Turbulent Times Chapter 246: Decision

Although Qiming Khan is still 800 miles away from Jincheng County, it only takes three days for the Turkic army, which is all cavalry. It is eight hundred miles away, and it can't attract the attention of the Sui border generals and the capital, but it's different now. No one can guarantee that the Turkic people and the Tuyuhun people are not colluding secretly. When half of the troops from Zhangye and Jincheng counties went to Xiping County, if the Eastern Turkic army went south and went straight to Jincheng and Zhangye counties, the consequences would be disastrous.

So, to be on the safe side, Yu Juluo postponed sending troops to rescue Xiping County at that time, and he did not lead the army to Xiping County until he mobilized the troops from Pingliang County and Tianshui County to Jincheng County, but this delay waited for him to lead the army When they arrived at Xiping County, Xiping County fell, and King Bailan led an army of 30,000 to capture Xiping City.

Although after he arrived, he led the army to lay out a few ambushes beautifully, beheaded some of the Tuyuhun army scattered outside Xiping City, and took back Xitang County from Tuyuhun's hands, and cut off the Tuyuhun army and Lao Lai However, it is difficult to make up for the loss of Xiping County.

Furthermore, after a month of mopping up by the Tuyuhun people, the territory of Xiping County has become deserted and completely ghostly. Like locusts, the Tuyuhun people cleaned up all the places they passed. As long as they could be taken away, they would all be moved back to their old nests, and those that could not be moved would be burned. The houses of countless people were left with ashes in the raging flames, and the evidence of thousands of people living here is only the loess as the foundation.

Such a result made Yu Juluo feel sullen, and he was afraid that the East Turks might go south, so he postponed the rescue. This reason was explained to the emperor and the court. The emperor and the important officials in the court may not believe it. After all, some Things that might happen and actually happen are completely different things, not to mention that Dong. Turkic is currently in a relationship with Da Sui because Princess Yicheng married Qiming Khan ten years ago. Da Sui and Dong. Turkic are in the honeymoon period, and Dong. The Great Khan of Qiming was hunting eight hundred miles away from the border of the Sui Dynasty. Why are you nervous, the border general of the Sui Dynasty?

In addition, what made Yu Juluo even more depressed was that King Bailan of Tuyuhun submitted a petition to surrender!

Just five days ago, King Bailan of Tuyuhun sent envoys who wanted to surrender the form to the capital of Guanzhong by detour before Yujuluo besieged Heping County, but were stopped by his scouts.

Yu Juluo really wanted to stop all the envoys of the Tuyuhun sect, and it would be best if they could be chopped up and fed to the wolves in the wild. But his army is limited in number, and it is far from being able to block all the roads from Xiping County to the capital. Even if he kills one envoy, there will still be other envoys who can still send the surrender table to Tokyo City.

He could only give an order first to let the other party's envoy stay to entertain him, and he himself sent someone to Beijing to report to see what kind of reaction His Majesty and the court would have.

Tuyuhun's move was very beautiful. He bypassed his Yongzhou marching chief and went directly to the emperor of the Sui Dynasty to ask for surrender, saying that as long as he agreed to their request, he would withdraw from Xiping City.

Because they knew that without the permission of the emperor and the imperial court, the general of Bianzhou in the Great Sui Dynasty would not dare to make an agreement with other countries to ask for surrender, especially the content of the request for surrender involved various things. under conditions.

As the chief of the Yongzhou army, he is very clear that the situation of the enemies that Yongzhou is facing is very complicated. When the Three Kingdoms are in dispute, any movement of any party will cause an instant change in the situation. Dong Turk's attitude is ambiguous. As long as he does not actually send troops south, many people in the capital will think that he is overthinking.

Since Tuyuhun lost Zhangye and Xiping counties in last year's battle, although he quickly expressed his surrender to the Sui Dynasty, in fact, he was always thinking about how to take back Xiping and Zhangye counties.

In Yu Juluo's view, as long as the imperial court shows enough toughness, with the goal of destroying Tuyuhun, completely frightening, maiming, and even exterminating the other party is the key to completely solving Tuyuhun's troubles.

The water curtain in front of the window has disappeared, and it will take a long time for the remaining rainwater to drip down. The thick clouds also dissipated, and the afternoon sun shone through the door of the tent, and the drops of rain and dew hanging under the curtain shone with colorful light.

Also, morale can never be discouraged. If they give up halfway, the Great Sui will no longer have prestige among the various forces in the Western Regions in the future, and the small country of Tuyuhun will become even more arrogant.

However, before that, you must further clarify your opinion to the emperor, instead of letting the opponents make trouble.

The idea has been made, and he will no longer take out new manuscripts to draft articles. Yu Juluo took the special memorial from the emperor, and wrote quickly, expressing his ideas in the memorial.

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Late autumn descends on the land of the north.

A city built of tents appeared in the Hetao Plain. This is actually the Eastern Turkic people's custom, because every year before winter, the Eastern Turkic tribes always look for a place with abundant water and grass, but in previous years Qiming Khan, who had been in the east at this time, came to the west today.

There are tens of thousands of people, horses and vehicles, and tents of all sizes are like mushrooms after a summer rain, and you can't see them all at a glance. In the most central position, there is even a large tent with a height of 10 or 20 steps—the king’s tent where Qiming Khan governed.

This royal tent is made of wood and bamboo as the pillars, covered with felt, painted on the pillars, brocades are hung on the four walls, dragon embroidered yellow cloth is laid on the ground, and the windows and curtains are made of felt. The mask is covered with butter silk.

This is the tent of the Eastern Turkic Khan.

Because of the vast territory of Eastern Turks, in order to effectively control the various tribes under his command, Qiming Khan patrolled all parts of his territory in four seasons and subdued each tribe. The king's tent is set up in Guangping Lake in winter, Yazihe in spring, Tu'er Mountain in summer, and Fuhulin in autumn, but today it is in Hetao.

Eastern Turks used hunting, grazing, governance, and acceptance of the audience of their tribes wherever they went. The military and political affairs of Eastern Turks were all completed in the king's tent, which has been followed for more than two hundred years The tradition of Turkic Khans, in this regard, Eastern Turkic is much more orthodox than Western Turkic.

The sound of the horn imitating the sound of deer, announced that the first hunting of this autumn is about to begin.

Dong Turkic Qiming Khan's confidant general Luo Gesen also changed into hunting clothes in his tent, walked out of the tent, and came straight to the king's tent.

"Khan, just got the news that King Bailan has occupied Xiping City, but he was also trapped in Xiping City by Yujuluo of the Sui Dynasty." After Luo Gesen saluted, he said to Qiming Khan: "But Khan, when will we send troops."

PS: I feel so uncomfortable tonight, I don’t know if I’m sick or what’s going on, there are only two updates, I’m very sorry, I’m sorry to ask for all kinds of support———