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Chapter 378: A New Journey (Part 1)

Tubo and Khwarezm successively fought against Loulan, and they were defeated one after another and were severely injured. Liu Yu blackmailed Tubo, but he did not plan to argue with the Khware people. What he was thinking about now was the battle against the Turks in the north.

After leaving the position of commander for a long time, he left home even longer. Although Liu Yu was tired and wanted to go back to Chang'an City to rest, he knew that there was only one way to win. The military coup had forced him to fight for the extermination of the Turks. He was also unsure whether Hua Ji'an listened to him or not.

On the last night in Loulan City, Liu Yu chose to stay in the National Inn in Loulan. This time, unlike when he left, his guards were inside and outside the National Inn. Without his permission, Queen Hulin would have to eat a gun even when she came. Liu Yu climbed the small building and enjoyed the night view of Loulan City for the last time before leaving. This time, he was not only a little fun, but also had the best grape wine, which was the royal wine of the Loulan Royal.

"Are we leaving?"

Timur mustered up the third floor of the building, sat there and asked while sucking his nose. Because the temperature in Loulan Kingdom dropped sharply in the past few days, she had a cold wind and there was no medicine here, so she didn't feel how to harden it.

Liu Yu nodded and said, "Yes. We will follow the army out of Loulan and cross Tubo for a while, and then we will enter the territory of your Turkish people. At that time, we can escape the protection of the army and go north. However, it is very dangerous. We may encounter the army of Shunchao or the army of your Turkic tribes. This journey will be very hard."

Timur said happily: "I am not afraid of danger, if I can go home."

Liu Yu smiled faintly, and did not speak anymore, his eyes fell on the scenery outside the city. His purpose this time was to lead the army to find the Turkic royal court. Timur would become the guide. Earlier, Liu Yu had already explained to Zhang Wuzhu and other generals. After all, after he left the army, things needed to be coordinated. The biggest task of this special combat force now is to escort a large number of food and grass to the north.

Tubo could not raise millions of kilograms of grain at the moment, and the first batch was already transported, with 600,000 kilograms. Because a lot of these grains were meat, they could not be packed in sacks, nor could they be counted on the amount of money. The road from Tubo to the Western Regions and to the grasslands was not smooth, and there were many Gobi decks and deserts without roads. The lack of carriages in Tubo and Loulan were all the things that bothered Liu Yu. Liu Yu comprehensively considered that there was only one way to transport grain and recruited the villagers.

Of course, it was not to go back to the Shun Dynasty to fight, but to solve the problem on the spot. The first thing to bear was the more than 10,000 nearly 20,000 prisoners of war from the Tubo coalition. In addition to the Loulan people, Liu Yu estimated that it would take about 30,000 people to deliver the first batch of grain to the grassland. In other words, at least 10,000 laborers had to be recruited in Loulan.

"What are you thinking? Why don't you talk?" Timur looked at him and asked when Liu Yu was in a daze.

"Oh. I'm wondering how to come back after sending you back to the grassland."

"What are you going to do when you go back to the Central Plains? How good is it to be on our grassland? You can go anywhere you want. Riding a horse on a day, going to see the snow-capped mountains, and seeing the beautiful lake. I will ask my father Khan to give you a small number of people. In the future, you can choose our Turkic girls as your wife, and you can marry many of them at the same time." Timur said, and he had some longing, as if he was thinking about the wonderful life on the grassland.

Liu Yu was a little surprised. It was not because of the words Timur said about getting married and having children, but because of the "big lake water" she mentioned inadvertently. Could it be Lake Baikal? Liu Yuxin said that it was really far away to my grandma's house. Just walking on two legs, it would take until the year of the monkey and horse month.

"Little beggar, are your Daldo tribe very close to the lake?" Liu Yu asked.

"Well. If you ride a horse, it will be here in the morning. I often go there to play. However, it is very cold in winter, and our tribe will also migrate south for a while. After spring, there are rivers, snowy mountains, and very thick aquatic plants. In summer, the girls of our tribe will go to the lake to take a shower, and you are not allowed to peek at it at that time." Timur blinked playfully, and looked at Liu Yu with a smile on his face.

"No, no!"

Liu Yu was ashamed that the journey from the Western Regions to Lake Baikal must be re-estimated. However, judging from the current extension of the power of the Shunchao army, it should be not far from Lake Baikal, and it is not very difficult to recruit troops. However, you need to prepare two more horses, transfer along the way, and prepare enough food and water.

"I'm leaving here tomorrow. You can go back to bed earlier." Liu Yu thought of asking Timur to go to bed early, so he went to discuss with Zhang Wuzhu and others.

Timur said with a look of dismay: "The stairs are very dark, I...I dare not go down."

Liu Yu smiled and said, "I will carry you."

Liu Yu stretched out his hand, and Timur was stunned at first, but she came over to stop Liu Yu's neck with confidence, then jumped onto Liu Yu's back, and Liu Yu held her body with both hands.

"Be gentle, we will finish the game if we step on the building and we will finish it." Liu Yu said with a stable body.

Timur smiled and stuck out his tongue, saying, "Who told you to grow taller?"

Liu Yu carefully carried Timur to the first floor step by step. When Timur thought of going home, he jumped onto the bed happily. Liu Yu used the excuse to go to the toilet and went to the National Inn to discuss with Zhang Wuzhu. The main reason was some skills of scouts tracking and identification of marks. Liu Yu was afraid of getting lost on the grassland and losing contact with the scouts. Then he would be a savage again. This time he might have to go north to pass Lake Baikal and become a Siberian savage. Thinking of the cold Siberian winter, Liu Yu felt cautious behind his back.

After the discussion, Liu Yu asked Liu Wu as an envoy to negotiate with the Loulan people with the conditions of the Shunchao people. He said it was a negotiation, but in fact he also issued an ultimatum. The condition for the Shunchao army to withdraw troops was that the Loulan Kingdom took out 200,000 kilograms of military rations plus 10,000 civilians as the conditions for becoming the "alliance" of the Shunchao. Liu Yu didn't want to go, but he didn't want to be entangled about marrying the princess anymore. Thinking of his beautiful wife at home, Liu Yu could calm down, and he wanted to end the war earlier and return to Chang'an City.

The negotiations went very smoothly, and Loulan now had to agree to the conditions of the Shunchao people. The next day, Liu Yu was about to take a small group of troops to head north first, and received news from the south that Brukhan, who was in the south of Loulan, announced that he had become king and escaped from the rule of Queen Hulin. Liu Yu was surprised by the courage of this boy. Originally, Liu Yu wanted to lead troops to completely wipe out him, but thinking about it, it would be better to leave Brukhan for the Loulan people to worry.
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