Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 817 Ambush
In the early period of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the capital was Pingcheng, and the kings repeatedly traveled east to Daning and Ruyuan.When they sent troops to the Kumoxi and Beiyan Feng clans further east, they often followed this path.

Geographically speaking, this is the sphere of influence of Youzhou Town.Li Ke used to capture Youzhou and defeated the rebels several times. Not only the Han people in the twelve states did not dare to make mistakes, but even the nearby grassland tribes were very honest—the dishonest ones had already been captured by Datong Shi Shanyou, Guizhou Li Cunxiao jointly wiped out.

The strength of the black car Shiwei is actually not weak.

Back then when the Uyghur Khanate collapsed and the Miaogas were unable to control the entire grassland, all the tribes enslaved by the Uyghurs were freed, including Khitan and Shiwei.

The Shiwei people were relatively strong at the beginning, and their nomadic range was in the north of Yinshan Mountain, from the Tiande Army in the west to the Khitan Realm in the east.But they did not have the strength to own such a vast territory. Since Huichang years, after fighting the remnants of the Uighurs, the territory has been shrinking day by day.

Shanhou Dangxiang, Montenegro Dangxiang, Tuyuhun, Tatars, Uighur remnants, and even Xi people who moved westward, which one would not challenge them?

As a result of the competition, Heiche Shiwei lost a large area of ​​pastures, and at the same time split into seven tribes, and now, another surname has been added, namely Heiche Shiwei Babu.Several of them chose to make friends with Youzhou Town because of their proximity to the fortress, and at the same time faced the pressure of the former "good friend" Khitan. The two sides are de facto allies.

When Li Keyong was fighting against Youzhou, Li Kuangchou recruited many Shiwei, Xi, Khitan, Uighur, and Tatar tribal soldiers to help out.Now Youzhou has changed its owner, and after careful consideration, the Shiwei tribes have turned to Li Keyong and relied on each other.

Heiche Shiwei's bloodlines are very mixed, and the bloodlines of the eight departments are also very different.The Ministry of Reconciliation near Serbia is powerful, and its lineage is closer to the Yinshan Tatars, or even Shatuo. It has quite a lot of Caucasian characteristics. Sometimes people even confuse it with the Yinshan White Tatars and think it is a tribe.

The newly added Heichezi Shiwei's eighth surname has a strong Shatuo component, and it is mostly a mixture of clansmen who flowed out from the three tribes of Shatuo on behalf of the North, Shiwei, Uyghur, and Tatar.

The tribes of Wusugu and Mogeshi in the north or northwest are relatively similar in lineage to the ancient Wuhuan people.

Mogeshi is a transliteration, also known as Maocutishi, Meiguxi, Maojieshi, and Mongols. It was called Mengwu in the imperial court, and it was translated into Mongolia hundreds of years later.But there should be some problems here. Maocutishi is a part of Heiche Shiwei or Xishiwei and Yinshan Shiwei. Mengwu Shiwei is Beishiwei, which is closer to Tatar, and even belongs to Tatar itself. part.However, because the pastoral area of ​​the Maohuashi tribe is further north, it is connected to other tribes of Shiwei and the Khitan. Considering that they were constantly migrating under the attack of the Khitan, it is possible to merge with each other.Or, they themselves are the products of Shiwei's southward migration and westward migration.

The Ministry of Reconciliation originally grazed in the area north of Daning. After attaching to Li Keyong, because of the favor of his adopted son Li Cunxiao, the Ministry of Reconciliation moved further south to the vicinity of Daning, and repaired the Tucheng in the Later Wei Dynasty.

The leader of the Reconciliation Department, Ba La, is only in his twenties this year, and it is time for him to be ambitious.

Like other leaders of the Shiwei tribe who migrated to the south, in addition to the traditional nomadic life, he also developed a new business of planting millet and wheat, and developed very well.Hundreds of hectares of farmland have been opened up in the Daning area, and spring wheat has just been planted a while ago.There are a lot of ironware in the tribe, all of which were learned from the Goguryeo people back then, and have continued to this day.

