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khagan.

Reign

He was set up on throne by Tumodu in

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, having support of the ''Black Turgesh'' and his brother Ton Apa Yabgu. His main contenders were

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and Erwei Tegin (Erbey Tegin) in

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. On 27 August 739,

allied with Tang general Gai Jiayun (蓋嘉運), King of Chach Baghatur Tudun (莫賀咄吐屯) and attacked Kut Chor. He was sent to Changan, where he was symbolically sacrificed before imperial temple only to be pardoned by Xuanzong and created a Tang general in Left Guard.{{Cite book, url=https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E6%8E%88%E5%90%90%E7%81%AB%E4%BB%99%E5%8F%AF%E6%B1%97%E7%AD%89%E5%AE%98%E7%88%B5%E5%88%B6, title=Quan Tang wen, vol 24, date=1983, publisher=Zhonghua shu ju, last=Dong, first=Gao, isbn=7101007163, edition=Di 1 ban, location=Beijing, pages=, oclc=20575264

References

Sources

* ''

Old Book of Tang The ''Old Book of Tang'', or simply the ''Book of Tang'', is the first classic historical work about the Tang dynasty, comprising 200 chapters, and is one of the Twenty-Four Histories. Originally compiled during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdo ...

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