Chapter five hundred and forty seventh take advantage of the situation to promote chaos
The soldier who delivered the letter was Zhu Xie Tengyun's confidant. He took out two letters and presented them to Zhu Xie Jinman. Zhu Xie Jinman was startled, "How could there be two letters?"
"One is a letter from the young master, and the other is... Tang Army coach Guo Song..."
Zhu Xie Jinman was unable to sit down immediately. It turned out to be Guo Song. No wonder Zhu Xie Moshan was beaten and his entire army was destroyed.
He suddenly thought of something, quickly read his son's letter, and asked the soldier: "How is the young master doing now?"
"It's okay, young master. He surrendered voluntarily and the Tang army did not make things difficult for him."
"I understand, you go down and rest first!"
Zhu Xiejinman waved his hand and told the soldiers to retreat. There were no outsiders in the hall. He then opened Guo Song's letter and read it carefully.
Guo Song made clear requests to him in the letter, and also gave them a promise as father and son. Of course, Zhu Xie Jinman knew what it meant to agree to Guo Song's conditions, but he knew better in his heart that if he did not agree to Guo Song, the fate of himself and his son would be different.
What will happen.
He took two steps with his hands behind his back, looked up to the sky and let out a long sigh.
He immediately wrote a letter and sent someone to secretly send it to Zhu Xie Jinhai.
Just after sending the messenger away, an attendant reported in the hall, "Khan has something urgent to say to you!"
Zhu Xiejinman nodded. Of course he knew why Khan was looking for him. Zhu Xieliang was also anxious.
"I understand, prepare my horse immediately!"
Zhu Xiejinman got on his horse and ran towards the royal tent. Shatuo's royal tent was located in the center of Yiwu City. What's interesting is that there are no buildings here, but it is composed of hundreds of large tents, with a huge egg-shaped white tent in the middle.
Tent, this is the royal tent of Shatuo, and it is the symbol of the king of Shatuo.
There were a thousand guards around to protect the king's tent, but Zhu Xiejinman knew full well that Shatuo Khan only had these last thousand soldiers left.
Of course, the soldiers referred to here are Chuyue soldiers who have been trained and can go into battle at any time. Apart from these one thousand soldiers, Chuyue's elite soldiers are only five thousand soldiers controlled by Zhuxie Jinhai of Gaochang.
If it refers to young and strong men, the tribes scattered all over Chuyue can still collect 20 to 30 thousand people, but those are not soldiers, they are some selected leftovers, either with various defects, or honest herdsmen who have never touched
If you don't use weapons, you will be scared enough to wet your pants when you go to the battlefield. There is no point in being a young and strong man like that.
Zhu Xiejinman walked into the big tent and saw the Khan Zhu Xieliang, who was extremely anxious and pacing back and forth.
Zhu Xieliang is the son of the former Shatuo Khan Zhu Xie Jinding. According to Shatuo's rules, a brother should succeed his elder brother as khan. It is not the son's turn yet. After Zhu Xie Jinding's death, he should be his younger brother.
Zhu Xie Jinhai succeeded to the throne.
However, the Presbyterian Church firmly opposed Zhu Xie Jinhai's succession to the throne. They took advantage of Zhu Xie Jinhai's absence in Yiwu to force Zhu Xie Liang to ascend the throne and inherit his father's throne.
Zhu Xieliang was already an ant on the hot pot at this time. The entire army of Zhu Xieliang in Moshan was destroyed and he lost his last 8,000 elite troops. He only had 1,000 men left in his hands. Once the news got out, the consequences would be disastrous.
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"Khan, Jin Manyehu is here!"
"Invite him in quickly!"
After all, Zhu Xieliang was only nineteen years old, a little too young. When he was at a loss, the arrival of his uncle Zhu Xiejinman made him seem to have grasped a life-saving straw.
At this time, Zhu Xiejinman had just walked into the big tent, and Zhu Xieliang hurriedly ran forward and said: "Uncle, something is wrong!"
Zhu Xiejinman pointed to the northwest, where was the original Yizhou Prefectural Government Office and is now the meeting hall of the Presbyterian Council.
Zhu Xie nodded his head, "I am very worried about the Tang Army now, but at the same time I am even more afraid of them, especially the Secret Service Department and the Advance Branch Department. They have long wanted to replace us."
"Yes! These guys are the best at adding insult to injury. When the Chuyue Department is strong, they will be obedient and docile than sheep. Once the Chuyue Department encounters difficulties, they will take off their sheep's clothing and reveal their wolf faces. Khan
, we must take action and cannot sit idly by."
"I just asked Ye Hu to discuss this matter."
Zhu Xiejinman said slowly: "Actually, I have already thought about it on the way. Whether the Khan likes it or not, Zhu Xiejinhai must lead his army to Yiwu to prevent other tribes from taking the opportunity to cause trouble."
Zhu Xieliang was actually a little afraid of Zhu Xie Jinhai, but fear was not a solution. The two powers had to harm each other and choose the lesser. He thought for a moment and finally nodded, "Then please invite Jin Haiye to escort you to the capital!"
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In fact, Zhu Xieliang didn't need to send anyone to invite him. Zhu Xiejinhai had already led the army on the way to Yiwu City. He got the news of Zhu Xiemo Mountain's fiasco at the first time, and he realized that he had been waiting for many years.
