Very early on the second day, the scout of the tribe came to see Li Xiang yesterday, saying that he had asked the envoy to discuss how to go next. Li Xiang thought for a while, and then took Fang Sanlang to see Qi Jin again.

When he knew that they were asked to follow the whole tribe, Li Xiang was happy in his heart, this is the best result, he will definitely not get lost, and he will get a lot of news, so he readily agreed.

So the next two people got together, although they still had some scruples, but they seemed to be much closer to each other, and Li Xiang was a talker, and it only took one day to become friends with Tong Jin who talked about everything.

After Qin Qiong saw Li Xiang's ability, she really had nothing to say, so she could only faithfully perform the tasks assigned by Li Xiang.

On this day's contact, Li Xiang still got a lot of useful information. It turns out that they have now walked to the hinterland of the Mongolian steppe, but there are not many tribes here, because autumn comes, and many tribes have to return to their original settlements and prepare for the winter.

And this year, because Shibi took away a large number of young and strong men, the tribe had to act early, and women and children became the main force of migration.

Now this Kachin tribe is about to migrate to the Langai grassland, where there is a big tent of the Nogai tribe, and there are many small tribes around, which is a good place with abundant water and grass.

Li Xiang also learned from the mouths of several Turkic soldiers that the little Abbas of the Nogai tribe was the cousin of Shibi Khan and one of the several major tribes of the entire Turkic tribe.

Li Xiang asked Liu Yang to record the various tribes he saw along the road, as well as the details he could know, and quietly told the Shenwei army who had been following behind.

After another three days of walking, I finally saw a large lake. Tong Jin told him that he would be able to see the Blue Gai Grassland and the big tent of the Nogai tribe after walking for another day.

The Blue Gai Grassland is in the north of the Hulunbuir Grassland, close to the Halmulin Grassland, including the entire Nuogai tribe and a part of the special service tribes, half of the Tongluo tribe and a few Baye ancient tribes, it can be said that it is precisely because of the Blue Cover Grassland that several large tribes in the eastern Turkic region have been raised, and there is a lake in the north and south of the Blue Gai Grassland, called the North and South Billon Lake, which is also the two largest lakes in the entire eastern region.

Surrounded by two lakes, there are no less than thirty scattered small tribes, and it has become the most populous area of the steppe after the Khan and the Hordun tribes.

Li Xiang was lying on the grass, looking at the starry sky, which was exceptionally clear. Now that he has entered the hinterland of the grassland, the next few days will be the most difficult, and he needs to be cautious and make the posture of an envoy. He had to think about what might happen the next day every day and think of the first way to deal with it, so he couldn't sleep well every day.

"Captain!" Behind him, Liu Yang quietly came to him.

"What's wrong?" When Li Xiang heard Liu Yang speak, he chuckled in his heart. At this time, if there is nothing important, Liu Yang will generally not come to him.

"Something is wrong, we seem to be surrounded!" Liu Yang said in a low voice, "The scout I sent out just now said that there were many cavalry from the northeast of the lake. I went over and took a look, and it was for us, and there were seven or eight hundred of them, and now we and the Kachin tribe were surrounded. ”

Li Xiang sat up and thought for a while and said, "Where is the Kachin Qi Jin now?" How did he react? ”

"In the big tent, it never came out, and no one went in to report." Liu Yang's scouts have monitored all the important places.

"You just said that they came from the northeast, there are seven or eight hundred people, all cavalry, if it is against us, then they can't send so many people, and we are still following the people of the Kachin tribe after all, aren't these people afraid of being discovered by us? Wouldn't the Kachin tribe be unlucky then? I judged that they were coming for the Kachins. Li Xiang analyzed.

Liu Yang also nodded and said, "What do you think we should do?" ”

Li Xiang thought for a while and said, "In this way, you will ask the brothers to shout outside later, and say that you see the enemy coming, tell Qin Qiong and them, and get ready for battle." Liu Yang should get down, hurry up and prepare, and after a while, he heard a group of people? Screaming.

Originally, everyone was ready to go into the tent to sleep, and they came out in a panic to see what was going on. Li Xiang also pretended to be panicked and asked Fang Saburo to accompany him to see Qi Jin.

Tong Jin was already standing on a high slope and looking northeast, and under the cover of the night, he could only see the dust flying dimly, and he didn't know who it was. Li Xiang walked up to Qi Jin and asked a little angrily, "What's going on?" Is this how your leaders welcome us? ”

Tong Jin is also strange why so many cavalry suddenly came, listening to Li Xiang say this, I thought in my heart whether I had already told the leader about the situation, and I came to help eliminate Li Xiang, the Great Sui soldiers who broke into the grassland. I had to smile a little apologetically: "It must be a misunderstanding, I'll know what the situation is when my scout comes back." ”

Li Xiang ignored him and looked into the distance, just now he was still hazy, but now he saw a black line rolling towards them. Li Xiang frowned, clenched his palms, and said in his heart: "No wonder the teams with cavalry in ancient wars were often more powerful, the original speed was so fast, and the impact was so great. ”

Fang Saburo's face was excited, as if he had drunk wine, his face was flushed, and his eyes were staring at the distance.

