Chapter 388: The Turkic Court
On September 16 of the first year of Qichang in the Dashun Dynasty, the weather was sunny.
The weather is getting colder, and for the north, the first snow will fall at any time, and the long winter will span into next year, and into March and April.
Time can no longer be delayed, although the soldiers of the Shun Dynasty are not short of military food for the time being, but they lack the cold for the winter and the experience of fighting in extremely cold weather. Liu Yu didn't want the soldiers of the Shun Dynasty to hate the northern grasslands, and all he could call on was the three hundred brave soldiers among the soldiers of the Shun Dynasty, and these were also the heroes who followed Huo Yi for thousands of miles to attack Jinyao City, and they were also given a mission today to assassinate the Turkic Heavenly Khan.
There is only one chance, and if you don't succeed, you will be a benevolent.
More than 300 soldiers of the Shun Dynasty approached the center of the Turkic court in a team of nearly 500 people in Huliqin, because the Central Plains people were roughly the same as the steppe people in appearance, and they were dressed in clothes, and it was basically enough to learn one or two sentences of emergency Turkic language. There are many Turkic language families, and the language used by the Khuritsu people is the Southern Turkic local language family, which is different from the language family used by the Khan, and even the Kuriqin people are rarely proficient in more than two languages, and they can pretend to be dumb when they encounter difficulties.
On this day, it seems that something important has happened in the Turkic royal court, almost all the tribes have been gathered, and it is not like a trivial matter to denounce the Kuliqin tribe, Liu Yu judged from the situation that the scouts were in a hurry to ride back and forth, the Chinese army led by Hua Ji'an had already exchanged hands with the outermost defense force of the Turkic royal court, and the Turks should have known that the danger was coming.
Timur, as a "prisoner", was escorted into the crowd, and the premise of her willingness to become a prisoner was that she had to stay within three feet of Liu Yu. She didn't believe in the old fox-like Khan. I don't believe in the Shun dynasty either. She now believes that Liu Yu is the only one left.
The closer they got to the interior of the royal court, the slower the procession became, as the number of people gradually increased, and Khuliqin Khan seemed to hesitate. He felt like he was going to a disaster, and there was no return.
"Kuriqin Khan, you should understand that we have no way back now. If you do something rash, not only will we not be allies, but you will be killed by us instantly. Your people will not be spared. Liu Yu saw Hu Liqin Khan's hesitation, and said with a cold face.
Kuriqin Khan glanced at Liu Yu, and regretted that he had taken Liu Yu and Timur in his own tribe, thinking that he was just a fledgling hairy boy, who would have thought that he would come to assassinate Tian Khan so viciously. Even if there were frequent bloody coups within the Khan, it was only a matter for the Khan, and in the Turks, the Khans represented the largest tribe, that is, the "Datou" tribe, among the Turks. The population of the Datou tribe is almost equal to the population of the other three tribes combined, which is also the basis for the Datou tribe to establish a unified power in the Turks.
The group walked nearly twenty miles to the north. Finally, after noon, he saw a huge flag flying in the sky, and several eagles were flying on the flag, Liu Yu looked up, and it was about a mile away from the position of the flagpole. That should be the center of the royal court, and it is also the destination of this time. Victory was in sight, but they were stopped by bands of Turkic cavalry.
Kuliqin Khan was very nervous when he saw the cavalry of the Khan Department, and he was weak in heart to be a thief, he did not come to worship this time but to be a traitor, the kind who killed himself. He had to lower his voice and step forward to negotiate. The cavalry leader didn't seem to have the intention of reproaching this group of men and horses, after all, there were only more than 500 people, and there were thousands of soldiers and horses in the royal court Khan's department, and they were all the best cavalry.
Soon Khuritsu Khan returned with instructions from the Turkic cavalry: "Let us surrender our bows and arrows, but we may bring our swords inside." ”
Liu Yu nodded to show that he understood, the people of the Turkic royal court were also afraid of bows and arrows, which were weapons for medium and long-distance attacks, and as for the sword, after all, it was a weapon for hand-to-hand combat, and as long as the pair was inferior in numbers, it would be difficult to form waves.
