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Chapter 787 Decisive Battle (Second Update)

Although the heavy snow has stopped, the wilderness north of Yinshan Mountain is still covered with ice and snow.

Li Chongjiu rode forward. On the side of the road buried in heavy snow were Ashina Momo who led his troops to surrender, and his troops.

The black crowd, wearing all kinds of felt furs, knelt in the snow.
"Meet Your Majesty!" Ashina respectfully bowed in front of Li Chongjiu, followed by nearly a hundred Turkic dignitaries.

Ashina Momo is very young, Li Chongjiu glanced at him and said, "Ashina Momo, are you really determined to surrender?"

Ashina bowed his head at the end and said: "Your Majesty, my surrender is all sincere."

Li Chongjiu jumped off the horse and looked at Ashina Momo. The opponent was very young, and it was very obvious that the appearance of the Turkic Ashina clan was very similar to that of Li Chongjiu who had met Luo Tuli.He also heard from Xue Wanche that this person wanted to replace Jieli as Khan, so he surrendered to Li Chongjiu, and Xue Wanche had temporarily agreed for him.

Xue Wanche agreed privately for himself, but Li Chongjiu didn't mean to change it. After Turkic, the Turks surrendered their most important generals, and they had to buy horse bones with a lot of money.

Li Chongjiu smiled at Ashina Momo at the moment and said: "Very well, since you have taken refuge in my Dazhao, you will be my important minister in the future, and I will reward you heavily. Pass the decree and canonize Ashina Momo as Yu set up Khan, and then awarded it to the king of Liaoxi County, a hundred hectares of fertile land in the pass, and a beautiful house, and the rest of the Turks who surrendered were all named county princes."

After hearing Li Chongjiu's request to make him a khan, Ashina Momo was overjoyed at the moment, and bowed down to Li Chongjiu together with the nobles of the tribes.

Ashina finally said to Li Chongjiu: "Your Majesty, you are the well-deserved Khan on the grassland, and we are all willing to follow you."

After Ashina Momo said this, Tuli also dismounted and said: "Your Majesty's kindness is like the heavens, which favors the grassland. I suggest that it is better to respect His Majesty's Dengli Khan as the co-owner of all the tribes in the grassland. "

Dengli and Tengger both mean heaven. When Emperor Yang of Sui conquered the Western Regions, he was honored as the saint Khan, which means that only the saint Khan is the most respected from the sky below the people.But when Tuli said this, he compared Li Chongjiu to the sky, even better than the saint Khan.

After Tuli made such a proposal, Yinghefu, Ertuo, Tudiji and other Fanjun generals also agreed and asked Li Chongjiu for a plus.

For Li Chongjiu, any plus sign is just a title.He didn't want these things, he smiled and said: "Tian Khan, it's just a name. Right now, Jieli is the harm of the grassland. Only when Jieli is destroyed, can there be peace on the grassland. As for Tian Khan, Everyone is the same."

After hearing Li Chongjiu's words, everyone agreed in unison.Tuli, Ashina felt that he couldn't see Li Chongjiu's thoughts at all.Afterwards, Li Chongjiu was surrendered by Ashina Momo, and his troops became more powerful. He gathered a large army and continued to approach Tieshan from Yinshan.

The battle drums were beating on the grassland, Zhao Guo Xue Wanche's striker was already approaching the Turkic Tieshan Khan Court, the distance was only a few miles.

After Li Chongjiu's army arrived near Tieshan, they camped immediately to prevent the Turks from attacking.At the same time, Li Chongjiu also convened all the generals to discuss the matter of attacking Tieshan. Xue Wanche and other generals advocated preemptive strikes.At this time, the account reported to Xieli to send envoys to come.

Li Chongjiu said to the generals with a smile: "At this time, Jieli sent an envoy to seek peace."

At the side, Ji Chuan said: "Now that our army is approaching the city, Jie Li still wants to ask for peace. What a joke."
Zhang Xuansu said: "You might as well listen to what conditions Jieli offered."

Not long after, a Turkic envoy came and said respectfully to Li Chongjiu, "Your Majesty, Khan on the Grassland, ask me to bring you greetings."

Li Chongjiu said: "Thank you, what is the purpose of Xieli sending you here at this time?"

The Turkic envoy said: "Jieli Khan, I heard that His Majesty's army came under the iron mountain and wanted to fight our army. Khan, thinking of the hundreds of thousands of troops on both sides fighting to the death, no matter who wins or loses, it will be a massacre." .So the Khan sent me to see if there was any other way to defuse the fighting."

Li Chongjiu said: "At this time, Jieli remembered that the lives on both sides were ruined, but he didn't know that when Jieli broke the covenant, invaded Dazhao, attacked our Youjing, destroyed our Linshuo Palace, and killed our people, how much did he think? Do something to kill."