Well, the traditional hunting industry hasn't been left behind either.There are many mountains and wild animals in the area around Yinshan Mountain. Shiwei people often went to the mountains to hunt for furs.Those relatives who are not as large as Bei Shiwei raise deer and catch mink, but they also earn a considerable amount of income, which should not be ignored.

On this day, Ba La, who was drinking in Daning City, heard a news like a bolt from the blue: a small tribe of Yinshan Tatars was looted and looted in the west, and the thieves were moving eastward at a very fast speed.

Bala was very surprised, and immediately summoned the nobles to discuss, and then gathered the manpower, only three to four thousand people in a hurry, and after taking the horses and equipment, they rushed to the west in a hurry.

It was almost noon, the sun was shining, and the breeze was blowing on the grassland, carrying the fragrance of green grass.

Pulling up a high slope, he saw smoke and dust all over the grassland to the west, and the sky was covered with healthy horses and riders, boundless.

"Where did this guy come from?" Ba La's face was very ugly, and he asked left and right: "Could it be the Qibi tribe in the west?"

They only knew about the existence of the Qibi Department in the last few months.

In the borders of Tiande Army and Zhenwu Army where their ancestors used to be nomadic, a "Supreme Khan" has risen in the past ten years.With his strong will and merciless style, he dominated the Dangxiang tribe south of Yinshan Mountain, and then continued to move eastward, squeezing the nomadic space of Tuyuhun, Uighur, Tatar, Shiwei and even Shatuo tribes.

The Battle of Nuozhenshui that broke out last year wiped out the elite Tatars in Yinshan, and then Liting swept their holes and occupied their grazing land. They did not give Li Ke, the king of Jin in the east of the river, any face.The Qibi Department, the black hand of their eastward advance, had clashed with everyone several times.

"It must be the Khibi Department."

"Maybe I found a helper."

"The person who pretends to be the Supreme Khan is Shao Shude, younger brother of the King of Jin and Xia Wang of the Great Tang Dynasty. The Qibi tribe must have brought Shao Shude here."

"Shao Shude has been tossing around in the west, why did he suddenly go east? Is the west not enough for him?"

"He's too ambitious."

The more he listened, the more ugly his face became.

He has been to Guizhou, met Li Cunxiao, and even met Li Keyong, so he has a certain understanding of Shao Shude.

To put it simply, he is the Khan of the Dangxiang people, and now he has conquered the Tubo people.

Dangxiang and Tubo were originally a group, just like the tribes of Beishiwei, Nanshiwei, and Xishiwei are inextricably linked.After the Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty, the Dangxiang people fled to the Hetao Grassland, and continued to move eastward and northward, and their power gradually developed to the west of the Yinshan Mountains. The old land where the black car Shiwei grazed.

Damn it, the party item is too bullying!The grassland in the west is not enough for you to graze, so you have to come to the east to grab food?

"The ones who came must be Shao Shude's Dangxiang soldiers." Ba La turned to look at the tribal leaders, and said solemnly: "The Tang Dynasty called Tubo and Dangxiang the Qiang clan, and us as Hu. Shao Shude unified the Qiang clan tribes, Ambitious, he must be thinking of entering the north and east of Yinshan Mountain to expand the pastures for his tribe. He must be deeply loved by the Qiang people and has no good intentions for us. Will it be far?"

"Why doesn't King Jin send troops?" someone asked.

"We can send people to seek help from the King of Jin, but we have to carry the first wave by ourselves." Bala said, "Abusi's female relatives were all taken away by him. I heard that he has become the Yan family of Shao Shude, and wept day and night under him. , begging, do you also think of your own family, daughter, and granddaughter like this?"

"There's no need to say more about Mohefu. We fought with Shao Shude." Everyone said immediately after hearing that they made sense.

"Okay, let's gather troops to fight and fight with them." Pulling out his sword, he said loudly.

More than 3000 knights quickly gathered on the grassland west of Daning City.

