As soon as the sky dawned, the valley became lively.
People kept coming from all directions to bring groups of horses to the meeting place.
"The horses are well taken care of. They are almost foaming at the mouth." Qiaotan picked up various harnesses from the ground and said casually.
"You only know how to run, but you don't know the suffering of the horse." The man who gave the horse caressed the horse's head lovingly and said.
The horse turned its head and nuzzled him gently.
Qiao Tan looked a bit disgusted and cursed: "How many times have I gotten up in the middle of the night to feed your horse feed, but now you don't remember me. You are really a beast."
The shepherd laughed loudly, turned and walked away.
Groups of horses came from afar, bringing over the horses that had been raised for a day or two, and then taking away the horses that were tired after running for a long time.
That’s what long-distance running is like. One horse alone can’t go very far. Even with two horses, there is a big gap in the mileage that can be covered on the first day and the second day, let alone the third and fourth days.
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Strictly speaking, for a horse team like them carrying a large amount of luggage, three horses per person is not enough. It is best to have five horses, or to carry less luggage.
The officers stood elsewhere talking in low voices.
This place has passed Xinping, and is only sixty or seventy miles away from Pingcheng.
Since yesterday, they have encountered more and more resistance, chasing and intercepting them everywhere. As a last resort, the eight thousand cavalry were divided into three parts, each led by a commander, to disperse and harass.
There is only one mission: to create chaos.
It's hard to win when facing an enemy head-on.
This is not a deserted prairie, but an area suitable for grazing and farming with villages, forts, and cities everywhere. The whereabouts cannot be kept secret, and it is difficult to achieve suddenness except at the beginning.
Therefore, they are now facing a large number of enemy troops chasing and intercepting them. The specific number is not known, but there must be more than 10,000 horsemen. There must be a large number of infantry waiting in the city and village. Optimistically, maybe three or four people have been pinned down.
Thousands of people.
The most important thing is to create chaos and panic, such as what they are about to do...
After changing the horses, Yin Xi personally led the team, and three thousand people mounted their horses and rushed out.
The grasslands in summer are particularly beautiful. When running through the wide and flat river valleys, the cool breeze and the fragrant green grass make people want to stop and quietly appreciate the beauty of nature.
However, the fighting among humans soon destroyed this tranquility and beauty.
The drums sounded in the manor, and the young men retreated behind the thin earth wall, bows and arrows raised, and nervously looked at the cavalry coming from afar.
It’s against Tiangang!
In the past, they were the only ones who rode south, while the Jin people hid behind the wall and waited, but now everyone has been transferred, they are guarding, and the Jin people are running around to attack.
There were several messengers in the village, but when they saw the Jin cavalry from a distance, they ran away and rushed to the cavalry garrison to report the whereabouts of the Jin army.
Yin Xi failed to stop him. After leading his army around the manor, he found that there was no gap to penetrate, so he sent someone to shoot a letter up and then rode away.
The letter was quickly picked up and handed over.
The old man, who was about fifty years old, was silent for a long time after reading.
The others looked at him quietly without urging him.
After a long time, the old man handed the letter to others and sighed: "In the past, Wang Kuxian lived in Pingcheng, and he and Tuoba Liwei were canonized by China and the DPRK. One was named 'Jin Wuwan Guiyihou', and the other was 'Jin Xianbei'.
"Guiyihou", the two of them swore an oath to help each other. At that time, the status of Pingcheng Wuhuan and Shengle Xianbei was equal..."
"However, the descendants were unworthy, and the gold seals conferred by the Jin court were snatched away. The descendants of Ku Xian were like slaves of the Tuoba clan. Wuhuan's power declined, and even the old place of Pingcheng was moved to a large number of Xianbei tribes. Since then,
, the Tuoba family was granted the title of Grand Chanyu, Dai Gong, and is already the lord of the grassland..."
Everyone was a little puzzled, why are they talking about these old almanacs at this time?
