Chapter 516 The Northern Patrol leaves the fortress
Chapter 516 The Northern Patrol Departs the Fortress Jinlianchuan, also known as Tanshan, also known as Liangxing.
This is a great place to escape the heat in the summer.
But now it is early winter, the grass is dry and the wind is cold.
"We are going to the outside of the Great Wall with 20,000 men, so don't scare Tuli away." Peng Laizi was riding on his horse, looking at the Tang army winding like a dragon to the north and crossing Wangcheng Post Road, full of emotion. Who can
I think of Peng Zizi, who was a slave and horse trader in Lingzhou, and now he was lucky enough to witness the Tang army marching out of the country.
Mr. Duan, who was wearing an official robe, even said with emotion, "It's really possible!"
When Wu Huaiyu sent troops from Youzhou to fight against the mountains, the Xi tribesmen who were close to the mountains moved to the northeast one after another. They were afraid that when the Tang army attacked the mountains, they would hunt rabbits in the grass and kill them too.
Originally, the Tang River area near the back of the mountain was the Xi tribe's territory, but now they directly gave up the Tang River Valley and ran to the Chao River Basin for temporary shelter. Many even ran directly to the fortress further north.
Kang Po was preoccupied with thinking about Wu Huaiyu's "parade to show off his martial arts" and how much money and food expenses it would cost. Twenty thousand people and horses were a lot. Five thousand Mohe tribe soldiers, five thousand mountain queen soldiers, plus the Qingyi army.
The Lue Army, Lulong Army, Hengsai Army, etc. totaled 20,000 troops.
When people eat horse chews, they consume a lot of food.
Kang Po has now become Wu Huaiyu's logistics manager. This former rich man in Hebei and Pei Ji's housekeeper has shown very good skills. Anyway, Wu Huaiyu didn't have to worry about money and food all the way here. He made all the arrangements.
Lu Chengye felt a little disappointed.
I wanted to plant a thorn in the side, but unexpectedly he became a matchmaker. Now more than a hundred villages of all sizes behind the mountain have surrendered to the imperial court. Gao Wei and many other powerful people behind the mountain have all worshiped under Wu Huaiyu, and even become his generals.
The love is right.
"Captain, the weather is getting colder. Our 20,000 troops marched out of the fortress. Isn't it too sudden, without any prior preparation and plan? What if there is a shortage of food and grass, or if we encounter some emergency on the grassland?"
"For example?" Wu Huaiyu asked with a smile.
"For example, if Jieli suddenly sends troops to invade, there will be no danger on the grassland? How to deal with it?"
"Hahaha!" Hearing this, Su Lie, the commander of the Qingyi Army on the side, laughed happily.
"Why is Governor Su laughing?"
"Lu Wulang is good at poetry and calligraphy, but he really has no military knowledge. If Jieli really dares to invade, then we can't ask for it. Where is the court of Jieli Khan? In Dingxiang, where should we go? Liangxing is eight hundred miles away from Youzhou.
It is only more than three hundred miles away from Dushikou, but it is more than a thousand miles away from Dingxiang."
"Jieli and Tuli's uncle and nephew are incompatible with each other. If he suddenly leads a large army to Tuli's territory, do you think Tuli will help him or us?"
Lu Chengye was said to have no military skills, but he did not blush and said, "But after all, they are uncles and nephews. They are both Turks and not of my race, so their minds must be different."
Wu Huaiyu just waved his hand, "Lu Canjun is overly worried. Now the Turkic tribes are busy moving their winter pastures. Even if Jieli knows the news now and decides to recruit people, it will still take a long time. Wait until he can really do it."
We brought tens of thousands of troops here, and we have already returned after meeting Tuli and eating the roasted lamb at Jinlian River."
Su Lie said he hoped Jie Li would come.
Once he's here, he won't be able to go back, and will regret fighting again next year.
"Even if Jie Li doesn't come, it would be too expensive for us to lead 20,000 troops just to see a sudden profit outside the Great Wall."