In the earth city behind, some old people and young people also took up weapons and boarded the low city wall to defend against the enemy.

Several envoys rushed to Yizhou, Guizhou, and Youzhou to ask for help.

Farmers, hunters, and herdsmen from far and near moved closer to the city wall with carts, cattle, sheep, horses, and camels to avoid being looted.

Escape, it's too late to escape.Now I can only repel these people first, as long as I persist for a few days, the tribesmen scattered in various places will come to help one after another when they get the news, and it is no problem to gather [-] to [-] soldiers.

"Woo—" a long horn sounded.

The cavalry on the opposite side began to gather.

Bala could see clearly that there were about three thousand riders, about the same as theirs.Look at his attire, braided hair and fur clothing, holding a riding bow in his hand.

Pooh!It really is the Qiang species!
Tubo people have braided hair, Uyghur people have loose hair, and Khitan people have kun-hair, which is very easy to distinguish.

"They moved!" someone exclaimed.

Ba La glared at him, shouting loudly on the battlefield, is there any military discipline at all?
"Woo—" The short horn sounded several times, and the cavalry on the opposite side began to speed up slowly, rushing towards this side.

"Behind is our homeland, let's fight with these wolves!" Ba Sha raised his sword high and said loudly.

"Fight!" Once the barbarian's blood surged up, he really didn't care about anything, and rushed out following the leader.

Thousands of cavalry from both sides continued to accelerate, facing each other, and soon strangled together.

Yang Yue appeared on a high ground, carefully watching the fight on the plain below the mountain.

Shiwei people should have less than four thousand riders, and Shaqi Dangxiang and Tubo are in their early three thousand.Both sides are playing traditional grassland riding and archery. After approaching, they circle around and shoot arrows. They are quite good at archery.

Sometimes when they got too close, they drew out their short weapons and fought close to each other. After the kill, they opened up again and drew out their riding bows to shoot.

This style of play is actually very dangerous.Because if you can't control the distance well, you will fall into the stage of close combat. If you meet Lancers at this time...

"The people from the Po Chou Clan have retreated." Yang Hongwang, the envoy of the Flying Bear Army, reminded him softly.

The Po Chou family, a powerful party member in Hexi.After Shao Shude occupied Lingzhou, he repaired them severely and fled westward.Later, part of them surrendered in Shaqi, and now they have gone to Daning to fight for the Supreme Khan.

"Wait a little longer." Yang Yue said patiently.

The battle at the foot of the mountain intensified.

The Po Chou Clan had few people, and they had received the order to fight and retreat in advance, so they retreated half-truthfully.Shi Wei's morale was greatly boosted, and he fought vigorously, chasing after him, and it seemed that he was about to win a big victory.

"You can do it now." Yang Yue ordered.

Soon a standard bearer passed the order.

After a while, the dull sound of horseshoes sounded in the northwest.

The sound of the hoofbeats was so heavy that even the Shiwei people who were chasing him were startled.

The sound of horseshoes became louder, and a silver "wave" appeared in the northwest.

On the tall horse of Shen Jun, the knight in silver armor is holding a thick and long lance, and is running with the momentum of thunder.

"Armored cavalry!" Baza recognized it immediately.

This kind of tyrannical knight faced the light cavalry who didn't even have armor on the grassland, and he was like a murderous existence.

They have already picked up speed, and the distance is not far at all, and they will be able to kill them soon.

"Ambush." ​​Ba La turned pale with shock.He looked at his own people who were struggling to hunt down the party members, and for a moment he didn't know how to gather the troops.

There was also the sound of hooves in the southwest.

Another troop in silver armor, with riding bows on their waists and slender lances in their hands, appeared beside the woods.

"So many well-trained cavalry! Such excellent equipment! You still have to lay an ambush!" Baza felt like crying.

"Kill!" The armored cavalry from the northwest charged at a high speed, and the eyes behind the curtain were shining with bloodthirsty light.

The Shiwei people were cut off at the waist, unable to block a single blow.

(End of this chapter)