Chapter 19: The Past of Imperial Power
The city of Tyrol is known as the "wine capital" of Persia. This place is not only rich in Persian wine, but also rich in Persian beauty.
The city of Tyrol is full of wine workshops, large and small, as well as countless taverns and brothels, and those plump and beautiful Persian dancers shuttle like butterflies, which often make the merchants who visit here unforgettable.
Twenty years ago, the Turkic army originally used to attack the western frontier was forced to turn around, and captured more than a dozen Persian city-states in succession, and finally arrived in Tyrol.
The city lord of Tyrol is a pure Persian nobleman, and in the face of the menacing Turkic army, the old man scolded them tens of thousands of times in his heart: these bastards, they don't dare to provoke Saint Tang, so they will be angry with your father and me, which is simply inexplicable.
However, in order to save his life and wealth, the city lord still took the initiative to open the gate and welcome the occupation troops from afar. At the same time, he also presented the most beautiful dancing girl in Tyrol as a gift to the Venerable Great Khan.
If you want to talk about Shandu Yimo, it is also the master of countless women, what kind of beauty has not been seen? But God just likes to joke, Mingmei's face and dancing, after all, is the best in Persia, as soon as she came up, she shocked the well-informed Shandu Yimo, and obediently surrendered on the spot, and fell under the pomegranate skirt of the beauty in order to regain the posture of the second spring.
Since then, Persia has been considered to have turned evil into good fortune.
The wolf-like Turks did not invade other places anymore, but all accompanied the Great Khan to indulge in the gentle countryside of Tyrol, staying for more than half a year, and did not even want to return home.
When the Turkic queen Danina heard about this, she almost vomited blood, and sent eight letters in a row, urging her husband to return to the court as soon as possible, and at the same time clearly warned that the Turkic court already had countless concubines, and there was no place to place a dancing queen's couch.
After receiving the letter, Shandu Yimo didn't react yet, and Mingmei cried first.
Since the queen can't tolerate me, I will be humiliated if I go, and I will even have to worry about my life, so it is better to be a hundred now.
Mingmei took out Shandu Yimo's scimitar and wiped it directly at the pink neck, but fortunately, the Great Khan was neat and stopped in time, otherwise she would have to stage a Turkic version of "Farewell My Concubine" on the spot.
Shandu Yimo's heart was all on Mingmei at this time, and seeing that Concubine Ai was angry, the crazy energy in his body suddenly couldn't be suppressed.
Didn't you let me go back? Okay, I'll be back! Isn't there nowhere to put Mingmei? Okay, you make room for her!
At the sound of an order, the Turkic army immediately assembled, like a howling wind, and rushed back to the royal capital, the Flame Maple Forest City.
As soon as he arrived at the royal court, Shandu Yimo commanded his troops and horses, arrested all the important ministers of the Night Wheel Clan, including Queen Danina, and disarmed all the 20,000 Night Wheel troops stationed in the royal city.
Before the Turkic civil and military officials could react, more than a dozen human heads were already hanging on the flagpole of the city wall, swaying in the wind and looking hideous.
Trouble! This time it's a terrible disaster!
Facing the panicked expressions of the ministers, Shandu Yimo smiled faintly: The fangs and claws of the blood wolf, no one dares to challenge, not even the night wheel.
Really?
It depends on what it is.
I killed the dignified queen and a dozen nobles for no reason, I'm afraid I can't do it.
In the blink of an eye, the Night Wheel Clan went berserk and officially launched a challenge to the Imperial Power of the Blood Wolf Clan!
The so-called challenge of imperial power was a sacred and inviolable tradition of the Turkic Empire.
A long time ago, when the ancestors of the Turkic tribes were integrated, they set a rule - the strong man is king.
That is to say, which tribe is the strongest and has the ability to lead the entire Turkic to expand its territory, which tribe is a worthy king, and the other tribes, no matter how big or small, must be faithfully followed and cannot be disobeyed.
