Xue Yantuo is a large tribe of the Turkic Khanate, this ethnic group originally belonged to the Tiele tribes, composed of two tribes of 'Xue' and 'Yantuo', when Emperor Taizong was their tribal chieftain also had the support of Li Shimin to establish himself as a khanate, and the Turks fought for power, and made great contributions to the northward penetration of the Tang Shili.

Later, the Turks became strong again, and Xue Yantuo was defeated, so he had to surrender and be included in the Turkic rule again. Nowadays, the territory of the Xueyantuo tribe is in the middle of the Turkic territory, and the troops and horses are gathered here, which can ensure that the soldiers and horses of each tribe arrive in a similar time, and there will not be a situation where many soldiers and horses are waiting for a certain tribe to arrive late.

However, this made it more difficult for Yang Fan, who could not guess the possible location of their attack based on the concentration of the Turkic troops, so he sent a message to the fortress in advance, so Yang Fan decided to infiltrate the Xue Yantuo tribe Zaijian to act.

Along the way, their roles were still switching between "conscripted Turkic soldiers" and "horse bandits", and when they met a tribe that was easy to eat, they would pretend to be horse bandits and rob him, and when they met a powerful tribe of Shili, they would disguise themselves as soldiers and horses from a certain tribe to meet in Xueyantuo, and swagger past their tribe.

Halfway through the Black Whirlwind, he felt that he was too far away from his lair and should go back. He discussed it with Zhang Yi, but Zhang Yi insisted on continuing to break through, but he readily agreed to the Black Whirlwind, and the two teams did a vote, divided the spoils, and broke up.

This time, Zhang Yi's team also got a lot of cattle and sheep, because they were getting closer and closer to Xue Yantuo, in order to avoid exposure, they were unlikely to pretend to be horse bandits again, so they also needed to have food. The main food of the steppe peoples is livestock. Zhang Yi's team drove the captured cattle and sheep. rushed all the way to Xue Yantuo, but he didn't have to be hungry.

When the Turks were fighting, soldiers and horses had to be recruited from various tribes, and the soldiers who were recruited were all equipped with their own weapons, horses, and food. Although their food also had some fried noodles and dried cakes, the main thing was live animals, that is, cattle and sheep, and this was the case for every enlistment team.

As long as they went out on the expedition, they drove large herds of cattle and sheep. When they were hungry, they slaughtered a few cattle and sheep to satisfy their hunger. In the war between the Tang Dynasty and the nomadic tribes, when the victory was over, a special piece was often set aside in the battle report to count the number of cattle, sheep and livestock captured in this battle. This is not to fight all the way to the enemy's tribe, but once the enemy has suffered defeat, the three armies will retreat and flee for their lives. The cattle and sheep they brought with them became the spoils of war.

They didn't have any salaries, the khanates didn't care about it, the tribal chiefs didn't care about it, they had to prepare their own weapons, horses, or rations. With no pay, they relied on the loot they captured from the battlefield to supplement their losses. Reap the benefits. Therefore, they were braver than anyone else in the battle of the wind, and as soon as they won the battle, they burned and plundered, turned their soldiers into bandits, and caused great disasters to the occupied territories.

That's why. They also broke up faster than anyone else when they were defeated, because they died. His family will suffer, and he will not even have a pension, and he is likely to become a slave of others. Therefore, when they fought a big defeat, there was often a strange scene of only a few people left around the Great Khan to protect him, and it was the death of his father and his mother. Every man has taken care of his own.

On the road, some teams from other tribes gradually appeared, just like Yang Fan. They are also disorganized, their own armor and weapons are different, coaxing a herd of cattle, sheep and livestock, and they don't know that they don't think they are a group of soldiers, and they think they are a group of armed cattle dealers.

Yang Fan's team easily got mixed in and rushed towards the Xue Yantuo tribe together.

At noon that day, they finally arrived at the Xue Yantuo tribe, Yang Fan and they were worried that they would be interrogated, so they deliberately fell behind, and only sent a few Turks to follow the team in front to inquire about the situation, but found that no one was responsible for receiving these warriors from various tribes.

After these warriors arrived, they chose a place with a warm leeward and sunny place on the vast snowfield to set up a tent, and set up a top felt bag and cattle pen, and then their leader would lead a few people into the territory of the Xue Yantuo tribe to meet the commander of the three armies.

Seeing this situation, Yang Fan was relieved, and they also looked for territory and camped on the snowfield. Because the various tribes are looking for a warm and sunny place in the leeward when they set up camp, the camp is not densely packed, and the camps of the various tribes are lined up in the snowy area facing the sun and leeward, while the areas with the sun and the wind are empty and empty.

So, Yang Fan and the others did the same, and camped under the gentle slope on the leeward and sunny side. They had come late, and if they deliberately gave way to the outside, they stationed at the outermost edge of this continuous camp, so that if something happened to them, they could flee as quickly as possible.

