The soldier who sent the letter was Zhu Xie Tengyun's henchman, he took out two letters and presented them to Zhu Xie Jinman, Zhu Xie Jinman was stunned, "How can it be two letters?" ”

"One is a letter from Childe, the other is.... Tang Army Coach Guo Song ......"

Zhu Xie Jinman suddenly couldn't sit down, sure enough, it was Guo Song, no wonder Zhu Xie Moshan was defeated and the whole army was wiped out.

He suddenly thought of something, hurriedly read his son's letter, and asked his relatives again: "How is the son doing now?" ”

"Childe is okay, he surrendered on his own initiative, and the Tang Army did not embarrass him."

"I know, you go down and rest first!"

Zhu Xiejin waved his hand and asked the soldiers to retreat, there were no outsiders in the hall, so he opened Guo Song's letter and read it carefully.

Guo Song made clear requirements for him in the letter, and also gave them a father-son promise, of course Zhu Xie Jinman knew what it meant to agree to Guo Song's conditions, but he knew better in his heart that if he didn't agree to Guo Song, what would be the fate of himself and his son.

He took two steps with his hands in his hands and let out a long sigh as he looked up to the sky.

He immediately wrote a letter and sent someone to send it to Zhu Xie Jinhai secretly.

As soon as the messenger was sent away, an attendant reported to the court, "The Khan has an urgent matter!" ”

Zhu Xie Jin nodded, of course he knew why the Khan was looking for him, and Zhu Xie Liang was also anxious.

"I see, get me a horse at once!"

Zhu Xie Jinman turned over and ran to the king's tent, Shatuo's king's tent is located in the center of Yiwu City, interestingly, there is no building here, but is composed of hundreds of large tents, in the middle is a huge egg-shaped white tent, this is Shatuo's king's tent, is the symbol of the king of Shatuo.

There were a thousand guards around to protect the king's tent, but Zhu Xie Jinman knew that Shatuo Khan was only the last 1,000 soldiers left.

Of course, the soldiers referred to here are trained soldiers of the Zhuyue Division, who can go into battle at any time, in addition to these thousand soldiers, the elite soldiers of the Zhuyue are only the five thousand soldiers controlled by Gaochang Zhu Xie Jinhai.

If it refers to young and strong men, the tribes scattered all over the country can still make up twenty or thirty thousand people, but those who are not soldiers, they are all selected and leftover, either have various defects, or honest herdsmen, who have never touched a weapon, and will be scared to pee their pants when they go to battle, so it is meaningless for young and strong men.

Zhu Xie Jinman walked into the big tent and saw Zhu Xieliang, the sweater who was anxious and pacing back and forth.

Zhu Xie Liang is the son of Zhu Xie Jinding, the former Shatuo Khan, according to Shatuo's rules, it should be the brother who inherits the position of the elder brother, and it is not the turn of the son, after the death of Zhu Xie Jinding, it should be the younger brother Zhu Xie Jinhai who inherits the throne.

However, the Council of Elders resolutely opposed the succession of Zhu Xie Jinhai, and they took advantage of Zhu Xie Jinhai's absence in Yiwu to forcibly support Zhu Xie Liang on the throne and inherited his father's throne.

Zhu Xieliang was already an ant on a hot pot at this time, and the destruction of Zhu Xiemoshan's entire army made him lose the last 8,000 elite army, and he only had 1,000 people left in his hands, once the news spread, the consequences would be unimaginable.

"Khan, the Golden Leaf Protector is here!"

"Invite him in!"

After all, Zhu Xieliang was only nineteen years old, a little too young, and when he was at a loss, the arrival of his uncle Zhu Xie Jinman made him seem to grasp a life-saving straw.

At this time, as soon as Zhu Xie Jinman walked into the big tent, Zhu Xie Liang hurriedly ran forward and said, "Uncle, something is wrong!" ”

Zhu Xie Jinman pointed to the northwest, where the original Yizhou Prefecture was located, and now it was the hall of the Presbyterian Church.

Zhu Xie nodded, "I'm worried about the Tang Army now, but at the same time, I'm even more afraid of them, especially the secret department and the pre-branch, they have long wanted to replace us." ”

"Yes! These guys are the best at falling into the well, when the moon is strong, they will be obedient and more docile than sheep, and when the moon is in trouble, they will take off their sheep's skin and show the face of wolves, Khan, we must take action, we cannot sit idly by. ”

"I'm just talking to Ye Hu about this."

Zhu Xie Jinman said slowly: "Actually, I have already thought about it on the road, whether the khan likes it or not, I must let Zhu Xie Jinhai lead the army to Yiwu to prevent other tribes from taking advantage of the opportunity to make trouble." ”

Zhu Xie Liang was actually a little afraid of Zhu Xie Jin Hai, but he was afraid that it was not a way, he had to take the lesser of two powers, he pondered for a moment, and finally nodded, "Then please ask Jin Haiye to escort him into Beijing!" ”

.........

In fact, there was no need for Zhu Xie Liang to send someone to invite, Zhu Xie Jinhai had already led a large army on the way to Yiwu City, and he got the news of Zhu Xie Moshan's fiasco in the first time, and he realized that the opportunity he had been waiting for for many years had finally come.

