The Turks are a people on horseback, and when they get off their horses and enter the jungle, they are immediately overshadowed by a sense of restraint.

Tall trees, low shrubs, densely spread all over the mountain, if it were not for the experienced hunters to lead the way, the army sent by Ashina Simo would have been lost in this primeval forest.

Zhenguan five years of the Tang Dynasty is not as modern as modern, at that time in the deep mountains except for the hunters will generally never go in, one is that everyone is busy with their livelihood, there is no leisure to run to the deep mountains, the second is that there are many beasts in the mountains, into too deep is easy to be attacked, throw your life on this mountain.

Therefore, at this time, the ecological environment of Phoenix Mountain is still very primitive, and there are countless giant trees hugged by three people, and vines and plants are wrapped around it, and those low shrubs and trees are closely connected together, forming a pure natural isolation zone, which tightly protects the Jiucheng Palace on the other side of the mountain.

"My lord, let the warriors rest, they have been on their way for a day." The head of Ashina Simo's personal guard leaned over to him and whispered.

Ashina Simo pondered for a moment, then looked up at the sky again, and then asked, "How far is it up to see the Jiucheng Palace?" ”

"According to Orion, according to the current direction, there are about thirty miles of mountain road."

"Thirty miles? So we won't be able to get to the reserved spot at this time tomorrow, right? Ashina Simo glanced at the dense jungle around him, his brows almost twisted into a Sichuan character.

The head of the guard said: "Yes, we haven't even walked twenty miles a day today. The forest here is so dense that it has to be cleared little by little to get through. ”

"Send someone to the front to open the road overnight, let the soldiers take turns to rest, and try to rush to the periphery of Jiucheng Palace by this time tomorrow." Ashnasimo finally made up his mind to speed up the progress and strive to get to the predetermined location as soon as possible.

Ashnasimo had never led a soldier, but he knew that the soldiers were fast, and the longer they dragged in the dense forest, the worse it would be for their morale, after all, they were Turkic people, and they were used to fighting on horseback on the plains, and now such a dense forest was a nightmare for them.

"Yes." The head of the guard turned to the herald and conveyed Ashina Simo's order, and then asked with a little puzzlement: "My lord, do you think we can succeed this time?" ”

"There is an old saying in Datang, it is called 'do your best, obey the destiny of heaven', you understand." Ashnasimo leaned against a big tree, looked up at the looming sky, and said with some distraction.

Can it be successful? He didn't know it himself, he just wanted to gamble once.

I hope that this time the Tang Emperor and all the ministers can be blocked in the Jiucheng Palace, and their personal safety can be used as a threat, so that the Tang Dynasty can release Jieli Khan. Although that guy is not a qualified khan, the current Turkic people really need a leader.

Most of the elite warriors have been captured by the Tang Dynasty, and those who refuse to give in are either going to build roads or city walls, and those who are willing to give in are all assigned to the unified management of stubbornness.

Most of the people left behind in the tribe were frail herders, and more often women and children, who were relocated to the Loess Plateau on the south bank of the Yellow River, where there was a lack of pasture and no way to raise cattle and sheep in large quantities, and the lack of cattle and sheep was for the Turks like the Han people without land.

Hunger and poverty made these Turkic people who had migrated to the Tang Dynasty almost unable to live.

So Ashnasimo thought of Jieli, and he wanted to rescue Jieli, make him the Khan of the Turks again, and lead the Turks out of the predicament.

However, whether all this can succeed depends on God's arrangement.

The warriors who came with him this time only underwent a short period of training, and their perseverance, endurance, and combat effectiveness were not as good as the previous elite fighters, and even the ordinary fighters in the past.

If you really want to talk about warriors, these warriors are just some herdsmen gathered to survive, and their combat effectiveness is ...... The Turks did not have the number of minus five, but Ashina Simo knew that they should not be the opponents of the elite of the Tang Dynasty.

But there's no way, come here to try your luck maybe you have a chance to succeed, and then the Turkic clan will be saved, if you fail, it's nothing, anyway, sooner or later you will die, die early and be reincarnated.

"My lord, can you eat something and drink some water?" The head of Ashnasmo's personal guard took out steamed buns, dried meat, and water bags, and spread a cowhide mat on the ground.

"Dubar, in your experience, will the other team be able to arrive on time?" Ashina Simo sat cross-legged on the ground, ate a few bites of steamed buns, and suddenly looked up and asked.

"My lord, this is the jungle, and the villain is not familiar with it, so he doesn't dare to say anything!" The head of the guard shook his head and looked at Ashina Simo's eyes with inexplicable emotions.

Ashina Simo was a Turkic nobleman, and he was now the highest-ranking of these Turkic people south of the Yellow River, but he never led troops and did not have his own tooth tent.

All this because he looks like a Hu man, not like a Turk.

Therefore, the original Chuluo Khan always thought that he was not a pure Ashina people, refused to let him lead troops, and also did not let him set up a tooth tent.

What can Ashnasimo say about such an encounter? Complaining about the injustice of heaven? There are many unfair things on the grassland, and he is not the only one, but in the end, he is not all silently endured?

With a sigh, Ashina Simo pulled his thoughts back to reality, silently ate all the steamed buns, drank some water, and said with a gloomy expression: "Take down this meat and divide it, and then rest early, and continue to rush tomorrow." ”

The head of the guard put away the uneaten jerky again, and did not take it and divide it, and when it was all cleaned up, he said slowly: "My lord, you have to cheer up, the soldiers below are counting on you, if you fall ......"

Ashina Simo shook his head, laughed self-deprecatingly, thought about the invincible military formation of Datang, and then looked at the tired soldiers under him: "Duba, if I die, you will surrender with the team and put all the responsibility on me, remember?" ”

"Your Excellency!" The head of the guard turned over and fell on one knee: "In this battle, the villain must fight bravely, Lord Wanwang puts the future of the Turks first, and does not talk about life and death lightly." ”

Ashina Duba, also a member of the Ashina tribe, used to be a thousand households, but later because of some special things, he retired from the army, so he did not become a member of the captives.

But now, in terms of combat experience and battlefield command, he has worked in thousands of households, but he is the first person in this group of people.

Therefore, in order to better control him, Ashnasimo had to use the strategy of mourning to prevent Durbar from having any other ideas.