The three of them have decided, they each got up, Changsun Sheng glanced at the sun outside that had begun to climb the branches, and said with a smile: "Presumably at this time, that Lu Delin should have been taken down by Wang Tingshi, Hua Qiang, you are now wearing armor, there are many guards accompanying you, I have already arranged it for you, and one more guard will not make people suspicious." ”

Wang Huaqiang nodded and said, "Then I'll go, the two of you work hard, let's meet here after changing our clothes." With that, he turned and walked out of the room.

The smile on Changsun Sheng's face gradually solidified, and he looked at Wang Huaqiang's departing back, thoughtfully.

Pei Shiju took two steps forward and said softly: "Ji Sheng, can Huaqiang really mess up the Turks this time?" ”

Changsun Sheng's expression became very stern: "I'm afraid it's not as simple as he imagined, but this time, as long as you get rid of Princess Dayi, you can do it all blue and dye, and I will have to go out in person in the future." Hongdae, remember the explanation given by the servant when he set off, in case Wang Huaqiang made a mistake, we must not let him be involved in the mission and the Great Sui, and we must draw a clear line with him when the time comes. ”

Pei Shiju sighed: "Isn't it too righteous for us to do this?" People are playing with their lives, taking such a big risk, and we will watch him die? ”

Changsun Sheng shook his head, the expression on his face was as resolute as ever: "Envoy to the state of tigers and wolves, everyone is playing with their heads, do you see how many times my Changsun Sheng used to do it, didn't you put life and death out of the way?" Personal life and death are small, and when the two countries go to war, millions of lives will be destroyed. ”

Pei Shiju stopped talking, only a long sigh.

Five days later, on the boundless prairie, Wang Huaqiang wore full armor, rode on a tall horse, mixed in a bunch of strong and mighty guards, and followed a long dragon that was two or three miles long and pulled hundreds of carts slowly.

It has been four days since they came out of Daizhou, and on the afternoon of the meeting between the three, Wang Huaqiang estimated that Duan Da and the others should have camped in the cave, and secretly instructed Wang Xuan to send his own soldiers to wipe off the car marks on the road overnight, and the next morning, the mission set off on the road.

The boundary monument between the Turks and the Great Sui is at the end of the sheep intestine trail in the north of Daizhou City, and after going out of the mountain, there is an endless steppe of thousands of miles, and the Turkic greeting envoy also got a notice from Changsun Sheng the night before, and brought people here early to greet him.

This time, the envoys of Changsun Sheng and Pei Shiju brought more than 1,000 people, and there were 300 elites selected from various armies, and according to custom, they all selected people with excellent archery skills and strong martial arts to deter the Turks.

Because everyone came from different troops, Changsun Sheng specially selected ten strong men in Daizhou, and mixed Wang Huaqiang into one of them to join, so everyone didn't have any doubts about Wang Huaqiang, foreign affairs discipline, you shouldn't ask yourself, you can't talk a word, this point was announced before departure, everyone still understands.

In addition to the three hundred guards, there were only forty or fifty official envoys of the mission, and the rest were servants of more than a hundred silk carts.

Wang Huaqiang saw that these people were also athletic and powerful, far from ordinary people, and they should also be temporary cameos of elite soldiers. In diplomacy with strong neighbors in the north, it is necessary to show strength and demonstration, and in contrast, Wang Huaqiang, who was physically stronger than ordinary people, looked a little thin and thin among these strong men who were like wolves and tigers.

The envoy who came to greet the Turks was a special service named Yintou, who was the son or brother of the Turkic Khan, who went out to take charge of a tribe, which was equivalent to the clan or prince of the Sui Dynasty. This Yin Tou spy is another younger brother of Du Lan, who has a tribe of 10,000 tents, and this time he brought 2,000 cavalry from his headquarters to meet the Sui Dynasty mission and was responsible for escorting them to the Khan's headquarters.

Changsun Sheng has entered the Turks many times, and he is familiar with this special service, and the relationship between the two has always been good. And the two thousand Turkic cavalry, all of them were one person and two horses, riding one horse, leading one euro, guarding the road on both sides of the team, but looking at the Sui Dynasty mission, there was a chill in the cold, always looking at their prey, not a warm and friendly welcome look.

