As soon as Liu Ji heard that the Uighurs wanted to enter the grassland north of Xishan Pass, he immediately pursed his lips and said to Wei Xiaokuan: "The grassland north of Xishan Pass is now under our control, which has made many nomads on the grassland feel dissatisfied, and at this time we take in the Uighurs who are fighting with the Khitans, which is equivalent to directly provoking the Khitans, one of the three major nomadic peoples of the steppe, and this general is not stupid, and he can't offend the Khitans now for the sake of the Uighurs!" ”

Wei Xiaokuan then said: "My lord, the Uighur envoy said that as long as the lord takes in the remnants of the Uighur army and herdsmen, the Uighurs are willing to pledge their allegiance to the lord, and from now on, the lord will be the master of the Uighurs!" ”

"What? The Uighurs want to raise their clan to join the general, which is a bit interesting, Xiaokuan, what do you think about this matter? ”

Wei Xiaokuan said in a deep voice: "My lord, there are pros and cons to taking in the Uighurs, if we can take the remnants of the Uighur army and herdsmen for our own use, then our strength will increase by another point, but because of this, we have to fight against the Khitans, the Khitan Khan has vowed to let the Uighurs exterminate the tribe, and the Khitan people, as one of the three major nomadic peoples in the steppe, should not be underestimated!" ”

Liu Ji also knew that the strength of the Khitan tribe should not be underestimated, after all, the three major nomadic tribes of the grassland, any one of them, could easily gather a million cavalry, if the Khitan tribe gathered a large army to deal with themselves, with the army in Liu Ji's hands now, Liu Ji did not have the confidence to be able to carry it. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, the Khitan tribe's sphere of influence is thousands of miles away from Liu Ji's Ji'an County, even if it is very, very far away from the entire Qianzhou, so it is impossible for the Khitan to send a million cavalry army to Liu Ji's territory, and Liu Ji is not very afraid of the Khitans in his heart.

"Xiaokuan, do you know why the Uighurs and the Khitans fought? And why did the Khitan Khan have to exterminate the Uighurs? ”

"Tell the lord that after the understanding of his subordinates, the cause of the great war between the Khitan and the Uighurs was that the Khitan Khan wanted to take a daughter of the Uighur patriarch as a concubine, but was rejected by the Uighur chief, and the Khitan Khan immediately transferred troops to attack the Uighurs, and the Uighurs also gathered the 130,000 cavalry of the entire tribe and launched a series of battles with the Khitans."

After a pause, Wei Xiaokuan continued: "In this great battle between the two tribes, one of the sons of the Khitan Khan died at the hands of the Uighurs, so the Khitan Khan vowed to destroy the entire Uighur tribe!" ”

Liu Ji then asked, "So where are the remnants of the Uighur army and herdsmen at present?" ”

Wei Xiaokuan replied: "According to the estimate of the Uighur envoys, if they are not caught up by the Khitan pursuers, then in about three days, the remnants of the Uighur army and herdsmen should be able to enter the grassland north of the Xishan Pass and reach the area controlled by our Hawks. ”

Liu Ji touched his chin and said, "Xiaokuan, immediately send someone to summon Le Yi and Su Lie to the General's Mansion, and a few of us have to discuss this matter of the Uighurs carefully." ”

Just as Liu Ji was about to gather several wise generals under his command to discuss the affairs of the Uighurs, a huge team was marching in the southwest direction on the grasslands more than 1,000 miles northeast of Chengyin City, and this huge team was the remnants of the Uighur army and herdsmen.

Kurban, the Great Khan of the Uighurs, rode a horse and asked the Uighur King Shamushak with a tired face, "How long will it take for us to reach the steppe north of the Xishan Pass?" ”

Shamushak, the Uighur Right Sage King, who was also tired, then said: "Great Khan, in three days, we should be able to arrive, but can that Great Jin Tiger take us in the Uighurs?" You must know that our enemies are Khitans! ”

Kurban, the Great Khan of the Uighurs, smiled bitterly and said: "Now that we are in the situation of the Uighurs, we can only pin our hopes on the Great Jin Tiger, and if even the Great Jin Tiger cannot take us in the Uighurs, then we can only continue to move westward into the desert to the west, hoping to rebuild our Uighur homeland in the Western Regions." ”

To the west of Qianzhou in the Great Jin Dynasty, there is an endless desert, and there are many oases in the desert, these oases are large and small, and some oases are even as big as several states in the Great Jin Dynasty, but the small oasis may be as big as a small village.

The people who lived in these oases established many states and city-states that ruled over the entire Western Regions, and some of them were very powerful, and their territory covered many large oases.

The Uighur Right Sage King Shamushak sighed sadly, it was not easy for the Uighurs to gain a foothold in the Western Regions, if nothing else, whether the remnants of the Uighur army and herdsmen could find an oasis through the endless desert.

Now the situation of the Uighurs is quite bad, originally there were only about 47,000 of the 130,000 cavalry of the whole tribe, the rest of the Uighur cavalry were killed or captured in the battle with the Khitans, and even the Uighur king Zuoxian died in the battle with the Khitans.

The rest of the Uighurs, including women and children, are now less than 80,000 left, which means that the Uighurs, who originally had 250,000 people, have lost half of their population, which is simply too great a blow to the Uighurs.

What's worse was that in order to evade the pursuit of the Khitans, the remnants of the Uighur army and herdsmen could only travel lightly, so in desperation, they abandoned a large number of livestock and supplies, so that now the food of the team is in short supply, and they have to plunder some small tribes of weak ethnic groups along the way to supplement the food of the whole team.

The Uighur king Shamushak hesitated for a moment and asked the Uighur Great Khan Kurban, "Great Khan, is it true that we Uighurs cannot make peace with the Khitans?" If we agree to put Princess Gulyati...... What about marrying the Khitan Great Khan Yelu Enemy Lie? ”

The Uighur Great Khan Kurban said categorically: "My daughter of Kurban cannot become someone else's concubine, even if Yelu Enemy Lie is the Khitan Khan!" That would be a disgrace to our entire Uighur people! ”

After a pause, Kurban said gloomily: "In the battle with the Khitans, we killed a very beloved son of Yelu Eilie, according to Yelu Martyr's character, even if we give Guliyati to him now, he will never let us Uighurs go, and Yelu Gerem has announced to the entire steppe that he will exterminate our Uighurs, and Ben Khan guesses that he will not rebel because of a woman." ”