Soon, the reports from all over the country were summarized in front of Gao Buer's table, it was very strange that the Turkic coalition army that should have been far away in Broken Leaf City actually had a small group of cavalry appear in the area of Gaochang to loot at this time, you must know that Broken Leaf City to Gaochang can be separated by more than 2,000 miles, in the past six months, there have been no less than 40 looting incidents, and there have been more than 20 plundering teams that have exceeded their predecessors.

This is very abnormal, you must know that the army led by Su Dingfang was stationed in Tingzhou before, what was the purpose of letting them travel thousands of miles over the Tianshan Mountains to Gaochang.

It is also strange that this situation is not in the territory of Anxi Duhufu, you must know that it is more convenient to start from Broken Leaf City and cross the Tianshan Mountains to reach Qiuzi, if the looting is just to prepare grain and grass materials, you don't have to risk being wiped out by the Tang Army to come to Gaochang, which is more than 2,000 miles away.

Things are very complicated, Gao Buer can't figure it out for the time being, and there are also Hou Junji and Li Jing and others who can't figure it out.

"This situation is rare, in previous years, when I was in the Western Regions, all the tribes were cowering near Broken Leaf City, but now they didn't even buy Su Dingfang's account, and ran behind him to rob him." Hou Junji laughed.

Li Jing was also puzzled: "Generally, when the army is in short supply, it will look for food within a range of about 800 miles at most, and it has to be sure that there is enough food for the army to eat, and even if you know that there is food in the distance, the army will be at risk of capsizing because of hunger, and no general will do such a stupid thing." ”

Zhang Zhongping said: "Could they be spies sent by those guys?" ”

"Oh? How so? Gao Fuji asked him to continue.

Zhang Zhongping hugged his fist towards Gao Buer and said: "In the past, when my subordinates were training in Zhangye, because there was often friction with the grassland departments at that time, I ordered the sergeants to pretend to be robbers, while scaring those merchants who were close to the grassland tribes, while collecting information about the target tribes, and once the time was determined, they would decisively send a large army to attack. ”

Gao Buer nodded and said, "It's hard to leave the homeland, there is still such a situation, but there is no such situation in the jurisdiction of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, how to explain it?" ”

Hearing Gao Buji say this, the tent fell silent again, this situation is really difficult to conclude, the only way to do this is to wait, wait for the news of the scouts from all walks of life, wait for the supplies supplied by the imperial court to the army, and wait for the Turkic coalition army entrenched in Broken Leaf City to move.

Gao Buer also wanted to see what was going on with the Turkic Western Expedition, known as the Whip of God in history, as far as it was concerned, it started after the Tang Army could not be defeated, but were there any other changes in this? There is no record in history, anyway, they all ended up going to the West and reaching Eastern Europe.

Broken Leaf City, in the later Kazakh territory, can be regarded as a relatively prosperous city in Central Asia, is an important node city of the Silk Road, at this time is showing its existence to the world with unprecedented prosperity.

More than 4 million people from the Turkic tribal alliance and the subjects of various tribes gathered in this vicinity to plan a way out for the future development of the tribe.

In the makeshift tent of Shattered Leaf City, the leaders of the various clans gathered together.

"Hahaha, this grandma, the difficult winter has finally passed, and now the ice and snow are melting, and in another month, the grass that has sprouted under the ice and snow cover will be revealed, and we will have enough forage to feed our war horses and people."

The middle-aged bearded man sitting in the big tent used a delicate waist knife to cut off a piece of burnt mutton leg meat roasted in front of him and put it into his mouth: "What Elder Tuyuhun said is that the snow in the winter of recent years is really excessive, and many of our cattle and sheep have froze to death, causing the warriors who should dominate the world to be in a corner because they don't have enough food, and they can only live in a corner of peace, and they can't cut the meat with their waist knives." ”

"Hahaha-" The people in the big tent laughed with their necks held high.

A shirtless, muscular man with a tattoo stepped out and said, "My beloved Great Khan, as your warrior, I am always ready to follow you to reclaim our former homeland, and for this I am ready to charge for you." ”

"General Kusha is really a fierce general, and he is a great Khan, I will toast you with a fierce general like Kusha, and I wish you a long life and a great show."

Sitting at the top was the current Great Khan Tushi of the Turks, who listened to the words of the great elder Tuyuhun, raised the beast's foot cup in front of him and laughed, drank all the mare's milk wine in it, and after drinking, he motioned to Kusha to raise the wine glass and drink a glass.

After receiving the signal, Kusha was not pretentious, picked up the wine jar on the table of a Turkic general beside him, raised his head, and drank it all, and the heroic mess attracted the people in the tent to shout and cheer.

