The life of the Khitan tribe is definitely not satisfactory.
Strictly speaking, before the conquest of Shiwei, Lin, Xi and some Tatar tribes, the Khitan people's life was not even as good as the Xi people because they raised too many horses.
Yes, it is uneconomical to raise horses. However, the grassland environment is harsh, and there are frequent vendettas. It is impossible to raise horses if there are not enough. Therefore, each tribe raises a lot of horses to some extent, but the Khitan especially has many.
Taking Liubuxi as an example, usually there are two cows and ten sheep for every horse, but the ratio in Khitan is 2:2:10. The quality of grassland in the northeast is better than that in the northwest, and the terrain is also diverse. The Khitan people also raise goats
, so the ratio is roughly 2:2:10:1, and the number of war horses is significantly larger.
Taking into account the background of Yelv's Yili Jin family, the Diela tribe also built public pastures and raised more horses.
It is completely conceivable that the horses have eaten up the resources that should have been used to raise sheep, leading to a decline in people's living standards. But don't worry, as the saying goes, when the neighbor collects food, I collect guns, and the two brother tribes in the second room can go out and rob it!
Moreover, their successful robbery led to other tribes. The entire eight tribes of Khitan became aggressive and ferocious. The people raised more horses and liked to fight and plunder. They captured a large number of slaves and organized them into slave tribes to specialize in production.
When war broke out, slaves also had to go into battle. If they performed well, they could gain status and become herdsmen of the Eight Khitan tribes. They had their own property. The whole thing was a highly militarized bandit group. The surrounding ethnic groups and tribes would frown upon hearing this.
Yue Liduo climbed up a small hillside, holding her chin and looking down the mountain.
There were people trimming the horses' hooves, shoeing them, and training them.
She can repair horseshoes, but has never tried nailing horseshoes. Most war horses on the grassland need to be shoed, but she knows that not many people in the Central Plains do this. Some only do it in border counties where long-distance raids are needed.
Shoe the war horse.
The black horse looked lazily at its peers at the bottom of the mountain. With its size, it would definitely stand out from the crowd when it charged down.
Yue Liduo took out a millet cake, and Black Horse put his head over it, chewed it and ate it.
The black horse already has a lot of harnesses on it, the most conspicuous one is a birch bow, which is also a traditional Khitan bow.
The bow body is made of birch wood, and the whole body is wrapped with birch bark. The middle of the bow body is oval, and the two sides gradually become rhombus, and then flattened towards the two ends. The bow pouch and quiver are sewn with deerskin.
Made by hand, it contains more than ten chisel arrows.
The bow is the leader of all soldiers, and Khitan women also carry bows and arrows around their waists. This is not an empty statement.
The sound of horse hooves sounded from the bottom of the mountain.
The guards of the army have already begun to practice. They are holding various horse warfare weapons and conducting charge training.
Iron swords, iron knives, iron spears, iron forks, and iron bones are the common horse fighting weapons of Khitan warriors, which are relatively complicated. I heard from Gao Siji, who came over to defect, that the Central Plains knights mainly use horse spears, with unified regulations and tacit cooperation.
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"If I ride on a big man like you, with a horse and a horse, and if there are ten thousand riders, the charge will be amazing." Yue Liduo stood up, patted the black horse gently, and said: "Being able to command tens of thousands of warriors to charge on horseback,
He is the man worthy of being my Yue Liduo."
Well, Abaoji barely meets this standard.
The black horse turned around and smelled in Yue Liduo's hand. When he saw that there was no food left, he turned his head again and didn't even bother to look down the mountain.
Although Khan Dejin's bodyguards were also wearing armor, they did not look like their previous masters.
It was armed to the teeth, with horse face, chicken neck, horse body armor, back, parasitism, helmet, gauntlet armor, face curtain, and horse and horse equipment. The knight only left his three orifices outside, riding a tall horse, and
With lightning speed and powerful impact, the long and thick horse will be thrown at the enemy.
The sound of horns sounded at the bottom of the mountain.
Yue Liduo turned around and saw that tactics were being rehearsed over there.
Hundreds of knights with leather whips and wooden legs and no armor first stepped forward to shoot arrows and harassed them. After the party pretending to be the enemy came to pursue them, these knights fought and retreated, leading the enemy into a pre-arranged ambush, and then a wonderful scene
Appeared: a large number of elite knights wearing armor riding war horses, freely walking through the mountains and forests, speeding towards the ambushed enemy.
The classic traditional Khitan tactics have been tried and tested against the Shiwei people.
"Okay, I won't watch anymore." Yue Liduo patted the black horse, jumped on it, pulled out the dagger beside the saddle and made two gestures, then rode away with a smile.
In the past twenty years, the war in the Central Plains has become increasingly fierce.
She often participated in important military affairs with her husband, and at least she knew the Youzhou area well.
Li Keju, Li Kuangwei, Li Kuangchou, Gao Siji, Li Keyong, Youzhou has changed several military governors. And every change means a decrease in its own strength.
My husband once said that if he had a choice, he would not fight against Shiwei and the Tatars, but would go south to Youzhou. To win Youzhou would be better than Shiwei, the Six Ministries and even the entire Bohai Sea.
He wanted to go south to Youzhou, but it was a pity that the behemoth was not weak enough. I don't know if there is a chance this time. If tens of thousands of Yan soldiers can be annihilated in one battle, it will be a big deal.
Yue Liduo wanted to see thousands of people kneeling down and cheering for her, even if they just borrowed her husband's prestige. Just like when five hundred people from Weiwei once knelt and kowtowed in front of her, there was nothing more intoxicating than this.
It must be successful this time!