At this time, the scouts of Kachin came back to report that they were from the army of the Tongluo tribe, and that they must have come for them. He was stunned for a moment, and then shouted to all the women and children to return to the tent, and the men hurriedly took up their weapons and protected the outside of the tent.

When Li Xiang saw him like this, he knew that he was not coming for his own people, but he was still a little worried that these rude Hu people would affect his own people, so he asked Fang Sanlang to inform Qin Qiong that no matter what happened later, he would listen to Li Xiang's orders, so he asked Qi Jin what was going on.

Tong Jin can't take care of Li Xiang's identity now, there are too many enemies coming, there is absolutely no way to resist them on their own, and they can only rely on Li Xiang's army to have hope, so they talked to Li Xiang about the grievances with the Tongluo tribe.

The Tongluo tribe's Qijin Agudos is the nephew of Shibi Khan, and he is also related to the little Abbas of Nogai. However, the Nogai tribe has long occupied the largest and most fertile area of the Blue Cover Grassland, and the lakes of Billon in the north and south are located here.

The Tongluo tribe is east of the Nogai tribe, where there is no rich grazing land except for a small river that is not very large. Agudos had also consulted with Abbas the Younger in front of Shibi to bring Lake North Byron within the boundaries of their Tongluo tribes, so that most of their small tribes could graze around the lake and solve the livelihood problems of most of the herders.

But little Abbas didn't do it, how could a good piece of grassland be given away, and he quarreled with Agudos. Later, there was a lot of friction between the two tribes, and even a big fight. After that incident, the relationship between the two tribes deteriorated rapidly, and from time to time there were large and small annexation wars.

Just after Shibi led his troops to the Great Sui this time, the Nuogatou people planned a sneak attack to take down all the three small tribes of the Tongluo tribe, and also annexed the little Aya princess, who was known as the flower of Tongluo, which was the sweetheart that Agudos had long coveted.

Now the beam is bigger, not only accounting for the population, cattle and sheep, but also taking away other people's wives, which is not a common thing. So over the next month or so, there were more than a dozen wars between the two great tribes around Lake North Billon. Fortunately, most of the men followed Shibi on the expedition, otherwise civil strife in the steppe would have broken out. Tonight's sneak attack is estimated to be another retaliatory action by Tongluo.

After listening to what Qi Jin said, Li Xiang lowered his head and thought about this matter. It seems to be a simple question of two tribes fighting for the right to live, but in fact, if you think about it deeply, it is also equivalent to an escalation of the contradictions between the big tribes on the grassland. No matter what kind of nation or country, such things will always happen, and this is the nature of human beings.

What Li Xiang thinks now is that if this matter is used well, the blow to the Turks may be much greater than the destruction of several small tribes with his soldiers. After thinking for a long time, Li Xiang said: "I am a special envoy, this time I am here to pick up Princess Yicheng, I will not interfere in the affairs between your tribes, I will take my soldiers to the south to withdraw a hundred miles later, after you solve it, come to me again, by the way, take the guide away for me, if you don't solve it tomorrow, I will ask the guide to follow, go to the Hordun tribe first." ”

After speaking, Li Xiang nodded at Qi Jin and returned to his camp.

I want to speak, but I don't know how to open my mouth, after all, what people say is right, this is an inter-tribal war in his own clan, and it has nothing to do with others at all, and now he needs help from others, it depends on whether people are willing or not.

Seeing Li Xiang leave, Tong Jin hurriedly told everyone to prepare and wait for the arrival of the Tongluo tribe. The women and children hid in their tents, listening to the movement outside, and if the Tongluo people came in, they would also take up their swords and fight them.

As soon as Li Xiang returned to the camp, he called Qin Qiong, told him about the current situation, and told him to evacuate to the south with the team quickly. The Volunteers were now well trained, and in a few breaths they had gathered their seats, and they all turned on their horses and galloped south.

The people of the Kachin tribe were a little surprised to see these Sui soldiers Jun Ran able to evacuate so quickly, and several old men went over to find Yu Jin, hoping that he could leave these Sui troops behind, and he could also help resist for a while. Tong Jin could only smile bitterly and say that he was proposed to leave by himself, and it was estimated that he would not be able to stay.

The Volunteers galloped about ten miles to the south, and Li Xiang ordered the advance to stop, and Lerma turned to look at the Kachin tribe in the distance.

The soldiers under his command are also a little uncomfortable now, and after a few days of getting along with these Turks in Kachin, although there is not much friendship, the initial hostility has gradually disappeared, especially there are not many people in the tribe who can threaten their existence, they are all old and weak women and children, and it is always uncomfortable to watch them being slaughtered at this time.

Li Xiang looked at their appearance, and said to Qin Qiong: "If we don't leave, not only will we be injured by mistake if we fight for a while, but there will be more enemies like the Tongluo tribe out of thin air, and we can't get there, and when they fight for a while, we will suddenly go back, and the effect will be much more effective than if we start a war with them without saying a word." ”

Qin Qiong looked at Li Xiang, she really couldn't think of how long this captain's brain was, he had already thought about so many things in just a while, and the pros and cons could be said so well, he really admired it, so he hurriedly went to talk to the soldiers, and everyone was relieved