After that, Yang Fan, Zhang Yi, Gao Sheji, Xiong Kaishan and others rode horses and rushed to the Xue Yantuo tribe.

As a large tribe located in the center of the Turks, and blessed with a freshwater lake next to it, some of the tribe's inhabitants gradually stopped being nomadic and turned to business, and the stable life made it no longer just a felt-tent complex, although it is still called a tribe, but it has the rudiments of a city.

The tribe is surrounded by a loess adobe city wall that is more than a foot high, and the wall is cracked out by the wind and rain, like an old face. The city gate is a high fence gate, no one guards it, the Turkic Khanate does not have a perfect tax system, and you have to collect tolls when you enter the tribe, and those fierce shepherds will draw their swords and fight with you.

After entering the city, there was chaos everywhere, there were rows of shed-like buildings, mud houses, and felt bags common in the grasslands, and because of the large number of foreigners in the city, the business vendors were active, and the rows of shacks were filled with smoke and sold all kinds of snacks and bad liquor.

The drunken prairie warriors are the biggest patrons here, and many of them don't buy the same side dishes, but they sell a bag of bad wine and drink it with relish. Only the wealthier people would sit down in the small shed, make a few hu cakes, cut a plate of beef, and drink five or six to a heart's content.

Yang Fan, Zhang Yi and the others were all wearing Turkic-like robes, Turkic hairstyles, and sturdy beards, which looked no different from ordinary black Turks.

Yang Fan was walking forward, Gao Sheji suddenly pulled him, Yang Fan turned his head to see, Gao Sheji was listening to a few people in a simple wine shed next to him, Gao Sheji listened to a few words, suddenly turned to Yang Fan, his eyes flashed with a strange light, and said in a low voice in Chinese: "That person is a Turkic spy who escaped from the Heyuan army!" ”

As he spoke, his eyes swept under the shed, Yang Fan looked at the situation, and saw a small round table on a dirty sheepskin felt blanket under the shed, on which were placed a few grassland snacks and large wine bowls, five or six drunken red and thick-necked men were sitting there cross-legged, and the person indicated by the high house chicken was facing outside the shed, and was talking with a big tongue and dancing with his eyebrows.

Yang Fan looked at the left and right alertly, shook his head under the shed, and said in a low voice: "Go!" Go in and drink! ”

Yang Fan and the others sat down on a relatively clean felt carpet in the corner, and also asked for a few braised pork, dried tofu and other appetizers and a jar of bad wine, and pretended to drink.

The person who was drinking and boasting loudly was Ye An, his cousin Dianci died halfway through, but he actually escaped back to the Turks alone, and it was the information he sent that prompted Mo Si to make up his mind to fight.

In fact, Gu Lulu Khan is seriously ill at the moment, and it is not appropriate to start more wars, but Gu Lulu has not yet designated an heir, and no one knows whether he intends to pass on the throne to his son or to his younger brother who fights the world with him, and Mo Si is very uneasy in his heart. At present, the affairs of the Turkic state are represented by him, and he wants to fight a big victory and increase his influence among the tribes.

In this case, the elder brother was forced by the situation, and the throne could not be passed on to him, so he was very keen to fight this battle, in order to ensure victory, he mobilized the various tribes, and proposed this southern expedition for the first time, once captured, each ministry did not have to pay tribute to the khan's account, all to be distributed by himself.

Ye An was not named Dagan, but the official is not small, and he was personally appointed as Helan by Mo Si, this Helan is not Helan with a compound surname, but a kind of military officer of the Turks, and his status is smaller than that of Dagan, Mo Si has already said that once he successfully captures the Tang Dynasty, he will be promoted to Dagan, and once he is promoted to Dagan, he will be a hereditary official.

After Ye An arrived at Xue Yantuo, some warriors from his tribe and neighboring tribes arrived and heard that he had been official, some invited him to drink, and some asked him to invite him to eat and drink, so for several days, Ye An had endless banquets every day, and today this group of people was from one of his tribes, and took the initiative to invite him to eat and drink, and Ye An inevitably boasted about his heroic deeds to these people again during the banquet.

"Hey! Those Tang scouts are very stupid, that kind of appearance, I can see the flaws at a glance, and I and the pawn took people to set up an ambush in the middle of the road......"

Ye An talked endlessly, every time he told it in the past few days, the story became more thrilling and exciting, and if it continued to develop like this, he would have the possibility of becoming a storyteller.

In the corner of the shed, Zhang Yi, Xiong Kaishan and others pretended to drink and chat, listening to them, Yang Fan and Gao Sheji whispered, as if they were chatting about something, but in fact, it was Gao Sheji who quickly translated what Ye An said to him. Among these people, only Yang Fan could not understand Turkic dialect.

"Bragging, you, just like that, you can get out of the Tang Barracks?"

Ye An was provoked by the clansman, and couldn't help but say something, Yang Fan, who was sitting in the corner, listened, and a pair of eyes suddenly shot out of chestnut light!

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