Su Lie met Yang Yuanqing who came to meet him at Shiluoman Mountain Pass. Su Lie told everything about his experience. He lowered his head in shame and said, "I am willing to accept the punishment for my humble position!"
Yang Yuanqing stared at him for a long time, and then said in a slow and deep voice: "As a school captain, I acted rashly based on my whim without distinguishing between true and false, and lost more than thirty brothers. You have to bear this responsibility, and I will exempt you from it."
Are you convinced that the position of captain is reduced to fire chief?"
Su Lie was deeply saddened by the death of thirty-three brothers. At this time, even if Yang Yuanqing beat him with a hundred military sticks, he would be willing to do so. Thinking of the more than thirty brothers who died tragically, he burst into tears and bowed and said
: "I am humbled by my humble position, but I only regret that the general's punishment is too light!"
Yang Yuanqing patted his shoulder, "You always have to die in a battle, so don't worry too much. There are no pop-ups."
He looked again at the wild duck feather arrow that Su Lie brought to him. The feathers were neatly cut. This familiar arrow made him think of someone. Could it be him?
Yang Yuanqing immediately opened the letter. A soldier held a torch in front of him. By the light of the fire, Yang Yuanqing read it hastily. His brows knitted together. Sure enough, he guessed it. He immediately turned around and ordered: "Go to Yiwu Old City."
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It was still dark in the Yiwu City Palace, and the palace was brightly lit. Yang Yuanqing, who had just returned, immediately held an important military meeting. King Mochu and the eldest prince Aman were also invited to attend the meeting, with a special translator sitting next to him.
"I just got the exact news that the Western Turks are temporarily ignoring Yiwu because of the fierce internal fighting between Shegui Khan and Chuluo Khan. However, Shegui Khan has ordered the Chuyue tribe to attack Yiwu City."
"Chunyuebu!"
He silently exclaimed, he was just heartbroken that the Western Turks didn't come, but Chuyuebu made his heart hang in the air again.
Yang Yuanqing glanced at him, smiled slightly and said, "It seems that His Highness the King is afraid of Chu Yuebu?"
Mo Chu smiled bitterly and said: "Although the Western Turks imposed heavy taxes, Wusunru could at least survive, but the Chuluo tribe would kill all the old people and men in Wusunru, and take the children and women as slaves. They
I’ve had this intention for a long time.”
"What should Wusunru do? Should he wash his neck and let them cut it off, or should he go with the Sui army and cut off their necks!"
Yang Yuanqing's opening statement was tantamount to telling everyone that he decided to take the initiative and attack Chuyueru first.
Mo Chu felt uneasy. If the Western Turks came to attack, maybe he wouldn't work hard, but if Chu Yue came to attack Yiwu, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to do it unless he tried his best.
The eldest prince Aman spoke good Chinese. He asked in a deep voice in Chinese: "General Yang, does he know how many troops there are in the Chuyue tribe?"
"I don't know, that's why I invited you father and son to come. I believe you know."
"Yes, I know one thing. The entire tribe has about 100,000 members and 30,000 young men. That's why they claim to have 30,000 armored men."
"To deal with this small grassland tribe, our Sui army can fight one to ten!" A Sui army general stood up and said.
Yang Yuanqing nodded approvingly to him and signaled the general to sit down. He then addressed the crowd: "No matter whether the Chuyue tribe has invaded our hearts or not, it did not surrender to the Sui Dynasty. Instead, it defected to the Western Turks and attacked the Sui army's patrol posts.
, it has become our enemy, I decided to annihilate this tribe, it is the early morning of August 13th, when the full moon of August 15th is, it should be the night before the army starts at the beginning of the month, we rush to annihilate them before then
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He looked at everyone entering one by one, and his eyes fell on Wang Weishen, "Wang Taishou, you lead two thousand Yiwu troops to guard Yiwu City. The remaining four thousand Yiwu troops will go out with the Sui army to attack Puleihai and annihilate them all.
The moon is coming, now everyone go back and prepare, the army will set off in an hour!"
All the generals got up and walked outside the palace. Prince Aman was about to leave when he was stopped by Yang Yuanqing. Aman is twenty-five years old and has lived in Chang'an from the age of eight to ten, so he can speak Chinese.
, and he was closer to the Sui Dynasty than his father, the king, but this time the Sui Dynasty actually annexed the Yiwu Kingdom, which also made him feel sad.
"General, do you have anything to do with me?" he asked in a deep voice.
Yang Yuanqing nodded, "Let me tell you a piece of news. You are going to the capital as a hostage. This is the order of His Majesty the Emperor of the Sui Dynasty. There is nothing I can do about it."
Aman nodded silently. This was what he expected. The eldest son was a hostage, so he could only go. "I have no problem. Is there anything else that General Yang can do?"
"I also want to ask about the Dark Horse Thief, do you know?"