The Turkic envoy heard Li Chongjiu's stern remarks, and immediately cupped his hands and said: "Before attacking Dazhao, it was Khan who thought that Zhao Guo supported Tuli Khan and made things difficult for me. It was only later that I realized that this was a misunderstanding. , all because of the instigation by the treacherous minister Zhao Deyan. The Khan already understands that he has no regrets for the wrong things he did in the past. If His Majesty wants the two families to stop fighting, our Khan is willing to hand over Zhao Deyan and let the Khan dispose of him. "

When the Turkic envoy said this, all the generals showed contemptuous expressions.

Jieli's patriarchal clan obviously used Zhao Deyan as a scapegoat to extinguish Zhao's anger.Zhao Deyan had been advising the Turkic Khans for so long, but it was really not worth it to end up like this.

Li Chongjiu said: "Gui Khan really knows how to excuse him, thinking that Zhao Deyan's death alone will be enough to settle the matter."

The Turkic envoy said: "Of course not. If Your Majesty really intends to negotiate peace, we can sit down and discuss it slowly. If there are any conditions, just ask for it. For example, the loss of Youjing in the previous looting of Huaihuang Town, we Turkic can do it." Ten times the compensation."

Li Chongjiu snorted and said, "It's only now that I know how to repent, don't you think it's too late? Before our army left Youjing, before crossing the Yin Mountain, what were you Jieli Khan doing? Now that the soldiers are approaching the city, Jieli can Khan knows how to repent, but it is too late."

"The remnant Turkic soldiers trapped in Tieshan are at the end of the road. I came here with an army of 20 to destroy them in a single battle. Tell Jieli that if the arrows that are fully drawn are retracted, they will hurt the owner of the arrows. I must fight this battle, if he is wise, the whole country will surrender, and I will spare his life, there is no other way to go!"

After the Turkic envoy was reprimanded by Li Chongjiu, he could only leave in embarrassment and returned to the Turkic Khan Court to report to Jieli.

After hearing the envoy's report, Jieli sighed up to the sky, and then said to Zhao Deyan: "It seems that the road to peace is not feasible. Li Chongjiu is determined to destroy us Turks here. Zhao Deyan, what do you say?" Is there any way to save our Turks, and I am willing to obey?"

Zhao Deyan lowered his head, the previous scheme of offering himself as a scapegoat and letting Li Chongjiu kill him was suggested by Zhao Deyan himself to Jieli.Now Li Chongjiu rejected Xieli's proposal, and Zhao Deyan was fine for the time being, but because of this, he gained Xieli's trust.

Zhao Deyan was thinking in his heart, but there was really no countermeasure at this time, so he could only spread his hands and say, "Khan, even if Li Chongjiu doesn't give us a way to survive, we can only fight."

Jieli shook his head when he heard the words and said: "It's difficult, after Ashinamo surrendered to Li Chongjiu, his younger brother Ashinasheer also turned against him. As Tuoshe, he also has more than [-] troops in his hands , and now he set out to cross the desert and go to Yudujin Mountain."

Zhao Deyan shook his head, thinking that he could betray the Han people and join the Hu people, so why couldn't Ashinamo and Ashinasheer brothers betray the Turks and join the Zhao people.

The Yating of Ashinasheer was originally located in Qibei, and he was the commander of the Huihe and Tongluo tribes. He did not collect taxes from the various ethnic groups under his command for several years after he took the post of Tuoshi. He was asked why.Ashinasheer replied that I am satisfied with the tribe's wealth, so what's the use of taxation.

Therefore, the leaders of the various tribes in Mobei love him very much, but Jieli knows that this is Ashnasheer's way to buy people's hearts.Ashinamomo and Ashinasheer brothers are not fuel-efficient lamps, one is better than the other.

Zhao Deyan said: "Ashnadur led the crowd to Yudujin Mountain, in order to let Khan be defeated by Li Chongjiu, and he led his troops to call himself Khan in Mobei. Of the two brothers, one voted for Li Chongjiu, and the other It is self-reliance in Mobei, all with one thought, that is, to replace the Khan and become the Turkic Khan."

Speaking of this, Jieli showed a hint of anger and said: "My two nephews are both ambitious. I really regret that I should have defeated Tuli and not attacked Zhao, but returned to the grassland to deal with these two. To eliminate this hidden danger, I never thought they would rise up against me today."

Jieli also had no choice. Ashinamomo and Ashinasheer were both established generals when they were alive. It is not so easy to eradicate them.At that time, although Chu Luo supported him to become a khan, his two sons had other ideas. They supported him on the surface, but they were just recruiting soldiers.

