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Chapter VIII

September 27th, afternoon, Songziling, Anzhou.

A Changsheng and Feng Hong, with some royal family aides and nearly a thousand tribes, ran day and night, crossed mountains and ridges, crossed the Wulei, and crossed the five rivers. Finally, they met with King Xi at Songziling, more than a hundred miles away from the southeastern important town of Sanhui City.

In order to speed up the evacuation, Ah Hui abandoned a large amount of supplies under Luoma City. After arriving at Qijinshan, the capital of Shide tribe, he left all the wounded and sick. He followed the light carts day and night, and arrived at Sanhui City yesterday. At this moment, there were only more than 400 miles away from the Xi Palace. It took only two or three days to whip the horse. Although the whole army was exhausted, its morale was still strong.

However, the situation deteriorated far exceeds Ah Huizheng's estimate.

Yesterday, the garrison of Sanhui City, Ah Hui Salin, came out of the city. After seeing Ah Hui, he urgently reported that the Middle-earth people launched a full-scale attack. On September 22, the important town of Baitan City in the southwest was lost. It is estimated that the Panlong Fort in Yanshan Pass had fallen earlier, and on September 23, the important town of Guifang City in the northern part of the northern part of the Songshan Pass should have fallen. Before this, the Xi Palace was caught in the north-south attack of the Middle-earth army, and was in danger. President Ah Cheng asked for help from Sanhui City on the night of September 24, and urgently reported to Ah Cheng, asking Ah Cheng to speed up the support.

Ah Hui was shocked and changed color. Middle-earth people? Didn’t the enemy be a Turk? Why did he suddenly become a Middle-earth person? Baitan City was trapped, Guifang was also trapped, and the Central Tu army attacked from north to south. Where did the Central Turkish army that had surrounded Guifang City before come from? The divine weapon fell from the sky? Then Ah Hui suddenly realized that the army was the so-called Central Turkish rebels who had gone out of Yanbei before. The Xi tribe fell into a trap and was deceived by the Central Turkish people. But what did the Turks do? There were tens of thousands of troops under the tent of Chijishi Ashinaduo in the southeast of the river, so why didn’t he block the attack of the “Central Turkish rebels”?

But this is no longer the point. The point is that Shi Shu Huxi's warning in the desert tent was correct. The Middle-earth people did want to attack Anzhou, and they were attacking the north and south, striving to make a battle. Ah Hui was regretful. He made a misjudgment on the situation in the north and south at the beginning and did not pay enough attention to Shi Shu Huxi's warning. As a result, today's disaster of destruction of the clan and extermination was caused.

If this news spreads, it will definitely seriously damage morale. The morale of the army is secondly. I am afraid that the Xi tribes will surrender in order to survive. By then, the Ahui clan alliance will inevitably fall apart, and Ahui and Ahui clan will be in a catastrophe.

Fortunately, Ah Hui Salin was steady and knew the serious consequences of the bad news. He deliberately concealed it and blocked the news with several insiders. However, the Xi Wang Mansion was very close to Sanhui City, and the information exchange between Xi Wang Mansion and Sanhui City was not only the official channel. Such important news will definitely be transmitted to Sanhui City through various channels, and then quickly spread to the entire southeast region. Therefore, there is very little time for Ah Hui to deal with it in time, which greatly increases the difficulty of reversing the crisis.

Facing the behemoth of Middle-earth and facing the current one-sided situation, it is very difficult to turn the tide by the power of the Xi tribe, unless God favors the Xi tribe and defeats the strong with the weak. However, it is basically impossible to expect the Middle-earth people to repeat the mistake of defeating Sashui on the battlefield of Goguryeo. The same mistake cannot be made again and again. So how can we reverse the crisis and save the Xi tribe? The most realistic countermeasure is to stick to it internally, drag the Middle-earth people, seek help from the Turks outside, and attack the Middle-earth army with the Turks. Although Anzhou may become a ruin and the Xi tribe suffered heavy damage as a result, as long as the land is still there and the tribe is still there, the Xi tribe can only rest and recuperate, slept on firewood and taste gall, and work hard to govern, and there will be a day to make a comeback.

Ah Hui immediately summoned Sima Li Yi and several other close friends to discuss countermeasures. After careful analysis and deduction, the conclusion was very unoptimistic.

Three conditions are required to stick to the inside. First, the five tribes of the Xi tribe are united and work together. As long as one tribe surrenders to Central China, it will inevitably bring about a series of chain reactions. Everyone follows the same thing, and the alliance will inevitably collapse quickly in a short period of time. Second, there must be sufficient food and weapons, but the Xi tribe itself has limited reserves. It took too much money to fight with the Khitans for two months before, and a large amount of supplies was discarded when retreating. If the Xi prince's mansion falls again and winter comes again, there is only consumption but no output. Then the barren land in the southeast alone cannot afford to support tens of thousands of troops, let alone support the protracted war. Third, the Khitans cannot take advantage of the situation and take advantage of the situation. If the Khitans are short-sighted, ignore the overall situation, attack the Xi tribe for revenge, and form a joint attack with the Middle-earth people, the Xi tribe will be more and more difficult to defend.

Don’t say how much the price you pay when seeking help outside. Judging from the Turks’ previous series of actions, the Turks have ulterior motives and have other plans.