Tu Shi looked at his first fierce general to make his face for himself, he was very proud, and after holding a glass of wine and drinking a glass again, he raised his hand to stop the shouting crowd, and said: "The conceited emperor of the Tang Dynasty took advantage of our disaster and famine to send troops to recruit us, which was unkind and unjust, and now he is forcing us to go to the west, asking us to leave our homeland and go to the distant unknown West to survive, he is dreaming of the Spring and Autumn Festival." ”

Seeing that Tu Shi said the right thing, no one dared to answer immediately, the counterpoint for the Western Expedition or the Eastern Expedition, the opinions within the coalition army were not unified, some small tribes who were afraid of the might of the Tang Dynasty were actually unwilling to fight with the Tang Army anymore, the fierceness of the Tang Army and the weapons and equipment surpassed them too much, but they were not willing to go to more distant poor places, they missed the good life when they paid tribute to the Tang Dynasty.

However, in order to strengthen his own strength, Tu Shi didn't care about the demands of those small tribes, as long as the tribes who dared not to go west with him were all exterminated by him, the rules of the grassland, the rules of the next door, the law of the jungle, the law of the jungle, and the law of the jungle, they couldn't help whether they wanted to or not.

Tu Shi glanced around, and saw that the crowd of people who were under the black pressure were all bowing their heads and drinking by themselves, sneering in their hearts, with a look of contempt in their eyes, just like this, do you still want to get respect from him? If he didn't want to pull more people to be cannon fodder, it would not be uncommon for these people to beg him.

Grand Elder Tuyuhun was silent for a while, and then took the lead in standing up: "Respected Tushi Great Khan, I have no intention of questioning your decision, but I beg you to allow my Tuyuhun warriors to attach to your tail when you go east, please lead us to recapture our homeland, recreate the highlight moment of our ancestors, and it is best to fight all the way to Chang'an as before, plundering the women and goods of the Tang Dynasty, the women of the Tang Dynasty, I haven't touched it for a long time." ”

"Hahaha-" A small group of clan leaders laughed cooperatively.

Tu Shi's face was a little pale, and said: "Great Elder, please rest assured, I will return your hometown to you, I also know what you are afraid of, you can rest assured, I will not let you be cannon fodder for your own interests, this time we united with Tubo, they promised to send 200,000 troops, from behind the Tang army to support us, I also asked the wizard to do divination, the catastrophe will be dispersed this year, this year my tribe's cattle and sheep will get a lot of growth, as long as we can drag it to the next year, then the time and place will be transferred to our side." ”

"Great Khan, my subordinates have heard the news that the emperor of the Tang Dynasty has not only sent us food as agreed, but also sent a large army, I don't know what the intention is, if they suddenly want us to attack, what should we do? I'm afraid that the Tang people won't give us more than a year. ”

"Yale, you used to be a big hero in your tribe, why do you want to be strained now?" Kusha stood up and spat at Yale.

"Kusha, don't think that you are a warrior of your clan and can do whatever you want, others are afraid of you, but I am not afraid of you, what, do you want us to find a place to compete."

"That's it! Kusha stand down! Tu Shi rebuked Kusha and said to Yale: "What do you want to do with the surname Zhaowujiu?" ”

"The wolf who left the team here can't survive, and now we are one, but we don't want to do a senseless fight anymore, if the eastward advance does not go well, please also look at the love of the Kunlun God, take us to the west, I will thank you even if I die."

When Tu Shi heard that Yale was not going to oppose him, most of the unhappiness in his heart disappeared, and he nodded: "You can rest assured of this, and everyone here should also rest assured, I Tu Shi promises you that I will treat you as brothers, your people are my people, and when I fight with the Tang Army, I will not let you rush to the front, if there is a benefit, everyone is naturally indispensable." ”

As soon as the voice fell, the crowd sitting down began to discuss it again, this time it was no longer as strained as before, basically with a smile on their faces, this is the sorrow of the small tribe, fate is never in their own hands, they actually don't ask for much, just want to have a grazing land, so that the offspring can survive in peace, but their sadness lies in the fact that there are many powerful neighbors around them, so it is impossible to want to be in a corner of peace, either stand on one side, or stand on the other side, dare to be two-faced or neutral, It's all lost in history.

Seeing that most of the concerns in the hearts of the leaders of the tribes below were dispelled, Tu Shi sneered in his heart, he couldn't think of anything but wanted to make a profit, they were all a group of rats, except for being cannon fodder, he really couldn't think of a way out for them, as for their people, he could reluctantly help them take care of them.

While everyone was happy, Tu Shi spoke again: "Although I don't let you charge ahead, but if some of you escape or don't listen to the dispatch, I will say it in front, then prepare to use the heads of your people to worship the Kunlun God." ”

The noisy crowd fell silent again, this time Tu Shi didn't intend to give them a chance to think again, raised his glass and said: "Drink, we are waiting for the food from Datang to be delivered, during this period, we must also be self-reliant, reserve a lot of strategic materials and weapons, let us all toast to the future of our tribe!" ”

Everyone raised their wine glasses and drank them all, and now that the intention of the sudden attack has been announced to the public, then the preparations around the western expedition have to be transferred to the east, compared to the unknown of the western expedition, the danger of the eastern expedition makes people more desperate. But the goal of the king who leads the wolves is set, you can't change it if you oppose it or not, your fist is not hard enough, you can still get a piece of the pie if you don't object, and if you oppose it, you will be wiped out in an instant.