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In the old town at the foot of Dujin Mountain, the Tuli Khan Nashi Na Ran sat in the sweat tent and was in a very irritated mood, and the originally comfortable peaceful days were all messed up at once.

Warning signs, alarms, urgency, and messengers all the way back brought all kinds of bad news. There was a tense atmosphere everywhere, the wolf cavalry guards of Dulan Khan had already arrived north, and what was even worse was that the cavalry from the west had galloped back, and the soldiers and horses of the Western Turks west of Jinshan were also moving towards the eastern steppe. For a while, there were cavalry coming from the northeast everywhere, what the hell is going on?

Ashina Dan Gan is a Tuli Khan, but this Tuli Khan is not a great Khan, but a small Khan under the Great Khan.

Forty-nine years ago, the Turkic tribes broke Rouran, forty-seven years ago the Turkic tribes established a khanate, the following year to destroy Rouran, the following year to unify Tiele and the entire Mobei region, and gradually unify the land between the Great Khing'an Mountains and the Aral Sea. It became another hegemon of the northern steppe that replaced Rouran, but this emerging steppe overlord had just dominated the steppe for less than 30 years, but the Han people who had been divided in the Central Plains for many years were reunited and established the Great Sui Dynasty, while the Han people revived and rose, the Turks faced a civil strife caused by the succession of the Khan. At that time, the fourth Great Khan of the Turkic reign, Tuobo Khan, was seriously ill, and he was faced with the problem of an heir. Three years ago, before the death of the Khan of the Turkic Khanate, the third Great Khan of the Turkic Khanate, he did not let his son Da Luo succeed him, but instead installed his younger brother Tuobo to succeed him. After Tuobo succeeded to the throne, he took a picture of his nephew as Erfu Khan, and ruled the east. The younger brother is on the mattress, but he is the leader of the Khan

West.

He was the third son of Tumen Ili Khan, the founding Khan of the Turkic state. Also the fourth khan of the Turkic Khanate, before that. The position of Great Khan of the Turkic Khanate has been passed from father to son and brother to brother twice. Tuobo Khan is also a very powerful Khan among the Turks, with hundreds of thousands of troops, repeatedly attacking the Northern Zhou, forcing the Northern Zhou to call the ministers and pay tribute, and send the princess of the clan to the grassland and relatives. Unfortunately, his reign was short-lived, and he became seriously ill after only three years of reign.

When he was seriously ill, he eventually did not choose his own son to inherit the throne, but passed it on to his own brother, like his two brothers. The son of the Wooden Pole Khan, who had been appointed as the new Khan, was the new Khan. Unfortunately, as soon as he died, his decision was not accepted by the Turkic nobles. The eldest brother of the Tuobo Khan, the son of the second Khan of the Turkic Khanate, the son of the second Khan of the Turkic Khanate, took the lead in opposing it, and finally established the son of the Tuobo as the Great Khan, the fifth Great Khan of the Turks. However, Da Luo was difficult to accept and strongly opposed, and in the end, he had to pass the national council and gave up the position of the Great Khan to his cousin Setu Khan, who became the sixth Great Khan of the Turks. He is revered as the Khan of Shabalu. After Shabalu Khan ascended to the throne, he made Ura the second Turkic khan, then Da Luo as Apo Khan, and finally his uncle. The Taint who lived in the west and ruled the Western Turks was called Datou Khan. For a time, under the Great Turkic Khan, there were three extremely powerful Khans. and several smaller tribes that rule their own tribes.

After this succession, the Turks were ostensibly unified. But in fact, it is already full of princes.

Although the problem of the khanate was temporarily resolved, the seeds of division within the khanate were sown.

After Sha Bolu succeeded to the throne of the Great Khan. Sha Bolu also inherited the princess of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, who was the previous khan, according to the Turkic inheritance marriage system, as his own Hodun. At that time, Yang Jiangang usurped the power of the Northern Zhou Dynasty and established the Sui Dynasty, and he was indifferent to the Turkic courtesy and no longer treated him as favorably as he did in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, so the Turks were very resentful. And because of Yang Jian's destruction of her clan and country, Princess Qianjin made a statement to Sha Boluo day and night, asking him to avenge the Northern Zhou. At that time, Gao Baoning, the old general of the Northern Qi Dynasty, launched a rebellion in Yingzhou, and Sha Bolu and Gao Baoning jointly sent troops to attack the Sui Dynasty. A succession of wars broke out between the two sides, and by the following year, Sha Boliu gathered all the 400,000 troops of the five minor khans of the Khanate to invade the Sui Dynasty and invade the south of the Great Wall.

The Turks successively plundered all the livestock in Wuwei, Tianshui, Anding, Jincheng, Shangjun, Honghua, Yan'an and other counties. At this time, Datou Khan had already divided the Sui Dynasty and led his troops back alone. Immediately afterwards, the Sui general Changsun Sheng successfully lobbied the son of Sha Bo Luo Khan, Dye Gan, who lied about the military situation and said that the Tiele tribes had rebelled and were preparing to attack the Khan's tent.

