The extreme west of the Western Regions.

The North Silk Road passes through the Shaba River, continues to the northwest along the Atami Road, and goes west along the Yaojishui Road, and there is a large sea thousands of miles away, called the Caspian Sea.

On the northwestern shore of the Caspian Sea, in the steppes of the North Caucasus and the lower reaches of the Volga, a Turkic tribe effectively loyal to the Ashina family, called the Khazar tribe.

The leader of the Khazar tribe was the Khazar Yehu, who was a noble leader who was divided when the Western Turks were strong.

In that year, the Turkic Tumen Khan asked his brother Midianmu to lead 100,000 tribes to the west to pursue the Rouran and the Bada people. One of the tribes was pursued all the way to the Caspian Sea, chasing the Avars of the Rouran and the Sada to the northern shores of the Black Sea further west.

The Avars moved all the way west, levied a lot of Huns and Slavs, and allied with Persia, once pressed the Roman Empire to the ground and rubbed, in its heyday its territory west and the Alps, east and Yibohai, occupying a vast territory, although there were only 50,000 cavalry, but the same forced Rome to pay the Avar Khan to pay the annual tribute gold coins to sue for peace, from the beginning of 90,000 gold coins a year, to later a year 200,000 gold coins, the Romans were once very helpless.

Until the Turkic Khazars marched westward, the Avars who fought all the way continued to retreat westward, from Yibohai to the banks of the Volga River, and the Avars were defeated again and again.

In the end, they had to retreat on the Hungarian plain on the northern shore of the Black Sea, and the Volga plain to the North Caucasus steppe was occupied by the Khazars.

The Avars allied themselves with the Persian Sassanids, while the Roman Empire took the initiative to ally with the Khazars.

The Roman Emperor Heraclius turned the tribute money originally given to the Avars to the Khazars, and the temptation of 200,000 solids a year made the Khazars not only help Rome fight the Avars, but even help Rome fight the Persians.

It's just that the powerful Turks collapsed faster than the Xiongnu and Rouran.

On the plains on the banks of the Volga River, the Khan was lying in the big tent of the golden wolf, already dying.

The khan had been wounded by an arrow when he had been wounded by an arrow in a battle with the Tiele cavalry at the New Khan's Court in the Thousand Springs of Shiguo, and then retreated all the way to the territory of the Khazar Yehu, but his injuries became more and more serious. By now, the Khan was going to die after all.

"I think I'm the grandson of Datou Khan, who originally only managed a few tribes in the Broken Leaf River, and I was a little khan. Later, the tyrannical killing of the leaders of the Tiele tribes led to a rebellion in the tribes, and at that time, the Tiele people such as Yi Lost Bowl and Qi Bi Ge were stunned and called Khan, and the Luo Lian fought and was defeated, and I stood up at that time to lead everyone to quell the chaos. The rebellion was put down, but Chu Luo wanted to kill me, and in desperation, I set myself up as the Great Khan, fought with Chu Luo, and then defeated him, and Chu Luo was summoned into the Central Plains by Emperor Sui and never returned. ”

The sick Khan remembered the past, and couldn't help but be very excited, if it wasn't for the brutality of Chuluo, he wouldn't have had a chance to come out.

Sitting in front of the Khan's sickbed was the Khazar Protector Zabir and the Khan's brother Tong Leaf Protector.

"Now that I think about it, in fact, I was able to defeat Chu Luo back then, and it was also because the Sui Dynasty of the Central Plains intervened in it, but I didn't understand it at that time." Shot with a long sigh. At that time, the Sui Dynasty did not want to see the Western Turks sitting on a big and powerful state, so they took advantage of the Tiele Rebellion to secretly support him, and even finally conscripted Luo Qiang into the court to prevent him from returning to the Western Regions, so that he successfully unified all the tribes and became the Great Khan.

"In those days, all the countries west of Yumen Pass, west to the Caspian Sea, and south to Persia, all obeyed my orders, and all kings were given the name of Lifa by me, and all countries also accepted the Tutun officials I sent to various countries."

At that time, the Sui Dynasty in the Central Plains began to be chaotic and weakened, and even the former suzerain, the Eastern Turks, was greatly weakened in the war with the Central Plains.

