The first thousand two hundred and ninety-seven chapters
Above the blue clear sky of the grassland, a scorching sun hangs in the middle. Even though it is late summer, the sun is still very strong. It is noon again, and the fierce sunshine is like a sharp sword. Most of the creatures on the grassland are hung listlessly under this exposure to the sun. Even the insects among the grassland do not sing in spirit, and the entire grassland is also peaceful.
But at this moment, a violent sound of horse hooves broke the peace of the grassland. Then a broken grassland cavalry rushed towards him, everyone's face was filled with panic. Everyone's face was covered with blood. Many people were injured. Some of them were seriously injured and could only lie on the horse's back and run wildly with their necks in their arms. Occasionally, some of them fell from the horse's back without any effort, but the cavalry behind them ran past without stopping, leaving a corpse trampled into mud.
If you stand at a high place and look down, you will definitely see that there is a grassland cavalry chasing just a few miles behind this deserter. Moreover, this cavalry is much stronger than the cavalry in front in terms of its number and momentum. This also makes the deserters in front dare not turn back at all, and can only run forward desperately.
Just as the broken cavalry had just rushed to a near Tushan, he unexpectedly suddenly heard a "whimpering" horn sound from behind Tushan. Then an ambush came out from behind Tushan and intercepted the fleeing cavalry.
"Escape!" The general led by the fugitive cavalry saw an ambush in front of him, and immediately shouted and turned his horse and fled to the east. However, before he could escape far, he did not expect another ambush in the east, forcing them to turn again. However, there were obviously a killing formation here, and there were ambushes from all directions. Finally, even the pursuers from the rear also arrived, surrounding their remaining soldiers.
"Yimang! My good brother, where are you going?" At this moment, a middle-aged man in a cloak came out from the group of pursuers who came to the last rush, came to the formation and laughed at the surrounded deserter in front of him.
"Bazhuo! Don't bully people too much!" A middle-aged general came out among the fleeing cavalry and stared at the middle-aged man opposite and roared. However, compared to the calmness of the middle-aged man opposite, he now seemed anxious and even a little harsh on his face.
"Hahaha~, it's too much to bully people? Yemang, you can say it too. If I hadn't been prepared for defeating your army in one fell swoop, I'm probably the one who was surrounded now!" The middle-aged man wearing a cloak laughed again, and the laughter was filled with great pride and conceit.
These two middle-aged people are the two sons of Yi Nan, the middle-aged man wearing a big cloak and proud face, is Yi Nan’s eldest son Ba Zhuo, and he was also appointed by Yi Nan as his heir, and is now Xue Yantuo’s Khan.
As for the middle-aged man who fled, it was Yi Nan's second son Yi Mang, and he was also Yi Nan's favorite son. Most of the tribes in the eastern part of Xue Yantuo were under his control. Even after Yi Nan's death, Yi Mang was not convinced that his elder brother inherited the Khan throne, so he launched a rebellion a month ago, hoping to defeat his elder brother and seize the Khan throne.
It can be said that Yimang's wishful thinking was very loud, and he controlled the people of the eastern tribe, and his strength was not much worse than Bazhuo. In addition, Bazhuo had just ascended to the Khan throne, and the khans of many tribes were not convinced by him, so Bazhuo could use even worse troops, so Yimang also felt that he was sure to win.
However, Yi Mang only cares about calculating his advantages, but forgets to calculate his disadvantages. For example, he has a huge disadvantage, that is, it is too cruel. Since he took charge of the eastern tribes, he has been very harsh against the tribes under his command. If there is any mistake, he will kill people and destroy the clan. This also makes the eastern tribes have great complaints about Yi Mang.
However, when Yi Nan was alive, the eastern tribes feared the power of Yi Nan and did not dare to resist. However, now that Yi Nan is dead, Yi Mang still forces them to compete with Ba Zhuo for the throne, which makes many tribes even more dissatisfied. As a result, when Yi Mang and Ba Zhuo fought to the decisive battle, many eastern tribes turned against each other. In just one month, Yi Mang, who had nearly 100,000 soldiers, was defeated and finally had to lead the defeated soldiers to run wildly, but unexpectedly, he was chased by Ba Zhuo in the end.
Yimang stared at Bazhuo in anger, as if he wanted to swallow the other party alive, but the situation was stronger than that of others. He was now trapped in the encirclement, and he was initiated by him. With Bazhuo's character, it was impossible for him to let him go, which made him fall into deep despair.
"Take it!" Seeing that Yimang stopped speaking, Bazhuo showed a cruel smile. Then with a wave of his hand, the cavalry around him immediately rushed towards Yimang in the encirclement, which made Yimang roar and command the remaining soldiers around him to resist stubbornly, but the remaining soldiers around him had long lost their fighting spirit and were wiped out in the blink of an eye.
Seeing that Bazhuo's cavalry was about to kill him, Yi Mang finally became completely desperate, but he didn't want to fall into Bazhuo's hands. Although the other party was his brother, the relationship between the two was very bad before, and this time he rebelled again, Bazhuo must have hated him to the core. If he fell into his hands, he might be worse than death.
Thinking of the above, Yimang was also cruel at the moment, putting the scimitar in his hand on his neck and roared at Ba Zhuo: "Ba Zhuo, today I will kill me, but don't be proud, sooner or later, you will end up like me!"
After Yimang said that, he wiped his scimitar hard through his neck, and a stream of hot blood spurted out from his neck, and he fell under the horse, his whole body twitched for a long time before finally swallowing his last breath.
Ba Zhuo did not expect that his younger brother was so backbone and eventually rebelled and committed suicide. However, even if Yimang died, he did not let the other party go. He ordered people to cut off Yimang's head. He wanted to spread Yimang's head throughout the tribes and tell everyone that they would dare to resist their fate.
With Yi Mang's death, the biggest conflict within Xue Yantuo finally disappeared, and Ba Zhuo stubbornly reinforcing his position as a Khan through this great victory. No one within Xue Yantuo dared to question him anymore. In this way, Xue Yantuo actually ushered in an unprecedented unification.
Chapter completed!