The guards around Fu Nian were all the best warriors among the Turks. Although there were only a dozen of them, they were extremely brave and good at fighting. After a quarter of an hour, they successfully protected the two of them from the battle circle, and only one of them died in the chaos.
After a quarter of an hour of rushing, the group turned east.
After running for another hour, when he saw that there were no pursuers behind him, Fu Nian gasped and said, "Let's... take a rest."
Canggu looked around, pointed to a big rock in the distance and said, "Little Khan, let's go there to rest."
"Don't you have any brains? Kedu said that the Khitans are at war with the Tang people. If you stay here for a moment longer, you will be in more danger. Do you understand?" Ashide said angrily.
Fu Nian wiped the sweat from his forehead, nodded and said, "Okay then, let's continue on our way."
Yanran frowned and said: "If we continue to rush as before, we are likely to encounter other countries' armies again. It is best to send a few people to explore the road ahead."
Fu Nian obeyed her words and immediately selected four guards to serve as sentry horses to explore the road ahead, while the rest followed the sentry horses and moved forward slowly.
Half an hour later, a sentry horse rushed back and panted: "Little Khan, there are two armies fighting in the northeast. One of them is Khitan, and the other seems to be Shiwei."
Fu Nian said gloomily: "It seems that Shi Wei has also taken action against the Khitan people."
"Nonsense, the Khitans were in civil strife and were attacked by the Tang people. Even the weak Xi people knew how to seize the opportunity to seize the grassland. Naturally, the Shiwei people were not willing to lag behind. In my opinion, Fu Wen would also come to seize the territory after learning about it. How good is the Khitan people?
The days are coming to an end." Yan Ran hummed.
Fu Nian sighed and said, "Leave a mark and turn to the southeast."
After traveling southeast for a while, a sentry horse came from the south and said, "Little Khan, come quickly and take a look. There is something going on ahead."
Following the sentry horse, a group of people came to a high slope and looked down.
I saw dozens of Khitan people fighting against each other. The Turks had a tacit understanding and watched them fighting quietly. Two quarters of an hour later, the two sides decided the winner, with only eight people left on the winning side.
Canggu asked Fu Nian for instructions: "Little Khan, do you want to take action?"
Fu Nian hesitated for a while, nodded and said, "Let's do it and leave someone alive for questioning."
The guards immediately charged downwards, and the Khitan people below finally defeated the enemy. Unexpectedly, they would be attacked again. Except for the leader of the Khitan people, everyone else was killed.
The Turkic guards brought the Khitan leader over, and Fu Nian asked in Turkic dialect: "Who are you? Which tribe are you from?"
The Khitan leader shook his head blankly.
"Who are you? Which tribe are you from?" Fu Nian repeated it in Tang dialect.
The Khitan leader hurriedly said: "I am He Duogu, the leader of the Khitan "Independent Living Department". If you can spare my life, I am willing to repay you with a lot of treasures!"
"Are you one of the eight leaders?" Fu Nian was startled, and the others were slightly moved. They didn't expect to catch such a big fish.
"Yes." Du Gu said proudly.
"Then how did you end up where you are now? Where is your warrior? Why isn't he by your side?" Cang Gu asked coldly.
Duogu was silent for a moment and whispered: "There was a civil strife in our Khitan. The great leader Li Jinzhong was killed by the rebel Dahe Longgu. The other two leaders and I were defeated by another rebel Dahe Maruo."
Canggu thought for a while and said to Fu Nian: "Little Khan, the people who fought with the Xi tribe just now were Dahe Longgu's troops. He should be right."
"Didn't Dahe Longgu always support Li Jinzhong? Why did he kill him?" Fu Nian asked doubtfully.
Dahe Duogu said in a hoarse voice: "I can't figure it out either. Maybe it was Dahe Moluo who instigated him."
"Da Hemoluo? Why don't I remember that there is such a leader among the eight Khitan tribes?" Fu Nian asked strangely.
Dahe Duogu said bitterly: "He is the son of the former leader of the Li tribe and a betrayer of the prairie. He is the one who started this civil strife!"
"How old is he now?" Fu Nian suddenly asked.
Du Gu glanced at him strangely and hummed: "Although that kid is less than twenty years old, he is more ferocious than a wolf. However, he lacks the brains of the former leader. We Khitan people will be led to destruction."
