The Mohe tribe, also known as the Raccoon tribe, is a fusion of the two major tribes, the Raccoon and Raccoon tribes. They have lived among the white mountains and black waters, raising pigs, growing millet and wheat, and fishing and hunting.
Initially, there were dozens of tribes in Mohe. However, due to the constant harassment by Goguryeo, Khitan, Shiwei, etc., coupled with low social productivity, it was difficult for small tribes to maintain their livelihoods, so they gradually merged into seven tribes.
The major tribes are Heishui Mohe, Baishan Mohe, Sumo Mohe, Bodu Mohe, Anchegu Mohe, Funie Mohe, and Haoshi Mohe. Among them, the three tribes of Heishui, Baishan, and Sumo are the largest.
The Heishui Mohe people lived on the banks of the Heishui River (the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River), the Baishan people lived at the foot of Changbai Mountain, and the Sumo people were named after the Sumo River (the second Songhua River) where they lived.
In the early years of the Great Cause, Goguryeo raised troops to march eastward, but failed to attack the Sui Dynasty. Then it turned north and bullied Sumo Mohe on the banks of the Sumo River.
At this time, Sumo Mohe became the backbone tribe among the seven Mohe tribes, and Tudiji, the leader of Sumo Mohe at that time, was also the nominal leader respected by all seven Mohe tribes![
However, although Tu Diji commanded the seven great Mohes, he actually did not have many subordinates.
The Sumo Mohe itself has a population of a little over 30,000. Even if all the people are soldiers, they can only recruit less than 10,000 brothers! As for the other Mohe, there are even fewer. The strength of the seven big Mohe combined is probably
That’s about 40,000 to 50,000 yuan!
Although the population is small, the territory occupied by the Seven Great Mohes is eight to nine hundred miles wide from east to west and nearly two thousand miles long from north to south, which is nearly twice as large as the entire Goguryeo Peninsula.
The inevitable result of this is that the population of the seven tribes of Mohe is quite scattered! It is quite difficult to work together to deal with the crisis!
As for Mohebu's neighbor, Goguryeo. Although its territory is small, it has a population of millions and a total military strength of hundreds of thousands. It is not a big problem to send out 30 to 50 thousand people at a time!
The result of this battle was not surprising at all, and it ended with the Mohe tribes being bullied by Goguryeo and crying bitterly.
Tu Diji suffered from being bullied by Gao Li Bangzi and decided to find a powerful godfather as a backer.
To the east of Mohebu is the sea, to the north is the ice field as far as the eye can see, and to the south is the feuding Korean nation. Naturally, there is no need to consider these three directions!
To the east are the Khitan and Shiwei who seem to be more barbaric than the Mohe tribe. It seems that neither of these two families can rely on them!
In this way, only the Sui Dynasty, the first kingdom in the world, in the southeast corner is left!
Tu Diji was very decisive and surrendered when he was told to surrender. After making up his mind, he contacted the Sui Dynasty as soon as possible. After getting Yang Guang's permission, he directly led more than 10,000 people from the Sumo Mohe tribe under his command to move to Yingzhou in the Sui Dynasty.
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Yang Guang was still very happy to hear about the coming of foreign troops to the DPRK. Not only did he have all the Sumo and Mohe tribes settled in Liucheng, he also appointed a Liaoxi prefect, Jin Ziguanglu, to Tudi.
Later, during Yang Guang's three expeditions against Goryeo, nearly three thousand soldiers from Tudiji followed Yang Guang.
The reason why there are only a few people is because not all the Mohe people followed Tudiji into the Sui Dynasty, but only some of the Sumo Mohe people.
As for the other big Mohe, as well as another part of the Sumo Mohe, they continued to stay among the white mountains and black waters. They even served as vassals of Goryeo Bangzi for a time.
After the Goryeo clan was exterminated by Yuwen Chenglong, the remaining Mohes became motherless children.
Now, what Xu Shiji and Wang Xuan, who sent troops from Liaodong, want to conquer are these Mohe left in the white mountains and black waters.
Due to the harsh living conditions, several large Mohes have always had a tough folk custom. They are known as "Mohes are invincible if there are no more than ten thousand Mohes."
It turns out that these Mohe tribes are the predecessors of the Jurchen, Ewenki, Oroqen and other ethnic groups. Due to the worst living conditions, they have developed national habits that are tougher than the Turks.[
It is a pity that although the Mohe tribes are strong and tough, they are too few in number and live too scattered.
Although the so-called Mohe first group like Sumo Mohe has a total of thirty or forty thousand people, they actually do not all live together.
There are eight small tribes including Meng, Yueyu, Buhu Lai, Poxi, and Bubu Kuolifan. On average, the population of each small tribe is only four to five thousand people.
The most important thing is that the Mohe tribe is basically in a semi-slave, semi-feudal or even semi-primitive and semi-slave social state. The production conditions are extremely backward and there are few iron tools. The Mohe tribe’s fighting method is even more primitive. The so-called war is just a swarm of swarms holding weapons.
Swords, guns and sticks were charging upwards, without any strategic planning or tactics!
Therefore, when Xu Shiji led an army of 40,000 men and went all the way down the Heishui River, it could be said that he had overwhelming momentum and wiped out all the Heishui Mohe tribes!
However, Xu Shiji didn't feel relaxed at all, because the road to run was too far!
The 30,000 to 40,000 people from the Blackwater Tribes are divided into more than a dozen tribes, scattered on both sides of the Blackwater River, more than a thousand miles apart. Even if you don’t count the time spent searching for enemies, fighting, and post-war reorganization, just this trip alone
I have to run non-stop for more than half a month to go back!
What's more, after the war, prisoners of war will have to be escorted, as well as all kinds of messy materials and so on!
Therefore, although there were no major battles along the way, it was already more than a month later when Xu Shiji finished clearing the Blackwater Mohe and returned to the Wanshui Basin in the upper reaches of Heilongjiang! Even so, Xu Shiji was the first to abandon the battle.
I got off the team escorting prisoners of war and came here on my own!
At this time, the two groups of troops commanded by Yuchi Gong and Su Lie had returned with full loads. Even Wang Xuan and Liu Hongji had finished wiping out the Su Mo and Baishan tribes, with a group of Liaodong troops.
He came to offer his services to Yuwen Chenglong.
Since they followed Yuwen Chenglong relatively early and after their contribution was completed, Wang Xuan and Liu Hongji stayed by Yuwen Chenglong's side and insisted on following Yuwen Chenglong to conquer the Turks.
Moreover, the two of them also have a lot of crowning reasons.
The two men said that after the Mohe tribes were eliminated, there would no longer be any hostile forces around Liaodong, so there was no need to send too many troops to garrison, just throw a general there!
In addition, although Yuwen Chenglong has many men and horses under his command, there are too many alien elements among them. If these people have any intentions, it is really unsafe! Although Wang and Liu only brought 30,000 men with them, they were all elites.
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Moreover, the backbone of the team are all from Jiangnan University. They are absolutely loyal to Yuwen Chenglong, and their ability is beyond words! For such a big event as an expedition to the Turks, it is absolutely necessary to bring more of your own troops.
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Considering the two men's eagerness to make meritorious service, and also thinking that the 150,000 troops under his command were indeed a bit deformed, Yuwen Chenglong temporarily retained Wang Xuan and Liu Hongji, but only ordered them to
Five thousand troops were allocated to escort the prisoners of war back home.
After Xu Shiji's troops also returned in triumph, Yuwen Chenglong ordered the generals to disrupt and reorganize all the captured soldiers, and then marched westward with a total of more than 200,000 troops.