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October 18, flat pine forest, peach water. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The cold wind howled, and another snow fell from the sky, flying all over the sky. The temperature has plummeted, and the Lightning River has been frozen.

Needy Ashina braved the cold wind and snow, with 10,000 strings, and rushed to the west bank of Taoshui. A large number of officers such as the front-line generals Sunia Ashina Aswin, Lost Bi Ashdeba Kushui, Jie Lifa Uguri, and Tong Jin Wusu Chengzong greeted them warmly, but what they saw was a cold face and a pair of equally cold eyes. Ashina sat on the horse aggressively, his face was like frost, he didn't say a word, and in the face of the generals, he just nodded and waved his horsewhip in response, looking very bad.

Ashina's aggressive mood immediately affected the front-line officers, the smiles on their faces suddenly dissipated, and a trace of shadow invariably passed in their hearts, could it be that the rumors from the ghost side were true?

Ashina suddenly led the army to support, and his expression was solemn, worried, depressed, obviously not because of the cold weather and heavy snow or because he was tired from the overnight journey, it must be because the current situation has undergone major changes that are not conducive to the southeast of the moraine, and the only person who can endanger the interests of the southeast of the moraine is the Xi people who have been attacked by Middle-earth, so it is not difficult to estimate and guess that the crisis on the Xi side may be serious, and even the Xi king Ah Huizheng may be defeated by the Middle-earthers. If the situation really changes like this, the responsibility of Ashina and the southeast tooth banner will be greater, it is precisely because they made a mistake in judgment, vainly trying to profit from the fisherman, and delayed the rescue, resulting in the defeat of the Xi people, the profit of the middle earth, and seriously damaging the interests of the Turks, then the Shibi Khan and the tooth tent will inevitably be investigated, and the matter will be troublesome.

After entering the camp in the dense forest and arriving at the warm military tent, Ashina ordered to immediately convene a meeting of the generals and leaders of the front-line army above the rank of jin.

Soon, a large number of high-ranking officers from the southeast Yaqi gathered in the commander's tent, from the highest military and political chiefs to the ordinary tribal chieftains.

The southeast Yaqi is a regional military institution directly under the Ya Tent, which is equivalent to the Honghua Left-behind Mansion and Zhuojun Left-behind Mansion in Middle Earth, but it is more independent, more autonomous, and more powerful. Under the protection of Shehe Yidu, there is a chief bureaucrat Zuo Dagan, and there is also a Tutun who is in charge of the inspection.

The highest military and political leadership in the region is generally held by the Turkic high nobles, mainly the royal Ashina clan and the Ashid clan. In addition to them, among the other high-ranking officials of the Tooth Banner, the commanders of the army, Suni and Shibi, are the most important, which are equivalent to the generals of the Twelve Guards, and are generally held by the high Turkic nobles, and other races with different surnames are basically not touched.

Suni is the commander of the horse army, and he is the commander of the infantry army, but outside the plug, the means of transportation are war horses, even if it is an infantry army, it is also a horse to walk, and under special circumstances, it can also be used as a horse army charge, so when conquest, both Suni and Suni can serve as front-line commanders alone, if both are there, then Suni is the positive, and the second is lost. The Turkic army that was ordered to attack Taoshui this time had more than 10,000 horsemen, of which the commander was Ashina Aswin, and the deputy commander was Ashdeba Kushui.

Above the Tooth Banner were Turkic tribes and tribes with different surnames, as well as some mixed cities.

This tribe refers to a large tribe with a surname, such as the Wu tribe, whose supreme leader is Jielifa Uguli. Tribes with different surnames refer to other races, such as the Xi, Xi and Khitan of the Donghu tribes, which are powerful tribes of the Turks, and their leaders and officials are respectively Jie Lifa or Jie Lifa according to the overall strength of the race, but most of them are Jie Lifa. As for some cities scattered scattered on the desert, because they hold the main roads, they have special functions such as garrisoning, hoarding, returning, and transiting, and their city lords are generally served by the Turkic high nobles.

Jie Lifa's official position is equivalent to the Wu Ben Lang General or Wu Ya Lang General in the Twelve Guards of Middle Earth, and there are many strings under the account, as little as thousands, such as Wuguli, there are 8,000 strings under the tent, and this time he was ordered to take more than 3,000 cavalry to attack Taoshui; There are tens of thousands, such as A Huizheng of the Xi nationality, and there are more than 30,000 troops of the five alliances under his account, so Jie Lifa is the sole leader of an army, and he can suppress one side or lead the army to conquer, but in a large-scale war, all tribes gather, and Jie Lifa is an ordinary commander who must accept the command of a higher military commander.