"Dark horse thief!" Aman was stunned.
"You know?" Yang Yuanqing looked at him.
Aman smiled bitterly, "I'm afraid no one in the Western Region knows about them. Black horse thieves are more terrifying than Turks."
"Tell me what you know. I want to know everything about the Black Horse Thieves."
The Chuyue tribe is composed of dozens of small tribes. They are distributed in the grassland for more than a thousand miles from Puleihai to Luntai. They believe in shamanism and use the wolf as their totem like the Turks. They also embroider their white war flags.
Wolf head.
This attack on Yiwu has been long-awaited by the Chuyue Department. The Chuyue Department is neither big nor small. If they want to be as powerful as other Tie Le, they need a large number of entrances to replenish. They need women. They have long been eyeing those who have twenty
Wusunru, who had more than ten thousand troops but was weak in military strength, was just not allowed by the Western Turks to attack Yiwu. Chuyueru was like a vicious dog tied by a leash by his master, staring at the plump not far away with great covetousness.
Meat is not available to eat.
Now that the master untied the belts around their necks, they couldn't wait. Even though Yiwu had five thousand more Sui troops, Chu Yueru, who was extremely hungry, couldn't care anymore. They wanted to eat the Sui troops together. The Golden Arrow Order was here
The signal had been sent out ten days ago, and tens of thousands of Chuyue warriors came from all directions to gather on the grassland by the Pulei Sea, with tents stretching as far as the eye could see.
Perhaps because of the worship of wolves, Chu Yueru also has a special complex towards the night of the full moon. Like the Turks, Chu Yueru needs to hold a military sacrifice on the night of the full moon, and the wizard expresses Chu Yueru's respect to the gods.
Please pray to the gods to bless them with victory.
A clear full moon hangs on the black satin-like curtain. There are no stars around. The full moon stares at the earth alone. But when it stares at the Pulei Sea, the clear light seems to be a little weird.
Under the moonlight, in an open grassland, a bonfire was burning, with huge flames rising three feet high. Hundreds of chiefs and elders, large and small, were sitting around the bonfire, their bodies moving gently to the beat of the drums.
Shaking, next to the fire, three shamans and more than a dozen disciples were performing a ceremony. They were dressed in ghost-like costumes and danced crazily.
All the chiefs and elders were intoxicated. Only Zhu Xiezi, the younger brother of the great chief, seemed a little worried. He was the only chief-level soldier in the Chuyue tribe who had fought against the Sui army. The Sui army's powerful combat power made him
Now they are still afraid. More than 3,000 of them surrounded and attacked 100 Sui army patrol posts. These 100 soldiers killed nearly 500 Chuyue warriors one after another, while the Sui army only lost 33 soldiers.
More importantly, he learned from an injured and captured Sui soldier that the leader of this Sui army was Yang Yuanqing, who killed Datou Khan and almost killed Xue Yantuo. Zhu Xiezi also felt that
He was extremely scared, but no one listened to his advice. Only the Wusuns were in their eyes, including their White Chief.
Zhu Xiezi also secretly glanced at his brother, Zhu Xiegu, the chief of Chuyue. He was closing his eyes and swaying to the beat of the drum. Zhu Xiezi also took advantage of the crowd's unpreparedness, quietly got up, and quickly walked towards his
The tribe left. Biejin wanted to be exterminated, and he couldn't control it, but he wanted to protect his tribe. Zhu Xiezi also made up his mind. He wanted to take his tribe away immediately and leave this dangerous place.
About seven or eight miles away from Puleihai, there is a low hill. The hills are covered with lush forests and stretch for more than twenty miles. They are connected with the forest at the foot of Shiluoman Mountain. This forest is like a black forest.
The screen stretches across the east side of Puleihai.
At this time, in front of a forest in the north, densely packed cavalry, numbering nearly 10,000, emerged. It was the Sui army coming from Yiwu City, but not only the Sui army, but also 4,000 Yiwu troops.
, led by Yang Yuanqing's eight iron guards, their equipment was far inferior to that of the Sui army. They had no armor, and they all wore the same leather armor as the Chu Yue army. Their weapons were mainly spears, with knives and bows and arrows.
, and the bows and arrows were also single bows like Chu Yueru, with a range of only thirty steps, but their morale was as high as that of the Sui army.
Every one of them understands that Chu Yue has been their mortal enemy for more than ten years. Now they are not fighting for the Sui army, but protecting their wives and daughters.
Yang Yuanqing was at the front of the team, holding a broken gun in his hand, staring coldly at the clearly visible fire several miles away. He could also faintly hear the sound of drums carried by the wind. It was already the second watch, and they were still holding the ceremony.
The sacrifice made him a little impatient.
At this time, Prince Aman, who was accompanying the army on the expedition, whispered beside Yang Yuanqing: "General, this kind of expedition sacrifice will be held all night long. Our Wusunru is also like this, but it doesn't matter. Only the chiefs and elders will participate, and the soldiers have already gone to sleep."
