The Turkic ancestors originated from Ding Ling and Tiele. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Tiele originally lived in the upper reaches of the Yenisei River, and later moved south to Beishan in Gaochang. The Turks are a part of Tiele, with wolves as totems.

Legend has it that the ancestors of the Turks founded their country on the Western Sea. Later, the country was destroyed by its neighbors, and all but one child was killed. And the child was also cut off by the enemy and abandoned in the wilderness.

After the enemy army left, a strange thing happened: the child was actually adopted by a she-wolf, and not only gradually grew up, but also married the she-wolf. When the king of Rouran heard the news, he sent people to chase and kill. The army killed the child who could not walk, but failed to kill the pregnant she-wolf.

After escaping, the she-wolf ran all the way east to the top of the Golden Mountain and gave birth to ten sons. Because the shape of Jinshan resembles a war helmet "Dou Gong", and the local pronunciation of Dou Qi is "Turkic", so it is the name of the tribe.

Of the ten sons, one of them, surnamed Ashina, was the most virtuous and became the founder of the Turkic Khanate. In order to commemorate the she-wolf, Ashina then took the wolf as a totem and erected a wolf's head.

After continuous expansion and merger, the Ashina clan gradually established a large empire with an extremely vast territory of "east from the west of the Liaohai Sea, west to the West Sea, south from the north of the desert, and north to the North Sea".

The Turkic tribes are known as "forging slaves" because they are good at forging iron. During the Western Wei Dynasty, the Turkic leader Ashina Tumen sent envoys to the imperial court to pay tribute, and from then on he paid tribute and became a subject state of Middle-earth. In the twelfth year of Emperor Wu of Liang, the Turks merged with more than 50,000 Tiele tribes, and their power gradually became stronger.

In the third year of Tianbao of the Northern Qi Dynasty, the Turks defeated Rouran again, and established a Turkic slave regime in the Orkhon River Valley with Mobei as the center. At its peak, its territory stretched from the Liaohai Sea in the east, the West Sea in the west, the Beihai Sea in the north, and the Amu Darya River in the south.

Among the Turkic tribes, the "Khan" is the supreme chief, his children are called "special services", and the generals are called "She". The sub-jurisdictions are "Tuli" and "Datou". The Khan's tent was located in the upper reaches of the Orkhon River between the east and west. In the second year of the opening of the Great Sui Dynasty, the Turks were divided into the Eastern Turks and the Western Turks, and the Eastern Turkic Khans were the descendants of the original unified Turkic Khans, so the Eastern Turks were still often called "Turks".

In the first year of Renshou, Emperor Wen of Sui sent Yang Su to lead troops to conquer the Eastern Turks in the midst of civil strife in order to pass through the north, and personally supported the pro-Sui Ashina Rangan as the Great Khan of Qimin of the Eastern Turks. Out of the consideration of intimacy, or also for the need for surveillance, Emperor Wen also married Princess Anyi, the daughter of the clan, to the Khan as Kehedun, that is, to be the Khan's wife. After the death of Princess Anyi, Princess Yicheng was married to him to continue the string.

However, in the fifth year of the Great Cause, the Eastern Turkic Qimin Khan, who was subdued by the first emperor of the Great Sui Dynasty and bowed down to his vassals, died, and his son Ashina Jiji succeeded him as the first Khan. According to Turkic customs, Shibi Khan married his father's concubine, that is, his stepmother, Princess Yicheng of the Sui Dynasty. In this way, the Great Sui and the Eastern Turks are still Weng sons-in-law, and of course they should also be monarchs and ministers.

However, this Shibi Khan was not as docile as his father, and within a few years of his accession to the throne, the war-torn Eastern Turks gradually increased in population and military power through the management of two generations of Qimin Khan and Shibi Khan.

So this Shibi Khan thought that the country was getting stronger, and saw that the two expeditions of the Great Sui court to Goguryeo were all embarrassed, and he also made a Yang Xuangan feel restless, and was disturbed by the rebel army swarming from all directions, and the country's fortunes were declining day by day, and his prestige was greatly reduced.

Shibi Khan was a little arrogant, and had some arrogance and contempt for the Great Sui court, and even privately joined forces with Bai Yushao, a 'slave thief' who rebelled against Lingwu, and did the work of committing crimes against Koubian and plundering prefectures and counties.

In the face of the rising Eastern Turks, which were so rampant that the imperial court did not pay much attention to them, the minister Pei Ju suggested to Emperor Yang: divide the Eastern Turks into two and support one more leader, so that they can contain each other, and secondly, the two leaders will divide the troops and horses, and the military strength will naturally be weak.

However, this is a good idea, but when it comes to practical application, it goes terribly wrong. The imperial court only paid lip service to Shibi Khan's younger brother Qiji as the southern khan, but did not take actual action to show support. The result can be imagined: not only did he not dare to agree, but he also annoyed Shibi Khan.

Pei Ju saw that his plan failed, so he came up with another plan: he found that Shi Shuhu, the minister of the Eastern Turks, was resourceful, and he was worried that he would become a big trouble for the imperial court, so he tricked this person into killing him. However, after killing Shi Shu Hu Xi, this Pei Ju did a stupid thing, and actually sent someone to tell Shi Bi Khan, saying: "Shi Shu Hu Xi betrayed you and came to surrender to me, and I have already helped you kill him." ”

Thinking that Shibi Khan can become the master of the Eastern Turks, how smart his mind is, how can Pei Ju's little tricks be hidden from him, after learning the truth, Shibi Khan can be regarded as completely hating the Great Sui Dynasty.

