Chapter 19: Past Events of Imperial Power
The city of Tyrol is known as the "wine capital" of Persia. This place is not only rich in Persian wine, but also rich in Persian beauties.
The city of Tyrol is full of wine workshops, large and small, as well as countless taverns and brothels. Those Persian dancers with plump waists and gorgeous looks shuttle among them like butterflies.
The merchants lingered and refused to leave.
Twenty years ago, the Turkic army originally used by Shandu Yimo to attack Western Xinjiang was forced to change its direction and captured more than ten Persian city-states in succession, and finally arrived in Tyrol.
The Lord of Tyrol was a pure Persian nobleman. Facing the menacing Turkic army, the old man scolded them tens of thousands of times in his heart: These bastards didn't dare to provoke the Holy Tang, so they took out their anger on your father and me. It's simply inexplicable.
However, in order to save his life and wealth, the city lord still took the initiative to open the door and welcome the occupying troops from afar. At the same time, he also presented the most beautiful dancing girl in Tyrol, Mingmei, as a gift to the distinguished Great Khan.
As for Shandu Yimo, he is also a master who has seen countless women. What kind of beauty has he not seen? But God just likes to joke. Mingmei’s appearance and dancing are, after all, the best in Persia. As soon as she comes up, she will see many
The well-informed Shandu Yimo was so frightened that he surrendered on the spot and prostrated himself under the beauty's pomegranate skirt with the attitude of regaining his second spring.
Since then, Persia has been able to turn disaster into good fortune.
The wolf-like Turks no longer invaded other places. Instead, they all accompanied the Great Khan and indulged themselves in the gentle countryside of Tyrol. They stayed there for more than half a year and did not even want to return home.
When the Turkic Queen Danina heard about this, she almost vomited blood. She wrote eight letters in a row, urging her husband to return to the court as soon as possible. At the same time, she also clearly warned that the Turkic royal court already had countless concubines and there was no place for a dancer.
Ji's bed.
After receiving the letter, Shandu Yimo had no reaction, but Mingmei burst into tears first.
Since the Queen cannot tolerate me, I will be humiliating myself and even risk my life if I go there, so it is better to end it now.
Mingmei pulled out Shandu Yimo's scimitar and wiped it directly towards Fenneck. Fortunately, the Great Khan was quick and stopped him in time, otherwise a Turkic version of "Farewell My Concubine" would have been staged on the spot.
At this time, Shandu Yimo's whole heart was focused on Mingmei. Seeing that his beloved concubine was angry, the crazy energy in his body could no longer be suppressed.
Aren’t you asking me to go back? Okay, I’ll go back right away! Aren’t there no places to place Mingmei? Okay, you make room for her!
After giving the order, the Turkic army immediately gathered and rushed back to the royal capital, Flame Maple Forest City, like a strong wind.
As soon as he arrived at the royal court, Shandu Yimo commanded the troops and arrested all the important officials of the Night Lun clan, including Queen Danina, and disarmed all the 20,000 Night Lun troops stationed in the royal city.
Before the Turkic civil and military officials could react, more than a dozen human heads were already hung on the flagpoles of the city wall, swinging in the wind, with ferocious faces.
You got into trouble! This time you got into a huge disaster!
Facing the panicked expressions of the ministers, Shandu Yimo smiled faintly: No one dared to challenge the blood wolf's fangs and claws, not even Yalun.
Is it really not possible?
That depends on what it is.
Killing the majestic queen and a dozen nobles for no reason, I'm afraid it's not possible but it has to be done.
In the blink of an eye, the Yelun clan went berserk and officially launched a challenge to the Blood Wolf clan for imperial power!
The so-called challenge to imperial power is a sacred and inviolable tradition of the Turkic Empire.
A long time ago, when the ancestors of the various Turkic tribes merged into one, they set a rule - the strong one is the king.
This means that whichever tribe is the most powerful and has the ability to lead the entire Turks to expand their territory will be the worthy king. Other tribes, no matter how big or small, must follow them loyally and cannot disobey.