Below Jie Lifa is Tong Jin, an ordinary tribal leader, who commands several governors (thousand commanders), equivalent to the level of Ying Yanglang general in the Twelve Guards of Middle-earth, and is also a grassroots commander in the Turkic army.

Wusu Chengzong is at this level, although he has a high prestige and fame in the lightning plain, and he is also one of the most powerful tribal leaders in the southeast Yaqi Banner, but he is just an ordinary tribal chief under the Wu clan, the noble level is low, and there are only more than 3,000 controls under the tent, and his strength is also weak, and he is far from the Turkic high class.

Tonight's important military meeting was presided over by Suni Aswin, and the first to appear was the chief adviser of the Tooth Banner, Dagan Shi Alimen.

The position of Dagan is assigned by a special person in the tooth tent in order to form a check on the supreme and deputy chief and deputy chief of the tooth banner.

This kind of restraint belongs to the internal, in a system, know oneself and know the other, effective decentralization, restraint, to prevent the power of the supreme governor from getting out of control, unlike Tutun this inspector, directly appointed by the Khan, directly responsible for the Khan, it belongs to another system, and the military and political system is born with contradictions, sharp opposition to each other, the pros and cons are great, many times once the conflict is fierce, the Khan and the tooth tent are involved, the slightest carelessness will form political turmoil, so to the era of the Qimin Khan, learned a lesson, set up a permanent position, Tutun is not permanent, in order to alleviate the contradictions between the tooth tent and the tribe and the population, and speed up the speed of recuperation. After Shibi Khan succeeded him, he had great ambitions to defeat Middle-earth and complete the great cause of unification, which inevitably required centralization of power and increased control over tribes and populations, so Tutun was once again all over the desert.

The southeast tooth banner is no exception, because the chief and deputy governors Ashina and Ashina Yelan are both conservatives in the tooth tent, so not only Tutun is served by the radical Ashide Mohuang in the tooth tent, but even Dagan is also served by Shi Alimen, the backbone of the radical faction in the tooth tent. The confrontation between the decision-making level of the tooth banner led to Ashina's aggressiveness even if he tried his best, but he failed to monopolize the power, and so far he was at most overwhelmed by the opponent, and this is also the reason why the rebels in Middle-earth were out of the fortress before, and the lightning river was in crisis. But Shi Shu Hu Xi guessed the result correctly, but did not guess the process correctly, and made a mistake in decision-making, which finally allowed Li Fengyun to seize the flaw and successfully break through the interception and enter Anzhou.

It is precisely because of this that Shi Shu Huxi, ashamed, accepted Ashina Simo's persuasion, and went to Middle-earth with him to explore the truth and truth, trying to find a fighter to reverse the crisis, and the radical forces of the tooth banner Tutun Ashi De Mohuang and Dagan Shi Alimen also temporarily "died down", took the initiative to cooperate with Ashina, stared at the Xi tribe with fierce eyes, and patiently waited for the opportunity to attack.

Although there are fierce battles on both sides of Taoshui, and the passage of the flat pine forest has been cut off, there are many paths from Anzhou to the Lightning River, but the mountain is high and the road is dangerous, and it takes more time, and the news can still be transmitted.

Among the various news, the most surprising thing for them was the fall of Fangcheng and the destruction of the Xi Wangfu by the Middle-earthers, and the reason for this bad result was that after Ah Huizheng heard the bad news, the first thing he thought of was not to withdraw the army to counterattack, but to preserve his strength. Unwilling to exterminate the tribe, the Middle-earth people surrendered neatly, and helped the Middle-earth people conquer Fangcheng, so the situation changed subversively in a short period of time, and the originally passive Middle-earth people instantly grasped the initiative, while the originally active Xi people fell into the predicament of annihilation.

It's just that this news mainly comes from the Humiliating King Department in the Ghost Fang City, and the secret agents secretly deployed in Fangcheng by the Tooth Banner, although the same news was sent back, confirming the betrayal of the Humiliation King Department and the fall of Fangcheng, but also found out that King Xi Ah Huizheng had rushed to Wulieshui with the main army, which was close to Fangcheng, and the Middle-earth army had poured out, as for whether the two sides had launched a decisive battle, it is not known at present, and at the same time the news from the Ghost Fang City said that the two sides fought fiercely in Wulieshui, and both sides were defeated.

