To be honest, Li Chongjiu has provided a lot of funding to Xue Yantuo's tribe over the past few years.

In history, in order to invade the south, the Turks moved the Khanate from Yu Dujun Mountain in the north of the Moon to Tieshan in the south of the Moon.

The southward migration of the Khanate led to the decline of the Turkish control over the Tiel tribes in the northern part of the Mo, leading to the rise of the Xueyantuo tribe. The Xueyantuo tribe was originally a majority of the Mo, with 70,000 tents. Historically, its clan leader Yi Nan joined forces with the 15 Tiel tribes such as the Uighurs in the Mo, and also opposed the Eastern Turks. In order to achieve the strategic purpose of attacking the Turks in the north and south, Li Shimin sent the general Qiao Shiwang to join the Xueyantuo tribe in the north and conferred Yi Nan as Zhenzhu Viga Khan.

Jie Li Khan knew that Xue Yantuo's troops were in power and fought north of Mobei, but was defeated by Yi Nan. After this battle, the Tang army had heavy snow in the north of Mobei, and most of the Turkic cattle and sheep were killed or injured. He abnormally sent troops to the north of the Turkic attack on the Turkic in the first month of the year, and finally Li Jing succeeded in the battle and captured Jie Li Khan alive, leading to the destruction of the Eastern Turkic grassland empire.

Li Chongjiu also followed Li Shimin's example and sent a caravan to Xueyantuo's tribe to find Yi Nan's support to restrain the Eastern Turks from the north. Seeing that Li Chongji had sent so many cattle, sheep, cloth, and tea bricks, Yi Nan was of course very happy, so he sent envoys to join forces to conspire against the Turks.

But in fact, the historical experience is not, and all of them can be followed. The secret exchanges between Yi Nan and Li Chongjiu caused fear of the Turkic Khan. So the Turkic Khan led 100,000 Turkic cavalry to cross the Great Gobi Desert and conquer Xueyantuo's tribe on the southern expedition of Li Chongjiu.

When he heard that the Turks came to attack, Yi Nan knew that this battle was inevitable. He mobilized all the soldiers of Xueyantuo's tribe to fight against the Turks.

The battle was very fierce, and Xueyantuo's tribe fought with the Turks for three days. Yi Nan even led his army to raid the Golden Wolf Banner of the Eastern Turks, and even the Fuli Army of the Turkic headquarters took action to fight.

However, the Xueyantuo tribe led by Yi Nan was no match for the Turks. Three days later, the Xueyantuo tribe almost shed a last drop of blood, and more than 10,000 soldiers in the tribe died on the battlefield and defeated the Turks. The Yi Nan, who led the rise of Xueyantuo tribe in history, was not yet named the True Pearl Via Khan, and was captured by the Turks.

With the power of great victory, Chuluo Khan immediately summoned the leaders of the Tiel tribes in Mobei. These tribe leaders dared not come when they heard the summons.

Chuluo Khan immediately killed Yi Nan in front of all the leaders, killing the chicken to warn the monkey. The leaders of the Tiel tribes were silent and returned to the Turks to be loyal. After quelling the situation in the northern part of the desert, Chuluo Khan led the army back to the southern part of the desert. This time, he had no worries in the north and pointed the finger at Li Chongjiu.

Li Chongjiu couldn't help but sigh that Yi Nan's death was equivalent to selling his allies that might attack the Turks in the future to the Turks. However, for Li Chongjiu, Yi Nan's death was not without gaining nothing.

If it was Chu Luo Khan who took Li Chongjiu's south to conquer Zhuo County, he would not attack Xueyantuo's tribe in the north of the desert, but instead attacked Li Chongjiu's Huaihuang Town and Yuyi Town, then Li Chongjiu could only give up the strategy of Zhuo County. Return to the grassland, otherwise Huaihuang Town and Yuyi Town would have to be lost. Even if he returned to the grassland, if Chu Luo Khan really decided to fight, Li Chongjiu might not be able to protect the two towns.

So for Li Chongjiu, once these two towns are lost, it will definitely not be a heavy blow to the economy. Huaihuang Town is the first city of Li Chongjiu. Once it is lost, it will hit the confidence of the grassland tribes that rely on Huaihuang and Yuyi.

If the two towns are lost, it is likely that even the quite obedient Shide Xi tribe will betray Li Chongjiu. Therefore, the two towns must not be lost.

Therefore, in a practical sense, the destruction of Xueyantuo tribe actually blocked the Turkic people's shot for Li Chongjiu. Although he was grateful to the death of a fellow Taoist who died, he had fewer allies to restrain the Turkic Empire in the future. How to suppress the powerful Turkic Empire?

As expected, every drink or peck is determined by nature.

Now on the grassland, the cold winter is about to enter. At this time, Chuluo Khan actually released a rumor that he had 300,000 soldiers to attack Huaihuang and Yuyi Towns.

Although he didn't even see a hair from the Turks, Chuluo Khan had just pacified the Xueyantuo tribes and conquered the Tiel tribes in the north of Mo. At this time, his momentum on the grassland was as high as the time when he was at its peak. Under the golden wolf flag of the Turks, countless leaders of the grassland tribes were crawling under it.

Even though I don’t know whether it was a threat or a real attack, after hearing the wind, everyone was almost in a panic and frightened overnight. All the Han merchants were frightened, and even more so by the foreigners. Within a moment or two days, two thousand people evacuated the two towns.

