Du Jishi frowned: "What are you panicking, say it slowly!" ”

The man who was being held by the guards suddenly knelt down in front of Du Mi and cried, "My lord, something has happened in the tribe! ”

Hearing that the tribe was attacked, and thinking about the fate of Tong Lifa, Du Mi suddenly panicked, and quickly stood up and said: "Great Khan, please allow me to lead the troops back to rescue the clansmen!" ”

There were not many soldiers and horses in the first place, and they fought from Mayi to Loufu, and they lost some successively, and now there are only about 6,000 people. For the 200,000 Turkic army of Dujishi, even the absence of this army is nothing.

But Du Jishi thought more far-reachingly, and he muttered: "The soldiers and horses of the Great Sui dare to go deep into the grassland again, I am afraid that the comer is not good. Dumi, since they have invaded your tribe, it will not help you to rush back now. This matter must be strictly guarded with information, and no one is allowed to leak it at will! ”

After a pause, Du Jishi said to Liu Wuzhou again: "Lord Liu, there has been a sudden change on the grassland, and the matter of attacking Taiyuan can only be discussed later. Don't worry, we'll be back! ”

Although Du Jishi had decided to withdraw his troops and return to the Mobei grassland, he did not leave immediately. No matter how anxious Mi was, he still ordered to collect the soldiers and horses of various tribes step by step, and sent people to search for vehicles in various parts of Loufu, and loaded the concubines, palace maids and various treasures of Fenyang Palace one after another, and then returned to the north. The other tribes came all the way from Yanmen, and they also captured a lot of women's gold silks, but they did not return empty-handed, and the entire Loufu City was almost looted by them.

The Turkic army left Loufu and headed north, because there were many more vehicles in the ranks, and the march was very slow, stretching for hundreds of miles. Liu Wuzhou accompanied Du Jishi to the front, and saw that he was about to arrive in Yanmen County, but he saw a Turkic probe Malay report behind: "Great Khan, Liu Wuzhou's subordinates suddenly attacked and cut off the return route of the four tribes of Blockade and Gongcheng!" ”

Du Jishi's face sank, and he asked sharply: "Liu Wuzhou, what do you mean by this!" ”

Liu Wuzhou hurriedly crawled on the ground, his face was covered with sweat, and said in a loud voice: "The Great Khan is clear, the villain has been following the Great Khan, loyal to the Great Khan, and has not sent troops to cut off the retreat of the Great Khan's subordinates. There must be some misunderstanding here, please allow the villain to go and find out, and the Great Khan will definitely be fair. ”

The association rate jumped up and said loudly: "The Han people are cheating, Father Khan must not listen to his nonsense." It must be that he saw that we had withdrawn our troops, and he wanted to take advantage of the fire to rob. I asked my father Khan to give an order, behead this villain, and the child was willing to lead the soldiers and horses of the headquarters to kill back, save the blocking and public riding to occupy them, and then level the horse! ”

Liu Wuzhou was so shocked that his face was silent, and he said in a loud voice: "The prince is angry!" The villain can swear by the heavens, if he has the slightest disagreement with the Great Khan, the heavens and the earth will be destroyed! ”

Suddenly, another group of cavalry rushed ahead. The cavalry was very embarrassed, and the horses were thin and emaciated. They were all in rags, and many of them had scars on their bodies. Seeing Du Jishi, these people jumped off their horses one after another, knelt down in a large area, and said in unison: "Great Khan, the tribe is finished!" ”

Although the association rate is now the leader of this tribe, because he has not been in charge of the tribe for a long time, in the eyes of these people, the Digish is not only their Great Khan, but still their leader. Therefore, although the association rate is right in front of their eyes, the object of their crying is the auspicious world. Nearly 1,000 grassland men cried in unison, and the scene was sad to watch.

The association was grumpy, grabbed the man at the front, and yelled: "Tell me quickly, what do you mean that the tribe is finished!" ”

The man cried bitterly: "The tribe is finished, there is nothing left." ”

When the people of the Dumi tribe came that day, the association rate was also present, knowing that the Sui army that entered the grassland was not wiped out, but only consumed a large number of cattle, sheep and forage of the Dumi tribe, and slept with the women of their tribe for a few nights. Although the Mi tribe has been hit hard by this and its strength has been greatly reduced, there are those women and children here, and after a few years of recuperation, they can still slowly recover their vitality. However, the news brought by his subordinates was the same as what happened to the Lifa tribe at the beginning, and the association rate could not help but be shocked.

Du Jishi also became nervous, gritted his teeth, and said viciously: "Chuan Ben Khan's order, leave those women and belongings, and rush back to the grassland with all your might." Even if I dig three feet into the ground, I have to dig out these Sui people! ”

The Mobei grassland is so vast that tens of thousands of people are like sand thrown into a lake, and it is not easy to find out. But if this Sui cavalry is not found and allowed to wreak havoc on the steppe, the entire Eastern Turks will not be able to live in peace for a day.