There should be no army around Zhu Xieliang, this time is his chance to shine, the position of Shatuo Khan should have been inherited by him Zhu Xie Jinhai, this is the rule of the Moon Department for a hundred years, the younger brother inherited the brother's position, but he was disturbed by the group of old kings of the Council of Elders, and forcibly supported his nephew Zhu Xie Liang to take the throne, how could he not let Zhu Xie Jinhai hold a grudge.

The 5,000 cavalry rushed north along the official road, and soon after entering Yizhou, a soldier stepped forward and said, "Qi Qi Ye Hu, someone is here to deliver a letter?" ”

"What letter?" Zhu Xie Jinhai asked in a daze.

"It's a letter from Jin Manye Go."

Zhu Xie Jinhai nodded, among the brothers, he had the best relationship with his eldest brother Zhu Xie Jinman, after the last battle of Zhangye, it was Zhu Xie Jinman who mediated the conflict between him and the Council of Elders.

A messenger was brought forward, and he handed Zhu Xie Jinman's letter to Zhu Xie Jinhai.

Zhu Xie Jinhai called a torch and hurriedly read the letter in the firelight.

The letter said that the other six departments have begun to covet the population and pastures of the Yuebu, and they are about to move, and Zhu Xieliang will not be able to suppress the six departments at all, and he begged Zhu Xie Jinhai to quickly lead the army to Yiwu, Zhu Xieliang is too weak, and when the Yue Department is in trouble, he can no longer lead the Chu Yue Department and the Six Ministries to contend with each other, Zhu Xie Jinman hopes that Zhu Xie Jinhai will succeed Zhu Xie Liang in times of danger and take charge of the overall situation of the Chu Yue Ministry, and he is willing to fully support Zhu Xie Jinhai as the new Khan.

Zhu Xie Jinman's letter made Zhu Xie Jinhai's blood boil, and he couldn't wait to fly to Yiwu immediately, he turned around and ordered loudly: "Speed up the march!" ”

........

Zhu Xie Jinhai never dreamed that not long after he led the army into Yizhou, Li Bing led three thousand Tang army cavalry into Xizhou.

Gaochang is today's Turpan, from the middle of the 5th century to the middle of the 7th century, in this narrow Turpan Basin, there were four independent kingdoms of the Han nationality, successively Kan's Gaochang, Zhang's Gaochang, Ma's Gaochang and Koji's Gaochang, the Koji Gaochang was finally destroyed by the Tang army in the fourteenth year of Zhenguan, and the Tang Dynasty established Xizhou in Gaochang, together with Yizhou and Tingzhou, became the three states of Beiting directly under the imperial court.

Now Gaochang has been invaded by the Shatuo people, Zhu Xie Jinhai is the lord of Gaochang, he is in Gaochang tyrannical and brutal rule, constantly provoked the people of Gaochang to resist, but was brutally suppressed by Zhu Xie Jinhai, he sent a large number of young men who resisted to the Yizhou mine, so that the originally prosperous Gaochang land quickly became barren, many Gaochang merchants also had to move to Zhangye, the famous Gaochang wine is in this context, in Zhangye carried forward.

At this time, in order to compete for the position of Khan, Zhu Xie Jinhai led 5,000 troops to Yiwu to fight for the throne, and Guo Song seized this opportunity and sent Li Bing to lead 3,000 cavalry into Xizhou.

Li Bing led the cavalry all the way south, but seeing that the good wheat fields on both sides of the official road had long been barren and overgrown with weeds, and there were no people all the way, Li Bing sighed secretly, the originally rich and anointed land had fallen so sadly, which shows how this Zhu Xie Jinhai has oppressed the people.

At dawn, Li Bing arrived at the city of Gaochang, Zhu Xie Jinhai had already led the army to the north, only more than 100 Shatuo soldiers were left in Gaochang City to guard the city gate, these soldiers saw countless Tang troops outside the city, they were so frightened that they closed the city gate, but they didn't know what to do.

At this time, the people in the city heard that the Tang army outside the city was coming, they immediately boiled, thousands of people rushed out of the house, with a hoe, beating more than 100 Shatuo soldiers, they hated these brutal Shatuo people, they were merciless, beat the soldiers wailing and crying, not long after, more than 100 Shatuo soldiers were killed alive by the angry people.

The city gate finally opened, and hundreds of people poured out of the city, and when they saw that it was really the cavalry of the Tang Army outside, they all knelt on the ground and cried loudly.

More than a dozen old men wiped away their tears, stepped forward and bowed and said, "I don't know where the general's name came from?" ”

Li Bing turned over and dismounted, hugged his fists and said: "Under is the general under the command of Guo Yuanjun, the envoy of Hexi Jiedu, my surname is Li Mingbing, we have recovered Tingzhou, and my family envoy Jun ordered me to come to recover Xizhou, we are late, so everyone has suffered so much." ”

When everyone heard that it was the Hexi Jiedu that made Guo Song's army, they all cheered, they had already heard that Guo Song was famous, and everyone was overjoyed, and they supported 3,000 Tang troops into Gaochang City.

(End of chapter)