"That can't be called a waste,"
Before the Northern Expedition to the Turks, it was very important to win Tuli and turn to the Tang Dynasty. But to make Tuli turn to the Tang Dynasty, he had to truly feel that the Tang Dynasty was not what it used to be, and that it was powerful enough to be easily destroyed.
Drop Jieli Khan.
Even though Tuli secretly colluded with Li Shimin several times when he invaded the south with Jieli during the Wude period, but if he was not strong enough, he would not say that it was inappropriate to let the Turkic little Khan go and join the big army.
Tang's.
Of course, with 20,000 troops, he also patrolled the area behind the mountains first, and then shocked the Xi tribe. This was very important to the newly annexed area behind the mountains, especially those that were annexed without firing an arrow.
There are necessary actions.
Only by fearing authority can one be virtuous.
Although Gaowei and the others finally lost their fighting spirit and surrendered in front of thousands of enemies with firearms, the other villages still had to show off.
Under Wu Huaiyu's arrangement, the Tang army marched along Wangcheng Station, from Diaowo to Chicheng, and then along the Baihe River Valley to Dushikou. They passed many valleys and villages along the way. At each place, Huaiyu wanted to meet with powerful families in the village.
and the elderly, and even reward the elderly, orphans and widows, and recruit and hire some wealthy and powerful people.
Of course, there is no way to avoid showing off the magical firearms.
Everywhere you go, you must show it to the public.
What kind of palm thunder, what kind of sky-shaking thunder, what kind of sudden fire gun, every time it is displayed, it can shock the people in the border villages, and they all think it is some kind of magical magic.
Everywhere Kang Po went, she would exchange gold, silver, silk or salt for grain and livestock from the border villages to supplement military supplies. The price was fair and the border residents were very happy.
In the past, the surplus of output would be sold to powerful people in the village, who would then sell it to Youzhou, or sell it directly to Youzhou caravans entering the mountains. Now the price offered by Kang Po is even higher than what they sold before.
It’s still high, so naturally I’m happy with it.
Every time you pass a village, display one or two firearms.
Not to mention that the border residents were shocked, even the Tang Army itself, except for the Shenji Battalion, the other armies were also shocked. Who had ever seen these things?
The Divine Fire Flying Crow looks like a kite, but it can really be pushed by gunpowder to fly very far away, and then explode.
Not to mention the various poisonous smoke bombs, which can continue to emit poisonous smoke after being thrown into distant enemies.
As well as all kinds of fireballs, good things to set fire to the enemy.
Let alone ten or hundreds of rockets at a time, it's really like a galloping horse or a swarm of bees.
A row of soldiers stood in three rows holding muskets, lit the fuses, and fired in sequence. The three rows fired continuously, and a row of targets at a distance of twenty paces was beaten to pieces.
It was like thunderbolts, smoke, and then everything in front of me turned into powder.
Who is not surprised after seeing this? But what even most Tang soldiers don’t know is that these firearms still have many flaws, such as the musket, which is shot at close range and has no accuracy, and the bamboo musket cannot be fired a few times.
It's useless, but people who don't know the details, watching the Shenji Camp's three-stage musket fire, will not fight with two arms.
Anyway, during the armed march of the Tang army led by Wu Huaiyu, every village they passed was extremely respectful to the imperial court. The prestige of the Tang Dynasty behind the mountains became unprecedentedly high.
Especially the small tribes of Fanhu at the back of the mountain, who used to be very unruly, are now extremely hospitable.
Not only was Tang Po very enthusiastic when buying and selling supplies with them, but even the tribal leaders and clan chiefs took the initiative to donate money and food to the court and the army.
They offered horses, cattle and sheep as food, and even competed to lead their children to volunteer to accompany the army.
If you don't accept it, it's not enough. That means you look down on us Fanhu and don't regard us as Tang people. We have already been naturalized.
The barbarians cut their braids and changed into clothes, and all of them opened their mouths and shut up like the Tang Dynasty.
Originally, Wei Siren thought it was wasteful for Wu Huaiyu to display firearms like this, but after seeing the effect, he immediately shut up.
