Above the clear blue sky, a golden eagle was far away in the sky, watching the haze of clouds flow over the earth, and on the ground northwest beneath his feet, two puffs of smoke swept up and quickly traveled across the wasteland.

The sun shines down from the top of the mountain, and the dusk color reflects the dusk earth, giving people a sense of the end of the world.

Columns of wolf smoke rose, and the running soldiers occasionally intersected, and after the collision, they dispersed like waves, leaving the remnants of corpses and deserters in all directions. For both sides of the war, death is always constant.

It's just that when the warning message of wolf smoke was transmitted to Qiuzi Chengchengcheng, the sky had already begun to brighten, and this fastest means of communication in wartime was sometimes not accurate.

In the tent of the Khan of the Western Turks, Ni Xiao lowered his head and looked at the tribesmen fleeing in a hurry in the distance, and at the same time, the army in the city in the tent had begun to assemble.

As long as there are people, there are grievances, there are grievances, there are rivers and lakes, and people are rivers and lakes. The impact of the turmoil at the end of the Sui Dynasty was far-reaching, but this impact was not only in the Central Plains, the Western Regions, the Turks, and even Tubo and Tuyuhun.

Wars, conspiracies, deaths, seem to have created an inexplicable chaos in this land.

In the autumn and July of 619, the Khan of Tongyehu sent envoys to the Tang Dynasty to pay tribute. In the second year, Li Yuan was in close contact with Tong Ye Hu, which naturally frightened Jie Li, who was far away in the grassland, although he sent someone to send an envoy, Tong Ye Hu reconciled.

In the summer of 625, the Khan of Tongye Hu sent an envoy to the Tang royal family to ask for marriage. Li Yuan listened to Pei Ju's suggestion to "make friends from afar and attack closely", and sent his nephew Li Daoli, the king of Gaoping, to the Western Turks to express his consent to marriage.

In 627 (the first year of Zhenguan), the Zhenzhu Tong of the Ye Hupai faction presented ten thousand nails and five thousand gold belts and horses to Taizong of the Tang Dynasty to marry the princess.

However, because the Eastern Turks Jieli entered the border of the Tang Dynasty for many years, the road between the Tang and the Western Turks was blocked, and Jieli did not want the Western Turks to have too much contact with the Tang Dynasty, and the marriage was not consummated.

Taking advantage of the time when Jieli and Datang were competing with each other, the Western Turks achieved rapid development, but this sudden development of wealth made Tong Yehu seem to be a little "floating", and he became arrogant, arrogant, brutal, and did not want to forge ahead.

It wasn't until in 628 (the second year of Zhenguan) that he was killed by his uncle. His uncle established himself as the "Khan of the Marquis of Mohedu".

The word self-reliance is used very euphemistically, Mo Helu was originally just a khan, and some people naturally disagreed with his self-proclaimed Great Khan.

The crossbow lost Bi and jointly elected Mud Mohe as Khan. Ni Yu "refused to be in place", so he welcomed the establishment of the Ye Hu Khan's son Qili Special Service, which was to protect the Khan for the Yi Bi Bo Luo Ye Khan. Wild Leaf Protector and Mo Helu attacked each other, and the battle continued. They each proposed to the Tang royal family. Li Er only replied when he heard this: "Your country is in turmoil, the monarch and the minister are undecided, and the war is endless, so why should you talk about marriage." And he commanded them to guard their borders, and to stop their conquest against one another.

This sentence made Li Chengqian hide in the East Palace and laugh all morning, and the two heartless people even obeyed, but due to the civil strife in the Western Turks, the countries of the Western Regions and the Tiele tribes that were originally subordinate to them rebelled one after another.

It's just that this kind of rebellion is only temporary, after all, if those small tribes don't have a strong support, it will be difficult for them to survive in this turbulent world, so it will be cheaper to protect the leaves.

Since he was the son of the Khan of the Western Turks, most of the people in the Western Turkic tribe supported him, and most of the Dulu Khan and the chieftains of the Mohedu tribe in the west were attached to the Yakhu.

In 630 (the spring of the fourth year of Zhenguan), Mo Helu was defeated and fled to Jinshan, where he was killed by Ni.

The various ministries jointly promoted Ye Hu as the Great Khan of the Western Turks. He was defeated by Xue Yantuo. He was suspicious and vicious, killed the hero Yili Little Khan, and exterminated his clan, causing everyone in his subordinates to endanger themselves. He conspired to kill Ni Ni again, Ni Yu had no choice but to lead his troops to flee to Yanqi, while Fu Yehu was involved by Xue Yantuo's department and had no time to go south.

And what Li Chengqian wants is the framed mud man, a smart and stupid person.

Just after noon, when the first wisp of smoke was riding ten miles outside the tent, from the east of the mountain, two wisps of smoke and dust chased one after the other towards this side, and the mud looked at the only 10,000 soldiers and horses around him with tears, and a trace of bitterness flashed in his eyes.

From the time the Tang army entered Gaochang, he was closely following the movements of the Tang people.

Not long ago, when he knew that the Tang Dynasty had sent another 50,000 elite soldiers, he had a little panic, but it was only a trace of it, and he really didn't expect that the Tang people would be so impatient.

He couldn't see the situation clearly, and sent messages several times to inform him, but what answered him was the heads of the messengers who had been cut off one by one.

The Han brothers fought by themselves behind closed doors, and they couldn't let outsiders see the jokes, in line with this mentality, Ni sent 30,000 people to guard the city, and he brought 10,000 people to rule Ye Hu, if he didn't listen, then there was really no way.

It's just that he has just been away for a day, and when he camped at night, the news of the Tang army's battle and the news of the defeat of his own people appeared in front of him almost at the same time. This is of course related to the strength and urgency of the front and rear transmission horses, but their arrival at the same time is enough to prove that the speed of the opponent's attack is jaw-dropping.

As soon as the horses reported for battle had left, Ni Yu had already finished arranging his more than 10,000 cavalry, and according to the news of the defeated army, the other side quickly rushed out of the mountains.

"Since you're not afraid of death, let's fight to the death."

The mud man stared at the two wisps of smoke and dust that were gradually approaching in the distance, until he got closer, and the Turkic dust in animal skins gradually separated. Gradually, towards the location of the mud.

It's just that now, less than half of the 30,000 soldiers and horses are left, and even if you add the original 10,000, it is only 20,000.

After the smoke and dust, the soldiers of the two sides stood in formation, staring at each other, but this kind of looking seemed to be just a mutual peep between the prey and the hunter, and these enemies were already in the bag of the Tang Dynasty.

At the same moment, in the direction of the left side of the camp, a group of Turkic cavalry suddenly appeared, which was divided into three groups, and swept across, and the distance had been shortened to within ten miles!

Of these three armies, the 40,000 led by Hou Junji and the middle route army led by Li Chengqian numbered 40,000, and the group of cavalry that suddenly appeared was Li Shimin's sworn brother, the Tuli Khan.

In the distance from a stone's throw away, Li Chengqian and Ni Xiao looked at each other from a distance, and invariably looked at the cavalry in the distance, Ni Xiao shook his head and smiled bitterly, and shouted loudly in an unfamiliar Chinese dialect: "Han people! Why are you killing us! You follow me! Friend! Here, Turkic! No! Datang! ”

Li Chengqian smiled slightly, and then said: "Caused by the Tang Dynasty!" It's all Tang soil! You have been abandoned by your kingdom! Surrender! ”