The royal court of the Tiele tribe. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

As soon as Qibi Wuyun returned to the royal court, the Great Elder Qibi Zhangjun, Prime Minister Zhen Denan, Elder Huerle, Qibi Zheluo and others reported to her what had happened.

It turned out that in the middle of the river, a tribal garrison of the Tiele tribe, Zhao Meng, a guard of the Tang Army, was ordered to build a guard barracks at the tribe's station, preparing to stay here for a long time.

Due to long-standing grievances between ethnic groups, they do not have a good relationship with local herders.

One day, several soldiers clashed with local herdsmen over a trivial matter, and the Tang soldiers wounded one of the herdsmen, only to be caught and beaten by a large group of herdsmen.

Zhao Meng, the general manager of the Imperial Palace, received the news and led troops to the rescue, and in turn arrested a lot of herdsmen. At this time, the hornet's nest was stabbed, and thousands of herdsmen surrounded the guard and asked them to hand over the captured herdsmen.

After receiving the report, Su Dingfang, the head of the Yinshan East Road Marching Road, urgently mobilized to prepare for war, and personally rushed to the royal court of the Tiele Department to ask to see the Great Elder Qi Bi Zhangjun for urgent consultation.

On the one hand, Qibi Zhangjun sent people to recover the Qibi dark clouds, and on the other hand, he received Su Dingfang.

After a brief discussion, Qi Bi Zhangjun and Su Dingfang decided to restrain their own men and horses, and deal with the people involved in the brawl on both sides. In this way, the situation was calmed down for the time being.

However, it is much more than that.

Su Dingfang believed that since the imperial court had stipulated that the Tiele Department would no longer maintain its own standing army, then the weapons in the hands of the herdsmen should be handed over. That's how he put forward this opinion to Chebi Zhangjun.

Su Dingfang thinks about it this way, and he has his reasons. After all, herders have a large number of weapons in their hands, which is always a great hidden danger.

As soon as Qibi Zhangjun told Su Dingfang's opinion to the clan elders, he was immediately met with strong opposition. At this time, the herdsmen of the Tiele Department did not trust Datang, and Su Dingfang's disarming practice made them very worried.

On the one hand, Su Dingfang was ready to solve the problem by force, and on the other hand, he reported the situation to Li Ji, the governor of the Metropolitan Protectorate. Due to the long distance, at this time, Li Ji has not yet received a reply.

Qibi Wuyun is the khan of the Tiele Ministry, and she first wants to protect the interests of the Tiele Ministry, so she decides to immediately arm the herdsmen, and if Su Dingfang forcibly disarms, she will fight by force.

This matter is very serious, if the affairs of the Tiele Department are not handled well, the entire grassland people will lose their trust in the Tang Dynasty, in this way, the tribes of the Tuli Department and Xue Yantuo who were scattered will be hostile to the Tang Dynasty, and the grassland will never have peace.

When Su Dingfang heard that the Tiele Department was mobilizing for war, he was worried about being attacked, so he immediately organized an army to prepare for war, and a large-scale conflict between the two sides was about to break out.

At this time, Li Su was running wildly on the grassland non-stop.

At the same time, Li Ji, the governor of Yinshan Prefecture, received Su Dingfang's report, and was startled.

After defeating the Khan Yinan of the Xue Yantuo Ministry, everyone ignored an important person, that is, the former head of the royal court of the Xue Yantuo Ministry, he was not a Xue Yantuo nobleman, and his position was not very high, but this person was very scheming and a figure that could not be ignored.

On the day Yi Nan was captured, Yi Tie saw that Yi Nan was gone, so he sneaked away with his cronies on the way.

When he was the head of the royal court of Xue Yantuo's department, he embezzled a lot of money. He took the money and went to the Western Turks (the tent was in Shuanghe (present-day Bole and Hot Springs in Xinjiang)) Khan.

Seeing that the Tang Dynasty was gradually controlling the grassland, he knew that the next step would be to target the Western Turks. He was unwilling to have such a situation, and was preparing to sabotage the process of unifying the grassland in the Tang Dynasty.

He appointed him as a deputy envoy to deal with matters related to the grasslands.

After Xue Yantuo's defeat, the tribes were divided, and most of the tribal leaders submitted to the Tang Dynasty, accepted the official positions given by the Tang Dynasty, and joined the Yinshan Metropolitan Protectorate. Some ran to the edge of the desert, or even crossed the desert to reach the Western Regions.

He infiltrated the steppe and successfully collected some of the Xueyantuo tribes for the Western Turks and joined the Western Turks, with a total of more than 12,000 people, which was appreciated by the Western Turk Khan.

In order to consolidate his position in the eyes of his new master, he wandered the grassland like a ghost. He fanned the flames everywhere, looking for opportunities to destroy the relationship between the Tang Dynasty and the grassland tribes. Of course, he will not let go of this opportunity that the Tiele Department has appeared.

The Yinshan Metropolitan Protectorate was one of the targets of the key surveillance of the False Stickers, and Li Ji's action to the Tiele Department did not escape his eyes, and he immediately deployed to intercept and kill Li Ji.

Li Ji was worried that the Tiele Department had misunderstood and could not lead the army there. With only 200 cavalry, he rushed to the royal court of the Tiele Tribe.

With more than 100 Western Turkic warriors under his command, he contacted a tribal leader who was preparing to defect to the Western Turks, borrowed 500 troops from him, and went to intercept and kill Li Ji. At the same time, he sent people to the Tiele Department to spread the news, saying that Li Ji was leading a large army to the Tiele Department and wanted to wash the Tiele Department in blood.

At noon that day, the sun was scorching, and it was very hot on the grassland.

Li Ji and the others have been galloping, and after passing a small river, he saw a large area of artemisia grass in front of him, which was enough to be a person's height, and he immediately became alert, slowed down his horse, and took out the telescope given to him by Li Shimin to observe.

Li Ji is the second person in the Tang Army who can be ranked alongside Hou Junji except for Li Jing, a general in the Tang Army. When he was a teenager, he killed an official who bullied his parents, was sentenced to exile, and fled on the way to Wagangzhai.

Later, he followed Li Shimin to fight in the south and the north, and he had a lot of experience. He had a natural premonition of danger, and it was this premonition that saved his own life and that of his companions many times.

In the past few days, he vaguely felt that someone was following, and when he saw the artemisia grass in front of him, he felt that danger was approaching.

He looked through his binoculars for a while, but found nothing unusual, but he was still very careful to send a small team of soldiers to search.

The 200 soldiers brought by Li Jing were his guards, and all of them were veterans who had followed him for many years. Seeing that the big marshal was so careful, they immediately began to be on guard.

Li Ji used a telescope to follow the soldiers who went to search, carefully observing their situation.

Suddenly, he saw one of the soldiers fall from an arrow, and then the rest of the soldiers shouted: "Commander, there is an ambush!" ”

With the shouting, traces of the enemy appeared on all sides.