The people behind the mountains are so enthusiastic, especially those who are surrounded by the small tribes of Fanhu. Their enthusiasm is more direct and bold. They not only send money, food and livestock, but also lead their children to voluntarily join the expedition, and even let their own women go directly to the officers of the Tang Army.
fluttered in his arms.
Some tribes not only let their unmarried daughters pounce on them, but even their own daughters-in-law do the same.
But they don't feel ashamed at all. Instead, they feel it is quite honorable. They also say that this is their tribal tradition.
"Don't be surprised. In fact, this kind of thing outside the Great Wall is really a tradition. The herdsmen outside the Great Wall live nomadically, unlike those who settled in the Central Plains."
According to what Kang Po, a Sogdian Hu, said, some herdsmen let their wives and daughters entertain outsider men passing by, in fact, just to save the species. The reason is caused by living habits. Although the vast grassland is large, the interior of the tribe is relatively closed, sometimes with a radius of hundreds of
Here, they may all be a related tribe, and they all have some blood relationship.
In this case, the children born are prone to illness or premature death, so some tribes will form some customs and seize every opportunity to introduce new blood. This custom is conducive to the continuation of the race.
On the grasslands, population is very important, and health is even more important, so they generally have a system of step marriage. After the father dies, the son will inherit all the other women of his father, except his biological mother, and become his own women. They treat their wives and daughters as their own.
Treating guests has become the highest etiquette in hospitality, and any child born will also be regarded as born.
A bit ridiculous, but very realistic.
After Wu Huaiyu took Lu Sanwu and Gao Twelve as concubines, during this period, there were countless powerful people from the mountain tribe who wanted to marry off their daughters or even give them as concubines, but Wu Huaiyu could only keep rejecting them.
He really didn't dare to open his mouth again easily, otherwise a brigade or even a regiment of concubines could come out at any time. He didn't want to add a new army of women to his yamen army.
When those people hit a wall with Wu Huaiyu, they all turned to attack Su Lie and others, including Wei Xiaojie, an old man in his sixties.
Even Li Tu Diji, a fanboy, has become very popular.
Huaiyu's Kunlun slaves Tang Fengxiao, Peng Laizi, and scar-faced Li Jinyan were all incompetent, and even the old soldier Cao Qing and others were fought over by many women.
This world is crazy.
Their enthusiasm was hard for Wu Huaiyu to refuse, and in the end he just gave an order not to mess around. If he accepted it, he would have to admit it, and he would not recognize anyone if he couldn't lift his pants.
Of course, those people who treat guests with their wives do not want to send their wives away. Wu Huaiyu doesn't care about this, but it must be your love and not forcing people into their tents.
Those who give away their daughters must at least leave a concubine marriage certificate, give some concubine gifts, and at least give them the status of concubine. They cannot just take other people's daughters away, but in the end treat others as slaves or even resell them.
The last one is that all women are not allowed to join the army.
For this reason, he asked Lu Sanwu and Gao Twelve to return to Youzhou, but they turned around and immediately organized a group of women, set up a caravan to accompany the army, and followed Wu Huaiyu openly.
The army came out of Dushikou,
The boulder stands alone.
This is the junction line between the Bashang grassland and the northern Hebei mountains. In the Wu Huaiyu plan, a strong Guancheng fortress will be rebuilt on the abandoned Guguan site, and there will also be a beacon tower on the mountain.
Guard the gateway to Yanbei.
"Report!"
Xu Siye led his light cavalry back. He had gone ahead of Wu Huaiyu's army. "Report, Tuli Khan learned that the governor led his troops out of the fortress and was going to meet the Jinlianchuan Khan Court. He was very happy. He had already led the tribesmen to cut the grass and clear the way.
I have to personally cut a three-hundred-mile road from Jinlian River to Dushikou to welcome him."
As he spoke, Xu Siye also held up a box, which contained a box of deer tongue. Tuli had specially taken his nephews to hunt deer and cut off the fresh deer tongue. Xu Siye was asked to send it back immediately to Wu Huaiyu to taste.
