Although the heavy snow has stopped, the wasteland north of Yinshan Mountain is still covered with ice and snow.

Li Chongjiu rode forward, and on the side of the road covered by heavy snow was Ashina Momo, who led his troops to surrender, and his subordinates.

The black-pressed crowd, dressed in all kinds of felt furs, knelt in the snow.

"Meet Your Majesty!" Ashina bowed respectfully in front of Li Chongjiu, and behind him were nearly a hundred Turkic nobles who also bowed down.

Ashina was very young, Li Chongjiu glanced at him and said, "Ashina, are you really determined to surrender?" ”

Ashina lowered his head and said, "Your Majesty, my surrender is all sincere." ”

Li Chongjiu jumped off the war horse and looked at this Ashina touch, the other party was very young, and it was very obvious that the appearance of the Turkic Ashina clan was very similar to Li Chongjiu's appearance of Ashina. He also listened to Xue Wanche say that this person wanted to replace Jieli as Khan, so he surrendered to Li Chongjiu, and Xue Wanche had already agreed for himself temporarily.

Xue Wanche privately agreed for himself, but Li Chongjiu had no intention of changing, this is after the Turks, the Turks surrendered to their most important generals, and they had to buy horse bones.

Li Chongjiu smiled at Ashina at the moment and said: "Very good, since you have taken refuge in my Da Zhao, you will be my important minister in the future, and I will reward you heavily." The decree went down, canonized Ashina as the Khan of Yushe, and then awarded it to the king of Liaoxi County, gave a hundred hectares of fertile land in the pass, a beautiful house, and the rest of the Turkic Qi Jin who surrendered were all named county dukes. ”

Ashina listened to Li Chongjiu's request to make him khan, and was overjoyed at the moment. and the nobles of the tribes bowed down to Li Chongjiu.

Ashina said to Li Chongjiu: "Your Majesty, you are the well-deserved Great Khan on the grassland, and we are willing to follow you." ”

After Ashina said this, Tuli was also unwilling to dismount and said: "Your Majesty's grace is like the sky to favor the grassland, and I am not as good as the Dengli Khan of His Majesty, who is the co-master of all the departments of the grassland." ”

Dengli, Tengger is the meaning of heaven, when Emperor Yang of Sui subdued the Western Regions, he was revered as a saint Khan. It means from the heavens below. Above the people, only the saint Khan is the most respectful. But when Tuli said this, he compared Li Chongjiu to heaven, and he was better than the saint Khan.

After Tuli mentioned yì so, Inghefer. Forehead Trust. General of the Tudi Ji and other troops. also echoed and asked Li Chongjiu to add a number.

For Li Chongjiu, any plus sign is just a title. That's not what he wanted. He smiled and said: "Tian Khan, it's just a name, right now Jieli is the harm of the grassland, only by destroying Jieli, can there be peace on the grassland." As for the Khan of this day, it is the same for everyone. ”

After listening to Li Chongjiu's words, everyone said yes together. Tuli, Ashina felt that he couldn't see through Li Chongjiu's thoughts. After Li Chongjiu was surrendered by Ashinam, the army was stronger, gathered a large army, and continued to approach Tieshan from Yinshan.

The war drums were beating on the grassland, and the forward of Xue Wanche of Zhao Guo was already approaching the Turkic Iron Mountain Khan Court, and the distance was not more than a few miles.

After Li Chongjiu's army arrived near Iron Mountain, he immediately set up camp to prevent the Turks from attacking. At the same time, Li Chongjiu also convened the generals to discuss the attack on Tieshan, and Xue Wanche and other generals advocated a preemptive strike. At this time, Jieli sent an envoy to come.

Li Chongjiu smiled and said to the generals: "Jieli must send an envoy to ask for peace at this time. ”

On the side, Ji Chuan said: "Right now, our soldiers are coming to the city, and Jieli still wants to ask for peace, it's really a joke." ”

Zhang Xuansu said: "You might as well listen to what conditions Jieli offers." ”

Soon after, a Turkic envoy came, and Li Chongjiu said with a respectful face: "Your Majesty, the Khan of the steppe, ask me to bring greetings to you. ”

Li Chongjiu said: "Thank you, what is the purpose of Jieli sending you here at this time?" ”

The Turkic envoy said: "Jieli Khan, I heard that His Majesty's army has come to the foot of the Iron Mountain and is going to fight our army, Khan, thinking that hundreds of thousands of troops on both sides are fighting to the death, no matter who wins or loses, it is bound to be a killing. So the Khan sent me to see if there was any other way to defuse the conflict. ”

Li Chongjiu said: "Jieli remembered at this time that the lives on both sides were ruined, but I don't know if Jieli wanted to do more killing when he broke the covenant, invaded Dazhao, attacked my Youjing, destroyed my Linshuo Palace, and killed my people." ”

Hearing Li Chongjiu's harsh words, the Turkic envoy immediately bowed his hand and said: "Before attacking Great Zhao, it was the Khan who thought that Zhao supported the Turkic Khan and was embarrassed by our Turks. Later, I learned that there was a misunderstanding, which was provoked by the traitor Zhao Deyan. The Khan had understood that he was full of regret for what he had done wrong in the past. If His Majesty is willing to call off the two families, our Khan is willing to hand over Zhao Deyan and let the Khan dispose of it. ”

When the Turkic envoy said this, all the generals showed disdain.