In the third year of the emperor's opening, Sha Bolu sent troops to invade the south again, and the Sui Dynasty divided his troops into eight ways to counterattack the Turks, and Sha Bolu led Apo Khan, Greedy Khan and other Khan to meet the battle, but because of the light enemy, Sha Bolu led the army to defeat the army in Baidao for Yang Shuang, the king of Sha Bolu, and the Khan discarded the gold armor he was wearing, and lurked in the grass to escape. At that time, due to the lack of food in the Turkic army, they had to crush the bones as food, and the epidemic of disease in the army caused a large number of deaths. In May of that year, under the persuasion of Changsun Sheng, Apo Khan sent an envoy to the Chen Dynasty with Changsun Sheng to ask for peace, Sha Boluo had always been jealous of Apo Khan's bravery, and on the way back from his defeated army, he heard that Apo Khan wanted to make peace with the Sui Dynasty, so he immediately returned to the grassland, raised troops to attack the territory of Apo in the north, won a great victory, and killed Apo Khan's mother. After Apo Khan returned to the army, he had nowhere to stay, so he had to go west to Datou Khan in the west.

At that time, Datou Khan was strong in the west, and Apo came to surrender, so Datou supplied Apo with troops and weapons, and asked him to lead his army to attack in the east to fight Sha Bo. When Awa returned to the east, the old troops came to join him, and soon reached nearly 100,000 cavalry. So Apo fought a decisive battle with Sha Boliu, and the old and new hatred were together, not only for Sha Bolu to prevent him from inheriting the throne, but also for him to kill his mother and plunder part of his population and livestock. The two sides fought, and the new Sui Dynasty's defeated Sha Po was slightly defeated by the fierce Apo Khan Daluoben, and was defeated many times. Apo Khan defeated Shabalu in a row, regained his territory, and strengthened his army.

At that time, one of the five little khans, the greedy Khan Khan, had always had a harmonious relationship with the Apo Khan, and after Sha Bolu was defeated by Apo, he killed the greedy Khan again. Defeated the Greedy Khan Khan and captured his tribe. Depose his Khan. As a result, the Greedy Khan also fled to the Datou Khan, and the cousin of the Shabalu Khan, Diqincha, also commanded his own tribe. Because of the conflict with Shabalu Khan, he led the tribe to rebel against Apo Khan.

Apo Khan and Shabalu Khan were attacking continuously for a while, and at this time, both sides went to Chang'an to ask for peace and help from the Sui Dynasty, but Yang Jian only sat on the mountain and watched the tiger fight, and did not rescue either side.

Later, Sha Bolu's subordinates invaded Youzhou in the Sui Dynasty and killed Li Chong, the governor of Youzhou, and Yang Jian was furious and sent troops to attack Sha Bolu. Sha Bo Luo was defeated under the attack of Apo and the Sui Dynasty on both sides, and had to surrender, and finally the Sui Dynasty changed the princess of the Northern Zhou Dynasty to Princess Dayi, gave the surname Yang, and recognized Yang Jian's daughter, Sha Boluo became Yang Jian's son-in-law, and since then the Eastern Turks led by Sha Bo Luo were attached to the Sui Dynasty, and the emperor was opened for five years, and Sha Bo Luo was constantly hit by Datou and Apo. had to ask the Sui Dynasty to move to the Baidaochuan area and attach himself to the protection of the Sui Dynasty. Since then, Sha Bo has paid tribute to the Sui Dynasty every year.

In the seventh year of the emperor's reign, Sha Boluo died. He ordered his younger brother Ye Hu Luo Hou to succeed to the throne of Khan, called Mohe Khan, as the seventh great Khan of the Turks. But at this time, it could only manage the Eastern Turks. After Mohe Khan succeeded to the throne, he was able to fight well. He took advantage of the banner given by the Sui Dynasty to attack the Western Turks, which had split off in the third year of the emperor's reign. At that time, the Western Turks thought that the Eastern Turks were supported by the soldiers and horses of the Sui Dynasty, and they all fled, and the Eastern Turks increased their power greatly, but Yehu Khan, like the Tuobo Khan, had a very short reign. Mohe Khan only reigned for one year, and died in the west. At that time, there were many rumors that Mohe Khan was not killed by a single target, but was assassinated by assassins of the Sui Dynasty.

After the death of Mohe Khan, the son of Shabalu Khan, Yongyu Lu, succeeded to the throne of Khan, called Dulan Khan, and was the eighth Khan of the Turks. Dulan Khan has always believed that the previous Khan was actually assassinated by the Sui Dynasty. Later, it happened that Princess Dayi was killed by Yang Jian's eldest Sun Sheng because she had a complaint against the emperor of the Sui Dynasty. But Du Lan regretted it immediately after killing Princess Dayi, feeling that he had been tricked by the Sui Dynasty and the Tuli Khan. Du Lan asked the Sui Dynasty for a princess to marry, but Yang Jian was afraid that the Eastern Turks would become strong again, so he was not willing to marry the princess to Du Lan at all. Not only did he refuse his request for marriage, but he married the princess to the Tuli Khan.

