Wang Huaqiang was stunned in place, he didn't expect Gao Xi to ask himself this question, which caught him off guard, but his reaction was very fast, and he immediately calmed down and said, "Go to the north?" What does Master Gao mean that I am preparing to go to war against the Turks? ”

Gao Xi smiled and shook his head: "That's not true, I just destroyed Nan Chen, and it will take several years to pacify the Jiangnan area, Sima Fa said well, although the country is big, the belligerent will die, although the world is safe, forgetting the war will be dangerous."

As for the Turks, we have adopted a policy of peace and affinity and appeasement over the years, and this time we have mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops and millions of people, and at this time we have launched a full-scale war with the Turks, and the gains outweigh the losses. ”

Wang Huaqiang fixed his mind, this is the opportunity for God to show his talent in front of Gao Xi, and he said the Turkic situation he learned from the "Northern History":

In the north of China, beyond the Great Wall, there are thousands of miles of prairies, and when the five chaos was in China, the nomadic tribes on the grasslands entered the Central Plains one after another, and the most powerful one was the Xianbei tribe we are familiar with.

After they successfully entered the Central Plains, a tribe called Rouran took their place on the grassland and became the overlord of the grassland.

The ancestor of the Turks, according to legend, is in the west of the West Sea, is another part of the Xiongnu, surnamed Ashina.

On the grassland, the weak eat the strong, the winner is the king, and the tribes attack and kill each other, and the conquest is endless.

Ashina was attacked by other tribes, and the entire clan was slaughtered, leaving only a ten-year-old boy. The enemy, not knowing what his mentality was, cut off the child's limbs, cut it into a stick, and threw it into the wilderness to fend for himself.

Then a she-wolf met the poor child and brought him meat to eat, and in this way, the child grew up, married the she-wolf, and made the she-wolf pregnant.

When the leader of the enemies of the Ashina tribe heard about this, he sent his troops to cut down the grass and eradicate the roots, and the killers found the unknown child and killed him, while the she-wolf with a big belly escaped.

The she-wolf ran all the way to the east of the West Sea, and entered a mountain in the northwest of Gaochang Kingdom, where there was a huge cave, overgrown with dense grass, and the cave was hundreds of miles in circumference.

The she-wolf gave birth to ten sons here, and when these sons grew up, they snatched women from outside the mountains and multiplied their offspring, forming a tribe with ten surnames, one of which was called Ashina, the wisest of the brothers, and was elected as the leader, and these ten tribes were also called Ashinabu.

In order not to forget the history of blood and tears of their ancestors, Ashina had to set up a wolf's head in front of the tooth gate, and hundreds of years passed, Ashina gradually began to prosper, and they left the cave and surrendered to the overlord of the grassland at that time.

Rouran placed Ashina in the south of Jinshan, and built iron weapons for Rouran for generations. Because the shape of the golden mountain resembles a dougong, the Ashina tribe was renamed the douluo tribe, and after a long time, the homonym is called Turkic.

The Turks have been oppressed and humiliated by Rouran for generations, and every three years when Rouran sends troops to collect iron weapons, they will rob their property and insult their women.

But they are as cunning and forbearant as wolves, and they know that their strength is not enough to challenge the powerful Rouran, so they have been enduring and waiting for the opportunity.

Finally, Rou was defeated by the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the subordinate tribes on the grassland rebelled. At this time, the Turks also produced a heroic figure, called Ashina Tumen, who took the opportunity to quell the rebellion for Rouran, and greatly expanded his power, and when he defeated the Tiefu Department, he suddenly absorbed more than 50,000 households, and his strength increased greatly.

Tumen took the opportunity to ask the Rouran Khan Anagui to marry Princess Rouran, Anagui only said the word "roll" contemptuously, he looked down on these former slaves from the bottom of his heart, and sent a messenger to scold Tumen in person. As a result, Tumen was furious, killed the messenger, played a counter-flag, attacked Rouran, and after years of tug-of-war, he finally defeated Anagui.

After the death of Anagui, the remnants of Rouran supported his uncle Deng Shuzi to continue to fight against the Turks, and was defeated, Deng Shuzi defected to the Western Wei Dynasty at that time, and the Western Wei Taishi Yuwentai was the minister at that time, and Uncle Deng just came on the front foot, and the Turkic envoy followed on the back foot, and finally forced Yuwentai to hand over more than 3,000 Rouran royal families such as Deng Shuzi to the Turkic envoys.

The Turkic envoys were just outside the city, killing all the more than 3,000 people, and not one of them was left behind.

