Compared with the joyful and hot Lingzhou, the Turks are gloomy and miserable.

Luo Tong and the others arrived in Lingzhou safely, but they left a mess for the Turks. They are like locusts passing through the border, and like the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves, leaving no living creatures wherever they go. The Tang army's methods were so vicious that the Turks, who took pleasure in killing, were finally afraid, and finally tasted the horror of their lives being threatened.

It's miserable, it's so miserable.

The Duolun tribe is better, after a fire, both people and animals have been reduced to ashes.

However, the military camps of the Nash, Ashnasimo tribes, and the Shuofang border were littered with corpses, the blood had dried up, and the earth had been soaked in a palpitating crimson color, and the broken limbs were scattered everywhere, and the pungent stench made it seem as if it had exhausted all the strength of the whole body with every breath. People don't know if this is the Shura Slaughterhouse or the hell on earth, but there is no such tragedy in the eighteenth layer of hell.

This unexpected attack caused an uproar in the Turks.

Especially the Turkic tribes close to the border of Lingzhou, up and down are exclaiming that the killing gods are coming, and the devils of the Central Plains have stretched out their sharp claws to them, and the ferocious evil spirits intend to swallow them up one by one.

While asking Jieli for help, they fled into the depths of the grassland, and at the same time distributed scouts and strengthened guards to prevent the Tang army from attacking again.

Luo Tong's powerful blow finally gave the Turks a taste of fear and threat. I finally know the meaning of the idiom "blood debt and blood payment".

Jieli Khan was also dumbfounded when he heard the news.

A few days ago, he was rescued by Liang Shidu, saying that Li Jing had 30,000 troops on the border and intended to attack Shuofang.

Shuofang not only holds the gateway of the Tang Dynasty, but also belongs to the Hetao area, which is also rich in water and grass, and also has extremely important strategic significance for the Turks, so Shuofang must not be lost. He saw that Liang Shidu really did not have the ability to defend Shuofang, so he sent Ashina Simo, who was proficient in Sinology and internal affairs, to control Shuofang's military and political power on the grounds of assisting in defense, so as to achieve the goal of overheading Liang Shidu. It's just that before Ashina Simo arrived in Shuofang, the news that Luo Tong, who robbed him of the Emperor of Horses, burned the Duolun tribe, annihilated the Nash tribe, destroyed the Ashnasimo tribe, and conquered the camp of the Ashina Simo army reached him.

Immediately after that, he received requests for help from multiple tribes, and the letter was not to transfer the tribal warriors gathered on the front line back to prevent Luo Tong from attacking again.

He never dreamed that Luo Tong's revenge would come so quickly and so ruthlessly. Such a one-day attack on the two major tribes, with the same number of troops and a sudden sneak attack, even if he himself could not achieve such a result, even if he won in the end, the result would be a disastrous victory.

A series of bad news came, which directly made the complacent Jieli dumbfounded, and he scolded angrily and unwillingly, "Luo Tong, this animal, is bad for me everywhere, and it is exterminated to the end again and again, damn it, why don't you go to fight Tuli Xiaoer's tribe, but only fight the people who are loyal to Lao Tzu, is this beast Lao Tzu's nemesis!" Hmph, this kid must have done it on purpose if he didn't fight the nearby Akiro tribe, and he must have an agreement with Tuli that Lao Tzu didn't know. ”

It's no wonder that Jieli Khan thinks so, because the Akiro tribe loyal to the Tuli Khan is directly north of Lingzhou, and it only takes one day to set off from Lingzhou. Are there no ghosts in this?

"King Khan, Khan of Toronto, Khan of Nashir, Lord Ashnasmo...... Ask for a meeting as well. ”

The voice of his cronies came from outside the big tent, and he reported twelve names in a row, except for Duolun, Nashir, and Ashnasmo, the actual tribal leaders were the same as the tribes he received to ask for help.

Jieli Khan shook his head and smiled bitterly, sighed and said, "Let them in." ”

As soon as they were allowed, Toronto, Nashel, Ashnasimo and others poured in one after another.