The association leader suddenly picked Liu Wuzhou up from the ground, pulled out his scimitar and shouted angrily: "It's all you, a liar, I killed you first!" ”

Du Jishi stopped him and said, "Association rate, let it go!" This is none of the business of Yang Khan! ”

The association let go of his hand hatefully and said: "Father Khan, if he hadn't been pushing us south, south, and then south, we would have returned to the grassland a long time ago, how could we let the Sui army be so rampant!" Now that his men have cut off our people, do he have any more intentions! ”

He shook his head and said, "There must be a misunderstanding here. Dingyang Khan, how about you go over and inspect now, and let your people get out of the way? ”

Liu Wuzhou replied repeatedly, and said: "Please rest assured, the villain will go to investigate and understand, if the villain knows who is bold, he will definitely kill him, and let out this evil breath for the Great Khan and the second prince!" ”

Du Jishi waved his hand impatiently and said, "Okay, okay, you go quickly!" ”

Liu Wuzhou got this pardon order, climbed on the war horse with a rolling belt, and took a group of cronies and whipped to the south.

Seeing the smoke and dust raised by Liu Wu's weekly trip, the association leader stomped his feet on the ground fiercely, and said loudly: "Father Khan, why did you let him go!" ”

Du Jishi sighed and said, "It's useless to kill him, and if you keep him, you might be able to put them back." That Sui army dares to run rampant on the grassland, it should not be underestimated, more soldiers and horses will have a better chance of winning, hurry up! ”

The association rate glanced at the women and belongings on the ox carts, and said unwillingly: "Father Khan, do you really want these things?" ”

In the eyes of the association, women, slaves, and cattle and sheep were just property, and they were not regarded by him as human beings, so he called them things.

When he became a Turkic Khan, he looked at the problem at a different height than in the past, he waved his hand and said: "Da Sui has women and gold, silver and jewelry, this time I will drop it, and next time I will snatch it back, why bother!" Destroying the Sui army that entered the grassland is the right thing! ”

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There were a total of four tribes that were cut off by Liu Wuzhou's subordinates, among which the tribes of Dulu and Gongcheng were medium tribes with more than 3,000 young and strong, and there were two other small tribes, and the tribe of Tong Lifa was also among them. On the grassland, the strong are respected, and Tong Lifa was once rampant, and even had the strength to compete for the throne with the Ji Shi. But after being severely injured by Liu Ziqiu's men, he was reduced to a small tribe, and even his own brothers Du Jishi and Du Mi no longer paid attention to him.

This time he invaded the Central Plains in the south, and Tong Lifa wanted to grab more women and belongings so that his tribe could recover as soon as possible. In fact, his current tribe is no longer the original tribe, but a new tribe that he has annexed several small tribes on the steppe and re-formed. For the members of these new tribes to be reassured by his rule, they must show enough strength to give them hope. Therefore, the desire of Riffa to plunder women and goods was more urgent than that of other chieftains.

After entering the Central Plains, Tong Lifa always shrank behind when he fought, but he was more active than anyone else in robbing women and property. Even after the order was given to withdraw the troops, Tong Lifa did not forget to rob the women and belongings along the way. The women he robbed were old, young, beautiful and ugly, and they wanted everything, especially when they saw the iron pots in the villagers' homes, which was like a treasure. Because he was so ruthless, he plundered almost all the villages he passed, which inevitably provoked the local villagers to resist fiercely. It's just that although there are not many soldiers and horses, most of them are fierce warriors who survived the battle with Liu Ziqiu, how can the villagers be their opponents. Villages plundered by Fata were often bloody.

On this day, the tribe of Tong Lifa retreated to Chenghou Mountain at the junction of Yanmen County and Loufu County, where there was a small town called Xinkou Town, and there were more than 1,000 families in the town. Because it guards the main road from Yanmen to Loufu, Liu Wuzhou also stationed a thousand soldiers and horses here. Due to the close alliance between Liu Wuzhou and the Turks, when Tong Lifa retreated here, Liu Wuzhou's soldiers and horses did not stop them and allowed them to enter Xinkou Town. After entering Xinkou Town, Tong Lifa saw that the people in the town were quite wealthy, and immediately showed his fierce appearance, and began to search for property and women from house to house, making Xinkou Town, a good town.

It happened that a team of soldiers under Liu Wuzhou was patrolling the town, and when he saw this situation, the leading brigade commander stepped forward to dissuade him. Originally, Liu Wuzhou's soldiers did not dare to offend the Turks, and sometimes they would go around the road when they saw the Turks. It's just that this small army has been stationed in Xinkou Town for more than ten days, and they get along well with the residents of the town, and they see that the carts in Tong Lifa's team are already full of women and property, so they really can't see them continue to be so greedy.

Willing to listen to the persuasion of a few Han soldiers, Tong Lifa drew his scimitar, chopped the brigade commander to the ground with one sword, and cut off his head with another knife. This angered the Han soldiers, and everyone rushed up and fought with Tong Lifa's people. Tong Lifa was also a well-known warrior on the grassland, slashing left and right, killing more than a dozen Han soldiers one after another.

Just when Tong Lifa was arrogant and proud, another group of Han soldiers rushed over, and a big black man led by him stabbed Tong Lifa with a long lance in his hand. Tong Lifa flashed sideways, swung his knife and slashed horizontally, trying to cut off the head of the lance, but unexpectedly, the knife actually slashed into the air. Immediately afterward, he felt a pain in his chest.