Dyegan is the Turki Khan, belonging to the small Khan under the Eastern Turkic Khan, originally in the Turkic unification of the khanate, in the khanate divided into east and west, the east is the Turki region, the west is the Datou district, the first two of the leading nobles for the set, Datou set up the Turkish. Later, after Sha Bolu succeeded to the throne of Khan, in order to appease the powerful royal children, he turned the western rebellion into Datou Khan. During the reign of Mohe Khan, he named his son Dengan as the Khan of Qimin and administered the northern regions of the Eastern Turks.

The Tuli Khan was the son of the seventh Khan, Mohe Khan, and the brother of the first Khan, Dulan Khan. When the Turkic Khan reached Dulan, it had already reached the eighth, but in fact, Dulan was only the great-grandson of the founding Khan Tumen Khan.

The succession of the khan is also very chaotic, the three sons of Tumen have all succeeded to the throne, and the sons of these three brothers have basically been khans, the son of the second khan of the eldest Sha Bolu is the sixth khan, the son of the second and third khan is Apo Khan, and the son of the third and fourth khan is the second khan of the fifth khan. The succession of the Turks was not only from father to son, but also from brother to brother, uncle to nephew, in short, it was very chaotic, and because of this, it led to a powerful Turk that fell apart in just a few decades. Especially within the Turkic people, there are small khans under the big khan, and there are those special services under the little khan, in short, just like the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the feudal princes have all the military, political and civil power over their tribal territories, and they not only command the tribal civil, but also manage the military. The herdsmen of the tribe are also accountable only to their own chiefs. This leads to the fact that even if it is a great khan, the authority of its khan is completely inferior to that of the Han emperors of the Central Plains.

The heir of the Turkic Khan was Yehu, but Yehu was not the son of the Khan, and the Turks could marry multiple wives, regardless of size, so their children were not divided into concubines. Although Ye Hu is equivalent to the crown prince of the Han people, this Ye Hu is not only qualified for the sons of the Khan, but also for all the children of the Ashina royal family, and even the nephews of the Khan are also qualified to serve as him. This led to the increasingly fierce competition for the heir, but the children of the royal family were named special services, which were equivalent to the princes and county kings of the Central Plains. However, these agents divided their territories, which was different from the Han Dynasty, although the clan divided the vassal states, but the important official positions of the vassal states of the Han Dynasty were transferred by the imperial court, and even the size of the army was strictly limited. On the steppe, the Turkic tribal chiefs of these feudal tribes have all the military and political power over their respective tribes, which leads to internal strife, and the Turkic people are more prone to internal strife, and the war of the Five Khans more than ten years ago is also due to the struggle for the succession of the Khan, which eventually led to the division of the Turkic East and West, and led the Eastern Turkic vassals to surrender to the Sui Dynasty.

As the son of the previous Khan, Ashina Rangan is also a little Khan with great strength and commanding the northern part of the Eastern Turks, it is impossible to say that he has no ideas in his heart. You must know that Sha Bo didn't set up his son Du Lan as a khan, and his father Mo He was a khan, precisely because he felt that Du Lan was too cowardly. Therefore, when the Sui Dynasty took the initiative to get close to Dyegan and married the princess to him, and hinted that the Sui Dynasty would help him seize the position of Eastern Turk Khan, and even one day help him restore the unity of the entire Eastern and Western Turks, so that he could regain the position of the Great Turkic Khan, he was indeed moved. In his heart, he really wanted to seize the position of Khan, and he really looked down on Du Lan in his heart, and he felt that Du Lan was not worthy of being a Turkic Khan at all.

Therefore, when the emperor of the Sui Dynasty wanted to marry the princess to him, he happily accepted it, and went to Chang'an to marry the princess in person, without putting Du Lan's dissatisfaction and resentment in his heart at all. After being in Chang'an, he became more and more determined to follow the idea of cooperation with the Sui Dynasty. The central Sui Dynasty was too rich and powerful, and he was shocked by the incomparably tall cities, the splendid palaces, the endless flow of people, and the mountains of grain and cloth.

It's just that what he didn't expect was that Du Lan, that coward, would dare to do something to him.

And what he didn't expect was that the Datou Khan in the west would actually unite with Dulan. Twelve years ago, his father went west and defeated Apo Khan, captured him and dedicated him to the Sui Dynasty, after which the Sui Dynasty returned to Apo, but he was killed by Mo He, and it is said that Mo He was assassinated by the Sui Dynasty because of this. Tuli had never doubted this rumor, but he did not resent the Sui Dynasty because of it. In his opinion, the Sui Dynasty was too powerful, and his father was too sharp at the beginning, and he went on a large-scale expedition to the west, so he was jealous of the Sui Dynasty. Moreover, his father insisted on killing him despite the Sui Dynasty's will to release Apo Khan, which finally led the Sui Dynasty to attack. Today's Turks are no longer the Turks of the past, and today's Sui Dynasty is no longer the Northern Qi and Northern Zhou of the past. (To be continued......)