After marching for half a day, I saw a group of cavalry approaching from a distance.
Lin Xuan didn't know whether he was an enemy or a friend, so he quickly ordered the team to stop and get ready for battle.
However, he was not too worried. There were about a thousand cavalrymen on the opposite side, and there was a flat plain all around, so there was no possibility of an ambush.
The cavalry on the opposite side stopped about four to five hundred steps away from Lin Xuan and the others, and several people broke away from the team and came towards Lin Xuan.
Lin Xuan took out the telescope and looked at it. When he saw Solange coming, he put down the telescope.
Solange should have come to greet him.
"Grand Steward, the Great Khan sent me to greet you." Solange came closer and said on his horse, raising his hands.
While talking, Solange came and saw a large number of soldiers behind Lin Xuan.
Because Lin Xuan ordered to prepare for battle, he was filled with a murderous atmosphere at this time.
Solange was overjoyed. It seemed that this army was the elite of the Tang Dynasty.
If this army suffers heavy losses, we are not afraid that Datang will not continue to send troops.
Lin Xuan and Solange came to chat for a while, and the army continued to set off towards Mobei.
Xueyantuo lived in Mobei. It was originally a part of Tiele, a branch of the Xiongnu. At first, it mixed with the Xue people, and later it was destroyed and merged with the Yantuo people. It was called Xueyantuo. The official system and customs were basically the same as those of the Turks.
Because he endured the brutal rule of Jieli Khan, Yi Nan led his tribe to resist with force. Jieli sent a large army to suppress it, but was defeated by Yi Nan. Many of Jieli's tribe joined him.
However, the strength of the Eastern Turks was much stronger than that of Xue Yantuo, so Yi Nan had no choice but to ask for help from the Tang Dynasty.
Li Shimin was attacked by the Eastern Turks and sent to Chang'an as soon as he succeeded to the throne. He always regarded the Weishui Alliance as a shame. How could he miss such a good opportunity and take advantage of the civil strife in the Eastern Turks to send troops to destroy the Eastern Turks in one fell swoop?
In order to contain the Western Turks, Yi Nan was consecrated as Pearl Bijia Khan and given a drum and silk drum. Yi Nan accepted the canonization of the Tang Dynasty and established the Xueyantuo Khanate, which was built on Yudujun Mountain in the desert (today's Hangai Mountain in the Mongolian People's Republic).
), fought against the Western Turks in a separate court, and sent envoys to pay tribute, becoming a subsidiary vassal state of the Tang Dynasty in Mobei.
After that, the relationship between Xue Yantuo and Datang went from war to war.
At dusk the next day, the army arrived at Yudujun Mountain in the desert.
Although the nomadic tribes have no fixed residence, the royal court is generally relatively fixed because it occupies the best place.
Solange pointed to the small city in the distance and said: "In front of the chief steward is my royal court, Xue Yantuo. The Great Khan is waiting for the chief steward at the gate of the city."
Lin Xuan looked at the small town in the distance and frowned slightly.
The small town is very dilapidated, not even comparable to the small towns like the Tang Dynasty.
But this shows that the nomadic people are making progress. The reason why they cannot compare with the small counties of Datang is because the grasslands lack stones.
Why were the nomadic tribes able to occupy the Central Plains during the Yuan and Qing dynasties?
Although it was related to the weakness of the imperial court at that time, the main reason was that the nomadic tribes were constantly learning Han culture.
Although the nomads are not good at attacking cities, anyone who knows the Yuan and Qing Dynasties knows that whether it is the Mongols or the Manchus, when they conquered the world, they had long-term experiences of confrontation with the Central Plains dynasties.
They even occupied part of the city. The imperial court at that time was relatively weak. During the long-term tug-of-war, they slowly learned how to defend and attack the city.
In addition, they also continue to learn the advanced technologies of the Han people to improve their weapons and equipment.
Take Genghis Khan as an example. Many people know that the Mongols were almost invincible and they even went to Europe at that time.
