King Zhahe Lu was nesting in the tent, carefully turning the roasted leg of lamb in front of him, sprinkling some spices from time to time to adjust the flavor of the leg of lamb.
Nowadays, in this snowy weather, I am not in the mood to do anything. The only pleasure in the world is to stay in the tent, eat delicious roasted lamb legs, and drink a few glasses of rich kumiss.
The tent was suddenly opened, and a figure covered in white snow came in.
As the visitor entered, the howling cold wind blew into the big tent, causing Zhahelu, who was roasting the leg of lamb, to shiver involuntarily.
"Zari, could you please be gentler when you come in next time? Don't you know that this damn weather will freeze people to death?"
"Yes, your Majesty, I forgive you. Zari must pay attention next time."
"It's snowing so heavily outside. If you don't stay in your tent, why are you here?"
"Reporting to your Majesty, according to the order of the Khan, today is the turn of our Zhahe Department to investigate the situation of Dalong soldiers and enemies. Do you want to send warriors to the border to investigate?"
Zhahe used a small curved blade to bring a piece of oily mutton to his mouth. He frowned and looked at Zhali who was patting snowflakes on his body.
"How long has it been, why is it our turn to join the Hehe Department again? The Muli Department, the Sangyang Department, the Chuyang Department, and the Turik Department have all completed their tasks?"
"Reporting back to your Majesty, they have completed their reconnaissance mission and have sent people to inform us. It will be our responsibility to investigate the enemy's situation in the next seven days."
"How could Dalong's soldiers and horses send troops to sneak attack on our Turkic Royal Court in this cold weather at this time, unless they are all fire people and not afraid of the severe cold given by God.
But according to the investigation reports from the past few days, those dragon soldiers and horses are also nesting in the city to keep out the cold. Obviously, like us, they are afraid of the weather in the middle of winter."
Zhali looked at Zhahelu cursing and asked tentatively: "Does the king mean not to allow the scouts to investigate?"
Zhahelu shook his head silently: "Of course not. After all, this is the order of the Great Khan. Once the Khan learns of the overt and covert violations, our Zhahe tribe will no longer exist on the grassland.
When it’s time to send out people to investigate, we still need to send out people to investigate.
Let's do this, let the tribe go directly to the border and see if Dalong's troops are still stationed in the city. If it's still the same, just let the tribe come back directly, without having to conduct large-scale reconnaissance."
"I understand, I will leave."
Zhali got out of the big tent, and the cold wind revealed made Zhahelu shiver again, and he couldn't help but feel in his stomach.
Besides wolves, who else would risk their lives to stay in the wild at this time?
Seven or eight tribes of the Zhahe and Muli tribes are located in the eastern region of the Turks, and their pastures are adjacent to the border towns of the Jin Kingdom.
The important task of detecting the enemy's situation and preventing sneak attacks by the dragon enemy naturally fell on these tribes.
Because they suffered a big loss at the hands of Dalong soldiers and horses last year, a group of tribal kings who had just received orders from Huyan Yunyao also conscientiously dispatched their eagle shooters to go to the Jintu border to investigate the enemy's situation.
However, as the snow fell more and more, the weather became more severe and severe, and the Dalong soldiers and horses stationed in the city did not move at all, Zhahelu and the others gradually relaxed their vigilance.
After all, in their opinion, Dalong soldiers and horses are all from the south and rarely experience such bad weather. At this time, they should just stay in the city and spend this cold winter, and there is no way they can think of launching a sneak attack.
The Dalong soldiers and horses must be planning how to launch a thunderous blow on their Turkic grasslands after next spring.
And the peace that had lasted for more than a month, almost two months, seemed to confirm the speculations of himself and others.
The eagle shooters of the Zhahe tribe braved the wind and snow and rushed to the border of the Kingdom of Jin with difficulty, observing the situation on the city wall as before.
Seeing the silhouettes of people on the city wall and the flags whistling in the cold wind, the several eagle shooters looked at each other, turned their horses and headed towards another city.
