After a large number of Tubo people eliminated several fortress strongholds built by the Tang army in the Jishi Mountain System (now Armaniqing Mountain), they entered the upper reaches of the Yellow River through the mountainous areas.
The northwest direction is the pasture area of Tuyuhun, with almost no danger in the middle, and the Xianbei people (Tuyuhun) are not good at garrisoning; to the northeast and north are the Hezhou, Langzhou and Shanzhou areas of the Tang Dynasty. The borders of each state are continuous, and the passes are full of military strongholds of the Tang army, so it is not easy to directly attack the Tang territory.
Most of the Han people are farmers, and their civil engineering skills are very mature. The thing they love to do in defense is to build fortifications and cities...
When the Han people disliked the nomads' mobile robbery methods, the nomads also disliked the borders of the fortresses everywhere, and the rangers obviously did not work very well in siege.
The Tubo people sometimes find it very magical. It is really unreasonable that Han people can build several forts in the Gobi Desert where there is no one in the world.
Therefore, after entering the Yellow River Basin, the people of the Jide Zuzan family were ready to rob the Xianbei people first and make them surrender.
First, it can quickly eliminate a Tang Dynasty vassal armed forces; second, it can occupy large areas of ranches and plunder a large number of cattle, sheep and horses, and prepare strategic resources for further competition with the Tang army.
The inheritance of Jide has been fully equipped with all the crossbows. It has only been a few years since the beginning, and with the help of his own forces, it has been quite successful in quelling the civil strife. However, the loss of Tuyuhun and the Yellow River Basin was regarded as a great shame, and I have always wanted to get it back.
He was only sixteen or seventeen years old, about the same age as Murong Xuan, the king of Tuyuhun Han, but Jide was less than twenty years old and had a shallow beard on his cheeks. The Tubo people did not have the habit of picking beards, so Jide looked really not like a teenager at first glance.
They drove their cattle, sheep and horses into the Yellow River Basin calmly, without any haste, because the Tang army's troops were still on the road, and it would be difficult to assemble a field force that threatened them with a 500,000 army for a month.
As for the so-called control of the 100,000 gathered in Tuyuhun, the Tubo people did not take them seriously at all.
Sure enough, the army encountered no resistance after reaching the Nine Begins of the Yellow River. The Han herders cavalry had already run to the military strongholds in Xicangzhou and Guangen Town in the north to seek protection; while the main force of Tuyuhun fled into the direction of Qinghai Lake and did not dare to block the Tubo army at all.
The Tubo people were able to occupy various pastures and then shipped cavalry to find cattle and sheep that could be robbed.
Jide likes hunting and leads the troops first, while a large number of main forces and slave herders drove cattle and sheep slowly towards the northwest behind.
Jide led his troops to the northwest for a whole day, and the scout discovered a pasture where Tuyuhun had no time to evacuate.
Jide rushed over immediately, rode his horse up a hillside and looked downward. He saw dozens of tents and at least a few hundred cattle and sheep on the grass.
Ji De looked back and said: We have clear grudges in our work. In the past, we did not rob the Xianbei people because they gave us gifts every year, and we sent troops to protect them, to be fair and just.However, the Xianbei people turned against their will and refused to keep their promises, and in turn helped the Han people seize our stone castle city.What are we still polite?
The knights were very happy. Burning, killing, robbery was undoubtedly the most exciting and fun entertainment activity for the Tubo people who lived a hard life. They could get trophy, and cheers suddenly came out on the hillside.
At this moment, a few Xianbei people riding horses ran towards this side, and the person next to him said: Maybe they are here to beg for mercy.
Another dissatisfied: It was our thing, so why are you talking about?
Jide didn't speak, and took off the bow and arrow quietly. As the people were about to go in, he aimed at one person and shot out with a whoosh. A knight in the distance fell off his horse.
Then there was a rain of arrows, and the people and horses in the distance were shot into hedgehogs.
There was another cheer on the hillside, and then they rode down one after another.
Seeing this, the Xianbei horse team ran out of the herds camp and had no choice but to prepare to resist.
