readx; The defection of Absi that occurred in the eleventh year of Tianbao was just a small incident for the Tang Dynasty, in addition to causing the emperor's anger, it could not cause any turmoil, and no one would pay attention to it, but for the Hui and Qarluq, it was a big thing, Tongluo was a strong tribe of the original Turks, and Absi was the second person in the Eastern Turks in addition to the Khan, and he led his troops to join the Tang Dynasty was a fortunate thing for the steppe tribes, and also made the Hui lose a big rival, and finally replaced the Eastern Turks to dominate the grassland. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, to a certain extent, the rebellion against the Tang Dynasty with the Luo tribe will change the pattern of power in the grassland, especially the alliance with the Luo tribe and the Qarlu tribe, which will seriously threaten the hegemony of the Hui in the grassland, which is absolutely intolerable to the Hui people.

The Hui Ya tent is located at the northern foot of the Oude Mountain, the upper reaches of the Kunshui, here is the power center of the Hui people, the Hui people have gone through several twists and turns, and finally by the Huairen Khan bone force Pei Luo in the fifth year of Tianbao to attack the last Turkic monarch Baimei Khan, since then, the Hui Khanate replaced the Later Turkic Khanate, unified the steppe, and became the overlord of the northern steppe, but the Huairen Khan died in the sixth year of Tianbao, succeeded by his son Mo Yan Si, and was canonized as Gele Khan.

The Uighur tent is located on a large grassland with abundant pastures and abundant water, and thousands of Uighur herdsmen's tents are scattered on both sides of the river, including the Khan of Gele Khan.

In the morning, the Khan was heavily guarded, and inside the Khan tent, Gel Khan was convening an emergency meeting of the chiefs of the tribes and the main generals of the Uighur tribe, and the topic of the meeting was how to deal with the westward migration of the Absi tribe.

Gol Khan was about 30 years old, and he was known as the first warrior of the Hui ten years ago, and he also stood out among the many descendants of Guli Peiluo and became a new generation of Uighur Khan.

When the climate in the north is cold, and the grassland can not survive, the grassland people will go south, looking for new vitality, whether it is Turkic or Hui, no exception, but afraid of the powerful Tang Dynasty, Hui has always been afraid, until the Anshi Rebellion broke out, the Tang Dynasty asked Hui for help, which gradually changed Hui Hui's attitude towards Tang, from the beginning of fear to contempt, and then ambitious to the Tang Dynasty, constantly sent troops south to harass, And forcibly occupied the North Court, especially in the Anshi Rebellion, they put forward the conditions of exchanging the women of the two capitals for their troops, and finally Li Yu, the king of Guangping at that time, considered that there were many families in Chang'an City, and conniving at the Hui people to rob their women would cause the Tang Dynasty to lose the support of the family clans, and finally stopped the Hui people from looting Chang'an, but Tokyo Luoyang did not have such good luck, the Hui soldiers robbed the Han women in Luoyang, robbed the property, the people were terrified, tens of thousands of people hid in the White Horse Temple in Luoyang for refuge, and the Hui set fire to the temple, As a result, more than 10,000 people were burned alive, and this was the horrific tragedy of the White Horse Temple, and hundreds of thousands of women were finally taken away from the eastern capital of Luoyang.

After six years of rule, Gele Khan has gradually become full-fledged, although he still pays tribute to the Tang Dynasty every year, but he has already felt impatient, his ambition is growing, this time Absi moved westward, so that his ambition for the North Court quietly emerged, he couldn't help but think of the failure of their attempt to the south of Jinshan a few years ago, so this time, why didn't they take this matter to test the attitude of the Tang Court?

"I've made up my mind!"

Gel Khan said to the people in no uncertain terms: "The alliance with the Luo tribe and the Jinshan Qarlu tribe will be the greatest danger to our return, and we must not tolerate it, and we must strike at them while they are not firmly established." ”

Speaking of this, Gele Khan glanced at Ashina, the chief of the Baye Ancient Division, and said slowly: "The matter has to come step by step, and the first step is to be taken by the Baye Ancient Division, you have to create an incident and let us find an excuse to go south." ”

．．．．．．． On the vast prairie south of Jinshan, inside and outside the tents that have just been built, there are busy Tongluo herdsmen everywhere, a group of herdsmen on horseback gallop by, looking for open space to set up tents everywhere, this is a tribe of Tongluo tribe, composed of about 2,000 people, the tribal leader He Mier is about 60 years old, is a bronzed-skinned old man, rough and bold, hearty laughter is his characteristic.