The Shun soldiers in the procession, like the Kuriqins, carried bows and quivers, and were asked to surrender them, and the bows and quivers were stacked together, and the Turkic cavalry took them away before making way for them to enter. Liu Yu originally thought that he had already succeeded halfway, but after entering, he found that there was some turmoil in the Turkic royal court, and people from various tribes gathered together as if they were quarrelling.
"The Khan Department wants to punish the Dardo Department and the Buli Department who collaborated with the enemy in the first battle against the Shun Dynasty, as if there was a little change."
The Dardo tribe is the fourth of the four tribes, while the Buli tribe is the fifth largest tribe outside of the four major tribes. Tian Khan wants to deal with two large tribes at once, and it is no wonder that people from other tribes have criticism.
Because of the tight defenses of the royal court, the team could not get close to the group of noble tents enclosed by stakes and fences where the flagpole was located, but some things could be seen from a distance with binoculars.
"Who are they going to execute?" Liu Yu said after a few glances.
"That's my father, and my people." Timur snatched Liu Yu's telescope and looked at it and said with a crying voice, "There are also some khans of other tribes, not only our Dardo tribe and Buli tribe, what is the heavenly khan going to do?" ”
"You're saying there's your father in there, Dardo Khan?" Liu Yu asked, seeing Timur nodding with a sad face, he asked again, "What about the other elders of your clan...... I mean, is the top management there? ”
Timur nodded hurriedly.
"Then hurry up and find someone to spread the word, just say that Timur is also here, and he was arrested by your Huliqin people!"
Finally, the card of Timur will be used, as for whether this is a trump card Liu Yu does not know for the time being, it depends on how much the people of the Datou clan attach importance to this grassland flower of the Dardo tribe. Liu Yu thought to himself that if he was the Heavenly Khan, he would be happy to learn that the only daughter of Dardo Khan was now caught, after all, Dardo Khan had no son, and this daughter was the future mistress of the Dardo tribe. With her, there is no need to go through such trouble as the Tudardo clan.
Population is also a resource.
After waiting for about half an hour after the news was conveyed, someone finally came out to spread the word, allowing the Kuriqin people to escort Timur into the wooden fence, which was equivalent to passing through the second line of defense inside the royal court, and there was only an internal external defense network left from the tent where Tian Khan was, and then he had to face Tian Khan's personal guards.
Two barriers.
As soon as they entered, before they could stand up, the group escorted a Turkic general wearing armor and pigtails into the wooden fence. Both the Kuriqin and the people of other tribes must get out of the way and let these people pass. Looking at the appearance of the Turkic general in armor covered in blood and covered in blood, he should have just returned from the frontline battlefield.
The bustle of the other tribes pointed and pointed, and Khuliqin Khan translated: "They said that if they were beaten like this by the Shun Dynasty, they deserved to be executed by the Heavenly Khan." ”
Even the defeated Turks still had a natural arrogance and considered them superior. This sense of superiority is very blind in Liu Yu's opinion, this general fought bloodily with the Shun Dynasty, but in exchange for the ridicule of these clansmen who sit behind enemy lines and enjoy their success, Liu Yu is not worth it for him.
The general was escorted into a large white tent, several stories high, and soon after, the man was re-escorted out and publicly beheaded. Even the head was hung up. Immediately after that, these soldiers, who looked like swordsmen and axes, went outside to escort the defeated generals in, busy back and forth.
When the team came in, they could only squeeze into the huge open space. There were tens of thousands of people waiting in the clearing, as if waiting for some important order from the Heavenly Khan. Liu Yu learned from Timur that there would usually be one or two such large gatherings every winter after the tribes gathered around the royal court.
After a while, several messengers came, and after seeing the Timur who had been tied up again, they brought orders from the Heavenly Khan.
"Tian Khan summoned us to the Huliqin people and escorted Timur into the big tent to talk. We could only go in thirty people at a time. After saying these words to Liu Yu with a sad face, in his opinion, the order of the Heavenly Khan was equivalent to the death sentence of the Khuliqin people. (To be continued......)