"Ah, that's what it tastes like. This is the smell of the land of the Central Plains, and I can already feel the breeze blowing from the south with the cowardly smell of the Han people. "Shibi Khan led his army south from the Turkic tent to the vicinity of the Great Wall's defenses. Shibi Khan, who had been dealing with the Han people for a long time, did not rush to attack immediately on the same day, but ordered the army to set up a large camp on the spot and guard against the night attack of those cunning Han Chinese.

He himself rolled over and dismounted, grabbed a handful of soil from the ground, put it under his nose and sniffed it. I couldn't help but sigh that time had passed, and the last time he smelled such a smell was when he fled north from Yanmen County. But now is different from the past, after a year, he finally calmed down all the unstable factors on the grassland, and at the same time shocked the prairie outside the prairie to watch. Now he has regrouped his troops and horses, and once again led the warriors of the steppe south, ready to teach these Han people who have repeatedly damaged their prestige, a deep lesson.

"The loss of my mountain makes my women colorless. The loss of my Qilian Mountain will make my six animals restless. Tuoba Shishu recited the sad song that the Huns had made when they lost their territory in the Hexi Corridor, and said to Shibi Khan on the side: "Those Han people have taken away our shepherding paradise from the hands of the Huns, so that we can only live in the colder north when winter comes." Countless clansmen die every year, and even more, those Han people also took advantage of our civil strife to split our originally powerful Turks in two and turn them into mortal enemies of each other. Just like what the Han people said, there is an irreconcilable national hatred and family feud between us and the Han people. Now Heaven has given us this opportunity to plunge the mighty Han dynasty into civil strife and become extremely weak. At this time, it is time for us to ask them for an explanation, we will not only defeat them completely and make them become vassals of our Turks, but also to take back the land that originally belonged to us, and we must let those Han people know who is the real master of this steppe. ”

Tuoba Shi Shu is actually the son of Shi Shu Hu Xi, who was in the grassland and gave advice to the Turks. His son was sent by him to the Xianbei Tuoba family, who had been completely sinicized and stayed in the Central Plains at this time, as the righteous son of the Tuoba family, and at the same time, the Tuoba family would provide Shi Shu Huxi with some convenience for moving on the grassland. Otherwise, just by virtue of his status as a citizen of a small country in the Western Regions, how could he have such great influence to sit in the position of a Turkic adviser?

After Tuoba Shishu was sent to Tuoba's house, he changed his surname to Tuoba in accordance with the rules of the Tuoba family. At the same time, the Tuoba family also wanted to make friends with the important advisors of the Turkic future, so they directly used the surname Shi Shu as the name of this adopted son, and Tuoba Shi Shu's surname was derived from this. Later, Shi Shu Huxi was booby-trapped by the Sui Dynasty in Mayi County, and the Turks lacked a very important strategist. Taking this opportunity, the Tuoba family sent this Tuoba Shi Shu back to the grassland, and used their own connections and the friendship and prestige left by Shi Shu Hu Xi during his lifetime. Quickly let Tuoba Shishu take over his father's position, coupled with Tuoba Shishu's own good ability, so in the steppe, in the Turkic tent, he was also recognized by the leaders of various tribes, and succeeded his father as an important adviser to Shibi Khan. Therefore, in this revenge action against the Han people, Shibi Khan also brought him, hoping that he would be by his side to help him defeat the Han people.

When Tuoba Shishu himself recited those two lines of Xiongnu poetry, he couldn't help but feel funny that the Shibi Khan who had previously defeated his allegiance was the Han people of the Western Regions, that is, Li Wenyuan's subordinates. The Yanzhi Mountain and Qilian Mountain mentioned in the poem were also under the rule of Li Wenyuan at this time, but at this time, the time has passed, and Qilian Mountain is still watering Qilian Mountain, but Yanzhi Mountain has not many people still remember, and now people only know the most famous Shandan Military Horse Farm on Yanzhi Mountain.

Thinking of this, Tuoba Shi Shu also sighed at the miracle of fate, that is, I don't know if Li Wenyuan himself knew that he, as the head of the Western Regions, would feel bothered by making so many bonds with the nomads on the grassland without knowing it. But then Tuoba Shishu thought that his father died at the hands of those cunning Han people, so he said to Shibi Khan on the side with a fierce heart: "Khan, what else do you have to do after you capture Wuwei County?" ”

"What are you going to do? Naturally, I want to take the warriors of the steppe all the way to the west, so that the Western Turkic cowards who have repeatedly lost ground in front of the Han people can see what a real warrior of the steppe should look like. I want to humiliate him in front of their so-called Great Khan, and then I want him to kneel and return the golden-headed wolf flag to me, and worship me as the only Great Khan on the steppe! Shibi Khan threw the soil in his hand on the ground and clapped his hands, and then said proudly to Tuoba Shishu.

"But Khan, have you ever thought about the nearly a million Han Chinese living in the Western Regions? What are you going to do with them? ”

"Nearly a million Han Chinese? When did the Han people gather such a large population in the Western Regions. You must know that even during the most prosperous Kaihuang period of the Central Plains Dynasty, there were only 600,000 Han people in the entire Western Regions, and the rest were cowards who broke away from the grassland and turned to the arms of the Han people. Shibi Khan heard Tuoba Shishu's words, and said with a frown.

"This is the Khan, you don't know, since the civil strife in the Central Plains, a large number of Han people fled to escape the war. Liaodong has been a bitter cold land since ancient times, and there is a feud between the two countries of Sui and Gao. Therefore, these Han Chinese did not choose to flee to the northeast. Instead, under the hint of some well-intentioned people, he chose to flee to the Western Regions, and at this time, the Han people in the Western Regions had exceeded one million. Tuoba Shishu gave a detailed account of the recent population changes in the Western Regions to Shibi Khan.

"Nearly a million Han Chinese." Shibi Khan kept chanting these words in his mouth, and then shook his head a little helplessly, and said to Tuoba Shishu on the side: "They are willing to be the obedient people of my grassland, if they are not willing to do that, they will be killed together." ”

Hearing that Shibi Khan had a faint meaning of forgiving the lives of those Han people, Tuoba Shishu hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Khan, in a saying of their Han people, they are called non-my race, and their hearts will be different. If the Khan had been merciful to these Han people at this time and spared their lives, then in the future, once the Han army came over, they would have been the most unstable factor under our rule. When the time comes, it will be a trivial matter to lose the land we have regained again, and the death and injury of the grassland warriors caused by the calculations of these Han people is our biggest loss. ”

(End of chapter)