The rebellion of the Turkic tribes has not only affected the surrounding areas of the Tang Dynasty, but also the grassland tribes have been disturbed by this hurricane-like rebellion, and the scene of chaos is worse than that of the two states of Shuodai, which were sacked by the Turkic rebels.

In the past, the northern grasslands were governed by the unified management of the Metropolitan Governor's Office, not to mention singing and dancing, and the people at least lived and worked in peace and contentment. However, since the last Turkic rebellion, the Metropolitan Governorate has been reduced to nothing, and there is no unified and formal government to manage the steppe, and it has suddenly fallen into chaos.

In order to rapidly expand their power, the rebel army led by the Turkic nobles such as Ashina Funian and Ashdwin Fu had to pull strong men, grab horses, and grab cattle and sheep everywhere. As a result, the Turkic rebels quickly had sufficient troops and armaments, but this brought devastating damage to the lives of ordinary people in the steppe. Many nomadic tribes have no men, horses, cattle and sheep. The nomads had to flee the famine or were forced to become slaves of the nobles, which turned the many nomadic tribes into uninhabited ghost areas.

The power center of the rebels cannot have the credibility of a normal government, let alone spend a lot of effort to manage people's livelihood and maintain law and order, which makes the law and morality completely collapse, and whoever has soldiers and horses in his hands can run amok. As a result, the chiefs and chiefs of the rebel camp rushed to grab the pasture, the strong men, and the women, and everything useful was being frantically scrambled anyway.

The vast prairie suddenly fell into a warlord-style melee. In such an environment, it would be unreasonable to run rampant without horse bandits and robbers.

Xue Shao and the others walked into the depths of the desert north of the Great Wall, and soon found no less than seven groups of people sneakily staring at them, and some people followed them quietly all the way, as if they were waiting for some opportunity.

"Brothers, be vigilant, those tails are most likely spies of horse bandits!" Xue Shao ordered.

Everyone agreed, and Guo Yuanzhen immediately came forward and said, "General, do you want to send someone to contact those spies, maybe it is Ashdwin Fu's scouts?" ”

"Absolutely not." Xue Shao said affirmatively, "We have a clear banner and eye-catching armor, and Ashdwin Fu has long known that we will have a messenger coming, and if it was his scout, he would have taken the initiative to come forward to contact us." Therefore, the other party is likely to be unkind, so be careful! ”

"Yes!"

The Turkic woman rode a horse between Xue Shao and Yue Nu, and sneered when she heard this: "Cowardly as a mouse!" A couple of horse bandits can scare you like that! ”

Xue Shao smiled indifferently and ignored her.

The Turkic woman was quite annoyed when she saw Xue Shao's Zhizhu holding a leisurely expression, and she hated: "When you get within the range of the Turkic army, see if you can still be arrogant!" Don't blame me for not reminding you, the first thing I did when I went back was to order you to be killed! ”

Xue Shao still smiled indifferently and turned a deaf ear.

"Surnamed Xue, you bastard!" The Turkic woman was furious.

Xue Shao ignored her, but the moon slave on the side said coldly, "Are you itchy again?" ”

"And you, kill them all!" Turkic women are very arrogant.

Unexpectedly, the surrounding Tang Jun was just like Xue Shao, laughing and not agreeing at all.

The Turkic woman seemed to have thrown out a few heavy punches in a row to knock people over, but her fists hit the cotton, and she was not depressed in her heart, and scolded in broken thoughts: "A group of monsters! ”

Guo Yuanzhen stepped forward and said with a smile: "Girl, you can save it!" If these few words can provoke our soldiers, then we will not be the Three Swords Brigade that smashed the Black Sand Tooth Tent! ”

"What's there to be proud of?" The Turkic woman hated, "A group of men who don't even have a temper, how different is it from waste? ”

The moon slave said disdainfully: "Don't you see that they disdain to be with you?" Don't you know what's wrong! ”

"Ugly, I don't want to talk to you!" The Turkic woman was angry.

Xue Shao smiled and said leisurely: "There are three types of people in this world, one is incapable and temperamental, this is inferior; The other is a little capable and has a great temper, which is a medium person. The last one is capable and has no temper, this superior person. ”

After hearing this, the Turkic woman seemed to be thoughtful, and suddenly was stunned, and said angrily, "Are you scolding me around the corner?!" ”

"Ha Lu Ha!"

Xue Shao, Guo Yuanzhen and others laughed together.

Outnumbered, the Turkic woman had no way to vent her anger, so she had to endure it alive, and her face turned red with anger.

Xue Shao smiled, "Moon slave, it seems that the princess respected by Kusakahara is a person who can't be idle, and no one stumbles with her along the way, she is lonely." You speak Turkic well, talk to her! ”

"I'm not rare!" The Turkic woman was hit by Xue Shao's heart, but her mouth was very hard.

The moon slave giggled and said, "Little she-wolf, there are a lot of dangers along the way, how can we say that we are also in the same boat, so don't be so aggressive." ”

When the Turkic woman heard this, her expression visibly softened. Because what the moon slave said is very reasonable, what kind of situation is on the steppe, the Turkic woman is of course much clearer than outsiders. The bandits are rampant, even if she is the princess of the Ashina family, if she falls into the hands of the bandits or encounters wolves, it will be more than lucky. In the final analysis, she herself still has to rely on the protection of Xue Shao and these people.

So the Turkic woman didn't turn her lips this time and remained silent.

"Hey, she-wolf, we can't keep calling you that, can we?" The moon slave grinned and said, "What's your name?" ”

"You don't deserve to know the way." The Turkic woman sneered.

"Then I'll give you a name!" Moon Nu Douran had a strange idea and smiled, "How about calling it Tachiku?" ”

"You're Tachiku!" The Turkic woman was furious.