During the Later Han Dynasty, the Wuhuan people migrated to various places, from the northeast to the northwest, and could be seen everywhere. Only Dingxiang and other places were directly controlled by the Han court, and the Wuhuan people were not allowed to move in.
As a result, when Tuoba Xianbei moved south and westward, they took a fancy to these counties that were not occupied by the Wuhuan tribe, and flocked to them one after another. When the Han Dynasty was forced to relocate its people and abandon their lands, these counties became
The paradise of Xianbei people.
From then on, Xianbei of Shengle and Wuhuan of Pingcheng formed an alliance.
But the alliance is destined to break up. Now, the Wuhuan people have been reduced to the subordinates of the Xianbei people. This is what the old man laments.
"Don't look at me." The old man smiled and said, "In this area of ​​Pingcheng, the Xianbei people are the minority and the Wuhuan people are the majority. But we have to wait and see."
"Sir, do you want to expel Xianbei?" someone asked subconsciously.
The old man shook his head and said: "Actually, if you really want to talk about it, there is no such thing as Xianbei, Wuhuan, or Xiongnu. He said that the Tiefu Xiongnu who was stationed in Yanmen back then had half the blood of Wuhuan, so he named himself Xiongnu.
Now it is also called Xianbei, and it is also called the 'Dugu tribe'. I can't tell the difference between blood and blood, and neither can you. What can really be distinguished -"
The old man pointed to the millet fields, hemp fields, mulberry groves, and orchards outside the manor wall, and said: "It's just about what we do for a living. In the past, there were old and new suspicions in Shengle. Of course, there were factors such as genealogy and family disputes, but the biggest reason
Aren’t there still some old nobles who can’t stand the way we make a living?”
"Then why not go to Mrs. Qi? She promised to re-employ new people." Someone asked.
"The King of Liang in the Jin Dynasty raised his troops to march north and relied on the Jin court for help. Isn't it better than relying on Mrs. Qi? The Jin court is the biggest newcomer." The old man laughed.
These words shocked everyone.
Since Emperor Hui of the Jin Dynasty, due to years of famine and war in Bingzhou, a large number of Jin people have gone northward and entered the grasslands to seek a living. The more contact they have with the Jin people, the less they, the Wuhuan people, look down on the rustic nomadic Xianbei.
Decades or hundreds of years earlier, they were also mainly nomadic, but didn't they enter a state of half farming and half pastoralism earlier than the Xianbei people?
If Xianbei wants to develop and grow, it must go south, so it must reuse the Wuhuan people in the Pingcheng area, which is a large number. This will of course cause dissatisfaction among the noble tribes in the west. The dispute between the old and the new is an issue that cannot be resolved.
Mrs. Wang was born in the Wang family of Guangning and was a descendant of Wuhuangui. Although she wanted to avenge Tuoba Yulu of the old party and help Yulu's son Shi Yiqian come to power, because of the direct help from the Jin court, she is now
There are many choices.
The simplest thing is that she can form a political group with the new people as the leader and the old people as subordinates, with Pingcheng as the foundation. As for whether this newly formed force will be dominated by Dai Jun Wang Feng or Tuoba Shi Yiqian,
It doesn't matter.
Of course, the latter is better, as it can win over Tuoba Xianbei forces as much as possible.
After all, the adults in the west see Wuhuan as the Jin people, but the Jin people see them more like the Hu people. In fact, the Wuhuan people don't really want to break away from the alliance of Dai. Everyone can live together and use them as newcomers for politics.
If it is the dominant force in the world, that would be great.
"Don't spread the letter to outsiders. Just keep the door open and observe secretly." The old man finally said: "I think the soldiers from the Eastern Expedition will be back soon."
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Tuoba He is really in a dilemma now.
