Chapter five hundred and fifth: start the return trip
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Chapter 505: Starting the return journey
Ignoring the two forces that were preparing to join forces to invade Dayuan, Yuwen Chenglong led an army of more than 200,000 people and continued to play guerrilla tactics on his own.
It took more than half a month for Yuwen Chenglong to complete the cleanup of Tiele tribes within the East Turkestan sphere of influence.
Since the Tiele tribes have always been oppressed by the Turks, when Yuwen Chenglong shouted the slogan of joining hands to fight against the Turks, after their defeat, the Tiele tribes accepted the reorganization of the Yuan army without any psychological pressure, and then a
Everyone was in high spirits and eager to follow the Yuan army, preparing to go south to bully the Turks.
At this point, Yuwen Chenglong's army not only did not decrease, but also increased a lot. The total number of troops has reached 250,000.
In addition, the total number of captured women and children from various tribes was more than 100,000, as well as millions of cattle, sheep and horses.
With so many tow bottles, it was inevitable that the marching speed of Yuwen Chenglong's army began to slow down.
However, the grassland people, even women and children, can ride horses and drive carts. Although the speed is not as fast as cavalry raids, they can still travel hundreds of miles a day on the grassland.
With the majestic power of an army of 250,000, Yuwen Chenglong finally began to attack the direct descendants of the Turks.
However, Yuwen Chenglong did not choose to attack the East Tujia tent directly. Instead, he chose to divide his troops into two groups and head southeast along the Jinshan Mountain at the junction of the East and West Tujia.
The road on the east side of Jinshan was personally commanded by Yuwen Chenglong himself. He had an army of 150,000 men, escorting all women, children, cattle, sheep, and horses. As they moved southward, they easily captured dozens of small tribes within 500 miles of the East Turkestan border.
Cleaned up again.
At the western foot of Jinshan Mountain is a hundred thousand troops commanded by Yu Chigong, Xu Shiji and others. The task of this group of troops is to clean up the large and small tribes in the West Tutu within 500 miles of Jinshan Mountain.
Yuwen Chenglong did this through precise calculations.
Jinshan is about 1,500 miles away from the East Tuya tent and the West Tuwang court. The Yuan army only swept the area 500 miles to the left and right of Jinshan.
Khan got the alert too early.
If you are lucky, you may even be able to force the East and West to fight each other before sending out troops.
Yuwen Chenglong's plan was pretty good, and there were no major flaws during its implementation. It was not until the eastern and western armies met again at the southern foot of Jinshan Mountain more than ten days later that no accidents occurred.
Of course, the gains from these two groups are not very big.
Because of this, there have been constant conflicts between the East and West Turks. There are very few Turkic tribes on the border between the two Turks, and most of them are scattered small tribes. Moreover, the Turkic tribes are basically not included in the Tiele tribes.
possible.
Therefore, along the way, the two armies of more than 200,000 people combined, only cleared out 50,000 to 60,000 Turks, and captured a considerable number of women and children, but there were quite a lot of cattle, sheep, and horses.
, adding up to a total of more than one million.
After joining forces again, Yuwen Chenglong did not continue to harass the East and West Tutu, but chose to return to the Central Plains. Firstly, the proceeds from this robbery were relatively rich, which had already reached the point of affecting the march; secondly, severe winter was coming,
The climate in Mobei will become even harsher, and those direct descendants of the Yuan army may find it difficult to adapt. Moreover, Dongxi Tuo, Datang and other four armies jointly invade the Yuan Dynasty. At this juncture, Yuwen Chenglong is also needed to turn around and stabilize the people of China.
As for the route back to the army, Yuwen Chenglong did not take the direction of Yanmenguan, but chose to continue south, entering Xiliang, passing through Zhangye, Wuwei, Xiping, Jincheng, Longxi counties, and finally entered Hanzhong.
Naturally, he chose to march like this because Yuwen Chenglong heard that Li Yuan was planning to join forces with the East and West Tutu to invade the Yuan Dynasty, so he wanted to harm the old bastard Li Yuan along the way.
