,000 at its peak, but now most of them have moved south, and this is one of the benevolent policies implemented by Li Yuan, helping the lonely people to move into the Great Wall.

During the Great Cause years, there was only one northern tour, Shuofang, and the people of Yulin were sharply reduced by two-thirds, and most of them fled after the emperor's northern tour.

During the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Guo Zihe and others became the biggest scourge in Yulin, Shuofang and other places, they came and went like horse bandits, robbing the people's wealth and food and middle-aged men.

Later, he defected to the Tang Dynasty because of the problem of livelihood, which angered the Turks who gave him the title, so he sent troops to kill Guo Zihe, which was really a confused account.

In order to show that he would no longer be an enemy of the Turks, Li Po also sent 500 soldiers to mean something.

So now, whether it is Yulin County or Shuofang County, there are not many people left, in other words, from west to east, the former Sui territory along the Great Wall has been lost, and many places have become ternullius.

Some of the villages that were still inhabited, the dock forts were flattened under the iron heel of the Turks, and by the way, they took away the last of their life.

On the evening of the second day, the army marched to Yanlu City, the Huns were repaired in the year of the Great Cause, as a very important stop of Yang Guang's northern tour, more than 40,000 people were levied and sent to the people, repaired for three months, and reluctantly restored the old view of the city.

Now more than 20 years have passed, the lonely city is slightly dilapidated, but it has become a place for the Turks to rest, it can really be said that feng shui turns around, 30 years in the east of the river and 30 years in the west of the river.

There are still some people in and around the city, because the terrain is flat and open, which is very suitable for farming, and if there is no war, people are enough to support themselves, not to mention that there are some caravans passing by, which is used as a place to rest and replenish water.

But the Turks came, they rode war horses, covered with dust, all over the mountains and fields, and the boring march made them very irritable, and the rock green city did not have time to struggle, so it became a snack before the Turks ate.

Ashina Qiuluo wants to rest here for two days, this will be the last stop to enter the Great Wall, I don't know if the Sui people are prepared?

News spread quickly and slowly in the steppes, with some people hearing the sound of the enemy's horses' hooves in the wind, while others were beheaded while they were still asleep.