"King Khan, you have to make decisions for me!" Duolun was the most miserable, he thought that he could eat fat and big fat meat, so he mobilized the strongest and most experienced Tuojie and guards under his command in one go, but there was no war here, but the rear let Luo Tong have a pot of nests, except for hundreds of thousands of people who have become ashes and charcoal, cattle, sheep, horses and so on have become the trophies of the other party. Thinking of his years of hard work, he lost as much as ninety percent all of a sudden, a heart is pulling out the cold, a man in his forties, howling and crying, tears flowed down.

Looking at his confidant and beloved general, Jieli Khan also felt sympathy, gritted his teeth and said: "General, relax your heart, I don't share the sky with Luo Tong and Li Shimin, and your hatred is my hatred." I will definitely cut off their heads and paint them for you, especially Naroton, I will personally capture them and hand them over to you, and concoct them with the most cruel torture, it is too cheap to cut him in two. He deliberately mentioned Luo Tong in order to arouse his hatred of the same enemy, and to keep him to participate in the autumn war.

Duolun shook his head miserably and said, "The tribe has been destroyed, the people have been killed, and even the corpses have not been buried. The people who were lucky enough to escape were homeless, scattered, robbed by horse thieves or taken captive by other tribes, and it was all my desire for profit that caused all of this to happen. This is a big mistake, and I will not go back to make up for it. How do I deal with Daddy who passed the Khan throne to me? Rather than affecting the morale of the army here, it is better to avoid it as soon as possible, and ask the Khan for approval, Duolun withdrew the army back, and immediately gathered the scattered clansmen to make preparations for the end of the year. ”

The nest was kicked, the supplies were burned and he was exhausted, and there were still more than 30,000 people to be fed here, if he didn't prepare early, he would definitely not be able to survive this winter, he could only prepare early and leave it to fate.

Jieli Khan sighed: "The general is careful all the way, you also suffered this loss for the sake of my Turks." I will do my best to compensate you and help you survive this winter. "Duolun still has 30,000 elites in his hands, this is a lot of combat power, and he will naturally not let it go if he can win it over.

Duolun's heart was wide and he bowed to the ground. Nash and Ashina Simo also left worriedly with the promise of Jieli Khan, while the other tribal leaders who said they were threatened by Luo Tong also resigned.

This is also the most uncontrollable place for the grassland peoples, each tribe will certainly serve one person as the main person, but they all put their own tribe first. For the sake of their own tribes, they can ignore and disobey the Turkic Khan, which is very similar to the Shi clan in the Central Plains, but compared to the Shi clan in the Central Plains, the autonomy of these tribal leaders is ten thousand times stronger.

It was precisely when Jieli Khan saw the drawbacks of this "feudal system" and "vassal state system" that he reused Zhao Deyan and other Han and Hu people as officials, that is, he wanted to gradually weaken the rights of the leaders of various departments, so as to use the Central Plains system on them, change the situation of the Turks in their own affairs, and establish a Turkic state like the Han dynasty.

It's just that so far, few of the Turkic tribes have eaten him, but after the raid by Luo Tong, he feels that he has found a target to start co-opting.

Duolun, Nash, and Ashnasimo have lost their foundations, and even if they are not happy, they will have to obey his orders, because they still need the help of Jieli Khan to survive this winter, otherwise, everyone will starve to death together.

As soon as these twelve hardcore tribes left, the gathered front-line army was as much as 230,000 at once!

Jieli Khan was so angry that he almost vomited blood, and now it's okay, if such a thing happens in the war, he Jieli can't let these guys die?

Just thinking about the consequences felt terrible, and as soon as he settled down a little, Zhao Deyan's words of "If you go outside, you must first settle inside", as well as the three strategies offered to him, continued to echo in Jieli Khan's mind.

"Come on, invite Mr. Zhao to me." After thinking silently for a while, Jieli Khan stood up, his tiger eyes flashed with blood-devouring cold light, and he decided to implement the original system desperately.

When I have incorporated Duolun, Nash, and Ashnasmo, I will go to war against Tuli Xiaoer. Hmph, I want to see, with Duolun, Nash, and Ashina Simo at the beginning, what reason do you have to refuse Lao Tzu's co-optation. With so many reasons, don't blame Lao Tzu for being unkind. Those who follow me prosper, and those who oppose me die!

Thinking of this, a surging murderous aura burst out from his eyes, and the gaze comparable to a sharp arrow forced Zhao Deyan, who had entered the main hall, to retreat a few feet away.