Dahan and others have led the Guiyi Army back south. They did not go alone. They contacted several tribes. After the last battle of Lanzhou, the party members squeezed the tribes too hard, which really made people feel dissatisfied.
Among them, the Long family of Suzhou also followed the Guiyi army to the south after being persuaded by the Guiyi army. The Suzhou Long family is the descendant of King Yanqi of the Western Regions and has always had good relations with the Guiyi army.
At first, the Long family originally established a foothold in Ganzhou, but was defeated in a battle with the Ganzhou Uighurs and was forced to withdraw from Ganzhou. Later, the Long family was in pursuit of food under the rule of the Guiyi Army.
The Long family was also squeezed by the party. This time, Ali Gu gathered many Ganzhou Uighurs as tribesmen to push them westward, invaded pastures and killed herdsmen. This forced the Suzhou Long family to want to move eastward. But Renduoyading did not allow them to move eastward.
Qian, almost asking them to stand in front of Ali Gu and others to fight.
This finally caused the Long family to follow Gui Yijun back east in anger.
The Long family tribe left in a hurry, and more than 20,000 people followed the Guiyi army. Some of them did not want to leave their homeland and were unwilling to leave with the Guiyi army.
The leader of the Guiyi Army was the big man, who claimed to be Cao Yijin, the governor of the Guiyi Army.
In fact, he is not. Nowadays, the blood of the Cao family, the governor of the Guiyi Army, is needed as a name to call on all the clan members.
This big man knew that he was actually an orphan without a father and a mother, and that he was not even a pure Han Chinese. He knew that he had been raised by the clan leader since he was a child, and he also regarded himself as part of the Guiyi Army.
In fact, there were not many pure Han people in the Guiyi Army. They had lived together in Hexi for a long time, and he also intermarried with various ethnic groups.
The patriarch told him that he was proud of his Han ancestry. Although the most powerful country in the world may not be the Song Dynasty founded by the Han people, it was a country with prosperous culture and richness.
The patriarch told him that the Song Dynasty was the ancestral state of the Han people. No matter how far you are from home, never forget that you came from this place.
When the big man took over the position of leader from the clan leader, he knew that he would accept the clan leader's entrustment to lead the clan members hundreds of miles home.
From then on, he changed his name to Cao Zhongshou and led his people back home as a descendant of the Cao family.
Before setting off, he took a handful of soil from Liangzhou and put it on himself.
Looking across the horizon from the northwest, it looks like a returning geese.
Cao Zhongshou was indeed worthy of the clan leader's entrustment to him. First of all, he was the Long family he contacted and went back together. At the same time, he also took in various tribes along the way, and in the end the number reached as many as 60,000.
The Long family and the Guiyi army divided into two groups and returned eastward.
Along the way, many tribes intercepted the Guiyi Army, and some sympathized with the Guiyi Army. They were even afraid of being exploited by the party members and joined the Guiyi Army and returned together.
When they encountered something they couldn't let go, Cao Zhongshou would pay for it, since their hometown had been abandoned anyway. No matter how much money they had, it was useless if they couldn't survive.
When they encountered someone they couldn't bribe, they had no choice but to fight. On the way back, they experienced several fierce battles and annihilated several party troops.
Cao Zhongshou led two thousand tribal elites to open the way.
Fortunately, Ren Duo Baozhong was not pursuing closely and was not even willing to kill him. Instead, Ren Duo Baozhong sent people many times to persuade Cao Zongshou and the Long family to return eastward, showing them reason and affection, and promised to give them a piece of cool food.
He moved to the pasture west of the state to avoid Ali Gu's pursuit.
Cao Zhongshou did not veto it outright, but also negotiated with Ren Duo Baozhong's envoy.
He put forward many conditions and seemed to be willing to agree, but the tribe still went back south non-stop day and night.
In fact, Ren Duo Baozhong was suddenly so merciful, which also allowed Gui Yijun and the Long family to survive.
In fact, not only Cao Zhongshou, but also the entire tribe did not waver.
They had been preparing for this return trip for a long time, and everyone from top to bottom knew that returning eastward was the only way to survive. Therefore, the men sacrificed their lives to find a way out for their wives and children.
They did not listen to the advice of Renduo Baozhong's envoy and returned eastward wholeheartedly.
When they resisted the Zhuanglang Valley, the tribes here had contacts with Song Dynasty and Dangxiang. Moreover, this was an important passage in the Hexi Corridor.
The tribes had contacts between the Song Dynasty and Dangxiang. They were vassals of Dangxiang and also did business with the Song Dynasty. Therefore, they did not face difficulties and returned to the rebel army. However, after Nendo Baozhong saw that his persuasion was ineffective, he led his army to catch up.
At this time, the tribes of the Long Family and the Guiyi Army were eager to return south, so the team had been delayed for too long.
After Nendo Baozhong's cavalry caught up, a fight broke out between the two sides.
After a fight, the Guiyi Army and the Long Family tribe collapsed.
Cao Zhongshou led his soldiers and horses to the rear, but was defeated by Renduo Baozhong in the end.
Cao Zhongshou was galloping on his war horse, followed by three hundred armored cavalrymen from the Renduo tribe.
"Don't let them get away!"
The sound of arrows breaking through the air kept coming from behind his head. Cao Zongshou was lying on his horse, wearing a layer of chainmail.
I have to say that the clan leader treated him well. After knowing that he was injured, he gave this chain armor to him. Thanks to this chain armor, Cao Zongshou himself blocked several arrow attacks.
Now an arrow hit him, and he was stopped by the chainmail again.
However, Cao Zhongshou was still in pain, so he clamped his legs on the horse and urged the horse to run wildly.
Cao Zhongshou looked around and saw that most of the two thousand elite soldiers following him were scattered or killed. Now there are only a dozen cavalry following him. In order to let his wives, children, and tribesmen return to their homeland, these people
See death as home.
"Dead, all dead."
"They are all dead."
Cao Zhongshou couldn't help but burst into tears. At this moment, he was weeping, gritting his teeth, reaching out and waving his whip to make his horse go faster and faster.
But unfortunately, an arrow shot out at this moment and hit his horse.
His horse felt pain and fell immediately.
It turned out that these Tibetan soldiers from the Renduo tribe saw that they could not shoot through Cao Zongshou's body. They knew that the opponent was wearing armor, so they shot at his horse instead.
Cao Zhongshou rolled over and fell to the ground. He slightly supported the ground with his right arm, but he still could not withstand the huge inertia. In an instant, he knew that he had broken his arm.
The companions on the left and right were galloping away on horseback. Seeing Cao Zhongshou fall, they all reined in their horses and turned back. Hundreds of Tibetan cavalry also surrounded them from the left and right.
Cao Zhongshou didn't say anything. He still endured the severe pain in his arm. He raised the bow with his left hand and took out an arrow from the mostly empty quiver with his right hand and put it on the bow. As for the others, they also dismounted and drew their swords or held bows to surround them.
A member of the Tubo tribe rode out and said to Cao Zhongshou: "You'd better surrender!"
Cao Zhongshou shook his head, and without saying a word, he immediately ordered the cavalry on the left and right to pick up their bows and arrows.
"Kill!"
Cao Zongshou stared at the other party and shouted.
The companions on the left and right also roared in anger.
After a while, Cao Zhongshou and more than ten cavalrymen were all shot to the ground.
On this day, corpses piled up like mountains in the Rizhuanglang River Valley, and the river water turned red.