With the horse's hooves roaring, the Tubo horse team headed straight to the herd camp, and then divided into two left and right strands and surrounded them like two floods. The encirclement gradually formed in an irresistible situation.
They also shot arrows while running. Many Xianbei people were shot by arrows and made symbolic counterattacks around the fence.
Before they started to attack the Xianbei people, they were shot to defeat the army, and horses ran around between the tents.
Soon a Tubo cavalry in the center rushed straight into more than a dozen teams, smashing the simple fence to pieces.A voice shouted in Tubo: We surrender!
But no one listened to him. The cavalry drew out their scimitars and rushed over and chopped around with a scattered scream. The Xianbei horses fled in various places, but were surrounded to death on all sides, and the people running around became living targets.
After a while, fires lit up on the tent, and the fires flashed and smoke rose. The women and children also ran out of the tent yelled.
After riding and slashing for a while, the Tubo soldiers finally stopped killing, drove the prisoners to the grassland and then began to count the spoils.
Everything, including people, is a spoil. Needless to say, the cattle, horses and horses are the most important survival materials on the grassland. There are also people who are useful. Men can be slaves, and women...
It is obviously a loot that people like.
The old and the weak are useless, and being killed is obvious. Some old men and women solve the problem by themselves without the enemy's soldiers.
The Tubo soldiers waved their whips to whip the prisoners, and laughed loudly, making the slaves afraid of domestication while having fun.
Children were worn on the head of a spear, or were thrown into the air and then fell to death.
It seems that falling a child is also an entertainment activity, just like playing polo, it can also make the conqueror happy.
After counting the things, the main Tubo soldiers continued to search on the grassland. They snatched them two or three times and then they set up camp to repair them.
There is no doubt that war can bring great happiness to nomadic men (if they can win), killing them all during the day, eating and drinking and snatching things from their stomachs at night, and chewing mutton at random, and making them do whatever they want with milk wine. It can also allow the captured women to take off naked and dance around the bonfire.
The people with small braids had their left wine bag and lamb legs in their right hand, and laughed out loud. They were happy that the dancing woman had twisted her waist and her butt was round and pulled into the crowd to fuck them. The more particular slave owner was resisting the shoulders and into the tent.
Jide was also very happy. He pulled a tender skin into the central army tent, riding on the man while whipping it. He could make it a horse riding, which would make the woman suffer. When he finished his torture, the woman was tortured to death and was covered with blood-seeking whip marks all over her body.
...Tubo soldiers plundered everywhere on the Xianbei grasslands, and the herdsmen fled to the royal city, because the main cavalry of Tuyuhun gathered in that direction.
The cattle, sheep and horses that originally needed to be grazed in the vast grassland gathered in a small area at once. The grasslands there were naturally not enough to carry so many livestock, and the Xianbei people were trapped there and there was only a dead end.
At this time, there are undoubtedly only two ways to get stuck between the Tang Dynasty and the Tubo: with the Tang Dynasty or with the Tubo.
The majority of people advocate surrendering to Tubo pay taxes again to the Tubo people, and the reason is right in front of them.
First, the Tang Dynasty also had to impose taxes of up to one-fifth of the harvest, which was not much less than that of Tubo; second, the Tubo people were savage and fierce, and they suffered even more revenge when they were enemies; third, the Tubo people were already in front of us, and they could not beat them and what else could they do besides surrender?
But the royal family and their supporters prefer to continue to pro-Tang. In their eyes, the Tang Dynasty is undoubtedly the most powerful empire in the world, and forming an alliance with the Tang is a relatively long-term plan.
You can send troops to block the Tubo soldiers and wait for the Tang soldiers to come to help.
Fuqi City was in chaos and arguing endlessly, and as the grassland became more and more crowded, pessimism spread around the royal city.
At this moment, the Xianbei envoy returned from Shanzhou, and Murong Xuan hurriedly called him to the royal tent to speak.
The envoy brought desperate hope: several towns of Tang soldiers were gathering in Shanzhou, and it was estimated that they could send 100,000 troops, but it would take at least August to go west...
It will take about a month to go now.
The noble slave owners were in an uproar and shouted: In one month, the land was eaten up by sheep!Surrender to the Tubo people and try their best to get their forgiveness.