Wang Huaqiang also held a long lance on the way, carrying a bow and arrows, this time to the Turks, in order to show the military prestige of the Sui Dynasty, all the knights were wearing Mingguang armor weighing fifty or sixty pounds, holding a heavy horse lance that was more than a foot long, carrying a strong bow with two stones and four points, the left side of the saddle was hung with a crossbow, and the right side was hung with chain hammers, sabers and other melee armor-piercing weapons.

Wang Huaqiang's strength is not comparable to these muscular fierce men, watching them hold dozens of pounds of pure steel riding lance, lifting weights as lightly, as if holding a small wooden stick as easily, while he has sore muscles every day and has difficulty breathing, but in order to pretend to be more like, he gritted his teeth every day.

The next day, Wang Huaqiang thought of a good way, not holding the lance in one hand, but putting the handle on his thigh, so that the leg bears most of the weight, and the soreness of the arm is relieved a lot.

In this way, although the two legs are a little harder, the pressure on the arms is much less, and I can't see anything unusual with other people when I hold the soaring lance high every day.

The Turkic tribes had to change their pastures every season and had no fixed place to live, and the large tribes, such as the Khan's Ashina headquarters, had 60,000 or 70,000 tents.

There is no family planning on the grassland, and there are no other entertainment activities, generally the only activity after the night is the party meeting, so a tent is often less than four or five, more than a dozen, the population of Ashina alone is hundreds of thousands, cattle and sheep are millions, a grassland within a radius of dozens of miles, can not afford the annual consumption of these tribes.

So the tribes on the grassland have to migrate all year round, and each tribe has a fixed fixed pasture, often close to the water source, and the manure pulled by the cattle and sheep here in the previous year has become dry and eggs all year round, which can be used as fertilizer to nourish the grass that was eaten in the previous year, and can also be picked up as fuel for fire.

But after all, there are so many good pastures on the grassland, and the powerful tribes occupy four camps each, as the population on the grassland increases, more and more tribes are separated, and over time, there will gradually be more people and less land, and the territory is not enough, so the powerful tribes often begin to seize the grasslands of other weak tribes, which is almost the fundamental reason for the inter-tribal attack on the grassland.

For example, because of the accession of Dulan Khan, he had to pay thousands of accounts from this part in accordance with the rules of the steppe to stand on his own, and Dulan Khan was polite to his younger brother who firmly supported him in the battle for the throne, and gave him two thousand accounts from the tribe of his younger brother who was attacked.

With the strength of six or seven thousand tents and 20,000 cavalry, they have robbed many weak tribes of territory and tents in a few months, and now they have developed to the strength of 12,300 tents, becoming the second largest tribe of the East Turks after the Khan's headquarters.

Last night, the mission passed through the tribe of Yintou, where a night of party, Wang Huaqiang also enjoyed a good meal of roast mutton and mare's milk wine on the grassland, and the fatigue and discomfort of the past few days were swept away, but today, he had to get up early in the morning and go on the road with the large army.

In the era of Sha Bolu, the tooth tent of Ashina's headquarters, that is, the entire East-Turkic Great Khan, was set up north of Yinshan to show his obedience to the Sui Dynasty and had no ambition to go south, but as soon as Du Lan ascended the throne, he set up the tooth tent to the south of Yinshan, and its purpose was clearly revealed.

However, in this way, it also saves Wang Huaqiang and others the suffering of crossing the desert, the great desert between today's Inner and Outer Mongolia is an obstacle to the expansion of natural grassland forces to the Central Plains, the Han Dynasty counterattacked the Xiongnu, and fought without a royal court in the south of the desert, but in turn wanted to cross the desert north to give the Xiongnu a single fatal blow, and almost consumed the national strength of the entire Han Dynasty, although Wei Qing and Huo Qubing succeeded in a battle, but behind it were the bones of hundreds of thousands of war horses and soldiers.

Wang Huaqiang looked up at the sky, the sun was in the sky, several goshawks were flying high in the boundless clear sky, there was still about a day away from the Khan's tooth tent, what kind of fate would it be?