Of course, the official didn't know that the person he whipped was the Eastern Turkic Khan, anyway, these people were all reduced to slaves, and the Sui army that captured them didn't care about their identity, a khan was not worth more than ordinary soldiers, just casually confess to the people who took care of them to prevent the Turks from escaping.

When he was at the border, Tuli was closely guarded, and when he arrived in the interior, no one cared about Tuli's identity, even if he had the ability to escape from the slave camp, he could not escape to the prairie again, and he was afraid that he would be re-arrested after a few days.

Fortunately, the officials did not know the identity of the Turks, otherwise I am afraid that the situation of the Turks would soon become extremely bad, and the other officials were probably happy to use whips to teach the former noble Eastern Turkic Khans a lesson, only one person and one whip, and the Turki would be whipped to death.

Just when the Turks were still dreaming that they would one day return to the steppe to become the Eastern Turk Khan, his third son Ashina had re-erected the banner of the Eastern Turks on the steppe, calling himself Jieli Khan, this Jieli Khan had been majestic in history, he inherited the foundation of his father and brother, reused the Han Zhao Deyan, and took advantage of the civil strife in the Central Plains at the end of the Sui Dynasty to invade many times, and put the entire northern part of China under his iron hooves, and even Tang Gaozu Li Yuan had to bow down to it.

It's just that at this time, Jieli Khan was a little miserable, his father and brother Tuli were captured, and he was in the battle, tens of thousands of Eastern Turkic elites, and there were only dozens of people who escaped from Jieli's side.

Fortunately, the cold weather gave the new Jieli Khan help, and the heavy snow on the prairie prevented the Sui army from continuing to pursue, and after about half a month of containment, Jieli finally gathered more than 2,000 people around him, barely having the appearance of a khan.

These more than 2,000 people are undoubtedly the essence of the Eastern Turks, most of them came from the golden wolf cavalry that guarded the khan, and the weaker ones died in this pursuit.

The place in front of these 2,000 people was in no way a celebration of the birth of a new khan. But how to survive, the Eastern Turks can be equal to the Western Turks, and the support of the Great Sui is indispensable, but now it has completely turned against the Great Sui, and tens of thousands of elite wolf riders are only left with the two thousand people beside Jieli, if the news reaches the Western Turks, the Western Turkic Khan will inevitably take the opportunity to send troops to swallow them.

A few years ago, after the defeat of Datou Khan, the strength of the Western Turks declined considerably. This is also why the people sent by Murong Sanzang were confused, and the Turks were willing to take people into the Central Plains to loot, and now tens of thousands of troops were destroyed, if the successor of the Western Turk Ashina Muddy Luo Khan learned that it had disappeared, it would be strange not to lead the troops to the east, after all, since the split of the Eastern and Western Turks, the nobles on both sides have always wanted to seek to reunite the Turks.

If Ashina really led the troops to come, ordinary Turks would be just that, anyway, both sides are the descendants of the Ashina family, and it is the same as anyone. It's just that if these Turkic nobles and the golden wolf rider who once guarded the Turkic Khan fall into the hands of the Western Turkic Khan, it is better to commit suicide.

At this point, Jieli had to grow as quickly as possible, except for guarding against a possible attack by the Western Turks, and when they fled back from Mayi, they had discarded almost all their supplies and had only a small amount of dry food on them. There are many horses, and if necessary, they can kill them to satisfy their hunger, but there is no hay to feed the horses, and if all the horses are starved to death, will they have to walk on two legs, not to mention that all the best war horses are with them, and unless there is really no way, they will not be willing to kill even one.

Whether it was to strengthen himself or to survive, Jieli had to turn his mind to the other nobles of the Eastern Turks who did not participate in the war this time. Although the ruler of the grassland has always been the Ashina family, no one knows whether other nobles will continue to follow the orders of the Ashina family when the strength of the Ashina family has been reduced to the extreme, and he will become a khan, taking advantage of the news of the defeat of Tsushima to attack the wintering grounds of other tribes, which can not only strengthen themselves, but also eliminate potential threats.

As a result, a killing poke in the prairie is inevitable. Jieli and the 2,000 cavalry around him began to divide into several teams to attack the winter grounds of various tribes.

The places that can spend the winter on the grassland are fixed, and there is a strict division of which tribe spends the winter, if it is invaded casually, it will immediately cause a life-and-death battle, and the location of some tribes for the winter is still very secret. But. This is not difficult for Jieli, who is the third son of Tuli. A member of the great Ashina family on the grassland, the wintering grounds of various tribes are not a secret to him at all.