The Turks knew that the Middle-earth rebels were going to attack Anzhou, but they let the so-called "Mid-earth rebels" break through their blockade and successfully entered the flat pine forest, giving the Xi tribe a fatal blow, causing the situation in Anzhou to be completely out of control. Then they did not start chasing or actively rescue the Xi tribe. Instead, they remained silent and watched coldly, allowing the "Mid-earth rebels" to capture the key pass of Songshan and capture the Guifang. This was obviously to kill the Xi tribe, to fight against the Middle-earth snipe and clam, to suffer both losses, or simply sacrifice the entire Xi tribe to consume the Middle-earth people, and then benefit the Turkic fisherman.

What exactly is the Turks planning? Judging from the current situation in the north and south, the war between the north and the south is getting closer, but it is an indisputable fact that the south and the north are strong. Even though the Middle-earth people failed consecutively on the battlefield expedition to Goguryeo, the lean camel was larger than the horse, and the national strength after the unification of China and Earth was too strong. The defeat on the battlefield of Goguryeo actually had limited damage to Middle-earth. At most, it would be to suffer some injuries and shed some blood. After recuperation, it would recover. Therefore, the future war between the North and South will definitely be the Middle-earth people who took the initiative to attack, crossed the Great Wall and went deep into the desert, pressing step by step, and the Turks must have been

Defensively move and retreat step by step. Therefore, for the Turks, in order to win the best result in this war, the most urgent task is to require more war preparation time, to do everything possible to curb and weaken the power of Middle-earth, and to find ways to delay the outbreak of the war. If we want to achieve this goal, we need a second "Goguryeo battlefield" and a "war quagmire" that can continue to restrain and consume the Middle-earth people. At this time, the Middle-earth people launched an attack on Anzhou, so the Northeast and Donghu people immediately became "chess pieces" of the Turks.

If this analysis is correct, it would be a wishful thinking and a luxury to expect the Turks to do their best to rescue the Xi tribe.

How will the situation in Anzhou develop next? Be optimistic, the Turks launched rescue. Chijishe Ashinaduna of the Southeast Yaqi Banner broke through the flat pine forest and began to attack the Guifang. Bulishi Ashinaduer of the Ruoluo River persuaded the Wu and Khitans to join forces and start attacking the key pass of Songshan. At the same time, the Ahui Zheng and Xi army, which were defending the southeast corner, ensured that the Ahui Zheng and Xi army could survive. Then the two sides entered a stalemate stage of confrontation and stalemate. The Turks joined forces with the Donghu people and fought repeatedly with the Middle-earth people, and the Northeast became a quagmire in the war. Finally, the Donghu people became victims of the two powerful men of the Turks and Middle-earth fighting to dominate the world.

If the Turks were more pessimistic, in order to prevent the anger of the Middle-earth people from igniting the Civil War in advance, they were weak on the surface and swallowed their anger. They secretly supported the Donghu and all kinds of people in the joint counterattack of Middle-earth, using the Donghu people to drag the Middle-earth battlefield to achieve the goal of curbing and weakening Middle-earth, then it can be foreseeable that even if the Xi tribe can survive, the Ahui and the Ahui clan alliance will surely become history, and the Xi tribes can only survive by surrendering Middle-earth.

Although the conclusion is not optimistic, Ah Hui and Li Yi and other confidants could only strive for the best result with their best efforts. So he finally agreed to send an envoy to the Khitan to negotiate peace, go to the north bank of the Ruoluo River to ask for help from the clans, and Bulishi Ashinaduer, the nominal supreme military commander of the Donghu. After all, there is an alliance between the two sides. The Xi tribe is a vassal of the Turks and is a powerful other subordinate of the Turks. He follows the orders of the Turks to charge for them, and the Turks have the responsibility and obligation to protect them. If the Turks turn a deaf ear to the crisis of the Xi tribe, refuse to ask for help, and betrayal, then the Donghu tribes all the people who empathize with each other and will inevitably be disinterested, which is definitely not in the interests of the Turks.

In addition, the envoys were sent to the Shwein Yuan and asked for help from Chijishe Ashinaduna in the southeastern Yaqi. Previously, Ashinaduna had "piked" the Xi tribe and had pushed the Xi tribe into the abyss of defeat. If he insisted on his own and refused to save him, the envoy would immediately go to the north of Ji, go to the tent to ask Shibi Khan for help, and sued Ashinaduna to connect with foreign countries, betray the tent, and join forces with Zhongtu to attack and kill the Xi tribe.

After dawn, Ah Hui was leading a large army to continue to march towards the Xi Palace. In order to prevent the bad news from spreading, Ah Hui was issuing a ban order, and even the generals of the tribes were concealed.

Whether he could defend the Xi Palace at this moment has become the key to the survival of the Xi tribe. Ah Hui was worried and wished he could fly to the Xi Palace with his wings. However, the more he was afraid that the Xi Palace would fall, the faster the bad news would come.

President Sheng and Feng Hong both knew the seriousness of the loss of the Xi Palace. They all knew that once this news came, the Xi clan alliance would collapse overnight. So the two issued a ban order on the way to retreat. Even President Sheng and Feng Hong both deliberately hid, for fear of being seen. When they learned that Ah Hui was leading the main army to cross Songzi Ridge, the two discussed it and decided that President Sheng would find a secluded valley to hide it. Feng Hong brought a team of guards to catch up, claiming to the outside world that they were coming for help.

When Ah Hui saw Feng Hong coming on a horse, he immediately felt an unknown feeling and opened his mouth and asked, "The Xi Palace is surrounded?"

Feng Hong was ashamed, closed his eyes and shook his head in pain.

In an instant, Ah Hui was almost suffocated, dizzy, and despair filled his body and mind. It was over, it was completely over, and a mistake turned into eternal regret, and it was beyond reach.
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