What are the chances of winning against 500,000 Tubo soldiers on the grassland?The Tang Bing was defeated more than once in the field. If we defeated this time, we would have to go through the trouble!
Someone objected: Didn’t the Tang Bing win two years ago?If the Tang Dynasty wins again this time and the Tubo people run back to the plateau, aren’t we here being capricious villains?
How did the Tang people win two years ago?Hiding in fortifications and consuming it, it seems that they have gained a lot when the Tubo people can't spend it. If they spend so much this year, what should we use to spend it?
The young and pale Murong Xuan remained silent, but the great prime minister Fu Lu could not sit still and said with a frown: Don’t talk about the future, now the Tubo people are under their noses...
A slave owner anxiously advised: Da Xiang, hurry up and make an idea.In fact, we can't join the Tang Dynasty. The Tubo people threw away all the Yellow River and Jishi Mountain two years ago. We can't join the Tang Dynasty. It's just a temporary solution.Think about it, the Tubo people came from the west and were our land, and they may suffer every year. Didn’t they go to the Tang Dynasty to make a special shield for them?
Everyone agreed, and a riot in the tent suddenly broke out.
Just then, I heard a small voice saying: Everyone is watching the whole story...
It was the voice of Khan Murong Xuan. Although he was not as strong as the Fu Lu family, he was the boss after all and he didn't speak often, so when everyone heard that Murong Xuan was speaking, they gradually became quieter, wanting to hear what Khan wanted to say.
Murong Xuan looked at the chessboard with wooden horses in front of him and said: Sometimes it’s too messy to see the whole game, just look at one particle: Stone Castle City!
He just said something mysteriously and stopped.
Everyone was thinking about the meaning silently, but the meaning was not complicated: Whoever had the Stone Castle City was in his hands would be more likely to have the initiative.
If the Shibao City was in the hands of the Tubo people, it would be difficult for the Tang Dynasty to directly attack the hinterland of Tuyuhun, then there was no need to be too afraid of the Tang Dynasty; on the contrary, if the Shibao City was in the hands of the Tang army, the Tang people, like the Tubo people, could send troops to punish them at any time.
The northwest direction is the pasture area of Tuyuhun, with almost no danger in the middle, and the Xianbei people (Tuyuhun) are not good at garrisoning; to the northeast and north are the Hezhou, Langzhou and Shanzhou areas of the Tang Dynasty. The borders of each state are continuous, and the passes are full of military strongholds of the Tang army, so it is not easy to directly attack the Tang territory.
Most of the Han people are farmers, and their civil engineering skills are very mature. The thing they love to do in defense is to build fortifications and cities...
When the Han people disliked the nomads' mobile robbery methods, the nomads also disliked the borders of the fortresses everywhere, and the rangers obviously did not work very well in siege.
The Tubo people sometimes find it very magical. It is really unreasonable that Han people can build several forts in the Gobi Desert where there is no one in the world.
Therefore, after entering the Yellow River Basin, the people of the Jide Zuzan family were ready to rob the Xianbei people first and make them surrender.
First, it can quickly eliminate a Tang Dynasty vassal armed forces; second, it can occupy large areas of ranches and plunder a large number of cattle, sheep and horses, and prepare strategic resources for further competition with the Tang army.
The inheritance of Jide has been fully equipped with all the crossbows. It has only been a few years since the beginning, and with the help of his own forces, it has been quite successful in quelling the civil strife. However, the loss of Tuyuhun and the Yellow River Basin was regarded as a great shame, and I have always wanted to get it back.
He was only sixteen or seventeen years old, about the same age as Murong Xuan, the king of Tuyuhun Han, but Jide was less than twenty years old and had a shallow beard on his cheeks. The Tubo people did not have the habit of picking beards, so Jide looked really not like a teenager at first glance.
They drove their cattle, sheep and horses into the Yellow River Basin calmly, without any haste, because the Tang army's troops were still on the road, and it would be difficult to assemble a field force that threatened them with a 500,000 army for a month.
As for the so-called control of the 100,000 gathered in Tuyuhun, the Tubo people did not take them seriously at all.
