Speaking of this, a strange smile appeared on the corner of the ancestor's mouth: "The real ghost party runs the fastest, because they don't belong here, and the Qiang Rong, who lives here for the rest of the world, has become the first.
A group of targets of heavy blows, their dozens of tribes were defeated by the siege army sent by Wu Ding. Thousands of Qiang people were captured and returned to the Shang Dynasty as sacrifices, or as slaves.
Even several tribes that had been married to the Zhou tribe were almost exterminated. It can be said that this was the pretext of protecting the remnants of the Xia Dynasty and launching a large-scale war against the Western Qiang tribes since the founding of the Shang Dynasty.
A catastrophe that has been experienced.”
The black robe frowned slightly: "I heard you say this, it's both the Quanrong and Qiangrong. Is there any difference? Are they all the Western Qiang barbarians?"
The ancestor shook his head and said, "There is still a difference, and this difference is quite different. Qiang Rong or Western Qiang are ancient Qiang people since ancient times. If you want to make an analogy, it would be almost from Long.
From Hehuang to Hexi, the Qiang people in Hexi were half farming and half herds, and sometimes they settled down. Their combat effectiveness and social development level were not too high. Because if there were a few powerful tribes, they would think about moving eastward and finally integrating into China.
The clan, this ancient Qiang group is the Western Qiang, Xiang Dayu, Jiang Ziya and others all came out of this group."
"The Quanrong is much more complicated. They have integrated many Guifang tribes and Beidi tribes. If you want to compare them, it is more like Hu Xia. The main area of activity is in the Lingbiao area, and the dividing line with the Western Qiang.
It is also the mountains in the northern part of Guanzhong that are more of pure nomadic grassland tribes, coming and going like the wind, being cruel and extremely aggressive, so the Zhou people could live peacefully with the Western Qiang for thousands of years, and the relationship is pretty good.
However, after the Quanrong joined the Guifang forces, his strength increased greatly and he would soon come to attack Zhou's tribe."
"During the reign of King Wu Ding of Shang, the Zhou tribe lived in Bindi. After moving here from Gong Liu and his tribe in the Xia Dynasty, they had been here for hundreds of years. This place is a place that separates Lingwai and Longyou.
Important locations, although the land is fertile and the grassland is abundant, it has also become the only way for Quanrong to go south to enter Longyou, Guanzhong. In the past, Zhou tribes were backed by the Western Qiang, and they were connected with each other. After being attacked, they could summon allies of the Qiang people to help.
The Quanrong dared not attack the Zhou tribe easily, because the Quanrong at that time could be regarded as similar to the Tufa tribe in later generations, and other grasslands such as Qifu tribe that ran from the northern grasslands to the Lingbiao area belonged to the Northern Di family.
Their own military strength is not too strong, and it does not pose too much threat to the Zhou tribe with the support of the Qiang people."
"However, after Wu Ding defeated the Guifang Tribe, these Quanrong Tribes also quickly contacted and contacted some Guifang tribes, took in the defeated Guifang tribes, and learned from them the powerful military technology at that time
By the time of King Tai of Zhou, the Quanrong tribe had become very powerful and warlike. It was at any time to destroy the Zhou tribe. It was just because it was afraid of the strength of the Western Qiang Alliance behind the Zhou tribe, so it did not dare to act rashly."
"But the Xiqiang Alliance began to faint at this time. They thought that the Shang Dynasty's energy was used to subdue various barbarians in the Bingzhou area. When their own opportunity came, they began to cross Longshan and cross today's Dasan
Guan, heading towards the Guanzhong area, trying to attack and occupy the lands of vassal states loyal to the Shang Dynasty. This aroused the dissatisfaction of Shang Wang Zujia to Kangding, so he sent off partial troops, including the Ying tribe, to the Western Qiang tribe, to carry out a large-scale campaign
After several years of military use, the Qiang army was defeated, and even the two major leaders of the Qiang tribe were captured and captured Chaoge was used as a sacrifice."
"After this battle, the strength of the Western Qiang tribes was severely weakened. Even the Zhou tribes were also attacked by the Shang army because they provided some logistical support to these Western Qiang allies, and suffered heavy casualties. In this kind of Western tribe, the Zhou tribe was also attacked by the Shang army.
When the Qiang tribe was severely damaged, Quanrong came."
"These Quanrong tribes, or the new Quanrong tribes that have integrated many Guifang tribes, also came with a polite ceremony and then a soldier. They first sent people to ask the leader of the Zhou tribe at that time, namely the King of Zhou Tai, Gu Gong and Duke Tan Fu, to hand over a large amount of
Cattle, sheep and grains are used as support for the Quanrong tribe to spend the winter. If they are not given, the Quanrong will take it by themselves. The Zhou tribe's strength at that time was not the opponent of Quanrong, so they could only hand over a large number of them reluctantly.
Livestock and food. I thought this time, as before, I could have some food for peace.”
"But a year later, the Quanrong envoy came again. They saw through the weakness of the Zhou tribe, and even more clearly the Western Qiang Alliance behind the Zhou tribe. It was impossible for them to send troops to aid Zhou as before, so this time not only did they do so.
It is to ask the Zhou tribe to give up more livestock and food, and the Zhou tribe to give up the territory, allow the Quanrong people to come in to grazle, and learn farming techniques from the Zhou tribe. Of course, the reward is that they promised to help the Zhou tribe go to Shang Dynasty.
revenge."
Heibo sneered: "This is just a naked attempt to send troops in and then annex the Zhou tribe. If you even agree to this, this Gu Gong, Dafu, would be a fool. From this point of view, either fight or escape.
There is no other choice.”
Dou Peng curled his lips and said, "Maybe, it would be an option to add something more to the Shang army or the Western Qiang army to come and guard it."
The ancestor shook his head and said, "This is a choice. After the Shang army defeated the Western Qiang, the main force withdrew and took away a large number of prisoners and spoils. The Western Qiang tribe has never recovered since then, because it is clear that
After this, the Quanrong wanted to go south. The Zhou tribe was expelled just because he was in the throat of the south. Neither force could rely on it, so the Zhou tribe could only suppress the tribesmen and fight to death.
In the battle, the grief and anger of hitting the stone with eggs, divided the tribe into two halves, and half led by Taibo and Zhongyong to cross the Yellow River to the ancestral land of Bingzhou, asking the Shang Dynasty to take it in, and the other half was Gu Gong's father Tan and his young son Ji.
Leading the Lishu, he went south to seek refuge with the Western Qiang tribes with in-laws, in order to seek shelter."
Black Rou smiled: "It seems that the Western Qiang tribe is also quite righteous. It actually gave up Zhou Yuan, the land on the south side of Qishan, and allowed these in-laws to live there. Aren't they afraid that the Zhou people would take over themselves in turn.
Is it a territory?"
The ancestor shook his head: "This is not the case. Those places are only suitable for farming and are very useful to the Zhou people, but they are useless for the nomadic Qiang people. They gave the Zhou tribe to live here, just like the Three Kingdoms.
Just like Liu Biao took in Liu Bei, he could also defend against the southward of the territory by putting it in the north of the territory. He was considered a guarding gateway. No one expected that the Zhou tribe actually relied on this place and finally achieved hegemony." (End of this chapter)