Yes, they must maintain sufficient physical strength to go out tomorrow morning."
Yang Yuanqing nodded. He was still waiting for news from the scouts. At this time, a cavalryman rushed over. He clasped his fists on his horse and saluted: "General Qi, the scouts have sent news that all the sentry posts at Chu Yue Rui have been destroyed by thousands of people."
Lose."
"Good luck!"
Yang Yuanqing immediately turned around and ordered, "Kill Xiang Chuyue and enter the camp, and record the merit with his head!"
Thousands of horses galloped in the forest. Under the cool full moon, the vast Sui army was like a river bursting its banks, galloping towards Chu Yue, who was several miles away. At this time, the elders and chiefs who participated in the sacrifice were all
Alarmed by the sound of horse hooves, everyone stood up and looked to the east in panic. Youru shouted, "The Sui army is coming! The Sui army is coming!"
The elders and chiefs also saw it. In the darkness, an army that could not be seen was sweeping towards them. They were so frightened that they turned around and stumbled towards the camp, but it was too late. The Sui army's forward was already like a tsunami.
Rushing in.
Yang Yuanqing took the lead, and with a flick of his long spear, he pierced the back of the heart of a chief who was wearing a feather crown. This kind of feather crown was usually worn by chiefs with very high status. The tip of the spear came out from his chest. Yang Yuanqing
He lifted his body high and threw him backwards, landing just in front of the prince Aman. Aman recognized at a glance that this was Zhu Xiegu, the chief of the Chuyue tribe. He was overjoyed and chopped off his head with a knife.
He raised his head and shouted: "Chief Chuyue is dead! Zhu Xiegu is dead!"
The entry of Chief Chuyue boosted the morale of the Sui army and the Yiwu army. The Sui army rushed into the camp of Chuyue soldiers with great momentum. More than 30,000 soldiers were sleeping, enjoying the trophies in their dreams.
The Wusun soldiers entered, but they never dreamed that the Sui army would directly kill them.
The tents collapsed after the ropes were cut off. The soldiers woke up from their dreams and were terrified. They screamed and fled in all directions, but they could not escape the galloping horseshoes and sharp steel knives of the Sui army and the Yiwu army. The soldiers
They were killed to the point where their heads were rolling, corpses were strewn across the fields, and their blood gathered into a river and flowed into Pulei Sea, dyeing the lake red.
Until dawn, the Sui army's horses were still galloping, chasing the Chuyue tribe who were desperately fleeing. In a forest further north, there were more than a thousand men in black hiding. They were the famous black horse thieves in the Western Regions.
The leader had already pulled off the black scarf covering his face, revealing a red beard. He looked at the murderous Sui army and the extremely brave Yang Yuanqing from a distance. He couldn't help but sigh lowly and said to himself, "As long as he is here,
There is no chance for me in the Central Plains!"
He turned around and waved his hand, "Let's go! Leave here and return to Dawan."
More than a thousand black horse thieves adjusted their horses' heads and galloped towards the north, bypassing Puleihai and running towards the far west via another road.
On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival in the fourth year of Daye, 5,000 Sui troops and 4,000 Yiwu troops successfully attacked the Chu Yue Ru camp, which was about to go on an expedition. They beheaded more than 20,000 soldiers, killed all the chiefs and elders, and captured nearly 30,000 women and children.
, the Chuyue tribe living by the Pulei Sea was almost exterminated. Only Zhu Xiezi, the brother of the chief, sensed the danger and promptly led thousands of members of his tribe to escape the disaster. He went west to collect other Chuyue tribesmen.
In the end, more than 40,000 people were gathered together, and the remaining Chuyue people were forced to leave Pu Leihai and migrate to the Suiye area. Shatuo people lost their ancestral home and gradually disappeared in the long river of history.
Three years later, Yang Yuanqing led two thousand Sui troops, escorting tens of thousands of Chuyue tribe women and children, and slowly marched to the Central Plains. They went to Beijing to present prisoners to Yang Guang. According to custom, these tens of thousands of Chuyue tribe women and children would be dispersed and placed in various places in the Central Plains.
County to enrich the entrance to the Central Plains.
[In fact, Lao Gao doesn’t want to write about the Western Regions. After all, this is not the middle Tang Dynasty, but the late Sui Dynasty. It’s just that the history of the Western Regions that happened in the fourth and fifth years of Daye is too important. Look at the Sui Dynasty’s annihilation of Tuyuhun, and then
Seeing the weakness of the Tang Dynasty in dealing with Tubo and the danger of raising tigers, I am deeply moved. Lao Gao cannot avoid this period of history, so I can only briefly write a little bit. I hope you can continue to subscribe and don’t abandon this book. Don’t abandon Lao Gao]