Sending out the army when the snow is falling is undoubtedly an extremely risky action, if you are not careful, the wind and snow can drown the attacking soldiers and become frozen bones on the side of the road, but Jieli has no choice, if he does not strengthen himself, whether it is the Sui army, the Western Turks, or those Eastern Turkic nobles may make his bones gone.

Jieli's adventure was a success, and this winter, countless Turkic nobles were attacked in their wintering grounds, their heads cut off, their wives and children became someone else's property, and their heroic subordinates were either killed in tents or had to take refuge with the new ruler.

In April of the second year of the Great Cause, when the grassland was full of life, Jieli re-established the power of the Ashina family in the land of the Eastern Turks, even if the news of the defeat of Mayi came, it had no impact on Jieli, and more than half of the nobles in the original land of the Eastern Turks fell under the slaughter of Jieli, and the rest either had dealings with Jieli a long time ago, or took refuge in time, as for the vacancy caused by the death of these old nobles, naturally all were replaced by Jieli's subordinates.

However, Jieli is not without a price, half of the remaining more than 2,000 golden wolf riders have died in the killing poke of these months, of which more than eighty percent of them died in the blizzard, not the resistance of the nobles, and in the end there are only more than 1,000 golden wolf riders left, excluding some people who are seriously injured and unable to fight, and only 935 people are left on the golden wolf riders.

These nine hundred and thirty-five people got the best treatment, Jieli let each golden wolf rider get the title of noble, from those killed nobles to snatch the gold, silver jewelry, silk and satin, and women, Jieli let his subordinates choose at will, this practice let Jieli get all the remaining golden wolf riders absolute loyalty, with this golden wolf rider as the team, Jieli regained an army of 50,000 loyal to him.

Although this army is as many as when Tuli invaded Mayi, the quality is too far behind, and a team of 10,000 people that was originally pulled out casually can defeat this army of 50,000 people, not to mention the 10,000 golden wolf cavalry guarding the khan, and in addition to the more than 900 golden wolf cavalry that followed Jieli, loyalty is also a problem, just relying on Jieli's powerful means and the previous prestige of the Ashina family to suppress it, if it starts a war, only God knows how much combat power it can exert.

As soon as he stabilized a little, Jieli immediately sent two envoys to the territory of the Western Turks and the Great Sui respectively, and the purpose of these two envoys was naturally to delay time.

In Jieli's view, it may be difficult to delay with the Western Turks, and there must be no problem in suing for peace with the Great Sui, after all, it is impossible to give up this rare opportunity to unify the Eastern and Western Turks if he is the Western Turk Khan, but the position of Luo Khan in the Western Turkic mud is not stable, and he is under strong pressure from the Western Turkic Khan in the west.

If it weren't for Ashina Muddy taking the lead, it is still unknown who the current Western Turkic Great Khan is, if the Eastern and Western Turks can be unified in the hands of Luo Khan in the mud, his position will be considered firm.

As long as he is willing to bow his head and beg for mercy, the Great Sui will definitely be magnanimous, and maybe he will send troops to help him resist the attack of the Western Turks, but the reality makes Jieli like a head-to-head hand, just when the envoy he sent has not yet entered the territory of the Great Sui, the Sui army has been dispatched, and the 100,000 Sui army is divided into three finished arrows into the Turkic territory.

There are 40,000 troops in the middle road, and 30,000 people on each side road, each of which is not something that the current Eastern Turks can resist, hearing this news, Jieli spit out a mouthful of blood, and almost fainted to the ground.

Jieli's guess is really right, the current Great Sui doesn't care whether the Eastern and Western Turkic Alliances are united or not, since this is the case, there is naturally no need to support an enemy who may turn against the enemy at any time, and for the capriciousness of the Turks, whether it is Yang Yong, the new emperor of the Great Sui, or the soldiers at the border pass, they are extremely disgusted.

The grassland in April is already bright in spring, get the taste of snow water, everywhere is green fresh grass, yellow sheep, wild ass, hare and other animals have been desperately gnawing to supplement the consumption of a winter, dozens of herdsmen are driving a group of livestock are leisurely grazing, and the surrounding wild animals do not invade each other, a harmonious scene on the prairie.

Suddenly, a yellow sheep, which was gnawing on the grass, pricked up its ears, and then panicked, and immediately spread its hooves and ran desperately, and the other animals were also affected, and began to run, and the hare slipped into the burrow.

Soon after, a red line appeared in the distance, the red line became denser and denser, and then the rumbling of horses' hooves sounded, and more than a dozen herdsmen watched blankly, until the red line moved halfway, and a herdsman reacted and shouted bitterly: "It's not good, it's the Sui army, run away." ”