Riding on his horse, he looked contentedly at the pasture, for to the north was the reckless mountain of gold, through which the river Doros flowed, and where the pasture was abundant enough to raise tens of thousands of sheep, and that the great chief Abs had told him that the Shatuo tribe in the south had agreed to take them over in the winter, and that the winter would be warmer than here.

Of course, Tongluo's ultimate goal is to move west to Yibanhai and establish his own khanate in the vast land north of Yibanhai, and no longer become anyone's vassals, but this requires the permission of the Tang Dynasty, more precisely, the permission of the Anxi Jiedu envoy, and the Tang Dynasty will not bother about the affairs north of Yibanhai.

He Mier squinted at the grassland, when a group of young people rode up and smiled enthusiastically: "Uncle Hemier, we will help you set up a tent!" ”

"What are you foals doing when you don't patrol around the prairie and come back?"

"What's the point of patrolling, let's come back and set up tents for everyone."

A young man named Kazagu laughed and said, "Uncle Hemier knows that my mother can't pack the tent alone, so I'm coming back." ”

"Kazagu, don't worry about your mother's affairs, our whole clan will help him, you see!"

He pointed to a tent in the distance and said with a smile: "Isn't your mother's tent already erected?" You can rest assured! ”

Seeing that his mother was milking a goat next to the tent, the young man who saw him couldn't help but wave his hand excitedly, and said to Hemier: "Uncle, then I will go on patrol." ”

He beckoned to everyone, "Come with me, everyone!" ”

A group of young men turned their horses' heads and headed north, and as he looked at their energetic backs, he shook his head and said to himself, "Another group of foals have grown up." ”

He looked at the sky again, and it was already dusk, so he turned back and shouted, "Everyone, work hard, make sure you set up all the tents before it gets dark!" ”

．．．．．．． At this time, it is the middle of April, it is the most abundant season of the year in the grassland, under the night, the warm south wind blows slowly on the grassland, everywhere is the low chirping of small insects, a bright full moon hangs on the golden mountain, the grassland is covered with a thin layer of silver-white color.

The herdsmen of Tongluo Department have been busy for a whole day, they are all exhausted, and they have fallen asleep soundly in the silent night, suddenly, there is a rapid sound of horses' hooves in the distance, this is not the sound of the herdsmen's return, the sound of horses' hooves is as rapid as wind and fire, as if something big has happened, and the sound of rapid horses' hooves will wake many people from their dreams.

"Run!"

In the night, someone was faintly shouting: "Hui people.... Kill is coming! ”

"Ahh Many people jumped up from their sleep, their hearts were full of surprise, I don't know what happened, at this time, more people woke up, but not because someone shouted, but the earth was trembling slightly, they were all people who grew up on horseback, and they all knew that only the gallop of thousands of war horses or more, would have this kind of earthquake feeling.

"Run!"

The voice was nearer again, and not a few people could hear it as the voice of the young warrior Ghazagu, and even the thunderous Hemil was awakened from his dream by his wife.

"What's wrong?" Hermil strode out of the tent and shouted.

There was already a great chaos outside the tent, men, women and children were packing up the most valuable things, when a war horse galloped in, and the people on the horse fell to the ground with a clatter, and someone shouted: "Uncle Hemil, it's Kazagu, he's covered in blood!" ”

"Run... It's coming! ”

As soon as Kazagu's words fell, a large group of cavalry appeared hundreds of steps away, and thousands of horses galloped, sweeping like a raging wave, and immediately the sword light flashed, and the shouting of killing shook the sky.

Hemil's face changed drastically, and he screamed wildly, "Run, don't worry about things!" ”

He rolled over his horse to the tent and cut the reins with a single sword, when his wife ran barefoot, "What happened, Hermil?" ”

He had no time to explain, and he galloped wildly, grabbed his wife on the horse, and fled for his life, and he was less than fifty paces away from the camp, when the Hui cavalry rushed like a tidal wave, and in an instant they swallowed up their tents, and faintly heard the screams of some people who had not had time to escape.

Hormier's heart was so painful that he whipped his horse and fled for his life westward with a speed he had not seen in decades.

In the middle of April of the 11th year of Tianbao, the 6,000 cavalry of the ancient tribe of Hui Baye crossed the south of Jinshan and attacked a tribe of the Tongluo tribe at night, killing about 1,000 people from the old and young women and children and some young people, and nearly 1,000 people escaped with their surnames and fled to the big tent of the Yehu of the Tongluo tribe 200 miles to the west.

．．．．．．．．． Two days later, Li Qing'an received the news that the Hui people had attacked Tongluo at night.

