Until September, small disputes continued throughout the Mobei grassland, but overall it was still stable and no major disturbances occurred. At this time, all the grassland departments are focusing on defense against the coming cold winter, and even the continuous small frictions in the past have been reduced a bit.
This winter is a cold one, but it¡¯s only September, and the cold and biting conditions are beginning to show, and even the wind is a bit bit more biting than before. The coming white-haired wind is almost like an unresolved nightmare hanging over the heads of all grassland areas, constantly stimulating the fragile hearts of grassland herdsmen.
Until now, there has been no movement between Ashina Qilifu and Ashina Dubi.
Since the Yanmen Incident and the death of Shibi Khan, the East Turkic tooth tents have moved back to Yudujin Mountain.
The life of nature is the most vigorous. A fire more than ten years ago burned this grassland to white ground. But without human interference, after the changes of time, nature used its uncanny craftsmanship to restore vitality to this grassland.
This is the best place in the entire Mobei, surrounded by mountains and rivers. For thousands of years since the Huns, and even until the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, this has been the eternal center of the Mobei grassland.
At this time, near Dujin Mountain, it was mainly the headquarters of Princess Yicheng and her son.
When the initial Bi Khan died, the one who benefited the most was Princess Yicheng. Princess Yicheng originally had nearly 20,000 tents in her hands, and under her jurisdiction were 40,000 cavalry and almost 20,000 cavalry. She was the second most powerful force in the entire Eastern Turks after Shibi Khan. After the war, a large number of Shibi Khan's old forces were surrendered, and a large number of people near Yudujin Mountain were recruited. At this time, there were 27,000 tribesmen and 25,000 cavalry.
"Compared with Princess Yicheng, the most powerful Ashina Qilifu only has 7,000 tents and 8,000 cavalry, while Ashina Dubi has only 4,500 tents and more than 4,000 cavalry.
The combined strength of the two men. Less than half of Princess Yicheng. Therefore, if the two of them want to be tough, they will never succeed.
But Ashina Dubi has not been idle these past few months. He has been planning how to outwit Princess Yicheng.
September 10th is the annual alliance day for the Turks.
In fact, this day usually falls at the end of July or early August in previous years. The main reason is that autumn has entered in August, and the weather in the south has become cooler. War horses are fatter and stronger at this time, and the grassland has also entered a quiet stage, which is most suitable for tribes to go south to plunder and collect food for the winter.
Originally, each tribe was fighting for its own, but after the Turks unified the grasslands, the southward raiding valleys also became organized. There are arrangements for where hundreds of thousands of people will attack first and who will attack later, who will be the vanguard and who will be the rearguard. Even though the Eastern Turks were later defeated by the Sui Dynasty and the Turks did not dare to go south to herd horses, the surrounding tribes, especially the Tiele people who were not subject to Turkic control, continued to plunder.
The alliance is a meeting to divide the spoils in advance.
However, after the death of the Khan last year and the Sui Dynasty entering the hinterland of the grassland, the Eastern Turks no longer dared to organize such large-scale plundering, but the past alliance conventions could not be broken for the time being.
This year Ashina Dubi proposed an alliance, and Princess Yicheng also wanted to win people's hearts and gather power, so the alliance continued.
However, the date of the alliance has been pushed to September.
The tribe, including Ashina Qilifu, Ashina's chief executive, and many others, delayed coming to join the alliance on the pretext of preparing for Baihuang.
Although Princess Yicheng is dissatisfied, Ashina is one of the only two elders left in the clan, and Ashina is also an important minister. Without them, it would be inappropriate for Princess Yicheng to conduct the alliance alone. .
After all, this is also the first time Princess Yicheng has held an alliance. It is a moment to declare her identity, status and prestige.
So Princess Yicheng had no choice but to follow Ashina Dubi's suggestion and push the time to September. She made up her mind that if someone still didn't come in September, I wouldn't wait any longer.
But luckily nothing like that happened.
Ashina Dubi arranged everything properly without any omissions.
Since the death of Bi Khan, Ashina Dubi has completely surrendered to this little mother and sister-in-law, and is willing to be a ghost for her little mother's flowers, dress under her skirts, and go through life and death, no matter what.
Although Princess Yicheng is the Kehe Dun of the Eastern Turks, she is a Sui person after all. Compared with the Ashina family's prestige on the grassland, it is still not as good as a century ago. She was also happy to have Ashina Dubi take refuge. With Dubi, she could better control the entire Turks. This time org.com Zhang Si
By the beginning of September, everyone had basically arrived at Ya Zhang, just waiting for the alliance meeting to be held.
At this moment, Ashina Dubi secretly came to see Princess Yicheng and reported a secret incident to her. Ashina Zilifu united with the Wei He tribe to prepare for a raid on Yazhang. His army had already reached the Luhun Sea (now Mongolia).A land hundreds of miles north of Uji Nur on the east side of the Orkhon River.
Luhunhai is a large lake north of Turkic Yazhang. It is also an important water source and northern barrier of Yazhang.
Ashena, as Lifu approaches Luhunhai, it means that he can attack Ya Zhang at any time.
"What does Lifu want to do? Does he want to rebel?"
Princess Yicheng was shocked at first, and then became angry. These days, her brother-in-law has been causing trouble for her, openly and covertly opposing her, and now he dares to attack her. He is really looking for death.
"I'm afraid that my brother wants to take advantage of the alliance to raid the tent, catch everyone in one go, force everyone, and make him the Turkic Great Khan!"
"What a dream!"
A stern look flashed in Princess Yicheng's eyes. Since this brother-in-law was seeking death, she didn't mind sending him away.
"Duh Bi, you will help me, right?"
When Princess Yicheng faced Ashina Dubi, her face immediately changed.
Although there is no word "dog licking" in this era, Ashina Dubi is a good licking dog. He worked hard and helped Princess Yicheng solve countless troubles.
Although Princess Yicheng despises the other party, she needs the other party, so she cannot let this licking dog run away. So I usually treat him kindly, which is a bit of a sweetener.
Seeing Princess Yicheng's gentle treatment of her, Ashina Dubi's eyes suddenly lit up and he immediately said: "Don't worry, Kehe Dun. Du Bi will cut off the head of this vicious fox, Qi Lifu, as a tribute to Kehe Dun." .¡±
"good!"
Princess Yicheng was overjoyed and immediately said: "Doubi, you immediately mobilize the tribesmen and secretly move behind Qilifu's tribe. At this moment, we will surround him in Luhunhai." Zhida org.com Zhixiao
"yes!"
After sending Ashina Dubi away, Princess Yicheng immediately sent the army's central generals Ashina Tulin and He He to lead an army to ambush Ashina Qilifu.
At this time, Princess Yicheng's maid Yifang said: "Princess, I don't believe Du Bi's words. I always feel that he has bad intentions."
Princess Yicheng said disapprovingly: "Don't worry, I am very aware of Duobi's ambition. But now we need to rely on him to defeat Zilifu. I will be on guard against him, he can't make trouble."