Without Xuemu's obstruction, these eagle shooters would have been able to barely observe that there were only a few real people standing motionless on the city wall, and most of them were just straw men with some armor on their bodies.
This method is based on the method used by the Jin Kingdom to consume the Dalong artillery when they resisted the Dalong attack.
If they were careful enough, they should also be able to find that the thick snow on their path was slightly uneven.
Unfortunately, there was no such thing. The heavy snow flying in the sky obstructed the sight of the Eagle Scouts to the greatest extent, and they could not see the specific situation on the city wall clearly.
The howling cold wind kept getting into their clothes, making them just want to get back to the warm tent as soon as possible.
The calm for more than a month made them instinctively think that the Northern Expeditionary Army was still huddled in the city to resist the cold.
Two days later, the snow became less intense.
Everything was the same as before, and Kiribe suffered a devastating blow.
Tens of thousands of dragon soldiers and horses quietly reached the base camp of Mulibe, and launched a surprise attack on Mulibe with an order.
The Muli tribe, who were unprepared and prepared wholeheartedly for the winter, were caught off guard by a thunderous attack from the dragon's troops.
The Muli tribe, which had more than 30,000 members, barely had time to put up a serious resistance. The 6,000 Turkic cavalry who could fight were severely damaged without even having a chance to mount their horses.
Those who died immediately died in battle, and those who were captured became prisoners.
Yunyang and the others originally planned to cross the tribes of the Muli tribe and directly attack the Turkic royal court with a large army.
However, the positions of these tribes were too complicated, and they were lying at an angle on the route that the army wanted to march straight in. Without taking these tribes, it was impossible to take the Turkic royal court directly.
In desperation, the Dalong soldiers and horses had to launch an attack by the Turks in advance and began the action of pulling out the nails.
Before King Muli was captured alive, just like King Zhahe, he was staying in the tent, roasting mutton, and teasing the concubine he had chosen from thousands of miles away. Unexpectedly, before the mutton test was completed, he suddenly died.
He became a prisoner of the dragon.
"You...you are the dragon soldiers and horses? How could you appear in our Turkic territory?"
Yunyang and the others listened to the translation by the guards around them, looked at King Muli's disbelieving eyes and looked at each other, laughing happily.
"Tell him that it was the Turik and Zhahe tribes who accepted our gifts and specifically let the main force of my army enter the Turkic territory!"
The guard was startled and looked at the confused King Muli with a strange expression before he translated the original words.
Sure enough, King Muli struggled with fear and anger in his eyes, howling loudly in Turkic words. Although Yunyang and the others could not understand, they could probably infer from King Muli's reaction that King Muli was cursing.
What.
"Ask him about the recent changes in the arrangements of various Turkic tribes."
The guard translated the original words, and received a concise words and a resentful look from King Muli.
The guard hesitated for a moment and then said it.
"Nan Gou, kill me if you can!"
Yunyang raised his eyebrows, shook his head helplessly and said, "Detain him, and find a way to interrogate him."
"Got the order!"
After King Muli was escorted away, Yunyang took out the map and spread it on the table.
"The first nail has been pulled out. Is there any way for the Sangyang Department, the Chuyang Department, and the Zhahe Department to go around? The greater the noise, the more dangerous it will be for our army's whereabouts to be revealed."
"Commander, according to the scout investigation, the tribe currently investigating our army's movements is the Zhahe tribe in the northwest. Judging from the position of the Zhahe tribe, it is right on the route of our advance.
If we don't take down the Zhahe tribe, we have to make a big detour if we want to march to the Turkic Royal Court. We don't know what the current situation of the main stream of the Moro River and the surrounding tributaries is. If we make a hasty detour, we may end up with other Turkic tribes.
In terms of enemy encounters, it would be safer to capture the Zhahe Department directly."
"Okay, then just take down the Zhahe tribe.
In addition, notify the remaining two armies to reduce unnecessary confrontations as much as possible, and focus on attacking the Turkic Royal Court with all-out force."