In the Katon River, in the valley, Gel Khan was riding a horse, looking at the soldiers who were building a dam on the river, and asked the left and right:
“How long will it take for the barrage to be built?”
The "cha" beside him hurriedly stepped forward and said to Gel Khan: "There are too few Han craftsmen in the army. The dams we built several times have been washed away by the river. I'm afraid it will take half a month."
The children of the chiefs of each Uighur tribe will be sent to the Khan to serve as personal guards. This is an official position on the grassland, and its name is "cha".
These young grassland nobles, while serving as "inspectors", cultivated their loyalty to the Khan, and at the same time learned how the Khan governed the grasslands. When they returned to their own tribes in the future, they would implement what they had learned.
Although these young "inspectors" are not all officers, because of their valuable status, the Uighurs will never treat them as ordinary soldiers.
The Cha system is very similar to the Lang Guan system in the Han Dynasty. It is said that the Xiongnu learned it from the Great Khan and then passed it on to the present.
Seeing that the Khan was dissatisfied with the progress, the young Manggucha immediately shut up.
He is the most loyal follower of Khan and the best at figuring out what Khan means.
Sure enough, when he arrived at the construction site, Gel Khan watched the Uighur soldiers push the boulder into the water. However, not long after the boulder fell into the water, it was quickly washed away by the rushing water.
Gele Khan said to Manggucha beside him:
"Manggucha, record my order."
Manggucha immediately became serious, took out the wooden board and started recording.
"Whenever a huge stone is launched into the water, a Han craftsman must be tied with a rope."
Mang Gucha looked stern, he still had to take action from Han craftsmen!
Gel Khan likes young people very much, and he can feel the vitality of youth from these young people.
It seems that being with these young people can pass on youth to yourself.
Geler Khan also likes to educate young people. Seeing Manggucha's expression, he asked: "Do you think Ben Khan is too cruel?"
Manggucha quickly said: "Great Khan, Manggu has no such idea. It's just..."
"Just what?"
"It's just that these Han craftsmen are precious, so why not give them a little more preferential treatment?"
These Han craftsmen were all plundered by the Uighurs when they went south to plunder.
Others were traded from Han slave owners. For the Uighurs, these Han craftsmen who had mastered valuable skills were a valuable asset.
In many tribes, although Han craftsmen are also slaves, they are much higher than ordinary Uighur slaves.
Some outstanding Han craftsmen were even given Uighur surnames, allowing them to become Uighur nobles.
Gel Khan said: "Young Cha, you only see the value of the Han craftsmen, but you do not see the cunning of these Han people. They know that we rely on them to build the dam, and deliberately slow down the process to prevent the dam from being completed as soon as possible."
"why is that?"
Gel Khan said: "There is a saying among the Han people that those who are not of my race must have a different heart. These Han people are slaves of the Uighurs. Remember, no matter how good the slave is, he will not have the same heart as his master, let alone a slave of a foreign race.
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"They are delaying time, delaying our destruction of Geluolu. The grasslands have not been able to be unified in these years. Aren't they all instigated by the Tang people?"
Manggucha understood what Gel Khan meant.
Gel Khan said: "You cannot make slaves work well by talking nicely. Only whips and butcher's knives can make slaves work hard."
Manggucha nodded thoughtfully. He immediately walked to the river and read the Khan's order to the officers and slaves.
The officer in charge of supervising the construction of the dam was worried about the slow progress. After hearing the order read by Manggucha, he immediately asked the soldiers to tie ropes to the craftsmen and ordered them to build the dam quickly.
The Han slave craftsmen, who were originally prepared to work without any effort, were so frightened that their companions were pulled into the water by the overwhelming boulders.
They immediately squatted on the ground and started writing and drawing. After careful calculation, the next boulder finally fell steadily into the river and was not washed away by the waves.
Mang Gutai admired Gel Khan even more. Sure enough, Khan was the wisest man on the grassland!
Although time took away his brave body, it gave him unparalleled wisdom.
At this time, Muluo Yiler led the last warriors in the tribe to gather at the foot of Jinshan Mountain.
Mouluo Yile looked at Jinshan. This was the royal tent of the Geluolu people, and the pasture of the Mouluo tribe was at the foot of Jinshan.
Mouluo Yiler led the old, weak, sick and disabled tribe members to escape from the siege of the Uighurs from the pasture at the foot of Jinshan Mountain.
Unexpectedly, Mouluoyile would lead his tribe back here so soon.
"Brother Timur, will all the thirty-two tribes send people?"
Mouluoyil was unsure. When Timur told him the whole plan, Mouluoyil thought that Timur was crazy.
The plan to occupy the upper reaches of the Katon River at Jinshan Pass, dam the river upstream, and then flood the Uighur army in the middle reaches is too crazy!
Now there are only three hundred people in the entire Mouluo tribe who can hold weapons and fight.
Even if there were less than 5,000 Uighurs in the upper reaches of the Katon River, 300 people would still die if they rushed in.
What's more, the middle reaches of the Katon River are only a hundred miles away from the upper reaches. In an instant, tens of thousands of elite Uygurs in the middle reaches can rush back to the upper reaches to support them.
But Timur gave a complete plan. Envoys from the Tang Dynasty would contact the thirty-two tribes of Geluolu, and each tribe would bring tribesmen who could fight to attack the Uighur camp in the upper reaches of the Katon River!
The Tianshan Army of the Tang Dynasty would hold back the elite Uighur cavalry in the middle reaches, leaving them no time to consider the situation upstream.
This crazy plan seemed a little more reliable. Mouluo Yiler looked at Timur's face, gritted his teeth and said: "Brother Timur, I believe you!"
Thousands of words were combined into one sentence, and Timur was also a little moved. Although he was just an "NPC", his thoughts during this period also allowed him to develop a relationship with Mouluoyile.
Timur suddenly had some resistance to the plan of the staff group. In the eyes of those staff members, the thirty-two Geluolu tribes were just small chess pieces on the sand table.
But Timur, who was in the chess game, felt that the Muluo tribe were all flesh-and-blood people, oh no, flesh-and-blood NPCs.
But the arrow was on the string and had to be fired. Muluo Yiler led the last warriors of the tribe to the gathering place under the leadership of Timur.
This is a small hill at the foot of Jinshan Mountain. Standing on the hill, you can have a clear view of the surrounding movements. It is a gathering point carefully selected by the staff players.
But from noon to dusk, Muluo Yiler, who was standing on the hill, did not see a single figure.
Will the other thirty-one tribes really come?
Ge Luolu's royal court has been burned down, and all the elites have retreated to the north of Jinshan Mountain.
Muluo Yile does not have the prestige of Father Khan. Will these tribes really pay their last bit of blood for Geluolu?
Mouluo Yiler was unsure, and asked himself, if it hadn't been for Timur's dissuasion, Ge Luolu would have led the tribe south.
Although going south is a narrow escape, this crazy plan can be said to be a narrow escape.
"Still not coming?"
The sun hung on Jinshan Mountain, and the mountain peaks had blocked the last half of the sunlight. Muluo Yiler sighed, and at this moment Timur shouted:
"People are coming! They are coming! They are all coming!"
The sound of horse hooves sounded, and Muluo Yiler looked up. Knights rushed from all directions to the hill where he camped.
When he saw the flags of various tribes in Geluolu, Muluo Yiler was extremely excited.
The Uighurs and the Geluolu people have come to take revenge!