Sure enough, the army encountered no resistance after reaching the Nine Begins of the Yellow River. The Han herders cavalry had already run to the military strongholds in Xicangzhou and Guangen Town in the north to seek protection; while the main force of Tuyuhun fled into the direction of Qinghai Lake and did not dare to block the Tubo army at all.
The Tubo people were able to occupy various pastures and then shipped cavalry to find cattle and sheep that could be robbed.
Jide likes hunting and leads the troops first, while a large number of main forces and slave herders drove cattle and sheep slowly towards the northwest behind.
Jide led his troops to the northwest for a whole day, and the scout discovered a pasture where Tuyuhun had no time to evacuate.
Jide rushed over immediately, rode his horse up a hillside and looked downward. He saw dozens of tents and at least a few hundred cattle and sheep on the grass.
Ji De looked back and said: We have clear grudges in our work. In the past, we did not rob the Xianbei people because they gave us gifts every year, and we sent troops to protect them, to be fair and just.However, the Xianbei people turned against their will and refused to keep their promises, and in turn helped the Han people seize our stone castle city.What are we still polite?
The knights were very happy. Burning, killing, robbery was undoubtedly the most exciting and fun entertainment activity for the Tubo people who lived a hard life. They could get trophy, and cheers suddenly came out on the hillside.
At this moment, a few Xianbei people riding horses ran towards this side, and the person next to him said: Maybe they are here to beg for mercy.
Another dissatisfied: It was our thing, so why are you talking about?
Jide didn't speak, and took off the bow and arrow quietly. As the people were about to go in, he aimed at one person and shot out with a whoosh. A knight in the distance fell off his horse.
Then there was a rain of arrows, and the people and horses in the distance were shot into hedgehogs.
There was another cheer on the hillside, and then they rode down one after another.
Seeing this, the Xianbei horse team ran out of the herds camp and had no choice but to prepare to resist.
With the horse's hooves roaring, the Tubo horse team headed straight to the herd camp, and then divided into two left and right strands and surrounded them like two floods. The encirclement gradually formed in an irresistible situation.
They also shot arrows while running. Many Xianbei people were shot by arrows and made symbolic counterattacks around the fence.
Before they started to attack the Xianbei people, they were shot to defeat the army, and horses ran around between the tents.
Soon a Tubo cavalry in the center rushed straight into more than a dozen teams, smashing the simple fence to pieces.A voice shouted in Tubo: We surrender!
But no one listened to him. The cavalry drew out their scimitars and rushed over and chopped around with a scattered scream. The Xianbei horses fled in various places, but were surrounded to death on all sides, and the people running around became living targets.
After a while, fires lit up on the tent, and the fires flashed and smoke rose. The women and children also ran out of the tent yelled.
After riding and slashing for a while, the Tubo soldiers finally stopped killing, drove the prisoners to the grassland and then began to count the spoils.
Everything, including people, is a spoil. Needless to say, the cattle, horses and horses are the most important survival materials on the grassland. There are also people who are useful. Men can be slaves, and women...
It is obviously a loot that people like.
The old and the weak are useless, and being killed is obvious. Some old men and women solve the problem by themselves without the enemy's soldiers.
The Tubo soldiers waved their whips to whip the prisoners, and laughed loudly, making the slaves afraid of domestication while having fun.
Children were worn on the head of a spear, or were thrown into the air and then fell to death.
It seems that falling a child is also an entertainment activity, just like playing polo, it can also make the conqueror happy.
After counting the things, the main Tubo soldiers continued to search on the grassland. They snatched them two or three times and then they set up camp to repair them.
There is no doubt that war can bring great happiness to nomadic men (if they can win), killing them all during the day, eating and drinking and snatching things from their stomachs at night, and chewing mutton at random, and making them do whatever they want with milk wine. It can also allow the captured women to take off naked and dance around the bonfire.
The people with small braids had their left wine bag and lamb legs in their right hand, and laughed out loud. They were happy that the dancing woman had twisted her waist and her butt was round and pulled into the crowd to fuck them. The more particular slave owner was resisting the shoulders and into the tent.