The Khan miscalculated the strength between the Western Turks and the Central Plains, and made the wrong decision to intervene in the Qin attack on Tuyuhun.

"If I were given another chance, I would definitely not send troops to Tuyuhun."

Tong Yehu remembered how embarrassed he was by Qinghai Lake, how embarrassed he ordered the whole army to break through, and in the end, he didn't even have the courage to fight, so he could only order the whole army to disperse and break through, at that time, tens of thousands of troops, but in the end escaped from the encirclement and returned to the Western Regions, but less than one in ten.

"We really shouldn't have taken the initiative to send troops at the beginning, but even if we didn't send troops, the Qin people wouldn't really let us go of the Western Turks, it was just a difference between early and late. Look at it now, Yiwu, Gaochang, Yanqi, and Qiuzi have all been exterminated, and the entire Rat Nishi has been slaughtered. ”

Tong Yehu sighed, "If we didn't take the initiative to attack, but were more solemn and active in the defense of the Western Regions, then we might still have a chance." ”

The Khan waved his hand.

"The past can't be recalled, and there is no going back. Now I'm still optimistic about the present, I can't do it, time is running out. ”

"Great Khan, we have sent people to Rome, and there are famous doctors in the Roman court."

The Khan shook his head, he knew his own affairs, there was no doctor for the medicine stone, and he was powerless to return to the sky.

"After crossing the Aral Sea, all the way to the west, we still have 100,000 accounts here, although this strength cannot allow us to return to the Western Regions and return to Mobei, but it is still possible to gain a foothold here. After my death, my son is still young, no one can inherit the heavy responsibility of the Khan, I will pass the golden wolf Daxu to Tongye to protect you, you are my brother, young and brave, and very steady, I can rest assured that the Khan will be passed on to you. ”

Brother and brother are very common in the Turks, and it is reasonable for the archery to hand over the position of Khan to him.

"Zabil, you and the Khazars will support your allegiance to the New Khan, right?" Shoot asked Zabir.

Zabil, as the Khazarian Protector, is the head snake here, and his strength is very strong.

But after all, Khazar has always been a part of the Western Turks, and has always been loyal to the Ashina family, not to mention that the Shooting Brothers did not flee alone, they came all the way to the west, bringing a lot of tribal population, and their strength is not weaker than that of Khazar, and even their combat power should be above their subordinates.

Now the two teams together have 100,000 accounts, but as soon as the shooting came, they took control of the tooth court.

"Zabir swears allegiance to the Khan of the Protector of the Leaves!"

Shooting Kui solemnly handed over his golden wolf head knife to Tong Ye Hu, "The golden wolf is not dead!" We Turks are noble and ferocious wolves, and always remember that wolves can defeat lions and tigers by wolves, not lone wolves. After you become a khan, you must unite everyone, unite all the tribes, and remember to continue to maintain the alliance with the Romans, and if you can, make peace with them and strengthen the alliance. ”

Tong Ye Hu took the golden wolf head knife and gritted his teeth and nodded. "The golden wolf is not dead!"

"Also, if the Qin people don't come west, then don't go back."

"The Western Regions is our home, how can we just give it up?"

"I'm not asking you to abandon your home in the Western Regions, I'm just letting you avoid the edge for a while, the Qin people are too strong now, so strong that we can't afford to provoke them at all, maybe we can only avoid it temporarily, maybe one or two decades, maybe a little longer, maybe the Qin people themselves will have civil strife, and then the distant Western Regions will be beyond our reach, and at that time, we may be able to return to our hometown."

"It's been too long." Tong Yehu shook his head, "We can borrow troops from the Romans, and we can even negotiate a peace alliance with the Avars, I don't believe that the Qin people can still fight with us in the far Western Regions." ”

"Don't, the Romans are fighting the Persians endlessly, how can they have the energy and spare energy to take care of us." Sheku Khan coughed, "Not only don't go back to the Western Regions, don't start a war with the Qin people, but also maintain the Silk Road connecting Rome, as long as you can protect this Silk Road, then with the transit trade with Rome and the Franks, we will become stronger day by day, more and so on." ”

In the last few days of his life, he repeatedly muttered more and more.

The Khan died of illness and returned to heaven, and Tong Yehu inherited the position of the Great Khan, which was the first day of the first month of the sixth year of the Great Qin Empire in the Central Plains.

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