The old men of the Xi clan are now urging Li Chongjiu to return to the army quickly and ask the Xi clan soldiers who are following the army to return to the tribe quickly.

But this time they did not dare to force it. Li Chongjiu has now seized Zhuo County, and the momentum has increased sharply, both in the Central Plains and on the grassland. In terms of power, it has even leaped to a higher level.

Therefore, the elders of the Xi tribe rushed to Ji County thousands of miles away, and almost burst into tears, begging Li Chongjiu to retreat quickly and return to the grassland to discuss how to bypass the Turks' retreat.

The generals of the Han army under Li Chongjiu were all unhappy when they looked at the elder Xi who was frightened by the Turks, but they had to admit that the power of the Turks at this time did have such ability.

Before the Chuluo Khan arrived, he almost made the grassland turn over in one sentence. If the Turks really had a army of 300,000 troops under Huaihuang Town, that would be fine. Li Chongjiu did not have the excellent gun-blocking ally Yi Nan this time to count on.

Anyway, the situation in Zhuo County has been calmed down. Although the Zhuo County gentry led by the Lu family did not sell Li Chongjiu's face, they collectively sold Li Mi's face. Without these people secretly making trouble, Dou Jiande in the south dared to go north to attack Zhuo County, and with Yuchi Gong's 10,000 county soldiers, he could defend himself. Soon after, the Liaoxi County, Jingwei, Ding Ling, Shanggu County soldiers, and Li Chongjiu's foreign troops came to support him.

As for Gao Kaidao, Luo Yi is now in Li Chongjiu's offensive in Zhuojun, and his main force is greatly damaged. Now he can only protect himself, which is not in danger for Li Chongjiu. However, Li Chongjiu's new army is now training, and winter is coming, and he does not have the ability to attack the city. At least after the flowers bloom next spring, the two of them can be cleaned up.

Therefore, Li Chongjiu decided to transfer all the grassland cavalry, including the Wansheng Army, back to Huaihuang and stationed in the two towns of Yuyi to settle down. Because he was worried about the attack of the Turks, he was worried day and night. At the same time, he could also shock the Eight Khitan tribes, who had been defeated by the Qinshui River in Wuhou for more than a year and were gradually recovering his strength, and the three Xi tribes headed by King Xihe.

Immediately, with more than 10,000 cavalry rewarded this time, Li Chongjiu entrusted the matters of Youzhou to the county chief Wei Zheng, county Sima Lu Chengqing, county commander Yuchi Gong, county deputy commander Xu Wu, and county deputy commander Xu Wu. He also did the same thing now. He returned to Yuyi Town for the New Year during the heavy snow in winter.

After Li Chongjiu was in charge of Yuyi Town, the current situation stabilized. Before he knew it, the winter of the 13th year of Daye gradually passed by the snow on the grassland.

Da Yanfei, and a three-foot-thick snow fell on the grassland, and the snow made the wooden houses in Yuyi Town rattle.

In Li Chongjiu's mansion, the servants of the Xi people in the mansion began to clean the snow inside and outside the yard in the morning.

Li Chongjiu was carrying his hands, wearing a wool cloak, standing outside Shi Deyun's house, looking at the bare old tree in the yard.

"Qi Bing Khan, Madam is indeed happy, it's been three months since she was already."

Listening to the old Chinese medicine doctor's words, Li Chongjiu was stunned. Li Chongjiu let out a long sigh. This was originally told by the witch doctor who had been following Shi Deyun, but he could not believe in the Mongolian doctor on the grassland, so he asked the Chinese doctor to diagnose it again, so this time he confirmed it.

Three months ago, it was actually before he went to Zhuo County. After Li Chongjiu learned about this, although he had been prepared in his heart, when it really happened to him, he still felt a sudden sense of happiness at this moment.

Li Chongjiu was deeply hit by this feeling and stood in the wind and snow for a long time.

When the sound of Pingping Wuwu was heard from Shi Deyun's room, Li Chongjiu suddenly came to his senses.

Li Chongjiu sat next to Shi Deyun's bed. Shi Deyun seemed to be a little lazy after pregnancy when lying on the bed, while Pingping was naughty and grimaced at Li Chongjiu.

A warm feeling suddenly surged in Li Chongjiu's heart. He held Shi Deyun's hand and said with some resentment: "Why didn't you tell me about this earlier?"

Shi Deyun said, "I only found out more than ten days ago."

Li Chongjiu shook his head, showed a little blame, and said, "I'm not sure if I've been pregnant for more than two months."

When Shi Deyun heard Li Chongjiu blame him, she obviously had no intention of fear. She stuck out her tongue and didn't care. Instead, she said coquettishly: "I'm so confused, Khan, this winter is heavy snow, and I haven't gone to war, so it's inconvenient to move. You can take more time to accompany me in the mansion."

Li Chongjiu heard the words and said, "You need to be obedient, you don't need to be willful in the future. Do you understand?"

Well. Well. Pingping nodded from the side. This cute look made Li Chongjiu and Shi Deyun laugh together.

Regarding Shi Deyun's nervous performance, Li Chongjiu could only instruct several Chinese doctors to take good care of Shi Deyun. As Li Chongjiu's only wife and concubine, Shi Deyun's pregnancy came quietly in Huaihuang Town.

After Li Hu knew it, he was so happy that he couldn't stop talking. He had been longing for the Li family to grow up and had been looking forward to it for a long time. So he had to come from Huaihuang Town to visit Shi Deyun from Yuyi Town.
Chapter completed!