Of course, with the rotation of the sun and the moon, the strong may not always be strong. The strength between tribes, just like the alternation of the four seasons, the passing of spring and the passing of winter, is constantly changing. Once the tribe in the king's position shows signs of fatigue,
state, then the stronger tribes can challenge them and challenge the imperial power.
This process cannot be regarded as rebellion or usurpation in the eyes of the Turks, so the king tribe cannot order and mobilize the power of other tribes to suppress the tribes that challenge him.
The battle for imperial power is always a problem between the challenger and the challenged. Others cannot and are not allowed to intervene.
In the end, the real Turkic king must be the one who achieves complete victory in the war. This is a matter of course.
However, the battle for imperial power also has no sequence. After a fierce battle, even if the winner is covered in blood and dying, he still has to face the next challenger who may appear at any time, and the next challenger.
Play the next challenger until no one comes up again.
Therefore, without absolute military strength and superb political skills, no one can guarantee victory in a tragic game similar to wheel warfare.
The current Blood Wolf Clan secured its position as the Great Khan after defeating the Xi Mo Tribe, the former Turkic King, and then successively withstood challenges from the Ghost Dou, Tianmu, and Changsheng Tribes.
Become king or exterminate the clan, it's just a thin line.
Because of this, when the Yelun tribe launched a challenge to Shandu Yimo for imperial power, the other six major tribes and hundreds of small tribes immediately declared their neutrality. Until a new king appeared, the orders of the Turkic royal court were temporarily invalid against them.
The arrogant laughter of Shandu Yimo came from the Flame Maple Forest City:
Several generations have passed, and everyone has almost forgotten the full name of the blood wolf. This time is just a refresher for all of you.
Blood wolf - bloodthirsty wolf!
According to people's common experience, there is often only a slight difference in ranking between first place and second place, just like the top students in the class taking turns taking the top spot.
However, the actual strength among the Turkic tribes is often not as simple as ranking. The difference between the second place and the first place is not one step away, nor a hundred steps away, nor even a thousand steps away.
The Yelun clan has no way of seeing the upper limit of the blood wolf!
The Hundred Thousand Night Wheel Revenge Army had just left their own territory and were preparing to go to Flame Maple Forest City when they ran into the thirty thousand vanguard army led by the Blood Wolf Clan General Gulitai.
The encounter started the moment the sun appeared on the horizon. Before the sun set, the Yamilun army collapsed under the repeated impact of Gulitai.
The Sanger Plain is littered with the headless corpses of Night Wheel warriors. Their heads were cut off by the Blood Wolf Soldiers and hung around their waists, becoming bargaining chips in exchange for rewards.
After the disastrous defeat, the remnants of Yelun fled in a hurry and retreated deep into the tribal territory in the direction they came from. However, Guritai had no intention of waiting for the large army behind him, and directly led his men to rush forward and chase them all the way.
Night wheel hinterland.
The ruthless massacre began.
Wherever the blood wolf cavalry passed, all humans and animals were wiped out, no chickens or dogs were left, and even the earthworms were split open by them. The bright red blood dyed the Kondar grassland, the Grigro Mountain Forest and the bright luminous city.
Then they merged into red streams, changing the color of the originally blue Sandu River.
The Yelun tribe launched a struggle for imperial power, while Shandu Yimo started a war of genocide.
Finally, someone couldn't stand it anymore.
The Condor clan, which has always had a good relationship with Yakurin, stood up and stopped the brutal massacre in time before the blood wolf soldiers killed the last Yakurin child, using the same method of challenging the imperial power.
Huh? Are you coming too?
Shandu Yimo curled his lips.
Are you worthy?
The main army of the Blood Wolf Clan, which has not yet fully entered the territory of Yelun, received a new order from Khan - immediately change direction and attack the Condor!
The 120,000 soldiers and horses heard the sound and moved quickly towards the northwest.