On the 18th day of the seventh month in the fourth year of Qianning, eight Khitan tribes left Jin Yelv Kuang, and two men, Tama and Shali Yelu Yi, led more than 20,000 horses southward and went to the Tulu Bubu pasture next door, waiting for the eight tribes to gather.
A military speculation involving tens of thousands of people going south to Youzhou is about to begin.
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"Greetings to General Yang, Mr. Pei." King Xi went to Zhuzhu without any hesitation, and knelt down on the ground with thousands of men.
Now that he has taken this step, he has no way out.
The Khitans want his life, and the Xi people who stayed in the east don't want to see him go back. I heard that the Khitans are already looking for a candidate for the new King Xi. Alas, this is all troublesome.
"Is this your soldier?" Yang Yue looked at the Tibetan people with no armor and thought that this was too bad. It was almost the same as the tribes on the grasslands to the west. It was even worse. After all, there were Gaochang Uighurs in Heishui City.
Some people are wearing armor, Liubuxi, it’s really not possible.
"General Yang, they are all warriors who are accustomed to fighting." Qu Zhu stood up and said with a smile: "As long as the general leads his troops to expel the Khitan, the six tribes will be willing to serve the general to the death and never rebel against each other."
Before Yang Yue could say anything, Pei Guan, who had traveled day and night from Heyang, coughed and said, "Does King Fengcheng not know King Xia?"
Get rid of all the disillusionment and confess your sin immediately.
Yang Yue's face was not very good, and he sat aside and was too lazy to speak. Pei Guan came with the military orders from King Xia, and the generals of the Tibetan and Han Dynasties accepted the orders one after another and no longer planned to attack the Khitans.
The Khitan claimed to have "300,000 cavalry", but they killed 150,000. With such a small number of troops, they couldn't fight?
He deliberately marched to the plain pine forest in the northeast on the grounds that "I will not accept the order of the foreign king", but few people listened to him, so there was nothing he could do.
"What kind of behavior does it have for King Fengcheng to hang around the old city of Huaihuang all day long? How can he attract tribes to ridicule the crowd and increase his strength? More than three thousand tents are really too few," Pei Guan said.
"May I ask your envoy, where does the King of Xia want my tribe to move?"
"Let's go to Ruyuan first. There is a place called Tanshan near the ancient city of Yuyi. It has rich water and grass. So we set up our tent there. Don't worry, the Golden Sword Army is there and will protect your troops."
"You should obey your orders." Go to all the responses.
"In addition, the King of Xia has always loved the warriors of the grasslands. I heard that your son is extremely brave in raiding and assassinating, so why not take your family to Luoyang and listen to the orders in front of the King of Xia's tent?" Pei Guan asked again.
Qu Zhu hesitated for a moment, but after meeting Pei Guan's scrutinizing gaze, he immediately bowed his head and obeyed.
This is to ask for hostages. Finally, it was to save face and not let the eldest son's family pass, but if he had a choice, Qu Zhu would rather keep his second son, Saola, by his side, and send his eldest son, Su Zhi, to hostage the Central Plains.
"That's right." Pei Guan smiled and said, "Please relax, King Fengcheng. King Xia's kindness will definitely allow your troops to return to the plains and pine forests."
"The Supreme Khan is really the great savior of those who are oppressed by the Khitan. When you see the Khan, you feel like you are seeing a relative." Quzhu complimented.
In fact, after he came to Huaihuang Town, he found that this place was not bad, no worse than the flat pine forest. It even seemed more valuable because it was closer to the Central Plains. But he had no choice now. Whatever he said was what he could do.
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Wang He, who was standing in the tent, thought secretly.
After Pei Guan, the special envoy of the King of Xia, arrived, he revealed some rumors in his words, saying that the three lands of Huaihuang, Yuyi, and Ruyuan were not going to be left to the tribes of Yanbei, and they wanted to "arrange their own people."
So the question is, who is one of our own?
Now that King Xi has been ruled out, is the Zangcai Wang family considered his own? Or are the subordinates of Yulin Palace, Woyang Palace, and Hongyuan Palace his own people?
Wang He thought about it and felt that he was not very optimistic. Alas, why is it so difficult for Wang to change his pasture?
Pei Guan didn't know Wang He's wild thoughts, but he knew that the King of Xia had given an order before departure. Tuoba Jin led his troops to march eastward to Yanbei to listen to the order. It was obvious that the Tuoba family had worked hard for many years and had won the favor of the King of Xia.
trust, and was gradually treated as one of our own.
Another interesting thing is that Tuoba Yichang, who was brought up by Tuoba Pu since childhood, is likely to become prosperous. He will take some of the young children of the Tuoba clan in Xiazhou to Yanbei. If his aunt is more capable
At a glance, this young man's future is unlimited. You must know that Tuoba Pu has always been childless and almost treats his nephew Tuoba Yichang as his own child.
Pei Guan just wanted to laugh when he said that King Xia was the savior of the Xi, Shiwei and other tribes. He was obviously the great savior of the Dangxiang people. An ethnic group that was oppressed by Tubo and defected to the Tang Dynasty had a very difficult life and was internally divided.
, is about to expand to Yanbei, what is this if not a savior?
The interests of the party nobles are basically tied to the King of Xia. The future heir of the Hengshan Yeli clan will be the son-in-law of the King of Xia, and the crown prince will also take the legitimate daughters of Yeli, Wu Zang and other wealthy families as concubines. This is simply the same as the country.
Hugh's posture.
Liu Bu Xi? It's too late, it's too late.
"Train your troops and horses well." Pei Guan made a final suggestion: "You don't need to worry about the conquest of the Khitans. When the time comes, a military official will go to your headquarters to read out the transfer order, and as soon as the tiger and wolf divisions from the Central Plains arrive,