Of course, with the rotation of the sun and the moon, the strong may not always be strong. The strength of the tribes, like the alternation of the seasons and the coming of spring and winter, is constantly changing here. Once the clan in the position of king is tired, then the stronger tribe can challenge them, and the imperial power is challenged.
This process could not be regarded as a rebellion or usurpation in the eyes of the Turks, so the king's tribe could not order and mobilize the forces of other tribes to suppress the tribes that challenged him.
The struggle for imperial power is always a matter between the challenger and the challenged, and others cannot and are not allowed to interfere.
In the end, the true Turkic king must be the one who has achieved complete victory in the war. This is a matter of course.
However, there is also no order in the struggle for imperial power. After a fierce battle, even if the winner is covered in blood and dying, he still has to face the next challenger, the next challenger, and the next challenger that may appear at any time, until no one plays again.
Therefore, without absolute military strength and clever political skills, no one can guarantee their victory.
And today's Blood Wolf Clan, it was after defeating the former Turkic King Xi Demon Clan that he had successively borne the challenges of the three tribes of Ghost Dou, Tianmu, and Changsheng to sit firmly in the position of the Great Khan.
To be the king, or to exterminate the race, is only between the lines.
Because of this, when the Yelun Clan challenged the imperial power of the Shandu Imer, the other six tribes and hundreds of small tribes immediately declared their neutrality, and until the new king appeared, the orders of the Turkic royal court were temporarily invalid for them.
From the Flame Maple Forest City, there was a arrogant laugh from Shandu Yimo:
Generations have passed, and everyone has almost forgotten the full name of the Blood Wolf, and this is the perfect time for all of you to brush up.
Bloodwolf - Bloodthirsty wolf!
According to people's usual experience, the first place and the second place are often only a slight difference in ranking, just like the top students in the class, the top spot takes turns.
However, the actual strength of the Turkic tribes is often not as simple as ranking. The difference between the second place and the first place is by no means a step, nor a hundred steps, or even a thousand steps.
The Night Wheel Clan, you can't see the upper limit of the blood wolf at all!
The 100,000 Night Wheel Revenge Army had just left its territory and was about to go to Flame Maple Forest City, when it collided head-on with the 30,000 vanguard army led by the Blood Wolf Clan's general Gu Litai.
The encounter began from the moment the sun appeared on the horizon, and before the sun could set in the west, the army of the night wheel collapsed under the repeated onslaught of Gulitai.
The plains of Sanger are littered with the headless corpses of the Night Wheel Warriors, whose heads have been cut off by the Blood Wolf Soldiers and hung around their waists, becoming bargaining chips in exchange for rewards.
After the fiasco, the remnants of the Night Wheel rushed to retreat to the depths of the tribal territory in the direction they came, while Gulitai had no intention of waiting for the large army behind him, and directly led his subordinates to rush forward and chase all the way into the hinterland of the Night Wheel.
The merciless massacre began.
Wherever the cavalry of the Blood Wolf Clan passed, all the people and animals were wiped out, the chickens and dogs were not left, and even the earthworms were split vertically by them. The crimson blood stained the Kangdal grasslands, the Grigeo mountains and the glittering luminous city, and then merged into red streams, changing the color of the originally blue Sandu River.
The Yelun clan launched a battle for imperial power, while Shandu Yimo started a war of extermination.
Finally, someone couldn't stand it anymore.
The Condor Clan, who had always had a good relationship with the Night Wheel, stood up and stopped the brutal slaughter in time in the same way as challenging the imperial power before the Blood Wolf Soldiers killed the last Night Wheel child.
Yoh? Are you coming too?
Shandu Yimo pouted.
Do you deserve it too?
The main army of the Blood Wolf Clan, which had not yet fully entered the territory of the Night Wheel, received a new order from the Khan - immediately turn around and go straight to the Condor!
Hearing this, 120,000 soldiers and horses moved rapidly in the northwest direction.
Before, Gulitai's grandson shot too fast, and in a blink of an eye, he killed all the night wheel soldiers and horses, and we didn't even catch up with the hot mouth when we ate, which is really annoying! Don't miss the Condor this time.
