Since escaping back to the grassland, the Thorn Shada Khan has been seriously ill, and finally after nearly a year of recuperation, coupled with the treatment of several Lang Zhong who were kidnapped from the Central Plains, he finally picked up a life, but his life is not in danger, and the root of saving his life is gone.

The whole thorn is now divided, the ebony people, the Gessacks, and the Tsar people have completely disobeyed the instructions of the Khan, and many small and medium-sized tribes are also in disobedience, and only maintain a superficial name of the thorn.

Especially this year, Shada Khan has been sick again, not to mention lobbying some tribes, and even the herdsmen who can maintain the hundreds of miles around the Golden Horde can no longer do it, and more tribes have become small groups, wandering around, fighting with each other constantly.

Now Shada Khan still has a little appeal in a radius of two or three hundred miles around the big tent, the people are only 100,000, and the young and strong who can fight can barely make up 30,000, it can be said that he is currently the smallest one among the several major forces in the entire flower thorn.

Inside the tent, Shada Khan leaned on a tiger skin, his face gloomy, and he would not admit that he regretted it now.

These two southern expeditions were carefully planned, and the beginning went smoothly, but the results were very bad, which directly caused the current very passive situation, and also gambled the last bit of hole cards.

He felt that it was his own bad luck and nothing else.

At this time, Jiang Moushi, who had followed him for several years, entered the big tent with several letters in his hands.

"Great Khan, now the Qar tribe is proposing to convene a meeting of the Steppe Alliance, and this month is already the third batch."

"Great Khan, now not only the Char tribe, but also the Gesak, Ebony tribes, and even the leaders of some medium-sized tribes such as Bayan and Alxa are making a fuss," Jiang Moushi saw that Shada Khan did not respond, and followed again.

"Mr. Jiang, do you say they really want to form an alliance or do they want this golden tent."

"Great Khan, at present, there is no reason for the Zar tribe to get involved, as the largest tribe in Modong, they currently gather several large tribes such as Tatar, Qiyan, and Frontal Guna, occupying a radius of thousands of miles of the steppe. For us Moxi, the relationship between them is not too much to do with each other, and it is not easy to judge their purpose this time. ”

"Now Gesak is migrating in the direction of Jili Jisi, and is gradually moving away from Moxi, and the rest of the Ebony tribe still has some strength, after the death of the great commander Lei Zhen, their strength has been greatly reduced, and they are also migrating to Mobei, it can be said that now the entire Moxi has no strength to resist Great Xia, and the alliance is the most beneficial for them."

"Mr. Jiang, even if we form an alliance, will the Golden Tent still be in our hands for us?"

"Great Khan, is it possible for us to show weakness and develop our strength in a few years first."

"What do you mean, what do you want to do?" Shada is much calmer now, and he can listen carefully to Jiang Moushi's words.

"Great Khan, let's throw a bait out, we might as well let them fight first, isn't it more beneficial to us."

"Now the Zar people are the most powerful, if only the people of the entire steppe could use them as targets!"

"You mean let them sit in the Golden Tent and become the Khan King of the Desert!"

"Great Khan, don't say that the leaders don't believe in such a direct approach, other tribes won't believe it, and the Zar people won't be fooled, we might as well directly admit that the Zar people are the Great Khan of Modong, and call him the Eastern Khan, so that it becomes a de facto alliance."

"Eastern Khan, Eastern Khan, this is to divide the desert into two parts," Shada Khan sighed and thought for a long time, "Alas, this method may be feasible at present, so why don't we just stay away and give up our position." ”

"Great Khan, it's better this way, otherwise we are in the middle of the desert, and it is still very dangerous."

The Great Khan let out a long breath, and now if he retreats north, the days ahead will be even more difficult!

Modong, in the Zar tribe

In the past two years, Zarbi Garo Khan has been in high spirits, and he has successfully gained a foothold in the entire Modong with a large amount of supplies obtained from Yingzhou.

Not only is the population of his own tribe growing rapidly, but even some small and medium-sized tribes around him are also admiring him, willing to obey Pigaro Khan's orders and call him Khan.

