The Western Turks, on the other hand, went all the way west to the present-day Caspian Sea, which is one of the roots of many countries in present-day Eastern Europe and Western Asia.

There are many contradictions between the two Turkic branches, but at least for now, because of the Altai Mountains, the "sacred mountain" in everyone's hearts, as a separation, there is not much conflict, but differences in national culture have emerged.

The Western Turkic bureaucracy gradually became Persianized, while the Eastern Turks adhered to the original tenth-class bureaucratic system, and expanded to a twenty-eighth-class official system on this basis. The so-called twenty-eight ranks were actually the leaders of the twenty-eight tribes under the Turkic Khan, ranked according to the size of the tribes. Among them, Tutun ranked seventh.

Although the Turks are a steppe people, the hierarchy of superiority and inferiority is still very harsh, if it were not for the appearance of Tutun itself, there would definitely be no banner of Tutun, that is to say, the one who chased and killed Hou Mi and Yu Xi was already a Tutun.

It is inevitable that a Tutun will not only have 2,000 soldiers and horses, and there must be a large number of troops following behind, but it has not yet come up.

Yu Yi, Cao Zhong and the others all looked solemn, although they knew something about the Turks, they basically never fought with the Turks, so it was impossible to judge how much combat power the Turks had, but at least they all knew that a Tutun must not be so easy to deal with.

"The Turks are coming west this time, we can't let a Tutun roam so close to Lingwu, we must eat him before the Turkic army arrives." Cao Zhong said decisively.

"If an ambush is set up in the valley, the chances of the Turks being fooled are probably not very great," Xu Deyan nodded closely, "We can't fight the Turkic cavalry in the wilderness, right?" ”

"That's not it," Yu Yi said with a smile, "In the old man's opinion, this place is more suitable for my army to spread, and it can take advantage." ”

Following the direction of Yu Yi's finger, Cao Zhong and Xu Deyan exchanged a look.

The place chosen by Yu Yi is actually at the exit of the valley, where there are two gentle slopes, which can indeed allow the Han soldiers to calmly spread out the formation, and the enemy's cavalry suddenly rushed out of the valley, I am afraid it will be difficult to directly resist the arrows and the army formation to regroup.

But after all, this is also to deal with the very rapid impact of the Turks, which means that as soon as everyone arrives in Lingwu County, it will be a fierce battle. But then again, only a fierce battle can allow them to measure the strength of the Turks, and see if these two armies are really of the same mind, if they can't even deal with one Tutun, then how to deal with the next Turkic army?

"But at least from the current point of view, this Turkic Tutun is still somewhat self-aware, and if he doesn't enter the valley at all, then we can't talk about these arrangements." Xu Deyan was a little worried.

"That's where someone needs to lure the enemy." Cao Zhong said lightly, and his gaze immediately turned back to Hou Mi and Yu Xi who were actually eager to try.

The best choice to lure the enemy is definitely cavalry, these two guys ran all the way with this Tutun, and both sides have a lot of grievances, so it must be easier for them to lure the enemy to achieve their goals.

"The last general, please die!" The two fell to their knees almost at the same time.

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The wind was already carrying snowflakes, and on the wilderness outside the valley, the wild grass was blowing in the wind, and the ground was already dotted with white. As you can imagine, further north, it will be even colder.

Reining in the war horse, Ashinakin looked at the valley in front of him and frowned slightly.

He is the Turkic Tutun, but also the Turkic warrior, in the hearts of the Turkic people symbolizes the ancestors and history of the "Golden Mountain" is the origin of his name, although only more than 30 years old, but Ashina Gold is already a famous Turkic warrior, he has tens of thousands of people under his command.

At this time, there were only 2,000 cavalry following Ashinakin, which made Ashinajin also hesitate whether he wanted to rush into this valley.

The Turks did not like the hard fight of large armies, they liked to hunt around like wolves in the steppe, and when they found their prey, they pounced on them and gave them a bite. And now this state of the Turks makes Ashnakin feel a deep sense of crisis.

The Turks actually maintained a very "friendly" relationship with the Northern Zhou for a long time, especially when Yuwentai had just opened the country, he made many concessions to the Turks on the northern border issue in exchange for the support of the Turks, but the good times did not last long, with the victory of the Northern Zhou over the Northern Qi, Yuwen Yong reversed the original tolerance of the Turks, and went north on five roads, with great momentum, forcing the Turks to retreat again and again.

Fortunately, after Yuwen Yong's death, the Turks finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the northern border of the Northern Zhou Dynasty once again became at their mercy, and even inland cities such as Lingwu County had been looted. However, Yu Wenxian and Yang Jian, who were caught in infighting, couldn't take care of it so much.

Originally, they all hid in the steppe after looting to prevent the Han people from retaliating, but now they can take the entire tribe south, quite a feeling of "eating" in the south, which also makes the Turkic cavalry who originally came and went like the wind have a huge weakness - they can no longer fight and run like before, because the whole tribe is behind them.

More importantly, as the northern land was almost plundered by the Turks, if the Turks wanted to get more food and slaves, they could only continue to go south, which led to the opportunity seized by Yang Jian and Yu Wenxian this time.

With heavy losses in the surprise of the forwards, the Turks had no choice but to retreat.

Moreover, it is difficult for them to retreat into the northern steppes and deserts, at this time the north has already been frozen, not to mention, if these tribes go back in a mess, they will freeze to death and starve to death a lot, which is fatal to the prestige of these Turkic tribal leaders under the Great Khan.

Therefore, the Turks could only go all the way west, in order to be able to knock on the pass from the northwest into the Central Plains and directly outflank the back road of the Zhou people.

Such an idea is not absent in history, in history, the Turks went south from the north, met with stubborn resistance from the Tang Dynasty, and finally had to make a detour to the northwest, but who would have thought that this was a weak point, and finally really let them kill all the way to Chang'an City. Fortunately, a generation of male lord Tang Taizong Weiqiao retreated from the enemy, but the series of unequal treaties signed also made Tang Taizong regard it as a great shame, and within a few years, he took the Tang Dynasty to restore its national strength into the grassland.

And now it is just a matter of pre-emptive events forty years from now, and it is not surprising that the Turks would make such a choice.

It's just that things didn't go as smoothly as Ashinakin imagined, and there was no news about the few small tribes that came up as the forwards, and Ashinajin had no choice but to abandon his big tribe and come to investigate with a team of elite light horses, which just allowed him to catch the culprit.

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