However, in the heart of today's son Yang Guang, he has always hoped that this Shibi Khan can be respectful and obedient to the court like his father. In order to achieve this goal, he took a lot of effort, and the court also paid a huge price. It's a pity that it backfired, and Shibi Khan harbored evil intentions and did not take the court, especially Yang Guang, in his eyes, which Yang Guang could not tolerate.

So, after staying in Fenyang Palace for a few months, Yang Guang, who temporarily put aside the matter of Jiuding, found that Shibi Khan dared not come to worship, and his heart was suddenly furious. Originally, according to the practice of the Great Sui Dynasty, every time the emperor went out on patrol, the officials of the nearby prefectures and counties would come to pay tribute.

This Fenyang Palace is in the area of Ningwu Tianchi in the northwest of Bingzhou, which is not too far from the desert of northern Xinjiang. However, Yang Guangwang did not wait for any indication from Shibi Khan. This barbarian barbarian's great contempt for the Son of Heaven made Yang Guanglongyan furious, prompting him to make a preliminary northern tour. In Yang Guang's heart, he imagined that he would personally drive the Ya Tent of the Qimin Khan, subduing the Shibi Khan and appeasing him again, killing the spirit of the Turkic barbarian tribe.

However, before Yang Guang could leave, the Bianguan Lou Fu Taishou sent someone to send an urgent report, saying that Shibi Khan had gathered his troops, and it seemed that he had the intention of attacking Fenyang Palace, and asked the Son of Heaven to return as soon as possible to avoid accidents.

After listening to the courtiers read the report, Yang Guang laughed angrily, you Turkic a small country outside the country, just like the son of the imperial court, actually dare to provoke, he Yang Guang as the son of the Great Sui, galloping on the battlefield, is also considered to have experienced a hundred battles, if you are frightened by this little Turk to drive back, wouldn't you be laughed at by the heroes of the world, and be ashamed to see people from now on?

So Yang Guang issued a holy decree and ordered all the soldiers to prepare grain and grass and set off on the same day. As a result, it was only three days after leaving Fenyang Palace, and the team was on the march, and Yang Guang received a secret letter from Princess Yicheng. The letter said that Shibi Khan recruited and mobilized 300,000 cavalry, opened an arc-shaped array, and outflanked the Great Sui army head-on.

After getting this earth-shattering news, Yang Guang was speechless for a long time in surprise. He did not expect that the small Turks would be able to gather hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, and although the soldiers he accompanied at this time were known to be invincible, there were only more than 100,000 people.

It's Princess Yicheng in the end! Although she is a Turkic wife, she is a Great Sui clan after all, and her blood is of the same origin. This secret letter was delivered at a very timely time. Yang Guang, who reacted, quickly turned around and ran back.

On August 12, Emperor Yang's chariot stumbled into Yanmen City, and just closed the city defense, the next day the Turkic cavalry swept over, and the huge Yanmen Pass was impassable. Although the situation is still critical, due to Princess Yicheng's informant, the Turks' sneak attack plan has not succeeded, which is a great blessing in misfortune.

The reason why Shibi Khan sent troops this time was to take revenge on the Great Sui court was certainly one of the purposes, but the main thing was that Yang Guang was arrogant and arrogant, and did not take the Turks into account, and the troops brought by this inspection were not much, and it was estimated that there were about 100,000. The Turks fought more and fought less, and the odds of victory were great. Besides, the imperial court would definitely not have thought that the Turks would sneak attack, and their psychological preparation would be insufficient, and their combat effectiveness would be greatly reduced.

The second is that now the territory of the Sui Dynasty is in chaos, if Yang Guang can be captured alive this time, then the Turkic army can smoothly wave its army to win the Central Plains, and follow the story of the five chaotic Chinese in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, maybe there is still a chance to be the master of the Central Plains. I didn't expect the Turks to sneak attack at all, and their psychological preparation was insufficient, and their combat effectiveness would be greatly reduced.

The last reason that made Shibi Khan decide to lead the army to attack was that the spies arranged by the Eastern Turks in the Central Plains reported that there was a trace of Jiuding in the Central Plains. As the leader of the Eastern Turks, Shibi Khan naturally knew the secret of the Nine Tripods and the meaning they represented.

Therefore, after learning the news, Shibi Khan understood that since this Jiuding appeared, it meant that the Great Sui Dynasty was definitely not orthodox in the Central Plains, which was equivalent to giving him a chance to compete for the world. As long as he leads his troops into Middle-earth and gathers the nine dings, then he may become the first Khan Emperor to rule Middle-earth.

For this heart-warming dream, Shibi Khan used all his strength, racked his brains, and even those small tribes of hundreds of people did not let go, so that he finally gathered the 300,000 cavalry.

Although Shibi Khan was the leader of the Turks, he also knew the truth of the speed of the soldiers and the quick victory, otherwise once he delayed and was arrived by the reinforcements of the imperial court, all his hard work would be in vain. Therefore, as soon as the people gathered, he couldn't wait to set off.

However, people are not as good as heaven, and Shibi Khan never thought that his favorite concubine, Princess Yicheng, would secretly advertise to Yang in private, but the well-planned sneak attack was unsuccessful, and Yang Guang was only surrounded in Yanmen Pass.

And when Cheng Yanjin arrived with his cavalry, the Turks were stepping up the siege of the city, and the Turkic cavalry all over the mountains could not see the end at a glance, and the momentum of their attack on the city gate shook the sky, and countless Turkic cavalry were like black pressed ants, with bows and arrows howling and rushing to the city, and the arrows shot to the city like a shower, and from time to time the Sui soldiers who could not dodge fell down with arrows, and let out bursts of screams.