Li Qing'an returned to Anxi ten days ago, his wife temporarily lived in Qiuzi City, as soon as he returned to Anxi, Li Qing'an began to prepare for the battle against Tubo, in his nearly 200,000 troops, more than half are deployed in Lingxi, and in the northwest court of Anxi there are only 40,000 new troops, which is obviously far from enough, for this reason, he must change the elite troops of Broken Leaf to Anxi, in this campaign against Tubo, Longyou's Ge Shuhan is the main force, he only needs to cooperate with Ge Shuhan from the flank, so Li Qing'an is only ready to send 50,000 troops, so that it will not affect the army Tuntian.

The food problem also plagued Li Qing'an, although he decided to exchange the prisoners of war for food for food in Xinde, but it still took time, but fortunately, half of his 200,000 troops were Hu soldiers from the Western Regions, and they could use Anxi's abundant beef and mutton to solve the grain.

That's it, he only has 300,000 stone of grain, distributed to each soldier, each person only has three stone of grain, and it can only last for three months, he needs at least half a year's grain to wait until the autumn is ripe, the imperial court promised to send 100,000 stone of grain to support Anxi, so that there is still a two-month shortage, if the grain of the big food can be transported in time, it can solve the problem, but if the food is really insufficient, then it is only with beef and mutton to supplement the shortage of food.

In this way, the food was barely enough, but at this moment, Li Qingan got the news that the Hui people were attacking Tongluobu.

The sudden incident disrupted his deployment, and he suddenly realized that the Hui wolf behind him had quietly revealed its claws.

"General, I thought there were two possibilities."

Feng Changqing, the deputy envoy of Anxi Jiedu, analyzed his views to Li Qing'an, Feng Changqing will be the main general of this campaign against Tubo, and he has always stayed behind in Beiting, so he has gone south from Beiting to Qiuzi and is ready to accept Li Qing'an's appointment.

"Maybe the Hui people have no intention of attacking Beiting, they just feel threatened because they moved west with the Luo tribe, and their purpose is to take advantage of the unstable foothold of the Tongluo tribe and annihilate it in one fell swoop."

"What about the other possibility?" Li Qingan asked again.

"Another possibility is that Xiang Zhuang danced the sword, intended for Pei Gong, they were nominally fighting Tongluobu, but in fact they used this as an excuse to test the reality of the North Court, if we counterattacked the weak, they would cross the Jinshan in a big way and start a war against the Tongluo and Qarlu people, if they won, they would even sweep south and capture the North Court in one fell swoop."

Feng Changqing's two analysis, Li Qing'an is more inclined to the latter, he slowly paced in the room with his hands behind his back, his brows furrowed, there are only nine thousand garrisons in Beiting, and they are all recruits, he is not afraid of the Hui people, but if the Hui people are really intended to be in the north court, then he has to draw troops to the north, facing the pressure of two-front combat, although he has gunpowder, but his gunpowder weapon is still the most primitive stage, only suitable for the city attack and defense and against the big cannibal group combat, but for the nomads this kind of wind, If the cavalry disperses the combat method like electricity, the killing radius is too small, even if the gunpowder bag is mixed with iron beads and iron sheets, it will not play much role, and the artillery they can't cast yet, and similarly, at the high altitude of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, his gunpowder will not play a role.

In the final analysis, to deal with the Hui and Tibetans, we still have to rely on traditional bows and cavalry, as well as Anxi's unique Modao army.

While Li Qing'an was pondering, Cui Qianyou, another general next to him, said: "General, I thought that the Hui people did not know that we were preparing to launch the Tubo Campaign, if they knew, they would take advantage of our full strength to fight with Tubo, and then launch a surprise attack, which would make us more passive, and now they attacked Tongluo at night, but reminded us that they think that this is just a prelude to them, looking for an excuse to start a war, if we counterattack, then they will inevitably attack Beiting in a big way, but if we don't fight back, However, they took advantage of the situation to concentrate their forces against Tongluo and Qarluq, and after the war, they occupied the west of Jinshan and eyed Beiting. ”

"What about you?" Li Qingan stopped and looked back at Cui Qianyou.

"In the opinion of his subordinates, Suo gave up passive defense, and directly united the forces of the three families of Tongluo, Gelulu, and Shatuo, together with a 10,000-strong Han army, and took the initiative to cross Jinshan and launch an attack on the interior of the Hui, robbing them of supplies and burning their forage, so that they could not launch a large-scale attack on Beiting."