The moon slave was already laughing crookedly right away.

Xue Shaoxu was interested, and immediately asked, "What does Tachiku mean?" ”

Yuenuha said with a smile, "Hen! ”

"You're the hen! Stupid Tachku! The Turkic woman was so angry that her face turned red, and she said quickly, "I have the most honorable surname in the steppe, and my name was given by my father, how can you blaspheme it!" ”

"Then you say it yourself, who is your name, isn't it embarrassing to say it?" Yue Nu smiled, "If you don't say it, I have to name you personally!" ”

The Turkic woman hated her teeth, and after being silent for a while, she seemed to have compromised a little, and said, "My name is Ashina Ayi. ”

"Auntie?" Xue Shao smiled inadvertently when he heard this strange pronunciation.

"Good nephew!" The Turkic woman smirked.

"It seems that I need to learn a little Turkic in the future, otherwise I will be taken advantage of or scolded, and I won't know what to do." Xue Shao smiled indifferently.

Yue Nu hurriedly said: "Childe, your pronunciation is not accurate, A's pronunciation is very light, and Yi's pronunciation is a little higher." Ayi means 'moon' in Turkic. The Turks revered light, and their names included words like moon, sun, and light.

Xue Shao seemed to remember when he heard it, the name of Lushan of the famous "An Lushan" in history is the transliteration of "light" in Turkic, and he remembered what An Xiaorou once told him.

"Ugly, I didn't expect you to be proficient in Turkic language." The Turkic woman looked sideways at the moon slave and said, "Looking at your appearance, you also have at least half of the Turkic blood on your body. Why do you want to help the Han people to harm your own people? ”

"I've known for a long time, you've always been jealous that I'm a Hanhu half-blood!" Yuenu was not moved at all, and said, "Childe said that mixed-race children are generally very beautiful and have good figures!" ”

The Turkic woman rolled her eyes, too lazy to talk to the moon slave.

Xue Shao said with a smile: "Your Royal Highness the princess of the grassland, your name is not very good. Why don't I give you a transliterated name, just call it - how about Ai Yan? ”

The Turkic woman blinked, but it sounded good...... But he said, "Your pronunciation is not accurate at all!" ”

"Then it's decided, I'll call you Ai Yan in the future!"

"When did I say yes?"

Xue Shao smiled: "You don't need to agree, we will call you that in the future - unless you wish, we will call you little she-wolf!" ”

"......" The Turkic woman was speechless for a moment, and said in a sneering voice, "Whatever you want!" ”

Everyone walked all the way, laughing and laughing, seemingly very leisurely and without the slightest defense. But Guo An took a few people to the periphery of the team for a long time, and took advantage of the fact that those spies were not careful, and used their strength at the same time with lightning speed, each of them broke and killed those spies, and captured one alive.

It wasn't until the captives were brought to Xue Shao that Ai Yan understood that it turned out that Xue Shao and the others were arguing with her in order to distract the attention of those spies and make them careless. She couldn't help but exclaim in her heart, when did Xue Shao give the order, and when did those people slip out of their hands? …… This group of men is really weird, no wonder they were smashed by them last time in Black Sand City!

The prisoners were interrogated, and it was none other than General Anda. She trampled the Turkic man in his forties under his feet, put the tip of the knife against the tip of his throat, and asked in Turkic: "Say, what other companions do you have, who are the peaks, and what are you doing here?" If there is a half-lie, cut your neck immediately! ”

The Turkic man was naturally panicked when he was dying, and hurriedly replied.

After he finished speaking, Yue Nu had not yet translated for Xue Shao and the others, and Ai Yan immediately exclaimed: "Impossible!" ”

"What's going on?" Xue Shao asked.

Yuenu hurriedly replied: "Childe, this captive said that they are Astege's subordinates. Asteg was a Tutun among the Turkic rebels. Tutun is an official name, equivalent to the imperial history of our Tang Dynasty, and is the henchman of the Turkic pseudo-khan, with a lot of power. The purpose of their trip was to intercept our team and take the prisoner Ai Yan halfway, in short, not to let the messengers of our army meet with Ashdwin! ”

"For what?"

"He doesn't know what to do......"

Ai Yan's face had changed, and she hurriedly jumped off her horse and reprimanded the Turkic man a few times. Then, she froze completely.

Yue Nu hurriedly said: "Astege turned out to be the confidant of the pseudo-Khan Fu Nian, and Ai Yan seems to be very familiar with him and trusts him very much. But now Astege has taken refuge in Astewin Fu and has become a wise man and important minister under Wen Fu! ”

Hearing this, Xue Shao finally understood, and he said: "It seems that things are more complicated than we imagined. These people pretend to be horse bandits from the steppe, which means that Ashdwin Fu is going to intercept Aiyan and kill us. It seems that he just wants to take away Ai Yan, the princess who is useful to him, but he has no sincerity to make peace at all, and he is not willing to welcome back their pseudo-Khan Funian! ”

Guo Yuanzhen furrowed his brows and said hatefully: "I thought that only the dynasty of the Central Plains would have such a fight, but I didn't expect that there would be such intrigue within the Turkic rebels." Asdwin Fu clearly wants to get rid of and abandon Fu Nian, and then monopolize power and completely replace it! - General, we might as well turn back! ”

"Can't turn back." Xue Shao's brows tightened, and he said lightly, "Although this is a crisis, if we take the initiative to turn back, we will fall into a dishonest and insincere manner." ”

"So what?"

"Do you need to ask?" Xue Shao smiled indifferently, "I know that there are tigers in the mountains, and I prefer to go to the tiger mountain, anyway, it's not the first time!" ”