Fu Nian was stunned for a moment, then looked down at his hands, with only one thought in his mind: "He is younger than me, and he can actually defeat other Khitan leaders."
Cang Gu said: "So, the current leader of your Khitan people is this Great Hemoluo?"
Du Gu lowered his head and said: "Yes, after he defeated our three coalition forces, he gained the support of other Khitan people, and even the Fu tribe surrendered to him. Now he is integrating the Khitan tribes to increase his strength."
"I heard that the Tang Army is also on this land, is it true?" Ashide, who had been silent, asked Yanran.
Du Gu glanced at her, nodded and said: "The Tang people have annihilated the four tribes of Li tribe and are searching everywhere for the last tribe of Li tribe."
Yanran was surprised and said: "Isn't Moro the leader of the Li tribe? Why didn't he stop the Tang army?"
Du Gu sneered and said: "The former chief is right. That brat is a selfish guy and doesn't care about the life and death of the Khitan people. He just wants to strengthen his own strength now and is unwilling to fight the Tang army head-on."
"Then the Tang people will probably take the initiative to attack him, right? Doesn't he have a plan to deal with it?" Fu Nian said with stern eyes.
Du Gu thought: "Why does this little Turkic Khan care so much about Moro?" He replied: "According to my estimation, he should be waiting for the Tang army to retreat on its own."
"How did he know that the Tang army would retreat?" Fu Nian asked again.
Dugu snorted secretly: "It turns out to be a straw bag." He replied: "It's very simple. The Tang army has limited food and grass, so it is impossible to stay here forever. And winter is coming soon. No one will choose to fight on the grassland in winter."
"Even if the Tang army withdraws, there are still Xi people, Shiwei people, and Turks who may attack the Khitan! How will Moro prepare to resist them?" Fu Nian asked questions one after another.
Duogu thought angrily: "You ask me this, what do I do?" But after all, his life was in someone else's hands, so he had to reply: "The Xi and Shiwei people are nothing to worry about, as for the Turks
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After a while, he said: "The only thing we can do is fight." But what he was thinking in his heart was: "You Turks are no longer the Turks you used to be, and you may not be able to beat us Khitans."
But then I thought about it, after this civil strife, the Khitan people must have been severely weakened, and maybe they might be annexed by the Turks. What should I do? Would it be useful to ask the Tang Dynasty for help?
Dahe Duogu fell into thinking.
At this moment, a sentry horse rushed from a distance and shouted from a distance: "Little Khan, there is a team of fleeing herdsmen in front, and there is a Khitan army behind, and it seems that they are chasing those herdsmen."
They are not far away anymore, let’s hide quickly.”
Fu Nian was panic-stricken. He looked around Yanran and pointed to a dirt slope in the distance: "Go hide behind that!" After saying that, he galloped away.
Fu Nian led the others and hurriedly followed.
As soon as the group of people hid behind the slope, a cloud of dust appeared in front of them. Behind the dust, they saw a large group of herdsmen fleeing from east to west, most of them women and children.
"They are people from the Li tribe." Duogu looked at it for a moment and sneered: "I didn't expect that some of them survived. I thought they were all killed by the Tang people."
"Look, there is indeed a group of cavalry." Cang Gu pointed to the rear and said.
Duogu's face suddenly turned pale, and he gnashed his teeth and said, "It's the traitor Toto's troops!"
"Who is Toto?" Fu Nian asked.
"He is one of my generals. After I lost to the Great Hemoluo, he led his people to rebel against me and wanted to sacrifice my head to Moro. The people who fought with me just now were Toto's people." Duugu
Gritting his teeth.
"Then why would Toto hunt down people from the Li tribe?"
Duo Gu was also a little confused, but he soon understood the reason. Toto's cavalry had caught up with the herdsmen, but they did not kill the herdsmen, but quickly surpassed them.
"Those cavalrymen are also fleeing like the herdsmen. Someone must be chasing them!" Canggu exclaimed.
Everyone held their breath. Who could hunt down the Khitans on this grassland? The answer is self-evident.
Before long, the herdsmen and cavalry all fled without a trace.
After a while, a cavalry army wearing silver armor appeared on the horizon. The main flag of the army had a large Chinese character "Tang" written on it, and the secondary flag had a smaller Chinese character "武" written on it.
"Yes, it's the Tang army!" Cang Gu said in a trembling voice.