Previously, the grandson of Guritai took action too quickly, killing all the Yawarin troops in a blink of an eye. We didn't even catch up with our mouths after eating shit. It was really annoying! We must not miss the Condor Army again this time.
However, the Condor Clan, known for their "strong bows, crossbows, and superb shooting skills," did not provide the blood wolves with the opportunity to roar and claw like the Yelun Clan did. On the contrary, there were only 60,000 Condor warriors.
With the excellent command of the clan leader Tarim, the 120,000 invading blood wolf soldiers were given a solid shooting lesson.
Under the attack of flying feathers all over the sky, the Blood Wolf Clan suffered a shameful defeat. For a whole month, they not only failed to capture the strategic location of the Condor Clan - Storm Pass, but also lost nearly 20,000 troops.
For a time, morale plummeted.
Seeing that the offensive and defensive sides were in a stalemate, Shandu Yimo personally led the Wolf Guard Legion and the Pioneer Legion to come for reinforcements, and once again launched a fierce attack.
The power of the Turkic Great Khan is naturally extraordinary. The blood wolf soldiers seemed to have been injected with chicken blood. They instantly transformed into violent warriors, completely ignoring the terrible threat of the Condor Archer. Like a wave, they hit the storm pass one after another.
of city walls.
Faced with this situation, Tarim could only make the worst plan and ordered the tribesmen at the rear to burn down the town and hide in the mountains, begging for God's blessing and not letting the blood wolf army break through the barrier and kill the Condor tribe.
Kill to death.
However, no one on the battlefield could have expected that at the critical moment when Storm Pass was about to fall, shocking news suddenly came from the Turkic capital Flame Maple Forest - the third largest tribe, the Golden Tribe, actually sent troops to attack at this time.
Wang Ting!
After receiving the battle report, Shandu Yimo was stunned for a long time and could not recover:
His grandma's, this is a typical play!
The behavior of the Golden Tribe is indeed a bit of a joke. In other words, it is simply a shameful move that violates the sacred traditions of the Turks. Sending troops to attack the King Tribe during the Imperial War is an undoubted act of rebellion, and it is detrimental to the entire Turks.
A serious rebellion in the empire.
However, the leader of the Golden Clan, Ashina Zhijin, didn’t see it that way. He had a very valid reason for sending troops: We are challenging the imperial power!
When Shandu Yimo heard this statement, he laughed angrily on the spot.
I can understand the challenges from one family to the next, but if you join the Condor Clan at the same time, that’s not challenging the imperial power. It’s really challenging my IQ!
Ashina Zhijin obviously guessed that Shandu Yimo and the Turks would think so, so he quickly issued a war declaration and told the various tribes the whole story:
The previous battle for imperial power between the Blood Wolf Clan and the Yelun Clan was not completely over, and the Divine Eagle Clan took the lead in launching a challenge. Therefore, legally speaking, the Blood Wolf Clan's attack on Storm Pass was not a battle for imperial power, but a counterinsurgency campaign.
As for us, the Golden Tribe, we were reasonable and abiding by the rules, and waited until Guritai's legions had completely left the Yelun Tribe's territory, officially ending the last Imperial War, before sending troops to the Flame Maple Leaf City.
Therefore, we are reasonable, legal, and aboveboard challengers to imperial power.
Even the most knowledgeable wizard in the Turkic Empire could not hold back a single word of this logical argument after reading it. Shandu Yimo stared at the still-standing Storm Pass in front of him and cursed: What a fuss.
For a long time, I felt lonely here!
There is no choice but to deal with the challenge of imperial power first. Since the Golden Tribe is the legal master, they can only temporarily put down the Condor Army and go back to rescue the capital.
The most terrible thing is that my beloved concubine Mingmei lives there.
Shandu Yimo was so eager to save Mei that he didn't care whether the Condor Clan would pursue her from behind, and directly led hundreds of thousands of soldiers under his command to the Flame Maple Forest City.
Chapter completed!