Zhao Deyan thought that this was also the reason why the Turkic brothers died and the problem was eliminated.For example, Shibi Khan's two sons, Tuli Khan, and his younger brother Ashina had the same association rate. When Chuluo Khan was alive, he was a thorn in Chuluo's side.When Chuluo Khan was alive, Zhao Deyan helped him eradicate dissidents and suppressed the rate of association between Tuli and Ashina, but the two sons left behind after his death became forces against the new Khan Jieli.

Jieli shook his head. When Chuluo Khan was in power, Turkic seemed to be peaceful, but unexpectedly, after Chuluo died, all the internal problems in Turkic that had been accumulated for many years were suddenly exposed.

Jie Li sighed: "I now know that our internal strife is the most lethal point of the Turks, not Li Chongjiu's 20 troops outside."

Zhao Deyan also didn't say anything. Although the Turkic military strength can compete with the Central Plains, the political system is hundreds of years behind.The Central Plains established the inheritance tradition of the eldest son system at the earliest, while the Turks can not only inherit from brothers, but also sons, and later sons can also do it.

The chaotic succession system has led to ambitions among the generals.

While the Central Plains Dynasty experienced the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion of the Han Dynasty and the Eight Kings Rebellion at the end of the Jin Dynasty, while learning lessons, the Turks were following the old path of the Central Plains Dynasty. The division of East and West Turks originated here, but the Turks still did not Reflection, the result is back on the old road.

Jieli was haggard all of a sudden, at this time a general came forward to report: "Khan, Luo Shiletqin Ashina Simo led his troops to leave Tieshan and set up camp in the direction of Zhao Jun."

Xieli was hit by this blow, and immediately scolded: "This Sogdian bastard, because of Tuli's wooing, he dared to betray me?"

Because Ashina Simo's mother is a Sogdian, she has a pair of fiery red pupils instead of the glaze-colored pupils unique to the Turkic Ashina clan. As a result, he has been rejected by the Turkic Ashina clan. Now he is also a betrayal Xieli.

After Jieli lost his temper for a while, his heart felt cold. Before the battle with Zhao Guo was fought, all the ministries under his command rebelled one after another.Originally, Tieshan gathered at least 7 Turkic troops, able to fight against the Zhao army. Now that they have left, there are only [-] or [-] Turkic troops left in Tieshan.

If there is a real war, there is no one who knows how many people Xieli can fight, so no matter how you look at it, Xieli will be defeated in this battle.

At this moment, Zhao Deyan knelt down and said, "Khan, we can no longer fight like this with Zhao Guo. I believe that the only way to keep Turkic is to surrender all the way."

Jie Li looked at Zhao Deyan and asked, "You actually want Ben Khan to surrender. Our Turks only have soldiers who died in battle, and there are no soldiers who surrendered."

Zhao Deyan said: "It's not really a surrender, we just have to pretend to surrender. As long as Li Chongjiu's 20 troops leave Mobei, on this grassland, it's up to Khan, don't you think? Moving to Mobei, no matter how powerful Li Chongjiu is, will he be able to conquer Mobei? In other words, with Zhao's current national strength, he can launch several more expeditions to the grassland with more than 20 troops."

Jie Li's expression changed when he heard this.

"It's just that the Zhao people are powerful right now. We have to swallow our anger now, so that we will have a chance to make a comeback in the future. Khan, you can't ruin the future of Turks just because of a momentary impulse."

Hearing what Zhao Deyan said, Xie Li shook his body and said, "You're right. I can't spoil the overall situation because of my personal emotions. Immediately send people to Zhao Guo's barracks to negotiate with Li Chongjiu, and say that Xie Li is willing to surrender. .”

The messenger that Xieli asked to surrender went to Zhao Jun's camp overnight.

But this night, it was very strange. Suddenly, there was a thick fog, and the fog was so confusing that you could hardly see your fingers.The thick mist caused the Turkic messenger to go the wrong way, delaying the chance to go to Zhao Guojun's camp.

At the same time, on the grassland, only seven miles away from the Jieli camp, a 500-man Zhao army Jingqi was advancing rapidly.

The general of this 500-strong Zhao army is Qin Qiong, a brave general of the Wuwei Army. Right now, he is following the order of Xue Wanche to lead an army to attack the Tieshan camp of the Turks in the middle of the night.

Qin Qiong led the horses and led the soldiers to grope forward in the dense fog.He didn't know that two miles to one side of him, the envoy of the Turkic Khan Jieli who asked to surrender had just passed them.

The saber has been polished, the arrow has been wound, and the decisive battle between Zhao Guo and the Turks is unfolding here when no one expected it.

(End of this chapter)