In two years, the entire large tribe of Char has expanded from a radius of several hundred miles to a super-large tribal alliance with nearly 500,000 people within a radius of thousands of miles.

Bigalo Khan always wanted to be independent, and he repeatedly convened some of his tribal leaders to discuss the external strategy of the Zar tribe.

According to his idea, it is best to unify the desert and make the Great Horde of Zarhan the Golden Horde of the Desert.

However, his idea was thwarted by Mr. Liu, who feared that the Zar tribe would be isolated under the current unclear situation.

Therefore, at the suggestion of Mr. Liu, Zarhan issued an initiative of the Desert Alliance, hoping that the Desert could unite and form a strong southward army again, and it was best to take Youzhou and Merge the Prefecture to pave the way for the future seizure of the Central Plains.

From the bottom of his heart, Zarhan is already a little disdainful of other tribes, and he is now the most powerful Great Khan in the desert.

As long as he is given a little more time, he doesn't need anyone else to go south at all, and he can recruit 200,000 troops under his command alone.

Now with those defenders of Youzhou and Bingzhou, they are no match for these elite cavalry of their own.

Since March, Zarhan has been quietly making a lot of preparations under his command, and has also revealed his words to several very close tribal leaders.

His idea is to go south before autumn at the latest, this time the target is not those small places, if you want to grab a big vote, it is best to break a big city like Youzhou.

Pigalo Khan's goal this time is very clear, that is, to go straight to the largest barrier in the north of Great Xia, Youzhou.

This time, Tsar was going south to prepare to divide into two routes, with 100,000 forwards, of which 70,000 soldiers from various tribes participated in the battle, and the leading general was Tzhar General Totobula.

Zarhan personally commanded 150,000 soldiers and horses to follow behind the forward, and the leading general was the first general of Zar, Iron Ploughbones, the most important force in this is the elite soldiers of the Zar tribe, and there are also some tribal leaders and personal soldiers mixed in.

The breakthrough chosen this time was decided by Mr. Liu and Tie Limogu after many times of planning, not only was it easy to attack, but there was not much time left for the Great Xia border army.

The Old Fort is a small place, and there is not even this pass on the map of Youzhou, because the roads here are very narrow and long, which is not conducive to the march of large armies, and if you are not careful, you may be ambushed.

So, for decades, it was more of a walkway for trade between the two sides, and marching and fighting would not take this place at all.

In order to find out the situation in Youzhou and Bingzhou, Zarhan asked Mr. Liu to send a lot of spies into the city to find out the news.

But with such a dense number of people, it was inevitable that in the process of exploring, some spies were discovered by the silver eagles in the city, and immediately reported this anomaly to the capital, and they submitted a prediction that the Zar people might attack the city in the south.

But their news is too closed, they don't know that there has been a great change in the capital, and now Yinying is almost blind.

Although they passed the news on at the first time, the capital's response was too slow and did not respond in time at all.

In the Eagle's Nest in the capital, this time is extremely difficult!

The commander Li Mu was poisoned, and in the end he was not treated, and died of illness in the nest of the capital three days after the incident.

The deputy commander Zhou Qing committed suicide, Yun Ying was killed in battle, six of the ten small leaders died on the spot, and only two principals in Beijing survived.

The next day, the left commander was implicated and imprisoned, and was later dismissed from office and exiled. The right commander was originally a Praetorian Guard, but he was directly removed from the position of Silver Eagle afterwards, and then he was demoted to the border army as a general.

The entire Silver Eagle soldiers suddenly became stragglers, chaotic, not to mention any intelligence news, even the basic supervision of officials in the court has become an ornament, and they have been impeached privately by several important ministers of the court.

Later, the saint couldn't stand it anymore, but it was very difficult to reintegrate for a while, so he put it on hold for the time being and didn't use it.

Although the Eagle's Nest in the capital is temporarily at a standstill, the personnel scattered all over the country are still continuing to do things, and a lot of news must be reported to the capital normally.

Several important ministers in the court felt that this matter could not be delayed any longer, the role of the silver eagle was too critical, if the silver eagle could not be allowed to play its role at this time, it would become blind and deaf, which was very terrible for the entire Great Xia.