Li Qing'an pondered for a moment, Cui Qianyou was reasonable, the two-front battle really made him very difficult, the best way was to extinguish the ambition of the Hui people to go south before the Tubo Battle started, thinking of this, he resolutely turned back to Feng Changqing and said: "Changqing, you continue to prepare for the war and try your best to raise food and grass!" ”

He said to Cui Qianyou again: "You and I will rush to the North Court immediately!" ”

．．．．．．．． Four days later, Li Qing'an and his entourage rushed to Beiting City, currently in the three armies of Beiting, the Tianshan Army soldiers and horses stationed in Gaochang are the original Li Qing'an's personal soldiers Zheng Cheng, and the Yiwu Army soldiers and horses are Yang Zaicheng, these two armies are 2,000 people each, and the largest number of Han Navy, the soldiers and horses are the general Nan Jiyun, and the deputy general is the general Gu Huai'en who came from Longyou to support.

Servant Bone Huaien was originally the Shuofang Army's soldiers and horses, he led the army to support the Battle of Stone Fort City, after the war his army was detained by Ge Shuhan and did not return, and later was borrowed by Li Qing'an to the North Garden, the Servant Bone Huai'en was proud of his high merit, and he was not subject to Li Qing'an's dispatch, so he must not be reused, during the Battle of Talas, his army was transferred to Broken Leaves, and he himself stayed in the North Garden, lost the army, and he had no basis to rely on, until now he only served as the deputy envoy of the soldiers and horses, and became the deputy of the junior Nan Jiyun, which made him both annoyed, but helpless.

This time, Li Qing'an returned from Anxi and convened an emergency military meeting, which was also attended by the servant Bone Huai'en, who sat in the last row, without saying a word, and listened to the discussion with a sneer on his face.

When Li Qing'an set off, he flew a pigeon to send a message to Beiting, ordering the leaders of the three tribes of Gelulu, Shatuo, and Tongluo to gather in Beiting City to discuss the dispatch of troops.

The southern invasion of the Hui people across Jinshan not only infringed on the interests of the Tang Dynasty, but also seriously threatened the survival and safety of the Qarlu and Shatuo tribes, and the Tongluo tribe was the victim, and he was even more determined to send troops for revenge.

Dozens of people gathered in a large hall, Li Qing'an sat in the middle of the handsome position, the general Cui Qianyou stood beside him, the soldiers and horses of the Hanhai, Tianshan, and Yiwu armies sat separately, followed by the Gellulu Department of the assassination of Heishan and the father and son of Sihan, the Zhu Xie Guluzhi and Zhu Xie Duzhong father and son of the Shatuo Department, and the Abu Si and others of the Tongluo Department all rushed over.

In the middle of the lobby is a sand table map, which is a map of the north courtyard and its surroundings, and next to the sand table, a young man from the Tongluo tribe, Kazagu, is talking loudly about what happened that night.

"Fifteen of us patrolled at the foot of Jinshan, and the Hui suddenly appeared from the mountain pass, there were more than 6,000 people, and I was the only one of the fifteen of us who escaped."

"Are they going back to the headquarters or are they from another department?" Assassination Montenegro asked loudly.

"They are the ancient tribe of Batye, and I saw Ashina's son Kunbu."

Assassinating Black Mountain said angrily: "A small Baye Ancient Department dares to be so rampant, wait for me to destroy him!" ”

Absi sighed and said: "Great Chief, there is nothing to worry about the Baye Ancient Division, they are just the vanguard troops, the key is the threat of the Hui headquarters, we still listen to the arrangement of the Great General." ”

Everyone quieted down together, and at this time, Li Qingan snorted heavily: "I convened everyone to hold this meeting today, just to make one thing clear to you, whether it is the Baye Ancient Department or the Hui Headquarters, whether they are attacking the Tongluo Department or the Qarlu Department, as long as they take a step out of Jinshan, it will be a provocation to my Anxi." ”

Since Li Qing'an said this, everyone understood what he meant, he was going to use force against the Hui, which is also what everyone expected, the grassland has always been the strong for the king, whether it is Gelulu, Tongluo or Shatuo, they are the same as the Hui, they are all Turkic tribes, Tianbao three years, the Qarlu Department and the Tongluo Department together with the Hui Department sent troops to defeat the Later Turkic Usumish Khan, but in the end the Hui people took away the grassland.

This has always made several other departments angry, this time Gelulu, Tongluo, and Shatuo decided to jointly attack the Hui, and with the support of the Tang army, they were ready to try.

Li Qingan continued: "This counteroffensive will be jointly dispatched by our four parties, but the supreme command is in charge of the Tang Army, and I entrust General Cui Qianyou to represent me as the chief general of this campaign, and his order is my order, and you must not disobey!" ”

The stabbing Black Mountain and Zhu Evil Bone Clan, as well as Absi, stood up together and said, "We will obey the order!" ”

(To be continued)