Jide was also very happy. He pulled a tender skin into the central army tent, riding on the man while whipping it. He could make it a horse riding, which would make the woman suffer. When he finished his torture, the woman was tortured to death and was covered with blood-seeking whip marks all over her body.
...Tubo soldiers plundered everywhere on the Xianbei grasslands, and the herdsmen fled to the royal city, because the main cavalry of Tuyuhun gathered in that direction.
The cattle, sheep and horses that originally needed to be grazed in the vast grassland gathered in a small area at once. The grasslands there were naturally not enough to carry so many livestock, and the Xianbei people were trapped there and there was only a dead end.
At this time, there are undoubtedly only two ways to get stuck between the Tang Dynasty and the Tubo: with the Tang Dynasty or with the Tubo.
The majority of people advocate surrendering to Tubo pay taxes again to the Tubo people, and the reason is right in front of them.
First, the Tang Dynasty also had to impose taxes of up to one-fifth of the harvest, which was not much less than that of Tubo; second, the Tubo people were savage and fierce, and they suffered even more revenge when they were enemies; third, the Tubo people were already in front of us, and they could not beat them and what else could they do besides surrender?
But the royal family and their supporters prefer to continue to pro-Tang. In their eyes, the Tang Dynasty is undoubtedly the most powerful empire in the world, and forming an alliance with the Tang is a relatively long-term plan.
You can send troops to block the Tubo soldiers and wait for the Tang soldiers to come to help.
Fuqi City was in chaos and arguing endlessly, and as the grassland became more and more crowded, pessimism spread around the royal city.
At this moment, the Xianbei envoy returned from Shanzhou, and Murong Xuan hurriedly called him to the royal tent to speak.
The envoy brought desperate hope: several towns of Tang soldiers were gathering in Shanzhou, and it was estimated that they could send 100,000 troops, but it would take at least August to go west...
It will take about a month to go now.
The noble slave owners were in an uproar and shouted: In one month, the land was eaten up by sheep!Surrender to the Tubo people and try their best to get their forgiveness.
What are the chances of winning against 500,000 Tubo soldiers on the grassland?The Tang Bing was defeated more than once in the field. If we defeated this time, we would have to go through the trouble!
Someone objected: Didn’t the Tang Bing win two years ago?If the Tang Dynasty wins again this time and the Tubo people run back to the plateau, aren’t we here being capricious villains?
How did the Tang people win two years ago?Hiding in fortifications and consuming it, it seems that they have gained a lot when the Tubo people can't spend it. If they spend so much this year, what should we use to spend it?
The young and pale Murong Xuan remained silent, but the great prime minister Fu Lu could not sit still and said with a frown: Don’t talk about the future, now the Tubo people are under their noses...
A slave owner anxiously advised: Da Xiang, hurry up and make an idea.In fact, we can't join the Tang Dynasty. The Tubo people threw away all the Yellow River and Jishi Mountain two years ago. We can't join the Tang Dynasty. It's just a temporary solution.Think about it, the Tubo people came from the west and were our land, and they may suffer every year. Didn’t they go to the Tang Dynasty to make a special shield for them?
Everyone agreed, and a riot in the tent suddenly broke out.
Just then, I heard a small voice saying: Everyone is watching the whole story...
It was the voice of Khan Murong Xuan. Although he was not as strong as the Fu Lu family, he was the boss after all and he didn't speak often, so when everyone heard that Murong Xuan was speaking, they gradually became quieter, wanting to hear what Khan wanted to say.
Murong Xuan looked at the chessboard with wooden horses in front of him and said: Sometimes it’s too messy to see the whole game, just look at one particle: Stone Castle City!
He just said something mysteriously and stopped.
Everyone was thinking about the meaning silently, but the meaning was not complicated: Whoever had the Stone Castle City was in his hands would be more likely to have the initiative.
If the Shibao City was in the hands of the Tubo people, it would be difficult for the Tang Dynasty to directly attack the hinterland of Tuyuhun, then there was no need to be too afraid of the Tang Dynasty; on the contrary, if the Shibao City was in the hands of the Tang army, the Tang people, like the Tubo people, could send troops to punish them at any time.
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