But few people know why the Mongolian cavalry is so powerful.
In fact, Genghis Khan suffered a lot of losses in the early wars against Xixia and the Jin Kingdom, and Xixia was not able to defeat it until his death.
At that time, the Jin Kingdom and Xixia had already mastered many advanced weapons of the Central Plains Dynasty.
The Mongolian army, which was dominated by cavalry, was good at field battles and short at sieges. At that time, the Jin Kingdom and Xixia had begun to use very advanced weapons at the time, such as trebuchets, battering rams, ladders, crossbows, and rockets.
, gunpowder was also used on the battlefield, and incendiary and explosive firearms such as thunderbolts appeared.
As we all know, Genghis Khan liked to massacre cities very much in wars. Genghis Khan, who suffered from these weapons, began to pay attention to craftsmen.
Whenever a place was captured, special preferential treatment was given to the captured craftsmen, and they were gathered together to manufacture weapons and fighting tools. As a result, the Mongolian army quickly mastered the siege technology in the Central Plains. In order to give full play to the role of siege equipment, Genghis Khan
He also appointed gunner Wan Hu and set up a specialized artillery unit, commanded by his eldest son Shuchi. This was the first professional artillery unit in the world. This artillery unit was used in the three Western Expeditions and the subsequent attacks on Song and Dali.
, played a huge role in the battle to attack Goryeo.
Jin Aizong, the last emperor of the Jin Dynasty, once said: "The reason why Mongolia always wins is because it relies on the horse power of the north and the skills of the Central Plains."
By combining the technical advantages of the Central Plains with the cavalry advantages of the grasslands, the Mongolian army not only possessed strong mobile combat capabilities, but also had strong attack capabilities. Its combat effectiveness reached the point where it had no opponents at that time. The reason why the Mongolian army was able to sweep across Asia
The European continent is inseparable from its overwhelming advantages.
The learning ability of the Mongols is indeed very strong. After the Yuan Dynasty unified China, it also used the navy of the Southern Song Dynasty to build the most powerful naval team in the world at that time, and went to sea twice to conquer Fusang.
A nation not only walked out of the grasslands and entered the cities, but also moved toward the sea. This is also the reason why the Yuan Dynasty became one of the greatest dynasties in Chinese history.
Now that Xue Yantuo has started fighting against Zhucheng, if a figure like Genghis Khan appears, it will be extremely harmful to the Han people.
Although this possibility is very small, who can say for sure.
Approaching the city gate, Lin Xuan saw a middle-aged man about forty years old, with dark skin and a beard, leading a group of people waiting at the city gate.
Su Rongzabu, who was following Lin Xuan, quietly introduced the identity of the middle-aged man.
This person is Yi Nan, the Great Khan of Xue Yantuo.
After what happened last time, Su Rongzabu completely accepted his fate.
Revealing many of Xue Yantuo's secrets made Lin Xuan more confident about this trip to the grassland.
"General Manager, the Great Khan is already waiting, do you think?" Solange rode up to Lin Xuan, looked at the soldiers and horses behind him and said.
Lin Xuan nodded, ordered the troops to stop, and asked Xue Rengui to manage the army. He took Cheng Chumo and a group of soldiers to the city gate.
About a hundred steps away from Yi Nan, Lin Xuan took the lead to dismount. Seeing this, Cheng Chumo and others also dismounted, and the group walked to Yi Nan.
"Lin Xuan, the general manager of the march of Dingxiang Road in the Tang Dynasty, has met Zhenzhu Bijia Khan." Lin Xuan saluted without being humble or overbearing.
Although Yi Nan is the leader of a country, he is nominally a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty and a subject of the Tang Dynasty. Seriously speaking, Lin Xuan's status should be higher than him.
Yi Nan's mouth twitched when he heard Lin Xuan call him Zhenzhu Piga Khan.
This title was bestowed upon him by the Tang Dynasty. In fact, he did not approve of it, and no one would call him this title.