Ashina Tumen comes from the name of Yili Khan, the Turkic Khan is not sealed after death like the Han Dynasty, but added before his death, Yili is the honorific name, the surname Ashina, the name Tumen, similar to our Han Gaozu Liu Bang, Gaozu is the emperor's number, surnamed Liu Mingbang.

He is the same as the ancient Xiongnu Da Shan Yu, his wife is called Ke Dun, just like Shan Yu's Yanzhi, the queen of our Han nationality.

After the defeat of Rouran, Ili Khan also divided half of his troops to his younger brother Mur Dianmi, so that he could develop westward, passing through the Western Regions, and since then the Turks have been divided into two parts, east and west, and the border with our dynasty is mainly **.

The Turks are a bit like the Xianbei people, their skin is very white, their eyes are green, like the hungry wolves of the steppe, and like all the nomadic barbarians, they are sent to the left, live in tents, live in water and grass, and live on animal husbandry. Eating meat and drinking mare's milk, spending most of his life on horseback, both men and women riding and archery.

Their customs are also like the ancient Huns, despising the elderly, valuing the young and strong, without etiquette and righteousness, incorruptible and shameless, no different from wild beasts. When they are stronger than you, they will put you to death, and when they are weak, they can swallow their anger and be obedient like a sheep.

Today's Turks stretch from the Liaohai Sea in the east to the West Sea in the west, thousands of miles; From the north of the desert in the south to the North Sea in the north, five or six thousand miles. Under the Khan, the big officials had Ye Hu, the second set, the second special service, the second Lifa, the second Tutunfa, and the Yu minor officials, all of whom were twenty-eight and so on, all of which were passed down from generation to generation, and unlike the Han customs, each of their officials controlled a tribe of different sizes.

The Turks now have five or six hundred thousand men in control of the strings, and their weapons include horned bows, ringing dwells, armor, lances, knives, swords, and ornaments. Above the flag, Shi Jin's wolf head. The mode of combat is still mainly mounted archery, which comes and goes like the wind.

When their khan was first established, they gathered around the khan's horse, blindfolded him and made him turn around in the sun, and then strangled him by the neck with silk until he foamed at the mouth and was dying. At this time, he loosened the silk around the khan's neck and asked him how many years he could be a khan, and the number of years that the khan said at this time would be considered the will of God, and at this time, he would have to abdicate.

When the khan died, the Turks would gather around and sing and slash their faces with knives in order to shed blood and not tears.

Wang Huaqiang said all the records of the Turks he saw in the history books in one breath, Gao Xi didn't say a word, and the expression on his face couldn't show any changes in his heart.

After Wang Huaqiang finished speaking, Gao Xi opened his mouth and asked: "Wang joins the army, how much do you know about the current situation of the Turks, especially their military system and combat methods, as well as their attitude towards our dynasty?" ”

The Turkic history that Wang Huaqiang saw in the "Northern History" ended with the division of the Eastern and Western Turks, and did not explain much about today's Turks, but he still had some understanding of the Turkic warfare methods.

So Wang Huaqiang thought for a while and said: "The Turkic war is a standard nomadic war, the Khan is not like our emperor in the Central Plains, he can only be in charge of his own tribe, and Ye Hu, a tribe of this level, has more of an alliance than a subordinate.

Every time the khan wants to go to war, he will send envoys to contact the various tribes on the steppe, coerce and lure, and promise benefits, and for the tribes that are disobedient and unwilling to send troops, they will lead the crowd to besiege, so when the khan's prestige is high and all the tribes are obedient, the Turkic military strength will become very strong, and it is easy to pull out an army of more than 100,000 people.

In addition, they fought mainly in pure cavalry, and both men and women and children could shoot arrows on horseback, but the nomads lacked discipline in battle, and often rushed to be the first when they won the battle, and scattered in a hurry when they fell into a bitter battle, and even the khans could hardly control them.

The Turks often fought with the entire tribe, driving cattle and sheep, eating while walking, leaving women and children, the old and weak, cattle and sheep more than 100 miles away from the battlefield, while the elite warriors were one person and two horses, giving full play to the high mobility of the cavalry, they rarely attacked the strong city defense and the Han army infantry formation, but would keep going around in circles with you, until we showed fatigue or poor logistics, and then fought a decisive battle with us.

In general, this is a group of greedy, cunning steppe hungry wolves, do not fight a battle without taking advantage of it, it is very difficult to completely eliminate them, from the Northern Zhou Dynasty to our dynasty, to deal with them, they can often be defeated on the frontal battlefield, but can not hurt their roots, their erratic combat mode is the main reason. ”