Early the next morning, Xiao Ziyang sat in the quiet room, holding a jade slip in his hand, closing his eyes and probing into the jade slip with his divine sense, and studying the formation scriptures in it.

The circle outside the quiet room was suddenly knocked. Xiao Ziyang sighed, reluctantly accepted the jade slip, waved his hand to open the quiet room magic circle, and invited the knocking array to come in.

The person who came was none other than the Great Elder.

The Great Elder's name was Uzhhan, and he was born from the Oriya tribe, the royal family of the Usud tribe.

Speaking of which, the Agudamu family seems to belong to the Oriya tribe, but as a royal family of the Usud tribe, the Oliya tribe is the largest tribe worthy of the name, with a population of nearly 800,000, accounting for nearly one-fifth of the entire Usud tribe.

On the shore of Lake Angarhor, where water and grass are abundant, the Oriya tribe accounts for most of them. Xiao Ziyang didn't think much about it.

Grand Elder Wu Rihan walked in, and after saluting Xiao Ziyang, he deliberately didn't look at Xiao Ziyang's somewhat helpless look, and sat cross-legged opposite Xiao Ziyang with a cheeky face, and then opened the conversation.

Xiao Ziyang had already seen that this Great Elder of Wu Rihan, named Great Elder, had actually been set aside by his subordinates.

There were nine elders in the temple, and all but two of the older elders were at his command. The other seven elders, led by an elder named Hu Helu, had openly sung a duet with Wu Rihan. At the elders' meeting that day, the two factions went head-to-head, and Uzhhan was clearly at a disadvantage.

Elder Hu Helu is less than forty years old, but his cultivation is no less than that of Wu Rihan, and he is also shrewd and capable. Xiao Ziyang vaguely heard that this person had the support of the Usud Khan, and it was no wonder that Wu Rihan couldn't fight him.

As for why the Usud Khan did not support his own clansmen, but instead supported a foreigner, Xiao Ziyang did not know, and he was not interested in knowing the Dao.

If it weren't for any of the temple's elders, and the replacement of the Great Elder, the Guardian Monk would need a nod. The position of this Great Elder of Wurihan has long been lost.

In the past, when Muren was there, he never asked about the affairs of the temple. Although the two factions fought in the dark, Hu and Lu were never able to completely move to Wurihan, which had sunset.

Now that Xiao Ziyang suddenly showed concern for the affairs of the temple, both factions felt that their opportunity had come.

Hu and Lu thought that the opportunity had come for him to move to Urihan once and for all and become a veritable Grand Elder of the Temple, while Urihan thought that his chance to regain his power and power had come.

Both of them approached Xiao Ziyang in a different way, trying to please him, but Xiao Ziyang was overwhelmed.

Although he was impatient, Xiao Ziyang couldn't pull his face to drive this gray-haired old man out of the city, and he could only deal with him with no match.

Chatting and chatting, Wu Rihan told a history about the change of power in the Usud royal court, which attracted Xiao Ziyang's attention.

Because Xiao Ziyang heard a familiar name, Heinah Agoura!

The herdsman he met by chance on the grassland that day was, as he expected, not an ordinary family. To his surprise, the family was so unusual.

The man named Agoura turned out to be a prince of the Usud court, and if it weren't for a mutiny, he would have been the khan of the Usud court by now.

Sixteen years ago, the Usud royal court united two other tribes that also bordered the Western Liang Kingdom and launched a routine border against the Western Liang Kingdom.

The steppe people did not have much interest in the territory of the Western Liang Kingdom, and their main purpose was to plunder, plunder the population and goods.

This kind of looting happens almost every year, and in previous years, under the strict defense of the Xiliang Kingdom, the losses were generally not too large. But in that year, the Lanshan Pass General of the Xiliang Kingdom was replaced by a scholar who could only talk on paper, and he whimsically went out to meet the battle, trying to win a decisive battle with the grassland iron cavalry.

The result is naturally self-evident, the Arashiyama Xiongguan, which has not been breached for decades, fell in chaos.

The steppe knights, who broke into the rear of the border pass, plundered on a large scale, bringing back a large amount of goods and slaves for the various tribes.

Several tribes that tasted the sweetness came out again the following year.

As the so-called blessing and misfortune lurk, the Lanshan Pass, which was easily broken by the tribal alliance last year, has become an impregnable wall this year. Not only that, but when the coalition forces were exhausted and retreated, they were also pursued by the ranks and tails of the defenders of the Guannai. What I didn't expect was that after the strong men of the grassland coalition broke their wrists, abandoned some of their troops, intercepted the pursuers, and finally escaped, they were ambushed by the iron cavalry of the Xiliang Army when the army had just stepped on the grassland and was the most relaxed.

The rout soon turned into a rout, and a chase lasted from night to dawn, and the grassland coalition army was riddled with casualties, and less than a third of them were able to return to the grassland alive.

Carried away by last year's victory, the main force of the three-tribe alliance this time was dominated by the royal tent army of each tribe. Therefore, this unprecedented defeat greatly weakened the strength of the royal court of the three clans.

The other two tribes, the royal tribe itself only controlled the royal court by a slight advantage, and this failure directly led to the royal court of these two tribes changing their surnames.

The Usud tribe, the royal Oriya tribe has an absolute advantage, and although this defeat has greatly weakened the power of the royal family, it is still the most powerful tribe that the Usud tribe has nothing to argue.

The problem was that the Olian royal family was not monolithic, and the younger brother of the previous Great Khan of the tribe, Has-ullah Khan, controlled a third of the royal clan and army.

With the support of other tribes, as well as the powerful nobles within the royal tribes, Hasullah, who had already gained the upper hand, killed his brother and ascended to the position of the Great Khan of the Clan.

As the eldest son of the Great Khan and the first heir to the Khan's throne, Hainah Agoura, participated in the invasion of Western Liang as his lieutenant.

Although the war ended in a complete defeat for the steppemen, the defeat not only did not damage the prestige of Heinach Agoura, but also gained him even greater prestige.

Before the war began, Agoura was a staunch oppositionist, and when war was unavoidable, he fought without hesitation in a war that he did not favor him.

At the beginning of the war, he opposed the storming of the fortified Lanshan Pass, believing that a large force should be used to suppress the pass as before, and send a small force to bypass the Lanshan Pass and carry out limited plunder.

Blinded by last year's gains, the coalition generals not only did not take his advice, but ridiculed him for being cowardly.

In the middle of the war, he believed that the casualties were too great and had already affected the combat effectiveness of the troops, and recommended an early retreat.

But like gamblers who threw too much money into the field, the generals of the coalition forces who were dazed were attracted to the Arashiyama Pass by the weak tactics of the defenders.