Jieli's patriarchal law obviously used Zhao Deyan as a scapegoat and used him to extinguish Zhao Guo's anger. Zhao Deyan has been giving advice to the three generations of Turkic Khans for so long, but it is really not worth it to have this end.

Li Chongjiu said: "Gui Khan, he will really excuse himself, thinking that Zhao Deyan's death alone will be able to deal with the matter." ”

The Turkic envoy said: "Of course this is not the case, if His Majesty really intends to negotiate peace, we can sit down and discuss it slowly, and if there are any conditions, just make a difference." For example, if we looted Huaihuang Town and Youjing before, we Turks can compensate ten times as much. ”

Li Chongjiu snorted and said, "Don't you think it's too late to know about repentance now?" What were you Jieli Khan doing before my army left Youjing, before crossing the Yin Mountain, and now that the troops are coming to the city, Jieli Khan knows how to repent, but it is too late. ”

"The remnants of the Turkic army are trapped in Tieshan, it is already at the end of the road, and I have led 200,000 troops here to destroy it in one battle. Sue sù Jieli, if the arrow full of bows is withdrawn, it will hurt the owner who holds the arrow, this battle must be fought, if he knows each other, the whole country will surrender, I will spare his life, there is no other way to go! ”

After the Turkic envoy was commanded by Li Chongjiu, he could only leave with a wolf and return to the court of the Turkic Khan to pay tribute to Jieli.

Jieli listened to the envoy's message. Yang Tian sighed, and then said to Zhao Deyan: "It seems that the road to peace is not feasible, Li Chongjiu is iron-hearted, and he wants to destroy our Turks here." Zhao Deyan: What else can be done to save our Turks, I am willing to listen? ”

Zhao Deyan lowered his head, he had previously sacrificed himself as a scapegoat and let Li Chongjiu kill his own scheme, which was built by Zhao Deyan himself to Jieli. At present, Li Chongjiu rejected Jieli's offer, and Zhao Deyan was temporarily unharmed. On the contrary, it has won the trust of Jieli.

Zhao Deyan calculated in his heart. But at this time, there was really no countermeasure, so he could only spread his hands and say: "Khan, Li Chongjiu doesn't leave us a way to live, and we can only fight." ”

Hearing this, Jieli shook his head and said, "It's difficult." After Ashina Momo surrendered to Li Chongjiu. His younger brother, Ashina Sheer. is also anti-hearted, as a tuo, he also has more than 30,000 troops in his hands. Now he set out to cross the desert and go to Yudujin Mountain. ”

Zhao Deyan shook his head, thinking that he could betray the Han people and serve the Hu people, so why couldn't this Ashina Momo and Ashina Sheer brothers betray the Turks and take refuge in the Zhao people.

This Ashina Sheer's tooth court was originally in the north of the moraine, and the commander of the Hui and Tongluo tribes, he did not levy taxes to the various ethnic groups under his command for several years after he served as the extension, and others asked him why. Ashina Sheer replied, "If the tribe is rich, I will be satisfied, and what is the use of taxing."

Therefore, the leaders of the Mobei tribes loved him very much, but Jieli knew that this was Ashina Sheer's means to buy people's hearts. Neither of the two brothers, Ashina Sheer, is a fuel-efficient lamp, and one is more powerful than the other.

Zhao Deyan said: "Ashina Dur led the people to Yudu Jin Mountain, with the intention of letting the Khan be defeated by Li Chongjiu, and he led his troops to call himself Khan in Mobei. The two brothers, one voted for Li Chongjiu, and the other was self-reliant in Mobei, both of them had the same idea, that is, to replace the Khan and become the Khan of the Turks. ”

Speaking of this, Jieli showed a touch of anger and said: "My two nephews are both ambitious, I really regret that after defeating Tuli, I should not attack Zhao State, but return to the grassland to solve these two and eliminate this hidden danger, but I didn't expect that today they will rise up against me together." ”

Jieli also has no way, Ashina Momo and Ashina Sheer were both generals who were set up when Chu Luo was alive, and it was not so easy to eradicate them. At that time, although Chu Luo supported himself to become a khan, his two sons had other thoughts, supporting him on the surface, but he was recruiting troops.

