Kill Hu Guan on the city.

Luo Cheng put his hands behind his back and watched the sound of fighting on the Turkic side, which lasted for a long time.

"Could it be that the third child killed from behind the Turks?" Cunxiao plucked out his ears, "Do we want to kill it and take a look?" ”

Luo Cheng just shook his head.

As a battle-hardened marshal, Luo Cheng has already seen some clues, although he doesn't dare to say that he is sure, but he also has eight or nine points of certainty.

"Shibi Khan is really ruthless enough."

"What does this have to do with Shibi, I think he's a complete idiot." With a flick of his fingers, the fourth child flew a piece of earwax down the city.

Luo Chengdao, "Don't you still understand? Shibi Khan is killing people, he drove seven or eight thousand men to attack the city, and he borrowed our sword to kill people. And now, the chaos in the Turkic camp over there shows that there must be people who are unwilling to come to death again, so Shibi simply didn't borrow the knife and did it himself. ”

"Do it yourself, kill someone? What do you mean, do you want to tell me that this idiot is actually killing his own people? "The fourth child doesn't believe it, how can there be such a stupid person in the world, who doesn't want to break through the pass and attack the city, but kills his own people before the city?

"What's so strange, you have to understand that the grassland is different from our Central Plains Dynasty. Even if Shibi is a khan, even if it is the Ashina royal family, it is also a sub-feudal system, and their sub-feudal system is actually a dissolution system. ”

What is the separation system?

Most of the nomadic people on the steppe have this method of dividing and inheriting their property, and when the eldest son of a herdsman family reaches adulthood, his father will give him a part of the cattle, sheep and horses, divide these properties among him, and then let him live separately and form his own account.

A tent on the grassland is often a family, and a self-established account is a self-supporting portal.

When his son became an adult, he split up and lived separately.

If it is divided, it has nothing to do with the family, at least there is no property relationship.

In parallel with this system of separation, there is also a system of step-marriage.

The herdsmen on the grassland often take concubines after marrying wives, so after the death of his father, the eldest son can inherit the last bit of his father's property, and even his father's wives and concubines serve slaves.

It is this traditional way of dividing the family that makes the leaders of those tribes always divide their families in this way.

Even in such a powerful khanate as the Turks, when the sons of the khan came of age, he began to divide the families of these sons, directly dividing a piece of land to him, and then distributing to him how many accounts of tribal population and livestock, let him go to graze, and become the noble leader of this region.

The sons of the Khan were generally divided into feudal or special services.

When the khan dies, or after his death, a new king is elected according to his wishes, usually by the eldest son, but if the khan's son is too young, sometimes the older khan's brothers will inherit him.

This kind of separation and sub-feudal system makes the Khan's sons very powerful, and the incomplete inheritance system of the eldest son makes the Khan's brothers, sons and nephews have the right to inherit, so in the end, there will often be a battle for the Khan's throne, and in the end, it will all depend on the strength of each person.

Because of this system, although the Turks are big and strong, they are extremely unstable internally, especially the Ashina family, all of whom are children of the royal family, and even because they are often brothers to brothers, the children of the royal family of several major branches theoretically have the right to inherit the throne.

In addition, each has its own territory and has people, so of course, there are often wars against the succession of the khan.

On the other hand, the Turks did not have too strong control over other tribes that depended on the Turks, such as Tiele, etc., and completely relied on their own strength to deter them, after all, the tribes had their own territory, their own tribal population, and their own tribal soldiers and horses.

Therefore, the Turkic Khanate is actually a large alliance composed of various feudal vassals divided by the Ashina family of the Turkic royal family, plus other Turkic tribes, plus other subordinate tribes.

Even if it was a khan, he was only commanding the ministry.

Far from being a centralized power like the Sui Dynasty, the government soldiers of the Sui Dynasty were controlled by the central government, and even the local county soldiers were also controlled by the local government under the control of the central government.

But the Turks are just a big league.

It is precisely because of this that on the one hand, the Turks are constantly fighting among the children of the Ashina family, and on the other hand, the rebellion of the subordinate tribes such as Tiele and Khitan is not frequent.

The fourth child scratched his head, still unable to understand Shibi's behavior.

"The big war is coming, what kind of ability is fighting in this nest?"

"Although it is cruel, it is necessary from the perspective of the beginning."

"Then we'll just watch?"

"Well, just look at it, guard this killing Hu Pass, and don't let him pass."

"And what if the Turks run away from other roads?"

"I have already sent messages to all directions, so that they can find a way to block the return route of the Turks."

"Is it sealed?"

Luo Cheng smiled.

It was impossible to keep all the Turks behind, but at least Shibi Khan had to shed a few layers of skin. If the strength of the beginning is too much, he will no longer be able to gain a foothold in Monan, and for Luo Cheng, the goal will be achieved.

"It's really ruthless at the beginning, and ordinary people probably can't do it."

"I have a question, if Shi Bi really directly attacks the leader or tribe that threatens him as you said, then he is not afraid that after the news is transmitted back, these tribes will rebel on the grassland?"

"The lesser of two evils."

Qi Bige was stunned and killed.

The 20,000 people of the Qibi tribe were besieged by Xue Yantuo and the rest of the Tiele people in the camp, and more than half of them were killed and wounded, and finally the rest finally knelt down to Shibi.

Then Shibi divided the surrenderers of the Khambi Department and distributed them to the Turkic generals after scattering, which was regarded as swallowing the soldiers and horses of the Khibi Department.

Xue Yantuo, who lost the bowl, fought for a long time, and he also lost thousands of people, but he didn't get any benefits at all.

The day and the rest of the day have been quiet.

Another night passed.

Another big frost.

Early morning.

Countless Turkic armies stepped on the frosty hard ground and launched an attack on the city.

The attack was fierce and lasted almost all day.

It was not until dusk that Ming Jin retreated.

In a fierce battle in one day, about 1,000 people were lost in the city, but the Turks lost at least seven or eight thousand.

Another night of silence.

At dawn, the scouts came to report.

The Turks have already retreated.

They retreated quietly before dawn, and they retreated cleanly.

"Which way to retreat?"

"It seems to be going to Yunnei City in the southeast."

"In the clouds."

Luo Cheng frowned, Yunnei, Siye is now stationed in Heng'an Town and Niupiguan in Yunnei, but Siye only has 13,000 people, and he still guards two levels.

Cunxiao rushed over, "The fucking ran away?" It doesn't make sense, put on such a big battle, but in addition to driving more than 10,000 people to the gate and send them to death, and then they just ran away? ”

Zhao Gui, who inspected the Turkic camp, told Luo Cheng that there were still about 10,000 corpses left in the Turkic camp.

"So after all, Shibi killed nearly 30,000 people here? Do you know what tribe it is? ”

"It seems that they are all Tiele people, their appearance is very different from the Turks, their noses are high, their eyes are deep and their skin is white, look at their clothes and costumes and other characteristics, these people who died, it seems that they are from the Tongluo tribe, the Qibi tribe and Xue Yantuo, the servant bones and other people, almost all of them are Tiele people, and no Turkic corpses have been found."

Thirty thousand.

Luo Chengdu was secretly frightened.

It's really ruthless.

300,000 rode south.

When Yanmen retreated, he had already folded 120,000, and then he actually thought that he was still dead, so he killed another 30,000 by himself under the Tiger Killing Pass, and made up a whole number of 150,000, just half of the 300,000 horsemen who took him south.