The opportunity finally came.
There should be no troops around Zhu Xieliang. This is his chance to shine. The position of Shatuo Khan should have been inherited by Zhu Xiejinhai. This has been the rule of the Chuyue tribe for hundreds of years. Brother inherits the throne from brother.
, Unexpectedly, he was disturbed by the old bastards from the Presbyterian Church, who forcibly supported his nephew Zhu Xieliang to take office. How could he not let Zhu Xiejinhai hold a grudge?
Five thousand cavalry moved north quickly along the official road. Not long after entering Yizhou, a soldier came forward and said, "I am reporting to Ye Hu, is there someone here to deliver the message?"
"What letter are you sending?" Zhu Xie Jinhai asked in a daze.
"It's a letter from Jin Man Yehu."
Zhu Xie Jinhai nodded. Among the brothers, he had the best relationship with his eldest brother Zhu Xie Jinman. After the last battle in Zhangye, it was Zhu Xie Jinman who mediated the conflict between him and the Presbyterian Council.
A messenger was brought forward, and he handed Zhu Xie Jinman's letter to Zhu Xie Jinhai.
Zhu Xie Jinhai called a torch and hurriedly read the letter under the firelight.
The letter said that the other six tribes had begun to covet the Chuyue tribe's population and pastures, and were ready to make a move. Zhu Xieliang simply could not suppress the six tribes. He begged Zhu Xiejinhai to quickly lead his army to Yiwu. Zhu Xieliang was too weak.
In times of trouble, he was no longer able to lead Chu Yuebu and the Six Ministries to compete. Zhu Xiejinman hoped that Zhu Xiejinhai would succeed Zhu Xieliang and take charge of the overall affairs of Chuyuebu in times of crisis. He was willing to fully support Zhu Xiejinhai as the new khan.
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Zhu Xie Jinman's letter made Zhu Xie Jinhai's blood boil. He wished he could spread his wings and fly to Yiwu immediately. He turned around and ordered loudly: "Speed up the march!"
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Zhu Xie Jinhai never dreamed that not long after he led his army into Yizhou, Li Bing led 3,000 Tang army cavalry to attack Xizhou.
Gaochang is today's Turpan. From the mid-5th century to the mid-7th century AD, four independent Han kingdoms appeared in this narrow Turpan Basin, namely Kan's Gaochang, Zhang's Gaochang, Ma's Gaochang and Qu.
The Gaochang family of Qu family was finally destroyed by the Tang army in the 14th year of Zhenguan. The Tang Dynasty established Xizhou in Gaochang, which together with Yizhou and Tingzhou became the three Beiting states directly under the imperial court.
Now that Gaochang has been occupied by the Shatuo people, Zhu Xie Jinhai is the lord of Gaochang. He expropriates and rules cruelly in Gaochang, constantly arousing resistance from the people of Gaochang, but is brutally suppressed by Zhu Xie Jinhai. He sends a large number of young and strong men who resist
The removal of mines in Yizhou quickly turned the once prosperous Gaochang land into a wasteland, and many Gaochang businessmen had to move to Zhangye. It was against this background that the famous Gaochang wine flourished in Zhangye.
At this time, Zhu Xie Jinhai led 5,000 troops to Yiwu to compete for the position of Khan. Guo Song seized this opportunity and sent Li Bing to lead 3,000 cavalry into Xizhou.
Li Bing led the cavalry all the way south, but saw that the good wheat fields on both sides of the official road had long been deserted and overgrown with weeds, and there was no one inhabited along the way. Li Bing secretly sighed that the originally rich and blessed land had ended up in such a miserable state. This shows how this Zhu Xie Jinhai came to be.
It's exploiting the people.
At dawn, Li Bing arrived at the gate of Gaochang City. Zhu Xie Jinhai had already led his army to the north. Only a hundred Shatuo soldiers were left in Gaochang City to guard the city gate. When these soldiers saw countless Tang troops coming outside the city, they were so frightened that they closed the city gate, but they didn't know it.
What to do.
At this time, the people in the city heard that the Tang army was coming outside the city. They immediately became excited. Thousands of people rushed out of their homes, holding poles and hoes, and beat up more than a hundred Shatuo soldiers. They hated these cruel Shatuo people.
, started mercilessly, and beat the soldiers wailing and crying. After a while, more than a hundred Shatuo soldiers were beaten to death by the angry people.
The city gate finally opened, and countless people poured out of the city. Seeing that it was the Tang Army cavalry outside, they all knelt down and burst into tears.
A dozen old men wiped away their tears, stepped forward and bowed: "I wonder where the general comes from?"
Li Bing turned over and dismounted, clasped his fists and said: "I am the general under the command of Guo Shijun, the governor of Hexi Province. My surname is Li and my name is Bing. We have recovered Tingzhou. My family's envoy ordered me to come and recover Xizhou. We arrived late. Everyone will suffer.
So much suffering.”
When everyone heard that it was the army of Guo Song, the governor of Hexi Province, they all cheered. They had already heard about Guo Song's reputation. They were overjoyed and supported three thousand Tang troops into Gaochang City.