Zhao Deyan thought that this was also the reason for the Turkic brother's final brother and the elimination of the system. For example, Shibi Khan's two sons, the Turki Khan, and his younger brother Ashina were the same as the association rate, and when the Chuluo Khan was alive, they were the thorns in the side of the Chuluo Khan. During the lifetime of Chuluo Khan, Zhao Deyan helped him in his efforts to eradicate dissidents and suppress the association rate of Tuli and Ashina, but the two sons left behind after his death became a force against the new Khan Jieli.

Jieli shook his head, when Luo Khan was in power, the Turks seemed to be calm, but he didn't expect that as soon as Luo died, the problems that had been accumulated for many years within the Turks were all exposed at once.

Jieli sighed: "I now know that our internal strife is the most lethal point of the Turks, not Li Chongjiu's 200,000 army outside. ”

Zhao Deyan didn't say anything, although the Turkic military strength can compete with the Central Plains, but the political system is hundreds of years behind. The Central Plains was the first to establish the inheritance tradition of the elder system, and the Turks could not only be brothers and brothers, but also sons-in-law inheritance, and later the second son.

The chaotic inheritance system has led to ambitions among the various generals.

While the Central Plains Dynasty experienced the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of the Han Dynasty and the Rebellion of the Eight Kings at the end of the Jin Dynasty, while learning lessons, the Turks were following the old path of the Central Plains Dynasty, where the division of the Eastern and Western Turks originated, but the Turks still did not reflect, and as a result, they went back to the old road.

Jieli's whole person was suddenly haggard, and at this time, a general came to say: "Khan, Luo Shile's special service Ashina Simo, led his troops to leave Tieshan and set up camp in the direction of the Zhao army. ”

Jieli was hit by this blow, and suddenly scolded: "This Sogdian mongrel, because of Tuli's wooing, dares to betray me? ”

Because his mother was Sogdian, Ashina Simo had a pair of fiery red eyes, not the unique glass-colored eyes of the Turkic Ashina clan, and he had always been ostracized by the Turkic Ashina clan, and now he also betrayed Jieli.

After Jieli lost his temper for a while, he felt a chill in his heart, and before he could fight with Zhao Guo, all the departments under his command rebelled one after another. Originally, Tieshan gathered at least 100,000 Turkic troops to fight with the Zhao army, but now after they left, there were only 60,000 or 70,000 horses left in Tieshan.

If there is a real war, I don't know how many people are left, no matter how much I look at this battle, Jieli is a definite defeat.

At this time, Zhao Deyan knelt down and said: "Khan, now we can't fight so hard with Zhao State, Weichen thinks that as long as we surrender all the way now, only in this way can we keep the Turks." ”

Jieli listened and looked at Zhao Deyan and asked: "You actually want Ben Khan to surrender, my Turks only have soldiers who died in battle, and there are no soldiers who surrendered." ”

Zhao Deyan said: "It's not really a surrender, we just need to pretend to surrender, as long as Li Chongjiu's 200,000 troops leave Mobei, on this grassland, isn't it up to the Khan to decide?" In the future, we will move the Khan Court to Mobei, no matter how strong Li Chongjiu's power is, will he be able to defeat Mobei? In other words, with the current national strength of Zhao State, it can launch several expeditions of more than 200,000 soldiers and horses to the grassland. ”

Jieli's expression moved when he heard this.

"It's just that the Zhao people are powerful now, and we can only swallow our anger now, and we will have a chance to make a comeback in the future. Khan, because of a momentary impulse, must not ruin the future of the Turks. ”

Jieli heard Zhao Deyan say this, and his body shook and said: "You are right, you can't spoil the overall situation because of my personal willfulness, and immediately send someone to the Zhao State military camp to negotiate with Li Chongjiu, just say that I, Jieli, am willing to surrender." ”

Jieli's messenger who asked for surrender left for the Zhao army's camp overnight.

But that night, it was very strange, suddenly a heavy fog fell, and the fog was so thick and confused that I could barely see my fingers. The thick mist made the Turkic messenger go the wrong way, delaying the opportunity to go to the Zhao military camp.

At the same time, on the grassland, only seven miles away from the Jieli camp, a 500-strong Zhao army was marching forward.

The general of this 500-strong Zhao army is Qin Qiong, the general of the Wuwei Army, and now he is under the order of Xue Wanche to lead the army to attack the Turkic Tieshan camp in the middle of the night.

Qin Qiong led the war horse and led the soldiers to grope their way forward in the thick fog. He didn't know that two miles away from him, the envoy of the Turkic Khan Jieli had just passed by them.

The saber has been polished, the arrow has been wound, and the decisive battle between Zhao and the Turks was unfolded here when no one expected. (To be continued......)