Hou Junji could only consider it as a novelty. As a young man, he could not imagine that the Tang army could go to such a distant place and bring those chaotic countries under its control.
He knew that the Western Regions Protectorate was set up in the Western Regions during the Han Dynasty and maintained for many years. During the Sui Dynasty, Yang Guang also received visits from the kings of the Western Regions in Zhangye.
But the difference between hearing and seeing is huge. I walked through the Hexi Corridor in person, and I almost lost my soul while walking. Then I have to lead people to the Western Region...
Hou Junji imagined it and shuddered. If it were a large army, the food roads would be so long and the waste would be huge. How could the soldiers still have the strength to fight when they got there? How many people would have died just on the road?
Hou Junji finally regretted this trip. He and Cheng Zhijie came to such a far place. If the emperor was interested in the Western Regions in the future, the two of them would definitely not run away. Even if they could not lead the troops, they would still serve as guides.
Compared with the glory of opening up new territories and the wind and sand along the way... Hou Junji was a little intimidated.
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Cheng Zhijie bared his teeth and went ashore. Although it was summer, the water in the Dang River was still bitingly cold, and he would shiver after soaking in it for a long time.
When they got ashore, someone gave them some clothes. Cheng Zhijie took on a new look. He drank two bowls of wine, took a breath, and sat down next to Hou Junji.
"Why don't you go down and wash up? It's very refreshing. This place looks very nice. I'll send people to occupy it next year. It's all credit. You talk about great achievements all day long. Otherwise, you stay here. The Supreme Being is sure
I won’t treat you badly.”
Hou Junji was often teased by him along the way. At this time, he rolled his eyes and didn't want to pay attention to this guy. He stood up and patted his robes. He came to the shore and took off his clothes, attracting the Turks and Tang army guards.
They roared again and again, and the women around the campfire were also looking here.
Hou Junji was a little ashamed and immediately threw himself into the water...
Cheng Dabeard laughed loudly. In his eyes, Hou Junji was quite capable, but too arrogant. He was very similar to Xu Shiji and others, and was somewhat unsociable.
After driving away Hou Junji, he went to Ashina Nishu, drank two bowls with him, and laughed in a low voice: "Tell me the truth, how many people are there? You passed from the west.
Are the people over there chasing you very closely?"
He had many more questions than those asked by Hou Junji. Ashina moved his body uneasily, rolled his eyes and thought about it, knowing that he could not hide it from others.
So he said helplessly: "When we left Sanmi Mountain, there were more than 15,000 people, and when we got here, there were still more than 2,000 people. Alas, the God abandoned his beloved..."
Cheng Zhijie looked at the sick Ashina Nisse and thought to himself that this is the right thing. People who want to run away must leave behind all the burdens. Otherwise, how can they survive?
Ashina Nishu hadn't finished his words yet, "Que Dushu arrived here earlier. They had been nomadic in the west for a few years, and they just moved to Dunhuang the year before last. There are not many people left, and there are only more than 4,000 people including their followers.
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Tong Yehu moved into the king's tent. He still had to tidy up his tent. The Elamites in the west have been at war with us for many years. They are a group of greedy wild dogs. They will not give up such a good opportunity and will definitely attack us.
The Tiele people in the north are also looking around. Tong Yehu should not care about us, otherwise none of us would have come here.
However, Shekui Khan has many enemies, and they have been following our footsteps. They should be willing to use the blood of Shekui Khan's descendants to wash away their past hatred..."
Although Ashina Nishu said it tactfully, Cheng Dabeard still understood that Dunhuang was not safe.
As for the news about Tong Yehu Khan and the Elamites, he neither cared nor understood it well. He only regarded these people from the Western Turks as bereaved dogs who had failed to compete for the throne and fled like the Central Plains.
Well, that’s actually true if you think about it that way.
Ashina Ni was relatively weak. After drinking a lot of wine, his face was already red, but he still poured bowl after bowl into his mouth.
At this time, he asked: "When the messenger came here, he also saw our embarrassment. We can't last long here. There is too little pasture, the sheep are disappearing, and women and children are dying every day."
When winter comes this year, if we still stay here, it may be the last winter we spend. While the weather is fine, can we follow the messenger and move eastward?
It would be best... it would be best to go with the envoy to Chang'an to visit the Khan again. I heard that the descendants of Chuluo Khan live very well there. We are very envious. Can we offer our loyalty like them?"
Cheng Dabeard couldn't help but feel happy. He said to himself that you are really incomparable to others. Not only did Imperial Concubine Ashina fight with the emperor in the past, but now she also holds the military power of Qianniu Beishenfu. Is that something that ordinary women can do?
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Come to think of it, the Western Turks won't be able to produce a second imperial concubine Ashina...
He glanced at Ashina Nishu with some confusion and asked, "It seems that Chuluo Khan and Shekui Khan have a grudge, right? From what you said, they feel quite close to each other."
Ashina Naishe laughed, swung his wine bowl and had another bowl with Cheng Dabeard, his mouth full of alcohol and said: "Ashna Rongzhen, the first female Shiboluo in the Turkic King's tent, when I saw
I will call her sister, although she once killed my brother, but what does that mean?
We have the same blood flowing in our bodies. As long as we don't compete for power, there is no hatred between us that cannot be resolved.
The people sent to Chang'an last time were too stupid. If it were me, I would definitely go to see Sister A. With the favor she gets in the Khan's account, I think she will definitely convince the Khan to protect us."
Of course, what he said was half true and half false. He really wanted to call Ashnarong Zhen Ajie, but Ashnarong Zhen had never received real respect in the Western Turkic king's tent.
The nobles in the king's tent, including Chuluo Khan himself, all thought that the red-eyed woman was the devil's daughter. If Ashnarong hadn't won the title of Shiboluo openly and honestly in the alliance, Chuluo Khan would have
I am also worried about the rebellion of Tiele tribes. Otherwise, how could a woman who was regarded as a devil survive in the king's tent?
Therefore, Ashnarongzhen hated the Western Turkic nobles very much. The direct descendants of Datou Khan like Ashnarongzhen naturally kept a distance from Ashnarongzhen, and there was no blood relationship at all.
Ashina Nishu still remembers that at the Western Turks League that year, Ashina Rongzhen knocked away her brother's scimitar with one sword, and then cut off the opponent's head cleanly with another sword without any hesitation.
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Then he raised his bloody scimitar and challenged all the warriors present, but no one dared to go up to fight this devil, because there were already more than a dozen famous warriors lying there, and no one survived...