Starting from the foot of Jinshan Mountain, bypassing Shiluoman Mountain, heading east to Ranshui, and then going down the river, Yuwen Chenglong led his troops to travel quickly for more than ten days, and finally arrived at Zhangye County.
At this time, it is already approaching the Mid-Autumn Festival.
On the grassland, the Eastern Turk Khan Du Bi and the Western Turk Khan Tong Yehu finally completed the assembly of their armies.
Du Bi of the East Turks worked hard for several months and gathered another 200,000 troops. However, Tong Yehu of the West Turks was more impressive and actually easily raised 300,000 Turkic soldiers.
It turns out that although the West Turks have been suppressed by the East Turks over the years, the West Turks have always been close to China, and the Tiele tribes to the north have been completely annexed by the West Turks. Moreover, so far, the West Turks have not invaded Persia to the west.
,So, so far, there seems to be only one enemy of the West Turks, and that is the East Turks.
As for the East Tu, the Khans of Du Bi, Qi Lifa, and Rangan worked tirelessly to invade the Sui Dynasty from the south, Tiele to the north, and invaded the West Tu from the west. It can be said that except for Du Bi's two good friends Li Yuan and
Outside of Liu Wuzhou, the East Turkestan was surrounded by enemies on all sides. More importantly, in recent years, although the East Turkestan had been robbing the Central Plains a lot, due to being repeatedly bullied by Yuwen Chenglong, the number of young people in the East Turkestan was greatly reduced.
Therefore, the West Turks, who had always been bullied, suddenly gathered more troops than the East Turks!
However, at this moment, Du Bi and Tong Ye Hu were not aware of the turn of the situation. Now, they were both worried about another matter! That is, the tribe of a younger brother under their command was looted.
!Moreover, it was looted so thoroughly that not even a single piece of wool was left!
"It must have been something good done by that bitch Tong Yehu!"
This was Du Bi Khan's first reaction after hearing the news!
There is no way, who can make the robbed tribe not far from the West Tu!
"Damn, this must be that bastard Du Bi who is causing trouble again! That little bastard has never done anything human! This kind of immoral and smoky thing must be done by Du Bi!
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On the other hand, Tong Yehu Khan of the Western Turks also had a similar mentality.
"Khan! That fellow Du Bi was so cruel. He actually killed all the people in the Altai tribe! Not even a sheep bone was left! This time, we can't just let it go! We must give the sheep to Du Bi.
Ri is a little bit more powerful, let him know that we Western Turks are not easy to mess with!"
"That's it! Khan! It just so happens that all the brothers are here. With so many of us, we can't believe that we can't deal with that bastard Du Bi! Let's go to Du Bi now to ask for an explanation. If he dares to default on his debt, we will do it directly.
Damn him!"
"Avenge the Altai brothers! Kill Du Bi!"
Old and new grudges came to the fore. The mobilization meeting for Tong Ye Hu's expedition was just halfway through when the nature of it automatically changed into a meeting of complaints and swearing-in for revenge.
Having been bullied by Dongtu for so many years, Tong Yehu was naturally angry. Now that he was being incited by his chiefs, Tong Yehu couldn't help but have some thoughts.
But as the Khan of the Western Turks, Tong Yehu had more issues to consider, such as: strength, the reaction of the Tang Dynasty in China, etc.
In addition, Tong Yehu also vaguely felt that this matter seemed not as simple as everyone said! But Tong Yehu was not sure about the specifics!
After thinking for a long time, Tong Yehu coughed heavily. After everyone calmed down, he said in a deep voice, "Don't make any noise! Let's put this matter aside for now! Let's set off according to the prior agreement.
Go to China and meet His Majesty the Tang Dynasty."
"Khan! What about the hatred of the Altai brothers?"
"Hmph! Why are you so anxious? As long as we can get the support of His Majesty the Tang Dynasty, what does he mean? Okay, let's leave it at that. Let's all go back and prepare. We will start setting off tomorrow to march into the Middle Earth!" (
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