Although it is only more than 600 miles from Fangcheng to Lightning Plains, it is chaotic during the war, and it is very difficult to pass the news due to the blockade of the passes, so the latest news is also ten days ago, and it is from the Ghost Fang City more than 300 miles away. The serious lag in the news has led to a dilemma in Yaqi's analysis of the situation in Anzhou, and the biggest problem is, whether to send troops into Anzhou within the Great Wall? Has Middle-earth taken a superficial stance and wants to tear its face with the Turks? This is very important and has a direct impact on the future trend of the situation between the North and the South.

As for how the first battle of Wulieshui was fought and what the result was, it is also closely related to this. If an army is sent within the Great Wall, and Middle-earth is determined to tear its face with the Turks, Ah Hui will definitely be defeated, and Xi is in danger of destruction. As for the powerful Middle Earth, although it is in danger of being attacked by the enemy on the battlefield of Anzhou, because the king of Middle-earth, Chen Bing, is in the wilderness, staring at the Lightning River, as long as the southeast Yaqi sends troops to Anzhou, it will also fall into the dilemma of fighting on two fronts. So the tooth banner did not dare to move, even if he knew that Fangcheng had fallen, even if the news of Ah Huizheng's defeat came from Wulieshui, the tooth banner did not dare to rush into Anzhou, unless the tooth banner got the positive news, Middle-earth would not tear his face with the Turks for the time being, and the Great Wall would not send troops to Anzhou for the time being, Middle-earth only wanted to drive the tiger and devour the wolf to kill people with a knife, and only wanted to use the power of the white wolf to contain and weaken the Turks, then the opponent of the tooth banner was the white wolf, and the tooth banner was sure enough to defeat the white wolf, and Ashina dared to send troops to attack, After all, the temptation of the fisherman's profit is too great, and Ashina will not miss it.

The day before yesterday, Yaqi received an urgent letter, which was sent by Jia Bitler Ashina Simo and Ji Lifa Shi Shu Huxi from the palace of the Emperor of Middle-earth, and was urgently delivered to the outside of the Saiwai with the help of the Middle-earth post station system.

The two told Yaqi that the envoy had not seen the Emperor of Middle-earth so far, and only Su Wei and Feng Deyi had to entangle with them meaninglessly every day, deliberately delaying, and all signs proved that the Emperor of Middle-earth intended to give more time to the knife that entered Anzhou. As long as the sword defeats the Xi people, captures Anzhou, confuses the situation in the northeast, and changes the situation of the confrontation between the north and the south, then the people of Middle-earth will seize the opportunity, and then they will definitely use the chaos in the northeast to contain and consume the Turks, and strive to gain enough time for the restoration of Middle-earth, so that Middle-earth will establish an advantage in the future war between the north and the south, which is very unfavorable to the desert.

In addition, Shi Shu Huxi also found important secrets from the mouths of some powerful people in the palace through secret means, and the Emperor of Middle-earth is actively promoting the center to make the decision of the third eastward expedition to Goguryeo, so Middle-earth will not only not tear up with the Turks in the short term, but will try its best to maintain the current stable north-south relationship, and this is also the reason why the Emperor of Middle-earth secretly supported the rebels to attack Anzhou, the purpose is to use Anzhou to attract and contain the Turks, and effectively relieve the pressure of the northern Xinjiang suppression, for which the Emperor of Middle-earth has made a decision, If necessary, a certain amount of material support was given to the Middle-earth rebels attacking Anzhou, but as for sending troops to support, it was absolutely impossible.

After analyzing, deducing, and weighing, Ashina Simo and Shi Shu Huxi finally came to the conclusion that the crisis must be nipped in the bud and the conspiracy of Middle-earth must be destroyed. The two suggested that Ashina be aggressive and tooth flag, take advantage of the knife and Ah Hui Zheng fierce battle in Wulieshui, take advantage of the favorable opportunity when the knife has not yet gained a foothold in Anzhou, immediately send troops to Anzhou, and the Xi people form a flanking situation, trap the knife in the predicament of the enemy, defeat the knife, kill the knife, only in this way, the Turks can maintain their advantage in the confrontation between the north and the south, and Ashina Simo and Shi Shu Huxi can seize the opportunity at the negotiation table.

This time, Ashina did not hesitate, what he was most worried about before was the attitude of the officials in Middle-earth, that is, he was worried about sending troops to Anzhou within the Great Wall. Now, this concern is gone, and the time has come to attack, and the Turks have finally shown their hideous faces, opened their sharp claws, and are ready to launch a fierce attack.

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