He received news this morning that Helan Aitou led 30,000 cavalry eastward, marching along the northern foot of Yin Mountain, defeating two small tribes one after another, and recruiting more than ten surnames to surrender, and his momentum became increasingly prominent.
Envoys were sent one after another from the direction of Dongmugen Mountain, requesting that Ding Zhuang who had been recruited to go south be taken away to defend against the enemy.
Tuoba Hena didn't agree, but he didn't refuse directly either. Instead, he patiently tried to persuade him repeatedly, but not many people listened.
This is actually not my fault.
You said you want to resist the Jin army, well, we have recruited a group of strong men to serve as soldiers for you, and sent some old, weak, women and children to drive cattle and sheep with the army to provide you with supplies.
But now the situation has changed.
Helan Aitou knew that fighting was going on in the south and the fighting in the east was also very fierce, so he picked the right moment and selected 30,000 elite troops from each department to rush towards them. What do you want us to do?
Being surrounded by enemies in the south, east and west, with troops divided everywhere and fighting everywhere, this is the biggest dilemma, and it can even be said to be a desperate situation.
It would be fine if it were a foreign enemy. If we couldn't defeat it, we wouldn't surrender, or even stab ourselves internally, but now it's a standard civil war.
Taking refuge in Tuoba Yihuai or Shiyijian is not unacceptable to the tribal adults, but this is the most fatal thing.
Once they are desperate and have figured it out, then the old party will send envoys to Shengle to collect money, and the new party will go south to Xingbei to beg for surrender. The Tuoba alliance will evolve into two groups, Yihuai and Shiyiqian. He Li and he will definitely be eliminated.
At that time, it is estimated that they will only have to rush eastward to Ruyuan, where there are still a few small tribes that firmly support them, and with the support of the Yuwen clan, they may be able to get a chance to breathe. But to be honest, it is already a last resort. If Yi Huai
, if Shi Yiqian didn't make a big mistake, He Li and he would definitely have no chance of recovering the country, and they would most likely be annexed by the Yuwen clan in the end.
Difficult! Difficult! Difficult!
Tuoba Hena walked around anxiously in the mansion, still unable to make up his mind.
In the evening, a servant suddenly came in and reported in a low voice: "His Majesty He Gu led his people to the west and headed for the Nuozhen River branch."
"What?!" Tuoba He was shocked.
Last year, the Hegu tribe was ordered to go eastward to attack the Wang family in Guangning. There were some losses, but not big.
We lost a lot of people in April this year, and recently returned to the grassland more than a hundred miles west of Dongmugen Mountain to recuperate.
Tuoba He didn't know that they couldn't offer much to compensate He's bones. They might have resentment in their hearts, but why did they suddenly defect to Tuoba Yihuai?
Thinking of the fact that under the pressure of the Jin army, more and more people in the south were seeking refuge with Shi Yijian, Tuoba He felt a chill.
I don’t know how this battle ended up like this.
In his expectation, they should have gathered elite soldiers from various departments and fought bloody battles with the enemies, including Shao Thief.
Even if he failed in the end, he would not lose his blood, and he would have a heroic spirit in his chest.
But why did it become like this?
You are fighting a military war with Shao Thief, and Shao Thief is fighting a political war with you, trying to make everyone betray their relatives...
"Urge the east again. It's time to return." After hesitating for a long time, Tuoba Hena said: "Recruit another group of soldiers and horses. I will personally lead the troops north and repel Helan Aitou first."
Vaguely, he seemed to feel a sense of familiarity.
It seems that the mother said the same thing when she led He Li on the eastern expedition, to repel all the enemies first, and then concentrate on the decisive battle with the Shao thieves.
But now they have not been able to completely defeat the Jin army on the east route, and Helan Ai's 30,000 elite cavalry have arrived from the west. They still need to repel this route first so that Tuoba Yihuai can no longer poach, so that they can concentrate on dealing with Shao Thief.
The more enemies we fight, the more we fight, and the more we fight, the less we fight...
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