However, the Condor Clan, known for their "strong bows and crossbows, and superb archery", did not provide the opportunity for the blood wolves to roar and claw, as the Night Wheel Clan did. On the contrary, the Condor soldiers, who only had 60,000 troops, with the excellent command of the patriarch Tarim, gave the 120,000 blood wolf soldiers who came to attack a solid shooting lesson.
Under the blow of flying feathers in the sky, the Blood Wolf Clan suffered a shameful defeat. After a whole month's effort, they not only failed to capture the strategic place of the Condor Clan, Storm Pass, but also killed nearly 20,000 horses, and their morale plummeted for a while.
Seeing that the offensive and defensive sides were in a stalemate, Shandu Yimo personally led the Wolf Guard Legion and the Vanguard Legion to come to reinforcements, and once again set off a fierce attack.
The power of the Great Turkic Khan is naturally not trivial. As if they had been beaten with chicken blood, the Blood Wolf Soldier instantly transformed into berserker warriors, completely ignoring the terrifying threat of the Condor Archer, like a wave, wave after wave of the storm wall.
Faced with this situation, Tarim could only plan for the worst, ordering the clansmen in the rear to burn the town, hide in the mountains, and beg God to bless the blood wolf army that broke through the pass and killed the Condor Clan.
However, no one on either side of the battlefield could have expected that at the critical moment when the Storm Pass was about to be lost, shocking news suddenly came from the Flame Maple Forest in the Turkic capital - the Golden Clan, the third largest tribe, actually sent troops to attack the royal court at this time!
After receiving the battle report, Shandu Yimo was stunned for a long time and didn't come back to his senses:
His grandmother's, this is a typical joke!
The approach of the gold family is indeed a bit of a joke. Or rather, it is simply a shameful act that goes against the sacred traditions of the Turks. Sending troops to attack the king's tribe during the Imperial War was an unquestionable act of rebellion, and a serious rebellion against the entire Turkic Empire.
However, the patriarch of the Golden Clan, Ashina, didn't see it that way. He sent troops for a very valid reason: we are challenging the imperial power!
When Shandu Yimo heard this, he laughed angrily on the spot.
I can understand the challenges of one family after another, but if you are on the same time as the Condor Clan, it is not a challenge to the imperial power, this is a special challenge to my IQ!
Ashina Zhijin obviously guessed that Shandu Yimo and the Turkic fathers and villagers would think so, so he quickly issued a war document, telling the various tribes the reason:
The battle for imperial power between the Blood Wolf Clan and the Night Wheel Clan was not completely over before, and the Condor Clan took the lead in launching a challenge, so legally speaking, the Blood Wolf Clan's attack on Storm Pass was not a battle for imperial power, but a counterinsurgency campaign. As for our Golden Clan, we are reasonable and abide by the rules, and we waited until the legions of Gulitai completely left the territory of the Night Wheel Clan and officially ended the last imperial war, and then sent troops to Flame Maple Leaf City.
Therefore, we are the reasonable, legitimate, and upright challengers to the imperial power.
This logical and meticulous exposition, even if the most learned wizard of the Turkic Empire read it, he couldn't hold back half a word. Shandu Yimo stared at the storm pass in front of him, which was still standing, and scolded: After a long time, Lao Tzu is lonely here!
Helpless, the Blood Wolf Clan still has to deal with the challenge of imperial power first. Since the Golden Clan is the main master in legal theory, it can only temporarily put down the Condor Army and turn back to rescue the capital.
The most terrible thing is that there is still a concubine Ming Mei living there.
Shandu Yimo was eager to save the United States, and he didn't care whether the Condor Clan would pursue him from behind, so he directly led more than 100,000 soldiers under his command all the way to Flame Maple Forest City.
However, he never expected that just as the blood wolf army had just reached the southern foot of the Ahan Mountains halfway through, the huge army of the Golden Clan suddenly appeared and ambushed the entire group of people in the mountain capital of Yimer!